Chapter 89
The background noise of the phone call was incredibly loud, with hurried arguments and footsteps rising and falling. You could hear many senior executives and employees frantically asking for instructions in their high-pitched voices, but they were all yelled at back by the secretary.
A chaotic scene ensued, with people and horses falling to the ground.
"The Jiang Group just signed a contract with us not long ago. Even if they changed their minds, it wouldn't be this fast. There must be a rival trying to harm us... But there are more than a dozen companies, large and small, that have jointly submitted the report! Chairman, are we being watched? What should we do next?"
The joint report itself is not scary; what is scary is that the leader is the Jiang Group, which is at the height of its power and can rival the Fu family.
As a bellwether in the business world, it will lead many small and medium-sized groups to rush to join the inspection team like a swarm of locusts crossing a river - Fu's has been a monopoly in the pharmaceutical industry for a long time, who wouldn't want to dethrone it and get a share of the pie?
When the coalition government issues a ruling, it looks at its authority and the will of the people. Even if it originally had no intention of taking action against them, it will conduct a thorough investigation under public pressure!
Not to mention that the Fu family and the Jiang family have a cooperative relationship. If one party breaks the contract without cause, it will have to pay an exorbitant penalty and the group's reputation will be damaged. The Jiang family would not do something as stupid as shooting themselves in the foot. If they dare to suddenly launch an attack, they must be well-prepared and confident!
The secretary was reporting over the phone, so anxious that her tongue kept getting tied.
The stunned Fu family finally reacted, but their shock at learning of the impending disaster was palpable. The women turned pale, and the men were terrified.
The head of the Fu family quickly realized what was happening. His face turned ashen, and in his extreme agitation and disbelief, his horrifying, rotting face twisted even more. He reached out with both hands to grab Xie Xubai's collar: "Was this your doing?!"
Jin Guang was prepared and waited for his opportunity. Unexpectedly, a slender but strong hand reached out from the side and grabbed the Fu family head's wrist.
The person who made the move was Pei Yuheng.
Not only was the head of the Fu family stunned and his movements faltered, but Xie Xubai was also taken aback for a moment.
Xie Xubai knew how terrified Pei Yuheng was of this depraved family. He had been tormented and exploited for most of his life, his shoulders and back pressed down, accompanied by countless beatings and confinement over the past ten years. He couldn't even bear to see anything shaped like a whip; just looking at it would cause him to experience physical muscle spasms due to tension and fear.
But Pei Yuheng was now standing in front of him, locked in a stare-down confrontation with the head of the Fu family. His other hand trembled slightly as he patted the back of the man's hand, conveying a reassuring message: Don't be afraid.
"Materials consumption, supply chain, capital chain, experimental technical process standardization, biosafety management—these are the areas that the alliance is investigating, and Fu's Laboratory dares not guarantee that it has met the standards for any of them."
Pei Yuheng stared coldly at the head of the Fu family: "Before I came, I made multiple copies of all the data and evidence and gave them to different people for safekeeping. If we don't return safely, the alliance will be very happy to receive those 'gifts'."
"Before you try to take action against us, consider whether you have the ability to fight us to the death."
For a moment, the expression on the head of the Fu family almost collapsed, his two bloodshot eyes staring straight at Pei Yuheng.
He had always treated Pei Yuheng as a dog trained by the Fu family, but now he had failed to train the dog and was bitten by it instead!
Humiliation, resentment, disbelief, and inexplicable fear erupted in his mind, causing the body of the decaying corpse to swell several times.
The stench grew even stronger! The enormous head almost touched the ceiling, and a vast shadow rolled down from above like a tide. The air became thick and sticky, and the Fu family members trembled with fear, their legs going weak.
The more others feared that he dared not resist, the more excited the Fu family head became.
But his eyes swept over the two young men right under his nose.
Pei Yuheng was initially terrified, but during the time he was comforting Xie Xubai, he somehow regained his long-lost courage and didn't blink or avoid the situation.
Needless to say, Xie Xubai didn't even blink once from beginning to end. His eyes remained calm and composed. Watching him, who was on the verge of going berserk, was like watching a boring and ridiculous farce from the audience. This directly pierced the already crumbling self-esteem of the Fu family head.
Kill them! Kill them! Kill them all!
Just as the head of the Fu family was about to pounce, Jin Guang grabbed his hands and feet tightly. The bones cracked with the force of the impact, and he couldn't help but howl in pain before Jin Guang threw him against the wall!
"Husband!" "Big Brother!" "Master!"...
The rest of the Fu family rushed over in a flurry.
At the same time, Xie Xubai heard a notification sound.
[The character "Pei Yuheng's" fear of the "Fu Family" has been reduced by 50%, gaining the additional attribute: Courage. His mental fortitude and self-confidence have been greatly improved! Congratulations!]
After his mental strength increased significantly, Xie Xubai immediately noticed the subtle difference in the system voice compared to the past.
The calm, gentle mechanical voice was neither as emotionally charged as human speech, nor as dark and eerie as when threatening players to refine their character settings; it was as if a system had split into two distinct personalities.
Xie Xubai secretly noted this point of doubt, took out a document from his pocket, placed it on the table, pushed it forward, and calmly looked at the Fu family head who was struggling to get up with the help of others: "The Fu family is almost finished, and it is truly gratifying to see the family head so energetic."
Before the head of the Fu family could even stand properly, he heard this sarcastic remark, which made him so angry that he almost fell over.
Pei Yuheng also snapped out of his shock at "such a big lump being thrown out," and his expression changed upon seeing this.
The character "Pei Yuheng" suddenly gains insight into "language comprehension and expression skills" and is learning the "sharp tongue" skill.
Xie Xubai: "..." He suddenly recalled the scene where Pei Yuheng had been relentlessly criticizing him with a half-smile as soon as they met.
Silently swallowing more sarcasm, Xie Xubai said calmly, "Sign this document and hand over the belongings of the Pei couple. I will consider giving your Fu family some time to collect their remains."
Unable to do anything to the two men, the head of the Fu family could only lower his head in resentment and stumble to the table to pick up the documents.
This is a property transfer document; the property to be transferred is the abandoned clinic in the south of the city.
With the alliance government about to take drastic measures against the Fu Group, this clinic has no overt or covert financial income and no conflicts of interest, making it absolutely safe.
Under the menacing gaze of the golden light, the head of the Fu family glanced at the two men with a gloomy expression and reluctantly signed his name.
Because of his enormous size, he had to bend over at a 135-degree angle to sign, almost hitting his head on the ground. It was as if the humiliation of being inferior was whipping his heart, making the head of the Fu family grind his teeth and bleed from his eyes.
As for the Pei couple's belongings, the head of the Fu family insisted that there were none.
The two men were wary of Madam Fu. They destroyed her belongings before being caught, and in a rare moment of lucidity, one of them stabbed himself in the corner of the bed while the other grabbed a syringe, ending their lives in an extremely violent manner.
Hearing the Fu family head's account, Pei Yuheng's emotions instantly became unstable. He clenched his fists so tightly they almost drew blood, and said hatefully, "You're the ones who drove them to this—"
"Don't throw all this mud at us! They're the ones who've always been insane!" Madam Fu shouted, unable to contain herself any longer. "Those two lunatics have always been mentally unstable and delusional, claiming they've made some groundbreaking discovery that will shake the world. Our last employer was ruined by their secret research! Since then, nobody has dared to hire them. If it weren't for the Fu family giving them a place, they would have been driven to their deaths by debt collectors long ago!"
Completely unexpected by this turn of events, Pei Yuheng's pupils dilated.
"The Fu family saved their lives, they should have been willing to die for them! But they're all ungrateful wretches! Even you, you worthless bastard—"
Snap!
Suddenly, without warning, the head of the Fu family slapped Madam Fu, knocking her to the ground.
Madam Fu screamed, covering her swollen face, and looked up at the head of the Fu family in disbelief. She was startled by his terrifying and gloomy eyes, and suddenly realized something, so she quickly shut her mouth.
The head of the Fu family turned around, took a breath, and explained to Xie Xubai with an unfriendly expression: "Those two do have periodic hysteria of unknown cause, and there are medical records to support them. They were willing to join the Fu Group because we were able to support them in developing drugs to treat themselves. It was a mutually agreeable transaction, not the one-sided exploitation and coercion you think it is."
"I originally thought they would bring more scientific research results, so that the money would not have been wasted. Who knew they would go completely insane halfway through? They died cleanly and decisively, maintaining their dignity, but leaving us with a mess."
"...To put it bluntly," the Fu family head looked directly at Pei Yuheng, "you are the slave your parents mortgaged to us."
Pei Yuheng certainly didn't want to believe that his parents were crazy. All the warm memories of their time together, his mother's gentleness, and his father's care couldn't possibly be fake.
But he could never explain why the Pei couple treated the Fu family as their supreme ruler.
He endured it all because he couldn't bear to part with his parents' belongings, but what made his parents willingly submit to the Fu family's control? Were they really mentally ill? Why was the Fu family able to easily gain custody of him? No, they must be framing me...
Xie Xubai suddenly spoke coldly: "You really know how to pat yourselves on the back, spouting nothing but empty words of benevolence and morality, and you even believe them yourselves?"
"I have only one question," Xie Xubai said, emphasizing each word. "If you truly did the Pei couple a favor, would you really use their non-existent relics to threaten and force their son to work for you?"
This question hit the nail on the head, and Pei Yuheng instantly broke free from the pain of his wavering beliefs.
The head of the Fu family's lips twitched violently, feeling annoyed that his lie had been exposed on the spot.
Just as I was about to say something more, several phone calls came in one after another, from the secretary, business partners, and the political situation of the alliance.
He rushed out as if his pants were on fire, leaving the others dumbfounded, stunned, like ants on a hot pan, at a loss for what to do.
The Fu family is in complete chaos.
Xie Xubai led the bewildered Pei Yuheng out the door openly, and no one dared to stop them. Everyone looked at them with fear.
Seeing that Pei Yuheng remained silent, Xie Xubai paused and looked at the magician who had followed behind him: "Could you lend me a few more teammates to help investigate the Pei couple's affairs?"
The magician shrugged: "I just verified it with props; what the Fu family patriarch said is true."
Xie Xubai calmly and confidently stated, "But there's definitely a part of it that's fake."
He used his mental power to analyze everyone's emotions and discovered that the Fu family members were only telling the truth.
It's possible that the Pei couple really did seek help from the Fu Group to treat their illnesses, and the Fu Group did indeed provide them with financial assistance.
Little did they know that the Fu Group, which had a good reputation, was actually a ruthless and heartless group that had ruined them and Pei Yuheng.
By personally destroying the project data he had spent most of his life researching and decisively ending his own life, wasn't he also thinking about Pei Yuheng's future?
Xie Xubai, as an observer, could easily understand these things.
But for Pei Yuheng, they were his biological parents, and he was easily blinded by emotions. He needed to see concrete proof to feel at ease.
The magician remained noncommittal.
The unusual act of the head of the Fu family slapping Madam Fu in public was suspicious. Even if Xie Xubai didn't say anything, he would still investigate the past of the Pei couple thoroughly.
"Speaking of which, since you have such great power to persuade that damned Jiang family, why not just have the Jiang family destroy the Fu family?"
Xie Xubai wanted to, but history wouldn't allow it.
He was able to persuade the Jiang and Xu families to take action only because of his advantage as a "person from the future" who could foresee the future. He could fool them for a while, but not forever. He knew that the Fu family might be severely weakened, but they would not collapse at this time.
Even such turmoil is enough to give the Fu family a hard time.
The abandoned clinic in the south of the city was the starting point for Pei Yuheng to establish the First Hospital.
Xie Xubai did try to get more start-up capital from the Fu family for Pei Yuheng, but the problem was that any industry that could generate profits for the Fu Group had shady dealings behind it all, and the political situation of the alliance was still watching them closely.
After going around in circles, this clinic was the cleanest one.
Xie Xubai suddenly felt a sense of disorientation, as if he were witnessing history firsthand, along with some indescribable insights. It was as if the confusion blocking his view had been blown away by a strong wind, leaving him with a sudden sense of clarity.
The long-lost voice rang in his mind, no longer a cold, inorganic mechanical voice, but a gentle, eloquent one, almost identical to Xie Xubai's own voice.
I can feel that my understanding of the First Hospital has deepened. The rules, more than twenty years in the future, are watching my every move; it seems to have developed a sense of intimacy and expectation towards me?
So, I am also a part of history.
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