Cyberpunk, but urban

"Ye Lan..."

"Our Lord Makuku, please think about it yourself first. I will go and help you get back your face."

Ye Lan let go of Malkuth's hand and stood up to deliver some Lobotomy shock to the three finishers of the Streetlight Office.

This time, Shan and Masco had no intention of gossiping when they walked in. Lulu looked at the two highly alert people in confusion, and finally followed their gaze to Ye Lan, who was only wearing an ordinary suit.

"What's wrong with you two?"

"I saw that man yesterday!"

Shan and Mas said in unison, causing the three of them to look at each other in surprise.

"Ah, I didn't expect that I would be called back to fight with you guys today~" Ye Lan's ring glowed. While awakening the ego he was going to use next, he said to the three people from the Street Light Office: "Since we are destined to meet, I will fight with you with the power you can resist, just as revenge for our lovely Makuku."

"Makuku? Who?"

The three of them thought of this at the same time.

Chapter 128. The Book of Mars

As the ring with unparalleled presence in Ye Lan's hand began to shine, brilliant nebulae also appeared in this spacious battle room.

Shan, Mas and Lulu looked at the miniature nebula lighting up around them in doubt and amazement. It seemed that from the moment Ye Lan stopped talking, the environment in the room turned into a miniature galaxy.

A short staff appeared in the hands of the enemy in front of the three of them, and there seemed to be a whole galaxy shining in the glass ball at the top of the staff.

"Kids, retreat as soon as you find an opportunity... That man is much stronger than he appears now. We have no chance of defeating him alone."

Shan gave the two of them instructions, and he stood in front of them without any hesitation, protecting Mas and Lulu behind him.

The next second, Ye Lan's figure could no longer be seen in their field of vision. Before Shan could give any new instructions to Mas and Lulu, a familiar short staff flew out from a nebula beside them. It was the short staff that Ye Lan was holding in his hand.

The short staff shone brightly, and Mas, who tried to block the attack with his weapon, felt both physical and mental pain. He groaned and dragged his sword to avoid the short staff.

"Get out of the way, there's no way to defend against the damage caused by that short staff!"

Mas stepped aside in pain and shouted loudly to Lulu and Shan, completely unaware that Ye Lan was standing behind him.

"Mas!"

Ye Lan, who seemed to have stars flowing on his body, gently patted Mas's shoulder, causing Lulu to scream, but unfortunately, they had no time to react. Ye Lan's fist hit Mas' face hard, causing him to spin three and a half times in the air before he fell heavily at Lulu's feet, and she hurriedly helped him up. Although this blow was heavy, the actual damage to Mas was far less than the damage to his self-esteem.

Ye Lan stepped on the sword that fell when Mas was knocked flying, and said to the three finishers of the Street Light Office with a smile: "Did I use too much force? Do you need me to ease up a little?"

Shockingly insulting!

Having lost the weapon his mother had ordered for him, with half of his cheek swollen beyond recognition, Mas was about to rush up to fight with Ye Lan. If Lulu hadn't held him tightly, he would have probably rolled back again by now.

"Mas! Stay calm!"

Shan scolded loudly. This was not the time to deal with it with gentle words. He could only use the most sharp way to make his child regain his sanity.

"I have to apologize sincerely when I get back now... and I have to find a way to get Mas's greatsword back for him..."

At this time, Shan was still thinking about how to lose gracefully. He signaled Lulu and Mas to cover him. This time, the three of them attacked not to achieve results, but only to get back Mas's weapon and retreat.

However, the three people who were attracted by Ye Lan completely forgot about the short staff that flew out at the beginning. The short staff that could cause erosion damage flew all the way into another nebula and then appeared in Ye Lan's hand.

"It seems that you want to get this big sword back... I think you should know the rules."

Ye Lan had a wicked smile on his face, and the tip of the short staff in his hand was flashing. Countless lumps that looked like flowing tears or solidified like pebbles appeared out of thin air from the ceiling of the room and fell towards the three men one after another.

These materials that fell to the ground like a meteor shower exploded into balls of brilliant light. Shan, Mas and Lulu tried hard to avoid these lights. Their attack also failed in this meteor shower and they retreated to their original positions.

"Let's try again. If it doesn't work... Mas, you have to be prepared to lose your weapon."

Shan warned his child in this way, but in fact, he was ready to pay a small price for Mas's precious gift from his mother.

The price he could accept was his two arms, or even serious injuries. As long as he could get the sword back and retreat, it didn't matter how serious the injuries were.

"almost……"

Ye Lan thought to himself that the emotional level of the three of them was about to reach the limit. At this time, he would expose a flaw to let them take back their weapons, and then leave them with some serious injuries that would make it difficult for them to move. In this way, he could get a good book...

Naturally, there would be no twists and turns in the plan set by Ye Lan, whose fighting power far exceeded that of the three of Shan. While Shan and the others launched a new round of attack, Ye Lan kicked the big sword out from under his feet.

Taking advantage of the shield created by the greatsword, he also plunged into a nebula beside him with his short staff, then stretched out his short staff from another nebula and broke Shan's right leg in succession.

"Uh!"

Shan endured the severe pain and put the big sword back into Mas's hand, then immediately pushed Lulu towards the door they came in.

"Retreat, retreat quickly!"

He shouted loudly to the two of them, dragging his broken leg and following them closely. But their current situation did not conform to Ye Lan's plan, so he called out the power of [Son of the Galaxy] again, and a new meteor shower fell in the room. The erosion damage simultaneously crushed Shan's spirit and body, and his other leg was also broken in this attack.

"Mas, I need to evacuate with Senior Shan first!"

Lulu held up the mass that had fallen on her head, pulled up her fallen shirt, and dragged him desperately towards the door.

Seeing this, Mas raised his greatsword again, using its broad blade to shield the two from the falling lumps, "You go, I'll follow soon!"

He shouted to the two of them amid the sound of the mass exploding, and started fighting with Ye Lan who was sticking close to him. At this moment, he had already anticipated that he might not be able to retreat.

"Mas!"

Shan only had time to shout out his name before Lulu dragged him back to their office. In the end, until Lulu called for emergency treatment to recover Shan's injuries, the two of them were unable to wait for Mas to return to the office.

"It's all my fault... I shouldn't have brought you here without knowing anything. I'm sorry... It's all my fault that things turned out like this..."

He collapsed on the sofa in the office, as if he had aged twenty years, and his whole body collapsed in an instant.

If he had decisively given up the greatsword at that time, if it was not his legs that were injured, if... if he was stronger, like his brother, would he be able to bring Mas back today, instead of having to rely on his cover and be dragged back helplessly by Lulu?

Shan felt as if his spine was broken and closed his eyes in pain on the sofa.

"Lulu, you should take a rest first. We can talk about the library later."

Chapter 129. Literary Layer Opening

"Mr. Ye Lan... you deliberately let Senior Shan and Lulu go, didn't you?"

Mas, who was blocked in the room, took a deep breath and found his sense of logic from the successive changes. It was not until this moment that he finally realized that all of Ye Lan's actions were just to make Shan and Lulu's retreat a matter of course. But he still couldn't figure out what on earth was worth staying for.

"It seems that you have calmed down. It seems that you have a lot of questions at the moment." Ye Lan did not turn Mas into a book immediately. Instead, he stood opposite him and started talking to him.

"Yes. Mr. Ye Lan, why did you choose me?"

Ye Lan glanced at him and said to him, "It's very simple. Only if you die here can the remaining two bring more people."

"How can this be……"

"How is it impossible? Your death will make Lulu go berserk. She will ask her friends for help, and then enter the library again without telling Shan to avenge you. And her death will completely cause Shan to collapse. Your agent really loves you. In order to avenge you, he is even willing to go to the Second Association and kneel down to his friends."

As Ye Lan talked about those things that were about to become the present from the future, Mas's face gradually became ugly.

"So, if I could just get away from your attack, none of this would happen, right?"

Mas asked, but he did not intend to get Ye Lan's answer. He asked this question only to distract Ye Lan a little. From the moment he asked this question, Mas ran at his fastest speed towards the door that would allow him to escape.

"You're right. If you could just escape, none of this would have happened."

Ye Lan stood there and said to Mas. But this was not to give Mas a chance to escape, because what he held in his hand was no longer the He-level small galaxy, but the magic bullet that appeared again.

The bullet burning with black flames flew out with the curse of certainty of hitting, bypassing the greatsword that Mas used to defend against the attack. Just when Ye Lan gave him hope, the bullet pierced his heart.

"Ye Lan...you have no sense of guilt at all?"

As soon as Ye Lan left the room with Mas's book, he received the above evaluation from Malkuth. Even Roland didn't think of killing him immediately after giving him a little hope during the reception.

"Wow, when they beat me and I was crying, why didn't you say I didn't feel guilty?" Ye Lan joked and handed the Book of Mars to Angela. "Look at the color on me. It can almost see through me to the people behind me. I guess I can't stay here for much longer. Is there anything else that hasn't been resolved?"

"The abandoned killers have been dealt with by Roland and Angelica. For the time being, there shouldn't be a situation where there won't be enough staff to receive guests."

Angela told Ye Lan about the current situation in the library. If nothing unexpected happens, Ye Lan will not need to worry about any accidents in the library for a while after he leaves this time.

However, there was no accident, but there was an incident. After receiving the Book of Mars, the library immediately began a new round of expansion. With this book containing the first core page of the art level, the literature layer was opened before Ye Lan left.

Art grade, in more popular terms, is orange or gold. This grade is a new system that appeared in the ruins library, used to distinguish the pages obtained from the guests, from low to high, divided into paperback, hardcover, limited, and art.

However, these classifications and the specific pages they contain are not something that the library needs to care about at the moment. Everyone in the library has something more urgent to do - to welcome Hod who has awakened due to the opening of the literary layer.

So, under the leadership of Ye Lan, who could already clearly see the scenery behind him, everyone in the library began to move towards the literature level.

"I heard from Malkuth that librarians used to be humans?"

Roland asked Yesod while going downstairs. These were questions that he had been curious about for a long time, and no one else could answer them except Yesod.

"...Yes." Yesod was silent for a moment, but still answered Roland's question readily.

Roland commented: "It seems that you were not good at fighting before. After all, Angela called Brother Ye Lan back."

"As you said, we used to live a life without fighting and killing. Although some people are exceptions, it is the case for the vast majority."

Yesod answered Roland's question in a rare and detailed manner. But at the end, he seemed to have remembered something and said one more thing to him: "But you'd better not let Malkuth hear this."

"Tsk tsk tsk, I didn't expect that you actually care about your colleagues~"

"Humph."

Yesod ignored Roland's joke and responded with a cold snort.

However, Roland was thick-skinned and naturally would not care about such a small matter. He quickly continued to ask: "So you were fighting against that... Abnormality! How did you fight it back and forth?"

Yesod glanced at Roland and said with a hint of displeasure, "A give and take? Are you mocking me for being beaten unilaterally by the Abnormality?"

"No, no, that thing would be difficult for me to handle. To be honest, you are amazing to be able to do this."

Roland complimented him, and at least he managed to calm Yesod down.

While there was still one more technological layer to go, Yesod explained to Roland: "I used the power of books. We gained the abilities of the guests through books. As long as we are in the library, these books can give us power, and the same is true for emotions."

“Through someone’s book, we can project the original owner’s emotions and strength onto ourselves. Furthermore, the library space itself can multiply the emotions between the librarian and the guests.”

Hearing this, even Roland, who had seen a lot of things, couldn't help but sigh: "Wow, these books are much more powerful than I thought. If you get a copy of my book or Angelica's book, wouldn't you be able to acquire our fighting abilities in an instant?"

"...Okay, we're almost there, let's end this topic here." Yesod looked at the stairwell in front of him and ended their topic.

"Friends, I only have 10% transparency left...if you don't hurry up, it will be gone." Standing at the stairs, Ye Lan shouted to Roland and the other man who had fallen to the back of the team because of the conversation.

Chapter 130. Who would have thought that the Hod in the library was a terrifying bloody man?

After everyone walked up the stairs, Ye Lan quietly walked to the end of the team. While his transparency was only a fraction left, Ye Lan planned to play a joke on Hod who had just woken up.

But he certainly could not have imagined that although Hod always looked gentle, he would also bear grudges. Just as he was about to play a joke on Hod, Hod was already standing at the stairs, waiting for Ye Lan to appear and then give him a good beating.

To explain why Hod holds a grudge like this, we have to mention the ill-fated relationship between Ye Lan and the little angel Hod when she was in the Lobotomy Corporation.

When Ye Lan first entered the headquarters, he was assigned to Hod's training department by his supervisor Ayin. Later, until Ye Lan climbed his employee level to level five, he still worked in the training department, working for Hod, who was already a box expert at that time.

Hod was called Michelle in her first life. She was very smart and even became the youngest researcher in the research team. But she had a fatal weakness. She felt deeply guilty about the inhumane experiments conducted in the institute, and because of this guilt, she became weak.

After the deaths of Enoch (Tiphereth's brother) and Carmen, Michel witnessed the tragic deaths of his colleagues including Elia (Malkuth's name before his death), Gabriel (Yesod), and Giovanni (Netzach).

She was seriously shaken in her heart, and was used by the leader and other wings to report all the internal information of the research institute to the leader.

As a result, Galion, the chief tuner, almost massacred the entire experimental team. Unable to accept this result, she chose to commit suicide. She was then transformed by Ayin into a Sephirah, and gained a second life.

After becoming the Sephirah of the Lobotomy Corporation's training department, Hod is eager to make up for her previous sins and redeem herself. She frantically carries out various training activities, hoping that employees can deal with those Abnormalities in a more professional state.

But in fact, the training activities she organized did not play any role except affecting the employees' rest. Except for Ye Lan, the employees were willing to participate in her activities only for the purpose of taking the opportunity to obtain the enkephalin drugs for "self-comfort".

When she finally confirmed this with Angela, she completely collapsed. The core suppression war thus began. At that time, Ye Lan, who had not yet reached a final observation with too many abnormalities, did not have sufficient combat power as at the beginning of the book.

Faced with the decline in all attributes caused by the failure of the attribute maintenance system, he almost risked half of his life to send back the three Hes and one Waw that were placed in the training department at that time.

And after Hod's core suppression ended, it was Ye Lan, who was not within the scope of the script, who comforted and supervised her after work, which allowed her to get rid of the influence of endorphins and truly recognize her inner thoughts.

Therefore, until Ye Lan launched the Seed of Light, Hod believed that he was the employee who understood him best in the entire company. He would often assign Ye Lan to do things that would actually cause errors in the script, causing Angela to mock him sharply in those reincarnations.

Therefore, Ye Lan, who had brought all the fun he had prepared for the Sephirahs in his heart both day and night, naturally made Hod feel that he had been betrayed in an unacceptable way.

Then Ye Lan was severely beaten by Hod and Angela because he didn't know how to use his ego ring...

Hod, who had just woken up at this moment, was naturally not satisfied and wanted to punch Ye Lan twice to let him know that he was not someone to be trifled with.

However, when everyone walked up the stairs, Hod, who was standing at the foot of the stairs, could not see Ye Lan. Not knowing the current situation of the library, she asked Angela: "Where is Ye Lan? He is not with you. Is he still sleeping?"

"Behind you, Hod."

There was an imperceptible smile on the corner of Angela's mouth, and that smile was as bad as the one Ye Lan had at the moment.

Hod, who heard Angela's words, immediately turned around and punched, but only hit the air. Ye Lan, whose shadow remained in the library, smiled and said to her, "It's been so long since we last met, Hod, is this how you greet me? Woohoo, I'm about to disappear~"

"Wait, wait a minute!"