October 7, 11:42 p.m.

Autumn Mountain, hilltop parking area.

A makeshift set up rest area for the crew.

The foreigners of the Red Bull team are happily eating a boxed lunch.

From time to time, a few words of English would sound, and the tone was almost full of anticipation.

"Joey, to be honest, I went to check the road conditions in Autumn Styx Mountain as soon as I received the news, and at that time I thought it was an impossible challenge to complete, but now I think Xiao Ning, a native of the Dragon Kingdom, definitely has a hope of completing the challenge."

"I only knew Xiao Ning through the Internet before I came to Dragon Kingdom, and I knew that he was very good at free climbing and cycling, but about his riding skills, to be honest, I didn't know anything until just now."

"Just wait and see the show."

While eating and talking, Qian Zhen came to the side of the Red Bull team and walked straight to the bald John.

"Is Mr. John right?"

"My name is Qian Zhen, I am a member of the crew of this movie, and I am also Xiao Ning's friend, I heard Xiao Ning say that you Red Bull will shoot a short advertising film about driving with him later?"

"That's the case, I want to invite Xiao Ning to investigate a foot bath project later, and explore the mysteries of nature by the way, so I want to ask ......"

"How long will you shoot?"

After Qian Zhen explained his intention in fluent spoken English, John put down the disposable spoon in his hand.

Advertising videos?

Truly.

The reason why Red Bull sponsors this type of extreme challenge is to release videos later to build its own brand image and promotion.

Although it is slightly different from the concept of ordinary advertising films, this kind of extreme challenge can indeed be said to be advertising films.

He looked at Qian Zhen in a bit of a daze, and then looked at the other foreigners who were a little confused around him at this time, and then looked at Qian Zhen again, and told Qian Zhen about the content of the extreme challenge.

Then Qian Zhen's brain died.

Qian Zhen, who was stunned for a long time and had a blank brain, didn't even bother to say "thank you" after finally coming back to his senses, so he ran to Xiao Ning, who was almost finished pulling the lunch box at this time.

"Senior Brother Xiao!"

"You!"

"Don't do that!"

"Senior brother, I'm afraid!"

At this time, Qian Zhen, who was frightened, was about to cry when he saw it.

"If you shoot commercials, you will shoot commercials!"

"How can you shoot such a commercial!"

"They told me that they would let you descend from the top of the Autumn Styx Mountain and maintain an average speed of more than 100 kilometers the whole time!"

"Before the Devil's Bend, you have to enter the bend at 200 kilometers per hour! Isn't this! ”

"I even want you to go to the tunnel and speed up to more than 280 kilometers!"

"It's all death!"

"Why is this also called a commercial?"

When Qian Zhen said this, his tone became more and more urgent, and even his hand had already grabbed Xiao Ning's shoulder.

"I know there's a saying that Red Bull pays for your life!"

"But!"

"Senior Brother Xiao! You tell my brother! ”

"How much did they give you?"

"Pushed this commercial!"

"Are you short of money right now? How much money do you want, brother, I'll borrow you! Senior brother has made a lot of money in the past two years since his debut! Not bad for money! ”

"Five million? Ten million? Million? ”

"You name it! Even if the senior brother doesn't have enough money for the time being, the senior brother's family is quite rich! ”

"Senior brother goes directly to his parents for a loan!"

"I'd rather get down on my knees for my dad than risk you so much!"

"You like to make money! Senior brother actually likes to make money! But let's make money! ”

"We don't have to play with our lives!"

Although the words Qian Zhen said felt very abstract to Xiao Ning's ears.

But Qian Zhen didn't have any acting skills on his face, all of them were feelings, and his eyes were so anxious that his eyes were almost red......

It's obvious!

Senior Brother Qian, he's really worried about becoming like this!

Regarding Qian Zhen's concern for himself, Xiao Ning understood it.

But there is a sentence, he still has to say.

"Senior Brother Qian, I don't know if John told you wrong or if you misunderstood."

"This commercial, it's not something that the Red Bull people forced me to make, and they didn't ask me to shoot it."

"I asked them to shoot with me."

"And I'm not challenging this for the money."

Qian Zhen recalled carefully, it seemed that the bald old man named John just now really didn't say that Red Bull asked Xiao Ning to do this.

After recognizing this, Qian Zhen panicked even more: "You are not for money, what is the purpose of your cooperation with them?" ”

Xiao Ning pulled the last bit of rice in the lunch box, then put the lunch box on the small table next to it, wiped his mouth with a tissue unhurriedly, and then looked far away in the direction of the mountain gate on the top of Qiuming Mountain.

In the distance, there is a night view of Jiangcheng composed of neon stars at the foot of the mountain.

"Senior Brother Qian."

"It's like when I used to climb stairs and go cycling, it's just my hobby, and for no other reason."

Individual...... Hobby.

Senior Brother Xiao, let's just say can we love something else?

You love to wash your feet like your brother, can't you?

Qian Zhen was about to open his mouth to express his opinion, but Xiao Ning's voice had already sounded.

"Extreme sports, play is the heartbeat, play is the limit."

"It made me feel like I was alive, and it also made me realize that people can actually live so truly, a different way of living than most people."

When Xiao Ning said this, his gaze retracted from the night view of Jiangcheng in the distance, and looked at Qian Zhen, who was already pale with fright at this time.

"The most important thing is that I feel really free to do these things."

"Whether it's speed, height, anything, that kind of extreme freedom can't be given by other things, only extreme sports can."

"The ultimate in freedom is to leave anyone and everything."

The ultimate in freedom is to leave anyone and everything?

Are you sure it's not "human and human"?

Qian Zhen's mouth shook in fright.

"Except for this feeling that allows me to intuitively perceive my own life, this feeling of freedom...... In fact, there is an even more important reason for me to do all this. ”

Xiao Ning took a deep breath, then calmly continued to speak: "I saw such a sentence in a book by an author called Abstract Dog before. ”

"A person's life is not how many years to live, but how many moments to live, a person's life is fixed from birth to death, all we can do is to cherish and grasp every moment towards death."

"I didn't understand what this sentence meant before, but after some recent events, I gradually understood part of the meaning of this sentence."

"We need to make life's moments as wonderful as possible."

"We need to have some memories to remember, stories to tell with others in the future."

Seeing that Xiao Ning had entered some kind of "philosophical" realm that Qian Zhen couldn't understand at all, he really couldn't listen to it.

Although Qian Zhen still couldn't understand why Xiao Ning risked his life to do all this.

But he knew that it was impossible for him to persuade the other party to decide.

If he could persuade him, he wouldn't have accompanied the other party to climb the Twin Towers a few days ago.

I was "crazy" with Xiao Ning before.

This time, he could only silently pray in his heart that nothing would go wrong.

Qian Zhen, who felt a lot of emotion in his heart, patted Xiao Ning's shoulder with complicated emotions.

"You'll be there!"

"Hold on!"

"But be careful!"

"What if...... I'm not a crow's mouth! I'm just nervous! What that! If there is some surprise! ”

"I will help you raise your wife, and I will raise your children!"

"Well, you don't seem to have a wife or children."

"So ......"

"I'm not good at drinking."

"When the time comes, I'll sit at the child's table."

Qian Zhen began to speak incoherently because of nervousness as he spoke, and when he continued to talk about his mother-in-law, he found that Xiao Ning had already gone to the Red Bull team to discuss something.

"!"

"Senior Brother Xiao, you must not have an accident later!"

"Why do I expect you to let me go to the front line!"

October 8th, 12:24 a.m.

The Red Bull team's camera crew was already scattered around the hill to carry out the final testing of the equipment.

The technical team is putting the finishing touches on the 1,000-horse AE86.

Originally, the crew of "Initial D" was about to break up just now, but when everyone learned that Xiao Ning was going to "add a play", and it was to add a play that only belonged to him and challenged the limit, everyone invariably chose to stay.

Director Zheng Xiang was stunned and discussed Xiao Ning's "additional drama" with several assistant directors.

Knowing Xiao Ning's next challenge, it suddenly dawned on him that Xie Bin, who had not been asked to borrow a car from him to make a movie, was trembling and smoking.

Qian Zhen was praying frantically for Xiao Ning, constantly drawing a cross on his chest, but he was reciting something on his mouth, "Fusheng Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable Amitabha Buddha Tashi Delek".

In a nearby hospital, Huang Mao, who had just woken up, heard the crew who took care of him talk about Xiao Ning's upcoming challenge, and clamored to pull out the tube and go to Qiuming Mountain to see the scene.

At 12:52 a.m.

On the Red Bull team's side, John's handheld walkie-talkie rang out a barrage of English.

"The entrance to the mountain road has been sealed, there are no cars on the mountain, all fixed positions are ready, and high-altitude drones and traversers are ready......"

"It's OK to go."

John immediately shouted to the entire crew over the intercom.

"Units, please prepare, start in five seconds."

"Start counting down."

"Five."

“……”

"One."

At the gate of Qiuming Mountain, in the AE86 car, which had already been warmed up, Xiao Ning, who heard the end of the countdown, maintained the high speed of the engine, directly ejected and started and rushed down the mountain.

Although according to the mission requirements, Xiao Ning only needs to reach an average speed of 100 kilometers per hour in the Autumn Styx Mountain, which is not for him to maintain a speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour at all times.

But even so, Xiao Ning, who started quickly, was still stepping on the accelerator to death on the straight road of several hundred meters down the mountain gate.

Wearing a "Red Bull" helmet, he directly dried the engine to 8,000 rpm on extremely narrow mountain roads.

The LS7 engine, which is equipped with a turbine of 1,000 horsepower, roared wildly, and the exhaust sound reverberated like thunder throughout the autumn mountains.

The AE86 reached a speed of 18 in a matter of seconds.

Although there are street lights on both sides of the mountain road, it is late at night, so the car's high beams are on from the beginning.

At this time, in the overhead shot of the Red Bull drone, the feeling of this high beam is not as if it is not the AE86's jump light, but as if the AE86 is chasing the strong light ahead!

Such extreme speed!

Just looking at the footage transmitted back from the monitor is enough to make people's scalp tingle!

But in fact, the reason why he started so impatiently was not that Xiao Ning really didn't want to die, so he was fast and fast.

The reason why he decided to start running at high speed is actually because many corners in the Autumn Mountains are too narrow, such as the ten-consecutive hairpin bend, where it is impossible to pass normally at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour, and the U-shaped bend that is too big and too narrow, whether it is drifting or passing through the normal line, is bound to slow down, even if the WRC world champion comes, it is impossible not to slow down.

This is because there are quite a few corners behind that need to be slowed down.

This makes it necessary for Shawning to maintain as high speed as possible in straight lines and in high-speed corners that can be partially passed at high speed.

Only in this way can he ensure that his average speed can stabilize at more than 100 and leave enough forgiveness for some complex corners behind.

Xiao Ning's idea is like this, but the people who see these situations through Red Bull's follow-up drones and fixed positions on the mountains and mountains don't think like this in their hearts.

"Xiao Ning, this is too reckless! It's so fast! ”

"It's one hundred and nineteen hours a day! Less than 200 meters ahead is the first corner! ”

"It's kind of scary!"

"Do we need to remind him to slow down? He didn't have a navigator. ”

"He used to be able to run at a speed of seventy or eighty kilometers per hour on the road of the Autumn Styx Mountain, drifting and cornering, and it is obvious that he is too familiar with the road conditions of the Autumn Styx Mountain, and he doesn't need a navigator at all!"

"Then why did he run so fast? There's a bend ahead! ”

"That's crazy!"

Just when everyone was worried, Xiao Ning began to slow down.

Although it slowed down, it didn't decrease much.

The AE86's modified braking system has a very strong braking ability, but Xiao Ning did not apply the brakes deeply when he was about to enter the corner.

By the time he had reduced the speed to about 14 by a few point brakes, he had completely given up on the brakes.

When he was still on the last straight, Xiao Ning directly moved the car sideways through the operation of the big direction.

With speeds exceeding 100 per hour, he put the car into a drifting attitude on the straight ahead of schedule.

The drift was completed at a speed of 138 kilometers per hour.

The melon-eating masses of the crew couldn't understand it, they just thought it was very powerful.

But Xie Bin, a former professional driver, silently pinched Xiao Ning's sweat.

Fortunately, in this corner, Xiao Ning passed smoothly.

The drift of the car can be roughly divided into two situations.

One is handbrake drift.

One is inertial drift.

Handbrake drift is very simple, that is, to brake the rear wheel through the handbrake, control the grip of the rear wheel, so that the rear wheel produces a "slippery" feeling, to achieve the speed difference between the front and rear wheels, and finally enter the drift attitude.

Inertial drift, on the other hand, is a drift method that gives up the handbrake or even the brake, and simply and rudely uses the accelerator and steering wheel to complete the drift. In rear-wheel drive vehicles, the operation method is to loosen the throttle slightly before entering the corner, and then start to play the direction to cause the speed difference between the front and rear wheels, and immediately refuel when the rear wheels are sensed to lose their grip.

Compared with handbrake drift, which can obtain maximum control of the car, in fact, inertial drift is often difficult to control, and even professional drivers rarely use inertial drift in actual drift races and mountain rallyings.

However, for large-angle bends, inertial drift is theoretically optimal because there is not much loss of velocity.

At this time, after watching Xiao Ning smoothly complete the corner in the monitor screen, although Qian Zhen couldn't understand the specific situation like the rest of the crew, he still wiped the sweat on his forehead, and subconsciously muttered: "My heart is so big!" The brake lights didn't come on just now! Why didn't Senior Brother Xiao continue to slow down? Just a little bit of the brakes before? ”

Xie Bin on the side explained: "He is here not to waste braking performance. ”

"What do you mean?" Qian Zhen looked confused.

Xie Bin looked at Qian Zhen and asked, "Do you know why the old driver rarely applies the brakes when he is constantly going downhill on the mountain road, but he can also control the speed well?" Or, do you know why those novices almost always have the brake lights on when they go downhill continuously, while the veteran drivers don't like to apply the brakes very much? ”

Qian Zhen shook his head: "Why?" I don't understand, I drove the automatic transmission, the accelerator accelerated and the brake slowed down. ”

Xie Bin continued to explain: "The reason why the old driver does not use the brake much downhill is to avoid overheating the braking system, and the deceleration can be completed by downshifting and using engine braking. ”

"The brakes of the car rely on the friction between the brake calipers and the brake disc, in the case of high rotation of the wheels, this friction will inevitably lead to a lot of heat generation, if you keep stepping on the brakes on that very long downhill route, it will not take long for the brake disc to be burned red, and the brake disc will be hot, and the braking performance will also decline."

"If there is an emergency that requires braking, overheating of the braking system will increase the braking distance, which will increase the danger."

"The road from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain is almost thirty kilometers long, in this kind of pure downhill section, if the brakes are used too often, the brake disc is heated then the braking performance will inevitably decline, in order to be able to leave the highest possible braking performance in the back of the multi-curved section, his current idea should be to use the brakes as little as possible, to slow down as much as possible by downshifting, and then click a little brake as a last resort."

Xie Bin gave Qian Zhen, who has always been a "D" to the end, when he popularized science.

Xiao Ning had already driven six or seven kilometers down the mountain.

Except for the big angle corner at the beginning, he controlled his speed relatively conservatively in the corners that were not so big at the back angle.

When it is more, it can be 100, and when it is slow, it can even drop to 50 or 60 kilometers.

However, once he passes through the bend, Xiao Ning will almost always directly step on the accelerator and accelerate wildly.

Regardless of the length of all the straights, he always maintained a speed of 156 or more.

Minutes and seconds passed.

In the footage transmitted back by each fixed camera and the drone.

AE86 in the night sky on the mountain road of Autumn Styx Mountain flashes and moves around the mountains like a white swimming dragon.

At this time, less than a kilometer ahead, you will enter the Devil's Bend of the Autumn Styx Mountain-Ten Consecutive Hairpin Bend.

In the entire route of the descent of the Autumn Mountains.

Big-angle corners are very rare.

Except for the first bend at the top of the mountain, Mt. Akimei, which is full of various narrow and continuous bends, has only a handful of curves with similar large angles.

If you want to meet the requirements of the task and enter the corner at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour, you can only do it in a corner with a large enough angle.

The biggest bend in the descent course is the last bend before entering the ten-hairpin bend.

According to the plan.

Xiao Ning must control the speed of entering the corner at more than 200 kilometers per hour in this last corner!

It's a very risky and very difficult thing to do.

Even if Xiao Ning had practiced thousands of times in the system learning space before, there was still nervousness in his heart at this time.

Seconds later, the last big-angle corner was faintly visible at the end of the high beams.

Xiao Ning took a deep breath, but did not slow down when he was about to enter the corner.

Instead, step on the gas pedal deeply!

It's like stepping on the accelerator pedal to the engine!

The speed rushed from 16 to 18 per hour!

And then one hundred and nineteen!

Two hundred!

However, even though the speed had reached two hundred, he still didn't stop pedaling!

After seeing Xiao Ning's crazy move that was still accelerating, everyone was frightened!

Whether it's the crew or the Red Bull team.

Even Xie Bin, a former professional driver, couldn't even breathe at this time, and completely stagnated.

All of them are at the time of their scalp tingling.

Less than 20 meters from the bend point!

Xiao Ning is traveling at a speed of up to two hundred and twenty-seven kilometers per hour!

I turned the steering wheel while pressing the brakes!

Today, most of the day is spent on the plane and in the car, the key is that I am a wonder, I don't get dizzy when I drive, I will get dizzy in the car, and the state is not very good, so I won't stay up late.

I'm going to run errands at 10 a.m. to see if I can get up early and change it before 10 o'clock, and if not, I'll change it at night.

The update has been unstable in the past two days, so everyone has to bear with it, and there is nothing to do about the business trip!

Kowtow to you and apologize!

(End of chapter)