Cyberpunk, but urban

If he guessed correctly, the scorpion under his feet at this moment was the top existence in the ecosystem composed of nearby monsters.

Ye Lan, who was feared by the monsters because of killing it, was naturally happy to have some free time. Soon he came to the side of an elevated road that led directly to the city.

Ye Lan tried to find something nearby that could help him climb up the elevated road, but unfortunately, he found nothing except the strange monsters that were everywhere.

"Forget it, I'll just find a pillar to climb up."

He threw the carnivorous monster in his hand, which looked a bit like a rabbit but had sharp teeth and a single horn, back into the desert. He summoned the ego equipment [Red Eyes] from the spider nest again, and with the help of the spider silk from the spider nest, he came to the road surface of the elevated road. Ye Lan then discovered that the road was tightly packed with various vehicles that had rusted into a pile.

Continuing forward in the direction of the front of the scrapped vehicles, Ye Lan once thought that he had walked into a biochemical game. At the end of these vehicles, more than a dozen cars deviated from the lane at the same time and collided with other vehicles, blocking the entire road one after another.

It was like something out of a zombie movie, where these drivers all became ill at the same time, and their out-of-control vehicles blocked the escape routes for those behind them.

However, all this happened not long ago, and Ye Lan could only use the wreckage to guess what happened at that time. As for the human bodies that might have existed, they had probably been eaten by various monsters in the suburbs.

Continuing along this road, Ye Lan unexpectedly saw a bicycle on the side of the road that seemed to be still usable. There was not much dust on the bicycle, and although it was a little rusty, the structure was intact and there was no obvious damage, and even the tires were not leaking.

Ye Lan tried to pedal twice. Although there were some creaking sounds, the transmission structure such as the chain was still usable. He took out a water bottle and a small bucket of cooking oil from his dimensional bag, cleaned the bicycle again and did some maintenance.

After barely being able to ride, Ye Lan turned over and sat on its seat, and began to use the power of the wheels to accelerate towards the Q Nest.

After traveling for a distance among the wreckage of the vehicle, Ye Lan was surprised to find that this bicycle, whose original appearance could not be recognized, was actually some kind of long-distance racing vehicle. Its flexibility and handling were better than what appeared on the surface. Ye Lan could shuttle among the wreckage of the vehicle with almost no effort.

After riding for about an hour, the number of vehicles on the elevated road dropped drastically. Ye Lan looked forward and saw a not-so-big but well-armed checkpoint blocking the road at the limit of his vision.

Suddenly, the bicycle under his feet shook, and the tire seemed to press on something cylindrical. The sudden change in center of gravity almost caused Ye Lan to fall.

"what?"

Ye Lan got off the bicycle and looked towards the wheel. A pile of bullet shells might be the culprit that almost caused him to fall.

It seemed that a gunfight had broken out in front of this checkpoint, and the bullet casings were scattered all over the asphalt road, which was definitely in violation of the bullet size regulations in the "Firearms Production Guidelines". Ye Lan couldn't help but wonder if this was one of the reasons why the leader issued the "Firearms Production Guidelines".

But no matter what he guessed, after pushing his bicycle through the ruins of the checkpoint, Ye Lan could directly see the towering wall at the end of the road.

That is the wall built by Q Company between the suburbs and the nest to prevent suburban creatures from trying to invade Q's nest.

"It looks pretty close. It probably took me more than three hours to walk and ride my bike."

Ye Lan took out his cell phone and checked the time. After returning to the city, his cell phone had a signal again. For some unknown reason, Yuli called him more than a dozen times in a row.

Just when he was about to call Apple Head back, Yuli called again: "Mr. Ye Lan, Luna, Luna has been kidnapped!"

"…Who did it, and what did they leave behind?"

"Yes, there is. A note saying her name is Iori, and asking you to go to her home in Alley 9 alone..." Yuli said nervously.

Chapter 147. What haunts me...

"Did she say anything else?" Ye Lan asked.

"She said that if you don't show up at the old house before 8 a.m. tomorrow, she will ask Luna to take the Warp Train... To be honest, I don't quite understand this threat."

To Yuri, an employee of the Lobotomy Corporation branch, W Company's Warp Train is just a high-speed train that can reach anywhere within ten seconds. She really doesn't know why this kidnapper named Iori, who looks like a female, would use this method as a threat.

"I understand. Yuli, just wait in the office and continue to arrange the decoration." Ye Lan thought for a moment and continued to say to Yuli, "If Algaria comes with employees from other branches in the next two days, you can also receive them. Remember, don't care about the strange-looking companions that Algaria may bring with him."

"it is good."

After confirming that Yuli understood, Ye Lan hung up the phone. He was now outside the checkpoint on the way to the suburbs of Q Nest. If he wanted to get to Luna's home in Lane 9 before o'clock tomorrow morning, the only way was to take the Warp train.

But even if someone like Dias, who is an aristocrat among aristocrats in the city, came forward, Moses would still have to wait for two months to get a ticket for the Warp train. The probability of Ye Lan getting a ticket immediately was no different from the probability of him blinking and finding himself lying on the bed of his previous life.

It was impossible to expect something to happen with such a probability that it was almost non-existent. To put it bluntly, Ye Lan's only choice was to use the ability of the abnormality to run all the way back.

"Alas," Ye Lan sighed. Looking at all the non-tool-type abnormalities that he could use to gain power, there was almost no one that could allow him to quickly cross the entire city. However, he finally thought of a trick, a trick that could at least allow him to quickly return to the southern part of the city.

"I'll have a can of Welch's Grape, please."

Ye Lan rubbed the ring and said, then a man with a shrimp-like head walked out from the shadows nearby. He held a can of soda in his shrimp-like hands and looked at Ye Lan expectantly, waiting for him to drink the grape-flavored soda.

"Oh, I hope we can get there faster by crossing the big lake that U Company manages..."

Ye Lan opened the can of soda and drank it all. The sound of seagulls and waves rang in his ears. The shrimp-headed man who handed him the soda twisted his arms in a wave shape and performed a weird dance.

Then, Ye Lan's eyes went dark and he temporarily lost his sight. When he opened his eyes again, he was already sitting in a fishing boat on a large lake.

The captain, the boatswain, the cook and other crew members, a total of ten people, all surrounded him, staring at Ye Lan and laughing.

"What are you laughing at, you bunch of shrimp-headed men."

Ye Lan climbed up from the deck, holding the captain's outstretched hand. Lavender and green leaves gradually appeared on his body. His body became smooth and hard, and ancient clay replaced flesh and blood.

Six pink and purple, long, pointed legs replaced Ye Lan's own legs, and he gradually turned into a six-legged centaur. A pink sun hat with green leaves on it fluttered in the wind and stayed on his head.

The shrimp-headed people made the same gesture to Ye Lan that fishermen make to encourage each other. Ye Lan, who had already assimilated himself with Inawen, nodded at them, disappeared from the fishing boat, and rushed to his location in Alley No. 9 with uninterrupted teleportation.

The inevitable sleep of Welch's Soda when triggering the teleportation caused Ye Lan to lose most of the remaining time. If he could not rush to Luna's own hometown in the remaining half of the night, the Violet Teardrops would definitely let the little girl experience the Warp Train in the dimensional rift completely while retaining her memory.

"Is this your true revenge... Then I will be angry indeed."

Every step the centaur sculpture took teleported him towards Alley 20. In a flash, he left Nest U and headed straight for Nest J along Alley .

However, there was no trace of the poor little girl next to Violet Teardrop, who was sitting in Luna's house. Violet Teardrop, who had never said that he intended to abide by the note she left, had already tied Luna into the UW-212 Warp Train that was about to depart from R Nest tomorrow morning.

Regardless of whether Ye Lan could get here before eight o'clock the next morning, he would not have the chance to catch the Warp train before it departed.

When the train arrived at the station and before the W company's cleaning staff boarded the train to clean it, Jin Zi Lei Di would kindly board the train again, take the lovely girl off the train, and return her to Ye Lan intact. As for what she would look like after arriving at the station, Jin Zi Lei Di didn't care.

Although Ainawen's teleportation was fast enough, when Ye Lan returned to Luna's hometown, it was still late at night in the back alley. Countless scavengers walked on the street, killing and recycling all the biomass still lingering on the street.

Ye Lan did not communicate with them this time, but directly jumped into the room with the help of teleportation. There, the Violet Teardrops, who had already discovered Ye Lan, had already come forward with her blunt weapon. The heavy weapon collided with Ye Lan's pair of sharp feet, and a terrifying air wave broke out, turning all the furniture in the room into ruins.

"Purple Teardrop, where did you hide Luna?"

"Haha, you can guess as much as you want. But no matter what, you will never see the original her again."

Jin Zilei smiled disgustingly, and the octagonal stick in her hand continued to attack Ye Lan, but she never launched any active attack from beginning to end.

In just one minute, Ye Lan and Jin Zi Lei Di fought for at least a hundred rounds. With neither side stopping, Luna's house instantly lost its status as a residence and became a dilapidated ruin that could only be entered by scavengers.

The scavengers advanced silently into the wreckage of the houses, and the battlefield instantly became more chaotic because of these tough cannon fodder.

Ye Lan directly cancelled the assimilation with Inawen's power, and the breeze with the fragrance of lavender blew across the entire street. In just a moment, the asphalt road surface turned into a lavender field, and the concrete brick and tile wall turned into a garden covered with green ivy.

"What a powerful force... Unfortunately, no matter how strong you are, you can't save that poor little girl~"

She carried the Jin Zi Lei Di stick on her back and drew out a faster stabbing sword from her waist. She changed her stance to a stabbing one and tried to use the fast to defeat the slow, using high-speed stabbing to counter Ye Lan, who had changed his smile.

Chapter 148. Which one?

The giant hammer with a pale face swung out at a speed far beyond Violet Tear's imagination, and collided heavily with the stabbing sword that she had barely raised to block.

The pale face gradually became familiar in Jin Zi's eyes. It seemed to be the faces of the people she had killed, and also the face of her son who died tragically.

Even though the giant hammer was blocked by Jin Zi Lei Di, she still felt as if her heart was hit by the giant hammer with a smiling face. Just as Jin Zi Lei Di tried to break free from the wrestling, the big mouth on the other end of the giant hammer in Ye Lan's hand suddenly opened and burst into a tragic howl.

This howl pierced through the entire street, and the scavengers who were engulfed by Inawen's power were instantly thrown backwards from their original positions as if they were hit by a huge hammer, twisting into indescribable weird postures.

Jin Zi Lei Di's body trembled as if struck by lightning, and she was knocked away by Ye Lan's smile. She had no time to retract her rapier, so she had to throw it aside and draw her most skilled large sword from her waist, attacking Ye Lan again from a strange angle.

The power of the Smiling Mountain of Corpses flowed through Ye Lan's body. The corpses that had rotted into mucus gathered on the giant hammer in Ye Lan's hand, hugging each other to form a corpse ball the size of a two-story building, and smashed towards the direction of the Jin Zi Teardrop with great momentum.

Such a large-scale attack was coming towards her. Jin Zi Lei Di knew that there was no time to dodge, so she had to temporarily change her stance and slash at the cluster of corpses dropped by Ye Lan with her large sword, completely crushing the corpses with a force that was enough to cut through an apartment building.

"Ha, your Lobotomy's ego equipment is really hard to deal with... I say, is that little girl that important to you?"

Jin Zi Lei Di adjusted her posture and was ready to face Ye Lan, who had dispelled the Smiling Nightmare, with a complete stance.

"That's my benefactor. I promised her a safe and happy environment to grow up in."

"Ha, haven't you ever thought about abandoning her? Getting rid of this burden and no longer being threatened by her... Listen, don't you want such a life?"

Jin Zilei smiled twistedly and threw her stabbing sword right between the two of them. For her next plan, she couldn't just leave the stabbing sword there.

"And like you, you treat everything around you as a tool to achieve your own goals? I'm not ready to abandon my moral values... So where did you put her?"

The second wave of scavengers took to the streets at the time set by the leader. Ye Lan and Jin Zi Lei Di, who were standing on the street, were the first targets they found.

These liquid lives can charge at their undefeatable enemies like a tide for the sake of their families. All they have to do is sweep all the way from one end of the street to the other.

"Want to know where I hid your little girl? Maybe I'll be so careless that I'll tell you."

As Jin Zi Leidi spoke, she took a step forward and swung a sword energy with a bright purple light in the direction of Ye Lan. Using the sword energy as a cover, she rushed towards the stabbing sword stuck in the ground without stopping.

At this moment, she already had a plan in mind. After she got the rapier back, she would immediately drag Ye Lan into a chase. As long as the Warp train started, Ye Lan's ridiculous moral concept, which was maintained by a powerless little girl, would inevitably collapse. By then, he would also become one of the available pawns for her to resurrect her son.

But the most important point is that the ego equipment called Bo Ming by Ye Lan has a powerful force that she can never contend with. If she does not switch to a chase, she will probably be ruthlessly dismembered by Ye Lan in a few minutes in order to torture her out of Luna's location.

It's a pity that although she tried her best to think highly of Ye Lan's combat effectiveness when using Bo Ming, the corrosive posture displayed by Ye Lan still exceeded Jin Zi Lei Di's imagination.

The purple light she swung out hit the black wings that Ye Lan held in front of him, but it didn't even leave a mark. Knowing that she couldn't fight Ye Lan head-on in this posture, Jin Zi Lei Di grabbed her rapier and turned to run.

"Hatred, greed, despair."

Except for the Angry Servant who was not in the headquarters and did not have the final observation with Ye Lan, the other three abnormalities from the Magical Girl series were summoned by him at the same time.

One real and two fake figures appeared in the direction of the Violet Tear's retreat. Except for the Queen of Hatred who had her own will and was still observing the situation, the two phantoms of the Queen of Greed and the Knight of Despair, who only had the strength to strike once, both released their full-strength attacks on the Violet Tear.

The Flashing Gold Charge and the Tearful Sword intersected, blocking all the directions in which the Violet Teardrops could escape.

"Tsk," With no way out for the moment, Iori had to start a dimensional walk beyond her plan and escape from the attacks of Ye Lan and the two phantoms.

"Ha, the bad guy is trying to escape!"

The Queen of Hatred seemed to have a switch pressed. A magic circle popped up under her feet and she disappeared with Ye Lan. Then she followed Jin Zi Lei Di's footsteps and appeared on the rooftop of a laboratory building of K Company.

"Damn, it's quite far." Ye Lan turned his head to glance at the K Company logo hanging on the stairwell, rubbed the Queen of Hate's little head and sighed.

Unfortunately, if the Queen of Hate wants to teleport, she must be able to recognize that something "evil" is causing trouble. Under normal circumstances, all she can do is fly slowly over the city.

There is also the possibility that they might be mistaken for invaders and shot down by passing organizations...

Iori's eyes were fixed on the large clock hanging on the research building of K Company, where the hour hand was about to point to the number 6.

The UW-212 WARP train checked tickets at o'clock and departed on time at o'clock. Once the train departed, even if only one second had passed, the train in the dimensional rift would have passed hundreds of years.

The ordinary passengers in the entire train carriage who had nothing to do were enough to tie Luna up in the carriage and turn her into a flesh and blood ornament that no one could understand. Even Jin Zi Lei Di herself could not guess how much torture she would suffer in the carriage.

"You're watching the time...you've put Luna in a place where the situation will change because of the time change."

Ye Lan read the subtle movements of Jin Zi's tears, and the advantage of having read the plot was fully demonstrated here. Things related to time are often related to T Company's singularity technology, and the only place where time changes can affect people, among the content that Ye Lan knows, is the Warp train.

"You hid her on a Warp train. Which one?"

"Want to know? Then come and catch me in the car if you can."

As the clock struck six, Violet Teardrop activated her dimensional walking ability again. This time, the Hateful Queen who followed her teleported failed to bring Ye Lan along.

He actively refused.

Chapter 149. Welcome aboard the Warp Train

6:00AM, R Nest Warp train station.

There were three people sitting on chairs in front of the train station.

A short young man among them patted the elder sister who was covering her forehead and thinking about something, and asked her: "Elder sister, have you seen the message sent by T Company?"

"Hmm... Hmm? News, what news... Ugh, I feel like throwing up..."

It was a pity that his elder sister had nothing in her mind at the moment, and the effects of the hangover made it almost impossible for her to make any judgment.

"Last night, your eldest sister and her relatives and friends from the same alley held a cocktail party. I heard that they booked a bar and partied all night long."

Another man who was a little shorter than the young man sighed and said to Ryan that they were both getting used to the eldest sister getting drunk from time to time.

"Ah...how much did you drink this time?"

Ryan sighed and was about to lecture as usual. In the molar office, the closers often thought that he, the younger brother of the big sister, was actually the mother of everyone in the office.

"And what is this? This invoice says... you actually embezzled our firm's public funds for food and drink..."

"Hey Ryan, I'm still drunk and my head is aching. It's not the right time to lecture you. Can we talk in an hour?"

Olga, the eldest sister of the molar office, acted like a spoiled child and begged her younger brother to let her go, just like she did on any other day, leaving Ryan at a loss as to what to say to her.

At this moment, a WARP train suddenly appeared on the track, and the announcement sounded in the station at the right time: "UW-212 WARP train is about to leave the station. Passengers who are boarding the train, please prepare in advance."

In the office area of ​​the station, an announcer took off his baseball cap with the W company logo on it and replaced it with his own hat.

Behind him, all the civil servants of W Company in the entire office area lay in a pool of blood, having died early at the hands of this man.

"Mr. Violet Teardrop, the UW-212 WARP train has departed with early ticket inspection as per your instructions."

He ignored the sound coming from the earphones of Violet Teardrop fighting with something strange-sounding, and reported to his master.

"Eh? Isn't it just a little after six?"