SWNOVELXO Chapter 281: Please bring enough stakes first
"Woof woof woof!"
After celebrating the New Year, Zhang Menglong and Lu Yiyao had returned to Jiangnan City before the crowd surge, and Wang Cai, who hadn't seen Zhang Menglong for a week, rushed over, wagging his tail.
Whether it was because he had eaten that Fighting Spirit Pill or not, Wang Cai's appetite was astonishing. He was fed delicacies from the mountains and seas every day, yet his size had not increased, almost always maintaining the size they had adopted him with.
But despite Wang Cai's small stature, he had become the local tyrant of the neighborhood. Countless fierce dogs had been taught a lesson by him, and many lady dogs had fallen at his feet.
"Alright, alright, stop licking, stop licking!" Lu Yiyao rubbed his little head, and Wang Cai finally restrained himself a bit.
"Zhang Menglong! Zhang Menglong! Open the door!"
"Damn, who is it? Just after New Year's and you start bothering people, are you sick?" Zhang Menglong cursed as he went to open the door.
"What are you doing here?" He saw Wang Ling standing outside, an extremely excited look on her face. "Did you win the lottery?"
"No!"
"Did your esports team scoop up some awesome player?"
"That's not it either!" Wang Ling said, her voice trembling, "The God of Cars! The God of Cars is here!"
"The God of Cars?" Zhang Menglong panicked. Could it be that Wang Ling knew that he was the God of Cars from that day? But it didn't make sense. Except for Lu Yiyao, Chen Qiuyi, and Xing Zhe, no one else should know he was the God of Cars!
"No, that's not quite right! To be precise, it should be the Qingqiu God of Cars, the Kaibong God of Cars, the American God of Cars, the Australian God of Cars—they've all come to Huaxia."
"Oh," Zhang Menglong really didn't react much. In this day and age, were there still people calling themselves the God of Cars?
"Oh? You just 'oh'?" Wang Ling looked baffled. "Do you know what these people represent? Any one of them entering a global car racing competition could win the championship with their eyes closed! They are the true kings of the racetrack!"
Wang Ling grew more excited as she spoke. "That Qingqiu God of Cars, dominating the entire Qingqiu racetrack for three years, hasn't been surpassed to date. His drifting skills allow him to navigate freely at 200 kilometers per hour on those serpentine mountain tracks, where a slight mishap would mean tumbling down a cliff and shattering into pieces!"
"Then there's that American God of Cars, he's only 21 years old, and he defeated the old God of Cars who had dominated America for five years in his debut race, truly a legendary ascent!"
"And there's more..."
"Alright, alright, I'm not interested in these people. What are you trying to say, really?" Zhang Menglong said, exasperated.
"They've all come to Huaxia!" Wang Ling said. "They want to challenge our Huaxia's God of Cars to a showdown!"
"You know, that God of Cars drives a big truck as if it were a racing car. When these Gods of Cars saw him, they all regarded him as the strongest opponent, so they've already started arriving in Huaxia these last few days."
"We still have places for car racing in Huaxia nowadays?" Zhang Menglong frowned. "Even in those secluded places, if by chance someone shows up and encounters those speeding racers, that's definitely a life-threatening situation!"
Zhang Menglong had always been strongly opposed to car racing precisely because it was dangerous and irresponsible.
"You're wrong about that. In our Huaxia, there's a legitimate international hill climb racetrack, and they've set this showdown there."
"Oh, it has nothing to do with me." Zhang Menglong never wanted to become famous through car racing. He scoffed at these so-called Gods of Cars. Even if they were great, could they compare to the racing techniques he had learned from Super God Academy?
All he had to do was start running, and those people wouldn't even see his taillights!
"Seriously, are you even a man? Such a thrilling matter, and you're not excited?" Wang Ling said. "These four Gods of Cars arrived in Huaxia yesterday and are currently in Yanjing. Qin Feng, that kid, also likes car racing and is on good terms with these Gods of Cars, so they are temporarily staying at his place, just waiting for the God of Cars to show up."
"Haha, maybe they'll all wait in vain. Maybe the God of Cars doesn't want to race with them?" Zhang Menglong laughed.
"What? Do you know that God of Cars?" Wang Ling asked.
"Of course I know him," Zhang Menglong muttered under his breath, "The God of Cars is right in front of you."
"Then help me set up a meeting with this God of Cars, a race with five Gods of Cars would absolutely rock the entire racing world of Asia and even the global racing community!"
"My friend prefers to keep a low profile," Zhang Menglong explained, "If he really wanted people to know, why do you think he left immediately after dropping the injured at the hospital?"
"This..." Wang Ling was also stunned.
Yes, ever since that incident, everyone in Huaxia had been searching for this God of Cars, but from the surveillance footage left in the traffic system, one could only see the God of Cars dressed in black clothes, wearing a mask, and a hat.
Even because the car speed was too fast, all the footage was blurry. Trying to find this God of Cars in Dongji City was almost like finding a needle in a haystack.
"This is going to be tough," Wang Ling scratched his head.
"Principal Wang, those Gods of Cars don't seem very friendly!" Lu Yiyao chimed in as she listened to Zhang Menglong and Wang Ling's conversation.
"Huh? What do you mean?" Wang Ling didn't understand what Lu Yiyao was talking about.
"Look!" Lu Yiyao handed over her phone.
"This is..." On Lu Yiyao's phone was Feisbook, the social media platform most popular with foreigners, and those Gods of Cars had actually issued a challenge to Huaxia's God of Cars three days ago.
This was a gambling battle, five people, each betting one million US dollars, and whoever won last would receive a reward of four million US dollars from the other four.
This was a challenge issued jointly by the four Gods of Cars, attracting lots of foreign netizens' likes, and even many Huaxia users were highly concerned about this matter.
At the same time, there was an identical challenge on Facebook.
"You still check Feisbook?" Zhang Menglong laughed, he had never had the habit of browsing Facebook or Feisbook, and if no one had told him, he wouldn't even know someone wanted to challenge him.
But three days had passed, and this Huaxia's God of Cars had still not responded at all.
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Those foreign Gods of Cars, each one arrogant, felt utterly disrespected by the lack of response, which clearly meant they were being looked down upon!
So just yesterday, they posted a new status, filled with provocations, which outraged many Huaxia netizens and was also reposted to Weibo, and Lu Yiyao found their challenge from a few days ago through this new message.
"Huaxia's God of Cars is just trash, doesn't even dare to accept a challenge! Huaxians are all a bunch of wimps!"
This statement wasn't just insulting the God of Cars but even insulted all people of Huaxia!
"Idiot, you guys blabber on Facebook and Feisbook all day long, who knew you wanted to challenge the God of Cars!"
"Exactly, do you even know how to use Weibo? Morons!"
"You want to race the God of Cars? You might not believe it, but if you truly raced, you wouldn't even see the tail lights of his car!"
"Want to race the God of Cars? First, try drifting a truck at 200 km/h on the highway and get good at it!"
This God of Cars was already mythicized in the hearts of netizens, and hearing the insults toward the God of Cars and toward the Huaxia people, everyone was filled with righteous indignation.
"This is more than unfriendly, it's simply courting death," Zhang Menglong's tone was icy.
"A bunch of poor bastards, daring to act tough in Huaxia for just one million dollars each?" Zhang Menglong opened Weibo and accessed his profile.
"The God of Cars is my friend, and he asked me to tell those foreign idiots that a one million dollar bet is not worthy to race him, if they want to race, please bring enough money first!"