In that fleeting moment, which was almost too brief to notice yet stretched to what seemed like eternity, Ji Jue felt for the first time an overwhelming sense of a pig's brain in overload.

It was as if one day, while he was just sitting there enjoying hotpot, eating a train, a dog from some company hijacked him!

Whether you could eat a train or not, Ji didn't know, but right now, a very real dog and company were right in front of his eyes!

He was stunned.

Struggling, he lowered his head to take a close look at the emblem on his wristwatch, raised his hand to compare it with the president's dog tag, and unfortunately, no matter how many times he looked, his vision, cognition, and rationality all told him, these two things were identical!

Yet deep down, Ji felt that this was the moment to stand up, laugh out loud three times to the sky, and then say, "Hahaha, this is an illusion, what exactly are you hiding?!"

Even though it would be pointless.

In the end, the only thought that came to his mind was this:

I'm screwed!

Riding the Sky Rail for free every day, and now the Sky Rail has come knocking on my door!

And it's a dog!

No, maybe this is a warning... if I don't go to work, this dog will be my fate!

With this thought, a cold sweat-soaked Ji managed a difficult smile, and cautiously fiddled with the dog's head, leaning close to scrutinize, trying to find a camera.

"Hello?"

He tentatively asked towards the dog's mouth, "Is someone there?"

The shepherd dog tilted its head in confusion.

Looking at him.

Not understanding what was wrong with him at all.

But soon, its eyes seemed to fill with sympathy, full of pity.

Lovingly licking his hand.

No worries, dogs are man's best friend.

Even if you're an idiot, I still like you!

"..."

After a long time, Ji swallowed dryly with relief—no one?

Ji pinched his chin, crouched in front of the dog, face to face with the dog.

"Are you... the president?"

At these words, the shepherd dog started to wag its tongue and laugh, licked his hand, and nodded.

"You, came looking for me?" Ji asked subconsciously.

The president nodded again.

His eyes gleamed with a star-like light.

Ji instinctively looked left and right, confirmed that there was no one around, and took a deep breath, his thoughts inevitably sliding downhill.

Seeing as there was no one around, completely unnoticeable, and the only car was still mine, why not...

But when he lowered his head and looked into the shepherd dog's bright, shining eyes, he felt an unprecedented interrogation and pressure in his heart.

The president leaned forward.

Its long dog nose lifted his hand, placing it on its head as a sign for him to pet it.

It was like his conscience was questioning—do you really want to do something so cruel?

"Woof!"

Suddenly the president barked once, lifting its head and looking behind him.

Ji turned back, there was only silence behind him.

But the president lowered its head, opened its mouth to tug at his trouser leg as if dragging, and pulled him towards the direction of the Recovery Department, tail wagging, urging him on.

Ji took a moment to think, to calmly analyze, to carefully consider.

It felt like it was rushing him to get to work?

"Just met and you're rushing me to work already?" Ji glared, "I knew it, you bunch of executives are all the same! Even turned into a dog, you still want to lord over us commoners."

Ji's fists clenched.

Naturally evil capitalists, I'll just...

Boom!!!

A loud explosion suddenly erupted from behind.

Ji turned back in shock, only to see thick smoke rising from the sky above the Recovery Department's workshop, the billowing black colors spreading, and the piercing alarm blaring.

—Mutated pollution leak, severe contamination!

"Woof!"

The president circled around him, tail wagging as if to urge, "Woof woof!!"

As if expecting him to do something about it.

Finally, the dog nudged his leg with its head.

With great effort.

But its shape, it flickered like the image on a broken screen.

And the sound was also unclear.

Slowly fading away.

Leaving behind a bewildered Ji standing there, not understanding.

Suddenly a dog shows up, wearing the Sky Rail Group's dog tag, and its name is President.

It's as if the real president suddenly remembered he had a failing company, came personally to check on his dear employee, to oversee if he was working properly, not slacking off.

Rushing him, to hurry and go for an emergency disaster response.

Then, mysteriously disappeared.

What the hell?!

What on earth is this company doing?

Can you be a bit more normal?

But he didn't have time to deal with that mess anymore.

Ji dashed, waving, jumped onto the step of the small rhino, the armored car spun in place with a fishtail, roaring off toward the direction of the workshop!

At that moment, outside the workshop, amidst chaos, the apprentices sat staggered on the ground, covered in dust and ash. Their backs were drenched in sweat as they watched the thick smoke rising from the workshop and listened to the blaring alarms.

"It's over, all over, there's been a leak!"

The manager's face was as pale as if he had just seen his parents' graves catch fire.

Mutated pollution was leaking and spreading. Once it took shape, it might catalyze the birth of some monstrous entity, and the entire temporary workshop might be blasted to the heavens.

"What happened? What happened?"

The bewildered manager paced back and forth amidst the crowd of wailing people, angrily demanding, "How could such a major accident happen?"

Everyone instinctively looked up, their gaze turning to the person in front.

The apprentice, who had been hit directly by the blast and was covered in blood, was dazed and panic-stricken, "I followed the rules in everything, I really did... I don't know either!"

"A perfectly good storage tank, just explodes like that..."

The more he tried to defend himself, the more powerless he felt.

His face grew even paler, drained of any color.

No matter the cause, the accident had originated from him, and he was finished.

The inquisitions from the Security Bureau, the pursuit of accountability by the association, coupled with the fury of the workshop—if ten of him were sold, it wouldn't cover the losses!

Not just him, but everyone along that production line would likely have to bear the joint responsibility...

All faces were downcast, ashen.

The small mechanical bull roared in, crashing through the courtyard wall and barging straight in. Ji Jue jumped off the vehicle and quickly took in his surroundings, getting a grasp on the situation, but when he began to count heads, he couldn't help but stand startled.

"Where's Old Lou?"

"He seems to be... still inside." The last apprentice to run out was almost in tears, "I tried to persuade him, I really did, but he wouldn't leave."

"It's okay, I know it's not your fault."

Ji Jue exhaled an irritated sigh, grinding his teeth: At a time like this, still trying to prove something, being stubborn!

Having to compete with yourself at the scene of an accident?

What could it possibly achieve to outperform?

If you win, you die, and my future is still bright... what's the point?!

Boom!!

Another explosion sounded, and thick smoke billowed, faint screams could be heard.

Even without human control, the temporary workshop's isolation and containment measures were still operational. Ji Jue pointed at the camera outside, and immediately, the scene inside the workshop appeared in his mind.

In the workshop's pollutant storage area, amidst a mess, stood towering tanks several meters high, each with holes gouged out by something.

A vast amount of solution, having absorbed massive amounts of mutated pollution in the replacement reaction, gushed out like fountains, submerging the ground.

And in the center of the storage area, the piercing screams erupted once more.

Within the viscous darkness, where countless liquids converged, lay a piece of broken isolation equipment resembling a shattered steel column. Only half disassembled—beneath the dismantled parts oozed a blood-like crimson.

Constantly spurting.

And behind the peeling rust, countless twisted and bizarre eyes gradually emerged from atop the steel, and from its body stretched tendrils of flesh-like viscous crimson, voraciously absorbing the mutated pollution within those solutions.

It was like the fetus of a disaster.

Visible to the naked eye, it catalyzed, repaired, and grew!

Ji Jue felt a chill run down his spine.

This was no longer a matter of operational error; the pollution containment device had already been completely eroded and transformed before recovery, bearing the seed of mutation.

As a result, the recovery team didn't notice and carried it directly back to the workshop.

From within the thickly polluted environment of the Recovery Department, it took root and sprouted rapidly... Fortunately, the workshop's containment was still in place, and for the time being, it couldn't break through to the outside.

But within...

Boom!

Spiritual spears crisscrossed with circuits rained down from the sky, continuously penetrating the writhing crimson limbs that spread out like vines, nailing the mutants firmly to the ground like spikes.

It could only resist, struggle, and grapple with the suppression from Lou Feng.

At the control panel suspended in midair, Lou Feng's face was ashen as he overdrew his spiritual energy, ignoring the erosion from the surrounding mutants, skillfully forging more spiritual spears with the Heavenly Origin Circuit, and once more diving them down!

Crash!

Amidst the piercing screeches, a tentacle suddenly emerged from the activated mutant device, grasping one of the spiritual spears in midair and crushing it into dust!

The roaring never ceased.

"Damn it!"

Lou Feng's vision blurred with darkness, cursing without a care since there was no one around; but then he felt it, the ground shaking violently.

The workshop's last line of defense had been breached from the outside by a huge hole!

The wind howled.

The mutants shrieked, seemingly ecstatic, struggling fiercely toward the direction of the exit...

"Who's the idiot now?"

Enraged, Lou Feng turned and glared in the direction of the spreading rift.

He saw only a flash of silver light.

Brutally reversing, a small truck crashed into the workshop, its cargo bay opened and barrel after heavy barrel rolled out, glistening mercury tearing through the lids and flowing freely, gathering into a raging tide and hurling itself at the struggling mutants.

It was like the weight of Mount Tai crushing down!

The sound of shattering was endless, and from Ji Jue's whistling, hundreds of kilograms of mercury flowed, solidified, and entwined, shackle-like, nailing into the ground, instantly covering the entire mutant beneath.

Ji Jue gestured, stepping forward, the Non-attack appearing in his hands.

The Spiritual Circuit spread from the tips of his fingers, circulating through the mercury, moving forward like chains, winding around the mutant equipment layer by layer. Material Enhancement and Fluid Alchemy pressed down simultaneously, forcefully suppressing, sealing the mutant within.

Dim screeches and violent vibrations continued to emanate from the center of the hardened mercury.

The severe backlash made the ground tremble without cessation.

Who knew how much Mutated Pollution it had absorbed to grow to such a terrifying extent; currently in its struggle, the hardened mercury began to crack open.

But soon, as Ji Jue was able to free his hands and catalyze once again, layers of crystalline light emerged from the mercury, blessed with the Golden Iron Quality, transforming into manacles.

In an instant, it was as immovable as a mountain.

In the deadly silence, only the central piece of exposed equipment continued to vibrate violently, its bloodshot eyes opening and closing, reflecting the figure of the man approaching slowly, and the palm he extended.

"Why transform into something like this, couldn't you have picked something else?" Ji Jue sighed with regret, lifting his index finger to rest upon one trembling bloodshot eye, and then, Withering Spiritual Fluctuations erupted!

—Dissociation Technique!

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