Psychological Control

"Lucy and Louise, I'm very sorry. You are the last to arrive at the key point of this relay station, so you will be eliminated from this competition." Phil's voice came from a distance, while standing at the key point On the carpet of the forward sign, there were Tevez and Vera.

The terminus of this stop is at the covered market in the small town of Oxford.In line with the principle of spectating the excitement, Dillon and I did not choose to leave immediately after the first one arrived at the finish line, but stayed in a coffee shop not far from the key point, watching the arrival order of the teams through the glass.

James and Sid got here just five minutes after we got there, and then Zoe and Joseph didn't have much of a surprise.Surprisingly, the fourth arrival was not the two lively cowboy brothers, but David and Kurt, the careful and down-to-earth father and son.

Sam and Dean arrived right after them, having gotten lost a few times trying to find the finish line.David and Kurt were particularly surprised when they saw them, because Tevez and Vera, who had arrived before the father and son, chose to turn Sam and Dean back.Unfortunately, what they don't know is that Sam and Dean are actually in front of them, so the turn is invalid.

Lucy and Louise, who were left behind for too long at the changing of the guard ceremony, competed with Tevez and Vera for the last place to survive.It is a pity that the two teams arrived almost at the same time, because of their poor physical fitness, they lost in the final race.Knocked out by a hair margin.

"It seems that before the fast-forward card is used up in the next round, we have to find a way to trick this hard-working police couple." Get up and leave the cafe.

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After a night's rest, another round of competition began.

"This time the destination is the water city of Venice. After arriving in Venice by plane, take a water taxi to the bell tower of St. Mark's to get the next clue." I looked at the clue card in my hand and read, then looked up at Dillon with a smile on the corner of my mouth. , "This is an opportunity to digest the fast-forward card and play with the pair of policemen at the same time."

"What do you want to do?" He looked back at me with rather interesting eyes, and the meaning in his eyes seemed to say again, 'I knew you couldn't be honest until the end of the game. '

"First of all, we need to find a travel agency and book a ticket," I folded the clue card back into my pocket, then shrugged and didn't answer his question directly. "Zero speed looks like fun, but it really keeps my head idle. A little prank-like plot to deal with an unfriendly opponent can at least let me pass the boredom."

The plane from London to Venice, because our departure time as the first team was in the early morning, and the train and the earliest plane to London were even three hours later than the departure time of Tevez and Vera, who arrived last, So all on the same plane again.

This time, just after the plane landed, Dillon still stood in front of Tevez and Vera.But this time we rushed out of the plane without carrying our luggage.Instead, he tidied up his clothes slowly, which made Tevez, who was blocked from the passage behind, even more angry.

Because people in other groups, including Zoe and Joseph who wanted to wait for us, were waved by me to leave early.That is, we and they became the slowest two of the six groups.If it wasn't for Vera who was worried about being disqualified by the program group, and held back Tevez's fist that was about to hit Dillon in advance, physical friction would have been inevitable.

After all the other teams had rushed off the plane, Dillon and I were pushed off the plane by Tevez and Vera.As soon as they got off the plane, they started running. Dillon and I looked at each other and immediately followed them to the port where we took a water taxi.

Then, as I expected, because the price of the water taxi is very expensive, the other four teams that arrived before have already shared the cost of a water taxi.Seeing this scene, Vera couldn't help but cursed in a low voice, then subconsciously looked towards us.

"What? I stayed in too many hotels before, and now I don't have any extra money to pay the fare by myself?" I smiled and waved at them, "Do you want to take a ride with us?" The smile on my face was comparable to that of a crocodile.

When Tevez was reluctantly pushed into the water taxi we were sitting in by Vera, I said to the driver in Italian: "Take us to visit a few scenic spots around the waterway first, and then go to San Marco You can go to the bell tower."

"What did you say to him?" Vera asked very vigilantly, obviously she was very wary of us who had been hostile to them before.However, no matter how vigilant she was, she would never have thought that we would waste our time just to delay them.After all, killing one thousand enemies and injuring eight hundred does not sound like a good deal.

"I told him we're going to St. Mark's Bell Tower." I replied to her innocently: "What else can I say?" The driver of the water taxi can also understand English, but because my sentence What Ling Liangke meant, he didn't notice any difference from what I told him in Italian before.

Because our destination is the Bell Tower of San Marco in the end, but in the hearts of Vera and Tevez, we are going directly to the destination.However, in the requirements of the driver, although the final destination is still the destination, there will be a lot of long detours in the middle because of taking us to visit the scenic spots.

Because the two ran out of the airport panting before, it took a full ten minutes after boarding the boat to calm down the increase in adrenaline caused by intense exercise before.And after their breathing stabilized, they quickly showed fatigue on their faces due to the exhaustion of the plane journey.

So until the water taxi carrying us arrived in the center of Venice, and circled several major waterways and passed many scenic spots, it was always not far from the iconic building of Venice, the St. Mark's Bell Tower. near time.Tevez and Vera realized something was wrong.

"Bryan! Are you sure you told the driver our destination, the St. Mark's Bell Tower?" Tevez couldn't bear it anymore, he was blocked by the waterways and ships between those popular tourist attractions and couldn't see The situation at the destination made me anxious. "Is this driver driving his speedboat and deliberately taking us around?!"

Without waiting for us to make any indication after speaking, he bent down from his seat and stood up, walking towards the driver who was in charge of the direction of the speedboat.He pushed open the door of the cabin and shouted at the driver angrily: "Hey! Are you sure you are taking us to the bell tower of St. Mark?! We are going to the bell tower of St. Mark, immediately!"

The driver was taken aback by Tevez, and the next second he reacted was anger. "Calm! Calm, sir! What are you trying to do? We're on our way. You should go back and sit down!"

"It's better that you didn't take us around the wrong way, otherwise we wouldn't pay you more money." Tevez, who was forced to suppress his anger because he was in the same space with us for a long time, couldn't calm down at all. mood.

The driver became more and more angry at this inexplicable duty, and he shouted back: "I just took you around the water tour route according to your request! This is the request of that gentleman!" The hand pointed at me through the transparent cabin glass. "We are a licensed business, and it is impossible to deliberately do such deceptive things!"

"What?!" Almost at the same time, Vera and Tevez's eyes widened, their lips parted in surprise.Vera stood up angrily and shouted, "I knew...I knew something was wrong! You guys are wasting your time delaying us! Ha! How ridiculous!"

The corner of my mouth pulled up a smile as always, shrugged my shoulders and spread my hands: "What's the matter? I finally came to the famous water city of Venice. I just wanted to take a good look at it before the game started. And we are indeed going to St. Marco's Campanile? I'm not lying to you."

"You lied! You must not have said that to that driver!" Vera was furious, and she turned to Tevez and said, "Tell that driver that we will go to the bell tower of San Marco by the nearest route, the sooner The better!"

"Okay, but you have to know that not telling you all the facts does not prove that what I just told you is a lie." I smiled and said to the photographer who was also surprised and shot us back and forth with a camera: " I just told him in Italian that we wanted to visit some famous sights before going to the bell tower of San Marco."

"Bastard! Do you think that if you slow down our speed, we will definitely be slower than you in the mission? Not necessarily! Who will win the game is still unknown!" This time it was Tevez's turn to comfort his wife. Yes, he yelled at us as he went into the cabin and put his arms around Vera.

"No." Seeing that the driver steered the boat towards the berthing area next to the St. Mark's Bell Tower with a sullen expression on his face, I waved my hand and signaled Dillon to pay for our part of the bill, with a smug smile on his face.

Looking at the conspicuous fast-moving clue under the clock tower in the distance, I went on to say: "We don't plan to compete with you for any roadblock missions. Because you will be the last ones to complete the mission, and you will be at least three or ten behind the other teams. minutes." As I said that, I took out the fast-forward card in my pocket, and after Dillon handed over the money to the driver, I happily jumped ashore with my backpack on my back.

"Hurry up." I stood on the shore and smiled and waved to the police couple who had been hostile to us, "Continuing to argue with the driver about the fare will only make you lag behind other teams for a longer time. "

After speaking, Dillon and I walked towards the clue box without looking back, leaving behind us angrily cursing gays and other words that would ruin their image in front of the camera.