the last gentleman

Chapter 1076 Ready
【High-rise building-Mobius Headquarters】

Sweeney Todd, the barber, makes a rare personal visit.

With a general manager-level employee card in his hand, he quickly went up the stairs until he was stopped in front of the door at the highest step.

Apply for permission to obtain the qualification to go to the physical residence in the flesh,
They came to the mysterious basement, Reuben's favorite place to do research...but when Sweeney Todd went down to the basement, he didn't see anyone, and couldn't even sense any breath.

This silence that shouldn't exist was uncomfortable, and even made him, the fifth disaster, feel uncomfortable. He instinctively held the razor in his hand.

When he came to the blackboard that was completely filled with writing, he suddenly realized something and turned his head abruptly.

Five meters away,

Behind the half-closed operating curtain, it seemed that a special operation had just been completed.

The iron bucket placed under the operating table seemed to be filled with something squirming, and he even felt like there were eyeballs inside looking at him.

Reuben was standing behind the curtain, with half of his body hidden and the other normal half exposed.

His face was not blocked by mosaics, but was simulated through countless grids to create a rather gloomy face of a young man, staring at the barber in front of him.

"What's the matter, so anxious?"

"My barber shop branch in the lesion has been exposed. I have withdrawn early as required. Due to a series of major changes in the lesion recently, I need to report to you in person."

"Did anyone know I was going there?"

"Unsure, the entire focus was suddenly mobilized a day ago and started a larger project, seemingly wanting to build a defense system covering the world."

"Fortifications? Are they in preparation for the coming great annihilation?"

"It's very likely, but we can't rule out the possibility that your whereabouts have been leaked."

Reuben, who was always cautious, did not change his expression. "It doesn't matter~ As long as the entire focus still exists in the current universe, and there is no thought of escaping... However, they don't have the ability to separate the entire world from the edge of the universe and escape from their own plane system.

It's a good thing to prepare well, so I can use them to test the results of the experiment."

Sweeney Todd, who had studied the patient for a long time and stayed at the lesion for a period of time, was somewhat afraid of the patient.

Although the overall strength of this group of pure creatures is not strong, their inherent potential cannot be ignored.

"Boss, you'd better pay more attention. I didn't find any major problems, but..."

Before the barber finished speaking, the surgical drape was slowly pulled open, revealing the other half of Reuben's body... Todd was so scared just by seeing this form that he took a step back and even blocked the razor completely in front of him.

A feeling of fear gradually emerged from Todd's body, appearing for the first time in his life.

The arm holding the razor even began to tremble violently.
This had never happened to him before, not even when he first faced the repressive control brought by Reuben and Mobius.

He was even unable to speak for a moment, and sweat filled with malice kept dripping from his forehead.

"Do you think I should care about these mundane incidents? Now that I've been exposed, I should do other things... Let's go there a day earlier."

"...Okay, boss, are you ready?"

"It's not complete yet, otherwise it wouldn't just be this half that has changed."

"Ah."

Sweeney Todd wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and left quickly.

Even after walking out of the tall building, deep down I was still afraid of Reuben's half-body posture.

As for Reuben in the basement, after his physical condition became relatively stable, his "malicious brain" still followed his natural caution and listened to Todd's warning.

hum!
In the blink of an eye, he stepped into the deepest part of [Lighthouse Mental Hospital].

When he arrived, the entire space of the mental hospital became chaotic. The magazine in the nurse's hand also had a lot of misplaced fonts, forcing her to slowly look up and see Reuben in front of her.

Unlike Sweeney Todd,

The nurse's expression did not change at all.

"Is there a problem?"

"What about William? (Confusion)"

"Everything is normal. To ensure that he won't have any more trouble in the next few days, I even injected him with a No. 47 sedative." The nurse also looked up at the clock hanging on the wall. The hands had been distorted by Reuben's arrival. "I just did a ward check three minutes and seconds ago. There is no problem."

"I need to check again."

"Come with me."

The two of them went to the deepest ward together.
What’s different from before is that there’s no need for a flashlight to drive away the cockroaches, as these little guys have all hidden themselves out of fear.

Crunch!

The iron door opened.

William, whose spine and head were left after being eaten by cockroaches, lay on the metal chair. There was nothing suspicious about him and the sedative was fully effective. Reuben could feel that William's mind had become stagnant and he could not do anything.

However, Reuben did not leave directly, but stepped forward.

He used the other half of his 'hand' to gently pat William's face, as if giving some kind of warning.

……

【Hotel Headquarters】

Because the manager found a "feeling" he had never had before in the lesion, and the Duke's laziness and enjoyment that did not belong to a hotel made him willing to spend more time there every day.

To the extent that more than half of the time, the malicious side was managed by the acting manager.

This was exactly the effect William wanted, and he seemed to have anticipated that the manager would find "fun" in the lesion that the evil circle had never provided.

Most of the time, he simply used his actor's characteristics to perfectly disguise himself as a manager to run the hotel. Once he had time, he would transform back into the substitute manager of the Slit Woman and go to the fitness floor to watch Yi Chen's battle with his former disasters.

Five full days passed.

The former disasters who were imprisoned in the hotel took turns to fight, but all of them were defeated.

They were scattered in the arena in different forms, and a black mark of death was left on their necks, which meant that they had been beheaded, but the act was not carried out in reality.

Right now,

Yi Chen was floating in the air with his arms spread out in the shape of a cross. The knot of the tie around his neck rotated 180 degrees and pointed upward, appearing to be hanging after the killing.

Anyone on that floor can hear the real sound of waves, and even other residents of the hotel will dream of the black ocean when they sleep.

"Everything is finally ready... Yibao has finally reached the end of his road to death, just in time! All the actors are in place, and the final performance is about to begin."

Just when William was excited,
I suddenly felt a discomfort on the right side of my face. When I touched it, I immediately felt something unknown wriggling under the skin, and even chaotic tentacle-like objects grew between the hair follicles.

"Yi Chen, kill me now!"

As soon as William made the request, his head was separated from his body.

The Joker virus's guaranteed mechanism takes effect again, and William is reborn in the body of an old man in an underground club, with a very stiff smile.

"Hiss...ah~ Are you making it that difficult for me?"

(End of this chapter)