The staff's words reassured the Grandmaster a lot. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Info That's how they fought hard along the way, and it was the Grandmaster who thought of such a strange trick as adding a set of snow removal shovels to the vehicle, so that they could rely on the powerful horsepower of the modified tough guy to push it over. If it were a different race car, not to mention whether those drivers would have thought of installing snow plows on their vehicles, even if they did, those cars would not have that much power even if they were equipped with snow plows, except for the big guys in the truck crew.

Since there is so much ahead, then you can have a good night's rest tonight.

Kurtuk is a small city with a population of more than 10,000 people, surrounded by mountains and lakes, and the whole is in a "V" shape.

The city is very small, and there are no tall buildings in the city, most of them are bungalows or two-story buildings, and even the lakeside hotel where the grandmaster and the others stayed are all two-story small buildings.

This hotel was introduced by the staff at the check-in desk, just north of the check-in desk.

This hotel is arguably the best in the whole town, and many drivers of the Vladivostok-Cape Town Rally have stayed here.

The hotel is located on the shore of Lake Baikal, and from the room on the second floor, you can see the silvery white Baikal Lake. It's winter, Lake Baikal is completely frozen, and because of the snowstorm a few days ago, it looks like a white desert in the middle of nowhere.

In fact, if it weren't for the snowstorm a few days ago, Lake Baikal in winter would be quite beautiful. After all, Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake in the world, and although the temperature is very high, it freezes a little later, but once it freezes, the lake is quite fun.

Because the water freezes in freshwater and the water of Lake Baikal is quite clean, the ice is almost always transparent, although it can be up to two meters thick at its thickest.

Standing on top of the slightly thinner ice, you can even see the blue water below the ice.

It's a pity that they can't see the grandmaster now, but under the arrangement of the hotel, the grandmaster still took Fang Zhengying to drive around Lake Baikal after dinner.

Compared to the world's largest freshwater lake, Hulun Lake, which Grandmaster and Fang Zhengying once drove through, is simply not worth mentioning.

It only took fifteen minutes for the Grandmaster to cross the entire Hulun Lake that day, and here, the Grandmaster had been driving along the narrow lake for more than an hour, and he hadn't even reached the center of the lake.

With a length of more than 630 km, this large lake is longer than the distance from Ulan-Ude to Kurtuk......

After playing on the lake for more than three hours, the grandmaster and Fang Zhengying returned to the hotel to rest, and the two of them also discussed that they would come here to enjoy the winter scenery of Lake Baikal by this time next year.

At five o'clock in the morning of the next day, it was still dark, and the grandmaster was ready. Even Fang Zhengying, who usually likes to sleep lazily, because of these five or six days of exercise, now no one needs to shout in the morning, and he can open his eyes on time at five o'clock.

Despite its proximity to Lake Baikal, the temperature in the early morning is still very low, around minus 40 degrees Celsius. Grandmaster, they were hot for ten minutes just by hot cars, and then they began the second stage of the journey with the stars above their heads.

There was still snow on the road, but the snow had frozen into ground armor and could not be shoveled even with a snow removal shovel.

The Grandmaster didn't shovel the snow at all, and just pressed the ground armor that was more than thirty centimeters thick and drove straight forward. Anyway, there are no cars on the road, and the brakes are rarely used, so it is much faster than using a snow shovel.

The Grandmaster and the others traveled at an average speed of 60 and returned to Ulaanbaatar in the evening of the next day.

From Ulaanbaatar to the south, the road is much easier, and although there is still ground armor on the road, the road here is much smoother.

From Ulaanbaatar south to Bayankhongol, most of the road is on the desert, and after reaching Bayankhongol and then west, there is also the desert terrain next door between the Hangai Mountains and the Altai Mountains.

This kind of road is easier to walk than the mountain roads on the western route, at least when you are running a car, you don't have to worry about you falling into the cliff on the side of the road because of the slippery road. Running a car on this Gobi Desert, even if you run off the road, is no different from running on the road.

The second stage, if you take the western route, is about 2,800 kilometers, but if you take the eastern route, it is nearly 3,800 kilometers, and the difference between the western and eastern routes is 1,000 kilometers.

It took the four of them four days to successfully climb the Altai Mountains and finally successfully reach Hami.

When the Grandmaster signed in at Hami's check-in desk, he was still the first and second. But at this point, the pair of snow shovels in front of the modified tough guy can be completely dispensed with.

After a slight refurbishment at the Real Madrid team's fixed supply point in Hami, a few adjustments to the car, and some necessary supplies, the Grandmaster and Bruno were ready to start the third stage of their journey.

The third stage of the competition is from Hami to Xidu.

This section of the race can be said to be the shortest in a straight line of all the races, because the distance from Hami to Xidu is only 1,500 kilometers, which is the least distance between each of the six transit cities.

However, this is one of the most difficult of the seven major races.

Because the third stage is not a straight line, but follows a zigzag route. This stage is also the only one of the seven stages with a defined course of progress.

The specific way forward is to start from Hami and go straight to the end, where there is a sign-in point set by the organizing committee, and you can only continue the race if you arrive at the check-in point and obtain a certificate issued by the organizing committee.

Then starting from the end, the car has to cross the Taklamakan Desert, arrive at Aksu in the north of the desert, in Aksu, there is also a sub-stage check-in point, and then start from Aksu, cross the 800-mile desert again, sign in to Hotan, and finally from Hotan to Kashgar, and then from Kashgar over the Pamir Plateau, and finally arrive in the Western Capital.

The reason why this stage is arranged in this way is that it looks like a tug-of-war and has to be played, in order to let the car cross the Taklamakan Desert many times, so as to achieve the purpose of testing the vehicles and drivers, to prepare for the fifth stage to cross the Sahara Desert in advance, so that the new drivers can familiarize themselves with the environment of the desert, and let them feel the difficulties and characteristics of driving in the desert in advance.

So, in this way, the whole stage is more than 3,000 kilometers, almost 3,200 kilometers or so.

Of course, some amateurs who are not keen on rankings, but only about scenery and safety, can also do otherwise, and they can travel all the way from Hami to Xidu on the road. But if you go this way, even if you end up in the first place, you won't be recognized.