Chapter 450 Everything at Once


    In angry strides, the man approached Anna.


    “You’re not from around here, are you?” Anna asked. Anna realized something was wrong even though


    the man only said one word and was doing his best to hide his ent. He didn’t sound like a


    Birmingham native.


    The man had no idea Anna would ask such a question. He froze, unsure how to respond. But Anna


    had already deduced the answer from his brief pause. She ignored the question with a smile. She said,


    “You’re probably here because you wereid off a while ago. So, are you a previous employee or a


    family member of a previous employee?”


    The man had prepared a brief speech to take the initiative in this negotiation. But he didn’t expect Anna


    to realize the whole situation after asking two questions. He was frozen, unsure what to say. After


    hesitating for a while, he finally replied, “I’m Rosa’s husband.”


    “Rosa?” Anna asked, then nodded. She had previously read all the information on the fired employees


    in this incident and remembered this woman. “Of course, | remember her because she was the first to


    pull out the scissors and threaten to kill me.” Anna said hostilely.


    When she noticed the man was scared, she said thoughtfully, “Rosa and the other workers were fired


    for breaking thepany’s rules and causing trouble. All of these decisions were made in full


    compliance with thepany system, so you should have no concerns about this. As far as | know, the


    troublemakers have just been released from detention, correct?”


    “Making a scene? We are good people who quit our jobs after learning that Lemon would treat us well.


    But we didn’t anticipate you being so ruthless as to use toxic fabrics. You want to pass the buck and


    get rid of people now that the employees are sick. Let me tell you, that’s not gonna happen!” The man


    then threw a pile of paper heavily at AnnaContent property of N?velDra/ma.Org.


    Anna looked through the paper and found that they were cases. She checked the date of the diagnosis


    and discovered that it was precisely two days before she fired the group of workers. She had a feeling


    that things were spiraling out of control.


    Isabe noticed Anna was panicking and stood on her tiptoes to read the diagnoses. She became


    enraged when she saw the word “leukemia.” Then Isabe snatched the case and smacked the man


    across the face.


    “It couldn’t possibly be a coincidence! Turns out you have this trick up your sleeve! Jerk!” She snarled.


    Isabe rushed over and attempted to hit him as she said this.


    The man seemed to anticipate Isabe’s reaction. Heughed and said, “Ha! We knew you would deny


    it. But they were all diagnosed with leukemia less than a month after starting work here. I now have the


    diagnoses of a dozen other employees. Ms. Wright, you’re going to jai”


    After that, the man gave a sinister smile. He didn’t care what Anna would do to him. This would be


    even more convincing if the incident of Lemon’s boss beating the victim made headlines.


    “Oh, no!”


    Anna was very calm, but Julia couldn’t stop Isabe anymore. She had no choice but stood there and


    watch as the young girl smashed the bagin her hand at him.


    The packed crowd became more agitated after Isabe did so. They had been waiting for the right


    moment. And they took advantage of the oa a ee situation.


    Someone in the crowd threw a wooden sign in his hand at Anna. The wooden sign brushed against her


    shoulder with a loud ng and collided with the ground behind her.


    Before the second one hit Anna in the head, she felt someone behind her pull her backward. She


    turned around, and the girl in the white dress appeared behind her.


    “Isabe!”


    It was toote by the time Anna tried to push Isabe away. Anna’s brain went nk in that instant. A


    wooden sign hit Isabe’s body heavily and made a dull sound, causing many chips were floating in the


    air.


    Anna closed her eyes, not daring to look at the scene in front of her. Despite hearing the sound,


    Isabe did not experience the anticipated pain. She began to regret what she had just done and sweat


    all over.


    Suddenly, someone pressed against her shoulder. When she opened her eyes, she saw a young man


    in a white T-shirt trying to support her body with his arms. She’d only met him once but trusted him after


    a brief hesitation.


    ” James!” Isabe shouted and touched James’ head in a panic, only to discover that he was bleeding.


    After taking James to the hospital, Anna found all the major media outlets scrambling to cover the story.


    Then Anna stood in the hospital hallway, her back to the wall, reading the news on her phone. She


    appeared exhausted.


    “People are demonstrating in front of Lemon Clothing, and someone has revealed a shocking secret!


    Lemon profits from toxic fabrics and more than ten workers have been diagnosed with leukaemia.”


    After a while, Nancy approached her and handed her a cup of iced a aoa tot aa coffee. They both


    appeared tired as they stood together against the wall.


    “Ifyou need any legal advise, you can ask Joshua for help,” Nancy said.


    Anna nodded and took several sips of her coffee.


    Isabe stayed in James’s room to take care of him while Anna visited


    Peter in the intensive care unit. People kept calling Anna all the time. She returned to the office


    immediatelyter and felt distraught.


    All of the earlier orders Anna had worked so hard toplete were canceled that afternoon. After


    hanging up the phone, Anna sat down in her chair, and then the phone rang again.


    She answered the phone, “Hello. Ryan? You want to talk to me about something? Yes, I’ll be there right


    away.”


    Twenty minutester, in a small Japanese restaurant, Anna and Ryan sat across from each other. Anna


    had almost fallen asleep against the couch by the time Ryan had finished ordering. She tried to open


    her eyes and said, “There’s a Japanese restaurant right next to my office. Why are you meeting me


    here?”


    She looked around at her surroundings. It was narrow and cramped, dimly lit, and filled with smoke


    from the open kitchen. Anna had no idea why Ryan had chosen this ce.


    “The tempura here is fantastic.” Ryan exined it briefly.”! watched the surveince video you sent me


    and printed off some suspicious images,” he said, pulling a stack of papers from his briefcase


    “What exactly is going on?” Anna flipped through the stack of photos but found nothing suspicious.


    Later, Anna realized that some of the images were not from the surveince footage she had found.


    She became more serious as she a ee realized things were not so simple.


    Ryan showed her some of these photos and told her, “This is a video screenshot of the woman pushing


    Mona down the stairs. I found something in this picture. Take a look here, Anna.”


    Anna looked at the third image Ryan pointed to. She couldn’t tell Which part of the image it was


    because it was zoomed in.


    “This is the back of this woman’s hand. We refined the image after zooming in on it. Look at that


    tattoo.” Ryan pointed to another picture that had a nt with two leaves and a curved moon in the


    middle. The woman had that tattoo.


    “It’s only a tattoo. What does that imply?” Anna didn’t quite get it.


    Ryan borated, “A year ago, the Irish police cracked a big drug trafficking case. The gang used


    religion to recruit people for drug trafficking, p**********n, and gambling. They called their so-called


    religion Crescentism, and this pattern is their symbol.”


    Anna asked in surprise, “So, you mean this woman is a member of their gang? And she’s Irish?”