Dozens of bus passengers poured in one after another, and the Service Area Hall instantly became much livelier.
Xu Wanli passed by several restaurants, curiously glancing at the prices, thinking about eating something warm later.
The result made him exclaim, “Good heavens!”
A portion of two liang of luosifen was eighteen yuan, and a fried egg was five yuan, adding up to over twenty yuan. Who would be willing to buy that?
With his savings of just over two hundred thousand yuan, he couldn’t even eat…
“Luosifen coming right up.”
The voice that came from beside him made Xu Wanli’s expression stiffen slightly.
He turned his head and saw the man named Xiao Hao, holding two steaming bowls of luosifen, smiling brightly as he handed them to two girls, and they were the deluxe version with eggs.
One fried egg and one boiled egg!
Indeed, whether a commodity is expensive or not depends on the customer’s wallet, not the merchant’s pricing.
“Next life, if I have money, I also want to eat luosifen without screws,” Xu Wanli thought fiercely.
He liked to eat luosifen.
Especially in winter, having a spicy and numbing bowl of luosifen was undoubtedly a pleasure.
But two years ago, when he ordered a ten-yuan luosifen in the factory cafeteria, there was actually a screw inside, a stainless steel one, which caused his molar to break, and he still hadn't had the money to fix it.
Outrageous.
After that, he never dared to eat in the factory again.
“Oh, let’s go to the restroom.”
Some experienced people in the factory said that holding in urine was bad for the kidneys.
The kidneys, which store essence and qi, are the origin of life activities.
When kidney essence and qi are abundant, teeth are firm, hair is thick, and eyes are bright. When kidney qi is deficient, one experiences sore waist and knees, irritability, and difficulty concentrating, just like those guys in the factory in their thirties who would dive into alleys as soon as they got their paycheck, looking listless every day, and whose tents wouldn't stand up in the morning.
It simply harmed a man’s virility.
“Screech—!”
“Bang bang!”
As soon as he reached the restroom entrance, a violent collision sound came from the highway outside.
Car accident?
Xu Wanli recalled unpleasant memories, took two steps back, and looked up.
The fog outside was extremely thick, making it difficult to see clearly from dozens of meters away.
He walked to the entrance and then braved the rain to move about forty meters forward before he could barely see a large truck with its hazard lights on, overturned and lying across the road. A lot of goods were scattered on the ground, and even a sixty to seventy-kilogram wheel had come off, rolling down the road into the Service Area parking lot.
That wheel collided with several parked cars before it stopped.
The entire parking lot was filled with continuous honking!
“Holy crap!”
“That big truck blocked the Service Area exit?!”
“Aishiba, my new palamela!”
“Quick, call an ambulance!”
“Hahaha, finally found a hot topic?”
“…”
The huge commotion startled everyone in the Service Area, who rushed out, dropping whatever they were doing.
Several experienced middle-aged men, upon hearing about the car accident, ran towards the large truck without even opening their umbrellas, to check on the driver’s condition.
The timid ladies were anxious, pulling out their phones to dial emergency numbers, and a few young people were giggling, holding up their phones to the truck, muttering words like “Mile Mountain car accident.”
“Shoot what you mother!”
“Save people!”
The bus driver cursed at the young people gathered to watch the commotion, then frantically ran to get the fault warning sign.
As a driver, he could empathize the most and understood the difficulty of driving long distances overnight.
Therefore, seeing people treating a car accident as a joke, he couldn't help but curse out loud.
“Damn it.”
“Who does he think he is?”
“He’s probably an orphan whose parents were killed in a car accident, looking for attention everywhere.”
The young people who were cursed at returned the glare, looking very displeased.
They were self-media practitioners, and for popular events, regardless of whether the matter was good or bad, or their own stance, they adopted the attitude of taking advantage if they could, and if not, forcing it, dreaming of becoming famous overnight and achieving financial freedom.
Such actions easily offended people.
However, they were not afraid.
What if they offended people?
It was nothing more than seeing who typed faster and who typed slower on the keyboard.
They couldn't possibly come to a real-life confrontation, could they?
“!”
Hearing the words “parents were killed in a car accident,” Xu Wanli’s face turned cold, and he turned to stare at the young man who spoke.
Due to his parents’ incident, he extremely disliked similar remarks.
“What are you looking at…
Crap!
That young man was already displeased.
Seeing another clueless guy staring at him intently, he opened his mouth to curse, but after realizing the other party’s height of nearly 1.8 meters, he wisely changed to cursing inwardly, sheepishly leaning towards his companion, and naturally shifting his gaze.
Among Southerners, a height of 1.8 meters was already considered a rare tall person.
Moreover, Xu Wanli, who had been twisting screws for years, looked thin but actually had very solid muscles.
Plus, his attire, which seemed to have undergone some kind of training…
Most people would not easily provoke him.
“Hmph.”
Xu Wanli snorted coldly.
Too lazy to waste time with the other party, he ran to the overturned truck to help.
The truck was overturned, with the driver’s seat facing down.
The driver inside was conscious, but his body had lost its center of gravity, and one arm was fractured, making him unable to unbuckle his seatbelt.
“Climb on top and open the passenger side.”
“No, the passenger door is deformed and won’t open.”
“Then break the window.”
“Breaking the window requires tools…”
“…”
Seeing that the driver’s injuries were not serious, the men were no longer so anxious and stood in the rain discussing solutions.
Some drivers and passengers who came to deliver umbrellas also joined the discussion.
“I’ll do it,” Xu Wanli said calmly.
The others couldn't help but look over.
Facing everyone’s gaze, he calmly put down his handbag.
Then he took out the white labor gloves from his leather jacket pocket, put them on to prevent being cut by glass, then squatted down, unzipped his handbag, and searched for tools inside: screwdrivers, wrenches, etc., all common tools were available.
Soon, he found a handy tool—a lamb horn hammer.
“Move aside.”
“Swish!”
Without Xu Wanli needing to speak, the people around him, seeing him pull out a lamb horn hammer, tacitly retreated several meters.
In this day and age, who would carry a lamb horn hammer with them?
If he carried a watermelon knife or a baseball bat, they would feel more at ease.
But a lamb horn hammer was different.
The key was Xu Wanli’s skilled movements in putting on gloves, combined with his lowered baseball cap, shiny leather jacket, and unique appearance, which evoked some unpleasant memories for them.
Most of them were in their forties or fifties.
In the past, guys dressed like this were all ruthless and spoke little, splitting watermelons at the slightest disagreement.
It was truly a psychological shadow!
Only a few younger folks, unaware, praised loudly, releasing their natural innocence.
“…”
Xu Wanli also didn’t want to waste words explaining.
He held the lamb horn hammer and nimbly climbed onto the passenger side of the truck.
He greeted the driver, confirmed the driver had received it, and then struck each of the four corners of the glass once.
“Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong!”
He quickly broke the window.
Xu Wanli jumped down to pack his things, leaving the rest to others.
He was anxious to go back to the restroom.
Before he had walked a few meters, a harsh braking sound came from ahead again.
A black car driving in reverse, like a ghost walking in the thick fog, crashed straight into the corrugated crash barrier.
Coincidentally, the bus driver had just come out with the fault warning sign, about to cross to the other side of the crash barrier to walk back one or two hundred meters to place the warning.
But his position was exactly in the direction of the car’s impact…
“Bang!”
The bus driver, unable to dodge in time, was sent flying several meters by the car.
The unexpected scene left everyone stunned.
Before they could recover, two faint lights gradually approached from the thick fog behind the highway.
At this moment, everyone had only one thought left.
It’s over.
