Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Design Company Part 4 (Bonus Chapter for 10,000 Comments)
The plane crash and the train derailment happened on the same day, causing a huge uproar, with all sorts of opinions circulating online.
"If they had just replaced the steel braces, everything would have been fine. Now someone has died. Shouldn't the airline be held responsible?"
"Stop using 'civil aviation company' all the time. The full name of civil aviation company is 'civil airline,' which refers to an industry. If you're so capable, list out the names of those companies and blacklist them to avoid trouble."
"People who frequently travel by plane for business are terrified and urgently need to avoid this place."
Some people say, "Hasn't something been wrong these past few years? Natural disasters, man-made calamities, and accidents have been happening frequently. I would believe it if you said it was the end of the world."
"Regarding the train, if the steel plate pierced someone and killed them, wouldn't it stop immediately? Then so many people wouldn't have died later."
One stone can cause a thousand ripples!
The others responded in shock, "What are you talking about? After it happened, only Kyle ran to the conductor and asked the train to stop!"
"What's the big deal? The other passengers didn't care, and nobody said they deserved to die. Kyle was running around trying to save everyone on the bus, and some people were even hoping his wife or child would die. Did he deserve to sacrifice his family to save everyone on the bus?"
“This isn’t a math problem! Although I really want to save the lives of those innocent people, the price shouldn’t be another innocent person.”
"Don't think that just because you're good at math, you're particularly good at weighing human lives. One day, you might become the one who gets sacrificed!"
Everyone went back and forth, arguing fiercely.
Some people criticized Kyle from another angle, saying, "If he wanted the train to stop so badly, why didn't he turn off the emergency brake himself? Wasn't there a news report about a passenger accidentally pressing the emergency brake? The train conductor wouldn't allow it, so he could have turned it off himself."
Others replied, "The fact that it can be accidentally touched means that most people don't recognize it... Have you ever driven a train? Otherwise, how could you dare to touch it if you don't know anything about it?"
"Kyle found the metal plate and ran to turn off the emergency brake himself. If I find a few screws missing on the train, do I also have to run to turn off the emergency brake?!"
"Does he think he can just shut it off like that? Putting aside whether he knows the person or not, there were so many staff members on the bus. Wouldn't someone have stopped him?"
"He turned off the emergency brakes, saved a car full of people, and then got a seven-day trip to jail?"
"I know you were eager to save lives, but aren't you placing too many unrealistic expectations on ordinary people? You couldn't prevent the accident from happening, so are you going to blame Kyle for not being able to scale walls, for not being Superman, or for not being a secret agent?"
Some people even cursed the train conductor, saying, "If it weren't for that old geezer's stubbornness, the train would have stopped long ago, nothing would have happened, and the passengers wouldn't have died."
Others replied, "You're arrogantly blaming those who are unaware of the facts, as if you're taking the results with you. If you were in their position, there's a more than 90% chance you wouldn't have been able to predict the large-scale casualties that would have followed."
"You said those things because you knew the train would crash. What if it hadn't crashed?"
“The train conductor was just following railway regulations. If you think it’s wrong, blame the regulations, not the person who strictly follows them. If something happens because he doesn’t follow the regulations, he can’t take responsibility.”
Later on, they started arguing again.
Yunxin glanced around, then closed the webpage and went to bed.
After spending a night in a five-star hotel and having a buffet breakfast, Lin Qin indeed hired a car.
Before getting into the car, he asked Yunxin with a serious expression, "How do you feel now?"
Yun Xin: "...Hurry up and get in the car."
"Don't you have any bad feelings?" Lin Qin asked again.
Yunxin ignored him and got into the car first.
Lin Qin nodded to his bodyguard, "It seems there won't be any problem with the car."
If he weren't someone under protection, Brother Zhao really wouldn't want to talk to him.
The three of them got into the car. The driver focused on driving, and Lin Qin began to speak, "I thought about it all night yesterday, and I felt that something was not right."
"What's wrong?" Yunxin asked.
"Is it possible for two major disasters to happen in one day?" Lin Qin then asked, "And is it reasonable that I would encounter both of these major disasters?"
"Otherwise?" Yun Xin retorted. "Before a disaster strikes, it knocks on your door and asks, 'Have any other disasters struck recently? No? Then I can come in without worry?' Or, 'Yes? They just came by? Then I'll come back another day?' Like that?"
Lin Chin was speechless.
That seems to be the meaning, but it sounds so strange coming from Yunxin's mouth.
“Disasters happen randomly, and it’s not impossible for them to happen at the same time,” Yun Xin said calmly. “We can’t deny the possibility just because the probability is low.”
"How can you be so calm?" Lin Qin asked, puzzled. "You clearly told the train conductor to stop the train yesterday! If he hadn't refused to listen to you, you could have saved those people. It was so close, aren't you even resentful?"
"If you can save someone, you can save them; if you can't, you can't," Yun Xin said with a clear mind. "Everything is predestined, and there's nothing we can do about it."
Lin Qin, who always believed that human will could overcome nature, was speechless.
He looked at the bodyguard, hoping to gain strength from him, but saw Brother Zhao nod in agreement, "Although you couldn't save them, you've done your best."
Lin Qin couldn't help but begin to doubt himself. Was he the only one feeling regret, frustration, and remorse for not being able to save those passengers?
"Am I being too strange?" Lin Qin muttered to himself. "I only escaped this disaster because of your reminder, but afterwards I really hoped that you could successfully persuade the train conductor to save those people as well."
"Kindness is not wrong, but being too kind can create too much psychological burden for yourself." Yun Xin looked out the window and said casually, "In life, just be moderate."
Brother Zhao nodded in agreement again, "Indeed."
Lin Qin was completely bewildered.
As Yunxin looked out the window, she thought to herself that if she blamed herself every time she failed to save someone, she probably wouldn't be alive now.
How could it possibly be 100% successful?
When she reached out her hand, some people scoffed and didn't want to pay her any attention.
If we can save them, we will; if we can't... well, we can't save them.
Blaming herself for not being able to save someone... all she can say is that being overly kind is a kind of illness.
"By the way," Yun Xin suddenly remembered after looking at the scenery for a while, "Are you familiar with Lu Lei?"
Lin Qin sensed the gossip and perked up. "We know each other! What, you've got your eye on him?"
Yun Xin looked at Lin Qin and said seriously, "I have someone I like."
"Oh..." Lin Qin immediately deflated. "Then why did you ask Lu Lei?"
"How did you two meet?" Yunxin asked curiously.
“He came to the company to apply for a designer position, and I liked him, so I kept him on,” Lin Qin replied.
"Don't you think there's something about him that's different from others?" Yunxin asked again.
Lin Qin thought for a moment, "Does being strong count?"
Meeting Yun Xin's puzzled gaze, he explained, "I originally thought that Lu Lei, a homebody, must lack exercise, but one time during lunch break, I saw him lifting a barbell! I don't know how much it weighed, but it looked very heavy, and he lifted it up easily."
At this moment, Brother Zhao suddenly asked, "So you're on good terms with Lu Lei..."
"I want to ask him for fitness secrets!" Lin Qin's eyes were full of longing. "I also want to lift such a heavy barbell."
Brother Zhao's forehead veins were throbbing.
Yunxin could sense that he wanted to hit someone, but he held back.
At first, Yunxin thought Brother Zhao was a tough guy.
As they spent more time together, she felt that Brother Zhao was becoming more and more like a male mother. He was a full-time caregiver for the children, preventing them from getting into trouble.
The troubled child, Lin Qin, was completely oblivious to anything amiss. Instead, he argued vehemently, "That's exactly right! Everyone else has to build muscle before lifting weights. Lu Lei is so skinny, yet he's so strong. He must have a trick. Once I get along with him, surely he'll tell me?"
"If I were strong enough to protect myself, I wouldn't need to carry bodyguards everywhere I go!"
As he spoke, he glanced at Brother Zhao, his dissatisfaction evident in his expression.
Brother Zhao turned his head to the side, preferring to ignore it.
As expected, the chartered car trip went smoothly without any further incidents.
Lin Qin was overjoyed, "This time there will definitely be no problem!"
We set off in the morning and arrived in the countryside in the afternoon. The driver suggested we stop and stay overnight. Otherwise, we would have to drive until the early hours of the morning to reach the next rest stop.
“Okay, I’ll stay here tonight,” Lin Qin agreed.
Have a good night's sleep.
The group continued their journey the next day.
After three days of this, Lin Qin visibly became listless.
If you say the first day was full of energy and vitality.
Then the next day, he became increasingly haggard.
On the third day, he lingered on, barely clinging to life.
"Aren't we there yet?" On the afternoon of the third day, Lin Qin asked, slumped in the car, his voice full of weariness.
"Almost there, almost there," the driver reassured him. "We've already covered half the distance."
"What? We've only gone halfway?" Lin Qin exclaimed in surprise.
It was only then that he realized that while chartering a car was indeed safe, it was too tiring and exhausting.
Compared to airplanes and trains, which can take only a few hours to reach your destination, driving is too slow!
Moreover, driving there means a seven or eight-hour journey. Occasionally, the rest stop is far away, adding another two or three hours to the journey.
Sitting in the car every day made him feel uncomfortable all over, and he wished he could jump out.
"Just bear with it a little longer. We'll get there after another tunnel, and it'll be another day's drive," the driver assured him confidently.
Lin Qin was not comforted in the slightest.
He wished someone would knock him unconscious so he could ride the bus in a daze the whole way. How wonderful it would be to get on the bus with his eyes closed, and arrive at his destination with his eyes open!
Lin Qin looked around and found that his bodyguard, Brother Zhao, looked perfectly normal and didn't seem uncomfortable at all.
Yunxin gazed at the scenery, sitting steadily the whole way. The driver, who frequently drove long distances, was already used to spending more than ten hours a day in the car.
So, by all accounts, he is the only one who suffers and endures hardship, and he is the only one who cannot persevere.
Ironically, it was he who wanted to go to the concert, and it was he who suggested chartering the car, so he's embarrassed to complain now.
Lin Qin had no way to express his grievances and could only swallow them down.
After another twenty minutes, the car entered the tunnel the driver had mentioned.
Lin Qin seemed to see a glimmer of hope, and his spirits lifted.
We continued driving, and soon saw a car stopped in the middle of the road, on fire.
"Why is the truck empty? Where's the driver? Where are the firefighters? Why aren't they putting out the fire?"
Because the road was blocked, the cars behind couldn't get through and had to form a long queue.
The driver opened the car door and, like other drivers, peeked out to check the road conditions. After a moment's hesitation, he said uncertainly, "It might take a while. Once the firefighters come and put out the fire and tow the car away, we can continue on our way."
Just then, Yunxin suddenly said, "Let's not wait, let's turn back."
"Huh?" The driver was stunned. "But we paid the fee before entering the tunnel. If we go out now, we'll have to pay again when we go back in. It's just a car on fire. Once it's out, everything will be fine. It'll only take ten or twenty minutes at most."
Lin Qin sensed something and surprisingly assertive said, "Listen to me, drive back!"
Before the train accident, he couldn't understand why he could stay in the first carriage but not in the third, even though they weren't far apart.
However, after the accident, only the first carriage was truly safe.
So if you can't figure it out, don't think about it anymore, just do it honestly.
The same applies to tunnels.
Regardless of why they couldn't stay, Yunxin said to turn back, and they turned back without needing to know why.
"But so many cars are waiting in the tunnel, it should be fine..." The driver still tried to struggle.
“I paid for the car, so listen to me,” Lin Qin interrupted rudely. “I don’t like this tunnel, I want to take a longer route, is that okay?”
With things said like that, what could the driver say? Of course, he obediently drove back.
The tunnel is a two-way tunnel. The road ahead is blocked, but going back is no problem.
Before leaving, Yun Xin opened the window, raised her voice, and deliberately said loudly, "The fire is so fierce, what if it explodes later? Let's get out of the tunnel quickly and take another route. No matter how important money is, can it be more important than life?"
That was a very clever way of putting it.
Those inside the car knew that they had agreed to return the way they came, and this was definitely meant for those outside the car to hear.
Those outside the car heard this and assumed the passengers inside were discussing something. Fearing an explosion, they decided to give up waiting and turn back.
Some drivers, upon hearing this, became frightened and drove away as well.
However, few people heeded the advice.
The government built the tunnel because it was an inconvenient, long detour.
Besides, I've already paid, how can I just give up? If I turn around and leave, wouldn't the money have been wasted?
So most drivers stayed put and waited.
Yunxin could only watch regretfully as the death countdown on their bodies continued to count down.
(End of this chapter)
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