Cyberpunk, but urban

Mika looked at the clock on the platform in surprise. The time shown on it was completely different from the departure time of their Warp train.

"Uh ah... don't blame me so much. It's better for us to get on the train earlier than not getting on it."

Without time to think, Olga, with a splitting headache, pushed her younger brother and sister onto the train, without noticing that a carriage near the front of the train seemed to be shaking abnormally.

"Ah~ Every time I get on the WARP train, I always feel a knot in my stomach."

After getting on the train, Olga was looking for her seat while complaining to her younger brothers and sisters. If she hadn't gotten the Warp train ticket from an old friend of R Company last night, she would have slept at home for a day before leaving.

"I just hope you won't make a scene in the carriage like you did last time."

Ryan recalled the tragedy that happened when they were riding the Warp train before, and couldn't help but sigh.

"By the way, you will never guess who the client this time is. It's Company R." Mika said as she found a seat and sat down, shaking the power of attorney in her hand.

Being more cautious by nature, he questioned, "R Company has also entrusted others to do things...? How dangerous would that be? Maybe they are just using our little-known firm as cannon fodder to explore the way?"

Olga was not happy after hearing this. She pointed at the power of attorney and said to Ryan, "Well, who signed the letter of attorney?"

"Captain Rabbit?"

"Hehehe... Do you think that I am a carefree drunkard? Everything is in my plan, huh?"

Olga smiled and pinched her waist, looking around. On the seat behind them, a little girl in extremely white clothes was sleeping alone.

"Hey, why is there a little girl sleeping alone behind us... Meixiang, go wake her up and ask her where her family is."

Mika nodded, stood up from her seat and walked towards the back row.

However, Ryan's heart skipped a beat and he stopped Mika who was about to wake up the girl: "Wait... is there anyone else getting on the bus before us?"

If his memory was correct, apart from those gentlemen in the first class, the three of them should have been the first to board the Warp train.

"Hey, couldn't she have gotten in from another door? Ryan, you just think too much~" Olga patted Ryan's raised arm, then she leaned over the seat and stretched out her hand to poke the little girl's cheek.

"Um……"

The little girl slowly opened her eyes and looked around with some confusion, as if she was somewhere else before she fell asleep.

"Um, who are you? Where am I?"

Luna's eyes turned to the three Molar Office finishers in front of her, and she confirmed that they were at least friendly to her now. The little girl asked them weakly, using her natural appearance to the right extent.

"Hiss... Was she kidnapped?"

"Big sister... this is the Warp Train. Who would spend so much money to kidnap a child?"

Olga's idea was rejected by Ryan on the spot. People in the city were not that valuable. Using a Warp train ticket that had to be booked in advance to traffic a child, the money earned might not even be a fraction of the ticket.

Just when Olga was about to make a new guess about how Luna appeared here, a woman who was dressed in low-key clothes, but her clothes were definitely made of the best material in the city, came over, sat down next to Luna, and smiled at Olga and the other three.

"The Molar Office... Although they are a little weak, they are not bad-tempered. Go back and sit down. This little girl named Luna is with me."

The feeling that they must not annoy her arose in the minds of the three of them at the same time. They looked at each other and immediately confirmed that this lady must be of great importance.

Although the three of them had doubts in their hearts, they did not dare to express them in front of the lady. Even after sitting back in their own seats, they did not say a word and did not dare to overstep the line.

"Um... Sister, who are you?"

Although she couldn't tell how old the noble lady sitting next to her was, some kind of instinctive danger warning still made Luna choose to address the lady next to her as "sister" when asking questions.

"Let me think about it... Never mind, just call me Sister Jenna."

Chapter 150. Yellow Springs Train

"Attention all passengers, please fasten your seat belts. The train is about to start the jump."

The announcement on the train's radio threw the passengers who hadn't found their seats into confusion. The train had departed ahead of schedule, and now it had announced the start of the jump much earlier than the normal departure time.

People nervously ran to their seats, crowded together. Olga and the other two looked at the strange events in front of them hesitantly, and a feeling that something was going to happen on this train crept into their hearts.

"…getting ready to go." Mika muttered.

"The time doesn't match. That's so strange." Ryan frowned as he looked at his watch. Everything that happened on the train today made him feel something was wrong.

"Should we get out of the car? If we move quickly, maybe..."

Olga didn't finish her words. The train started to move as she spoke, startling the young couple in the front row who screamed in a way that was unclear whether it was fear or nervousness.

She turned to look at the lady behind her, only to find that she was still chatting with the cute girl with a calm expression, not caring at all about the strange things happening on the Warp train.

"Hiss—Isn't that Luna?"

Malkuth, who used the library to observe the next batch of guests, was surprised to see Luna in the picture. She was chatting with a young and noble lady, and the two seemed to be chatting happily. But there was one thing that made Malkuth very worried. Ye Lan, who was supposed to be with her all the time, was not with her at this time.

"Luna, are you riding the Warp train alone? That shouldn't be possible." Roland and Angelica looked at each other. They knew more about the current situation in the city than the librarians of the Lobotomy Corporation. Logically, W Company would not let children get on the train alone.

As for the reason...they said it was a safety issue, but Roland had heard from friends that the real reason seemed to be that letting children ride alone would result in some kind of cleaning fee being much more expensive.

Just when they were wondering about Ye Lan's whereabouts, Ye Lan had already climbed the last step in front of the library.

His physical strength had been suppressed to that of an ordinary person, and at this moment he was almost entirely relying on his last breath to rush up tens of thousands of steps in such a short time, and once again gained the right to enter the library from the main entrance.

"Angela, give me the books on Yellow Springs Train!" Ye Lan pushed the door open and immediately shouted into the library.

He did not follow the Queen of Hate into the portal at the K Company Research Building to continue the chase, but returned to the library to find a tool that could take Luna away from the Warp Train.

"It's rare to see you so anxious... Ye Lan, the book is here."

"She is an adopted daughter after all. Let's talk about the rest after we bring her back."

Ye Lan took the book of Yellow Springs Train and turned to leave the library. The ring in his hand continued to emit light, awakening this tool-like abnormality for him.

Tool-type abnormalities lack a clear self, so they cannot conclude a final observation with Ye Lan, and cannot be summoned by Ye Lan through the ring. But at least, with the power of the ego ring, Ye Lan can summon them from the form of books outside the library.

A rock ticket booth filled with terrifying skulls entangled in tattered spider webs appeared in front of the library. The familiar yellow eyes of the ticket seller were still so disturbing.

It stretched out a skinny hand that was hard to remember and handed the ticket to Ye Lan. The four lights on the train went out one by one, and an old-fashioned steam train entered the platform with the roar of the whistle and took Ye Lan in.

The dead souls in the train crowded together, making way for Ye Lan to get to the front of the train. As he moved forward, the whistle of the steam train sounded again, and the mysterious driver of the train followed Ye Lan's wishes and drove the train carrying the dead into the gap in space.

Although the Queen of Hatred is a Waw-level Abnormality, when she maintains her human form, she is no different from the He-level Abnormalities with lower combat power.

With Violet Teardrop's fighting power and combat experience, the Queen of Hate would not last long in her hands without Ye Lan. But even if she was beaten back into the form of an Abnormality Egg, Ye Lan could still sense her approximate location at the moment through the connection formed after the final observation.

The Yellow Springs Train then moved along the direction of the connection in the narrow gap of the dimension. After Ye Lan took a few breaths, he could see the Warp Train running in the narrow gap outside the front glass of the cab.

The Yellow Springs train continued to move forward, and Ye Lan in the train also pushed open the door of the cab. The door was filled with a chilling black mist, and the internal structure could not be seen clearly. There were yellow eyes like the conductor's wandering in the room, as if waiting for Ye Lan's instructions.

"Do you want an order? Then just ram it and force it to stop!"

The whistle on the old steam train roared violently, and the entire train suddenly accelerated under the control of the driver in the black fog, and launched a collision with the UW-212 WARP train without caring about its own damage.

The front ends of the two trains collided. The Warp Train, which was made of mortal objects, was completely out of reach of the Yellow Springs Train, which was a tool-type abnormality. The front end of the train deviated from its track in a flash, twisting and losing its proper function.

Ye Lan pushed open the door that suddenly grew out of his side and jumped into the Warp Train from the gap created by the Yellow Springs Train. This tool-like abnormality once again transformed into a book and was stuffed into Ye Lan's dimensional bag, while the sound of fierce fighting also reached his ears from behind the damaged VIP compartment door.

"Well done, it makes me want to go back and take you out for parfait."

Ye Lan praised himself to himself as black feathers climbed up his body again. He swung the big sword in his hand and smashed the carriage door that was blocking his way forward into pieces.

"Jin Zi Lei Di, I'm here to reunite you and your son!"

A golden light lit up in his eyes, and a long line was dragged out as he moved. The apocalypse and the end of the world appeared behind Ye Lan, and each eye on the wings that covered the sky and sun released a beam of light to the carriage in front of him.

After releasing a beam of light, the Queen of Hate appeared behind Ye Lan, staring tremblingly at Ye Lan who was bombing the Purple Tear Drops.

"Aren't you afraid that your little girl will be blown to death here?!" Jin Zilei's question came from the carriage.

"Take me as an idiot? How can I not tell whether the person is in this carriage or not?"

Chapter 151. Passengers

boom!

After the Warp train had been running for 31 hours, the passengers in the standard carriage finally heard a different sound. The sound caused by the violent collision spread throughout the entire UW-212 WARP train, and also made the three people from the Molar Office alert instantly.

"…Ryan, Mika. Is the train slowing down?"

Olga looked around, but the fully enclosed structure of the carriage prevented her from confirming the situation outside.

"Sister... the car isn't slowing down. I'm afraid we've stopped."

Ryan did not lower his voice deliberately, but his words made the passengers around him suddenly nervous.

"Why, why did it stop... Are we going to be trapped on this train forever?"

The young man named Tommy tore at the seat belt that bound him, trying to unbuckle himself and leave his seat to check the environment in other compartments.

Although her girlfriend Mary was scared, she still reached out and held Tommy's struggling hand, and comforted him: "...Tommy...we will be fine...I'm sorry, it's all my fault. It's all my fault that I dragged you on the WARP train..."

"Hey! Everyone, get your weapons! Let's saw through this damn seat belt!"

Ignoring the ordinary passengers, Olga called out to Ryan and Mika, and together they used their weapons to dismantle the seat belts that bound them.

However, just as the seat belts of the three of them were unfastened, a series of explosions like a storm sounded from the direction of the front of the car.

Jenna, who was sitting calmly in her seat and treating everything around her as the breeze, and Luna, who had been looking around, both raised their heads. Although neither of them saw what happened in the front direction of the car with their own eyes, they both had the same understanding at this moment, that is, Ye Lan should have arrived and was fighting with someone in the car.

"Oh! I'm so pissed. There are 300 poor guys trapped here, and why doesn't that damn W company even say a word?!"

During the time when the noise from the front of the train was getting louder and louder, Olga had tried everything she could, whether it was removing the door or investigating the rear of the train, but there was no way to leave the stopped train.

Ryan looked around and said to Olga and Mika, "The atmosphere is getting weirder and weirder. Everyone's emotions are very unstable."

After waiting for 31 hours, the passengers in the train were already in a commotion, and now that the train stopped, the tension among the passengers was ignited at once, and except for their carriage which remained stable under the control of the three of them, there were unexplained commotions in other carriages.

"What's even more bizarre is that we haven't eaten or drunk anything for 31 hours, but we don't feel anything at all?"

Mika was the first to discover the physical abnormalities. In this car, hunger and thirst seemed to have disappeared. Although they had not eaten or drunk water for more than a day, their physical fitness was still maintained in the best condition.

At this tense moment, a violet sword energy suddenly pierced through the carriage in front of them, leaving a deep scar in the carriage of Olga and the other two. Even the strange scene outside could be vaguely seen through it.

“What the hell! Who are the people fighting in front of us…?”

Olga, who was standing the tallest, nearly had half of her head cut off by the sword energy. She patted her plump breasts with lingering fear and breathed heavily.

Soon, as if fleeing, the passengers in the previous car came running over. Leading them was a woman wearing a yellow jacket and a V-neck sweater.

She had her hair tied in a high ponytail and was carrying a large leather shoulder bag that jingled when she ran, as if there were a lot of metal things inside.

"Thank God you are still normal people..." The leading lady bent down and took a few breaths, then said to Olga and the others, "I'm Elena, a nurse. I don't know what happened in the VIP car of this train, but there was a fight!"

"Besides, they had no regard for our lives at all. Many passengers were involved." When she said this, Elena's face showed an unmistakable expression of fear.

She continued, "But...the passengers involved in the attack did not die. Instead, they kept their dead looks, screaming and wriggling on the ground, trying to make us look like that too...we couldn't stand it anymore, so we had to break free from our seat belts and escape to the back of the car."

"Tsk," Olga smacked her lips, scratching her hair in annoyance, and staring at the woman who claimed to be a nurse in front of her hesitantly for a while. After a while, she said to Elena and the passengers she brought with her: "If they really attack, there is nothing we can do except continue to flee backwards..."

She pointed to the sword marks on her head and said to Elena, "To be honest, judging from the marks left by one of them, the ones who did this are at least first-level finishers. None of us can defeat them."

"Then, can we continue moving to the rear of the car?" Elena asked.

"As you wish."

After the nurse who made Olga feel bad left the carriage with her people, Olga took out the invitation letter to the library with a sense of relief, and said to Ryan Mika, Luna and Jenna who were sitting behind them: "...Hey, do you want to make a bet?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Ryan asked.

"Here, this is what I mean." Olga waved the invitation in her hand and gestured to them.

"Invitation...?"

"This was given to me by Amu. I didn't expect it would come in handy here."

Olga touched her head and said to Mika, at this moment, this invitation letter that could send them to the library has become their precious means of escape.

"Here, my pen. Anything is fine as long as I can get off this damn train."

Ryan handed over a pen without hesitation, but when Olga handed the invitation to Jenna, she raised her hand to refuse them.

"There's no need for me and this kid. We have another way. But... you're still thinking of us two random acquaintances in this situation. This really doesn't seem like a city person..."

Jenna's words made Olga at a loss for a moment. The drunken girl had no idea whether this noble lady was praising her or insulting her.

However, Jenna did praise Olga. Although these middle-level finishers did not count as much combat power in her opinion, their unique positive attitude might be a small part in making the city a better place.

Chapter 152. Lost Passenger Not on the Passenger List

"Uh... well, if you don't plan to go to the library with us, then we'll leave." Olga said, scratching her head, feeling extremely embarrassed and overwhelmed by Jenna's compliments.