[{"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-844":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},2286680,4472,"Chapter 844: 441 Go!","i-m-the-cleanup-crew-chapter-844",844,"\u003Cp>Your mother is dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the iron Queen lying on the ground, Li Ang couldn’t help but sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn’t an insult—just a simple statement of fact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The iron Queen, falling from high above, landed directly on the stone slab beside the garden, shattered into pieces, with some parts flying into the garden and others hanging from nearby tree branches—a large iron buttock clad in red underwear, presumably dead beyond doubt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How… how could this happen…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Staring at the Iron Queen, shattered into seven or eight pieces, Qiaoshuya—who had just woken up and still felt dazed—moved his lips slightly, on the verge of tears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after stirring up his emotions, he twisted his mouth down twice, yet couldn’t cry at all—only stared blankly at the fragments of the iron Queen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even after Li Ang explained it to him, he understood that this red-clad iron doll was likely the real Queen—but the gap between an iron doll and a human was still too great, making it hard to fully summon the emotion; he simply couldn’t cry yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was truly… an entirely unexpected turn of events.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though his impression of the Queen was terrible and his impression of Qiaoshuya was only average, Li Ang, whose moral standards were still decent, refrained from cruel words and instead picked up the iron Queen’s head and handed it to the bewildered freckled prince.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Take it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to the iron soldiers’ unique senses, they did not recognize Lu Ke, who was temporarily using Qiaoshuya’s body, so his plan to replace the squad leader had collapsed outright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the good news was that although the iron soldiers didn’t recognize the prince’s body, their obedience to this Prince of the Blood was astonishingly high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed that after being turned to iron, for these iron people, labels like identity, status, and occupation had been elevated to the highest priority—orders from those of higher rank became utterly unchallengeable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For normal soldiers, it would have been impossible for this Prince of the Blood to reassign them from their posts—but for iron soldiers, as long as their orders didn’t conflict with those of a higher-ranking iron person, his commands had to be carried out without fail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So now, it seemed Lu Ke wasn’t even necessary—he could command these soldiers to vacate their posts himself, giving the rebels hiding outside the palace a chance to storm in. It was almost a blessing in disguise… or a blessing turned blessing?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching Qiaoshuya, who had taken the Queen’s iron head and sat dazed on the ground, Li Ang sighed helplessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though it sounded cruel, for himself, the Queen’s death was indeed a good thing—and even better that she died by an anomaly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, though Qiaoshuya and his mother were both detestable, for a freckled prince barely over ten years old, witnessing his mother’s sudden death was undeniably cruel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m sorry for your loss.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Out of respect for their shared humanity, Li Ang patted Qiaoshuya’s shoulder in consolation, then turned toward the bedroom door to check on the Princess’s condition—but…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a shrill, hysterical scream, the iron head in Qiaoshuya’s hands suddenly opened its eyes, its face twisted in fury:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ll kill you! You damn Veronica! How dare you push me off the balcony!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What the hell!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wait… you didn’t die even with your ass stuck on a tree? Your soul was completely silent just a moment ago!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Startled, Li Ang turned back, stared at the iron head now alive and screaming curses in Qiaoshuya’s arms, and said with utter disbelief:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re still alive?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course I’m alive! She’s not dead, so why should I be… you’re… the Lionheart Duke?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blinking the ruby eyes embedded in her face, the iron Queen’s expression turned venomous. She shouted with pure malice:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Perfect! I command you! Go upstairs right now and strangle that damn—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wait—you’re commanding me?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the iron Queen’s words, Li Ang’s eyebrows shot up. He remembered the iron soldiers at the bedroom door, their abnormal obedience toward him as Prince of the Blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No good!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he felt human, he was only human in his own eyes—actually, he too had been tainted by the anomaly. In the “iron person” rules he’d deduced, higher-ranking iron people could easily command lower-ranking ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In rank, the Queen—second only to the old Emperor—was clearly superior to him, the Prince chosen by the Princess. He absolutely could not let her finish her command!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Go!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Qiaoshuya’s stunned gaze, Li Ang—who had just turned to leave—suddenly spun and kicked with explosive force, delivering a brutal, powerful shot straight into the iron head he was holding, sending the iron Queen flying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With ten points of contamination, Li Ang’s physical strength had far surpassed normal human limits. The kick’s force was staggering, its speed terrifying, even producing a sharp, slicing wind noise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing this kick beyond human limits, the iron Queen, eyes full of hatred, didn’t even scream—her entire head was crushed against the bridge of her nose, launching her like a meteor into the sky, trailing afterimages as she vanished completely into the palace garden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“?!?!?!!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching his own mother get kicked into the air and vanish into the iron garden, the unfortunate freckled prince froze completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the iron Queen’s thud as she hit the ground, to the bang as she blasted into the sky—though only two minutes had passed, for Qiaoshuya it was an utterly bizarre, emotionally turbulent experience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In those two minutes, the rollercoaster of emotions inside Qiaoshuya was indescribable. If forced to summarize, it broke into three stages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My mom died?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My mom’s alive?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My mom flew away!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Plop!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only when a distant splash echoed from a lake did the freckled prince, who had just seen his mother die, come back to life, scramble over the fence, and sprint wildly toward the garden’s artificial lake, screaming:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mother!!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don’t blame me—it was your mom who started it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching Qiaoshuya rush into the garden, screaming in grief, Li Ang shook his head helplessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kicking someone’s mother in the face was indeed extreme—but if he hadn’t kicked her, and the iron Queen finished her command, it wouldn’t have been just extreme—it would’ve been catastrophic. This kick was entirely her own fault.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I have a question.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Ang hurried back to the bedroom door and addressed the iron soldiers still standing guard:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What happens if iron people go into water? Do they die?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No, they don’t.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The iron soldier shook his head:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They just rust. If they stay too long, they’ll become immobile until polished again.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perfect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Li Ang nodded and gave his order:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do me a favor—the Queen fell into the lake. Go summon all the soldiers inside, have them go to the garden and help Prince Qiaoshuya fish her out. After retrieving her, stay in the water and swim underwater for a while before coming up.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Also, find two fast runners and go to the street outside the palace gate. Ask if there are any rebels lying in wait. If so, tell them they can now charge into the palace.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, I’ll go right away!”\u003C\u002Fp>",1183,"2026-06-20T03:18:35.371Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","3c89635c583638dc1fd06789e4b0d9304866cb227cd26537c7294aa935f87c7d","i-m-the-cleanup-crew-chapter-845","i-m-the-cleanup-crew-chapter-843",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-m-the-cleanup-crew-cover.jpg"]