Cyberpunk, but urban

But for Ding Law Firm, as they are closely connected with the 11th Association, they never need to care about remuneration. There is no reason for them to accept such commissions that are not within their scope of handling, no matter how high the remuneration is.

unless……

hum-

Just then, Hanafuda's cell phone rang, and the display indicated that the person calling her was the representative of the Ding Agency.

"Hello, representative...Yes, I'm here. Yeah, I understand."

On the other end of the phone, the representative conveyed to her a direct notice from the Southern Branch of the 03th Association, that the gamblers who fled without paying were employees from the J- branch of the Brain Lobe Corporation.

They may be carrying clues about Lobotomy Corporation's singularity technology. Even the Eleventh Society would have some ideas about the technology of a collapsed World Wing.

For this reason, the law firm closest to the crime scene had no choice but to take on the commission and make a trip for their immediate superior.

With a sigh, Hanafuda hung up her phone. She turned her gaze back to the manager and gave him a reply that sounded like heavenly music.

"Be happy with your luck. We have other things to do with those gamblers you mentioned."

"Thank you, thank you so much! If you need anything in the future, as long as I can do it, just ask!"

"..."

Ignoring the casino manager who was overjoyed at the fact that she had accepted the commission and was able to escape from a desperate future, Hanafuda led her team members straight out of the casino door.

Now that they have accepted this commission, they will have to devote all their time to it.

"Chiduan, you take some people to investigate the whereabouts of those Forebrain Company employees. I want to know their movements by 7 o'clock tonight at the latest. Qingduan, you take some people back to organize our equipment. After getting the information from Chiduan, we will set off immediately."

The two people who were called by Hanafuda responded immediately, then quickly gathered their men and separated from the Hanafuda finishing team, heading towards their respective destinations.

Hanafuda herself, with the rest of the people, returned to the casino. In the cold wind outside the casino, there were some things she had not remembered just now, and now she needed to ask the manager and the security guard who was beaten by the group of employees from the front lobe company branch.

As for those branch employees who were abandoned by Ye Lan, they escaped from the casino with the ego equipment they had hidden away and ran all the way here.

"I say, running like this is not a solution..."

"What can we do? We've lost everything. If we don't run away, will we just wait for the casino to tear our flesh and organs apart and replace them with a cheap prosthetic body for us to work for the rest of our lives?!"

In a house on the street, a dozen branch employees who had rejected Ye Lan's invitation gathered together and discussed their next plans with fear and trepidation.

"The way I see it, why don't we just rob this house... use the power of our ego gear to rob a few cars, and then run to the L-Nest."

The former branch employee who was speaking waved his arms and spoke to the others present, not caring at all about the blood that had not yet dried under his feet, or the body of the owner of the residence that they had piled under the wall on one side.

"What's the use of that... Can we still go find that gentleman from the headquarters?"

"Why not? Let's just say that we thought about it after we went back and found that it would be better to be the finishing man for him. Anyway, L Nest has collapsed, and the people from that casino will definitely not go there."

Interspersed among these useful words were dirty words of mutual accusation and abuse from these employees who had lost their courage and became like street thugs within a few days.

These people never thought that even if they went to L Nest and found the Yixiang Office that Ye Lan had set up in Lane 12, Ye Lan would not consider them as useful talents and join his own office.

In their view, since the senior employee of the headquarters would come to the branch for rescue, he would also unconditionally agree to their needs.

"Anyway, we can't stay here any longer. It won't be long before the casino will hand over the responsibility of handling what we did."

"Yes, it's better to quickly grab a few cars and leave here. Even if I have ego equipment, I don't want to fight with someone who is not sure how powerful he is."

After determining the next direction, the branch employees left the house they occupied in batches. Finding a usable target vehicle is a task that cannot be done in a hurry but also cannot be done slowly.

They have to choose the targets that look the most vulnerable, find the vehicles that can carry the most people, and most importantly, the environment where there is no one around.

All these difficulties were just small obstacles in their desperate desire to survive. Before long, one of the former employees who went out to search for victims found a suitable target - a young mother with a child.

"Let's pick her. The car is big enough and she won't dare to resist us with the child."

"I think so... maybe we can still have time to, ah, use her to relieve our anger."

The two men laughed quietly and each took out their cell phones to contact other employees who were acting separately.

Chapter 187. Chasing

"Can it be faster?!"

"The accelerator is already at the bottom!"

On the road leading to L's Nest, several cars were speeding along the road in a suicidal manner.

However, even though the drivers of these vehicles knew that if they failed to dodge the obstacles ahead, everyone in the car would die tragically, they did not dare to slow down at all.

"Damn it! I knew that a woman who dared to go out with her child by herself was definitely not someone to be trifled with!"

"Then you said you were just going to rob her?!"

"Then there is no choice?!"

The driver slammed the steering wheel hard, making a sharp turn that was enough to throw all the passengers with seatbelts in the car to the side, causing the employees of the front lobe company branch in the car to shut up.

After driving around the bend with difficulty, the former branch employees in several cars breathed a sigh of relief.

"Shit, with such a sharp curve, the bodyguards chasing us should have slowed down, right?"

"What the hell, their car is better than ours, we are about to be caught up!!!"

The employee driving the last car in the convoy looked at the pursuers getting closer and closer in the rearview mirror and shouted in despair.

In this desperate escape, after driving less than a thousand meters, the last car among these former branch employees was hit hard by one of the cars chasing them. It crashed into the guardrail on the side of the road with black smoke and completely stalled.

"Leave one vehicle's manpower to deal with the vehicle, and the others continue the pursuit."

The burly man in a suit and sunglasses used the communicator in his hand to direct the convoy chasing the former employees. The armored vehicle at the end of the line immediately slowed down and pulled next to the vehicle that was hit and stopped.

A moment later, four or five sturdy men in suits, wearing a layer of armor plate and holding riot batons surrounded the still smoking vehicle.

One of the bodyguards asked his captain, "Captain, this car won't explode soon, will it?"

The captain ignored his nonsense, but another bodyguard took over and scolded him: "If you say something like that at this time, it will definitely explode soon."

In fact, these bodyguards all belong to a security agency under the Second Association. This fourth-level finisher agency specializes in providing covert security protection to the nobles in the nest.

The branch employees who were unaware of this ran into the targets of these bodyguards' protection and were almost captured by them on the spot.

If it weren't for the former branch employees who arrived later and had ego equipment that could create chaos, they would have been feeding monsters in the suburbs by now.

"Have you two said enough? If you have, then quickly pull the people out! The eldest lady said that we should break all their limbs and throw them to the suburbs."

The leader of the team in the car cursed at the two bodyguards who were still gossiping. After being cursed by him, the two stopped chatting and opened the car door.

Most of the occupants in the car were knocked unconscious by the impact, and the cleanup men dragged out all the former branch employees from the car without much effort.

"Hey, do you smell anything?"

Just as the finishers were pushing the targets towards their cars, a burnt smell and an even stranger smell wafted into their noses.

"...Who of you just said the car was going to blow up? Run!"

boom!

At the same time as they ran into the armored vehicle, the car that the employees had robbed also exploded due to energy leakage. The several finishers hiding in the car looked at each other, and they all looked at the companion who said that the car would explode.

"Don't look at me! I was just joking, who knew he would really explode!"

"Okay, that's enough, let's quickly deal with these people and go after the captain and the others."

The captain of the team sighed and ordered the team members in the car to start dealing with the employees of the Frontal Lobe Company branch. However, just as they tied these people up and prepared to break their limbs and put them into sacks, someone knocked on the door of the trunk of the armored vehicle.

"Hmm? Who would come knocking on our door in this place?"

"Sparrow, come closer and take a look?"

"Chickadee, why should I go and see it, and why don't you go?"

It must be said that the internal names used by the team's finishing personnel when carrying out commissions happen to be various birds, which is completely consistent with their usual chirping style.

"Okay, open the door quickly... The person who is finishing up the office is outside."

They are all the finishing touches of the same nest. The team leader can still see them in the rearview mirror and tell who they belong to by the firm’s logo.

"What can I do for you, everyone at Ding Office?"

The team leader was not in a superior position in numbers, and their strengths were similar. Naturally, he would not be too arrogant. However, since they were both affiliated with the association, the team leader, who was full of bird codes, was not worried that they would suddenly launch an attack.

"It's you guys... Don't you usually accept long-term bodyguard commissions? Why did you suddenly come out to arrest someone today?"

Hanafuda looked at the captain, whom she seemed to have met once before, and asked him.

"Oh, these bastards tried to rob our client and beat up several brothers in the firm. The client got angry and gave us a temporary commission to break these people's limbs and throw them to the suburbs."

Although it is a rule that closers cannot mention the client's information to outsiders, simply saying that a client wants them to do something is not considered a violation of the rules.

"That's perfect. Our client also wants to ask these people some questions."

"Just right? There won't be any conflict between our commissions, right?"

The team leader sitting in the driver's seat quietly grasped his weapon.

"No, we don't need their people for our commission."

"That's good. I like it best when there is no conflict."

The young captain chuckled and directed his team members to get out of the car, leaving the space inside the car completely to the people from Ding Office.

Walking on the roadside, the captain gave each of his brothers a cigarette. They smoked while looking at the situation in the car. Although they did not intend to eavesdrop on the information that Ding Agency wanted to ask, they still had the necessary curiosity.

"Boss, are we really going to just leave the car and the target for them to interrogate?"

"What else can we do? We are just a few of us and we can't defeat them. If the captain and his men didn't go after the rest of the people, we could make a deal with them to keep them away."

A few people were chatting and smoking. When they had almost finished their cigarettes, several finishing people from Ding Agency got out of the car led by Hanafuda.

However, judging from the unhappy expressions on their faces, these people definitely did not get the information they wanted.

Chapter 188. Back Alley Street

"Chiduan, what time is it now?"

"Two o'clock in the morning...it will be late in the back alley in a while."

"Tsk, those former employees of the Lobotomy Corporation branch are really good at running."

The bodyguard finisher captain of the Beast Group Agency who was in charge of this commission had now joined forces with Hanafuda of the Ding Agency and the finishers under her command.

Although these employees of the Lobotomy Corporation branch are not very strong, they can really run.

One of their former employees holds an ego device that can confuse those chasing them, while another holds an ego device that can create lifelike illusions.

With the two working together, they can force pursuers to chase the phantom by affecting their sense of direction, unless the car is in an accident.

This made them very difficult to deal with after they escaped from the highway with few turns and rushed into the back alleys and streets.

Faced with the situation where these people would occasionally split into several completely identical convoys and flee separately, the bodyguard tailer captain code-named Red Falcon could only give the order to split the troops.

As a result, they were unable to catch up with all the targets until these employees fled into Alley 12 in the phantom. In fact, during the pursuit, the team that was left to deal with the first target vehicle that was hit and stopped also joined his large team with the finishing staff of the Ding Office.

For Captain Red Falcon, letting this group of targets escape all the way into Alley 12 was already a matter of loss of face. However, if this matter was known by the closers from other agencies with the same commissioned targets, it would be more than just a matter of loss of face.

"I'm Red Falcon. The target's ability to create phantoms is decreasing. It seems they can't use this ability continuously. Next, all vehicles will be reorganized into four convoys. We will surround them at the next intersection!"

"Roger that!"

The convoy began to change its formation after the order was given. Under the surprised gaze of the people working at the Ding Office, they changed from one to four in an instant and drove towards the exits of the next intersection.

If nothing unexpected happens, the convoy of employees from the Lobotomy Corporation branch will be forced to stop at the next intersection.

However, in today's Alley 12, and deeper in the L Nest, it can be said that accidents are everywhere.

At that intersection, a group of exiled warriors called the Sword Contract Group was engaging in a street fight with a branch of the Black Cloud Society.

When their leader Jin Li led them to exile here, he had a feud with the Black Cloud Society. Today, they were once again dissatisfied with the Black Cloud Society's behavior of collecting protection fees on the street, so under the leadership of Jin Li, they attacked a vice president of the Black Cloud Society.

However, for those employees of the Forebrain Corporation branch who stepped on the accelerator and fled with suicidal momentum, such a battle was a dangerous place that they could not avoid.

"In front! There are people! There are people!!!"

In the front vehicle of the convoy, the former employee sitting in the passenger seat grabbed the driver who was using the rearview mirror to observe whether the closer had caught up, and shouted desperately in his ear.

"It's too late, we can only crash into it!"

The drivers, whose attention was drawn back by the shout, only had time to judge the distance between the convoy and the people fighting for their lives. If they wanted to save their lives instead of being hit by the car behind them, all they could do was step on the accelerator, hold the steering wheel, and then grit their teeth and run over the bodies of the people in front.

"Master, someone is coming. He didn't slow down and looks like he wants to run us over..."

An assassin from the Sword Contract Group easily cut the throat of the Black Cloud Society member in front of him. Taking advantage of the opportunity before the new enemy could find him, he turned to the leader of the Sword Contract Group, Jin Li, and said.

"Well, if they're not going to stop, then just kill them all."

Although the enemy Jin Li was facing at the moment was the vice-president of the Black Cloud Society, as well as his young head and his assistants, a total of five swordsmen who were besieging him.