Cyberpunk, but urban

Provoked by Mas, Lulu suddenly got angry. She spoke a lot of words like a pea machine gunner, leaving Mas speechless.

Especially the part about his mother...

Mas's mother is a first-level finisher. Mas has always thought that he is a very talented person and that he can achieve results immediately as long as he becomes a finisher.

But in fact, he was not a genius. With his own efforts, he could only join the Street Lighting Office, which was affiliated with the Second Association.

Lulu actually knew that he was able to join the Street Light Agency without using his mother's connections, but every time she got excited, she would use this to argue with him.

"Wow, you're awesome."

Every time Lulu told him that he was just a second-generation who benefited from his mother's kindness, Mas didn't want to argue with her about it anymore. In the end, he just began to respond to her words without any emotion as usual.

"Yeah, yeah~ I'm really great, right?"

But Lulu just fell for it. Before Mas finished speaking, a smile appeared on her face.

Chapter 123. Street Light Office

Hearing this, Shan couldn't help but smile. It's always a good thing for your children to be energetic.

Lulu, who he considered to be one of the energetic and good kids, seemed to remember something. She jumped off the sofa and ran to the refrigerator in the office.

"Cake! Cake! How could I forget that I have a cake in the refrigerator..."

Perhaps Lulu didn't understand the sarcasm in Mas's words, so she happily opened the refrigerator door. However, the empty interior told her that her cake had been eaten.

“…Hey!!! Did you eat the cake in the refrigerator!!!!”

Lulu turned around instantly and rushed towards Mas angrily. When Shan walked up the stairs, he saw her clasping her hands in front of her chest and questioning Mas.

"Hey...you guys...are arguing again...I say, kids, I got a job."

Shan said to the two of them helplessly, trying to distract Lulu and Mas with the topic of work.

"This bastard ate my cake!!"

"It was past its expiration date yesterday anyway. I just disposed of it for you in advance."

Mas rolled his eyes and spoke casually to Lulu.

“Uhhhhhhhhhhh!!! That’s my cake!!! Even if it’s expired, I have to throw the cake away myself!!!”

Lulu naturally couldn't accept what Mas said. She threw herself on him, trying to use her weight to knock down Mas, a big boy who was almost 20 centimeters taller than her.

"Speaking of which, what kind of work did you get, Senior?"

Completely ignoring Lulu who was crawling on him, Mas looked up and asked Shan who was standing at the door and sighing helplessly.

"Don't change the subject!!!"

Lulu angrily tried again to push Mas down with force so that he fell on the sofa on the side.

"Hey... I'll buy you another one. Now just be quiet for a while, okay?"

"But... that piece is a limited edition..."

After Shan came out to comfort Lulu, Lulu climbed down from Mas looking aggrieved and sat alone sulking.

Shan finally had the opportunity to introduce the job to Mas and Lulu. He closed the door of the office, took off his shoes and walked into the room, sat down opposite Mas and Lulu, and said to them: "I haven't made up my mind yet, but I got this commission from a friend in the association."

"Shan-senpai's friend in the association... could he be Zwei's direct subordinate?"

Lulu perked up all of a sudden. Senior Shan had two friends in the Second Association. One was his childhood sweetheart, and the other was a friend he met out of nowhere before he left another firm to work on his own.

"Yes, it's her. But this commission has not been officially registered with the association yet."

Unfortunately, Lulu's vague question didn't get the name she wanted from Shan. The girl glared at Mas in disappointment, which made him feel puzzled.

"Have you heard of 'library'?" Shan asked the two.

"I've heard a lot of rumors. This is a hot topic among those rats."

“It is said that the books in the library are very valuable.”

Mas and Lulu said separately that they also gained a lot when patrolling the streets or talking with friends.

Shan waved the black invitation in his hand and said to the two of them, "Yes, I got the invitation to that library from a friend."

"If this isn't an official commission, I'm afraid we won't get much compensation, right?"

"And it cannot be registered in the association's official records."

The two of them no longer had the heart to argue with each other, and tacitly asked their representatives Shan their questions.

"Well... I think the association has its own considerations."

Shan didn't know how to explain it to his two children, and in the end, the association had its own ideas.

"Are we really going to a place we don't know anything about?"

Lulu asked. At least at this moment, she didn't have much desire to accept this commission.

"That friend promised me that if we successfully complete the task, we can get a reward equivalent to an "urban legend" level commission..."

Mas and Lulu fell silent for a moment. Shan looked at them at a loss. After a while, he couldn't stand the silence of the children anymore and asked, "Uh... then how about we forget it...?"

"Just answer it!"

"I can't help it. Although the risk is huge, I can make a lot of money. I have nothing to do lately anyway."

Urban legend has it that after reaching this level, the compensation they can get is at least equivalent to the sum of several months' salary of Mas and Lulu.

Since ancient times, money has been a motivating force. Naturally, the two young and ignorant finishers were blinded by the amount of the reward and suggested to Xiang Shan that they take on the commission.

"Thank you, everyone! Then let's get back to work as usual."

Shan told them that the sixth-rank street lamp office representative was confident in his own abilities, and believed that if anything went wrong his two children would be able to escape.

Blinded by this optimism, he also lost his vigilance against the abnormally high remuneration and chose to accept this informal commission.

So the three people from the Street Light Office began to use the rest of the day to adjust their equipment and prepare for the investigation of the library tomorrow.

In the short time before dark, Mas packed up his equipment at an unusually fast pace.

"Senior Shan, I'm going out for a while..."

After leaving these words, he took his wallet and walked out, acting mysteriously and no one knew what he was going to do.

"This child...I don't know what's urgent."

Shan said to Lulu helplessly.

Lulu, who was still debugging her workshop weapon, was still angry about her cake. She said to Shan without even looking up, "Who cares what that guy is doing... Humph, the bastard who stole my cake."

After oiling his dagger, Shan asked teasingly, "Aren't you worried that he might meet some girl outside?"

"Who cares about him..."

Although Lulu said this, she was actually feeling very nervous.

But after all, there was no such relationship between her and Mas, but if there really was a female stranger she didn't know who was getting along with Mas... she really didn't seem to be that happy.

At this time, Mas was not going to see his girlfriend. He just felt guilty after eating Lulu's limited edition cake, so he ran to the cake shop she often went to and tried to buy her another one.

Chapter 124. Cake for Lulu

"Come to think of it, when that happened this afternoon, was it because you didn't finish your parfait?" Ye Lan asked Luna and Yuli in the guest room of the Back Alley Hotel.

"Oh! That's right, we both paid..."

Luna was about to forget about it, but Ye Lan brought it up again. The parfait looked really delicious to the little girl. Not only were the fruits fresh and seasonal, but even the cream and ice cream were freshly made.

And more importantly, it is really expensive, very expensive. If you finish it, it's fine, at least you can say you enjoyed it and it's not a pity, but if you don't finish it, it can only be regarded as a sin.

"I'm so sorry... for wasting my eyes on something like this."

Unlike Luna, Yuli, as an employee of Ye Lan's office, is less confident when it comes to spending money.

"That's not what I'm talking about. What's wrong with spending some money when going out to play? What's worrying is that you spend money and still don't have fun." Ye Lan shook her head. "What I want to say is, do you two want to go out with me and buy some cakes to change your mood, and stop thinking about that unfinished parfait?"

"cake!"

After hearing what Ye Lan said, little Luna immediately came out of the disappointment of not finishing the parfait, and ran into her room to change her clothes for going out.

Yuli looked at Luna's actions and asked Ye Lan with some confusion: "Are you going to take us out to buy cakes? Not to the hotel's buffet restaurant?"

"The buffet restaurant at the Back Alley Hotel doesn't have freshly made cakes. We're going to a bakery to buy their limited edition cakes next."

Ye Lan said as he took out a flyer from his shirt pocket. On it was the name of the bakery where Lulu bought the cake that was eaten by Mas.

This shop is the most famous bakery in the nearby blocks. They insist on limited supply of hand-baked cakes, but even so, countless people line up there every day. Even if customers can only buy one slice of cake, it is worth cheering.

Such high profits would naturally attract gangs. When this store was not so famous, gangs from Alley 12 would come to ask for protection money every day, and some even asked the boss to hand over their recipes.

However, one day, these gangs that coveted this store were attacked by Middle Finger at the same time. After being "invited" over by Middle Finger, every gang leader witnessed with their own eyes the scene of Middle Finger's second sister in the south enjoying the cake from that store.

From then on, no gang dared to cause trouble there.

Although Roland slaughtered a second brother and most of his brothers and sisters in a crushing manner, causing the Middle Finger to suffer heavy losses in the southern part of the city, the gangs still did not dare to touch the shop until the second sister who loved cakes died.

This made Ye Lan and the other two very surprised to see a queue of buyers lined up in an orderly manner outside the cake shop.

"Amazing! There are shops in the back alleys that make customers queue up obediently?"

Ye Lan made a neutral comment and walked to the end of the line, lining up with Luna and Yuli.

"Wow, it's such a long line. I'm afraid we won't be able to reach the end even if we queue all the way to the back alley until late at night." Luna hugged Ye Lan's waist and marveled at the length of the line.

"No, this store has specially purchased time acceleration from T Company in order to meet everyone's needs. Even though the line is long, the efficiency will increase after the first batch of cakes is out of the oven." The young man in front of Ye Lan turned around and explained to the little girl.

This young man naturally came to buy Lulu a cake to compensate her for her Mas. Considering that Luna was a little girl who came to this store to buy a cake for the first time, he made a special explanation.

"Luna, hurry up and thank this big brother." Ye Lan gently touched Luna's hair and said to her.

It was a sudden idea for him to come and buy a cake today, and he received the flyer on the way back to the hotel with Luna and the others this afternoon.

But by coincidence and coincidence, he met Mas, the young finisher who was about to go to the library and become the first victim of the Street Lamp Office.

"Thank you!" Luna bowed quickly.

“It would be nice if Lulu was this cute…”

Mas sighed, responded and turned back. The customer in front of him had already walked a long distance away. It seemed that the cake shop had already started the normal sales process.

With the help of T Company's Singularity Technology products, the pastry chefs in the cake shop filled the shelves with batches of cakes from the kitchen at an astonishing speed. Then batches of cakes were taken away by batches of customers from the waiters at the counter, turning into the store's revenue today.

In a flash, Ye Lan and the others walked into the store, and there was only one piece left of the limited edition cake that Mas had been dreaming about.

"Ye Lan, there's only one limited edition left..." Little Luna motioned Ye Lan to squat down, then whispered in his ear, "Should we compete with that brother for it?"

Ye Lan also whispered to her: "Don't rush to buy it. Although it's a pity that the limited edition is gone, that brother will go to the library tomorrow. Let him be happy now."

Among the three of them, only Yuli looked at Ye Lan and Luna whispering in confusion, walked past them in confusion, and followed Mas to select several types of cakes that the three of them were going to buy.

"Mr. Ye Lan, we have to pay."

"coming."

Yuli's shout interrupted the whisper between Ye Lan and Luna. He gave the gold card given by Miss Zoe to Yuli to pay the bill, and then he left the cake shop holding Luna first.

Mas hadn't left yet and was killing time outside the cake shop. In order to ensure that the cake would be a surprise, he couldn't return to the office for the time being.

Judging from their usual situation before missions, it would take at least half an hour for Shan and Lulu to leave the office and return to their residences to rest.

What he had to do was to return to the office alone after they all left, hide the limited edition cake that Lulu didn't get to eat in the refrigerator, and wait for Lulu to see the cake tomorrow and look at him with gratitude and admiration.

"Brother, aren't you going home?" Ye Lan came up and asked.

"Ah, I want to give my family a little surprise, so I have to wait until they are all asleep before I go back."

What Mas said was not false, but if Ye Lan did not know his identity, he would have mistaken him for a wealthy resident of the back alley.

"Then you are really romantic... By the way, little brother, have you been sleeping too little recently? I feel like something bad is going to happen if you continue like this. Well, even young people have to pay attention to their health and be more moderate... Especially to take care of their kidneys."

Ye Lan raised his eyebrows and gave a teasing smile when he said this.

Mas smiled awkwardly. He suspected that the young father holding the child thought he was buying a cake for his girlfriend.

Chapter 125. Reception - Street Light Office (Part )