Silin looked at him. The young man in front of him was only seventeen or eighteen years old, but he exuded a maturity beyond his age. He had the same vicissitudes of the city, but the good thing was that he did not seem malicious.
"Yes, we're looking for a place to stay. Do you have a recommendation?"
The young man looked at them, raised his gloved hand, and put up a finger. "One hundred a day, galactic dollars. If you agree, I'll take you to see a house."
"Okay." Silin nodded. Compared to the houses in the center of the city, this price was more reasonable.
The young man pointed to the seats behind them, which were made of faded old cloth — there was only one driver's seat in the front seat, and said, "Come on up."
The two old flying cars looked shabby, and when they flew … it was terrifying. They shook back and forth, as if they wanted to shake out the little things left in their stomachs, and it gave the feeling that they would be blown away by the wind at any time.
When they arrived at their destination, Tang Qiuqiqiu was carried out by Silin. She was in a trance from the shaking and could not find her balance for a short period of time. Silin was not so serious, but Huimao on his shoulder looked at the shabby car with even more disdain. This confirmed his view — it was just a pile of junk.
The place the young man was talking about was his home. It was located at the edge of Wind City, and it was a small two-storey house made of rock. Looking at the stone, it was probably not too old, probably built in the last five years. There was a small courtyard, and in the corner of the courtyard were some old parts of the flying car, covered with a cover to prevent them from being blown away by the wind.
After parking the car in the courtyard, the young man came out and pointed to the second floor of the house. "You can go take a look first. If there's no problem, pay the rent and sign an agreement. "
Silin nodded and carried Tang Qiuqiqiu to the second floor. There was a single staircase in the courtyard that led to the second floor, and Huimao had already jumped onto the stairs and rushed into the house.
The house was not big, but the layout was clear. There was a bedroom, a living room, and a simple bathroom. The bed in the bedroom could be divided into two small beds.
Silin first let Tang Qiuqiu lie down on the bed to rest. Huimao had already finished patrolling the site, and had also taken a shower in the simple bathroom. He was squatting on the windowsill, looking at the sand in the distance with a solemn expression.
In the courtyard, a woman with a headscarf stood next to the young man. She should be the young man's mother. She was wiping the young man's face with a wet towel.
Seeing Silin come down, the young man asked, "How was it?"
"Not bad."
Hearing Celine's words, the woman's eyes revealed joy.
The young man passed the agreement he had drafted a long time ago to Cillin. After Cillin read through it and found that there were no problems, both parties signed the agreement.
Cillin paid the rent for five days straight away, and said that he would pay the rest if he continued to stay in the house. In addition, the water bill had to be calculated separately according to the volume.
Night had fallen. Silin and Tang Qiuqiu simply ate something and then lay down to rest. Tang Qiuqiu soon fell asleep. Silin listened to the howling wind with high and low pitch, and finally realized what the devil's voice of Wind City was.
Suddenly, Huimao's ears twitched and he jumped up. His eyes shone with a dim light. "Silin, there's something coming out of the desert. I'm going to look for food!"
"Go, don't make too much noise."
"Got it!" Huimao couldn't wait to jump up, unlock the door, and rush out.
When the door closed automatically, Silin opened his eyes and sighed. This place was even more polarized than Planet Brown Earth. The luxurious central city and the old residential area were worlds apart.
Although the wind and sand outside were strong, Silin slept well at night. However, in the middle of the night, Silin heard some noise in the courtyard. It was mixed with the chaotic sound of the wind, so it didn't seem so out of place.
When it was almost dawn, Huimao came back with a satisfied look on his face. He even brought back a two-meter-long snake for Silin and Tang Qiuqiu to enrich their diet.
"Right, Silin, I saw that kid in the sandstone area," Huimao said while lying on his side on the bed, licking his paws. "It's the same old broken car. Driving over there, and he's not afraid of death. He's picking places with more stone eaves."
"He's probably practicing driving. He's a racing driver."
Silin had noticed that the young man's arms and wrists were very strong, and his physique was quite good. At the same time, the young man wasn't as impulsive as other people his age. When he met Silin, he looked at him calmly, probably analyzing whether or not someone like Silin would be a good tenant.
It was important to know that controlling the rudder at high speed under the influence of air pressure was quite strenuous, especially when cornering. Strong arms were needed to maintain the flying car on the desired route. Therefore, strong arms and wrists were a must in a long-distance race.
In a racing car race, the strong horizontal centrifugal force during cornering would cause the driver's blood to flow to one side. However, at this time, the driver still needed to think calmly to face the next corner and the possible dangers that might arise. Moreover, the difference between the heartbeat at the start and during the race was relatively large, so the driver's cardiopulmonary function had to be abnormally strong.
Not only that, but the body's endurance was also very important for a racing driver. In a race, even the shortest race would last more than ten hours. However, after more than ten hours of racing, the body's fat consumption and dehydration would total more than ten kilograms. They needed to rehydrate, but they also had to take care of the dangers around them. Excessive dehydration could cause shock, and if they were distracted, it could be devastating for the driver.
Apart from that, although there was a thermostat in the cockpit, damage was inevitable during a race. If the thermostat malfunctioned, the temperature in the cockpit would rise to more than twenty degrees higher than normal body temperature. Therefore, a driver without good endurance and endurance would be in trouble. Therefore, a driver's strong physique was one of their insurance.
Huimao didn't take a good look at the young man. He only paid attention to the broken car. "That broken car is a racing driver?" he said disdainfully.
Silin patted Huimao's head. "Hurry up and go to sleep. It'll be dawn soon!"
Two days before they arrived at Wind City, Silin and Tang Qiuqiu didn't go too far. They just wandered around Wind City Winto. Wind City's race was in three days, and the races in other regions were too far away. Tang Qiuqiu didn't want to go too far. Besides, no matter which region the race was, it was the same. They would watch Wind City's race first.
After staying here for two days, Silin got to know the landlord a little better.
The young man's name was Udoze Wentz. Wentz was his surname. Generally speaking, in the League of Stars, some big families with multiple names liked to put their surnames first to show respect for the family. Therefore, people like Udoze didn't need to see him in person. They only needed to see his name to classify him as a commoner.
'Udoze' meant 'chase' in the Sector language of Sector F. It seemed that Udoze liked his name a lot. It was said that Mrs. Wentz wanted to change his name for him, but he refused.
Mr. Wentz passed away when Udoze was very young. Mr. Wentz was often sick from birth due to physical reasons, so when he was sixteen years old, his parents married Mrs. Wentz, who was ten years older than him. She was the woman Silin saw in the courtyard.
However, after Mr. Wentz passed away, his brother drove Mrs. Wentz and the two-year-old Udoze out of the house. The orphan and the widow lived at the edge of the city.
I forgot to mention that the Wentz Family owned a relatively large flying car model shop at the center of Wind City Wentz. It was later purchased by outsiders, and the shop's name was changed. However, it was growing better and better, and the other Wentz Family members were earning a considerable amount of money. In comparison, Udoze and Mrs. Wentz were much more miserable.
Udoze worked for Wentz's convoy at Wind City. Although his income wasn't much, it was enough to support his mother and son's lives. He also collected rent. The house wasn't like this in the past. It was basically made of sand. Later on, Udoze earned some money from the convoy, so he demolished the sand house and rebuilt the stone house.
Since Udoze spent most of his time outside, he didn't feel safe leaving his mother at home alone if he rented out the house. After all, not all the tenants who came to this place were easy to get along with. Therefore, every time, Udoze personally looked for tenants. He looked for people who seemed easy to get along with and had a high reputation. If he couldn't find a suitable person, he would rather not rent out.
Mrs. Wentz had no other job. She took care of the tenants, washed clothes, and so on. In her spare time, she made some handicrafts and sold them for a little money. After all, in the era of high-tech domination, handicrafts were too cheap.
A machine made things more accurate and beautiful, and it took less time, low cost, and high efficiency. However, handicrafts were more creative. As long as the producer had a good idea, there would still be people who would buy it. Although it couldn't be sold at an ideal price, it could still make up for the needs of life.
This wasn't what Udoze and Mrs. Wentz said, but it was what the residents around them said. The people around them basically lived by collecting rent. When there was no flying car race, they spent most of their time chatting all day. Therefore, for them, Silin and Tang Qiuqiu, who had just moved into Udoze's house, were the best people to talk to.
At night.
Tang Qiuqiu was lying on the bed looking at the introduction of the team. "Brother Silin, which team does Udoze belong to?"
"The old man at the corner of the street last time said that he was in the 'Gale' team."
"Gale …" Tang Qiuqiu searched the information, "Oh, not bad, ranked fourth on the planet!"
"Okay, don't read too much at night and go to bed early." Silin knocked on Tang Qiuqiu's head.
"Okay, I know. Five more minutes, no, fifteen more minutes, and then I'll go to bed."
Silin smiled and shook his head. He looked out of the dark window, thinking about something.
Wheeze had gone out to look for food again. The little fellow had been living quite comfortably for the past two days, and the main reason was because it had seen a couple of high-level pets that had been trained to the point of being able to talk. Although they had seen rich people raising high-level pets that could talk back in Ourok, they didn't think that there would be high-level pets in this place as well. It was obvious that this was a place where the rich spent their time.
Ever since he saw the high-level pets that could talk, Huimao was much more relaxed. He would say a few words on the road from time to time, enjoying the attention of passers-by. At the same time, he was also proud of the fact that the high-level pets that could talk had a thick accent in the language of the League of Stars. Regarding this, Huimao had improved himself again.
After Tang Qiuqiu fell asleep, Silin turned off the energy storage light and lay on the bed with his eyes closed. However, he didn't fall asleep.
In the middle of the night, there was a knocking sound in the yard.
Udoze was in the cockpit, preparing to take off when he heard the knocking sound. He turned his head to look and was so shocked that he almost jumped up. He didn't know when Silin was standing next to the dilapidated flying car and was fastening the hood.
Making a gesture, Silin motioned for Udoze to open the hood.
Although he was reluctant, he was still a renter and a provider of rent. Moreover, it seemed that Silin and Tang Qiuqiu were good people these two days, so Udoze opened the hood and let Silin come in and sit in the back seat.
"I can't sleep, so I want to go out for a walk. I know you're practicing driving, but you don't mind if I hitch a ride, right?" Silin wasn't embarrassed at all.
You're already sitting in, what's the use of minding?
"Okay, as long as you can hold on!" Udoze gritted his teeth.
In the darkness of the night, Udoze didn't even turn on the lights, but very familiarly drove the old car out of the yard, away from Wind City, Wintuo, and into the uninhabited area outside.
The old car was still bumpy, and coupled with Udoze's intention, it was so bumpy that it almost threw people out. But Udoze noticed that the person in the back seat, without fastening a seat belt, was still sitting there with his eyes closed as if he was asleep.
Udoze was surprised. What kind of freak is this guy?
Shaking his head, Udoze no longer paid attention to Silin and officially entered his training time.
Sand dunes, stone eaves, narrow passages... the old car could always pass through these places smoothly in a bumpy state, and its speed wasn't slow. Of course, it was impossible to reach the speed of the flying car in the competition. After all, this old car used a storage battery.
In this area, solar energy and wind energy were the main sources of energy. These two types of energy were converted into stored energy and stored in the storage battery to provide other power supplies, such as storage lamps, some household appliances, flying cars, and so on.
The effect of the storage battery was obviously far inferior to the effect of the energy block, but the energy block was a luxury here, and only the team's competition cars used energy blocks. People like Udoze simply couldn't afford to use energy blocks, and could only rely on the storage battery to power the flying car.
Although it used a storage battery, the speed of the old car Udoze was driving was much faster than other battery-powered flying cars, because he made full use of the wind, and in these challenging and dangerous places, he was calm and composed.
Udoze's whole body seemed to have become one with the flying car, and he didn't need to rely too much on the airflow balancer. He was able to judge his next move just by the subtle impact of the airflow on the car body.
This person seemed to be born to live in the wind, and he could fly freely.
In the uninhabited area, people had a fearful attitude toward the wind here and avoided it. But Udoze felt unusually close to it, and he could feel the motivation brought by the wind.
The wind seemed to be telling him: You can do it faster, better, faster, faster …
At this moment, Udoze forgot about Silin in the backseat, and was completely immersed in the world of himself, the flying car, and the wind.
When turning a corner, Udoze skillfully controlled the car, making use of the airflow around the corner and the whistling wind to allow him to complete the turn more perfectly, but … he didn't consider Silin in the backseat.
An extra person meant an extra weight, an element he couldn't control here. So when he controlled the car according to the thousands of times he had done before, he suddenly discovered his negligence. The rock protruding from the side of the mountain was getting closer and closer to the car.
But Udoze reacted quickly, adjusting the control panel at an even faster speed, turning the rudder, and then tilting his body to a certain angle to coordinate with the car's movements. This series of actions was completed in an extreme amount of time, and the car almost brushed the edge of the rock.
After turning the corner, Udoze didn't continue to drive in this narrow pipe, but instead drove the flying car out of the narrow pipe and landed behind the big rock mountain. He popped out the nails and tightly held onto the big rock mountain to prevent the flying car from being blown away by the wind.
After the flying car stopped, Udoze leaned on the rudder, panting.
"Oh, I made a mistake," Silin opened his eyes and said.
"You shut up, if you weren't in the car, how could this happen to me?!" Udoze roared, his forehead covered in sweat, and his back was also covered in cold sweat. That was really too thrilling, and it was beyond his expectations, but fortunately, it was still under control, or else the two of them would have died here today.
"You can't blame the fault caused by your own negligence on others. After all, you knew before I was in the car, but at that time you forgot about it. Instead, you habitually followed the previous operation and used the habitual thinking to control the car. This is your own fault, you can't deny it."
Udoze didn't speak again. He also knew where his mistake was, and indeed, this was a lesson. He was too confident, so confident that he ignored the critical factors.
"But the operation just now was very good, at least you didn't panic. If your reaction time was 0.1 seconds late, then we could only come into contact with the rock explosion."
Udoze suddenly realized that the person sitting in the back seat was too calm, so calm that he was like a bystander.
"Are you also a flying car driver?" Udoze asked solemnly.
It should be known that in Wind City, there were many taboos between the drivers, and the contestants didn't like their driving habits to be noticed by others. If that was the case, it would be very disadvantageous to them.
"No, I spend more time driving a fighter jet than a flying car," Silin said. In the Sixth Team, fighter jet piloting was a compulsory course for the combatants. If you don't even know how to drive a fighter jet, how can you still fight?
When he heard about fighter jets, Udoze's eyes lit up, but then they darkened.
"Do you want to drive a fighter jet?" Silin asked.
"I'd be lying if I said I don't, but that idea is too vague." Udoze buried his head in his arms and said gloomily, "Do you know what my job is?"
"I only know that you work in the team."
"Oh, work …" Udoze laughed at himself. "Do you know, in the team, there is a kind of person called a substitute?"
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