84: Chapter 84 There's always a reason why someone is pitiful...

The date was the 25th.

An announcement from the Shu City police pulled back the curtain on today's online uproar.

"Early this morning, a person surnamed Yan, screen name Da Yang Zi, gathered several people including those surnamed Wu, Zhou, and Yang to ride motorcycles. While traveling on the Hongguang Avenue section, a traffic accident occurred due to excessive speed. In this accident, a person surnamed Chen and Ms. Shen died on the spot, and many others were injured..."

This was the first video pushed to Chen Sheng on TikTok while he sat in his car after dropping off An Xiaonuan at her company.

And that 100,000+ like count.

All of it proved that this video had gone viral.

Of course! The official video wasn't the most popular; the most popular ones were undoubtedly the various clips of Da Yang Zi before and after the car accident.

For the sake of traffic, Da Yang Zi had livestreamed this race to the underworld last night. Consequently, many netizens witnessed Da Yang Zi's bold words before the crash and saw with their own eyes what it meant when "the heavens deal with the arrogant."

It was precisely because of these witnesses that topics related to Da Yang Zi's car accident surged onto the trending searches overnight at an incredible speed.

This also prompted the authorities to release the announcement immediately after clarifying the timeline.

"Tsk tsk~" After searching for a few videos about Da Yang Zi's car accident, Chen Sheng shook his head with pity. "Truly, the good die young, while the wicked live for a thousand years."

As the initiator and organizer of this race, perhaps because he was fully equipped, Da Yang Zi, despite being in the accident, was not only not on the death list, but according to an unnamed nurse at the hospital, because he was the first to crash and had enough open buffer space ahead, his injuries were mostly limited to his bones.

Such as dislocations and fractures.

Unlike those who collided in succession behind him, some of whom suffered broken ribs due to the violent impact, with the broken ribs even piercing organs and causing internal bleeding.

And concussions...

In any case, all of them were more seriously injured than Da Yang Zi.

The most tragic were the two fatalities. Ms. Shen, confirmed as Da Yang Zi's girlfriend, had been sitting behind him. Unfortunately, while her hot, tight-fitting outfit showcased her sexy figure, it couldn't protect her body, and while her seemingly cool, stylized helmet attracted plenty of attention, it couldn't withstand the impact.

Even more tragic was that upon opening the comment section, netizens' mockery of Ms. Shen's death outweighed their pity.

"Why go street racing, and on a motorcycle at that? Why chase clout? Why hang out with a hoodlum like Da Yang Zi? If she doesn't die, who will?!"

"Women these days really have no bottom line. Well, look at this now..."

"I just want to say, pity the pitiful, for they have their despicable side; despise the despicable, for they have their pitiable side..."

Chen Sheng watched these comments with a calm expression, subconsciously lighting a cigarette. He thought about the decision he made at the police station yesterday, and he still did not regret it.

However, people must always pay for their own actions.

Just like Da Yang Zi, since he wanted to chase clout through such a thrilling and dangerous method as livestreaming a race, he had to be prepared to bear the backlash from the authorities, society, and the victims' families.

As for Ms. Shen and the person surnamed Chen, since they decided to participate in this livestream and didn't even take the required protective measures for the sake of traffic, death was their price to pay.

Likewise, Chen Sheng decided not to report the "Da Yang Zi street racing accident" to the authorities. Although he avoided trouble in reality, two lives ultimately followed their predetermined path because of his decision. He did not regret it, but he couldn't help but feel guilty.

If... If he hadn't been afraid of trouble, if he had...

But there were no ifs.

He finished the cigarette... no, to be more precise, the cigarette was a tribute to the two people who died violent deaths. Chen Sheng pulled his drifting thoughts back, rubbed his face vigorously with his hands, and couldn't help but curse himself: "Damn it, every debt has a debtor, and it's not coming for me. What a damn busybody I am."

Worries?

What can resolve worries but intelligence?

Open the system panel.

host: Chen Sheng

Level: 1

Upgrade Experience: 51/100

Unread Intelligence: 2

As usual, he rubbed his hands to warm them up first, then clicked on the unread intelligence.

[Today's Intelligence 1: On the 15th of this month, Shu City Metro announced the construction route for Line 17. The line runs through Tianjiao City in Qingjiang District. Today, all the property owners of Tianjiao City, led by the residential committee members surnamed Wang, Lan, and others, officially filed a protest with the sub-district office and the District Government. They believe that the construction of the subway line will damage the building foundations, thereby affecting residential safety, and are demanding that Line 17 be rerouted.]

Chen Sheng: "..."

This piece of intelligence left him feeling baffled.

He felt the system was overestimating him.

What virtue or ability did he have to be linked to such a major event as defining a subway route?

As for the protest by all the property owners of Tianjiao City?

There was still a Xindu District separating the Chenghua District where he lived and Qingjiang District.

Regardless of whether the protest was effective or not, it had nothing to do with him anyway.

He lowered his gaze and continued to read the second piece of intelligence.

[Daily Intelligence 2: Today at 11:00 AM, in Baihuatan Park, on the side of the pond at the Ba Jin Cultural Experience Hall in the Hui Garden of Baihuatan Park, underneath the sixth bench counting forward from the Cultural Experience Hall, lies a wallet lost by a careless tourist. It contains 8,000 yuan in cash and the information of the Owner of Lost Property.]

[Note 1: This intelligence is valid until 15:22 today. After 15:22, this intelligence will automatically expire.]

"8,000?" Seeing this intelligence, Chen Sheng couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.

He was very curious; in this day and age of universal electronic payment, what kind of genius would carry so much cash while traveling?

However, he had a different idea about this 8,000 yuan this time.

Of course, the prerequisite for any idea was to get the wallet.

Chen Sheng entered Baihuatan Park into the car navigation system, then started the car and drove directly to Baihuatan Park according to the navigation.

After parking the car, taking advantage of the fact that there was still plenty of time before the deadline given by the intelligence system, Chen Sheng set everything aside for a rare moment. He tagged along at the end of a tour group and strolled around Baihuatan Park with them.

Until 10:40, when Chen Sheng silently slipped away from the tour group and walked alone toward the Ba Jin Cultural Experience Hall in the Hui Garden of Baihuatan Park.

At 11:20, Chen Sheng leisurely arrived at the Ba Jin Cultural Experience Hall, found the leisure benches set up along the side of the pond, and walked to the sixth bench counting forward from the experience hall.

There was a patch of green grass under the bench. The grass wasn't deep, likely left intentionally by the workers, but it happened to cover most of the wallet that had fallen inside.

From the side, one could only see the grass and the bench. Perhaps this was the main reason why the intelligence didn't expire until after 3:00 PM, even though the park was bustling with people.

Chen Sheng sat down on the sixth bench quite naturally, then bent over and reached out, easily grabbing the wallet lost by that careless tourist from the grass.

Looking at the pink... no, the pink wallet, Chen Sheng couldn't help but raise an eyebrow again. "Yo! Looks like it belongs to a girl."