Chapter 87: Chapter 87 I’m calling the police, someone is poisoning!
This short video clip...
It was exactly what happened last night when this delivery guy, Xiao Liang, came to see Qin Mu. It included him pleading with Qin Mu to cancel the negative review, throwing the food, and breaking down in tears.
It must have been captured by the dashcam on his head... Qin Mu recalled the scene. The delivery guy was wearing a safety helmet with a mobile recording device attached. It was used to record unexpected situations encountered while riding an electric scooter. Many delivery riders were equipped with such small devices. The memory capacity was small, but it could record events that happened during deliveries.
What he hadn’t expected was... that this Xiao Liang had actually edited the scene of Qin Mu refusing to cancel the negative review into the video and released it!
No wonder his fans said they saw someone who looked a lot like him.
Damn similar! That *was* him!
In the video’s live comments, attacks and condemnations against him were flooding in.
"Damn, I’ve really seen something today! I never expected people like this actually exist in the world!"
"He came all the way to his door, begging so humbly, and still, the customer wouldn’t cancel the negative review? It’s not like he’d lose anything by doing it!"
"Sigh, life is tough. Really, please treat delivery guys kindly."
"An adult’s breakdown can happen in an instant. Seeing this scene nearly made me cry too."
"Did anyone notice how indifferent this customer was throughout? He seemed to have no sympathy at all..."
"..."
Most netizens, after seeing the delivery guy’s emotional breakdown... were attacking and condemning Qin Mu.
The milder ones said he was stubborn and inflexible.
The harsher ones said he was cold-blooded and unsympathetic.
There were even those in the live comments suggesting crowdfunding to help the delivery guy.
Goodwill was overflowing. The video was filled with love and encouragement for the delivery guy, and condemnation and attacks against Qin Mu.
No sympathy? Am I supposed to cry with him? Seeing these comments, Qin Mu’s mouth twitched slightly.
Online saints... appearing in droves again, preaching love and justice. He had just been standing by silently at the time, and even then, he was denounced as cold-blooded and unsympathetic.
If I had laughed back then... wouldn’t I have been accused of being monstrously insane?
Later, he scrolled down to the comment section, intending to see if there were any particularly vocal critics.
As it turned out... the comment section was even more ferocious than the live comments. Almost every popular comment expressed care for the delivery guy and attacked Qin Mu.
"The delivery guy is strong! We don’t steal or rob; we earn money through our own efforts. Cold-hearted customers like this are a minority. Keep it up!"
"When I order delivery, even if it’s late, I rarely give a bad review. Everyone’s just trying to make a living, why make it hard on each other?"
"Delivery guys work over ten hours a day and earn less than ten thousand yuan a month. While it’s not as much as white-collar workers, the money is earned honestly. Society really should show more care for delivery guys!"
"This society is so twisted! Customers like him don’t deserve to eat a four-course meal in their lifetime!"
Looking at these comments, Qin Mu’s lips curled up; the more he read, the more intrigued he became. To say he wasn’t angry after seeing so many people cursing him would be a lie.
But having been reborn, his mentality was somewhat better than that of an average person. What he most wanted to do now was to get all these people locked up!
Immediately afterward, after scanning through the comment section, he saw one comment with over ten thousand likes, ranked third.
"When you encounter such a cold-blooded person, you can only count yourself unlucky. But I have a suggestion: the uploader’s delivery areas should be fixed. We could try to snatch this customer’s orders and spit in his food to teach him a lesson he’ll never forget!"
Beneath this comment, there were hundreds of replies in a thread. Most people were discussing the feasibility of this method; some even suggested that spitting was too lenient, and only a thick glob of phlegm would be satisfactory.
Seeing these comments, Qin Mu’s face turned livid again.
No wonder there was phlegm in the yellow braised chicken rice he ordered today. So the source was here! These "helpful" netizens had actually made a good suggestion, escalating from spit to phlegm.
If I hadn’t inspected it closely, wouldn’t I have actually ingested that person’s phlegm?
Meanwhile, a voice from the system quietly rang in his mind.
"DING! Detected that the Host is experiencing a food delivery dispute. Triggering a new task."
"The Host can choose one from the following three task branches. Upon completion, corresponding rewards will be given based on the level of completion."
"One: Choose to forgive, proactively cancel the negative review, and reform the delivery guy."
"Two: Resolutely defend your rights and punish the delivery guy!"
"Three: Take them all down—everyone involved in this incident!"
Three lines of text appeared before his eyes.
Qin Mu’s expression shifted as he looked at the three different tasks.
He immediately dismissed the first one without a second thought. He never engaged in such meaningless acts of trying to reform others. The Buddhist teaching about ’laying down the butcher’s knife to instantly achieve Buddhahood’ was, to him, the biggest joke of all. If everyone could be reformed that way, then what about those who had died at the hands of these butchers? Were their deaths all in vain?
To repay debts with money and a life for a life taken in murder—this was the common people’s most fundamental concept of fairness and justice. And that is what he has always believed.
As for the second option, although the delivery guy certainly needed to be punished, that wasn’t all he wanted. He didn’t plan on letting the trolls in the comment section off either...
"I choose three."
Soon, he made his choice, picking the most difficult task. Compared to the first two, this task was much more difficult and involved various aspects.
I’ll take this one step at a time. Qin Mu took a deep breath. He took out his phone and dialed 110.
"Hello? Yes, I want to report a crime. I ordered food delivery today, and it was poisoned. Yes, I’ve saved the food..."
After hanging up the phone, he calmly waited at home.
...
Twenty minutes later, Shen Dao personally led a team and arrived at his doorstep.
Just as I thought! "The moment I heard Mountain and Water Garden District, I knew it was you who filed the report, kid! Can’t you stay out of trouble for once?" Upon seeing him, Shen Dao glared at Qin Mu and spoke with annoyance.
When he first heard the dispatcher’s report, he had intended to send his subordinates. But after seeing the address, he decided to handle it himself. After all... Qin Mu’s ability to stir up trouble was not to be underestimated.
Then, he sized up Qin Mu and got straight to the point. "Alright, spit it out. What happened this time? Someone tried to poison you again?"
Qin Mu nodded innocently. He pointed at the opened container of yellow braised chicken rice on the table and said, "The evidence is right here."
He then recounted what happened with the delivery driver last night and the incident with the phlegm in his food delivery this morning.