Chapter 178 - 119: A Terrible Thing! The Sir’s Righteousness?

Chapter 178: Chapter 119: A Terrible Thing! The Sir’s Righteousness?

Zhang Lin saw the sudden event notification and didn’t dare hesitate. He rushed out of the operations department!

The location indicated by the red exclamation mark was in the service center’s lounge area, not far from the office building.

When Zhang Lin arrived, he found the entire lounge in chaos.

His brow furrowed at the scene in the middle of the lounge.

Tables and chairs were in disarray, overturned. A man was holding a dagger to an old woman’s throat, and blood was already trickling down her neck.

Beside the man holding the old woman hostage, a man and a woman watched nervously. They looked like a couple, and the old woman appeared to be their elder relative.

"Damn it!" Zhang Lin cursed under his breath.

’No wonder the game system’s warning was so severe.’

If there was bloodshed, or even a death, the farm would definitely suffer. To mitigate the social impact, the farm would have to be shut down for rectification for a period of time.

It would be made the scapegoat.

He could already picture the official announcement’s headline: "Li Yuan Farm Lacks Safety Inspection Facilities and Emergency Response Measures; Ordered to Rectify!"

That was a certainty.

You City definitely wouldn’t want to throw Li Yuan Farm under the bus, but once a social incident became a public spectacle, the municipal and provincial authorities would start paying attention.

At that point, even You City wouldn’t be able to withstand the pressure.

He never thought this kind of fucked-up shit would happen at his own farm.

’The key question is, who is this guy with the dagger, and why the hell is he attacking people on my farm?’

’An extremist?’

Regardless, the sight of several system-recruited security guards rushing over put him at ease.

The defining trait of these guards was that they would genuinely charge in when trouble started, unlike real-world security guards who would get scared and hide.

The surrounding tourists looked terrified, yet crucially, they were all crowding around the lounge, holding up their phones to film the scene.

This was the typical rubbernecking mentality of his countrymen.

They weren’t even afraid the man might go berserk and start stabbing everyone in sight. If that happened, the people at the front wouldn’t even have room to run.

Seeing this, Zhang Lin quickly waved the guards over.

"Boss!"

Several guards came forward and greeted him in unison.

Zhang Lin quickly gave his orders, "Find a way to subdue him. Try your best not to let any tourists get hurt!"

The guards nodded, spread out, and casually began to close in on the man with the dagger.

The man’s attention was entirely on the couple, so he didn’t notice a thing. He glared viciously at them. "You two dogs, so you’re really here. And you, you bitch, are you here to meet your new in-laws?"

Hearing the man’s words, the couple’s expressions turned ugly.

The man had no choice but to say, "Liu Jianming, don’t misunderstand. Ma Ling and I just happened to run into each other at the farm by chance!"

The woman, Ma Ling, also said, "That’s right, Jianming. Peng Yan and I just met here by coincidence."

Holding the dagger, Liu Jianming grew even more furious at their words. He slashed the old woman’s thigh, making her scream in pain. Only then did he glare viciously at Ma Ling. "You think I don’t know you two planned this? Ma Ling, while you were sound asleep, I used your finger to unlock your phone!"

"I saw how you two planned to come here and have fun, to meet Peng Yan’s mother. I saw how satisfied his mother was with you, and how you decided to divorce me after you got back. I know everything! And it was this old hag who supported it, wasn’t it?"

This sent the surrounding crowd into an uproar. No one could believe it.

At first, everyone had assumed that Liu Jianming and Ma Ling were a couple out with an elderly relative and had run into some psycho bent on revenge against society.

Who would have thought it was such a complicated love affair!

I mean, cheating on your spouse already pushes the boundaries of morality. But now, not only was this Ma Ling cheating, she was meeting her lover’s parents. And crucially, the old woman actually supported it! What kind of bizarre relationship was this?

"This shatters my worldview!"

"This is... making my head spin!"

"That Liu Jianming guy is kinda pitiful!"

"A classic case of bullying an honest man!"

For some reason, the tourists who had just seen Liu Jianming as a psycho were now all sympathizing with and supporting him. Everyone looked at Ma Ling and Peng Yan with contempt.

"Kill her! People like that deserve to be killed!" one of the tourists actually shouted, filled with righteous indignation.

Zhang Lin’s face fell when he heard that. ’Isn’t this just making things worse?’

’Kill her my ass.’

’What kind of society is this? If you have a problem, go to the police or the courts.’

’Don’t they know that a single thoughtless comment could ruin someone’s life?’

Sure enough, hearing that shout, Liu Jianming lost it. He raised the dagger, about to run the old woman straight through the heart.

Zhang Lin’s heart leaped into his throat. But just then, a hand shot out and grabbed the dagger’s blade. Blood flowed, the palm clearly wounded. It was one of the system-recruited guards.

Another hand grabbed one of Liu Jianming’s arms; it was another system-recruited guard.

Then, yet another hand clamped down on Liu Jianming’s neck—the third guard.

The fourth guard had nothing to do, so he just watched from the side.

Liu Jianming was subdued, and the dagger was wrestled from his grasp.

He roared madly, unwilling to accept defeat.

Zhang Lin, however, let out a sigh of relief.

However, the heroic actions of the system-recruited guards were not met with praise or applause from the tourists. Watching Liu Jianming’s furious roars, they all remained silent instead.

Emotionally, everyone had hoped Liu Jianming would kill the old woman. It would have been immensely satisfying. They even wished that such disgusting people would be subjected to brutal punishment, because modern morality was in such disarray that many people were even proud of such behavior.