Astral Apostle - Chapter 88
Chapter 88: Corruption (2)
While the effect of the defective medicine was very poor, it would not kill anyone.
Woah, swapping good products for bad ones. I didn’t stuff like this to happen here.
Zhou Jing was delighted.
It seemed that no matter which world it was, those who could take advantage of loopholes were people who far surpassed their time.
In the eyes of some people in his main world, the goateed man might even be a “smart person” who knew how to earn money and had rich social experience.
“Then who are you selling the good potions to?”
“I privately peddle it to passing merchants or sendit to other towns to sell…” The goateed man smiled awkwardly.
“You’re doing this so rampantly. Aren’t you afraid that the other supervisors in the pharmacy will find out? Aren’t you afraid that the pharmacists cooperating with you will check? Aren’t you afraid of the lord noticing?”
Zhou Jing raised his eyebrows as he lifted the goateed man’s chin with the back of the knife.
Feeling the coldness of his chin, the adam’s apple of c bobbed as he hurriedly replied, “Those pharmacists are the easiest to appease. They don’t have enough free time to buy back the potions that have already been sold to us? Even if they discover the faulty potion, we can just say that it’s probably an inferior potion that slipped through our checks. No one else in charge will check the quality of the potion. There are even people who do the same business as me.
“… As for the lord, as long as the potion shop provides taxes, Lord Lutt will not notice anything amiss. If the lord needs the potions, we will definitely give the best goods.”
Zhou Jing clicked his tongue.
This person’s life was too good.
He thought that it was just a simple reselling. He did not expect to accidentally expose the inside story of White Plains Town’s apothecary and implicate a gray chain of interests.
… It seemed that where there were people, there would be corruption. Even in this primitive world, this was still a problem.
He quietly opened the interface and spent 10 Astral Points to take a look at the attributes of the man. However, he was only at the level of an ordinary person. There was nothing unusual.
…
Zhou Jing smacked his lips and turned to look at the potion again. He said, “What kind of potions are in the defective products you bought?”
“Healing potions, various disease cures… There’s nothing else,” the goateed man whispered.
At this moment, Gamma added, “And some Hunter Potions.”
The goateed man turned his head and glared at the latter.
Gamma didn’t dare to look at him. He waved his hand at Zhou Jing and hurriedly said, “Jason, I didn’t know about this at all. If I had known that they would do such a thing with my medicine, I wouldn’t have dared to…”
“Shut up.”
Gamma immediately covered his mouth, not daring to speak.
Zhou Jing couldn’t be bothered by this person. He narrowed his eyes at the goateed man, “There are also defective products for the Hunter Potions? You guys really want to die.”
The Mutant Beast Hunters were responsible for protecting White Plains Town from the threat of the Mutant Beasts. It was crazy to think that someone was providing defective goods to the Mutant Beast Hunters for their own personal gain… and at such a high price!
He was simply digging his own grave!
At this moment, the door of the pharmacist’s hut was pushed open. Barong strode in, followed by Ross. After subduing these people, Zhou Jing asked Ross to quietly bring Barong over.
“What’s going on?”
Barong looked at the situation, his mind totally at a loss.
He was sleeping in the middle of the night when he suddenly sensed something and woke up in shock. When he saw a silhouette standing at his bedside, he was so frightened that his soul almost left his body. He nearly lashed out with his ax that was leaning beside him.
In the end, Barong heaved a sigh of relief when he realized that Ross was standing by his bed. He wondered how Ross had managed to silently enter his house.
If it was an assassin instead of Ross, he would have been in trouble.
Ross couldn’t speak, so there was no way to explain what had happened. He pulled Barong along, motioning him towards the pharmacist’s cabin.
Although Barong was surprised, he quickly put on his equipment and jogged over. The moment he entered, he saw what was happening. Zhou Jing was sitting on the only chair in the room while the witch doctor, Gamma, and three unfamiliar men were squatting in the corner.
Zhou Jing kicked Gamma, indicating for him to explain.
Gamma did not dare to hide anything, so he could only explain the situation with trepidation.
Soon, Barong understood what had happened.
“What?! You didn’t save Will on purpose?!”
Barong was furious. He grabbed Gamma by the neck and lifted him up.
“Cough, cough, cough…” Gamma repeatedly coughed, unable to catch his breath.
Seeing this, Barong let go and let him fall to the ground.
“You’re really good. You’ve been lying to our village… And you, someone from the potion shop, actually dared to sell defective hunter potions…”
Barong’s chest heaved violently. He was so angry that he wished he could use his hands to split open their small skulls.
The few of them shivered and curled up into a ball.
Only then did Zhou Jing say, “I called you over to discuss how to deal with this matter.”
The main world had a whole set of laws regarding corruption, but he did not know what the process was like if he were to encounter such a problem here, so he called Barong to ask.
Barong calmed down.
He pondered for a while before whispering into Zhou Jing’s ear,
“We have to report this kind of vile behavior to the lord. They are important witnesses. We have to hand them over to the lord so that the corruption at the potion shop can investigated thoroughly. Only then will there be no more hunters who can buy defective potions… Lutt must hate it when someone lies to his superiors and harms his interests. He won’t let these two guys off. He will probably hang them.”
“That’s fine.”
Zhou Jing nodded but started thinking inwardly.
There was no profit in killing someone, but if he reported this corruption to the lord, the lord would more or less express his gratitude.
Although he did not care much about the money in the Mutant World, he might be able to obtain more Astral Points or Information State Particles when he settled his projection earnings.
There were also the profits that Gamma had made over the years…
Zhou Jing thought of this and investigated the house thoroughly. In the end, he found a few secret compartments and took out two bulging money bags.
After a quick count, there were about seven to eight hundred Terra silver coins within.
Gamma’s face was ashen. These were the savings he had accumulated through selling potions.
Even for high-income mutant beast hunters, it was a huge sum of money. They could only earn it after hunting quite a few times.
“What should we do with this money?” Zhou Jing asked.
“What do you have in mind?” Barong asked.
Zhou Jing thought for a moment and shrugged. “You and I will take some and give some to the hunters. The rest can be handed over to the village. Anyway, a portion of it includes the labor of the villagers.”
“I thought you’d choose to take it all,” Barong said, a little surprised.
“I’m not interested in money.”
Zhou Jing waved his hand in dismissal.
At least in the Mutant World, this was the truth.
At this moment, Gamma could not help but plead.
“I’ve treated the villagers for so many years, even if I don’t have any achievements, you should factor in the labor I’ve done, right? Besides, if I didn’t sell the medicine, I wouldn’t have this money… Can you leave some for me?”
Amazing, this guy can really talk.
Zhou Jing raised his eyebrows and snapped his fingers.
Ross immediately approached Gamma as he slowly drew his dagger.
“No! I don’t want it anymore!” Gamma shouted in horror.
“Wouldn’t it have been better if you had done this earlier?”
Zhou Jing waved his hand and got Ross to take out a cloth to gag them.
Barong ignored Gamma, pacing around the house for a while before saying in a deep voice, “Jason, set off tonight. Take these two to White Plains Town. There are guards at the grain collection team. If you leave during the day, you’ll bump into them. It’ll be troublesome to explain, and it’ll easily make them misunderstand that you kidnapped the grain collection people.”
“Alright, I’ll leave later.” Zhou Jing nodded. “What about you?”
“I’ll deal with the grain collection team in the village. You don’t have to worry about anything here,” Barong replied.
Hearing this, Zhou Jing did not delay and quickly went home to pack his things.
Then, he borrowed a beast mule from one of the farmers and loaded the boxes of defective medicine. Under cover of the night, he and Ross brought the goateed man and Gamma for the journey.
Barong stood at the entrance of the village and watched as Zhou Jing and the others disappeared into the night.
