388 Internal Conflic

The following days passed very quietly, Nick did not go to find the trouble for Bella as he said, Cather and Earl seemed to disappear, Katherine did not show up in front of the public. The products of Star City Group had no problem in E&B, and the project of New Town Development Zone was also going on smoothly.

But everyone knew that it was the calm before the storm.

Bella did not expect that such a strong netizen force could not expose Katherine and Charles.

She was a little frustrated, but Charles told her, "It is not useless, it also works."

Bella looked at the neck that had looked like a big ball, she was a little worried, "I feel unsafe with them."

She didn't want her baby to be separated from her after his birth.

Charles said, "Bell, let’s be patient. The power of netizens keeps them from appearing, which means they are hiding in the dark. They have been hiding for three months. No matter where they hide, three months' wait is their limit. They are going to appear soon."

Edwin also comforted her, "Bell, you must be patient when fishing. The more stable your mind is, the bigger the fish will be. Although some people say that they have seen Katherine before, if we had acted at that time, they would have been frightened. Let's wait, they're going to give us the most lethal hit, and we're going to give them the most lethal counterattack. This time, we must hit it accurately."

Bella then felt a little reassured.

The baby was about to be born in a month. She was really worried that those people would be harmful to him.

With her belly getting bigger and bigger, Charles had disagreed with her to work again. But the E&B building was getting taller and taller, Bella felt a sense of fulfilling. She wanted to finish the project before giving birth, otherwise, if she stopped because of the confinement, the efforts before would be in vain.

Charles couldn't stop her, so he could only ask Steven and Abraham to be careful.

Charles was right. The fish quickly got hooked. E&B was in trouble.

It was not the project under construction in the new district. It was a collective complaint from all customers who bought clothes in E&B. Because every customer who bought clothes from E&B would suffer from different degrees of strange diseases, and each person's skin would grow fish scales, which couldn’t be cured.

Clothes were not concentrated on one brand, but every brand and every cloth were in E&B. This made it impossible for Bella to sue Star International.

In E&B's office on the top floor, Bella sneered, "They finally act."

Only one day later, the media and the people who complained about the products had already blocked the building of E&B, all of them came to ask for compensation.

Steven, president of E&B, had been taken away for questioning.

Quentin also went to E&B Square to comfort the masses.

Abraham was worried. "The lady, I'm afraid we can't even go downstairs."

Bella was not afraid that they couldn’t go downstairs. Charles would take her away. However, she still needed to pretend to some people.

At an underground base in the neighboring city, Katherine watched TV news in the dark that the E&Q Group was surrounded by people.

She had returned to human form, but these days, like the victims in the news, her legs gradually grew scales. She began to worry that the chemicals Earl had injected into her body had not been removed, but Earl said they were. As for Cather, she didn't dare to ask.

Clair, who came out of the lab, looked at Bella’s pictures in the news and stood beside Katherine.

"You like her too!” Katherine looked at Clair's obsession in his eyes and could not help but feel a fire of jealousy. Why all people liked Bella, why it was clear that she was not as beautiful as her, not as smart as her, everything was not as good as her, why all men would like such a mediocre woman.

Clair heard the anger in her words and glanced at her faintly. "Because you're a monster, do your scales begin to grow again?"

"How do you know?" Katherine stood up in horror. She had hidden so well. How could Clair know? If it was known by Cather that she might become a mermaid again, he would force her to go to the bottom of the sea.

On the day she was brought back from Charles, Cather once forced her to dive into the sea for a thousand meters, but she fainted only fifty meters down. She was not a mermaid at all. Therefore she couldn’t dive so deep.

Fortunately, she soon regained her human form. She was supposed to publish the announcement and materials about Earl's medication according to Charles's plan, so as to expose the absurdity of mermaid theory.

But she didn't expect that Cather figured out everything. Earl was afraid of death and immediately said that Katherine had just been forced to have the mermaid form, so she could not maintain the form, and she could enter the deepest part of the sea when the mermaid form appeared again.

Katherine initially struggled to say she wasn't. However, Earl told her that once she denied, she would become an orphan with nothing afterwards.

Earl told her that as long as she was not anxious to deny her mermaid identity, he would bring out another mermaid, and that even if she was not a mermaid, she would have countless wealth if she stood with Cather.

Katherine was terrified of the days when she spent in the abandoned house. She didn't want to live a life that eating instant noodles was also a luxury thing every day. So she promised Earl.

Cather didn't believe her all, but he didn't believe her. For him, it was just to let Katherine live a few more days. So Katherine became Cather's sex slave during this period of time.

Of course, Katherine still gained some benefits. She said there was the best way to test who was the potential mermaid in human society. It was to test with Earl’s powder, if people had scales, they must be mermaid.

There was only one way to carry out this plan, to make everyone wear the clothes with the powder.

Cather took Star International half-bought and half-threatened, and let the person who had a relationship with Bella to complete the plan. It would have been better to put it in William’s Square, which was more famous, but Charles had no friendship with anyone, and William’s Group's investment had been full. They couldn’t get in at all, so they could only use E&B Square.

Now it seemed that the plan was very successful. She had turned more and more people into her. Only in this way could she not be a monster.

Clair looked at her with a sickly childish expression. 'You can smell yourself fishy, can’t you?'

"How can it be?" Katherine lifted her arms and sniffed them in turn. "No." She stared at Clair fiercely. "You lied to me."

Clair glanced at her and pouted. “Those powders will fail in two weeks. You're so stupid.

"What did you say?" Katherine was even more shocked.

Of course, there wasn’t a powder in the world that when people touched it and it could tell if they were mermaid or not. It was Katherine who asked Earl to come up with a powder that could make people grow scales. Whether if they were potential mermaid or not, as long as they touched it, they would grow scales.

It was just before the plan was implemented, Cather had asked Clair to examine the effect of the powder, and Clair had checked there was no problem that the plan would implement. But now he had said these words.