[{"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-19":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},2285855,4472,"Chapter 19","i-m-the-cleanup-crew-chapter-19",19,"\u003Cp>19 Don’t Ask, Ask and It’s an Explosion (Part 2)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mmm… yeah, it really was just an accident.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at his sister, who had been gently comforting him, and noticing her significantly improved complexion, Li Ang felt a slight easing of the heavy burden on his heart and smiled as he agreed with a few words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s right—the uncontrolled infection incident involving four to five hundred people, after the “mastermind” was shot dead by Li Ang and Senior Emma submitted the incident report, had already been reclassified as an accidental event.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the red-haired director, deep beneath the Cleaners’ headquarters lay an anomaly of astonishingly high rank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once Cleaners staff completed their cleanup task and submitted their incident report, the anomaly’s rule would activate, forcibly rewriting the memories of nearly all eyewitnesses; this incident, for instance, was rewritten as a gas explosion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Anna’s memory, the first explosion occurred when the hospital’s gas pipeline ruptured, accidentally shattering the storage room containing anesthetics, which then rapidly dispersed through the ventilation system, causing hundreds of patients and medical staff to fall into collective unconsciousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second explosion followed shortly after, hitting the sixth floor where the director’s office was located and the fourth floor housing the intensive care unit; the hospital director was killed instantly, and Anna’s intensive care ward was reduced to rubble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, she had smelled the gas leak early, acted decisively, and helped two nurses climb out the window, barely saving her life—though she suffered leg lacerations from falling glass, and another nurse fell and sustained severe injuries, with multiple joint traumas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as the third explosion was about to occur, Li Ang and his colleague arrived in time to shut off the gas valve, preventing a greater disaster and saving the lives of hundreds in the hospital.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, that supposedly incredibly powerful anomaly even took care of the Cleaners’ staff’s mental health during its story-building—deliberately preserving Li Ang and his colleague’s “credit” so they wouldn’t feel psychologically unbalanced for saving lives without recognition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even stranger, to facilitate the Cleaners’ report to superiors for bonus claims, it implanted false memories in the victims: that the Cleaners had received public complaints about the hospital’s illegal overcharging and had sent investigators—highlighting its thoughtful, open, humanized approach, and a slight lack of shame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing this absurd operation, Li Ang—who understood the difference between “procedure” and “artificial intelligence”—immediately questioned the anomaly, sensing that something so adaptable clearly possessed its own intelligence, and suspected it was not merely an object blindly following rules.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the answer he received from the red-haired director was that this anomaly had always had a mind—even that it was, in essence, nothing but a brain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This high-rank memory-twisting anomaly was originally a demonic god who had arrived unprepared and was captured alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After eliminating it, the Cleaners discovered its exceptional memory-altering ability, so they simply extracted its brain and implanted it into an anomaly named 【Illusion Jar】, turning it into a specialized tool for concluding large-scale incidents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, because its mass-memory-editing capability was too dangerous if left under a single person’s control, its activation conditions were extremely strict: approval from over half of the twelve board members was required; otherwise, it remained buried deep underground, operational only in extreme emergencies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So what exactly constituted “extreme emergency”? Or more bluntly—would an attack on the Cleaners qualify as “extreme emergency”?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the red-haired director spoke these words, Li Ang instantly grasped the definition of “danger,” and solved a massive mystery—why did the nations of this world\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>allow an organization like the Cleaners to exist? And why did they actively cooperate with it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They probably weren’t choosing to cooperate—they were forced to!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, just this demonic god’s brain, capable of rewriting collective memory, was enough to make every kingdom with ill intentions choke on its own fear; and no one knew how far back the Cleaners’ history extended—who knew what other bizarre artifacts they still concealed?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After learning, through this revelation, just how powerful the Cleaners truly were, Li Ang was now certain: he would be bound to this mysterious organization for the rest of his life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Standing on the front line defending humanity, knowing the truth of the world, gaining abilities far beyond ordinary people… these alone were enough to make refusal impossible, let alone the Cleaners’ high pay, excellent benefits, and official royal status.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially regarding official status—he’d heard that in the capital’s matchmaking market, anyone with official status, male or female, was incredibly desirable…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huh… wait a minute, wasn’t I prepared to remain single for life? Why am I suddenly thinking about matchmaking? Did something trigger me today? Or is it true, as the Black Goat said—that I’ve reached the age of restless urges?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother? Brother! What’s wrong?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After calling out to Li Ang several times without response, Anna, who had been sipping her fish soup slowly from her bowl, blinked in confusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching her brother alternate between an unusually serious expression and a shy smile, the frail girl thought for a moment, set the milky-white soup back on the bedside table, raised her right hand to cover her lips—now glistening faintly with oil—and let out a barely audible, muffled cough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing that suppressed cough—the same one that had haunted him for over two years—Li Ang reacted instinctively, snapping instantly out of his wandering thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hurriedly turned to the girl on the bed; seeing she had only coughed once and said nothing more, he relaxed, then picked up the soup bowl from the bedside table and said apologetically:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I was just thinking about work and didn’t pay attention to you… Why did you cough just now? Did you choke? Let me feed you, shall I?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No… hmm…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Li Ang immediately turn toward her at the sound of her cough, the frail girl’s eyes warmed slightly; she shook her head, about to say she hadn’t choked—but then, seeing the spoon already at her lips, she hesitated, then accepted it without refusal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leaning on Li Ang’s arm, she sat back slightly against the pillow he’d brought, resting against the headboard, and began sipping the soup he offered, small mouthfuls again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet for some reason, though she had already drunk nearly half the bowl alone moments ago, she now occasionally coughed lightly one or two times, then smiled faintly and shook her head at Li Ang’s concerned inquiries, before slightly parting her oily lips, contentedly waiting for the next spoonful…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mom and Dad, are you still watching me?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you can, I hope you’ll let this bowl of soup last a little longer—let my brother stay with me just a little longer. But not too long—just a few more sips…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tap. Tap-tap.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound of knuckles tapping against glass interrupted the girl’s prayer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two in the room turned toward the sound, and were surprised to find, outside the door, a girl with red-rimmed eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The girl had a baby face, roughly the same age as them—sixteen or seventeen—but wore a mature professional suit, with a delicate name badge pinned to her chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked like she had already begun working, perhaps even for several years, yet something about her was strangely off, as if she hadn’t yet grown accustomed to the outfit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m from the gas company. I signed the inspection form for this hospital’s pipeline. I… I’m sorry!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After receiving Li Ang and Anna’s permission, the girl with swollen eyes cautiously entered the room; without a word, she immediately bowed deeply—ninety degrees—toward Li Ang, tears welling in her eyes:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This whole incident is my fault!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I had inspected the pipeline more strictly back then, it might never have exploded, and your wife wouldn’t have jumped out the window and been injured! Please, rest assured—I will provide compensation you’ll find satisfactory!”\u003C\u002Fp>",1301,"2026-06-20T03:18:28.556Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","0a99611354194bb210d530ef6067d02b12bb55b3372469d2dc9b3c550d394eed","i-m-the-cleanup-crew-chapter-20","i-m-the-cleanup-crew-chapter-18",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-m-the-cleanup-crew-cover.jpg"]