Chapter 296: The Competition Begins, This Is the Audition?
After everyone in the Dawn Company came to the Mingyue Hotel, Luo Yin asked the manager to take them to choose their own room, while he himself chatted with Corton.
It's mainly a matter of the game.
After coming to the Kingdom of Hope, Luo Yin felt that the biggest difference between this place and the United Kingdom of Stokato was that there were many cars here.
Unlike the United Kingdom of Stokato, where cars are regarded as luxury, the cars here may only be high-end, and there are quite a few cars that Luo Yin sees on the street anyway. Organizations such as Mingyue Hotel and Kirton to welcome the contestants also have a lot of cars.
Although the quality of these cars is very average, they are not comparable to the Dawn steam car, but the cultural atmosphere of people's steam cars is here, and these cars are obviously not the best cars, who knows what the best cars look like.
Luo Yin felt the surging pressure.
Because this audition not only has to compete with other forces, but also with the forces of the Hope Kingdom.
Therefore, Luo Yin wants to know about the participating teams in the Hope Kingdom, at least he must know who the opponents are.
For Luo Yin's questions, Kirton did not hide them, after all, Luo Yin was not the first to ask him this, and these are not secrets.
Kirton told Luo Yin everything he knew.
After listening to it, Luo Yin was still a little shocked.
According to Kirton, in the entire kingdom of Hope, there are forty or fifty teams that are ready to participate in the big business alone!
The fleet of small and medium-sized enterprises exceeded 300!
As for the independent riders, there are countless of them!
This number really scared Luo Yin, their entire United Kingdom of Stokato, is just their team!
Even in the countries around them, there is not a single team participating. There are so many teams participating in this Hope Kingdom......
And this is only a player from the Hope Kingdom, and there are many countries at the same level as the Hope Kingdom......
Terrifying!
Luo Yin directly gasped.
He was even a little unconfident all of a sudden, with so many players participating, could he get a qualifying spot!
After all, no matter how many players you sign up for this audition competition, his qualifying quota is fixed.
However, Luo Yin is not a person who gives up lightly, he has come here, so he naturally has to treat it well, even if he loses, he can't regret it!
Luo Yin inquired again if there was a competition venue that could be rented, and there were still a few days before the audition, and he wanted to get the drivers' state back.
Kirton said that since the Kingdom of Hope won the right to host the audition competition, there have been many racing tracks in the country, and the businessman's sense of smell is still very sensitive.
Especially in their conch city, there are a lot of racing tracks because there is a race here.
Luo Yin asked Callon to help find an enclosed racing track, and then rented it for 50,000 Hope dollars for a few days.
This racing circuit is not big, and the price is not high, Luo Yin is mainly to warm up the drivers and find their state, which is completely enough.
But this is just the first day, and there is no need to rush so much. Luo Yin asked everyone to rest in the hotel for two days, and the day after tomorrow.
The Kingdom of Hope is still some distance from the United Kingdom of Stokato, and there is some time difference between it and the country, and the specific time difference of a few hours is not clear, anyway, it must be adjusted slightly.
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Luo Yin has always paid more attention to this kind of detail.
The next day, while everyone was resting, Luo Yin took Janet to pay the registration fee for the race first, which was not expensive, only a thousand United Dollars for a team.
Of course, this is not much for Luo Yin personally, but on the whole, this money is still a lot, and it is estimated that the Sky Wolf Empire has made a lot of money just for this registration fee.
Then a few people went to Conch City for a walk.
The main thing is to look at the approximate consumption level of Conch City and the quality of some products.
Things like sugar, cotton, and wine are what Luo Yin focuses on.
After shopping all morning, Luo Yin had a serious face
Shang finally smiled.
Although he was a little uncertain about the results of the audition, he had a rough judgment about the business situation in Conch City.
To put it simply, it is much stronger than the United Kingdom of Stokato as a whole, and the consumption level of the two is not at all the same level. Of course, there is no comparison with the salary level.
Something like sugar is not a high-end product at all in Conch City, at most it is a mid-range product, and most people can afford it, just whether they are willing to buy it or not.
And in the United Kingdom of Stokato, sugar is a high-end and even a luxury.
This is not to say that the profit of selling sugar in the Kingdom of Hope is low, on the contrary, because of the high sales volume, if you look at the overall profit, this conch market is estimated to be comparable to the first half of the United Kingdom of Stokato!
This is the business atmosphere that Luo Yin wants!
Moreover, the sugar here is only brown sugar, and there are no products such as white sugar, rock sugar, maltose, etc.
This is definitely good news for Luo Yin.
Luo Yin found a market, rented a stall, and took out a drop of white sugar to sell.
After the initial confusion and shock of the passers-by, they immediately began to rush to buy them frantically.
Luo Yin's price is not low, but even so, it was still sold out in a short time.
Seeing the speed of the sale and the excited crowd, Luo Yin probably understood everyone's desire for white sugar and some pricing strategies in his own heart.
Then Luo Yin changed to another market and took out some beer to sell. In the same way, when the citizens taste these beers made from hops, they are like buying candy before, and they are rushing to grab them.
After selling out a few bottles of beer, Luo Yin changed places again......
All day, Luo Yin and Janet and their party were selling things. Changed several markets.
Making money is not the goal, after all, you can't make much money just this little thing. The main thing is that Luo Yin wants to find out the market consumption capacity of Conch City, the ability to accept new things, and so on.
The result was more than Luo Yin expected, and every thing he took out would be favored.
Of course, not all of them are like this, for example, the cotton cloth produced by the giant cotton company has a mediocre response here.
Because the Hope Kingdom grows its own cotton, they have no shortage of cotton cloth, and the quality of the cotton cloth they make themselves is also good, similar to that of the Giant Cotton Company. Even the price is about the same.
In this way, the cotton cloth of Jumian Company will not have any competitiveness, after all, this is an unfamiliar foreign brand, and everyone trusts the brand they are familiar with.
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Of course, Luo Yin can actually reduce the price, after all, his cotton is cheap. But it's not necessary, he won't sell cotton cloth in the Hope Kingdom in the future.
Luo Yin recorded the data and wrote down his analysis, and then he handed the news to Lucia.
Once Lucia has snatched the markets around the United Kingdom of Stokato, she can be allowed to march outward. This Hope Kingdom is not bad, most of Luo Yin's products will be welcomed here, and the Hope Kingdom can be used as the next strategy point.
However, the Hope Kingdom is a medium-sized country after all, and if you want to do big business here, you can't do it without some skills and backstage. This can't be as casual as Lucia's invasion of other small countries, it has to be considered in the long run......
On the third day of arriving in the Hope Kingdom, Luo Yin took the drivers and logistics to the racing track he rented.
Three days later, it will be the audition, and Luo Yin is ready to let the drivers stay here for three days to find their form and not drop the chain during the race.
Even Luo Yin personally went on the field to compare with these drivers, and the result shocked everyone, Luo Yin ran faster than these professional drivers!
These riders didn't let out the water!
Luo Yin is not surprised by this, after all, his physical fitness is here, his driving skills are proficient, and he has rich theoretical experience.
Although Luo Yin can't do many theoretically difficult moves, these riders can't do it either...... There is no gap in technology.
even
Not to mention Luo Yin, even Janet can compete with these drivers.
Luo Yin and Janet really brought a lot of psychological impact to the drivers, but they were not depressed, after such a long time of training, not to mention anything else, the psychological state is still very strong.
On the contrary, they were highly motivated, and even a mission appeared among them with the purpose of surpassing Luo Yin.
Luo Yin couldn't laugh or cry about this, so he could only say come on.
Although theoretically speaking, if they keep training and competing, their skills will get higher and higher, and sooner or later they will surpass Luo Yin, who doesn't train much. But Luo Yin's physical fitness is slowly improving, and this physical fitness includes many aspects, such as reflexes, dynamic vision, endurance, etc., and it is really hard to say who is strong and who is weak at that time.
Grace next to her watched Luo Yin galloping on the track, and was very envious, but her skills were not good, and her physical fitness was also very ordinary, so she was destined to not be able to participate in this kind of activity.
Luo Yin accompanied the drivers to practice for two and a half days, and did not train for the last half day, but let them go back to the hotel to recuperate.
Luo Yin is also going to prepare for the game.
Before Luo Yin and the driver trained, the accurate news about the audition had been sent to Luo Yin.
The audition for the Sky Wolf Cup has to go through a total of three games.
These three games are in increasing order of difficulty. Only those who pass all three matches will be eligible to participate in the main competition.
According to the Sirius Empire, these three races are time trial, cross-country, and sprint.
Let's start with the time trial.
A time trial is a race that takes place in a circle, with only one lap. As long as the time is within a certain range, it is considered to be passed.
Because of the large number of participants, there is more than one venue for each competition, so the time taken at each venue is different.
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There is a time trial venue near the Ming Yue Hotel, and the requirement is to run within 10 minutes. And not one by one, but with a bunch of cars running together.
This is obviously unfair, after all, this is a time trial, and the more cars there are, it is easy for some unexpected things to happen. But there is no way, auditions, generally based on efficiency, if there is a problem, it can only be said that you are unlucky. Sometimes, luck is also part of strength.
Then there's the cross-country race. The cross-country race is the same as the Dawn Cup held by Luo Yin in China, which is to race on a selected road, which is generally difficult and may even be dangerous.
However, unlike the Dawn Cup, this cross-country race is a single-start mode, and the competitors will not be able to see their opponents unless they are too slow or have an accident. This also depends on the time, and it will be considered to be passed within a certain time.
Finally, there is the sprint race, which is also the focus of this audition.
Teams that finish the first two races are randomly assigned to one of the four races, with a group of drivers racing on the same track and starting at the same time. Only the top 25 teams in each venue will qualify for the main event. In other words, there are a total of one hundred places in the Hope Kingdom's auditions.
For the location of the time trial, Luo Yin naturally signed up for the competition venue near the Mingyue Hotel. There was no cross-country race in the vicinity, so Luo Yin was selective and finally chose a competition venue about 20 kilometers away from Mingyue Tavern.
As for the final sprint, there weren't as many venues as the first two races. There are only four venues in the sprint race, each in four different cities.
There is no Conch City, but there is one in the city next door to it, although it is a little far away, but it is still close compared to the other three venues, so Luo Yin naturally chose this.
In these three games, Luo Yin feels that there is a certain degree of difficulty, but the most difficult is definitely the third game.
I just don't know how many people can be eliminated in the first and second games, if there are fewer people eliminated and people are concentrated in the third game, then the third game is definitely hellish difficulty!
And when there are many people, all kinds of uncertainties are easy to appear, in case of bad luck...... Luo Yin suddenly felt that he might have to divide the twenty drivers into two or even three or four teams. Because a team only has one chance, if it fails
Nope.
But now it's useless to say these afterthoughts, so Luo Yin won't think about it anymore, just do these three games well.
Match day.
Luo Yin and his party got up early, and two medium-sized buses and five large trucks stopped at the door of Mingyue Hotel.
These cars are rented, medium-sized buses are naturally for Luo Yin and his family, and large trucks are loaded with race vehicles, maintenance parts, equipment and other things.
In the hall of the hotel, Luo Yin cheered for the drivers of today's race, and then took everyone to the car.
Kirton and the manager of the hotel looked at Luo Yin and the others with a little bewilderment.
"Are these people really going to the game?"
"Doesn't it mean that every team only needs one player to play in each game? What does it mean that he brought dozens of people with him all at once?"
"And they're carrying their cars in big trucks? Isn't that a bit of an overkill...... Wouldn't it be better to just drive the car over there?"
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"I don't understand...... My friend also went to the time trial, he signed up in his own name, and he drove by himself......
"Maybe this is the rich man, who doesn't care about wasting this money......
The two shook their heads, saying that they couldn't understand Luo Yin's operation.
After Luo Yin came to the competition venue, he was also a little confused.
"This ...... Are you really here to compete?"
I saw that outside this competition venue, there were a bunch of steam cars parked, each steam car was varied, and even Luo Yin saw a lot of exaggerated shapes, such as putting some animal bones on the car and the like.
It's not like a race, it's like a tuned car show......
Luo Yin was a little suspicious that these people were not contestants, but when the competition staff came over to issue the number plates, he was sure that these people were indeed contestants.
Luo Yin was very stunned when he looked at these players, and these players were also very confused after seeing Luo Yin and his party.
"What team is this! Do you want to exaggerate that? It's just one race, how can they drive so many cars? What about their race cars? You don't want to race with that big truck, do you?"
"It's their people! If you look at the number of people in those two buses, it is estimated that there are more than fifty people! Are you here to play, or are you here to watch the game?"
"This is obviously the convoy of a big country or a big enterprise, and it's really impressive! Not to mention, I saw so many people, and suddenly I was a little intimidated......
"What's there to be afraid of! What's the use of him coming in too many people, he only needs one car to come on the field......
The drivers on the scene were talking to each other.
Luo Yin's ears were smart, and after getting out of the car, he vaguely heard the conversation of these people, which made him speechless.
But if you look around, look at other people's teams, and then look at your own team, it seems that it is indeed different......
Could it be that these people are all masters? You don't need to support logistics or anything at all, and you can easily win the game?
Also, their steam car industry here is more developed, maybe their strange-shaped steam cars are more powerful than their own modified steam cars...... He belongs to the poor student stationery.
Luo Yin thought for a moment, and his face gradually became serious.
Under the influence of Luo Yin, the others did not speak, and their expressions were very serious, which stopped those who wanted to come over to talk.
After the staff issued the license plate to Luo Yin, they could enter the venue.
After entering, Luo Yin felt a burst of surprise again.
Isn't he feeling a little ...... in this venue Too rudimentary?
Other than spectator seats, tracks, lines or finish lines, what repair stations, repair depots, rest rooms, medical centers...... None of them.
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In a hurry?
But that's not right! The auditions have been announced for more than five months, is five months not enough time to prepare......
Luo Yin looked at the others, but the others all looked normal.
Only then did he feel that he seemed to be an abnormal one?
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Especially looking at the eyes of other drivers and spectators, Luo Yin was a little speechless.
Because there is no place for the team to rest, everyone is looking for an empty space to stay, Luo Yin and his party are too crowded, and they are driving the largest cars in the field, so as soon as they enter the field, they become the brightest boy in the audience.
However, there are many people and the advantage of having more people, that is, there is no need to compete with them for a position, so many people go here to stop, who dares to come and grab a position?
So it stands to reason that one of the best positions on the playing field was occupied by Luo Yin.
The number Luo Yin got was No. 134, and it was a group of twenty people at a time, that is, the Dawn team played in the seventh group.
A lap time trial with twenty cars running together...... Luo Yin really can't complain, he can only pray that when his own people play, his luck will be better and he will be assigned a high position.
Twenty-two cars naturally could not stand in a row, every two cars were in a row, a total of ten rows. As for the order of these ten rows, it is even more speechless, because this is determined by lottery.
Luo Yin looked at this competition venue, and there were only two words in his eyes now - amateur.
However, he is not incomprehensible, after all, there are too many people who have signed up this time, especially many individual drivers, and if this is to let one by one, it is estimated that a lot of time will be wasted.
Although the Hope Kingdom doesn't care about wasting time, the longer it drags on, the more they earn, but the Sirius Empire obviously won't allow it, so this is also something that can't be helped......
Amid the cheers of the audience, the first group of matches is about to begin.
The view of this place occupied by Luo Yin is not bad, and he can clearly see most of the competition venue.
Luo Yin's and his entourage were all very serious, their seventh group started quite well, you can take a look at the group in front of them to see how their strength is.
The demons and monsters of the first group, after the starting gun went off, in an instant, well, why did the three cars run slowly, and what were the rest of the cars doing?
Like Luo Yin, there are also audiences who are confused, and everyone is a little unclear.
However, when the staff went to communicate, several more cars started slowly.
Luo Yin: "......"
He felt that he was overestimating them.
But after all, it is an audition, and the level is uneven.
The requirement of the time trial is to run this lap within ten minutes, and Luo Yin does not know how far this lap is, only knows the approximate path.
There's no way to guess how long it will take just by looking at it, so you'll have to see how others run.
It's just that to Luo Yin's surprise, the first group of slow cars actually ran in ten minutes?
"Is this all right?"
Seeing this result, Luo Yin and Janet spoke up at the same time.
"At their pace, they could run in 10 minutes...... I think we're five minutes...... No, eight minutes, five minutes is a bit too crazy. I think we'll be able to run it in eight minutes."
Luo Yin said to Janet.
"I think so."
Janet nodded in agreement.
More than an hour later, it was the turn of the Dawn convoy.
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The kind of car crash that Luo Yin expected didn't happen, because their starting time was not synchronized, but they ran slowly...... I can't bump into each other if I want to.
"Twenty, go this time. Hold on a little bit and don't have to exert your strength."
Luo Yin said to the No. 20 driver.
This is a female orc, not very old, only nineteen years old.
"Yes!"
No. 20 was a little excited, she never thought that she, a person at the bottom of the ranking, would be the first to appear!
Under the astonished gaze of the spectators and drivers, the large truck of the Dawn team opened, and a very low-key steam car drove inside.
Number 20 got into the car and drove the car to the track.
Among the strangely shaped cars, the Dawn car looks so unremarkable.
However, when the starting gun sounded, I saw that the low-key steam car, like an arrow off the string, brushed and rushed out.
Wow –
The audience instantly stood up and rubbed their eyes in disbelief, there was a car that started so fast?
The drivers' eyes widened in bewilderment.
"What swiped past in one fell swoop?"
Seven minutes later, the low-profile steam car reappeared on the line.
On the twentieth after getting the score card, he happily drove the car to Luo Yin, and then got out of the car and whispered:
"Mr. Luo Yin, the first game has been promoted! It took seven minutes, and I deliberately slowed it down......
Luo Yin nodded, this was similar to what he thought.
He first smiled and praised No. 20, and then frowned at the game.
"It turns out that this is the audition!"
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