Me! Cleaner!.

Chapter 54 Trump Card
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You are talking nonsense, aren't you? Who the hell would want to sell their life to you?
Although he really wanted to refuse, the other party's ability was to force purchases. When he pulled him over just now, he could even buy something like "distance". He had no ability to refuse at all.

Looking at the toad in front of him with a rather creepy smile, Leon had no choice but to face the other party's densely packed compound eyes and questioned with gritted teeth:
"I can sell my life to you... but the price you offer is too low!"

"Oh?"

After hearing Leon’s answer, the golden toad, who had originally just wanted to tease this human and chat with his “old friend”, tilted his head and asked with a smile:
"So how much do you think you're worth?"

"..."

I think I am priceless, okay? I don't want to sell it no matter how much money you offer!

However, although this was true, looking at the teasing look in the golden toad's eyes, Leon knew that it would be useless to say this, so he swallowed the words back and said from a different angle:
“I think…many things cannot be measured by money.”

"So you're not only questioning my judgment of value, but you're also questioning my understanding of the world?"

After hearing what Leon said, the golden toad, which had been acting quite gentle, suddenly turned cold. Its huge compound eyes slightly concave, and the centers of countless tiny spheres were all aimed at Leon. It stared at him and said word by word:
“Money is omnipotent.”

“Since the first shell used as currency conquered mankind with its brilliance and beauty, currency and the wealth it represents have become the goal pursued by all intelligent life!

It's not even just your small kingdom. From the fishmen in the deepest part of the boundless ocean to the indigenous people on the back of the moon, every place where there is intelligent life cannot be separated from the omnipotent money.

Money is the only thing that makes this world work! Your insignificant life is the most pitiful thing it can buy!"

"Ah... forget it, what's the point of me talking to you about this?"

Looking at Leon, who didn’t refute immediately but was still thinking about how to respond, the golden toad shook his head and said with a dull tone:

"Even if you are chosen by the Great Devil as a follower, you are still just a servant in the end. You don't need to understand these things at all. It is enough to just accept the control... Come on! Let me estimate the value of your insignificant life!"

As the golden toad spoke, the countless Leons reflected in his eyeballs trembled in unison, and were quickly replaced by countless chaotic new images.

The innocent and ignorant childhood, the happy childhood under the care of parents, the wailing after losing both parents, and then the vast expanses of empty darkness.

After a large expanse of darkness with nothing in sight, he was bedridden for more than half a year with a high fever. Because the serious illness had consumed most of the family savings, he began to run desperately for money.

They painted the walls of villas under the scorching sun, used their frail bodies to carry bags on the dock, and held up a two-meter-long special cleaning pole to laboriously scrub the ferry that was blackened by the chimney.

When the river was frozen and the ships stopped sailing, they took over the abandoned newsstands on the roadside, huddled in the cold winter to sell newspapers, occasionally padding their shoes to disguise their age, sneaking into various temporary factories with loose management, doing odd jobs that did not require a resume, and earning a little insignificant change...

Unfortunately, after more than two years of hard work, the poor little family in the picture not only did not become richer, but seemed to be getting more and more empty. The girl who occasionally flashed by gradually turned pale and coughed more and more seriously. The two children whose faces could not be seen clearly also began to lose weight...

“A boring life.”

In less than a second, after watching more than five thousand days and nights, the golden toad shook his head and was about to "cut off" the picture, but suddenly caught a glimpse of bright red hair.

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That woman?!
After hastily bulging his eyes and interrupting the subsequent scenes in time, the golden toad's expression sank slightly, and he turned his head to look at the sheep's head in the shopping bag, and said in disbelief:
"Damn it! You actually cooperated with the people from the Cleanup Bureau?"

"Go away! What nonsense are you talking about?" After hearing the question from the golden toad, the black goat, who was too embarrassed to meet his acquaintances due to his extreme poverty, could no longer pretend.

It stretched out its tongue and licked the shopping bag twice, revealing its angry eyes. It glared at the familiar toad in front of it and said:
"We are not cooperating with the Cleanup Bureau! We are just staying there temporarily, and in exchange for accepting a few extremely evil sacrifices on a regular basis, we are giving them some of our abilities."

"You're not even cooperating... Are you hired by them? Or... You haven't completely fallen into the hands of the Cleanup Bureau and become their lackey, have you?"

"..."

"You are the running dog!"

The black goat, who was stabbed, lost his defense instantly and roared with curses:

"We are just staying there temporarily! Do you understand what 'temporarily staying' means? Are the holes on both sides of your head blocked up? Damn it! It means we haven't recovered yet, you damn toad, just wait for us!"

Oh, running dog!

After glancing at the black goat with disdain and ignoring its furious abuse, the golden toad turned its head back, staring at Leon with its two huge compound eyes, and asked in a cold voice:
"So... you're from the Cleanup Bureau?"

"That's right!"

Hearing what the golden toad said, Leon knew that it was most likely the mortal enemy of the Cleanup Bureau. He simply took the risk and directly picked up the black goat, shook it, and raised his head to challenge:

"Even though you look down on it now, when you fall into our hands and are turned into an abnormal object, I guarantee that your end will be ten times more miserable than its!"

???

No? If you want to talk about it, just talk about it properly. Why don't you use me as an example?
The golden toad did not get angry when the black goat suddenly raised his curse by an octave. Instead, it narrowed its two huge compound eyes, carefully observed Leon's expression, and then tilted its head in surprise.

"You want to piss me off?"

After noticing Leon's suddenly tense muscles, the giant golden toad grinned and grabbed a handful of golden wheels from the side. While piling them in front of himself, he speculated slowly:
“Human, you don’t seem to think you can escape, but you don’t seem to be ready to be killed, and you even dare to provoke me… This is very interesting.

If I'm not mistaken, you probably have a powerful enough trump card, but you can't control it, or it can only be triggered after being attacked?"

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Seen through again?
Looking at the toad who had guessed his situation with just a glance, Leon's breathing suddenly stagnated slightly, and he couldn't help but think of the evaluation given to him by the red-haired director.

Could it be that... I am indeed a very understanding person?
"Haha, it seems that I guessed right."

After seeing the doubts that could not be concealed in Leon's eyes, the golden toad's mouth couldn't help but widen, and then he pointed at the golden wheels that had been piled up like a small mountain in front of him, and said jokingly:

"I'm sorry, but I don't like to attack others rudely. Instead, I like to buy the lives I want to harvest directly through fair and reasonable transactions. I'm afraid your trump card will be of no use.

Come, take these 30,000 gold wheels and give me everything you have. This is the most generous price I can offer for your boring life."

(End of this chapter)