After configuring these motorcycles, the streamers all chose to start.
Above them, a few words popped up: 【Matching in progress...】, which stunned the Adventurers of Feichi Town once again.
Matching?
Matching what...?
Isn't this an escape-type Dungeon? Why does it need to match? Could it be matching other Adventurers?
In just a few seconds, the system prompted: 【Matching complete】.
Then, behind this area of black and white checkered grids, on both sides of the streamer's live broadcast room, about eleven other Adventurers appeared.
Everyone was in this black and white grid area, lined up.
Engines roared.
Almost uniformly, the 【Qi Maosong Original Mount - Battle-Damaged Edition】 roared under this sky.
"Holy cow, so it's a competitive Dungeon after all?"
The Adventurers of Feichi Town immediately became interested.
Drive, drive!
What's the point of driving if you don't compete for time?
Only by adding competitive elements does this type of racing Dungeon become more interesting.
After all, everyone likes to compare who lasts longer.
The Adventurers of Feichi Town are no exception. The most popular Dungeon here, 【dragon tamer】, also compares who can reach the destination faster on a flying dragon, and even created a leaderboard for it.
This is also why 【dragon tamer】 has been popular in Feichi Town for so many years.
It doesn't rely solely on the 'flying dragon' as a selling point; more importantly, it offers a relatively novel leaderboard racing mode.
This has led to all Dungeons in Feichi Town currently vying to imitate it, all creating such a leaderboard.
They couldn't copy the flying dragons.
But a simple leaderboard, they could copy.
They just didn't expect that an external Dungeon like Tidal Town would understand so much, immediately implementing a racing mode and bringing in the multiplayer competitive aspect.
This instantly piqued the interest of the Adventurers in Feichi Town.
"Twelve-person race?"
"The rules of this Dungeon are... 【Escape Raccoon City】. Only the Adventurer who first reaches the designated location in Raccoon City can leave this Dungeon alive. Everyone else will die in the mouths of the zombies."
"So the participants are in an adversarial relationship. Wait... I think I suddenly understand the purpose of the iron rod..."
At this moment, Adventurers from both Feichi Town and Tidal Town immediately realized what the iron rod was for.
Before, they thought it was for fighting zombies.
But now it seems it's actually for hitting other participants...
"Damn, this Dungeon is truly violent!"
A certain streamer couldn't help but complain.
At the same time, he looked at the participant next to him with ill intent, seemingly calculating whether to hit him with a rod at the start.
Of course, it wasn't possible now; they were still in the preparation phase and couldn't move yet.
After understanding the rules, the Adventurers of Feichi Town watching from outside couldn't help but take a deep breath, their interest in this Dungeon growing even stronger.
It not only has horror elements, racing elements, and adversarial elements, but it also combines all the popular aspects of their Feichi Town.
Even if it were a Dungeon like 'Mount and Blade,' it would still have a good market here.
Not to mention...
Everything in this Dungeon is very novel, and there's a vehicle they've never used before.
Now they just didn't know how fast this vehicle was. They had only seen the cutscene before, and it wasn't very clear.
Just as everyone was still thinking, the system's electronic voice suddenly came through.
It signaled that the race was about to begin.
Everyone immediately became fully alert.
【3!】
【2!】
【1!】
【GO!!!】
Accompanied by the system's rousing countdown and start command, the black and white checkered starting line blocking the front wheels of the motorcycles and the invisible wall behind them blocking the zombies instantly disappeared.
"Boom!"
The twelve Adventurers all had good driving skills, after all, they came from Tidal Town and Deep Sea Town, and had more or less shown off their skills in 【Resident Evil】.
The moment the command was given, the engines of the twelve motorcycles roared like unleashed beasts, deafening.
The rear wheels spun wildly, rubbing against the ground, emitting plumes of white smoke, then shot out like arrows from a bowstring.
And almost at the moment of starting, intense confrontation began.
"Damn it, you old bastard!" A streamer in the live broadcast room, an Adventurer named Li Yun, had just twisted the throttle and hadn't gone far when a nearby car suddenly swerved in front of him.
At the same time, an iron rod was swung up, whistling through the air and smashing heavily towards his arm.
"Clang!" A crisp sound, sparks flew!
Li Yun reacted extremely quickly, instinctively raising his own iron rod to Parry. The immense impact made his arm numb, and his vehicle speed slightly paused.
"Damn it, playing dirty, are we?!" Li Yun cursed, immediately counterattacking, swinging his rod back at the guy next to him.
The Adventurers of Feichi Town watched in astonishment.
"Holy cow, they can actually fight?"
"They're fighting right at the start. Is this a race or a fight?"
"Hahaha... interesting, so interesting! Not only do you have to run fast, but you also have to guard against others' sneak attacks."
"So this iron rod is for this, brilliant!"
The scene immediately devolved into chaos.
In the initial stage, the traffic was dense, and the "ping-pong" sounds of rods clashing were incessant.
Some successfully knocked their opponents off balance, their vehicles swerving and almost hitting abandoned cars.
Others tried to ambush but were instead struck, taking a solid hit on their helmet, their vision starting to blur and turn red, falling directly to the ground.
Behind them, the zombies were slowly closing in.
In the Adventurers' line of sight, prompts continuously appeared, warning them to get up quickly, as once caught by the zombies, they would face elimination.
Because they had rushed far ahead at the start, the slow-moving zombies couldn't catch up for a while.
But a few Zombie Dogs were different.
They ran at high speed, red saliva dripping from their mouths.
The few fallen Adventurers quickly got back on their motorcycles and stood up. At this point, they couldn't bother with continuing to fight each other, thinking of escaping this zombie horde first.
Li Yun's driving skills were good. With his flashy maneuvers, he continuously dodged several attacks, finally breaking out of the chaotic starting area and arriving at a relatively open but more dilapidated city street.
And the real challenge was just beginning.
