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She stared at Galion suspiciously, recalling her memories of fighting alongside Du Jue. She could clearly see that Du Jue was listless, but this was the first time it had been this severe. "No wonder, the endorphins that were just injected had no effect on him."
Carly quickly bent down and lifted Du Jue's drooping head to check on him. She found that his complexion was rosy, but his eyes lacked luster, and his pupils were not even focused.
Sensing that his breathing and heartbeat were normal, Carly breathed a sigh of relief, then tenderly cupped Du Jue's face in one hand, "Shouldn't we let him get some sleep now?"
"Otherwise what? Do you think you need someone to accompany you to sleep if you're not sleeping?"
Gallion lifted her foot to avoid the bloodstains on the ground and looked at Du Jue with great interest. She had never seen the other party so gentle before.
Garion caught a glimpse of the brass knuckles that Du Jue was still wearing, and took advantage of the chaos to reach out and grab them, but quickly staggered and withdrew his hand.
[Warning, R&D Department Head, please do not violate the special regulations concerning you!]
Possession of EGO equipment is prohibited!
"Seriously, they're keeping a close watch on this. But this isn't EGO equipment, is it?"
Garion complained without changing his expression, then saw Carly's annoyed expression as she protected Du Jue.
The wary Carly didn't ask the other employees or Galion for help. Upon hearing the system notification, her gaze immediately turned hostile. "Gario, don't cause me any trouble! Get out of the way!"
Suddenly, the supervisor's order came: "Everyone back to your posts. Let's do the last half-day of work. This is the final part of the headquarters project. Stop all unnecessary tasks."
This is Angela. You've done a great job. Now all you need to do is wait for the Seed of Light to slowly take shape.
Hopefully, after achieving our goals, we can continue the agreement. From a generally rational perspective, we might be excellent partners.
Yu Wen and Song Ya, who were watching from the sidelines, breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, their supervisor did not punish them for their previous actions. Otherwise, it would have been a real mess if they had been fired on the eve of victory.
The other employees cheered wildly, some even weeping with joy, feeling like they were dreaming. After all, the headquarters had initially said the project would take two months, but now it was able to be completed ahead of schedule.
Without a doubt, this wasn't WorldWings being particularly kind; it was done by their undisputed best employee, Du Jue. Normally, these seasoned EGO employees wouldn't bother with departmental awards, but Du Jue was an exception.
They deliberately slowed their pace in the corridor of the construction department, watching the lifeless Du Jue being led away by the head of the disciplinary department. They couldn't help but sigh that he was simply the top performer in headquarters, even surpassing some of the department heads.
R&D Department Medical Room.
At this moment, Du Jue was too lazy to even feel joy for the hard-won victory, and lay listlessly on the bed.
"Hey, what are you all doing crowding in here? Didn't you hear there's still half a day of work left?!"
Carly looked on with displeasure at all the ministers who had come to visit Du Jue. "Besides, there are cameras here, we can just use video."
She wanted to squeeze Du Jue's limp body again; it felt like a warm doll and was very relaxing.
Carly looked up and scanned the ministers, whose expressions varied, before noticing that Gallion, who had followed her in, was standing alone to one side.
"Du Jue, you truly are my employee! You've done an outstanding job!"
Clutching the memo, Ilya excitedly approached the hospital bedside, but became suspicious when she saw that Du Jue had no reaction.
With his hands in his pockets, Security Chief Giovanni raised his green eyebrows. "Ilya, at a time like this you're still thinking about work... If you don't finish... are you going to fire them to prevent them from ever getting away with it? Just like those employees who don't meet your expectations."
Michelle quickly stepped in to smooth things over, saying, "It's fortunate that the work was completed smoothly without any major problems. We should be happy now."
"Humph."
Giovanni looked down at Du Jue, whose expression was very familiar to him, and he understood that Du Jue was too lazy to pay attention to anyone at the moment. "Even if this kind of work fails... it is only natural."
thump.
"How many employees have died by now... Should we be glad we're still alive? Forget it, let's stop this... I won't bother you anymore."
Giovanni gently placed the bottle of liquor in a white paper bag on the bedside table, then turned and left without paying attention to the others.
Ilya looked down at Du Jue, who was resting with his eyes closed. He was completely unresponsive to the outside world. Ilya hesitated for a moment and took a step back. "Then Du Jue, you should get some rest."
She touched the red ribbon in her hair, and her confident smile froze.
After speaking with Carly with his arms crossed, Gabriel coldly said, "Since Du Jue is alright, let's leave. We need to prepare for the end of the project."
"All good things must come to an end, there's no point in staying here."
He then left with the sullen Ilya.
"Um... this is Du Jue's new uniform, I'll just leave it here for now."
Seeing the somber atmosphere, Michelle quickly placed a set of clothes next to the white paper bag, glanced at Du Jue with concern, and then returned to her department.
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Chapter 276: Fulfillment.
Once Du Jue had recovered, she smelled the rich and strong aroma of hot coffee. "Ugh, I feel like I'm sleepwalking. This is the first time I've ever just been lying here without wanting to do anything. And why is the coffee smell so strong?"
With a warm smile, Daniel calmly picked up the cup of coffee. "Mandheling coffee, have some to perk yourself up. After all, work isn't over yet. But if you want to rest, the welfare department can give you a certificate of mental abnormality."
"You don't mean rest in the physical sense, do you?"
Du Jue discovered that Daniel was quite good at telling these kinds of company jokes. She took the coffee and sipped it, immediately feeling a bittersweet taste, as if she could taste the earthy flavor of the forest in the early morning.
Daniel smiled knowingly and winked at Du Jue. "Of course not. Maintaining good relationships with superiors is an important part of the job. Don't you think so, Du Jue?"
It really is!
"Heroes see the same thing."
Du Jue put down his coffee cup and nodded in agreement with his index finger.
She quickly put on the uniform on the bedside table, only then noticing the ochre-colored windbreaker hanging to the side. From a distance, it had a dynamic fire pattern effect, but upon closer inspection, one could see that the slowly writhing fabric texture was simulated by slime.
He reached out to touch it and found a slight stinging sensation at the point of contact. Then the pain disappeared, and his fingertips were automatically enveloped by the clothes.
"What do you mean by 'great minds think alike'? This is just laziness!"
Lisa quickly put her hands on her hips to increase her visible size and make her presence known, but then she remembered Giovanni's words and quickly added, "Of course, you're the hero, go lie back down!"
call.
After putting on his windbreaker and adjusting the very protective khaki jacket, Du Jue looked down at Lisa, who was standing tall and proud. "With my boss standing here, how could I dare to rest? Lisa, you did this on purpose, didn't you?"
Daniel put away his half-finished coffee cup and slowly said, "There's nothing I can do. Minister Lisa is indeed very strict. Even high-ranking ministers get scolded by her."
"Is it that classic case of someone with a sharp tongue but a soft heart?"
The crimson down jacket that Du Jue had just put on began to flutter excitedly, the flame patterns formed by the overlapping and covering of slime flowing continuously.
Upon hearing this, Lisa immediately wanted to speak, but Daniel beat her to it: "Perhaps not. I think Minister Lisa is a person who keeps her word."
"of course!"
Lisa frowned and responded decisively.
"look."
Daniel spread his hands. "Minister Lisa was indeed here specifically to keep an eye on you and caught you slacking off right away."
After saying that, he walked out of the infirmary with his coffee cup, saying, "But I came here specifically to check on you and prevent you from getting out of here."
"Damn it! Daniel, don't talk nonsense!"
Lisa chased after him, slightly annoyed.
This is Ain. Please refrain from visiting the Construction Department.
The sudden mission caught Du Jue off guard. He felt that he had recovered a little of his mental strength and felt that he needed to chat with the other party for a while to delay the formation of the Seed of Light.
We must be in perfect condition to deal with the upcoming acquisition of the Seed of Light and the Star Half-Body.
call!
The white smoke from the cigarette made Du Jue glance at Carly, who had been silently smoking since earlier, and ask, "Still so addicted at a time like this?"
"What's it to you? Or is it that you want it?"
Carly casually held up a long cigarette and offered it to Du Jue. "I just didn't expect this plan to end like this."
"So you want to play another round?"
He politely declined Carly's offer, refusing to put all his equipment back on, and pondered whether the Seed of Light might actually become an asset to his half-body.
It's probably unlikely, since the other side only does the same kind of minor harassment as before, and can't even control the aliens across the city.
"I'd be crazy to want to do it again, but do you really want to prevent people here from knowing what will happen when the plan ends?"
This time, Carly didn't force Du Jue to take a bite, but instead showed a melancholy that surprised Du Jue.
"What is it?"
Du Jue certainly knew that these ministers had died once and could more or less accept the fate of being buried with headquarters once the plan was completed.
Carly chuckled, stubbed out her cigarette, tossed it into the trash can, and walked away. "Of course I'm going to sleep. I hope I can see you in my dreams, after all, you're quite a dreamer."
However, they were destined to be unable to sleep, as Angela was again asking Dusu about the details of the takeover operation.
Dear partner, I hope you can get some rest.
Among the ministers, the only one I can forcibly shut down is Minister Gallion, whose personality chip has the highest mechanical degree.
As the manager, I do not have the authority to direct the departments. In other words, employees will also follow the orders of their respective department heads.
Of course, I can use the various facilities and robots at headquarters to deal with it.
If you feel powerless to confront so many people, or if you feel reluctant to do so, you can continue to lie low.
I don't want you to die because of this, as the TT2 protocol at headquarters has expired. I don't want to use the Seed of Light to resurrect you unless absolutely necessary; our Plan A is unique.
No, Angela, the whole plan is already over, what's the point of staying hidden?!
"No need for that, just do as we agreed!"
Du Jue, who had just arrived at the construction department, saw Ein with short black hair. He was wearing a white lab coat and looked very calm.
The construction department's pure white room was filled with black square circuits, and nothing else.
Seeing this, Du Jue instinctively became wary, a reaction that made Ain realize and turn to face him.
"Don't worry, there's nothing else here. I was the supervisor who was in charge of all the departments before, and I was also the one who devised this plan."
“You have witnessed the whole plan. The ministers and the past tried to obstruct the plan because they had no future, so I was indifferent to it and abandoned them. This is what makes Carmen different from me; she tried to save them.”
“Although I have no such ambition, I inherited her last wish, became “Wing” and committed atrocities, coldly watching the endless death of my employees and the painful cycle of my friends, all in the name of realizing her dream. This sin is unforgivable.”
Listening to Ain's recurring memories, Du Jue suppressed the urge to interrupt him; this kind of thing was making him drowsy.
Ain let out a long breath, his body radiating light. "Even so, I must do it. Even if the atrocities can break the cycle of evil only once, I am willing to bear the consequences, because our mission is to sow seeds. Everyone has their own brilliance, and stories and people's existence originate from these brilliances, even if we cannot predict what kind of forest these seeds will cultivate."
"Please leave the Construction Department. I have already instructed Angela to grant you all the branch authority of L Company. However, if the Seed of Light is launched, you will have to collect both the equipment and personnel yourself."
Obediently leaving the construction department, Du Jue was now somewhat at a loss as to where to go, as if there was no work left to do.
Rumble.
A continuous and powerful tremor came from all directions, but no alarm sounded.
Du Jue, who easily regained his balance, looked up and saw Angela, who had never left the conference room and the manager's office.
"Everyone, please remain calm. Headquarters is undergoing a reset and ascent. All vibrations are normal. Please follow the orders of your respective department heads."
This time, the broadcast voice was no longer that of the supervisor, but that of Angela.
"Okay, then let me fulfill the requirements of the agreement first."
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Chapter 277 The Source of Light.
"Oh?! So that means it's time for me to get a promotion and a raise!"
Upon hearing this, Du Jue immediately became excited and ignored the still-vibrating headquarters.
Buzz!
Both the ministers and the staff could clearly see that the headquarters was growing rapidly, and they were still surprised even though they were prepared.
"So the headquarters really was underground! Are we really in ruins?!"
"That's impossible! Maybe we're just below L's Nest. How could L Company, as the Wings of the World, possibly establish its headquarters outside the city?!"
The only one who remained calm was Angela, because this was within her expectations. Even Du Jue was excited about the upcoming work props.
[Attention all staff - This is a pre-recorded broadcast - We are here to congratulate you on your honorable retirement.]
Lobotomy Corporation sincerely thanks you for your hard work—we deeply respect your efforts and loyalty.