Chapter 1275

As if time was going backward, at the moment the red-gold short blade pierced the heart, the sky full of flying bubbles immediately re-aggregated, condensing the hunched figure of the Double Fish Director.

I was careless...

After looking down at the blade protruding from his heart, the Double Fish Director closed his eyes slightly, and then didn't make any unnecessary struggle, but sat down slowly with the support of a powerful palm.

"Your courage... is still as big as before."

"About the same!"

After laughing gently and kindly, the Water Bottle Director, who looked only thirty-something, rotated his wrist holding the dagger slightly, and then said gently to the Double Fish Director, who was shaking violently:

"Don't do anything extra. Since I dared to come directly, it's impossible for me to let you pass the news out."

"That's true..."

The Double Fish Director nodded after hearing this, summoned the bubbles that wrapped his tongue back, and then asked expressionlessly:

"So what exactly do you want to do by taking such a big risk to sneak into the Dream World? You wouldn't just be here to stab me to vent your anger, would you?"

"Of course I wouldn't be so bored."

The Water Bottle Director shook his head and said with a smile:

"Taurus is about to ascend to the palace soon. If I don't solve you first, even if I really succeed in killing Taurus, I won't be able to ascend to the palace. As long as you open the 【Bubble Dock】 in time, everything I do will directly turn into bubbles."

"Cough... cough cough cough! So... what's the use of you stabbing me?"

After coughing painfully several times while covering his mouth, the Double Fish Director wiped the blood on his palms on his robe, and then said expressionlessly:

"Although I was careless for a moment and was drilled by you, as long as you pull the knife out, then the fact that I was stabbed by you will immediately turn into a bubble, and even the torn clothes will be intact. You... cough cough cough! You still can't do anything!"

"Your mouth is still as hard as ever."

"This is not a hard mouth, but a fact."

After coughing violently again, the Double Fish Director said coldly:

"The fact now is that you, whose Water Bottle Star Palace is temporarily sealed, no longer have the ability to kill me. Even if I hadn't been distracted, you wouldn't even have the chance to sneak attack me!"

"Indeed."

Without arguing with the Double Fish Director about this problem, the Water Bottle Director sat down behind the Double Fish Director while maintaining the "backstab" posture, and then pointed to Li Ang, who was killing in all directions in the dream, and asked with a smile:

"See the knife in his hand? I gave it to him. Even when he was swallowed by the Death Dog of the Garrison and almost digested, I was the one who saved him."

"So?"

The Double Fish Director looked coldly:

"You wouldn't want to tell me that this Li Ang, who publicly exposed your plan and almost killed you twice, is actually your person, right?"

"What are you thinking?"

The Water Bottle Director waved his hand after hearing this:

"How could he be my person? He is no one's person."

"What do you mean?"

"Literal meaning."

The Water Bottle Director explained with a smile while vigorously gouging the Double Fish Director's heart:

"Although this person is a cleaner, he doesn't necessarily stand with the Cleaning Bureau. He has a set of very, very stubborn concepts in his heart that almost don't accept compromise, and he will only do what he wants to do forever.

He chooses to be a cleaner now and helps you deal with me, just because his philosophy is partially the same as yours. And if I make a choice on something that is more in line with his wishes than the Cleaning Bureau, he will also lean toward me without hesitation."

"Heh."

After sneering with disdain, the Double Fish Director evaluated with disdain:

"Clumsy provocation... You wouldn't think that after hearing this set of rhetoric, I would start to fear him, or even directly take action to dispose of him, right?"

"There are many people who join the Cleaning Bureau with their own selfishness and only regard the identity of a cleaner as a channel to obtain power. If I cared about every one of them, more than half of the cleaners should be kicked out!"

"Hmm... you're not wrong about that."

After hearing the Double Fish Director's refutation, the Water Bottle Director nodded thoughtfully.

"In our Cleaning Bureau, many people really don't take the tenet of 'protecting humanity' seriously. Although Li Ang is a bit strange, in terms of his thoughts and what he wants to do, he might not be worse than those people."

"Stop talking nonsense!"

Seemingly having had enough of these endless "riddles," the Double Fish Director, whose heart was soaked in blood, first coughed violently twice, and then said with extreme impatience:

"My 【Bubble Dock】 has never been closed. With your current state, no matter what, it is impossible to kill me. Even if you dare to leave me for a step, I can immediately break free from control. You can't do anything to me!

These cleaners who came to participate in the promotion assessment are the same. They only came with their consciousness, and they are all in the fragments of 【Paradise Lost】. As long as I break free from control, I can immediately send their consciousness back.

If I didn't have the confidence to deal with your attack, this promotion assessment would have been postponed directly. The current you not only can't move me, but even these cleaners, you can't move a single one!"

"Rest assured, although I was almost killed by the bureau, I don't hate it to the point of wanting to destroy the Cleaning Bureau, but..."

After glancing at the cleaners who had been chopped down by Li Ang for more than three hundred, and had not dared to come up for a long time, the Water Bottle Director couldn't help but shake his head.

"Is the quality of this batch of cleaners a bit too poor?"

After hearing the Water Bottle Director's words, the Double Fish Director's expression couldn't help but stiffen slightly, while the Water Bottle Director seemed to be unaware and continued:

"Before I stabbed you, I also took a look at their performance. Not to mention comparing with our batch, the level of this batch of cleaners is afraid that it can't even compare to the batch ten years ago that was called the worst in three hundred years.

Among the cleaners who came to participate in the promotion assessment this time, except for that Li Ang, the number of people who have the qualifications to challenge the Zodiac Star Palace doesn't even add up to five?"

"..."

"If I remember correctly, this kind of qualified cleaner needs to have thirty or forty people to have one succeed in challenging the Zodiac Star Palace, right?"

Seemingly very worried about the future of the Cleaning Bureau, looking at the last few brave "challengers" who were chopped down and scattered all over the place, and then no one dared to come up, the Water Bottle Director couldn't help but sigh, and said with worry:

"If the proportion of cleaners who come to the assessment in the future is all like this, then the situation will be a bit severe. After the current Zodiac Twelve Directors die of old age, the new Zodiac Directors who take over, even with the blessing of the Zodiac Star Palace, will be very difficult to reach the Pillar God level. If the Director seats also have a large number of vacancies, I am afraid the Cleaning Bureau will

"..."

So you came all this way just to stab me in the heart? Is stabbing me with a blade not enough, that you have to stab me with your mouth too?

"Shut your mouth!"

After struggling to turn his head and glaring angrily at the Director of Aquarius for his snide remarks, the Director of Pisces roared with indignation:

"These matters have nothing to do with you! You traitor who joined the King-Slaughtering Society!"

"I wouldn't say I joined the King-Slaughtering Society; I simply chose to cooperate with them for the sake of certain goals."

Glancing at the Director of Pisces, who had been provoked by him, the Director of Aquarius couldn't help but shake his head and say:

"However, although I am not of one mind with the King-Slaughtering Society, I actually think that what they are preparing to do might, on the contrary, be a good thing for the Bureau of Cleanup and even for all of humanity.

The current Bureau of Cleanup is truly too well-protected by the Watchtower; they basically never encounter any crises, which makes the standard of cleanup agents worse with each passing generation. If things continue like this, sooner or later, they will fall to a level where even the Watchtower cannot protect them.

If you look at it from this perspective, I actually think it would be better to let the King-Slaughtering Society be more active and kill off all the royal family members of seven or eight kingdoms, just to give future cleanup agents a few more opportunities for training."

"Utter nonsense!"

The Director of Pisces couldn't help but rebuke angrily:

"Do you have any idea what you are saying? How many people who have sat in the palace have contributed to the Watchtower to nurture it to its current scale? You want to destroy the efforts of countless predecessors with a single sentence? You are simply..."

"Hey, don't get excited."

After turning his wrist with force once more to interrupt the Director of Pisces, the Director of Aquarius said leisurely:

"I actually don't mean anything else; I just can't leave while waiting for the anomalous object to take effect, and since I happened to run into you, an old friend, I'm just chatting casually. There's no need to take this kind of idle chatter seriously.

Once the time is about right, I will go back to planning my scheme, and you can continue doing what you want to do. We were friends once, after all; there's no need to argue over something like this..."

Anomalous object taking effect... time is about right?

After catching the keywords in the Director of Aquarius's words, the Director of Pisces's heart couldn't help but fall into a slight state of chaos, and he immediately retorted:

"It's useless. As long as the 【Bubble Dock】 still exists, no matter what you have done to me, as long as I have the slightest thought, anything that has happened during this time will be as if it never occurred. And you, having lost the Star Palace, are now completely incapable of breaking my 【Bubble Dock】!"

"Yes, I truly cannot do that."

Upon hearing this, the Director of Aquarius nodded, then smiled and said:

"Your 【Bubble Dock】 is indeed a good thing. As long as you record the 'anchor points' for restoration in advance, you can almost erase any reality you dislike and forcibly steer the situation in a direction favorable to you.

But all of this ultimately has a prerequisite, which is that you must be yourself, and you must actively have the thought of 'using' the Bubble Dock."

I must be myself?!!!

Amidst the Director of Pisces's suddenly startled expression, the Director of Aquarius's wrist rotated again, and he "twisted" it with force in a clockwise direction.

"It seems you have already figured it out."

The Director of Aquarius said with a smile:

"Although your 【Bubble Dock】 is basically flawless and can even trigger automatically even in an unconscious state, your soul has a huge flaw.

Because of past events, your soul is divided into four, and it changes continuously over time among the four forms of man, woman, old, and young. Following this most powerful 'old' soul is Mimi, who represents the 'young'."

And according to my understanding of Mimi, innocent and ignorant as she is, let alone how to control the 【Bubble Dock】, I'm afraid she hasn't even recognized how many anomalous objects you have, right?"

So... your true goal is to have Mimi's soul come out ahead of time to replace me! And this blade stuck in my heart has been secretly "whittling away" my time all along?!

Looking at the short blade protruding from his heart, slowly rotating and gouging in a clockwise direction, the Director of Pisces, having vaguely guessed the truth, hurriedly mobilized his secret arts to identify it with all his might, and was shocked to discover the special imprint belonging to a time-type anomalous object.

It seemed that every time the Director of Aquarius's wrist rotated, the time his soul had spent would involuntarily jump forward by a large margin. After being gouged by him so many times, his "appearance" time seemed to be truly reaching its limit.

No! I absolutely cannot let Mimi come out now!

Feeling the ignorant soul slowly reviving within his body and beginning to fight him for control, the Director of Pisces couldn't help but grit his teeth and begin to struggle desperately.

Even if Mimi could also passively "trigger" the 【Bubble Dock】 and wouldn't be killed by the Director of Aquarius, without his protection, these cleanup agents participating in the assessment would fall into the hands of the Director of Aquarius.

And what's even more dire is that the time for the Director of Taurus to ascend to the palace has already been set and cannot be changed. If Mimi is brought out at a time like this, leading to the loss of his 【Bubble Dock】's protection, then...

"Don't move around, your soul will collapse."

Reaching out to rest a hand on the Director of Pisces's shoulder and pressing down on his violently trembling body, the Director of Aquarius advised him in a gentle voice:

"Rest assured, I won't do anything to these cleanup agents; this time, my target is only you.

For the sake of our past friendship, I'm not even prepared to hurt you. As long as Mimi, who cannot control the 【Bubble Dock】, is brought out ahead of time to replace you, preventing you from using the 【Bubble Dock】 to cause me trouble, my goal will have been achieved.

As for this batch of cleanup agents whose quality isn't very good... what their fate will be depends on what you do."

Under the Director of Pisces's angry glare, the Director of Aquarius smiled and warned:

"You know, I don't like killing people indiscriminately. As long as you don't act recklessly, I naturally won't lay a hand on them. But if you insist on risking your soul shattering to forcibly prevent Mimi from coming out... then I'm afraid I'll have to apologize!"

"..."

"If you are still unwilling to give up, then I can help you do the math."

Looking at the Director of Pisces's body, which was still trembling continuously, the Director of Aquarius accelerated the speed of gouging his heart while leaning close to his ear and whispering:

"The probability of you perfectly suppressing Mimi is at most only one-fourth. As for the remaining three-fourths of the possibility, it is that your soul will shatter due to the conflict, causing the 【Bubble Dock】 to no longer be perfect, and then you and these four hundred-plus cleanup agents will be killed by me.

And if you choose to listen to my arrangement and honestly let Mimi come out of your soul, although the Director of Taurus will lose the protection of the 【Bubble Dock】, you and the future of these cleanup agents will all be able to survive."

"..."

"Come on, make your choice!"

(End of chapter)