I'm the King of Wage Earners in Lobotomy City

Du Jue grabbed a chair and sat down in front of her, getting straight to the point with his questions.

What exactly is this "Green Journey" thing?

"It's a technology alliance that researches prosthetics and consciousness. They initially refused to let me join, but after two other researchers created a prototype of a personality chip, they later grew through mergers and acquisitions."

"The ultimate goal of the technology alliance is to achieve perfect world travel by relying on hammers, regenerated ampoule liquid, and glass window technology."

Do you know the pope of my church?

"Um, it seems to be someone recruited after the Green Trip, named Anke, who is in charge of the research institute for personality chips."

"Don't ask me why he went crazy and made such a commotion in the back alley. I can't guess what a madman is thinking. I'm just an investor!"

"If you can't guess him, how could you guess me?! Let me tell you, I have a special way of detecting lies!"

Do not immediately pull out a coin and slam it on the table.

"Don't worry, don't worry, my strength is that I understand the situation, and I would never lie!"

"But ever since the time travel experiment started, those guys have all gone crazy. I don't have mind-reading abilities!"

After struggling to his feet, Weiban hurriedly explained, fearing that Dujue might resort to violence at the slightest disagreement.

"Here's what happened. The theory of the Green Journey had been perfected, so I decided to seize the opportunity to help the Green Journey attack K Company and obtain the top-secret regeneration ampoule concentrate."

"At that time, Green Journey was suffering repeated defeats in the patent war. Under such precarious circumstances, Chief Researcher Du Jue defied all opposition and directly launched the world shuttle experiment."

"If we succeed, we'll be set for life! All we have to do is show it to the other World Wings and we'll be able to secure war investment, giving us the qualifications to challenge K Company. I might even become the founder of World Wings! It's like a chance to soar to the sky!"

Du Jue frowned as he stared at the flushed tail, unable to resist interrupting.

“That Anko from my church told me that the Green Journey was a success, but your leader had too much fun in the other world and betrayed the organization.”

"He doesn't know anything! The core technology of the Emerald Journey is in the hands of the original three people. This is a precious asset!"

"Du Jue did indeed successfully travel through time, and our entire alliance was invigorated. But three days later, I received bad news from the other two—that guy was dead."

"Do you understand? Everything was fine for three days during the transmigration, and then this successful experimental subject suddenly died. This means that the technology of the Emerald Journey has an unknown fatal flaw!"

"Moreover, there is only one person left who has mastered this technology, because the other guy inexplicably went insane. I have never seen anyone suddenly turn into a banyan tree."

"The situation, which was originally very good, suddenly took a turn for the worse, and only me and that guy can still manage things."

"We can't just declare the Green Trip a waste of time at this crucial moment. Everyone, stop fighting and let us correct our mistakes. I can only make the right choice!"

Du Jue suddenly understood the reason for the tail barb's backspin; it was because Cui Lv's trip was too aggressive, always thinking about making a big splash.

"So I had no choice but to announce the plan to recall the leader from the other world and take this opportunity to gather everyone together. To be honest, I don't quite understand why even the leader is paying attention to us. I just notified K Company."

"Then why did that kid Anke say I am the imprint of your leader's personality?"

"Ahem, when I recalled him that day, I knew that the leader was already dead and I couldn't fill in the original location, so I could only enter a parameter randomly. I swear it was a string of random numbers, so it shouldn't have been able to succeed."

Snapped.

Never nod at a silver coin that is facing up.

"But when I was assisting in the cleanup, I found that the recall was successful, which was simply impossible, so I secretly noted down the coordinates and then deleted the data."

“I thought you were a unique and precious sample, and that you could fetch a high price, so I sent people to retrieve you. No one else knew this information, so you didn’t need to kill anyone to cover it up.”

"Maybe he's just gone mad? Or maybe he's trying to protect you under surveillance? After all, it's just a mental imprint, so the leader might not be able to erase it."

The situation seems to be becoming clearer; the arrival of the ban was merely a coincidence.

"But why did I lose my memory?"

"Amnesia? To be honest, if the recall technology doesn't select a leader who has undergone hammer modification, then it should only bring back the personality. But I've never seen anything like this before."

"Really? Anxin swore that I had no memories before I was 23, and I really can't remember them."

Tail-spotted immediately stared at Du Jue in horror.

"I really don't know! If it were a personality transfer, the memory would at most be blurred. Even if amnesia occurred, it wouldn't disappear so neatly. This isn't like cutting a cake! Besides, I'm not a tech person!"

"Of course, do you think it's possible that it was teleported to someone else?"

Snapped.

The coin still landed heads, indicating that the other party wasn't lying. Du Jue immediately became suspicious and started to consider what Wei Ban had said.

Was I really split into two?

A city can't possibly have its own half-body, can it?

[Toss the chopsticks in the air and use the tips to point to the location of the amnesiac part]

He threw the command several times in a row, but it kept circling around the building. He had never encountered a situation where the empty command completely failed. He immediately started to think hard about the reason and suddenly looked up to ask Wei Ban.

Where is the headquarters of the Emerald Journey?

"We dug out a huge underground factory for our secret research, and all entry and exit are strictly controlled."

correct!

Chopsticks can only indicate directions on a flat surface. He should find a die with six sides to represent front, back, left, right, up, and down, instead of rushing out and buying a bag of dice.

[Roll the dice to indicate the location of the amnesiac part; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 represent front, back, left, right, up, and down respectively]

Da da da.

5 o'clock, 5 o'clock, still 5 o'clock, and the city is pointing in the direction above!

This result was completely unexpected; his upper body wasn't on the ground but in the sky?!

Du Jue looked up at the dark night sky, and a deep sense of gloom rose from the bottom of his heart, sending a chill down his spine.

"How could it be the sky? There's nothing there!"

Gazing at those glittering stars, a chilling thought suddenly popped into Du Jue's head.

The stars in Lobotomy City are not ordinary celestial bodies; in layman's terms, they are manifestations of evil gods capable of distorting reality. Once you leave the city's protection, you may come into contact with them.

In other words, these stars are sentient, which means that there is more than just the sky.

"Is the part of my amnesia on the City Star?"

Such an outrageous and bizarre idea left Du Jue unsure, and he hesitated on the spot before quickly issuing an order to toss a coin.

Dangdang Dangdang!

The coin kept spinning.

The coin kept spinning.

The coin kept spinning.

The answer was finally revealed only after it finished its long spin—heads up!

Holy crap! It really is!

I was no longer stunned into silence; I understood everything completely!

The Green Journey wasn't destroyed by the leader because of some nonsense about time travel and personality chip technology; it was because they genuinely wanted to transcend the entire city and become the city's star in the sky!

98

Chapter 98: Heads.

Am I fucking hanging in the sky?!

Such a truth is simply unbelievable!

Back in his room, Du Jue held his head in frustration, not knowing what to say. Wei Ban, who was next to him, breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Du Jue hadn't gone crazy, and then carefully observed his expression.

"Ahem, theoretically speaking, you're a new Dujue, so the Green Trip has nothing to do with you. How about we pretend nothing happened and everyone goes their own way?"

Bang!

Du Jue sneered upon hearing this, raised her hand and punched the dwarf to the ground again. Did he think he could get away with the previous two attacks so easily? Dream on.

"Would you rather I send you back to cause me more trouble? It's better to just end it all here."

"No, if I don't go back to the company, they will definitely continue to investigate the murderer. Although I am not in a high position, World Wings will not allow any unknown person to attack the company's management."

"Besides, not all the people on the Green Journey are dead. For example, I saved Shamisen. Anko probably has a personality chip backup, since his technical adaptability is higher than Shamisen's."

"This personality chip modification also has a success rate, and to complete the backup, one needs a strong will and emotional stability. Otherwise, it is easy for mutations to occur, leading to chip damage. Therefore, even during the journey to Emerald Green, not many people underwent this surgery."

“But I knew beforehand that the remaining veteran researcher must have left a backup in the suburbs. If these remnants of the Green Journey target you, you'll be completely helpless. I can provide you with intelligence, even from K Company!”

Looking at the current state of the storage box and a dozen regeneration ampoules on the table, Du Jue felt that killing Wei Ban now would indeed be a bit troublesome. It would be better to keep them in the box and take them out when needed. As for letting her leave, that was too far-fetched.

"I know you're so difficult to deal with that you probably don't have any other intentions. After all, the cost is too high. This time, all the secret labs I painstakingly built up have been destroyed. I definitely won't do something that's a complete loss again!"

“But you’re the kind of person who likes to seize opportunities. If you ever realize through my actions that the Green Trip has truly touched upon a taboo, you will undoubtedly report me.”

"Forbidden? What do you mean?!"

With a sincere expression, Ooban frowned in confusion, somewhat bewildered by Du Jue's words. Wasn't the Green Journey precisely because it had crossed worlds and thus attracted the attention of the leader?

If she were the leader, she certainly wouldn't allow the city to have such uncontrollable technology!

Upon seeing Wei Ban's appearance, Du Jue immediately realized that this guy was indeed a lucky opportunist who had not touched upon or cared about the truth of the city and did not understand what the leader truly cared about.

The problem of hemiplegia that has now been eradicated is probably not something that can be solved in a short time. Either we need to find that possibly surviving veteran researcher, or we need to leave the protection of the city and go to the suburbs to look up at the stars.

He definitely needs to solve this problem. Nobody wants to lose their memories of the first half of their life for no reason, and it's uncertain whether what's lost is actually memory, perhaps something as vague and ethereal as the soul or existence itself.

What's even more baffling is that it's unimaginable what the half-body in the sky has become; how could human consciousness possibly reside on a star!

What if this unknown object were to fall from the sky into the city one day and come looking for him? Would Du Jue possibly escape?!

Perhaps I could kneel before the evil star god and become a guide.

"According to you, one of the three veteran researchers from the Emerald Journey died and another went mad. What is the name of the remaining survivor, and what does he look like?"

I wonder if the Space Command talent will still be effective in the suburbs, since it only allows the city to provide assistance, not to make me the chosen one of the world.

"Um, do you understand memory erasure? During the operation to wipe out Emerald, that guy used an unknown method to erase our memories of her. Although she was eventually killed by his minions, her body was blown to pieces and unrecognizable."

"That's why I suspect she may have noticed my new investment strategy and prepared in advance. Maybe she's hiding in the suburbs right now. These three guys may have been conducting other research experiments behind the backs of the others at Green Trip."

This is trouble.

Even when using empty commands to find someone, you must avoid knowing them yourself. After all, the city won't give you a notification about who the target is. As long as you avoid running into the target, the command will naturally become ineffective.

If he were to leave the city now and head to the suburbs, not only would that place be full of dangerous research institutes and secret bases, but the journey itself would also take a lot of time. However, he still needs to be promoted to a finishing toucher and join L Company before the Seed of Light is launched!

Time is very tight, so we have to postpone the City Star project!

Du Jue took a deep breath, and his gaze towards Wei Ban suddenly sharpened. The dwarf also keenly noticed the change in Du Jue and smoothly slid to his knees on the ground.

thump!

"My lord! Please let me follow you. I couldn't stand being in K Company any longer. You've only been in the city for a short time and you've already made such a big splash. I've heard about your reputation in the gangs. You even defeated a fully armed shamisen. It would be my honor to be your subordinate!"

"I can see that you are very ambitious. If we join forces—no, with my assistance—we can definitely get you into K Company or other worlds!"

"If you're worried about me, there's no need to worry. We can go to a notary office, or you can tell me about the so-called taboo you just mentioned. The leaders won't bother to erase the memories of those who violate taboos; they will simply eliminate the destabilizing factors directly."

"I must have escaped this because I was unaware of it before. Now that I know, it's even less likely that I would have tipped off the leader."

"I do like seizing opportunities, but right now, you, sir, are the new opportunity in the city!"

Du Jue stared at a petite woman with wavy green hair kneeling before him with a strange expression, her face full of admiration, her mouth never stopping.

Could this guy also have the talent of being a good person from the Good People Agency? He almost got tempted by what he said.

However, after what happened during the Green Journey, Ooban still didn't learn his lesson and actually tried to get information about taboos from me, which was now a matter of my own safety.

If the intelligence is leaked, regardless of whether half of my body becomes a star, I will definitely be executed by the leader immediately.

"Well!"

With its small face covered by Du Jue's large hand, Wei Ban stared at Du Jue with longing eyes, and shamelessly began to lick Du Jue's palm like a pet dog.

Du Jue, expressionless, gripped Wei Ban's shoulder with his other hand, instantly causing her to change her expression and break down in a tirade of curses.

"Stop messing with you, you deadbeat! What bad luck I had to run into a loser like you! I could forgive you once, but now you're doing it again!"

"Aaaaah! I'll bite you to death, you bitch!"

Click!

He drew the boning knife from his waist, refrained from making a fatal cut, and placed the fresh human head back into the preservation box.