[{"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-958":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},2286794,4472,"Chapter 958","i-m-the-cleanup-crew-chapter-958",958,"\u003Cp>Although I knew before coming that winning against the Director was unlikely, this is just too humiliating…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like Leon, who had simply gone silent after losing, the three Scorpio Branch cleaners, faced with a battle result that couldn’t even be called a defeat—only utter annihilation—could only sink back into Leon’s belly, hearts heavy with despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For this, one can only say: although the three senior Level Two cleaners combined could muster 59 points of contamination value, they could not assemble a carefully crafted set of anomalous objects capable of handling any situation, nor could they muster years of experience dealing with anomalies, nor could they match a True God’s reaction speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing Leon’s charge with knife in hand, the Scorpio Director immediately released a batch of sturdier puppets; after just a brief probe, he realized the problem lay with the [Cutting Silver Dagger], then immediately shifted focus to attack Leon’s wrist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he discovered Leon was unharmed by attacks and his wrist could not be damaged no matter what, the Scorpio Director changed tactics again, beginning to use restriction-type anomalous objects to avoid direct contact with the [Cutting Silver Dagger].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Leon slashed wildly with eight strikes, shredding six or seven puppet anomalies, one speed-type puppet finally evaded the blade of the [Cutting Silver Dagger] and seized Leon’s wrist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his only weapon capable of breaking through [Puppet Interlock] now restrained, and lacking any other powerful offensive means, Leon, surrounded by puppets that could not be destroyed, had no choice but to surrender.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After delivering his threats, Leon didn’t even reach the Scorpio Director’s side—after charging only five or six steps, he was buried under a flood of puppets emerging from the suitcase, pinned down by countless hands, completing a textbook lightning-speed defeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the moment Leon charged forward to the moment he was subdued by puppets, only twenty seconds had passed; the [Whale Shark Puppet], previously bound by branches, had not yet sunk to the bottom of the lake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you don’t want to talk, fine.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching Leon, who refused to communicate, face drawn and silent, the Scorpio Director shook his head and gave up trying to converse with his defeated opponent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He picked up a strange-looking stiletto, casually slashed through the air twice, and severed the roots binding the [Whale Shark Puppet]; then, like repairing other puppet anomalies damaged by the [Cutting Silver Dagger], he guided the two halves of the [Whale Shark Puppet] slowly toward each other to rejoin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hey!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet as he waited for the [Whale Shark Puppet] to fully restore, Leon, who had been silent until now, suddenly lifted his head and asked:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Director Edward, if you’re this strong, why did you nearly get killed by artillery fire before?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You mean that incident…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Leon’s question, the Scorpio Director hesitated slightly, unsure whether it counted as leaking secrets; but seeing Leon, now captured and utterly unable to escape, he thought for a moment and answered:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Two weeks before I moved against you and Ruben, the entire Krook Kingdom’s sprinkler system had been filled with diluted Adrenaline Counteragent. Normally, you feel nothing—but at critical moments, your reaction speed fails. That’s why I couldn’t activate my life-saving substitute puppet.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“By the way, when you suddenly vomited and I couldn’t dodge it, getting covered in it—that was the Adrenaline Counteragent taking effect… Too bad, if I’d realized that then, I might not be in this state now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“One dose of drug knocked you out?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After glancing at the Scorpio Director’s resentful expression, Leon frowned:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“After Mona and the other three died, they nearly stormed back from the Death Realm. At your level, even if your body is destroyed, shouldn’t your soul still be able to fight for a while?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, but my soul is sealed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a long, weary sigh, the Scorpio Director, while waiting for the Whale Shark to rejoin, chatted casually with Leon:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Prince Andre is a member of the Kill King Society. He enlisted their aid to kill a True God, burn its flesh and blood, and channel part of one of their members’ power into this world.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When I tried to separate my soul from my body, the power sent down by the Kill King Society forcibly shoved my soul back in. Since the rule of this world requires the soul to rely on the body, when the body is unconscious, the soul cannot remain awake—I was captured like this.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kill King Society…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After firmly imprinting that name in his mind, Leon, visibly disgusted, pressed further:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So you didn’t even resist? You just got caught?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not exactly—I did resist.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Scorpio Director shook his head:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But Prince Andre dismantled and decomposed every anomalous object seized from the Twin Branch’s storage, using the materials to create something called ‘Field Stones,’ scattered across over eight hundred districts of the Krook Kingdom.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When I launched my counterattack, I was already at my last strength; then those Field Stones scattered my remaining power into one eight-hundredth, rendering it harmless—probably just causing a slight tremor across the entire Krook Kingdom.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After recounting the full story of his defeat, the Scorpio Director sat cross-legged, smiling, and asked:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you have any other questions? Since you once saved Ruben and the others, before your Busi  anomaly effect ends and I kill you for good, I’ll answer a few more of your curiosities.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No, I’ve asked nearly everything I wanted to.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the Scorpio Director’s words, Leon shook his head slightly, paused for a moment, then said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Director Edward, how about this? Since you’ve been so patient with me, when this is all over, if you ever want to know exactly how you lost, I’ll give you a proper answer.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Scorpio Director blinked in surprise, then frowned:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What are you trying to say? I don’t understand.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Burp… You’ll understand soon… Oh, by the way…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After letting out a burp thick with alcohol, Leon, having achieved his goal of buying time, grinned and tilted his chin toward the Director’s feet:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you like beautiful feet?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“???”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Completely lost, the Scorpio Director, baffled, followed Leon’s gaze to his own feet—and saw a human right foot sculpture, muscles smooth, joints clearly defined, resembling marble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What is this?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the Scorpio Director stared in confusion, Leon smiled and explained:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is called the [Aesthetic Foot]. It’s an anomalous object I forged myself—its effect makes a person’s right foot exceptionally beautiful. It’s yours now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“???”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mine? What do I even need this for?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still not understanding Leon’s intent, the Scorpio Director was about to ask again—when he suddenly realized something was wrong. The moment the “beautiful foot” appeared, his mind felt as if something had been abruptly missing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, the [Whale Shark Puppet], now sunk to the lakebed, bizarrely reversed its fishhead, flapped its pectoral and caudal fins, and surged forward with full force—crashing straight into the cooled core of the mechanical intelligence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the impact’s sound could even reach them, the two-meter-thick glass shield surrounding the mechanical core shattered violently under the Scorpio Director’s stunned gaze; a torrent of lake water surged in, crushing every exquisitely engineered device inside!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>?!!!\u003C\u002Fp>",1190,"2026-06-20T03:18:35.371Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","7d98ea47bc4729c09c5b4f916fda1217ed327e0bf0ecb1ee3d3ee7d0d5f266e7","i-m-the-cleanup-crew-chapter-959","i-m-the-cleanup-crew-chapter-957",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-m-the-cleanup-crew-cover.jpg"]