[{"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-131":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},2285967,4472,"Chapter 131","i-m-the-cleanup-crew-chapter-131",131,"\u003Cp>Someone’s coming down!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing footsteps from the stairwell, Li Ang—who had already destroyed more than half the dungeon—immediately stopped, pulled the female police officer back, then pressed his hand against the goat’s horns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Director?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the scarred, burly man step out of the stairwell, the female police officer—though prepared—still felt an unexpected pang of sorrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though her director was “cowardly,” always avoiding trouble at all costs, he was actually a good man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’d worked together in the Secret Investigation Bureau for years, completed nearly a hundred missions side by side, and survived multiple life-or-death crises; in her heart, he was as close as an uncle or elder relative.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But who knew the director was a rebel hidden within the Bureau? Everything in his past had been a lie! Even the dangers she’d faced might have been orchestrated by him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Isa.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After glancing at the complex expression on the female officer’s face, the scarred man—perhaps recalling their years together—softened slightly, then sighed:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Since it’s come to this, I won’t say more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I don’t dislike you, but unfortunately you’re the Defense Minister’s daughter—you and we are not of the same path. The more you strive, the deeper the Kingdom will slide into the abyss…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So I’m sorry. Today, not only him, but you too will die here.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the scarred man’s words, the female officer clenched her teeth, ignored his statement, and spat out with furious eyes:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Last year, Aunt Martha was tracked down by rebels, kidnapped while picking up her daughter from school, and her body dumped at the Garbage Pier—was that…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not me, but I was the one who sent the information back.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scarred man sighed:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Martha was a good woman, but she handled coordination with the Royal Procession Unit—only she knew the Princess and Prime Minister’s routes. So I had to leak her…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And not just her: of the forty-plus agents who died in the Bureau these past years, roughly a third were killed or captured because of my intel leaks—including your friends and acquaintances.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’m sorry. They weren’t all bastards who deserved it, but sometimes people must betray their own hearts and do…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm… Then let’s end this conversation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After touching the bloodied hole in his brow, the scarred man looked at the female officer, still in shooting stance, face frozen in shock, shook his head, then turned toward Li Ang, who stood before her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Isa shot me. Why didn’t you act? I went to Lyon Manor—I know you have a very dangerous anomaly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“….”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After glancing at the scarred man—whose brow had been shot clean through yet still moved freely—Li Ang judged him the type who wouldn’t easily reveal his ability, so he ignored the question entirely and kept searching for the man’s true body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he heard footsteps, Li Ang—ever vigilant—had already used the Black Goat’s soul vision to examine the man. The “scarred burly man” before them had a body, but no soul inside—just a strange hollow shell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even stranger: in the Black Goat’s vision, the entire world remained unchanged; the Secret Investigation Bureau agents’ souls were perfectly normal, as if the massive noise Li Ang made while destroying the dungeon had never existed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The souls of other prisoners and guards still lingered in their empty cells—even now, just a few feet ahead, a guard’s soul drifted past… yet nothing was there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if… they weren’t on the same “layer”!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Ang was still pondering the true nature of the scarred man’s ability,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>while the stubborn female officer, refusing to believe it, clenched her teeth and emptied her magazine in one burst—six steel darts fired in rapid succession.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing her highly skilled American-style Iaido, the scarred man didn’t dodge at all—his face was shredded into unrecognizable pulp, worse than anything allowed on television.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet he still didn’t die. He even opened his mouth as if to speak—until the female officer swapped in a new air tank and fired another shot straight into his throat, finally causing him to collapse face-up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So you really aren’t going to act, then.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With steady footsteps, another “scarred burly man” emerged from the stairwell, kicked aside his own corpse, and stood again before Li Ang and the officer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Li Ang glance at him once, then immediately frown in thought, the new scarred man sighed helplessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re cautious… fine.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he spoke, the scarred man unclipped his weapon harness and—in under half a second—drew his gun, disengaged the safety, and aimed directly at Li Ang’s brow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet even with his speed, he was too slow compared to the female officer, who had never lowered her weapon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Realizing headshots were useless, she changed targets—fired one shot straight through his wrist, stopping his aim before it could lock onto Li Ang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at her own shattered wrist bone, the scarred man glared at the female officer, clearly annoyed by her interference—then another shot struck his throat, and he collapsed again with a thud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So annoying!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a muttered complaint, two “scarred directors” stepped out of the stairwell simultaneously, then pulled out guns from afar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Too stunned to question how the director could have so many, the female officer gritted her teeth and fired rapidly—just barely managing to drop both directors before they could shoot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But then, a perfectly synchronized step echoed again—dozens of “scarred directors” emerged one after another from the stairwell, each in perfect unison unclipping their weapon harnesses…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What the hell are these things?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the dozens of directors raise their pistols in perfect unison, the female officer’s scalp prickled. She kicked open the door to the interrogation room beside her, intending to drag the “frozen” Li Ang inside for cover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time, the scarred directors were faster. The moment she grabbed Li Ang’s shoulder and tried to shove him in, the black muzzles had already raised to perfect firing angles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dozens of triggers were pulled in rapid succession—first merging into a deafening roar, then erupting into a dense, relentless downpour of gunfire echoing through the dark, narrow dungeon corridor.\u003C\u002Fp>",1016,"2026-06-20T03:18:28.556Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","f677f5724afb4cae81eeaf80252851404d43a7722382ac0bf8b7ff160436c273","i-m-the-cleanup-crew-chapter-132","i-m-the-cleanup-crew-chapter-130",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-m-the-cleanup-crew-cover.jpg"]