Among Us, There's an Oddball!

In our midst, a heretic has infiltrated! In a short three-plus hours, Lin Qi had a late-night snack and lay in bed pretending to be weak. The emergency center doctor had somehow gotten some stuff he didn't recognize and smeared it on his face, making him look haggard.

When he was wheeled out of the emergency center, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, including the director of the Sabine City Federal Revenue Service, who had stayed the whole time. He had been waiting here, and only at this moment did his heart finally settle.

As long as Lin Qi didn't die, the problem wouldn't escalate to an unmanageable level. In fact, whether it was him or higher-ups or management departments, how could they not know about some of the problems in the work below?

As long as the problem doesn't become unmanageable, the higher-ups will just turn a blind eye and pretend they don't know anything. Everyone can understand that if everything is done according to the rules and regulations when working on the front lines, probably nothing can be accomplished.

Appropriate delegation of power and even exceeding the rules is not excessive, as long as they can complete their work and their tasks, then everything is not a problem.

Every year, the Bayer Federation has no fewer than hundreds of conflicts caused by law enforcement standards. There may have been more in previous years, but no law enforcement departments in various places have been afraid to reach out because of this, and no law enforcement departments have been locked up in cages by their superiors.

But if Lin Qi died, then this matter would be difficult to handle. Any effective and healthy mechanism itself has a set of internal cleaning processes to clean up some corrupt parts, and the Federal government also has this.

The Bayer Federation's "Supervisory Department" is such a special department. Within this department, there are many subordinate departments, among which the more famous ones are the "Bureau of Investigation of Duty Crimes", the "Disciplinary Committee", and the "Counter-Infiltration Investigation Office".

Once public opinion starts to boil, some of these people will soon appear in Sabine City to investigate the excessive law enforcement standards and possible duty-related crimes. At that time, it won't just be Michael who's unlucky.

A small Tax Bureau Investigation Team Leader cannot bear such "weight". There must be someone to share the blame with him and be dismissed together, and this person is likely to be a director-level figure who "knowingly fails to report".

Fortunately, Lin Qi woke up, which also meant that the situation would not become too bad, if you don't consider the series of bills he was about to see.

Lin Qi talked to the doctor and then facilitated their simple cooperation. Here, the doctor's behavior is not considered a major mistake.

You should know that in the Bayer Federation, medical structures are controlled by medical groups. In other words, hospitals are equivalent to shopping malls under the capitalists who wear the skin of medical groups.

What they sell is something called health. If you want to obtain health, you have to pay money. Doctors and nurses are salesmen. They work here not to save lives and heal the wounded, although they always claim to be doing so.

From the very beginning, the purpose of their learning this medical knowledge was to enter hospitals and become doctors or nurses, in order to become high-income people.

The essence of their work is also to create profits for the group, so why should a doctor refuse a risk-free cooperation and obtain huge commissions? Of course, this is also why the president gets the support of the people whenever he mentions the issue of medical reform. The high cost of treatment and the indifferent attitude of hospitals make most people hope that it can change, but it is really difficult to do so.

This is like asking those big capitalists not to make money. They are not philanthropists. Even if they are philanthropists, first of all, philanthropists need to suck enough blood from the common people before they can have a bright red heart to dedicate to others, which is basically impossible.

In short, the news that Lin Qi was violently coerced by Michael and was seriously ill quickly spread. Michael, who was cooperating with the investigation in the Police Station, did not expect Lin Qi to be so seriously injured.

Several policemen hesitated to let him cooperate and put handcuffs and shackles on him. This was already the highest level of enjoyment in the Police Station, and it also meant that Michael might be suspected of first-degree murder, and he was the perpetrator. If Lin Qi died in the middle of the night.

A series of changes did not alarm too many Sabine City residents. Even when it dawned, they might not know that a guy named Lin Qi had been beaten into the hospital by a Tax Bureau Investigation Team Leader named Michael, and a risk notice had been issued.

The days of the vast majority of people were no different from usual, and Little Michael was no exception.

After waking up in the morning, he ate a not-so-delicious breakfast and entered the prison "workshop" with everyone. Sometimes everything in the Bayer Federation is confusing.

Prisons should obviously be state-owned structures, but in the Bayer Federation, there are many private prisons. The power of capital is really pervasive. Even prisons and prisoners have become factories that can extract profits in the eyes of some people.

Fortunately, however, the Sabine City District Prison is not a private prison. The number of inmates in this small city is not so large that the Sabine City Hall feels strained, so they can still afford these expenses for the time being.

The criminals detained here do not just eat dry food every day. They also have to work, but this kind of work is more like a result of a... time-based policy.

Previously, some people believed that the main reason why criminals continued to commit crimes after leaving prison was that they did not have a skill. After being released from prison, they could not quickly integrate into society, could not earn enough money to support themselves, and had no other work abilities, so they could only return to the path of crime.

As a result, after several years of discussion, a thing called the Inmate Skills Training/Employment Guidance Act was finally passed. Every inmate must master a skill to make a living during their sentence.

Since its implementation, this act has created many new problems. To solve these new problems, even more problems have arisen, but none of this is important.

What is important is that Little Michael honestly sits in front of the sewing machine and starts sewing according to the requirements of his "master". This is the employment skill of the Sabine City District Prison.

The old-to-new method allows inmates to skillfully master the techniques of using a sewing machine. If they are interested, they can also learn machine repair-related content on their own. After being released from prison, whether they go to work as workers or whatever, they will have a skill.

Usually, new inmates are assigned to the newbie group, and the prison will arrange some veterans to teach them until they can independently make a prison uniform for themselves, which is considered a success.

At that time, they can choose to bask in the sun, exercise, or work here. They will receive some monetary rewards for each piece of clothing they complete according to the requirements.

These rewards will be given to them in a lump sum when they leave the prison or used for consumption within the prison.

After Little Michael sat down, his master didn't let him start working. Instead, he looked in the direction of the gate and said casually, "There are new people coming today, and the higher-ups have assigned you to the same group..."

Little Michael didn't have any problems. He had recently begun to adapt to life here. It wasn't as scary as people said. He felt that even without Michael's help, he could safely and quickly complete his sentence here.

Before long, several new people were brought into the workshop, and they all walked towards Little Michael. They were all new, and it wasn't difficult to maintain a unified learning progress.

Just as everyone was preparing to learn, a guy who had been staring at Little Michael suddenly said loudly, "Hey, I know you, your dad is a guy with a 'License'!"

In an instant, the entire workshop was quiet for a moment. Little Michael swallowed. He suddenly felt that the atmosphere here was a little strange. Even the "master" who had been chatting and laughing with him these past few days had a change in his eyes when looking at him.