Cyberpunk, but urban

With his limbs broken and kneeling on the ground, Roland was finally able to escape from his anger for a short time and began to think about how to deal with the woman in front of him whom he was sure he could not beat.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that there was almost no difference between the Angelica in front of him and the real Angelica, and Ye Lan's words "Your wife is a good person." also appeared in his mind.

Oh no, this can’t be the real Angelica.

The moment this thought emerged in Roland's mind, cold sweat began to flow down his back like rain. The pain of broken limbs did not seem so painful in the face of this fear.

"Uh, um...Angelica?"

Roland stammered and asked Angelica timidly, and then he received a beautiful smile from his wife.

"Why, do you really believe me this time?"

"Ahahaha..." Laughing is not much better than crying.

Then, he heard a question that sounded like a judgment: "Roland, where are your mask and the gloves I lent you?"

"This, this..." Roland was silent for a while. After a while, he realized that he couldn't avoid it, so he told Angelica all his experiences bit by bit, like squeezing toothpaste.

Soon, the lady in front of him fell silent with a stiff smile. For a moment, Roland felt the threat of death.

"Well, can you say something?"

"Just kneel here like this." Angelica said, then left Roland alone here and went back to look after her lovely daughter.

Chapter 64: Alley Rat

"So how did Roland end up being moved to the reception room?"

"He fainted from the pain, so I moved it here while I was healing him."

At this point, even Angela, who didn't quite understand emotions, couldn't help but smile. The beautiful Sanwu beauty smiled in front of Ye Lan, and even Ye Lan, whose emotions were worn out in the endless reincarnation, couldn't help but stare at her for a moment.

It was not until Luna, whose body was only 30% transparent, came over holding Mrs. Angelica's daughter that Ye Lan came back to his senses from the smile just now.

"Come to think of it, I haven't asked this little girl's name yet. Did the couple give her a name?"

"Teresa means precious treasure," Angela said. Roland and his wife named their child this name, and she also helped them. Therefore, Angela is also a little proud of this name.

"That's good. I thought it would be called Yulan Dell."

"Yulan Dell?"

"This is the sword that Roland uses most often. If you change its name to something more feminine, it's called this."

After listening to this, Angela turned around and looked at Roland who was knocked to the ground by the dictionary, and then lay there: "If it's just him... maybe it's possible."

After talking about this, Ye Lan had little time left to stay in Angela's library, so they talked about the last thing.

"By the way, is your library almost ready?"

"Yes, the next step is to distribute invitations and carry out the light recycling plan." Angela said, looking at the door leading outside the library.

"The plan to collect the city's books, find the Book of Truth, and make you a human?"

"You really know everything."

"I only know part of what I should know."

Ye Lan looked at his body, which was only 5% transparent, and asked Angela the last question: "What is the book you invited me to use?"

After he asked the question, Angela fell silent.

After a while, when Ye Lan and Luna left the library, Angela said to him: "...It's my own book."

……

……

The next moment, Ye Lan and Luna, pulling their suitcases, returned to the place where they signed the invitation letter. From where they were now, they could easily see the wall between L Nest and Alley 12.

These walls were built by the old L Corporation to distinguish the back alley from the nest. The newly born Lobotomy Corporation was focused on the research of the Seed of Light Project and did not pay attention to these walls, so they were eventually used.

There are countless censorship stations under this wall, but at this point in time, there should be no one conducting censorship there.

After all, the Lobotomy Corporation has been disintegrated, and the L-wing has been broken. There is no real difference between the L-nest and the back alley. In fact, without the protection of the World Wing, the residents of the nest are not as good as those in the back alley who they usually look down upon.

"Hey! Stop wasting time and cut the grass! Zwei's bastards may catch up with us at any time!"

In the security area of ​​Alley 12, two figures stood near a corpse, and a thinner figure was squatting on the corpse, doing something.

"I'm trying my best! This kid's internal organs are not normal, so it's hard for me to operate. I've never heard of this kind of body modification surgery..."

The squatting figure was a woman. She had cut open the chest and abdomen of the corpse and was harvesting his internal organs.

The man who was responsible for protecting the woman and also helping her pursed his lips and said in confusion: "No matter from which angle you look at it, his internal organs are very strange. He really..."

“…Damn it! Their footsteps are getting closer! Don’t even think about cutting it off nicely, just tear it off!! If this drags on, none of us will be able to save our heads!”

A man who looked much older than him and was following them from a distance started shouting at them in a low voice. Apparently, some of the Second Association's finishing men had noticed something was wrong and were rushing towards them.

"Hmm... ? How could there be something like this in his body..." Lenny, who was in charge of harvesting the internal organs, slowed down his hands. There was clearly something inside the chest cavity of this corpse that shouldn't be there.

"No matter what it is, pack it all up! There's no time!"

Pete, the man in charge of surveillance, could already see the silhouettes of the Second Association's finishing men. If they were any slower, they might not have a chance to escape.

“Almost done!”

Hammer, the man who was in charge of protecting Lenny while he harvested the viscera, shouted at Pete, then picked up the backpack filled with viscera and pulled Lenny towards the retreat route Pete had prepared.

“Run away!!”

The three of them went into the alley like mice going into a hole. When the ninth-rank finishers from the Second Association arrived at the scene, there was only a body with its internal organs missing lying there.

"Damn rats, they even stole our organs!"

One of them cursed, but there was nothing more they could do. Those rats in the back alley were just like what they were called, and once they got into the back alley, no one could find them.

However, Pete and his three back alley rats would never have imagined that at this time when night was about to fall, there would be travelers with luggage wandering around in the back alley.

And it just happened to hit their escape route.

"Pete, there's someone ahead!"

The sharp-eyed Lenny spotted the figure in front of him at the first moment, but the distance was too far and the fog was too thick, so he couldn't see clearly who the other person was.

"Damn it, could it be that the route has been discovered by the Second Association?" Pete clenched his teeth and said to his two companions, "Keep running over there. If anyone comes to stop us, we'll kill him too!"

"Do you want to... kill someone?"

This order scared Lenny. Before this, they were just doing the work of harvesting the internal organs from fresh corpses. Killing people was still too far-fetched for Lenny, a girl who spent the first half of her life in the examination village and tried to join the nest through examinations.

"Aren't back alleys places where people kill each other? You won't survive long if you're not prepared." Thor advised, tightening his weapon.

Soon, they were getting closer to the figure in the fog. When they got closer, they saw that it was just a young man with a child. They were also dragging luggage, and it was obvious that they had just arrived at this back alley.

Such people will often be robbed in the back alleys and lose everything.

But it's a good thing that you met the three of us. Even though harvesting offal is already a low-class job, we at least still have dreams and will not do such a tasteless thing.

As he passed by Ye Lan who was holding Luna's hand, Pete said to himself.

Chapter 65. Rat

"Are they guests of the library?" Luna looked up and asked Ye Lan.

"That's right, the three of them will be the first guests of the library." Looking at Pete and the other two fleeing far away, Ye Lan replied to Luna.

Pete, Lenny, and Thor. These three people are part of the largest group of street thugs in the back alleys of the city. This group is called rats by people with a little status in the city. They are a group of people who live in the back alleys like rats, loosely gathered together.

Basically, anyone who loses their livelihood in the back alleys and has difficulty making a living will become a rat. They live in a loose organization that cannot be called a gang, hoping to get through each day in peace and survive on the discarded waste of others. In order to survive in the back alleys, rats will act in groups, and they often cut out the internal organs of the abandoned corpses in the back alleys and sell them.

These people have often lost their dreams in their hearts, and living one more day is enough for them. The reason why Pete and the other two were targeted by the library is because they still have their dreams in their hearts, and this ambition has made the seeds of light sprout in their hearts.

"Ye Lan, aren't you going to chase them?" Luna asked.

"Why do you want to chase?" Ye Lan asked.

"I see you're very interested in them."

"No matter how interested you are, it's not as important as where we stay tonight, silly girl."

Ye Lan patted Luna's little head and took her to the back alley hotel in Alley 12. At this time close to the back alley late at night, except for the back alley hotel, which could be accommodated as long as you had money, other places willing to provide accommodation would more or less require other conditions.

Ye Lan didn't want to waste time just because he couldn't reach an agreement.

As they moved towards the hotel, Pete and his men also rushed back to their hideout in the back alley. Escaping here meant they were temporarily safe for the three of them.

“…Huh…Huh~ That was a close call.”

Lenny was panting heavily. For a girl like her, sprinting such a long distance at full speed was a difficult challenge.

"Pete, you are really brave. You actually dare to harvest the internal organs in Zwei's territory." Thor leaned against the wall of the hideout, supported his knees with his hands and said to Pete.

Thor smiled and said to Pete. Although he called Pete "boy", he was actually the youngest among the three of them.

Thor, who was only 22 years old, was thrown to the scavengers by the gang because his family could not afford the protection fee. Except for him who escaped by chance, the rest of his family members were all torn into pieces by the scavengers as fuel.

He therefore hated the hierarchy in the back alley, and was particularly dissatisfied with the unfair treatment of children, but he had no choice but to accept reality. In his opinion, Pete, who had a dream, was a very admirable person, but sometimes Pete's decisions were a bit impulsive.

"This is the only thing we can do now. We have to find a way to climb up no matter what, no matter...how..."

Peter was also panting heavily. It was not easy for a thirty-year-old like him to finish this distance. But no matter what, the three of them ran back in one piece, with their internal organs. That was enough.

"Hey... You're such an ambitious guy, it's rare these days. Let's first think of a way to sell the organs we cut off. The most urgent thing is to prepare the money to pay tribute to the "stray dog" as soon as possible."

"That's right... This might be a great opportunity for us to join an 'urban legend' level gang..." Pete nodded.

Yes, as long as the three of them can sell these internal organs, they will be able to collect the eyes needed to pay tribute to the [Street Dog] and have the opportunity to join the Street Dog.

The Lost Dogs are an urban legend-level gang under Thumb. The members of this gang have body-enhancing tattoos, wear eye-catching jewelry, and fight with bare hands.

Their style of doing things is quite violent, and their brutality is widely known. However, under the leadership of Jingmei, a leader who values ​​commitment, the members are able to maintain a certain order. The relationship between superiors and subordinates within the Bereaved Dogs is clear, but the members have a deep friendship and work closely together.

The Bereaved Dogs are not large in size, so they ask for money from the Rat to maintain their own operations. At the same time, as a subordinate gang of Thumb, the Bereaved Dogs also need to obey Thumb's orders and meet Thumb's needs.

But no matter what, even such a gang is an unprecedented good place for the rats in the back alley.

"Okay, everyone, come and see what we've harvested from this trip~"

Taking the backpack of entrails from Lenny, Pete opened it as the two men watched.

"…Hey! Are you kidding me? Are you sure you didn't cut it wrong?!"

The internal organs in the backpack did not look like what they should look like. Even the pre-cut offal sold in the vegetable market were much more complete than this mess of meat paste.

Lenny didn't want to be questioned because of this, so he quickly retorted: "That's why I said it before! That kid doesn't have any normal internal organs!"

"I thought the worst case scenario was that it was soaked in drugs like enkephalin... but this is too rotten, it looks like it was bombed."

Pete felt a toothache. Their plan to rely on these internal organs in exchange for tribute money was completely ruined.

"We only gave the guy anesthesia, but we didn't do anything." Thor went on to say that neither he nor Lenny had ever seen such a situation before, and now it seemed that even Pete, their leader, couldn't figure it out.

"It doesn't make sense... How can he walk on the street with his internal organs rotten like this..."

"I remember now. That guy had an orange circular symbol on the back of his neck. At first glance I thought it was a tattoo, but he didn't look like someone who would do a "tattoo surgery". He was just a nerd sitting in an office."

"Symbol? Tattoo? Damn, did we disturb a hornet's nest..." After hearing what Thor said, Pete's teeth hurt even more.

Regardless of whether he asked someone to draw this symbol or clone himself, or it was secretly carved by someone else, it can prove that this person is not just a nerd sitting in the office.

No matter who is behind him, they are not capable of dealing with it.

"Besides that... there was an envelope stuffed inside his body." Lenny rummaged through his backpack and pulled out an envelope.

"Why is there an envelope in my body? This is getting weirder and weirder... Let me see it!... An invitation letter from the library? What is this for..."

Pete took the envelope from Lenny. Inside the envelope was an invitation with red letters on a black background, which seemed to be from some strange place.

"Books? Can I take books from the library? What the hell..." Thor muttered. A few shabby books were meaningless to them.

Lenny sighed and said, "Alas... Anyway, this pile of rotten meat can't be sold for money. Tomorrow is the deadline for tribute. To be precise, we only have 7 hours left. It will definitely be too late to find someone to cut it again..."

"Let's go to the library mentioned in the invitation... Although I don't know what "books" specifically refers to, we have no choice. We must seize every opportunity in front of us."

"Aren't you just looking for death? Who knows what kind of crappy place that is?" Thor, who was cautious by nature, once again refuted Pete's idea, but he also knew in his heart that they basically had no choice.

"That's better than being killed by a stray dog ​​or a Zwei! We're screwed anyway! If you want to live, just shut up and follow me."

Chapter 66. First Reception

Throwing away the meaningless broken internal organs in his backpack, Pete took a deep breath and signed his name on the invitation. Soon after, Thor and Lenny also signed their names on the black invitation.

With a desperate look and the determination to gamble his life, Pete prepared to go to the library with his two friends.