River Dam, flat-roofed house.
Xue Chuchu stood where she was, looking slightly at a loss. She had only come to have the worker replace her battery, but just after they had settled the price, the worker had been surrounded.
"You're still collecting used batteries here? Did you pass the environmental inspection? What if something goes wrong?" the boorish man barked.
Someone else said, "Your qualifications aren't complete, yet you dare transport scrap batteries? You've got some nerve."
They looked completely official and businesslike.
Facing several burly men, the battery worker bent slightly at the waist and put on a fawning smile. "Brothers, brothers! I just replace batteries!"
He pulled out a pack of cigarettes and offered them around.
The boorish man swatted the cigarettes away with one wave of his hand, showing him no respect at all.
The battery worker's expression immediately turned ugly.
"Brother An, how should we handle this?" one underling asked.
Crew Cut Man looked at the Electric Bike. "We'll take this batch of batteries for a hundred."
The battery worker forced himself to sound tough. "How can the price be that low? You're bullying people too much."
He already understood what these people were here for. They were clearly robbing him outright!
No wonder someone had warned him when he entered this line of work that business in Yuzhou City Center was hard to do. So there were risks like this, too.
With a kindly smile, An Yue reached out and patted the battery worker's cheek, speaking leisurely. "You don't want to, right? That's fine. We'll report you directly to environmental protection. Then you'll just pay a fine and have a case opened against you."
A younger underling beside him said, "You work in this business yourself. You know whether you're compliant, and you know how