The race has entered the final sprint, and the arch at the finish line is already in sight. The devil rider named Fujiwara Takumi has already taken the lead on the arch bridge, followed closely by Yan Zhen on her "Pig Dudu". I fell behind. Not far behind them, they soon jumped onto the bridge. A series of rapid and noisy hoofbeats sounded on the bridge, like a sledgehammer hitting our chests, making our hearts sink into despair little by little.
Thirty seconds later - no, twenty seconds at most, this game will end with our defeat, and we have no other choice but to watch this humiliation happen, this kind of even match from beginning to end but at the last moment But losing by a hair's breadth makes people feel helpless and frustrated, even more so than being crushed by an absolute disadvantage. The frustration we feel at this time is simply beyond words.
Hey, what is that? Just when I felt extremely depressed, suddenly, a cracked and ugly thing was exposed from the railing of that section of the bridge. It slowly poked out, stretching forward on one side and swinging back and forth leisurely on the other. , like a broken branch swaying in the wind.
This thing looks very familiar, as if I had just seen it not long ago. In the fierce competition, I even reined in the horse in disbelief and reached out to rub my eyes. It wasn't until I rubbed my eyes so hard that I almost dug them out that I was finally convinced: this was indeed the same thing I had just seen. To be precise, it was undoubtedly Xian Ge Yayi's glans.
¡Uh, I mean this is the head of Xian Ge Yayi¡¯s turtle mount!
Soon, Xian Ge Yayi¡¯s figure also appeared behind the swinging turtle head. Apparently they crawled out of the river under the bridge. Although I'm curious as to how they managed to get here in such a short period of time across a waterway nearly twice as long as ours, I have no desire to figure it out right now. They landed so close to the finish line that I just hoped they could bring us a magical victory.
"Rush over! Go through that arch! Rush!" I had completely given up sprinting, dancing excitedly on the horse, shouting at the top of my lungs at Xian Ge Yayi's back.
Xian Geya didn't even look back and walked towards the arch.
"My dear, come on!" Yan Zhen called sweetly while riding on the back of the wild boar. Hearing this greeting, the Elf Marksman's face glowed with excitement. He turned his head sideways and waved to her triumphantly.
"Xiao Xianzi, if you lose, you will pay for the bet of this game yourself!" Fei Yin's roar came from behind.
Immediately, Xian Geya's proud expression disappeared, and he immediately leaned down and accelerated with all his strength - I don't know if it was an illusion, but after hearing Miss Fei Yin's roar, even the old turtle's head seemed to shake even more. Work harder.
When Xian Ge Yayi¡¯s turtle head¡ªI mean the head of the turtle he was riding¡ªfinally passed through the finish gate, a sheet of gorgeous magic fireworks immediately flew out from both sides of the gate. At the same time, a sky-blue halo immediately rose from our feet, announcing that we had become the winners of this team racing competition.
A moment later, we were once again enveloped in a magical vortex, and then returned to the hut.
Our opponents looked very ugly - I can understand why they were like this, in fact, just a moment ago our situation was different from theirs - they walked out of the room with a long stamp of their feet and beating their chests, and even They didn't want to look at us again.
And we hugged together excitedly, celebrating our miraculous victory with cheers and laughter. Only poor Niu Wanwan didn¡¯t know what was going on, and even grabbed each of us to ask what had just happened.
"Hey, hey, what's going on? I just ran to a volcano crater, and then I was teleported here. Did we win? Who is the first place? You guys should tell me"
The crater? Although we have all experienced Niu Baiwan's elusive ability to get lost, this time I was still deeply shocked by him - at least in my opinion, in such a short period of time, from the large rainforest and swamp just now Finding a crater is more difficult than winning a contest.
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"You're so good" Ignoring the confused Niu Baiwan, I rushed over and hugged Xian Ge Yayi's shoulders tightly, and gave his shoulder a heavy thump, " tell us quickly, what's wrong with you?" You can run so fast, the waterway on the map is almost twice as long as the land route, can you fly?"
Xian Geya smiled proudly and told us the secret of his victory.
It turns out that not long after he took the turtle into the water and swam out, he discovered?There is a cave entrance on the edge of the cliff. In fact, this hole was very hidden. He had already passed by it. If it had been anyone else, he would have accelerated the game and would not have looked back to pay attention to the missed hole. But Xian Ge Yayi is obviously more self-aware than them. He knows very well that with the speed of his turtle, it will be good to wait until the end of the game to swim half of the distance. Instead of doing this, it is better to appreciate the scenery of this place, so he You turned around, found the entrance of the cave again, and swam in along the current.
To his surprise, the entrance to the cave was not a dead end, but an underground river. Although it was very dark, even with a torch he couldn't see how far away he was, but the wonderful thing was that this was a waterway going down the river - he didn't have to worry about his speed being too slow at all, but he had to be careful not to let his speed be too slow. He went too fast and hit a rock in the water.
When he rushed out of the underground river along the current, even he was shocked: he never thought that the exit of the underground river was so close to the end of the race, so that he only had to climb ashore and walk a few steps quickly. Just won the game.
Xian Ge Yayi's explanation suddenly made us realize. Regarding his experience, I couldn't help but feel lucky and envious: Fortunately, it was his timely appearance that allowed us to reverse the situation and win the final victory of the game. What I envied was that he could Find a secret and unknown path and become the key figure that determines the outcome of this game.
Of course, among those of us who are either sober, envious or even more or less jealous, there are always some people who always maintain a high degree of calmness in their minds, find the key issues that have been ignored in this matter, and think about it. Go deeper
"You mean, you missed the entrance to the underground river and turned back again?" Fei Yin suddenly asked amidst our joy.
"Yes" Xian Ge nodded gracefully and said, "you know, this is not an easy task. When I turned back, I had to go upstream. The water in that area was very fast, and it took a lot of effort on my part. If not"
Our elf marksman wanted to explain his hard work in more detail, but was interrupted mercilessly by the president:
"About how long did this process take you?"
"ThisI'm not sure, it's about twenty or thirty secondsmaybe not that many, but there are always more than ten seconds. At that time, I had already rushed over more than ten meters, even if my turtle took one second You can only swim one meter"
"You mean, if you don't miss the entrance, you can be at least ten seconds faster?" Fei Yin didn't pay attention to these details at all. Her expression was extremely excited, staring at Xian Ge Yayi, as if she could His face looked like gold.
"Absolutely" Xian Ge Yayi was confused by the questioning and looked at Fei Yin in confusion. She didn't know why she had to ask so many questions, "and I was delayed for a while by stumbling in the underground river. Work," he added.
"That's great!" Fei Yin jumped up and rubbed her hands together excitedly. Suddenly, she turned around and asked us seriously:
¡°Think about it again, if you were more proficient in running on this map, how much faster could you increase your speed?¡±
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????, ??and everyone was not sure. Only Niu Baiwan had not figured out the situation yet, so he answered naively: "I don't know."
Of course, his answer was immediately ignored by us. I personally think that the time it takes him to run the entire distance is infinite. Even if he is familiar with the terrain, the time he needs is at most infinity minus five or six seconds. In fact, no one can tell which of the two numbers is larger.
After thinking for a moment, the Yangtze River Delta finally spoke: "If I could calculate the footing point more accurately when climbing and pass as fast as possible, I would probably be able to improve it by ten or eight seconds at most. You can think of it." To find the shortest road, you need to run at least hundreds of laps. If you just run a few more laps, it will not be easy to be two or three seconds faster."
What the orc shadow thief said is actually not entirely correct. In my opinion, the most time wasted on our journey was not when passing through difficult terrain, but during the ordinary running stage that took up the vast majority of the distance. On this long runway, if we can find the shortest distance at every turn and every intersection, pass it at the fastest speed, and choose the straightest route when running, we can minimize unnecessary slight mistakes. Turning corners may shorten the time by more than twenty seconds to complete the race. But who can do this? With my unknown talents that belong to natives, I may be able to improve significantly after thirty or fifty laps. However, although my spacewalker friends have extremely high imagination and creativity, Talent, butBut they are far inferior to me in terms of observation and calculation abilities - I think this is also a more essential difference between natives and space-dwellers.
¡°But from a practical point of view, what the Yangtze River Delta said makes sense. Improving your speed by a few seconds while familiar with the terrain is probably a standard that space travelers can generally achieve.
President Fei Yin probably made a slight estimate herself, and then nodded vigorously, a cunning smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and two familiar, greedy and cunning rays of light shone in her eyes.
"Hurry up, come out, let's open a new competition room!" She ordered hurriedly. After speaking, she raised her legs and walked out of the door. Her excitement was like planning to grab it right away. Casino-like.
"Why?" The dull Niu Baiwan didn't understand the situation yet, "Isn't this room pretty good?"
"Hello sister, I'm going to get a house with a thousand gold coins!" Before the bold words finished, Fei Yin had already disappeared from the door.
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A series of things that happened after that proved that you cannot afford to hurt a woman who dares to spend a thousand gold coins to buy a house. We ran that familiar track more than thirty times in a row without any failure. No matter whether the opponent is a giant jungle elephant or a cone-toothed tiger, a shaggy-maned prairie lion or a colorful chocobo, a moonlit wolf or a giant scythe beetle, Xiange Yayi's turtle has won an overwhelming victory every time with an astonishing lead. , always the first to cross the finish line - Xian Ge Yayi even won the honorary title of "Lightning Sprinter" because of her amazing performance on the competition field.
At the beginning, the rest of us were still trying to compete with our opponents so that we would not be able to make amends if something unexpected happened to Xiange Yayi. But as we became more and more familiar with the arena, the gap between Xian Ge Yayi and our opponents became wider and wider, and our desperate sprint became increasingly unnecessary. Later, I even wandered around freely and saw all the scenery in this arena.
Well, you have to admit, the world can no longer stop the turtle!
It is worth mentioning that no matter how hard I searched, I could not find the crater that Niu Baiwan mentioned - we all doubted whether this guy who was lost and obsessed with divine help broke the powerful magic of the "copy" for the first time. , and fled to another track.
By winning games again and again, we earned more than 30,000 gold coins. Looking at this huge amount of extra money, our president smiled happily and kept complaining about why there were no rooms available for 10,000 gold coins.
In the end, it was time that made us stop this crazy money-grabbing trip - the survival needs of my spacewalker friends in another plane of time and space forced them to say goodbye to Falvey Continent temporarily. When they left, almost all the opponents in the entire competition field who were willing to spend a thousand gold coins to participate in the competition had been ravaged by us - the reason why I say "almost" is because there are always some unconvinced die-hards among them. They challenged us again and again, so some were ravaged by us two or three times.
What we didn¡¯t expect was that our perfect record this day would bring about earth-shaking changes in the racing circles across the continent. Among our opponents, some people have conducted in-depth research on our achievements. My friends told me that some of them used a magic called "panoramic video" and discovered the invincible way of the turtle. secret. Soon after, the "clumsy swamp elephant-legged turtle", which was ugly, slow and had only one skill, became the most popular mount among mainland racers, so much so that it was embarrassing to come to the competition venue if you didn't have a turtle all the time. Say hello to others.
After learning about this situation, our president immediately showed the same wisdom and courage as when we discovered the secret of the "boxing gloves", and immediately reported it to the sacred GM, once again winning a lot of money for the guild. reward.
Later, the cross-country competition venue had to make great efforts to modify this section of the track, further extending the distance of the underground river, and giving other mounts a fair chance to race with the turtle. At the same time, in order to compensate those racing enthusiasts who had already captured the turtles, they agreed to recycle those turtles, giving those adventurers a chance to choose their mounts again.
Surprisingly, not many people are willing to give away turtle mounts. On the contrary, this move has further stimulated people who love racing sports to further explore the track, allowing them to draw their attention to the once-neglected waterways. What excites them is that in addition to this section of the swamp track, there are also various water paths hidden in other tracks. Taking water routes and taking land routes have the same chance of winning the game, and catching a "clumsy" The difficulty and cost of "Swamp Land Elephant-Legged Turtle" are much less than those of exotic animals that are good at running. Under the leadership of these people, the riders??Turtles participating in racing competitions have become a trend and fashion, and some people have even made great efforts to research many racing tactics with turtle mounts as the core. These tactics have become popular under the name "Turtle Flow".
In their minds, perhaps only the turtle is the fastest animal in the world