(V)

"This is the racer you found?" A look of surprise flashed in Ya Li's eyes. He smiled and asked, "What's his name?"

"Shang Ze." Yi Yun signaled Shang Ke to come over and warned Ya Li, "He's my Imperial Uncle's man. Don't try anything." In fact, what Lu Xiufan said to Shang Ke on the phone before was also said to him. What 'call him if you run into trouble', wasn't that clearly meant for him to deal with the trouble before it reaches that point?

Ya Li raised his eyebrow and smiled regretfully. "Oh, what a pity."

The more Yue Xuan heard the conversation between them, the more ugly his face became. His eyes that stared at Shang Ke became filled with more and more disbelief.

"Yue Xuan, what's wrong with you?" Ya Li saw Yue Xuan's strange facial expressions, and asked offhandedly.

"No, nothing." Yue Xuan secretly reminded himself not to mess up the situation. Yue Ze is a covenantor, he has no feelings for anything, therefore there was no way he would take the initiative to acknowledge him. Everything would be fine as long as he acted as if Yue Ze does not exist.

However, how can someone with a guilty conscience ignore the reason of his guilty conscience? The cause of Yue Ze turning into a covenantor was entirely because of him and his mother. He had thought by putting him in the distributation center, he would get rid of him forever. After all, covenantors who were so beautiful were very popular at the distribution center. Many influenial officials liked to find bed partners or play things there. Because covenantors had short life spans, once they are employed, they are employed for life. Furthermore, even if they were violated or tormeted, they will not complain. Their bodies feel pain like normal people, but they cannot use emotions to vent their anger. They just regard them as part of their work.

"Well then, have them all come over. Let's start the race in half an hour." Yi Yun clapped his hand, impatience written across his face.

With the Prince sponsoring the car race, naturally, many people responded. After discussion, twelve participants were finally determined. The engineerers started to get busy and serviced all the cars who were participating in the race.

At this time, Yue Xuan walked to his racer and whispered a few words in his ear.

The racer's face changed slightly and he glanced at Shang Ke's position.

While testing the performance of Purple Shadow, Shang Ke also paid close attention to the movements of Yue Xuan. Seeing him whispering with the race car driver, he couldn't help raising his guard. He thought to himself, this guy wasn't trying to do something underhanded during the race was he? He represents His Royal Highness. Once he was found out, he was not the only one who is going to be unlucky, but also the whole Yue family.

Shang Ke's eyes flashed. This isn't a bad thing, let's see what he'll do.

With a burst of dynamic music, a three-dimensional virtual track appeared over the stadium. The track was like a rainbow, crisscrossing and glittering with dazzling light.

Shang Ke wore a safety helmet, the track clearly visible through the black goggles. He kept track of the route firmly in mind, including the location of each sharp turn, the distance of the slope, and so on. There is also an phantom tunnel on track that would make drivers become frantic. The phantom tunnel has no fixed position and may appear at any time. Red can shorten the distance, while yellow can extend the distance. Under the same speed restrictions, whoever can caught the red phantom tunnel the most is the one who wins. This tested the racer's instantaneous judgment in extreme speed.

[Shang Ze, if you help me win the first place, you can ask for whatever you want.]When there was only a minute before the race, the message from Yi Yun appeared on the screen inside the car.

Shang Ke replied: "Understood."

With the end of the countdown, twelve hover cars roared out at the same time, leaving behind a beautiful afterimage.

Shang Ke's car was three lanes away from Yue Xuan's. Ever since the start of the race, the car had been in hot pursuit. Shang Ke did not rush to speed up. It takes at least 15 minutes to get to the finish line at full speed with the complex terrain and the length of the track. But the key to success lies in the phantom tunnel.

The two cars, one in front of the other, did not give in to each other. The first sharp turn was coming up and Shang Ke was ready to drift, only for Yue Xuan's car to drive up to a sensitive spot. If the angle in which he tried to drift in and his control over speed wasn't good, then they will crash. If they were lucky, they would just scrape by each other, and it would not affect the race. If they weren't lucky, both of them will be out of the competition.

Shange Ke decelerated at once, and the car sank, letting the car behind him catch up with him, and then drifted through the cracks of other vehicles. Yue Xuan's driver didn't seem to expect a sudden deceleration and couldn't react in time. He was almost knocked out by other vehicles. By the time he adjusted to it, Shang Ke had already outpaced him by the distance of two cars, but the rankings of the two had fallen from fifth to sixth to nine and tenth respectively.

"Haha, Your Royal Highness, the skill level of your driver only seems to be so-so." Ya Li mocked.

Yi Yun remained calm and silent.

Not far away is a chaotically curved road. Yue Xuan's driver did not bother blocking Shang Ke's way this time, rather, he intentionally bumped into the end of Shang Ke's car to make him lose control.

"Eh?" Ya Li frowned slightly, watching the seen thoughtfully.

Shang Ke was certain now, Yue Xuan really wanted to cause an accident in the competition. He was really running out of patience. To do something like this during a competition sponsored by the Prince, did he think he could get out of trouble seamlessly?

Fine, then he'll show him what it means to overreach oneself.

Shang Ke had been able to learn the racing techniques of different worlds in Hundred Training Space. There is a super skill called "apparition phantom", which can use the control of speed and angle to give people a kind of visual confusion. With reflections, airflow and other factors, phantoms could be made one after another. This illusion only affects the driver, and it is difficult for outsiders to detect the faults.

The driver wanted to strike Shang Ke's car seamlessly, but Shang Ke's car suddenly started to move erranticly and it was hard to accurately grasp his position. Every time he thought he hit him, he would only hit thin air.

He did not know that what he thought he was doing secretly was plain as day to the audience. The audience couldn't see the dislocation effect caused by ghost shadow, they only know that the driver had been chasing Shang Ke and trying to crash him, but was always skillfully avoided. Sometimes the driver did not actually hit Shang Ke, but the dislocation of the two cars also made the audience feel that he was hitting him.

At this moment, the appearance of the audience has become strange. One after another, they looked towards Yi Yun and Yue Xuan expectantly.

Yi Yun's face was expressionless, but Yue Xuan was humiliated and angry. He cursed in his heart at the driver for being mentally retarded. He wanted to him cause an accident, not for him to openly chase after his car to crash into him.

Unaware of this, the driver is still diligently carryed out the "secret" order to create an accident.

Shang Ke felt it was about time and didn't bother with the other driver anymore. With a quick turn, he passed through a red phantom tunnel that had suddenly appeared and threw off Yue Xuan's car in moments.

He has just roughly calculated that the red phantom channel appears every 20 seconds and the Yellow phantom channel appears every 10 seconds. Even if you accidentally drove into a yellow phantom tunnel, you have to follow this rhythm to win. If his calculation is correct, if he gets seven red phantoms, at most he would only get into a yellow one by accident once.

As long as he doesn't mess up his rhythm, Shang Ke could almost predict the appearance of the red phantom.

As a result, the off-site audience saw the Purple Shadow that Shang Ke was driving almost disappear through the red phantom channels at breakneck speed to catch up with the vehicle in front. He was originally in the second to last position, with no hope of winning in the eyes of outsiders, who knew that in a dramatic turn around, in five minutes, the ranking went from the second to last to the first three.

Yi Yun who had shown no expression the entire time finally couldn't contain his excitement and he shouted, "Great!"

The others were also shouting loudly with fervor.

At this point, only 1000 meters away from the finish line, the driver in the first place thought that people were cheering for him. He was very excited as he neared the finish line. There wasn't any other cars behind him, so both of his hands left the steering wheel, as he went into a pose to celebrate his victory.

Who would have thought a red phantom would flash behind him, a purple lightning shooting out of the phantom, with the advantage of three meters, to be the first across the finish line.

"Cool!" Yi Yun threw a punch in the air excitedly.

Shang Ke got off the car and took off his helmet. His hair was slightly ruffled as he raised his head, allowing beads of sweat to fall.

He stood in front of the purple shadow; with his cool temperament and handsome posture, the cheers of the people once again shot up.

A few minutes later, several other racing cars arrived at the end of the race. When the final car arrived, the referee officially declared the end of the race.

"You performed well!" Yi Yun praised.

"Thank you." Shang Ke still looked unruffled and relaxed, but his eyes shone a brilliant light. Like a firestone in snow, he was dazzling and took the breath of countless people.

Watching Shang Ke be the star of the event, Yue Xuan was anxious, and slapped his driver's face in public.

The "Pa!" sound was unusually loud at the noisy racing circuit.

Yi Yun and others looked at him with disgust and disdain in their eyes.

During the race, the driver's behavior was seen by everyone. Since he dared to do so, someone must have instructed him to. What puzzled everyone was, just what was wrong with Yue Xuan's brain? Why did he go provoke the Prince of all people?

Looking at him slapping the driver in public at the moment, is he blaming the driver for his reckless behavior or for his lack of obscurity?

Yue Xuan realized that he had behaved inappropriately and he apologized, "My apologies, I have forgotten my manners."

Yi Yun snorted, his disgust is unhidden, and the expressions of other people become rather subtle.

Yue Xuan's face paled, the disgust of the prince meant that the other nobles would alienate him, and his future life in the capital would be difficult.

Damn it! It's all because of that short-lived bastard!

Yue Xuan glared at Shang Ke with hatred, while the latter did not even look at him. The indifference of the covenantor became a kind of mockery in his eyes.

Yue Xuan's fists clenched, eyes murderous.

He did not notice that Ya Li was watching him not far away, and when he saw him staring at Shang Ke, he shook his head in secret. The Prince probably have already guessed that he has enmity with the driver named "Shang Ze". But the driver was brought by the Prince, so for him to target his driver so openly, it was no doubt a blatant disrespect to the Prince.

This is the heir of the Yue family? He's so impossibly stupid.

Yue Xuan stepped forward, he wanted to explain to the prince, but he was blocked by Ya Li. "Yue Xuan, let's write down the bet you lost. I'll get someone to notify you whenever His Highness decides to ask for it. You better go back home today."

Yue Xuan's face turned ashen.