"Ye Lan, how did you get so badly injured?"
Before Ye Lan could fall to the ground, Malkuth, who was directing the clerical maintenance work in the control department, helped him up.
The tuner's shockwave broke four of Ye Lan's ribs, and the "key" that pierced his abdomen also took away his left kidney. Later, when he was assimilating the magic bullet shooter, he suffered a fatal injury from a seventh bullet piercing his heart due to the characteristics of the anomaly.
If the regenerative reactor hadn't released a pulse just as he fell into the break room, he might have already been unconscious when Malkuth helped him up.
"Ahem, it's just a small price to pay. First... first, help me sit down so I can use my recovery skill a few more times."
Ye Lan patted her metal casing with difficulty, and then sat down in the lounge with Malkuth's help. The pulses released by the modified regenerative reactor were restoring Ye Lan's lost body tissues as much as possible, but organ-level damage could not be repaired so quickly.
Although Malkuth hoped Ye Lan could recover a little longer, at least to allow the penetrating wound in his abdomen to heal, Angela's broadcast on the radio did not give him that time.
"Report: The 'Tuner' has moved from the Training Department to the Central Headquarters. All containment chambers in the Security Department, Intelligence Department, and Records Department are in a state of meltdown. All civilian staff in the Welfare Department and Training Department have been killed in action, and the corresponding departmental buffs have been deactivated."
Ye Lan had Malkuth help him move towards the elevator. As they walked, he asked Angela, "Angela... where is the Smiling Corpse Mountain now?"
"It has been confirmed that the Smiling Corpse Mountain has escaped and is moving towards the Welfare Department."
"I understand." He looked up at Angela, who was not actually there, and then Malkuth said to him, "Malkuth, let me go. The rest is up to us employees."
"You can barely walk right now, are you sure you want to face the 'tuner'?"
Malkuth's mechanical eyes revealed genuine concern; she didn't want Ye Lan to do anything that would lead to her death.
"Malkuth, there are some things only I can do. I don't understand why the 'Tuner' appeared today… You know, today should have ended when I killed the fake Binah."
Ye Lan struggled to her feet with Malkuth's help and continued, "I don't know which link went wrong, but... I have to fix it. I'm the only one... the only one not in the script. Only I... only I can deal with the 'Tuner,' who is also not in the script."
Significant blood loss left Ye Lan pale and his lips bluish-purple. The dizziness made him somewhat unaware of what he had said to Malkuth, but at least she had let go of him, allowing him to smoothly enter the elevator and head towards the Welfare Department, the destination of the smiling corpse mountain.
In this short period of time, only this anomaly can help him recover from his injuries quickly.
bite!
The elevator quickly arrived at the welfare department's corridor, and Ye Lan was immediately thrown out of the open elevator door.
Whether it should be called lucky or not, he fell on top of an office worker. This prevented him from suffering further injury, but the bloodstains from the corpse soaked through his already blood-soaked clothes.
As for Bo Ming's Ego Set? It was destroyed as a form of protection long before he was assimilated by the "Tuner".
Thump! Thump! Thump!
A series of heavy and rapid footsteps sounded. The smiling Corpse Mountain, which had eaten its fill of corpses and grown two complete clones, seemed to have spotted him and rushed towards his location at a speed disproportionate to its size.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
Almost in the blink of an eye, the multiple interconnected anomalies with limbs and large mouths formed from the corpses rushed to his side.
"Hehe... Colleagues, come help me out..."
As if understanding Ye Lan's words, the smiling mountain of corpses melted away on him, with countless employee corpses clinging to his body layer by layer.
"Helping each other...becomes hands...feet..."
Each of their corpses wore a sorrowful smile as they dismantled their own bodies and used the pieces of flesh to fill the wounds on Ye Lan's body.
"Don't come back... Leave quickly... Remember... our sacrifice..."
The corpses were rotting, and the black putrid liquid soaked into the corpses around Ye Lan, turning everyone into one... except Ye Lan.
The deceased employees placed all their remaining resources on Ye Lan. At this moment, they were his weapons and his shield. Until their last remaining existence was gone, no one could harm him.
[Smiling Corpse Mountain] EGO Assimilation
The monster made of corpses rushed into the elevator, and then rushed out of it. Three enormous, rotting flesh bodies, large enough to block the entire corridor of the Central Headquarters Zone 1, rushed into the corridor with the help of countless hands and feet, and then slammed into the "Tuner".
The giant mouth on the smiling mountain of corpses suddenly widened, and countless corpses, engulfed in putrid liquid and blood, spewed out towards the "Regulator" who was trapped beneath it.
"Disgusting stuff."
Countless demonic spirits converged into a sharp beam of light powerful enough to slice the entire corridor into pieces. In an instant, one of the corpses in the mountain of corpses, which had suffered such massive damage, exploded. Countless dissolving corpses fell into the corridor, struggling to attack the "Regulator" with their own bodies and even their teeth.
"In your eyes, are they just disgusting?"
"But the disgusting corpses you speak of are all my fallen comrades. I am able to confront you now because of their support!"
Having already lost one of his clones, Corpse Mountain raised the remaining clones high and relentlessly pounded them onto the severely injured "Tuner".
"Incomprehensible!"
Three consecutive shocks struck the main body of the smiling mountain of corpses. After just the first shock, the remaining secondary body shattered in the tremors.
After the second shock, the main body of the mountain of corpses was also badly damaged and almost collapsed.
Before the third shock could hit, Ye Lan was separated from the assimilation by the smiling corpse mountain and was thrown to the end of the corridor.
"Is this your true nature?"
Ye Lan took a deep breath and then shouted to Angela, "Open all the containment chambers at Central Headquarters. I'm going to kill her right here!"
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The eight containment chamber doors opened in response, revealing the following: Nothingness, Silent Band, Azure Nova, Queen of Hatred, Knight of Despair, and Ice Queen.
Except for two tool-type anomalies that were unable to leave the containment chamber, the remaining six anomalies stepped out of the door together and launched an attack on the "Tuner".
Immediately afterwards, the Yellow Springs Train lit up four ghostly lamps, and the train, carrying countless dead, departed from the containment room, running across the entire corridor and crushing the "Tuners," but only brushing past Ye Lan. A bottle of giant tree sap fell at Ye Lan's feet, which he picked up.
"Although other employees, and even the Sephirahs, may not agree, I have always considered these anomalies to be part of the company as well. Therefore, I have been able to connect with them and receive their help!"
Nothingness retreated back to Ye Lan's side, ascending along his feet and transforming into a cocoon of twisted flesh and eyes, completely enveloping Ye Lan. Moments later, countless fleshy tentacles emerged from the cocoon, writhing and twisting around Ye Lan's body, forming a suit of armor.
Two sharp bone blades shot out from Ye Lan's arms, deflecting the two "keys" aimed at him. The Ice Queen drew an ice path in front of his feet, and the cold air directly sealed the "Tuner" at the other end of the ice path in place.
Thank you.
Ye Lan took a running start, slid in, and glided along the icy path.
The two bone blades clashed, and the nothingness that had become one with him exploded on the ice at a speed that was too fast for the naked eye to catch. In just a moment, the blades crossed, leaving two intersecting wounds that pierced through her flesh, cutting her into four pieces.
The moment the "Tuner" fell, the "End the Day" button lit up on A's screen.
Day 49 has finally come to an end!