Chapter 640 — Zhong Yongliang's Mission
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"But if the forensic examiners can't detect it, then we won't achieve our aim of harming Gu Pengzhan either, will we? By then the hospital will have tested everything, all the food will be clean, and the students' poisoning will have nothing to do with the school!" Gao Xiaofu felt something was off, so he asked.
"Idiot! Don't you know what the most terrifying thing in the world is?" Zhong Yongliang said with a touch of contempt. "The unknown. Only the unknown is truly terrifying. Why do people fear ghosts? Because a ghost is something unknown—no one has ever seen what one looks like, so everyone is afraid. In the same way, even if the hospital discovers that the students were poisoned by eating food that had been tampered with, how much damage would that do to Gu Pengzhan? He'd be a victim too, someone poisoned by another's hand. If he just pays out some compensation, public opinion might even call him a good man, a victim himself! But what happens if there's no poison in the food?"
"Right!" Gao Xiaofu's mind suddenly cleared. "If there's no poison in the food, and yet the students are poisoned—that's even more terrifying!"
"Exactly. So until this puzzle is solved, which parent would dare send their child back to school? What if they're poisoned again? If all the parents band together and make a fuss, and pull their children out, Gu Pengzhan will have more than he can handle!" Zhong Yongliang said. "And for those students who die of poisoning, if the hospital can't determine the cause, then Gu Pengzhan bears an inescapable responsibility, because the students were poisoned on school grounds—who else would the parents go after but Gu Pengzhan? He'll have plenty to pay out then! Gahaha!"
"You're right. Seems I'm still not as thorough as you, Brother Liang!" Gao Xiaofu said, conceding his inferiority.
"All right, let's go poison them right away—the cafeteria should have the food ready by now!" Having heard Gao Xiaofu's words, Zhong Yongliang said with pride in his heart.
Before Jin Gubang's gloomy departure, Zhong Yongliang had been a regular at the cafeteria, and had often come early to eat.
He often skipped class, so there was no need to wait for the last class to end before going to the cafeteria; and being the nephew of a school director, even the cafeteria manager did not quite dare to offend him. In any case, Zhong Yongliang paid for his food like anyone else—serving him a little early cost the man nothing.
As usual, Zhong Yongliang arrived at the cafeteria entrance with Gao Xiaofu in tow. The cafeteria had not yet opened for business. Zhong Yongliang knocked on the door, and in no time a worker came running out. Seeing that it was Zhong Yongliang, he hurriedly opened the main door and let him in.
Although Jin Gubang had already left his post, that was something only a few senior figures knew about; even the cafeteria manager might not have gotten the news right away, so the cafeteria staff naturally knew even less. They still believed Zhong Yongliang had the backing of a school board member behind him, and so they did not dare offend him.
"Young Master Zhong, you're here! It's been a while since you last came to the cafeteria!" the cafeteria worker said with a rather fawning tone. These laborers toiling at the very bottom of the school naturally wanted to curry favor with a rich second-generation heir like Zhong Yongliang, hoping they might get a chance to be pulled up along with him.