Nicholas heard a voice from the distance a dull grating mocking voice this voice he recognised to be his boss the manager of meat processing plant no.667
Jack " what the fuck are you doing coming in so late you piece of shit "
this was his daily dose of abuse and mocking from his superior here strength reigned supreme even in this small town the manager had the strength of qi gathering level 8 warrior which meant he could rule this small town with an iron fist
Nicholas "it's still 30 minutes till opening time i am here early sir "
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Jack hit Nicholas on the back of the head
Jack "how dare you talk back to your supervisor
i know what you did you idiot due to your stupid and clumsy hands a meat tube grade 1 was contaminated and has caused a qi Condensation level being food poisioning now he is suing us for a large amount of money how dare you drag the name of our fine institution through the mud i will see that your pay is deducted by 30 percent for the damages you have caused us you imbecile now get out of my sight "
Nicholas was very angry but his expression was still of an idiot who showed no expression
to survive Nicholas had adapted a persona like this he knew how dirty and despicable jack was when a female employee had refused his advances for a one night stand he had made the employee and all her family "dissappear" her name was rose she was 22 years old and was the only person kind to him in sad miserable pathetic life when he was starving she had given him a meat tube that she was going to eat Nicholas assumed that she was going to stay hungry that day .
Nicholas had once been brave and foolish enough to confront jack about this the result 9 broken bones
the factory was cold dark sterile place with heaping piles of smoke and smell of rotting meat coming from it .
it was a large building that occupied 500 sq. metres of space it constitutes of a locker room that was divided into 5 seperate rows where employees kept thier equipment
the meat processor where energy beast meat was taken to cutting and processing the place always smelled of rotting meat and urine and
the final assembly line where he worked taking out all remaining impurities with energy forceps and making them into an edible shape
the pay was less and the work hours long thier were very less protection for contamination to the employees from processing the meat many people even got mutant poisoning from handling the meat for too long the only solution to them pack their bags and leave the town as people with mutant poisoning were seen as unclean contanminats
Nicholas always wondered if this would be his fate hence he had taken a large risk and even starved to buy himself a pair of good protection equipment to protect him from the disease .
he was afraid of diseases since young due to his special condition and had a phobia from looking at sick people due to this he spent every hour he was free to learn about various diseases remedies and how to treat them he was very interested in self protection as well hence he searched for homemade weapons most of these would be useless against cultivators but some poisons and explosives could stagger them .
Now Nicholas started to plan how to get his pay back he could not do anything to jack himself but the inspection was coming today and he had to make sure that jack could not put the blame on him
he wracked his brain and knew exactly what to do frame someone else for the crime living in this world for so long had made nicholas an extremely good schemer if you don't have power scheme lie and cheat towards the top that was his moto
thier were no good persons in existence only eternal benefits everyone could be bought according to him and he had yet to be proven otherwise
even his role model rose had lied and cheated many times he saw it himself . she would put down other female workers thanks to her beauty.
he had found the perfect scapegoat in mind
Andrew he was the one who was lazy did bad deeds in the small town and had a gang
he was the tyrant in thier local processing plant and he was only 16 years old but no one had the guts to challenge him bcs he had read qi gathering level 2 his father was a qi gathering level 7 who had made his son work here for money as he needed resources for cultivation and he took his son's money for himself Nicholas knew this and thought of the many ways he could exploit this dynamic.
since he had come early he knew what to do
Nicholas had the extreme ability to take any abuse thrown at him and slowly gather enough intelligence to strike at his opponents at his time and his place of choosing
he had chosen this moment to frame Andrew
in his bag he had a pair of energy forceps one of them broken and one of them used but old he had meticulously prepared them from some time ago when he knew that a inspection would be taking place he had once taken a pair of broken forceps that Andrew had thrown away he wanted to sell them for money as scrap metal and energy rock dust that could be used as lubricants but he did not why he had a strange feeling to not sell those particular ones
since the factory had not started yet he still had enough time to go towards the area where Andrew's work equipment was being kept at
as the power was still off no security camera were on to see what's he was doing .
He had already memorized the sequence of codes needed to open his enemy's locker thanks to his eidetic memory . he put the forceps inside and waited for the magic to happen during the inspection