I Won First Place in the Steel City Test Drive

Retired test pilot Tang Xu wants to qualify for an authorized repair station, but the only machine he can afford is a scrapped rescue craft with delayed brakes. The competition is scored on speed, damage, energy consumption, and rescue performance. The old No. 7 has no hidden System, and the new machines competing against it won't give an inch. Tang Xu's first task isn't to make it faster, but to make sure it can stop reliably. From the scrapyard to public test runs, he uses every verifiable repair and every real result to put his name back in first place.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Please do not imitate.