Chapter 1433 Is This Racing or a Health Retreat? (Bonus Chapter for Monthly Tickets!)

Under the watchful eyes of everyone in the livestream, Zhang Yan's "rehabilitation" went smoothly.

First, she successfully drifted a few circles, then a few figure eights, becoming more and more comfortable controlling the car.

"Alright, next up is hitting the track!"

"We'll start with the two simplest tracks: a circuit race and a rally race."

"Only after mastering these two basic tracks will I be qualified to challenge more difficult ones, or even take the advanced licenses for circuit and rally racing."

"The rally race should be a big challenge for me. According to what I learned when I took the racing license before, I have to survey it first and familiarize myself with the road book."

Of course, circuit races and rally races require different cars, and even require changing the tires according to the different racing venues. But Zhang Yan wasn't worried at all, because she bought both cars.

Having money means doing whatever you want!

After all, she basically had zero accidents driving big trucks and long-distance buses before. She had saved a lot of money after driving for a few days. The speed of making money in this game is quite fast.

Of course, although making money is fast, there is no upper limit. Racing is a very money-consuming thing. Only those with good results can support their cars with race bonuses, so honing your driving skills becomes especially important.

Zhang Yan can only be said to have a relatively wealthy start among those players who have just entered the racing field of *Safe and Civilized Driving*.

First is track surveying.

In the game, track surveying can be done through a free perspective. The camera automatically follows the route of the track, and you can also hear the recorded Chinese road book.

This road book almost made Zhang Yan burst into tears of emotion.

It's more comfortable to listen to the mother tongue!

In fact, all rally racing simulation games have road books, because this thing is really indispensable.

Circuit races are fine, after all, the route is relatively short and easy to remember. The route of a rally race is often very long. It is unrealistic to expect the driver to remember all the details of the entire route, and there is simply not enough time to react when you see a turn while driving at high speed, so a navigator is basically essential.

But the problem is that those foreign rally racing simulation games all have road books in foreign languages.

Although these vocabularies are not very difficult to master, and there are various symbols representing terrain and turns on the screen, it is still difficult for non-expert Chinese players to adapt.

Because the mind is already highly tense during driving, and when you hear the road book in a foreign language, you have to translate it in your head, which makes it easy to not react, or if you do react, it affects the driving operation.

And the Chinese road book is different, because it is the mother tongue, it will not affect the driving operation at all.

Zhang Yan used the free perspective to watch the track she was going to run over and over again, trying to remember the details of the track, where there were difficult turns, where there were slopes or pits, and to be as familiar as possible.

Although there is a road book, you can't completely rely on it.

She didn't dare to be careless, because if a car is bumped in this game, it really needs to be repaired, and repairing a racing car is much more expensive than an ordinary family car!

Although the safety measures of racing cars are generally better, and the possibility of having another younger sibling is not high, the repair costs and medical expenses are still unbearable.

After watching it several times, Zhang Yan silently recited the map of the track in her mind, and then drove slowly onto the road.

She didn't dare to drive fast, and didn't even dare to drift in the first few laps. She just honestly proceeded at a tortoise speed that she thought was the most stable, and decelerated normally through the corners.

Some difficult sharp turns made the audience feel as if she was about to stop the car, crawling past at a snail's pace.

Then, the first lap achieved a result of three times the standard lap time.

Zhang Yan didn't care, and continued to run in this direction, but silently increased the speed of the car in some places where she was confident.

The barrage ridiculed one after another.

"Good fellow, is this called racing? Are you on a health retreat here?"

"Running the whole course at a snail's pace, I think I can do it too."

"Didn't the streamer know how to drift? I thought the streamer was going to show off her skills and be cool on the track after drifting for so long in circles and figure eights, but she didn't dare to use drifting at all..."

"You don't understand this, sometimes simply following the racing line is faster than your immature drifting. Don't think that being able to drift is awesome. Drifting is often just for show, not necessarily fast."

"Indeed, there are different ways to pass different turns. Thinking about drifting when you see a turn is a foolish behavior."

"But no matter how not fast it is, it's always faster than the streamer, right? The streamer ran out with a 'excellent result' of three times the standard lap time, that's still okay?"

"The streamer is called steady, understand? Steady! What's this game called? *Safe and Civilized Driving*, first ensure your own safety, and then pursue speed, otherwise if you crash, will you pay for the streamer's repair costs? You can't wreck this much even if you have several younger siblings."

"After watching the streamer's driving method, I suddenly realized! So racing isn't difficult at all, I think I can do it too! I'm going to take the racing license!"

The barrage was lively, but Zhang Yan was completely unaffected and focused on her own practice.

She knew very well in her heart that this running method looked very slow indeed, like a turtle crawling.

Because driving in the game is very different from driving in reality. In reality, you can feel the speed of the car from multiple dimensions such as g-force, sound, and vibration, while in the game you can only feel the speed from the two dimensions of picture and sound.

Even with a g-force seat, it is still completely incomparable to reality.

Therefore, many novices in reality may feel very fast when driving at seventy or eighty, but in the game, seventy or eighty feels like a turtle crawling, and it may only feel a little exciting when driving at two hundred.

This is also why other racing games will eventually be made into a feeling of "land flight", because if you don't do it to this extent, you can't effectively stimulate the player.

But *Safe and Civilized Driving* is different, driving at seventy or eighty will also make people feel very exciting.

Mainly because the repair costs after a collision are unaffordable!

The audience watching the live broadcast can't feel this, Zhang Yan herself is very clear.

But it's useless to explain this kind of thing, you have to try it yourself, so Zhang Yan didn't explain too much, just drove her car step by step. What she wanted was to slowly improve and increase her lap time, and not to have an accident due to eagerness for quick success.

Although having an accident can create program effects, having an accident means spending money to repair it, and if you don't have money, it means you have to go back to driving a big truck to haul goods... In the long run, it is obviously not cost-effective.

Zhang Yan patiently brushed her lap time circle after circle. Although there was still a big gap from the standard lap time, she was running better and better compared to her previous results.

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January 28th, Monday.

Early in the morning, Ye Zhizhou ran to Hu Xianbin to discuss the follow-up matters of *Safe and Civilized Driving*.

In the huge office area, most people were busy, but Hu Xianbin was yawning at his desk, looking like he had nothing to do.

And the seat opposite him was empty, with no one there.

Ye Zhizhou was a little surprised: "Didn't President Ma come today?"

Hu Xianbin nodded: "Yeah, he hasn't come since last Friday. President Ma said that he is going to start writing his graduation thesis in seclusion, and he won't be coming in the near future. He told me to take care of everything myself."

Ye Zhizhou: "..."

Good fellow, the vice president is neglecting his work for his graduation thesis?

It always feels a little absurd.

But fortunately, President Ma handed over all the work to Hu Xianbin before leaving, so it won't be delayed.

"I'm here this time mainly to convey President Pei's spirit. The follow-up operation and promotion of the game *Safe and Civilized Driving* still requires the cooperation of Rabbit Tail Live." Ye Zhizhou said.

Hu Xianbin nodded: "No problem, whatever cooperation is needed, just tell me."

Ye Zhizhou thought for a while: "First, tell me briefly about the current live broadcast situation of the game *Safe and Civilized Driving* on Rabbit Tail Live. After all, what players say and what they think may be different. I don't want to make a misjudgment."

Hu Xianbin immediately brought up some background data and began to analyze it.

Both of them are game designers, so they naturally understand what the other is thinking.

Ye Zhizhou wanted to verify some of his guesses and ideas through the popularity of the live broadcast, and figure out the players' real mentality.

Although you can find a lot of players' discussions about *Safe and Civilized Driving* on the forum, and you can see the players' attitude towards the game from it, it is still not enough.

Because many players are *kou hen tai tzhung* (saying one thing but meaning another), saying they don't like a certain setting, but actually they are enjoying it because of this game setting.

What's more, if you pay too much attention to online comments, you may ignore the silent majority, thereby misjudging the situation.

The data in the live broadcast room can better reflect the players' real attitude.