Cyberpunk, but urban

"If that's the case, then those of us inside the library shouldn't be able to leave the library in this way." Angela thought for a moment and said to the other two.

Although it is a bit regrettable, as a non-human intelligent life form, once she leaves the protection of the library, she will definitely be discovered by spies and then attacked by her minions.

Perhaps this can also be regarded as the saying that misfortunes often bring blessings, and blessings often bring misfortunes.

"Speaking of which, how have you been these past two days? Did anything happen in the library?" Ye Lan asked.

"Hehe, the first abnormality of my historical layer, the Scorched Girl, has awakened. I have been organizing the many books that appeared due to her awakening these days."

Malkuth said to Ye Lan proudly with a smile on his face.

"Really? That's great. It seems like you're getting used to your new body pretty well."

"Yeah...I never thought I would have a third life."

When this was mentioned, Malkuth's face showed an expression mixed with confusion, regret and some other emotions that Ye Lan could hardly identify.

"My past self... She let everyone down. She was an irresponsible bastard. And... because she didn't know her own limitations, she ended up making an irreparable mistake..."

"But now, after redeeming myself in my second life, I have gained a third life..."

Malkuth's expression grew darker and darker. The library seemed to be operating in secret, amplifying her emotions again and again.

"Makuku?" Ye Lan reached out and patted her shoulder. When she raised her head because of the touch, he reached out and touched her head again.

"Breathe deeply, Makuku, breathe deeply."

Ye Lan gently guided Malkuth, asking her to calm down slowly. After a while, Malkuth's complexion finally returned to normal.

"better?"

"I'm not sure...but thank you." Malkuth said, standing up from the chair, saying goodbye to Ye Lan and Angela, and leaving Angela's director's office.

"It seems she needs some time to calm down."

"I never realized before that you cared so much about Malkuth."

Angela said, with a hint of surprise in her voice, as if she had gotten to know Ye Lan all over again.

"Hey, who just said that although he is a machine, he has his own heart?"

"what happened?"

"You have feelings, why don't I have any feelings?"

Ye Lan pulled a chair closer to Angela's desk and asked her, "The books from the Hook Office should have been collected by the library, right? Is Yesod about to wake up?"

"Yeah... Just like the stories you told me in your single dormitory, the library will be able to completely digest the books that the finishers of the Hook Office have turned into tomorrow and awaken Yesod."

Angela glanced at him. During his time at Lobotomy, Ye Lan had inevitably forgotten a lot of things. Even if he was a variable that shouldn't have appeared in the script, a variable that wouldn't trigger the script backtracking.

But he is essentially just an ordinary human being. As the number of restarts increases, Ye Lan will naturally forget a lot of things.

For example…his collapse after the 78th restart, he told Angela everything he knew.

Or maybe... During Ye Lan's 3450th reincarnation, he was in a terrible state and went crazy on Angela in his dormitory for the entire night.

All of this was recorded in the memory of Angela, a non-human intelligent being.

Chapter 113. Technology Layer and Yesod

"Angela, there is... Ye Lan in the library?! When did you come here?"

Roland carelessly pushed open the door of the director's office. He originally wanted to inform Angela that a new round of events had begun in the library. However, he was interrupted by Ye Lan when he was halfway through his words.

"Good evening, I guess? Anyway, Roland, what did you want to say just now?" Ye Lan greeted back and then asked.

"Oh yes, the library has begun to expand. According to Angela, a new floor will be opened soon."

Ye Lan and Angela looked at each other. The library was digesting the books from the Hook Office a little faster than they had expected.

The two stood up from their chairs and left the director's office with Roland.

"Who of us will go call Makuku?" Ye Lan asked Angela beside Roland while he went to call Angelica.

"Why not just pull her over here?" Angela asked.

"Isn't she in a bad mood? What if she is secretly crying right now, and you drag her in front of everyone? Will Makuku still be alive?"

"I do not understand."

Angela shook her head. The emotional things Ye Lan said were still a bit profound for her. Although she didn't understand it completely, she still understood one thing: it would be best for someone to walk to find Malkuth at this time.

She thought for a while, then said to Ye Lan, "I'd better go. Yesod probably won't want to see me."

"makes sense."

Ye Lan shrugged, waved goodbye to Angela who was walking in another direction, and turned to walk towards Roland and his wife's room.

He completely forgot about the fact that Malkuth might not want to see Angela right now either...

Anyway, when he arrived, Roland and Angelica were already waiting at the door. The three of them continued to go down the extra stairwell on the history floor and came to the newly opened technology floor of the library.

At this moment, in the technological layer, there are still countless golden pages flying around, and finally fall into the bookshelf that was materialized earlier, becoming the collection of books in the library's technological layer.

After passing through many bookshelves that were completely filled with books, Ye Lan and the other two finally saw a relatively spacious space.

In this space where several interlaced gears were suspended, Yesod was looking down at the scene outside the window. The city scene that was not real was exactly the scene in the reception room of the technology floor.

"Let me see... Yesod, the designated librarian on the second floor... is in charge of managing books on science and technology." Roland stepped forward and started talking to Yseod.

"..." Yesod turned around and looked at Roland who was walking forward without saying a word.

"Nice to meet you. My name is Roland, and I'm helping Angela. This is my lover Angelica... As for that one... she should be an acquaintance of yours, right?"

"Hey, Brother Snake."

Ye Lan waved and greeted him, although Yesod probably wouldn't want to hear him address him that way. He frowned for a moment before trying to calmly say to Roland, "I'm the designated librarian in charge of the technology layer, Yesod."

"I just felt a chill, and the feeling was a little different from when I saw Angela... Could it be my illusion?" Roland whispered to Angelica. When Ye Lan greeted Yesod, it seemed that the whole room became cold for a moment.

Yesod, who vaguely heard Roland's words, glanced at him, then turned his gaze back to Ye Lan and asked him, "Ye Lan, why do you want to help Angela?"

"Why? Isn't that natural?"

Ye Lan's attitude aroused the fire in his heart. Yesod impulsively reached out and grabbed Ye Lan's collar: "Of course? Angela...she cruelly trampled on our dreams at the last moment!"

"Hey, hey, calm down, calm down!"

Seeing that the situation was not good, Roland immediately rushed over and pulled away Yesod who was holding Ye Lan's collar.

"If there's any conflict, let's talk it out slowly, don't use force..."

Roland laughed it off, trying to ease the atmosphere between the two of them.

"Ye Lan, what do you think of the sacrifices of our employees and your colleagues?! The results that my colleagues and I endured so much suffering for... were destroyed by Angela!"

Yesod, who was stopped by Roland, looked at Ye Lan angrily, criticizing his choice.

Ye Lan did not call Yesod by his nickname this time. Instead, he spoke to him in a serious tone, "Yesod, do you think that you can solve the problem by just launching the Seed of Light and then dying obediently?"

"NO, I have not."

"For you, how many days did the Seed of Light Project take to be implemented?" Ye Lan suddenly asked a question, a question that left Yesod a little confused.

"Ten thousand years, this is the time I experienced after the Seed of Light Project began... and what Angela experienced was a million years, which is a hundred times longer than mine."

"Ayin's last order to Angela was to seal this facility permanently and grant the Sephirah eternal rest."

"Ye Lan, what exactly do you want to say?!"

A trace of cold sweat rolled down Yesod's forehead. He had indeed never heard of these things.

"Ayin gave everyone a reasonable ending, except Angela... If you think that releasing the Seed of Light and you and your colleagues being contentedly shut down and dying is a good ending, then what about Angela? Will she be alone guarding your bodies, buried forever in the ruins of Lobotomy Corporation?"

"This... Ayin, he, Ayin, he can't do such a thing!"

Yesod retorted subconsciously, and then a possibility appeared in his mind, the possibility that Ayin had betrayed them appeared in his mind.

"Did Ayin give Angela the choice... to betray us?"

A bitter taste filled his mouth. Only after learning about the entire Seed of Light plan did he finally understand why Angela could so easily obtain those permissions that should only be possessed by Ayin.

That's not because she is AI, but because Ayin took the initiative to expose those permissions to Angela.

"When did you learn about the whole plan?"

After recovering from the shock, Yesod immediately thought of another suspicious point. As an employee, Ye Lan's authority should be lower than theirs, but how did Ye Lan know these things that even he didn't know?

Chapter 114. Charred Girl

"When did you know?" Ye Lan repeated Yesod's question, but did not answer it immediately. He walked to the window of the technology floor and looked at the fake scenery outside.

"This question is actually difficult to explain, and it is not important." Ye Lan said: "I just know some things that I should know."

"What do you mean you only know some things you should know..." Yesod was very dissatisfied with Ye Lan's statement, but Ye Lan didn't want to say it, and he could do nothing about it.

"But, Ye Lan. Even if you explain to me that Angela's betrayal was also part of Ayin's plan, I still find it hard to accept Angela's behavior, let alone what you did to us for Angela."

Yesod looked at Ye Lan's back and said to him.

"Heh," Ye Lan turned around and looked at Yesod, whose face was filled with frost. "Half a year, in half a year you will completely deny your current thoughts."

"Why, is this what you call something you should know..."

"We'll see."

Ye Lan finished speaking and without waiting for Yesod to say anything else, he left the technology floor, leaving Roland and Angelica behind.

"Well... to be honest, I don't really like listening to complicated stories, especially those that are mixed with a lot of personal emotions..."

Roland scratched his head and said to Yesod awkwardly, "No matter what, we have to help Angela unconditionally, right?"

Although Yesod didn't want to admit it, Roland was right. Even though he was extremely reluctant, he still had to help Angela unconditionally.

"Now that things have come to this, let's put aside those bad impressions for now and work hard together. Just like Malkuth, I just need to hand over the collected books to you, right?"

Roland asked, extending his hand to him.

Looking at Roland's hand, Yesod was confused for a moment: "What?"

"Hey, don't you know how to shake hands? It means let's work hard together!"

"..."

Although it was difficult to understand the logic of a back-alley person like Roland, Yesod finally reached out his hand and shook it with him.

As they shook hands, Roland spoke again: "Although this may sound strange to me, Ye Lan is indeed quite evil... It's better to take his words seriously..."

"You don't need to tell me..."

Yesod ordered them to leave, and Roland returned to the general layer under their temporary jurisdiction with Angelica, who had not said much and just smiled at what had happened.

Ye Lan, who had left the technological level earlier, now had to face the raging fire in the historical level.

No one knew what Angela said to Malkuth after she found her, but when Ye Lan returned from the technology layer, the place had turned into a sea of ​​fire due to the high temperature released by the scorched girl.

"Oh my god... Angela and Makuku are not going to fight here, right?"

Taking a deep breath of the hot air around him, Ye Lan immediately summoned his ego equipment and rushed into the depths of the historical layer under the surrounding flames.

However, Angela and Malkuth, who were deep in the historical layer, did not use the power of the abnormalities to fight in the historical layer as Ye Lan thought.

But on the other hand, opposite the two people who were taking care of each other, the charred girl who had gone berserk for no apparent reason was wantonly wielding her power, and three lit matches with legs were running between the bookshelves, trying to light more things.

"Ye Lan! Angela suddenly lost control of the library, and the scorched girl also went berserk for no apparent reason!"

As soon as Malkuth saw Ye Lan rushing out of the flames, he was struggling to resist the charred girl who was bursting with more flames at every moment and eagerly asked him for help.

The incident happened suddenly, and Malkuth, who was outside the reception room, naturally did not use other people's books. She only used her own strength to fight against the abnormality. For her, who was just a researcher in the past, it was impossible to succeed.

"Don't worry, I'll be there soon."

Ye Lan said, and dodged and jumped into the bookshelf where a match was, and reached out to extinguish the derivative of the charred girl. As the match broke, the charred girl with a burning match stuck in her chest also stopped.

Instead of tears, an oily, turbid liquid flowed from the charred girl's eyes, and was then ignited by the match stuck in her chest. The voice of the charred girl resounded in the hearts of everyone present.

[The warmth, the fullness, the beauty... are all gone. Now there is nothing left...]

"It's really pitiful..."

Malkuth looked at the crying charred girl with some pity, and then he found that the match stuck in her body was burning slowly and steadily towards the place where the match pierced through the charred girl's body. A terrifying sense of threat made Malkuth's hair stand on end.

"Ye Lan, something's not right with the coked girl, you'd better hurry."

"Don't panic, as long as we kill the matches running around, we can stop her for a while."