Zhang Yan was completely stunned.

This didn’t seem right.

In other racing games, if you just bumped into another car, merely rear-ending it, at most the hood would fly off, and you could continue racing as before, right?

Games should even provide options to turn off vehicle damage or rewind, allowing you to try again, shouldn’t they?

Wasn’t this supposed to be the tutorial level? How could it end directly with a chain collision?

Or was this a scripted event?

But that didn’t make sense either. The car crashed because of her control error. If she had driven properly without trying to overtake on the curve, this situation shouldn’t have happened, right?

Zhang Yan’s head was full of question marks, and she couldn’t quite understand the current situation.

Then, the black screen lit up, showing a news broadcast.

“At 8:07 PM on the 17th, the Jingzhou Traffic Police Brigade received reports from citizens about luxury cars racing at night that resulted in a traffic accident.”

“Investigation revealed that seven cars were suspected of racing. That evening, the vehicles involved had arranged to race in a nearby section of road. Two cars collided at a curve, causing a chain rear-end collision that resulted in a tragedy: 2 deaths, 4 serious injuries, and 1 minor injury.”

“As of now, the injured are still receiving treatment at the hospital. Police have started investigating the drivers of the vehicles involved on suspicion of dangerous driving. The case is under further processing.”

“Racing that causes major traffic accidents is malicious in nature and seriously affects road traffic and citizens’ safety. The drivers have already committed the crime of dangerous driving and may even be charged with causing a traffic accident or endangering public safety by dangerous means. They will certainly be severely punished by law!”

Zhang Yan watched the news broadcast on the screen in disbelief, her face filled with confusion.

What was going on?

She checked the time—wasn’t it exactly 8:07 PM on the 17th right now?

So this was the accident she had just caused?

Obviously, the game was directly reading the current time for a “real-time report,” maximizing the educational value on the spot.

It all seemed quite natural and logical.

Racing caused an accident—two deaths and four serious injuries. This was already a very serious accident. Forget having your license revoked and being permanently banned from taking the test again; it would be quite normal to serve several years in prison after recovery.

Zhang Yan was well aware of these consequences, having learned about them when getting her driver’s license.

But the problem was… this was a game!

Was it necessary for a game to be this realistic?!

The photos used in the news were clearly in-game scenes. All the cars were smashed to pieces, with the entire front of each car collapsed beyond recognition or completely destroyed—truly as tragic as possible.

This formed a stark contrast with other racing games where you could collide at high speed seven or eight times and only lose your hood, with the car still able to continue driving.

The game continued, with text appearing on the black screen: Two years later.

It was still a first-person perspective from the driver’s seat, but Zhang Yan noticed that the entire interior of the vehicle had changed. It was no longer the luxury supercar interior but a worn and old interior.

Looking closely, it even seemed somewhat familiar.

“Hey, isn’t this a training car—no, a test car?”

Looking up, this was clearly the driving test site for the second subject.

In the game, the driver took out a wallet from their pocket and opened it for a look. There was a family of four: parents showing kind smiles, and two sisters who were both very beautiful.

“Two years ago, my sister died in a car race. The new car she bought hadn’t even been fully paid off before it was completely totaled.”

“Because it was a racing accident that caused a major safety incident, the insurance company refused to pay. We could only continue to pay off all the car loans while enduring our grief.”

“So I’ve always reminded myself that I must study hard for my driver’s license, learn safe and civilized driving knowledge properly, and never make the same mistake as my sister.”

After putting the wallet away, an examiner came over to indicate that the test could begin.

Prompts began to appear on the screen, guiding the player through the Subject 2 driving test.

Zhang Yan was completely bewildered.

“This…”

“This game’s style doesn’t seem right, does it?”

She paused the game and searched online a bit to see other players’ comments about this game.

Then she roughly understood the specific mechanics of the game’s opening.

The beginning section, which appeared to be legitimate racing, was actually a trap.

Earlier, Zhang Yan had noticed the speed monitors taking photos and thought it impressive that the game was so realistic that it even included seemingly useless speed monitors that actually took photos.

Of course, many other racing games also have speed monitors, but they’re there to give players data to beat—the higher the speed, the better the reward—so Zhang Yan hadn’t paid much attention.

Now she realized that these speed monitors actually did monitor speed and would issue fines!

Different players experienced different endings.

Some players had discovered that in the initial level, players controlled a default character who had a luxury car still under loan, along with some savings and deposits.

If you didn’t race with other luxury cars and instead drove steadily through the entire approximately 10-minute course without speeding or breaking regulations, you could keep your driver’s license and inherit all the savings, and the character wouldn’t change.

If you were caught speeding by the monitors but didn’t have an accident and completed the entire course, you would just receive a speeding ticket and lose points.

If the collision wasn’t serious, you could claim insurance, though it would cost more due to increased premiums.

Of course, you might also be rear-ended by a car behind you, or crash into a guardrail causing driver injuries. Specific situations had specific analyses: if it was the rear car’s fault, they would pay the medical expenses; if it was your own fault, you would pay your own medical expenses.

But the vast majority of players didn’t achieve any of these endings.

Because they all started racing just like Zhang Yan did!

Racing without the skills—how could they not crash?

Once you crashed, the game sequence would immediately end. At that speed, it was definitely dangerous driving, resulting in either death or serious injury, with the car totaled and the insurance company refusing to pay.

If the protagonist was still alive and hadn’t had their license revoked, they could skip the driver’s license test section.

After all, if you could think about adhering to traffic rules and reaching the destination without any collisions in such a situation, you basically wouldn’t need another driver’s license test segment.

But if the protagonist was seriously injured or died, or if their license was permanently revoked, the protagonist would change to their younger brother or sister.

The specific gender depended on the gender registered on the player’s Tenda Games account, enhancing the sense of immersion.

Zhang Yan was speechless and instantly felt the urge to delete her character and start over.

Wasn’t this a rip-off?

They didn’t tell her at the beginning that she had to follow traffic rules in the game, but crashing resulted in such huge losses?

But on second thought, she couldn’t blame the game developers because they hadn’t encouraged racing—it was her own instinct to think it was a racing game.

And after checking, Zhang Yan found that reaching the end with zero accidents from the start would indeed avoid some losses, but the difference between that and this worst-case starting situation wasn’t insurmountable—a few more hours of play could make up for it.

Trying to drive the entire course safely without any accidents was quite difficult and tedious. Replaying it might not be very appealing to viewers.

The viewers obviously preferred watching the driving test.

“Fine, fine, let’s experience the driving test first.”

“I can’t believe I’m taking a driving test in a racing game, this is really…”

Zhang Yan looked at her direct drive steering wheel, the all-metal pedals that simulated realistic foot feel with vibration, and the cool G-force seat, feeling that the style seemed quite incongruous.

The cool peripherals didn’t match the game at all!

But there was nothing she could do—if the viewers wanted to watch her take a driving test, then she would take it!

First item: backing into a parking space.

There are slight differences in driving tests between different cities, and even between different test sites in the same city. For example, the backing into a parking space item might be first or it might come later.

The game followed the local Jingzhou driving test, although the items were basically the same across locations, with minor variations.

Ten minutes later.

“Backing into parking space, vehicle crossed the line, 100 points deducted, test failed, please keep trying.”

Zhang Yan silently stared at the computer screen, her expression frozen.

She had used up both her chances on backing into a parking space!

This situation was completely unexpected for her.

When she had taken her real driving test, she had passed Subject 2 on the first try.

She never expected to fail in a game!

Of course, the reason wasn’t the game but herself.

When she took her driving license test before, the driving school instructor had taught her to look at various lines, and she had memorized the parking procedure; whereas when driving her own car, she always used the backup camera.

But the test car in the game didn’t have a backup camera at all, nor any of the various lines the instructor had taught, so she simply couldn’t do it!

Backing into a parking space in the game basically relied entirely on raw skill—watching the left and right rearview mirrors to determine the wheels’ trajectory, then comparing with the parking space lines, adjusting the steering wheel angle, and backing in without stopping.

Moreover, Zhang Yan realized that backing into a parking space wasn’t the only difficult part—the later items wouldn’t be easy either!

For example, the S-curve—if you remembered the mnemonics taught by the instructor, finding the points and lines, knowing in advance how much to turn the wheel, it would be easy. But without these mnemonics, relying entirely on feel to make turns, the difficulty would be much greater!

Furthermore, Zhang Yan was using a steering wheel and pedals.

The steering precision of the wheel was much higher than keyboard, mouse, and controller, and the pedals could control the car’s speed at the optimal level needed.

How could someone pass Subject 2 with a controller or keyboard?

Wasn’t this ridiculous?

No wonder some viewers had previously commented that this game was very unfriendly to keyboard, mouse, and controller. The operations required for the driving test weren’t operations that could be easily performed with a keyboard, mouse, or controller!

As the streamer made a series of ferocious operations only to fail Subject 2 at lightning speed, the streaming room’s comments were filled with a joyful atmosphere.

“Wow, a driving game that’s harder than driving in real life?”

“Starting with a crash death and immediately switching characters is too funny!”

“I suddenly feel like this game might be quite fun. I’ll get one and challenge myself!”

“The steering wheel is indeed much better than a controller. You all think the streamer is bad for crossing the line, but with a controller, I can’t even drive into the parking space at all! No more talk, I’m also getting a steering wheel package to play!”

Seeing these comments, Zhang Yan was completely bewildered.

What was going on?

Shouldn’t they be discouraged? Why did everyone seem to have developed a strong interest in this game?