Chapter 155: The Boiling Stand
Chapter 155 Boiling Stands
"The so-called stand-ins are the speeding stars in the gang running races, which is a recognized secret in each team. There will never be a stand-in's name on the trophy, let alone a prize money, the prize money won by the stand-ins is completely given to the team, and then the head of the team will be rewarded according to the mood, just like a handout. Those who win will still have handouts, but those who are unlucky enough to bury their lives will get nothing but ashes to the mocking boos of the spectators. Udo crouched down on the rudder and said sullenly.
People like them, who obviously have exquisite driving skills, can only live in secret, and when they go out, they also wear helmets, which makes people unable to see their true faces, just like the shadows of those glamorous stars. What people can see and cheer for is always the star who can stand on the podium holding the trophy, waving to the audience and fans, laughing and kissing, and will not know that it will be these poor local residents who can only live in stone houses after the race in the car at the last moment.
For the sake of a reputation that does not belong to him, a glory that does not belong to him, how many local drivers have been buried in the race. Compared to the official drivers of those teams, these stand-ins do not have their own cars, do not have their own races, and can only contribute to the lives of others.
It's the same human being, and the humility of life is just that.
In Assereira's racing competition, there was a stand-in who died in an accident during the race, but in the media reports, it was only said that the star was seriously injured and lucky to save a life, and then soon after, the star came out in a high-profile manner, but his stand-in was replaced. As for his previous stand-in, if it is good, he will get a batch of sympathetic burial expenses, and if it is bad, he will get nothing.
Udo smiled hoarsely, not much better than crying, "The funniest thing is that these unequal deeds of sale were signed by ourselves, and many of us sharpened their heads and tried their best to show their skills to those people, hoping to get a copy of the deed of sale." Because even with such an unequal treaty, we get several times more money than some coolies. β
"I've heard that the profit of a game can reach hundreds of millions." Cillin said.
"Yes, hundreds of millions, even if you lose, the team will have tens of millions of dollars, and if you win, it will be more, hundreds of millions is a common thing. The drivers will get hundreds of thousands, the good ones are nearly one million, and those star drivers will get tens of millions. But those of us, thousands...... In a good time, there will be 10,000. Udo looked up at the car. Underneath the dust, I don't know how many corpses are buried, all of them are ghosts for the dead.
"You didn't want to leave?" Cillin asked.
"Yes, but I can't do without. If I leave, I will definitely take my mother with me, but according to the law of Assella, if the local residents leave, they will have to pay a fee of 500,000 yuan each. 500,000, two people is 1 million, it's really nothing for those official drivers, but it's basically impossible for us stand-ins, and we will even lose our lives. β
"I heard that there is a betting market in the car race, but you didn't try it?"
"That's for aliens, and local people will be fined if they are caught gambling, but we will secretly use fake identities for some small money."
"Do you know hunters?" Sirin asked instead.
"Yes!" Udo's eyes sparkled, "I've seen a bounty hunter before, it's very strong!" There are also some hunter groups, the year before last, there was a hunter group who came to Acerera to watch the championship of the amphibious flying car, and the team director of the nostrils was cautious in front of them on weekdays, and the investors of the 'Hurricane' team knew the people of the hunter group, it was a very famous hunter group, I heard that it ranked in the top five in the F star sector, you must have heard of it! β
"Oh? What is it called? Xilin asked with interest.
"It's called 'Golden Rose'!"
"......" Xilin searched for the information in his head, and even went through all the new list of the top 100 Star Alliances in the authoritative publication "Brave", and then said affirmatively, "I really haven't heard of it." β
"Wouldn't it?! You're too lonely! Udo shouted, with a look of contempt, "That's the top five hunter groups in the F Star Zone, I heard that every hunter among them is experienced in a hundred battles, has been to countless planets, has seen thousands of strange things, and has killed many huge beasts!" Even a large statue of our convoy was provided by them, and the statue glows brightly at night......"
Also multicolored light...... There is also no fear of excessive radioactive elements. Cillin smiled dumbly.
As soon as Udo talked about the hunter group, he didn't know where to throw the decadent energy just now, and he described it with body language, and he was very excited.
When Udo stopped after talking to himself, he found that Sirin was asleep in the back seat with his eyes closed.
Udo looked at the people in the back seat and had a feeling of playing the piano to the cow. Pouted: "What a weirdo." Then he started the car and flew back to the yard.
When Sillin got out of the car, there was already a hazy light on the horizon.
patted Udoze on the shoulder, Xilin said: "Work hard, we will watch the game the day after tomorrow and cheer you on." β
Udo tugged at the corners of his mouth, didn't say anything, closed the lid and locked it, and walked into the house. Shadows like them who live in the shadows, their names will never be in the cheers of the audience.
Back in the house, Sugar Ball looked at Xilin with big eyes, and complained, "Brother Xilin, you actually went out to play alone." β
"No way, do you want to ride in that kid's broken car?"
Sugar Ball shook his head vigorously, "That guy is too skilled!" β
"Too poor in technology? No, on the contrary, that guy's driving skills are very good, have you ever seen anyone drive this kind of calcium-deficient cramped broken car and still be able to safely go back and forth? β
"That's right."
"Let's go watch that guy play the day after tomorrow."
"Okay." Sugar Ball Yawned, rolled up the quilt, and went back to sleep.
Early the next morning, Xilin was rinsing his mouth when he heard a sweet shout downstairs: "Wen ~ Zi ~ too ~ too ~ "
Xilin spit out the mouthwash in his mouth and shook the goosebumps on his body.
What did that stupid cat do again?
When Sillin went downstairs, he saw that in the room on the first floor, Mrs. Wentz was busy with the handiwork in her hand, and the stupid cat was crouching beside her, watching without blinking.
Mrs. Wentz is a man of many years of experience in handicraft, and a piece of cloth, a pile of sand, a needle, and a thread can quickly make a good thing. And now, a cat-shaped puppet filled with fine sand was soon formed in Mrs. Wentz's hands, in the form of a gray cat, and even the cloth was grayβthis gray cloth was common here, and was of the inferior type, and there were many of them in every house.
In the past, Mrs. Wentz used the fabrics for handmade products of the colourful or brightly coloured kind, because that colour attracted buyers, while the dolls made of grey fabrics were so rare that no one bought them.
But today, when the gray cat came back from foraging, she happened to see Mrs. Wenz making handicrafts, and suddenly the cat's brain moved, and she pretended to be cute in front of Mrs. Wentz and asked her to help make a cat-shaped puppet.
No wonder it was so sweet just now!
But the puppet does look good, and although the fabric is thicker, the fabric is strong. Windy City also has a special kind of fine sand, which feels soft, and the puppets are very three-dimensional after filling the fine sand, and they are made in a ratio of 1:1. Mrs. Wentz also patiently embroidered the eyes and mouth by hand, you know, generally this kind of handmade puppet either directly attached to an object as an eye, or directly painted on it, compared to the machine sewing much rougher, but this cat puppet Mrs. Wentz obviously put a lot of thought into it, stitch by stitch and thread.
Knowing that Mrs. Wentz was not easy to do, Cillin paid a hundred star coinsβMrs. Wentz's other puppets were no more than ten star coins.
Mrs. Wentz refused to accept it, and Cillin stuffed the money directly into the cloth basket: "You can take it, this cat is very troublesome, thanks to your patience." β
Mrs. Wentz smiled and waved her hand, "No, it's very smart, it's the first time I've seen such a spiritual and talking cat." β
As she spoke, Mrs. Wintz took out a small ball of cloth the size of a fist, which was filled with fine sand, and several layers of cloth were sewn on the outside, so that it did not hurt to hit a person. Mrs. Wentz gave the ball to the grey cat to play with.
The gray cat swept the ball directly with its tail, picked it up, and threw it directly with its tail, drawing the applause of Mrs. Wentz.
The relationship between the upstairs and downstairs has obviously improved a lot in the past few days, at first the gray cat often went down to eat, and then Mrs. Wentz directly asked Sirin and Sugar Ball to eat, saving it and having to make another one.
Cillin didn't eat for nothing, and took out some jerky, and Candy Ball gave some candy to Mrs. Wentz, which were not sold here. For the native food of Windy City, Xilin and Sugar Ball also tasted fresh.
In the blink of an eye, it's game day.
The Tribious Flying Race is a point system, the first is the knockout round, within the specified number of races, the top 10 points can enter the championship, and those who do not reach the points can only wait for the next season.
Points are awarded to the top five finishers in each race, with five points for first place, four points for second place, three points for third place, two points for fourth place, and one point for fifth place.
On this day, Sirin and Sugar Ball came to the grandstand area early. The tickets were bought a long time ago, and Xilin also pressed part of the bet, and by the way, helped Udo to press part of it.
Udo has more than 100,000 deposits, and this time it was hard to meet a person with a high reputation like Xilin who could help him, and Udo gritted his teeth and directly took out 100,000, if he won this game, he could triple it. Udo is more confident in himself, so this time he is really ready to fight hard.
The field of the grandstand is circular, with two mouths, one starting and one finishing, which extend high in an inverted trapezoidal shape, and in the middle of the circular grandstand, there will be a huge holographic projection of the game, and the media will also broadcast the game live.
Some people will think, since it can be broadcast live, and it is also a projection in the grandstand, why are so many people going to buy high-value tickets to enter the grandstand?
The first is the atmosphere, in the grandstand, the shouts of the audience and the passionate emotions can be contagious, and the shouts echo in the original grandstand, as if the whole stadium is going to shake. The loud roar brought the atmosphere of the game into action, and the surging blood caused by the speed and passion was incomparable to watching the live broadcast at home.
Waving flags, flashing light curtains, fans hysterically calling the names of their favorite drivers, completely venting their emotions, as long as the audience standing in the stands, will be infected by this atmosphere, can't help but roar.
Sugar Ball Ball was obviously one of them, and he took the megaphone and began to roar: "Come on, Udodo!" β
Because you can't call Udoze's name directly, that will bring trouble to Udoze as a stand-in.
Udo told Cillin about the appearance of the flying car of the car star he replaced, so when the fiery and quite dazzling flying car appeared, the atmosphere reached a **. The popularity of that car star is quite good, of course, the face of that car star and the lining of Udo are the idol car stars in the eyes of the audience.
You must know that here in the grandstand, even if you speak, you have to hold a megaphone, otherwise you can't hear each other's words clearly in the many roars, so Sugar Ball has been holding a megaphone.
What's funny is that there is also a big man in the first few rows who is roaring with a megaphone, and after hearing the shouts of the candy balls, he turns around and roars and asks, "Who is Udodo?" β
Sugar Ball Ball held the megaphone and roared: "Uduoduo is a pure man!" β
Cillin: "......"
Someone next to him pulled the candy ball: "Little sister, Udodo is that car?" β
Sugar Ball blinked, "I don't know, I just think it's exciting to shout like this!" Then he started yelling again.
What made Sirin want to cry the most was that the gray cat on his shoulder pulled the megaphone with two paws, and the sugar ball roared and it roared, so there was such a sound on the field.
Childish doll voice: "Udodo! β
Then there was a weird cat meow: "Meow-woo-"
Zai Wado's voice: "Pure masters! β
Cat meow again: "Meow woo-"
And so on and so forth.
Roaring and roaring, Xilin found that more and more people around him joined this camp, and for a while, the "meow" sound of "Uduoduo", "pure masters" and people who seemed to be possessed by cat demons.
When someone heard it, they asked the people around them, "Who is Uduoduo?" β
"How does Lao Tzu know about it!"
"Then what are you yelling at?!"
"Don't you hear, roaring like this!"
Why are so many people joining?
First, they didn't see the person "Udodo" in the list of contestants, so based on the cat howl at the back, they took it for granted that "Udodo" was a mood particle in a certain star language; second, the applicability of this "pure man" is too wide, anyone can roar; Thirdly, that weird and cathartic howl cat meow is indeed quite cathartic. Thus, the roar of the Sugar Ball Ball and the Gray Cat became popular.
Udo was sweating in the flying car, and when he heard the strange roar of the candy ball ball and the gray cat, he was still thinking: Who taught this? Then, as the large army joined, Udo felt the urge to shed tears.
The whole grandstand, from the people on the side of the sugar ball, to a tenth of the stands, to a third, and finally the grandstand was full of people joining, and they were roaring in unison with rhythm.
Others don't know what "Udodo" means, but Udo's own is clear, this is the first time, so many people are calling him, even if these people don't know that "Udodo" refers to his stand-in in the shadows, even if they can't call out all his names, but that's enough, Udo's is already satisfied.
The wind became stronger, and the wind and sand flew.
Very good.
Udo closed his eyes and felt the subtle movement of the car in the wind.
"Tick-"
A long whistle sounded.
More than 50 cars are located at the starting line, and they are arranged according to the distribution of parking spaces drawn before the race.
"Smack!"
A rapid plosive sound officially set off the wave.
Amid the screams of the spectators, the speeding cars scrambled out of the starting point.
The ancient earth, the young wind, the flying passion, the blood and sweat, listening to the audience roaring and shouting and cheering, ", like a warrior to fight!
Sandstone area, rows of sand dunes, scattered rocks, unbridled wind and sand, in such a situation, the fiery red flying car is like a leader, indomitable momentum, speeding forward.
Is he chasing the wind, or is the wind chasing him?
The car seemed to melt into the wind, and even flipped over with the wind, but always managed to avoid obstacles neatly.
Udoze's brilliance lies in his ability to predict and judge. Although he is not equipped to drive a high-end flying car, he always drives the old broken car that seems to be dying at any time to dance with the wind, so that he becomes more and more proficient in controlling the wind.
Old broken cars can't automatically balance the airflow like a formal race car, so it's up to the driver to drive and control it and judge. Because of this, Udo will better understand the temper of those winds, use the power of the wind to complete difficult movements, and can also predict the next obstacles and make decisions in advance.
Because he always makes decisions before the other competitors, many drivers often refer to the movements of the red flying car driven by Udoze when it is difficult to decide.
Boom!
One of the riders miscalculated the height of the eaves, the body grazed against the eaves, and the car rolled several times in the air and fell into the dunes. The other riders weren't going to let this hapless guy stop there, even if the guy who fell into the dunes was dying.
The spectators in the stands will not sympathize, they will only pay attention to the other cars that are still racing, and the media will not give another shot of the eliminated cars because they are the losers.
The projection in the center of the grandstand is divided into three sections, with the best view reserved for the cars running at the front, and the cars with the worst view for the later stages.
In the best view of the image, the fiery flying car is like a standout, throwing the flying car behind it farther and farther.
The driver of the second-placed car originally wanted to follow Udoze's reaction, but he couldn't achieve Udoze's technique, they couldn't use the wind to flip and pull out a super-maneuverable maneuver like Udoze.
The red shadow of the car, like a stroke of genius, passed through those difficult and unusual corners at high speed, almost along the perfect middle line in the narrow passage.
Inside the grandstand, it was completely boiling.