I! Cleaner!-Chapter 1036 - 955: Ignoring the Words of Thrush-Crow
"Everyone, I have a bad feeling."
Gazing at the members of the Slaughter King Association wearing animal masks beside the long table, the Raven Masked Man sitting upright in the main seat couldn't help but press his thumping chest and then spoke with full apprehension:
"Now that the Food God has arrived in the Twin Kingdoms, we should suspend our plans over there. I have a strong feeling something will go wrong if we continue."
Pausing again?
Hearing the Raven's well-practiced opener in the art of beating retreat, members of the Slaughter King Association glanced at each other, and for a time, no one spoke up.
The Food God from the Cleaners is indeed terrifying. Among the True Gods who survived the Witch Kingdom's ordeal, many shudder just hearing his name. However, the Association's plan in the Twin Kingdoms was progressing exceptionally smoothly, so close to success!
The Association had already, with the help of the blood and marrow of the Crimson Overlord, re-created the Serpent Bearer Director killed by the Cleaners. They struck a deal with this impersonation of the "Red King" and began siphoning the bloodline of the Twin Kingdoms with the Crimson power.
Next, everyone mostly didn't need to do anything. As long as the Serpent Bearer Director acted according to the plan and worked diligently to resurrect the destroyed East Carleighwen Kingdom, they could completely break the protection of the Watcher's Palace and freely enter and exit the mortal world.
We've held onto this vast treasure trove of the living world, suppressed from the past till now for so many years. Didn't everyone join the Slaughter King Association, risking capture by the Cleaners, just for this moment? Now, when we're just a step away from the goal, you're calling for a halt?
No stopping! Absolutely no stopping!
Exchanging glances through their masks, the True Gods of the Slaughter King Association, though still silent, had reached an unspoken consensus.
While entering the mortal world carries the risk of being targeted by the Food God, after years of becoming True Gods, haven't most of them been hunted by the Cleaners' directors and still survived? Everyone here had their own life-saving techniques; in general, they aren't that easy to kill. If not for the idiotic actions of the Narration of Nonexistence trapping everyone in the story during the Witch Kingdom incident, depleting them, it wouldn't have been so easy for the Food God to slaughter them like pigs.
In a situation without such fatal constraints, even if they couldn't escape unscathed in front of the Food God, they could at least create some distance and end themselves, waiting to be resurrected through their powers.
No matter how fierce or ruthless the Food God is, could he chase all the way to the Source God Platform, withstand attacks from hundreds or thousands of True Gods, and erase the will imprinted on it? Even the third director of the Cleaners couldn't accomplish that, and surely neither could he!
"Raven... Vice President Your Excellency."
With a little discomfort, the White Snake nodded slightly to the Raven, showing the respect due to a pillar god, before sitting in the first position on the left, squinting his narrow eyes as he spoke:
"Outside those so-called intuitions, is there anything else you've discovered?"
"Isn't my intuition enough?"
Hearing White Snake's inquiry, which almost explicitly expressed opposition, the Raven Masked Man couldn't help but glare at him, questioning with a displeased expression:
"During the Witch Kingdom incident, if you had respected my intuition and fled as soon as the Food God appeared, could Narration of Nonexistence have been captured on the spot?"
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"Fine! You all insisted on not fleeing at first; having arrived there, you had to at least give it a shot to feel content. But later, if you had listened to me and not continued dragging people in when things went wrong, could so many members have been wiped out by the Food God all at once?"
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"And you dare dismiss my intuition? Even your own survival was thanks to my intuition! If you hadn't acted with me, you'd have ended up with those dragged down by Narration of Nonexistence, bound to stakes by the Food God, shot dead, one by one!"
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"I know you all look down on me, thinking the truth I grasp is too worthless, not worthy of being the vice president."
A series of logically sound... or at least seemingly logical questions left White Snake silent, after being reprimanded thoroughly by the Raven Masked Man, who looked around displeased and grumbled:
"Even the poorest truth is still truth! My [Disaster Avoidance] isn't mere intuition; it's the world's response to me! And this response hasn't been wrong yet, not once!
To sum up, continuing this action will definitely lead to problems, believe it or not!"
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Raven... Vice President Your Excellency might not be wrong?
Watching the confidently seated Raven Masked Man, the True Gods of the Slaughter King Association hesitated, for indeed the situation was as he said, the warning from [Disaster Avoidance] hadn't been wrong so far.
Previously in the Realm of the Dead, when things seemed auspicious, and the flesh deer lich wanted help to take down the Cleaners, it was the Raven Vice President who intervened, which later proved to have saved everyone.
After an extensive battle between the Cleaners and the Realm of the Dead, all Overlords of the Dead Realm were eliminated, and the Cleaners lost more than one director. If the Slaughter King Association had gotten involved, they'd likely be killed and eaten by the Food God or the resurrected Six-faced Elephant Deer, so...
Still hesitant to stop.
In another long silence, the elderly woman opposite White Snake, wearing a monkey mask, couldn't help but tentatively speak:
"Vice President Your Excellency, we don't doubt the truth you've grasped, but our plan in the Twin Kingdoms has reached its final step. We don't even need to descend physically, just let the Serpent Bearer Director ascend and become a True God. Is that not possible?"
"No!"
The Raven responded with an unequivocal shake of his head:
"Allowing the Serpent Bearer Director to ascend temporarily and become the 'God of Justice and Bravery' is indeed a trivial matter.
But since my [Disaster Avoidance] has issued a warning, that means the Food God will definitely get involved, and the Food God himself is the biggest calamity in this world, so this plan should immediately cease!"
"But even if he gets involved, it might not necessarily change anything, right?"
Beside the old monkey-faced woman, another True God with a mountain chicken mask opened their mouth to question:
"Vice President, your [Disaster Avoidance] truth warns when the Food God might approach, but ultimately, it's just a warning, only proving that contact with the Food God might happen, not that we'll be eliminated by him.
And the Association has planned for years, sacrificed countless personnel, waiting for the chance to breach the Watcher's Palace. Won't giving up due to potential contact with the Food God be too much of a pity?"
"Yes, I agree!"
With someone taking the lead, other attending True Gods couldn't help but stand and echo:
"I feel the risk is worth taking compared to being able to enter and exit the mortal world freely."
"What's there to fear! We don't have to descend ourselves, just relax the restrictions to let one human ascend to a divine position, what's the Food God going to do?"
"Exactly! No matter how strong the Food God is, could he climb up here and kill all of us?"
"Damn! Don't say something so inauspicious!"
"Shut up! Don't you know saying something makes it more likely to happen?"
"I was just saying... why are you all getting so worked up?"
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Damn fools!
Seeing these True Gods blinded by the allure of "Flourishing Mortal World," ignoring Disaster Avoidance's warning, the Raven gritted his teeth and kicked his chair away, disappearing from the main seat with a sound, leaving behind a single, furious scold.
"Idiots! You'll regret it!"
