Chapter 33 The Infinite Boss Invites You to "Eat Melon" 33. (Two-in-One)...

"The bridge across the river ahead is broken."

Pei Yanzhi suddenly whispered.

Lu Yu's spatial power, which was about to spread out, immediately stopped and decisively withdrew.

With his lover having ascertained the situation, he no longer needed to activate his copying ability.

The ability to copy sounds incredibly powerful, almost unbeatable, but it has limitations. For example, copying requires the target to be powerless to resist, and a maximum of ten abilities can be copied and stored. Furthermore, the copied ability can only have a maximum strength of one-third of the original ability. Of course, most importantly, these copied abilities are also consumables; they diminish with each use and are not permanent.

Pei Yanzhi already knew this on Sunday. Currently, in addition to Pei Yanzhi's spatial power, Lu Yu has gained several new abilities, all of which were copied from their own camp in the past two days.

However, he was very frugal and would save money wherever possible. Now that Pei Yanzhi had woken up, there was no need for him to expend his abilities.

"A bridge spanning the river?" Lu Yu lowered his voice as well. "Was it built by the players?"

Pei Yanzhi took out a wet wipe to wipe his face and handed one to Lu Yu: "I don't know. We need to investigate carefully at the scene to find some traces. Spatial power can't detect that thoroughly."

"But there's a high possibility that the players are up to something. After all, plane tickets to Helioland Island are very expensive. If a 'smart bastard' suddenly comes up with a clever plan, they could prevent you from boarding the plane and getting to Helioland Island, and then wait for the fragments to cross the ocean to find you. The probability of that is quite high. They don't dare to confront you head-on, so they can only resort to such methods."

"But it's okay..."

Last night, when the parties met briefly, they had already discussed this situation, and there are still many backup plans.

"The bridge is broken? Really?"

Sister Liu sat in the front, shouting loudly. It was unclear where she got the information, but she probably peeked at the driver's latest navigation feedback.

"What bridge? The one that crosses the river up ahead?"

"Look, it's completely blocked!"

"I got a picture! It's broken! The bridge has cracked in the middle, a huge crack!"

"Let me see!"

"The bridge is broken, how do we get across?"

"It's over, we won't be able to move for hours, we can't even back out. Our flight is at 9:30, it's an international flight, we need to get there early, now we're going to miss it..."

The bus was in an uproar.

Instead of sharing the hardships with his employees and taking the bus, the boss traveled from home and hitched a ride in his brother's car. He handed over all the employees on the bus to Lao Huang, the head of the administration department, and Liu Jie, the receptionist who was a senior employee and suspected of having connections.

"Alright, alright, stop making a fuss, everyone sit down, I'm calling the boss!" Sister Liu was a decisive person. She leaned forward and looked around for a while, said a few words to the driver, then turned around and shouted at the top of her lungs to signal everyone to calm down. Then she took out her phone and made a call.

The bus quieted down a bit as everyone watched Sister Liu talking to her boss on the phone.

Lu Yu lowered his head slightly, swiped open the newly added encrypted group chat "Kill That Game" on his phone, and was about to type to communicate with his allies about the situation and activate the backup plan when several messages suddenly popped up on the empty and clean group chat interface.

Jiang Yan: [Current situation: Shenfeng Bridge in Baixiang City has collapsed, suspected to be caused by S-level player "Tushan" and others.]

The boss is currently facing an obstacle: the bus is stuck in traffic and cannot reach the airport on time. Missing this flight could potentially lead to more unforeseen problems.

Objective: Escort the Boss and his team to the airport as quickly as possible.

The Great Prophet: [Situation confirmed, Plan 123-8 activated.]

Lin Xiaoman, Jiang Yan, and Xiao Qian: [Received!]

Lu Yu: "..."

Is this really that professional? But what is solution 123-8? Is it that several hundred KB document in the group?

He remembered that he had only looked at the general outlines of the plans, and there were no problems; they were the same as what they had discussed the night before. As for the detailed sub-projects, based on his principle of trusting his allies and his capitalist mentality of taking it easy whenever possible, he had left them to Jiang Yan and the others to refine, and he hadn't looked at them in detail yet.

Lu Yu opened the document and decided to find the action plan that needed to be implemented immediately in order to avoid any miscoordination.

Before he could even find the so-called 123-8, Sister Liu started cursing: "What do you mean you're also stuck in the traffic and can't be controlled? Zhao Xiaosi, are you even a boss anymore? How can you say such irresponsible things? Let me tell you, this isn't a highway. I'll get out of the car right now and slap you, you believe me!"

"Don't call me cousin! Who's your cousin? I'm your father!" Sister Liu was furious.

When the colleagues learned for the first time about the relationship between Sister Liu and the boss, they looked at each other with gossipy eyes.

Just then, there was a knock on the bus door.

Sister Liu paused in her phone conversation and turned to look at him.

After a moment of contemplation, not knowing what she saw through the car door glass, Ms. Liu hung up the phone, waved her hand, and told the driver to open the door.

"Hello, sorry to bother you," a young man in a red delivery uniform stepped into the car. "We are the Crimson Dawn delivery team, here to help you cross the broken bridge and get directly to the airport."

Lu Yu: "..."

Wait, what team are you?

Lu Yu turned to look at Pei Yanzhi.

"The Great Prophet's side job on Blue Star," Pei Yanzhi smiled. "Don't worry, it's a professional team, all S-level players from Crimson Dawn."

That doesn't sound very reassuring.

Lu Yu said, "So, how are they going to help us get across? The bridge is broken, so the electric scooters can't cross either, right?"

“Of course,” someone in the car asked the same question to the young man as Lu Yu asked his question. The young man smiled gently. “The broken bridge is dangerous, the crack is huge, and electric cars certainly can’t cross it. But it’s okay, we won’t walk on the bridge or take any detours. Right under the bridge, there are our professional delivery kayaks moored in the river, you can paddle across directly. This is the fastest route we’ve calculated so far, it will definitely catch the plane.”

"Now, everyone except the driver, please get off the bus with me and walk over together. Don't worry about your luggage, we will take care of it."

Sister Liu frowned: "Were you sent by Fengdu Group?"

"No." The young man shook his head.

"Then who sent you?" Sister Liu asked suspiciously. She didn't believe in free lunches, especially since this person was speaking strangely. "With so many people stuck in traffic here, why did your delivery team, whose name sounds dangerous and evil, specifically choose us and offer to help us? Isn't that strange?"

"They say they're helping, but they want us to paddle over in kayaks and hand over our luggage. That sounds unreliable. How are you going to carry your luggage, and how many kayaks do you even have?"

Upon hearing this, some of the male colleagues in the car immediately stood up, patting their chests to show that they were absolutely not to be bullied.

The young man seemed to have anticipated such skepticism. He simply smiled and calmly said, "We have prepared a full one hundred two-person inflatable kayaks for everyone, which can easily transport all the people and luggage from three buses. Please don't worry."

"As for the reason why we chose to help you..."

The young man's eyes darted around inside the car.

Lu Yu's heart skipped a beat, and a bad feeling welled up inside him.

But before he could duck and hide, the young man's gaze was already fixed on him.

Lu Yu: "No..."

Young man: "Yes, we have to thank your colleague, Lu Yu. He's our boss."

"Our boss attaches great importance to this team building activity. No matter what difficulties we encounter, we will definitely overcome them for our boss!"

As he spoke, he faced Lu Yu and bowed slightly, his manners impeccable. He didn't seem like a delivery guy, but rather like an old butler who might suddenly appear in a castle.

Lu Yu: "..."

Lu Yu closed his mouth, which had just opened, leaned back, and slumped down.

He turned to look at Pei Yanzhi.

This time, Pei Yanzhi didn't dare to look at him, turning her head away and covering her face. She was definitely secretly laughing!

The bus was silent for a full three seconds because of what the young man said—a statement that sounded both outrageous and reasonable.

In the fourth second, everyone's heads snapped to attention, and countless eyes and gazes focused on Lu Yu, almost burning a hole in him.

Lu Yu also wanted to cover his face.

"Lu...Lu Yu?!"

Sister Liu was also stunned. The vigilance on her face, which was about to call the police for fraud, turned into disbelief. She pushed aside her tall male colleague and looked at Lu Yu, "Mr. Lu, is this the person you called?"

Lu Yu had no choice but to accept the situation.

"yes."

Lu Yu said heavily.

His ominous premonition grew stronger. He felt that the broken bridge, the delivery guy, and the kayak were just the beginning, and the journey to the airport would be completely different from what he had imagined.

Sister Liu, however, didn't notice Lu Yu's tone and exclaimed in surprise, "Wow, you're quite something! You even secretly started a business, opening a food delivery company? Oh right, it's a food delivery company, isn't it?"

She turned and asked the young man in the red delivery uniform her last question.

The young man smiled and said, "Yes, but the boss's business extends beyond the food delivery industry."

"Are there other industries?"

The other colleagues were surprised.

“Yes,” the young man said, “you will all know in time. Now, time is of the essence, let’s get going.”

Lu Yu: "..."

Keep blowing.

Lu Yu stared at Pei Yanzhi with a resentful look.

Two seconds later, Pei Yanzhi finally turned around, his amber eyes full of innocence: "Didn't you see our proposal?"

"That's awful." Lu Yu saw through his mischievousness and reprimanded him.

"As long as it's reasonable and can get things done, that's good." Pei Yanzhi spoke with the voice of a pragmatist.

At this point, his colleagues realized what was happening and started teasing Lu Yu while packing up their things.

"I never expected that President Lu, the big boss, would come here to understand the people's conditions?"

"Small business, small business."

"Old Lu, you have betrayed us, the working class!"

No, absolutely not.

"Please treat me to dinner, Mr. Lu! You absolutely have to!"

"Definitely, definitely next time."

Lu Yu dealt with his colleagues' teasing and got out of the car with Pei Yanzhi.

Other colleagues followed suit.

After learning that Lu Yu was behind all of this, no one objected to the idea of ​​kayaking across the river to catch a plane.

At Xiaoxi Media, Lu Yu is the epitome of reliability. No matter how unreliable the task, it will always yield a reliable result in his hands.

Most people in the company trusted him completely.

Most importantly, everyone had been looking forward to this team-building activity for two whole days. If we really couldn't go, there would be nothing we could do, but now that someone is helping us, we can continue, so of course we should continue.

It's just a big river, let's row across! No difficulty can defeat a working person who wants to take advantage of their boss to travel abroad!

Some colleagues initially had doubts, but after getting off the bus and looking back, their confidence immediately increased.

Along the side of the road, a row of delivery guys in red uniforms rode their electric scooters, smiling and ready to go. They looked far more skilled than the average delivery team.

After everyone got off the bus, the young man in charge gave an order, and all the deliverymen immediately sprang into action. They moved with lightning speed and in the blink of an eye, they had unloaded all the luggage from the three buses and tied it to the electric carts.

With a honk of their horn, the guys drifted away in style.

"oh!"

Colleagues exclaimed in shock.

After the luggage was unloaded, three more teams of deliverymen arrived and took turns packing up all three buses belonging to Fengdu Group, including those from Xiaoxixi Company, along with the boss and his brother in the front van, and loaded them onto the back seats, taking them away neatly.

On the road congested for dozens of kilometers with red navigation systems, red figures moved nimbly like swimming fish, speeding past and leaving behind only cheering figures for the countless people stuck in traffic.

Wait, cheers?

Who is cheering?

Lu Yu turned around and saw their boss, extremely happy, waving goodbye to other vehicles while imitating a monkey's call, provoking waves of envious and jealous shouts.

Lu Yu raised his voice slightly: "Boss, be careful..."

The boss shouted, "No, no, no, I should call you boss! Boss Lu! I never expected you to be so capable! I've heard of the Crimson Dawn delivery team. They frequently run around our villa area. They practically have the whole area under their control. They can solve locked-room murders and clean up pig manure from the sewers. They're incredibly awesome!"

No, why is there pig manure in the sewers of the villa area? Of course, that's not the point. The point is... never mind.

Lu Yu didn't know what to say. Anyway, just like Pei Yanzhi said, as long as he could get to the airport, that was good.

He sighed and turned his head back.

Twenty minutes later, Lu Yu sat on the simple inflatable kayak, paddling rapidly while deep in thought: Did they really have to catch this flight?

It seems... I really have no choice but to rush, because Baixiang City isn't a big city, and there's only one direct flight to Hailuolan Island today. All the others require a transfer, and once you have to transfer, things can get even more complicated.

Lu Yu resigned himself to his fate and rowed faster.

Even with him and Pei Yanzhi secretly cheating underwater, it was impossible for these inflatable kayaks to reach the speed of a yacht. It wasn't that they couldn't do it, but that the people of Earth couldn't accept it.

"I think our team building has already started, but it's still the old-fashioned, stingy version of team building."

Sister Liu said quietly.

She shared a kayak with a food delivery driver. Many older women or those with less physical strength would have a food delivery driver as a helper.

Even so, Sister Liu was already drenched in sweat, and her arms were trembling.

This river is freaking wide!

"Mr. Lu, can I ask you a question?" Sister Liu asked breathlessly, "Why does your delivery team have kayaks?"

Before Lu Yu could answer, the young man from before, along with his men, rowed up from behind, laughing: "To deliver takeout to customers in the middle of lakes, rivers, and swimming pools."

"Also, during heavy rainstorms, electric vehicles are difficult to operate, but kayaks are very useful. For this reason, our team always keeps a hundred kayaks on hand, ready to serve our customers at any time."

Sister Liu was clearly very experienced and didn't seem surprised by their unusual delivery location. She simply asked, "So, was this kayak something you hastily gathered and moved here?"

“Yes,” the young man said, “this is our delivery team that was urgently mobilized last night to ensure the success of Boss’s team building activity.”

Sister Liu gave a trembling thumbs-up and then said, "I mean, is it possible that while you were busy preparing these kayaks last night, you could have rented a few fishing boats nearby in advance, just in case? That would have been more convenient and faster?"

The young man sighed sadly, "The kayaks are readily available, so we don't need to spend any more money, but renting a few fishing boats that can carry more than a hundred people across the river might not even be enough for 10,000 yuan..."

Sister Liu was silent for a moment, and then her thumb on her other hand trembled and stood up.

This time, Pei Yanzhi didn't bother pretending anymore. His lips trembled uncontrollably as he couldn't hold back his laughter. Behind Lu Yu, he coughed as he rowed the boat and whispered, "The budget is limited, so we should save where we can and spend where we can. This is where we should save."

Lu Yu: "..."

What can you do when your partner has already spoken?

Lu Yu rolled up his sleeves, revealing his exceptionally strong forearms, and rowed hard.

6:45 a.m.

With the secret cheating of several S-level players and the joint efforts of all employees participating in the team building activity, one hundred kayaks finally made it safely to shore.

On the shore, the red team was back in position, and they sped off with everyone until they reached a normal section of the road, where they were dropped off and transferred to a new bus urgently summoned by Fengdu Group.

Lu Yu has already brought them all here. If Fengdu Group doesn't step up and take over, will this team building event belong to the Lu family or the Zhao family? Unlike the shameless and stingy boss, the boss's older brother can't stand the embarrassment.

The people on the three buses were all office workers who rarely experienced such intense morning exercise. By this time, they were all weak and trembling. They barely managed to climb onto the bus and immediately collapsed, barely breathing.

However, regardless of the circumstances, they had overcome a major hurdle on their team-building journey. With just a short drive to the airport, they could finally get some rest. Everyone relaxed, adjusted their seats and postures, took out their eye masks, and prepared to continue their deep sleep.

However, they soon realized that they were wrong, terribly wrong.

The broken bridge and the kayaks weren't the end of the madness, but the beginning of the insanity!

In the next half hour, they first encountered a car accident ahead, forcing them to take a detour. Then, they were hit by a large truck, which was aggressive and unstoppable, as if determined to kill them. After that, there were a series of unexpected events that were enough to dominate the entire news.

What surprised them even more was Lu Yu.

More accurately, it refers to Lu Yu's identity.

At first, they thought he was just a small business owner with a small food delivery team, but later they found that things were not that simple.

When the car accident occurred ahead, a mysterious parkour team appeared, carrying them and their suitcases as they climbed over the tops of numerous low buildings until they arrived at the new bus that Fengdu Group had once again dispatched.

When the large truck came to hit them, a mysterious person disguised as a bus driver turned the tide, perfectly avoiding the damage with a Z-shaped drift, and calmly drove away, leaving exhaust fumes behind.

When traffic police stopped the vehicle, three mysterious, unlicensed electric tricycles collided right in front of them, immediately attracting the attention of all the officers.

When the cesspool exploded, a mysterious research team claiming to be researching a new buoyancy system quickly attached a bunch of strange devices resembling foam boards to the bus, allowing it to float smoothly over the cesspool-filled section of road.

As for what happened next, such as a zoologist jumping out and beckoning away all the animals obstructing traffic, acting like a modern-day druid, or a kind passerby running over and releasing a full-length video of an elderly person faking an accident, quickly rescuing the bus from the police, those are all minor incidents.

Colleagues said they were used to it and it wasn't worth mentioning.

The airport terminal was now in sight. The bus was unusually quiet, with everyone looking down and typing furiously on their phones.

[Just based on this journey to catch the plane, this company team-building video is going to go viral! I'll work overtime to edit it out and release a preview to ride the wave of today's social news traffic! Hmph, let's see who says I can't make a viral video!]

In the company gossip group, the operations department colleagues have a very keen sense of news and are already preparing to work overtime on their own initiative.

[You're out having fun and still working overtime? Give yourself a break!]

[If the bridge breaks, I'll row a boat; if a car accident blocks the road, I'll do parkour; if someone hits me, I'll drift; if I'm on a cesspool, I'll be all smiles... This team-building activity started off this outrageously, how could it not go viral? I'm even afraid that if I post it, people will accuse us of having a script.]

[We'll throw news reports in their faces if anyone criticizes us; this is a true story!]

Art imitates life, but life is far more absurd than art!

So, brothers and sisters.

A message interrupted the astonished exclamations in the group: "Has no one thought about who Lu Yu really is? All these actions and solutions—could it be the work of a small food delivery team owner? I heard that when faced with the exploding sewer latrine, the boss's brother, the CEO of Fengdu Group, was visibly shaken, slumped down, covered his face, and sighed deeply, reluctantly abandoning the team-building activity and urgently booking a feng shui master to exorcise the bad luck..."

Fengdu Group is one of the most prominent companies in Baixiang City. Even they couldn't accomplish this, yet Lu Yu did. What kind of identity or influence does he possess that allows him to overcome all obstacles and navigate through such a series of unexpected events to get us to the airport?

Finally, someone raised the crucial question.

The group was silent for a moment, then countless speculations erupted.

[I'm betting a bag of spicy strips on the only son of the richest man in Baixiang City! He's definitely the only son of the richest man in Baixiang City!]

The richest man in Baixiang City has an only daughter...

Mind your own business when it comes to the richest man!

[Be bold, why can't you be the richest person in Hedong Province?]

[Go even bolder, and you could become China's richest person!]

No, no, no, the richest person on Earth!

[Wait, everyone, listen to me! Judging from Lu Yu's subordinates and methods, I think his identity might not be entirely legitimate... So I'm betting two packs of spicy strips that he's the boss of some underground empire with a huge gray market, walking in the shadows—Brother Lu!]

[If that's the case, I'll bet three packs of spicy strips that he's the mysterious heir of a powerful, hidden family in China—Young Master Lu!]

[How come you all guessed so scientifically? So many unfortunate things happened, yet Lu Yu seemed to have foreseen them all and resolved them all smoothly... Four packs of spicy strips! I bet he's some Taoist master who descended to the mortal realm, Master Lu!]

Master Lu +1

Master Lu +2...

Oh right, aren't Master Lu and his Taoist-affiliated boyfriend in this group?

Don't worry, he's not here.

Lu Yu, who was silently watching the screen: "..."

"Am I the only one who doesn't care about Lu Yu's identity and only cares about whether we'll encounter something else in the last short kilometer?" someone said weakly.

Others: [...]

[Shut up, you jinx!]