Chapter 556: Draw the Sword and Render Aid
The next day, Su Chen was absent from work without exceptions again.
"This asshole!" Qin Keren wished she could immediately skin Su Chen alive.
Couldn't this guy just obediently show up for his day shift?
His behavior made her leadership role quite difficult.
She would receive several complaints from Zheng Aojiao every day.
Once or twice could be overlooked.
But the frequency was too high.
It annoyed her, too.
However, since that incident, Qin Keren naturally couldn't let Su Chen be fired by the company.
But Zheng Aojiao had a point, after all, Su Chen indeed had not shown up for work.
She tried calling Su Chen, but she couldn't get through.
Zheng Aojiao was equally irritated.
By the company's standards, there were enough grounds to fire Su Chen dozens of times.
But every time she brought it up with Qin Keren, Qin Keren seemed to deliberately avoid the topic.
Zheng Aojiao was even considering whether to report directly to the president.
With the president's resolute and decisive nature, if he found out that one of his employees was often absent or left early, he would certainly be furious.
But to do so would be overstepping her authority.
Overstepping is a big taboo in the workplace.
If things went south, even if she dragged Su Chen down, she wouldn't have an easy time herself.
But Zheng Aojiao just couldn't swallow this grievance.
She could only wait for an opportunity.
Su Chen was unaware that, at this moment, two women were cursing him with voodoo circles.
Last night, after Xia Yan fell asleep, Lianbing found him.
She told him that she had successfully accepted that infinite task.
After that, Su Chen just needed to accumulate a total of a hundred thousand points to exchange for the Titan Arum.
Some of the tasks were very difficult, while others were relatively simple.
Even the low-level tasks would be challenging for a Dragon Group Soldier to complete.
But for Su Chen, all the tasks were of trivial difficulty.
Apart from one particularly special task, he had more than a 90% chance of success for the others.
These tasks included protection missions, assault missions, and espionage missions.
Depending on the difficulty of the tasks, the points awarded upon completion also varied.
Su Chen selected a few simple tasks, all of which were within the boundaries of Jiangdu City, and completed them that night.
However, not all the tasks went smoothly.
One of them not only failed to earn Su Chen any points but also deducted quite a few points from his total, causing him some frustration.
"If those points hadn't been deducted, I should have over a hundred points by now, but I'm only left with thirty..." Su Chen calculated the points he earned on his first night of the infinite tasks and looked a bit annoyed.
Last night, he completed four tasks, with each task worth thirty points.
Completing them all, he would have accumulated one hundred and twenty points.
But now, he only had thirty.
It was as if he had only completed one task.
Typically, failing a task would only deduct the points originally allocated for it.
Instead, his score was directly deducted by twice the amount, i.e., sixty points.
But he couldn't blame anyone else since it was he who hadn't clearly identified the person he was supposed to protect...
Here's what happened.
After completing two infinite tasks, Su Chen immediately went to execute the third.
His third task was to protect an important individual during a banquet.
However, at the banquet, he saw a fatso harassing a female waitress.
As an upright man, he couldn't just watch this happen without intervening.
Right away, he went up and gave the fatso a good thrashing.
Afterward, he found out that the fatso he had beaten was actually the person he was supposed to protect.
Naturally, the mission failed, and he didn't earn any points, but instead, twice the points were deducted.
Yet, for such scum.
If Su Chen were to encounter him again, he would not hesitate to punch again.
It's just sixty points, right?
He can earn them back another time.
Early the next morning, Su Chen arrived at the entrance of Baiyu Advertising Company.
Even without any sleep the previous night, he was still energetic.
He wanted to try securing the advertising space at the subway station.
But after listening to Han Qiuyun, Su Chen felt his chances were pretty slim.
However, as long as there was a glimmer of hope, he wouldn't give up.
Looking up, he noticed that Baiyu Advertising Company occupied an entire floor of the building.
For an advertising company, that was definitely a substantial scale.
After all, the yearly rent for such a floor would cost several million.
Su Chen entered the building, ready to take the elevator to Baiyu Advertising Company.
However, just as he approached the elevator doors, he encountered a familiar face.
It was the fatso who had molested the waitress at the banquet.
Naturally, Su Chen had no fondness for this fatso.
If it weren't for him, he wouldn't have lost sixty points.
Soon, the elevator doors closed.
There were three people inside the elevator.
Su Chen, the fatso, and a girl wearing professional attire.
After the elevator doors shut, the fatso eyed the girl in professional attire greedily and then walked straight over to her.
The girl instinctively stepped back two steps, her eyes showing disgust as she saw the fatso approaching.
But the fatso was utterly oblivious to the aversion he had stirred up and reached out to grab the girl's hand.
"Xiao Li, your bracelet is pretty nice. Where did you buy it? I'll buy one too, for my wife," the fatso laughed slyly.
"I... I bought it at the mall..." Xiao Li quickly withdrew her hand.
"Xiao Li, your skin is really delicate. What hand cream are you using?" But the fatso became even more brazen.
Xiao Li tried to break free but couldn't.
She had no choice but to look to Su Chen, who was standing aside.
Su Chen already had no good feelings towards this lecherous fatso, so naturally, he had to intervene.
He gently tapped the fatso's shoulder and said, "Hey, buddy, taking advantage of someone in broad daylight, does your wife know about this?"
The fatso turned and glanced at Su Chen, saying impatiently, "I haven't touched your mother, none of your damn business!"
A menacing gleam flashed through Su Chen's eyes at those words.
Although he had never met his mother and didn't know why she had abandoned him,
how could he stand by when this fatso dared to insult his mother? He wouldn't be polite.
He raised his hand and slapped the fatso.
Slap—the fatso's body spun 360 degrees and went down with a thud.
"You dare hit me? Do you know who the hell I am?" After some time, the fatso came back to his senses, holding his face, glaring at Su Chen with venom.