[{"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-156":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},2285992,4472,"Chapter 156: 155 Vegetable Basket and Transaction","i-m-the-cleanup-crew-chapter-156",156,"\u003Cp>“Bang!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After realizing who had destroyed the kingdom, the strange explosive sound that had once “dispatched” other rebels rang out again; the middle-aged man lying atop the vegetable vendor jerked violently, regaining his consciousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Am I… temporarily replaced by my past self?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After understanding what had just happened, the middle-aged man’s expression changed instantly; he hurriedly reached into his chest and pulled out a small leather-bound notebook.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After carefully inspecting the notebook and finding no signs it had been opened, he realized his past self had not seen its contents—his face darkened repeatedly, then he seized the shoulders of the woman beneath him, shaking her desperately while screaming with frantic eyes:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tell me quickly! What did I do? What did my past self do?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This lunatic… he looks even crazier than before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing his eyes as if he meant to devour her, the vegetable vendor clenched her basket tightly, wanting to smash it hard against the back of his skull—but feared she might not knock him out, only enrage him further; trembling, she stammered:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You just… just asked me who made the kingdom disappear…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And what did you say? What exactly did you say?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I—I—I just told the truth!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Terrified by the middle-aged man’s increasingly wild expression, the vegetable vendor answered with a tear-streaked face:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Didn’t Prince Leon himself make the kingdom vanish? He announced it five years ago.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then what? After I heard that, what else did I say?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You… after listening, you gritted your teeth and repeated Prince Leon’s name, then let out a wild howl, and then… then you collapsed onto me and didn’t move again…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Imagining the scene the vendor described, the middle-aged man realized his past self had likely misunderstood something—suddenly, cold sweat burst forth, soaking his back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His past self had repeatedly used the anomaly to observe the future, but each vision grew worse than the last; though he still struggled desperately, inwardly he was already on the brink of despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Given his mental state back then, upon opening the door and hearing the kingdom had vanished completely, his first reaction wouldn’t be hopeful—he’d immediately assume the worst: the kingdom had fallen long ago, utterly conquered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And with his past self’s obsessive, insane nature, once he returned to his original body, the first thing he’d do would surely be to find a way to kill Prince Leon!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’m an idiot! I’m an idiot! Couldn’t you at least finish reading my notebook before leaving?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After slapping himself twice with full force, to prevent this one remaining decent world from being altered, the middle-aged man shot upright from the ground, preparing to find others with time-related abilities and stop his past self from doing something foolish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But unfortunately, the moment he rose, a heavily packed vegetable basket flew from behind and smashed squarely against the back of his skull with a thud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blow was brutal—it knocked him flat on the spot, and two turnips inside the basket, each larger than a human head, shattered violently from the impact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh no! My turnips!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the vegetable vendor bent to retrieve her basket and check if the turnips were still edible, the middle-aged man, knocked down by the basket, began crawling forward, shouting hoarsely at the startled crowd around him:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Quick… take me… take me to the Clearance Bureau! This world… needs me to save it…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Save it, your ass!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swinging the basket again and striking him once more, the vegetable vendor sneered down at the middle-aged man, now motionless and unconscious on the ground:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This lunatic… saving the world? He thinks he’s Prince Leon? Hey, wait—just who is Prince Leon?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eliminate him! Leon Rayne! This man who ended the kingdom must\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>be eliminated!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After returning to his own body, the middle-aged man, who had been dozing atop the long table, snapped his eyes open—his gaze filled with murderous intent as he drew a deep breath, preparing to recall all rebels with anomaly abilities and devise a new assassination plan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But just as he raised his hand to activate the anomaly again, he heard a faint, irregular knocking at the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who is it?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the intermittent knocks outside, the middle-aged man shuddered, his eyes darkening with sharp suspicion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His anomaly, the Door to the Other World, could briefly reach into the future—and also shift endlessly behind every door in the capital; only a few doors he had designated could reliably lead into the world beyond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For someone to have knocked on the Door to the Other World without his awareness meant they knew which doors were “true doors”—and possessed the ability to locate him directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the middle-aged man hesitated—whether to flee immediately or summon his people for a fight—a voice, cold as shards of ice, came from outside:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Nathan, it’s me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pushing open the door—now motionless and perfectly stable—the old man in black robes entered, then lifted the hood from his head, revealing a face naturally shaped like a perpetual frown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’ve gotten worse at hiding your door’s location. I rode through the capital for hours before I finally found this one—barely clinging to existence.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It couldn’t be helped. That rat-playing fool from the Clearance Bureau is a nuisance—his eyes are everywhere. If I weren’t cautious, I’d have been caught long ago.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Realizing the visitor was not a Clearance Bureau agent but the black-robed elder who had previously collaborated with him, the middle-aged man exhaled in relief, then frowned and asked:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Last time you came, you said all of us—including me—were discarded waste, none meeting your standards, and you’d have no further contact. So why are you here now?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I came because I need your help.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if not noticing the resentment in the middle-aged man’s tone, the black-robed elder’s long, drooping eyebrows lifted slightly; his expression remained icy:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A few hours ago, I found something that might meet my requirements—a photograph, stored in the drawer of the Clearance Bureau’s district chief’s office.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nathan, you’ve seen in some future how strong that woman in the Clearance Bureau is—I can’t retrieve it without alerting her. I need your help.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The middle-aged man’s eyebrows twitched slightly—he immediately understood the elder’s intent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You want me to move the Door to the Other World behind the door to her office, so you can slip through it directly?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fine. But in exchange, you must help me too.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a brief pause, the middle-aged man narrowed his eyes:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Temporarily enhance Phoebe’s ability—so anyone she touches vanishes from everyone’s memory. Can you do that?”\u003C\u002Fp>",1087,"2026-06-20T03:18:28.556Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","a2a6598e42bcea66b64e8fd2565e5762b10d2b7de2470f859610e98eaef511ee","i-m-the-cleanup-crew-chapter-157","i-m-the-cleanup-crew-chapter-155",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-m-the-cleanup-crew-cover.jpg"]