This star likes to die

Chapter 124 Challenging 2 kilometers into a corner! 【Part [-]】

October 42th, at [-]:[-]pm.

Qiuming Mountain, the parking area on the top of the mountain.

The set rest area temporarily built by the crew.

The foreigners of the Red Bull team are happily eating box lunches.

From time to time, there will be a few sentences in English, and the tone is almost full of expectation.

"Joy, to be honest, when I first received the news, I went to check the road conditions of Qiuming Mountain. At that time, I thought it was an impossible challenge, but now I think that Xiao Ning, a native of the Dragon Kingdom, can definitely complete it." challenge."

"I only got to know Xiao Ning through the Internet before I came to Longguo. I know that he is very good at free rock climbing and cycling, but as for his cycling skills, to be honest, I didn't know about him until just now."

"Just wait and see the good show later."

While eating and talking, Qian Zhen came to the Red Bull team and walked straight to the bald John.

"Mr. John?"

"My name is Qian Zhen. I'm from the film crew and also Xiao Ning's friend. I heard from Xiao Ning that you Red Bull will shoot a short commercial about driving with him later?"

"It's like this. I want to invite Xiao Ning to investigate a foot bath project later, and explore the mysteries of nature by the way, so I want to ask..."

"How long will you be filming?"

After Qian Zhen reported his intention in spoken fluent English, John put down the disposable spoon in his hand.

Commercial clips?
indeed.

The reason why Red Bull sponsors this type of extreme challenge is to release videos later to build its own brand image and promotion.

Although the concept is slightly different from ordinary commercials, but to put it bluntly, this kind of extreme challenge can indeed be called a commercial.

He looked at Qian Zhen in a daze, then at the other foreigners beside him who were a little confused, then looked at Qian Zhen again, and told Qian Zhen about the extreme challenge.

Then Qian Zhen's brain froze.

Qian Zhen, who was stunned for a long time and his mind went blank, finally came back to his senses, and didn't even bother to say "thank you", so he ran to the side of Xiao Ning who had almost finished the lunch box at this time.

"Junior Brother Xiao!"

"you!"

"Don't do that!"

"Brother, I'm afraid!"

At this time, Qian Zhen, who had a terrified face, was about to cry from fright.

"You shoot commercials, shoot commercials!"

"How can there be such a commercial film!"

"They told me to let you descend from the top of Qiuming Mountain, and maintain an average speed of more than [-] kilometers the whole time!"

"Before the Devil's Bend, you still have to enter the corner at a speed of [-] kilometers per hour! Isn't that ridiculous!"

"You even need to speed up the car to more than 280 kilometers on the way to the tunnel!"

"This is absolutely sending you to death!"

"Why is this called a commercial?"

When Qian Zhen said this, his tone became more urgent, and he even grabbed Xiao Ning's shoulder.

"I know there is a saying that Red Bull pays for your life!"

"but!"

"Brother Xiao! You tell the brother!"

"How much did they pay you?"

"Push this commercial!"

"Are you short of money now? I'll lend you how much money you want, senior brother! Senior brother has earned a lot in the past two years since his debut! Not short of money!"

"500 million? 1000 million? 2000 million?"

"Tell me the number! Even if the brother doesn't have enough money for the time being, the brother's family is quite rich!"

"Brother, go directly to your parents for a loan!"

"I'd rather kneel down to my father than let you take such a big risk!"

"You like to make money! Senior brother actually likes to make money! But we make money!"

"We don't need to risk our lives!"

Although what Qian Zhen said sounds abstract to Xiao Ning.

But Qian Zhen didn't have any acting skills on his face, it was all about emotions, his eyes were almost red with anxiety...

It is clear!
Brother Qian, he is really worried like this!

Xiao Ning understood Qian Zhen's concern for him.

But there is something he still has to say.

"Senior Brother Qian, I don't know if John told you wrong or you misunderstood."

"This commercial, it's not that Red Bull people forced me to shoot it, nor did they ask me to shoot it."

"I asked them to cooperate with me to shoot."

"And I challenge this, not for money."

Qian Zhen recalled carefully, it seemed that the bald old man named John really didn't say that Red Bull asked Xiao Ning to do this.

After realizing this point, Qian Zhen panicked even more: "You are not doing it for money, what is the purpose of your cooperation with them?"

Xiao Ning picked up the last bit of rice in the lunch box, then put the lunch box on the small table next to him, wiped his mouth with a paper towel leisurely, and then looked far away in the direction of the mountain gate on the top of Qiuming Mountain.

In the far distance, there is the night view of Jiangcheng under the mountain made up of dots of neon lights.

"Brother Qian."

"Just like I went to climb stairs and ride a bicycle before, this is just my personal hobby, there is no other reason."

personal hobby.

Junior brother Xiao, let's just say can we like something else?

You like to wash your feet as much as your brother, can't you?
Just as Qian Zhen was about to express his opinion, Xiao Ning's voice had already sounded.

"Extreme sports, what you play is the heartbeat, and what you play is the limit."

"It makes me feel that I am still alive, and it also makes me discover that people can actually live in such a real way, a way of living that is different from most people."

When Xiao Ning said this, he looked away from the night scene of Jiangcheng in the distance, and looked at Qian Zhen who was already pale with fright at this time.

"The most important thing is that while doing these things, I also feel a real freedom."

"Whether it's speed or height, you can do anything. That kind of extreme freedom cannot be given by other things, only extreme sports can."

"The so-called extreme of freedom is to leave everyone and everything."

The ultimate freedom is to leave anyone and everything?
Are you sure it's not "Ren He Shi"?
Qian Zhen's mouth trembled in fright.

"In addition to this feeling that allows me to intuitively perceive my own life, this feeling of freedom... There is actually a more important reason that supports me to do all this."

Xiao Ning took a deep breath, and then continued to speak calmly: "I saw such a sentence in a book by an author called Abstract Dog."

"A person's life is not how many years he lives, but how many moments he lives. A person's life is fixed from birth to death. All we can do is cherish and grasp every moment of death."

"I never understood what this sentence meant before, but after some recent events, I gradually understood part of the meaning of this sentence."

"We need to make life's moments as wonderful as possible."

"We need to have some memorable memories, stories worth telling with others in the future."

Seeing that Xiao Ning has entered a certain "philosophical" field that Qian Zhen can't understand, he really can't listen to it anymore.

Although at this time Qian Zhen still couldn't understand why Xiao Ning risked his life to do all this.

But he knew that it was impossible for him to persuade the other party to decide.

If he could be persuaded, he wouldn't have accompanied the other party to climb the Twin Towers a few days ago.

He was "crazy" with Xiao Ning before.

This time, he could only pray silently in his heart that nothing would go wrong.

With a lot of emotion in his heart, Qian Zhen patted Xiao Ning's shoulder with complicated emotions.

"You wait!"

"Drive steadily!"

"But be careful!"

"If... I'm not a crow's mouth! I'm just nervous! Then what! If there is any accident!"

"I'll help you raise your wife, and I'll bring up your child!"

"Uh, you don't seem to have a wife or children."

"Then..."

"I don't drink very well."

"When it's time to eat, I'll sit at the child's table."

Qian Zhen started talking incoherently because of nervousness while he was talking. While he was still talking about his mother-in-law, he found that Xiao Ning had gone to the Red Bull team to discuss something.

"Oh shit!"

"Junior Brother Xiao, you must not have any accidents later!"

"I still expect you to let me enter the front line!"

October 24th, [-]:[-] am.

The camera crew of the Red Bull team has been scattered around the mountain in fixed positions to carry out the final equipment testing work.

The technical team is doing the final inspection on Qianhp AE86.

Originally, the crew of "Initial D" was about to disband just now, but when everyone learned that Xiao Ning was going to "add a scene", and that it was only his own, after adding a scene that challenged the limit, everyone unanimously chose Leave.

Director Zheng Xiang was discussing Xiao Ning's "addition" with several assistant directors, dumbfounded.

Knowing Xiao Ning's next challenge, Xie Bin, who suddenly realized that the other party asked him to borrow a car not for making a movie, was trembling and smoking a cigarette.

Qian Zhen was frantically praying for Xiao Ning, with crosses drawn on his chest continuously, but he was chanting "Blessed Blessings and Infinite Heavenly Venerable Amitabha Tashi Dele".

In a nearby hospital, Huang Mao, who had just woken up, heard from the film crew who took care of him that Xiao Ning was about to start a challenge, and clamored to pull out the tube and go to Qiuming Mountain to watch the scene.

At twelve fifty-two in the morning.

On the Red Bull team side, John's handheld intercom rang a series of English words.

"The entrance to the mountain road has been closed, there are no cars on the mountain, all fixed seats are ready, high-altitude drones and crossing machines are ready..."

"You can start."

John immediately shouted to the crew through the walkie-talkie.

"All units, please prepare, it will start in five seconds."

"Start the countdown."

"five."

"..."

"one."

At the gate of Qiuming Mountain, inside the AE86 car that had already warmed up, when the countdown was over, Xiao Ning, who kept the engine running at a high speed, directly ejected and started, rushing down the mountain.

Even though according to the task requirements Xiao Ning only needs to reach an average speed of [-] kilometers per hour in Qiuming Mountain, it is not for him to maintain a speed of more than [-] kilometers per hour all the time.

But even so, Xiao Ning, who started quickly, was still crushed to death on the straight road of several hundred meters facing down the mountain gate.

Wearing a "Red Bull" helmet, he directly turned the engine speed to 8000 rpm on a very narrow mountain road.

The LS7 engine with a turbocharged capacity of [-] horsepower roared crazily, and the sound of the exhaust reverberated through the entire Qiuming Mountain like thunder.

The speed of the AE86 rushed to [-] in a few seconds.

Although there were street lights on both sides of the road on the mountain, it was late at night after all, so the car's high beams were kept on from the beginning.

At this time, in the overhead shot of the Red Bull drone, the feeling of the high beam is not as if the jumping light of the AE86 is shot, but as if the AE86 is chasing the strong light ahead!
Such extreme speed!

Just looking at the picture sent back from the monitor is enough to make one's scalp tingle!

But in fact, the reason why Xiao Ning was so irritable at the beginning was not that Xiao Ning really wanted to be quick and fast.

The reason why he decided to run at high speed at the start was actually because many of the curves in Qiuming Mountain were too narrow, such as the ten hairpin bends, it was impossible to pass normally at a speed of [-] kilometers per hour. A U-shaped bend that is too large or too narrow, whether it is drifting or passing through the normal route, will inevitably need to slow down. Even if the WRC world champion comes, it is impossible not to slow down.

Because there are quite a few curves behind that need to slow down to pass.

This makes Xiao Ning have to keep as high a speed as possible in the straight line and some high-speed corners that can be passed at high speed.

Only in this way can he ensure that his average speed can be stabilized at more than [-], leaving enough error tolerance for some complicated curves behind.

This is Xiao Ning's thinking, but people who saw these situations through Red Bull's follow-up drones and fixed positions on the mountain and down the mountain didn't think so in their hearts.

"Xiao Ning is too reckless! It's so fast since we just set off!"

"The speed is up to 200 meters per hour! The first corner is less than [-] meters ahead!"

"It's kind of scary!"

"Need we remind him to slow down? He doesn't have a navigator."

"He used to be able to ride a bicycle on the road of Qiuming Mountain at a speed of [-] to [-] kilometers per hour, drifting and cornering. It is obvious that he is very familiar with the road conditions of Qiuming Mountain. He doesn't need a navigator at all!"

"Then why is he running so fast? There is a bend ahead!"

"It's crazy!"

Just when everyone was worried, Xiao Ning started to slow down.

Although it slowed down, it didn't lose much.

The AE86's modified brake system has a very powerful braking capability, but Xiao Ning did not step on the brake deeply when he was about to enter a corner.

When the speed of the car dropped to about [-] after a few points of braking, he had completely given up braking.

When he was still on the final straight, Xiao Ning directly moved the car sideways through the operation of giving the direction.

With a speed of more than [-] per hour, he put the car into a drifting position on the straight ahead of time.

The drift was completed at a speed of 130 kilometers per hour.

The melon-eaters of the crew couldn't understand it, they just thought it was amazing.

But Xie Bin, who is a former professional driver, silently sweated Xiao Ning.

Fortunately, Xiao Ning passed this bend smoothly.

The drift of the car can be roughly divided into two situations.

One is handbrake drift.

One is inertial drift.

The handbrake drift is very simple. It is to use the handbrake to brake the rear wheels, control the grip of the rear wheels, make the rear wheels feel "slippery", achieve the speed difference between the front and rear wheels, and finally enter the drifting posture.

The inertial drift is a drifting method that abandons the handbrake or even the brakes, and simply and rudely uses the accelerator and steering wheel to complete the drift.On a rear-wheel drive vehicle, the operation method is often to release the accelerator slightly before entering the corner, and then start to turn the direction to create a speed difference between the front and rear wheels. When the rear wheel senses that the grip state of the rear wheel is lost, immediately perform the operation of replenishing oil.

Compared with handbrake drift, you can get the most control over the car. In fact, inertial drift is often difficult to control. In actual drift races and mountain road rallies, even professional drivers rarely use inertial drift.

However, for large-angle bends, inertial drift is the theoretically optimal solution because there will not be too much loss of speed.

At this moment, after watching Xiao Ning smoothly complete the corner on the monitor screen, although Qian Zhen couldn't understand the specific situation like other crew members, he still wiped the sweat from his forehead and murmured subconsciously: "What a big heart! The brake lights didn't come on just now! Why didn't Junior Brother Xiao continue to slow down? He just tapped the brakes a little before?"

Xie Bin on the side explained: "He did this to not waste the braking performance."

"What do you mean?" Qian Zhen looked confused.

Xie Bin looked at Qian Zhen and asked, "Do you know why veteran drivers seldom step on the brakes when going downhill on Kaishan Road, but they can control the speed well? Or, do you know why those novice drivers When going downhill, the brake lights are almost always on, but don’t old drivers like to step on the brakes?”

Qian Zhen shook his head: "Why? I don't understand, I drive the automatic transmission, the accelerator accelerates and the brakes slow down."

Xie Bin continued to explain: "The reason why old drivers don't use the brakes much when going downhill is to avoid overheating of the brake system. The deceleration can be done by downshifting and using engine braking. If the gear is lowered, the car relies on inertia to drive the engine at low speed It will turn into a high-speed rotation and do work. Without fuel, the overall kinetic energy of the car will be lost, so it will slow down."

"The brakes of the car rely on the friction between the brake caliper and the brake disc. In the case of high rotation of the wheel, this friction will inevitably lead to a lot of heat generation. If you keep pressing the brakes on that very long downhill route, it won't take long for the brake disc to It will be burnt red, and when the brake disc is hot, the braking performance will also decrease."

"If there is an emergency situation that requires braking, overheating of the brake system will increase the braking distance and increase the risk."

"The total length of the road from the top of the mountain to the bottom of Qiuming Mountain is almost [-] kilometers. On this purely downhill road, if the brakes are used too frequently, the braking performance will inevitably decline due to the heat of the brake disc. In order to be able to The braking performance as high as possible is left behind on the road with many curves, his idea now should be to use the brakes as little as possible, downshift as much as possible if he wants to slow down, and apply the brakes a little more if he has to."

Xie Bin was doing science popularization for Qian Zhen, who always drives with a "D" to the end.

Xiao Ning has already driven six or seven kilometers down the mountain.

Except for the steep corner at the beginning, his speed is relatively conservative in the corners with less steep corners.

When it is more, it can reach a hundred kilometers, and when it is slow, it will even drop to fifty or sixty kilometers.

But once passing the apex, Xiao Ning will almost always step on the accelerator and accelerate crazily.

Regardless of the length of all the straights, he always kept the speed above [-].

Time passed by minute by minute.

In the pictures sent back by each fixed position and the drone.

In the night sky, AE86 descends on the mountain road of Qiuming Mountain, like a white dragon moving around in the mountains.

At this time, less than one kilometer ahead, you will enter the Devil's Bend in Qiuming Mountain - the ten-round hairpin bend.

In the entire Qiuming Mountain downhill route.

Sharp corners are very rare.

Except for the first bend down from the top of the mountain, Qiuming Mountain is full of various narrow and continuous bends, and there are only a handful of bends with similar large angles.

If you want to meet the task requirements and meet the speed of [-] kilometers per hour to enter the bend, you can only do it on a bend with a large enough angle.

And the biggest bend in the downhill route of Qiuming Mountain is the last bend before entering the ten consecutive hairpin turns.

According to the plan.

Xiao Ning must control the cornering speed at more than [-] kilometers per hour in this last corner!

This is a very risky and very difficult thing to do.

Even though Xiao Ning had rehearsed thousands of times in the system learning space, he still felt nervous at this moment.

A few seconds later, the last large-angle bend could be vaguely seen from the end of the high beam.

Xiao Ning took a deep breath, but he didn't slow down when he was about to enter the corner.

Instead, step on the accelerator deeply!

It's like stepping on the gas pedal to the engine!
The speed increased from [-] to [-] per hour!

And then one hundred and nineteen!

two hundred!

However, even at a speed of two hundred per hour, he still didn't stop pedaling!
After seeing Xiao Ning's frantic actions that were still accelerating, everyone was frightened!
Whether it's the crew or the Red Bull team.

Even Xie Bin, a former professional driver, can't even breathe independently at this moment, and is completely stagnant.

When everyone's scalp is numb.

At a position less than 20 meters away from the turning point!

Xiao Ning's speed was as high as 220 kilometers per hour!

Turn the steering wheel while pressing the brakes!
　Most of the day today is spent on the plane and in the car. The key is that I am a weirdo. I don’t get dizzy when I drive, but I always get dizzy when I drive. I’m not in a good state, so I won’t stay up late.

　　I have to do some errands at 10:10 in the morning to see if I can get up earlier and update before [-]:[-] am. If not, I will update at night.

　　The update has been unstable in the past two days, please bear with me, there is nothing to do on business trips!

　　Kowtow to everyone!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)