Vege-Fritter continued to accelerate at the same pace. The three cars ahead moved further and further away from them, and Naimi was just about to voice out his worries again when Cillin said, “Do you remember the time I told you that you need to spend time winding up your body to the right level, or your performance will suffer?”

Naimi did remember now that he mentioned it, but he hadn’t taken it to heart. Naimi didn’t believe he needed much wind up time because he literally grew up with flying cars!

Half a minute later, when the conclusive reports of the racing tracks’ conditions came out, Fleka thought: It’s over.

As it turned out, not only was the red track the longest track of them all, and it also had more junctions/intersection/nodes and spirals than any other racing track. Cillin and Naimi had chosen the worst possible starting point out of all seven!

Gen Xingming was feeling very dejected as well. It was to the point where even his excitement had dimmed a little.

Teita didn’t feel dejected though. He was of the opinion that the first circuit didn’t matter too much because it was just one out of seven circuits. Even if Cillin and Naimi failed to get good results during the first circuit, they still had six remaining chances to fight their competitors on even ground. That would be when their skills were truly tested. Just because a child tripped while they were learning how to run, didn’t mean that they were actually incapable of running.

Just when everyone thought that it was impossible for the Vege-Fritter to get back into the race, just when Naimi himself was feeling cold feet after he learned about the track conditions, Vege-Fritter had sped up to a point where it was positively dangerous to round a corner. Even better, it was still accelerating.

By the time Naimi regained his cool and checked the speedometer on the display, he nearly jumped on his feet. “We need to slow down, we’re about to hit a spiral!”

“It’s fine.” Cillin looked as casual as ever, but his hands hadn’t slowed down one bit.

“It’s not! We’re might run into an accident if we accelerate any further than this. It’s not like our situation is hopeless because our track is the hardest of them all. We still have plenty of chances to catch up! This is just the first of seven circuits!” Naimi actually started consoling Cillin, believing that Cillin was speeding because of the bad news.

The spiral wasn’t your standard flat-land left or right turn, or consecutive hairpin turns. The spiral was literally shaped like a spiral, and the shape of spirals weren’t uniform. Both big and small spirals joined to make one complex spiralling track, and it was followed by a number of spins and even an inverted 270 degrees half-helix turn. No turn had one fixed radian, and sometimes it felt like the circuit was tied into a knot. As a result, the racer was forced to adjust their flight path according to the road conditions ahead of them almost all the time.

Turns like these couldn’t be solved with drifting alone. That was why most racers would choose to slow down on a circuit like this instead of accelerating at max speed.

Naimi was advising Cillin to slow down when suddenly, he realized that he could no longer see the racing track in front of him clearly. Was that a turn they just passed through just now? It probably was. Now it was a spiral, or was it two spirals? He couldn’t tell.

For the first time, Naimi doubted his own eyesight. Despite having flown through countless spirals in his life, he couldn’t accurately tell the strange scene that was happening before his eyes. Then he glanced at the speedometer and felt his feet shaking unconsciously in reaction.

Meanwhile, the commentator was talking about the leading flying cars. Aero, a flying car that was shaped like a swordfish was currently leading at first place. It was able to round corners at high speed because of its curvy exterior and the racer’s impeccable driving skills.

Not far behind Aero’s top seed was Spearhead’s knife-shaped car and Lightning’s crescent-shaped car. These three vehicles carried the audiences’ emotions to a new peak, and it made them feel like they were sitting right in those cars experiencing both weightlessness and excessive force all at once. It was so exciting their kidneys kept pumping adrenaline into their veins.

Most of the audiences were flying car hobbyists, and they had all run a spiral or two in their lives. They all could understand just how it felt to lose sense of gravity again and again at those speeds. A weak hearted or ill prepared person could easily lose consciousness from sheer anxiety under such conditions, in fact the weaker minded audiences were feeling short of breath already.

The commentator was working on carrying the audiences to a new high when suddenly, his passionate voice came to a sudden stop.

“Eh?”

On the red track, the Vege-Fritter that had been forgotten by everyone had somehow pulled closer to the three flying cars ahead of it before anyone realized it. In fact, it was gradually gaining ground on them.

“Look! It’s the Vege-Fritter we’ve all thrown to the back of our minds! It’s here, it’s actually catching up! Oh my god this is unbelievable, I’ve just received news that the Vege-Fritter is still accelerating at this moment! What’s going on!? What happened to it!?”

The three flying cars leading ahead of Cillin sped up as he gradually caught up. Since none of these flying cars were seeds, their overall skill and power were obviously inferior to other racers. This also meant that the racers in the red racing track was the overall last place out of all other racing tracks. However, the commentator still couldn’t help but be impressed by the Vege-Fritter just judging from the data he had gotten.

Holding the navigator’s chair with a death grip, Naimi made sure to stare at the still climbing speedometer instead of the front mirror. He was afraid that he would faint if he tried. He could tell from motion alone whether they were passing through a turn, spiral or a junction, but exactly how many spirals they had passed through, he couldn’t tell.

It was exactly because he knew how difficult the track was that he was shaking. At this rate they would die, they really would!

However, Naimi slowly recovered from his shock as they passed through one spiral after another.

Earlier, Naimi had ridiculed Bryce for fearing death, but in reality there was no one who didn’t fear death. However, under certain circumstances it was possible for other emotions to overcome even the fear of death. This feeling was commonly known as one’s “deepest emotions”.

Right now, Naimi was undergoing exactly such a change. His fear toward death was slowly being converted towards this so-called “deepest emotions”.

Meanwhile, the media discovered that their tracking camera was losing track of the Vege-Fritter speeding down the lane. Every tracking camera at every track shared the same speed, but this particular flying car was moving so fast that they had lost track of it.

The person in charge of the red racing track requested to increase the camera’s moving speed, or he wouldn’t be able to catch the Vege-Fritter on camera.historical