Chapter 285 Mueller’s Fear
After finishing the meal, everyone returned to the hotel where they stayed.
In the following days until the start of the game, in addition to doing some rehabilitation training, Brett asked the medical staff Lin De found for him to push him around the streets of Hong Kong in a wheelchair every day.
Although Brett has been in the international news recently, the citizens of Xiangjiang do not regard him as a big star. However, when paying for meals, sometimes the boss will ask him to take a photo for free. That's all, Brett was also happy and free, feeling the breath of life again after a long absence.
This behavior naturally attracted the attention of some people, and some reporters came over after smelling the smell.
On this day, after Brett finished shopping in Mong Kok, he randomly found a dessert shop and planned to fill his stomach. However, before the ordered food was served, a few reporters came over.
"Mr. Brett, I am a reporter from XX Times. Can I spare you a few minutes for a simple interview?"
XX Times? After hearing the name, Brett recalled it. This company seemed to be an American media. What it was best at was reporting some negative news to trouble the politicians in Congress, so Brett nodded, "Okay, you can ask. Let’s not talk while we eat, as long as it doesn’t affect other people.”
After hearing that Brett agreed to his request, the reporter friend looked happy and signaled to the photographer behind him to get into work. Asked the first question.
"Mr. Brett, it has been more than a week since you returned to Earth. How is your body recovering?"
"It's not bad, otherwise the Chinese doctors wouldn't allow me to run around." Brett said with a smile.
"I wish you all the best, so why did you come to Xiangjiang recently?" the reporter said.
“Of course I came to watch the game of my old friends.” Brett said.
"So, when do you plan to return to the United States?" The reporter got down to the topic after being polite.
“We have no plans for the time being. China’s aerospace department invited me and my companions to join their Callisto international exploration plan. This is really something I can’t refuse.” Brett said.
When the reporter heard this, he knew that big news was coming, so he asked: "We have heard about China's Callisto international exploration plan. All major countries in the world have sent astronauts to participate, but including the previous Mars exploration plan, You are also the first American astronaut to be invited, so do you plan to stay in China forever and never return to the United States? "
"My friend, there is something wrong with what you said. Brett raised his eyebrows when he heard this, "My participation in China's aerospace program has nothing to do with whether I can return to the United States in the future."
"But the U.S. aerospace department has never cooperated with China?" Yes." the reporter said.
“I am a citizen of the world first, and then an American.” Brett said, “Exploring the universe is the only way for the future of mankind. This is a major event for all mankind. We should not set our sights on Confined between countries on the earth."
"Sounds familiar..." Brett's words made the reporter feel a little dazed. After a while, he remembered that these words were not special. What did the NASA spokesperson say when he asked China for Martian soil after China's Yinghuo Mars spacecraft returned? Brett didn't change a single letter.
After saying this, Brett had finished eating the poplar nectar. Brett wiped his mouth and then politely said goodbye to the reporter.
Soon, this reporter’s report caused a sensation in the United States, but most Americans pointed their fingers at NASA and the group of politicians in Congress. After all, Brett’s speech can be said to be It’s watertight, and in order to disgust those politicians in Congress, this media also dug into Brett’s previous growth experience. He graduated from MIT at a very young age, then joined NASA’s Junior Astronaut Program, and went to WGP The experience of participating in the competition, and finally knowing that his own space station was no longer reliable, he still boarded the spacecraft to the space without hesitation, setting a standard benchmark for outstanding American youth, but such an outstanding young man was rejected by this A group of politicians were simply left to fend for themselves in space for the sake of profit.
So, what if Brett really emigrates? Weren't these damn politicians forcing him away? What's more, Brett currently has no clear intention to immigrate. China's official answer is that several astronauts are cooperating with China in their personal capacity.
Therefore, many Americans and musicians around the world expressed support for Brett and his team's choice.
The story of Brett and the others dominated the hot search news around the world for many days. It was not until the GPX Xiangjiang race officially started that it was gradually replaced by GPX race news. It is the most watched sports event in the world. In addition, this Xiangjiang race adopts a competition system that is different from any previous formula racing, so it has attracted even greater attention.
On Saturday, qualifying officially began at the Xiangjiang Hongye Circuit, a small racing circuit converted from the WGP venue.
Because this racing track is too small and the difficulty is low, even the three rounds of qualifying are not interesting. Therefore, today’s qualifying is an exciting one, with a guaranteed victory in one lap. burden.
Each driver has only one lap to decide the starting order for Sunday’s race, but one lap is not enough time to even accelerate the car to complete the race. Therefore, such rules are directly a competition. Which car has better acceleration ability?
Under such rules, it stands to reason that the Tai Chi Battle Dragon is the most dominant car, but Xiaolie and Lin Xie considered that under the rules that were close to their previous road races, they wanted to win In the next game, the cooperation between him and Xiao Hao is more important, so Lin Dai gave up the qualifying match directly and finished the game one pick ahead of Tornado Charge because of his lack of instant acceleration ability. The two will compete tomorrow Starting from the 13th and 14th picks, the first and second picks in this game were taken by two Auroras using thrusters.
However, what is unexpected is that McLaren's Muller, who returned in this race, is far worse as the number one car when the car also uses propellers as a means of explosion. Falling behind the No. 2 car, McLaren's No. 2 car took third place, but Muller only took 17th place. In this qualifying match, MCL-C01 did not lose at all. Mueller never used the thrusters for the Aurora once.
"Is Player Muller conserving his strength?" Li Bing, who was explaining the live qualifying match in his live broadcast room, was a little confused. "Otherwise, it couldn't be that he couldn't control the explosion of the thruster. This is currently the case except for the Yonko team. He is the only driver outside the country who has the ability to enter the realm of zero. "The Chinese audience has always liked to give some weird nicknames. The current WGP, the top four in the standings, Ferrari, DRS, Mercedes, and Arctic Fox are named. They had a nickname of the Four Emperors, so Li Bing would also use these interesting nicknames in less formal situations.
[I also think he is hiding his strength. Lin Bo only used Tai Chi Dragon’s thruster once this round]
[This kind of road The pole position of the race is not that big of an advantage. There may be emergencies at any time in road races. The car running at the front is the first to face emergencies.】
In the live broadcast room Most racing enthusiasts agree with Li Bing's speculation. After all, these drivers who can enter the zero realm can control a car with a speed of 700 yards. They will not lose control even if they turn on the propeller and accelerate to 400 yards. .
"That kid, is he resisting entering the Zero Realm again?" Compared with the audience watching the live broadcast, Lin Shu, who was competing at the same place, could feel the truth better. Now Mueller seems to have been unable to make up his mind to push the propeller. In fact, normally speaking, after he fully recovers, as long as he strengthens his physical fitness, he who has already had the experience of entering the zero field will be able to do better than those riders who are still lingering in front of that gate. It was easy to enter that world again, but it seemed that the last experience had left too heavy a shadow on him. His MLC-C01 gave Lin a feeling that every acceleration seemed to be a little constrained.
However, Lin De was not very familiar with the child, so even if he discovered the problem, he did not rush to disturb him. Instead, Mihail, who also discovered the abnormality of his junior, after finishing eating After dinner, I took the initiative to find him.
"Senior?" Mueller was a little surprised by Mihail's visit, "What's the matter?"
"Can't I come to you if I have nothing to do?" Mihail smiled and said, As drivers who were trained by the same team, even though they didn't have much friendship, they were still able to talk.
"There is no such thing. Of course I welcome you to come, senior." Muller said.
"Speaking of which, we wanted to find you before, but when we contacted you, you had already signed a contract with McLaren." Mihail said.
“At that time, I thought you and Kelvin would directly enter the GPX division, so when McLaren invited me, I signed the contract without thinking too much.” Muller said, “If I knew If senior Kelvin couldn't adapt to the CF car, I might choose to join him. But, looking back, it's fortunate that I didn't join Mercedes."
"Why, you are. Don’t you look down on our team?” Mihail chuckled.
"That's not what I meant..." Muller quickly explained, "I mean, if I had joined then, maybe I would have become a drag on the team by now."
"Drag?" Mihai raised his eyebrows and said, "It's hard to imagine that this is what Caesar would say on the mini racing field. Do you still remember that after I retired from WGP, you were the captain of the new generation of Iron Wolves? What did you say when you first met me?”
When Mueller heard this, he blushed on the spot.
"You said, my time has passed, now is your time, the championship we can't win will be won by you." Mihail also laughed. At that time, Muller was He swept the mini racing events throughout Europe with a completely unrivaled attitude. His edge was even more dazzling than that of Mihail at the same time. This can be seen from the difference in their nicknames. Mihail is the noble son of mini racing, and Muller is known as the Caesar of mini racing.
At that time, the whole of Europe, and even the whole world, believed that he would be the one to take over the title of the God of Linde Mini Racing. Even if he only achieved two consecutive second place results in the WGP arena, Not many people question his strength, because the overall strength of the other Iron Wolves he led is much worse than that of the first-generation Iron Wolves, but Muller can lead them continuously. Having reached the finals twice, although he was a bit unlucky, there is no doubt about his strength.
At that time, some people felt that if Muller were two years older and on the same team as Michael, they would be able to defeat even the first-generation Chinese War Dragon.
"So, what are you afraid of now?" Mihail's expression suddenly became serious.
"I..." Mueller, whose fear in his heart was revealed by Michael, was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head.
"Do you even hesitate to step on the accelerator in a straight line now? Has acceleration become so scary for you?" Mihail asked, looking directly into Mueller's eyes.
"I...yes, I am really scared now." Facing Mihail's questioning, Mueller hesitated and stopped pretending, directly showing that he was completely ruined. The posture of, "I'm afraid of entering that realm again, I'm afraid of experiencing that feeling again."
For Muller, this period after being addicted to the zero realm and being rescued by Lin Shu and Mihail The experience of time is completely hell. Every day when I wake up, I can clearly feel that my body is like a broken bag, and my life force is passing away all the time, as if a life countdown is being carried out directly in front of him. This feeling was not that the God of Death was knocking on the door, but that the God of Death was squatting beside him, whispering and sharpening his knife, waiting for the countdown to reach zero before harvesting his life.
The treatment he received was a deep sleep that completely immersed his spirit. This was different from the kind of dreaming sleep. In deep sleep, he would completely lose all consciousness. To him, it was like a period of time had been completely erased. To be honest, not many people could withstand the experience of watching the countdown of life after waking up, and then being forced into a deep sleep again.
Therefore, even though his body has fully recovered now, Muller does not dare to try to enter the Zero Realm again.
"If that's the case, then why do you want to come back to the racing track?" Mihail frowned.
“There’s nothing I can do, I signed a contract with McLaren.” Mueller spread his hands and said calmly, “But even if I fail now, they still have to give me several thousand dollars every year. Ten thousand, if you don’t take this money, it’s nothing.”
(End of this chapter)