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Chapter 264 Shortcut.
hum!
The claws, which had been crouching in front of the construction department for a long time, suddenly entered the spatial rift in front of them, putting the entire rabbit team on alert.
However, the next eight blue flashes all appeared next to Du Jue.
Du Jue staggered forward half a step after being attacked from behind. As his back was swept away, he felt a sharp pain that tore his mind apart. He immediately realized that the henchmen did not only use physical means.
This is extremely dangerous, because self-expression depends on one's emotions, and one must never allow the spirit to become weak!
The moment that thought crossed his mind, it was instantly replaced by boundless, violent rage—who dared to harm him?!
The seven slashes from all directions were completed almost instantly. Each different wild force made Du Jue almost lose control of his body, and he swayed as he stomped on the scattered red scale fragments on the ground.
The sudden onset of mental turmoil left Du Jue dazed, feeling dizzy and almost wanting to lean against the wall to vomit.
boom!
Avoid angrily swinging your arms and slamming them down to forcefully steady yourself, which would only make the ground uneven.
The claws that had just stopped to dissipate force nimbly adjusted their bodies, but the movement was stared at intently by Du Jue, who looked up. The three colored potions inserted into the opponent's arm had already been restored and seemed to be inexhaustible.
What you desire, kill and take away.
boom!
The green vial shattered instantly, and the serum-K inside had vanished. This caused the minions, who were about to get up and attack again, to pause for a moment, turning their heads to glance at their right arms in confusion.
"call!"
Having forcibly seized the serum-K, Du Jue slowly rose to his feet. The parts that had been violently torn off were instantly covered with new skin, and the stolen treasure was quickly consumed.
call out!
Noticing that the henchman who was preventing the wound from healing immediately retreated, he actually clenched his right fist and tried to inject serum-W again.
Miao, returning to the battlefield, looked at Du Jue, who was standing there panting. Although he felt a strange sense of dread, he still led his team closer. "Fire at will! We didn't come here to eat for nothing."
Miao guessed that Du Jue had probably suffered severe psychological trauma. Even if his body was intact at the moment, his situation was probably not good. However, the violent fighting performance of the opponent was still unbelievable to her.
How could his body withstand so many attacks from the claws and fangs?!
The claws, having gathered their strength, raised their battered left arms to barely block, while blue locking circles appeared around the rabbits.
"Eliminate it, here it comes!"
Carly arrived late, rushing with a group of EGO employees. "Damn it! We ran into those imposters with black lines all over their faces on the way here, and it took the whole middle management team to deal with them so quickly."
boom!
Suddenly, something unusual happened to the henchmen who were watching vigilantly. The half-injected serum-W suddenly exploded, and the blue liquid inside vanished abruptly.
hum!
A spatial rift, identical to the one before, suddenly opened in front of the claws. All the rabbits marked by the light circle immediately put away their guns, switched to daggers, and became highly vigilant about their surroundings.
However, what happened next was completely unexpected.
The claws that sensed the spatial rift retreated almost instantly, but they were no match for the well-prepared Du Jue.
boom!
A simple and brutal straight punch struck the metal head of the henchman like a cannonball, and the metal shattered like broken jelly in the next moment.
Steel fragments swirled wildly in the corridor, even scratching the backs of the hands of several rabbits in the foreground with countless bloody marks.
Du Jue swiftly retracted his right arm, then clenched his fists and slammed them down with all his might like a sledgehammer, creating another spatial rift beneath him.
clang! ! !
The claws, their heads severed, were immediately smashed to the ground. The terrifying force even snapped their bodies in two, with the upper half of the waist and the lower half of the legs embedded in the cracks in the floor, resembling two tombstones.
I let out a long breath, trying to clear my head. My mind was a little foggy, probably because I ate too much in a short time, or maybe the serum-K couldn't recover from the mental damage.
Du Jue, who was vaguely aware that he was expending too much mental energy, immediately squatted down and tried his best to get rid of the original form. However, the degree to which he accepted the original form was too deep, and he struggled for a full half minute before he finally felt the evil dragon in his mind disappear.
"Uh... I think I need some endorphins."
With a splitting headache, Du Jue leaned against the wall, only to be pricked by the uneven metal sheet.
call out!
A healing bullet shot from the corner of the ceiling and landed on Dujue's right shoulder, where it was automatically injected.
"What are you standing there for? The mission isn't over yet."
Miao quickly rallied the stunned rabbits and charged into the construction department.
She felt it was too dangerous to be around Du Jue, and couldn't help but wonder, "Are all the employees here monsters? What's the point of having us?"
Carly quickly stepped forward to support Du Jue, who had just had his IV removed. "Are you alright? Leave this to me. We have enough manpower this time."
Instead of regretting, accept it and let go of everything.
The sudden telepathic echo made everyone stare wide-eyed at the rapidly solidifying figure at the end of the corridor.
Abram, a scruffy-bearded man wearing slippers, walked out of the construction department and was immediately met with a barrage of bullets from the remaining rabbits, collapsing into a pool of blood.
"Hmm? This Ain... doesn't seem very durable."
Carly, who was holding Du Jue around the waist, frowned in confusion. "But then again, Du Jue, you've already taken care of the most troublesome part."
I...regret.
Everyone felt a blur before their eyes, and only after struggling to refocus could they clearly see the figure that quickly solidified at the end of the corridor.
Abram's slippers dragged lazily on the ground as he walked out, completely unconcerned about his image. He scanned the crowd and finally looked at Dujue, who had once again draped his left arm over Carly's shoulder.
"If our very existence is a disease, then there is only one cure—close your eyes and never open them again."
Hearing Abram's words, Carly was shocked to find that time seemed to have reversed just now, and she reached out and pinched the button in confusion.
"hiss!"
Clutching her left waist, which had been pinched red, Du Jue turned to look at Carly and asked, "Why did you pinch me? Haven't you gained any weight?"
Even though he had doubts about restoring the rabbits to their previous positions, Myu decisively ordered them to fire again, and Abram fell down as expected.
However, the echoing spirits that resounded again made everyone's hearts sink.
I...regret.
As Du Jue's blurry vision gradually cleared, he saw a figure rapidly solidifying at the end of the corridor. "Damn it! Ain, are you done yet? Are you addicted to throwing your life away?!"
Upon hearing this, Abram simply walked out the door. "If my life is going to end like this... then so be it. My duty is to protect my employees and friends... but I failed to protect anyone..."
"How about this, everyone, let's stop thinking about companies and jobs. Let's all retire together, lean against this Seed of Light, and sleep together in a dream without regrets, just like right now."
"The Seed of Light, originally intended to change the city, is enough for us to have a long, long dream, even if it's just an illusion, because isn't the reason you're working so hard so that one day you can enjoy a moment of beauty?"
"Behind my door lies the shortcut."
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Chapter 265 Illusion.
"Is this guy bluffing?"
Carly, frowning as she stared at Abram, was the first to ask, "Is it an illusion he created? Or is it the TT2 protocol that reverses time?"
Miao, upon hearing the secret information from L Company headquarters, showed no reaction and simply ordered his team to open fire again.
Du Jue quietly observed from the sidelines. He had seen all sorts of demons and monsters, and this kind of trick couldn't scare him. However, he was still somewhat puzzled by this strange scene.
The familiar pools of blood and echoes of the soul reappear.
I regret it...
After everyone's vision blurred, they saw Abram standing behind the door, as if the previous shooting had never happened.
"continue."
Miao gave the order without changing his expression.
R Corporation possesses a powerful cloning technology, not the ordinary technology of cloning from embryos by extracting cells and genes, but the singularity technology that replicates a person's body, mind, and memories exactly the same.
Unfortunately, the leader set a cloning taboo—no more than one clone, including the original, could exist in the city for more than seven days; otherwise, R Company could monopolize all mercenary businesses.
However, there are always more solutions than problems. Company R used the time acceleration provided by Company T to duplicate its employees thousands of times and send them into battle without any supplies, leaving only the last survivor to continue everything as before.
Having undergone such inhuman training, Miao didn't care how many times she had to kill her opponent. The so-called beautiful dream was something she had long since abandoned. Only eliminating such a guy with unimaginable combat power would surprise her.
"This won't work!"
Du Jue, dumbfounded as Abram continued to die repeatedly without a care, hurriedly tried to stop the rabbit team from firing indiscriminately, "Stop, stop, stop! Let me ask the supervisor what's going on!"
Seeing Du Jue clutching the nameplate on his chest and whispering, Miao obediently signaled her team to cease fire. Her indifference to life and death did not mean she would needlessly throw her life away; wouldn't that make her an idiot?
[This is Angela. The monitoring shows that you are all standing still. The energy fluctuations within the construction department are too great, and the system cannot provide you with further assistance.]
Please act with caution and avoid this practice.
"It really is an illusion!"
Du Jue stared at Abram, who was leaning against the door frame, as if suddenly realizing something. Then he drew the spiral spear that was entangled in the thorns of sin. "You, untie me right now!"
He glared fiercely at the dejected Ein opposite him, not immediately making a move because simply killing the other party seemed unlikely to dispel the illusion.
Abram responded to Du Jue with that dejected look, making Du Jue feel his vision begin to blur. "In a beautiful dream, precisely because everything is an illusion, all misfortune and pain can be averted, and true regret can be dissolved."
"What the hell are you trying to do now?!"
Du Jue hurriedly turned to look at the others and found that even Mu and Carly were standing there blankly, their figures rapidly swaying and reassembling into desks.
Is it possible to enter another illusion within an illusion?! What Inception?!
Could it be that suicide would get rid of the hallucinations?
After a moment of disorientation, he saw a familiar slogan: "If you don't work hard at the firm today, you'll be a slave in a gang tomorrow." The mahogany table at the reception desk immediately made Du Jue realize that this was a good firm.
While the clerical staff were busy processing various commissioned reports, the person finishing up the maintenance of the longsword was complaining that the firm didn't provide high-temperature allowances.
While trying to remain calm and analyze the changes in the environment, Du Jue was immediately startled. Then, he felt a surge of anger towards these lunatics who kept harassing him about the past.
Those were his precious memories, not the evidence of his crimes judged by the alien entity's "one sin and a hundred virtues," nor the delicious food to be shared at the feast, nor the material to piece together this incongruous dream!
"Representative, you're back. Our firm has recently become the top performer in this alley. Shouldn't we give out some bonuses?"
Du completely ignored the few friendly subordinates who approached him. The anger that instantly filled his chest made the veins on his forehead bulge, and he couldn't wait to show himself.
However, his recent intense use of the dragon prototype had left him feeling weak and unable to breathe properly. He even felt palpitations and a sense of powerlessness, as if he were about to die suddenly.
Suddenly someone walked into the office and greeted Du Jue very enthusiastically, "Du Jue, I knew you could do it! We'll soon become the best office in the city!"
Kajina's gentle yet hopeful voice was unforgettable to Du Jue, and the thing that was now reappearing made him unable to suppress the boiling anger in his heart any longer. "What the hell do you think you are! You dare to let me dream!"
"Get out of my way, all of you!"
The Flame of Branding!
The Tattoo of Death!
A corpse filled with death energy will undoubtedly not have any nightmares or pleasant dreams.
The office and his colleagues vanished like smoke, and he could no longer see the corridor wall leading to the construction department, nor the orange-red branding on it.
"Uh-huh!"
The moment he escaped the illusion, he was enveloped in the agony of death, and before him lay the entrance to the building, covered in branded flames.
The inferno had completely blocked the gate, leaving only Abram, burned to a crisp, rolling on the ground before vanishing like a phantom.
"what!!"
Those shrouded in deathly aura screamed in agony and collapsed to the ground, still struggling within their hallucinations.
Bang!
Du Jue, who had directly traversed the sea of fire, resolutely stormed into the construction department, instantly branding the entire place with crooked fire characters. Terrifying flames immediately engulfed the entire space.
I regret it.
Abram, whose body had reformed, was once again licked by flames, and then fell into the sea of fire in a panic. "Why? Stop it! This beautiful dream doesn't even require you to do anything. Just lie there quietly and feel the happiness. Ugh!"
Why must you experience the agonizing torment of hell in this reality! In the end, all that will remain is a heart full of regret!