Chapter 12: Invitation.
Chen Ze looked at the man sitting next to him, then at the two men sitting in the back row, feeling very strange.
Ever since the three men got on the car, they started staring at him without saying a word, especially at his hands and feet. Chen Ze, who's the one being stared at, was a little irritated.
"What's with these three? Do they have foot fetish? Surely not, I haven't heard of such a weird kink trending recently."
Chen Ze thought in his heart. He really felt that his luck today is bad, of all people, he met these three. At the moment, his only thought was to drive quickly and send the three men off their way as fast as possible.
"Hello, did you happen to drive this car down Yandang Mountain last Monday?" Just then, the man beside Chen Ze suddenly asked.
"Monday?" Chen Ze was stunned.
"Yes, on Monday." The man confirmed.
Chen Ze then recalled that he did go to Yandang Mountain on Monday, that was when he picked up the pregnant woman. It was also the first time he used vehicle god possession.
"Yes, I did in the morning." Chen Ze answered. He felt strange... Why did this man just asked him about this out of nowhere and after such an awkward stare-fest at that.
Hearing Chen Ze's answer, the three immediately got excited. With smiles on their faces, they looked at Chen Ze with burning eyes. Such behaviors made Chen Ze have goosebumps.
Just when Chen Ze thought the three men were going to do something, he suddenly heard the man beside him say, "It's indeed you. We've been looking for you for quite some time now."
"Looking for me?"
"Yes." Seeing the puzzled expression on Chen Ze's face, the man hurriedly explained, "My name is Yang Qi. I am the leader of Yandang Mountain motorcade. We happened to be practicing in Yandang Mountain last Monday and coincidentally saw you. I wonder if you still remember..."
It turned out that this man was Yang Qi. After knowing the identity of Chen Ze last night, he could not help it any longer. He immediately brought the other two to search for Chen Ze.
Although they didn't know Chen Ze at all, they knew his general location and his usual route from the news last night. They've waited here for a long time before finally getting into Chen Ze's car. This is also why they started to observe Chen Ze as soon as they got on. They want to see how Chen Ze manipulates the vehicle.
"Recalling, there is a motorcade indeed."
Chen Ze nodded. He remembered that he did seemed to have passed a motorcade of cars that day, that were driving quite fast. Though, he was in a hurry in sending the pregnant woman to the hospital, so he didn't care much at that time.
After hearing Chen Ze's words, the three got even more excited. Yang Qi said, "After seeing your driving skills that day, we were awed by it. At 8 pm next Friday at Yandang Peak, we will be competing in a race, but the opponent is too strong for us, we hope to invite you and represent our team in this race and win."
In fact, while sitting in this car, Yang Qi could not actually see how good Chen Ze's driving skills were. He even felt that it was average. However, he knew that many experts were very low-key. The person in front of him might be such a kind of person, so he immediately said purpose.
"No." But who knew that Chen Ze would flat out reject his invitation.
"What?" Hearing what Chen Ze said, Yang Qi and the other two froze. They hurriedly asked with some worry, "Mr. Chen Ze, can you tell us why? Do you have something else planned for that day?"
"No, but I don't like competing." Chen Ze shook his head. He knew that this kind of competition, racing, is very dangerous, especially this kind of amateur mountain racing. A race that might lead to an accident.
However, this is not the biggest reason for his refusal. The biggest reason is that the duration for vehicle god possession has already run out. Now he is the most ordinary driver you could see in the streets. He does not have any excellent skills at all and it will only be useless to go there.
Although there's another lottery, the next lottery requires 100 popularity, his current value is still far from reaching 100.
After the news got broadcasted last night, Chen Ze's popularity has indeed increased. But to his gloomy discovery, it didn't increase much, only about 40. Not even half of 100.
He looked through and found that only the local news website reported on him, while the other two did not, the coverage was also only very small.
Originally, this local news website did not even have 100 visitors per day. With such a small coverage, not many people have noticed Chen Ze at all.
Therefore, the increase in popularity greatly fell short of Chen Ze's expectation. The next lottery draw is still far off.
Therefore, in order not to disappoint them, Chen Ze refused directly.
"This... Mr. Chen Ze, please do think about it. This race is really very important to us. Our Yandang Mountain motorcade must not lose. If it is you, we believe we can win. " The two sitting in the back seat also joined in trying to persuade Chen Ze.
"Sorry, I really can't." Chen Ze shook his head and was about to say something when he suddenly heard them say: "This time, we've staked 20,000 yuan with the other team. As long as you can win, the 20,000 will be yours, plus we will compensate you with another 10,000, a total of 30,000 dollars."
"How much?" Chen Ze was stunned.
"Thirty thousand yuan." The three men said in unison, "As long as you can win, the reward for this competition is 30,000."
(I might typo Yuan as dollars sometimes but the meaning is still the same, Chinese dollars=yuan)
In the evening, in Chen Ze's room.
After taking a bath, Chen Ze laid on the bed as he kept mumbling, "Thirty thousand yuan, thirty thousand... Ahhhh... Such a bad fortune, really a pity."
He is still thinking about his meeting with the three people in the morning. Needless to say, the 30,000 yuan is very attractive to the current Chen Ze. After all, he is poor.
But in the end, Chen Ze refused them, as he himself knew that he could not win. However, the three men did not seem to have given up. Before getting off the car, they told Chen Ze to call them if ever he changed his mind. They would be waiting for Chen Ze...
Therefore, Chen Ze is still regretting in his heart. Only if there were still 20 minutes left of vehicle god possession, no, even 15 minutes would suffice.
It just hurts to watch the 30,000 yuan fly away from him when it was within his grasp. It is really too painful for Chen Ze's broke ass to lose such amount of money laid in front of his eyes.
Then he suddenly thought of another possibility: "Looks like I will not only lose money but also the popularity values after the competition, really unfortunate."
With this thought, Chen Ze's heart became more painful. Not only that it's not very easy to find a new way to increase his popularity value, it's also hard to implement them.
With heartache, he opened the system wanting to see how much is his current popularity value. In the morning, it was a little bit more than 40, it's already been a day since the news so it should be about 50 now.
When he checked, it actually reached 65. The growth rate was far above his expectation just now which was lowered before.
"There should be some staying power, this is the key." Chen Ze thought to himself, "It's only Saturday today and my popularity has already reached 65. The match is next Friday. Maybe, just maybe, it can slowly rise to 100 before then, so that I can draw a lottery again."
Chen Ze looked at the man sitting next to him, then at the two men sitting in the back row, feeling very strange.
Ever since the three men got on the car, they started staring at him without saying a word, especially at his hands and feet. Chen Ze, who's the one being stared at, was a little irritated.
"What's with these three? Do they have foot fetish? Surely not, I haven't heard of such a weird kink trending recently."
Chen Ze thought in his heart. He really felt that his luck today is bad, of all people, he met these three. At the moment, his only thought was to drive quickly and send the three men off their way as fast as possible.
"Hello, did you happen to drive this car down Yandang Mountain last Monday?" Just then, the man beside Chen Ze suddenly asked.
"Monday?" Chen Ze was stunned.
"Yes, on Monday." The man confirmed.
Chen Ze then recalled that he did go to Yandang Mountain on Monday, that was when he picked up the pregnant woman. It was also the first time he used vehicle god possession.
"Yes, I did in the morning." Chen Ze answered. He felt strange... Why did this man just asked him about this out of nowhere and after such an awkward stare-fest at that.
Hearing Chen Ze's answer, the three immediately got excited. With smiles on their faces, they looked at Chen Ze with burning eyes. Such behaviors made Chen Ze have goosebumps.
Just when Chen Ze thought the three men were going to do something, he suddenly heard the man beside him say, "It's indeed you. We've been looking for you for quite some time now."
"Looking for me?"
"Yes." Seeing the puzzled expression on Chen Ze's face, the man hurriedly explained, "My name is Yang Qi. I am the leader of Yandang Mountain motorcade. We happened to be practicing in Yandang Mountain last Monday and coincidentally saw you. I wonder if you still remember..."
It turned out that this man was Yang Qi. After knowing the identity of Chen Ze last night, he could not help it any longer. He immediately brought the other two to search for Chen Ze.
Although they didn't know Chen Ze at all, they knew his general location and his usual route from the news last night. They've waited here for a long time before finally getting into Chen Ze's car. This is also why they started to observe Chen Ze as soon as they got on. They want to see how Chen Ze manipulates the vehicle.
"Recalling, there is a motorcade indeed."
Chen Ze nodded. He remembered that he did seemed to have passed a motorcade of cars that day, that were driving quite fast. Though, he was in a hurry in sending the pregnant woman to the hospital, so he didn't care much at that time.
After hearing Chen Ze's words, the three got even more excited. Yang Qi said, "After seeing your driving skills that day, we were awed by it. At 8 pm next Friday at Yandang Peak, we will be competing in a race, but the opponent is too strong for us, we hope to invite you and represent our team in this race and win."
In fact, while sitting in this car, Yang Qi could not actually see how good Chen Ze's driving skills were. He even felt that it was average. However, he knew that many experts were very low-key. The person in front of him might be such a kind of person, so he immediately said purpose.
"No." But who knew that Chen Ze would flat out reject his invitation.
"What?" Hearing what Chen Ze said, Yang Qi and the other two froze. They hurriedly asked with some worry, "Mr. Chen Ze, can you tell us why? Do you have something else planned for that day?"
"No, but I don't like competing." Chen Ze shook his head. He knew that this kind of competition, racing, is very dangerous, especially this kind of amateur mountain racing. A race that might lead to an accident.
However, this is not the biggest reason for his refusal. The biggest reason is that the duration for vehicle god possession has already run out. Now he is the most ordinary driver you could see in the streets. He does not have any excellent skills at all and it will only be useless to go there.
Although there's another lottery, the next lottery requires 100 popularity, his current value is still far from reaching 100.
After the news got broadcasted last night, Chen Ze's popularity has indeed increased. But to his gloomy discovery, it didn't increase much, only about 40. Not even half of 100.
He looked through and found that only the local news website reported on him, while the other two did not, the coverage was also only very small.
Originally, this local news website did not even have 100 visitors per day. With such a small coverage, not many people have noticed Chen Ze at all.
Therefore, the increase in popularity greatly fell short of Chen Ze's expectation. The next lottery draw is still far off.
Therefore, in order not to disappoint them, Chen Ze refused directly.
"This... Mr. Chen Ze, please do think about it. This race is really very important to us. Our Yandang Mountain motorcade must not lose. If it is you, we believe we can win. " The two sitting in the back seat also joined in trying to persuade Chen Ze.
"Sorry, I really can't." Chen Ze shook his head and was about to say something when he suddenly heard them say: "This time, we've staked 20,000 yuan with the other team. As long as you can win, the 20,000 will be yours, plus we will compensate you with another 10,000, a total of 30,000 dollars."
"How much?" Chen Ze was stunned.
"Thirty thousand yuan." The three men said in unison, "As long as you can win, the reward for this competition is 30,000."
(I might typo Yuan as dollars sometimes but the meaning is still the same, Chinese dollars=yuan)
In the evening, in Chen Ze's room.
After taking a bath, Chen Ze laid on the bed as he kept mumbling, "Thirty thousand yuan, thirty thousand... Ahhhh... Such a bad fortune, really a pity."
He is still thinking about his meeting with the three people in the morning. Needless to say, the 30,000 yuan is very attractive to the current Chen Ze. After all, he is poor.
But in the end, Chen Ze refused them, as he himself knew that he could not win. However, the three men did not seem to have given up. Before getting off the car, they told Chen Ze to call them if ever he changed his mind. They would be waiting for Chen Ze...
Therefore, Chen Ze is still regretting in his heart. Only if there were still 20 minutes left of vehicle god possession, no, even 15 minutes would suffice.
It just hurts to watch the 30,000 yuan fly away from him when it was within his grasp. It is really too painful for Chen Ze's broke ass to lose such amount of money laid in front of his eyes.
Then he suddenly thought of another possibility: "Looks like I will not only lose money but also the popularity values after the competition, really unfortunate."
With this thought, Chen Ze's heart became more painful. Not only that it's not very easy to find a new way to increase his popularity value, it's also hard to implement them.
With heartache, he opened the system wanting to see how much is his current popularity value. In the morning, it was a little bit more than 40, it's already been a day since the news so it should be about 50 now.
When he checked, it actually reached 65. The growth rate was far above his expectation just now which was lowered before.
"There should be some staying power, this is the key." Chen Ze thought to himself, "It's only Saturday today and my popularity has already reached 65. The match is next Friday. Maybe, just maybe, it can slowly rise to 100 before then, so that I can draw a lottery again."
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