Starting to Gain Experience from Push-Ups Chapter 1366 - 660

It’s just past six in the evening.

The afterglow of the sunset is like a spilled orange paint, wantonly smearing across the skyline.

The reflection of the sunset on the car window jumps constantly, casting a yellowish filter over the street ahead.

Fang Cheng griped the steering wheel with one hand, slowly driving out of the congested East City District, heading towards Wanghu Town on the outskirts.

The scenery on both sides of the road gradually transforms from neon-lit glass facades into low houses and dense street trees.

The window is rolled halfway down, and the evening breeze blows softly, thoroughly leaving the hustle and bustle of the city behind.

Earlier, at the intersection leading out of the city, he had already dropped off Ma Donghe and Hou Peng at their respective residences.

Now, with the car devoid of the chatter from those two guys, the cabin feels much more peaceful.

As the vehicle enters the tree-lined road leading to Wanghu Town, the wind blowing into the car begins to carry a touch of moist water vapor.

Gazing through the gaps in the trees into the distance, the vast Yulong Lake appears like a smooth mirror.

The evening clouds reflected on the lake surface are shattered by the evening breeze, turning into a dazzling patch of shimmering light.

The evening rush in the town is entirely different from the city, characterized by an utter lack of order.

An electric tricycle loaded with old cardboard wobbles down the motor lane, while bicycles, ringing their bells, weave through the gaps between cars at will.

A few children, just out of school with backpacks on their shoulders, new skewers in hand, chase and play as they abruptly cross the road.

"Screech—"

An ear-piercing screech of brakes sounds instantly, the van beside them slams on the brakes abruptly.

The driver sticks his head out furiously, shouting all sorts of curses at the running kids.

This kind of road condition is especially torturous.

Most private cars ahead and behind move in a stop-and-go fashion, engines revving up stiffly at startup, braking suddenly.

Despite the chaotic conditions, Fang Cheng drives with exceptional ease.

After his Driving Skill reached the Expert Level, this Land Rover SUV seemed to become an extension of his body.

He doesn’t even need to deliberately turn to check blind spots; just through the vibrations from the chassis and the noise feedback from the environment, his brain can instantly map out the optimal driving route.

Fang Cheng casually flicked the steering wheel, lightly tapping the accelerator with his foot,

The massive body of the vehicle glided through tricycles, pedestrians, and haphazardly weaving electric vehicles like a loach in water.

Every lane change to avoid obstacles and every acceleration overtake is performed with precise accuracy between narrow margins, never resulting in a scrape.

The entire driving process was smooth and steady, devoid of any sense of jolt.

Fang Cheng’s lips curved slightly, as he looked at the semi-transparent panel only visible to himself.

[Skill Effect: Driving Intuition]

[You have a natural affinity for any machine defined as a "vehicle."]

[Upon contact with a vehicle, you can decode its mechanical state and perfectly familiarize yourself with its performance limits in a fraction of the time it takes an ordinary person. During driving, your senses and the vehicle become deeply integrated, allowing you to anticipate driving paths and potential dangers intuitively.]

This is the extraordinary effect gained upon the "Driving" skill reaching Expert Level.

From the city all the way down the road, Fang Cheng has truly experienced the actual effectiveness of this ability.

Through the subtle vibrations transmitted by the steering wheel and the low-frequency roar of the engine, he can instantly ascertain the health status of the vehicle.

Where the gears are overly worn, where the oil supply pressure is unstable, even where the bottleneck of power output lies, he knows it all clearly.

When cornering, he can distinctly feel every subtle shift in the vehicle’s center of gravity and the grip limit of the four tires on the ground.

During acceleration, he knows exactly how to extract the last ounce of power from this machine without causing the engine to blow up.

Just now, when passing through a construction section filled with potholes, he didn’t slow down and bash through recklessly.

Instead, he used the kinetic energy feedback from the suspension to quickly counter-steer and control the throttle with precision, forcibly altering the vehicle’s force balance point, thereby offsetting most of the bumps.

Even piloting this slightly cumbersome off-road SUV, he managed to drive it with the silky smoothness of a luxury sedan worth millions.

Fang Cheng feels that with his current driving skills, he should be qualified to compete in world-class rallies and earn a decent position.

If combined with his extraordinary sensory perception, his brain can even further draw the optimal passing route in his vision based on car speed, road width, and the movement trajectory of surrounding objects.

This ability is almost equivalent to having a top-tier intelligent driving assistance system built-in.

If he ever encounters adversaries in a car chase in the future, Fang Cheng is fully confident that he could easily lose the pursuer using various terrain blind spots and sightline blockages, leaving them struggling to even catch a glimpse of his taillights.

Speaking of which, this skill effect is somewhat similar to Xu Fei’s ability.

However, Xu Fei’s ability is more inclined towards modifying and controlling all mechanical instruments, whereas Fang Cheng is entirely focused on vehicles.

Fang Cheng stared at the word "vehicle" on the panel, his thoughts gradually drifting afar.

The definition of this term seems rather broad.

Vehicles are not limited to just cars.

Since he possesses affinity towards related mechanical creations,

Does this mean that in the future, regardless of whether it’s piloting an airplane, speedboat, ship, or even mech suits in sci-fi, he could operate them as effortlessly as he drives now?

The image of controlling complex machinery unavoidably emerges in Fang Cheng’s imagination, filling his heart with a sense of anticipation.

A dozen minutes later, the SUV turns into the familiar cobblestone street.

The shop selling cooked food on the roadside lights up with a dim yellow bulb, the sound of chopping meat on the cutting board echoes through the car window to his ears.