On the second day after the delivery man Takahashi Hikaru returned to his hometown, Zhang Heng managed to deliver all the goods before the traffic police arrived for the first time. Then, a familiar notification rang in his ears.
[Acquired new skill – Driving Lvl 0]
Zhang Heng took a deep breath. His days and nights had finally paid off. Although he still did not know what the specific criteria for a skill's level was, based on the situation when he obtained the Wilderness Survival Skill, Lvl 0 meant that he was at least at the beginner level.
In terms of time, this might not be considered fast, but it was definitely not slow either. It had only been a week since he started touching the steering wheel. Even Takeda Tetsuya, who was waiting to see Zhang Heng make a fool of himself, could not find anything wrong with it. He just rubbed his chin and mumbled, "Don't tell me he left all the undelivered goods on the side of the road."
Zhang Heng ignored the idiot, tossing the keys back to him and catching a bus back to school.
He was getting used to this kind of life. Classes, working, delivering seafood for some unscrupulous boss for free, and finding time to reply to Ameko's weird texts every day. The days passed just like that.
Two months passed in the blink of an eye. It had been almost three months since he entered this game. By this time, the other players would have been forced to return, but Zhang Heng's progress bar was not even a quarter of the way there.
He was not in a hurry to complete the main mission, but he unexpectedly completed two minor achievements.
One was to visit ten Tokyo scenic spots, and the other was to taste thirty different Japanese delicacies. Each earned him three game points.
These were not difficult things. Take ten Tokyo scenic spots for example. As long as you were willing to go, you could basically complete them. The problem was, considering the tight mission time limit, very few people were willing to take a few days out to explore unrelated places.
Zhang Heng, on the other hand, was often dragged by Ameko to places like Sky Tree, Miiko Art Museum, Sensoji Temple, and so on on the weekends. He was not averse to such things. After all, he was not in a hurry, and his daily schedule was already full enough. It was time for him to relax.
Having a cute tiger-toothed beauty as a tour guide was a rare opportunity. That was why he somehow managed to earn six game points.
Other than that, having learned his lesson from the previous game, Zhang Heng was also waiting to see if there would be any new events after the 60-day return period. As a result, he found a bug.
Japanese universities generally recruited new members in March and April every year. Due to the increasing number of international students, September was also the peak period for international students. When Zhang Heng first entered the university, he saw a lot of posters and flyers, but he was busy practicing Japanese and did not join any clubs.
Unexpectedly, after 60 days, the clubs started recruiting again. Zhang Heng asked Ameko about it, but she didn't know the reason either. All she said was that they didn't have enough members.
However, after experiencing the unsinkable Bell incident, Zhang Heng was very sensitive to the abnormalities around him. He was almost certain that these societies were hiding some secrets.
So, Zhang Heng collected a copy of all the clubs' recruitment brochures. Among them, the more common ones were the football club, swimming club, baseball club, kendo club, shogi club, flower club, and so on. The flower club, in particular, had always been the most popular club in the school. The flyer featured the president and deputy president, both of whom were pretty girls.
However, Zhang Heng's attention was not on that. He was more interested in the clubs that were related to cars. So far, he had seen the 4WD club, the racing club, and the model photography club. After asking around, Zhang Heng realized that the 4WD club was not what he had imagined it to be.
This group of people really did play with 4WD cars, but they weren't four-wheel drive cars. Instead, they were the toy 4WD cars from "The 4WD Kid", developed by the Japanese company Tamiya. In China, the official version was the Audi Twin Diamond. It used to be all the rage, but now it was the tears of the times. Zhang Heng did not expect there to be a group of die-hard enthusiasts in school.
For the time being, Zhang Heng did not want to follow the toy 4WD cars and eat the dust while shouting 'Shooting Star', 'Cannon Ambassador', or 'Burning Sun'. That scene was just too beautiful. As for the model photography club, the name itself exuded an air of indecency. In the end, Zhang Heng decided to join the racing club to take a look.
This was also the club that sounded the most serious among the three.
After joining, he really did learn a lot. The club's founder was a senior. Initially, he was just a racing enthusiast. During his university days, he and a few friends with similar interests formed this small club. After exploring and practicing on their own, their skills became better and better. When he was in his senior year, he was signed by a team and became a professional racer. Now, he was racing in the GT300 category.
Over the past three years, he had recorded his training and exploration on paper. Now, it was completely open to the club members. Other than that, there were also videos of his daily training, as well as his experiences and insights on his blog.
He was much more generous than Takeda Tetsuya, the cheapskate who only gave him pointers on the way back to the aquarium market. However, their training methods and driving styles were quite different.
The senior was the aggressive, aggressive, and aggressive type of racer. He valued momentum above all else, always stepping on the accelerator. The seafood store owner, on the other hand, was a thoroughly technical racer. Zhang Heng searched for the latter's early racing videos online and found that the guy was very sneaky during the race. He would always follow behind the other cars, only starting to show his true strength in the last two laps.
He often said, "Racing is a game of strategy. It's not just a competition of skills, it's also a contest of intelligence. Ordinary racers only see the road in front of them, but the truly skilled racers always look beyond the limitations of their vision and see the whole picture."
But after two sentences, the guy started to ask for a beating again. "Well, a rookie like you wouldn't understand this realm. You should deliver the seafood first. Thanks to you, business has been pretty good lately, and orders have increased by 20%. Same old rule, if you can't deliver them all, you'll have to pay me back."
Zhang Heng had already taken the driving test, but he realized that it was useless. Other than the fact that he had to rush back to school, the L300 that Takeda Tetsuya had dug out from the trash was a completely illegal car. There was no annual inspection or insurance, and even the license plate was fake.
No wonder the guy had turned a blind eye to all of Zhang Heng's violations along the way. As long as he wasn't caught, he could drive however he wanted. But if he was stopped by the traffic police, he would be dead for sure.
Therefore, Zhang Heng had no choice but to continue racing.
In any case, the senior's notes and training videos had given him a lot of inspiration. This completely different driving style from what he had learned so far had inspired him a lot.
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
