translator: Oyen editor: Ciel
After the end of the first round of punishment, the second game of the carnival project began.
Displayed on the big screen was the title of the second game, ‘Crazy Racing’.
“The second game ‘Crazy Racing’ is a team relay race,” Liang Ru patiently explained the rules. “The race is divided into three different maps. The first section is a jungle trap map, with both visible and invisible traps. If you fall into a trap, you will be stunned for 2 seconds. The second section is an aerial map with floating pumices; while you will not die if you fall, you will be teleported back to the starting point. The third section is a swamp map with poisonous miasma. Falling into the swamp will inflict players with a ‘50% slowdown’ state. Both sides can choose how to divide their players into three groups; each group will be responsible for crossing one map. When a team member reaches the finish line on the first map, the second map will automatically be unlocked.”
“You can attack each other during the race. It should be noted that control skills such as immobilisation and dizziness are not affected, but attack skills will do no damage,” Ye Chao cautioned. “That is to say, you can only control opponents, and cannot kill them. In addition, everyone can only carry one secret book, and cannot repeat secret books already carried by teammates. For the sake of fairness, no stealth skills are permitted, including the assassin’s stealth skills and stealth secret books.”
“If you have any questions about the rules, please ask now.” Liang Ru added.
Professional players had excellent understanding ability and soon understood the setting of the relay race. “If there is no problem, the two captains can start to arrange the team members. You have three minutes.” Ye Chao continued.
After the host explained the rules, the players from both sides immediately huddled together to discuss a strategy.
The relay race was a common event in carnivals, comparing the players’ abilities in qinggong and control skills. The red team had both a healer and an auxiliary, giving them an advantage in resolving control skills, but the blue team had two assassins with an agility bonus, Xiao Han and Sang Jun.
Xiao Han would certainly not put both assassins together, so it was highly likely for Sang Jun to run in the first race, leaving Xiao Han for the final sprint. Their transition lineup would then be made up of three people to stabilise the advantage. Thinking of this, Qin Mo came up with an idea. “I’m guessing that the blue team will probably send a 2, 3, 2 formation. So, I want to send three people to seize the opportunity in the first stage—— captain Luo will assist, Xie Changming will be responsible for the remote control, while captain Chen will bring a qinggong secret book to run. What does everyone think?”
No one objected. “No problem,” Xie Changming agreed easily. “We’ll try our best to grab the advantage in the first stage.”
“I’ll bring the ‘As Light As A Swallow’ qinggong secret book,” Cheng Jiang added.
“Vice captain Xie’s control skills are enough.” Luo Yuan suggested. “I’ll bring a secret book to resolve control skills to prevent us from being delayed here.”
“Okay,” Qin Mo nodded, then continued. “In the middle stage, captain Chu will team up with Xuewei. This group has the strongest defensive ability. Xuewei will bring a control secret book, and captain Chu can carry purification; try to reach the third stage as quickly as possible.”
“Alright.” Chu Jianxin nodded.
“So, both of us will be in the final sprint?” Lin Shuangcheng asked.
“En,” Looking back at him, Qin Mo explained. “I have the teleportation skill ‘Drifting Sword’. Combined with the qinggong secret book ‘North Goose Flying South’, I will sprint. Can you help me to delay the other side?”
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“No problem.” Lin Shuangcheng smiled. “It’s an honour to be god Mo’s bodyguard.”
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On the voice channel, Qin Mo commanded. “Everyone, tell me the opponents beside you.”
“Zhu Qingyue and Sang Jun for the first race.” Xie Changming typed.
“Next to me are Nie Yuzhu, Li Junru, and Su Cheng.” Chu Jianxin also quickly typed out.
In the last map was Xiao Han and Qiu Zongping. Sure enough, the blue team had adopted the formation of two players to start, three players as a transition, and two players to sprint, exactly the same as Qin Mo’s guess. In fact, this group was also the most stable.
“If you don’t want to be punished again, then do your best to run,” Qin Mo encouraged.
Everyone: “…”
The lethality of this sentence was too strong, and the great gods were immediately full of motivation, feeling even more excited than for the finals.
On the blue team side, seeing Qin Mo’s arrangement, Xiao Han reminded. “They started with three players. Vice-captain Sang should be more careful, and Qingyue should protect him well.”
“Understood.” Zhu Qingyue sent a smiley emoticon.
“If we don’t win, it will be our turn to accept the punishment,” Xiao Han reminded them. “Everyone should already be clear about this.”
Everyone: “…”
In order to avoid punishment, they had to try their best to win.
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As soon as the ten-second countdown ended, the first race officially began.
The jungle trap map made by the officials exclusively for this carnival project was about 100 metres long and 10 metres wide. The map was divided into two 5-meter wide runways, marked with red and blue to represent the two teams.
Traps were scattered everywhere, with at least one every three metres. To avoid the pits on the ground, players had to travel in a zig zag manner, and could not run forward in a straight line. In addition to the pits, this map also had other imperceptible hidden traps; if the players were careless and fell in, their speed of progress would be greatly affected.
The moment the race started, the red team’s Chen Jiang, Xie Changming, and Luo Yuan, as well as the blue team’s Sang Jun and Zhu Qingyue, immediately began to sprint towards the finish line.
On the red team’s side, Luo Yuan decisively opened his invincibility barrier ‘Cyan Rain Curtain’ to protect his teammates from the opponent’s control skills, while Xie Changming played ‘Cold River Snow’ to forcibly control both opponents. With the two of them protecting him, Chen Jiang didn’t need to pay any attention to the blue team, immediately leaping forward—— however, before he had taken more than a few steps, he had unknowingly triggered a hidden trap.
Chen Jiang wondered: had he violated some kind of rule? Why was his luck so bad?
Because Chen Jiang stepped into a trap, Sang Jun immediately caught up with him. However, Xie Changming’s attack range was very far. The instant Zhu Qingyue resolved the group control effect of ‘Cold River Snow’, Xie Changming used the single-target control skill ‘Broken Bridge’, stunning Sang Jun and immobilising him in the place, only for the assassin to use ‘Golden Cicada Shell’ to purify the control and teleport 10 metres forward, instantly surpassing Chen Jiang.
After being trapped for 2 seconds, Cheng Jiang used his qinggong skills to fly out of the pit. Simultaneously, Xie Changming followed up with yet another control skill—— Flying Partridge!
Blindness!
This blindness effect forced Sang Jun to stop. Chen Jiang decisively opened the qinggong secret book skill ‘As Light As A Swallow’ to improve his agility attribute, quickly overtaking his opponent.
Zhu Qingyue wanted to move forward and support Sang Jun, but Xie Changming wouldn’t let him, turning around and silencing him with ‘Spring Lake’, preventing him from using his qinggong skills. After the blindness status on Sang Jun ended, Luo Yuan followed up with ‘Silk Umbrella Array’—— the audience witnessed a small array appear beneath Sang Jun’s feet, unexpectedly teleporting him far behind Luo Yuan.
Seeing this, Ye Chao couldn’t help but to roast the blue team. “Captain Luo’s methods were somewhat wicked. He managed to take the lead with great difficulty, only to be teleported back… Sang Jun must have wanted to cough up blood.”
“The distance between Sang Jun and Chen Jiang has reached 20 metres,” Liang Ru observed. “It will be difficult to catch up.”
In the opening race, the red team sent three people to face two. Obviously, this was to seize the advantage and widen the distance. In addition, Chen Jiang brought a qinggong secret book, quickly leaving Sang Jun behind.
But Sang Jun wasn’t a vegetarian either. The red team had used too many skills in the beginning of the match, causing many of their skills to be on cooldown. As an assassin, Sang Jun had a natural advantage in agility, and under the protection of Zhu Qingyue’s ‘Cyan Rain Curtain’, Sang Jun quickly shrank the original 20-metre gap to 10 metres.
In the blink of an eye, Chen Jiang arrived at the end point, allowing the red team’s second group to set off immediately.
The combination of meat shield Chu Jianxin and milk god Zhou Xuewei could be called the strongest defensive pair in the Peerless Jianghu alliance at the present moment. Chu Jianxin dashed forward with his qinggong skills, leaving Zhou Xuewei to guard the rear. By the time the three-man group from the blue team set off, Chu Jianxin had already widened the distance gap to 15 metres.
However, Nie Yuzhu immediately used ‘Floating Light’ to teleport himself forward ten metres, throwing out the double rings in his hands—— Twin Laurel Fragrance!
The trap set by the big ring immobilised Chu Jianxin in place!
In order to prevent her opponent from catching up with Chu Jianxin, Zhou Xuewei decisively used her purification skill to help captain Chu resolve the opponent’s control, allowing him to continue running forwards. He needed to quickly distance himself from the three members of the blue team, otherwise, once he was overtaken by the other three, it was highly likely that he would not be able to progres any further.
The second map was an aerial map, with countless floating pumices scattered across the sky that functioned as footholds. Once a player fell, he would be teleported back to the start point, and forced to run all over again. Thus, it was necessary to pay attention to the footholds while guarding against the opponents’ control skills. Chu Jianxin split his attention to focus on both tasks at once, every movement calm and sure.
Unfortunately, Zhou Xuewei, who was supposed to protect him from behind, was blinded by Li Junru’s poisonous powder.
Even if they were blinded during the competition, many first-class experts could continue to move through the air, but this was based on the premise that they were familiar with the map. Not only was today was the first time everyone had seen this map, the pumices were also moving in a disorganised manner, and Zhou Xuewei was unsure about their pattern. She didn’t dare to jump around casually while blinded in case she fell, so as to not be transported back to the start point.
The three-second blindness forced Zhou Xuewei to stop, giving Nie Yuzhu and Su Cheng a chance to catch up!
Su Cheng decisively used the group attack skill ‘Wild Geese Descending on the Sandbank’, which had the effect of shooting down enemies in the air from a distance. It was best used on an aerial map, which was why Xiao Han arranged for him to play on the second map.
However, Chu Jianxin suddenly used the skill ‘Covering The Heavens’ at this moment. Waving the large knife in his hand in a domineering manner, a golden light enveloped his body—— this skill had the effect of protecting the team from damage for 3 seconds!
This damage immunity skill from Kuangdao Gate was just enough to cancel out Su Cheng’s long-distance attack skill.
“Could it be that Chu Jianxin grew a pair of eyes behind his back and saw Su Cheng’s move?” Liang Ru admired.
“It should be a reasonable pre-judgment. After all, Sister Xuewei has been controlled. He might have guessed that the other party would attack.” Ye Chao replied.
Chu Jianxin was not shot down, managing to keep a distance of 10 meters from the opponent, which was good news for the red team. However, the speed of Nie Yuzhu’s pursuit was very fast. After Su Cheng’s failure, he once again threw out the double rings in his hand, causing Chu Jianxin to be dizzy for 2 seconds. Chu Jianxin had no choice but to use his purification secret book skill, but Nie Yuzhu had brought a control-type secret book, once again controlling Chu Jianxin.
This delay shortened the distance between both sides to five meters.
In the back, Li Junru had succeeded in stalling Zhou Xuewei. As a guqin player, Su Cheng had the furthest attack distance, allowing him to use the group attack skill ‘Zhuangzi Dreams of Being a Butterfly’, forcing Chu Jianxin to fall asleep.
Nie Yuzhu seized the opportunity to leap over two pumice stones in a row, finally catching up with Chu Jianxin!
In the second stage of the race, the blue team sent three players to face off the red team’s two. With the help of Su Cheng and Li Junru, Nie Yuzhu completely recovered the disadvantage from the first stage.
Chu Jianxin and Nie Yuzhu reached the finish line almost simultaneously. The third map was opened with their arrival, and the final sprint was finally here!
AHHHH just when it was getting exciting 😖
This race is so thrilling!!! Looking forward to see who will lose this game and get the punishment xD
Thank you for the chapter~~! 💜💜💜
Just look forward for the punishment~
This carnival chapters are just for determined all the CPs 🤭
You’re welcome~ <3
Red team will win. Twin stars always toe the line of you win one, I win one. Also I want to watch blue team be punished too 😂