Cyberpunk, but urban

Somehow, Angela seemed to have lost her mind and reached out to hug Ye Lan.

"If it makes you feel better..." Angela said.

"...Thank you, Angela." The feeling of being hugged by a cold machine was actually not good. Ye Lan could even say that his chest was a little painful.

But Angela's kindness did make Ye Lan feel a lot better.

Although he, a time traveler, has spent more than 20 years and tens of thousands of years of reincarnation in this world, those experiences cannot dispel the feeling of loneliness in Ye Lan's heart.

His emotions and morals had been completely worn away by the Lobotomy Corporation cycle. Without the support of Angela, the librarians, and Luna, he would have become a twisted being even more terrifying than the original film's Remnant Orchestra.

"To be honest... it's quite uncomfortable to be hugged by a robot like you, Angela. But you can actually comfort others... I have to congratulate you on taking another step forward on the road to becoming a human being."

"...Ye Lan, it would be great if you didn't have a mouth."

Angela silently tightened her arms around Ye Lan.

Chapter 171. Where is the nearest branch?

"It hurts, it hurts, I'm wrong! I'm wrong, that's ok!"

There is a price to pay for being mean...Ye Lan once again understood this truth.

In human terms, the atmosphere was right, the emotions were agitated, and Angela, whose light from the constantly recycled books was gradually moving closer to humans, hugged Ye Lan to comfort him.

Then, Ye Lan, who was hugged by Angela's mechanical body, said something at an inappropriate time that made the emotionally indifferent Angela feel a little angry.

So, Angela tightened her arms around Ye Lan.

The mechanical force instantly strangled Ye Lan, and Angela applied the force steadily and continuously to Ye Lan, almost enough to break his ribs.

Of course, as long as Ye Lan wanted, he could use the ego ring to obtain any set of ego equipment to break free from Angela's restraints and escape from his current situation.

However... Ye Lan has no intention of breaking free from Angela's restraints for the time being. After all, she has been his companion for tens of thousands of years, and Ye Lan's feelings for Angela are no longer simply the feelings between a man and a woman.

For Ye Lan, this kind of thing of playing a prank on Angela and then being retaliated against by her was something that they only had the energy to do in the early stages of the cycle.

"Ye Lan, Angela, you two... Hey! What are you two doing secretly outside?!"

Hod, who found that the two were missing, walked out of the director's office and saw Angela holding Ye Lan tightly. Ye Lan took the opportunity to pat Angela's waist and signaled her to put him down.

"Hmph, just like usual..."

Angela said to Hod, although her original intention was to fight back against Ye Lan's bad mouth as usual. But saying this at this time, to Hod, it was like saying that the two of them usually hugged each other in a sweet and sticky way.

"You, are you already in this kind of relationship?!"

"...Hod, did you misunderstand something?" Ye Lan looked at Hod with empty eyes, and soon made Hod blush.

"So what are you guys doing..." This time it was Hod's turn to stare at Ye Lan with empty eyes.

"Well... I just said something mean and got punished~"

"really?"

Hod came close to Ye Lan in an instant, and the distance between them was so close that their faces were almost touching. The ends of her brown hair scratched the tip of Ye Lan's nose, bringing with it a touch of elegant fragrance.

Unfortunately, Ye Lan is no longer the same person that Hod first remembered. In some ways, he is now a pure beast.

So, Hod, who was pulled away by the cheek, quickly joined Angela's counterattack team. By the time Malkuth, who was waiting anxiously in the director's office, came out, Ye Lan had been chased by the two and had been running back and forth in the corridor twice.

"Hey, what's going on here... Ye Lan, you must have made Angela and Hod angry again, right?"

By the time Malkuth ended the farce starring Ye Lan, more than half an hour had passed. After having enough fun, Ye Lan said goodbye to everyone.

Although it was a very tempting idea to continue chatting with everyone in the library, the employees of the Lobotomy Corporation branch who might still be alive were still waiting for his rescue.

Time waits for no one. Even if Ye Lan doesn't want to leave, he still has to do his job.

After all, if the library was thrown to the suburbs by the leader, everyone in the library would have to rely on his Fantasy Office if they wanted to get something from the city.

In order to ensure that there will be no mistakes in the future, it would be good to find one more employee of the Frontal Lobe Corporation at this time. As employees of the Broken Wing, they are more discriminated against by other nests and back alleys than the residents of the nest.

Unless these employees can set up their own offices with the ego equipment and manpower they brought from the branch like Tai and Hua did, otherwise, the only result will be like Yuri in the original work, who worked hard for more than one or two years but ended up being a contract worker in a crappy office.

After saying a brief goodbye and visiting Theresa who was still sleeping, Ye Lan took Luna and left the library through the main entrance. At the entrance platform, he summoned the Yellow Springs Train again.

Amid the roar of the old steam train's whistle, Ye Lan chose the J-03 branch, a branch of the Cerebrospinal Corporation in J Nest, as his destination.

The reason why we start from here is because Ye Lan has brief information from his previous life about the abnormal entities under the jurisdiction of this branch.

J-03 Branch is the branch that the protagonist team went to in the main plot of the second chapter of "Jail Bus". In order to hide the existence of the Lobotomy Corporation branch, J Corporation built a casino on it.

However, now that L Corporation has collapsed, the casino that was used to hide the Lobotomy Corporation branch and ensure energy security has instantly become an outpost for mining the Lobotomy Corporation's technology.

However, the J Company employees who were still trying their best to dig the entrance to the Lobotomy Corporation branch and trying to enter the J-03 branch would never have imagined that Ye Lan would appear directly in the company facilities deep underground through the Yellow Springs Train.

After getting off the train, Ye Lan and Luna immediately felt the cold air. The corridor they entered seemed to have been occupied by an abnormal entity. It was called Baba Yaga, and it was a witch's hut covered with frost and shaped like a chicken leg.

When Ye Lan and Luna appeared in this corridor, corpses with their lower bodies replaced by bird feet made of ice began to pour out of the hut and attacked Ye Lan and Luna.

Judging from their tattered clothes, these Abnormality derivatives were probably employees of this branch when they were alive. But now, they have all become victims of the giant Abnormality Baba Yaga.

"Luna, I'm beginning to doubt there are any survivors here."

Ye Lan sighed and walked to Luna. The fiery feathers of the Flame Bird covered him completely, and then weaved into an ego equipment that radiated the heat and light of flames.

Five feathers emitting dazzling flames fluttered around Ye Lan. These feathers that never faded and never dimmed flew out like arrows, carrying flames that could penetrate the flesh and directly pierced through the Baba Yaga derivatives that were covered in ice and had already become frozen corpses.

Never lose your enthusiasm for things. The fantasy entity born from this emotion appeared behind Ye Lan, and the bird covered in fire rushed towards the ice house.

Chapter 172. There are always people who don’t believe in evil. Singularity Technology is not that easy to get

boom! ! !

When the shadow of the Fire Bird collided with the Baba Yaga and a violent roar broke out, another roar sounded from the direction above Ye Lan and Luna's heads at the same time.

"Ye Lan, what happened up there?"

Luna asked him as she looked at the Baba Yaga derivative whose ego was melted by Ye Lan using the Wings of Glory.

"I'm not sure, but we'll know when we go up and take a look."

Ye Lan stared at the smoke and water vapor that exploded when the phantom of the Flame Bird collided with Baba Yaga, observing the state of the abnormality. In "Border Prison Bus", this abnormality did not give a specific level, but judging from its ego, although it was incredibly large, its possible management level should not exceed the He level.

About ten seconds later, the smoke and vapor dissipated, and Baba Yaga, which had occupied the entire corridor, appeared in the eyes of Ye Lan and Luna again.

A big hole was blown in the witch's hut with chicken feet by the phantom of the Fire Bird. The ice hanging on it was melted by the high temperature of the Fire Bird. A large amount of water flowed down along its edge and gathered into a pool of water on the ground.

Although it was seriously injured, Baba Yaga's size allowed it to maintain its vitality and fight. The huge house anomaly quickly moved, hopping on one foot towards Ye Lan and Luna.

The five feathers around Ye Lan flew out again with blazing flames, leaving five burn scars on Baba Yaga's bird feet.

But the difference in size is there. Even if the Wings of Glory is a set of Waw-level ego equipment, even if Baba Yaga is completely unable to defend against Ye Lan's attack, its size alone can sustain it and suppress Ye Lan and Luna's living space.

"It's numb... I was wondering why Dante and the others just ran away in the original story."

Even Ye Lan would feel troubled when faced with this kind of abnormality that has no technical content but can ignore most damage purely by relying on its own body size.

After much thought, he decided that instead of relying on other ego equipment to slowly kill Baba Yaga, he might as well bring out Aleph. He and Luna still had to investigate the roar coming from upstairs, so they didn't have time to stay with this house.

Thus, Ye Lan, whose Wings of Glory had dispersed, instantly put on new ego equipment. He raised the snake staff of Paradise Lost, and the noble soul damage once again sprinkled towards Baba Yaga along the dark mist emitted by the snake staff.

In just a moment, the huge bird's foot lost its original color and turned into gray, stiff dead flesh.

Ye Lan took advantage of the victory and pursued, countless light bullets flew out from the apple on the top of the snake staff and exploded on Baba Yaga's body one after another.

After more than a minute of continuous bombardment, no matter how big the Baba Yaga was, it could not withstand Ye Lan's direct attack on its soul.

Soon, an alien egg that was about the same size as other alien eggs fell from the broken house and landed in front of Ye Lan.

"Finally he's dead... Let's go up and see what exploded."

After removing their ego equipment and retrieving Baba Yaga's Abnormality Egg, Ye Lan and Luna walked along the frost-covered corridor towards the elevator entrance.

Sometimes Ye Lan would wonder if the elevators in their Lobelia Company were really some kind of singularity technology.

After all, except for an elevator in the Lobotomy Corporation branch he visited for the first time, which was occupied by a tool-type abnormality that was also an elevator, the elevators in all other branches remained intact after sinking.

After walking into the elevator and choosing the underground floor, the two waited for only a few seconds before seeing the elevator stop at their floor.

"Ye Lan... do you think there's someone hiding in this elevator?"

Just one second before the elevator door opened, Luna asked Ye Lan.

"Luna...you'd better stop talking."

Ye Lan sighed, and then the Flame Bird's ego equipment reappeared on him. The five feathers of the Glory Feather instantly pierced through the five figures that filed out of the elevator, turning them into charcoal in the blazing flames.

"Ye Lan, do you think this is the logo of J Company?"

While Ye Lan was still controlling the feather to return to her side, Luna had already begun to search the fallen body. The little girl found a J company logo under the pink ribbon tied to the charred body.

"That should be the case, but these people from J Company may have encountered other Abnormalities... If you ask me, the first batch may have all been made into derivatives."

Ye Lan reached out and picked up Luna, then took her into the elevator. After a few seconds of waiting, the two arrived at the basement level of the J-03 branch.

As soon as they stepped out of the elevator, they found that the corridor on this floor was hung with peach-pink ribbons that were similar in material to silk but almost impossible to tear.

There were many human figures tied up with ribbons, whose specific appearances could not be seen clearly, hanging in this corridor. When the two of them approached, they could even hear vague whispers with the sound of turbid water.

"It's already the fermented bean curd of pink shoes... These people are hopeless."

Holding Luna and continuing forward, Ye Lan controlled the five floating feathers around him to shuttle between the ribbons, giving the final dignity to these victims who had been transformed into derivatives.

When they reached the middle of the corridor, they saw the source of the roar. A huge hole appeared on the ceiling of the corridor, and the broken stones crushed the ribbon, and the two things were mixed and piled together.

On top of the pile of building wreckage, there was a man wearing a J Company uniform with some ribbons wrapped around his body standing still. On his feet, a pair of beautiful and seductive pink shoes were emitting a shiny brilliance.

"The Abnormality is on his feet, Luna, don't be tempted by it~"

As Ye Lan was speaking, the floating feathers around him had already appeared on the body of the J Company employee who was directly controlled by the abnormal entity.

The raging flames burned him, but the employee who was fascinated by the pink shoes felt no pain at all and even wanted to attack Ye Lan.

But before he could run to Ye Lan, the five feathers stuck in his body completely turned him into ashes. Only the pink shoes of the tool-like abnormality that could not move on its own were left, emitting a seductive glow on the ground.

The five feathers rose from the ashes and turned it into an Abnormality Egg as well.

"I hope there are still people alive on the second floor. The toy factory won't transform everyone..."

Chapter 173. I used Virgil to cut people on the prison bus

After clearing out the abnormalities and J Company invaders on the underground floor, Ye Lan brought Luna back to the elevator. The two of them once again used the powerful and sturdy elevator system of the Lobotomy Corporation to reach the second underground floor of J-03.

Although Ye Lan actually no longer had any hope that there were any survivors in this branch, in fact, there were indeed people alive on this floor.

However, the living environment of these employees is not very good at the moment...

The abnormality managed on this floor is called T-04-10-06. It has no specific name in the game "Border Prison Bus". Based on its appearance, Ye Lan temporarily calls it a toy factory.

This abnormality itself has no attack capability. Its method of attack is to transform the human bodies piled up on the production line to generate derivative bodies, which then attack and obtain more human bodies.

The employees in the branch naturally knew the management requirements of this abnormality, and during the period when the branch self-destructed and it just escaped, no employees died because of it.

But as the Pink Shoes and Baba Yaga escaped one after another, some of the employees killed by them eventually became raw materials for the toy factory.

These employees who had become derivatives wandered in the corridors, repeatedly compressing the employees' living space. In addition, from time to time, derivatives of Pink Shoes and Baba Yaga would take the elevator to the second floor and fight with the derivatives of the toy factory.

Their fighting and mutual transformation destroyed most of the facilities on the second floor. A week before Ye Lan came to this branch of the Lobotomy Corporation, all the facilities on this floor that could provide survival supplies were either destroyed or occupied.

"Elevator...are there any more monsters coming to this floor?"

Hiding in a small holding room, a timid employee asked another terrified employee.

"No, I don't know... I hope that roar didn't mean something more terrible happened..."

Naturally, this terrified employee was unable to answer the other employee's questions.

But soon, the two surviving employees had no intention of speaking anymore. They held their breath and listened to the footsteps coming from outside the containment room in fear. They didn't dare to speak again until the chaotic footsteps stopped.

"Did you mention that there are other living people in the company besides the two of us?"

"Who knows... We haven't been out for three days. If we continue like this, we will starve to death here even if we are not discovered by those monsters."

The two sighed at the same time, but the abnormalities outside had already scared away all their courage. It would be easier to let them die quickly than to ask them to leave the containment room and find food outside.

While the two of them were worrying, Ye Lan was also fighting with the derivatives made by the toy factory.

Led by a "Do you want to be beaten? Really?", ten derivative armies with mixed voices of "I have become stronger? Really?" and "I have become stronger! Really?" rushed towards Ye Lan.

It’s a pity that no matter how many of these Teth-level derivatives there are, they are nothing more than cannon fodder to Ye Lan.

The Feathers of Glory shuttled through the corridor, and the five feathers dragged burning lines of fire through each derivative. Before Luna had time to comment on the strange appearance of these derivatives, they turned into ashes under Ye Lan's attack.

"Hmm, delicious food..."