In front of them was a dark swamp. They couldn't see how deep or shallow the swamp was. Some places were bubbling with mud, and when they got closer, they could even hear the bubbling sounds of mud bubbling.
The tall mud pillars were only sprayed out from the deeper parts of the swamp. The mud was very dense and viscous, so it would be very troublesome for the flying vehicle to be sprayed with it. If the mud couldn't be brushed off in time, the vehicle's speed would be affected, and its balance would be destroyed.
Silin drove the car through the mud pillars. Tilting the car to a certain angle would give it more space to dodge the mud pillars. The three cars behind them were in hot pursuit, and the other cars were gradually catching up to them. Perhaps their disadvantage was over, and the people behind them would catch up to them.
Every stage was a new ranking process. There were a lot of racers who hadn't gotten a single point yet, but they weren't anxious. They were obviously veterans, and they knew which stages were their strengths and which were their weaknesses. As long as the flying vehicle wasn't destroyed, there would always be a chance for them to make it to the top.
"We have sixty, no, sixty-five points right now. The third place of the Rainbow of Beginnings has twenty-five points, and the first place of the second circuit has forty points, so there's no need to rush. We just need to play it safe," Naimi said.
Silin replied with a "Mn" to indicate that he understood.
Naimi used the car's omnidirectional cameras to search for hidden dangers, places that would make it easy for the car to accelerate, and points that needed attention to be paid to Silin. There was no need for him to explain anything else. Silin could do it all by himself.
When one of the mud pillars collided with the other pillar that was shooting out diagonally, the mud inside the two pillars erupted in two different directions and covered the entire area. No matter what happened, Cillin's flying car would be splashed with mud no matter what.
The brownish-black mud slammed against the flying car, leaving clear traces of high-speed splashes. A white light flashed, and the splashed mud on the surface of the flying car instantly froze at an ultra-low temperature. Then, the surface of the flying car was shattered by the supersonic shattering effect of the flying car's surface, turning it into powder and flying away from the car.
This was a common method used by flying cars, and some of the cars behind them used a similar method. However, it wouldn't be so easy for some unlucky racer to crash directly into the mud pillar. If they didn't react in time, they would be stuck to the mud pillar, and the enormous pressure and stickiness would drag them straight into the swamp.
Naimi felt that Silin was a lot calmer than he was in the rainforest. Maybe it was because he hadn't calmed down from the start of the race.
The flying car's dodging skills were very good, and there were many times when Cillin was able to slip through the gaps between three mud pillars. Although he couldn't avoid getting splashed with some mud, it was still better than the flying cars behind him that crashed into the mud pillars as long as he could stabilize the car.
Spearhead's flying car had caught up and overtaken Vege-Fritter, but Silin didn't look like he was going to speed up. Then, Aero and Lightning's leading cars overtook him. Naimi noticed that Silin's expression was the same as before. He didn't look pleased with himself when he was at the front, nor did he look anxious after being overtaken. Again, the guy was as calm as a robot.
Although Silin's eyes were staring straight ahead, Naimi felt that there was something else hidden in Silin's eyes. If Silin was filled with a long-suppressed emotion back in the rainforest circuit, then it was an unfathomable depth to him right now. It was like flying away from a planet and looking at the endless starry sky.
Still, Naimi sat obediently at his seat and checked the layout of the circuit, reminding Cillin when necessary.
Silin didn't give chase immediately after he was overtaken. The leading car would be under a lot more pressure, and there was still some distance to go until the end of the circuit. That was why he maintained his original speed until he reached the back of the swamp. It was enough for him to stay in fourth place.
He had already adapted to the environment and climate here. Every mud pillar would tremble slightly before it erupted, and he could feel the tremors through the flying car. He was able to determine where the eruption was coming from, what the general angle was, and how much it was going to erupt. Then, he could react accordingly. He was like a carbon-based robot. His brain was performing calculations at every moment, and he was able to sense the energy fluctuations much better than Naimi's.
It was exactly because he didn't understand how Silin was able to react so accurately in such a short period of time that Naimi thought Silin was amazing.
It was at this moment the spectators finally realized that the three seeded cars weren't the only ones fighting for the championship. The darkest black horse of this race, the antique "Vege-Fritter", was also involved.
The sprinting process was also a process of increasing the distance between the other cars. The first four cars had already pulled away from the fifth place by a bit, and there was no gap between them at all. However, three mud pillars suddenly erupted at the end of the circuit and converged at the top in a "claw" shape. Then, the impact caused the mud to splatter down like an umbrella. The four cars had to split up, and Spearhead and Lightning's cars had to pull them up. Below them, Vege-Fritter and Aero's cars had to look for an opening to pass through.
It was through this different method that the top four of this segment were decided.
Aero was first, Silin's Vege-Fritter was second, and Spearhead was fourth.
Naimi finally let out a sigh of relief after he charged out of the circuit. Second place wasn't too bad. He was expecting third or fourth place, and this was more than enough.
There would be a repair shop set up at the end of every circuit, and every racing team had their own repair shop there. However, the first two circuits were only the beginning, so most of the flying cars hadn't stopped for maintenance yet. Now that the third circuit was over, some flying cars finally started flying over for quick maintenance. After all, there was no room for error in the next circuit. A flying car had to have a self-detection index of 9.5 or above, not even 9.0.
The first four flying cars didn't stop. They all sped up and charged forward.
The dark swamp and the miasma at the bottom slowly disappeared as well. The four cars made a big turn and flew in a different direction.
There was a hint of white on the horizon, and the temperature display on the flying car told him that it was getting colder the further they flew. It was because that was the planet's polar region.
He stuffed an energy supplement into his mouth, chewed on it, and gulped down the water Naimi passed him. Silin looked into the distance and estimated that it would be night by the time they reached the polar region.
The drivers and navigators took advantage of this time to replenish their energy. The navigators explained the general situation of Saida to the drivers and confirmed some countermeasures. The navigators also had another role, and that was to calm the drivers' emotions. They had to keep them in a stable state no matter how good or bad their results were in the previous circuit.
Just as Silin predicted, night had fallen by the time they reached the fourth circuit, the snowy glacier. The starry sky looked great, but the wind on the ground was the most disharmonious. The wind blew the snow that had fallen on the glacier all over the place. It wasn't snowing, but it looked even worse than snow. It was a snowstorm that didn't come from the sky.
There were also some tiny pieces of ice mixed in with the wind, and it was very easy for a high-speed flying car to experience the same situation as Tobia and the others last time. Because the surface of the car wasn't protected properly after repeated collisions, the parts would loosen and cause a series of reactions. Tobia and the others were still fine. Because of this, many flying cars would undergo maintenance and reinforcement checks before this circuit to ensure that there would be no undesirable situations in the snowy glaciers.
Flying cars couldn't fly too high. There might not be a snowstorm at high altitudes, but there was a much lower temperature than a snowstorm. The air pressure there was different from the air pressure near the ground. Someone had once experimented at that altitude, and a robot had flown a flying car up there. It didn't take long for the entire car to freeze, its energy system crippled, and its thrusters destroyed.
This was a special phenomenon at the planet's polar region, so the flying cars wouldn't fly too high during this circuit. Of course, flying at low altitudes wasn't easy either. Because of the glacier, the airflow didn't have a fixed direction, and the wind that was deflected by the glacier could send a flying car flying.
Therefore, the safest way was to drive on the ground.
Every flying car in the race was a tricycle. No matter how good they were at flying in the air, they could still drive on the ground.
The flying cars sprung out of their spiked wheels and sped across the snowy ground. Compared to their flying speed in the previous circuits, they were moving at a snail's pace.
Among these flying cars, there was one exception, and that was Vege-Fritter.
The other flying cars sprung out of their wheels to drive on the ground, but Vege-Fritter had sharp teeth growing out of its sides when it flipped over. Unlike the wrist blades of the rainforest, these sharp teeth allowed it to drive better on the icy ground. It was round in shape, so it looked like a big wheel. The edges turned, but the center didn't. The Silin didn't want to follow this "wheel".
At the same time, Vege-Fritter's sharp teeth weren't the only things around it. There were also a lot of small wheels that balanced the airflow. These wheels weakened the airflow and provided Vege-Fritter with some mechanical energy to drive through the snow.
The icy ground wasn't completely smooth, or they would've been sliding on it already. There were many cone-shaped protrusions on the icy ground, and they would run into them if they were to slide.
As the flying cars sped across the icy ground, on the other side of the glacier, on a glacier not far from the cursor's track, five blurry figures were outlined by the strong wind and snow. However, when these people shook off the ice and snow, they could not see any of them. All that was left were the shadows left by the strong wind and snow.
They were invisible.
"Thirty minutes left." An emotionless voice rang in the air.
As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of crushed ice could be heard. However, it was hard to hear in such an environment where the wind was howling.
A while later.
"Twenty minutes left …" The voice suddenly paused.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!
The special bullets flew through the wind and flew towards the five people.
Bang — —
The bullets were stopped by a protective barrier about ten centimeters away from the five people and shattered.
Six people appeared a hundred meters away from the five people. Sula was one of them.
"The Gen Family?"
The five people on the other side also revealed themselves. Unlike Sula and the others, their equipment wasn't layered with layers of protection. They didn't wear thermal clothing, bulletproof vests, or breathing masks. They only wore a thin layer of clothing and pants, but they didn't feel cold at all.
… …
Silin felt like he was being watched from many sides since the start of the race. Sula and the others were definitely one of them, but who was the other?
Silin thought that he was just a minor character in the Mist Bodhisattva Empire. Even if he knew the sea blue gold formula and was connected to the Gen Family, he couldn't be as important as a true noble family descendant like Gen Xingming and the others, could he? Moreover, Gen Xingming and the others were in a group of four. If someone really wanted to cause trouble for the royal family, they would be the perfect targets. However, Silin was the one who was in trouble right now.
Before this, Silin had only wanted to use the flying car race to vent his emotions. After all, there were a lot of things that had been bottled up in his heart for a long time. Sometimes, he would think of the people in Vanguard Division Six, and sometimes he would think of that idiot Long, Knight, and Ci Jincheng when he saw Gen Xingming and the other rich kids … It was a conditioned reflex from his memories.
Sometimes, Cillin would wonder, if he really couldn't go back, would he forget those people after a long time? Would he return to his life on Planet Brown Earth?
There was the wilderness here, and there were new people here. However, there was no sense of belonging. Genya said that he would get used to it, but every time Silin heard Huimao talking in his sleep, he would think that no one could deny a person's memories, not even a cyborg like him.
Genya had returned home, so where was his home? Was it this galaxy that still seemed unfamiliar to him?
While he was thinking, Silin suddenly narrowed his eyes and looked in a certain direction.
"What's wrong?" Naimi noticed that something was wrong with Silin just now and was about to warn him, but he was caught off guard by Silin's sudden movement.
Silin didn't say anything, but he frowned and looked to the front. No one knew what he was thinking.
On the other side of the glacier, Sula and the others were in a bad situation. They thought that they would be able to handle the situation with these people, but things were much more troublesome than they imagined.
Communication was cut off, and they couldn't call for backup. Four of the six people they brought were injured, and two of them were seriously injured.
"What do we do?" Her companion asked Sula when she saw the charging robot.
Sula didn't turn around. Her broken saber was stuck in the ice, so she couldn't pull it out just yet. She quickly calmed her breathing and prepared to fight the robot with her lightsaber. At this moment, a white light flashed, and the robot that was rushing over was sliced in half.
Sula looked at the person who had suddenly appeared at the robot's position and let out a sigh of relief.
The person had white hair, white eyebrows, and black and white circles around his pupils. He looked like a snowy field at night.
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