Chapter 466: Really Overthinking It
Tang Jinghuan chuckled, "It's me, now you can rest easy, right?"
Gao Yuanzhong laughed, "Rest easy, of course I'm at ease, and please you be at ease too. I'll have someone catch Xu Yang back immediately!"
After hanging up the phone, he immediately called his subordinates, "Did you guys just let the criminal Xu Yang get away?"
This subordinate was the captain who led the airport police to rescue Xu Yang, capturing Duan Tianhua and a few others, and saved Xu Yang.
Upon hearing Gao Yuanzhong's words, the subordinate's expression chilled, not even knowing how to respond.
How did the hostage become a criminal suspect?
Without hearing a response from the subordinate, Gao Yuanzhong knew the other party's mind was still not wrapping around the situation, so he explained, "The person you caught just now is my informant, that hostage Xu Yang, he is the criminal. Where is he now?"
Only then did the subordinate realize, "He has left, someone came to pick him up."
Gao Yuanzhong immediately panicked, this was a matter that concerned whether he could advance even further in his career. He said urgently, "Then you quickly take people and chase him down, you absolutely can't let him escape, I'll be right back!"
He hung up the phone and immediately flagged down a taxi.
As he opened the door and was about to get in, a young woman came over and blocked him, one hand clutching her abdomen, pleading with a pained expression, "Brother, I'm not feeling well, I need to go to the hospital. Can you let me have the taxi? If not, we can share the ride, I'm just going to the nearby hospital, it won't delay your business at all.
No matter where you're going, I'm willing to pay for the ride, what do you say?"
The moment Gao Yuanzhong heard this, he became furious.
Who do you think you are, trying to take my taxi?
I hold an important position and am out to catch someone.
If you delay me catching the person, you're preventing me from moving up the ladder!
Also, do I look like I need your cab fare when I make a million a year?
Without saying another word, Gao Yuanzhong pushed the young woman to the ground, got into the cab first, slammed the door shut, took out his phone, and said to the taxi driver, "Don't use the meter. I'll give you three hundred to get to the airport police station as quickly as possible."
The taxi driver gave Gao Yuanzhong a sideways glance, "From here to the airport, the meter would already be close to three hundred. You want me to hurry for just three hundred, what are you thinking?"
The place was indeed quite far from the airport, but it shouldn't be that much money.
Two hundred would be sufficient; the driver would be making an extra hundred.
The taxi driver saw that Gao Yuanzhong was in a rush, so he planned to fleece him.
An opportunity like this rarely comes by, to not fleece is to waste, and if you do, it's well worth it.
Gao Yuanzhong was taken aback, realizing the driver was ripping him off, but he had no choice at the moment and could only say, "I'll give you five hundred!"
The taxi driver smiled, "Five hundred won't do, it's eight hundred!"
"You..." Gao Yuanzhong was so angry his nose was askew, thinking to himself how he normally used an official car for transportation and wasn't used to this kind of treatment. He could have the taxi driver arrested, but now wasn't the time to argue with the driver. He could only bite the bullet and say, "Fine, eight hundred it is!"
The taxi driver said, "Pay up front, cash or scan?"
Gao Yuanzhong said indignantly, "Scan!"
The taxi driver took out his phone, opened the WeChat payment QR code, "Scan this code!"
This was a private deal, and he couldn't use the cab's payment code, only his personal one.
Gao Yuanzhong was livid, but he scanned the code anyway.
"Sit tight, I will take you to the airport police station as quickly as possible!"
The driver, seeing the payment had come through, smiled contentedly and immediately drove off.
The young woman who had been pushed down by Gao Yuanzhong showed a pained expression before she eventually fainted.
Passersby, fearing that she might be a scam artist specializing in staging accidents, none dared to help her.
Later, a young man saw her and, feeling uneasy on his conscience, helped the young woman to a shady spot by the roadside and then called for an ambulance.
After a while, the young woman regained consciousness and, seeing someone help her and remembering the scene of being pushed to the ground, couldn't help but cry silently.
The young woman was beautiful, and seeing her cry like that, she looked truly pitiable.
The young man had a hard time seeing women cry, especially a beautiful woman crying, so upon seeing her tears, he couldn't bear it and quickly asked, "Beautiful lady, don't cry. Have you run into some trouble? Speak out; if I can help, I will."
The young woman sobbed twice, wiped her tears, and then said, "It's not that I've encountered any trouble. I just felt unwell earlier and wanted to take a cab to the hospital, but then someone pushed me to the ground, and somehow, I passed out. Thank you, if it weren't for you saving me, I don't know what I would have become."
Hearing this, the young man's sense of justice was stirred.
He thought to himself what kind of era we were living in that there were still such unprincipled people.
To push such a beautiful woman to the ground, that's simply inhuman!
He looked around, then pointed at the convenience store nearby and said, "That convenience store definitely has surveillance. Let's check the footage and find the person who pushed you down. I will make sure they pay for what they've done!"
With that, he took the woman to the convenience store.
After some negotiation, they obtained the surveillance video.
In the video, all that could be seen was a middle-aged man with a beer belly, wearing a white shirt, pushing the young woman down.
No worries, the netizens nowadays are experts.
Even if only a fingertip of the middle-aged man was captured, they'd be able to find the person!
Consequently, the young man immediately logged into his Douyin account and uploaded the video.
He worked in internet company operations and promotion.
Using his professional skills, he had the video shared across over a hundred associated accounts.
"Thank you," the young woman said to the young man, overwhelmed with gratitude.
"No need to be polite. When you're out and about, you help if you can," the young man said dismissively, waving his hand.
Soon, the ambulance arrived, and the young woman left in the ambulance.
Watching the ambulance disappear from sight, the young man couldn't help but imagine his video causing a sensation on Douyin, successfully making it to the trending topics.
Someone would find that middle-aged man, and after being lambasted by netizens, he'd lose his job, suffer social death, and young woman's vengeance would be served.
And the young woman, feeling grateful to him, would keep in touch, and eventually, a romantic relationship would form between them, leading to marriage, children, and a happily ever after!
Feeling excited by these thoughts, the young man returned to his company.
When he checked the video he had posted on Douyin, he found it had barely any views, not to mention trending.
The top trending topic on Douyin featured some new pants worn by a young, fresh-faced celebrity.
Suddenly, the young man felt disheartened, realizing he had expected too much and could only shake his head and throw himself back into work.