Me! Cleaner!.

Chapter 1155 Face Blindness and Illiteracy

Cleaners?!

Upon hearing the cry of "Nightmare Yiji," the boundary between dream and reality immediately fell into a deathly silence. Then, almost all the dream creatures around, without any prior communication, made the exact same choice without hesitation.

Run! Run as fast as you can! Run as far as you can!

……

In previous years, while the creatures of the dream world were also wary of the Cleanup Bureau, they were far from being so afraid that they would flee at the mere sight of it.

However, in the past few months, humans in the present world have been stimulated by something and suddenly changed their defensive habits of the past thousands of years. They have begun to expand outwards frantically, and the first to suffer among the various planes are the Dream Realm and the Moon, which are directly connected to the present world.

About two months ago, after a Level 2 Cleaner suddenly went missing on the moon, less than two hours later, a search team from the Cleanup Bureau stormed up there to search the far side of the moon and fought with the Moon People. In the end, they were all killed by the enraged Moon People.

But before the Moon People could catch their breath, the souls of the purifiers who had been killed were forcibly taken to the underworld by the Underworld branch of the Purification Bureau. They were resurrected the next day and then came knocking on the door with a director and eight branch chiefs...

Although the Dream Realm, being relatively neutral, did not suffer as badly as the Moon People, who were hostile to humans, it was still disturbed by a swarm of locust-like cleaners because it was too close to the real world. In the twenty-one Dream Realms, almost every level was covered with human footprints.

These cleaners, who infiltrate the dream world in small teams with all sorts of random tasks, may not all be skilled, and there are quite a few weaklings among them, but even the weakest cleaner should not be messed with lightly.

Because as soon as one cleaner gets beaten up, a whole bunch of cleaners will be brought in. If this bunch of cleaners also haven't done it, then the next step is the branch chief, the chief of the Huangdao Bureau, the twelfth board of directors... It's a system of escalation at each level.

The Lord of Dreamland couldn't resist the temptation. When he got hungry, he grabbed a few Cleaners and stuffed them into his stomach. However, before he could digest the spirits of those Cleaners, the Cleaning Bureau rushed down in a swarm.

This group of cleaners who came to the Dream Realm had a similar team to the one who went to the moon. It consisted of one director, two zodiac bureau chiefs, six other branch bureau chiefs, and several first-level cleaners, which was just enough to clear out a small plane.

And what they did was similar to what happened with the moon: they surrounded the Lord of Confusion and gave him a good beating, then ransacked Dreamland from the inside out, taking him and his entire clan away. They haven't been released yet; they're probably all being sent to the Death Realm to serve their sentences.

Meanwhile, the other true gods of the dream realm, who had been hiding in their own dreams and witnessed the entire process of the Lord of Confusion being captured, suddenly understood a truth through the Lord of Confusion's fate of never returning...

This is blatant fishing!!!
Those cleaners who wander around the dream world may not be very strong, but their mental strength is quite good. You can squeeze piles of mental fragments out of any one of them, which are definitely the best food for the creatures in the dream world.

The problem lies behind these delicious fragments of consciousness; the Cleanup Bureau's dimensional sweeping team is likely already poised to strike. Moreover, since the Dream Realm doesn't require travel—one can simply enter the dream—the Cleanup Bureau's directors can arrive the moment those Cleaners from the lower Dream Realms lose contact.

Furthermore, the cleanup bureau will also involve a large number of people, with the main focus on unlimited collective punishment, which means that if one person commits an act, the entire clan will be imprisoned. As for the reason... don't ask. The reason is that we humans are face-blind. Since the entire clan looks the same, the victims don't know who the culprit is, so we might as well take them all back for a slow interrogation.

It’s so shameless!
Remembering that Scorpio Director who, after entering Dreamland, insisted he couldn't tell who was who in front of the Lord of Confusion with a human body and a snake's face, and a bunch of snake-bodied, human-faced ouroboros, the dream creatures immediately ran even faster.

Given the current behavior of the Cleanup Bureau, it's obvious they have no intention of reasoning with us. Even if that female cleaner who encountered the nightmare tripped and fell, she could probably claim that we attacked her together... Let's go! Let's get out of here!

Those dream creatures who weren't involved but just happened to be there turned and ran. Nightmare Yiji, the one involved, shuddered violently, abandoning even what he had bought with his "sold-in-law money," instinctively wanting to plunge into the Abyss of Fallen Souls. However... "Please wait a moment!"

Accompanied by a gentle call, the "female cleaner" who emerged from the Dream Well reached out and grabbed the black mist surrounding Nightmare Yiji, then asked with a gentle expression:

"I would like to ask, is this 3... is this the dream realm surrounding the real world? If I choose to forge ahead and pass directly through the boundary between the dream world and the material world, will I be able to reach the real world directly?"

"..."

You're here...asking for directions? Not here to drag me back to tutor those two demon kings?

After struggling twice without being able to break free, the trembling Yan Yiji could only turn his head shakily and nod fearfully, saying:

"This is the dream world...you...you want to go to the real world?"

"Yes."

The fair-skinned, beautiful, and pretty female cleaner nodded and answered earnestly:
"If the 'real world' you're talking about has cleaners and other humans like me, then that 'real world' must be the place I'm determined to conquer!"

What kind of nonsense is this...

Feeling somewhat uncomfortable by the woman's strange statements, and seeing that she didn't seem to intend to frame him, Yan Yiji, who had been tutoring him for several days, temporarily relaxed and couldn't help but correct her:

"The phrase '志在必得' is not used in this way. Although the meaning can be roughly expressed, this word is generally used to describe the goal to be achieved or the things that are desired, and cannot be used directly to describe your destination."

"oh oh!"

Faced with Yan Yiji's correction, the woman nodded with a look of sudden understanding, then pulled a small notebook from her slender waist and asked with pleading eyes:
"So, if I want to express this sentiment, what should I use to convey my true feelings?"

"You should use... never mind..."

Looking at the woman who had just randomly inserted another complete phrase into her speech, Yan Yiji opened his mouth and then said with some difficulty:
"What exactly do you want? Are you asking for directions or something else?"

"Ah, asking for directions, that's the main thing!"

Seeing that the seemingly knowledgeable and well-intentioned nightmare wasn't really interested in helping her answer her question, the woman could only regretfully put away her notebook and nod apologetically, saying:

"I have only just learned the language here and I am not very fluent in it yet. I will regret it for the rest of my life."

(End of this chapter)