Substitute Driver's Notes

Chapter 53 It turns out, I'm a coward at heart.

Years later, Li Wei still remembered Boss Bian's eyes, which went from shrewd to mad in a single moment.

With large trucks roaring in front and behind, Li Wei, with his sharp eyes, spotted the flashing police lights from afar, but the trucks in front and behind showed no sign of stopping.

The glass was rolled down a crack, and one could vaguely hear the cursing mixed in with the wind.

Soon, Boss Bian's car approached the checkpoint. It was a gentle uphill slope, with three road maintenance vehicles parked outside the roadbed. From a distance, several people in uniform could be seen running back and forth with flashing batons, waving them at the roaring trucks on the road and shouting sternly, "Stop! Stop! Stop now!"

Occasionally, when a vehicle is traveling at a slower speed, they will rush forward without regard for anything else, attempting to forcibly block it with their own bodies. Some vehicles will swerve to avoid them, while others will accelerate straight ahead. At this point, they will jump off the roadside and point at the truck, shouting insults.

Li Wei's heart was pounding. These guys were really risking their lives! Was it worth it? Just as he was about to speak, the truck pulled up, and a young man in a green uniform waved a baton at Boss Bian, gesturing for him to pull over.

Boss Bian snorted coldly, lifted the accelerator to slow down, and kept switching between high and low beams. Seeing this, the young man took a few steps to the middle of the road, stood in front of the car, waved his hands, and shouted loudly to stop.

Suddenly, Boss Bian downshifted and turned off the lights, while simultaneously slamming on the gas pedal to accelerate.

The engine suddenly roared wildly, its speed increased, and as if carrying its master's will, it crashed into the young man with irresistible force.

Using the headlights of other vehicles, Li Wei clearly saw the despair on the young man's face and couldn't help but exclaim, "Holy crap! Stop the car! Are you crazy?"

Fortunately, the checkpoint was on a gentle uphill slope. The truck was too heavily loaded, and even with Mr. Bian's excellent skills, he couldn't ignore the laws of physics. The truck was traveling at less than 40 km/h, but even at that speed, the inertia of the 160-ton weight made it impossible for one person to stop it.

An old road maintenance worker stood by the roadside, watching the young man attempt to physically block the truck. Instead of stopping, the truck accelerated, and the young man, perhaps because his legs were weak, showed no sign of running away.

He rushed over in an instant, and when the distance between the man and the vehicle was about ten meters, he grabbed the young man and threw him back to the roadside. He then jumped off the road embankment.

Perhaps it was the wind from the truck, or perhaps they jumped too fast, but both of their hats fell off onto the road. Li Wei turned his head to look, and in an instant, both hats were flattened by the rolling wheels.

The old fox's words echoed in Li Wei's ears: "This Boss Bian is a ruthless man."

Wang Fuyou also said: This job is good, very profitable, as long as you can buy good routes.

Damn! It's true that temporary workers are unreliable, otherwise how could such a terrible thing suddenly happen?

By the way, the old hand said, we're just employees, so we should talk less, or the boss won't pay us.

Li Wei's heart was pounding, but he sat calmly, listening to the engine breathing heavily as the car gradually slowed down due to the uphill climb.

Not far past the checkpoint, Boss Bian pulled a walkie-talkie from the windshield and shouted, "Has everyone made it through?"

After a while, a voice came through the walkie-talkie: "I'm coming."

"I've come too."

Boss Bian laughed wildly: "Good, we've won!"

Perhaps angered by the trucks that were trying to break through the checkpoints, a Jinbei van used by road administration officers caught up with them as they approached the top of the hill. Ignoring everyone else, it drove directly to the left front of the trucks and fixed its sights on Boss Bian.

The car window rolled down, and two heads popped out from the right side of the Jinbei van, pointing at Boss Bian. At the same time, the car's loudspeaker started broadcasting in a commanding tone, ordering Boss Bian to stop the car.

Li Wei glanced out the window of the Jinbei van and saw the two men whose hats had been crushed, pointing at the truck and saying something.

Boss Bian let out a strange cry, picked up the walkie-talkie, and shouted, "I'm being watched!"

After saying that, he threw down the walkie-talkie, gripped the steering wheel tightly with both hands, turned his head left and right, and stared wide-eyed.

The Jinbei van was driving in the overtaking lane, gradually squeezing to the left, intending to force Boss Bian to stop.

But Boss Bian showed no intention of stopping; he blocked the lane and sped off.

The Jinbei van tried several times, then drove in front of the truck and braked to slow down, testing whether it could make Boss Bian hesitate.

But Boss Bian acted as if he hadn't seen anything, and just kept speeding up like crazy.

A sudden, absurd image flashed through Li Wei's mind: it looked like a giant sea turtle running slowly but resolutely in a straight line, with a nimble little mouse frantically harassing it from side to side.

Perhaps Boss Bian was angry, because as the Jinbei van approached again, he suddenly rolled down the window and roared, "You son of a bitch, come any closer if you dare! If you come any closer, I'll run you over!"

Perhaps the Jinbei van driver was also angered, and the van moved even closer.

An old saying goes: "If you cross the river often, you're bound to get your shoes wet."

Perhaps due to a lack of concentration, the Jinbei van driver was caught on the right side of the truck's rear cargo box.

Li Wei could clearly see in the mirror that the driver and the person in the passenger seat had faces full of despair.

The car horn blared incessantly, and the people inside the Jinbei van frantically shouted for the car to stop, but Boss Bian seemed completely oblivious.

Truly terrified, Li Wei timidly said to Boss Bian, "Boss Bian, someone could die."

"Screw it! If they catch me, they'll fine me to death. I can't live like this. In that case, let's all die!" Boss Bian yelled.

Li Wei broke out in a cold sweat: "Boss, boss, calm down, please calm down. I'm just covering for you, you can't drag me down with you! They're just doing their jobs, they're all struggling to make a living, let them off the hook! Consider it an act of kindness."

After running for a while, Boss Bian seemed to have sobered up a bit. He snorted and said, "I was originally planning to take them to the front, find a place where big trucks are parked by the roadside, and run them over. That would have been too easy for them."

After speaking, Boss Bian swayed the steering wheel left and right, accelerated and decelerated, and the Jinbei van shattered with a bang, then came to a stop crookedly, hugging the curb.

Li Wei peered out and saw that the tires of the Jinbei van had all burst.

Boss Bian looked in the mirror and cursed, "I guess they're scared now, how about that? Don't dare chase us anymore! If they come any closer, I'll send them straight to the Western Paradise."

Li Wei patted his chest to catch his breath: "Their tire blew out."

"Hmph, they wouldn't dare come even if they didn't explode."

Li Wei didn't want to argue. He sat quietly in the passenger seat, his legs trembling slightly. He thought to himself that he had been terrified by this job and that he could never do this kind of work again. It was like playing with his life!

Listening to Boss Bian showing off his driving skills and daring on the walkie-talkie, he was tempting the two bosses to crash into him at will.

The other two were speaking sycophantically over the walkie-talkie, saying they took Da Bian as their role model.

Li Wei made up his mind: no matter how much money he could make, he couldn't do this kind of work.

Actually, deep down I'm an honest and law-abiding person. I get envious when I see others making money, but I really can't abandon my conscience, disregard the lives of others to make money, or blatantly trample on laws and regulations.

Perhaps this is why ordinary people lead ordinary lives.

They were happily exchanging encouraging words when Li Wei suddenly saw in his rearview mirror that two police cars had somehow followed behind the truck.

My goodness! Tonight was so exciting!