At the very back of the factory workshop were several workers covered in blood, their bodies marked with nurous wounds; in the deepest corner, they were tightly restraining the boss, who was so terrified he had wet his pants.
As for the security guards, they had already been dragged out by the Lungn Guard Officers and rushed to the hospital for ergency treatnt.
Seeing the situation, Hoshiguma handed her shield to a nearby Lungn Guard Officer and walked over to the hostage negotiator. The negotiator was still painstakingly trying to persuade the workers to release the boss.
"They just want their wages. You're a strange one—instead of making the boss pay back the money, you insist on them letting him go. If they release him and don't get paid, are you going to pay them on his behalf?"
little Flandre Scarlet, who had appeared beside him at so unknown point, left the expert montarily speechless with her words. Hoshiguma also gave him a cold glance before turning to look at the workers.
"Holding him like this isn't a long-term solution. I know you just want your wages, but if you hold the person who pays the wages, where is that money going to co from? How about this: I'll leave a phone with you, and you have the boss imdiately contact finance to transfer all your wages to you. But once you receive the wages, I require you to release him. Do you think this is feasible?"
After discussing it for a few monts, the workers agreed. Hoshiguma started walking over with a mobile phone, but after a few steps, a worker suddenly shouted, "Wait! Let that little girl bring it to us!"
The man pointed at Flandre Scarlet.
"Actually, I'm even more dangerous!" Flandre Scarlet replied with a beaming smile.
"I know, but I only recognize you... You've appeared on TV, you're definitely more reliable than her!" One of the workers, who looked quite young, said to Flandre Scarlet.
Hearing the worker's words, Flandre Scarlet was stunned for a mont. "You say Flandre is reliable?"
The man nodded nervously. Flandre Scarlet then broke into a smile.
"Flandre likes that description, so Flandre has decided to help you. Hoshiguma, give the phone!" Flandre Scarlet reached out her hand to Hoshiguma for the phone.
"Be careful!" Hoshiguma nodded slightly and placed the phone in Flandre Scarlet's hand.
Flandre Scarlet walked up to the workers with the phone and pointed to the boss they were holding. "How about I help make the call!"
The workers nodded and made a path for her. Flandre Scarlet walked up to the disheveled, unkempt boss. She looked up at him, a flash of red light glinting in her eyes.
"Co on, Mr. Villain, tell the number for finance."
A hint of confusion flashed in his eyes, and he imdiately recited a string of numbers. The call was connected quickly. The boss told the person on the other end, word for word, to imdiately transfer all the back wages owed to the workers into their accounts. The person on the other end was aware of the boss's situation and imdiately stated they were already at the bank and could make the transfer at any ti.
The call wasn't hung up; in less than ten minutes, the accountant on the other side said the paynts had been fully settled and told the workers to check for themselves. So workers contacted their families, and shortly after, they received news that they had indeed received their overdue wages. Upon hearing this, the workers sat on the ground one after another and began to wail and cry.
Seeing the workers give up their resistance, the Lungn Guard Officers rushed forward to try and restrain them. But they were stopped by Hoshiguma.
"They are all just people with hard lives. Everyone, help them into the police cars!"
The Lungn Guard Officers paused for a mont before slowing their movents and supporting the workers as they walked out of the factory.
"Clearly that guy had money, so why wasn't he willing to pay their wages?" Flandre asked Hoshiguma after everyone had left.
"Greed, and he thought the workers wouldn't dare to burn their bridges with him." Hoshiguma remarked that she had seen this kind of thing several tis; most company bosses don't actually lack the funds. It's just that they take advantage of the fact that workers need a job to put food on the table, so they constantly oppress them. From heavier workloads to lower pay, to bosses like this one who don't pay wages for a long ti. It's all for the sake of squeezing out the maximum profit.
"What a huge villain!" Flandre Scarlet cursed angrily and then asked what would happen to the workers in the end.
"If the surveillance can prove that the conflict was started by those security guards and they only fought back out of necessity, then these workers will likely be prosecuted for intentional injury. Considering several people died, they'll probably be sentenced to ten to twenty years in prison. The sa goes for those security guards. After all, people died on both sides." Hoshiguma explained the relevant laws of Great Yan to Flandre Scarlet.
"What about this villain boss?" Flandre Scarlet asked.
"Let's look at the surveillance first, we'll know after we see it!" Hoshiguma didn't answer directly, but instead took Flandre Scarlet to the information departnt nearby to retrieve the factory surveillance footage. After watching it, she breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's clear from the surveillance that the security guards were the ones who started the fight, and it was their barbaric behavior that led to the rapid escalation of the conflict. And the reason these guards did that was on the boss's orders. So he is the primary person responsible for this case. Don't worry, because his actions led to such a heinous brawl resulting in death, that guy will have to spend at least twenty years in prison."
Hoshiguma also expressed her anger after watching. This was clearly a case that could have been completely avoided. Yet, because of the boss's actions, it resulted in so many casualties. The negative impact this brought to Lungn is imasurable; Old Wei will definitely not go easy on this boss.
Hearing Hoshiguma's words, Flandre Scarlet breathed a sigh of relief. She had just been planning that if the boss could escape punishnt, she would trigger the ntal suggestion she had planted in his heart to make him commit suicide. Now that she knew the guy would be punished, she decided to change the content of the suggestion to make him confess all the bad things he had done in court.
"I didn't expect you little one to be quite useful!" Getting into the car for the return trip, Hoshiguma reached out and poked Flandre Scarlet's cheek.
After returning to the Major Cris Unit, Flandre Scarlet told Chen Huijie, who was now sitting at her desk, about what happened.
Chen Huijie said, "It's okay now, but in the month before the New Year, this kind of thing happens almost once or twice every day."
"So why not severely punish those black-hearted bosses?" Flandre Scarlet asked, not understanding.
"Punish? Every year a batch of these people are kicked out of Lungn. But so what? The newcors are all the sa. These insatiable fellows are more nurous than locusts; you can't catch them all."
Ch'en shrugged helplessly. They had caught many people like this, but it had no effect. Those guys still withhold wages like they always do. So even threaten their employees, saying they'll pay twenty to thirty percent of the wages before the year ends and pay the rest slowly next year.
"If you don't agree and try to sue, you won't get a single cent. What do you expect those people who are counting on that money to go ho for the New Year to do?"
Flandre Scarlet scratched her head after hearing this; there were too many villains for her to manage. Oh well, instead of getting angrier the more she thought about it, she might as well read a book for a while. After finding an empty seat and sitting down, Flandre Scarlet took a book out of her backpack and began to flip through it. Although people left the Major Cris Unit from ti to ti for field duty, everyone tacitly avoided disturbing her.
Until the afternoon, when Chen Huijie patted Flandre Scarlet on the shoulder. "little Flandre, the matter we need your help with has arrived."
"Ah?" Although Flandre Scarlet was a bit confused, she still stood up.
"A female corpse was found in the park woods, with so eerie symbols carved all over her body. I rember you said before that your level with incantations and runes was very high. Want to co to the cri scene with and take a look?" Chen Huijie said while straightening her clothes.
"Okay!" Flandre Scarlet put the book back in her backpack and followed Chen Huijie out of the Guard Departnt.
Before long, the two arrived at the park. By this ti, the area had been completely cordoned off. Chen Huijie took out her police ID and led Flandre Scarlet inside. They soon found the deceased in the woods.
The deceased looked absolutely terrifying at this mont. There wasn't a single patch of intact skin on her body. Symbols had been carved into her one by one with a knife. Flandre Scarlet's expression turned sowhat solemn after looking at the corpse.
"These scars weren't carved after death."
The Forensic Doctor nearby also nodded. "Correct. According to our examination, the deceased likely suffered extrely severe torture before death. These wounds were almost all carved with a small knife while she was alive. And her cause of death was shock and organ failure due to excessive blood loss."
Chen Huijie looked at Flandre Scarlet. "Do you recognize these symbols on her body?"
Flandre Scarlet looked for a mont and then nodded. "I've seen them in books. They're so seemingly mysterious but completely incorrect magical runes used by a cult called the Cult of Truth."
"Cult of Truth, those guys have co to Lungn again!" A flash of murderous intent crossed Ch'en's eyes upon hearing Flandre's words.
"Chen Huijie, you know about this organization?" Flandre Scarlet looked up at her.
"Of course. About six months before you ca to Lungn, that organization committed several inhuman murders in the city. I rember that it was only after extensive searching by all parties in Lungn that we caught their trail. However, those guys were extrely cunning. Before we could close the net, several leaders had already fled Lungn, and in the end, we only caught so ordinary mbers."
After Chen Huijie finished speaking, she took out her phone and dialed a number.
"Lin Gerui? It's Chen Huijie. It's like this: we found traces of Cult of Truth activity again while investigating a case today. Flandre Scarlet discovered it; she confird that the marks on the deceased co from that organization called the Cult of Truth. Okay, then I'll leave it to you."
Under any other circumstances, she would have been absolutely unwilling to make this call. But the last ti the Cult of Truth appeared, it was that side that found their trail; it was just that the Guard Departnt was a step too slow and ca up empty-handed, allowing them to escape.
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