Cyberpunk, but urban

"Then sign it and we'll run straight to the library!"

Jingmei, who made this decision, doesn't know anything at the moment, but he will probably hate himself for making this decision soon.

The next moment, the three of them filed into the door of the library that was opened for them and disappeared into the alley two blocks away from the milk tea shop where Ye Lan was.

"The bad guy...ran into my house?!"

The Queen of Hate shrugged her cute little nose. The villain who dared to attack Ye Lan actually ran into the library in the blink of an eye. Such a strange thing made her silly little brain freeze for a while.

After a while, the Queen of Hate, who believed that they would never have a chance to get out again, chose to return to Ye Lan. She didn't intend to go back to the library and stay in her own little room as ordered by Angela.

Chapter 159. Welcome to the Weird Office

Receiving the three gang leaders who didn't even have time to greet their men and almost lost their lives while running away was really a boring thing. The only thing worth mentioning in this reception was Jingmei's vulgar and despicable words, which even made Angela show obvious disgust.

So, without even saying "May you find the book you want," Angela snapped her fingers and threw these stray dogs into the reception room where the three people from the Molar Office had just been quickly sent away.

Compared to the representatives of mid-level offices, the information channels of these gang members are naturally much narrower. Even though the superior gang of the Lost Dog is Thumb, Jingmei naturally couldn't tell the identities of Roland and Angelica, who not only had few characteristics, but also didn't bring them with them when they were received in the library.

So, he, who was talking nonsense to Angelica, turned into a book in the library in an instant. If people would not turn into books when they died in the library, his body would probably have been cut into pieces by Roland, so hard that even Master Zai Xian could not put it together, and the eight chefs could only use it to make sauce.

The remaining Zulu and Dino were used as targets for Ms. Angelica to vent her anger, and were turned into sieves in a matter of minutes under the heavy guns of the Logic Studio.

While the two of them were efficiently slaughtering the three leaders of the stray dogs, the Queen of Hate also wandered back to the milk tea shop where Ye Lan was.

The manager of this store had already fled when Jingmei suddenly got angry and was about to hit someone. At this moment, apart from Ye Lan who was dozing on the sofa, Luna was the only one in the store fiddling with the milk tea ingredients in the kitchen.

"I'm back! The bad guys have gone to my house. With the library director here, they will definitely be eliminated!"

The Queen of Hate's confused and immature shouting finally woke Ye Lan up. After a short rest, he not only did not feel the slightest bit more awake, he even felt more tired than before he fell asleep.

"...Luna? It's time to go."

Ye Lan looked around but didn't see the little girl. He raised his voice slightly and called out, and the little girl's voice came from the back kitchen of the milk tea shop.

"Got it, I'll be right there!"

In less than a minute, little Luna ran out holding a cup of milk tea she made herself. The girl threw a stack of her pocket money on the cashier, and sneaked to the kitchen to fiddle with it while Ye Lan was asleep.

But little Luna probably doesn't have any talent in this area. The milk tea that was finally presented to Ye Lan was more like some weird magic potion made by an orc witch doctor than milk tea.

If the person in front of Ye Lan was not indeed his lovely adopted daughter, he would have wondered if he had traveled through time to a game that did not exist in his country in his previous life, and became an orc who was not even green-skinned.

Ye Lan took a sip and handed the cup of indescribable liquid to the Queen of Hate. Then, while the Queen of Hate released her magic cannon towards "evil", he said to Luna, "Girl, don't do it next time."

Looking at the cup of "milk tea" destroyed by the magic cannon, the little girl finally had to agree with Ye Lan's suggestion. After all, her cup of tea was even regarded as an enemy by the Hateful Queen.

The final prank in the milk tea shop was also declared over in this beam of light, and the two of them and their imaginary bodies continued their journey back to the Illusion Office.

When Ye Lan arrived at the detached building chosen by Yuli, he could no longer recognize its original appearance.

At this moment, the sign of his Yixiang Office was hung high on the wall between the second-floor window and the roof, facing the street. The flashing neon tube exposed the Yixiang Office's logo in the most conspicuous way to the passers-by on the street.

If this wasn't Alley 12, nor was it the alley to which the collapsed ruins of L-Nest belonged, then by now there should be some city dwellers with enough spare money to come and entrust them with some low-level commissions such as finding cats and walking dogs.

Of course, such commissions are often not accepted by any firm, and uncertified informal commissions will not be included in the firm’s commission records, and will not be helpful for the firm’s rating.

Commissions that are unable to provide assistance and do not make much money will eventually, after being rejected all the way, be passed on to lower-level firms with poor operations that have to make do with whatever they have.

Pushing the door and entering the office, the entrance is not big, and there is no space for anything except a shoe cabinet. After leaving the entrance, there is a narrow corridor with simple decoration. On one side of the corridor is a wooden staircase leading to the second floor. Looking up from the bottom of the stairs, there is a door blocking the way to the second floor.

If Ye Lan remembered correctly, Youli planned to renovate part of the second floor into a living area for the office's finishing touches, so a certain degree of anti-theft and privacy was very important.

After crossing the corridor, they came to the living room used to receive clients. A large number of sofas and low tables that could be used to write contracts were scattered around the room. It seemed that Yuli had not had time to arrange them.

Ye Lan looked around. In addition to the direction of the corridor he came from, there were rooms on the other three sides of the living room that he could continue to observe. The room directly opposite the corridor was a kitchen with a dining room and kitchen. There was only a huge refrigerator in the open kitchen, and there was only a dining table in the dining room.

There aren't even matching stools?

Ye Lan complained silently, and then turned his attention to the third room connected to the living room. This is the bathroom, a room that every house must have. There is nothing much to say, it is just a basic bathroom that does not even have a bathing function.

The last room has an electronic lock on the door, which is the office's public warehouse. Some batches of workshop equipment and those that may be available in the future but have nowhere else to put them are stuffed in there and stored in categories.

As for now, it's just an empty room with nothing in it.

After seeing the layout of the first floor, the noise made by Ye Lan and the others also attracted the attention of Yuli on the second floor. This girl has been staying here since Luna was kidnapped, waiting for news from Ye Lan with both nervousness and worry.

Ye Lan didn't know whether she thought there was a thief in the office or was worried about encountering the enemy who kidnapped Luna. Yuli, who rushed down from the second floor, even held a slender long sword with a red glow.

It looked like some kind of energy sword produced by a workshop. Ye Lan had to ask Yuli what it was.

Chapter 160. This week’s preview won’t just be about ham bang bang

"Haha...you're finally back."

Yuli's whole body softened, and she squatted on the ground. After being frightened for a long time, she finally relaxed after seeing little Luna return safely, and fatigue also crept over her body.

"Thank you for your hard work, Yuli."

Ye Lan, who was also still tired, said simply and suggested to her to go to their respective rooms on the second floor to rest first. If they had anything to say, they could talk after they woke up.

Of course, Yuli would not refuse this suggestion. She stood up again by holding the wall beside her, and then took Ye Lan and the others up the stairs to the second floor.

The redesigned second floor was divided into standard-sized rooms. For the time being, the interior of each room was exactly the same, with only some simple furniture.

But this was not the time to be picky, so Ye Lan and the others chose an empty room and lay down in it. Before long, everyone except the Abnormality of the Hateful Queen fell asleep.

While everyone in the Imagination Office was enjoying their rare break, the library fell into new chaos.

After the books of Molar Office and Lost Dog were stored in the library's shelves, new Abnormalities awakened under the power of the newly collected light, blooming with their own powers in the library, and forming two areas that were not controlled by Angela.

Roland and Angelica, who had just left the reception room, started a new battle with two abnormalities named Son of the Galaxy and Red Shoes.

The red shoes that appeared on the literature layer were a pair of shoes with sharp teeth and a sharp axe inside that used leg bones as a handle. They had the ability to make people around them obsessed and give up resistance. Under Angela's command, it was handed over to Angelica to take the lead, and the designated librarian Hod and the assistant librarian of the history layer assisted.

The ability of this pair of biological dancing shoes to confuse people and ignore resistance is meaningless to Angelica, a "featured" finisher. When this ability cannot be used to affect the enemy, the red dancing shoes are just a pair of fragile monsters that can control the legs and axes in their shoes and chop randomly.

For Angelica, facing such an enemy is not even a warm-up, except for wasting some time.

Another Child of the Galaxy appeared in the art floor of the library. Even though Netzach had been lazy and didn't want to work, when faced with the Abnormality that appeared on his face, he could only concentrate and fight it with his assistant librarians.

Roland joined their battle in this situation. Roland, the captain of Charles Office, who was much better at fighting than Netzach, easily defeated several derivatives of the Son of the Galaxy.

However, Roland did not discover the special connection between these Friends of the Galaxy at first, and the long intervals between the killings ultimately left no results, and it didn't take long for these derivatives to regain their combat capabilities.

But Roland was ultimately a finisher who was better at collecting intelligence. In just the second round of attempts, he discovered the fighting logic of the Son of the Galaxy, an anomaly, and killed three derivatives at the same time in an instant, ending the Son of the Galaxy's riot.

Not long after, after the two Abnormalities were transformed back into the form of Abnormality Eggs, the library's librarians gathered together in Angela's director's office again.

"Speaking of which... I've always been curious about why you guys are so mean to Brother Ye Lan and Angela. Can anyone tell me what happened during the day and night?"

Pulling Angelica to sit in the director's office, Roland asked Malkuth and Hod who were sitting in a row on the other side.

"At that time," Hod said indignantly, "the bastard Ye Lan helped Angela..."

Her words were full of dissatisfaction with Ye Lan's behavior. From the perspective of Roland and Angelica, two people who had experienced it, it was not so much anger at being betrayed by Ye Lan, but rather a little jealousy because Ye Lan helped Angela.

"God knows how much Ye Lan has hidden... In the end, he actually brought all the abnormalities in the entire facility back to where we started the fight."

Malkuth rolled his eyes and angrily continued to tell Roland about what happened that day.

"So you were planning to end your own lives? After the whole plan was successful? God...are you really ready to accept such a morbid fate?"

Roland asked two questions in succession. At this moment, he really couldn't understand why Malkuth and other designated librarians would have such ideas.

"Those who say they want to die don't really mean it. They want to live more than anyone else, and that's why they express their desire to live in this way."

"If a person really wants to die, he will disappear more quietly than anyone else. When Angela said she wanted to live, I felt the same deep down in my heart. I wanted to live too."

Netzach, who was sitting opposite Malkuth and Hod, sighed and picked up the beer again without knowing when.

"Hey Netzach... is that beer?"

"Netzach, you're using the library's materialization power to make beer again?!"

Malkuth reached out and snatched the can of beer that Netzach hadn't had time to open. Yesod sat down next to Netzach without saying anything, staring at him as if he were garbage.

"Ah... You guys won't even let me drink a little when I'm talking about something that's detrimental to my mood." Netzach sighed again and continued, "When I felt the urge to live... I thought of the employees of Lobotomy Corporation, the ones I failed to protect and who died in front of me."

"Our plan was to save humanity, but we couldn't even save the people around us. It was really ironic. At that time, I began to think, if I could survive in the future, what would I want to do?"

Roland responded: "Well, we should indeed take a long-term view."

"It's funny, but after Ye Lan helped Angela interrupt our supposed ending... I don't want to die anymore. Dying is just an escape. Compared to that, why can't I give Angela a chance?"

Hod leaned on Malkuth's shoulder and said to Roland. Unlike the other three designated librarians who had awakened, Hod could understand Angela's thoughts better.

Chapter 161. I feel uncomfortable when I have some free time these days

That night, Ye Lan, Luna and Yuli, who had just woken up from a good sleep, met again in the living room on the first floor.

Although the rooms in the office are their own home, both Ye Lan and Yu Li have to admit that the decoration of these rooms is not as good as that of the back alley hotel.

"Anyway... let's order some takeout first, and then think carefully about how to decorate the office next." Sitting on one of the haphazardly placed sofas, Ye Lan said to Luna and Yuli.

The three of them hadn't eaten much all day and were really hungry at this moment.

It’s a pity that the city is not as good as the country where Ye Lan lived in his previous life. The takeout industry in the city is too risky, and no company will invest money or recruit manpower in this industry.

Therefore, only some merchants who think they have high combat power will provide delivery services in the surrounding areas. And most of the materials used by such merchants are not genuine goods.

"Ye Lan...are there any good takeout restaurants around the office?"

Luna grumbled as she crawled from the sofa where she sat to Ye Lan's sofa. The little girl was too lazy to get off the sofa, so she let Yuli act as a stepping stone between her and Ye Lan and moved to sit between them.

"Luna, could you please stop jumping between the sofas like a maggot... Yuli, help her tidy up her clothes."

The expression on Ye Lan's face was almost unbearable. The way the little girl crawled towards him, not to mention whether it was more energy-saving than standing up and walking towards him, her clothes were rolled up in this movement, and her entire belly was exposed.

"I know."

Yuli responded and picked up little Luna who was trying to climb from her to Ye Lan's sofa. After straightening her clothes, Yuli stood up helplessly and handed the little girl to Ye Lan.

After Ye Lan took Luna, he handed his cell phone to the little girl. Compared to him, who came to the office for the first time, little Luna at least watched the decoration team complete the basic renovation of their office. She must know more about the places to eat around than Ye Lan.

"I already told you there aren't many takeout restaurants around here~"

Luna took the phone and complained a little, then started looking through several apps. "Hmm... take a look at this one?" After being silent for about five minutes, Luna showed Ye Lan the page of a store.

"Didn't you say no?"

"It must be newly opened... Anyway, it doesn't look like they use any weird meat, so it's a good restaurant~"

As Luna spoke, she leaned back and lay on Ye Lan's legs. Her little head rested on the armrest of the sofa, and her hands reached forward and grabbed the sofa where Yuli was sitting.

"...There really isn't any weird meat here," Ye Lan said, looking at the menu on the page, her face turning green, "This is a vegetarian salad shop..."

"Eh?!" Luna sat up suddenly, "I don't want to eat grass!"

So, the three of them, along with the Abnormality of the Hateful Queen, finally walked out of the office and went to eat at a store in the back alley, which gave them many more choices.

The nights in the back alleys are often much shorter than those in the nest because of the late nights in the back alleys. But being shorter does not mean that the back alleys will be cold and deserted at night.

There are countless gangs and agencies that go out to work during this time period, and then take advantage of the upcoming late night in the back alleys to clean up those difficult-to-handle scene traces for them.

When you go out to work, you will inevitably have to spend money on food and drink.

As a result, a large number of restaurants and supermarkets were opened following these people from all walks of life in the alleys, providing them with meals before work and celebrations after work.

Likewise, these shops that facilitated the back alley gangs and agencies also gained the protection of these people. After all, no one wants to see the shop they want to eat in being smashed after completing the commission.

After a while, Ye Lan, who had already walked out of the street where his office was located, took Luna and the other three girls into a commercial street full of restaurants.

Regardless of whether they were the finalists of murder commissions or gang members competing with other gangs for territory, they were all dining in these restaurants in clearly defined groups of three or five.

But maybe because it was still early, almost no one was drinking at this time. Except... a Japanese pub at the end of the street.

Ye Lan didn't even need to get close, just by looking at their clothes he could tell that this group of people were different from the lower-level gangs and the cleaners in the back alleys who had to find ways to make a living every day. They were members of a big gang and didn't need to care about the time planning of most people in the back alleys.

Sitting in the main seat was a woman, wearing a black yukata with cloud patterns loosely draped over her body, with most of her upper body exposed.

The black cloud-pattern tattoo stretched from both shoulders to the collarbone, but was covered by a tiny bit of fabric, so the complete pattern could not be seen.

At this time, she was already drunk and her face was red. She leaned dizzyly against a dark-skinned male subordinate beside her, not caring at all that her body was exposed to their sight.

"All the members of the Black Cloud Society have come here..."

Ye Lan sighed and led Luna and the others into a barbecue shop. This was a Chinese barbecue shop, and the freezer in the shop was filled with bamboo sticks with thumb-sized pieces of meat.

"Boss...Isn't this all animal meat?"

As soon as he entered the store, Ye Lan asked the owner a question. This question is very important in the back alleys of the city.

Some customers only eat meat that cannot be disclosed. If you give them animal meat, they will get angry and even stuff the waiters and even the boss himself into their stomachs.

Others would never eat those forbidden things. If they found out the wrong goods, they would be slaughtered. After all, outside Alley 23, cooking those meats was a taboo. If they were killed, they would not only have no way to refute anything, but they would even be rewarded.