Chapter 133 Speed and Passion
"Where's the car?"
Seeing the AE86 vanish without a trace, Dapeng's jaw dropped in shock, as if he were a hippopotamus, seemingly able to fit an entire watermelon in his mouth.
He had just been mocking Ye Fan for being slow, but who could have imagined that in a matter of seconds, Ye Fan had disappeared with the AE86.
"Impossible! This can't be possible!"
Dapeng's eyes widened; he felt as if everything he knew had been overturned. He scanned the surrounding roads but couldn't catch a glimpse of the AE86 anywhere.
"How can such a big car just vanish? Could it be that I've encountered a ghost?"
Dapeng broke out in a cold sweat, no longer hesitating as he immediately contacted Xiaozi: "Tell Sister that in just a few seconds, that guy disappeared with the AE86. It's really weird!"
"What? Dapeng, you lost him? Wow, are you kidding me on an international level?" Xiaozi was in disbelief.
Xiaozi had played with Dapeng since childhood, and he knew him inside out. In particular, Dapeng's ride was a War God GTR, which could reach a peak speed of 319km/h. Who could have thought that Dapeng, driving the War God GTR, would be thrown off by an obsolete AE86.
Xu Ruoxuan's heart skipped a beat, and she asked with furrowed brows, "Dapeng, did you lose him when entering West Suburb Divine Flame Avenue?"
"Yes, Sister, how did you know?" Dapeng replied, surprised.
Confirming Ye Fan's whereabouts, Xu Ruoxuan's expression turned grave in an instant: "Not good, this guy is coming!"
"What do you mean he's coming? Sister, do you mean to say that this guy is now going full throttle to overtake us?" Xiaozi asked, dumbfounded.
Xu Ruoxuan nodded seriously, "Yes, that's exactly what I mean!"
"How is that possible? Sister, we've got a lead of over ten kilometers on him, even if he tried his hardest, there's no way he could catch up!" Xiaozi exclaimed in horror.
Xu Ruoxuan pointed ahead and said, "Xiaozi, tell me, hasn't there been a lot of roadworks in the Western Suburb lately?"
"That's right!" Xiaozi answered.
"That's exactly it," Xu Ruoxuan declared. "Think about it, we are driving sports cars with very low chassis. On rugged roads, we can easily scrape the underside. That means we'll have to slow down, and sometimes we can't go over 100km/h without risking flipping the car over if we do!"
"Even though Ye Fan's AE86 has been phased out, it has a much higher clearance than ours. What comes next is his time to sprint! That means, when he waited at the red light and kept to the speed limit, it was just a facade. I never thought that after years of racing, one day someone would let me get more than ten kilometers ahead!"
"What? Sister, are you saying that he was letting us get ahead just now?" Xiaozi said, utterly shocked.
Xu Ruoxuan asserted sternly, "If I'm not mistaken, there's an eight or nine out of ten chance that he was just letting us get ahead."
"That's impossible, isn't it? As far as I know, the AE86's top speed is only 160km/h. We left him so far behind, how could he possibly catch up?" Xiaozi's expression grew increasingly serious as he realized something was amiss.
Xu Ruoxuan spoke assertively, "It's hard to say, let's give it our all!"
She had barely finished speaking when they encountered a vast amount of road construction ahead; many sections were bumpy and presented a significant challenge for sports cars.
180km/h! 120km/h!
80km/h!
The roads were in poor condition, and Xu Ruoxuan could only decelerate as quickly as possible; otherwise, excessive speed could really lead to a fatal crash.
Xu Ruoxuan had guessed right, Ye Fan had not intended to go full throttle at all. It wasn't that Ye Fan's driving skills were poor, but rather, he had planned to take Zhuang Jingwen for a leisurely drive. As the Junior Pavilion Master of the world's most mysterious and ancient sect, the Medicine God Pavilion, Ye Fan's driving skills had long reached their pinnacle.
Defeating Xu Ruoxuan was hardly a challenge for Ye Fan.
"Sister Jingwen, taking a drive outside feels much better, doesn't it?" Ye Fan said with a smile.
At that moment, Zhuang Jingwen's blushing cheeks were full of astonishment. She never expected the AE86 to burst forth with the explosive power of an international supercar in the blink of an eye.
Staring at Ye Fan's smiling face, Zhuang Jingwen opened her mouth, too shocked to know what to say.
Ye Fan continued to smile, "Sister Jingwen, hold on tight, I'm going to get serious now!"
After finishing his sentence, Ye Fan heavily stepped on the accelerator.
Boom!!!
The next moment, the AE86 shot off like a dragon soaring out of the sea, with Zhuang Jingwen only seeing the scenery flashing by. She instinctively looked at the speedometer and was shocked to see the needle had already maxed out; the highest speed the AE86 could display was 160 km/h, but the red needle had long pointed there.
But Zhuang Jingwen knew well that under Ye Fan's control, the AE86's speed far exceeded 160 km/h!
"Isn't that a bit too fast?" Zhuang Jingwen asked subconsciously.
Sitting in the passenger seat, she could clearly feel the car body gradually shaking.
"Fast?"
Upon hearing this, Ye Fan shook his head mysteriously, "Not fast enough, Sister Jingwen. Next, I'll show you what real speed is, hold on tight! If you're scared, just close your eyes and don't look outside!"
Whoosh—
After speaking, Ye Fan exerted his strength again, and the AE86 roared down the road like a high-speed train, stirring up gusts of wind.
"Oh my goodness!" Zhuang Jingwen was stunned.
She knew Ye Fan had concealed his strength, but never imagined he could conceal so much.
She had ridden high-speed trains before, but at this moment, Zhuang Jingwen could feel that even the peak speed of a high-speed train was probably not much different.
"Xu Ruoxuan, get ready, Ye Fan is coming!"
A wicked smile rose on the corner of Ye Fan's mouth as he locked his gaze on the road ahead, controlling the AE86 like an ancient behemoth charging furiously forward.
Fast, it was indeed too fast!
Zhuang Jingwen in the passenger seat only felt her vision blurring, just like in the movie "Initial D" where Jay Chou, who played the protagonist Takumi Fujiwara, went all out; speed was no longer important, driving was all by instinct now.
"What the heck! What was that? What just flashed by?"
"Didn't see it clearly, seemed like a car?"
"A car? Impossible, what car can go that fast?"
Under AE86's full sprint, everything it passed flashed by in an instant, stunning countless drivers on the road.
At that time, Xu Ruoxuan, driving her Ferrari LaFerrari with a solemn face, had already accelerated to 120 km/h. On such a rugged road, this speed was already fast, and the Ferrari's chassis had made intimate contacts with the ground several times.
Sitting in the passenger seat, Xiaozi said with a pained expression, "Big sister, is it necessary to be so serious? In my opinion, unless a miracle happens, that boy won't possibly catch up! If you keep driving at high speed like this, the car's chassis will definitely be badly damaged by the time we reach the finish line!"
For a driver, the car is their life; the Ferrari LaFerrari's chassis hitting the ground over and over was more than Xiaozi could bear to watch.
"Don't underestimate him!" A growing sense of ominous premonition swelled in Xu Ruoxuan's heart.
Seeing Xu Ruoxuan's solemn expression, Xiaozi lamented, "Big sister, you're just too sensitive. I bet my life that if that boy can catch up today, I'll be born without an anus!"
His words were filled with contempt, as if the idea of Ye Fan catching up was a fool's dream.
Boom!!!
Just as Xiaozi's words fell, a thunderous roar of an engine suddenly erupted from behind, and through the rearview mirror, they saw a white AE86 rapidly gaining on them.
"What's that? An AE86? They... they actually caught up?"
Seeing a white AE86 closing in through the rearview mirror, Xiaozi shrieked as if he had seen a ghost, his eyes bulging out as if they were about to pop out of his head.