Chapter 44: The Death Race!

Both Dean and Tyler were stunned. After a second, both of their expressions became serious. It was then Tyler explained what had happened before the male lead came to find him.

"When I came to that cave, I suddenly fell unconscious, and after waking up, I was already in this car, sitting on the passenger seat. Everything was dark, and I reckoned that I would have to wait for the driver to initiate this game. And this seems like a team game, So it's not too weird that we both are sitting inside one car."

Dean nodded in understanding as his gaze swept past all the cars beside him and an empty road surrounded by walls on either side. "Then we have to win this game to get out of this illusion." Then he hit the steering wheels in frustration. "Damn it! Why is this stage so difficult?! It's unreasonable!"

Tyler knew what Dean was talking about. Apparently, the system gave him a summary of the storyline, but there were still instances that seemed slightly different from the original story. At this time, he had a few deductions of his own about why it would have happened.

Firstly, it was perhaps the system that was being unreliable. Maybe the system hadn't given him complete information about the world, making him helpless. But this also didn't make any sense since this had never happened before. The information given by the system would be complete and accurate. But things changed ever since he encountered David in the previous world.

And coincidentally, he also found that he could recover the powers he didn't know were missing. Previously, it was coal from the mine. So he could tell that the power had affected the previous world to the point that even the system's information felt unreliable. And in this world, things were pretty much severe.

So Tyler didn't hesitate before confirming that the mishap was happening only because of his missing powers.

But he didn't get to ponder over this anymore before the countdown started.

"Five...Four...Three…" Dean's fingers tightened on the steering wheels as his gaze locked at the road ahead of him. "Two...One...and go!" The car was already ignited the moment that mechanical voice had started. So he just pushed the accelerator, and the vehicle sprinted forward at full speed.

All the cars had their windows black, and they didn't care about who was sitting inside. But since Dean was already well versed in the art of driving, it didn't take him long before he dodged every single one of those cars and came first. At times, many cars tried to overtake him, but no one was able to be successful.

The scenery didn't change, but soon, they encountered a dark tunnel far ahead. Dean suddenly felt that this tunnel wouldn't bring them anything good since the cars were still behind them. What if other drivers plan to attack him in the dark? Thinking of this, his grip subconsciously tightened, and he secretly vowed to fight back and save Tyler with all he had!

Just then, Tyler said, "Let me drive."

"Huh?" Dean tilted his head in confusion.

"You sit here, and let me drive while you take care of those behind us." Tyler motioned the series of buttons on a board before him. Below each red button, he could see the name indicating what would happen if the buttons were pressed.

There were bullets, speed, and even cannons.

Dean was stupefied seeing this. He remembered that these buttons weren't present when the race had just started. Maybe they appeared after the game started.

Perhaps this tunnel was meant to be a secret playground to fight while driving cars. But what he still didn't know was why Tyler would ask him to handle these attacks? This person didn't doubt his ability to drive, right?

Sensing Dean's bewildering thoughts, Tyler said, "Don't worry. I don't doubt it. It's just I'm used to driving in the dark."

The male lead nodded, and both of them exchanged the seats. It was just that Tyler's butt brushed past Dean's body. Tyler froze momentarily, wishing from all his heart that Dean hadn't felt this too. But when he saw the male lead gazing intently at the buttons, he felt relieved, although there was a lingering trace of loss in his heart.

Even after getting thoroughly exposed, this person still dared not just to say out loud that he was the male lead in the previous world as well. Although Tyler was angry, he would deal with this man later. At present, he needed to focus firmly on the task at hand.

On the passenger seat, Dean found it difficult not to glance at the person on the driving seat, especially since the latter's soft behind that brushed past his hands. His stick was up already! But he still couldn't do anything at this time because of this stupid race.

Gritting his teeth, he studied the simple workings of these buttons, and became ready to fight whenever someone attacked them in the dark.

Just then, they entered the tunnel, and the cars behind burst out a series of bullets at them. But before Dean could press the button, Tyler swiftly turned the steering wheels and dodged every bullet. Seeing that, even male lead was fired up and started pressing one button after another to deal with those cars behind them.

Soon enough, all the cars behind them stopped one after another either because of getting crashed into another broken car or because of the bullets that Dean had fired. At this time, only Dean and Tyler were remaining in the dark, and suddenly, they could see a bright light in the tunnel. They were stunned, and before they could even think about it, the car sped toward the light, and they both disappeared from the vehicle.

The eyes of Tyler and Dean in the dark cave opened. Both of them sat up, and without wasting a minute, started searching the entire cave. Even though they hadn't really confessed to each other that Dean was the same person as David in the previous world, they still acted without exchanging words with tactical understanding.

Since this particular cave was guarded with an illusion, it seemed something hidden inside was empowering it with power. Perhaps it was also possible that this kind of game was currently started by that 'something' present in this cave. And Dean and Tyler didn't have to think too much before arriving at one conclusion about what it might be that was probably the cause of this game: Tyer's power.

Soon enough, they found another mirror piece hidden in the dark. Dean was stunned momentarily since even he had found a similar glowing mirror piece. He fished it out and put it on Tyler's palms, which carried another piece of broken mirror.Just then, Dean took out the piece of mirror he had found earlier, and quickly threw it in Tyler's arms.