Cyberpunk, but urban

Cyberpunk, but urban

Author: Dark Fantasy

Summary:

Here is a less formal introduction:

I traveled through time and seemed to be an employee of a company.

Wow, that's a lot of salary!

The alarm sounds.

Asking me to suppress the minions? What the hell is this company?!

The following is a serious introduction:

I am Ye Lan. The best employee of Lobotomy Corporation in X0XX. Miss Hod doesn't even need to do core suppression after seeing me.

But no one in the company knew that I was actually a spy from a company in a world even outside the ruins. (Of course, Miss Angela might know this, but she didn't tell anyone, so no one knew.)

But besides this secret, I have another one.

Even my real company doesn't know the secret, I am a time traveler. (But maybe I told Miss Angela this in one of my loops.)

Day and Darkness

Prologue: A Day in the Life of the Best Employee at Lobotomy Corporation

Ye Lan is a good employee.

Gender: male, likes females.

He is twenty-two years old this year, oh, maybe there are tens or millions of months left. Although he just celebrated his birthday yesterday with his "colleagues", time in the company keeps repeating, and he himself can't remember how many twenty-second birthdays he has celebrated.

He was a time traveler, and when he opened his eyes, he appeared in a huge training ground. When he, who was only ten years old at the time, understood where he was, the Invisible Company, a corporate resistance organization called the Company, sent him to the training ground and began his difficult training.

During these ten years of boring life, Central, the leader of the invisible company, personally trained him into an outstanding and comprehensive agent.

Until the day of his twentieth birthday, along with the complete recovery of his past life memories, he was sent to the city and joined L Company, also known as the Lobotomy Corporation, as a spy to steal singularity technology...

The ringing of the alarm clock interrupted the memories of this young man who was over 1.70 meters tall. He reached out to stop the alarm clock on the bedside table, got up and walked into the bathroom in his lounge.

Standing in front of the mirror, a cold face was reflected in it. Countless cycles had destroyed Ye Lan's normal emotions. Although he could still smile, unless he stood in front of people, this young face would always have a cold and empty look.

After squeezing some shaving cream onto his face and creating some foam, Ye Lan began to clean up the stubble on his face. A light screen popped up above an ornament on the sink, and Central's face appeared on the light screen.

"Report your mission."

"Lurking inside Lobotomy Corporation, identifying and stealing the company's singularity technology."

"The memory is clear, and there are no symptoms of brainwashing. Happy birthday, Ye Lan. Although this blessing is a day late, I believe you will not mind, right?"

"Thank you. We still have half an hour before breakfast starts. What do you need me to report?"

"No, I'm here to inform you. The extremely high-risk area called the ruins in the city has experienced an abnormal situation today. The corridor we sent you into the city has been completely scrapped."

"That means I can't go back to the company for the time being?"

"We will find a way to open a passage as soon as possible. Please be careful."

Central closed the communication after saying this, and the ornament once again became as inconspicuous as usual.

"Heh, another notification, even the dialogue is exactly the same." The cold tap water splashed on his face, washing away the foam on his face and freezing his desperate heart. Even a well-trained agent would collapse under the scouring of time. Being able to maintain rationality is already the limit for Ye Lan.

Ye Lan has experienced the same conversation as this one countless times. Although he can still clearly remember the memories of playing "Lobotomy Corporation" on the computer in his previous life, after becoming an actual employee, he dare not remember how much time he has spent outside the company. After all, under the backtracking of the TT2 protocol, every event has been repeated countless times.

"Angela, I know you are listening, and I know you can't answer me. Thank you for hiding my abnormality, and thank you for preserving my memory."

He looked at himself in the mirror, and perhaps billions of painful memories emerged, and he collapsed at that moment. The self in the mirror roared with anger and sadness:

"But why didn't you delete my recollected memories! Why did you let me suffer with you! Aaaaaaah!!!"

boom!

Click...

Just like in countless reincarnations, Ye Lan once again smashed the mirror in front of him with his bare hands. The time he had left to collapse had come to an end. With blood on his hands, he once again left his lounge, as usual.

Ye Lan actually knew in his heart that from the first time he told Angela everything he knew about the city and the Lobotomy Corporation, he became the anchor for Angela, who was in a hundred times more pain than he was, and a companion who could share this pain.

For the Seed of Light Project, Angela's time was cruelly slowed down by a hundred times. The painful memories that were a hundred times more than Ye Lan's squeezed her and tortured her. The plan to resurrect Carmen ended up with her, an AI with only Carmen's shadow. Ayin refused to acknowledge her because of her self-loathing and chose her as the manager of the Seed of Light Project.

"Ding"

The elevator outside the door gave a clear and pleasant warning tone and stopped at his floor. The elevator door opened automatically, and two colleagues from the training department stood in it.

"Good morning, Ye Zi. What's wrong with you today? Hey, what happened to your hand? Come here quickly. I brought some recovery potion."

Ye Lan's mouth twitched and he put on a fake smile: "It's okay, I accidentally broke a mirror this morning and was scratched by the glass."

The two colleagues, who had long been accustomed to the fake smile on Ye Lan's face during their interactions over the past two years, ignored his expression, stepped out of the elevator, and pulled Ye Lan into the elevator by his arms.

"You better be careful. If our best employee dies in the containment room because of this wound, our Miss Hod will cry."

"Ahahaha, don't worry. I won't die on this day."

By the time the elevator opened again, Ye Lan's wound on his hand had healed under the treatment of his colleagues. He vaguely remembered that the three of them would chat all the way into the restaurant, eating breakfast sandwiches while listening to Miss Malkuth announce today's work to all the employees who came to eat breakfast.

Then, enter the next cycle as always...

"Ahem, is everyone here?" Malkuth, the Sephirah of the Control Department, is a somewhat natural, slightly impatient and conceited box spirit. Ye Lan usually calls her Miss Malkuku, and then is chased and beaten by her with the clipboard in her hand.

It can be said that it was one of the few pleasures he had in his endless cycle of reincarnation.

Ye Lan ate the sandwich in his hand in two or three bites, and sat in his seat listening to Miss Malkuth's arrangements. However, something different happened. He was not assigned to Gebura's disciplinary department to guide newcomers. Miss Malkuth walked up to him in person after everyone had finished their arrangements and said to him:

"Ye Zi, you have to go to the Construction Department today. This is a newly opened department and it is very important."

"You mean, the Construction Department?"

Ye Lan raised his head and repeated tentatively: "You said, the Construction Department?"

"Yes, the last department of our company's headquarters is very important. We can only rest assured if you go there in person."

Ye Lan's breathing was rapid, and his heart was beating wildly. The Construction Department was a department in "Lobotomy Corporation" that would only be opened after entering the final process. As long as they could pass the five consecutive days of tests and release the Seed of Light, he, Angela, and everyone in the company could end this eternal cycle.

"I know, trust me."

His eyes lit up for the first time in a long time, and the opportunity to end it all made him excited. His colleagues looked at him blankly when he suddenly hugged their control department Sephirah and kissed her hard, making Miss Malkuth's entire box stunned.

"What have you done?"

About a minute later, an angry Malkuth chased Ye Lan out of the restaurant with his clipboard in hand. The employees looked at each other, shrugged their shoulders and went back to eat their breakfast.

After all, it wasn't the first time that their best employee was chased out of the restaurant by Miss Malkuth for flirting with her. Rather than following her to watch the show, it would be better to finish this breakfast, which might be the last meal for him.

After letting Malkuth run for a distance, Ye Lan stopped and let her slap the clipboard against him, making a snapping sound.

After Malkuth vented her embarrassment at being suddenly hugged and kissed by Ye Lan, Ye Lan asked her, "What is the number of the Abnormality that the supervisor selected today?"

"Eh? Did you trick me out here on purpose for this?"

"No, I really wanted to kiss you."

"Hey!" Malkuth took a deep breath and calmed himself down. "Today's two Anomalies are D-03-109 and O-01-64. Two Anomalies at once, be careful."

"Well, arrange all my colleagues in the same department to other departments, and then give me a smile."

Ye Lan patted the top of Malkuth's box and walked towards the locker room.

Malkuth who stayed where she was looked at their best employee with confusion. He seemed to be a little different today, but she didn't know if this change was a good thing.

What good things can be said about this company?

……

……

In any case, Supervisor A gave Ye Lan everything he asked for, and Day 46 began.

[Laughing Nightmare], an ego suit consisting of a giant hammer with a pale face of an employee and a big mouth, and a set of armor with the face of a dead employee familiar to Ye Lan embedded on the chest. The strange groans of death entangled Ye Lan who put on them, and the heaviness of death pressed on his shoulders.

"call."

Ye Lan exhaled deeply, and walked into the main lounge of the construction department with a giant hammer. Today, this place looks like a normal but old-fashioned supervisor's office, and there is even a big-butt old computer on the supervisor's desk.

Ye Lan threw himself on the sofa against the wall, waiting for A to give him the order to start working.

His dead colleagues wrapped his body, and those strange, curse-like moans sounded like clear encouragement to him after the final observation. Their corpses would become his fortress, protecting him from incoming harm.

"Ye Lan, it's time for you to take action. Go to D-03-109. Although I don't know why you made such a request, I believe you will not do it without a purpose. For our future, work hard."

The supervisor's notice echoed in the lounge, and Ye Lan stood up and took action.

D-03-109, Dissolving Love.

A pool of humanoid slime with a sweet strawberry scent, its overflowing love has become a deadly poison.

Ye Lan took the necessary materials for insight work from the shelf outside the containment room, and walked into the containment room with them and the recording board.

The humanoid slime exuding the scent of strawberries stood obediently in the middle of the containment room, allowing Ye Lan to observe her body around the cordon. As if she understood that Ye Lan was observing her, the slime generously opened her arms, exposing her entire body to Ye Lan's sight.

Time passed quickly, and the energy counter on the wall next to it also soared, soon exceeding the limit of 24 points and stopping at 30 points. An excellent work result popped up from the machine next to it, prompting Ye Lan to leave the containment room.

Just as he was packing up to leave, the slime moved. Seeing his intention to leave, the strawberry-flavored slime ball pulled off a ball of slime from its body and rolled it into the shape of a heart.

Abnormalities are not mindless savage creatures. They are salvaged from human hearts and have twisted emotions. This heart-shaped slime ball filled with love finally floated above Ye Lan's head. It is both a protection for him and a bomb that can transform others into slimes.

Ye Lan sighed at Dissolving Love who was looking at him in confusion, turned around and walked back. He squatted in front of Dissolving Love's body, ignored the requirements of the rules, and put his hand into her strawberry-flavored mucus.

At that moment, the whole slime of Dissolving Love began to tremble. She regarded Ye Lan's touch as an expression of love. The gradually melting slime ball became solid as Ye Lan pulled his hand out of Dissolving Love's body. It seemed that for a while, this slime ball would no longer affect the surroundings.

"Why did you take so long? If your work results hadn't been sent back first, I would have suspected that you had died in there."

A sent his greetings as soon as Ye Lan returned. It seemed that A was in a much better mood because of what happened during the time he was working.

"I won't say much more. You can take care of yourself. Mr. Best Employee, you will go to O-01-64's containment chamber next. When you come out, today's dawn test should be successfully passed."

"A, be careful. I have a feeling that today's test will be unusual."

For Ye Lan, as long as he could survive these last five days, he would be willing to tell every employee in the company all the information he knew.

Unfortunately, the script cannot be changed. Everything is for the launch of the Seed of Light. All he and Angela can do is remain silent. Even if they want to remind others, in the end it can only turn into a dry sentence of "be careful".

Taking a deep breath, Ye Lan, who had recovered from his physical and mental injuries in the lounge, walked into O-01-64, the holding room of the Greedy Queen.

Chapter 46. Day (Part )

Walking into another corridor with the slime ball floating above his head that was emitting warm love to him all the time, Ye Lan soon arrived in front of the containment room for another abnormality that was newly admitted today.

O-01-64, the Greedy Queen.

Ye Lan could still vaguely remember that this girl preferred instinct and communication work, so he picked up the items needed for communication work from the shelf next to him and walked into the automatically opened door.

In the hall of the holding room, there was a golden egg-shaped container with patterns painted all over it. Stripes, squares, and egg-shaped patterns were piled up chaotically and redundantly on the egg-shaped container. When Ye Lan saw it for the first time, he got goose bumps because of its uncomfortable chaos.

"Ha, it turns out that the outer shell of the real Greedy Queen is far more uncomfortable than the one in the game."

Ye Lan complained in a low voice, trying to divert his attention from the appearance of the container. However, even though he lowered his voice deliberately, he was still caught by the girl in the egg-shaped container.

There is a diamond-shaped translucent window in front of the egg-shaped container. Through the window, you can see a black-skinned girl with long white hair floating in it. The girl is wearing a dress with a golden checkered pattern and is looking at Ye Lan curiously.

On the energy counter, the first bar lit up.

Ye Lan gently patted the egg-shaped container with a big mouth on the top, and said to the girl who was staring at him inside: "Ah, I have tried my best to lower my voice, but it seems that I still disturbed you."

Perhaps some people would think that she was trapped in this golden egg-shaped container, but Ye Lan, who knew the information of all the abnormalities that appeared in the game, knew that she sealed herself in this container.

Just to prevent her, who had already devoured the entire world, from continuing to devour more.

The smiling girl didn't talk to Ye Lan, but just continued to look at him. Seeing that the girl in the container didn't want to talk to him for the time being, Ye Lan didn't force her. He placed the work items in their proper places, then took his clipboard and sat down in front of the container, facing the girl in the window.

"It seems that you don't want to talk to me, so let me talk to myself."

The expression on the girl's face remained the same, but her lake green eyes turned, conveying her curiosity to him.

"It is the story of a little girl, and also the story of a heroic girl. At first, the girl was just a girl, yearning for happiness, and she got the glove that gave her power."

The energy counter suddenly jumped up.

"and many more……"

The girl in the container seemed to have thought of something, and her beautiful eyes widened in panic. Her hurried voice was blocked by the container, and the words spoken by the girl, who seemed to be wrapped in amber, were only heard by the faint sound of mosquitoes and flies.