Jing felt his heart lurch when he felt his tears moving directly up his face as he drove, tracing warm lines up into his hair. His view was no less upsetting. He was looking at Frontline City, a bright city spread over a central island surrounded by a crescent moon area of land. While the city was quite pleasing to look at normally, it was distressing to see it at nearly a mile in the sky and upside down. Pushing down his panic, he pressed on the gas pedal, pushing his car at speeds that didn’t seem to match his speedometer.
“Please turn right in four seconds” said a polite female voice from the console on his dashboard.
Before he was able to pose a question that would only make sense while he was upside down, the voice spoke again: “yes, YOUR right”.
It was at this moment that he noticed that the road in front of him was ending. He took the turn and more impossibly-supported road appeared in front of him. The road reminded him of Rainbow Road from Mario Kart, the main similarity being the terrifying drop and lack of railing on any of what he considered important parts of the road. It was like someone had ripped off a highway, twisted it like taffy and suspended it in the air on strings. He could even see some segments of the road that were destroyed as they were ripped out of the ground.
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“In a moment, slight left, hard right, then your exit will be in front of you”
Jing’s eyes snapped back to the road directly in front of him. What was in front of him looked like a simple enough turn to him. That being said, this would be the first time he made this turn at whatever ludicrous speed he was moving at. He made the slight left, and he realized that there was no way that he was going to make the following right. He stiffened as his car began approaching the edge at an angle that would certainly send him hurtling off this road into the city below him.
“I’ll help you here, just think of digging in as hard as you can”
He wasn’t really sure what the voice meant so he just pressed his body into his seat and held his wheel to the right, when suddenly the wheel suddenly turned in his hands, and the pedals seemed to move on their own for a moment. His car suddenly began turning much harder, creating a terrible screeching sound and he felt himself slamming into the left? side of his car. The view had changed once again, and he was looking at the city once more.
“Creating exit, please re-enter the upright position and find the next exit”
Jing wanted to question the voice again, as he was really unsure how he was going to make the road obey his whim and return upright again, he opened his mouth but his parched mouth made no sound. Before he could swallow and try again, the road began to slowly twist in front of him, revealing to him a familiar looking highway, and following the highway exit. He could see silhouettes on this road, as if ghostly drivers and their cars were driving alongside him. There were enough ghost cars to fill the entire highway.
“Merging will begin in 5… 4… 3…” The voice counted down. At the same time, the cars around him became more opaque, and before the timer finished, Jing found a gap in the ghosts and made his way towards the exit.