The Outstanding Mark Thompson With The Face Smacking System

Chapter 008 - Integration of The Face-Smacking System With The Host Completed

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“Do you know what day this is ?” With his face now turned to a scowl and all the traces of smile previously on it completely gone, making him look utterly infuriated, the middle-aged supervisor, who was standing before Mark questioned, then before Mark could respond, he snapped at him.

“Three fucking days! You are returning three fucking days after you’ve asked for just one day off and you still dare to ask me for the money I was owing you? Even daring to tell me to borrow you some money to it, do you take me for a fool who could be easily duped?”

Mark’s heart pounded in his chest and he became greatly nervous again.

He had thought that luck had finally decided to shine upon him when he saw the usually hateful and furious supervisor smiling at him, which prompted him to ask what he needed, but…

Mark swallowed hard. “Sir… sir Supervisor, it’s… it’s okay not to borrow me any money again, but… but the money you were owing me, could… could you return that first?”

“Did you hear yourself?” The supervisor scoffed at Mark as though he had just heard a joke, then he laughed hard. “You all should come and see this stupid fool. Looks like he still hadn’t heard about me, that once you weren’t present when it was time to get your payment, it has automatically become my own.”

“What?!”

Mark was greatly shocked when he heard this and his heart began to pound frantically in his chest.

He trembled hard and turned his gaze around, hoping that he had just heard wrongly, but the pitiful gazes directed at him by his former colleagues, which were followed by nods of affirmation to the supervisor’s words made Mark realize that he hadn’t misheard.

He was petrified out of his wit.

“You… you can’t do that, please!” Mark’s voice trembled badly. “The… the money was meant for my mother and sister’s treatment and without it, I might lose them, please!!!”

Without thinking twice, Mark fell to his knees and sobbed hard, pleading for the Supervisor.

Looking at Mark like this, the eyes of his former colleagues reddened rapidly and they felt a great pity for him.

They wished to interject and plead on his behalf, but recalling the hope of those who had done something like that in the past, they quickly turned away their gazes, returning them to their work.

It wasn’t that these people are evil, no. It was because they couldn’t afford to lose this job, having their family who were waiting for them to bring money from home.

Back to the supervisor and Mark. The Supervisor scoffed again at Mark.

“I can’t?” He asked with his lips raising at one end, then he chuckled. “Well, I’m sorry to say this to you, but your money has already become mine the moment you failed to return when you were meant to be paid, so, it’s either you put on your work clothes now and join the rest of the workers to resume work or you get your stupid self out of my site.”

Spitting this, the supervisor, having no trace of pity in his eyes turned around and then stormed away.

Mark couldn’t react for a moment, then he jumped to his feet and rushed after the supervisor, crossing him and then kneeling before him again.

“Please don’t do this to me, sir! The money is the only hope I have left, with which treatment could be carried on my mother and sister whose lives are hanging on the thread right now.”

A frown finally appeared on the supervisor’s face.

‘Look at this bastard,’ he thought. ‘Where does he want me to see the money I’ve already spent? How dare he return for the money?’

He gives no damn about how each worker’s income was only gotten by working themselves to the point of losing strength every single day, without rest, and how they always work with their lives, climbing tall heights and operating machines that kill could them in a blink without the necessary lifeguarding tools.

Initially, he hated paying people their money, believing that the money should have been his, so, his unspoken rule was that, anybody who wasn’t present when it was time for them to get their income should say goodbye to it.

He didn’t even give a fuck that he was the one who wasn’t able to bring out the money when Mark should have gotten it initially as he had spent it. To him, it was a plus that Mark didn’t return for it when he should have.

“Someone there!” The middle-aged man suddenly cried out to the workers.

Immediately, the group of workers exchanged gazes, then they gave eye signals to each other.

“Yes, supervisor.” Two of the thin, sweaty, and dirty old men rushed to meet the supervisor, waiting to be given a command.

“What the heck are you two old fools waiting for, throw this bastard out for me right now, or else, you shall have your income deducted greatly at the end of the day.” The supervisor snapped at the old men, then he shoved Mark away and stormed away, grumbling furiously in his mind about the audacity which Mark had to come to him for money.

Mark wanted to stand up and rush at the Middle-aged man again, but he was forcefully held down by the two old men.

“Please!” Not noticing that he was being held, Mark cried. “Please, just give me this one! I beg of you!!”

He fidgeted greatly, trying to fight off the restraints on him, but because Mark had lost almost all his strength, he was easily dragged away from the within site.

“Ahhhh!!!” An agonized cry left Mark’s mouth once he was taken out. He doesn’t even know what to think again. Mark was about to lose all hope completely when suddenly, a ward of cash was secretly shoved into his palm by one of the old men.

“Although it isn’t much, that’s the brother’s contribution for this week, we hope it will be able to help you.” Secretly muttering this to Mark, the two elderly men scurried away, as though they were scared that they would be seen.

Mark’s silence came too suddenly.

His eyes went blank and his mouth widened, then slowly, he lowered his gaze to his hand, and behold, there was a pack of cash that was bundled with a rubber band.

Two trails of tears fell down Mark’s eyes.

His eyes went after the two elderly men who were presently getting chastised by the two security guards at the entrance of the site.

Although it wasn’t a big favor, considering what Mark had done for his former colleagues, Mark, who had only been getting bullied by everybody for a week now felt something in his heart and right there, he made a promise in his heart to repay his former colleagues, while at the same time putting the supervisor on the list of those whom he must reciprocate in the future for what they had done to him.

Mark breathed in and then jumped to his feet, scurrying forward.

He started alighting for taxis to stop, to take him to the hospital, but given his look, which had gotten worse off compared to when he was going to the site, no car stopped for him, and for this reason, he had to trek-run.

Just five minutes into running beside the road, a commotion abruptly occurred before him, and before Mark could understand what had happened, the place became filled with a rowdy massive crowd.

However, since Mark has something more pressing at hand, he decided to ignore the scene when suddenly Mark trembled greatly and came to an abrupt halt.

“What? Who was that?”

He hurriedly turned around, looking for where the voice came from.

[Integration of the Face-Smacking System with the host is now completed with 100% success and from now on, the Face-Smacking System has become part of the host.]

‘System? Host?’

Mark couldn’t react for a moment at this sound, then he shook greatly when he finally realized the terms used by the voice, and then he inserted his hands into his ears, thinking his ears must be deceiving him.

Of course, Mark knows what a system means, as he had been a lover of novels and movies of such a genre growing up.

He had even constantly hoped to receive one when he was young, but now…

Mark abruptly snorted furiously after a moment. “I don’t know who you are and why you’ve chosen to play a prank on me, but sorry, you’ve chosen the wrong target.”

Growling this darkly, Mark decided to continue alighting for taxis, only for him to stop again, his face ranging from anger slowly to shock, and then finally, disbelieve this time around.

“You… you are really a system?”

He eventually became greatly shocked, seeing the screen that popped up in his point of view.