Chapter 480

The infection value is actually 48 points?

After reading the information given by 【Materialism】, Leon couldn't help but be slightly startled and cast his probing gaze at the red-haired director.

Didn't you say before that even if you choose the first one, you can only have 45 points of infection value, and the highest for choosing the third one is only 42? How come it is so much higher now?

"..."

What are you looking at me for? Hurry up and thank others!

After receiving Leon's gaze, the red-haired director couldn't help but glare at him again, then put her hand behind her back and secretly hooked her fingers toward Leon's neck.

"Ah?"

After his neck was pulled slightly lower by her hair, Leon immediately understood the red-haired director's reminder, hurriedly bowed, and thanked her with a face full of sincerity:

"Thank you for your teaching, Director Excellency. I will definitely not let down the director's expectations, nor will I let down this anomalous object you forged with your own hands!"

"Why is it so formal again... sigh..."

Easily seeing through the red-haired director's little trick, the silver-haired old lady couldn't help but glare at her, then smiled helplessly:

"Really... if I had known it would turn out like this, I would have applied for identity confidentiality. Now it's troublesome everywhere, making people bow and greet..."

"Bowing and greeting are all voluntary, it is the respect from the bottom of everyone's heart for you."

Hearing the silver-haired old lady's words, the red-haired director, who was usually not very serious, straightened her body this time and said seriously:

"Golden Bull Excellency, whether it is past achievements or choices to be made in the future, this respect is what you deserve."

"Maybe... but this is also really troublesome..."

After responding listlessly, the silver-haired old lady stood up from the sofa, then said goodbye:

"That's it then, Olivia. I came to deliver something today, and by the way, see the situation of your Sixth Bureau. Since everything is normal, I won't disturb you."

"You are too polite."

The red-haired director nodded respectfully, then secretly pulled Leon, pulled him back together, and watched the Golden Bull Director, who looked no different from an ordinary old woman, walk toward the window on the second floor, and then disappeared without warning as if stepping into another world.

"..."

No wonder I didn't see footprints, it turns out you don't take the stairs...

After a flash of realization appeared in his eyes, seeing that the director who seemed to have a very high status left, Leon, who had already filled his belly with questions, finally couldn't help but ask:

"Just now that..."

"That is one of the twelve directors, the Golden Bull Director of this generation, and also the master in the bureau who is best at making anomalous objects."

After briefly explaining the old lady's identity, the red-haired director said with some emotion:

"Originally I thought it would be good to have a master craftsman preside over the forging, but I didn't expect Golden Bull Excellency to happen to be free. Not only did she take over the forging work of this thing, but she even sent it over in person after forging it. Your luck is really good."

So... is it because there is this master who took action to forge it that the infection value is so much higher than expected?

After nodding in realization, Leon stole a glance at her expression, then continued to ask:

"Director, is the power of the twelve directors very strong? How is it compared to you?"

"You misunderstood."

After glancing at Leon, the red-haired director shook her head:

"The reason why I let you maintain respect for her is not because her power is strong, nor because her status is high, but because of genuine admiration.

At most in another year, Golden Bull Excellency will take the initiative to give up her flesh and become a part of 【Watchtower Palace】." "Watchtower Palace?"

"It is an anomalous object created by the Cleaning Bureau, hanging high outside our world. As for the specific role, it is just like its name, existing as the watcher of all mankind, and is the strongest and last barrier to protect this world."

After briefly explaining the role of 【Watchtower Palace】, the red-haired director said with a complex look:

"Only individuals who love humanity from the bottom of their hearts can be selected by the Watchtower Palace. After choosing to accept the selection, they will be stripped of their flesh and the vast majority of their emotions, leaving only the purest will to watch over humanity, and be guided into the Watchtower Palace.

And Golden Bull Excellency has accepted the selection and will sit in the Watchtower Palace outside the world within a year, monitoring the huge disasters that will endanger the human world, and sitting and watching in the dead void until even the last remnant of her will is completely worn away by ruthless time."

This is watching? Are you sure it's not a variant of life imprisonment?

After listening to the red-haired director's explanation, Leon just imagined it along with her words, and felt his heart stuffy.

Leaving the colorful world and the family that supports each other, sitting alone in the dead void indefinitely, waiting until even the will is completely swallowed by loneliness, for any intelligent creature, this is a kind of extreme cruelty torture.

"Must it be so painful?"

Thinking of the silver-haired old lady's gentle and kind face, and not wanting her to encounter everything that was about to happen, Leon couldn't help but ask:

"This anomalous object is made by the bureau, right? Then can it be slightly modified to send people to take turns sitting in the Watchtower Palace? At least changing shifts is good."

"No."

The red-haired director sighed:

"Only extremes will be remembered, only paranoia dares to move forward, only madness can understand greatness... This is a sentence widely circulated in the bureau.

My understanding of it is that whether it is positive love or reverence, or negative hatred or unwillingness, only these most extreme and purest things can truly affect the world and give birth to corresponding 'anomalous' existences."

When talking about this, the red-haired director paused, then looked up at the sky outside the window, her tone faint:

"The existence of that 【Watchtower Palace】 follows such rules. Its selection is not mandatory at all, and there is even a full ten-year preparation period before ascending the palace. During this period, you can repent at any time, and no one will remember that you were ever selected.

Most people in the bureau think that these ten years are just a cooling-off period for the selected, but I think that whether it is the eternal watching of extreme pain later, or the weighing and consideration of these ten years, it is actually the process of 【Watchtower Palace】 obtaining power, a kind of selection and purification of the will to watch.

And only the pure will that goes forward resolutely in the face of the desperate future that is about to be faced, and can be safely abandoned at any time, can give birth to that infinite greatness that runs through the past and future and is enough to protect all mankind."

So that's how it is...

Finally figuring out why the director, who is usually unscrupulous, would behave so "obediently" today, Leon couldn't help but take a deep breath, and deep reverence was revealed in his eyes.

Even without mentioning the matter of helping him forge the anomalous object, as one of the humans protected by 【Watchtower Palace】, that silver-haired old lady should receive his respect.

Hmm... Watchtower Palace... really didn't expect that the Cleaning Bureau still masters such a thing that can be called great...

"Sss..."

【By carefully listening to the relevant narrative, you have obtained a large amount of intelligence about "Watchtower Palace," and the heterochromatic badge "Materialist Soul (Crimson)" is activated.

Because you learned of the existence of "Watchtower Palace," understood its source of power, and learned part of its operating rules, your resistance to this anomalous object has increased significantly, and you have been able to shield general degrees of influence】

"..."

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(End of chapter)