Journey 1995:Non-Stop

Chapter 433 Intercepting my bid?

The two cars left Heng Hui Company together. As soon as Yan Hui got in the car, he made a phone call, planning to have a meeting with the tile factory in the car to discuss the recent sales situation.

This is a development zone, the roads are quite wide, and the car was driving fast and steadily. Soon, it passed several intersections and reached a ramp onto the highway. Yan Hui's car continued to drive fast and steadily, quickly passing through the ETC lane. (Shandong Province was among the first to use ETC in 2008.)
Yan Hui had just gotten on the highway when driver Li Pengfei's phone rang.

Li Pengfei listened for only a few words before handing the phone to Yan Hui. Yan Hui, realizing something was amiss, hung up the phone with the people at the tile factory and picked up the phone Li Pengfei had given him.

"Tell Mr. Yan to hurry up and take another route," the voice said urgently, followed by the sound of breaking glass, and then the phone was forcibly disconnected.

"What's going on?" Yan Hui looked at his phone. "Was this a call from Sun Lei?"

As he spoke, Yan Hui immediately looked through the rear window: "Why didn't Sun Lei follow us? Was he robbed?"

“He didn’t follow me at the last red light, and I was thinking of getting on the highway to wait for him. Now I feel like he’s been blocked by someone!” Li Pengfei has worked on construction sites for many years and has been a driver for several years. He’s heard of similar things before, but this is the first time he’s encountered one.

"They've blocked the road?" Yan Hui realized in an instant. "They mistook that BMW for mine? Huh? Call the police right away. I'll notify the company's security department to come and rescue him immediately. Quick, turn around, we're going back to rescue him."

"Mr. Yan, this is a highway, there's no way to turn around. Will blocking the construction site cause any harm to people?" Although Li Pengfei said this, he still slowed down.

Although Yan Hui and Li Pengfei had never encountered bid-rigging themselves, they had all heard of it. To win a bid, many people would stop at nothing. This included coercion, bribery, beatings, intimidation, and all sorts of disgusting underhanded tactics. Not long ago, Yan Hui even heard that a boss who was bidding had someone climb over the wall to his competitor's office a day in advance to burn the bid documents, only to later discover that the wrong documents had been burned.

"Human life is at stake. There aren't many cars on the highway. Turn around and go back! We don't need the bid anymore, saving lives is the priority!" Yan Hui gave the order.

Upon hearing this, Li Pengfei didn't waste any words. He immediately stepped on the brakes, checked that there were no cars behind him, made a U-turn on the highway, and drove back against the flow of traffic in the emergency lane.

“Just drive through the checkpoint. If you break the barrier, it’s on me. Call the traffic police at the highway entrance to help. I’m calling the police now. You drive carefully. Also, it’s okay if your driver’s license is revoked for driving against traffic; you can retake the test.” Yan Hui spoke quickly, holding two phones. One was for Liu Jianlei in the company’s security department, and the other was for 110.

Because the car had only been on the highway for a short time, and Li Pengfei had been pressing the accelerator hard, Yan Hui exchanged a few words with him, and the car had already arrived at the toll station.

Without considering the possibility of ineffective communication, Li Pengfei smashed through the barrier and ran the checkpoint, opening the car window and shouting, "There's a robbery up ahead! Call the traffic police! Traffic police, follow me!"

After saying that, Li Pengfei stepped on the gas, and the 3.5-liter engine instantly gained full power, rushing down the ramp against the flow of traffic.

No one could be faster than Yan Hui's car. Neither the police nor the security personnel could be faster than Yan Hui, because Yan Hui had just driven this road and knew the exact location; he was very close.

Soon, Li Pengfei and Yan Hui saw the situation on the ramp.

There were three vans blocking the BMW in the middle. The windows were smashed and the trunk was open. Several people were pulling Sun Lei to the side of the road, threatening and scolding him.

“Hit them.” Yan Hui pointed at the group of people.

Li Pengfei had followed Yan Hui for a long time and always carried out Yan Hui's orders without question. He immediately charged towards those people. It was already outrageous for a Mercedes to be driving in the wrong direction on this road, and to crash into it directly would terrify everyone. The men who had been so aggressive immediately jumped and ran away. Even so, one person was still pushed several meters away by the car—Li Pengfei wasn't driving particularly fast.

The car braked suddenly, then started moving again and crashed into other people.

Li Pengfei was a very skilled driver. He managed to push the car's performance to its limits in this kind of place. After a few rounds, he cleared a huge space, scaring away several people.

At this moment, Li Pengfei stopped the car next to Sun Lei and rolled down the right window: "Get in the car quickly!"

Sun Lei was beaten, but his arms and legs were fine, only his face was bloody. He immediately opened the car door and got in.

In that short time, at least seven or eight people surrounded him, all carrying weapons. Li Pengfei didn't care about any of them. He stepped on the gas and roared into the crowd, hitting two or three people. Then he slammed on the brakes, shifted into reverse, and stepped on the gas again.

The column shifter was incredibly convenient at this moment; Li Pengfei had never enjoyed driving so much before.

Li Pengfei wanted to continue for another round, but then he saw that the people had started to run away. He looked in the rearview mirror and saw that two traffic policemen were already approaching on motorcycles.

"Pengfei, stop the car. Come with me and catch them. We'll apprehend as many as we can!" Yan Hui unbuckled his seatbelt and was the first to jump out of the car.

Although Li Pengfei pressed the accelerator hard, the ramp was so narrow that he couldn't accelerate at all, so the people who were hit were actually not seriously injured and were struggling to run away.

The traffic police are here, and the police won't be far behind. If these people don't run now, they'll miss their chance.

Yan Hui didn't care about all that. He hadn't made a move in years. Did they really think he was just a businessman?

One of the men tried to get up and run, but Yan Hui rushed forward and punched him several times until he saw stars and collapsed to the ground. He then ran forward again, caught up with the second man, jumped up and punched him, knocking the reckless thug to the ground.

Yan Hui felt satisfied with the punch, and his subconscious thought was to send some gifts to his master when he went home next time. However, his feet didn't let up, and he ran for several dozen more steps. When he found that the group had already gathered together, he knew the principle of not pursuing a cornered enemy, so he stopped.

A traffic policeman on a motorcycle had already followed. He stopped his motorcycle and shouted, "Don't move!"

Yan Hui wasn't worried about that. He took a few breaths and said, "I'm a member of a certain association in our district. These people are planning a robbery. We should control as many as we can as possible."

The traffic policeman was taken aback by Yan Hui's imposing manner. Although he didn't know if Yan Hui's words were true or false, he could tell that there was something wrong with the people running. He immediately rode his motorcycle to chase after them, shouting "Don't move!" as he did so.

Two or three people were so frightened that they stopped running, but the rest continued to run, and the traffic police did not give chase.

(End of this chapter)