Cleaners

Rat-tat!

Rat-tat-tat!!

A moment before the gunfire erupted, Lu Xiao had already abandoned the idea of pulling out Bone Spur.

Thud, thud, thud!!

The soldier with Bone Spur embedded in his chest was shredded by the barrage of bullets.

Now Lu Xiao held a bright red heart in his hand, and it was still beating.

After casually crushing it, Lu Xiao lunged at the next man.

Although they had been assimilated into puppets, their means of attack were still human.

And it was very difficult for human means of attack to inflict any real damage on Lu Xiao.

During his three years surviving in the Dark Prison, Lu Xiao had faced all kinds of monsters and bizarre creatures.

Those creatures had even more unfathomable abilities.

Yet the areas Lu Xiao had explored over those three years were only the tip of the iceberg of the Dark Prison.

There were still many, many places he had never set foot in, with even more terrifying and bizarre beings within.

Blood and flesh flew everywhere. The seven Prison Warden soldiers of J01 did not even last two minutes against Lu Xiao.

But even with their heads smashed apart, those soldiers were still controlled by the String Puppet, attacking Lu Xiao.

After dealing with J01's Prison Warden soldiers, Lu Xiao kicked the half-meter-long wooden coffin.

The thing inside the coffin was exposed.

It was a filthy, battered wooden puppet.

The expression on the puppet's face looked very eerie.

Lu Xiao grabbed the puppet and ran over a hundred meters without stopping.

Of course, he had not forgotten the String Puppet's properties, and he never stopped moving his hands.

Only after Lu Xiao had left with the String Puppet did things change.

The light finally returned to the eyes of the Cityfire Squad's seven members.

They lay on the ground, dry heaving.

Dart was the first to recover.

With just one look at the scene, he understood the current situation.

"All units, take precautions against Sequence 137-the String Puppet!"

With that, he began moving his hands mechanically.

At the same time, he spoke into his microphone.

"Doctor! Operation complete!"

"Also, Sequence 137 has appeared at the scene. How should we handle it?"

The Doctor's indifferent voice came through his earpiece.

"Bring Sequence 137 back to the Containment Facility!"

Dart nodded, then remembered something else.

"Sly, go inside the villa and check for any survivors!"

Sly entered the villa, waving his arms.

Before long, his voice came through the microphone.

"Captain, Liu Mingsheng is still alive!"

"He wants me to shoot him dead? What should I do, Captain?"

Liu Mingsheng was the villa's owner, Boss Liu, Magic City's wealthiest secret tycoon.

Dart's gaze darkened, and he said coldly.

"That would be letting him off easy!"

"Keep an eye on him for now. Wait for the Cleaners to come handle things, and make him an expendable at our Containment Facility!"

Although Dart did not know exactly what Liu Mingsheng had done.

He knew very well that anyone who made deals with bizarre beings would have no shortage of blood on their hands.

Because most bizarre beings demanded living human sacrifices as the price of a deal.

And someone like the Prison Doctor, who chased after you to treat your illnesses, was truly a breath of fresh air among bizarre beings.

Only after all the squad members had recovered did Dart speak into his microphone.

"Mr. Lu Xiao, you can come back now!"

Elsewhere, upon hearing Dart's words, Lu Xiao hurried back with the String Puppet in hand.

Now every member of the Cityfire Squad at the scene was waving their arms and stomping their feet, looking thoroughly ridiculous.

Liuguang sighed.

"Good thing 292 was here, or we'd probably have been done for today!"

Waving his arms, Lu Xiao grinned and said.

"No, no, no! I fell for it just now too. It was all thanks to Xiao Yu!"

The squad members immediately turned their gazes toward Xiao Yu.

Under everyone's attention, Xiao Yu looked a little bashful.

"The captain reacted quickly. If he hadn't reminded me at the last moment, I wouldn't even have thought of the String Puppet!"

For a while, everyone began exchanging flattering compliments.

An ambulance with "Magic City No. 1 Psychiatric Hospital" printed on its body drove down a secluded road.

The ambulance swayed from side to side.

Waving both hands, Liuguang said in a somewhat hoarse voice.

"Captain, could you sway a little less? I think I'm getting carsick!"

The others nodded in agreement as well.

Dart pursed his lips and said rather helplessly.

"I don't want to either! I don't dare stop moving my hands for even a moment!"

Inside the vehicle, a filthy, battered puppet lay at everyone's feet.

There was also a mirror with an antique pattern.

Lu Xiao kept waving his hands, his head turned toward the window, his thoughts unknown.

Elsewhere.

Sly was handing things over to a group of people dressed as sanitation workers.

Pointing at Liu Mingsheng, who was slumped on the sofa, he told one of the people in sanitation uniforms.

"Take this man back to the Containment Facility as an expendable!"

The person in the sanitation uniform was one of the Cleaners Dart had mentioned.

They were responsible for handling some of the aftermath for the Prison Keeper Organization.

After the Cleaners' leader and Sly made a circuit of the villa.

The scenes they witnessed left both of them somewhat unnerved.

Most terrifying of all were the mutilated remains scattered across the ground.

"Ahem! Did you deploy a Class D contained entity?"

Because the Cleaners had not yet received the detailed operation report.

They still did not know what had happened.

But the mutilated remains strewn across the ground clearly could not have been the work of this squad.

Sly scratched his head.

"According to the Warden Regulations, Class D contained entities aren't allowed outside the Containment Facility!"

The Cleaner rolled his eyes at him.

"Of course I know that!"

Sly chuckled.

"Our captain will write up a detailed operation report on the specifics later!"

"Clean up this mess first!"

The Cleaner waved a hand.

"All right. Once your operation report is out, we'll know how to deal with any potential repercussions!"

"Also, Liu Mingsheng will be delivered to the base within two days. Just make preparations to receive him beforehand!"

With that, he gave Sly a Prison Warden salute.

He clenched his right fist and placed it palm-down over his heart.

Sly returned the salute.

Only after Sly left.

Did the Cleaners begin processing the scene.

First, they gathered together the pieces of corpses on the ground.

In some places, they even had to use shovels to scoop up the flesh and blood.

Then they poured a specially formulated liquid over it.

As soon as the liquid touched the flesh and blood, it dissolved at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In the end, only black ash remained on the ground.

Then the Cleaners repaired the damaged portions of the villa, restoring its original appearance.

By then, there was no longer any sign that a battle had taken place at the Manor.

The interior remained resplendent, and the exterior luxurious and grand.

Finally, a Cleaner took out a written confession.

He brought the confession before Liu Mingsheng, grabbed his finger, and pressed his fingerprint onto it.