They all call me an Outer God.

Chapter 179 Don't you want to join the investigators?

The family members are key; their presence can obscure the whereabouts of Ria and Evans, reduce their visibility, and spare them unnecessary suffering.

Now that they have been taken into the factory and Ria has witnessed the abilities of the Slender Man, they can naturally continue with the next part of the plan.

"Let's stay here a little longer, and then continue with my plans."

"You want to continue!?"

"Of course, didn't you want to join the investigators? They risk their lives when facing the supernatural. You wouldn't back down because of this little setback, would you?"

"..." Ivand felt that something was wrong. A voice in his heart told him that it was Ria who had harmed those people. If it weren't for Ria's instigation, they wouldn't have come here.

Under the influence of black smoke, negative emotions in people's hearts seem to be amplified.

But then, Ria patted him on the shoulder.

"What are you thinking? Do you think I would harm people indiscriminately?"

"Of course not. Since I chose you as my assistant, I believe that my assistant would never deceive me. You are also in a dangerous situation now. What's wrong with me taking a gamble with you for revenge..."

"By the way, I think I just saw a person in that black smoke. Was that something like a supernatural ghost?"

“Yes,” Ria nodded.

"It's more complicated than I expected."

Ivand wanted to light his pipe, but halfway through he realized it wasn't the right time to smoke, so he had to give up.

Over the next few hours, Ria and Ivand chatted about various random things. Ivand kept glancing at the eerie black smoke, which had now returned to normal and no human figures appeared.

The tall, thin figure's cries had no effect on the factory owner. Ria felt that he definitely had some mysterious item that could block supernatural sound pollution, which gave him another reason to hit him with a brick.

An hour later, when the factory had returned to calm, Ria and Ivand set off.

He was certain that the group of people who had been captured were still alive, but it was hard to say where they were being held now. The factory was short of workers at the moment, and as a capitalist, the factory owner would certainly not let go of any free labor.

The factory owner said "it" was hungry, and who this "it" refers to is something worth pondering.

Lia said with a hammer: "Now, if we reappear, we will definitely be taken into the factory, and the factory owner will surely take better care of us."

"This doesn't sound like a good thing."

"That's impossible to say."

The two of them approached the factory gate again. Ria searched the ground and picked up another brick, weighed it in his hand, and then smashed it against the factory gate with a "bang".

The factory owner opened the door a crack and recognized Ria. The pain in his head was still fresh in his memory, and he immediately concluded that Ria was mentally ill.

"You, why are you here again!"

"We've thought about it, and you can't avoid paying compensation; you have to pay compensation now!"

"Don't do that, young man, I'll pay you back, okay?"

"Are you really willing to give us the money?"

"Of course, after all, it wouldn't do me any good to lie to you."

Seeing that Ria was so easily fooled, the factory owner quickly told Ria to throw away the bricks she was holding. Then he opened the door and said, "Come with me, I'll get you what you want."

"By the way, you can call me Birdwin. As your friend, you two will definitely remember this name well in the future."

He led Ria and Ivand inside, and Ria found something like an earplug on his ear, which was presumably the mysterious item that could block out supernatural sound pollution.

I just don't know what the price will be. Ria pointed to his earplugs: "Can I play with them?"

"cannot!"

Birdwin was now convinced that Ria was mentally unstable, and his hatred for the two men surpassed that of anyone else. Therefore, he wanted to make them experience the torment of industry first.

"This is our workshop. What you see here are people who love their work. Look, their faces are full of happy expressions. This is the joy of working."

You want money, but we all know that money comes from labor, so you need to work.

He said this to Ria, and by then, the group had arrived in front of a room.

Lia temporarily ignored the room and looked at the people who were working.

They were dressed in heavy clothes, their foreheads were covered in sweat, but the corners of their mouths were definitely turned up.

"You didn't glue their faces together to make them smiley faces, did you?"

"Haha, young people just like to joke around. Here, the money you wanted is inside."

As he spoke, Birdwin opened the door to the room. Ria saw a production line inside, but before he could get a good look, he was shoved hard from behind.

"Go inside!!!"

"Bang!" The door slammed shut, leaving Ivand, who was still outside, completely dumbfounded: "What have you done!?"

"What am I doing? Haha, of course I'm doing what I like best. Don't be too envious, after all, you're next, and then it'll be the turn of those old guys."

"You'd better not do that. I'm a detective, I have my credentials—"

As he spoke, Ivand drew his gun without hesitation and pointed it at him, but Birdwin nonchalantly shook his hand. Soon, Ivand noticed that his gun was rusting.

"This factory is my territory. Once you enter here, no one can escape being manipulated."

This is a power that you ordinary people could never imagine in your entire lives—it's extraordinary power!

As he spoke, he moved his fingers again, and the surrounding machinery roared, while Ivand's wheelchair was instantly covered in rust.

He was violently pulled off his wheelchair by his clothes and shoved into the next room.

After closing the second door, Birdwin turned the switch on the wall, and countless fumes were about to fill the two narrow rooms.

"Admittedly, development comes at a price, and so does transcendence. After using extraordinary power, the waste gas produced by this factory can only linger within the factory. I can only ask you to 'purify' it by human effort. I believe the factory itself will be very happy."

Hahaha, I'm such a genius!!!

He laughed loudly and left the spot.

In the room where yellow gas was gradually emanating from the air, Ria found a machine and sat down, releasing Little Swarth to devour all the exhaust fumes.

He was too unworthy to enjoy such wonderful things and could only find an opportunity to return them to their rightful owners.

"This thing is of little use to me, but it is extremely deadly to ordinary people. All the injuries of those hospitalized patients were caused by it, which means that this thing can burn the skin and lungs and internal organs."

Moreover, they are extremely harmful to the eyes.

"Wait...it's harmful to the eyes?"

Lia suddenly seemed to have discovered some interesting key point.

(End of this chapter)