The system was set three years in advance, but the universal deities still hadn't arrived.

Chapter 53: Various First-Time Reads on the Highway

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The housekeeper and maid immediately answered the phone, and the obese manager's howling voice came through.

"Boss, the other side is willing to settle and stop causing trouble, but they have to hand over 30 yuan every month."

Hearing this, Ye Li laughed angrily, "They smashed my goods, drove away my customers, and now they want me to hand over 300,000 yuan every month? No way! Let them go to hell!"

Upon hearing the young master's words, the housekeeper and servants quickly advised, "Young master, I know you can't swallow this, but if we don't get the money, we'll lose even more every month. I think we can appease them first, and then find out who's protecting that Boss Wu's superior. Then we can spend a lot of money to send gifts to them, and we won't have to spend this money every month."

After listening, Ye Li gradually calmed down and finally said reluctantly, "Do as you say, and tell Xiao Zheng not to get into a conflict with them."

"Yes, young master." The butler and servant immediately relayed Ye Li's words to the obese manager on the other end of the phone.

While the obese supervisor was on the phone with the housekeeper and maid, Zeng Shen also mingled behind the group of workers and pulled a young worker who was obviously watching the show aside, saying, "What's going on? Who are these people? Why are they so arrogant, asking us for 30 yuan right off the bat?"

"You're new here, aren't you?" the young worker said, looking at Zeng Shen.

Zeng Shen nodded: "I just arrived today."

"No wonder I didn't know. I told you that I heard that our boss, Ye Li, ordered a girl at a dock bar but didn't pay, and even beat up the bar's boss, Wu. As a result, the bar has been sending people over to cause trouble."

"Pfft!" Upon hearing the young worker's words, Zeng Shen couldn't help but burst into laughter.

This attracted the attention of several workers who looked on nervously.

Zeng Shen quickly said, "I'm sorry, I haven't received any professional training. I just can't believe our boss would do something like that—ordering a table, not paying, and even hitting someone."

"Exactly, this is clearly just an excuse the other party is using to deliberately cause trouble."

"That's what the surrounding workers said."

“Yes, there must be some misunderstanding.” Zeng Shen immediately chimed in, though he couldn’t help but feel a little wistful inside.

He never expected that the fake name he casually gave at the dock bar would lead to Ye Li of the Ye family in Yinhai being entangled with that Boss Wu.

"I knew it! Why did Huang Ziliang come all this way with his underlings? It turns out it all started because of me."

Zeng Shen smiled as he thought of what Liu Miao had said yesterday.

"I don't know what happened, but the clients who were poached from us suddenly came to renew their contracts."

"It turns out that I planted willows unintentionally and they grew into lush trees."

The obese manager, after receiving confirmation from above that the money had been agreed to be paid, walked over with renewed confidence, his expression noticeably more relaxed.

Seeing this, Zeng Shen guessed that Ye Li had reluctantly given in.

If I compromise, how am I supposed to farm survival points against the blond thug and his gang?

Moreover, how can one not learn a lesson from extorting others?
Thinking of this, Zeng Shen decided to give Ye Li a chance to vent his anger and make him feel less aggrieved.

Suddenly.

Just as the obese supervisor was about to speak, he suddenly roared, "Damn it, do you thugs think we workers are easy to bully? Brothers, I can't take this anymore. Come with me and let's beat them up. You really think we workers are easy to mess with?"

talking.

Zeng Shen rushed forward and kicked the blond thug to the ground.

[The host, having overcome a stronger opponent, suppressed a third-tier water-element deity, gaining 100 survival points.]

Hearing the familiar notification sound in his ear, Zeng Shen felt a surge of joy.

But the blond thug and his henchmen weren't happy at all; this was a slap in the face, a blatant slap in their face.

In their line of work, saving face is the most important thing.

We agreed to talk things out, but you started hitting me instead.

That's because you don't care about saving face.

Immediately, the blond thug, after being helped up by his underlings, roared angrily, "You guys are so shameless! Brothers, kill them!"

Several hot-tempered workers had long been fed up with this group of thugs. After all, these thugs had beaten them up when they smashed goods before. Now that they saw someone taking the lead, they figured that if things were investigated later, they wouldn't be punished so severely.

Immediately, they roared and charged forward with their weapons.

When the obese manager saw everyone suddenly start fighting, he panicked and tried to say something to stop the fight from continuing.

But the blond thug was the first to hit him, knocking out one of his front teeth with a slap.

But the next second, Zeng Shen, who had activated a double agility boost, kicked the blond thug away. Then Zeng Shen swiftly kicked several other familiar 'old customers'.

Soon.

These thugs were all driven away by Zeng Shen's cheating.

The obese manager covered his mouth, watching the thugs being chased away. He felt no joy whatsoever, and immediately collapsed to the ground. Trembling, he took out his phone and called the middle-aged housekeeper and servant back, saying, "Boss, it's over, it's over, a fight broke out, and they even chased the thugs away."

Ye Li, sitting in his office chair, heard the voice coming from the butler on the phone beside him and immediately stood up, roaring:
"Useless, useless, you are all fucking useless."

And at this time.

An unfamiliar mobile number called his landline.

He wanted to hang up, but then suddenly realized something, hesitated for two seconds, and then answered the call.

On the other end of the phone came Scarface's cold voice.

"It seems Young Master Ye doesn't want this matter to end here. Alright, that's fine."

"No, listen to me," Ye Li said urgently.

But all that could be heard from the landline was the dial tone after the call was disconnected.
Ye Li immediately slumped into his office chair.

As Huang Ziliang and his henchmen fled in disarray, Zeng Shen heard the system notification and quickly retreated behind a container, using invisibility. He then leisurely walked out of the gate of Jinxiwan Wharf and returned to his RV, passing right in front of the obese supervisor.

Zeng Shen opened the driver's cab door, stepped inside, and then revealed himself, saying softly, "Number 1, continue on to Tonghai Xiayang Town."

"Received Master."

The No. 1 Divine Energy Chariot emitted a mechanical sound, then quickly turned around and headed towards the Golden Iron Expressway.

As they approached the Jintie Expressway, the No. 1 Divine Energy Chariot asked, "Master, there is a toll station ahead on the Jintie Expressway. Should we activate stealth mode and try to get through?"

"No, when we're almost there, we'll stop at the window and wait for me to pay the toll before getting on the highway."

"Received, Master."

...

When Zeng Shen took the card from the tollbooth attendant, he pretended to drive and stepped on the gas, slowly leaving the tollbooth and getting onto the highway.

Once on the highway, continue to activate the automatic driving function of the No. 1 Divine Energy Vehicle.

He lay leisurely in the driver's seat, chatting with Xiao Ai to find out what they were up to lately and what they planned to do next, while occasionally replying to messages from Li Yuqing and Liu Miao.

After driving on the highway for more than ten minutes, as we passed a small village next to the highway, a warning sound rang out.

[Danger! Danger! The host is about to trespass into the territory of a third-tier earth-elemental deity. If caught...]

The warning abruptly stopped before it could finish, and then a new notification sounded.

[Host proceeded cautiously and safely through the territory of a third-tier earth-elemental deity. Survival points +1000]

Zeng Shen smiled upon hearing this, "Not bad, I finally triggered the first refresh today. I wonder how many first refreshes this highway trip will trigger."

Just as Zeng Shen was full of anticipation.

The No. 1 Divine Power Chariot drove into a tunnel.

At that moment, another notification sounded in his ear.

[Warning! Warning! The host is about to enter the lair of a mutated earth dragon. Please leave immediately.]

As the divine chariot left the tunnel, a notification sounded.

[The host, with exceptional skill and courage, safely passed through the mutated earth dragon's lair, survival points +1000]

After half an hour.

Another notification sounded.

[Danger! Danger! The host is about to enter a mountain range where a fifth-tier giant ape is sleeping. Please...]

Half a minute later, the Divine Chariot left the highway section that traversed the mountains, and another boosting sound rang out.

[The host calmly passed through the mountain range where the fifth-tier mountain giant ape king was located, without disturbing the area. Survival points +1000]

(End of this chapter)