Cyberpunk, but urban
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After confirming that Jenna didn't intend to say anything more to them, she signed her name on the invitation card and walked into the portal leading to the library with Ren Mika.
Watching them walk into the library, Jenna turned to Luna and asked, "Little girl, did you see the woman who claimed to be a nurse just now?"
"That sister looks so strange... She doesn't seem to be human."
Luna tilted her head and said to Jenna. In her sight, the woman who claimed to be Elena was actually the same as the Abnormality Queen of Hate that she had seen a few days ago. Except for growing into a human image, there was no human appearance at all.
"No... that's a blood demon. From a city's perspective, it's also a human being. You are the same."
"I?"
This time, Luna was really confused. In her mind, she was just an ordinary girl who lived in Alley 9 and had her own parents.
So Luna asked Jenna: "Am I also a blood demon? What about my father and mother?"
Jenna shook her head and said to her, "...Luna, you are not a human race called Blood Demon, nor a human race called Distorted that has appeared recently. In fact, even we are not sure what your race is for the time being, but one thing has been confirmed by our spies...Luna, you have never had parents."
"How could that be? I clearly..."
As Luna spoke, she opened the small suitcase that she always carried with her. Before leaving Alley 9 with Ye Lan, she put all the things her parents left behind in it.
However, when she opened the suitcase and handed Jenna one of the photo frames that Ye Lan had seen before, the photo they saw was a strange photo. Although the two people in the photo were holding hands and posing in a loving manner, they both had no heads.
"how come……"
It was hard for Luna to believe that the days she had spent with her parents were all fake, but she searched through all the items in the suitcase and could not find any trace to prove that her parents had ever really existed.
Jenna fiddled with her moonstone jewelry. Some of them had developed a lot of cracks during her time with Luna, and looked like they could no longer be used.
As for what moonstone is, we have to mention Company M. These stones of different sizes are the products of Singularity Technology owned by Company M.
Moonstone can enhance the spirit of the user. It can effectively deal with the effects on mental functions, and relieve or block all visual and auditory pain that occurs to oneself, as well as mental harm from the outside world.
As the chief tuner, Zena wears a lot of moonstones wherever she goes. And humans like Luna, who can break a considerable portion of the moonstones and lose their effects just by communicating, can be said to be almost comparable to those monsters in the suburbs.
However, from the perspective of Luna and those passengers who did not follow Elena to escape to the car closer to the rear of the train, the jewelry Jenna was playing with had never been damaged.
The moonstones seemed to be responding to Luna's actions, creating a false image for her that was more in line with other people's minds. Jenna, who trusted M Company's singularity product, was thus enveloped by the attitude created by the reversed effect of the moonstones, and Luna became more and more lovable in her eyes.
"Little Luna, don't be sad about this. Even if your past was full of lies, don't you have a real adoptive father, Ye Lan, now? He is still working hard for you, fighting a color finisher in the car ahead."
When the color finisher was mentioned, little Luna's face showed a lovely expression that made people love her. She wrinkled her nose, twisted her eyebrows, and pouted her lips and said to Jenna: "It won't be that aunt with purple tears again... She is so annoying~"
It was rare that the chief tuner, Jenna, stroked Luna's little head and burst into amazing laughter. However, the pressure was almost visible to the naked eye, and the passengers around did not dare to overstep the line, and they all turned their eyes to the wall beside them.
While Jenna and Ye Lan's little Luna were still chatting about what could be defined as a human being in the city, in a carriage in the middle section of the Warp train that had been occupied by shattered passengers, there was a buzzing sound that was made when W Company employees used space-tearing equipment to cut through space.
A blood-red dimensional rift appeared in the carriage, cutting several passengers piled up where the rift opened into even more scattered pieces of flesh.
A bipedal creature that could hardly be described as humanoid walked out of the red dimensional rift, with weapons made of unformed energy on its wrists. Its chest was split open, forming a huge mouth like a beast.
It was exposed to the air, with no skin on its entire upper body covered by tattered clothes, and its muscles were directly exposed, with several bundles of muscles in a state of being torn and peeled off.
If Ye Lan was not fighting with the desperate Jin Zi Lei Di at this time, but was facing this monster in this carriage, he would definitely be able to directly tell its identity: the Lost Passenger of the Abnormal Entity.
Although it is a passenger, judging from its clothing and the things it carries, the prototype of this abnormality is most likely the employees of W Company who got lost in the dimensional rift.
Stepping on the passenger fragments that were shattering on the ground with strange sounds, this abnormal body made strange sounds and rushed towards the battle field between Ye Lan and Jin Zi Lei Di.
He raised his arms high, and the blade formed by the unformed energy dragged out two cracked spaces. The innocent passengers who passed by it did not even have a chance to resist, and were dragged into the suction generated by the cracks, and lost in the endless space.
The thin stick held in Ye Lan's hand collided with Jin Zi Lei Di's octagonal stick again. The sudden burst of air waves made the already dilapidated carriage, which exposed all the space inside, even more dilapidated. The alloy that made up the carriage was completely destroyed in their battle.
The storm in the gap of space was eroding the things in the carriage every minute and every second. Those VIPs huddled in the cabinets, along with their tanks, were torn into pieces by the storm of space at the very beginning.
Chapter 153. Goodbye, all the purple tears
Just as Jin Zi Lei Di adjusted the driving again and released continuous sword energy at Ye Lan with her sword, the lost passenger also rushed into the dilapidated carriage dragging the space rift.
The blade that could cut through space was swung at Ye Lan and Jin Zi Lei Di at the same time without any pattern, unscrupulously cutting the carriage into a dangerous space full of cracks.
"It's so hard, how come this thing came here..."
Ye Lan sighed in his heart, and the thin sword in his hand drew a tricky arc, directly cutting off the arm of the lost passenger who was waving the blade at him.
Upon seeing this, Jin Zi Lei Di twisted the sword in her hand and slashed towards Ye Lan with a bright purple sword light. The blade, like a snake, slashed towards Ye Lan's lower body, trying to cut off his legs.
The lost passenger who had one arm chopped off let out a deafening laugh, and his new arm and the dimensional knife on his wrist grew back almost instantly. Then, without caring whether he was threatened or not, he simultaneously created a space rift towards Ye Lan and Jin Zi Lei Di.
Although Ye Lan has never seen W Company employees fighting in real life, the special effects that appeared when those W Company employees released space tears in the game seemed to be exactly the same as those released by the lost passenger at this moment.
"What a trouble maker, I hate the Queen."
Ye Lan's thin night left four scars of completely different types of damage on its body. The four types of damage, physical, mental, erosion and soul, erupted simultaneously on the body of the lost passenger.
At his signal, the Queen of Hate, who had already prepared her magic cannon, timely included the Lost Passenger and the Purple Teardrop into the attack range at the moment Ye Lan withdrew, and released the magic cannon that swallowed everything at them.
The attack, which appeared like a magic beam, penetrated the wall of the carriage, which already had little iron sheet left. The two figures in the beam swung their weapons at the same time.
The taller and more twisted one tore the space in front of him, and a space crack blocked all the damage for him. The other figure took a step forward and tried to get into the space she opened to escape, but was chased by the lost passenger at the same time.
The unformed energy blade pierced into her waist at the moment before the Purple Teardrop was about to teleport. She was suddenly hit hard and was unable to activate the ability of dimensional walking for a while, and was blasted out by the light cannon.
Then, six consecutive magic bullets flew out at the moment the light cannon dissipated, chasing the purple teardrop that was opening a space rift.
"I can't let you run away. Today I said that you and your son must be reunited, so you must be reunited."
The ring in Ye Lan's hand burst out with unprecedented brightness, and he reached the final conclusion with him at the headquarters of the Cerebrovascular Corporation. Every alien entity that could cause damage to the Violet Tear Drops was summoned one after another by him, and each of them released a full-strength attack on the Violet Tear Drops.
The carriage turned into nothingness under the attacks released by these phantoms. The lost passenger who took the Queen of Hate's light cannon head-on just failed to dodge the aftermath, and was irresistibly transformed back into the form of an Abnormality Egg under the aftermath of the attacks caused by other Abnormality phantoms.
Ye Lan, who had wasted all her energy in one go, was carried by the Hateful Queen to the next carriage. The egg of the lost passenger's abnormality was also brought back by the Hateful Queen, who looked like a little girl.
The process of dozens of phantoms of abnormalities releasing their full-strength attacks on the Purple Teardrop will continue for a while, but in the eyes of the Queen of Hate, there is no trace of the "bad guy" in the city.
When the aftermath completely subsided, all Ye Lan could see were the broken fragments of Jin Zi Lei Di's three weapons, which were slowly drifting away along the storm in the narrow space, and then being eroded by the storm and turned into non-existence.
"He must be dead now... Don't jump out like a haunting female ghost again."
Ye Lan sighed, stuffed the lost passenger's abnormal egg into his dimensional bag, and walked to the next carriage of the train with the help of the Queen of Hate.
"So what exactly do I consume when I use this ring to summon ego equipment and phantoms of abnormalities?"
Ye Lan, feeling somewhat tired, looked at the dark ego ring on his hand and thought that this ring might not be usable for a while. However, even though the ring was unusable, this was the only price he had to pay to summon dozens of phantoms of aliens in one breath. Ye Lan felt something was not right.
This was not something right until he found Luna and Ms. Zena, the tuner who had been with her, at the end of the train.
"Ye Lan... have you seen what you look like now?" Jenna asked. The moonstones she was wearing all shattered the moment she saw Ye Lan's current state. Even Jenna, the leader of the tuners, found it difficult to resist the huge mental pressure.
"Eh? What happened to me?"
Ye Lan scratched the pink mucus on his head with eighteen hands, blinked his dim yellow eyes, and then asked Jenna and Luna with his bloody mouth on his chest.
"Wow, Ye Lan, you have turned into a big monster now~"
Little Luna crawled out of the safety belt that bound her, and curiously reached out to poke the several musical notes embedded on Ye Lan's legs, which were now made of twisted flesh and blood. Luna had seen some of these strange limbs with clear images before and some she had not.
But those that she had seen were all the phantoms of the abnormalities that Ye Lan had summoned in front of her or the parts that appeared on the ego equipment that she had used.
After hearing what Luna said, Ye Lan took out a mirror from his dimensional bag with a hint of doubt and curiosity, and looked down at his current appearance.
"Wow, this is the price for overspending on the ring~"
He now feels that there is nothing wrong with his mental state. As for the physical changes, he guesses that they will return to normal after the ring returns to normal.
Indifferently, he found an empty seat and sat down. Ye Lan turned his third head to Jenna and asked, "Why are you interested in sitting in the ordinary seat of the Warp Train today? Oh, by the way, this casual outfit is nice."
"Hmph~ You're in this state and you still have the mind to joke with me... Don't you know why I'm here?" He couldn't bear to see Ye Lan's posture that could make ordinary passengers in the car twist on the spot.
Jenna turned her back to Ye Lan and continued, "Jin Zi Lei Di really can cause me trouble... Although from the standpoint of the leader, she has not done anything that violates the city's taboos, but... from my own perspective, I am very angry..."
Chapter 154. Little Girl
"Haha," Ye Lan's three heads laughed at the same time, "Then I really thank you for coming out to accompany Luna. I'm really worried about her being abducted to a place like this alone."
If Ye Lan looked at himself in the mirror at this moment, he would find that his three heads looked very familiar.
The head on the left is stuffed into a large piece of cast iron. It should be the head of an abandoned killer. The one in the middle is wearing a hat and belongs to the Wind and Cloud Wizard. The most outrageous one on the right is the head of a cute girl with a side ponytail. Its owner is sitting next to Luna at this time, and she is the Queen of Hatred.
After Ye Lan had a few words with Jenna, who had her back to him, the Tuner suddenly asked him, "...Speaking of which, Ye Lan, have you carefully looked at the little girl's parents' belongings in her suitcase?"
"Of course, I was the one who helped her put away those small items." Ye Lan said, extending a hand from under his third wing on his left and waving to Luna.
"Then you must not have watched it in this state...would you like to give it a try?"
Although Ye Lan didn't know why Jenna said that, he still asked Luna for the suitcase and took out the photo frame they had just looked at... The photo frame contained a photo of Luna's parents, with the two of them holding hands and smiling sweetly.
Judging from the photo, little Luna was probably not born yet when the photo was taken, and the couple was living in their sweet world of two.
"It's a normal photo. What's the problem?"
The pink slime that replaced Ye Lan's hair dripped onto the ground and then slowly crawled towards his head. He handed the photo frame to Luna in confusion. The little girl could now see her parents in the photo again.
"Eh? Why...why is this happening?"
Puzzled, Luna handed the photo frame back to Jenna. Unlike the Tuner, little Luna could still look directly at Ye Lan's body. The pollution that could instantly shatter the moonstone worn by the leader was as harmless to her as a breeze.
This time, Jenna, who took the photo frame, also saw the appearance of Luna's parents. They were a young couple who looked very similar to her, and Luna inherited their characteristics very well.
However… not only can we not find the corresponding identity information of this couple in the city, but they are not albinos. If albinism is an autosomal recessive disease, it is possible that the parents are not dominant but the children are dominant, then it is absolutely impossible that the information of the two of them cannot be found with the power of the spies.
"Weird... Really weird. Ye Lan, do you know that little Luna is not considered a standard human in the city's classification?"
"I have some guesses... After all, although I can't see it, I can feel that this little guy often reveals harmless weirdness."
While they were chatting, Ye Lan's arms had been reduced from eighteen to twelve. He picked out a teddy bear toy arm from the twelve arms and gently patted little Luna's head.
Ye Lan then said to Jenna: "You see, even you can't look me in the face right now, but Luna doesn't have this problem... She should be a member of some kind of human minority group recognized by the city, right?"
"That's the leader's assessment... But, up to now, the leader has not found any urban human with the same behavior as Luna... In a way, she should perhaps be called a separate group."
Jenna said with her back to Ye Lan that although this information was valuable intelligence summarized by the leader, as a tuner, she still had the right to inform the person concerned of this information.
"So... Luna, I am a rare species?" The little girl smiled, seemingly not affected by these things at all. "Wow, does that mean that the leader sister will introduce a bill to protect me in the future?"
"You little girl, why are you still taking advantage of the situation?"
Ye Lan, with only his head left, reached out and tapped Luna's forehead, making the little girl give up this unrealistic idea.
"Although there won't be any protection laws, you can have a species name that belongs to you, just like those blood demons in the back car."
"Blood Demon?" Ye Lan looked towards the rear compartment thoughtfully. The part of his body that belonged to his abnormal body was fading away quickly. The erosion caused by excessive use of the ego ring seemed to be dissipated by himself.
What can prove this is that in the carriage he is in at this moment, only Luna and Jenna still retain their own appearance, while the rest of the passengers have all been transformed into distortions under the astonishing mental oppression.
"Forget it, who cares what those blood demons are thinking... Speaking of which, if W Company can find this train, can their singularity technology restore it for them?"
Ye Lan asked.
"I'm sorry... I'm afraid I can't tell you that."
"That's right. If the leaders themselves didn't comply with the Patent Act, the city would have been destroyed in the corporate war long ago." Ye Lan said half jokingly and half with emotion, and then he turned the topic back to Luna: "How about the title of Son of the Moon? Luna's name means moon, and albinos are also called Sons of the Moon in the old civilization."
"Interesting... where on earth did you get all this knowledge from?"
Although Jenna didn't say it explicitly, from this moment on, little Luna's race would be called a branch of humans, the Children of the Moon.
"Speaking of which, I have another question... You said that tribes like the Blood Demons have special powers. Does Luna have any special powers?"
After Ye Lan asked this question, Little Luna also cast an expectant look at Jenna. However, even as a member of the leader, facing a new human race that had just entered their field of vision, the leader did not know much about it.
"It seems that Luna can magnify other people's good impression of her, making them unconsciously protect her."
"Including you and me?"
"Well, besides that, she seems to be able to make people around her ignore the abnormalities in her..." At this point, Jenna stopped playing with the ineffective moonstone ornament.
"No... When I was wearing the moonstone jewelry, I saw a weird photo. When you were in this state, Ye Lan, you saw a normal photo. After this, when we looked at the photo again, it was normal again... I will have someone send you a moonstone later, and you can test whether Luna can manipulate this singularity product of M Company."
Chapter 155. Return to the City
"So judging from the abilities displayed by the little girl so far, she doesn't have any combat abilities?" Ye Lan asked.
"Sadly, yes."
Hearing Jenna's answer, Luna lowered her head somewhat unhappily. The little girl didn't care what race she was. She cared more about whether she had the fighting power to protect herself.
"Tsk tsk, little girl, you are such a wimp~"
Ye Lan, who had completely restored her original appearance, pinched little Luna's cheek and made fun of the little girl. Then she angrily slapped him.
"Ye Lan... that's too much!"
Ye Lan laughed and let Luna pat him softly. He thought in his heart that although Luna has not yet demonstrated any unique fighting ability, the power that can amplify the goodwill of others may be the most dangerous power.
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