They all call me an Outer God.

Chapter 174 Confusing right and wrong

No, no, some people are just born shrewd businessmen; they don't need to act it out at all.

"This is terrible, this is terrible..."

The patient on the bed suddenly turned his head and stared blankly at the white ceiling. He suddenly stuck out his tongue, and Lia noticed that the man's tongue had grown many yellowish-white blisters.

"After drinking the water that the people there gave us, my tongue started to slowly ulcerate. What terrified me even more was that I couldn't feel any pain."

And every night, there are cries coming from that factory; the cries don't sound human at all. I definitely don't want to stay there any longer!

He was saying some unpleasant things when a scruffy old man pushed the door open and entered from the outside.

Lanna immediately fell silent upon seeing the old man, while the old man beamed with joy and said, "Haha, Lanna, my dear son, I've come to see you—by the way, when will we receive that compensation?"

"You're already talking about money the moment we meet? Don't you care about my injuries?"

"Who said I don't care? Aren't you in the hospital right now? Good son, it's all thanks to your injuries, otherwise I would never have seen so much money in my life."

"Why are you still talking about money? I've had enough! Can't you just leave?!"

"How dare you speak to your father like that?" The old man didn't care about Lanna's attitude. He turned his gaze to Ria and Ivand, his face once again plastered with a fake smile.

The old man rubbed his hands together and lowered his posture.

Are you two here from the insurance company to pay compensation?

“This…” Ivand stammered, but Ria asked, “What will happen if there is no compensation?”

"What do you mean, what can we do? My son is so badly injured, his life is basically ruined, and now you're telling me there's no compensation? Young man, you'd better not be joking."

"I'm not kidding, we won't pay a single penny."

Ria stepped forward: "I've come here to tell you that your son's absence from work has caused incalculable losses to our factory, and you must compensate for these losses."

“Kelcha, you’re saying…”

Ivan pulled at his sleeve and quietly asked him what he wanted to do. Ria wanted to give him a reassuring look, but because his eyes were covered, he couldn't express himself at all.

"Just watch me."

He mouthed the words, and then Lia walked over to the old man and patted him on the shoulder: "Sir, our factory is short of people lately. Every person we lose will affect our factory's reputation. Those machines can't completely replace people, can they?"

To be honest, we need human bodies to purify the exhaust fumes in the air. Now that there are fewer and fewer people, who wants to stay in a factory? So shouldn't your son bear the responsibility for this loss?

"You're talking nonsense!?" The old man glared at Liya. "You want to claim losses without paying? You have quite the appetite."

“You are his immediate family member, so who else would they turn to if not you?”

"What do you mean by 'immediate family' or 'non-immediate family'? I'm going to sue you all... I'm going to take you to court, and none of you will get away with this!"

"Okay."

Ria curled her lips into a smile: "I'd like to see how you're going to mess with us. By the way, our factory is called Cantero. Remember to report us on time, or we'll countersue you for defamation."

"You...you! Fine, I'll go to the courtroom right now, you wait."

"A bunch of heartless, starving bastards!" The old man clutched his chest in anger. He coughed a few times, and Lanna, lying weakly on the sickbed, looked at his family: "Dad..."

"Don't call me, I don't know you, I don't have a son like you!"

After saying that, the old man left the scene without looking back. Lia shrugged helplessly, then placed her hands on the handle of her cane: "See? Money-grubbing people have no sense of family."

Now, Ria has successfully tricked the old man into suing the factory. Although it may not be effective, once the number of suers increases, it will become a force that the court cannot ignore.

Ivan and Lanna were somewhat dumbfounded.

Ivan re-examined Ria and found that her debating skills as a detective's assistant were beyond his expectations.

This is certainly a good thing. How could anyone complain that their assistant is too capable and steals their thunder?

As for Lanna, after the initial shock, he became extremely sad: "My father wasn't like this before. He used to donate money to orphanages. How did he become like this?"

“Don’t worry, this is probably just some supernatural event,” Ivand reassured him.

"supernatural event?"

"In short, it's a supernatural event. We've never heard of that insurance company before, and we have no idea where it came from."

Don't you think its appearance is just a gimmick, a way to shield your injuries from attention?

Ivand turned his wheelchair halfway around, pushed the metal wheels to the bedside table, picked up a bunch of grapes, and stuffed them into his mouth.

"Ptooey, it's so sour!"

"Speaking of which, is this a burn?" Ria asked Lanna, who was lying in the hospital bed. Lanna seemed unwilling to recall the terrible scene, but still revealed some details.

He said that the factory he was in charge of was next to a place where the functions of the installed machinery were tested. Explosions and unidentified gas leaks frequently occurred there, but the factory manager would still send people to check it in shifts.

“Every time we went in, there was a foul-smelling gas there. When our skin came into contact with this gas, it started to ulcerate like burns, but we didn’t feel any pain.”

Even so, we still have to take turns going to that room to adjust the components. If we don't, we'll lose several months' worth of wages—that's our livelihood!

Ria's fingers unconsciously tapped the handle of her cane: "Besides that?"

"Do you notice anything else unusual, such as seeing a tall, thin figure, or hearing any sounds you shouldn't hear?"

"No, but many of my coworkers in the same factory died from this injury."

This stuff will enter the lungs through the nasal cavity and corrode the internal organs. The lack of pain means that even if that heartless factory owner makes us work until we die, we can only accept our fate.

“We are cowards and dare not resist, but how many of us dare to resist? Resisting will only get us beaten to death with shovels. I want to live a few more years.”

As Lanna spoke, his already pale eyes became even more cloudy. He closed his eyes in pain, then opened them again after a moment, stretched out his arm, and slowly peeled off the gauze, revealing the horrific skin underneath.

Seeing the pus on his skin stuck to the gauze, Ria reached out to stop Lanna from peeling off the bandage.

He pressed the white cloth strip back down and stuffed a bright red apple into the other person's hand.

(End of this chapter)