I'm the King of Wage Earners in Lobotomy City

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Such an incredible phenomenon prompted Du Jue to immediately pull hard on the reins woven from black hair, and within a few breaths he reached the high slope where Lisa the Spider was.

Du Jue couldn't think of anything else at the moment; he absolutely had to get his head back first. Otherwise, he wouldn't know how to think. After all, a living person without a head is dead, let alone able to do anything else. "Lisa, can you see my head?"

Almost the instant the name was uttered, Lisa's spider head fell off, and her body frantically waved its limbs on the pyramid.

"me."

Lisa, who had rolled down the slope, was bewildered by the dizzying world around her. She finally stopped beside Enoch's body, her eyes filled with the real fear brought about by all kinds of death. "I don't want to die."

This death experience wasn't just for the employees; it also included those monsters and anomalies they had encountered. Even though some of these beings didn't feel pain, the sense of nothingness from their demise was still unforgettable.

Regardless of the type of death experience, Du Jue's presence can be seen.

"Is stopping it your pain?"

Lisa finally stopped crying and grieving, but the fear that kept washing over her was enough to numb and make a living person faint. Fortunately, she seemed to be dead now.

The bubble-like people, composed of past and present murderous intent, also dispersed in large numbers, simply because the current elimination of both was gone, and they only wanted to find their heads back.

Du Jue, puzzled, looked down and searched the pyramid, only to find that Lisa, who had been standing there just moments before, had vanished. He immediately spurred his horse and galloped towards the rabbit team by the distant lake. "Where is Lisa? No! I have to find someone and ask!"

As Lisa watched the heavily armored knight's retreating figure, the resentment and sorrow in her heart temporarily vanished along with the fear of death. Her little head murmured to herself, "My thinking was really naive. I always thought that I was the only one who was right here."

"But now it seems that I still have expectations, although I probably no longer see this place as everything. I just hope the plan will be completed soon. What is the city like now? I'd like to ask you."

In a panic, Du Jue questioned several seriously injured employees lying on the ground, only to find that they had suddenly disappeared.

【Very good, the core suppression of Minister Lisa has been lifted.】

All the trials have subsided at headquarters, and the derivatives have disintegrated on their own.

Minister Michelle, who had been detached from the situation, rallied her staff to re-contain the anomalous entity, and the results were remarkable. She seemed to have become much braver and calmer; I had thought she would be reckless in her attempt to atone for her sins without my supervision.

What happened next was something I hadn't anticipated: headquarters was recovering from the various distortions and would return to normal in less than half an hour, and our plan was unexpectedly coming to an end.

I'd love to reminisce with you about Plan A, but can you even hear me right now?

Hey! Look closely, it's me!

Du Jue looked at the rabbit mercenaries who were lined up and firing at him with some annoyance. The feeling of metal piercing through his corpse was unpleasant. "I just want to ask if anyone saw my head?"

[...Prevent it? You're not joking, are you? R Company's mercenaries only follow contracts; you've already trespassed into their cleaning area.]

Miao, who was in command at the rear, was covered in blood and looked at the approaching corpse knight with full vigilance. "This anomaly is not in the data provided by Company L. Its danger level is temporarily set as medium. Be careful of its mental pollution!"

Before she could speak again, she noticed that the two rabbits that were firing at her at close range immediately started convulsing. Miao immediately heard the system notification in the team channel.

[Excessive levels of mental pollution have triggered a risk mitigation process.]

"Fengti, Tebirui, if you don't know, then explain it clearly now. I don't have time to mess around with you!"

Du Jue, his brows furrowed, couldn't understand why the two mercenaries remained silent until they and Lisa vanished into thin air.

Two heads, wailing and cursing, wearing strange rabbit-ear helmets, rolled down, while the headless corpse holding a gun also froze in place and swayed as it fell to the ground.

dong dong!

With two muffled thuds, the two men acting as the vanguard were destroyed by R Company's combat system, leaving only their screaming heads.

"What's going on?!"

Miao's eyes widened. She was not surprised by the anomaly, but by the fact that it accurately called out the names of her team members. After all, she wouldn't have been able to call out these people's names even without the combat system.

Carly, carrying a mimicry greatsword, walked over and gestured for Miao to lead the team to retreat. "Now, I'm in charge here. Go back to where you came from."

Suddenly she heard Du Jue's surprised voice, "Carly! Quickly help me find my head!"

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Chapter 248 The Knight.

"Damn! Sometimes I really don't understand how you, Dujue, can resonate with so many EGOs."

Carly, who had just complained, immediately noticed something was wrong. She reached out and caught her head as it fell, and immediately felt the huge dislocation of her head and body. Even standing up felt light and she was about to lose her balance at any moment.

Miao, keeping his distance, looked at his teammates who had all been destroyed by the combat system while lying down to avoid getting close, and the still-energized, groaning heads on the ground. He reported in a weak voice, "All dead. Rabbit has to go home."

She glanced at Carly and then turned to leave. "Blood Mist, this can't be considered a mission failure. We've done everything we were supposed to do."

At this moment, Du Jue, who was leading the horse on foot, was even more confused. He couldn't understand why everyone had disappeared into thin air as soon as he got close. Seeing that Miao was about to step into the combat portal, he hurriedly said, "Wait! Miao, I just want to ask if you saw where my head fell off during the battle."

Just as Miao was about to enter the portal, ignoring the faint shouts behind her, she felt dizzy and disoriented. An indescribable sense of imbalance made her panic and try to steady herself.

thump!

Carly turned her head to look and observed that Myo's head had slid into the portal, but his body had remained here. It was estimated that such an injury would not be difficult for R Company to recover from.

“That’s right, Gabriel. Just as you guessed, the fact that someone’s head will fall off if they’re called out by name is the most outrageous thing—they won’t actually die!”

Carly was prepared, but she was still very puzzled by the result.

Several ministers on the high ground were gazing at the black-armored knight moving freely among the piles of corpses. Gabriel, with a solemn expression, spoke first: "It seems that Du Jue is in a state of out-of-control, similar to anomaly resonance, and will ignore the decapitated."

"The test results are in!"

Ilya, who was holding the blood-stained memo, quickly summarized, "All the decapitated ones are in a state between life and death. One employee with a ruptured heart is still sane even now."

They looked at each other in bewilderment as they listened to the screams of the five employees, still gripped by overwhelming fear.

The ministers were quite experienced with anomalies and such sudden events; they were simply astonished that the prevention efforts had spiraled out of control.

Even under the high pressure of headquarters, it's understandable for anyone to lose control, but this is the first time I've seen something like this.

Is now the time to study these bird-related matters?

Giovanni, who had just restarted the suppressor, interrupted the others' thoughts, "Du Jue doesn't want them to die, which is a good thing. We shouldn't let anything happen to Du Jue either..."

"The Security Department's regeneration reactor has been restored, Carly. As long as Dujue's brain is still functioning, everything will be fine..."

Giovanni, contrary to his usual passive attitude, actively offered solutions.

Upon hearing this, Gabriel and Ilya both tacitly agreed, while Daniel, holding his coffee cup, suggested, "Perhaps we can prepare an anti-Kabbalah energy interference field and physical healing bullets to avoid any accidents."

call!

The blood mist spread again, but Carly, wearing the armor, was somewhat agitated because her resonance had not lifted the strange decapitation state, and she had to hold her head with one hand.

"To be honest, this is the first time I've led a battle."

After receiving the analysis summary, Carly quickly adapted to the anomaly, raising her hand to grasp the mimicry greatsword that was growing larger and larger. "It's also the first time I've ever cut off someone's head to protect them."

Du Jue, who was eager to get back on the horse, felt that not having a brain was too inconvenient. He couldn't even think about why people would vanish into thin air. He turned around and ran towards the high ground where he had just seen living people.

Bang!

The pile of corpses exploded instantly, and a thick mist of blood swept away all the bone parts. However, the lone black-armored knight and his skeletal horse seemed to be in another world and were completely unaffected.

"Um?!"

Feeling the impact of her swings, Carly immediately realized the serious problem. As she continued her pursuit, she communicated with Angela, "No! I can't hit him at all, and this fear of death intensifies the closer I get...!"

Carly gritted her teeth and retreated, panting heavily as she held her head in her left hand. However, she was not annoyed by the fruitless attack. Instead, she calmly recalled the situation where she had just refused to ask the mercenary about her leader.

The problem is, isn't this guy's head properly stuck on his neck?!

"Stop it! Turn back!"

No matter how loudly Carly shouted, Du Jue completely ignored her.

It seems that only living people can talk to him.

Perhaps we can use delaying tactics to wait for things to naturally return to normal, rather than resorting to radical violence.

Upon receiving the latest intelligence, Elizabeth immediately turned to Song Ya, who was anxiously observing Du Jue, and said, "Song Ya, go tell Du Jue that his head is on his own neck. Perhaps that will bring him back to his senses!"

Song Ya glanced back at the wailing heads, and although cold sweat beaded on his forehead, he rushed down the hill without hesitation, shouting with trepidation, "Du Jue! Your head is on your own body!"

Suppressing his fear, Song Ya stared at the black knight helmet that completely covered his head. He frantically gestured with his hands to his neck, but all he heard was Du Jue's question.

"Song Ya, what nonsense are you talking about? If that were the case, why would I be looking for my head? I think I must have accidentally dropped it. Hurry up and help me find it."

High ground.

After observing Song Ya's severed head, Gabriel knew that this method would not work. However, he immediately thought of another method. Just as he was about to speak, he found that his lips were sticking together from the tension of thinking.

“Angela, perhaps we can provide a mirror for elimination.”

Tread.

The corpses trampled over Song Ya, who was struggling and howling on the ground, and Du Bu continued to search for those living people who might know the location of his head, without any confusion.

Swish!

A projection suddenly appeared on the temporarily erected metal plate, immediately attracting Du Jue's attention.

"This is?"

Du Jue stared at the enormous life-size mirror, somewhat dazed. After a few seconds, he realized what was going on with the thing around his neck. "Something's not right, is that me?!"

"Oh right! I think I always had a head. But wait! If I had a head, what was I looking for before?"

Du Jue stared down at the black armor on his body, only then realizing that he had simply accepted the prototype of the Headless Horseman.

He looked up with a sudden realization, "Yes! I found the head!"

Having finally grasped the situation, the consciousness caught between life and death, and as his thoughts resumed functioning, the power of the original form quickly dissipated, and he finally understood the foolish things he had done.

"Damn it! You guys better put your heads back on right now! Once they're back on, everything will be fine!"

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Chapter 249 Headquarters.

"Song Ya, are you brain-dead?! You knew it was dangerous and you still came over. Did you drink too much milk and become stupid?!"

With his hands stained with blood, Du Jue hurriedly shoved the head in his arms into the regeneration reactor before turning to look at Giovanni, who was actively setting the parameters.

Having never seen this green-haired minister work so diligently before, Du Jue couldn't help but ask, "Can you recover your body normally just by using your brain? After all, these are all quite novel."

"Although I am really not interested in the work at headquarters... I will not be careless about the matter of prolonging life."

At this point, Giovanni turned to look at Du Jue, raising his distinctive broken eyebrow. "But don't you feel uncomfortable? Now that the battle is over... it's best not to push yourself."

"It's alright! I brought my own medicine with me."

Pulling out the badly shattered pneumatic injector, I realized it wasn't very durable and could easily be damaged in combat.

Suddenly Giovanni extended his hand. "Let me help you with the modifications. I've learned something here, after all... if you need any help."

"Row!"

Du simply tossed the unusable pneumatic injector to Giovanni and turned to check on Carly, remembering how she had previously tried to intercept him while loading the prototype.

"Where am I?!"

Seeing the steel corridor and the thick iron gate, Du Jue felt as if he had been transported to another world. He looked back at the security department hall he had just walked out of and didn't even react for a moment until Michelle patted his shoulder nervously and hesitantly.

"This is the headquarters, of course. I'm glad to work with you, Du Jue, to solve this major crisis."

Seeing Du Jue staring at her blankly, Michelle interlaced her fingers and lowered her head somewhat embarrassedly. "Du Jue, please come with me..."

"Where?"

After following Michelle to the training department, Du Jue finally realized that the major upheaval at headquarters had ended.

[Stop it! Can you hear me now?]

Du Jue immediately realized what he meant, "Phew, of course, Angela, I didn't even realize it at first."

I can tell, because you're not calling me Miss Angela like you used to.

"Uh, then I'll change it back."

Seeing Michelle stop in front of the training department's warehouse, Du Jue felt a little ashamed. He thought that artificial intelligence was too perceptive in this regard. Could it be that it silently records in the database any bad things people say about her?

[No need. I was just joking with you to help you relax. After all, it's just a trivial title; you're more worthy of attention in comparison.]

"No, this is a brand new employee uniform."

Michelle handed Du Jue a set of shirts and suits packaged in plastic, "Um...! I just noticed that your clothes were damaged in the battle, I hope you don't mind..."

Du Jue simply smiled as he took the clothes and changed. "There's nothing to mind. I should thank you."

Michelle quickly explained, "Because most of the clothes in the warehouse seem to have been damaged due to the previous incident, and these are large sizes, they don't fit you... Let me take a quick measurement to check your body, and then I'll get you new ones."