Chapter 629

“Hmm?”

Seeming to have sensed some unusual movement, Bureau Director Scorpion, who was in the middle of repairing a doll, curiously looked up and gazed at the empty room opposite his office. Several familiar souls were slowly waking up there.

How could the promotion evaluation be over so quickly? Wasn’t there supposed to be a group investigation mission? How could everyone be back before dawn?

Furrowing his brows in confusion, the Scorpion Bureau Director put away the doll he was working on and prepared to wait for the few people who went to take the exam to come report to him, so he could ask what had happened.

However, strangely enough, even though the people in the opposite room had already awakened, there was no sound or movement. Not one came to find him; they all silently stayed in the room.

Oh no, judging by this situation, they must’ve been dealt a heavy blow.

After waiting for a long time with no one coming, the Scorpion Bureau Director couldn’t help but feel a tightening in his heart.

His group of subordinates usually had decent mental fortitude. Even if they didn’t perform well in the promotion evaluation, they wouldn’t stay hidden for such a long time. Their silence now likely meant that during the promotion test, they encountered Leon, and eight against one still lost, getting thoroughly beaten…

Well then, I’ll go to them.

Shaking his head helplessly, the Scorpion Bureau Director stood up, walked around his desk, stepped out of his office, took a deep breath in the corridor, and then pushed open the door of the opposite room with a stern expression.

Sure enough, what greeted him were the bewildered eyes of eight cleaners from the Scorpio Division.

These subordinates, who were full of confidence before “falling asleep” and determined to challenge Leon, now looked more like they’d been severely trampled on. Their eyes were somewhat dazed.

Especially Abigail, his trusted subordinate, who was always very proud and extremely confident in her own strength. She was now sitting on the sofa, hugging her knees, looking stunned, occasionally shivering violently.

Damn Leon, you really hit hard!

Seeing his subordinates whose self-confidence had been utterly shattered, their eyes devoid of light, the deeply pained Scorpion Bureau Director made a difficult decision in his heart: to use the method of breaking before establishing, to harshly wake them up! “Too ugly!”

Slamming his hand on the cabinet beside the door forcefully, the Scorpion Bureau Director scolded angrily, “Where did your confidence go? It’s just a promotion evaluation. Even if eight of you couldn’t beat one, what does it prove? Is it necessary to look so downcast?”

Eight against one?

After hearing the Bureau Director’s dissatisfied questioning, the eight cleaners, who had somewhat blank expressions, finally snapped back to reality. Then one of the cleaners asked, somewhat confused, “Director? What are you talking about? What eight against one?”

“?!?”

Completely not expecting such a response, Bureau Director Edward couldn’t help but be slightly startled. He then asked incomprehensibly,

“Aren’t you guys like this because eight of you couldn’t beat one person?”

“…”

Eight against one… Do we even deserve that? After hearing their director’s question, the eight cleaners looked at each other for a moment, then shook their heads one after another.

Not losing in an eight against one fight?

Looking at the subordinates shaking their heads in front of him, unable to figure out why they were so disheartened, the Scorpion Bureau Director frowned in confusion and asked,

“So… Did that guy completely abandon his dignity and pull out all the stops during the evaluation? How many people did he fight at once?”

How many did he fight…

A little while later, someone answered softly, “He… That person fought over four hundred people in total… The second round of the evaluation was invitation-based. Except for the woman from his division, he challenged everyone else. All the cleaners who participated in the evaluation were beaten by him…”

“…”

Damn, what a beast! After hearing Leon’s extremely exaggerated record, Edward’s face twitched instantly, and he started cursing a certain red-haired woman in his heart.

Letting that guy participate in this level of evaluation was already quite unfair, but who would have thought it could get this thorough? Even the strongest-willed person, after being effortlessly bloodied and humiliated in a battle of one versus four hundred, would probably lose it.

“It’s okay, you… uh… you also have a chance to catch up with him…”

Looking at the subordinates in front of him with faces filled with despair, Bureau Director Edward had to give up on his initial plan of “breaking before building” and comforted them untruthfully. He couldn’t help but ask,

“What about the third round? How was the third round evaluation? Did anyone succeed in advancing?”

The third round evaluation…

Hearing the words of the Scorpion Bureau Director, it was as if a fatal keyword had been triggered. The eight cleaners who had just been spat out by Leon involuntarily shivered in unison. Abigail, the first person Leon grabbed and ate, began trembling uncontrollably, her face pale as paper.

“…”

No mistake, they were definitely beaten again.

From the reactions of his subordinates, the Scorpion Bureau Director guessed they must have encountered something quite terrible. His facial features were almost twisted together due to extreme distress.

Under his repeated comforting and questioning, finally, one of the Scorpio Division cleaners calmed down and recounted his experience with fear.

“The Twin Fish Director was attacked, and we continued the evaluation with the Goddess of Illusion. Then the new Nightmare King was born, and that… that person went berserk, eating all the participating cleaners. Then, along with the newly born Nightmare King, they devoured twenty-plus levels of the Dream Realm.”

After recounting the events with eyes full of terror, the Scorpio Division cleaner added somewhat incoherently, “Later… Fortunately, the Archer Director arrived in the Dream Realm in time and forced that person to spit us out. When we were spat out, the Archer Director was standing nearby with a very grim expression, urging that person to hurry up and spit something out…

Oh yeah, the Archer Director also instructed us that a serious matter occurred this time, asking you to attend a meeting at headquarters after sunrise.”

“…”

“Ah?!!?!”

…

Not only in the Scorpio Division, but among the cleaners who were spat out by Leon and returned by the Archer Director from the Dream Realm, similar scenes began to play out one after another in more than sixty participating divisions.

Although the more than four hundred cleaners who survived thanks to the timely arrival of the Archer Director were given a gag order, prohibiting them from spreading their experiences in the Dream Realm, their bizarre behaviors—either filled with fear or sobbing loudly—still successfully spread the reputation of a certain person far and wide.

“Zzz…”

[Even though you didn’t directly harm them, the horrifying experience of being unreasonably swallowed and then slowly digested in your stomach, having their souls gradually drained, caused immense psychological trauma to a large number of cleaners.

These cleaners who survived from your mouth brought back your terrifying name to their respective divisions after returning, granting you the Gold-level Prestige Badge “Food God”]

(End of Chapter)