Cyberpunk, but urban

The movements of these people are also untraceable, but compared to the employees of the third branch who escaped through the escape passage, their method of escape often also causes the escape of abnormalities.

Dealing with these escaped anomalies took up a lot of Ye Lan's time, but in return, there were a large number of anomalies in the library that Ye Lan had not had time to conduct [final observations] on.

Arranging these abnormalities and observing and confirming their management requirements almost threw all the awakened librarians in the library into a state of panic, and even the work of sorting books was temporarily halted for a few days.

Angelica and Roland were only able to move freely during the past few days when they were taking care of little Theresa. The rest of the time was spent on dealing with the abnormalities that recovered from the state of abnormality eggs in the library and then went crazy and ran away on the spot.

After talking about Ye Lan's actions, Algaria, who also spent almost all his energy on searching and rescuing the employees of the Lobelia Company branch, has not been doing this in the past few days.

A former member of the Middle Finger and current member of the Symphony Orchestra, Wolf Hour, who represents Viola, has been assigned a task by Algaria, who does not know that Angelica is in the library. He has been keeping an eye on the progress of the Carnival weaving in Alley 12 and the ruined L Nest, waiting for the opportunity to harvest the cloth in their hands.

In addition to this, Algaria, who was searching and rescuing in the east, also went to Alley 9 with Pluto. He recruited a four-member gang calling themselves the Bremen Band. Under his arrangement, the three members, Heyhou, Guoh and Wangwu, temporarily left with the pianist's musical dream of recreating it, leaving only Meowth to continue training the newcomers Mumu and Oink in Alley .

Unlike Ye Lan, Algaria had never considered the matter of Abnormalities. The Abnormalities encountered in the process of searching and rescuing the employees of the Lobotomy Corporation branch according to Ye Lan's commission were turned back into the state of Abnormality Eggs and abandoned in the facility after he and the idle members of the Symphony Orchestra had fully appreciated them.

It can be said that anyone who goes to the branch he searched again will feel like it is the first time someone has been there and will face unreasonable attacks from abnormalities.

"Speaking of Abnormalities, has the Queen of Hate stayed in her room recently?"

Ye Lan, who returned to the office from the last branch of K's Nest Lobe Corporation, sat down on a sofa in the living room and asked Luna.

The little girl has been working with Irene to help him arrange accommodation for the employees of the Forebrain Company branch who have joined the firm, so she has been staying in the firm.

The little fellow who knew most about what happened in the office recently got into Ye Lan's arms and said to him, "Actually, she has been out quite a lot recently, but Ye Lan, you are not in the office, so you don't know. Just like yesterday, the two of us took time out to eat parfait."

Ye Lan rubbed Luna's hair hard as a punishment, "Just the two of you?...Aren't you afraid that the Queen of Hate will go crazy when she sees something 'evil' in the middle of her meal?"

"Hmm... Now that you mention it, the Queen of Hate often runs away in the middle of something."

After hearing Ye Lan's words, Luna seemed to have figured something out and said to him, "Could it be that she is going to 'punish evil and promote good'?"

Chapter 184. Master Tailor's Eulogy

"Time is running out. We need to speed up the weaving process."

Alpha, the Carnival tailor, spoke to his other two colleagues in a mechanical tone.

"Nuovo fabric, not yet finished. Thumb commission, urgent."

Beta devoured the flesh in the room, with a thread of silk hanging from the tip of his blade-like limbs. The three tailors of the Carnival were weaving the Novo fabric of the thumb.

There are only two days left before a Thumb-affiliated gang called the Black Cloud Society arrives to collect the goods, but they still have a large shortage of raw materials that they can use at the moment.

"The taste of the scavenger has never let me down in terms of bringing surprises?" Beta chewed the liquid flesh and blood, spitting out one silk thread after another.

"Is it always disgusting in new ways? I never thought there could be so many foul smells."

However, to Gamma, the taste of the scavenger that Beta loved was a disgusting taste that was difficult to swallow.

But at least when weaving the Novo fabric, the scavenger's flesh and blood is only part of the raw materials. Gamma only needs to swallow the liquid with disgust, and he can have a full feast on his favorite flesh and blood of the finisher.

"This flesh and blood is not enough. We must weave."

Alpha spit out the thread and scrambled for blood, flesh and tissue piled on the dining table. He calculated the amount of raw materials needed and told his two colleagues the problem.

"Then, tonight, we continue hunting."

Beta also spit out thread ends, and all the sharp blades and hooks hidden under his coat began to move. The blood-stained silk threads spit out by the three Carnival tailors were turned into a piece of light cloth under his ingenious craftsmanship.

The ability used by these three Carnival tailors to make silk and weave cloth by devouring humans originated from a long-released singularity technology, from a world wing that was one of the 26 companies that once stood at the top of the city with textile technology.

However, the wings of this world have long been broken, and the singularity technology has flooded the city. Since this singularity technology has been widely spread in the city, countless tailors and tailoring organizations have taken root in the city.

They use different techniques to make clothes with various special effects. Some high-quality fabrics can not only protect the body more firmly, but also reduce the overall weight, allowing people to run faster. Some fabrics can even help you easily pick up heavy weapons of the same size.

But these fabrics, after the spread of this textile singularity technology, are all inferior in some way to those made by humans.

Fabrics spun by humans have different effects depending on the abilities of that human. Some are very strong, some are weak but cunning, or not smart but run very fast.

In fact, since the fabric inherits the inherent characteristics of that human, its abilities and forms are as diverse as the people in this world.

The reason why Carnelian Tailor Shop can stand out from the many tailoring organizations in the city is that they can accurately select the raw materials that best meet the needs of customers from the vast crowd.

This makes them a popular tailoring organization with excellent efficiency and products. Even syndicates at the finger level will take the initiative to commission them.

In the past, the Carnivore Festival did not belong to any organization and did not obey any orders to carry out their work. But after the collapse of the Lobotomy Corporation, they accepted the "instructions" of the Index Finger and became a gang under the Index Finger.

No one knows why these tailors who transformed themselves into iron bugs hiding under loose coats would do such a thing. But they did it after all, and they have to bear the consequences of joining the Index Finger.

Dong dong dong

There was a knock on the door, and Gamma stretched out a mechanical limb to open the door. The person who appeared outside the door was a messenger of the index finger, Yang Bismok, who was in charge of the fight for the territory of L Nest after the collapse of the Brain Corporation.

In fact, neither the index finger behind Yang nor the thumb that gave the commission to the Carnival had any demand for the L-Nest itself.

The purpose of these two fingers is only one, which is to occupy the territory and charge the company that intends to become the new L wing in the future, and obtain a huge sum of money from the new wing.

"Hello everyone at the Carnal Prayer Festival."

Yang greeted the three tailors. As the messenger of the index finger, he came back to the Meat Festival to convey the "instructions" of the index finger to them.

"Hello?"

"Hello."

"Hello, 'Hello,' 'Messenger'?"

The three tailors responded to Yang in their own different tones. They were very curious about what instructions Yang brought.

"Starting today, you will continue to eat scavengers for a week."

Yang handed a note to the Alpha who was the most obedient to the Index Finger rule, and then told the three of them: "Everyone must obey the order. No matter what other work you have next, the order must be carried out first. If you disobey the order, the 'agents' will visit you personally."

Yang finished his words and quietly looked at the three tailors who had stopped swallowing.

Alpha's mask approached Yang and asked him, "Is the order the highest priority for us?"

Gama opened his mouth wide with sharp blades as teeth, and asked in his heart: "If we break the rules, will the instructions not easily forgive us?"

Yang was silent for a short while, then said to the three people: "Since the order has been conveyed, it's time for me to leave."

At this time, the three tailors of the Carnival had no intention of following orders. Even if he gave more unreasonable and unpleasant orders to the tailors, they would still obey and complete them.

The time has not come yet, Yang thought. Perhaps in a few days, they will be tired of eating scavengers and will accept his fabricated false orders and then disobey this impossible order.

"Can we eat the herald?"

"Will it be delicious? Maybe I can weave high-quality silk."

Yang left, and behind him, Beta and Gamma were still discussing and imagining the taste of his flesh and blood.

"The messenger has left. We should also prepare new ingredients."

Alpha told the other two that during the time they were talking with Yang, most of their raw materials had been eaten up, and almost all of them had been woven into the Novo fabric needed for the thumb.

But even so, there was still a big gap in the total length of the fabric. After receiving the order to eat scavengers for a week, they also needed more hunting time to obtain the raw materials needed for the Novo fabric.

Chapter 185. Axe Gang

"Haha, I haven't seen the guys from the Hook Office for a long time. What happened to them?"

"Who knows, maybe he just accepted a commission and has been busy for more than a month and still hasn't finished it~"

Two members of the Axe Gang were sitting in the yard of their gang's base chatting and gossiping. Although neither of them knew what had happened to the Hook Office they were cooperating with, it was a good pastime to use them as topics of conversation while sharpening their axes.

"Oh my~ Come to think of it, I haven't seen those guys much lately. I miss them so much..."

An Axe Gang cadre came over after hearing the two talking. Unlike ordinary fellows who could only wield a one-handed axe, as a cadre he had two axes on his waist and was an expert who could control the two axes with both hands at the same time to chop people into pieces.

"In order to see an old friend, let's choose the Hook Office as our 'surprise office' this time~"

As a gang with urban legend level, the Axe Gang, who only know how to hack and chop, are not well-informed. They cooperate with the Hook Agency just to enjoy the intelligence they provide as an agency.

After the Hook Office first lost a large group of people in the library, and then was massacred by the Index Finger Ascetic following orders, the Axe Gang fell into a situation like a headless fly.

Having lost their source of intelligence, they couldn't even find where the Hook Office was for a while. Their gang leader and various cadres spent nearly half a month before finding the location today.

However... the people who finished up the hook office had long been eaten up by the scavengers. Now the hook office is an empty, dilapidated building filled with old bloodstains.

"Damn it, why is there no one here!"

The leader of the Axe Gang who led the charge into the Hook Office angrily kicked over the sofa in the living room, his eyes moving back and forth over the bloodstains in the living room.

If nothing else, at least now he knew where the finishing people from the Hook Agency had gone.

"A bunch of rubbish. They couldn't even say a word to us before they died. Da Da and Er Er, take your men and empty out their office for me."

After receiving the order, the two Axe Gang cadres, named A Da and A Er, led their respective men to disperse to various rooms of the office.

Of course they were not called A Da and A Er, but the boss's brain was a little confused by those cheap but useful stuff, and he couldn't remember their names.

So after chopping down those former gang leaders who thought the boss was useless, the two of them became the most capable leaders under the boss, A Da and A Er.

Since they have become the boss's capable cadres, A Da and A Er must perform well enough to be called capable cadres.

Just like this time's search, once they or their subordinates missed something, the boss who was not very smart would use his terrible two-handed axe to randomly kill a few subordinates to vent his anger.

"It's really terrible. Although we have escaped danger by staying in the gang and not going here, if we stay in the gang, we will be chopped to death by the gang leader sooner or later..."

Ah Da complained to Ah Er, causing Ah Er to sigh. The two of them had already planned to run away, and had agreed to go to the hook office.

But on the day this incident happened, the boss got something called enkephalin from somewhere, and after swallowing it in one gulp, he forgot about it and then killed a brother who also wanted to leave the gang with an axe.

With that brother’s example in front of them, the two brothers never dared to mention quitting again.

"Brother, brother, clean up everything. In order to not miss anything, the brothers even chopped up all the furniture such as bookshelves and cabinets into firewood!"

Just as the two of them were sighing, one of the brothers who was in charge of the actual looting came back. They had already swept the hook office inside and out with the momentum of digging three feet into the ground. If there were still things that were missed, then God would really want a few of them to die.

"Okay, let's go call the boss..."

Ah Er patted his little brother on the shoulder and returned to the living room with Ah Da. However, their boss was nowhere to be found in the living room. The crazy and stupid boss who always carried a two-handed axe on his back had disappeared.

"What about people?"

"Did you go outside to smoke?"

The two looked at each other, then walked through the short corridor behind the entrance one after the other and walked out of the door.

Swoosh! Puff—

The light outside was so strong that Ah Da and Ah Er didn't see anything clearly before they felt a sharp pain in their chest and abdomen. Dozens of sharp blades cut them into pieces of meat on the ground in an instant, just the size that the three tailors of the meat festival liked best.

"The cutting skills have grown beautifully."

Alpha congratulated Gamma. His colleague had cut the prey even more beautifully than in the previous hunt. These pieces of meat of the same size, separated from the bones, looked so appetizing to the three of them.

"There are still a lot of prey inside. Weaving must continue. Should we kill them all?"

Beta said as he walked into the house that used to be the hook office. The sound of the sharp blade cutting flesh soon echoed throughout the house.

A large amount of fresh blood replaced the old bloodstains, spreading on the walls and floor of the house, as well as on the wealth looted by the Axe Gang members, turning into a weird painting.

"The blood and flesh smell disgusting. This corpse is seriously contaminated."

Gamma commented on the body of the Axe Gang leader that he had just swallowed. The drug-addled leader was just like what Ada and Aer, who had also turned into raw materials, thought. He was addicted and wanted to find a good place to smoke a cigarette.

But he had just stepped out of the door when he ran into the Carnival tailors who were using coats to disguise themselves and look for prey. The Axe Gang leader, who was confused by the "cigarette", didn't know why he wanted the coats they were wearing.

When he rushed forward with an axe and was about to chop down these ordinary-looking masked men, he turned into a piece of meat on the ground.

By the way, he also killed his men in the house.

"At least, this flesh and blood can have good threads."

Alpha took away all the gang leaders' flesh and blood from Gamma. There was still a lot of raw materials, so Gamma could pick some of the flavors he liked. As for this ball of contaminated flesh and blood, Alpha felt that he could still eat it.

Soon, there were no more corpses in the open space in front of the Hook Office. Apart from the bloodstains that proved that a murder had just occurred here, there was nothing else.

The two tailors walked into the office and closed the door, and this place became their temporary studio.

Chapter 186. Hanafuda

"You said that a few gamblers lost money and couldn't pay, so they beat up your security guards and ran away?"

A woman with a high ponytail and wearing a leather coat stands at the counter of a casino and talks to the manager of the casino.

"Yes, yes. Some of those people suddenly changed into strange equipment, and then they became different people and beat up all our security guards and ran away!"

The manager said to the captain of the finishing team from the fixed agency with embarrassment and fear that their casino was a well-known large casino in J Nest. Such a big incident had happened. If he could not catch up the escaped gamblers in the shortest time, his career would be over to some extent.

"…Is this why you chose us instead of asking the Second Association's closer to do this?"

The Hanafuda lady from Ding's agency was silent for a while, then continued, "You know, Ding's agency is affiliated with the Eleventh Association. We are mainly responsible for broadcasting gambling between individuals or groups, notarizing the results of gambling, and preventing violent incidents. Your commission is not included in the scope of commissions."

"This, this... But... By the way, you want me to increase the reward for the commission, right? Double it... No, I can give you five times!"

As soon as Hanafuda finished speaking, the manager grabbed her hand like crazy, and the commission fee increased fivefold in an instant.