Chapter 00192: Alarm
# Alarm
Chapter 192
Novel: Above Destiny
Chapter 192: Alarm
In that fleeting moment, so brief it was almost imperceptible, yet so long it felt like an eternity, Ji Jue experienced a sensation akin to his brain overloading, leaving him in a state of utter confusion.
It was as if one day, while he was peacefully sitting down to enjoy a hotpot, eating a train (could trains even be eaten? Ji Jue wasn’t sure), he was suddenly hijacked by a dog company! Whether trains could be eaten or not, Ji Jue didn’t know, but right now, a real dog and a company were right in front of his eyes!
He stood there, dumbfounded.
With great difficulty, he lowered his head to examine the emblem on his wristwatch, then raised his hand to compare it with the dog tag of the CEO.
Unfortunately, no matter how many times he looked, his vision, cognition, and reason all told him the same thing: these two things were identical!
Yet, deep down, Ji Jue felt like he should stand up, laugh heartily three times, and then loudly declare, "Hahaha, this is an illusion! What are you trying to hide?!"
Even though it wouldn’t do any good.
In the end, only one thought remained in his mind.
I’m screwed!
Every day, I’ve been freeloading off the Sky Rail, and now the Sky Rail has come knocking at my door!
And it’s a dog!
No, this might be a warning… If I don’t get back to work soon, this dog will be my fate!
Thinking this, Ji Jue broke into a cold sweat and forced a bitter smile.
He cautiously fiddled with the dog’s head, leaning in closer to inspect it, trying to find a hidden camera.
"Hello?" he tentatively called into the dog’s mouth.
"Is anyone there?"
The sheepdog tilted its head in confusion, looking at him.
It clearly had no idea what was going on.
But soon, its eyes seemed to fill with sympathy, brimming with pity.
It affectionately licked his hand.
It’s okay, dogs are man’s best friend.
Even if you’re an idiot, I still like you!
"......"
After a long, long while, Ji Jue dryly swallowed and let out a sigh of relief—no one?
Ji Jue pinched his chin, squatting in front of the dog, face to face with it.
"Are you… the CEO?" he asked.
The sheepdog, upon hearing this, stuck out its tongue and smiled, licking his hand again, then nodded.
"You… came to find me?" Ji Jue instinctively asked.
The CEO nodded again.
Its eyes sparkled like stars.
Ji Jue instinctively looked around, confirming that no one was nearby.
He took a deep breath, and his thoughts inevitably took a dark turn.
Since there’s no one around, and no one would know, and the only vehicle here is mine, why not…
But when he looked down at the sheepdog’s bright, shining eyes, he felt an unprecedented sense of guilt and pressure.
The CEO leaned forward.
Its long dog nose nudged his hand, placing it on its head, as if urging him to pet it.
It was as if his conscience was questioning him—are you really going to do something so cruel?
"Woof!"
The CEO suddenly barked, lifting its head to look behind him.
Ji Jue turned around, but there was only silence behind him.
Yet, the CEO lowered its head, grabbed his pant leg with its mouth, and tugged, pulling him toward the direction of the Recycling Department, wagging its tail as if urging him to hurry.
Ji Jue pondered for a moment, calmly analyzing the situation.
It feels like it’s urging me to get back to work?
"Just met and you’re already pushing me to work, huh?" Ji Jue glared.
"I knew it, you higher-ups are all the same! Even as a dog, you still want to lord it over us laborers."
Ji Jue’s fists clenched.
You evil capitalists, I’ll just…
BOOM!!!
A deafening explosion suddenly erupted from behind.
Ji Jue turned around in shock, only to see thick smoke rising from the Recycling Department’s workshop, dark tendrils spreading, accompanied by the piercing sound of an alarm.
—Pollution leak, severe contamination!
"Woof!"
The CEO circled around him, wagging its tail as if urging, "Woof! Woof!!"
It was as if it was hoping he would do something.
Finally, it nudged his leg with its head.
With great effort.
But its figure began to flicker, like an image on a broken screen.
Even its voice became indistinct.
Gradually, it faded away.
Leaving only a bewildered Ji Jue standing there, unable to comprehend what had just happened.
A dog had suddenly appeared, wearing a Sky Rail Group dog tag, and its name was CEO.
It was as if the real CEO had suddenly remembered he had a crappy company and had come to inspect his dear employee, making sure he was working hard and not slacking off.
Urging him to hurry up and deal with the disaster.
And then, it had mysteriously vanished.
What the hell?!
What kind of company is this?
Can’t you just be normal?
But there was no time to dwell on these乱七八糟 things.
Ji Jue sprinted, waving his hand, leaped onto the Little Ox’s pedal, and the armored vehicle spun around, roaring as it sped toward the workshop!
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At that moment, outside the workshop, chaos reigned.
Dust-covered apprentices stumbled and sat on the ground, drenched in sweat, staring at the thick smoke rising from the workshop and the blaring alarms.
"It’s over, it’s all over, the leak has happened!"
The supervisor’s face was pale, as if he had seen his parents’ graves set on fire.
The pollution leak was spreading, and once it took shape, who knows what kind of monstrosity it would catalyze.
The entire temporary workshop might be blown to pieces.
"What happened? What happened!" the supervisor shouted, pacing aimlessly among the wailing crowd.
"How could such a huge accident happen?"
Everyone instinctively looked toward the person at the front.
The apprentice, who had been directly hit by the explosion and was now covered in blood, stood there in a daze, panicked and helpless.
"I followed all the procedures, I did… I don’t know what happened!"
"A perfectly good storage tank just exploded out of nowhere…"
The more he tried to explain, the more futile it felt.
His face was pale, drained of all color.
No matter the reason, the accident had happened under his watch.
He was finished.
The safety bureau’s interrogation, the association’s investigation, and the workshop’s wrath—even if they sold ten of him, it wouldn’t cover the losses!
Not just him, everyone on the entire chain would likely bear some responsibility…
Everyone’s expressions were grim, their faces ashen.
The Little Ox roared as it crashed through the courtyard wall, charging straight in.
Ji Jue jumped off the vehicle, surveying the scene, quickly grasping the situation.
But when he counted the people, he couldn’t help but pause.
"Where’s Old Lou?"
"He… he’s still inside," the last apprentice to escape stammered, almost in tears.
"I tried to get him to leave, I really did, but he wouldn’t go."
"Alright, I get it. It’s not your fault."
Ji Jue sighed in frustration, gritting his teeth.
At a time like this, why be so stubborn?!
Why insist on staying in the middle of a disaster zone, trying to prove something?
What’s the point of winning if you’re dead? My future is still bright… what’s the point?!
BOOM!!
Another explosion rang out, thick smoke spreading, and a sharp screech could be faintly heard.
Even though no one was controlling it, the temporary workshop’s isolation and lockdown measures were still functioning.
Ji Jue pointed at the external cameras, and instantly, the scene inside the workshop appeared in his mind.
In the workshop’s pollution storage area, chaos reigned.
Massive tanks, several meters tall, stood like sentinels, but something had torn holes in them.
Vast amounts of solution, having absorbed copious amounts of pollution during the replacement reaction, gushed out like fountains, flooding the ground.
In the center of the storage area, a high-pitched screech erupted once more.
In the midst of the viscous darkness, countless streams of liquid converged around a shattered containment device, resembling a broken steel pillar that had only been partially dismantled.
Beneath the disassembled parts, a blood-like crimson fluid flowed.
It gushed endlessly.
Behind the peeling rust, twisted, grotesque eyeballs slowly emerged from the steel, and fleshy, crimson tendrils extended from its body, greedily absorbing the pollution from the solution.
It was like the embryo of a calamity.
It was visibly catalyzing, completing, and growing at an alarming rate!
Ji Jue felt a chill run down his spine.
This wasn’t just a mistake in operation—the pollution containment device had been thoroughly corrupted and transformed long before it was recovered, birthing a seed of mutation.
The recovery team hadn’t noticed and had simply hauled it back to the workshop.
And so, in the heavily polluted environment of the Recycling Department, it had taken root and rapidly sprouted… Fortunately, the workshop’s containment was still intact, so it couldn’t break out in the short term.
But inside…
BOOM!
Beams of spirit-material lances, covered in intricate circuits, descended from above, piercing the writhing crimson limbs one after another, nailing the mutated creature to the ground like spikes.
It could only struggle, resist, and fight against Lou Feng’s suppression.
On the operating platform high above, Lou Feng’s face was grim.
He was overdrawing his spirit energy, ignoring the corruption around him, crafting spirit-material lances covered in celestial circuits, and stabbing down again!
CRACK!
Amid the sharp screech, a tentacle suddenly shot out from the activated mutated device, grabbing the spirit-material lance mid-air and crushing it to pieces!
The sound of explosions was relentless.
"Damn it!"
Lou Feng’s vision blurred, and he didn’t care about the situation anymore.
Since no one was around, he cursed freely.
But then, he felt the ground shake.
The workshop’s final containment had been breached from the outside!
A gust of wind howled through.
The mutated creature let out a high-pitched screech, as if in ecstasy, thrashing wildly toward the exit…
"Who the hell is that idiot?"
Lou Feng turned around in a rage, glaring toward the direction of the breach.
All he saw was a flash of silver light.
The Little Ox, having reversed into the workshop, opened its cargo compartment, and heavy barrels rolled out one after another.
Shimmering mercury tore through the barrel lids, spreading and converging into an angry wave, crashing down on the struggling mutated creature.
It was like a mountain pressing down!
The sound of shattering filled the air.
At Ji Jue’s whistle, hundreds of kilograms of mercury flowed, hardened, coiled, and pinned the creature to the ground, instantly burying it.
Ji Jue waved his hand and stepped forward.
Non-Aggression manifested in his hands.
Spirit circuits spread from his fingertips, flowing through the mercury, forward like chains, layer upon layer wrapping around the mutated equipment.
Material reinforcement and fluid alchemy worked in tandem, forcibly suppressing and containing the mutated creature within.
Muffled screeches and violent tremors emanated from the center of the hardened mercury.
The intense recoil made the ground shake.
Who knows how much pollution it had absorbed to grow to such a terrifying size.
Even now, as it struggled, cracks began to form in the hardened mercury.
But soon, as Ji Jue freed his hands and catalyzed again, crystalline light appeared on the mercury’s surface.
The加持 of【Metal Quality】turned into shackles.
Instantly, it was as immovable as a mountain.
In the silence, only the exposed equipment in the center remained, its blood-red eyes rapidly opening and closing, trembling, reflecting the figure of the man slowly approaching, his hand outstretched.
"Why did you have to turn into something like this?" Ji Jue sighed softly, his raised index finger pressing down on one of the trembling blood-red eyes.
Then, a devastating wave of spirit energy erupted!
—Disintegration!
(End of Chapter)