Cyberpunk, but urban

Although Ye Lan hadn't figured out what the cargo was, he still signed it anyway. After the three finishers from the Ninth Association finished the procedures and left, he was finally able to take the box back to the office and open it to see what it was.

"Ye Lan, who's here?"

Luna, still in her pajamas and still sleepy, walked down from the second floor, rubbing her eyes.

"I'm from the Ninth Association, here to deliver goods...but I don't know what's in this box."

As Ye Lan spoke, he unpacked the outer packaging of the box. Inside the outer packaging was a fist-sized moonstone stored in U Company's current storage equipment.

"Ha, this is the moonstone that Ms. Jenna said she would give you to test your abilities..."

As Ye Lan spoke, he took out the stone that was suspected to be related to the sea monster from the storage device. Although this stone was named moonstone by M Company, it was not a feldspar mineral. It had a naturally rounded shape and was more like a pearl from a clam than a mineral.

Coincidentally, the logo of M Company is an M that looks like a clam shell.

"Luna, take it and try it?"

Ye Lan handed the milky white moonstone, which was emitting a hazy moonlight glow, to Luna. The moment Luna placed it in her hand, the light it released changed from the color of moonlight to the color of waves.

Ye Lan asked Luna: "It seems that there is indeed some connection. Luna, do you feel anything?"

The little girl, who had not yet fully woken up, shook her head, with only confusion in her eyes. Although the singularity technology product called Moonstone changed its light in her hand, Luna herself did not understand any new knowledge all at once.

Ye Lan pulled her to find a sofa in the living room and sat down. He recalled the discussion he had with the tuner Jenna on the train about Luna. A guess gradually formed in Ye Lan's mind: "How about, Luna, try to imagine what the office's living room will look like after it's finished being decorated?"

People have a very strong ability to associate. Without any relevant training, when someone mentions a specific scene, people will always subconsciously start to imagine.

Luna naturally had not received that kind of training. Holding the moonstone in her hand and being held in Ye Lan's arms, after hearing Ye Lan's words, Luna began to imagine what the living room of the Yixiang Office would look like after the decoration was completed without even realizing it.

And the next moment, with the changes in the light of the moonstone, the living room reflected in Ye Lan and Luna's sight also changed completely.

"Wow! The living room is really different!!!"

Little Luna jumped out of Ye Lan's arms excitedly, wanting to touch the wallpaper. However, just as she walked along the empty floor towards the wall, the little girl seemed to have touched something and fell headfirst into something transparent.

"really……"

Ye Lan looked at Luna groping in the air and confirmed his guess at the moment.

Little Luna took some effort to sit on the sofa. She waved at Ye Lan and shouted to her, "Ye Lan, look! There is a sofa here that cannot be seen~"

"Silly girl, that's the sofa in the office..." Ye Lan stood up from the sofa that was beautifully decorated in the eyes of both of them, walked through the real furniture that blocked the way, and then passed through several false illusions, and finally reached the wall of the living room.

He reached out and touched it. It should have been a wall painted white, but now it felt like a real wallpaper, with a rustling feel.

Ye Lan turned around and said to Luna who was sitting in the "air": "Girl, the environment you imagined has been reflected in our five senses with the help of the moonstone."

"Eh?! This, this is what I did!?"

Little Luna was extremely excited. If she hadn't been troubled by these illusions, she would have rushed to Ye Lan and asked him to pick her up.

Just then, a second sleepy-eyed guy came down the stairs.

"Mr. Ye Lan, Luna-chan, what are you two doing?"

Yuli looked at Ye Lan and Luna in confusion as they were doing strange things in the living room. Yuli, who was awakened by the noise they made, asked in confusion.

"Did I wake you up? Sorry..." Ye Lan said to Youli, "By the way, Youli, look at this living room. Is it decorated?"

Hearing Ye Lan's words, Yuli looked at him in confusion, and the next moment, Yuli, who focused her attention on the living room for only a moment, was also captured by Luna's innate ability as the Son of the Moon.

In the blink of an eye, the living room was transformed into an elegantly decorated and exquisite one.

"How, how is this..."

"It's an illusion created by Luna~ But the silly girl doesn't understand it now, and even she has fallen into it."

Ye Lan smiled.

Chapter 169. Moonstone and Luna

After groping for the sofa and sitting down, Yuli asked Ye Lan: "So... Mr. Ye Lan, how can we break free from the illusion created by Luna?"

Ye Lan shook his head: "I don't know. This is also the first time Luna uses this power with her own ideas. There are many things that she hasn't figured out yet."

"Then can I put the moonstone down?"

In the eyes of the three of them, Luna, who was also sitting in the air, waved her hand and asked Ye Lan.

"You can try. By the way, Luna, before you let go, let's test another ability you might have." Ye Lan pointed at Yuli and said, "Why don't you give her an order while thinking about what she should do?"

"Eh?! Do you want me to be a test subject?"

Yuli said nervously. Although she believed that little Luna would not do anything to hurt her, she was still worried about being hurt by being a target to test the little girl's abilities.

"What should I say to Sister Yuli?"

Little Luna didn't have this worry, perhaps it was some personality trait of being the Child of the Moon, or maybe Luna was just an emotionally strange child.

In short, all she was thinking about at the moment was how to use her power to influence Yuli and experiment with the use of her ability.

Ye Lan looked at Yuli, who was holding the sofa cushion with both hands, and said to Luna, "She is so nervous, why don't you let Yuli relax first."

"Okay, then I'll try..." Luna nodded and began to imagine Yuli relaxing on the sofa. "Sister Yuli, you should be very relaxed now and not nervous at all, right?"

Faintly, Ye Lan seemed to hear the sound of waves coming from the moonstone. Almost at the moment when Luna made the sound, Yuli collapsed on the sofa and lay there lazily, without any trace of her previous nervousness.

"Wow, this is really amazing. Luna, let me put the moonstone back into the storage box first."

Luna nodded, then walked across the open space between her and Ye Lan and handed the fist-sized moonstone to Ye Lan. As a result, Ye Lan sealed the moonstone back into U Company's current status preservation box, isolating it from the surrounding influences.

After a while, when Luna stopped paying attention to the decoration of the living room and Yuli's attitude, all the illusions disappeared unknowingly.

"Anyway, let's summarize the little girl's abilities." Ye Lan said to the two, "Based on preliminary observations, Luna can expand the favorability of people who already have some favorable impressions of her."

"Then, it is the ability to create illusions in the eyes of others and the ability to change your mood unconsciously, which was demonstrated today with the help of Moonstone."

"Luna, if you join the Four Associations, you will be very scary..."

After listening to Ye Lan's words, Yuli said as if she was sighing. It makes people feel good about it for no reason and then treat it in a friendly way; it makes people fall into a common illusion and manipulates other people's emotions.

The three powers displayed are simply abilities born for assassins. With these abilities, after training, Luna can even appear openly at meetings of various associations and even some middle and senior management of some companies, and can successfully escape after making them kill each other due to hallucinations.

"Thinking about it this way, it's a good thing that you picked me up first, little girl."

Rubbing Luna's little head, Ye Lan sighed. It had been a little over a month since he fell into the alley because of the ring and was put into Luna's home.

During this time, they went from relying on the still usable L Company salary card to having a lot of savings, and were even able to renovate a two-story house in the back alley and turn it into their own office.

A lot had happened and been solved in this month, but as the threat level in the library continued to rise, they had even more to do.

"As for today... Yuli, you continue to do what I told you to do last night. As for Luna, let's go back to the library together. It's best to let Angela and the others hear about your matter."

"When we come out of the library, if no one has given us a commission, we will go to the nearest branch of Lobotomy Corporation. If we can find employees willing to join the agency, that would be the best case scenario. If not... we can find a few Abnormalities, that would also be acceptable."

After deciding on the itinerary for today, the three of them resumed their half-finished washing and brushing their teeth. After a quick wash and a quick breakfast, the three of them split into two teams and each set out towards their own destination.

Yuli would contact Blue Echo to inquire about the current situation later. Ye Lan, who summoned the Yellow Spring Train again, had already driven towards the library with Luna.

As for the Queen of Hate who had never been mentioned...Ye Lan had asked her about her thoughts last night. Compared to staying in the library room with nothing to do, this abnormality preferred to stay with Ye Lan.

After all, only with Ye Lan would she be allowed to fight against 'evil'.

Rushing all the way to the grand staircase at the main entrance of the library, Ye Lan and Luna got off the Yellow Springs Train.

The next section of stairs will suppress everyone's power equally, and even the Yellow Springs Train cannot drive directly into the library.

While they were climbing the stairs, the librarians, who had also woken up from their sleep, began their work for the day...actually there wasn't much work to do.

The job of organizing the books is done by many employees of the front lobe company headquarters and the current assistant librarians. Malkuth and other designated librarians on each floor actually don't have much to do on a daily basis.

Taking advantage of the time when the library had just swallowed up the books of the three people from the Vision Office and had not yet displayed new books, they gathered together in Angela's director's office.

"Where's Theresa? Still sleeping?"

Hod asked Angelica and Roland when they saw them walking hand in hand.

"I just coaxed her to sleep. Children of her age just like to sleep, and then make a fuss when they wake up."

Angelica responded to her with a smile, saying that their children had become the darlings of the library during this period of time, and no matter who saw them, they would ask a question or two about Theresa.

“Come to think of it… those three finishers yesterday actually wanted to steal W Company’s singularity technology information. They really didn’t care about their lives.

Malkuth commented on the last guests received yesterday, and Angela also appeared in the director's office at this time.

Chapter 170. This is considered going home often

"Everyone, it seems like you're having a great time chatting with me here." Angela appeared in the director's office and said to everyone.

"Ah, Angela! You were not in the director's office this morning. What happened?" Malkuth waved and greeted her.

"It's just a small matter...Ye Lan's two attempts to bypass my attention and enter the library through the main entrance have made me a little worried about the library's current defense capabilities."

Angela said as she sat down on her seat.

Yesod checked the time and said to Angela, "Angela, Netzach should be awake by now, can you bring him here for us?"

"It's easy...but why do it?"

"From what I understand of him, Netzach will attempt to manifest alcoholic beverages and consume them if he is left unattended after waking up."

Hearing this, Angela sighed helplessly. She snapped her fingers and appeared in front of the librarians with a can of unopened beer.

"Haha, Netzach, it seems that you definitely can't drink this can of beer, so why not let me drink it for you."

While Netzach was surrounded and lectured by several other people, Roland stole the can of beer from him effortlessly.

However, Roland, who was busy stealing wine, forgot one person who did not join in the sermon, his dearest wife, Angelica.

"Roland... You can't drink so early in the morning~"

Just as Roland was about to open the can of beer, Angelica's hand rested on his.

"Well, well, I'm just a little thirsty..."

"Then drink water."

After saying that, Roland sadly discovered that the can of beer in his hand had been replaced by purified water by Angelica. The texture of the metal can disappeared from his hand and was replaced by the feel of a plastic bottle.

Just as he was sighing about this, Ye Lan carried Luna, who could no longer walk, and crawled to the main entrance of the library.

"It's really tiring to climb the stairs every time you go up and down."

Putting Luna down, Ye Lan complained softly as he pushed open the door to the library. The warm light in the library once again spread over the two of them.

He and Luna walked through the door together and appeared again in the familiar hall with symmetrical stairs leading to the second floor.

Then, Angela, who was far away in the library director's office, sensed Ye Lan's appearance. Angela could only do this in just one night. If she wanted to sense the situation near the library, she needed more time to adjust the connection between herself and the library.

"Ye Lan is here, everyone please stop for a moment."

Angela signaled Malkuth and the others to stop teaching Netzach a lesson. After everyone returned to their seats, she snapped her fingers and pulled Ye Lan and Luna over.

"Good morning, why did you suddenly think of coming here today?"

Angela, who was in a good mood, asked Ye Lan, her inorganic voice mixed with a hint of tenderness that she herself didn't even notice.

"One is about the little girl, and the other is about the Queen of Hate. And...I can't I go back to the library and chat with everyone if I have nothing else to do. Have you met Angela?"

Looking at the fake smile on Ye Lan's face, Angela knew that the second half of his words must be nonsense again: "Ye Lan, don't joke."

"Okay, okay, but the things about Luna and the Queen of Hate are indeed true."

Ye Lan, holding the moonstone box, handed the strange pearl-like stone to Luna, and asked her to demonstrate her unique power again.

The real illusion formed a fairy-tale garden before the eyes of everyone in the curator's office. If everyone could find the furniture in the curator's office by touch, some people might have been trapped in this illusion and unable to extricate themselves.

Hod hugged Malkuth's arm and praised Luna's performance sincerely: "It would be amazing if little Luna could even control her sense of touch one day..."

While the librarians were accompanying Luna to test her abilities, Angela quietly pulled Ye Lan out of the director's office. After these few receptions, she had new questions and wanted to get answers from Ye Lan.

"Ye Lan, L Company produces clean and environmentally friendly energy, W Company provides fast and reliable transportation... What do you think R Company's singularity technology will be?"

"First of all, the Singularity Technology of Lobotomy Corporation is actually the embodiment of the inner mind, while W Corporation is the restoration of the status quo. Their ability to provide fast transportation for the city is actually the Singularity Technology from a broken wing."

"As for R Company, the reason they can provide such a huge number of combat units is due to their singularity technology - human body replication."

Ye Lan explained the singularity technology of several companies to Angela in brief but informative words. There was so much information that Ye Lan should not know that Angela paused for a moment.

"Ye Lan, where did you know all this?" Angela asked.

"I should have told you in the Lobotomy Company, right? In a certain reincarnation."

"In a game made by a game company... Ye Lan, this joke is not funny. A game company can reproduce every event that happened in the city 100% through inspiration. This is impossible in my calculations."

"Maybe... but that's how I remember it."

The fake smile on Ye Lan's face disappeared during this topic. He sighed sadly and leaned against a bookshelf in silence.