Cyberpunk, but urban

"Oh? You actually know the Queen of Hatred? It seems that Miss Yuli, your position in the D Nest branch is not low." Ye Lan said.

"No, no... I just happened to see this name when I was transporting the eggs of the Abnormality. I'm just an employee in charge of transporting things."

What Yuli said was consistent with what she said in "Border Prison Bus". As for whether she was hiding something, Ye Lan didn't intend to care about her for the time being.

"By the way, the company branch should have a corresponding evacuation plan, right? How did you get locked up in there? And how are your colleagues doing now?" Ye Lan asked.

"Evacuate... I tried to evacuate, but the evacuation passage was destroyed. My department head led most of the employees to fight an Abnormality in the company cafeteria in order to retake it, and they all died. The rest of us fled in different places, and I'm not sure how many of us are still alive now."

Man-made destruction? Ye Lan heard something completely different from the original plot. Although Miss Applehead did not escape from the D Nest branch, it was already inconsistent with the original plot.

"Can you tell me more about it? About the part about human destruction." Ye Lan asked Yuli.

"Yes, after activating the company's sinking program, we moved towards the evacuation channel. But when we reached the exit of the evacuation channel, the activation terminal of the gate was destroyed by a terrible slash. With the ego equipment stored in our branch, there is no way to force the gate open, and there is no necessary time to repair it."

As Yuli spoke, her only remaining eye was filled with complete resentment. Ye Lan guessed that she should not be hiding anything about this matter.

But Ye Lan couldn't tell who might have done this just by describing a terrifying slash. "Where is your evacuation passage? Take me to see it if you can."

Ye Lan suggested this to Yuli, but she did not accept the order immediately. Yuli asked Ye Lan with some concern: "If you want to enter the evacuation passage, you must pass through the cafeteria. Can you deal with the abnormality that occupies there?"

Ye Lan pointed at the Hateful Queen who was fiddling with her wand beside him and said to Yuli, "Is it called the Doomsday Calendar? It's just a He-level abnormality. Don't be fooled by the fact that this girl looks just a cute little girl, her rating is Waw."

Suddenly, Yuli took a step back without leaving a trace, but as she stepped back, she bumped into Luna again.

"Are you serious about backing off?"

Luna, who was holding Yuli up, complained softly, which made Yuli's face turn the same color as an apple.

However, getting embarrassed was not without benefits. After this incident, Yuli let down her guard against Ye Lan and Luna, and was no longer as worried as before that she would be harmed by the Queen of Hate, her anomaly.

Under her guidance, the group soon encountered clay figurines made by the Doomsday Calendar in the cafeteria. These clay figurines had full-covering helmets similar to the stone plates of the Doomsday Calendar, with flames spewing out from the gaps in their eye sockets and necks, making crackling sounds.

The bodies of these clay dolls are like simple muscle fibers, and the lack of skin and other protective layers makes them very fragile. But there are so many of them that if ordinary company employees encounter them, there is almost no way to escape easily.

But they met Ye Lan with the Queen of Hate. He didn't even need to do anything. The Queen of Hate, who kept shouting that there were bad guys, smashed all the clay dolls into a puddle of mud on the ground.

As expected, the bodies of these clay dolls were made from the corpses of the employees who died in the facility. When Yuli was inspecting the battlefield, she dug out the employee ID cards they used from a puddle of mud.

However, dealing with the Doomsday Calendar itself took Ye Lan and the others some effort.

The calendar itself has almost no combat power. Apart from using the two giant hands that grew out of it to slap, it only has one move left, which is fire-breathing. To do this, it has to first catch someone close to its disc.

All the effort is spent on following its mechanism.

Physical, mental, corrosive, and soul. Ye Lan tried all four attack attributes set by the Lobotomy Corporation, but none of these four types of damage had any good effect on the Abnormality of the End Calendar.

However, when Ye Lan stuffed its derivative clay doll into its disc according to the mechanism in the game, it became visibly weaker.

Finally, after three sacrifices, the same as in the game, the Abnormal was satisfied and turned back into the Abnormal Egg.

Chapter 104. Traces of Slashing

"It's quite troublesome..."

Ye Lan stuffed the egg of the Doomsday Calendar's anomaly into the dimensional bag he carried with him, and now all the obstacles blocking him and the evacuation passage were removed.

Before moving on, Yuli, who had been hungry for three days, hoped that Ye Lan would allow her to go to the warehouse behind the cafeteria to find something to eat to fill her stomach.

"Are you sure there's anything to eat in there?"

Ye Lan looked at the bloody scene in the restaurant and didn't think there was anything edible in there.

"Well... the warehouse is actually behind the cafeteria. With U Company's current status preservation technology, there shouldn't be any problems, right?"

In fact, Yuli was not very sure, but she felt that if she didn't eat something, she would fall down in the corridor in front of Mr. Ye Lan from the headquarters before she even had to walk to the slash mark that left a deep impression on her.

"Come to think of it, what happened to your supervisor here? I mean the branch supervisor, not the department supervisor."

"The director of the branch? Sorry, we have never seen that director. Every day's work is automatically popped up from the system."

"Ha, then there's no need to worry about that supervisor. He probably committed suicide in his office."

Ye Lan casually spoke the horrible truth and stepped into the sea of ​​blood in the cafeteria. He pushed open the warehouse door for Yuli, which was stained with blood and other things of unknown origin.

"There are actually foods to eat... They are even ready-made foods."

In the status quo preservation stance, the ready-made dishes are stagnant inside, and even the heat they emit is bound in place by these stances, maintaining the appearance they were in when they were placed in these stances.

"Yuli, you've been hungry for three days. Choose something easy to digest and eat slowly."

Ye Lan stopped Yuli, who was immediately dragging her injured leg towards the warehouse, and gave her careful instructions.

"Oh, oh...it's easy to digest. Eat slowly."

Yuli's eyes had been caught by the steaming food. Although she was responding to Ye Lan, she probably didn't even know how much she had heard.

"When I was watching the plot, why didn't I notice that she needed care... Oh yeah, she was eaten by an apple right away, leaving only her head."

Secretly complaining about Yuli's performance, Ye Lan had to let Luna help her find a place to sit in the warehouse. In her current mental state, she might eat until her stomach exploded.

"Let me see where the breakfast is..."

Ye Lan walked along the warehouse corridor and finally saw the breakfast provided to the D Nest branch cafeteria under a sign that said "Breakfast Area". Of course, porridge, the most common breakfast staple for Asians, would not be absent.

A bowl of white porridge cooked over an old fire, made by an unknown chef, with a large amount of sugar added to make it into sweet rice porridge that was so sweet that it was greasy. Ye Lan put the porridge into Yuli's mouth bit by bit.

If you ask me whether this bowl of porridge is delicious or not, Yuli will definitely tell you that it is no longer something that can be described as delicious or not. A large amount of sugar has turned this bowl of white porridge, which originally had a strong rice aroma, into a sticky liquid that is sweet to the point of being bitter and has particles in it.

The feeling of passing this thing through your mouth and then swallowing it is as torturous as pouring syrup into your mouth.

But... this is indeed the fastest way to restore body functions. A large amount of refined carbohydrates seep into the body and can be converted into Yuli's physical energy in a short time.

"Mr. Ye Lan...can't you choose something more delicious?"

"I'll treat you to a meal when we get out. Now use this bowl of porridge to wake up your stomach."

Little Luna quietly rolled her eyes at Ye Lan who was deceiving the innocent little girl, then turned around and went into the lunch area to choose what she wanted to eat.

As for the Queen of Hatred, as an abnormality, her mind is filled with thoughts of her own justice and punishing evil. No matter the delicious food in front of her or the dirty environment outside the door, they are as if they do not exist to her.

Feeling the slight pain caused by her stomach, which had not worked for many days, suddenly accepting food again, Yuli stood up from the ground.

"Let's go. I should be able to hold on until we get out of here."

This time they did not stop for any longer. After leaving the cafeteria, they continued along another corridor and soon saw the entrance to the escape passage at the end.

At the end of the entrance, several slash marks that crossed the many equipment placed there were left abruptly. Yuli and other branch employees lived almost exclusively between two points, so it was not surprising that they did not know who had made these sword marks.

But Ye Lan was quite familiar with the owners of these traces. Just a few days ago, they had a big fight over a lady.

"Damn it, why is it Jin Zi Teardrop again? Is she so petty?"

Ye Lan cursed in a low voice, and then the girls around him heard it.

"Hey, is that the color-level finisher, Violet Teardrop?" This is what Yuli asked.

"Wow, why do I see that auntie everywhere..." This was Luna's complaint.

As for the Queen of Hatred, she just blinked her beautiful big eyes and put the name into the list of big villains in her mind.

After a detailed inspection, Ye Lan found another note on the broken screen of a computer.

The note read: Humph, I will cut off your support as a small revenge for you blocking my career.

If Ye Lan understood correctly, after that battle, Jin Zi Lei Di began the evacuation plan to destroy every branch of the Lobotomy Corporation in the city.

It is not difficult to investigate that Ye Lan wants to set up a cleanup firm to gather the surviving employees from various branches of the Lobelia Corporation. Considering the personal connections that Jin Zilei has in the city, it is easy to get this information.

Therefore, she did not cause trouble for Ye Lan during this period of time. Instead, she wandered around the city, killing all the employees who escaped from the Lobelia Corporation.

"I hope she will find Hua Agency soon..." Ye Lan threw down the note and prayed silently in his heart.

Hua Agency, a low-level finishing agency whose level would not exceed level eight.

But the reason why Ye Lan singled it out and prayed that Ms. Violet Teardrop would provoke it as soon as possible was because this agency, formed by the survivors of the lobotomy in the official comic "Wonderlab", had an ace finisher, Tai, who could perfectly use a unique ego equipment that was a fusion of her divine equipment and the ego suit developed by the person she loved with her life.

Chapter 105. Return

Tai, one of the protagonists of the official comic, is a deity who can travel through the ruins alone. However, according to the author's Q&A and the timeline, she and her colleagues should have just escaped from the branch using their retained ego equipment. They are probably still recovering from their injuries, or gradually starting to look for new jobs to make a living.

At this time when everyone is gathered together, if one wants to attack these branch employees, there is absolutely no chance without the full combat power of an Aleph-level abnormality.

"Alas, it's a pity that I won't be able to see the scene where Ms. Jin Zi Lei Di was humiliated." Ye Lan sighed with regret.

"Mr. Ye Lan, are we going to leave the branch directly next?"

After eating something to restore her strength, Yuli's fear of the abnormalities managed by the branch took over again. She subconsciously asked Ye Lan when he would leave, completely forgetting about other colleagues in the branch.

"Yuli..." Ye Lan turned his head and looked at her, "We still have to go see if there are any other people alive~"

Ye Lan understood Yuli's mentality at the moment. For Yuli, who might only be level two or three under the rating system of the Cerebrovascular Company, escaping from here quickly was definitely more important than helping her colleagues.

But... there are only three Abnormalities in this branch: the Doomsday Calendar, the Golden Apple of Falsehood, and the Ebony Queen's Apple, and the eggs they transformed into are now in his dimensional bag. The things that Yuri fears are actually non-existent.

"Eh?! Ah...I'm sorry, I..."

"I know you're afraid of encountering an Abnormality, but..." Ye Lan patted his dimensional bag and said to her, "Including the Doomsday Calendar you saw with your own eyes, there are a total of three Abnormalities in the D Nest branch."

As soon as she said this, Yuli regained her composure.

Ye Lan silently evaluated the girl's four-dimensional attributes. In terms of courage, she might not even be able to touch the third level. Judging from the fact that she did not discover that the golden apple eggs were mimics in the original plot, her caution level would not be above the fourth level.

Self-discipline is not something we can tell much from current performance, but at best it should be level four, and justice is the lowest, at most level two.

On the whole, Yuli should be considered a third-level employee of the Lobotomy Corporation, but this contradicts her claim that she was only involved in small jobs such as moving.

They checked along the route planned on the facility map, but unfortunately, they did not find any living branch employees along the way.

Judging from the fact that these three anomalies were all staying on the underground first floor when Ye Lan arrived, the possibility that there are still survivors on the lower two floors of this branch is indeed slim.

On the way to check on the survivors, Ye Lan asked Yu Li: "Speaking of which, Yu Li, what is your employee level? Is there a level three?"

"Huh? Mr. Ye Lan, why are you suddenly asking me this?" Yuli was a little confused by Ye Lan's sudden question.

"I opened a closeout agency to gather the surviving employees after the collapse of the L-wing." Ye Lan said, "After all, the demise of the Lobotomy Corporation is one thing, but our lives are another, right?"

Yuli touched her hair awkwardly and said to Ye Lan, "My employee level was just upgraded to level three, but within two days I received an order to abandon it..."

Ye Lan thought for a moment and said, "The results of the four quality tests are 3222?"

3222 refers to the corresponding levels of the four qualities of courage, prudence, self-discipline, and justice. Each level can be upgraded to EX level at most. When the sum of the four attribute levels reaches 9, you can become a third-level employee of the company.

In addition to the third level, the second level is the sum of the levels reaching 6, the fourth level is 12, and the fifth level is 16. When the sum of the four dimensions exceeds 16, there is no actual promotion for employees. In the entire company, except for the head of the headquarters and the Sephirah of each department, it can be said that no one has a higher status than the fifth level employee.

"Yes, it is really difficult to improve attributes other than courage... It would be great if Alex was still alive. He is a rare level 5 employee in our branch. He can definitely meet your requirements, Mr. Ye Lan."

"I have no request, just a random topic to chat about."

Ye Lan shrugged and pressed the up switch in front of the elevator door. They had already checked the entire facility from top to bottom. The only surviving employees, apart from Yuli, were a few lunatics who were deceiving themselves by wearing the stone full-covering helmets of the Doomsday Dolls.

Faced with those crazy people who only knew how to sacrifice themselves, Ye Lan had no choice but to give them the relief they deserved.

Ding!

The elevator arrived at the station, and Ye Lan and the others returned to the underground floor of the D Nest Branch. This branch had already sealed all the entrances and exits during the sinking process, and Ye Lan and Luna had completely used the attack ability of their ego equipment to drill a hole and get in.

So when they returned, they naturally jumped back to the surface from underground in the same way. In this mobility, the Hateful Queen who could teleport herself really helped a lot.

After finishing the exploration of Nest D, it was time for Ye Lan and Luna to return to Alley 12 and Nest L. When they went down, Miss Zoe left a short message. She left a convoy for them and possible survivors. As long as Ye Lan needed it, he could directly return to Alley 12 under the jurisdiction of the old Nest L through them.

"That's thoughtful, but it feels weird to me to think that the young lady and her Abnormality might be related by blood."

Ye Lan was joking with Luna while talking on the phone with the team driver. Yuli, who had no family, naturally had nowhere to go. After receiving the invitation from Ye Lan's whimsical agency, she naturally followed him to Lane 12.

Including the Queen of Hate who was capable of disguising herself as a normal human, there were four people including the black cat when they came, and two of them were replaced when they returned, but there were still four people.

"There just happened to be a car." said Yuli.

She looked back for the last time at the D-Nest branch of the Lobotomy Corporation where she had worked for a long time, said goodbye to her colleagues who had died at the hands of various alien entities, and followed Ye Lan to the nearest checkpoint without looking back.

The driver of their convoy returning to Lane 12 was already waiting there in the car specially selected by Miss Zoe. Soon, Ye Lan and the others would be shocked by the luxury car that could be exchanged for a villa in D Nest.

Chapter 106. Why didn’t I change it to numbers earlier…

"Mr. Ye Lan... Can we, can we actually ride in that kind of car once?"

As soon as they returned to Alley 12, Yuli patted her chest and said to Ye Lan excitedly. The luxury car that Miss Zoe sent to pick them up was still too exciting for her.

Even if Yuli worked in the Lobotomy branch for twenty years and saved all her salary without eating or drinking, she probably wouldn't be able to buy a wheel for the car they were riding in.

"Look at you." Ye Lan shook his head and smiled, "You work in my office, maybe you can buy one for yourself in a while."

"Is this true?" Luna poked Ye Lan's waist with her elbow secretly, and then continued: "I think your firm will go bankrupt soon, Ye Lan."

"Don't curse me, girl... But if you think about it this way, it seems like we should find some commissions to do and improve the level of the firm."

Putting this matter on the to-do list, Ye Lan handed the anonymous savings card given by Miss Zoe to Yuli.