Cyberpunk, but urban

Ye Lan knew what she said. This was not the first time he had come into contact with the Greedy Queen in front of him. In countless reincarnations, he had completed the final observation of the abnormality in front of him countless times and gained her full trust countless times.

However, with each reincarnation, his relationship with the abnormalities returned to zero again and again.

The person who already knew everything did not listen to the queen's plea and continued: "The girl who gained power used it to protect others. With her efforts, countless people gained their own happiness. At this moment, the ordinary girl disappeared, and the girl called a hero was born."

The counter surged again.

The girl in the container threw herself against the diamond-shaped window in fear. Two lines of tears flowed from her lake green eyes, then slid down her cheeks and disappeared. It seemed that in this container, even tears would be greedily swallowed up.

"Don't say any more, don't let me hear that ending..."

Ye Lan cruelly and ruthlessly ignored her again and continued to narrate: "However, looking at the happy expressions of the people, the heroic girl herself gradually felt hungry. 'Why can they smile happily? What is my happiness?' The girl couldn't stop thinking, and the increasingly unbearable feeling of hunger tortured her."

The 22-grid energy counter was instantly filled, and an "excellent" evaluation report was spit out from the machine beside it. The work items that Ye Lan had arranged in the containment room fell to the ground in a flash, and everything seemed to persuade him not to speak out the ending of the girl.

"The first seed of desire came from pure desire for happiness. The hunger eventually devoured the girl. Power, money, glory and other kinds of pleasures, the girl devoured everything she could find. The greed for happiness eventually destroyed everything. The endless desire brought eternal despair. In the end, the girl who devoured everything devoured herself."

"You are the girl who devoured herself."

Finally, Ye Lan told the girl who was floating helplessly in the container the truth of everything. And that egg-shaped container was the horrible monster that the girl had transformed into in her greed.

It and the girl in it were both part of her.

"The story is over, and my work is over." Ye Lan patted the container gently and said goodbye to the girl in the container: "Goodbye, I hope you will be willing to talk to me next time I see you."

Gritting his teeth, Ye Lan left the still crying Greedy Queen behind and walked out of the holding room quickly. He had a feeling that the next time he saw the Greedy Queen again, he would be able to conduct the [Final Observation].

[Final observation] This setting, which only exists in the Lagecy version of "Lobotomy Corporation", became a benefit for him after he traveled through time, although it could not be considered a golden finger.

This golden finger seemed to have no other function except to unlock all the information of the corresponding abnormality after successfully completing the final observation. But after countless reincarnations, Ye Lan finally discovered its true ability that had been hidden.

Feel everything about the abnormalities, understand their distortions, become their own distortions, and ultimately, transcend their distortions and achieve your pure self.

Just like the ego equipment he is wearing, which comes from the Smiling Corpse Mountain. Although it is just an artificial ego created by using the energy they extracted from the abnormalities, as long as he wants, he can always make this ego equipment merge into one, turning it into a distortion or even a divine one.

Before the Light Seed was launched, only Geburah could do this while she was alive. After she died and was made into a box spirit Sephirah, this power only appeared briefly when she collapsed and was undergoing core suppression.

Ye Lan heard a series of alarms as he left the containment room. His vision suddenly blurred, and a line of text appeared in front of him like a phantom:

[The tower of light called the "library" rises from the ground. The secret place that carries life and death will naturally attract the "finisher" to stop.]

This line of pale white handwriting announced to him the coming test, but this test was not at noon, but the more dangerous test at dusk.

Ye Lan hadn't yet confirmed whether he had wasted too much time in the containment room and missed the two tests at dawn and noon, or whether his existence had become some kind of random number that caused the pale dusk to arrive in the company early. A ring interrupted his thoughts, and the voice of Supervisor A came from the loudspeaker in the corridor:

"Your premonition has come true. Today's test is indeed unusual. Please note that there are a total of four test derivatives, all of which appear in your department. Please try to hold on. I have notified employees from other departments to come to support."

"Don't!"

Hearing what Director A said, Ye Lan immediately rejected the support he sent. The slime ball on his head was already splashing slime around. If other colleagues came to support him, it wouldn't take long for them to be infected with the slime and turned into D-03-109-2. By then, even he would be killed, and there would be no chance for the test to take action.

"Yes... I see. Support has already been sent back to the various departments. You must handle this test alone. Is there anything you need?"

"Send Bo Ming here."

"Go for it, we can't fail."

Ye Lan tightened the smile in his hand and took a deep breath.

A Terminator with a fully cyborg body and only one eye emitting scarlet light appeared at the end of the corridor he was facing. At the end of the corridor behind him, a Terminator with a halo on his head, wearing armor with angel reliefs, mainly white in color, with blue and gold decorations, and floating in the air also appeared almost at the same time.

"Ha, Red Finisher and White Finisher, I'm really lucky."

Ye Lan laughed twice. The weapon in his hand could only cause erosion damage, which was simply called black damage in the game. Coincidentally, the two test derivatives surrounding him were not immune to erosion damage, and erosion damage was even the weakness of the red finisher.

Ignoring the white Terminator who took off the halo on his head and started shooting at him, Ye Lan quickly rushed towards the red Terminator who was facing him.

The fully cybernetic Terminator raised his hand cannon and shot at Ye Lan, trying to block Ye Lan's charge. Relying on the fact that Xiaoyan had great resistance to physical attacks, Ye Lan quickly approached the red Terminator despite the impact of the bullets.

The huge hammer in his hand drew an arc from his feet and hit the red finisher's chin from bottom to top. The brain contained in the iron sheet shook violently due to the impact, and the red finisher's movements stopped instantly.

Ye Lan raised the giant hammer to his head by inertia and mercilessly smashed the side of the hammer with the big mouth on the mechanical head of the Terminator. As the big mouth on the hammer bit, both the red Terminator and the white Terminator found that their movements were slowed down by half.

"Do you like Laughing Nightmare's special ability? Oh yeah, I almost forgot, you are just phantoms fished out of the well, you can't communicate with me at all."

While talking nonsense, Ye Lan dodged the lasers released by the two finishers in front and behind him at the same time. The lasers he dodged pierced through the two finishers who were also undergoing the test, leaving visible burn wounds on their bodies.

Taking advantage of the moment when the two men were injured and their movements slowed down, Ye Lan slid through the side of the red finisher and gave him a hard hit from behind with his smile, knocking the red finisher who was forcibly turning around and swinging his knife away, making him fall into the mist left by the laser released by the white finisher.

"Humph!"

The silver-white mist obviously had the effect of hurting others. The red finisher who was thrown into it let out a muffled groan, and then tried to escape from the mist. Then, Ye Lan, who was passing by, knocked him to the ground again with the huge hammer in his hand.

Ye Lan bypassed the red finisher and headed straight for the white finisher. He approached the white finisher in two or three steps, stepped on the ground, and leaped up with the help of the recoil, smashing the white finisher's face with a hammer. In an instant, the big mouth on the hammer left four bite marks on the finisher's face, and the whole hammer seemed to have grown a little bigger.

Being forced to his knees by Ye Lan's seemingly slow but actually swift continuous quick attacks, the white finisher maintained this posture and suddenly began to pray.

This is the special ability of the White Terminator. During the prayer process, any damage done to him will be returned to the attacker. Naturally knowing this, Ye Lan turned around and continued to fight with the Red Terminator. Under Ye Lan's conscious inducement, the two's fighting position gradually approached the White Terminator.

By the time the red finisher released his most powerful move, the spinning slash, his attack range had already included the white finisher as well.

Instantly, three slashes chopped down on the praying white finisher, cutting off all the limbs of the red finisher. Ye Lan delivered the final blow at the right time, and the white finisher also stopped praying and stood up at this moment.

Ye Lan passed over the body of the red finisher and hit the white finisher back in front of the corpse. The dead corpse began to execute his death language ability after death. A laser shot into the sky, and then swung a 240-degree slash in the direction he was looking at. The white finisher who stayed in the slash direction was instantly swallowed by the laser.

His weapon fell and stood on the ground, devouring the body of the White Finisher and emitting a large amount of mist that could cause mental damage.

An anti-psychic shield appeared on Ye Lan's body, and A's voice sounded at the same time: "I will send Bo Ming to the main lounge. There are still two tests left. It all depends on you."

Without replying, Ye Lan relied on the shield on his body and rushed into the lounge with all his strength against the fog. The regeneration reactor and the mental pollution neutralizing gas immediately began to work, recovering Ye Lan's physical and mental damage.

Ye Lan took off the Nightmare Suit and put on the thin nighty suit that someone had put on the sofa. The proof of victory over the Doombird - Dawn, this wing with dim yellow eyes spread out from Ye Lan's right back and became Ye Lan's single wing.

Picking up the weapon of the Bo Ming suit - a big sword, Ye Lan turned and rushed to another corridor, where the other two test derivatives, the Black Terminator and the Blue Terminator, were wandering around.

Chapter 46. Day (Part )

Almost at the same time as Ye Lan stepped into the corridor, the blue finisher, who was dressed as if he had walked out of a classic Italian gangster movie, suddenly got into his suitcase and disappeared from Ye Lan's sight.

"Ah, a test derivative disappeared!"

"Yes, I'm looking for it. Don't worry about that guy. I'll let the others deal with it. Just focus on the one in front of you."

Supervisor A's voice immediately rang out from the speakers in the corner. While he was speaking, Ye Lan had already started fighting with the black finisher who was holding a hammer with a hammer face that looked exactly like the big bird's eyes.

Bo Ming's weapon, the serrated sword with countless dim yellow pupils, was as light as a feather in Ye Lan's hand, but when it hit the finisher's hammer, it was as heavy as a mountain.

The ornament wing named Dawn on his right back blocked every attack made by the Black Terminator with the iron hook at the end of the hammer handle. The Bo Ming, which was capable of causing four colors of damage in one strike, caused countless wounds on the Black Terminator.

However, the one who had the upper hand at this time was the Black Finisher who was struggling to fend off Ye Lan's attack, only because the weapon in his hand had an inverse Kabbalah counter that could instantly empty the containment room and release the abnormalities in all the containment rooms in the corridor.

The corridor he was in at that moment was exactly the corridor where the Dissolving Love was. Once the Black Finisher released the Dissolving Love, Ye Lan, who was carrying the slime ball of Dissolving Love, would be dissolved into a slime by the slime ball on his head, becoming a derivative of Dissolving Love.

"We cannot give him the opportunity to unleash the weapon's special abilities. We must prevent him from taking care of other things."

Ye Lan was calculating his own advantages in his mind, and the greatsword in his hand trembled in front of him. Every pupil on the sword lit up with a dim yellow light, and the whole sword emitted the sharp cry of the bird of doom. Ye Lan's body danced with the greatsword, and a whirling blow left four dimly glowing scars on the body of the black finisher.

The light on the scar burst out at the same time Ye Lan retracted his stance, causing the black finisher who had just raised the hammer in his hand and was about to smash it on the ground to fall to the ground.

"Looks like you don't stand a chance."

The Dawn Wings on Ye Lan's right back spread wide, and countless dim yellow pupils stared at the Black Terminator. He raised his right hand holding the greatsword high, and then swung it down, chopping off the Black Terminator's head from his body.

The headless corpse let go of the hammer in his hand, and the hook on the end of the hammer handle that fell to the ground inserted into the body of the black finisher. A sucking sound was heard, and a halo with a dim inner circle and a dark outer circle suddenly lit up outside the pupils of the hammer.

Knowing that the attack automatically released by the weapon when the finisher died could not be stopped, Ye Lan did not step forward. Instead, he picked up the tools for insight work at the door of the containment room of Dissolving Love.

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The aura suddenly spread, and the abnormality containment rooms in the two corridors of the Construction Department fell into a state of meltdown at the same time. Ye Lan, who had been prepared for a long time, stepped into the containment room and saw the strawberry-flavored slime again.

Seeing Ye Lan coming in, the slime's slime face showed a happy smile, and the heart-shaped slime ball on his head seemed to be guided by something and plunged into the body of Dissolving Love in front of him.

It seemed as if this slime ball was watching all of Ye Lan's actions outside the containment room on behalf of Dissolving Love's main body. After taking back the slime ball, Dissolving Love showed a worried expression to Ye Lan.

This cute slime stretched out its hands towards Ye Lan, as if it was craving Ye Lan's love, and also as if it wanted to hug Ye Lan to comfort him. Affected by the sweet strawberry scent on her body, Ye Lan unconsciously stretched out his hands towards her.

But just when he was about to touch her slime body, Ye Lan woke up.

Should I accept her invitation or refuse?

A mysterious feeling told him that in this final reincarnation, if he made the wrong choice, he would forever lose the opportunity to have one final observation of the dissolving love.

So, what is there to refuse?

With a crazy smile that even Supervisor A could see through the cognitive filter, Ye Lan inserted his hand into the body of Dissolving Love.

The sweet strawberry scent emanating from its body kept drilling into Ye Lan's nose, and the feeling of the mucus sliding across his palm was so comfortable that it was indescribable. The dissolved love crawled towards Ye Lan, and soon his entire arm was submerged in its body.

An unforgettable sense of relief accompanied by a sense of crisis surged into my heart. Should I follow this sense of relief and let my whole body be swept away by the dissolving love, or should I follow that sense of crisis and pull my hand out?

That mysterious feeling once again forced Ye Lan to make a decision, and this time the decision would make him face death or success.

"Sorry, I have to pull my hand out now."

His fingers, which were immersed in the mucus of dissolved love, moved in her body for a moment, and then were slowly and carefully pulled out by Ye Lan.

The faint scent of strawberries lingered on his sticky hands. A pink heart that no longer dissolved floated above Ye Lan's head. She no longer longed for the love of others for the time being...

"Are you okay? I noticed that your spirit meter dropped a lot in an instant, but the energy counter showed all positive energy."

After leaving the containment room, Supervisor A's voice sounded again, asking him with concern.

Supervisor A, Supervisor Ayin.

He may not have realized it yet, but he has become more and more like his complete self. Ye Lan, who still remembers everything, knows that when he finds himself again, it will be the end of the Seed of Light plan, that is, the moment of Ayin's death.

But he wouldn't tell A, just as Angela wouldn't tell anyone else what she had been through, and he wouldn't tell anyone else what he knew.

The script still comes first.

"I'm fine. The meltdown of D-03-109 has been resolved. Have any useful management instructions been unlocked?" Ye Lan changed the topic to management instructions, interrupting A's questioning. He ran to the containment room in another corridor while waiting for A's response.

"This Abnormality is called Dissolving Love. To be honest, you were right to reject all my requests for other employees to come to support you. Sometimes I even wonder if you can predict the future."

"Let's not talk about this. How long will it take for O-01-64 to melt down?"

In order to prevent his outrageous behavior from causing Ayin's script to deviate, Ye Lan interrupted his topic again and asked A to focus back on work. After the work was finished, Angela would naturally not let this guy have time to think about whether he knew something he shouldn't know.

Although this was a bit of bullying that silly kid Angela, after all, he was just an employee struggling in the company and couldn't change things outside the department.

"If you run faster, you can probably get into the containment room in the last five seconds."

"enough!"

The ego accessory named Dawn brought Ye Lan all-round enhancement. With a flap of his wings, Ye Lan almost flew into the Greedy Queen's containment room.

A, who was sitting in front of the screen, looked at Ye Lan on the screen and asked Angela with a confused look on his face: "Angela, did he go in with the corresponding tools?"

"Yes, you just can't concentrate, please don't be distracted."

Angela on the screen was as sharp-tongued as ever, leaving A speechless.

……

……

"Get out of here, I hate you."

As soon as Ye Lan entered the containment room, the girl in the egg-shaped container in front of him angrily asked him to leave. However, for Ye Lan, who had dealt with her countless times, such words were nothing more than passing clouds in his ears.

"You understand, this is your past. You once fought to protect your happiness, and you always believed that the happiness of the world was your happiness."

It was as if a switch was touched. When Ye Lan began to tell her past again, the greedy queen in front of her fell into talking to herself.

“I’ve been trying to keep myself cheerful.”

"That's what made me what I am now... but so what? I don't care."

"Have you met my sisters?"

"We are always of one mind."

The egg-shaped container was vibrating, and Ye Lan was unable to determine every time whether the words were spoken by the container or by the girl inside it.

“We plan together and share common goals.”

"By the way..."

"Are you happy now?"

"I'm very happy."

The egg-shaped container was shaking violently, and this was the only sentence he could determine was spoken by the egg-shaped container.

"Don't lie to me."

"If you were really happy, would we still end up like this?"