Face-Slapping System

"Did you investigate what's going on already?"

Stacey's authoritative voice made Gustav subconsciously shrink back in fright.

The Stacey in front of him was entirely different from the Stacey he met beside Roland weeks ago.

That time, she was completely docile and was like a housewife tagging along with her husband. Now however, she was completely fierce like a lioness hunting for prey.

Gustav gulped a mouthful of saliva in fear as he answered, "Y-yes ma'am. I already contacted some of my friends as well as the group who distributed the flyers."

"So? What's the result?"

Gustav was a manager before. He had already dealt with almost all kinds of customers and upper managers before. However, he just couldn't help but feel afraid of Stacey. It was as if it was his instinct telling him to just follow her order or just answer her question without questioning back.

"According to them, a group of hooligans seems to be trying to tarnish our image to the public. They released rumors of our products being untasty and apparently, some of them even threatened the customers not to come here." Gustav started with a heavy tone.

When he heard this earlier, he was also very mad.

Their advertisement strategy was actually just very simple. They would send out some flyers and make the first 100 people to enter the store eat one meal for free.

As they say, news would often travel faster by words. They were confident of their products, so it was a given that the first 100 people who ate would surely spread to the others just how tasty the chickens in Sparkling Buds were. That would be akin to free advertisement for them at that point.

However, this brilliant idea would just remain a brilliant idea if others tried to get in their way of accomplishing it.

With the hooligans threatening those who tried to come, it was equivalent to foiling their remarkable plan.

Stacey's brows knitted together as she felt annoyed at the current situation.

Roland has trusted her so much to run this business, and now, a problem has already popped up during the first day. How could she face Roland this way?

Right now, a lot of people should have already lined up for their grand opening and 100 free meals. However, the street across the Sparkling Buds remained desolate.

Even the crew that they hired also felt down after seeing the deserted street. Roland, their boss, has treated them nicely. The least they could do to repay the favor was to work diligently on their job.

They have also already informed their family to come for the grand opening, however, because they felt grateful to Roland, they told their family not to come early and to not take advantage of the 100 free meals. The bonus that Roland gave them was more than enough for them already. They at least wanted to support the restaurant by buying the food on the opening day.

"Where are the hooligans right now?" Stacey asked with a knitted brow.

Gustav did not delay any further and told her everything he knew. He did not miss any information at all, afraid that he might anger Stacey.

After learning their location as well as their operation, Stacey planned to resolve this matter before Roland arrived.

Of course, she doesn't plan on going there by herself. She was not an idiot that would endanger herself because of something like this. The lesson from last time was already enough for her. It was not only Roland who learned a valuable lesson that day at the dock site.

And besides, she doesn't have to do anything at all. If she had any problem she could not handle, wasn't Carrol always there to help her?

However, just as she was about to text Carrol, One, who has been silent since earlier, suddenly arrived in front of her.

"Let us handle this," with his usual straight face and deep voice, One stated while looking straight ahead.

Stacey, Gustav and the others were surprised at how fast he moved. They shook their eyes and thought that they must have seen wrongly.

However, the same could not be said towards Stacey. With her rich imagination, how could she not imagine a lot of things from his actions just now?

"Alright, do it" she said with a confident grin on her face.

Roland has already told One and the others to protect and follow Stacey's orders while he was gone.

At this moment, her authority towards them was only second to Roland.

Although Stacey did not know for their full capability, she still subconsciously believed that they were very formidable, especially after the scene of One moving so fast just now.

After gaining her permission, One simply nodded and went back to stand not far away from them.

The others were confused again seeing his actions, including Stacey.

However, since he said that they will handle it, Stacey finally ignored the matter and ordered the others to get back to their work.

Meanwhile, as he stood at the corner, One was already secretly communicating with Seven and the others with the communication technique.

Earlier, Seven and the other three Level One battle guards had already spread around the Sparkling Buds to monitor the entire area. Of course, they had long spotted some suspicious men around but as they thought that it had nothing to do with them they decided to ignore them for now.

However, now that it was confirmed that they were trying to sabotage the Sparkling Buds business, Seven and others immediately moved to intercept them with One's order.

The Sparkling Buds location was placed along the center of the mall and Fore City College.

In both corners coming from the same direction, a group of men could be seen loitering around the entrance of the street at both ends.

Everytime a person tries to enter the street, one of them would immediately move to intercept and tell that person that the street was currently off-limits as restaurant poisoning has been detected in the area.

If others still insisted on entering, the group of men would then encircle the person and threaten their life with a knife if they proceed any further.

At the entrance of the street coming from the mall's location, Seven and Eight walked together like a normal person.

The moment they arrived at the entrance, one of the suspicious men immediately approached them and blocked their way, "Brothers I'm sorry to tell you this but this street is currently off-limits."

The man acted as if he was very close to the both of them, even going as far as to put his arm over the shoulder of the two battle guards.

He was wearing a long sleeve and a beanie, his mouth smelled as if he just puffed a smoke from a while ago.

Seven and Eight looked at him with a straight face and asked in unison, "Why?"

The man tilted his head and answered, "Brother it's like this. You might not know this but a restaurant there called Sparkling Buds was caught poisoning their food. Now, the authorities have sealed this area and anyone to prevent others from going there to eat the poisonous food."

Upon hearing that, Seven and Eight confirmed that this man was indeed one of those who was trying to sabotage the restaurant.

The two of them looked around and saw a lot of gazes directed to them from different directions. However, as if unfazed by their fierce gazes, both Seven and Eight actually took action at the same time.

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Bonus Chapter for reaching 700 Power Stontes!

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