At this moment, probably no one would imagine that Ye Xiao's mind wasn't on the race but on the Bugatti Veyron that had just sped away.
"How could this happen?" Ye Xiao, watching the now out-of-sight Bugatti Veyron, felt no less puzzled as time passed; if anything, his confusion only grew.
However, Ye Xiao also knew that this was a race, and even if he wanted to investigate, he had to catch up with the Bugatti Veyron first.
In fact, Ye Xiao hadn't really made a serious mistake just now. He had planned to start quickly, at least to get ahead of Li Siqi at the starting point, to press down on Li Siqi's swaggering pride, but unexpectedly, Li Siqi had taken off early, at least 0.2 seconds faster than Ye Xiao. 0.2 seconds is a very short time, and normally, nothing would have happened, but because the Bugatti Veyron's performance was so outstanding, its acceleration time was also very short. So, when Ye Xiao was ready to start, the Bugatti Veyron was already a car length ahead, and it was at this moment that Ye Xiao saw something—that oil was actually coming out of the Bugatti Veyron's exhaust.
Yes, it was oil, and Ye Xiao saw it very clearly.
It's rather normal for water to appear at the exhaust pipe position when driving, but it's clearly not normal if oil appears.
The Bugatti Veyron, which had undergone countless meticulous modifications, was maintained by Li Siqi, who, obviously, should have been very careful, so normally, there shouldn't be any oil leakage. Everyone knows that if a vehicle leaks oil while driving at high speed, it's extremely dangerous, and such danger is often fatal.
Therefore, Ye Xiao really couldn't ignore this.
The Maserati, which really hadn't undergone much modification, still performed above the normal standards and was quite good; at least it was comfortable to drive. So, relying on his excellent skills, Ye Xiao quickly accelerated to about 280 km/h in just 12 seconds from normal speed. This speed had surpassed the one Han Ruoxi reached during her race in the Green Horse District, so at this moment, Han Ruoxi watched in amazement, her heart filled with surprise. However, what shocked her wasn't that the Maserati could reach 280 km/h but that it had accelerated 3 seconds faster than Li Siqi's Bugatti Veyron had previously.
At that moment, the Maserati chased like a beam of light.
The Bugatti Veyron hadn't gone all out at first; after all, in Li Siqi's view, having to go full throttle in a race against someone like Ye Xiao would be embarrassing for her future racing prospects. So, she kept sprinting forward at around 260 km/h.
One was going 260 km/h, and the other was going 280 km/h. Even though the first one had started earlier, everyone could see with their naked eyes that the Maserati's pursuit of the Bugatti Veyron was very effective, and it was rapidly catching up. Following the Bugatti Veyron's perfect drift on a very dangerous curve in the Golden Horse District, the Maserati caught up and turned the corner as well.
At this point, Li Siqi also noticed the relentless pursuit from behind and the eager attempts to overtake. Instantly, Li Siqi started to smile lightly, thinking to herself that this guy really didn't want to lose. However, what a pity, this was just the warm-up!
Then, under everyone's watchful eyes, the Bugatti Veyron's speed suddenly soared again, almost instantly ramping up to 320 km/h.
"Ah?" Almost everyone was shocked. The sudden jump from 260 km/h to 320 km/h, almost instantaneously, was truly astonishing, and nearly everyone felt it was impossible.
But in reality, the Bugatti Veyron shot forward like an arrow, moving at incredibly fast speeds. The Maserati, which had almost caught up with the Bugatti Veyron, was once again left behind, and the distance between them grew. The ground the Maserati had covered in its valiant chase vanished in an exceedingly short amount of time.
"Boss, mighty!" The members of the Weihang Club shouted loudly; it had been a long time since they had seen Li Siqi race wildly on the track, so at this moment, everyone was extremely excited.
"Ye Xiao's driving skills are still quite good, but after all, the opponent he's facing is Qiqi," observed Han Ruoxi. "Just now, Qiqi was clearly just warming up, there's no way Ye Xiao can win." At this point, Han Ruoxi had to admit that Ye Xiao's driving skills were really impressive, yet she had to acknowledge even more that Li Siqi's skills had reached an incredible level, a level Ye Xiao simply couldn't surpass.
Jiang Miaoke, listening to Han Ruoxi's words, couldn't help but sigh quietly to herself. Ye Xiao's driving skills were indeed good, but as Han Ruoxi said, he had come up against Li Siqi.
Meanwhile, at the racetrack, Ye Xiao showed no surprise when the Bugatti Veyron suddenly accelerated. Instead, his brow furrowed as he muttered, "Now is not the time to be running so fast."
Ye Xiao also drifted perfectly through the curve, and then came a series of consecutive ones. At this moment, those watching the race between the two cars could only see that in the Golden Horse District's consecutive curves, the Bugatti Veyron and the Maserati were like two fish swimming in water, speeding forward rapidly. Moreover, the drifting skills displayed by the two drivers were astonishingly matched.
At this time, Li Siqi, inside the Bugatti Veyron, was feeling a bit anxious. She had thought that with her skills honed on the consecutive curves, she could easily shake off the Maserati behind her. But she had never expected that this Maserati was like a stubborn follower, no matter how hard the Bugatti Veyron tried to shake it off, it always managed to remain in Li Siqi's view within the Weihang Club car.
Clearly, the distance between the two cars was not that far.
Inside the consecutive curves, the Bugatti Veyron did not continue to speed up. After all, speeding at 320 kilometers per hour on such sections was extremely dangerous, and a crash could happen in the blink of an eye. However, Li Siqi's skills were truly exceptional, so she zoomed out of the consecutive curves by relying on her superior abilities. Yet, a second after the Bugatti Veyron emerged, the Maserati also came racing out of the bend, and incredibly, its speed was comparable to the Bugatti Veyron's.
At this point, the gap between the two cars was less than ten meters apart, and what was most astonishing was that this ten-meter distance persisted even as they exited the Golden Horse District.
Since the audience was in the Golden Horse District, as soon as the cars left the area, someone immediately shouted, "Quick, bring up the video!"
The equipment at Liangju Bay Raceway was extremely advanced. Even though the Bugatti Veyron and the Maserati had left the Golden Horse District, the entire Liangju Bay was outfitted with a dense network of cameras, so that everyone could keep watching the status of the two cars on a large screen.
Now showing on the big screen, the Maserati followed the Bugatti Veyron out of the Golden Horse District and directly into the Red Horse District. Since the Red Horse District featured predominantly straight tracks, the speed of both cars began rising again as they entered this section.
Sitting within the Bugatti Veyron, Li Siqi started to accelerate upon entering the Red Horse District. She increased the speed from 320 kilometers per hour to 350, but in fact, this did not shake off Ye Xiao. Instead, he kept getting closer. Li Siqi was now slightly puzzled, wondering when the Maserati had become so formidable, able to incrementally match the performance of her impeccably modified Bugatti Veyron.
However, after speeding through the entire Red Horse District, Li Siqi suddenly sensed something was amiss. Once the speed of the Bugatti Veyron reached 365 kilometers per hour, it wouldn't climb any higher. It wasn't that Li Siqi didn't want to speed up further, but no matter what she tried, the car's speed kept fluctuating between 360 and 370 kilometers per hour; it just wouldn't go any faster.
"Hmm?" Li Siqi was confused. The car had just been modified that morning, and the modifications had been the most successful out of the many times she had upgraded the Bugatti Veyron. This was exactly why Li Siqi was so eager to race against Ye Xiao; she wanted to test the performance of the perfectly modified Bugatti Veyron. Yet, to her astonishment, after the high-speed run, it seemed as though the Bugatti Veyron had hit some sort of limit, unable to increase its speed any further despite attempts to do so.
And at this time, the Maserati was still closely following.
Even Li Siqi found it somewhat laughable now, as no matter how fast she went, the Maserati continued to follow suit. In other words, if she sped up, the Maserati sped up; if she slowed down, it slowed down too. Li Siqi even doubted whether Ye Xiao was toying with her.
Of course, Ye Xiao was not actually playing tricks on Li Siqi. The reason he drove this way was because he wanted to observe the state of the Bugatti Veyron's exhaust pipe. Indeed, while Ye Xiao was racing earlier, his main concern had unexpectedly shifted to the Bugatti Veyron. And now his expression grew more troubled because he noticed that oil stains on the Bugatti Veyron's exhaust were getting more numerous and had started to show signs of leaking out. Although the traces were fine, Ye Xiao's eyesight was excellent, allowing him to see everything clearly. Ye Xiao realized then that they were in grave danger!
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