Amid flames and thick smoke, the apprentices scattered and fled.
As a loud explosion boomed, the reborn monster screamed, greedily devouring the aberrant pollution drifting through the air and snatching up every life within reach.
Grow once more!
Yet a flicker of faint confusion passed through its huge Blood Eye...
Why did everything before its eyes seem to have changed after it had merely blinked?
It still seemed to be the Workshop, yet not that Workshop. There still seemed to be many people, yet not those people. It seemed that it had only just opened its eyes, yet something appeared to be missing in between.
Right, right, right. Wrong, wrong, wrong... Countless contradictions and conflicts surfaced in that nonexistent little brain. Reason it had never possessed might have been confused by them, but amid all that discord and contradiction, it only grew more furious and violent.
Hunger. Devouring. Ravaging. Growing!
Among the fleeing crowd, the only cripple who could barely walk remained seated at his workbench, leaning back slightly.
Ji Jue smiled as he stroked CEO's dog head, watching his "old friend" in such high spirits.
Yes, it was the Aberration he had previously packed up with Solid Alchemy in the association's Recycling and Processing Department...
As the saying went, timely rain after a long drought; meeting an old friend in a foreign land...
In just a few days, everyone had moved together from the association's Recycling Department to this deep and secluded junkyard—the work was still the same, the environment was still the same, and you and I were still the same old you and me.
Even if everything else had changed...
The hardships and wonders of fate were truly impossible to predict.
Somewhere in the unseen, there was always a cycle...
"You've worked hard."
Ji Jue shoved the