"You think you’re something special just because you have money? Compared to the value of life, your money is nothing but a piece of stinky toilet paper!" The young man added another remark that was quite sharp.
"Heh!" Chu Qingxue sneered, "So what are your demands? You won’t let us take him to the hospital, and you don’t want money either!"
It was obvious that this was a scam! They were clearly just stalling Chu Qingxue’s time.
"Sis, should we let the security handle this? Just clear the way; we’re running out of time!" Chu Xuanyu suggested.
"Hmph, you brat, you want to start a fight? How’s that? You’ve pushed people around to this extent! Fellow villagers, can we agree to this?" The young man shouted back at the crowd.
The response was a thunderous shout. It turned out that most of the onlookers behind were his people, blocking Chu Qingxue and her company’s path completely!
Chu Qingxue’s frown deepened as she glanced at Chu Xuanyu helplessly.
Chu Xuanyu also felt speechless. This scam was just too obvious. No, it was too domineering!
"We can negotiate. I think we should first take the elderly person to the hospital, and then we can discuss slowly. Look, he’s about to pass out!" Chu Qingxue said in a negotiable tone.
But the young man flat-out refused, "What? You’re planning to run away?"
She had never seen such a shameless and troublesome person. She felt like a scholar encountering soldiers, unable to reason with them, and wished she could just take off her high heels and smack him with them.
"You’re not going anywhere! The reporters are coming soon. We must get an explanation!" The young man spoke up again.
Chu Qingxue then realized she had underestimated the other side. They were not only blocking the way and delaying time but had also called reporters to expose the incident and try to damage Chu Corporation’s reputation.
"Sis, to deal with such ruffians, let’s just call the security to break through directly! Security!" Chu Xuanyu suggested once more. Chu Qingxue didn’t speak, which was taken as tacit consent.
Immediately, the security team advanced to force their way through, with Du Ziteng and a few at the forefront, showing a disregard for life and death.
"They’re fighting, brothers, charge!"
Upon the young man’s shout, all of a sudden, a large group of people rushed forward, confronting the security team.
The suppressed atmosphere had a tendency to spark a massive riot!
"Make way! Don’t you care that someone’s been hit! The car was speeding too, eighty miles an hour!"
Just as the tension between both sides was about to erupt, a voice familiar to all of Chu Corporation’s people could be heard.
Riding a moped, Ye Chenfeng!
This was the first thought that popped into everyone’s head.
Suddenly, a bicycle burst out from the crowd, speeding so fast that the rattling noise it made was the least of the concerns. It moved so swiftly that the eye could barely catch its shadow, as streaks of afterimages flitted across the retina.
Immediately, a big crowd was startled, scattering in all directions, automatically clearing a path.
However, Ye Chenfeng did not slow down at all. Instead, he pedaled even faster, heading straight for the elderly person lying on the ground.
"Old man, get out of the way, or you’ll be run over!" Ye Chenfeng shouted wildly, but the trajectory of his bicycle didn’t change at all.
An astonishing scene unfolded. Just as Ye Chenfeng hit the man with his bicycle, the supposedly dying old man rolled up from the ground and darted aside with the speed of a hundred-meter sprint. His movements were as agile as a monkey, probably faster than most of the young people present.
Seeing this scene, everyone was stunned, yes, everyone, including the staff of the Chu Corporation, the young punks, and the onlookers.
Wasn’t he just at death’s door about to kick the bucket? How could he still run away so nimbly?
A big question mark rose in everyone’s minds.
Ye Chenfeng, speeding over, fiercely tapped the ground with the tip of his right foot and yanked the handlebars to the left. The sharp sound of screeching brakes filled the air, and the motorcycle performed a drift, coming to a stable stop after a 180-degree turn, leaving a black semicircular mark on the street, a clear sign of the tires’ intense friction with the ground.
"Ah, running so fast?" Ye Chenfeng commented.
The commotion caused by Ye Chenfeng allowed everyone to come to their senses. They all looked at Ye Chenfeng and then turned their gaze back to the old man.
At this moment, the old man had a gigantic confused expression, looking bewildered at the swarming crowd, utterly at a loss.
"I... I..." The old man wanted to play dead again, but something felt off, and he ended up speaking gibberish, getting tangled up in his own words.
"Damn, it was a scam all along! Catch him! Hand him over to the police!" Chu Xuanyu shouted.
"Go!" Du Ziteng and the others pounced.
But once the old man realized what was happening, he bolted. His speed was such that he could have ranked in a 100-meter dash, truly like a gust of wind!
When everyone turned to look at the young punks again, they had also vanished without a trace.
"So it was a scam all along? There are too many scammers in the Divine Land nowadays!"
"Yeah, and the act was so convincing, he even fooled me!"
"I said it, that girl is too pretty and kind-hearted, she’s not that kind of person!"
"Give me a break, you were the one saying she was venomous just a moment ago!"
The onlooking crowd, once again, began to buzz with conversation. Qingxue shook her head with a smile, such incidents were all too common in the Divine Land.
"Ye Chenfeng, you’ve earned your stripes today, I’ll give you a bonus when we get back!" Chu Qingxue gave an appreciative glance at Ye Chenfeng and his old motorcycle.
With this antique, Ye Chenfeng had now helped her twice, and Qingxue was both crying and laughing about it.
"Mr. Jiang, Ah Xiang has failed! ..." In the Thousand Lakes District, Think Tank immediately received the news of the failed scam.
"What? A cyclist just happened to pass by and scared the old man off?" Jiang Qi’s face was full of disbelief.
Think Tank nodded: "Yes!"
"Trash, send Knife in!" said Jiang Qi, his face darker than ever.
Think Tank glanced cautiously at Jiang Qi: "Should we send Bitter Ghost to give some support?"
"No need, just a bunch of lousy guards. If Knife and his team can’t handle these guards, they may as well be dead!"
"Alright!" Think Tank nodded in response.
What left Chu Qingxue speechless was that Ye Chenfeng really behaved like one of the passing crowd, just passing by without saying a word to her and riding away.
This time, Ye Chenfeng didn’t disappear; instead, he quietly followed behind the convoy.
"Sis, we can finally breathe a sigh of relief!" Having left the city, the car headed toward the coastal highway leading to the Thousand Lakes District. Chu Xuanyu couldn’t help but relax.
Chu Qingxue, however, shook her head: "It’s not that simple. They certainly have other tricks up their sleeve; we’d better remain cautious!"
"Okay!" Chu Xuanyu nodded and then picked up the walkie-talkie: "Everyone, stay alert and watch your surroundings!"