I'm the King of Wage Earners in Lobotomy City

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Considering that Gabriel wouldn't needlessly destroy employees who were still working, Du cautiously probed, "This is an experiment by the minister; perhaps the anomaly will experience unexpected changes upon hearing other, better music."

"How is this possible?!"

The man immediately became agitated, "It's not like no one has sung for it before, it won't respond, and do you really think classical music is better than its music?! This is pointless!"

Du Jue, who silently turned up the volume of the tape recorder, realized that this person was acting strangely. This guy actually questioned the minister's orders in the high-pressure intelligence department because of a mere piece of music.

As a long-time employee, the other party couldn't possibly be unaware of Gabriel's punishments for disobedient employees, which typically start with sending them to the disciplinary department.

The minister's voice came through the earpiece at just the right moment, "Unfortunately, this employee has committed an unforgivable work error. Even at headquarters, intentionally harming a colleague is a serious crime that must be punished."

"Du Jue, you are an excellent employee. I hope you won't suddenly question me about why he deserves to die at a time like this. You don't need to know anything, just execute."

Du Jue silently put away the recorder. Without Angela's prompting, he would indeed have had difficulty understanding such an order.

It seems that Minister Gabriel is quite strong-willed, able to endure all the criticisms from his subordinates and coldly issue seemingly ruthless orders.

The colleague in the cubicle, who had been serious, visibly relaxed his brow, but still looked at the tape recorder in Du Jue's pocket with some disgust. "Then let's get started as soon as possible. You'll understand why classical music is nothing compared to it in a moment."

However, his hand, which was reaching to open the inner door, was decisively grasped by Du Jue.

"So how many times have you listened to its music? I'm curious."

Du Jue sighed, and the workshop wire in his sleeve immediately sent a throwing knife into his palm.

My colleague immediately became impatient. "Please get your work done, not chatter!"

"Don't you understand yet? You are my target."

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Chapter 193 Ice and Snow.

"What do you mean?"

The man became serious again, frowning as he stared intently at Du Jue. "Stop joking around. Let's go in now."

He hurriedly raised his hand to open the inner door, becoming increasingly agitated.

Swish!

Du Jue simply flung him over and knocked him to the ground. "Don't worry, after I execute you, I'll take over the meat grinder. It's just a pity you won't be able to hear me."

"No! I said, I listened to it a total of nine times!"

The man scrambled to his feet, his voice trembling, "Just one more time! If I can hear it just one more time, I promise I'll never listen again. Please, please go in quickly! I'll help you start it!"

Snapped!

Du Jue grabbed his head and pinned it against the wall, guessing that this guy was probably completely infected by the alien entity, and he didn't look like a normal person at all.

"I'll go! You can put in two arms first, it can operate for about a minute! Then let me listen to the legs, one more minute! Even if, even if only the head is left!"

Click.

Upon hearing this, Du Jue snapped his neck without hesitation, and a new order immediately came through the earpiece: "Leave the body where it is; I have sent people to clean it up. Now proceed to containment chamber F-01-37."

“Uh, Minister, I think you also saw the unusual test yesterday. Aren’t you going to slow down energy collection?”

Gabriel doesn't care. "As long as we want to collect energy, the challenges are inevitable, even if they become much stronger. I don't like having to explain the reasons and justifications to my employees when I give orders; it's inefficient and pointless."

In less than a day of contact, Du Jue really didn't find that this guy explained himself to anyone, not even his supervisor.

"You need to enter the containment chamber to rescue the two employees who are frozen in ice, which requires a duel with the anomaly. Although it sounds like a joke, you will both be safe if you win the duel, otherwise you will be turned into ice shards."

Without further explanation, Gabriel's words ended there.

The work on the anomalies is far too busy; as soon as one task is completed, another one needs to be deployed.

【F-01-37 Ice Queen】

There is a chance that an employee working with it will be kissed, and a sharp shard of ice will appear on their chest. An employee kissed a second time will forget everything and then be frozen in a containment unit. To avoid a third death kiss and to rescue the trapped employee, an employee must be assigned to duel it.

Action Recommendation: Please note that the outcome of the duel depends on the courage of the employees, and they may suffer psychological harm during the process.

How can there be such anomalies with this kind of mechanism? Why can't we ask the five associations that specialize in duels to come and keep an eye on things?

Upon entering the containment cell, Du Jue immediately felt an extremely sudden chill and became alert. He gently pushed open the cold iron door and was shocked by the scene behind it.

The massive cracked ice surface covered the floor like patterned crystal, and the icicles filled with cold air resembled strange rocks on the ground, with even bright red roses on their tops that seemed out of place in the pale blue space.

"Where is this place? Where is the containment chamber?!"

Gabriel's voice came through the headset a beat later, "Abnormalities have the ability to distort their surroundings, and this is inevitable when they are in a closed containment chamber."

Raising his hand to shield himself from the oncoming gusts of ice, he quickly looked around after regaining his footing on the ice and immediately spotted two three-meter-high ice floes frozen to the right of the Ice Throne in front of him, trapping the employees.

"I see those two employees! How am I supposed to start the duel? Can't I just take them and leave?!"

Du Jue walked very carefully on the ice, when suddenly he noticed a gaze coming from the Ice Throne.

This is a pale-skinned, humanoid anomaly wearing a blue and white crown decorated with snowflake patterns and black antlers. It has no neck or body, its head is separated from its long, icy blue head, icicles on its shoulders, and it holds a greatsword in both hands with the tip of the sword pressed against the floor.

“To stand alone before my throne is commendable in its courage.”

Boom!

The serrated edge, still containing bits of unremoved flesh, slammed into the massive block of ice, instantly shattering a small portion of it.

"so hard!"

He swung the crusher again, but unexpectedly, he couldn't shatter it with a single blow. He quickly broke the entire block of ice off the surface.

Stepping on the ice that still froze most of the employee's body, he refrained from kicking the exit forcefully and yelling, "Go away!"

Whoosh!

However, as soon as the cold front swept in, the ice blocks that the employees were sliding on the ice immediately slowed down and froze back onto the ice, causing Du Jue to curse inwardly.

"Prove your courage to me."

The wind and snow that swirled around it filled the empty interior of the anomaly, making it appear as majestic and cold as a true empress.

"Damn it! You bunch of bastards who aren't even human are really getting excited, one minute judging sins, the next testing my courage!"

To prevent the nameless anger from rising, he felt that communicating with the alien was utterly absurd, and the branded exoskeleton suddenly appeared all over his body.

The intensely pulsating, bone-chilling frost landed on the Dujue exoskeleton and suddenly expanded and crystallized, instantly creating large areas of ice crystals that froze the limbs.

"This is my eternal palace; show your determination to save it."

Susu!

Du Jue was still very unhappy after executing his colleague. He merely shook his body, and the orange fire-shaped branding on his body instantly evaporated into frost. He immediately lunged forward.

The ice between him and the Snow Queen suddenly cracked, piling up countless sharp shards of glass. Even as Du Jue stepped over them through his boots, he was suddenly overwhelmed by the painful memories of the past and the horrific tragedy he couldn't bear to look at.

The living head, retaliated against by the train car gang and hung on a street lamp, the garbage collector who ekes out a living like a maggot, must plunder the blood demon of others.

The cannibalistic chef of Lane 23, the prosthetic staff who are modified and replaced as tools, and the inhumane research institutes scattered throughout the back alleys and suburbs.

Du Jue, gritting his teeth and pressing forward, finally understood what this duel was all about. The anger in his chest suppressed all fear of the road ahead, and he stomped on a quarter-glass mirror, which reflected the image of Kaji slitting his throat in the toilet cubicle.

"They're just bringing up trivial matters!"

Du Jue stopped abruptly, raised his hand, and stared directly at the Ice Queen. Countless branding marks instantly appeared on the icy bodies of countless solid ice and anomalies. "I'll show you what a real duel is!"

Bang!

The towering explosion engulfed the anomaly, causing it to spew out countless shards of ice, which also brought Du Jue back to full consciousness, extinguishing all the marks on his body.

However, upon seeing the enemy rapidly reshape themselves using the wind and snow, Du Jue couldn't help but curse, "Damn it! Are you ever going to stop?!"

"You have defiled my kingdom... by what right do you think you can defeat me...?"

Stab it!

The ice crystals on the Ice Queen's body rapidly froze, giving rise to enormous, deep blue six wings, followed by a blizzard that engulfed everything. The cold, biting breath could even extinguish a person's vitality and fighting spirit, bringing weakness and despair from the outside in.

Du Jue, who relied on the Crusher to stabilize himself in the raging cold wind, really couldn't understand how the others managed to defeat this monster. Could the intelligence department really have rescued people before?!

Seeing the road before him now covered with two more layers of shattered glass, Du Jue took a half-step back and decisively lifted his clothes to reveal the crooked, sacrificial branding marks on his body. Now that his rage was exhausted, he had no choice but to unleash even greater power.

The brand of burnt offerings: self-expression!

At this moment, Du Jue, who was feeling dejected and calm due to the cold wind, clearly felt a river flowing through him, and the sardines in it were selectively attracted by his sacrificial mark, thus coming from a dreamlike illusion into reality.

The sons of Aaron the priest shall place fire on the altar and wood on the fire.

The sacrificial fire rising from the bottom of the solid ice forced the surrounding snowstorm to a halt, and a fanatical spirit of self-sacrifice remained unshaken despite the erosion of the wind and snow.

The sons of Aaron who are priests shall place the pieces of meat, the head, and the fat on the firewood on the altar.

He desperately tried to control the sudden surge of intense self-destructive emotions, lest he throw himself into this destructive sacrifice. Gritting his teeth, he looked up and saw that the sacrificial fire had actually scorched the solid ice and the surface of the Ice Queen, turning it into pure white oil, while the corresponding parts instantly turned into fine ashes.

"The entire palace will melt away... How dare you...!"

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Chapter 194 Honesty.

Chi Chi Chi!

The ice in the abnormally expanded containment chamber was mostly melted by the incessant flames, turning into a floor covered in non-flammable fat. The solidified fat made the Ice Queen linger on her throne like a bee trapped in amber.

Du Jue took a step back with a contorted face, stepping on the slippery grease but daring not to increase the intensity, simply because the original sinner who performed the burnt offering in his heart had already covered the original burnt offering mark, and his desire to atone for his sins by sacrificing himself was even more intense.

Although it's called self-expression, the act of suppressing it feels like an invasion, but thankfully his consciousness remains clear and he can control himself.

"spread!"

coax!

The eternally burning burnt offering abruptly stopped, and even the sinner's head on the abdomen faded away, revealing the burnt offering mark again, leaving only a sense of guilt and remorse for failing to offer oneself.

Du Jue knelt on the ground with lingering fear. As soon as his hand touched the still-warm ointment, he felt a wave of warmth. Looking down, he saw that the frostbite and cuts on his skin had been covered and healed by the white ointment.

"Could this thing be some kind of refined essence?"

Just as Du Jue was about to investigate with suspicion, he immediately got up and looked around, quickly locking onto the two unlucky guys he had deliberately avoided.

They lay in oil and ice water, their large areas of frostbite and burns being wiped away by the spontaneously gathered oil.

He grabbed the two people, then turned and ran without even looking at the anomaly. But he caught a glimpse of a series of snowflakes swirling up, and immediately sped up again in horror.

"you……"

Bang!

He kicked open the inner door and rushed out, abandoning the two men without hesitation. He slammed the inner door shut, finally feeling a sense of relief.

Gabriel's voice rang out at the right moment: "You do seem to be very different from the other employees. A duel that should have taken less than ten minutes took you two hours, thirty-six minutes and seventeen seconds."

Just as Du Jue was about to speak, he noticed something strange on his cheek. He raised his hand and found a cold, hard object on his right cheek. He hurriedly used the reflection from the communicator screen to check and discovered that it was actually a shard of ice kiss mark.

"Don't worry about that thing. At least for now, it's having a positive effect on the employees. It's just best not to work with this anomaly anymore."

Gabriel didn't react with the same as Ilya, perhaps because he had anticipated this situation.

Suddenly, I felt a pang of heart palpitation when I stopped.

Click.

The sudden shattering of the hickey on his cheek caught Du Jue completely off guard. Looking at the ice shards on the ground, he felt a strange unease. "Minister, this thing of mine broke way too easily. Do anomalies even issue counterfeit goods?"

Du Jue clutched his chest in discomfort, only then realizing that it was where he had kept his part-time job cards. It seemed that it wasn't that he was resisting the Otherworldly Beings and EGOs, but rather that the cards were repelling the external spirits, just like when he was drained of blood by the Blood Demon.

"Well……"

Gabriel paused for a moment, then said, “I’ll arrange for you to have a more thorough physical examination later. What you need to do now is drag these two people out into the hallway and get away from them quickly.”

Du watched with disbelief as two clerical staff members, escorted by EGO employees, went forward to inspect the premises, and then heard a piercing alarm.

"Attention all employees, a new test is coming. Do your job well."

Gabriel's announcement immediately ordered the civilian staff to swiftly retreat from the corridor back to the intelligence department.

Du Jue looked at the person still lying on the ground with confusion, a vague sense of foreboding creeping in. "Why didn't you take him with you?"

"Remember what I said? There are no problems in the intelligence department."

Gabriel replied coldly, "Now suppress those insects."

A chattering sound suddenly arose from the depths of everyone's heart, filled with a magical vitality.