The weekend holiday is over, and it's time to go back to school on Monday. The double "torment" of studying and exercising makes Chen Xiangbei look slightly exhausted.
As soon as he walked out of the community gate with his backpack, he was blocked by Fatty Wang who had been waiting there.
Fatty Wang exclaimed exaggeratedly, "Xiangbei, please accept my worship. The whole racing circle in Guangshen is talking about how you outran Qin Lianjie."
"In the future, even the title 'Brother Bei' won't suit you. You should be respectfully called the South Cloud Mountain Car God, Chen Xiangbei."
"In short, Car God Bei!"
Fatty Wang learned of this news yesterday and was so excited he didn't sleep all night. He regretted even more that he got locked up at home by his old man on Saturday night and missed witnessing Chen Xiangbei outrun Qin Lianjie's glorious moment.
"Keep it down, don't ruin my low-key image."
Chen Xiangbei weakly patted Fatty Wang's shoulder and headed to the small stall at the entrance to buy breakfast first.
But just as he was taking out his money, Fatty Wang very nimbly moved in and rushed to pay for the breakfast.
"No good deed goes unpunished, either a villain or a thief."
"Tell me, what's your scheme?"
Chen Xiangbei is well aware of Fatty Wang's character; being so proactive and enthusiastic today must not be just to celebrate his win over Qin Lianjie, there must be something behind it.
Sure enough, hearing Chen Xiangbei's question, Fatty Wang displayed a flattering smile and said, "You really are a worm in my stomach; you can read my thoughts without me even saying anything!"
"Speak human!"
"Car God Bei, can we discuss you teaching me how to race?"
"No way!"
Without the slightest hesitation, Chen Xiangbei decisively refused Wang Yidong.
"Why not?"
"If you go mountain racing, you'll really die."
"How do you know if I haven't even tried?"
Wang Yidong was slightly discontent. His driving skills weren't great, but they weren't that bad either, right?
"Once you start, you'll have no chance to regret it."
Even a driver like me with F1 level skills, who died in a racing accident in my last life, does Fatty Wang want to be reborn too?
Seeing Chen Xiangbei's serious expression, Fatty Wang wanted to argue but lacked confidence.
He could only weakly reply, "You can race, Zhou Glasses can model; I'm the only one who can't do anything."
"I also want to feel a bit involved."
This was Fatty Wang's true feeling, that he seemed unable to help with anything now.
Seeing Fatty Wang's aggrieved expression, Chen Xiangbei reflected on himself; his tone was indeed a bit heavy.
So he warmly hugged Fatty Wang's shoulder affectionately and said with deep sentiment, "We're all brothers. How about this, from now on, I'll drive, you wash the car, how promising!"
"Screw your mother!"
Wang Yidong instantly snapped, pretending to kick Chen Xiangbei's butt.
Of course, Chen Xiangbei wouldn't let Fatty Wang succeed, and the two of them chasing and running all the way to school like that.
Monday's classes are always the most packed, plus the end-of-month exams are approaching. The class study atmosphere is gradually getting a bit tense, unlike the usual playful noise.
By lunchtime, Chen Xiangbei was preparing to head to the school cafeteria when he happened to encounter Hu Lingfei coming down from upstairs.
The two of them are quite familiar with each other now, so they exchanged greetings and then went to the cafeteria together.
Coincidentally, Ma Minghan and his gang came out of the classroom at this moment, and they happened to see Chen Xiangbei and Hu Lingfei walking side by side. His lackey He Zhendong immediately shouted in surprise, "Young Master Ma, it seems Chen Xiangbei is serious, trying to steal your girl!"
"Shut up, why are you shouting so loud!"
Ma Minghan immediately angrily snapped at him, did this fool want the whole world to know about this embarrassing matter?
After cursing, he quickly turned to look at Ma Minghui, and coldly said, "You go and urge Chen Xiangbei to race; I can't swallow this anymore, I absolutely need to teach this fool a lesson!"
Chen Xiangbei's repeated humiliating actions have tested Ma Minghan's patience to the limit. If he doesn't get revenge, he won't be able to lift his head in the school, and his life will become a living hell.
"Chen Xiangbei said he would set the time, and I can't do anything about it."
Ma Minghui responded with grievance; it's not something he can decide on his own.
"Can't you use your brain to think of a way, does everything need me to teach you?"
After saying this, Ma Minghui angrily walked down the stairs.
Ma Minghui stood there, anger rising within, why are you taking it out on me just because you can't beat Chen Xiangbei?
Of course, he dared not voice such thoughts aloud.
His family is planning to invest in some business, relying on Ma Minghan's connections.
After thinking hard for a moment, Ma Minghui could only think of a simple and crude solution.
"Add more money!"
Without much hesitation, Ma Minghui immediately took out his phone and dialed Chen Xiangbei's number.
On the other side, as Chen Xiangbei was walking, he saw his phone ring and the caller ID showed Ma Minghui's name.
He casually pressed the answer button and heard the other side eagerly shout, "Chen Xiangbei, we agreed to a race, so when are we starting?"
"Why are you in such a hurry, it's not like you're rushing to reincarnate. The race will happen when the time is right."
"Don't act mature; I'll add another 20,000, enough to ripen things up, right?"
Add another 20,000?
Hearing this sum, Chen Xiangbei was slightly tempted.
Although he and Liang Chi mockingly joked about the "robbery," Chen Xiangbei knows clearly that modifying a car is like burning money, and the money he invested was quite substantial.
Especially according to Liang Chi's standards, wanting to build a car that can compete with Han Han's professional racing car on the track, the cost is unimaginable.
In the later years, Han Han, after filming "Pegasus," publicly shared on Weibo the performance and cost of the professional race car he drove for the promotional work of the movie at the Volkswagen 222 Team.
The car Han Han drove was a prototype production car from Volkswagen POLO, but it underwent comprehensive competition-level modifications, apart from the emblem and the word POLO, probably only the shape barely relates to the civilian production car, even the car shell may not be original.
The competition-level Volkswagen POLO had its horsepower boosted to an astounding 450 horsepower, torque reaching as high as 700 Nm, achieving zero to a hundred sprint acceleration in just 2.9 seconds.
As for the cost of building this race car, it soared to a staggering six million.
A Volkswagen POLO worth only tens of thousands was forcefully upgraded to cost six million; in terms of value alone, it surpasses most supercars, and ordinary people simply couldn't afford it.
Chen Xiangbei understood Liang Chi better; actually, Liang isn't the stingy type. His asking for 30,000 for the racing money means he truly didn't have much savings to support the car modifications.
Liang Chi was penniless, and Chen Xiangbei was merely a high school student. Even with memories from the future, wanting to make fast money still lacked the resources and background to implement.
As for strategies like memorizing lottery numbers, that's sheer nonsense. He never anticipated he'd "die in a crash" and come back to life, how could he have remembered the lottery numbers from 2008 in advance?
Moreover, even if you firmly remember them, buying them doesn't guarantee winning…
After all, if time travelers can exist, is it too far-fetched that the lottery numbers might change slightly, right?
For now, the offer of 20,000 was somewhat tempting to him.
PS: Thank you to the brothers for voting, to be honest, achieving such figures with this collection, you guys are amazing.