Chapter 80 - Bai Ye (1/2)

Translator: Exodus Tales  Editor: Exodus Tales

“Scram, all of you! This madam here won’t bother being courteous to whoever dares prattle on with their irresponsible remarks!” Moon Song shoved the crowd aside as she stormed into her team’s designated assembly area. Her face was stony while she yelled at the onlookers.

The crowd very quickly scattered, but they still whispered to one another how terrible the hovercar was, laughing at it while taking great pleasure in its terrible build.

Beihai and Manjun, who were now sitting somewhere near the red hovercar, felt dejected. Manjun formed a fist and aggressively punched the hovercar’s hood. “D*mn! We followed every detail in the blueprints, so how did we end up making something lousy?”

“Who knows? Perhaps we’re really not suited to tinker with machines,” supposed Beihai, feeling quite frustrated.

Extreme racing hovercars were common in team races throughout the universe. Every normal racing hovercar’s outer shell, chassis, and engine was fixed, so there was no way to modify it.

However, there were other parts for the extreme racing hovercars, and it was common for racers to pick their favorite parts and assemble them as they wished.

Such a race would not just test a person’s ability to drive; more than that, it would test a person’s ability to assemble a racing hovercar and their ability to match its parts.

There were thousands of parts that could be used in an extreme racing hovercar, and the possible configurations from these thousands of parts were nearly endless.

Besides, every part could be fitted into different positions, which would in turn produce different effects in a racing hovercar’s performance.

Beihai and Manjun thought all they had to do was assemble a racing hovercar; they were wholly ignorant of how even the slightest change could affect the racing hovercar’s overall performance to a drastic degree.

Xia Fei could see that their assembly method was very crude and rudimentary; it was merely at the standard of a middle-schooler who had just been exposed to machinery.

For a middle-schooler level of racing hovercar to appear in a race of such a scale, it was only natural that everyone’s attention would be drawn to it and that it would receive ridicule and criticisms subsequently.

Xia Fei turned around and made eye-contact with Chen Dong, who shrugged helplessly. “I know how to fight, but I know nothing about such stuff.”

Circling around the racing hovercar a few times, Xia Fei discovered more than a hundred fatal mistakes in its assembly.

He thought at first that he could give Beihai and Manjun some advice, but the racing hovercar that they had assembled was too trashy that they needed to remove every part of it and start from scratch, so there was not even a need for advice.

“If there’s nothing else, Chen Dong and I will be going back first,” said Xia Fei.

Beihai quietly nodded, looking somewhat fatigued.

Moon Song waved them off glumly. She did not say a word, though it was apparent that even this strong girl had been dealt quite a heavy blow, visibly irritated.

Xia Fei threw a glance at Chen Dong and was just about to leave when they heard a commotion from outside the garage, then many female cadets from the training camp appeared out of nowhere.

Xia Fei was very curious about this. Motorsports like hovercar racing were naturally patronized by the male population, and not many women would show interest in it. Why, then, were there so many girls outside the garage right now?

A young man dressed in white stepped into the garage amid the girls’ cheering. His hair was meticulously combed and his pants neatly ironed with not a trace of creases.

With a bright smile on his face, this young man kept waving at everyone around him as he walked forward. He looked very personable.

Every smile he flashed would elicit exclamations from the bevy of women behind him as if he were a superstar about to go on stage.

“Who’s that?” asked Xia Fei.

“Bai Ye, the third prince of Leaping Tiger Mountain’s Bai clan,” answered Moon Song disgruntledly. “He’s also a cadet who got in through the back door, yet unlike us, he’s being warmly received, especially by the woman population in the training grounds.”

Xia Fei nodded. Bai Ye’s gestures made him look very much like a celebrity, so it was normal for the ladies to adore him.

“You’re a woman as well; why do I feel that you don’t really like him?” asked Xia Fei.

Moon Song was angry. “I like women; yours truly won’t even spare a glance in the direction of someone like him.”

With the arrival of these people in droves, the originally spacious garage was now crowded. Xia Fei and Chen Dong took several steps backward to make way and also to let these passionate fans and their idol pass by.

Xia Fei swept his gaze across the few racing hovercars neighboring theirs, and he realized that there were also quite a number of problems with them.

‘Strange… The quality of these racing hovercars isn’t good, either. Could it be that I was mistaken?’ Xia Fei muttered to himself.

Logically speaking, a place like Heaven Execution Training Camp where elites gathered should have plenty of people who knew how to assemble racing hovercars. The standard that this place ought to have should be very high, but why was it that, no matter how he looked, these racing hovercars all had a number of problems and were quite sloppily made.

“Could it be that I had unknowingly improved?” Xia Fei mulled on this.