"Hey, it's you. Yes, it's you! Come here for a second!"
Silin put down his water bottle and looked at the female racer who was wearing a racing uniform and a helmet. He couldn't see her face clearly.
Judging from her voice, she sounded like a pretty young girl.
"Come here and help us look after the flying car. We're in a hurry!" The girl said before dragging Silin to the side of the flying car.
While Cillin was familiarizing himself with the racing flying cars, Fleka tossed him a set of uniform that fitted him just like the other workers. He had to pay attention to his own protection during maintenance, and there were some things that couldn't be touched carelessly. Those with weak immune systems would get sick if they came into contact with them, such as local radiation, a pilot error, or a heavy metal gas leak from the car's high temperature caused by an accident.
The Sizer Family's uniforms were very expensive. Any one of them could easily cost more than five digits. It was clear just how rich the Sizer Family was.
The back of Cillin's uniform and cap was printed with the words "Whirlwind Repair Point" and the code of the point. Therefore, the girl had directly pulled Cillin over and treated him as a staff member of this place.
The flying car was shaped like a triangular pyramid. When it landed on the ground, it changed slightly to make it more agile and stable.
When the girl had dragged Silin to the side of the flying car, the roof was lowered to reveal another girl sitting inside. However, she wasn't sitting in the driver's seat, but the navigator's seat. She had taken off her helmet, revealing a very gentle and pretty face of about fifteen or sixteen years old. It was hard to imagine that a girl who looked a little shy in front of strangers was a navigator.
After the girl had dragged Silin to the side, she turned on the self-scan display on the control panel. The self-scan value was only 8.2.
Both Fleka's workplace and outdoor repair point were located on the plains of the planet where the environment was slightly better, but there were a lot of other places that were much worse. Although the main track had been sealed off, the drivers who were familiar with the race could only practice their skills in the areas close to the main track. Even that meant that they had to bear a lot of risks. Even the slightest problem with their flying car had to be dealt with with with extreme caution, or they would lose their lives before they could even begin.
Therefore, as long as a flying car's self-inspection system displayed a value below 9, it would have to be repaired at the nearest repair point. This was the most appropriate and dependable way to deal with the situation.
Silin looked at the detailed list of self-tests and asked, "When did the self-test score fall below 9?"
"When we passed through the glacier area, we began to descend. After flying past the glacier area, we began to descend rapidly. After that, we changed our route to come here. After all, this is the nearest repair point. Hey, what's going on? How long will the repairs take? We are in a hurry to go back! "
It was almost evening in this area, so it was no wonder that the girl was in such a hurry. Once night fell, flying would be much more difficult.
"I'll take a look first." Silin looked at the control panel and entered a series of commands to verify the operation of each part of the flying car.
This flying car's configuration was pretty good, and both the primary and secondary operating systems were the latest. The primary and secondary operating systems had been installed according to the habits of the two girls. Male and female racers had different habits and mastery of operating systems, so the appropriate operating systems would also be different.
The two girls watched as Silin quickly flipped through the list of characters that they couldn't understand. They looked at each other. This guy, he's not just putting on an act, is he? He flipped through it so quickly, they couldn't see it clearly at all.
They couldn't see it clearly, but for Silin, this was just his normal speed.
His fingers suddenly stopped. Silin looked at one of the lines, then entered a command on the control panel and walked to the back of the car.
The moment he placed his fingers on the car … Silin was able to clearly understand the structure of this car, and a detailed structural diagram had already appeared in his mind. Therefore, he quickly found the right spot for the flying car. He pushed it at a seemingly random angle, and the outer shell of the rear of the flying car popped up.
To prevent Silin from tampering with the flying car, the helmeted girl stood on the side to supervise him.
After the outer shell popped up, Silin quickly removed some of the surface components and placed them on the open tool tray next to him. The girl standing next to him raised her hand and put it down again. "Hey, be careful. Don't be too careless!"
From her point of view, Silin must not have taken the components seriously by removing them so quickly. This kind of careless behavior would definitely affect the components. Her brother had said that even the slightest damage to the components would reduce their performance when they were assembled and installed on the car.
"Tobia!" The girl sitting in the car called out in a low voice and shook her head, indicating that she shouldn't disturb the maintenance staff.
It wouldn't be too late to ask for compensation if there really was serious damage, but it was very bad behavior to disturb the maintenance staff when they were doing maintenance. If there really was damage and someone kept chattering on the side during the repair process, the maintenance staff might also shift the blame to the person who was disturbing them.
Tobia also remembered those problems after receiving the signal and stopped talking. She let out a "humph" and stared at Silin's hand movements.
But she had just retracted her attention when she saw that Silin had already stopped removing the components. There was an empty space on the flying car, and the maintenance staff was typing something into the communicator on their wrist.
Every staff member in the repair station wore a specialized communicator on their wrist. Not only could they use this communicator to communicate with each other, they could also order the service robots stationed at the warehouse. As long as the maintenance staff keyed in the name and model of the required components, the command would be directly transmitted to the warehouse, and the service robots would quickly deliver the components. There was no need for the staff to carry the components and run back and forth.
It didn't take long for the service robots to deliver the components Silin needed. It was very simple stuff: a double wire, a few small components, and a small cleaner.
Perhaps Silin's actions had piqued the girl's curiosity, but she also got out of the car and came to Tobia's side to watch Silin repair the car.
After Cillin removed the surface parts, he understood the cause of the car's problem. When the flying car was passing through the glacial zone, one of the components had loosened during the thermostat activation process, causing a very small crack to appear on the outer shell of the flying car.
This small crack was not to be underestimated. In such an environment, even a very small crack would allow the cold to penetrate through the loose component and freeze the original double wire to pieces.
The aging of the double wire was one reason, but so was the loosening of the component. In truth, the most important reason for these problems was that the combination of the surface components wasn't the most suitable for defense, even if they were using the best components.
One should only ask for the best, not the most expensive.
Even though the loose components and frozen wires weren't crucial components, and the flying car's self-inspection process wouldn't produce any major warnings, the special powder of these double rows of wires, after being charged, would stick to the other components closer to the inside. Moreover, it would cause a large scale magnetic attenuation and damage to the flying car's internal stability, causing the flying car to enter a serious state. The self-inspection coefficient value would drop below 9.0.
Silin used the cleaner to clean up the powder adhering to the inner component, then replaced it with a new wire. He also changed the model and configuration of the surface components so that they were the best match. This way, it would be very difficult for them to loosen unless there was a serious collision.
The two girls watched as Silin casually placed the components there like building blocks. The components seemed to be connected very securely, and the ports were very suitable.
Silin closed the outer shell after he was done assembling the components. He went to the control panel inside the flying car and began to clean up the minor problems in the main and secondary systems. Ten seconds later, he pressed the self-inspection button.
The self-inspection system scanned again and showed a value of 9.7.
"Alright, this value should be able to last until you return to the base," Silin said.
Ah?
The girl named Tobia seemed to find it hard to believe. She moved closer to the display panel and saw that the big 9.7 was still there. It didn't change no matter how hard she tried.
A little cleaning, a few unimportant components, and it's done?!
Tobia jumped into the flying car, started it up, and tested it. It really was done!
The entire repair process took less than ten minutes. Tobia had estimated that it would take at least thirty minutes, but it took less than a third of the estimated time!
The two girls sat inside the car, raised the roof, and a sealed Mitsubishi cone-shaped flying car rose into the air.
"Thanks!" Tobia's voice came from the external speaker.
"You're welcome."
After everything was done, Silin walked back to the field. They were wrapping up work already, and the sky was getting dark. That was it for today. He still had to help Fleka tonight. There were still more than twenty days until the actual race, so Silin planned to familiarize himself with the various racing cars first. Sharpening one's axe wouldn't hold up one's work, and Fleka believed that Silin had the ability to do so.
Before that though, he still needed to find a navigator. Of course, it didn't matter if he couldn't find a suitable navigator in the end. He could handle it by himself. It would be even better if Huimao was here.
Right now, Silin was basically fighting alone. Perhaps Fleka would arrange for some people to be the logistics team's maintenance team. The race was a long flight, and accidents were bound to happen all the time. That was why there was a repair point set up every other circuit, and every team's logistics team would be stationed there. If a team's car needed to be repaired or modified, they would do their best to get it done as soon as possible. After all, there was a minimum time limit for the race. If a racer couldn't reach it within this time limit, they would be eliminated, and the eliminated racer wouldn't be included in the final ranking.
The team's chances of winning were much higher. After all, they had worked together for a long time to form a tacit understanding. A lot of things could happen in a race, and a single person's strength was too limited. Cillin did not have absolute confidence that he could fight for a place in the top few, but he should be able to finish the race safely.
As for the ranking, Silin didn't care about it at all.
The ranking would be based on the total number of points the racer earned. All participating cars had to follow the race's prescribed route strictly and arrive at the designated stop within the time limit. The top ten racers of each race would receive 40, 30, 25, 20, 16, 12, 8, 4, 2, and 1 points respectively. At the end of the race, the total number of points earned by each race would be the racer's final result.
Moreover, they had to complete their car's maintenance and testing within the allotted time.
The higher a racer's ranking was, the more points they earned, and the more advantage they had. After all, the first and tenth place racers were separated by forty times. It was a pretty big number. Of course, not every racer was an all-rounder. Every racer had their own areas of expertise, and it was possible that the tenth place racer of one race would be the first place racer of the next.
Silin let out a long sigh. He would train here for another three days before he started assembling his flying car. After that, he would go familiarize himself with the race's environment.
That night, when Silin walked into Fleka's personal workshop, he saw Naimi, who he hadn't seen for a couple of days, grinning like he was afraid that someone wouldn't know that something good had happened to him.
"Silin!"
After seeing Cillin, Naimi hurriedly jumped down from a big box and ran in front of Cillin. The excited expression on his face made him look very silly and stupid.
However, Naimi didn't mind his silly and stupid smile at all. He ran over and patted Silin excitedly.
"Brother! Let's team up! "
Silin: "..."
What's going on?
Coincidentally, Gu Laika came over and told Silin the reason.
After watching the race for a couple of days and quarreling with some noble children, Naimi contacted his father and tried to persuade him. In the end, he cried, threw a tantrum, threw a tantrum, and acted like a hoodlum until his father finally relented. However, he had one condition — Naimi could only be a navigator and not a racer. In the past race's statistics, the accident rate of a racer was twice as high as a navigator's.
At first, Naimi refused, but this was his father's bottom line. Otherwise, he wouldn't even think about it. In the end, Naimi gave in. But when he remembered that Silin was also participating in the race, and that he hadn't found a suitable navigator yet, Naimi eagerly came over and asked for Fleka's permission first. With Fleka's persuasion, Silin would agree to it as well.
"Silin, Naimi's grades in the affiliated schools are crap, he looks unreliable, he's always frivolous, and he looks a little stupid when he smiles, but he's still someone who has been exposed to racing and racing since he was young. He knows a lot about racing, and his analytical skills aren't bad either." Fleka said.
At first, Naimi's eyebrows nearly shot up when he heard Fleka's evaluation of him. Uncle fatty, you're my biological uncle! How can you belittle your own nephew like this?! But Naimi finally understood when he heard the latter half of the conversation.
Yes, this is called strategy. Suppress your desires first! As expected, it's uncle fatty!
Naimi nodded in satisfaction. Then, he stared at Silin with a hopeful look in his eyes that said, "You're committing a sin if you don't agree."
The corner of Silin's eyes twitched a little, but he finally nodded under the expectant gazes of his uncle and nephew.
"Hehe, hehehe …" Naimi started laughing like an idiot again.
Fleka shot a glance at his nephew before shaking his head. Then, he said to Cillin, "This kid has some real talent. His father carried him in his arms and drove him fast even before he was weaned off his mother's milk. It's just that his family never allowed him to participate in this dangerous race."
In fact, Silin only wanted to give Fleka face when he agreed to let Naimi become his companion navigator. But Silin had to admit that Naimi did have the goods during the assembly process.
Naimi had provided a lot of practical suggestions when Silin was designing the flying car.
In a flying car race, a powerful engine, good energy blocks, and expensive components weren't the only things that could win a race. It also had to adapt to the weather and emergency situations of each circuit. At the same time, it was also a test of the driver and navigator's ability to adapt to danger and obstacles, the driver's driving skills, the navigator's analysis, and their cooperation.
After a few days of getting along with Naimi, Silin had learned a lot more about him. The members of the Sizer Family were talented when it came to flying cars. Of course, there was no telling how much they would be able to use this talent to their fullest potential.
"The first race is Rainbow Heaven, also known as the Rainbow of Beginnings. There are seven racing tracks with seven different colors. However, the seven tracks are intersecting with each other, and we don't know what kind of obstacles or how many bends there are at the end of each track. It's all random. If you're lucky, you'll get out of Rainbow Heaven early, and if you're unlucky, you'll have to waste a lot more time. It's purely a matter of luck. The other end of the track will change after you enter it, so even the designer wouldn't have guessed which track would save you more time.
After the rainbow track, the first ranking for the flying cars would be revealed. This was purely a contest of luck. In order to avoid hesitation at the start and reduce the self-blame after choosing a complex track, many teams would discuss which track to choose before the start of the race. That way, there wouldn't be any subsequent arguments. What color are we going to choose, Silin? "
Silin thinks for a moment. This was a matter of luck. Everyone who could participate in this race had real skills, so the temporary ranking of the first race could only be decided based on luck. So what color should we choose?
"Let's choose the first color we saw when we opened our eyes."
"Uh, are you going to open your eyes or should I? I don't remember anything for a while after I wake up. "
"I'll open my eyes."
"Alright!"
Naimi unfolded the preliminary design again and continued, "We need to configure the tires well too. If we don't grip the ground tightly during the ice and snow race, we'll be blown away. Therefore, it's best to drive on land during that race. As for tires, I suggest we use narrow nailed tires. It'll increase the pressure on the surface of the tires and give them better grip …"
After the discussion was done, their flying car design was finally finalized. Fleka's expression turned odd when he saw the final design.
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