[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-m-the-cleanup-crew":3,"chapter-i-m-the-cleanup-crew-i-m-the-cleanup-crew-chapter-102":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I'm the Cleanup Crew!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2285938,4472,"Chapter 102","i-m-the-cleanup-crew-chapter-102",102,"\u003Cp>This pendant was truly worth choosing—if not for its effect, I’d already be dead…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hastily withdrawing the power of the Holy Pendant, he restored the ground temporarily turned to mud, then, eyes filled with relief, Li Ang limped forward with his blood-drenched left hand, sprinting desperately toward the exit of the Ryan Estate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just moments ago, when he suddenly lost flight and plunged from the sky, Li Ang instinctively seized the Holy Pendant, slightly slowing his fall while turning the landing zone and surrounding ground into mud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the properties of soil and mud are “close,” not as vastly different as steel and rubber, and the conversion cost was far lower than when he turned the carriage, this temporary transformation covered a hundred times the area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Add to that the need to conserve some strength for escape, and he couldn’t drain himself completely—Li Ang had to alter his “deal” with the Holy Pendant, trading rapidly recoverable stamina and willpower for harder-to-recover bodily tissues…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cost was truly immense… It’ll take two or three months before it grows back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the five missing fingernails on his left hand, and the raw flesh exposed from fingertip to wrist where large patches of skin had been torn away, Li Ang—who had narrowly escaped death—paid no attention to his wounded back, sprinting at full speed as he barked at the Black Goat:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Guide me! Which way has fewer people?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“East! Go east!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After using its soul vision to point Li Ang toward the path with the fewest souls, the Black Goat muttered sheepishly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Uh… we didn’t warn you earlier—not because we didn’t want to, but because we only realized something was wrong when he started moving…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mm-hmm.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without dwelling on it, Li Ang simply logged another black mark against the Black Goat and asked at breakneck speed:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What exactly is going on with Bobby Ryan? Who’s controlling whom—your heart or him?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Well… it’s not really control… He was an arrogant, wildly ambitious man, and his compatibility with our heart was astonishing…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After hearing Li Ang’s question, the Black Goat paused, then replied:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Put it this way: our heart swallowed his heart, then replaced its position. Strictly speaking, it was mutual absorption.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mutual absorption?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Our heart absorbed his existence, replacing Bobby Ryan as a person—but his personality and desires also imprinted themselves onto our heart.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If one day our heart reassembles all its parts, our primary consciousness may consume Bobby Ryan’s will—but right now, they’re completely fused, indistinguishable.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indistinguishable? So you can actually “use” anomalies like this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After hearing the Black Goat’s explanation, Li Ang frowned:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So your heart is him, and he’s your heart now—meaning I can’t remove his power by destroying your heart?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Black Goat nodded:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Pretty much… Wait! You actually want to destroy our heart?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is that not allowed?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leaving the main path of the estate, Li Ang slipped into a quiet garden, continuing toward the giant redwood at the gate as he retorted:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I just want to destroy your heart—but your heart wants to erase your will entirely. Which one do you find harder to accept?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If put that way, it’s even more of a bastard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Realizing what fate awaited him if he fell into Bobby’s hands, the Black Goat became ten times more diligent than before, constantly scanning every approaching soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With its guidance and the Parkour Badge’s ability, Li Ang used the Ryan Estate’s complex terrain to shake off wave after wave of pursuers, bursting through the estate’s main gate and reaching the massive redwood—only to…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bang!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten steps from the redwood, he slammed into an invisible barrier—no matter how he tried, he could not cross it. Both goat and man fell silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Li Ang… we’re done for…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching “himself” approach the gate, surrounded by hundreds of souls, the Black Goat groaned:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This bastard’s power is only a third of his peak—but he’s never been subdued, and he found the perfect host. By parasitizing this Ryan family, he’s pushed his existing abilities to their absolute limit.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn it! If I’d known this, I should’ve licked some true god’s ass, gathered followers daily, and tried to become a Sainted Goat myself!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Even if I’d been swallowed in the end, I could’ve made it suffer inside! Now? All my good flesh has gone to some damn dog!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After muttering curses for a while, seeing Li Ang remained silent, the Black Goat couldn’t help asking:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why aren’t you saying anything? We’re about to die—why not curse him a few times?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rejecting the Black Goat’s plea for venting, Li Ang silently pulled out a rope, tightly binding the Black Goat to his body, squinting:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Instead of cursing it, I still want to fight.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using the Black Goat’s soul vision to survey the Ryan Estate, Li Ang stared at the hundreds of purple-black souls scattered across the six or seven hectares, each reeking of decay, then quietly opened his panel to examine the flashing 【Friend of the Demon】 and 【Devout Believer】.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One requires a soul steeped in sin, the other a non-Scalegold heretic… Perfect—there’s no shortage of either here!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmm? Still trying to resist?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though his perception was weak—far inferior to the Black Goat’s ability to stir up evil thoughts—Bobby Ryan, having completed mutual “absorption” with the goat’s heart, possessed his own soul vision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the two souls evade him and veer off sideways, the young man sneered, stopping beneath the redwood entirely, then used his power to remotely mobilize the estate’s inhabitants to hunt down the frantic rats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But to his surprise, the Clearance Bureau agent—though long past his limit, his soul-flame dimmed with exhaustion—never got caught. Instead, he ran wild through the estate, slaughtering with terrifying ferocity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One… two… five…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten… twenty… fifty…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the dark flames in his soul vision rapidly extinguish, the “Bobby Ryan” portion of the young man’s soul could no longer sit still.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thirty or fifty clan members meant nothing to the entire Ryan family—they could be easily replaced with minimal effort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the enemy was deliberately targeting Ryan family elites. Of the fifty-plus he’d killed, nearly half were mid- to high-level managers of family enterprises, or clan members holding public offices across the kingdom’s departments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Individually, none were crucial—but together, they were the foundation of the Ryan family, the backbone that upheld the Lionheart Clan’s status!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If these people were wiped out, the Ryan family would lose its voice in politics, its support from powerful departments, and half its industries would grind to a halt—the entire family would collapse at an unimaginable speed.\u003C\u002Fp>",1092,"2026-06-20T03:18:28.556Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","51a62af7784cb32ed6619fc426534142a069d4822dc3a3f5e8438bf49187adca","i-m-the-cleanup-crew-chapter-103","i-m-the-cleanup-crew-chapter-101",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-m-the-cleanup-crew-cover.jpg"]