How A Ride-Hailing Driver Comes To Dominate The World? [EN]: Chapter 17

The Critical Strike Reward: Riverside Villa No. 1—What’s Wrong with a Ride-Hailing Driver Having Some Money?

Yang Chen: “Hello! Police? Please send someone to the entrance of Jing’an Garden immediately. I’ve encountered an idiot.”

Female Passenger: “Hello! Police, help! The ride-hailing driver I’m in is acting like a pervert and wants to kidnap me and take me home to r*pe me!”

About ten minutes later, a police car arrived.

The summer rain came and went quickly, and it had already stopped.

Four police officers walked over and knocked on the window, signaling Yang Chen and the passenger to get out of the car.

Yang Chen immediately opened the door and got out, but the female passenger still refused to get out.

The police officers asked Yang Chen for his driver’s license and ID card, checked them, and returned them to him after confirming everything was in order.

Then, the police officers asked what was going on.

Yang Chen was about to speak when the passenger in the car excitedly shouted, “Police officers, he was acting like a pervert towards me and wanted to take me home to r*pe me.”

The police officers immediately questioned Yang Chen about what was going on.

Just as Yang Chen was about to speak, the female passenger started to roar excitedly again.

Yang Chen shrugged helplessly at the police officers and said, “You can probably guess what’s going on, right?”

The police officers quickly comforted the female passenger, telling her not to get agitated, and then asked Yang Chen to explain what happened.

Yang Chen didn’t want to waste time, so he directly pulled up the surveillance video from the car and showed it to the police.

“I told you to drive upstairs, driver! These shoes I’m wearing are new Hongxing [a popular Chinese sportswear brand] sports shoes. I waited in line for four hours to buy them. If they get wet and dirty, will you compensate me?”

“I don’t care about all that. You’re in the service industry, so you have to satisfy me. I’m very dissatisfied with you right now, understand?”

…

The police officers shook their heads helplessly after watching it.

Then, they gave Yang Chen sympathetic looks.

Yang Chen quickly said, “Officers, you know how helpless I am now, right? Please get her out of the car quickly. It’s rush hour, and she’s wasting my time. I rely on this to make a living, and she’s wasting all my time. Please, officers.”

The police officers immediately stepped forward to persuade the female passenger to get out of the car.

The driver was only responsible for taking her to the destination she set, and there was no way to drive the car upstairs, nor was he obligated to carry her upstairs.

However, the female passenger continued to act unreasonably, saying, “Are you kidding me? I paid for this. Of course, you have to take me home! These shoes, can you see them? Hongxing sports shoes, I waited in line for four hours to buy them. There are puddles everywhere on the ground. If they get dirty or wet, will he compensate me? If he compensates me, I’ll get out of the car and walk upstairs myself. If he doesn’t compensate me, he has to drive me upstairs.”

If it weren’t for their job, the police officers would have wanted to curse.

How did she even live to be this old?

Are the people around her all like this?

If there was even one normal person around her, she wouldn’t be like this.

The police officers quickly said, “This is a car, not an elevator. How can we drive you upstairs? The driver only needs to take you to the destination you set, and he has no other obligations. Understand? Get out of the car quickly and don’t delay his business.”

“I won’t get out of the car! If he doesn’t take me upstairs, I won’t get out of the car! Also, he just said he wanted me to go home with him. Isn’t that acting like a pervert? Aren’t you going to arrest him and put him in jail? Are you biased towards him?” the passenger continued to act unreasonably.

The police officers’ expressions turned serious.

Warned, “Madam, I’m reminding you to watch your words. We have law enforcement recorders filming the entire process, and you will be responsible for what you say. He did say to go home with him, but judging from the context, it can be determined that he was driven crazy by you and said that out of helplessness. There is no evidence to prove or suggest that he had any intention of r*ping you. Therefore, we cannot arrest him based on that one sentence alone. On the other hand, you have been staying in the car and delaying the driver’s business. If you don’t get out of the car, we will have to take coercive measures.”

“Am I easily scared? Come on! Let me see what coercive measures you’ll take!” the female passenger shouted.

The police officer immediately took out pepper spray and warned, “Madam, please get out of the car! This is your first warning!”

Passenger: “I won’t get out! He has to take me upstairs!”

Damn, she’s really persistent.

Police Officer: “Madam, please get out of the car! This is your second warning!”

Passenger: “I just won’t get out! What can you do to me?”

Police Officer: “Madam, please get out of the car! This is your third warning!”

Passenger: “Warn me three hundred times, I still won’t get out of the car! Use whatever you’ve got, if I… Aiya, my eyes, what did you spray? Aiya, my eyes, it hurts!”

The passenger covered her eyes with both hands and wailed. The police officer took the opportunity to get her out of the car.

Afterward, the police officer warned, “Madam, because you are suspected of causing trouble, we need to take you back for investigation!”

Seeing that the weirdo was finally taken out of the car, Yang Chen quickly got in and left the scene.

“Phew…” Yang Chen breathed a sigh of relief.

Every forest has its strange birds [idiom for there are all kinds of people in the world], and with so many people, there are bound to be weirdos.

This time, he really learned something new. He never expected there to be such a silly person in the world.

The rain started to fall heavily again, and there were a lot of people trying to get a taxi.

Before he knew it, Yang Chen had picked up five passengers.

After dropping off the passengers, Yang Chen felt a little dizzy.

He opened his teacup and gulped down the tea inside.

“I need to buy some tea leaves,” Yang Chen said to himself.

At this moment, the platform system gave a reminder.

“Dear driver, we regret to inform you that you have been complained about. Please upload evidence for appeal within 24 hours; otherwise, the platform will default to the customer’s complaint being true. At that time, you will be subject to corresponding penalties.”

Yang Chen quickly uploaded the surveillance video and audio to customer service for review.

At this moment, the platform gave another reminder that the customer had given a bad review.

Yang Chen clicked to take a look, and it was the weirdo who wanted him to drive upstairs who gave the bad review.

“Ding! Congratulations to the host for earning a bad review and complaint through your own efforts. The system rewards the host with 50 grams of Da Hong Pao [a highly prized variety of Chinese oolong tea] tea leaves from the mother tree. Please open the trunk to retrieve the rewarded Da Hong Pao tea leaves from the mother tree.”

“This system is awesome.” Yang Chen was just thinking about buying tea leaves, and now he’s being rewarded with tea leaves.

But this is too little.

How dare the system reward him with a mere 50 grams?

He was familiar with Da Hong Pao, but Yang Chen really didn’t know what kind of tea leaves Da Hong Pao from the mother tree was.

Could it be very precious?

Yang Chen quickly searched online.

Wow, if he hadn’t searched, he wouldn’t have known how shocking it was.

This tea is more expensive than gold.

In 2005, 20 grams of Da Hong Pao tea leaves from the mother tree were auctioned off for a sky-high price of 180,000 [currency not specified, but likely yuan, the Chinese currency], which is equivalent to a price of more than 10,000 per gram. Gold is nothing compared to it.

Since 2007, the country has ordered the cessation of picking Da Hong Pao from the mother tree for sale, and it can only be picked annually in the name of scientific research management.

It’s not easy for the system to get 50 grams.

Yang Chen quickly went to the trunk to retrieve the Da Hong Pao from the mother tree.

The system was quite particular. The 50 grams of tea leaves were divided into 50 small packages, each containing 1 gram.

Yang Chen picked up a small package and smelled it under his nose. Sure enough, the tea fragrance was overflowing.

“This small package is worth more than 10,000, it’s a bit extravagant,” Yang Chen muttered softly.

Anyway, there are 50 packages, so trying one package to taste the flavor isn’t too extravagant, right?

Yang Chen quickly took out his thermos, poured a cup of water, and then poured a small package of tea leaves into it.

Then, he put the lid on the cup and waited for a while before opening it to taste it.

At this moment, his phone gave another reminder.

It turned out that the passenger who demanded to go upstairs was still angry and gave Yang Chen another follow-up review, which was still a bad review, scolding Yang Chen terribly.

“Damn it, she’s got a problem!” Yang Chen couldn’t help but curse.

At this moment, the system gave a reminder.

“Detected that the passenger has given an additional bad review, triggering a critical strike reward. Congratulations to the host for obtaining a Riverside Villa No. 1. Please wait for the delivery at home tomorrow morning. The property rights, keys, and other items will be sent to the host in the form of a delivery.”