Cyberpunk, but urban

"Eating people... it's disgusting just to think about it." Malkuth commented, and then brought the topic back to what she wanted to say: "Let's not talk about those two guests. Ye Lan, I remember you said before that you went to the branch of D Nest, right..."

"What's wrong? It's not like you to be so timid, Makuku."

"Ye Lan, tell me the truth, how many employees of the D Nest branch survived?"

Perhaps after the incident of the charred girl's rampage, Malkuth finally had time to pick out those ambiguous or deliberately concealed parts from Ye Lan's words.

"One is at my place right now."

"……how come?"

Even Angela temporarily focused her attention on Ye Lan. Neither she nor Malkuth thought that Ayin's plan would be so different that only one person would survive in a nest.

"Actually... Ayin underestimated your charm, Angela." Malkuth was stunned as soon as Ye Lan opened her mouth. Although she knew that there were branches of the Lobotomy Corporation, Malkuth didn't particularly understand how the branches operated.

But even if Malkuth racked her brains, she couldn't figure out why Ye Lan mentioned Angela... and Angela's charm that came from nowhere.

"Uh... to be precise, it's the charm of the early versions of Angela." Ye Lan explained, "Ayin probably also made use of waste, and used all the early versions produced when making Angela in the branch. And unlike our Angela, those early versions of Angela are less restricted and can freely help supervisors and employees."

"It's not like our director didn't try at the beginning, but... under the constraints of the script, these actions would directly lead to a restart. Oh, during that period, as soon as I opened my eyes, I had to start the first day of work all over again. My first breakdown happened during that time, right?"

Ye Lan spoke calmly about something that Malkuth could hardly imagine how torturous it was. She looked at Ye Lan and Angela with mixed feelings, and for a moment she didn't know what to say.

"Let's not talk about this anymore, let's continue talking about the branch. Anyway, after Angela captured these supervisors who could only work and live in the supervisor's office and could only leave by resigning, the Seed of Light was launched. According to the branch evacuation plan designed by Ayin, Angela and others will delete themselves after opening the evacuation channel."

"Hiss, isn't this suicide?"

"Yes, it would be suicide for me... for those me."

Malkuth's surprise was confirmed by Angela, although allowing non-human sentient life forms to self-delete is the only way to ensure that branch employees will not be found by minions after evacuation.

"But Ayin must have forgotten one thing. People have emotions. Most of the branch managers who were locked in the supervisor's office chose to commit suicide after Angela and others deleted themselves. This resulted in the loss of their authority and the employees were unable to evacuate normally."

"But this is still not the reason why the employees suffered so much damage. Violet Teardrop, a finisher who was awarded the color-level title. With her special ability, she can travel to most places in the city after paying a small price."

"Perhaps it was to retaliate against me for saving Mrs. Angelica, or perhaps she didn't want us to be able to gather the strength of the employees in these branches, so she destroyed the evacuation routes of most branches."

After Ye Lan finished speaking, Angela's face was visibly angry, and Malkuth had already grabbed his hand and said to him: "Ye Lan, can you please rescue our branches in the city as soon as possible after you get out this time?"

"Well, rather than staying in the library to help me... it would be a better choice to prioritize retrieving the manpower from the Lobotomy Corporation branch. It has only been 22 days since the launch of the Seed of Light. If there is nothing wrong with the supplies stored in the branch, most of them should still be trying to survive."

Angela agreed with Malkuth's opinion, and then ruthlessly asked Ye Lan to set off immediately and try to gather the surviving Lobotomy Corporation branch employees in the city as soon as possible.

So, our hero was driven out of the library by the two girls, Angela and Malkuth, and embarked on the journey back to Lane 12.

And what are our left-behind children, Luna and Yuli, doing now?

"Well, is it really okay for us to waste Mr. Ye Lan's eyes like this?" Yuli, who was sitting on a long sofa, asked little Luna opposite her.

Luna, who was enjoying a cup of parfait that was as tall as her forearm, patted her pocket and said to Yuli, "It's okay. Didn't Ye Lan tell us to spend the money on this card as we like?"

Yuri, who was also eating a huge parfait, stuffed a spoonful of fresh fruit into her mouth. She gave up worrying about the cost and indulged in the sweet and sour taste of the fresh fruit.

At this moment, a short man in a long coat walked into the store. As if he couldn't stand the room temperature of this beverage store, he took off the coat and put it on his arm.

At another table in the store, a young black-haired woman in casual clothes and with pigtails stood up looked past her male companion and at the man.

"Isadora, what are you looking at?"

Shan followed her line of sight, but could only see a short man who was taking an order.

"Look at that hand he has under his clothes. Do you see it?"

"He's stealing from the waiter? This guy's technique is so skilled, he must be a habitual thief..." As a sixth-level closer and a representative of a law enforcement agency, Shan naturally saw the pickpocket's behavior. He said with a little regret, "It's a pity that we are the only two out today, otherwise I could use him to practice with the kids in my agency."

"You really are thinking about them all the time. Be careful that this emotion may harm you."

Isadora stood up from the sofa while speaking, and walked towards the pickpocket together with Shan who also stood up. The two of them stood up without finishing their orders and attracted the attention of the surrounding customers, including Luna and Yuli.

Chapter 121. Pickpocket

"What do you have in your hand? Show it to me!"

A word rang out in the ear of the short man like thunder, causing him to tremble all over instantly.

"You... who are you?! Why should I listen to you!?"

The man naturally would not let the owner of the voice check what was in his hand. After all, that was the property he had just taken from the waiter who was looking at the newcomer curiously.

"Oh, I'm afraid it's not up to you whether you want to take it out or not."

This time the sound came from another direction, and it was also from a man. The pickpocket, knowing that he had been discovered, still had a hope in his heart, and his other hand had already grasped the folding knife hidden in his sleeve. Then, the man's hand grabbed his hand, trying to expose his gains hidden under his coat to everyone.

"What the hell do you want to do!" the short man roared and stabbed his dagger into the hand that was stretched out to him.

"court death."

Then, the hand snatched away his dagger at a speed that the man could not react to at all, and then stabbed it into the hand that had just held the dagger.

"Ah!!! You fucking bastard!"

"Shan, it would be better to just show him the ID."

The next moment, a certificate of the finisher belonging to the leader of the intelligence processing group of the Southern Sixth Section of the Second Association was slapped in the face of the short man.

"The Second Association is the one who is in charge of the case. Tell us what you have done wrong."

This time, the man could not even feel the pain of his hand being pierced by the dagger. He gritted his teeth and pulled his hand out of the dagger, then used his blood-stained palm to push the terrified waiter towards Shan, and ran in the opposite direction of Isadora.

"Wow, it's not easy to see the Second Association catching criminals." Luna stuffed two mouthfuls of cream into her mouth, and watched Isadora and Shan besieging the short pickpocket with great interest, not noticing that the pickpocket was actually fleeing in her direction.

"Luna, he's coming this way."

Yuli, who had not yet had the time to buy workshop equipment to replace the ego she used in the past, only had a self-defense baton bought on the roadside. Even she herself was not sure if she could fight against the pickpocket in this situation where she had almost nothing.

"Yuli, don't worry..." Luna said to her while shaking her phone: "Ye Lan sent me a message, he is on his way."

"Eh? But didn't Mr. Ye Lan go... That man will be here soon, so he won't be able to make it in time, right?"

"It's still in time."

Luna had a confident smile on her face, and the pickpocket rushed over, covering his injured hand. Even in such a panicked situation, he still had the stolen property from the waiter.

"You, both of you, stand up right now!"

The pickpocket stretched out his bloody hand, trying to use it to grab Luna's arm and pull her up, using the hostage to force the Second Association's cleaner behind him to let him go.

"Don't touch me with your dirty hands!"

There was no fear on Luna's face, only disgust at the pickpocket's dirty appearance. Under Yuli's surprised gaze, the little girl quickly pulled out the fork from the parfait cup, accurately stabbed it into the wound on the man's palm, and then twisted it vigorously.

"Ah! You little bitch!!!"

The wound on his hand turned into rotten flesh that was completely unhealable under Luna's fork. The pickpocket wailed and took a half step back, and then his reason was consumed by the anger of being bullied by a young girl.

He completely forgot about Shan and Isabella who were chasing after him, and even forgot to think about why this girl would ignore his threat.

Just as he swung his fist at Luna again, the entire block was plunged into a dark night in an instant. Then, the people in the beverage store felt the street lights on the street outside the window light up. The pickpocket was dazzled by the light and subconsciously stopped his action and looked up at the street.

At this time, people realized that no street lamp had ever been turned on. All the light came from one place, from the dim yellow pupil covered with black wings.

And this scene became the last thing they saw before they fell into coma.

"Is that... Mr. Ye Lan's ego?"

Yuli touched the palm of her hand. The sweat on her hand fell onto the table under the influence of gravity, wetting the napkin in front of her.

"Yes~ But Ye Lan actually summoned it for such a small matter... I feel a little embarrassed."

Yuli and the two closers from the Second Association didn't know, but as Ye Lan's adopted daughter and someone who had lived with him for nearly a month, Luna naturally knew what the rating of the ego equipment Ye Lan was wearing at the moment was in the Cerebrovascular Corporation.

Aleph level, from Weather Bird's ego equipment Bo Ming.

This is a piece of equipment that is equally powerful and can only be used for a few minutes by Ye Lan. In order to reach Luna in time, Ye Lan exchanged the power of the Apocalypse Bird without reservation, and with the help of Bo Ming's own wings, he crossed the entire L Nest and fell directly from the sky to this beverage store.

"Looks like I'm not too late... Where's the pickpocket who wanted to hurt you two?"

"I've been frightened by you."

Luna touched the hair on the back of her head and smiled awkwardly. Ye Lan really valued her so much that she felt even more sad that she could not help him.

"Who are you?! What's your relationship with these two ladies?!"

Suddenly, another voice joined their conversation. Although the man standing outside the window remained restrained, he also seemed to be familiar with the two women who were almost taken hostage.

But Isadora still planned to ask one more question. After all, he just appeared and made the people around him fall into coma at the same time. From the perspective of protecting the two hostages, she asked these two questions, which not only won the man's favor to a certain extent, but also obtained some information from him.

Ye Lan glanced at Isadora, raised his ringed hand and removed the ego equipment on his body. He was not able to recognize who the second association's finisher who asked him the question was at first, after all, Isadora was not only wearing casual clothes, but also her two-dimensional paper figure was slightly different from her three-dimensional real person image.

"I am Ye Lan, the representative of Yixiang Agency. The older girl is my employee and is currently taking the certification exam for a closer. The younger one is my adopted daughter and I am eager to save her. I apologize for any offense."

"The one who is finishing off the gang..." Isadora silently took note of the information revealed by Ye Lan. The value of this information was very low. After all, a person like Ye Lan was from that firm. If he knew anyone around him, it would be transparent to the association as long as they wanted to check.

Chapter 122. Thinking about the title every day is more tiring than writing the text

"I'm Isadora, the head of the intelligence processing team of the Second Association's Southern Sixth Section... This is Shan, a closer like you, and a representative of the Street Light Agency."

Isadora said to Ye Lan who walked into the restaurant.

"Nice to meet you," Ye Lan stretched out his hand and shook hands with Isadora, then asked her, "Well...if there is nothing else, I will take my people and leave first."

"……no problem."

Isadora glanced at the passers-by who had fainted around her, and then glanced at Shan who was standing on guard beside her, and finally chose not to pursue the matter.

The fighting power displayed by Ye Lan has far exceeded the limit of what she can cope with. At this moment, even if this cleaner intends to do something more outrageous, she cannot take action for Shan's safety.

But now... a long time after Ye Lan took Luna and Yuli away from the beverage shop, Isadora and Shan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"That person..." Shan pondered for a moment and tried to organize his words. The power displayed by Ye Lan was so strong that it was jaw-dropping. "That person's sense of oppression was really amazing. I couldn't even think of fighting him for a while."

"He did say his name was Ye Lan, right? Yixiang Agency... I'm going to check them out after I get back."

Isadora said to Xiang Shan that in her opinion, Ye Lan, the finisher, was already one of the best finishers in the city and was worthy of being included in the list of high-threat personnel of the Second Association.

"Forget it, let's not talk about the closer. Shan, are you going to take this commission?"

Isadora looked around at the innocent people who were still unconscious, and asked Shan about the main thing they were talking about, which was the commission to investigate the library first.

"As for that commission, I think I should go back and ask the children first... I can't just make a decision like this."

Shan sighed and said with some embarrassment and embarrassment.

"You...ah, that's just your personality. I'm used to it."

Isadora also sighed. After all, Shan has always been this kind of person. If he couldn't let go of his colleagues in his office, he wouldn't be a sixth-level finisher. After all, his younger brother Bada is now a second-level finisher in the Crutches Office.

"I'm so sorry, Isadora. By the way, why didn't I see Julia today?" Shan asked Isadora.

First of all, I want to tell you one thing, when you are alone with a girl, you must not take the initiative to mention a woman who is not present. Even if you are not dating her, doing so will make the girl unhappy.

Although Isadora is the head of the intelligence processing team of the Second Association's Southern Sixth Section, she is also a young girl. When Shan mentioned Julia, their mutual friend, Isadora's face darkened in an instant.

"Why, you want to see Julia more than me? It's a pity that Julia was suddenly pulled out on a mission today."

"I, I didn't mean that... Isadora..."

"What do you mean? Don't you want to see me?" Seeing Shan getting nervous because of her change in attitude, Isadora smiled happily, "I was just kidding. When you come back from the library, let's go out for dinner... just the two of us."

"No..." Shan wanted to continue speaking, but was interrupted by Isadora's sharp gaze, "Okay, just the two of us."

"That's more like it... Let's stop here for today. I also need to go back to collect information."

"Okay, if the kids in my office agree, I'll call you." The two chatted for a few more words, and finally said goodbye at the intersection of the street and left.

After he lost sight of Isadora's back, Shan returned to his office. Before he entered the small building where the Street Light Office was located, he heard a conversation between two children from the office downstairs.

"Ah~ Why is our office so quiet?"

The short-haired girl lying on the sofa in the office was shaking her legs out of boredom and complaining to the white-haired young man sitting next to her.

Her name is Lulu, and she is a seventh-level finisher at the Street Light Agency. She hasn't received a commission in who knows how long, and she is extremely bored, so she keeps chatting with her companions:

"The Streetlight Agency is at least an affiliated agency officially designated by the Zwei Association. What's even more outrageous is that the crime rate in our area has been zero percent during the contract period!!!"

"As for our jurisdiction, there are only two streets. As long as you wait patiently, commissions will come to you."

The white-haired young man responded to Lulu's words. His name was Mas, and like Lulu, he was also a seventh-level finisher at the Street Light Office.

"Yes, yes, yes. Then you will wait here for the rest of your life. I am already considering whether to switch to another firm."

"I don't think you have the capital to change jobs."

Lulu was very dissatisfied with Mas's statement, so she hit back by saying she would change jobs. However, in Mas's opinion, Lulu would never do such a thing. However, perhaps because of some kind of shame in his heart, his words subconsciously turned into sarcasm as soon as they came out.

"I have a lot of connections, unlike you who only rely on connections to get in. Maybe your mother is really too busy as the final person of Legend to care about you. Who knows? Anyway, I have a group of relatives and friends in other firms who can help me immediately."