He probably has other trump cards in his hand!

Through the eyes of the middle-aged bald man, peering into Leon's still calm Heart Lake, Snowy finally began to waver.

The current "calmness" is far from mature. If it's just a river of diluted [Calming Bathwater], it absolutely can't help everyone in Rehe City avoid the invasion of their [Heart Lake] Authority, at most it can only delay it for a few hours.

By then, when I connect with the Heart Lakes of billions of life spirits, I will possess strength comparable to the director of the Zodiac Branch Office, and the Food God must have already figured this out.

But strangely, even in such a critical situation, his Heart Lake remained as calm as ever, without a trace of urgency. No matter how much I stimulate it, it's as stable as a lake of iron water, indicating that he made a judgment based on rationality, believing that the current situation is still under his control.

Additionally, more unsettling than this rock-solid Heart Lake is that the Food God doesn't seem to be deliberately "suppressing" his emotions; I can still feel his worry, dissatisfaction, and aversion.

But when those emotions emerged from his soul and fell with a bang on his Heart Lake, they couldn't even make a pea-sized splash, immediately settling at the bottom under the scour of rationality, turning into quiet, smooth pebbles, not causing a ripple at all...

But how could this be possible?

...

Looking at Leon's terrifyingly stable Heart Lake, Snowy felt an inexplicable chill rising and flowing out from his heart.

Most of the Clean-up Bureau's Cleaners have personalities far more sensitive than ordinary people and emotions hundreds or thousands of times more intense, which allows them to be born with their own abnormal object, so in terms of Heart Lake's stability, sometimes it might even be less than an ordinary person.

Even someone as powerful and experienced as the Aquarius Director, when I displayed an illusion in front of him, recreating the scene of the Northern Queen being killed ten years ago, the intense emotions that erupted disturbed his Heart Lake, preventing him from completely escaping the illusion I constructed.

In conclusion, a person's Heart Lake's stability is not heavily related to their strength, but rather more influenced by personality and emotions, and a Cleaner capable of birthing an abnormal object couldn't have particularly stable personality and emotions. But he...

He's different! Completely different!

Being dragged roughly towards the duct furnace, head in the mouths of three black dogs, the "middle-aged man" widened his eyes, staring intently at Leon's back in the distance.

Finally, when the female Cleaner blushed and jumped into Rehe to start producing large amounts of [Calming Bathwater], Snowy, residing in the middle-aged man's Heart Lake, was utterly shocked to confirm his suspicion.

Leon Laine, the renowned Cleaner Food God, the Cleaner most wanted dead by the Slaughter King Association, a special powerhouse with at least several divine lives under his belt…

Hasn't even given birth to his own abnormal object!

His Heart Lake isn't that of a "Cleaner," but that of a calm, rational ordinary human! As for that "Cleaner" scent on him, it's purely due to long-term contact with high-level abnormal objects, bit by bit being stained!

But how could this be possible?!!!

With a second similar thought rising in his heart, Snowy's gaze at Leon no longer seemed like he was looking at a human, but rather something wearing a human skin.

Theoretically, even ordinary people who haven't awakened an abnormal object, after enduring long-term immersion in a large amount of abnormal objects, can also gain the "power" of a Cleaner.

But under long-term contact with abnormal objects, ordinary people who haven't awakened an abnormal object couldn't possibly maintain rationality. They would either successfully awaken an abnormal object and become a "normal" Cleaner or fail to withstand high-intensity immersion and gradually step toward madness, with no exceptions.

Unless… he fundamentally refuses to acknowledge this world!

Resisting the urge to leave immediately, and looking again at Leon's Heart Lake, stable to the point of making a god sick, and feeling that unimaginably stubborn strange rationality, Snowy's actual face involuntarily twitched violently.

...

"Food God!"

Struggling a bit out of the dog's mouth, the "middle-aged man," soaking wet from the steam and with water continuously dripping from his bald head, shouted towards Leon, who turned his head:

"What are you planning to do?!"

"?"

Watching the female Cleaner bathe, upon hearing this, Leon couldn't help but frown, glancing back at Snowy restrained by the black dog, unable to retreat from the middle-aged man's body.

What's the problem with this guy?

"You can't fool me!"

Snowy's heart turned slightly cold being glanced at by Leon, but he then gritted his teeth and questioned:

"You haven't given birth to your own abnormal object! Right?"

"?!"

In the middle of distributing bathwater to all of Rehe City, Leon was completely unprepared for such an off-topic question, and was momentarily stunned.

And Snowy, seeing his surprised expression, successfully confirmed his suspicion, then couldn't help but widen his eyes, shouting sharply:

"So you don't acknowledge this world at all? Are you even planning to destroy it directly? Is that it?!"

Huh?

Listening to the middle-aged man, who asked "is that it?" but in a tone incredibly certain, as if he had already confirmed this thought, Leon found himself unable to hold it together.

No… how do you deduce from me not having an abnormal object that I'm planning world destruction? Why can't I figure out the logic here?

"You can't fool me!"

Seeing Leon, whose aura in the dim corner above the river gave a hypnotic and ethereal air reminiscent of a nighttime nightmare (the passive effect of the [Nightmare is Deepest Fear in Darkness] badge), Snowy gritted his teeth and said:

"An ordinary person without an awakened abnormal object could never endure a True God level abnormal object, and would just collapse into insanity under continuous immersion, not displaying rationality like you!

So from the start, you were crazy! Only someone who utterly believed in their own perception, denying everything from the heart, not even acknowledging the entire world, could possess a Heart Lake like yours, rejecting all influence!"

"..."

Ah, um… can't entirely say it's wrong?

After listening to Snowy, Leon couldn't help leaning into himself a bit, discovering that although his deduction was wildly inaccurate, and even seemed somewhat idiotic, in some ways it wasn't completely incorrect.

For instance, I indeed find this world "unscientific," and truly don't quite acknowledge this world's "way of running," also thinking the disorder of The Twelve Kingdoms isn't your average problem, having even considered doing something early on.

From the perspective of a "native" of this world, my mental state and cognition could hardly be considered normal, perhaps like a "stable neurotic" patient?