Cyberpunk, but urban

"Isn't it part of the commission to protect your safety? There's nothing to thank you for."

Ye Lan shook his head. To be honest, D Nest was not a place that Ye Lan could do something about. However, this matter was not urgent. If there was no commission, he might consider coming here in two or three months.

"No, even if it's a commission, I shouldn't be impolite... I hope you can accept this card. The money stored in the bank will be considered as my additional commission."

"Well... OK, I'll take it." Seeing that Miss Zoe was very insistent, he accepted the card.

"By the way, the entire commission has been completed, but I have never heard of your family name. I wonder if you can satisfy me, Miss?" Ye Lan asked.

"Family name? Pero, our family name is Pero."

"Perot..."

Ye Lan glanced at the black cat abnormality beside him inconspicuously. After hearing Miss Zoe's last name, he might need to overturn his previous guess.

But it's none of my business, so what's the use of a new conclusion? Ye Lan thought about it secretly, then said goodbye to Zoe and took Luna into the D nest.

After all, they were people who came here with future senior executives, so the security employees of Company D at the checkpoint didn't dare to ask too many questions, and they certainly didn't intend to use their promotion opportunities in the second half of their lives to test what the relationship between Ye Lan and Miss Zoe was like.

After the two of them walked into Area 4 of D-Nest and could no longer see Miss Zoe and her black cat alter ego, Luna finally asked the question she had been thinking about all the way: "Ye Lan, how come the lady's last name is the same as Mao Mao's?"

Ye Lan shrugged and said to Luna, "God knows, but whether the black cat was named this because its owner's surname is Pero, or because its owner has this name, we don't need to care about it. After all, it's a matter of the Abnormality, there's no need to take it too seriously."

"Oh."

Ye Lan brought Luna here to visit the Lobotomy Corporation branch in Nest D. L Corporation, or Lobotomy Corporation, is the only World Wing in the city that produces efficient energy. Therefore, it has the special authority to build branches in every back alley and nest.

In Ye Lan's previous life, the Moon Project's works described in detail the characters of two branches. One was a branch from the comic book "WonderLab" whose specific location was unknown, and the other was a branch that was clearly located in the D Nest.

This branch in the D nest is where Yuri, a very popular character in "Prison Bus", used to work. She was also the first character invited on board by the player's team (she died shortly after the invitation was sent).

However, at this point in time, Ye Lan estimated that this good girl was still trying to find a way to escape from the D-Nest branch of the Lobelia Corporation, so he wanted to go over to help her and recruit her and her colleagues to work in his office.

By the way, several abnormalities in this branch were also collected back to the library.

"So how do we find the entrance to the D Nest branch?" Luna pulled Ye Lan's corner and asked him.

"That's very simple. Just ask someone and you'll know."

As Ye Lan spoke, he grabbed a passerby. The combination of knife and money did not take much effort to make this D-nest resident, who had never seen the back alleys, tell him everything he knew.

"Wow, are all these feathers of theirs so useless?" Little Luna, who came from the back alley, complained.

The feathers Luna mentioned refer to those residents who live in the nest and are directly ruled by the Wings of the World. No matter they are promoted from the alley or blessed by their parents, they have been in the nest since birth and are just a tiny feather on the Wings of the World.

"It's not that they are useless, but these people have been in a safe place like the Nest for a long time. People who have never seen swords and blood will definitely be scared."

Ye Lan let the passerby go and said to Luna.

Chapter 101. Apples, Apples, and Apples

"Haah...haah..."

A violent gasp was heard in the dim corridor, followed by scattered and light footsteps.

Yuli walked in the corridor sadly and tiredly. She hadn't eaten for three days. In order to avoid those moving clay dolls, she hadn't been able to sleep well these days.

The large round plate named [End Calendar] occupies the cafeteria of the company's facilities, and almost all the food ingredients in the company are sealed in the warehouse inside the cafeteria.

In addition to these ingredients, the surviving employees, including her, had consumed all the snacks and other foods they could find stored in vending machines throughout the facility, and they had consumed them all three days ago.

If they still can't find a way out, their only option is to eat the bodies of their dead colleagues, besides trying to contain the Doomsday Calendar again.

but……

Yuri counted on her fingers the number of ego equipment they still had, but the more she calculated, the more desperate she became.

A week ago, the director of their department joined forces with the survivors of several other departments to launch an attack on the Doomsday Calendar. However, without the suppression of the Reverse Kabbalah Tree of Life system, the Doomsday Calendar, which was already a high-risk He-level abnormality, was no longer something that the branch staff who could not enter the headquarters could handle.

Even though the kind-hearted department manager had put on the most powerful ego equipment they had, he was still ground into an unrecognizable meat paste in the calendar that looked like a disc and a stone carving in an instant.

The overflowing blood not only dyed the other employees who were in the cafeteria red, but also turned the entire cafeteria into a living hell.

"Do we... do we really have a chance to get out?"

A hint of despair emerged in her eyes. Perhaps it would be better to choose to commit suicide according to the employee handbook and use the 9mm pistol that was issued to each of them when they first joined the company.

Just as she was thinking this, the corridor wall on her side suddenly made a sharp noise of metal breaking, and before she could react, a sharp tree root shot out from the gap in the wall and stabbed towards her head.

Having missed the first chance to dodge, Yuli tried her best but was unable to completely avoid this attack. The sharp and hard tree root passed through her right eye and nailed into the wall on the other side, taking away one of her eyes.

Yuli, who had lost her eye, had no time to feel the pain. She could only grit her teeth and quickly run in the direction she came from. More and more, countless tree roots stabbed around the first tree root. The thick wooden structure blocked the corridor layer by layer, piercing everywhere. No matter how fast Yuli ran, it seemed that she could not escape from the attack of these tree roots.

As if to prove the meaning of the idiom "misfortunes never come alone", Yuli, who was running desperately towards the end of the corridor, felt a pain in her calf and rolled forward.

When she came to her senses from the dull pain from the fall, Yuli discovered that a large piece of flesh and blood had been taken away from her left calf by the roots that had drilled out of the corridor floor.

Blood gushed out from the wound where a large piece of flesh was missing. For a moment, Yuli didn't know whether she would die first from being pierced through the body by the roots, or from the severe blood loss.

What she didn't know was that the reason why the Ebon Queen's Apple suddenly caused such severe damage was because someone brought his adopted daughter all the way from the surface into its containment chamber.

As for what the person in the abnormality containment room who broke the Ebon Queen's Apple was doing at the moment, it was actually very simple. He was just holding Luna and dodging the countless roots that sprang out from under the body of the Ebon Queen's Apple.

This Apple Queen is a Waw-level anomaly. After losing the suppression of the Reverse Kabbalah Tree of Life system, she revealed her most violent side.

My dear readers, please imagine that if you were locked up in a prison, some extremely powerful technological device was used to suppress your ability to move, and then people would enter your prison from time to time like a toy to do annoying things.

So when you escape this oppression and are able to tear open this prison and regain your freedom, what will be your first reaction?

At least the first reaction of the Ebon Queen's Apple was destruction and revenge, wanton destruction and wanton revenge. Killing every living thing in this facility, or being killed by one of the living things here, became its only thought now.

This meant that Ye Lan, who had been planning to communicate with it and calm its emotions using the same final observation method as the other abnormalities in the headquarters, had no chance to transform himself into the abnormality's egg.

"Ye Lan...why don't you beat it up first?" Luna in Ye Lan's arms said to him, and then she saw Ye Lan shaking his head at her.

For Ye Lan, it was not difficult to defeat the Ebony Queen's Apple. If he wanted, he could summon the Apocalypse Suit and turn it back into the form of an Abnormality Egg within a few minutes.

But there was a problem that prevented him from doing so immediately.

The little Luna in his arms was not an expert who could rely on her own strength to dodge the attack of the Ebony Queen's Apple for a few minutes. If he put the little girl down now, it might only be a matter of seconds before he would have to collect the body of his little girl.

"It's so difficult to hold on... I should have changed my position and hit him." Ye Lan sighed and used another power of the ring.

"Snow White's apple, let it see the difference between the original and the subspecies!"

The apple that regarded itself as a princess who had been sleeping for a long time appeared behind Ye Lan. The shadow raised its right hand, and countless thorns and vines pierced the ground, entangled with the roots of the Ebony Queen's apple, and began an endless struggle.

"In the name of love and justice, Queen of Hate, please do me a favor."

"In the name of love and justice, Magical Girl?——Make a shining debut!!!"

I don't know if this counts as a greeting, anyway, at the same time as the lines that made Ye Lan and Luna dig their toes into the ground sounded in the containment room, a magic cannon that penetrated the entire facility was shot out from the staff in the hands of the Queen of Hate. While piercing through the Ebony Queen's Apple, it also penetrated through several containment rooms behind it.

Yuli, who was lying on her back in the corridor waiting for death, suddenly saw a horrible beam of light passing in front of her in a trance caused by blood loss, and then pierced through a huge golden apple that was moving back and forth in the direction her head was heading.

Chapter 102. Hateful Queen

"Hehe... they said there are no bad guys in the world anymore, but it turns out they were all lying to me..."

The magical girl with blue hair and a staff as tall as her with stars and wings on the top was beside her. She pinched her waist, looked at Ye Lan with her nose sticking out, and said to him: "Whether it's this bad guy or the bad guy in the distance, they have been beaten back to their original form by this beautiful girl!"

"..."

Ye Lan was speechless for a moment as he looked at the Queen of Hate who was circling around him in a haughty manner in front of him. He had never imagined that this abnormal being from one of the magical girl series could actually pass through layers of time and space and be teleported here from the books in the library simply by relying on the power summoned by the ring.

You know, the abnormalities he summoned before, whether it was the Greedy Queen or Snow White's apple just now, were all phantoms with the ability to attack at full strength only once.

"How did you run away from the library?" After holding it in for a long time, Ye Lan finally asked this question. Although he could already imagine what kind of stupid answer the girl in front of him would give him, he still asked the question.

"To explain how I got here... Wherever there is evil, there must be justice!!!"

really……

Ye Lan thought in his heart that the Queen of Hate might be very suitable to be Don Quixote's ego equipment. After all, this silly girl is just as silly as Don Quixote, who is now working as a cleaner in an office where no one knows where.

Moreover, the justice they pursue is also a false justice which they themselves know very well.

But no matter what, now that this fantasy entity has come here, he can only take this silly girl with him temporarily.

With the arrival of the Queen of Hate, Luna in Ye Lan's arms felt an unprecedented sense of crisis. Although it seemed not a happy thing to feel a sense of crisis about a non-human creature that Ye Lan called an abnormality, Luna still began to worry whether her position would be taken away by this cute girl who could help Ye Lan solve many enemies.

"Ye Lan, shouldn't we go find the person you want to find?" Luna pulled the corner of Ye Lan's clothes, interrupting his conversation with the Queen of Hate.

"You're right, it's time to look for that girl with the apple head." Ye Lan said, and put Luna on the corridor floor full of holes.

"Queen of Hate, help me find someone alive here." Ye Lan said to the magical girl. She accepted the order without any resistance and disappeared from the spot in a flash with the help of the power of the magic circle that actually had no logic at all.

"Come on, let's get moving too."

Ye Lan said, and extended his hand to Luna. The two of them first recovered the Abnormal Egg of the Ebony Queen's Apple, and then took the dimensional bag containing the Abnormal and walked along the hole punched by the Queen of Hate all the way to the depths of the facility.

Soon, the figure of the little girl with blue and pink as the main colors appeared in front of the two of them. However, the Hateful Queen who appeared in front of Ye Lan and Luna at this time did not have the bright smile on her face when she just came here.

"unacceptable……"

The Queen of Hate murmured something so low that neither of them could hear clearly. She seemed to have run through the entire facility in just a few minutes. However, seeing that there were no employees around her, Ye Lan could tell that there were probably no living people here.

"Hey, wake up."

Leaving Luna waiting there, Ye Lan approached the Queen of Hate alone. This abnormality had a very famous title among the players of Lobotomy Corporation: a member of the Civilian Protection Association.

Once the facility enters the second-level alarm stage, the Queen of Hatred will escape and participate in the work of suppressing other escaped Abnormalities, but at this moment she will uncontrollably injure the player's employees. If the death toll of the entire facility's employees exceeds 20% during the suppression process, she will transform into a monster after a period of hysteria.

When Ye Lan was playing the game, she used to call this form the form in which she transformed from a magical girl into a witch in the pollution.

"You are not the only one who is righteous, and you are not the only one who can fight against evil." Ye Lan said to the trembling Queen of Hate: "The evil in the world is not a problem you need to consider. The world does not need your own efforts."

"...I think so. You've told me more than once that I must admit that I'm no longer a magical girl, right?"

Hearing Ye Lan's words, she felt like a switch was pressed. She lowered her head, tears welling up in her eyes, and this humanoid abnormality was about to cry.

But no matter what, after she knew the truth, the magical girl was no longer a magical girl.

After losing the restraints of a magical girl, she is just a lively, cute girl who occasionally has a little trouble. (Note: This evaluation was given by Angela after the final successful observation.)

While Ye Lan was comforting the hysterical Queen of Hate, Luna saw a pink-haired sister lying on the ground at the end of the corridor, still breathing.

"Ye Lan, there are survivors."

Soon, the two of them and the Queen of Hate's Abnormality surrounded the seriously injured girl. Judging from her red Lobotomy uniform and rose-red hair, she should be the employee of the D-Nest branch that Ye Lan wanted to find.

"Let me see... She lost an eye, which is not a serious injury. Her calf was injured and she lost a lot of blood..." Ye Lan took out medical supplies from the dimensional bag and began to give her a simple bandage.

Next, they took the HP ammunition from the K Company checkpoint. The potion manufactured by Singularity Technology called Hela Genesis solved Yuli's blood loss problem very well. However, the low-concentration potion used by the K Company security personnel was not enough to completely heal the lost tissue in her body.

During the time she was unconscious, Ye Lan and Luna also saw the golden apple-like egg of the abnormal being placed at the end of the corridor.

"Wow, it's a bad guy..."

The Queen of Hatred was the first to speak, and she also used her staff to release star-shaped magic bullets at the Abnormality Egg. If someone like Luna, who had never seen this hypocritical golden apple, would be fooled by its current appearance, the Queen of Hatred, who was also an Abnormality, would not.

In the eyes of these abnormalities, other creatures that are also abnormalities have obvious differences from their egg form.

Chapter 103. D Nest Branch

The hypocritical Golden Apple is only a He-level abnormality and can't make any waves in front of the Waw-level Queen of Hate.

After a few magic bullets, the golden apple disguised as the Abnormality Rebellion could no longer maintain this posture and was pierced through its golden apple-like body.

Then, the golden apple lost its golden color, and countless maggots poured out of the rotten red apple, transforming into the limbs and head of this abnormality.

"Ugh!" Luna made a rare sound that a girl of her age would make when she saw something disgusting. The apple filled with maggots was indeed enough to make her feel sick.

"What a disgusting villain, let me destroy you with the power of love!!!"

The Queen of Hatred seemed to be equally disgusted, and unleashed her most powerful attack at the Abnormal. A laser that was almost as wide as herself rushed out along the magic circle in front of the staff in the Queen's hand, submerging the fake apple in a beam of "magic" light.

Then, the Abnormality Egg that looked like a fruit core fell to the ground. Its upper part had the shell of a golden apple, while its lower part was covered with maggots.

"To be honest, I don't want to install this thing."

Ye Lan sighed and stuffed the Abnormal Egg into his dimensional bag. He had planned to throw the bag directly into the library after returning.

While the Queen of Hate was dealing with the hypocritical golden apple, Yuli, who had been hit by Ye Lan's HP ammunition, slowly woke up from her coma.

Although she still felt a dull pain in her calves, she was now able to move slowly.

"Who are you?" Yuli, who had just woken up, asked Ye Lan who was collecting the abnormalities.

After all, Ye Lan was the only one among the three of them who looked like an adult. If Yuli had just taken a quick look at the three of them, she would not have asked Luna and the Queen of Hate.

"Well... just think of me as a special agent sent by the headquarters for search and rescue, even though the headquarters is also finished now." Ye Lan said: "Just call me Ye Lan, the girl next to you is Luna, and this one over here... she is the Queen of Hate."

"Ye Lan, Luna, disgust... eh?!!!"

With a swish, Yuli jumped up from the ground.