Chapter 353 Chocobo Racing

At noon on Tuesday, the pet shop was open as usual.

Today's pet shop was particularly lively, one reason being that this week the store's pets had added several ornamental butterflies, which Mu You brought back from the Dream Butterfly Roost when he entered the store before. Today, they were exhibited for the first time, and many people came to watch.

But the more important reason was the second one: the store was holding its first official Chocobo race!

This competition was initiated and sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. Mu You was the hands-off boss, only responsible for providing the venue, and the publicity and manpower were arranged by the Chamber of Commerce.

This kind of competition involving magical creatures was the first in China. The so-called professionals hired by the Chamber of Commerce did not have much practical experience, so this first competition was an invitational competition of an entertaining nature.

There were ten participants, five of whom were from the pet store's usual racing list, and the top five lap records on the list were invited.

The remaining four were Chocobo enthusiasts from all over the country. The difference was that these people all brought their own Chocobos.

Although the chocobo is precious, it is not an out-of-print creature. If Mu You can get it, other powerful people can naturally get it through various channels. Especially after the chocobo in his store became popular, the commercial value of the chocobo has soared sharply, and many capitals are willing to invest in this area.

The above nine fixed personnel are all professional players. The last one is a lucky audience selected from the scene. After all, many audiences on the scene today are here for this game, so people have to feel a sense of participation.

There will be three games in total, namely obstacle race, limited speed race and unlimited speed race.

The lucky audience selected for the first obstacle race is a girl, the only lady among the ten people. She usually rides chocobos a lot and can control them quite skillfully, but compared with the other nine professionals present, her skills are relatively rough.

Fortunately, this game is an entertainment game, and the ranking is not important. As long as you participate, there will be prizes.

Before the game, the emcee interviewed ten people one by one, asking their names, introducing themselves, and then asking about their feelings about being selected to participate in the first chocobo game.

Except for the girl who was temporarily selected and was a little nervous, the other nine professionals were very skilled in accepting the interview. The MC did not waste time and immediately announced after heating up the atmosphere that the first stage, the obstacle race, was ready to start.

The rules of the obstacle race are very simple. There are more than 20 obstacles such as hurdles, puddles, and poles. The contestants need to ride the chocobo through these obstacles in turn while running. This not only tests the contestants' racing ability, but also ensures that they have enough skills. Otherwise, each obstacle that is not passed will be penalized three seconds.

Of course, the audience who are temporarily selected do not need to pass the obstacles and can run directly on the normal track, which is considered to be a care for non-professionals.

In addition, there is the issue of magic. Magic can be released in this game, but it can only be used three times at most, and only restricted and enhanced magic can be used. No harmful magic can be used. Violators will be disqualified immediately.

This is to ensure the personal safety of chocobos and contestants. Before the game, the three types of magic that everyone will use have been reported in advance and confirmed to be safe magic. If magic other than registered is used during the game, it will also be disqualified.

The rules are quite strict, so there are higher requirements for the magic prepared by each person. The level, type, and even the timing of using magic may determine the outcome.

Soon, ten people rode on chocobos and landed behind the starting gate.

"Ready!"

The referee's amplified voice echoed in the venue, and the noise on the scene suddenly quieted down. The chocobos behind the ten gates were also ready to start instantly.

"Bang!"

As the starting gun sounded, ten figures rushed out from behind the gates like lightning, running forward side by side, but soon they were distinguished.

The first obstacle was the hurdle. Nine chocobos jumped up one after another, all jumping over the wooden fence lightly. At this time, their skills were demonstrated. Those with good skills almost did not slow down after landing, while those with poor skills had to pause for adjustment, which distinguished everyone.

The man in the windbreaker who was at the front was the current leader of the lap speed list. Because he always wore a windbreaker every time he came, he was nicknamed "Windbreaker Brother". He was also quite famous in the Chocobo circle. At this moment, many viewers were not surprised that he took the lead.

Soon more obstacles came one after another, and all the Chocobos nimbly passed through various obstacles. In order to facilitate distinction, each Chocobo was equipped with saddles of different colors. At this time, various colors were entangled with each other like butterflies, which was dazzling.

Warm applause broke out at the scene. Many people did not expect that a simple running game would become so ornamental just because of the addition of magical creatures.

So far, no player on the field has used magic. After all, there are only three chances, which are very precious.

Everyone is looking forward to who will be the first magic.

The result is surprising. The windbreaker who was running in the front, with a wind walk spell, his Chocobo immediately ran out as if he had turned on nitrogen acceleration, directly pulling away from the echelon behind, and the distance is getting bigger and bigger.

The applause and cheers at the scene suddenly became louder. This kind of "great escape" style of running makes people's adrenaline soar and is the easiest to ignite the enthusiasm of the audience.

At this time, the others were finally getting anxious. If this continued, the restriction magic they prepared would not even reach the windbreaker brother, and he would really run all the way to the finish line.

Others were forced to use their own acceleration magic.

For a while, all kinds of brilliant magic brilliance broke out in the field. The commentator burst out with years of commentary skills, and introduced the magic used by everyone at a fast speed, but there were still some that could not be introduced. Often, as soon as the name of this magic was finished, a more intense competition broke out in front.

After more than ten seconds, when the effects of the first magic dissipated, four echelons had been formed in a staggered manner.

The first echelon was the windbreaker brother, and the distance from the back was nearly 100 meters.

The second echelon was two people running side by side, and they were also frequent visitors on the lap speed list. The third echelon, a few dozen meters away, was the main force. Six people were crowded in this part and chased each other.

The last one was naturally the lucky audience girl. On the one hand, it was because she did not have acceleration magic. Just now, everyone in front of her used acceleration magic and directly left her behind.

On the other hand, it also fully reflects the gap between professionals and amateurs: even if she doesn't need to go through obstacles, she is still crushed by others in driving the chocobo.

The race has to run four laps in total, and the gap between the echelons has been maintained for two laps. Everyone held the remaining two magics in their hands and didn't dare to use them until the last lap of sprinting, and finally there was a change.

This time it was the second place, who took the lead in using the "deceleration spell" on the windbreaker man in the front, a classic restriction magic. The windbreaker man in front and the chocobo under him suddenly appeared with golden chains all over his body, and they were quickly slowed down in the entanglement of the chains.

However, the windbreaker man is not a vegetarian. He has long known that he will be targeted if he is the first to stand out, so he prepared the dispersal spell in advance. Almost as soon as the deceleration spell took effect, a burst of white light burst out from his body, dispersing the golden chains completely, and the speed was restored again.

However, before he could be happy, another wave of magic came from behind him.

And this time the magic was even more ruthless, directly turning the chocobo under him into a sheep.

The audience around burst into exclamations.

Sheep Transformation, this is a high-level spell, the value of which is more than a thousand years of life, and only the rich can learn it.

Everyone hurriedly looked for the caster, and soon learned from the commentator that the caster was the third-ranked player. This wave was actually a collaboration between the second and third place players, who jointly pulled down the first-ranked Windbreaker Brother.

This sheep transformation directly reduced the speed of Windbreaker Brother to the level of ordinary people walking. In just a few seconds, he was surpassed by the people behind him.

When the sheep transformation effect was finally lifted, he had fallen to the second to last place.

Windbreaker Brother was angry, and after recovering, he hurried to catch up again, but he had been pulled away by the large group in front of him by a considerable distance, and it was not so easy to catch up.

Fortunately, the front was not smooth sailing at this time.

As they entered the final sprint stage, everyone's magic was finally no longer reserved, and various restrictive skills began to be thrown at the people around them, and the front was suddenly in chaos.

Since it was the first competition where magic could be used, no one had any reference, and the magics they chose were quite similar: one acceleration magic, plus two restriction magics, and only a few people prepared dispel magic.

Everyone had used the acceleration magic at the beginning, so the remaining skills were all skills that restricted others, many of which were group restrictions.

"Fuck, who threw the group quagmire array!"

"Who cast the slipping spell on me!"

"Oh my god, who opened the fog? Is it so crazy?"

...

At this moment, a group of people were cheating each other, cursing secretly, but the cheating skills in their hands were still being secretly thrown out. Whoever dared to take the lead would immediately have several restriction states on his body, resulting in a group of people's speed falling into the quagmire and being unable to move.

At this time, the most dramatic scene appeared.

The lucky audience girl who had fallen behind and had long been ignored by everyone actually caught up when everyone was cheating each other and rushed directly into the "quagmire" created by everyone.

This girl doesn't know any other spells, only one Dispel spell, so the three spells she reported before were all Dispel spells. When the registrants saw this kind of spell equipment, they all thought that it was destined to be the participation, but they didn't expect it to come in handy at this time.

When the girl rushed over, the restriction magic of others had almost been used up, and some people habitually put a few restrictions on her. However, under the opponent's three Dispel spells, all the restrictions were instantly solved. So she was the first to break free from this quagmire in the helplessness of a group of professional players, and finally crossed the finish line before others.

Then the others arrived at the finish line one by one.

After the game, the electronic board quickly sorted out the ranking results of everyone, and the commentator commented on it one by one. He even joked about the fact that nine professional players were picked peaches by an amateur. The atmosphere on the scene was cheerful, with constant applause and laughter.

Fortunately, this was just an entertaining competition and the players did not take the victory or defeat too seriously. Moreover, the competition process did teach them a lesson. The nine of them were embarrassed together and it was over after some mutual teasing. Many people were thinking hard about how to compete in the next two games.

Mu You sat at the front desk, listening to the laughter and noise coming from the zoo, and smiled knowingly.

He did not go to the scene to maintain order, as it was enough for the people from the Chamber of Commerce to watch inside. However, he also watched the whole process through the surveillance at the front desk. As a result, the viewing quality of the game was beyond his expectations. If he made a video later, it would probably be popular again.

Shaking his head, Mu You focused his attention back on the game and continued to brush the tasks in the Elf Forest.

However, at this time, he suddenly noticed that two figures at the door walked into the store, but they did not come directly to him to check or buy tickets like normal tourists, but stood in front of the propaganda stand in front of the door, took the brochure on it and read it.

Mu You did not care. The brochures at the door were originally for people to read. If they were interested, they could come in and visit, and if they were not interested, they could leave directly.

However, he soon discovered that the two seemed to have been reading for a while, especially one of the men with glasses, who read all the brochures very seriously before putting them down.

Then the two whispered a few words and walked towards the front desk.

"What do you need?" Mu You asked.

"Hello, is the boss of this store here?" one of them said.

"I am the boss." Mu You said and glanced at the two people. The middle-aged man spoke first, and the young man with glasses fell behind silently, looking like a follower.

However, Mu You felt that from the simple actions of the two people just now, it seemed that the young man with glasses was the leader.

"Oh, you are, that's great!"

The middle-aged man smiled and handed over a business card: "We are investors from the south. We have heard of your store for a long time. Today we came to see that it is really good and has considerable development potential, so we plan to invest here. I wonder if you have any intention of cooperation?"

"Cooperation..."

Mu You took the business card and looked at it. There was a company and name he had never seen before.

"Sorry, this is my own industry. I don't plan to cooperate with the outside world for the time being." Mu You shook his head.

"Boss, don't rush to refuse. In fact, we came here through the introduction of friends. Those two friends said they are very familiar with you. Do you want to contact them first?" The middle-aged man smiled politely.

"Oh?"

Mu You glanced at the middle-aged man and didn't think much: "What are your friends' names? I want to see if I recognize them."

"My friends are called Jin Yuan and Yu Yinian." The middle-aged man smiled and said the two names.

However, when Mu You heard the two names, he subconsciously frowned.

Jin Yuan and Yu Yinian, he had indeed heard of these two names. They were the two people who came to the store to track Ye Rumeng a long time ago. Later, he ran into them when they kidnapped the little girl. They had already died in front of him at that time, and even their bodies exploded in the sea.

This man suddenly mentioned these two names, of course it couldn't be that they were really "introduced by friends", so everything they said just now was obviously testing him.

Mu You looked up, and sure enough, the two of them were staring at his face at this time, as if observing his expression, especially the young man behind him. The surprise that flashed in Mu You's eyes when he heard the two names just now did not escape his eyes.

At this time, the two looked at each other, and the man's expression did not change, but a gleam of light burst out in his eyes, which meant "I caught him".

Even the middle-aged man in front of him clearly saw the change in Mu You's expression just now. The smile on his face instantly withered, and he became a little surprised.

"So that's it..."

Mu You exhaled, reached into his pocket, and pressed the pocket watch.

When you are in doubt, press the watch dozens of times to calm down.

Jin Yuan and Yu Yinian came here to catch the little girl. They have another sponsor behind them, and this sponsor is related to the Undead Society. At the same time, this matter is also related to the shadow ghost on him.

These two people suddenly came to test him now, which must be related to the little girl and the shadow ghost. Maybe they are the sponsors behind the two people, that is, the members of the Undead Society.

After thinking about this, Mu You first used the All-Knowing Crystal to look at the information of the two people.

The ID displayed by the middle-aged man is a Japanese katakana, level 20 and not evolved, and the attributes are pretty good. As for the man with glasses...

Mu You raised his eyebrows when he saw it. The All-Knowing Crystal did not feedback any player information, just like querying an ordinary person who has never entered the game.

Didn't this person activate the game?

Or did he have any props to prevent detection?

Mu You was not sure for a moment.

Then he observed the two people carefully again, and after confirming that there was no information to be seen, he stopped pressing the watch.

"My friends are called Jin Yuan and Yu Yinian." The middle-aged man said as usual.

"Jin Yuan, Yu Yi... Sorry, I shouldn't know them. Did you make a mistake?" Mu You pretended to recall, and then looked back at the two people in confusion. His performance was impeccable.

"Really don't know them?"

The middle-aged man asked again, and at the same time, he looked at Mu You's expression changes more carefully, but he didn't see any flaws.

"Really don't know them."

Mu You shook his head: "I guess you made a mistake in the name of the store. As you know, there are many stores that follow the trend recently, and the names are very imitations."

"Oh, that may be true. Let's go back and confirm... Sorry, boss." The middle-aged man smiled apologetically, and then he and the young man behind him prepared to leave.

"It's okay, you're welcome to come often when you're free." Mu You also smiled and watched the two of them leave.

It was not until the two of them left the store and walked away that he put away his expression.

After thinking for a while, he took out his old-fashioned mobile phone and dialed Lu Yao's number.

"Hello?" Lu Yao's voice came from the other side.

"Help me check two people."

"Huh? Who?"

"The two people who just walked out of my store, help me check their identities."

...

What Mu You didn't know was that a similar conversation was also going on on the other side.

"Check this person carefully." The young man with glasses said.

"Still check?"

The middle-aged man next to him was stunned: "Young Master, I think he is fine? Did you see something?"

The young man shook his head: "No, but when this person answered just now... I always felt something was wrong."

"Is there?" The middle-aged man was confused. He felt that the other party's answer just now was very natural, and he really didn't see where it was wrong.

"Sometimes being too 'correct' is a symbol of abnormality."

The young man frowned and said: "This person is probably not simple. Even if he has nothing to do with this matter, it is worth investigating."