Cyberpunk, but urban

"So, this is out of the idea of ​​protecting humanity itself?" Angela asked.

"Don't you think this is unfair? But, Angela, think about it, when you get home from get off work and walk into the house, your smart toaster suddenly rushes towards you with a knife in hand, asking you to treat it like a human being. Can you think this is not a joke?"

"For urbanites at that time, the rebellion of artificial intelligence was no different from the toaster at home trying to kill people. Whether it was fair or not was based on the premise that the two were equal."

Chapter 141. Three Abnormalities Appear at Once, Dream Returns to the Brain Lobe

"But what do those urbanites think of me? As someone who can't be considered a complete urbanite, I think that if artificial intelligence is given the ability to learn emotions, they should be given corresponding rights. It's unfair that so many troubles have occurred because the creator himself did not teach the creation enough, and in the end the creation has to bear the consequences...

After Ye Lan introduced to Angela the attitude of urban people towards non-human intelligent life forms, he also told her about his own attitude towards non-human intelligent life forms.

Seeing the confused look on Angela's face, Ye Lan estimated that she would not be able to understand these meaningless principles for a while.

Therefore, Ye Lan was going to tell her a more understandable truth as the end of their reception of guests: "In short, Angela, you don't need to understand these things now. It will be faster if you think about them slowly."

"Ah."

"But I want to tell you another truth. Those who love you will do their best to help you, regardless of whether you are an artificial intelligence or not."

"So, Ye Lan, are you someone who likes me?" Angela asked. Although she could understand what love meant from a program perspective, for herself, she didn't know what it felt like to like others.

Ye Lan put the last book in his hand into the bookshelf, then he turned to Angela and said, "Of course I love you, my dear Angela. If you hadn't been with me, I would have gone crazy in the Lobotomy Company."

At this moment, he and Angela heard three voices echoing in the library at the same time.

[Can you play with me? I'm so lonely. Do you want to feel this warm feeling?]

[The Helper is a helper robot that can do anything for you! Need help? The Helper can do anything for you.]

[Knowing. Perfection. Instant. Knowing. We. What we know. Meaning. Communicate. Together. Together. Chant. Sing. Enlightenment.]

The two looked at each other, and Angela immediately snapped her fingers, sending her and Ye Lan back to the director's office. In the director's office, Malkuth was busy coordinating the actions of the librarians on all floors of the library. Three abnormalities awakened and ran away at the same time, which was an emergency situation they had never thought of.

"Malkuth, what's going on now?" Ye Lan asked Malkuth, who was directing the librarian on the literature floor to provide support to the art floor. In the library, he got a good girl with long hair and made an OK gesture. Without looking back, he gave an order to Yesod, who had rushed back to the technology floor, to stop the little helper on his floor.

"It seems that there is no problem for the time being... Ye Lan, please go and help me."

[Shake your head and throw yourself into the shining echo. If you can hear the echo, sing along with it.]

Just as Angela was about to send Ye Lan to the historical layer, a strange sound belonging to the cosmic fragments rang out in the library. This sound was not in any language that humans could understand, but it still allowed people to get the same and accurate information from it.

Malkuth turned around and shouted to Angela who was standing next to Ye Lan: "Angela, let Ye Lan go to the literature layer immediately! The little helper is trying to merge with the cosmic fragments that broke through the art layer's interception. I don't know what the impact of letting them meet will be."

"I see."

There was a snap of fingers, and Ye Lan disappeared from the two of them. But then, a new voice began to echo in the library.

[Come, I will hug you gently and let you feel the warmth of love.]

Roland, who assisted in the suppression at the historical level, was facing Happy Teddy. This tattered teddy bear, with the cotton showing, was very deceptive.

Roland was caught off guard and was hugged tightly by the teddy bear. If he had not undergone advanced human body modification surgery, he would have been strangled by this happy teddy bear.

"Damn it! This teddy bear can actually exert so much strength... Hey, it can't hurt me for a while, you guys should take this opportunity to tear it into pieces!"

Roland said to the assistant librarians around him that his mistake actually made Happy Teddy Bear stop. Before Roland was suffocated by its hug, the abnormality would not make any more movements.

Ye Lan, who appeared in the literature layer, also saw the cosmic fragment that was rushing towards the technology layer. It had just released a "recollection of the other world", and all the librarians fighting in the art layer fell into confusion for a while under this mental attack.

But facing Ye Lan, this Teth-level abnormality couldn't do anything after all.

[Fragment of the Other Side] This ego equipment extracted from the cosmic fragments was summoned and materialized by Ye Lan with a ring. The fact that the same power appeared in front of him caused the cosmic fragment, this anomaly, to fall into chaos.

Following the chaos, Ye Lan stabbed with his spear without any hesitation. The fragments of the universe instantly turned into debris falling to the ground, and then gathered into the egg of the abnormal body.

At the same time, Angelica rushed to the technology floor and killed the last little helper. These little guys, whose programs were specially modified and turned from household robots into killing machines, also gathered into Abnormality Eggs and were sent to its exclusive room by Yesod.

After another period of busy and chaotic cleanup, Ye Lan and his team were finally able to review the current situation of the library in the director's office.

By the time these three abnormalities recover from their egg form, the floors of the library that are currently open will all have abnormalities that can borrow power.

Angela said to everyone, "It seems that the library has entered a calm phase... In the next period of time, the pace of its invitation issuance should also slow down."

It seems that ever since the last member of the Second Association's Southern Sixth Department was defeated in the library, the library has left its infancy of hungry devouring urbanites and entered a more mature developmental stage.

From this moment on, the enemies that the librarians, especially the Rolands, have to face are no longer those low-level enemies that can be easily dealt with. More powerful guests who can even fight with them will gradually replace those low-level cleaners or gangsters and become the mainstream visitors of the library.

"Looks like I have to leave again, Angela and my friends, see you next time."

Ye Lan waved to the designated librarians in the director's office, and the last bit of color left his body. In the blink of an eye, he returned to the Sixth Department of the Southern Section of the Second Association.

"This is not a good place... We should go."

Ye Lan sighed. Walter died in the library. It wouldn't be long before the stray dogs who got the news would come knocking on the door and eat up everything here.

Chapter 142. The bounty will be stopped today

In line with the "golden spirit" of less trouble is worse than more trouble, Ye Lan made the decision to escape immediately.

In order to be promoted from the Sixth Department and escape from the bottom position of the Second Association, Walter put all the fighting power of the entire Southern Sixth Department into this battle in the library. At this moment, there were only a few clerks left in the entire department.

If Ye Lan was lucky enough, he would be able to pass through these clerks without being noticed and leaving any trace.

Everything went smoothly at first. Ye Lan left the combat meeting room, passed by two meeting rooms where people were having meetings, and easily passed through most of the department area that was not open to the public.

But then, his actions did not go so smoothly.

Outside the functional area is a large office area for clerks and ninth-level finishers. The desks are separated by narrow and short partitions, leaving almost no privacy. Anyone standing in the aisle can easily observe the work of the association members in the entire office area.

What was even more unfortunate was that at this moment, two team leaders from some unknown group in Section 6 were standing in the aisle near Ye Lan's corridor, talking, and they had no intention of leaving.

"Lin En, do you think the section chief and his men will be able to come back from the library this time?"

"It's hard to say. I've never heard of anyone coming out of the library alive..."

The two team leaders of Section 6 were casually talking about their own section leaders, not caring at all that their words were heard by the team members around them.

"I say, didn't the agent from the Streetlight Agency come out alive?"

The team leader named Lin En glanced at the other team leader who was talking to him and said, "Didn't he go in again? In my opinion, that guy was just a bait thrown out by the library to lure new victims. Oh, it's a pity for Team Leader Isadora and little Julia from the Intelligence Team. One of the few beauties in our Sixth Department was tricked into the library by him."

Ye Lan turned his head and glanced at the two meeting rooms in the corridor. The two meetings seemed to be coming to an end. If the two team leaders were still talking nonsense here and making up stories about their colleagues and team leaders, he might be blocked in this corridor by the finishing staff of the Sixth Section of the Southern Section of the Second Association.

At this critical moment, a closer from the Second Association who was on duty in the hall today came up to the two team leaders. Ye Lan didn't hear clearly what he said in their ears, but from their expressions, it seemed that someone had caused trouble in the hall, and the highest-ranking closer in the department had to go and take a look.

Taking this opportunity, Ye Lan followed them out of the department area and returned to the lobby area where people gathered. Here, countless people knelt and kowtowed every day, praying that the closers of the Second Association would provide them with free assistance.

These residents of the back alleys who either cannot afford to pay or do not want to pay come to pray day after day, and then leave disappointed day after day. None of them has ever thought of looking for other ways, and none of them has even thought of asking about the difficulties of people around them.

In fact, at least 60% of the problems among these people can be solved through mutual help, and among the remaining 40%, at least 20% are good at making friends but are reluctant to spend money.

Only the last 20% were cases that required the Second Association to send someone to deal with. Unfortunately, these people were still kneeling here instead of following the people sent by the Second Association to solve the problem, which only showed that they did not have enough money to hire the Second Association.

"When the hell is your leader going to come out?"

"Well, well, that..."

"What's that and that, huh?!!! Can you please speak faster, you bitch!"

"I, our section chief is not here today. He is out on a field trip with most of the finishing staff in the section!"

In a corner of the hall, the thing Ye Lan least wanted to see was happening. Jing Mei, the leader of the Bereaved Dogs gang, was lifting a poor clerk from the Second Association like a chicken.

The clerk had a bruised face and sobbed as he explained to Jingmei the current situation of the Sixth Section of the Southern Section of the Second Association. It was obvious that he was severely beaten by Jingmei, who had no patience.

"That's enough, Jingmei. There's no benefit in getting rid of him. It's just a coincidence that Walter isn't here today. He doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would break his promise. At worst, we can just come back tomorrow."

Zulu, who was standing nearby, reached out and pulled the clerk in Jingmei's hand over and put him on the ground. Seeing that he was signaled to leave quickly, he ran into the department area as fast as he could, and almost bumped into the two team leaders who came out from inside.

"You... are you stray dogs? What are you guys doing?!"

“Hey, Lin En…it just so happens that you know what Walter traded with us. He’s not here, so you can bring it to us.”

Jingmei, with blood all over her hands, spoke to Team Leader Lin En of Section 6 as if nothing had happened, asking him to immediately hand over the L-Nest project blueprint that Walter had agreed upon with them.

"I can't do anything about this. Only Chief Walter knows where he put that deadly thing. You guys can either wait here for them to come back, or go back to your own gang base first."

Lin En was not afraid of them at this time. It was not certain that Section Chief Walter would not come back. Even if he could not come back, the stray dogs would not know it now. With Walter's power, he, a little fox, would not be torn apart by these wild dogs.

Jingmei, Zulu and Dino looked at each other, then put away their gestures of wanting to hit someone, and said to Lin En with dissatisfaction: "Listen carefully, as soon as your Section Chief Walter comes back, you must immediately tell him that we don't have the patience to wait."

"Okay, okay, okay. Have a safe trip, the three of you. I'll tell the section chief when he comes back..." Lin En said with a sigh. Soon he would no longer see those lost people.

A colleague who came out with him but didn't say a word asked him, "Lin En, didn't you say that Section Chief Walter probably wouldn't be able to get out? Aren't you afraid of their revenge?"

"Nonsense, if we don't stabilize them now, we will be beaten to death by these monsters... Take my advice, let's pack our bags now... It just so happens that the places for studying this month have not been decided yet, so let's secretly use Walter's computer and go to the Fifth Department to hide."

Ye Lan, who was hiding in the crowd, listened to the whole process. He was almost laughing at the finishing personnel from the six southern departments of the Second Association who had their own ulterior motives, so he stood up and left the hall.

As for what fate the two team leaders will suffer next, Ye Lan already has some predictions.

After all, the headquarters of the Second Association's Southern Section 22 seemed to be in Alley . And that was exactly where the plot before the Lost Dog War took place.

Chapter 143. Commission-Forbidden Hunting

Although there were some twists and turns, Ye Lan finally left the Second Association's Sixth Section's base smoothly without anyone noticing. Walking on the road completely opposite to the gang members of the Lost Dogs, Ye Lan thought about what to do next.

Although the stray dogs were persuaded to go back today by the closers of the Second Association, it won't take a few days for their leader Jingmei to confirm the information that Walter is dead through the invitation letter sent by the library.

At that time, whether his Weird Idea Agency would be exposed to the sight of the stray dogs and become the target of Jingmei's revenge was a probability that Ye Lan could not be sure of.

Buzz-buzz-

Ye Lan reached for his waist and his cell phone was vibrating. Someone was calling him.

"Hey, who is that?"

"It's me, Olivier."

Someone Ye Lan didn't expect called him.

"What's the matter?"

"A commission... a direct request from the leader. You'd better make time now and come to my place. I'll send you the address later."

"Boss? Why would such a big shot come to a small ninth-level cleaner like me?" Ye Lan asked, but he also knew that Olivier would definitely not be able to give an answer. "Forget it, if there is nothing to discuss on the phone, just hang up. Give me the address and we will talk in person."

"it is good."

Olivier answered on the other end of the phone and hung up. Not long after, Ye Lan received an address from him. He stopped a taxi on the side of the road and asked the driver to take him to the address.

At the same time, in the headquarters of the Southern Third Section of the First Association, the head of the Southern Third Section, Mirina, was carefully receiving a person who needed to be treated seriously and cautiously for their entire First Association - a leader.

"Sir, the message you asked Olivier to convey has been passed on to the person who finished the job..."

"Do you think it's strange for me and Tuner Zena, two leaders, to come into contact with this little ninth-level finisher?"

The leader took the cup from Mirina and glanced at her. Just this one glance made Mirina's back covered in cold sweat.

"Don't be nervous... I won't eat you." The leader took a sip of the green tea in the cup, and while feeling the taste of the tea, he put the cup on the table next to him. "Hehe, that man's little secret makes Jenna very excited..."

After only half an hour's drive, Ye Lan stood in front of a coffee shop. He arrived here when there should have been the most pedestrians in and out of the shop, but when Ye Lan looked around, he found that the pedestrians who should have been around the coffee shop had been completely cleared out.

"Wow, what a grand ceremony..."

After complaining, Ye Lan pushed the door open and walked towards the only table with guests. There, a woman wrapped in a dark cloak was sitting there, commenting on the coffee problems to the panicked store manager standing beside her in a slow and unquestionable manner.

"You are a master tuner, and you are bullying an ordinary cafe manager... Miss Zena, you really have the time to do this."

Ye Lan sat down on the sofa opposite Jenna and said to her.

After waving her hand to signal the store manager to leave, Jenna said to Ye Lan: "Huh, Ye Lan, you are indeed not a simple person. I am more and more curious about where your source of information is."

"I don't have that kind of thing... I just happen to know some things that I should know." Ye Lan lowered his head to glance at the table. There was a cup of steaming coffee on his seat. It should belong to him.

He took a sip of coffee, and the bitter aroma lingered in his mouth. After a while, Ye Lan continued to say to Jenna: "So, what exactly do you, the leader, want to see me about?"

"Then how about abandoning the library and the machine that is transforming itself into a human and becoming my minions? Isn't it a waste for you to use the power of L Company's singularity at will just to do such a small thing?"

Jenna threw the unpalatable cup of coffee aside and waited for Ye Lan's reply with a smile.

Ye Lan took out two sugars from the sugar jar beside him and threw them into the coffee and said to her, "Just for this, you, the chief tuner, not only put on makeup, but also came to see me alone? Don't be ridiculous, if this is really all, then I will turn around and leave."

"As expected, you would refuse. What's so good about that robot girl... Then let's talk business. A request, a request about a taboo."

"Taboo? Tell me in detail."

"Recently, a gang brought back a batch of guns from the suburbs. These were not produced by the workshop and their power far exceeded the limit. I think you might know where those guns came from...eliminate that gang and destroy all the guns they found. Do you think this commission is okay? Mr. Ye Lan from the unknown world outside the ruins."

Jenna slowly pointed out Ye Lan's background, as if to express and put pressure on him, telling him that he had no secrets in front of the leader.

"Spies are really everywhere. So what is the reward for the commission?" Ye Lan asked.

"I was originally planning to make you my lackey, but since you don't want to... then how about 'features'?"

"That's it?" Ye Lan raised his eyebrows.

"Why, you don't care about the right to be 'special'? But you don't want to be my lackey, which makes it difficult for me... Or do you want to ask me for some more unique rewards?"