They quickly reached the first checkpoint.

A huge metal pendulum was hanging down, blocking the path. They had to pass through the gap in its swing.

Jing Xi observed the pendulum’s swing pattern and calculated the timing in his head.

He slightly adjusted the steering wheel, using the collision to adjust his forward speed.

As the pendulum swung up, the little pink car bumped into the bases on both sides of the pendulum and narrowly passed by the descending pendulum.

Chi Yao whistled. “Not bad. You were almost smashed to a pulp.”

When they reached a flat road, Jing Xi straightened the steering wheel, and the car finally drove steadily in the middle of the road. But Chi Yao stepped on the brake, and the car suddenly slowed down, crawling forward like a tortoise.

The little green car behind them almost crashed into them.

Li Yuan punched Lu Meng, telling him to brake immediately. He yelled to the front, “Is your car broken?”

Jing Xi said with a blank face, “The old man is tired and can’t step on the gas pedal.”

Li Yuan: “Then I’ll push you from behind?”

Jing Xi: “No need. Going slow is good.”

Li Yuan: “…”

But this was way too slow.

He looked at his own boss and then at the Major General disguised as a hairy-faced charlatan. He thought for a moment and decided to pretend he hadn’t seen anything.

The feud between these two couldn’t be resolved in one night. He would let them handle it themselves.

The road was not wide. The bumper cars could barely drive side by side.

But the problem was that the little pink car was driving in the middle of the road. No one could overtake them.

The 78 cars behind were forced to line up and move forward in unison.

Jing Xi rested his hand on the steering wheel and turned his head to look at Chi Yao.

“Are you going to play or not?”

Chi Yao leaned back in the driver’s seat and said unhurriedly, “Just now you complained it was too fast. Now you’re complaining it’s too slow. Why are you so demanding?”

Jing Xi didn’t know why Chi Yao was upset, but he could feel that he was upset.

He scanned the road ahead, which was at least three kilometers long with nearly twenty checkpoints. He asked seriously, “Do you like being jealous so much?”

Chi Yao’s eyes flashed, and he scoffed. “Jealous of what?”

Jing Xi: “The stir-fried cabbage with vinegar. You’re unhappy because you can’t eat it. Are you three years old?”

Chi Yao: “…”

Is the problem really the stir-fried cabbage with vinegar?

Jing Xi: “You want to eat something you can’t. Is that rebellion or perversion?”

Chi Yao was still pondering Jing Xi’s “jealous” comment when he heard him start to mock again. He retorted, “You knew I couldn’t eat it, yet you ate it so deliciously in front of me. You’re no better.”

Having his thoughts exposed, Jing Xi remained calm.

“Your reaction is just so entertaining.”

Entertaining reaction?

Chi Yao sneered. “So, it’s my fault?”

Jing Xi: “Mm-hm.”

Chi Yao: “Hmph.”

Li Yuan and Lu Meng, who had been listening the whole time behind them: “…”

Is that really the boss, pecking at someone like a little chick?

Is this not the right way to see him?

In front of the monitor, the VIPs were very dissatisfied.

The two top seed players were moving slowly. Not only were they arguing, but they were also holding up the entire team. The atmosphere had changed completely.

“What are they doing?! Don’t they know this is a competition?”

“Are they throwing the match?!”

“Start running! I spent so much money just to see this?!”

In the main control room, the Alpha wearing a black mask pressed a button on the control panel. Small nozzles popped up on both sides of the road and sprayed oil on the surface.

In just a moment, the speed of the convoy significantly increased.

“Why is it getting faster?”

“I, I’m stepping on the brake. I’m not moving.”

“What are those things? Is the ground wet?”

Listening to the discussions of the people behind him, Chi Yao’s peripheral vision scanned the nozzles. He simply let go of the brake, and the car’s speed didn’t change significantly.

“F-front is the guillotine!”

Someone yelled this, and screams immediately rang out in the convoy.

The speed of the guillotine in the second checkpoint was constant. All they had to do was time it right and pass through quickly.

But the problem was that the overall speed was very slow right now. If they went on like this, they would all be cut in half.

“Damn it! Step on the brake!”

“Wait for the front to be clear before going!”

“It’s no use! We can’t stop at all!”

“Speed up, speed up!”

It was chaos behind them, but the little pink car at the very front of the convoy was as steady as a rock.

Jing Xi: “Step on the gas.”

Chi Yao propped his chin up and looked to the other side. “I’m angry. I’m not stepping on it.”

Jing Xi: “…”

Seeing the guillotine right in front of them, Jing Xi said helplessly, “How many pictures?”

The corners of Chi Yao’s lips slightly turned up. He reached out his hand. “Five. High-quality.”

Jing Xi: “High-quality? With clothes off?”

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a small circular ring fly out from in front of him.

The ring flew to the top of the guillotine and cut the controller.

He heard a bang, and everyone looked up.

The several-meter-long guillotine suddenly stopped in mid-air, motionless.

“W-what’s going on?”

“No power?”

“Shit! Did the frequency change?!”

“Go now!”

Chi Yao raised his hand to catch the ring, which perfectly landed on his middle finger.

The little pink car slowly passed under the guillotine.

Chi Yao said with a grin, “No need to be completely naked. It’s too explicit and doesn’t fit my refined aesthetic.”

Jing Xi looked at the front, his eyebrows twitching slightly. “Okay.”

After the last car passed safely, everyone cheered.

They couldn’t believe they passed the second checkpoint so easily!

But the VIPs in front of the monitor were not happy.

“Why is the guillotine not working? What are the organizers doing? Don’t they even check the equipment before the game starts?!”

“It’s not exciting at all! I want my money back!”

“The checkpoint isn’t broken. It was broken by the old charlatan’s ring!”

After the AI control system received the VIPs’ dissatisfaction, it brought up a close-up window on the monitor.

The process of the ring flying out and returning was clearly visible.

The VIPs were dumbfounded.

They can do that?!

“How… how exciting!”

“I told you this old man wasn’t simple, hahahaha. My bet is secure!”

“It’s only the second checkpoint. Don’t speak too soon. The faster you run, the faster you die.”

Third checkpoint—ground spikes.

Spikes would pop out of the ground at random. The longest ones could reach seventy to eighty centimeters. Even if they didn’t puncture the bottom of the bumper car, the car would be lifted up, and the people inside would be impaled by the spikes hanging from the ceiling.

Jing Xi: “Five pictures. Hurry up.”

Chi Yao couldn’t help but look sideways. “Suddenly so generous?”

Jing Xi: “Any problem that can be solved with a photo is not a problem.”

Chi Yao: “…”

Before everyone could panic, the ground spikes disappeared.

Everyone: “???”

After everyone passed, they still felt like they were dreaming.

“Just now, those spikes—”

“They stopped again.”

“Could it be that the game at night isn’t about dying? Did we misunderstand?”

“Something just doesn’t feel right.”

Halfway through the course, everyone had almost forgotten that this was a game where they could die at any moment. They had started chatting.

Anyway, every time they got close to a checkpoint, it would malfunction. All they had to do was get to the finish line.

The curly-haired Alpha looked at the pink bumper car in front of him, which showed no intention of speeding up. His eyes were filled with calculation.

The calm was only temporary.

If this continued, everyone would reach the finish line, but there were only forty parking spots. At that point, it would still be a fight to the death.

Since the mechanisms would malfunction, it was better to be ahead and grab the most advantageous parking spot first.

He observed for a moment, patted the dreadlocked Beta next to him, and said in a low voice, “Hey, do you want to win?”

In the front row, Chi Yao was in a good mood.

Who would have thought that a silly game could earn him a stack of his rival’s beautiful photos?

Afraid that keeping too many tabs would make his rival resistant, Chi Yao, in a good mood, advised him, “It’s just a photo. You won’t lose a piece of meat. It’s no real loss for you.”

Jing Xi: “Mm-hm.”

So obedient?

Chi Yao was a little disbelieving.

Just as he was about to tease him, he suddenly heard a gasp from behind him.

The next moment, a blue bumper car scraped against the guardrail and rushed past them from behind. The little pink car was pushed into the guardrail on the side of the road.

The curly-haired Alpha gave Chi Yao the middle finger and stuck out his tongue arrogantly.

“You old geezer, only those idiots would follow you obediently, hahahaha—”

Chi Yao slowly turned the ring. The corners of his lips slightly turned up, and his smile held a hint of coolness.

Seeing this person’s action, Jing Xi frowned uncomfortably. He suddenly thought that although Chi Yao had no morals in his words, he never made such vulgar gestures.

“What the hell is wrong with you?!”

“You’re rushing to your death!”

“Let’s rush too!”

With one, there were two. The neat formation became a mess.

The road was already narrow, and everyone wanted to rush forward, but no one could pass.

In the chaos, a scream suddenly came from the front.

The air immediately froze.

Chi Yao calmly looked at the front. The dreadlocked Beta was crushed into a bloody mess by a steel plate.

The curly-haired man who gave him the middle finger was slightly luckier. He was blocked by a bumper car. His body from the waist down was gone. Only his bloody upper half was left, rolling on the ground.

Crimson blood and internal organs were splattered all over the ground.

“Ugh—!”

Sounds of vomiting rose and fell in the convoy.

The checkpoint wasn’t supposed to be working, right? How did it start working again?!

Chi Yao: “When people try to kill themselves, you can’t stop them.”

Jing Xi: “His life is his own. He can do whatever he wants with it.”

Chi Yao was amused by this.

“Is that what you should be saying? It’s not your style to watch someone die and not help.”

Jing Xi turned his head to meet his gaze. “I think you’ve been a bit abnormal these past two days.”

He had helped these people over and over again.

The tragedy was right in front of them. Fear once again enveloped the entire convoy. No one dared to rush forward anymore.

When they were close to the steel plate checkpoint, Chi Yao once again cut the controller before Jing Xi could say anything.

The two opened steel plates had nothing but a mess of flesh between them. The curly-haired Alpha was lying on the side of the road, on his last breath.

Chi Yao stepped on the brake and looked down at him from above.

“You’re just a waste of the life I helped you get back.”

The curly-haired Alpha heard him but couldn’t respond. He desperately reached out his hand for help, only guttural sounds coming from his throat.

Under his desperate gaze, Chi Yao retracted his gaze and scoffed.

“I won’t save the same person a second time.”

After saying that, he stepped on the gas and left.

The little green car followed the little pink one closely.

Lu Meng looked at his boss’s back and was deep in thought.

He felt more and more strange.

The boss had become a completely different person this time.

“I didn’t expect him to be so handsome.” Li Yuan rested his hand on the steering wheel and said with a grin. “There’s no point in saving people who are looking for death. You should just let them fend for themselves.”

Lu Meng sneered. “What do you know? As long as a person is still alive, you should do everything you can to save them!”

Li Yuan laughed coldly and raised his chin. “Here, you go save him. That half-dog thing is waiting for you.”

Lu Meng said as if it were obvious, “That’s not a person.”

Li Yuan: “…”

You said everything I wanted to say.

Fifteen minutes passed. They were halfway through the race.

The closer they got to the finish line, the more anxious the people in the convoy became.

There were only three hundred meters left, but the checkpoints suddenly became dense. In one spot, there were five consecutive giant pendulums, with one every five meters.

Jing Xi glanced at the time on the windshield. There were less than five minutes left on the countdown. He looked at the front again.

They would be fine, but it was hard to say for the people behind them.

He looked up at the two paths crossing above the track.

There was a jump point fifty meters ahead. They could jump from there to the upper track.

The distance would be longer, but it would avoid the dense checkpoints ahead.

After a brief consideration, Jing Xi said in a low voice, “Five pictures. Speed up.”

Chi Yao glanced at him and knew his intention. He stepped on the gas pedal and said slowly, “Five pictures are only enough to get to here.”

Jing Xi calculated the speed and distance in his head. “That’s enough.”

Li Yuan also noticed their intention and immediately told Lu Meng to follow.

The cars behind them watched as the two cars in front suddenly flew from the jump point to the upper track.

Some people hesitated.

“The upper path is a huge detour. If we go at the previous speed, we definitely won’t make it to the finish line.”

“But it feels so safe to follow them.”

“The finish line is right in front of us. Why take a detour? The checkpoints are broken anyway.”

“Maybe they’re working again? Did you forget what just happened?”

Time did not allow them to discuss for too long. In the end, half of them followed the two cars to the upper track, and the other half chose to rush to the finish line on the original path.

When they rounded the big circle, Jing Xi saw that there were so few people left behind. He was a little irritated.

“Their lives are their own. Why are you worrying about them?” Chi Yao said lazily.

Jing Xi retracted his gaze. “Didn’t you want to save them too?”

Chi Yao scoffed, as if he had heard something very funny.

“As long as they don’t die in front of me, they can do whatever they want.”

Jing Xi didn’t understand at first. Then he heard Chi Yao say in a low voice, “Everyone only has one life. I already gave them a choice. This doesn’t count as breaking the agreement.”

Jing Xi: “Agreement?”

But Chi Yao didn’t answer.

The cars following the little pink car arrived at the finish line without any trouble.

The shy Alpha who had answered the relationship question in the first round breathed a sigh of relief.

He smelled a foul, fishy odor and his gaze swept over the path below. His face instantly turned pale.

The last three hundred meters of the road were almost entirely stained crimson. The wreckage of the bumper cars was scattered everywhere. Only twenty cars made it through.

[Final one-minute countdown—]

Hearing the AI’s prompt, everyone came to their senses.

Sixty cars had reached the finish line, but there were only forty parking spots.

A new round of fighting began.

Seeing death so close, everyone’s eyes turned vicious. They desperately bumped other cars out of the parking spots. Later, they even started yelling, as if the loudest one would win.

Chi Yao rubbed his ears. The noise was giving him a headache.

“If you can’t park vertically, why don’t you park horizontally?”

But the others were already seeing red and didn’t pay any attention to him.

Jing Xi patted his shoulder. “Give me some speed.”

The little pink car did a beautiful drift and parked horizontally into the closest parking spot.

The little green car followed closely behind, parking next to the little pink car in the same spot. It was just enough to not touch the line.

Lu Meng’s thick palm slapped the car door, making a loud sound.

“If you don’t want to be eliminated, listen to me!”

His voice was loud and carried the deterrence he had learned in the military. It made everyone stop at once.

Lu Meng pointed at the little pink and little green cars. “Park like this, and no one has to be eliminated. If you understand, line up and listen to my command!”

In front of the monitor, the VIPs watched with great interest.

It got more exciting as they got closer to the end.

Their greatest pleasure was watching players go crazy for survival and be killed in various ways.

But all of a sudden, the atmosphere on the field changed again.

The people who had been fighting to the death lined up in two teams and obediently drove into the parking spots one by one.

The countdown ended. The last car just made it into a spot.

The AI judged that no cars had touched the line and no team members were missing. Everyone successfully advanced.

“How is that possible?!”

“With so many people advancing, the odds are much lower.”

“It’s better to make some money than to lose money.”

“The curly-haired guy I bet on died halfway. How unlucky!”

On the field, when they heard the AI’s prompt, everyone couldn’t believe it.

They won just like that?

“Awww—!”

The shy tall Alpha cheered loudly. “I’m one step closer to 100 million!”

The others came to their senses and followed suit.

“One parking spot can fit two cars. That means no one had to be eliminated in this round.”

“I told you! Following the hairy-faced charlatan feels so safe!”

“They’re too smart! They actually thought of parking horizontally. I was so scared my brain couldn’t think at all!”

“The rules said only one car could park. I really thought it was just one car. I’m still too young.”

Listening to their discussions, Chi Yao smiled, opened the car door, and got out.

The metal ball appeared out of nowhere and hovered in the air.

[Congratulations to all of you for successfully advancing. Please follow the butler back to the castle. Tomorrow is a day off. You can play around the park as you please and rest up for the next round of the game.]

A day off, which meant a day the VIPs wouldn’t be coming.

They returned to the basement.

The tall Alpha squeezed through the crowd to get next to Chi Yao and scratched his head awkwardly. “Master, thank you for saving me again.”

The others looked over strangely.

They had won the game and had a day off tomorrow, so the atmosphere was more relaxed than usual.

Someone joked, “All the checkpoints Master passed by malfunctioned. He must have broken them with his magic.”

The people around them laughed loudly.

“No, it’s not.” The tall Alpha said with a serious face. “The master used his ring to break the device on the checkpoints, which is why they stopped working.”

The air suddenly went quiet.

Someone looked at Chi Yao and asked the tall Alpha, “Are you sure?”

It was possible to break one, but to break them all? That would be too amazing.

The key was that they hadn’t even noticed.

“I’m sure.” The tall Alpha pointed to his eyes. “I saw it clearly. If it weren’t for the master, we don’t know what would have happened to us.”

When he said this, everyone’s gaze toward Chi Yao changed.

This old charlatan was a hidden boss!

Chi Yao didn’t enjoy the worship from these people at all. He put his hands in his pockets and continued forward.

“No need to thank me. I just did it for myself.”…for my lust.

—For his rival’s beauty.

Thinking of the stack of photos he was about to get, he was in a good mood and hummed a song as he walked.

“Who did you make an agreement with?”

Hearing Jing Xi’s lowered voice, Chi Yao turned his head and was met with his probing gaze.

Jing Xi added, “An agreement not to stand by and watch people die.”

Chi Yao smiled. “Are you very interested?”

Jing Xi’s eyes flashed, and he looked away to the front.

“I’m just curious what kind of person can restrain you.”

Chi Yao: “Are you mocking me?”

Jing Xi rephrased it. “I thought no one could influence your thoughts.”

Thinking of that old man, Chi Yao sneered. “I’m just an ordinary charlatan. Of course, there are times when I have to bow my head.”

When they got to the door, Jing Xi stopped and faced him.

“Then why do you never bow to me?”

Chi Yao looked at him for a moment, took two steps closer, and pressed him against the door.

Jing Xi’s face was expressionless, but his hands at his sides unconsciously curled into fists.

“You?” Chi Yao let out a soft laugh from his nose. “Who do you think you are?”

Bow to his arch-nemesis? How would he live after that?

Jing Xi: “…”

Chi Yao: “You—”

Just as he opened his mouth, the door suddenly opened in front of him. Jing Xi took a step back and slammed the door shut with a bang.

Chi Yao, who was almost hit in the face by the door: “…”

Is he angry?

He asked the question, but he’s the one who got angry.

“How unreasonable.”

Chi Yao snorted and opened the door next to it to go in.

In a moment, the wall made a sound.

[Send Xiao Hong over.]

Chi Yao didn’t want to. But he thought of Jing Xi’s sudden anger just now. He hesitated and reluctantly picked out Xiao Hong.

The external network was blocked here. These three little robots only had an internal network connected to the terminal.

Chi Yao pinched the Xiao Hong between his fingers and played with it. He whispered, “Go scout ahead. If he hides you, run back immediately. Nod if you hear me.”

The Xiao Hong obediently wiggled in his fingers. It switched to stealth mode. After mimicking the environment, it slipped out of the gap under the door.

In a moment, the Xiao Hong returned.

So fast?

A virtual screen popped out from the top of the Xiao Hong’s head.

[There’s a new file. Would you like to view it?]

Chi Yao: “View.”

Xiao Hong: [Patients with heart disease, high blood pressure, and who can’t eat sour things, please prepare yourselves mentally.]

Chi Yao: “…”

“Can’t eat sour things” refers to him?

The virtual screen on the Xiao Hong’s head enlarged a bit more, and a photo appeared.

The photo was of himself. He had a one-eyed scar and a jumpsuit. He was propping his chin up, looking at the camera with impatience.

The buttons on the jumpsuit were undone to his waist. You could vaguely see his top abdominal muscle.

His chest was covered with a large patch of fake chest hair, like he was wearing a fur coat.

There was a small note under the photo.

[The ‘partially covered’ look you wanted.]

Chi Yao: “…………”

Damn.