What Did You Do to My Sheep?

The somber atmosphere in the room made Vera feel down; she now realized that some things were much more troublesome than she had imagined.

However, she was reluctant to step forward and do anything at this time. Although her relationship with Gepu had cooled considerably due to Gepu betrayal, they were still husband and wife, and from a legal perspective, she also had to bear some responsibility.

Even a small part of the responsibility was enough for her to keep the secret, especially for the sake of the children!

In the Bayer Federation, there are actually many deep-seated social problems, but these problems are not usually reported.

However, just because it's not reported doesn't mean it doesn't exist; the most serious issue is school bullying.

Children with "blemishes" are particularly vulnerable to bullying at school, and even teachers often turn a blind eye to such behavior.

Among the many "stains," the father being a criminal and currently serving time ranks first.

This means that a child has no male protection. In a male-dominated society, this situation is tantamount to telling everyone that they can bully the child or even his mother without much trouble.

There won't be a rude man waving a baseball bat and storming into a school to reprimand those bastards or teachers, nor will there be a person in a suit and tie with a lawyer taking the students and the school to court together.

Furthermore, the persistent and absurd misconception that crime is a heritable trait exacerbates this phenomenon.

Teachers, in particular, tend to view these phenomena with prejudice and remain indifferent. Not all teachers are saints; most are ordinary people, not much different from the people on the street.

For the sake of her child, Vera will not consider revealing these secrets, at least not at this stage.

Vera quickly got up to say goodbye, and Lin Qi didn't try to stop her. Of course, it would have been inappropriate to try to stop her anyway, as he quickly turned his attention back to the work that wasn't quite finished.

Meanwhile, in a farmhouse on the outskirts of the city, a shivering Gepu huddled in the sheepfold, saved by a bizarre knight-errant novel he had read in school.

With January approaching, temperatures in Sabine City have already dropped to freezing. At this time, without proper insulation, you'll likely never wake up after falling asleep.

He once read a book that told the story of a protagonist who squeezed into a flock of sheep in the dead of winter and thus escaped death. At the time, he scoffed at such stories, thinking, "How could anyone be so stupid? If you're cold, just wear more clothes!" Until today, he realized that the stupidity wasn't in the book, but in his lack of similar experience.

Holding a sheep, Gepu felt an unprecedented warmth. Never before had he longed for a warm environment more than now, but he was also quite confused.

He didn't know where the immense courage came from, but he had no idea what to do after escaping.

Call the police?

This might be a good approach, but as the auditing accountant, he knew that once he confessed to what he had done, even if people said he wasn't the mastermind, he would still bear serious charges and lose his Certified Public Accountant status.

In the future, it is unlikely that any legitimate company will hire an accountant with a serious criminal record and no qualifications to do his job.

Perhaps those gangs don't care about these things, but it's a path he doesn't want to choose.

Want to talk to Neo? He ran away from Neo and even scratched a guard's face with a shard of his glasses. If he just wanted to talk to Neo, why did he take it out and hide for so long?

Moreover... he already had a vague feeling that if Neo found him this time, he might really disappear, which made it even more important not to let him go to Neo.

So what should he do? Should he go back and pretend nothing happened?

But would the police or Neo be willing to believe that nothing happened?

Everything had changed, it was no longer like before. For the first time, a feeling of powerlessness and loss of control over everything washed over Gepu, a feeling he had never experienced before.

He felt anxious, his heart was racing, and he had a headache.

In a daze, his consciousness began to slow down, and he was in a state of half-sleep and half-awake. He soon fell asleep in the warmth.

It was at this moment that several young men approached the sheepfold, carrying sticks in their hands.

The leader was a Country Girl dressed in Linen Clothes. She looked about seventeen or eighteen years old, with flaxen hair and two long braids that trailed down to her waist.

She had a square handkerchief wrapped around her head and wore a somewhat dirty, heavy dress. The freckles and dust on her face couldn't hide the liveliness in her eyes.

She's just an ordinary Country Girl, the kind you see everywhere.

Beside her were her younger brother and children from other nearby farms. These children were natural social butterflies; they could always make friends with people from a great distance.

They gathered here because the Country Girl had recently discovered something shameful: she suspected someone was harassing her sheep.

This makes it difficult for her to express her thoughts to her parents or other adults; she can only communicate with her friends.

In fact, having a relationship with sheep or cattle that transcends species is not an unacceptable thing in the Bayer Federation and even in the world, especially in the pastoral areas of some poor countries, where it has almost become a source of fun for children herding sheep and cattle.

A rare little bit of colorful fun in a deathly gray world that is as silent as a tomb.

The country girl knew about these things, but she couldn't accept anyone doing this to her family's sheep, so she gathered her friends and decided to catch the villain who had insulted the sheep.

"It sounds like there's no sound anymore..." The Country Girl peeked into the sheepfold, which was very quiet in the middle of the night.

At the very edge of the flock, several horned rams suddenly opened their eyes. Their square pupils stared at the Country Girl and her friends for a moment before closing again.

It was too cold. The Country Girl and her friends tiptoed under the moonlight, searching for the villain. Before long, they discovered a scene that disgusted them.

A shirtless man was sleeping while hugging a sheep, which made them think of even more terrible things. The Country Girl was furious and raised her stick high!

With a muffled thud, Gepu, who was dreaming, suddenly found the world dark. Then his soul was blasted out of his body by some enormous force and drifted in the boundless darkness.

A sharp pain quickly jolted him awake, but his dazed mind couldn't comprehend what had happened before he was subjected to a beating! The piercing screams carried for a great distance, so much so that a legend later circulated in the area: every winter night, ghosts would haunt the area.

If you accidentally touch them, they will devour your flesh and blood and make you their food! This story was included in "Seventy-Two Amazing Stories" a few years later and became a horror legend in Sabine City.

Of course, that's all for the future. As for now?

There was only one poor soul who was woken up from his sleep by a beating, but then knocked unconscious again!

President Neo's personal bodyguards had practically turned the area upside down, searching both sides of the highway several times, but they still couldn't find a trace of him.

Gepu seemed to vanish into the vast wilderness in an instant, and some bad news also came from the Police Station department.

The girl who went to the Police Station to report the case was not only Gepu, but also his direct supervisor, department head, and two Board of Directors members.

In fact, there are others who, in the power dynamics of Enterprise Culture, may be in a position even less secure than someone with a private matter, where sharing has become the norm.

Not only would Gepu share this girl with others, but others would also share their girls with Gepu. It's a very special "Enterprise Culture" that people may be ashamed to admit, but it doesn't disappear just because it's denied.

Currently, Gepu's direct superior has also been arrested by the Police Station. When local Police Station and the Federal Bureau of Investigation receive instructions from local authorities, their style of doing things becomes much more aggressive.

Gepu's slightly plump boss quickly became overwhelmed by their methods. He fell down four times in the toilet and was repeatedly "provoked" by his fellow inmates in the detention cell, only to be beaten several times. After that, he gave up resisting.

He confessed some things he knew. Of course, for him, confessing first had its advantages, at least he could shirk some of the responsibility.

The Investigation Team reaffirmed Gepu's importance and issued a new Wanted Order. Meanwhile, they began an investigation into the girl, which again severely delayed Listoan's relocation.

They must resolve these issues, at least demonstrating that these cases have no direct connection to the company itself, in order to extricate themselves, but this is a difficult task.

Everything seemed to be developing in a way that was unfavorable to the Listoan Group. Even President Neo could sense that the attitude of the Conservative Party governor of the Neighboring State towards him was undergoing a subtle change, which made him even more anxious.

But nothing could end quickly. It wasn't like he initially told others that he could leave at any time; in fact, he couldn't leave at all.

His fate has been inextricably linked to the Listoan Group ever since he began falsifying financial statements several years ago.

The group exists, and so does he.

If the group ceases to exist, he has no reason to exist!

Gradually, he felt that he had been forced to the edge of a cliff.