"How did this happen?" Li Juezhou unbuckled his seatbelt and leaned over from the passenger seat to check the dashboard, but saw no warning signs of any faults.
Sang Ning unbuckled her seatbelt and jumped out of the car. Li Juezhou followed suit, getting out as well. The two circled around the vehicle for inspection but couldn't find any issues. Finally, Li Juezhou opened the hood, checked the engine, then shook his head at Sang Ning: "Looks like there's a problem with the engine. The car just slowed down instead of overturning—we're lucky."
Sang Ning raised a hand to shield her face from the sun and looked into the distance. She could see the other three groups' cars had already reached the finish line. She sighed but sounded somewhat relieved: "See? I told you the production crew was unreliable. It's fortunate we were the ones driving this car. Imagine if it had been another group—they wouldn't know what hit them."
