"What's our current rank now?"

Zhou Yingting drove the car, with the gas pedal floored.

After emptying the gasoline from the second fuel station, Zhou Yingting sped forward.

This road was pretty much a straight line; just stepping on the gas pedal was enough.

After pressing the accelerator, the speed soared straight to 170 km/h.

"We're currently twentieth place."

"No, we're nineteenth now!"

Song Qingyun sat beside him, looking at the rankings with a joyful expression.

There's about two thousand kilometers to the destination; at this speed, breaking into the top ten is no problem.

Zhou Yingting nodded from the side, and the remaining gasoline was still abundant, enough to support their upcoming fuel consumption.

As for food, that's even less of a concern.

"Damn, No. 44 you're crazy, already pushed up to nineteenth place?"

When No. 44 car suddenly started to rage, continuously overtaking from fifty-something, to forties, thirties, and now squeezed into nineteenth place, the twelfth place car finally started to panic a bit.

Initially, he didn't really take this No. 44 car seriously.

After all, his goal was to enter the top ten, even if the No. 44 car seized a fuel station, what could it do?

Being ranked outside fifty initially, it had nothing to do with his goal.

But who could have imagined that in just a few days, it would rush up to nineteenth place?

If this continues, won't it catch up and then break into the top ten?

If that's the case, his own ranking would have to drop by one, and that pressure would be immense.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but send a message in the group chat.

"Yeah, this No. 44 car's been like crazy these days, surpassing ranks one after another. Did you guys find something good at that fuel station?"

It was already well-known that the No. 44 car had seized a fuel station earlier.

So everyone knew, but back then, they thought it only seized a fuel station without getting gas or anything.

No matter how many entries they seized, if they ran out of gas, those entries were useless.

But looking at the situation now, it seemed something was off; the speed hadn't stopped, and estimating, they might really break into the top ten.

"That fuel station must have had something good, otherwise No. 44 car couldn't be speeding so fast; it was once beyond fifty, now it's breaking into the top twenty."

"Can someone tell me, where's the first place now?"

The chat channel seemed to turn into a chaotic mess at the moment.

Some people had already been eliminated because of the Plasma.

Without ceramic chip protection, once the car encountered the Plasma, it didn't take long before it stalled, and they were eliminated.

Even so, there were still many who weren't eliminated.

Song Qingyun sat beside, looking at the chat logs in front and thought for a moment before replying to them.

"We snatched some stuff from the fuel station, hoping to get into the top ten, but we have no clue where the top ten players are, or if we can catch up to them."

There's just over two thousand kilometers left from here to the finish line.

If the top ten players only have a few hundred kilometers left, no matter how hard we try, we won't catch up.

Seeing Song Qingyun reply, the chatting group suddenly quieted down for a moment.

Then information started coming in one after another.

For example, those ahead of Song Qingyun's team were leading by about fifty kilometers.

The player ranked fifteenth was about three hundred kilometers ahead.

The player ranked thirteenth was leading by about five hundred kilometers.

Calculating this, the top ten players had roughly only a thousand kilometers left to reach the finish line.

Upon receiving this information, Song Qingyun became somewhat anxious.

Thinking of this, he turned to tell Zhou Yingting about the news he just read.

Just then, a player who hadn't shown up from the top ten finally spoke up.

"I'm ranked tenth; No. 44 car, even though you seized the fuel station and seem impressive, this is as far as you go."

"I'm ranked tenth, with only nine hundred and fifty kilometers left to the finish line. You, ranked nineteenth, think you can break into the top ten now? No chance."

"You know why the top ten players have been silent? Because the gap between us is too large, you guys simply can't catch up. From the beginning, this game has been a competition for us top ten players. It's none of your business."

"Based on the recent info, you seem to have over two thousand kilometers left, which makes you over a thousand kilometers behind me. How will you catch up?"

The player ranked tenth chatted casually in the channel, feeling relaxed.

With only nine hundred kilometers left, he didn't feel threatened at this point by the teams behind.

Since they posed no threat, he felt there was no need to worry too much.

The No. 44 team was intriguing, having seized a fuel station, but it could only go this far.

If they had seized the fuel station earlier, maybe first place could've been theirs without a doubt.

But now, there was no chance for them anymore.

Seeing this message, Song Qingyun paused for a moment, then furrowed his brows.

If the gap between them is really that big, then it's indeed going to be troublesome.

Thinking of this, he turned his head to look at Zhou Yingting beside him.

"The gap between us and the tenth place is over a thousand kilometers; catching up with them is going to be quite difficult."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yingting slightly furrowed his brows. A gap of over a thousand kilometers? That's indeed quite large.

"Do you know what their speed is?"

After thinking for a moment, Zhou Yingting asked another question.

Song Qingyun shook his head upon hearing this, admitting he wasn't sure about it.

The opponent is quite cautious, even though they revealed how far they were from the finish line, they didn't disclose their speed or fuel consumption.

Presumably, it's to guard against the eleventh place contestants.

"Activate the afterburner function."

Zhou Yingting said as he lightly pressed a button in front of him.

Previously, this button hadn't been used because it was deemed too fuel-consuming.

Even though Zhou Yingting had collected fuel from two stations, he dared not use this function lightly.

Once activated, the speed can directly boost to 380 kilometers per hour, but similarly, the fuel consumption is incredibly frightening.

After activation, it requires burning 1000L of fuel per hour!

In two hours, that's 2000L. In four hours, that's 4000L.

Running for four hours covers over fifteen hundred kilometers, leaving about five hundred kilometers to the finish line.

Currently, they only have 4500L of fuel left.

"Uh? Is the fuel going to be enough?"

Song Qingyun knew about this function, which Zhou Yingting had previously taken from a supply station.

But this function consumes too much fuel.

Previously, they hadn't dared to use it while searching for these two refueling stations because they weren't sure how much fuel they could find at the next two stations.

After scouring the stations, they calculated that they could use the afterburner function for up to three hours.

Beyond that, reaching the finish line becomes impossible as there wouldn't be enough fuel.

Now, it seems there's still some distance from using this function.

"Never mind, let's use this function first and see if we can catch up; otherwise, the time might run out."

Zhou Yingting glanced at the navigation, noticing there's no more fuel available on the upcoming routes.

Finding additional fuel is impossible.

Song Qingyun listened to this, briefly fell silent, then nodded, "Alright, you're the driver now, you decide!"

He directly handed over command to Zhou Yingting.

After all, they've been relying on Zhou Yingting throughout this journey.

Without Zhou Yingting, it would be uncertain whether the car could reach this point.

Seeing this, Zhou Yingting wasted no words and directly pressed the afterburner function.

In an instant, the car's tail erupted with a long flame, surging forward.

On both sides of the car, clouds of dust were stirred up.

And on the dashboard inside the car, the speed instantly reached 380 kilometers.

The three people inside the car could all feel a strong push against their backs at this moment.

In just a few minutes, the car ranked ahead of Zhou Yingting was directly overtaken.

Before the seventeenth place could react, he had already become the eighteenth.

And Zhou Yingting's car rank continued to rise.

The speed was astonishing.

"Whoa! Is No. 44 car going mad? They've already overtaken two cars?"

"What's going on with the No. 44 car, overtaking seems even easier than before?"

"Does it matter if it's easier? The gap with the top ten is too big, the top ten have already started their final sprint in the last thousand kilometers."

Some found the overtaking speed of No. 44 somewhat strange.

But others didn't mind after seeing it.

Because, in their view, catching up with the top ten at this point is simply impossible.

A thousand kilometers apart, how could anyone catch up?

Now, many who learned the position of the top ten have given up, not planning to continue pursuing.

The gap is too big; there's no meaning in chasing anymore.

However, some felt that they should at least push forward a few more positions; otherwise, losing would mean a burden too heavy of the deducted Life Quota.

Advancing one position might mean reducing the life quota deduction by one year at least.

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