I'm the King of Wage Earners in Lobotomy City

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In that instant, Du Jue also resolutely detonated all the marks on Benjamin's body, simply unable to tolerate this indecisive guy.

Who would bury their head in the sand if they could stop time?!

What's the difference between this and pausing a video to rescue someone?

Rumble!

Behind the tumbling and landing Dujue, a huge shower of sparks exploded, and countless flaming clock fragments scattered in a dazzling orange-red trail.

"These sparks are quite beautiful. Is your company some kind of circus entertainment company?"

Gario, who was watching from the elevator entrance, spoke with great interest.

Before Du Jue could catch his breath and answer, he heard the echo of the test in his heart.

The towering tower pierced the sky, leaving nothing but desolation on earth.

Those who give us life but allow us to suffer will pay the price!

Hey!

Why is there trouble like this at a time like this?

The supervisor's voice came over the loudspeaker again: "It's over. Don't worry about the test. It's only affected the middle and upper management. I'm handling it."

"To be honest, I didn't expect you to come here. Things have turned out quite unexpectedly, but that doesn't matter. Let's continue with the plan that's about to be completed."

"Now let's completely suppress Benjamin."

According to the plan, Supervisor X would retrieve his memories and revert to Ein midway through the cycle, but this cycle is progressing so rapidly that this procedure is only being executed now.

But there's no need to worry; this plan only cares about launching the Seed of Light, and Ain can abandon everything else.

"Have you... decided to continue...?"

The tattered clock figure, now reduced to a charred half, still ticks away. "That place is a repetition of past pain. Are you truly prepared to face it?"

Du Jue stared at the charred clock figure, which was constantly falling fragments, and was surprised that the guy did not resist at all, and had no intention of further obstructing time except to slow it down.

"It looks like it's resolved."

Galion walked easily to Du Jue's side. "I was watching your work with him before. After seeing those interesting battles, he probably thought he couldn't possibly stop you anyway."

"His dream is for Ein's dream to come true, and Ein is the one who inherited Carmen's last wish. From my perspective, this guy is more like an artificial intelligence than Angela, self-dependent on others, which is really pathetic."

Garion shook his head and gestured for Du Jue to walk with him through the Records Department lobby. "By the way, did you know Carly likes to smoke?"

Du Jue pulled the thorn spear from the ground, his scales and smoke all dissipating. He looked at Galion's retreating figure in confusion, not understanding why the other party had suddenly brought up such a thing. "What does this have to do with what's happening now?"

“Actually, we had been doing this kind of work for a while before the headquarters project started. After the previous head of management was sent away, I found a cigarette in the refrigerator in the conference room.”

Completely bewildered, Du Jue ignored Benjamin, who was standing there dumbfounded, and followed Gallion. "Did Carly lose it?"

"Well, she put the half-smoked cigarette in a bowl and sealed it in a plastic bag, as if she thought the refrigerator and the current state preservation box were the same, but everyone's food and drinks were tainted with the smell of smoke."

Is this guy spreading rumors?!

Galion pushed open the iron door marked with a clock. "Hmph, it's impossible to stop everything, because that rotten, foul smell will permeate everyone, making people want to reject and resist it from the bottom of their hearts."

"This is something that will never exist."

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Chapter 254 is paused.

"and many more."

Du Jue stared strangely at the still-damaged Clock Man, noticing that Benjamin hadn't transformed back into human form as usual. "Gariom, are you really sure we've got him?"

The verbal inquiries about the matter have been reversed again, because things should be done thoroughly from beginning to end!

After observing the perfectly normal corridor behind the door, Galion turned back to look at Du Jue. "I thought Benjamin would obediently listen to the supervisor, after all, he regarded Ein as a mentor to guide the future, and this plan was set by Ein."

call!

The spear swept out swiftly, but missed its target.

The ticking of the hands, which had paused in the recording department, resumed.

Benjamin's movements were sped up tenfold, and in the blink of an eye he removed the stone clock from the castle wall and installed it on his body, reshaping the upper body of a stone statue. "How can one only choose the so-called correct path?"

"No matter what path you take, you should believe that you will be on the right track."

Benjamin's sudden slowing down and resumption of action immediately put Du Jue on alert. "I hope the plan stops here, because continuing to remain silent will have consequences."

Du Jue tried to step closer, but found that the sound of the wind generated by his usual swift movements had strangely disappeared.

However, Galion spoke up from behind, saying, "It seems that time has been accelerated; I can't unlock this."

What's the point if both sides are accelerated?

Boom!

The newly reconstructed stone statue was violently smashed by the saw teeth of the crusher, and the resulting impact flipped Benjamin's body, which was made of clock gears, to the ground.

“It’s no use. If physical pain could subdue me, I wouldn’t be here…”

The stone clock on the city wall beside Dujue began to spin wildly, but it was Benjamin's voice that rang out: "Garrion, are you completely independent of others? Man is the sum total of all relationships, and no one's thoughts are born out of thin air."

Bang!

He smashed the stone clock with his bare hands, and when he turned around, he saw the crazy clocks all over the city wall, and immediately felt extremely troubled.

"A fool makes trouble for himself."

When questioned, Galion simply raised her right hand contemptuously above her head, and a wave of yellow light instantly appeared on the clocks of all sizes around her. As she grasped them, all the marked spots exploded with a bang.

Seeing Du Jue staring at him with surprise, Gallion simply withdrew his arm calmly. "A singularity technology that can generate resonance, which can both shatter objects and form a shock-absorbing protective membrane on the body surface."

[To prevent excessively rapid progress from causing numerous management oversights in various departments, the current situation is as follows: 0-06-20]

"Nothing" escapes and is heading towards the Records Department.

It can quickly rip out and impersonate employees.

Its outer skin is easily melted and has an abnormal structure, requiring frequent replacement to maintain its condition.

This aberration possesses intelligence and is evolving; it mimics the personality and behavior of its original owner and attempts to assimilate into humans.

Please note that its management level is the highest ALEPH level.

call!

A panting male employee rushed into the disjointed records department, his movements appearing sometimes slow and sometimes normal in Du Jue's eyes.

"Oh no, supervisor! He ran away with nothing!"

Seeing the urgency and fear on the other person's face, Du Jue finally realized that the time acceleration brought by Benjamin had affected more than just the Recording Department.

He immediately yelled at the employee, "Stop! Stand still!"

However, the next moment the male employee's movements and sounds all accelerated. He had already run to within three meters of Du Jue after he finished speaking, completely ignoring Du Jue's reprimands.

"Manager! He ran away with nothing!"

This anomaly immediately made Du Jue hold his spear horizontally in front of him, realizing that the other party was probably an Abnormal being, and that Benjamin had also applied the time acceleration effect to it. "Gariom, watch out for it!"

"Thanks for reminding."

A disintegrating yellow light appeared on the male employee's chest, followed by the skin and flesh bursting open, carrying away a large piece of softened skin.

What remained was a skinless monster that walked upright, its body covered with compressed and twisted organs and limbs, as if its creator had simply flattened a living person and then crudely pieced together a human shape like building a sandcastle.

"director!!"

Bang!

Du Jue felt a blur before his eyes as an extremely fast red shadow flashed by, and the thorn spear he was holding in his hands exerted unimaginable pressure, even the floor tiles under his feet shattered into powder.

Click.

He heard a sharp crack and immediately realized that the bones in his right wrist had collided, causing excruciating pain. His chest felt hot, and he quickly pulled back, exclaiming, "That was too fast!"

Galion quickly stepped past Du Jue from the right, saying, "It's really tricky. Leave it to me. It's an anomaly in my department anyway."

hum!

Large swathes of ground in front of them were instantly enveloped in a disintegrating yellow light.

The skinless monster standing in the yellow light immediately turned its head to look at the rapidly approaching Galion, let out a meaningless threatening roar, and then launched another attack like a ghost.

Instead of helping, Du Jue put away his weapon and ran towards the ruined gray castle. He had to quickly release Benjamin's core suppression, otherwise, if another accelerated ALEPH-class anomaly appeared, it would be a disaster!

Red dragon scales, reveal yourself!

"Benjamin, stop playing hide-and-seek here, let's solve this face-to-face!"

Avoiding the escalation from shouting to yelling, he skillfully accepted the illusion of being enveloped by sardines and transformed into a little dragon, crushing the clock hanging on the castle gate with a single claw.

The enormous bell in the palace behind the door rang out, "Ain, I just didn't want to silently watch tragedy repeat itself. Before it all began, perhaps you believed in Carmen as much as I believed in you, but now...where have all the people you loved gone..."

Listening to these pessimistic words, Du Jue felt that this guy was even more willful than Lisa at the moment, completely immersed in his own logic, and was simply incomprehensible.

Supervisor Ain’s voice suddenly rang out: “I know where she went, I know everything, and I also know where we are going.”

A ticking clock, seemingly trying to escape, continued to press: "You...have you decided to move on...?"

At this moment, the supervisor, Ain, did not answer anymore. Instead, he asked Du Jue, "Long time no see, Du Jue. You have changed a lot. But I think your dream has not been realized. Otherwise, there would be no need for you to come to my company and make my script like this."

"Fortunately, the changes you brought about were very positive. If it had been earlier, perhaps we could have talked more, but right now I only want to do one thing—put an end to this, whatever the outcome."

"After all, I have now replaced Carmen as their leader, and the cycle here has become so long that it is time to start a new chapter. Do you think we should move forward?"

Du Jue, with a strange expression, smashed the ticking clock. Not quite understanding how to communicate with Ai Yin, who knew Chief Du Jue, he said, "Otherwise what? Did we create so much pain and death just to regret it before the end?"

"Benjamin, did you hear that?"

Gulu gulu!

Emerging from the shadows, the clock struck a slightly urgent tone as it retorted, "This is the price you pay for our silence, and the reason I'm acting now. How much more sacrifice do you have to make..."

"enough!!"

Du Jue simply accepted the prototype of the evil dragon, and his whole body swelled and deformed violently as he lay prostrate on the ground. In this gray castle, there was actually a violent aura of a giant dragon that plundered the kingdom's treasures.

An immense urge to destroy compels us to smash this orderly and tidy building to pieces.

"No one hates a puddle of liquid unless the endorphins kill their colleagues they spend every day with. But we can't make endorphins and silence pay the price, because the only thing we care about losing is people."

"Every choice comes with a price, and silence is just one of them! You only have one life. If you speak up, you'll be running away from the past, halting the plan, and bearing the sacrifice of so many people!!"

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Boom!

The enormous dragon's body broke through the steps and corridors, countless exquisite castle spires collapsed to the ground, and all the stone clocks stopped turning due to their shattering.

The ticking sound that filled the recording department gradually subsided, and the regional time distortions in the surrounding area were quickly restored to harmony. Even the skinless monsters that were roaming freely came to an abrupt halt.

"Ok!"

While scrambling through the ruins, Du Jue tried to reject the possessive greed brought by the dragon prototype, realizing that his attitude towards the prototype would directly determine the intensity of its manifestation.

The enormous dragon shook its head and swept away the ruins, then quickly shrunk to human form.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

He stood up, covered in dust and grime, with not a single clean spot on his body to wipe away the stains from his face.

Bang!

The sound of flesh tearing apart came from afar, followed by Galion's calm voice, "Anomalies are as elusive and unpredictable as human thoughts. It's hard to say whether containing them or changing a person's mind is more difficult."

Tapping.

Hearing Galion approach, Du Jue hurriedly rubbed off the powder with his hands, wiped his face clean, and opened his eyes. "This time there shouldn't be any surprises, right? I hope there isn't a clock buried under this floorboard."

[The Records Department has been liberated; Supervisor Ein is redeploying personnel to retake control of the R&D and Records Departments.]

Did you hear anything?

Without an immediate response to Du Jue, Galion looked in confusion at the corridor he had opened earlier.