Chapter 189: You Are My Medicine (14)
There was only one race tonight.
Because of the collapsed tunnel, only one narrow lane had been cleared—just wide enough for a single car to pass. There was a constant risk of another blockage.
Including Xiao Ji, there were eleven cars. If they raced in pairs, the event would drag on too long.
Normally, this wouldn’t matter. These thrill-seeking youngsters lived for the “heartbeat” of danger, and accidents were just a matter of probability.
But the weather forecast showed an orange alert for a rainstorm in an hour.
The risks were magnified infinitely. In the end, few were truly willing to trade their lives for a thrill. Thus, the group decided to determine the winner based on the fastest time.
The cars would set off in pairs with a thirty-second interval. The one with the shortest time would win.
Chen Yinnian’s trip to Jinsha had been a snap decision, and joining the race was a whim.
He was driving a standard sports coupe, which couldn’t compare to those heavily modified cars.
The boy organizing the race was named Li Hao. He was a terrible driver but loved the sport. He had met Chen Yinnian two years ago and discovered that as long as he bet on Chen Yinnian, he was guaranteed to win.
He hadn’t intended to invite Chen Yinnian today; it was supposed to be a small gathering for a few Jinsha rich kids.
But an hour and a half ago, someone had dropped a massive bet of a hundred million yuan on the current boyfriend of Li Hao’s ex-girlfriend.
Li Hao couldn’t stomach that, so he called Chen Yinnian.
But now, he was starting to regret it. Standing by his car, he looked at Chen Yinnian in the driver’s seat and said tentatively:
“Brother Nian, maybe we should forget about today. I’m thinking of racing myself.”
Chen Yinnian glanced at him. “Then why the f*ck did you call me? Playing with me?”
Li Hao sighed, being vague. “Special circumstances. I’ve got a bad feeling about this. I’m panicking.”
Chen Yinnian sneered. “What are you panicking for? Keep your cool. Just wait to split the winnings when I win.”
Li Hao really wanted to tell Chen Yinnian what the “special circumstances” were.
But Xiao Ji had just warned him—if he dared to speak, Xiao Ji would skin him alive.
He wanted the money, but he wasn’t a moron who couldn’t tell who held the real power. After several long sighs, he managed only one sentence:
“Someone told me to tell you that tonight, you’re going to lose for sure.”
Chen Yinnian was naturally competitive, and currently being in a manic phase, his confidence was through the roof. The faces of the other competitors flashed through his mind as he sneered:
“Against those losers?”
Li Hao looked toward the sky. “Of course not. To be honest, Brother Nian, I still think you’ll win, but…”
Li Hao had never heard that Xiao Ji could race.
He truly didn’t think Xiao Ji could beat Chen Yinnian.
Moreover, Xiao Ji’s car looked like an extremely corporate business sedan, without a single trace of modification.
But the point was no longer about winning or losing; it was that Xiao Ji was clearly here to bust Chen Yinnian.
Li Hao patted Chen Yinnian’s shoulder through the window.
“Forget it, man. Good luck. I’m sorry; I shouldn’t have called you today.”
With that, he sighed and walked to the roadside. As the drone took flight, he pulled out his timer and exchanged a look with the bikini-clad girl ready to give the starting signal.
Chen Yinnian was confused, but Li Hao’s doubt left him irritated to the extreme.
Honestly, with his driving skills and his sheer guts—if not for his illness—he would have been a consistent champion on the professional circuit.
What was with Li Hao’s performance?
Looking down on him?
Who could make Li Hao sigh so many times?
It was practically an insult.
Chen Yinnian gave the steering wheel a frustrated punch and started the engine.
In an instant, the roar of the engines echoed throughout the entire valley.
Chen Yinnian pulled up alongside a green Koenigsegg. The moment the sharp, piercing whistle blew, he slammed the accelerator in a fit of rage and shot forward.
Following him, the other cars joined the fray one after another.
At the exact moment the last two cars set off, a black sedan surged from a hundred meters away, crossing the starting line simultaneously with them.
Someone thought they were seeing things and looked at Li Hao:
“Hao-zi! Did you see that? What was with that car just now?”
Li Hao waved him off. “Don’t worry about it. Just watch the show.”
The mountain road was narrow and winding, filled with countless slopes and hairpins. A single mistake could send a car over the guardrail—an occurrence that wasn’t rare.
Many drivers had the skill, but not the nerves.
They would inevitably slow down at sharp turns.
But Chen Yinnian was a patient; the more dangerous the situation, the higher his adrenaline spiked. His confidence was absolute, making him feel invincible.
The heavy tires emitted a pungent scent of burning rubber under the friction of high-speed drifts.
Initially, the gap between him and the green Koenigsegg wasn’t obvious, but after several sharp turns, he gradually pulled away.
Chen Yinnian looked at the opponent he had left behind and let out a mocking laugh, continuing to accelerate.
But what no one expected was that the rainstorm, predicted to arrive in an hour, came early.
Just as Chen Yinnian rounded another sharp bend, the sky suddenly lit up. A twisted, ferocious bolt of lightning flashed through the mountain ravine.
A moment later, a deafening thunderclap drowned out the roar of the engines.
Then, a wall of rain descended.
Almost instantly, the windshield was covered in water.
Chen Yinnian’s wipers began to work frantically, but visibility was already poor at night. With rain this heavy, it was almost impossible to see the road ahead.
Even Chen Yinnian had to ease off the gas and slow down.
Meanwhile, further down the mountain, two drivers who had set off after Chen Yinnian were forced to stop by the roadside due to the lack of visibility, cursing the hellish weather.
Just as one of them was hesitating whether to turn back, a black sedan streaked past him like a phantom.
The spray it kicked up slammed against his car door with a series of loud, rhythmic thuds.
The lack of visibility didn’t affect Xiao Ji.
The car’s inherent deficiencies were offset by the terrible weather and treacherous road conditions.
Xiao Ji overtook the cars ahead one by one until he saw the struggling green Koenigsegg.
At another bend, he pulled alongside it, scraping the roadside guardrail as he overtook it, heading straight for Chen Yinnian’s gaudy Bugatti up ahead.
037 had already presented the entire topography of this road to Xiao Ji.
After countless bends, there was a short straightaway, followed by the collapsed tunnel. Beyond that was a long downhill section that circled back to the starting point from another mountain path.
As Xiao Ji approached Chen Yinnian and the tunnel entrance, he could already see debris and gravel sliding down from the tunnel roof amidst the rain.
An ill omen surged in his heart. On the short straightaway, he accelerated once more.
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