"Is that man dead?" Wu Neng asked Howard in front of him tremblingly.
Howard could do nothing but nod. He was so regretful that he shouldn't have let Zheng Yubai cause trouble for the motorcycle gang. But how could he have thought that Zheng Yubai, who looked dull and honest, would be like an old monk in meditation when driving, ignoring any opinions from others. In fact, he wanted to escape or grab the steering wheel, but on this road, at such a high speed, either method would only make him die faster.
In fact, Wu Neng was not afraid of death, he was just afraid of the feeling of not being able to control his fate. The whole person sometimes rushed forward and sometimes leaned back, his life was completely controlled by Zheng Yubai's skills. If we are not careful, everyone will be like Johnson who just fell off the cliff, and I am afraid that the body will be broken into pieces.
Zheng Yubai had no idea that the two passengers had been frightened by his speeding. He only focused on the car in front of him, intending to overtake it at any time. Xiao Qi had the same idea as him. This fearless boy had always been famous for overtaking. His fierceness and fearlessness often frightened his opponents, who were forced to make way for him. Because of this, he got a nickname that was not sure whether it was a compliment or criticism: Desperate Qilang.
But Edward is different from those people Xiao Qi met before. He is also a man who doesn't care about his life. The first thing to do as a speeding gangster is to despise life. From an unknown gangster to the famous New Zealand's top speedster, countless opponents and companions died in front of him. Just like Johnson just now, even if he has talent, it is just a meteor flashing, and then sinking into darkness.
Edward was able to stand out from countless death gates not only because of his outstanding skills, but also because of his absolutely strong psychological quality. In any difficult situation, he can always stay extremely calm and make the most sensible judgment. Another point is that he never shows mercy. No matter whether the opponent is a child or a beautiful woman, as long as you race with him, you have to be prepared to go to hell.
Xiao Qi had heard of Edward's legend, but he didn't believe it. The only thing he believed was that the waves behind pushed the waves ahead, and the waves ahead died on the beach. As the youngest racer in the Night Dragon Team, he believed that he was a genius, so he stepped on the accelerator desperately to compete with Edward at the Paperclip Bend.
There were four lights flashing in Zheng Yubai's eyes, which was a sign that his quadruped pupils were fully activated. In his world, a car running at high speed was like slowly flowing water, and there was no danger. Every step of his method of operating the car was exactly the same as when he learned from Xue Bingyang. Under the guidance of the fastest woman on earth, at least in terms of technology, he could look down on any top driver. The only thing that stood in front of him now was whether he had the kind of desperate temperament that the underground racers had.
In fact, racing shouldn't kill people. The Paperclip Bend was in front of him, and Zheng Yubai stepped on the accelerator hard to keep a distance from Wen in front. Speed running on the curve is far inferior to the straight road. The Paperclip Bend is the key to Zheng Yubai's success in overtaking Wen.
Xiao Qi, who was driving the Evolution VII, had the same idea. He had to overtake Edward's Golf at the paperclip bend. So he accelerated his car and approached Edward. The two cars were less than half a meter apart, and it seemed that they would collide at any time. The result of a collision at this speed and under such road conditions was predictable.
"Want to surpass me? Maybe in the next life." Edward's face became paler and paler, and the unhealthy white color made him look extremely hideous. The paper clip bend was right in front of him, and the fight between the two pairs of surpassing and anti-surpassing was about to begin.
In the distance, the Night Dragon team and the speedsters were just shocked by Johnson's fall off the cliff, and then they saw four cars approaching the Paperclip Bend not far apart. This bend is extremely difficult, and the uneven road conditions make it more dangerous than any other bend in the F1 race. Even if you drive at a constant speed here during the day, you will get into an accident if you are not careful, let alone driving at a super high speed on this dark and windy night.
The winner and loser all depended on this bend. Everyone held their breath and stared closely at the headlights of the four cars.
"I must overtake you!" Xiao Qi gritted his teeth and did not slow down when entering the first corner of the paperclip bend, but rushed to the inside of the Golf. This was a life-threatening and brave move. If he was not careful, he would die together with the car in front.
Generally speaking, many drivers would be shocked when the car behind them used such a desperate tactic. As a person who seeks profit and avoids harm, most of them would take evasive action. But Edward was different. The word danger did not seem to exist in his dictionary. Seeing Evolution VII rushing over, he not only did not dodge, but pulled the steering wheel suddenly, and the car did a beautiful tailspin, crossing the curve, forming a T-shape with Xiao Qi's Evolution VII.
"Knock him off?" Xiao Qi suddenly had this thought in his mind. As long as he stepped on the accelerator again, he could knock Edward off the cliff. But this thought flashed through his mind and he didn't put it into action. When he came to his senses, Edward had successfully passed the first bend and was about to drift through the second bend.
"I won't let you pass." Xiao Qi stepped on the accelerator and pulled the handbrake frantically. The car drifted beautifully and followed closely. Less than two seconds later, the second bend appeared in front of him. This time, the Golf stuck to the inside line tightly, and it seemed that it didn't want to give Xiao Qi any chance to attack from the inside line. But in this way, the outside line was exposed. Xiao Qi was delighted, not knowing it was a trick, and suddenly drove at full speed, passing from the outside line, barely surpassing the front of Edward's car.
When the two cars were driving side by side, Xiao Qi couldn't help but turn his head to look at Edward, and found that he was also looking at him insidiously. An ominous premonition came to his mind, and before Xiao Qi could make any move, Edward's car had already moved to the outside. The two cars touched lightly, and under the high-speed collision, the Golf suddenly fell to the inside, but under Edward's control, it avoided the fate of a collision. Xiao Qi was not so lucky. His Evolution VII was too fast, and he had no time to react. He directly flipped over the guardrail on the side of the road and fell vertically to a cliff 50 meters high.
Wen, who had been following Xiao Qi for more than ten meters, was about to speed up to turn the corner when something happened in front of him. Seeing Xiao Qi's car fall off the cliff, Wen stared with his eyes wide open in disbelief. They had just teamed up to kill Johnson, and now his brother was killed. The retribution was too fast. People in the arena really have no choice.
When Wen Yi was stunned, Zheng Yubai took the opportunity to increase the speed. The two of them fought for the first corner. Although Zheng Yubai seemed to be possessed by the car body, Wen was not an ordinary person. He tightly guarded the inside line and did not give Zheng Yubai any chance to overtake. Overtaking on the outside line is a life-or-death situation, and Xiao Qi in front of him is an example.
Seeing that Wen also held the inner line at the second bend, Zheng Yubai's face remained unchanged, but he was constantly thinking about how to crack it. Something happened in front of him, Xiao Qi overturned and fell off the cliff. Wen's car shook, leaving a gap in the inner line. Zheng Yubai took this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to accelerate violently. Before Wen could react, he suddenly jumped out, and when he was about to rush out of the guardrail to accompany Xiao Qi, he suddenly turned the steering wheel, and the whole car turned sideways, making a perfect drifting action.
Wen Ke had no time to appreciate Skyline's performance. His chest was filled with anger for losing his companion. In the blink of an eye, he lost Xiao Qi and was overtaken by Skyline who suddenly appeared. His chest was almost exploding. Edward was far ahead. If he didn't try hard to catch up, he would lose face and lose his troops. And if he wanted to defeat Edward, he had to defeat Skyline who surpassed him first.
But to Wen's surprise, even though the second bend was the straight road that Speedrunner was very good at, he could not get closer to Skyline until the next bend, but fell further and further behind. Even Edward, who was temporarily in first place, found that the headlights of the Skyline behind him were too dazzling.
"Damn, where is this guy from?" Edward cursed. If he knew that this was a middle finger raised by one of his bikers in excitement, he would have been furious. Seeing that the skyline was getting faster and faster and could overtake him at any time, Edward had another bad idea.
No matter how reluctant Edward was, Zheng Yubai's skyline finally came up, and judging by his posture, he would not give up until he surpassed Golf.
"Very good, I want to see who else can challenge me besides the Asian yellow monkey." Edward was not angry but happy. As a master who had never been defeated in hundreds of battles, he admired the driver who had been chasing him all the way. If he was a white man with noble blood, it would be great to absorb him into the super speed to replace Johnson after this game.
Just as Edward was fantasizing, Zheng Yubai exerted his strength. His Skyline had just shown that it could accelerate as fast as a sprint car on the straight road, and now it had to fight to the death with the Golf on the curve. This was a simple figure-7 curve. Although the angle was not as exaggerated as a right angle, it could especially test the driver's control of the car body position during drifting. When they came to the curve, Edward turned the steering wheel sharply, and the car swept out, and the front of the car quickly twisted 90 degrees.
This drift is a textbook classic move, which should have helped him maintain a good advantage. However, Zheng Yubai, who was chasing him closely, did not slow down before drifting like Edward did. He relied entirely on his extraordinary arm strength and control ability to adjust the direction of the front of the car when the car was about to lose control and crash down the mountain. Then he stepped on the accelerator and easily passed Edward and left in a cloud of dust.
"How is it possible?" Not only Edward, who was overtaken, couldn't believe it, but even Wen, who hoped to close the gap with him at this bend, was stunned. Seeing the tension and impact filled in the beautiful drift of the skyline, he was completely conquered.
"This is real drifting." Wen couldn't help but slow down the car. Zheng Yubai's performance of harmony between man and nature at this moment completely destroyed his self-confidence. Since there are high mountains to look up to, why are the two small hills still fighting for the world's first place? Isn't that just asking for a slap in the face
Edward watched the skyline continue to accelerate in front of him. He had no chance of catching up. All his confidence was shattered after someone showed him a better drift than he thought. He was just a walking corpse driving the car to the finish line. Even in the final stage, he was overtaken by the equally absent-minded Wen Ye and became the last one.
Racing is the whole meaning of Edward's life. All the money he earned from working hard was invested in modifying cars. He has no girlfriend, no friends, and even no relatives. In his world, only cars, only faster speeds, and only the perfect drift at every corner can make him feel satisfied, as if that is the truth, the meaning, and everything in the world.
But now everything was shattered. What Edward could not tolerate the most was that the driver of the Skyline that defeated his car was actually a yellow-skinned Asian. How could a weak nation that he mocked as "yellow monkeys" know more about racing than the noble white people
Edward jumped out of the car angrily and was about to rush over to yell at the Asian man. Before he could start, he saw another short and thin Asian man rushing into the group of his companions. There seemed to be a flash of yellow light, and then his companions fell down one after another as if they were cut in half by a chainsaw.
"Oh my God, who on earth are they?" Edward trembled all over. He could not defeat his opponent with his skills, not even violence. He suddenly realized that he was actually a weak person in this world.
"Ouch... Help..."
"He's a monster..."
Falling all over the ground were people with super speed. They screamed and groaned, crying and trying to escape from the Five Energy.
After finally escaping from Zheng Yubai's car, Wu Neng was so angry that he had no way to vent it. It was just in time that these speedsters came up to make noise, and it would be strange if he didn't use them as a punching bag.
The people in the Night Dragon Team were relatively calm and did not go forward to cause trouble for Zheng Yubai, so they just witnessed a free beating show. The one who was beating was the five-powered one, and the one who was beaten was more than 20 white people with super speed.
Judging from his physique, the skinny Wu Neng could never be a match for more than 20 white strong men. Even if he had Bruce Lee's kung fu, what would it matter? Didn't he know the saying that two fists can't beat four hands, and a good tiger can't fight a pack of wolves? But Wu Neng, who looked weak and couldn't withstand the big men's punches, punched the white men and made them cry for their parents. This made the members of the Night Dragon Team, who were always discriminated against by white people, feel secretly happy.
"What on earth is going on?" Not only Edward was terrified, but even Wen was confused. Such things as Cheng Yaojin suddenly appearing out of nowhere did exist in the storytelling he had heard when he was a child, but it was really unexpected that such inexplicable things could happen in real life.
"Wuneng, that's enough, stop fighting." Zheng Yubai stopped Wuneng. He now recalled how terrified Howard and Wuneng were when they were racing. Wuneng was angry at these poor bikers, while Howard was holding onto a big tree by the road and vomiting. It seemed that they would never ride any vehicle driven by Zheng Yubai again in their lives, not even a bicycle.
"Who are you?" Edward walked over with a gloomy face.
Zheng Yubai did not answer his question, but read out a license plate number: "Who is driving this car?"
The groaning bikers turned their attention to the two muscular white men. They were dressed in hip-hop style, wearing baggy clothes and pants, with studs pierced all over their ears and hats on their heads. They looked like cynical hooligans.
"Is it you?" Zheng Yubai walked over and asked.
The two men didn't know what they had done wrong and looked at Zheng Yubai blankly.
"I want to tell you that Asians are neither stupid nor useless. Some Asians are much better than you so-called noble people. It's a pity that my friend used violence to teach you today. Otherwise, I hope to prove in other ways that you don't need to think too highly of yourself." Zheng Yubai rarely got angry, and his anger just now dissipated in the car, but his words at this moment were still cold enough to penetrate people's hearts. In particular, the coldness on his face scared the two white people so much that their pants were wet.
"We'll never dare to do it again." Only then did they remember the insulting gesture and words they had made on the road just now.
Edward bit his lip, unable to believe that his victory was ruined by such a small matter. He was a little manic, and rushed towards Zheng Yubai uncontrollably: "You are a devil, you must be a devil sent by Satan."
Zheng Yubai turned around suddenly, stared at Edward, and punched him. With a powerful punch, Edward's body was nailed to the ground. He was confused and his mind was like a ball of paste. For a moment, he even forgot who he was and why he was here.
Zheng Yubai ignored him and said to Howard, who had just finished vomiting, "You drive, let's go back."
Howard quickly said, "Okay..." He didn't dare to ride in Zheng Yubai's car again. Tonight's experience had left him with a nightmare. He was afraid that for a long time in the future, he would be full of fear of Zheng Yubai's driving skills.
"Wait!" Wen called Zheng Yubai from behind.
"What's the matter?" Zheng Yubai was polite to Wen, who also had a Chinese face.
"Who are you and why do you want to interfere in our affairs?" Wen felt looked down upon, which made his pride very unhappy.
Zheng Yubai looked at him coldly, his eyes seemed to penetrate his soul and see the heart of this noble family's son. He said in a low voice: "Please choose your words carefully. If you must find an answer, something unpleasant may happen."
These words were spoken in a very domineering manner, and without giving Wen any time to react, Zheng Yubai turned around and disappeared into the skyline.
Wen watched Howard start the car and leave, feeling embarrassed. He turned back and said to his men angrily, "What are you still standing there for? Check the details of that car for me."
After returning home, Zheng Yubai went back to his room to sleep. Wu Neng ran to Howard's room trembling with fear and whispered, "What do you think happened to Brother Yubai today?"
"I'm not familiar with him... Isn't he like this usually?" Thinking of Zheng Yubai's completely focused look when driving and not listening to anything, Howard always felt that it was a bit like the obsession in martial arts novels.
"I feel something is wrong. Brother Yubai usually has a good temper, why is he so irritable today?" Wu Neng subconsciously imitated Zheng Yubai and scratched his head, but there was only a thin layer of hair on his head that was close to his scalp, and there was nothing to scratch.
"Maybe those two white guys offended him." Howard said with lingering fear. Through what happened tonight, he understood what kind of task the director had assigned to him. This Zheng Yubai is amazing.
With doubts, Wu Neng went back to his room. This heartless boy fell asleep quickly. But Zheng Yubai, who lived next to him, had been lying in bed for half a day, but he didn't feel sleepy at all.
Recalling the racing scene, it was a bit vague. This made Zheng Yubai feel a little uneasy. When racing, he seemed to be unable to feel anything in the outside world, and his whole body became a world of its own. All communication was a cycle of the inner world, until the moment of victory, he returned to the human world from his own world. Zheng Yubai originally thought that this was a new function brought by the four-eyed double pupil, but now thinking back, it was more like a demon in his heart.
"Should I use my superpowers less often?" Zheng Yubai thought of Zhang Daosheng's words. Every superpower has side effects. If not, it's just that you can't see it. Like Wu Neng, he can't see the side effects of using superpowers on the surface, but do side effects really not exist
My mood changed drastically tonight. Was it related to my use of super powers? Zheng Yubai was puzzled. He didn't fall into a deep sleep until the eastern sky was pale.
Zheng Yubai didn't go out for the next two days, and he rejected Howard's good intention to take them out for a tour. He studied the floor plan at home every day, and Wu Neng, probably affected by the sequelae of the night's racing, actually became much more honest.
On the evening of the third day, Lin Xiaoxi called.
"Yubai, I found out. Mr. Ding is in Room 8 on the 12th floor. And I know the U.S. government has already started extradition procedures. If everything goes well, he may be extradited to the United States in two days. So you don't have much time."
"Thank you very much. I will repay you." Zheng Yubai said confidently after hearing the top-secret information that Lin Xiaoxi got from somewhere.
Zheng Yubai had already figured out the floor plan in the past two days. With his and the five abilities, it was easy for him to subdue the twelve good-for-nothing New Zealand policemen. The problem now was how to take Ding Rulong away from New Zealand Island after rescuing him. And this matter would probably require Howard to put in a lot of effort.
At midnight that day, Howard returned home exhausted, but brought good news. He had found a fishing boat willing to take them out to sea to Australia. Once they arrived in Australia, colleagues from the Special Affairs Administration there would arrange a plane to take them back home.
Everything is ready, and the operation to rescue Jinghai tycoon Ding Rulong is about to begin. (To be continued)