Pokémon development strategy

It’s hard to say about the next maintenance point after the confluence.

After making up his mind, Shen Qiteng reached out and pressed the speak button.

"I'm Shen Qi, the No. 6 driver. We're on the tunnel track. I'm about to enter the first maintenance point. I need to replenish energy and replace tires."

"receive"

The tires provided in the maintenance room come from the organizers and sponsors. If there are special requirements, such as the Rainbow Sword, you often have to submit your own exclusive kit before the competition.

Apart from the rotary engine, Shen Qi did not pay much attention to other parts.

Chapter 715: Station

"The little sheep at position 6 is entering!"

In the maintenance room, staff members crowded in.

Finally, Shen Qi decided to stop at the first maintenance station to change tires.

There are still 200 kilometers of race left. With the new tires + all the durability of [adaptive energy], I should be able to finish the race in relatively good condition.

Most importantly, there will be no queues when entering the station now.

Replacing four tires of the same specification, filling the energy block, and doing some debugging and maintenance, the total cost was 1b.

It's about the same price as what you'd pay at an outside repair shop; four high-quality racing tires would cost several thousand.

Shen Qi entered the station, changed tires, charged energy, and debugged, which took 3 minutes.

During this period, the two cars overtook the Lamborghini, and the driver of the Yuesui also chose to pit.

At the maintenance station, Shen Qi asked the staff about the general situation.

After being overtaken, the little sheep ranked 7th.

This means that the little Lamb has moved up from the original starting position to 5th.

Although this ranking was within the promotion range, Shen Qi still found it very difficult.

Before entering the fork in the road, I was ranked 6th. The fork in the road has performed very well. The [Global Eye] is extremely effective. Moreover, the tunnel section is 10 kilometers shorter, but I only moved up 1 place.

Feeling like starting from the maintenance station, Shen Qi stepped on the accelerator and gave chase.

Currently in 7th place, the two cars ahead are actually harmless, after all, they overtook the Lamborghini without making a pit stop.

They always have to make a pit stop.

Even if they had enough energy to complete the race, the intense wear and tear of 3 kilometers would be equivalent to three rounds of T3 standard races, and the tire degradation would be unsightly.

So they have to pit, either to recharge or to change tires.

With the new tires, the handling feel of the Lamborghini has been significantly improved.

The only structure of the car that is connected to the ground is the tires. No matter how powerful the power is, it needs to be transmitted to the ground by the tires.

The terrain ahead was becoming increasingly treacherous, and it was no longer possible to drive at a speed of 300 kilometers per hour as before. Even with the help of [Global Eyes], Shen Qi's driving speed was mostly only to kilometers per hour.

The Lamborghini without the rotary engine performs similarly here, but on the long straight sections, it can't accelerate as fast as others.

Click click click…

The tire feedback has a collapsing texture, and you can hear the sound of rocks collapsing.

It is a gravel road similar to a rubble beach.

Shen Qike had no intention of going to the maintenance station again, so he directly used [Adapt Tire] to adjust the tire type to a sprocket tire for off-road use.

[Adaptive Tire] The durability is still 83%. Previously, it was only used when the tire type needed to be adjusted. Now we need to increase the amount of game props and reduce tire consumption.

Finally, just leave about 15% of the durability for emergency use.

After leaving the maintenance station, Shen Qi had covered about 210 kilometers of track, plus the 10 kilometers saved by choosing to insert the tunnel, so he was already halfway through the race...

It’s only halfway through.

Not to mention the 100% concentration of a racing driver, driving a car at a speed of only 100 to 200 kilometers per hour, and maintaining the attention that an ordinary driver should have at this stage to drive more than 200 kilometers was already a bit tiring.

Later on, you need to concentrate on running the second half.

Sizzle

There was an electric sound coming from the earphones, which should be the internal connection prompting some key track information.

"Attention, contestants. Attention, contestants."

“Just after leaving the maintenance station on the valley floor route, 236 meters from the merge area, the driver in position 9 tilted and retired.”

It is normal for a car to retire due to an accident, but I have to say that it is worthy of being a T2 expansion race, as it took such a long distance for the first driver to retire.

How long is it to the meeting point now?

Shen Qi couldn't judge, and the organizer didn't provide a specific meeting point location.

The first maintenance station is at 1 kilometers, and the second maintenance station is at 210 kilometers, so the meeting point is between these two distances.

Gradually, Shen Qi became numb to how far he was from the maintenance station.

When encountering a long straight road, the speed can reach over 300 kilometers per hour. When encountering a more troublesome low-speed curve and unable to "electromagnetically float", the speed will be reduced to to kilometers.

The speed fluctuated, the terrain was bizarre, and I really lost track of distance.

Shen Qi could only communicate with the Pokémon from time to time to prevent himself from being in a state of mental stiffness and becoming numb and careless for a long time.

Finally, a temporary road sign appeared ahead, indicating that the current route should turn right and that vehicles should merge.

"You know the meeting place is dangerous, but you still make it so difficult!"

Shen Qi couldn't help but complain.

The right turn in front of you is just stuck in a special terrain position where there is a gap between two mountains. The howling mountain wind is compressed by the narrow terrain, like a high-pressure air gun gushing out, forming a "cross wind" similar to that at the seaside.

In this way, the car may accidentally overturn during the turning process.

The gain effect of increasing the avoidance rate can indeed reduce wind resistance, but overly turbulent airflow and turbulence will still have more or less an impact. Even if it does not cause lateral interference, it will also affect the air intake efficiency.

Using the "Ningning Ninja Technique", the Lamborghini achieved an excellent avoidance effect for a short period of time. The Lamborghini drove through the right bend at high speed and returned to the main road.

There were no other cars in sight at the so-called three-lane merge.

After more than 14 kilometers of competition, divided into three routes, the remaining drivers should have already pulled away from each other.

At most, Shen Qi could see two racing cars three or four hundred meters ahead through the [Global Eye].

That was the car that the Lamborghini overtook when it entered the maintenance station.

The drivers here are very strong. After falling behind at the maintenance station, Shen Qi has never had a chance to get close and overtake, and there is still such a huge gap.

"Ok?"

Just as I was saying there was no chance to overtake, the two cars in front of me suddenly slowed down.

With their level of skills, they need to reduce the speed to less than 100 kilometers per hour and then drive slowly. What difficulties did they encounter?

The terrain was a bit sloping, and the [Global Eye] couldn't see what happened to the two cars more than 150 meters away. Shen Qi also reduced the speed to kilometers per hour.

爬坡

Happiny continues to use "Self-Motivation", which mainly improves the effect of special attack and increases torque for the lamb.

Halfway up the slope, the field of vision of the [Global Eye] expanded further, and I could finally see what difficulties lay ahead.

"This is too much."

The terrain ahead was fragmented, with intermittent cracks in the ground. The narrow cracks were only as thick as a thermos cup, while the larger cracks were large enough for two vans to fall through.

There was a wooden bridge across the crack, or to be more precise, two wooden beams. The tires on the left and right sides were on the beams, and the bottom of the car was suspended in the abyss.

If it were on flat ground, everyone would have no problem driving, but this is dangerous terrain in the mountains.

It is like if there is a wooden strip more than half a meter wide placed on the flat ground, everyone can walk over it easily. But if the wooden strip of the same width is placed between two cliffs, people will inevitably be shaky and nervous when walking on it, and may even have an accident due to weak legs.

Chapter 716 Rift Valley Wooden Bridge

Even if you know that this is a difficult level designed by the organizer, the car will not be destroyed and you will not die if you fall down, as you can be rescued by using barriers or flying.

However, once you fall down, the delay will not be just one or two minutes, and you will have no chance of advancing at all.

Shen Qi initially wanted to fly over by "electromagnetic levitation", but quickly gave up the idea. The intermittent rock cracks and wooden bridge checkpoints extended for a long distance, and three seconds was not enough to fly over, and even five seconds might not be enough.

What’s more important is that these wooden bridges are not in the same straight line. After driving across a wooden bridge, you have to turn left or right and then face another wooden bridge.

When using "electromagnetic levitation", if the two tires cannot just ride on the wooden bridge when falling, or if a better landing point cannot be found, then it will inevitably result in a foul or fall and delay time.

It is too dangerous to fly into the air at a very fast speed and then use [Jet Energy] to adjust the direction, so you can only fly over the first bridge, and start driving carefully after the second bridge.

If the problem could be solved by using the "flying" or floating tactics, the drivers in front would not be so hesitant.

The gap between the Lamborghini and the two cars in front was shortened to about 50 meters, and it slowly overcame the difficulties. The speed was at most to kilometers per hour, which was similar to driving in the city.

[Global Eye] You can also see other cars merging in from the front, and the distance between them is shortened because of the difficulty of the wooden bridge.

Woohoo…

When passing the wooden bridge, the mountain wind blew upwards from below, and it felt like it was about to blow your soul out of your body.

Although I knew that the weight of the car would not be blown away by the wind from bottom to top, I always prayed in my heart that the car would not be blown away.

thump—

Suddenly, something heavy fell to the ground beside me, stirring up sand and rocks.

B-class car, moon shattered!

"He really dares!"

He is the master of Magikarp in the tunnel, or the master of "Water Splashing Leap".

In this level where ground rifts were generated intermittently, he actually dared to use the "Water Splash Jump" to jump forward continuously.

You have to know that the widths of the ribs are different for different sizes, and if you misjudge the distance of half a tire, you may get stuck or fall, and have to wait for the organizers to fish you out.

Is he so confident in his "water splash" skills? !

With the help of the "Water Splash Jump", Yue Sui overtook Shen Qi.

He didn't need to turn or look for the location of the wooden bridge. He just kept jumping forward.

When they passed each other, Shen Qi saw that there was really a Magikarp on Yue Sui's passenger seat. He summoned the Magikarp completely, and the trainer and Pokémon made judgments side by side.

Der, der, der

Yuesui jumped over the checkpoint full of cracks and overtook three...four cars!

This guy has unique skills, so terrifying.

Even if such continuous jumps are not timed when landing, they will definitely exceed the 5-second limit of using skills to get off the ground continuously in a short period of time (the single time limit is 3 seconds).

The overtaking is not much, maybe around one or two seconds, and in the end there will be a penalty of more than ten seconds or a retreat of ten to twenty meters.

The time that Jueshou Ge bought was much more than that. He saved at least thirty or forty seconds more than the little sheep in overcoming this difficulty.

This is a tactical foul. As long as you don't accidentally give yourself a double penalty or send the player out of the game, a tactical foul can actually help you get good results.

After finally passing the difficult obstacle consisting of rock cracks and wooden bridges, Shen Qi should now be ranked 8th.

However, there will be a major ranking adjustment soon.

The second inspection point is coming!

There were a total of 7 cars in front of Shen Qi. The two cars at the fork in the tunnel did not enter the pit. They had to go to the maintenance station at 320 kilometers, as there would be no more maintenance stations after that.

Then, if any of the other cars enters the maintenance station, the Lamborghini's ranking will be improved to fifth.

Seeing the maintenance station sign means there are still two or three kilometers to the station. At this time, the driver can report the supplies and parts he needs in advance through the communication headset.

A racing car in front of us flashed its right lights and drove onto the auxiliary road, preparing to enter the maintenance station.

The other car didn't have its lights on!

He's not going to make a pit stop?!

"Are you so stubborn?"

After switching to the rotary engine, the Lamborghini does not save energy. If it runs entirely in performance mode, it should be able to drive continuously for about 350 to 360 kilometers, which is definitely not enough to complete the entire journey.