Azure Dragon Mountain Highway was not very long to begin with, yet under Ronan's utterly unreasonable driving, they reached the end in no time!
The drone footage showed the sign for the mountainside transfer station.
The Rose Sword finally began to slow down!
With a perfect braking maneuver, the Rose Sword came to a steady stop in front of the transfer station.
He opened the door, got out, and looked up at the drone's camera. Ronan's expression remained blank.
It was as though he had merely accomplished something insignificant.
Everyone at the mountaintop was completely speechless.
"Not even a drop of cold sweat... He isn't putting on a brave front. He genuinely felt nothing."
"At that speed, could a human really control it?"
"Even professional racers... might not be any better, right?"
Only after a long while did everyone come to their senses.
The race was already over.
In fact, the race had been over from the very beginning!
A huge red number suddenly appeared in the drone footage!
00'02'07
Two minutes and seven seconds.
It was a full two times faster than the record held by Lin Chenluo, the so-called Azure Dragon Mountain Car God!
"Young Master Lin is probably feeling pretty miserable today, huh?"
"Who knows..."
The crowd gathered in small groups and began whispering among themselves.
Just then, Jones, who had been standing there in a daze with a megaphone for ages, seemed to snap back to his senses. He raised it and roared, "My God! What did we just witness?!"
"Without any preparation whatsoever, we witnessed a miracle!"
"Two minutes and seven seconds! Young Master Ronan has created a miracle! The night of revelry has only just begun! Let us head to the transfer station together and begin tonight's party and celebration!"
The crowd clapped and cheered, climbing into their cars one after another and heading for the mountainside gathering point.
Wei Wei and Wang Xiaoman both let out long breaths.
Watching Ronan's bored expression in the drone footage, Wei Wei could not help feeling uneasy.
At first, she had thought Ronan was nothing more than a toad dreaming of swan meat. Yet as the bond between them deepened, she discovered that unimaginable secrets were hidden within him.
Someone like him was probably destined to shine brightly wherever he went, wasn't he?
Even though Su Xiao had now been exiled to Dragon Capital Province, sixty thousand light-years away, could she really catch up to Ronan—putting it even more bluntly...
Was she worthy of him?
Fifteen minutes later, everyone had gathered at the mountainside transfer station.
Ronan was still leaning alone against the Rose Sword. Although people occasionally came over to curry favor and exchange pleasantries, he was a natural social isolator—his cold, calm words gave off an air of arrogance. The descendants of these lower-ranking nobles naturally felt ashamed and left awkwardly.
Lin Chenluo was the second to arrive. He was still very fast. Despite the shock Ronan had dealt him, he completed the entire course in four minutes and eleven seconds. It was not his best performance, but it was still an impressive record.
But before Ronan's two minutes and seven seconds, everyone else's supposed street racing had become a joke!
After getting out of his car, Lin Chenluo silently crouched before a computer, repeatedly reviewing the drone footage.
When people spoke to him, he did not utter a word, his face dark and sour.
Several close friends knew that the blow the Azure Dragon Mountain Car God had suffered tonight was likely devastating. After offering a few words of comfort, they could only leave.
Outside the transfer station was an open space often used for outdoor parties. It was already packed with cars and piled with artificial bonfires. Under the service of several servants, drinks and food were brought over in an endless stream for everyone present to enjoy freely.
"Aren't you going to eat something?"
After getting out of the Mini Dragon, Wei Wei immediately ran over to Ronan.
She had originally wanted to curse him out and make him understand how worried she had been—yet when she saw his eyes, so calm they were almost vacant, she understood instantly.
Her worries had all been unnecessary.
Perhaps in this man's eyes, the race just now had not even counted as a warm-up!
Of course. He was the man who had easily defeated Xiang Feihu!
In Su Xiao's eyes, he was even someone fit to stand shoulder to shoulder with Li Nanbei.
How could someone like him possibly take such a trivial matter to heart?
Thinking this, the lingering resentment and fright in Wei Wei's heart gradually turned into calm. Her tone became much gentler as she said, "These people do know how to have fun. Some of the food tastes pretty good."
Wang Xiaoman followed beside her and nodded like a little attendant.
"No need." Ronan forced out a faint smile.
His feelings toward Wei Wei were actually rather complicated.
Her bold confession at the mountaintop was still echoing in his mind, and he did not quite know how to face this girl who dared to love and hate so openly.
Reject her directly?
Even for Earl's sake, Ronan could not bear to crush Wei Wei's hopes with a single sentence. He had once wondered whether this was another prank by the little witch, but her eyes and tone told him it was no joke.
That was why he had a headache—at a time like this, he instead felt that it would have been better if it really were a joke.
He chose his words carefully. "I'm not hungry."
As he said this, he suddenly glanced at the owners of the other four cars besides Lin Chenluo's.
Their expressions were extremely ugly. However, the wager had been set beforehand, and none of them could possibly renege now.
Wei Wei asked curiously, "Why are you staring at them?"
Ronan said sincerely, "I'm waiting for them... Once all five cars are handed over, I won't have any interest in staying here."
Wei Wei nodded. By now, she had gained some understanding of Ronan.
The little witch immediately strode over and impatiently started berating Lin Chenluo:
"Have you watched enough?"
"The car keys?"
"You lot, hand over your car keys! And the extraction passwords!"
The most important thing about a car was often the quality of its Primal Stone, since that was its source of power. Therefore, the extraction password was extremely important when a car changed hands.
Miss Wei Wei could switch personas with ease, transforming from a delicate little bird into an overwhelmingly domineering presence in an instant. The few of them looked at one another, then handed over their car keys with bitter smiles.
Young Master Lin had promised to have them help him win that Rose Sword, yet they had ended up losing their own cars instead! Still, they were not overly distressed, because Lin Chenluo had always been generous. Since they had covered the wager for him this time, he would surely compensate them.
Still, they all moved within the same circle. Being left so absurdly far behind in a race was truly humiliating.
After the four obediently handed over their keys, Lin Chenluo alone continued as though he had heard nothing.
He stared fixedly at the computer screen, watching over and over as the Rose Sword drove as if walking a tightrope. Sweat covered his forehead. Only he knew that at countless critical moments, if Ronan's reaction had been even a fraction slower, the outcome awaiting him would have been a wrecked car and a dead driver!
He had checked repeatedly. That Rose Sword definitely did not have a satellite driving system installed!
"Can purely human control and reaction really reach such a level...?"
He could not help murmuring under his breath.
Wei Wei, however, was getting a little impatient. She held four sets of keys in her hand, and only Lin Chenluo's Blizzard remained before she could report back to Ronan. Irritated, she said, "Lin Chenluo! Are you trying to renege on the bet?"
"Renege?" Only then did Lin Chenluo react. He froze for a moment, then suddenly shoved everyone aside and strode straight toward Ronan!
"What is Young Master Lin doing?"
"Oh no! He isn't going to cause trouble because he can't take the blow, is he?!"
"Stop him!"
Everyone was startled and tried to stop Lin Chenluo, but they failed.
His actions had been too sudden. In the blink of an eye, he had rushed in front of Ronan.
Ronan's eyes narrowed slightly.
The next second, Lin Chenluo clenched his fists tightly and stood before Ronan, his eyes filled with hunger as he roared with utmost sincerity:
"Young Master Ronan! Please teach me how to drive!"
Ronan merely said softly:
"The car keys."
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