Hum!
The dazzling white light enveloping the car abruptly contracted, then shattered like glass, bursting into specks of starlight that faded into the night breeze.
"The upgrade's complete."
Su Ye looked at the Vehicle.
The body remained streamlined, but the tires had grown wider, with deep anti-slip treads covering them, and the chassis had been raised even higher.
Su Ye opened the Vehicle's stats panel.
[Vehicle]: Gale Ranger [Level]: First Tier, Level 10 [Durability]: 100% [Fuel]: 1,402 units (1 unit allows 20 kilometers of travel) [Top speed]: 650 kilometers/hour [Vehicle weapons]: None [Function modules]: Energy Saving, Sprint, Rapid Speed, Hard Armor, Sealing, Camouflage, Weather Forecast, Temperature Control, Autopilot. [Available building slots]: 1
"Level 10!"
"The top speed's reached 650 kilometers per hour, but one unit of fuel still only gets me 20 kilometers. Looks like that's the limit for a zero-tier Vehicle."
"The Autopilot module's been added too. Of course, the most important thing is the extra building slot."
Su Ye nodded in satisfaction. Rather than rush to upgrade the Vehicle further, he clicked on the building tab.
[System notification: Would the player like to select a Vehicle Building now?]
"Yes."
Once Su Ye confirmed, the light screen before him changed, and three selectable Vehicle Buildings appeared.
They were the Kitchen, Bathing Room, and Toilet.
"Tsk. Only the Kitchen's any use."
Su Ye shook his head. He didn't know what the Bathing Room and Toilet did, but since Great Xia hadn't told him about them, their functions were bound to be underwhelming.
Then Su Ye noticed a refresh option at the bottom of the interface. The first refresh cost one Survival Coin.
Su Ye immediately selected refresh.
The interface changed again, displaying three new Vehicle Buildings, but there was still no Training Room.
Su Ye remained calm. Fortunately, he had prepared plenty of Survival Coins, so he wasn't worried about failing to get it. He clicked refresh again, and this time, two Survival Coins were deducted.
Su Ye hadn't expected much, but his eyes lit up the next instant. One of the three buildings on the interface was the Training Room.
"It showed up after just two refreshes?"
Su Ye was a little surprised. His luck really was good. He had spent only three Survival Coins in total.
Even if he hadn't traded with Ling Yue for Survival Coins earlier, the three he had obtained from drops would have been enough.
"I still have eighteen hundred Survival Coins left. I'll use them at the service area's shop."
With a smile, Su Ye unhesitatingly selected the Training Room as his Vehicle's first building.
[Selection successful. Installing... Installation successful!]
As the system's voice faded, the Vehicle Building he had selected on the light screen turned into a streak of white light and merged into the Vehicle.
The instant the white light touched the car's body, it dissipated like ripples on water. The entire process was silent.
Su Ye examined the car. From the outside, the Vehicle hadn't undergone any unusual changes.
He immediately went over to the car. The moment he sat in the driver's seat, his gaze fell on the Vehicle panel.
Sure enough, a Training Room option had appeared.
[Would you like to enter the Training Room?]
"Yes!"
Once he confirmed, Su Ye's vision blurred. The scenery around him instantly warped and stretched, as though the entire space had been forcibly folded by some invisible power.
A slight sensation of weightlessness washed over him, but it vanished completely in less than half a second.
When Su Ye opened his eyes again, he found himself in a spacious, brightly lit, self-contained space.
"Space-folding technology?"
Su Ye had been wondering how a Training Room could fit inside the Vehicle. So it was some kind of futuristic technology.
The self-contained space before him wasn't small. He estimated it at around a hundred square meters, with a ceiling nearly four meters high, giving it an extremely open feel.
The walls were silver-gray and emitted a soft, even glow, illuminating the entire space as brightly as daylight.
The air wasn't stuffy in the slightest. Instead, it felt fresh.
The surrounding areas were neatly divided and filled with all kinds of training equipment.
The equipment had a distinctly metallic look, with faint glimmers flowing across its surfaces.
At the center of the space stood a square fighting platform, raised about half a meter above the floor and covering nearly thirty square meters.
Su Ye didn't hurry onto the platform. Instead, he walked toward the training equipment around the room.
The equipment here fell into two main categories.
The first consisted of heavy equipment for improving the physique attribute.
Su Ye swept his gaze over it and spotted neatly arranged sets of dumbbells.
Even the smallest of these dumbbells weighed fifty kilograms, while the largest were labeled five hundred kilograms.
Beside them were resistance machines with hydraulic damping systems, along with striking posts that looked extremely sturdy.
Su Ye walked up to a striking post and threw a tentative punch.
Thud!
A dull impact echoed through the space.
The striking post swayed slightly, then returned to normal.
Next, Su Ye turned and walked to the other side.
This was the equipment area for improving the mental attribute.
A meditation mat that radiated a tranquil aura lay on the floor, with several oddly shaped metronomes beside it.
But what caught Su Ye's attention most were the seemingly ordinary wooden boxes in the corner.
Their surfaces bore no decorations, and they didn't even have locks. They simply sat there quietly, with the words "Illusion Box" written on them.
Curious, Su Ye walked over and placed his hand on one wooden box's lid.
Hum!
As the lid opened, an overwhelmingly intense stench of blood hit him.
The scene before Su Ye changed instantly. The silver-gray Training Room vanished, replaced by a horrifying battlefield of mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
Tattered battle flags snapped in the gale, and countless decapitated monster corpses lay piled into mountains.
Atop that mountain of corpses, a monster covered in bone spikes, its face grotesquely twisted, stared fixedly at him.
A powerful wave of mental pressure swept toward him.
"Get lost!"
Su Ye snorted coldly and instinctively unleashed the full force of his mental attribute.
Crack!
The illusion shattered like fragile glass.
Su Ye came back to his senses and found himself still standing in the Training Room, his hand still poised in the act of lifting the wooden box's lid.
"So that's how it works. It looks like an ordinary wooden box, but opening it directly affects the brain, creating all kinds of intensely jarring illusions."
"By repeatedly resisting those illusions, you can improve your mental attribute."
Su Ye nodded in satisfaction. Although that scene had been a little sanity-draining, it was fine as long as it could improve his mental attribute.
Finally, Su Ye looked at the central fighting platform.
Training the body and mind was only the foundation. True combat prowess could only take shape through life-and-death battles.
He leaped onto the platform in a single bound. The instant his feet landed, a translucent light barrier rose along its edges, enclosing the entire platform.
At the same time, a floating virtual panel appeared directly in front of him.
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