Cyberpunk, but urban

"Oh, look at what you said. We are a small business, how dare we get the forbidden meat... You want animal meat, right? The ones here are..."

The boss said so, but Ye Lan never intended to ask whether it was actually true. After all, how many restaurants could afford such huge profits from the human flesh business?

Chapter 162. Black Cloud Action

After choosing what they wanted to eat, Ye Lan, Luna and the others found a table in the barbecue restaurant and sat down.

The restaurant owner, who had been instructed by Ye Lan, naturally would not take out those ingredients that could not be placed on the table, but a few minutes later, the waiter brought up the grilled skewers.

The skewers of meat sprinkled with cumin and chili powder were still sizzling, exuding a rich meaty aroma. The meat pieces, each the size of a thumb joint, were fat and lean, with golden fat flowing down from the charcoal fire, soaking up the chili powder on top and gathering into a bright red oil stain on the plate.

"You have to eat this while it's hot. If it gets cold, it will be oily and greasy."

Ye Lan said as he took a skewer of mutton from the pile of skewers on the plate. The texture of the skewer itself was pretty good, and Ye Lan didn't feel it was loose when he chewed it. It was just that the seasoning used by this shop to marinate the fresh meat was too strong, completely covering up the original taste of the meat.

Ye Lan shook his head with a little regret, picked up his drink and drank it. Yuli and Luna looked at each other. They were also hungry at this time, so they followed Ye Lan's example, picked up the skewers from the plate and put them into their mouths in two or three bites.

As an Abnormality, the Queen of Hatred doesn't actually need to eat, but as a humanoid Abnormality, she also has the ability to taste food. This Abnormality, who looks like a cute little girl, also picked up a skewer of meat and started eating like Ye Lan and the others.

The three people and an abnormality were eating silently, occasionally chatting about some meaningless topics, and soon half of the skewers on the plates were gone.

"Speaking of which, Yuli, have you received any news from Blue Echo recently?" While eating, Ye Lan asked Yuli as if he had thought of something.

"No, I don't think that gentleman would come to the company's branch so quickly even if it was a 'feature', right?"

"That's not necessarily true... He has some very powerful subordinates helping him."

Ye Lan didn't say it clearly, so Yuli didn't plan to ask more. If it's not necessary, knowing less is often safer than knowing too much.

"Anyway, Yuli, remember to contact Canglan Canxiang tomorrow." Ye Lan threw the bamboo sticks in his hand into the stick holder, and then continued to say to her: "Apart from this matter, there is still the matter of the office decoration. If nothing else, at least it has to be more comfortable than living in a back alley hotel."

"I understand...but if this is the case, the expenses will be much higher." Yuli nodded and wrote down what Ye Lan had instructed in her notebook.

At this moment, there was a noisy sound outside the barbecue restaurant, and it seemed that there was a friction between gangs eating nearby.

"What do you mean, do you want to go and see what's going on?"

Ye Lan made a suggestion to Yuli and the others. Those who had almost finished eating were curious about who dared to cause trouble in the dining area, so they accepted the suggestion and walked out of the barbecue restaurant with the remaining skewers.

Let Yuli and the others wait at the door, and Ye Lan approached a finisher who was also joining in the fun, "Brother, what happened?"

The cleaner looked back and saw that Ye Lan didn't look like a gangster, so he introduced him to him, "Oh, there was a small gang that came from somewhere else. They were not satisfied with the food and wanted to shirk their responsibilities. So they asked the local gangs to deal with them."

Ye Lan looked in the direction he pointed and saw a dozen gang members with spikes all over their clothes being pinned to the ground by even more people, struggling like a group of pigs waiting to be slaughtered.

"Gangs are gangs. Even if they are pinned to the ground and unable to move, they still speak foul language."

The person who was found by Ye Lan to finish off the gang members who were pinned to the ground spoke with disdain, while the people from the local gangs had already brought over all the tools for disembowelment.

"If you do this, you might get carried away..."

Ye Lan sighed and returned to Luna and the others. The group of Black Cloud Society members at the end of the street also cast their eyes over here. Harvesting internal organs was such a disgusting thing that these drunkards would probably not be happy about it.

Luna asked curiously: "Ye Lan Ye Lan, what are you doing over there~"

"The outsiders broke the rules, and the local gang members are going to use their internal organs to make amends to the boss... But, the customers at that table on the street probably don't want to watch this drama. If you don't want to be involved, you should go back to the store."

Ye Lan patted Luna's little head and took her hand and walked into the house.

Behind them, the leader of the Black Cloud Society named Silver grabbed the hand of one of the men who was about to rip open the man on the ground.

"Hey, can't you see we're drinking? You're just trying to humiliate the vice president by making a bunch of stinky offal?!"

"Tsk, who the hell are you?" The gang member tried to struggle against Yin's arm, but the other party's motionless hand made him feel a little scared.

"I, I'm warning you, if you don't let go, our brothers in the Cheetah Gang will turn you into a pig waiting to be gutted."

"Hey, Yin~ I'm not happy!"

At a distant dining table, Sayo, the vice-chairman of this branch of the Kurokumo Society, called out to the young head.

"I understand……"

The next second, a flash of silver light passed by, leaving a black cloud in the air. The man whose arm was held by the silver paused for a moment, and then half of his body fell backwards under the action of gravity, spilling everything in his body onto the ground.

"A Yin~ You made it so smelly that I can't even drink my wine~"

Sayo slapped the table unhappily, and all the members of the Black Cloud Society around her stood up.

"Drive out all the gang members. Leave no one alive! From now on, this street belongs to our Black Cloud Society."

"Yes!"

The members of the Kurokumo Society shouted loudly when they heard Sayo's order, and the samurai swords engraved with black cloud patterns reflected cold light under the light.

Afterwards, a series of screams replaced the noise from the guests who had come to eat earlier, and the whole street was plunged into a bloody storm.

The finishing personnel who heard from afar what the half-dressed vice-chairman of the Black Cloud Society said immediately demonstrated their best abilities and within a few breaths, they escaped from here amid the sarcastic laughter of the Black Cloud Society members.

Eleven minutes later, Sayo, with the two young leaders Yang and Gin, stood in front of the only Chinese barbecue shop on the street.

Inside the door was Ye Lan, who did not listen to her and turned around to run away.

Chapter 163. Be Respectful Later

A silent and depressing atmosphere filled the entire street. Hundreds of members under the Black Cloud Society's vice president Sayo surrounded the barbecue restaurant layer by layer, leaving no gaps.

Faced with this fierce foreign force, the shop owner, who was just running a small business, ran away with his employees early, leaving the restaurant behind.

"Ye Lan, Ye Lan, can I go beat up those bad guys surrounding outside?"

In the empty restaurant, under the glares of the Black Cloud Society gang members, the innocent and lovely voice of a little girl echoed throughout the street, making the restaurant owners who were secretly watching the show in the surrounding shops feel nervous.

"That child..."

A young assistant let out an angry growl, but before Vice President Sayo gave the order, no matter how angry he was, he did not dare to go against her orders and attack Ye Lan and others in the restaurant.

Ye Lan rubbed the little head of the Hateful Queen and said to her: "Don't be anxious, listen to what these people want to say first."

The words that Ye Lan said showed that he did not take the Black Cloud Society seriously at all. Even Sha Shi, the vice president of the Black Cloud Society, couldn't help but get angry after hearing this.

But... the uncertain message from Thumb made her dare not take action immediately.

"In Alley No. 12, there seems to be a young male cleaner who often takes an albino girl with him. He is about to be appointed as a new 'feature' by an association..."

That was a message given to her by a female commander of Thumb. In order to get this message from her superior, the members of her Black Cloud Society have been spending a lot of energy recently.

"Excuse me..." Although Ye Lan is now accompanied by more than just the little girl with albinism, she still made the judgment that Ye Lan might be the quasi-'featured' one.

"Would you be so kind as to change the dining place? We are willing to offer you sufficient compensation, and only ask that you allow us to finish the rest of the matter."

"You are so humble. It seems that Vice President Sayo knows something about me."

He did not plan to take action against this group of Black Cloud gang members today. After all, if someone died outside the library, no books could be recovered.

After he sent Blue Rhythm to explore the Lobotomy Corporation branch and rescue the employees on the pretext of finding his sister, many of the guests who entered the library in the original plot were due to the operations of the Rhythm Orchestra, and the reason for entering the library in the original work was lost.

But their books are always needed by the library. In the end, Ye Lan might have to act as the director of the library's personnel department and rack his brains to send these people into the library.

"So you really want to..."

A hint of joy flashed across Sayo's eyes, she was indeed arrogant and conceited, but she was not stupid, she would still do what she could to flatter the big guys and coax them.

She came from a back alley, yet she managed to rise to the position of vice president in a large gang like the Black Cloud Society. How could she not know the importance of connections?

"Who knows?" Ye Lan did not directly respond to her question. But in Sayo's opinion, not responding directly was no different from admitting the matter.

"Ah Yang, Ah Yin, hurry up and take your men to clear the way. This guy who's doing the cleaning is a big shot we can't afford to offend!"

The next moment, the atmosphere on the street suddenly became lively, and every member of the Black Cloud Society had a warm and sincere smile on his face.

The hands that usually held samurai swords now picked up brooms, mops and other cleaning tools. Everyone was discussing with great craftsmanship how to clean up the pollution caused by the corpses of local gangs on the streets.

Sasashi smiled flatteringly, took the drinks from the two young ladies who were smiling too, and was about to toast Ye Lan.

"Okay, you might as well clear the way quickly instead of doing this." Ye Lan glanced at Sha Shi and continued, "I don't care if you occupy the territory and collect protection fees, and I won't care. But you'd better not get on my head."

"Please rest assured, even if we have ten times the courage, the Black Cloud Society would not dare to collect protection money from one of our subordinates."

After a few words, a member of the Black Cloud Society returned to the front of the barbecue restaurant. He whispered something into Yang's ear, and then Yang, the young leader, came to Sayo and told her all the information.

"Sir, we have cleared the way for you to leave. Do you want to leave now, or do you have any instructions?"

"Are you still planning to eat here?" Ye Lan turned around and asked Luna and the others. However, the boss and the chef were scared away by the Black Cloud Society, so there was nothing to eat even if they stayed here.

"Well, let's go then."

Ye Lan sighed and stood up from his seat.

"Um... may I have the honor of knowing your name?" Sasai, who was accompanying Ye Lan and his group out of the barbecue restaurant and walking towards the exit of the street, asked Ye Lan flatteringly.

"Ye Lan."

After throwing his name to Sayo who bowed and said goodbye, Ye Lan and the others gradually moved away from the restaurant street. Sayo who didn't stop bowing until they were completely out of sight, the last thing he heard was the little girl with blue hair saying, "Ye Lan, can't we really eliminate all these bad guys?"

After many years of gang experience, Sayo didn't think it was just a child's nonsense. It was very likely that the little girl with blue hair really had the power to massacre hundreds of Black Cloud members.

"Miss, what shall we do next?"

Gin asked Sayo what they were going to do next, and after seeing off the finisher who was about to become a 'feature', they all relaxed together.

"What's next? Let's ask our friends in the association to investigate Mr. Ye Lan. We want all the information related to him, including his firm and his preferences."

"Okay, I'll do it right away." Gin bowed to Sayo and walked aside to make a phone call.

Yang, who was still with Sayo, stood where Gin had just stood, waiting for Sayo's other orders.

"Ah Yang, go inform the other groups in the club and don't let them mess with the wrong people."

"...Are you not going to accept this lord's help and eliminate those people?"

"The risk is too great. How can you guarantee that Lord Ye Lan won't kill us all without discrimination? Don't think too much. Being able to befriend a 'feature' is already a huge profit."

Yang nodded, then went to the other side and made a call like Yin.

It's a pity that they would never have thought that the reason why Ye Lan controlled the Queen of Hate and did not let her kill them immediately was simply because she wanted them to die in the library later.

Chapter 164. Blue resounding, running around for the commission

"Pluto, this place is really interesting~"

Walking in the broken corridor, the 'featured' finisher named Algaria said to his companion Pluto, who had a skeleton-like head and was walking beside him.

In the corridor behind the two of them, several Abnormality Eggs were neatly placed on the ground. The two of them easily beat those Abnormalities back to their dormant state as if they were playing with them.

"You are right, Lord Algaria..."

Pluto was silent for a while. In a corner of the city, someone broke his "Yesterday's agreement". The countless needles that Pluto had sent into his body through the power of the contract were triggered and materialized, causing the person to explode and die. The needles that were shot out at a high speed even destroyed the surrounding buildings.

This is one of the cases called "Thousand Needles" that have occurred in various places in the city in recent days, and one of the investigators of these cases is Yuna, one of the signature finishers of the Dawn Agency.

"What's wrong, Pluto?"

Hearing Pluto fall silent, Algaria turned to him and asked.

"Just a small matter, Captain Algaria."

Turning his attention away from the contracts, Pluto once again focused on the environment around the corridor. Earlier, he and Lord Algaria had cleaned the place inside and out.

Those creatures that seemed to have some similarities with him in structure and were named Abnormalities by the Brain Lobe Corporation really opened their eyes.

The name Abnormality was learned from an undestroyed internal personnel manual in the director's office when they explored the first Lobotomy Corporation branch.

Unfortunately, according to the information they discovered, Altria and Pluto killed several abnormalities in this Lobotomy Corporation branch, and the highest management level was only He.

Abnormalities at the Waw level and Aleph level above this level are usually not sent to the branch. The two could only regretfully turn their eyes to the center of the L nest, the headquarters of the Brain Lobe Corporation that was swallowed by heavy fog.

"This Lobotomy Corporation is indeed very closely related to the twisted events that changed us... Lord Algaria, why do you think Mr. Ye Lan wanted you to come to these branches in person to rescue those worthless employees?"

"Hmm~ I don't know." Algaria looked at the horrible sword marks that destroyed the escape passage control console at the end of the corridor with interest, and said to Pluto with a smile: "Maybe... Ye Lan just made such a deal to find something for us to do so that we can stay away from L Nest."

"...Could this sword mark be left by that person?" Pluto did not respond to Algaria's words, but shifted the topic to the sword mark.

He had never met the gentleman named Ye Lan who seemed to know the situation of Sir Altria's sister. But for him, who had made a "Yesterday's Appointment" twisted by deception, no one except Sir Altria was worthy of trust.

"Ah, yes. This is indeed the mark left by the Spirit Snake Sword Technique that my teacher was so proud of~" Algaria approached the damaged equipment, touched the sword mark with his hand and continued: "It looks like my teacher was having a party when he left this sword mark."

"carnival?"

"Yes... It's as if she found that one of her goals could no longer be achieved in this world, so she decided to devote the rest of her life to a carnival. Iori, my teacher is probably already striding forward on the road to death, using her life to explore possibilities for herself in other worlds, right?"