Chapter 604: Bubblewood

Chapter 604: Bubblewood

Chapter 604: Bubblewood

It was as if time had gone back, and at the moment when the red-gold dagger pierced the heart, the bubbles that were scattered all over the sky immediately regrouped and condensed into the hunched figure of the Pisces director.

I was careless...

After looking down at the blade sticking out of his heart, Director Pisces closed his eyes slightly, and then without any futile struggle, he slowly sat down cross-legged with the support of a strong hand.

"You're still as courageous as ever."

"more or less!"

After a gentle chuckle, the Aquarius director, who looked to be in his thirties, slightly turned his wrist holding the dagger, and then said gently to the Pisces director who was shaking all over:
"Don't do anything unnecessary. Since I dare to come here directly, I will never let you spread the news."

"It's also..."

Director Pisces nodded upon hearing this, called back the bubble that was wrapped around his tongue, and then asked calmly:

"So why did you take such a big risk to sneak into the dream world? You didn't just want to stab me to vent your anger, did you?"

"I'm certainly not that boring."

Director Aquarius shook his head and said with a smile:
"Taurus is about to ascend to the palace. If I don't get rid of you first, even if I succeed in killing Taurus, I won't be able to ascend to the palace. As long as you open [Bubble Dock] in time, everything I do will become a bubble."

"Cough... cough cough cough! So... what's the point of you stabbing me?"

After coughing several times in pain while covering his mouth, Director Pisces wiped the blood from his palms on his robes, and then said expressionlessly:

"Although I was careless for a moment and you took advantage of me, as long as you pull out the knife, the fact that I was stabbed by you will immediately become nothing, and even the torn clothes will be intact. You... cough cough cough! You still can't do anything!"

"Your mouth is still as hard as ever."

"This is not just talk, it's the truth."

After coughing violently again, Director Pisces said coldly:

"The fact is, you have been temporarily sealed in the Aquarius Palace and you no longer have the ability to kill me. If I hadn't been distracted, you wouldn't even have had the chance to sneak attack me!"

"really."

Without arguing with Director Pisces about this issue, Director Aquarius maintained the "backstab" posture and sat down behind Director Pisces. Then he pointed at Leon who was killing people in the dream and asked with a smile:

"See the knife in his hand? I gave it to him. Even when he was swallowed by the Death Guardian Hound and was almost digested, it was me who saved him."

"so what?"

Director Pisces said coldly:
“You don’t want to tell me that Leon, who exposed your plan in public and almost killed you twice, is actually your man in secret, right?”

"Where did you think you were?"

Upon hearing this, Director Aquarius waved his hand and said:
"How can he be mine? He belongs to no one."

"What do you mean?"

"literal meaning."

Director Aquarius was digging into Director Pisces' heart and explained with a smile:
“Although this person is a cleaner, he doesn’t necessarily stand with the Cleanup Bureau. He is very stubborn and does not accept compromise. He will always do what he wants.

He now chooses to be a cleaner and help you deal with me, just because he shares some of the same ideas as you. If the choice I make on a certain matter is more to his liking than the Cleanup Bureau, he will also turn to me without hesitation. "

"hehe."

After a sneer of contempt, Director Pisces commented contemptuously:
"Clumsy provocation... You don't think that after hearing your words, I will start to be wary of him, or even take direct action against him, right?
There are many people who join the Cleanup Bureau out of their own selfish motives, and only see the identity of a cleaner as a channel to gain power. If everyone cares about it, more than half of the cleaners should be expelled!"

"Well... you're right."

After listening to Director Pisces' rebuttal, Director Aquarius nodded thoughtfully.

"In our Cleanup Bureau, many people do not take the purpose of 'protecting humanity' seriously. Although Leon is a little strange, his thoughts and what he wants to do are not necessarily worse than those people."

"Stop talking nonsense!"

As if he had had enough of these endless "riddles", Director Pisces, whose chest was soaked with blood, first coughed violently twice, and then said impatiently:

"My [Bubble Shadow Dock] has never been closed. In your current state, you can never kill me. If you dare to leave me, I will immediately break free of my control. You have no way to deal with me!
The same goes for these cleaners who came to take the promotion assessment. They all came with consciousness, and they are all in the fragments of [Paradise Lost]. As long as I get out of control, I can send their consciousness back immediately.

If I hadn't been sure of dealing with your attack, this promotion assessment would have been postponed long ago. Now you can't touch me, and you can't even touch any of these cleaners!"

"Don't worry. Even though I was almost killed by the bureau, I don't hold a grudge against them to the point of wanting to destroy the bureau. It's just that..."

Director Aquarius shook his head after looking at the cleaners who had not dared to attack for a long time after more than 300 of them were chopped down by Leon.

“Isn’t the quality of these cleaners a bit too poor?”

After hearing what Director Aquarius said, Director Pisces' expression suddenly froze slightly, but Director Aquarius seemed to be unaware and continued to speak:

"Before I stabbed you, I took a quick look at their performance. Not to mention comparing with our batch, the level of this batch of cleaners is probably not even comparable to the batch ten years ago, which was said to be the worst in three hundred years.

Among the cleaners who came to participate in the promotion assessment this time, except for Leon, there are less than five people who have the qualifications to challenge the Zodiac Star Palace?"

"..."

"If I remember correctly, there must be about 30 or 40 cleaners with this qualification before one of them can successfully challenge the Zodiac Palace, right?"

He seemed to be very worried about the future of the Cleanup Bureau. After the last few brave "challengers" were chopped down and scattered all over the ground, no one dared to step forward. Director Aquarius couldn't help but sigh and said with a worried look on his face:
"If the ratio of cleaners who are assessed later is the same, then the situation will be quite serious. When the current Zodiac Bureau's twelve directors die of old age, the new Zodiac Bureau directors who are appointed to replace them will probably find it difficult to reach the level of Pillar Gods even with the blessing of the Zodiac Star Palace. If a large number of board seats are also vacant, the Cleaning Bureau may have no successors!"

"..."

So you came here just to stab me in the heart? Even stabbing with a knife is not enough, you have to stab it again with your mouth?
……

"Shut up, you!"

After trying to turn his head and angrily glaring at the Aquarius director who had made such sarcastic remarks, the Pisces director shouted angrily with a sullen look on his face:
"These things have nothing to do with you! You are a traitor who joined the King-Slaying Society!"

"I didn't join the King-Slaying Society. I just chose to cooperate with them for some purposes."

Looking at the Pisces director who was angered by him, the Aquarius director couldn't help but shook his head and said:
“Although I don’t agree with the King Slayer Society, I actually think that what they are planning to do may actually be a good thing for the Cleanup Bureau and even the entire human race.

The current Cleaning Bureau is so well protected by the Watch Palace that it basically never encounters any crisis, causing the level of cleaners to become worse and worse. If this continues, it will sooner or later be reduced to a level where even the Watch Palace can't protect it.

If you look at it from this perspective, I think it would be better to let the King of Slaughter move around more, kill all the royal family members of seven or eight kingdoms, and give future cleaners more opportunities to exercise. "

"What nonsense!"

Director Pisces could not help but angrily rebuked:
"Do you know what you are talking about? It took countless people to build the Watchtower Palace to its current size? You want to destroy all the efforts of countless predecessors with just one sentence? You are simply..."

"Hey, don't get excited."

After turning his wrist vigorously again and interrupting Director Pisces, Director Aquarius said leisurely:
"I didn't mean anything else. I just couldn't leave while waiting for the anomaly to take effect, and I ran into an old friend like you, so I just chatted with you for a few minutes. Don't take this kind of chat seriously.

When the time is almost up, I will go back to plan my plan, and you can continue to do what you want. We were friends after all, and there is no need to quarrel over such things..."

The anomaly takes effect...about the same time?

After catching the key words in Director Aquarius's words, Director Pisces' heart was slightly confused, and he immediately retorted:

"It's useless. As long as [Bubble Dock] is still there, no matter what you do to me, as long as I have the slightest thought, everything that happened during this period will be as if it had never happened. And now that you have lost Xinggong, it is impossible for you to destroy my [Bubble Dock]!"

"Yes, I really can't do it."

Director Aquarius nodded upon hearing this, and then smiled and said:
"Your [Bubble Dock] is indeed a good thing. As long as you record the 'anchor point' for restoration in advance, you can almost erase any reality you don't like and force things to develop in a direction that is beneficial to you.

But all of this still has a prerequisite, that is, you must be yourself, and you must take the initiative to think about "using" Bubblewood."

I have to be myself?! ! !

As the Pisces director suddenly looked stern, the Aquarius director turned his wrist again, twisting it vigorously in a clockwise direction.

"It seems you have thought of it."

Director Aquarius smiled and said:
“Although your [Bubble Dock] is basically invulnerable and can be automatically triggered even when you are unconscious, your soul has a huge flaw.

Because of things in the past, your soul was divided into four parts, and with the passage of time, it will continue to change between the four forms of male, female, old and young. After this most powerful 'old' soul is Mimi, who represents the 'young'.

And according to my understanding of Mimi, she is naive and ignorant. Let alone how to control [Bubble Dock], I am afraid she doesn't even know how many abnormal objects you have?"

So... your real purpose is to let Mimi's soul come out in advance to replace me! And the knife that pierced my heart has been secretly "cutting" my time?!

Looking at the short blade that was slowly spinning clockwise out of his heart, Director Pisces guessed the truth and quickly used his secret technique to try to identify it. He actually found a special mark belonging to the time-related anomaly.

Probably, every time Director Aquarius's wrist turned a circle, the time his soul spent would unconsciously advance a lot, and after being bitten so many times by him, his "appearance" time seemed to be really reaching its limit.

No! We must not let Mimi out now!

Feeling the ignorant soul in his body slowly reviving and beginning to fight with him for control, Director Pisces could not help but grit his teeth and began to struggle desperately.

Even if Mimi can passively "trigger" [Bubblewood] and will not be killed by Director Aquarius, but without her protection, these cleaners who take part in the assessment will fall into Director Aquarius's hands.

What's even worse is that the time for Director Jinniu to ascend to the throne has been set and cannot be changed. If Mimi is replaced at this time, resulting in the loss of her own [Phoenixwood] protection, then...

"Don't move, your soul will collapse."

Reaching out and placing his hand on Director Pisces' shoulder, he held down his violently shaking body, and then Director Aquarius gently persuaded him:

"Don't worry, I won't do anything to these cleaners. You are my only target this time.

Considering our past friendship, I am not even planning to hurt you. As long as I can get Mimi, who cannot control [Bubble Wood], to come out and replace you in advance, so that you won't cause me trouble with [Bubble Wood], my goal will be achieved.

As for these low-quality cleaners... their fate depends on what you do."

As the Pisces director glared at him, the Aquarius director smiled and warned:
"You know, I don't like to kill people indiscriminately. As long as you don't do anything reckless, I will naturally not attack them. But if you insist on risking your soul and forcibly stopping Mimi from coming out... then I have to apologize!"

"..."

"If you're still unwilling, I can help you settle the account."

Seeing Director Pisces's body still trembling, Director Aquarius quickened his pace and whispered in his ear:
“The probability that you can perfectly suppress Mimi is only one in four at most. As for the remaining three quarters, your soul will be shattered due to the conflict, making [Bubble Dock] no longer perfect, and then you and these four hundred cleaners will be killed by me.

If you choose to listen to my arrangements and honestly let Mimi come out of your soul, although the Taurus Board of Directors will lose the protection of [Phoenixwood], you and the future of these cleanup bureaus will all survive. "

"..."

"Come on, choose!"

(End of this chapter)