Cyberpunk, but urban

"Varied……"

Before Stephen and Yushu could react, Roland appeared behind Stephen like a ghost, and the weapons in his hands changed from two heavy revolvers to shotguns also produced by Logic Studio.

As he pulled the trigger of the low-key shotgun, dozens of steel balls in the No. 12 buckshot bullet sank into Stephen's body due to the billiard ball effect.

This sensitive and depressed young man, like Li Wei, fell to the ground without saying anything and was completely silent.

"Li Wei! Stephen!... Stop kidding!"

Without her gun, Yu Shu had no time to do anything, and the Judian Office closer who was still standing in the reception room was now the only one left.

She gritted her teeth and pulled out the short knife she carried with her for self-defense from her waist. Even though she had lost most of her fighting ability, she still rushed towards Roland.

"Your courage is commendable, but it's a pity that courage alone can't do anything in the city..."

Roland sighed and fired his shotgun again, knocking Yushu to the ground as well.

There is also a benefit to being threatened by Ye Lan and driven into the library. When they enter the library, their emotional level is high enough, so when they face Roland, they can get a quick death.

Chapter 181. What should I do with Irene? Let’s take her back first.

After driving the three finishers from the Period Office into the library, Ye Lan returned to the chapel of the Gear Sect. Irene, who had already dismantled her thought gear and was sobbing over the gunshot wound on her shoulder, was still waiting for Ye Lan to deal with her.

Ye Lan found a chair in a corner of the chapel, placed it opposite Irene, and sat down. Irene, who was shrouded in his shadow, raised her head and did not even dare to sob.

"Erin, Erin, what do you think I should do with you?"

Although Ye Lan was just joking, Irene would not take his words as a joke. When Irene heard Ye Lan's words, she started to tremble.

"Please don't kill me, please don't kill me..."

"..."

Ye Lan fell into a long silence. He seemed to have gone too far. Although he did help Irene break the distortion and become a member of the Symphony Orchestra, he also frightened this 22-year-old young woman.

"You should get up first. I didn't let the closer from the Judian Office kill you before, and I won't let you die now."

Ye Lan sighed. If he really ruined Irene, he really didn't know how to deal with the Pope of the Gear Cult.

Hearing Ye Lan's words, Irene stood up obediently from her kneeling position. He stood there carefully, staring at Ye Lan in the most cautious and inconspicuous way, waiting for his judgment on her.

In fact, if we talk about what Irene did, from the perspective of the city, what she did was not really a big mistake. Few people in the city believe in religion, but it has never been said that religion is prohibited.

Even for those that urban people consider to be cults, the leaders actually have never set any taboos against them. All commissions to cults are just spontaneous disposals by various associations.

So if we judge by the standards of the city, after Irene expressed her intention to give up the Gear Sect, he really didn't take advantage of her and just killed her.

But judging by his ideas from his previous life, if he encountered someone like Irene who was involved in a cult in the city and there was no police station to deal with it, it would be better to just kill her directly.

But if he wanted to kill them... then why didn't he let the people from the Period Office do it? After all, the commission he got from Olivier was just to destroy the Gear Sect, and how to destroy it was irrelevant.

"Anyway... just come with me first. Before I figure out how to punish you, just be a servant and do some odd jobs for me."

Ye Lan sighed again. He really couldn't think of a suitable punishment. As for killing him, with all the things he had done before and the promises he made, it didn't seem like he was more suitable to be a clown than Oswald...

So, when Yuli, who was arranging the furniture, returned to the Yixiang Office, what she saw in the tidy living room, besides Ye Lan and Luna who were watching TV, was Irene who was wearing a maid outfit with a bandage on her shoulder.

To be honest, the blonde girl Irene looked really good in the classic British maid outfit. Her hair tied up in a maid's "katyusha" also covered the wound on her head where the thought gears were installed, which made Irene completely turn into an ordinary person in the city.

"Mr. Ye Lan, who is this?" Yuli asked curiously.

"Her name is Irene, and she's the maid of the office from today on... Don't ask about her background. Anyway, if you need anything, whether it's sweeping the floor, fetching water, or warming the bed and sleeping with her, just ask."

Ye Lan, who was watching TV, told Yuli without hesitation a long list of things that Irene could do, without realizing that there was anything wrong with his words.

"...Mr. Ye Lan, isn't it too much for Miss Irene to warm her bed and sleep with her?"

Yuli, who had gotten used to Ye Lan's occasional bad words, stood in front of Ye Lan with her hands on her waist, blocking Ye Lan who was watching TV.

"Well... you are a girl anyway, you won't do anything bad to her." Ye Lan's face suddenly changed into a sly smile, looking into Yuli's eyes and said: "Could it be that you actually like girls?"

"Mr. Ye Lan!"

Ye Lan looked at Yuli who was approaching him aggressively, and thought to himself that something was wrong. He really made Yuli angry.

Even though Ye Lan had a thick skin, it was still stressful to be stared at by Yuli with her only remaining eye. Strangely enough, Yuli had never recovered her eyesight after being rescued from the branch of D Nest.

You know, in the city, whether it is prosthetic surgery or autologous cloning, it is easy to restore Yuli's lost eyes to her body.

And the price is just the cost of the eyes.

But Yuri seemed to regard the loss of her eye as a commemoration of her experience as a branch employee of the Brain Lobe Corporation, and she always covered the empty eye socket with gauze and an eye patch.

"I was wrong!" Ye Lan raised his hands immediately to show his surrender to Yuli.

"Humph!"

Yuli, who won the quarrel, put on a smile and pulled Irene and Luna, who were dressed as maids, together to chat between girls.

Abandoned, Ye Lan shook his head and walked outside the office to call Olivier. After he brought Irene back to the office, he had not yet informed the black man that he had not received a reply to the commission to destroy the Gear Sect.

"Ye Lan? Is there any incomplete information in the letter of authorization that I need to provide?"

Olivier asked. Although he knew that Ye Lan was already the quasi-featured finisher at this time, Olivier still didn't think that he would run to do it on the spot after receiving the commission.

"No, I just let you know when I'm done."

Olivier was a little surprised and said, "Finished?... It seems that it has been less than a day since I handed you the power of attorney?"

After all, he was a first-level finisher in Charles Office in the past, so he knew the way finishers worked. Putting aside the trivial matters of preparing equipment, even if they did nothing and took a day off before going out, it was reasonable for the finishers.

Even on the power of attorney, the start time is usually written as 6 a.m. the next day. The only possible difference is the daily chores such as finding a cat or dog for a walk.

"Didn't I tell you I'm very free... Oh, guess what, there's actually a closer from another firm who has the same commission as me."

Ye Lan said on the other end of the phone. His message aroused Olivier's interest: "Only the one I sent to you about the Gear Sect has been certified by an association. The person who completed the task with you must have accepted an informal commission."

Chapter 182. It seems that I am finally free before the next event.

"I do have a guess about their client... but that doesn't matter."

"How to say?"

"If there is a conflict in the commission, then of course one party will give up, or be given up."

Ye Lan said something that would definitely make the three closers at the Judian Agency not laugh, and Olivier didn't know how to respond to him for a moment.

So, after a few meaningless greetings, Olivier hung up the phone. The busy day of the members of the Illusion Office ended here.

Ye Lan returned to the office and announced the arrangement of free activities to everyone in the living room. Then, he pulled Yuli to the warehouse nearby.

"Have you called Algaria today?" Ye Lan asked.

"I have been there." Yuli replied to Ye Lan.

"What did that guy say?"

"Lord Canglan Zang told me that they have inspected all the branches of the Lobotomy Corporation in the entire northern part of the city." Taking out her notebook from the small bag on her waist, Yuli told Ye Lan what she had recorded.

"According to that Excellency, the northern Lobotomy Corporation branch suffered heavy losses. Under the sabotage of the 'special' finisher named Violet Teardrop, most of the branch's employees were unable to escape successfully... just like we did at that time."

Ye Lan nodded, motioning for her to continue.

"But thanks to the efforts of Lord Canglan Canxiang, we have found some lucky surviving branch employees in several branches. With his help, those who are willing to join the firm have rushed to Alley 12 where we are."

Yuli paused here, as if calculating the time: "The Warp train seems to have stopped running recently due to a special accident. The employees of those branches can only travel by ordinary transportation. It is estimated that it may take more than a month."

"More than a month is okay... but if we have to wait for the Warp train tickets, it might be even slower." Ye Lan complained a little, but since Yuli didn't know the reason why the Warp train was suspended, Ye Lan changed the subject.

"Come to think of it... the Warp Train incident actually had something to do with me."

"Eh?!!"

Yuli was stunned and almost jumped up. Stopping the W company's Warp train... This was not something that could be ignored with a laugh.

"Wait, could this be related to Luna's kidnapping?"

"Ahahaha...it's related to that Violet Teardrop."

Yuli glanced at Ye Lan, then thought about it and ran back to the living room and moved two chairs over.

"I'm seated. Ye Lan, you should sit down and tell me the details."

This was a big deal caused by someone close to him, and it was also a big deal done by Ye Lan, a former senior executive of World Wing, to another World Wing. Yuli's eyes were almost shining at this time.

"Hey, you're not afraid at all when you heard that I was the one who caused the trouble at W Company?"

"If you are not afraid, then why should I be afraid?"

Yuli said this, so Ye Lan had no choice but to sit down and tell her the story. However, just as the story began, Luna pulled Irene along and pushed Ye Lan and Yuli back to the center of the living room.

"Don't tell stories secretly!"

The little girl pinched her waist and said to Ye Lan and Yu Li, causing everyone present to laugh. After laughing enough, Ye Lan surrounded the three girls and told them what happened after Luna was kidnapped.

"…So is that Violet Teardrop really dead?"

"Who knows? That old lady keeps traveling through time and space, and she even made it seem like her son died more than 40 years ago. Most of the people in this world are probably dead, but are there any people from other worlds coming here to cause trouble?"

Ye Lan shrugged, barely answering Yuli's question. Although he did kill the Violet Teardrop in Ye Lan's world with the help of the overloaded ego ring, he didn't know if there would be another Violet Teardrop that would cross the world line to seek revenge in the future.

"Anyway, if I really see her, I will kill her again."

Irene stood behind Ye Lan like a real maid and said, "But I never thought that W Company's Warp train would run like this... Now I don't even dare to ride their train."

The former Pope of the Cogwheel Sect is now very comfortable with her new identity. Being a maid also satisfies her need to be given a goal and live an obedient life.

So compared to Yuli, who was a little uncomfortable with having a new maid in the office, Irene was very happy.

"Anyway, everyone should just treat today's story as a story without any reason. After leaving the office, please don't let it slip." Ye Lan clapped his hands and said to the people present: "You don't want to become the reason for me to attack W Nest one day, do you?"

"Ye Lan, you are bragging again..."

Luna patted Ye Lan's knee with empty eyes, not taking his words seriously at all.

"Even if you are going to be a 'feature' soon, Mr. Ye Lan, it's a bit too much to want to destroy a world wing by yourself, right?"

Yuli and Irene looked at each other. They both didn't think that what Ye Lan said was possible.

But this is also related to the girls' knowledge. After all, the fact that a person like Garion can uproot the entire H-wing with just a few minions is not a secret that ordinary people can know.

Compared with Garion at that time, Ye Lan could flexibly use the ego equipment of many abnormalities, and the destructive power he could cause was much greater than that of his minions.

"Alright, alright, let's not talk about this nonsense anymore. I've told you all about the past few days, so go back to your rooms and have a rest. I estimate that there won't be much to do in the near future except for commissions. The next operational policy of our firm will be to search and rescue branch employees and renovate."

Having said that, it was time for a little girl like Luna to go to bed, so the people from the Weird Idea Office washed up and went back to their rooms to rest.

Apart from the fact that the furniture in the bedroom was of poor quality, which made it uncomfortable for everyone to sleep, there was nothing unusual that night.

In the back alleys late at night, a tailor organization called Carnivore Festival once again took advantage of the late night in the back alleys and started a new round of snatching for flesh and blood with the scavengers who took to the streets.

These tailors who make silk and weave cloth by devouring humans are working hard for the Thumb's commission. They need to extract a large amount of silk threads from human flesh and blood to make special fabrics loved by urban people.

Chapter 183. Movements of all parties

Time passed, and there was no big movement from Angela in the next few days. The invitations sent out by the library recently and the guests invited into the library were just some rookies that even Malkuth could easily deal with.

But it's not true to say that nothing related to the library has happened in the past few days. Just two days ago, an association spread the news that the library has been upgraded from an urban legend to an urban nightmare to the entire city.

Countless urbanites who once dreamed of getting books in the library and becoming rich overnight threw away the library invitation that they had treasured a day ago, avoiding everything related to the library as if they were avoiding the plague.

But when all these weaklings retreated, more individuals and organizations in the city who thought they were strong enough to take over the library began to set their sights on it.

However, these have nothing to do with Ye Lan today. He has been very busy in the past few days. With the help of the Yellow Springs Train, he has traveled almost all over the branches of the Lobotomy Corporation in the southern part of the city.

Compared to the northern part of the city that Algaria dealt with, there were many more branch employees of the Lobotomy Corporation who survived in the southern part. However, not many branch employees eventually joined Ye Lan's Imagination Agency and wanted to be the finishers.

These employees who rejected Ye Lan had their own reasons, but they can be summarized into the following ones.

The first type of employees have families living near the branch and have their families’ care and help. This part of the branch employees has no interest in becoming the finishing touches who are in danger of dying at any time.

The second type of employees were frightened by the collapse of Lobotomy Corporation and the fact that the branch went into self-destruction and burial without their knowledge.

After living with the abnormalities that lost their suppression and escaped from the containment room and wandered around the branch facilities for more than a month, these employees, who were already of low quality, no longer wanted to have anything to do with Lobotomy Corporation.

The only thing they have left in this life is to find a safe place and live a boring life like plants.

Therefore, after being rescued from the branch facility by Ye Lan, these people quickly integrated into the grassroots population of the city, and there was no longer any trace of them having worked in the Lobotomy Corporation branch.

And the third type of employee…either the branch supervisors didn’t accompany those early versions of Angela to their deaths, or they completed the entire evacuation procedure before they ended their lives.

In short, the employees of these branches had already escaped from the branch before the attack of Jin Zi Teardrop. Ye Lan could not find any trace of them in a short period of time, so he temporarily put these people behind his mind.

In addition to these three types of employees and those who have joined Ye Lan's firm and are undergoing the finishing assessment, there is also a small number of employees with more bizarre experiences.

Take the O-5681 branch in "WonderLab" as an example. The employees in these branches, which contain more than the branch's management capacity, are able to break through the branch facilities and escape on their own because of the advanced ego equipment they each possess when high-risk abnormalities break through containment, when the supervisor abandons his duties and commits suicide, or when the "special" closer, Sumire Teardrop, sabotages them.