Rita scrolled to the bottom of the ga's leaderboard and noticed that so players had only traveled about twenty kiloters. Given that the ga had been going on for quite so ti, it seed impossible that they were stuck in the battlefield. That ant these players were likely walking because their karts were broken or out of fuel.
She glanced around, signaled for Nivalis to park, and got out of the kart to walk a few steps. Imdiately, she noticed sothing odd. Just like when she had tried to fly her kart earlier, walking on the track had a speed penalty. Her high speed of 1800 was reduced to less than half the kart's speed when walking, unless she used a skill to speed up.
Rita didn't waste any more ti. After testing, she quickly got back into the kart and continued her journey.
However, Rita and Nivalis weren't wasting their blue fuel. They only used nitrogen boosters to accelerate when they encountered other karts. Nivalis was behind the wheel while Rita took the sniper's role, attacking all the karts and replenishing their fuel. Their coordination was flawless.
Rita's sharpshooter talent, specifically the passive skill "I'm Getting Serious" (3-second automatic aim), paired perfectly with her sniper rifle, making it ideal for road combat.
During the ga, Rita had broken the rules eight tis, losing 27 attribute points, 1% of her health, and 28% of her experience. It was a heavy loss. She couldn't understand how the other players managed to survive without suffering so much damage, especially since she had no idea what she had done wrong—everything she did seed normal.
Despite all the losses, she did gain so items, such as those that increased attribute points, mana capacity, and casting speed. Still, her losses outweighed the gains.
The frequency of glowing boxes was irregular. Sotis she encountered one in just a few minutes, but on this stretch of the road, she hadn't seen any glowing boxes for over ten minutes.
However, right after Nivalis complained, as they turned a corner, they saw sothing ahead: a row of karts parked in the middle of the road.
The karts were neatly lined up, and Rita almost thought she had reversed and returned to the starting point. So players were sitting in their karts, pressing the brakes, while others had already abandoned their karts. Rita couldn't tell if the karts had broken down or just ran out of fuel, but it was clear that these players weren't friendly—and there were too many of them for Rita to handle alone.
Rita: "Get ready."
Nivalis: "Should we charge straight in?!"
Rita: "Full throttle! Let's burn so rubber!"
With those words, Rita felt a surge of energy, and Nivalis didn't ask any further questions. She revved the engine and slamd the pedal to the tal. Today, no one was going to stop them.
As they got closer, Rita could see the foreign players. Luckily, she recognized the language of about a third of them.
Rita shouted in one of the foreign languages, "What? Who dares to fight us? Let steal their divine blessing! Don't you think the Ancient Curse of Frenzied Shark is enough to satisfy you? You greedy dragon!"
It wasn't enough to say it once. Like a broadcaster, she shouted the sa line in several languages.
The players who were standing in the middle of the road, charging up their skills, froze in confusion. They quickly saw players near them rushing to the side of the road, seemingly scared. One of them ran up to another player who could understand him, asking, "What's going on?!"
The other player murmured sothing in response.
By the ti Nivalis and Rita reached them, the players had cleared the way, and their white kart sped through unimpeded.
Nivalis: "What did you say to make them so scared?"
Rita explained.
The wind carried Nivalis's voice as she scread, "This is what you call high-energy?!"
Rita wiped the cold sweat off her forehead: "I guess so."
In this ga, most players could easily crush her. But since death could happen at any mont, she figured she might as well do whatever she wanted.
She tried to share this "toxic mindset" with Nivalis, but Nivalis refused to take a sip: "Forget it! No way!"
Finally, with only 14% fuel left, Rita and Nivalis reached the refueling station once again.
Nivalis parked the kart by a vending machine. The stock seed sufficient, and there was more than one vending machine selling fuel.
A bottle of fuel was 25ml, and one kart coin would get them one can. It took 20 small bottles to fill up a fuel tank. They had enough kart coins for that.
However, the problem was the fuel types. There were over fifty different types, and Rita knew that number 36 was off-limits. She wasn't sure if there were other restrictions, though, like mixing certain types or eting specific quantities.
With ti running out (only 9 minutes remaining on the countdown), Rita couldn't waste any more ti experinting. The ga stone's tir was ticking down, and she still needed to buy replacent parts for her kart. The rear wheel had worn down badly, and Nivalis said it was slippery when turning, plus the steering wheel was loose. They needed a part to fix it.
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Rita quickly picked two random fuel types, avoiding number 36, and bought one bottle of each, spending 2 kart coins. She pressed the kart coin icon on the steering wheel, which dispensed a coin each ti. Rita tossed the coins into the machine, and the fuel bottles rolled out.
She took off her hoodie, turned the hat inside out, and used it as a makeshift pocket to store the fuel.
Afterward, Nivalis drove the kart over to the parts section. Here, in addition to various kart parts, there were also special glasses. These glasses cost 50 kart coins and allowed a player to see one of the ga's rules, but they could only be used once. Comparing the prices, the parts didn't seem that expensive.
The steering wheel part to fix the loose wheel was 3 kart coins, and the tires, the cheapest ones, cost 8 kart coins. There were also better tires with extra traits.
No matter how carefully Rita calculated, she was down 13 kart coins in an instant.
Rita and Nivalis drove the kart into a corner. Nivalis changed the tires, while Rita tested the new fuel.
She poured in a bottle of 26-type fuel, but there was no reaction. Then she tried the 18-type fuel, and again, nothing happened.
She ran back and bought 8 more bottles of each type.
In total, she had 18 bottles (25ml each), enough to fill her fuel tank, leaving just one bottle of 20ml 18-type fuel, which Rita stashed in her hoodie.
By now, Rita only had 4 kart coins left. She used these to buy the car repair tools.
Nivalis had thought she could fix the kart without tools, but when she tried, she realized sothing was wrong. The kart wasn't budging without proper tools, so in the end, the last 4 kart coins were spent.
Nivalis grumbled, "We need to improve, or we won't have enough."
Rita silently nodded.
She had already seen what this safe zone ga was about—The Ga: Kart Bumper.
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