Chapter 170: First Batch of Car Owners Take Delivery; Online Reviews Are So Violent Yet No Flaws Found

At Xinghai Plaza.

The first owner, a bespectacled engineering nerd, held the deep blue NFC card in both hands, shaking as if he had Parkinson's disease.

He walked tremblingly toward a silver-grey xinghai su1.

He gently tapped the card against the B-pillar of the car window.

With a soft "click," the frameless car doors sprang upward lightly like gull wings spreading.

"My god! There are really no rails! The seats are actually floating in mid-air!"

The engineering nerd dived into the car, so excited he almost burst into tears.

As the first car drove out of the factory gate, a full ten thousand xinghai su1s surged into the streets like a silver river of steel.

The online frenzy had just begun, but another long-planned siege had already quietly started.

Toxic car reviewers with millions of followers on major platforms had long since accepted hush money from competitors.

They were sharpening their knives, just waiting for the first batch of cars to hit the road.

In the northwest, the Alashan Desert, the ground was covered in fist-sized gravel; this road was known as the "chassis meat grinder."

The influencer with ten million followers, "Toxic Qiangzi," was holding a selfie stick, live-streaming.

A brand-new xinghai su1 was parked behind him.

"Brothers, today we are going to strip away Xinghai's facade!"

Qiangzi sneered at the camera, the corner of his mouth almost reaching his ear.

"What maglev? Today, I'm going to make it shake into loose parts on this washboard road!"

He opened the car door and took a wine glass filled with half a glass of red wine from his assistant.

He placed it directly on the leather seat floating in mid-air.

"If a single drop of wine spills, this car is industrial waste!"

Qiangzi climbed into the driver's seat and floored the accelerator.

The motor emitted a slight hum.

The silver-grey car body shot into the pothole-ridden washboard road like an arrow released from a bow.

In the live-streaming room, over two million people stretched their necks, waiting to see a joke.

The wheels rolled over giant rocks, and the entire chassis jumped up and down crazily.

But as the camera panned, the four floating seats in the cabin looked like duckweed fixed on the surface of the water.

The maglev force field absorbed all the physical kinetic energy from the bumps cleanly.

The wine glass placed on the seat didn't even show a ripple.

The red wine in the glass was as still as dead water.

Qiangzi glanced into the rearview mirror, and his face turned green instantly.

"Is... is this fucking magic?!"

He slammed on the brakes, and cold sweat instantly broke out on his forehead.

The bullet comments exploded instantly, filling the screen with mockery.

"Qiangzi, did you step on the brake? This suspension is steadier than my grandfather's wheelchair!"

"The competitor's money isn't easy to earn, is it? Your underwear has been exposed!"

It wasn't just Qiangzi who crashed and burned.

In the northeast, inside a large cold storage facility at minus thirty degrees, another troll leader who specialized in taking money to smear people was shivering in a military coat.

Behind him, a xinghai su1 had been frozen for three full days.

Thick white frost had frozen the car into a solid block of ice.

"Listen up, brothers, this crappy solid-state battery will definitely be scrapped after being frozen in a cold storage for three days!"

The troll leader's hands trembled as he took out the remote key from his pocket.

"I'm pressing the start button now. If it can light up, I'll lick this ice block until it melts on the spot!"

He pressed his thumb down heavily.

The next second, there was a muffled "bang."

The microwave power supply module covering the roof instantly overloaded and heated up.

The thick ice covering the car windows instantly shattered into countless ice shards.

The deep blue daytime running lights opened like the eyes of a beast, instantly illuminating the dim cold storage.

On the front windshield, a holographic panel lit up, showing: 97% battery.

Three days and three nights, minus thirty degrees, and it only lost three percent of its power!

The troll leader's hand shook, and the remote key fell directly into the snow.

He sat down on the ground, his mouth agape, unable to catch his breath for a long time.

Seeing all the black public relations failing, "Toxic Qiangzi" in the desert was completely desperate.

"I don't believe in evil today!"

He roared at the live-streaming camera, his eyes bloodshot.

"The chassis is awesome, right? The battery is cold-resistant, right?"

He ripped off his seatbelt.

"Today I signed a death warrant. Let's crash into a concrete wall at one hundred kilometers per hour!"

Qiangzi pointed to a discarded reinforced concrete load-bearing wall one hundred meters ahead.

"If I'm not dead after the crash, I'll call this car my daddy from now on!"

The number of people in the live-streaming room instantly soared to five million.

Everyone broke into a cold sweat.

This was really risking his life! Using his own life to test a two-hundred-thousand-yuan electric car!

At the Xinghai Technology headquarters broadcasting room, Chu Xuan stared intently at the live feed on the big screen.

The tissue in his hand had long since been kneaded into mush by sweat.

"Lu, Lu Jingming! This bastard is crazy!"

Chu Xuan was hopping mad, his leopard-print shirt flapping.

"At this speed, hitting a solid wall, even a god would be turned into meat paste. Should we call the police and forcibly cut off his car's power?"

Lu Jingming leaned back in his boss chair, playing with a green plastic lighter with one hand, without even lifting his eyelids.

"What are you panicking about? He wants to help us run a free advertisement, why stop him?"

In the desert, Qiangzi took a deep breath.

He slammed his foot down, burying the accelerator of the xinghai su1 deep into the floor mat.

"Vroom—"

The car, like a silver beast gone mad, roared toward the concrete wall.

The numbers on the speedometer jumped crazily: 80... 90... 100!

"Bang!!!"

A deafening roar passed through the screen and smashed directly into everyone's eardrums.

Yellow sand and concrete fragments exploded into the sky, completely blocking the camera.

The live-streaming room of five million people fell into a deathly silence.

The bullet comments stalled for a full ten seconds.

It's over, someone died.

This was the first thought in everyone's mind.

Just then, before the smoke and dust had dispersed, an extremely calm female voice from the car's AI came through the live-streaming microphone.

"Destructive collision detected. The front energy-absorbing cabin has completely collapsed."

"The cabin armor structure is intact. The maglev seats have initiated rearward protection."

"An emergency call has been automatically dialed for you. The reversing and escape program is starting."

Immediately after, a teeth-grinding sound of friction, "creak, creak," rang out.

The xinghai su1, whose front end was completely shriveled and dented, actually reversed itself out of the collapsed half of the wall!

The A-pillar didn't even have a trace of deformation.

The entire cockpit was like an indestructible iron box, completely undamaged.

"Click."

The severely deformed car door was kicked open by the person inside.

Qiangzi was covered in dust, tumbling out of the car.

He felt himself all over; apart from his nose being reddened by the airbag, he didn't even break a layer of skin.

He stared blankly at the concrete wall that had been knocked down.

Then he turned his head to look at the xinghai su1, which was automatically flashing its hazard lights.

His legs suddenly went soft.

"Thump."

The most arrogant toxic reviewer on the whole network knelt directly on both knees in front of the camera.

He wailed regardless of everything, tears washing two furrows through the dust on his face.

"Stop smearing it... fellow peers, stop taking money to smear it!"

Qiangzi, snot and tears streaming down his face, pointed at the broken but still running car behind him.

"This is not a car at all!"

"This is a mobile Iron Man suit!! I kowtow to Xinghai, my daddy!"

With this kneeling, all the smears and doubts were instantly smashed to pieces.

It turned into the most hardcore, most invincible free reverse promotion on the entire network.

A few hours later, Wall Street on the other side of the ocean ushered in the opening time.

The line chart of Tesla's stock looked as if someone had kicked it off the top of the Empire State Building.

Within three minutes of opening, it plummeted by twenty percent.

The circuit breaker mechanism was triggered directly, and the entire NASDAQ trading hall was filled with wailing.

At the headquarters of Xinghai Technology, in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the president's office, the sunset was like blood.

Chu Xuan held a tablet, his face flushed with excitement to the color of pig liver.

"Lu Jingming! Wall Street has collapsed! We've stripped away all of Elon's secrets!"

Lu Jingming didn't look at him, just staring at the translucent system panel flashing crazily in his mind.

[Critical Face-Slapping Mission: Shatter Arrogance. Completed!]

[Distributing unlocked next-generation energy blueprints...]

Lu Jingming curled the corner of his mouth, revealing half of a sharp canine tooth.

He took out the lighter from his pocket.

His thumb pressed on the grinding wheel and wiped it downward heavily.

"Click."

A deep blue flame jumped up, illuminating the unreasonable ambition in his eyes.

In the flickering firelight, he turned his head.

"What's a limit-down? This is just an appetizer."

Lu Jingming closed the metal cover casually, his voice so casual that it made people shudder.

"Chu Xuan, go call Xia Weiliang. Prepare to open a new factory."