Seizing Dreams [B1]

Ch 137.1

The company's assignment for them was to get them to develop downlines. Fu Liqun wasn't successful, of course. According to the articles of association, if one doesn't complete their first business goal within seven days, they would be taken to a centralized training ground. His colleagues started taking turns to persuade Fu Liqun and consolidate the results of brainwashing. Fu Liqun already had thoughts of resisting, but companies had very effective ways to deal with such employees whose 'weakness has not been uprooted.'

He and many new recruits were dragged away to undergo centralized training. Fu Liqun had already planned to leave, and he told Li Yangming that he would return the hospitality charges he owed in full. Just as he was about to leave, his supervisor came to know about his intentions and locked him in the training ground.

Zhou Sheng said, "That kid must have lodged a complaint."

"Where is it?" Yu Hao was most concerned about Fu Liqun's current whereabouts.

Fu Liqun shook his head, "I'm not sure of the exact location. It's a worker's dormitory in one of the industrial parks. Two rows of banana trees are planted outside, and there's no sign on the door. They rented a factory to use as a warehouse, and there are several assembly lines for their pharmaceutical workshop. There are 22 people in total who are being watched by seven people. They said that it's a militarized management, and there are two dogs on watch..."

Fu Liqun's phone had been seized. Twenty two people were confined in a factory building. At this time, he realized that his personal freedom was restricted.

"None of you tried to escape?" Zhou Sheng lost his temper.

"We haven't eaten." Fu Liqun said wearily, "We're all hungry, and they didn't return our phones to us. It's like a prison. We're locked up in a room, sleep on one wide bed, with an anti-theft net on the window. This place is walled up, and there's an electric grid outside as well. There are two dogs at the entrance. People who live together report offences and expose one another; they want to, 'transform the self and achieve success.' How do we escape?"

The company only gave them a small bowl of rice and some green vegetables for each meal, described gloriously as 'toil one's sinews and bones and expose the body to hunger'. Fu Liqun tried every method he could think of. However, 'the law may be strong, but outlaws are ten times stronger' — this pyramid scheme company has been operating for nearly ten years, what kind of person hasn't it seen? It had already sealed off any way out in advance.

"What about Li Yangming?" Yu Hao frowned as he asked.

"He's in the factory." Fu Liqun said, "The supervisor asked him to help watch people, and he'll start sales after the New Year. He would buy and deliver some snacks to me from time to time."

Fu Liqun had tried tearing the windows down but failed. There were people watching him even when he went to the toilet during a brainwashing meeting. Two of his escape attempts failed; the company doesn't hit people and just locked him up in a small, dark room. After he came up, he had to do a collective review. Fu Liqun almost went mad from being messed around with and promised to make a call to buy the product.

And thus, this led to his first call with Yu Hao. With the call on loudspeaker, Fu Liqun asked for 5,000 and handed it in. At first, he thought that he could take this opportunity to escape back to the city, but his phone was instead kept by them.

"You should've warned me earlier!" Yu Hao said.

Fu Liqun said, "They said that I could go back to work after I bought just one course of treatment, how would I know that they would go back on their words?"

After that, Fu Liqun was locked up again for further training. The supervisor promised that if he bought another course of treatment, it would be regarded as good performance and let him return to the city to work normally. Fu Liqun didn't trust them anymore, and so there was the second call.