At about the same time, all the drivers crossed the start line, and it was more important than anything else to get to the finish line than to the confusing game rewards, after all, there were still 200 points left in first place.

And maybe those who aspire to finish first will be delayed by the extra points for finding the treasure.

Leading the way were the three cars of the Helmheim team, who seemed to have decided on a pattern where one part of the race went straight to the normal process and the other half went in search of the treasure.

Ralph Helmheim is one of the three cars that go in search of the treasure, and his navigator is his younger brother Vettel, who is still paying attention to the mobile game in front of the dashboard in addition to holding a map marker.

"These amateur guys, in order to reduce weight, don't even bring the navigator, and it is estimated that they may not even be able to finish the first race."

Ralph scoffed at the cars that were running wildly down the main road.

[Marathon] is an extremely long race, especially to cross the wilderness, it is difficult for a person to stick to the top speed while driving, while confirming the route, and even playing games, the role of the navigator is very important, in fact, in the Pan-Western Sea held many car rallies will be equipped with a navigator, but this [marathon] does not limit the threshold, so many laymen think that the lighter the weight, the better, as much as possible to reduce the weight of the vehicle, but in fact it is not necessary, in this kind of long race, A little weight is not so important, but it is more important to be well prepared.

Ralph, on the other hand, had already run this section several times before the start of the race, and he was so familiar with it that he could finish it with his eyes closed.

"It is estimated that after the first 300 kilometers of the race, at least half of the participants will be screened, Vettel, how is the game going?"

Ralph led the other two cars in the second echelon, looking out the window at the dwindling city buildings and trees, and asked.

“...... Oops, it seems that there is something special about the network here, and you can only connect to the game, and you can't get in touch with the people in the back office. ”

Vettel, who looked like Ralph, frowned as he looked at the chat software interface on his phone that never refreshed.

"Only the game can connect?"

Ralph was stunned, he saw that in front of him, a car had accidentally driven off the track, and it fell behind in an instant, probably because he was driving a fork while looking at his phone, he gathered his mind and put most of his attention on driving.

"Yes, I'll take a look at ......"

Vettel opens the game, and after quickly skipping the event plot, he sees the screen of the activity map.

This is a map modeled after the path of the realistic first stage of the race, and you can see ten event dungeons on the track, waiting for players to unlock them.

Vettel clicked directly into the dungeon closest to the starting point, picked some characters at random, and began to attack.

He didn't have much time to play this kind of game, but Vettel studied the game's mechanics carefully for the sake of the game.

As a tower defense game, the game mechanics of "Ark: Upgrade Designation" are very simple, that is, to defend various roads, organize various monster attacks on the wasteland, each of its characters has a different attack range and attack methods, abilities, etc., different role combinations, sometimes there will be special combination reactions, it is simple to say, but if you want to delve into it, there are also a lot of things worth studying.

Vettel has always been very unaffordable about games, especially since it was developed by the Atlas consortium, but when he entered the game two minutes with the mentality that he should be able to clear the level by casual play, he regretted it.

"How did I die?"

Vettel looked at his base camp, which had been blasted by the beasts on the opposite side, and looked confused.

What about the dungeon that you can clear with just a few clicks?

It's too hard, isn't it?

"No, do it again."

Not resigned to failure, Vettel tried again.

This time, he used the all-six-star Golden Brigade, and Vettel didn't believe that this wave of his full-level and full-fledged Gold Brigade could not be crushed.

Two minutes later, however, Vettel looked at his base camp as it had been blasted again, looking bewildered.

"Why can't I beat it at this level, this game is poisonous, right?"

"What's wrong?"

Ralph asked, as he drove.

"No, no, I'll take a look."

Vettel turned his phone to the side with some weakness, not letting Ralph spy on his failures.

He studied it carefully and found that although the single strength of the Golden Brigade was very strong, if it did not cooperate, it would lead to negligence and finally collapse.

You have to take some five-star or even four-star characters to achieve a match.

At the same time, Vettel also glanced at the card pool that was opened with the event.

Among them, the six-star character of UP is the racer suit version of Koluwa, which has a new skill set.

Vettel looked at it, and suddenly felt that if he had this card, it seemed that he would be able to easily open the first copy.

"Do you have a clue, I see that some people have deviated from the track, maybe they have found something, but their routes are different, and it is not easy to follow."

Ralph looked ahead as several cars headed for another fork in the road, as if he had found a clue, and he felt a hint of urgency.

"Wait, it's smoking...... Uh, watching. ”

Vettel had just finished recharging his money and put his hand on the card pool.

The six-star exit rate of the event card pool of "Ark: Upgrade Designation" is 3%, and at the same time, when you draw 300 draws, you can directly choose the UP characters in the card pool to obtain.

To put it simply, in the case of the worst luck and the darkest face, you can get the UP character with only 300 draws.

Doesn't it seem very conscientious.

However, if this game draws 10 pounds, 300 draws will cost 3,000 pounds.

A few minutes later, Vettel, who had finished drawing the card, had a black line on his face.

It's too dark.

It's too dark.

He had already smoked two hundred and fifty pumps, and although there were some six-star characters, the key racing suit Koluwa was still in the pool, and there was no shadow at all.

Do you really want to draw 300 draws?

Vettel gritted his teeth and continued to click on the ten-in-a-row.

When he drew two hundred and ninety, suddenly, the rainbow light flashed, and Vettel's whole body straightened and his toes were clenched.

However, when he saw that character, his heart sank.

"Dmitry. Sergeyevich, your ally, came to report, you won't let me down, right? ”

What appeared in front of me was not a beautiful silver-haired girl in a racing suit, but a burly man wearing a black cloak and carrying a huge broken broadsword.

", dog, man,!"

Vettel almost dropped his phone out.

"What the hell is going on?"

Ralph looked to the side, slightly dissatisfied.

With the exception of the first echelon, which seems to have given up on the treasure hunting contestants, many of the other vehicles have begun to move in other directions, apparently betting on the treasure points for the first stage of the race.

And he could only continue to move forward, keeping a distance from the first echelon, and this anxious state made him very irritable.

"It's coming, I've already smoked it."

Vettel hurriedly drew three hundred draws and exchanged them for Coluva Shireen (Racing Suit Ver).

Ten minutes had passed since he hurriedly pulled the character up with an experience potion.

Vettel entered the dungeon again, and this time, with the help of Colua, he finally managed to clear the level without any problems.

"Praise to Koluwa!"

Vettel sighed, and then saw the plot jump out automatically.

“？？？”

The navigator read a paragraph and realized that he couldn't understand what it was saying.

It seems to be a researcher on the run, and some strange things happen along the way, but everyone is talking nonsense, and Vettel is confused.

Because he skipped the previous story, he doesn't seem to understand what the characters in the game are saying at all.

Vettel hurriedly switched back to the plot, only to learn that the whole event began with the inexplicable disappearance of a researcher from a famous research institute in the game with a confidential research project.

After the researcher left the institute, he walked through the wasteland and went to another country, and the plot of the event is to track the researcher's history, and these ten copies seem to be some clues left by the researcher about the things he took away, in the game, players need to challenge ten copies to clear this map, and wait until ten o'clock tomorrow morning, after the second stage of the competition begins, the second map will be opened.

"It's always a little weird."

Vettel carefully read the plot before he saw a picture.

According to the plot, this is a photo secretly taken by the communicator monitoring the researcher, and it has a scene of a wasteland, and if you can find the location of the photo, you can find the treasure.

"No matter, Ralph, go here!"

Vettel hurriedly checked the map with the reference materials he had prepared earlier, and soon found the location of the first treasure.

It was on the shore of a dry lake to the northwest of the road.

...

...

"Is there really one?"

Wilbur held the steering wheel and looked ahead with some boredom.

They had strayed off the road and headed for a dry lake.

"No problem, I've confirmed."

Bai Ge took his mobile phone and glanced outside by the way.

Behind Wilbur's strangely shaped car, there were several other cars, and I don't know if they solved the answer by themselves, or simply followed Bai Ge to take shortcuts.

Bai Ge also saw Bamboo Frost's car, and also followed closely behind them, originally Bai Ge was worried about whether this little girl would be unstable in driving, but he didn't expect that Bamboo Frost Drop would drive quite smoothly even if it was inexplicably on the potholed wasteland, or was Wilbur's driving skills too bad?

He shifted his gaze back to his phone.

This is certainly not the picture of "ARK: Upgrade Designation".

Rather, it is the chat interface of [Panda Council].

When Bai Ge set off just now, he decisively took out his mobile phone, and he first made sure that the network provided by Atlas was only for games, and it was impossible to connect to the network and chat software, obviously, this isolated the assistance outside the field.

But [Panda Parliament] is different.

This is an application that can receive signals even in the wasteland, and Bai Ge immediately typed at that time and asked the bigwigs in the group for help.

Sure enough, in less than five minutes, Coluva directly penetrated the first copy and told Bai Ge the corresponding information.

"However, this first copy is actually quite simple, the key is some unpopular characters that are not usually used at all, as for the Koluwa in the pool, it doesn't matter if you smoke it or not."

Coluva also commented.

"Moreover, this card is too detached from the facts, how can I be so flat?"

By the way, he also said viciously.

Bai Ge couldn't help but look at the card face.

One thing to say, indeed.

Exactly the same as me.

He put away his phone and saw that riders from other places were also moving closer to the lake, and at a rough count, at least ten or more groups had arrived.

It is said that it was originally a shallow seabed in the old days, but after the collapse, the landscape changed, and only the weathered corals were left to form a gray and white basin.

"Speaking of which, what would the treasure look like, would it be a chest?"

Wilbur said leisurely, and soon he saw the pillars in the middle of the lake, sleek by the weather.

The columns stand like a forest, and the bottom of the basin forms a dead forest.

And on top of the pillar in the middle of the forest, there was a chest.

“？”

Is it really a box?

Bai Ge was a little curious about what Atlas wanted to do.

This box should be the so-called treasure, probably some kind of proof or something, he guessed.

"Just drive in, is it faster than anyone?"

Wilbur asked, the vehicle had come to the edge of the basin that had once been the ocean.

“..... No, wait. ”

Bai Ge's words made Wilbur hit the brakes in time, and the vehicle moved sideways and stopped next to the basin.

"Any questions, Mr. Heinlein?"

Wilbur could only see a few cars behind him rushing out like this, and as he passed by, he sneered and gave him a middle finger.

The next moment, the cars fell into the basin.

Zizi Zizi –

A tooth-aching grinding sound echoed, and it could be seen that the basin, which looked unremarkable, had been covered with a thick, soft layer of white sand.

Once the vehicle is on it, it collapses the soft sand bed due to its own weight, and it becomes difficult to move in it.

What's more, Bai Ge saw that a car directly lost its balance and hit a pillar, and the engine emitted black smoke, which was obviously burned out.

The riders scrambled out of the car, their legs sinking into the sand and falling.

In just a dozen seconds, there have already been contestants who have exited!

"This grit is ......"

Bai Ge directly opened the car door, stepped out of the car, leaned over and rubbed the sand.

The sand is very different from the gravel of a normal beach, it is more finely fragmented, and natural weathering estimates may not produce such particles even for trillions of years, and there are loose gaps between the gravel, which means that the gravel was not artificially moved here, but was subjected to some special treatment on the spot to become what it is now.

Today's basin is like a bubble full of air, and if you step on it, you will sink into it.

Seeing what happened to the unlucky guys who rushed ahead, the vehicles that came after them also stopped and observed the situation.

Bai Ge saw that two cars only stopped for a moment before deciding to leave, no longer participating in the competition for this treasure.

Not far away, a car from the Helmheim team did not leave, and the two people in the car were whispering something to each other.

"It's not a human-inflicted trace."

At this time, a voice came from behind Bai Ge and Wilbur.

Turning around, a girl with short flaxen hair was getting out of the car and walking towards the two.