Cyberpunk, but urban

But for Jin Li, who was able to obtain the title of "Cloud Sword" in the S Nest, who once served as the guard of the Left Prime Minister, and who once fought his way out of the army alone with a sword, and who was horrified by the corruption that led to the assassination of the Left Prime Minister and the Right Prime Minister who was unable to sleep all night, he was not an enemy who could make him unable to concentrate and speak.

The assassin from the Sword Contract Team who had just found time to talk to him was now surrounded by several other members of the Black Cloud Society and had no time to appreciate their leader's native swordsmanship that was like a waning moon.

With just one slash, the young leader and his assistants around the vice-chairman of the Black Cloud Society were frozen in place. It was not until Jin Li turned around to face the oncoming convoy that the bodies of the four of them fell to the ground and shattered like toppled building blocks.

"Strange, monster..."

The vice-chairman of the Black Cloud Society swallowed quietly, and opposite him, Jin Li, who had his back to him, swung his sword again.

The sword light was like a cold moon, like a ray of brilliant light that suddenly flashed by.

The car at the front of the convoy was cut in half by the sword, and along with the former employees of Lobotomy Corporation inside, it turned into flying wreckage.

Next came the other two cars following closely behind, which were also cut in half by the sword without any hindrance, and then collided with the vehicles behind them.

By the time the Beast Group Office's finishers drove the armored vehicles they purchased from the Second Association to completely block the intersection, all that was left in the middle of the road was the wreckage of a vehicle engulfed in flames.

And... the corpses of the Black Cloud Society members who were killed one by one by the assassins of the Sword Contract Group.

In the center of these corpses, the vice president who had planned to launch a sneak attack when Jin Li attacked the convoy was now only left with his head hanging high on the street lamp, dead long ago.

"...Damn it, whose battlefield did they walk into?!"

Now, the Beast Agency's finishing staff no longer have to chase these former employees, nor do they have to capture them and throw them into the suburbs.

But for everyone in the firm, their commission can be said to have failed completely, with no chance at all.

"Alas, life is often not as it seems~ Miss Hanafuda, things have come to this, I am afraid there is nothing else we can do except leave early."

Hong Shun sighed, and spoke half-comfortingly and half-advisingly to Hanafuda, a semi-acquaintance of his at the agency.

"Let's go. If someone comes looking for revenge, we shouldn't let them get involved as enemies."

Hanafuda could only sigh at this point and signaled Honghan to leave quickly.

Chapter 189. Unpredictable Instructions

Let's go back to the early morning, when a figure walked into Index Finger's residence in Alley 12.

As soon as he entered the room, one of the index fingers in the room greeted him.

"Yang Chuanling, you came to us today. Do you have any new instructions to give?"

"That's right, Gloria."

Yang nodded and said to the two-meter-tall agent in front of him, who was covered in prosthetics, "There are two instructions in total. The first one is to issue a commission to the representative of the Imagination Agency at 10 o'clock today. Entrust him to assist you in killing two thumb commanders and their subordinates in the L nest today."

"Ah~ Are you going to force Thumb to hook with us?!"

"Instructions need only be followed, and trying to understand them is bad."

Yang advised her, and then said to her, "Second order, after the battle, invite the representative of the Weird Idea Agency and his companions to dine with Ham Peng Peng from Alley 12, and make sure they leave the restaurant at midnight."

"Eh~~~ This is an instruction that I can't understand~" Gloria's mechanical head shook a circle, and continued to say to Yang: "But forget it, as long as the instruction is completed."

"Yes, the order must be completed..."

Yang seemed to want to say something, but in the end, facing Gloria, he swallowed the words in his heart, stood up and left the station.

He still had many instructions in his hands, and he also had many fictitious instructions. He needed to pass on all these instructions. For him, today was still a day without any rest time.

Gloria, who received the two instructions, looked at the time, took out the oil and cloth for wiping parts from her room, and began to polish her mechanical body carefully.

At exactly 9:55, a figure wearing an Index Finger Walker cloak, with only his mechanical prosthetic head exposed, appeared on the street where the Weird Office was located.

Gloria took out a timer and placed it on her hand. The timer had already started running and the time displayed on it was 4 minutes and 32 seconds.

The instructions received by this index finger agent were to deliver the commission to the representative of the Yixiang Agency at 10 o'clock sharp. She could not arrive earlier, but she could not be late for a second either.

The two-meter-tall cyborg walked forward at a steady pace, and when the timer rang, he pushed open the door of the Weird Office and walked in.

"Hello~ Is the representative here?"

Gloria's question after entering the room was heard clearly by Luna who was watching TV in the living room. The little girl shouted loudly upstairs: "Ye Lan - someone is looking for you!"

A moment later, Ye Lan's response came from upstairs: "Coming!"

The cyborg walked into the living room slowly and stopped in a spacious place. The little girl usually didn't see many people who transformed their whole body into cyborgs, so she stared at Gloria with some curiosity.

Gloria was also curious about Luna. She held a fist-sized moonstone in her arms as a toy. No one would ignore this little girl.

Soon, footsteps were heard coming from the direction of the stairs, and Ye Lan, wearing a suit as usual, walked down from the second floor.

"Hey, a proxy for the index finger. What brings you to my little office?"

"Hello, Mr. Representative. I am here in compliance with instructions. I would like to ask you to go with me to Nest L to hunt down the two Thumb Commanders and their respective soldiers."

A mechanical arm extended from under Gloria's cloak, and the arm holding the note with instructions stretched out to Ye Lan, handing him the note for confirmation.

Ye Lan was not the index finger nor a civilian protected by the index finger, so he did not need to obey the order. Gloria handed him the order, just to make him confirm that there was no falsehood in what she said.

"That's a good idea. For you, the index finger, you must obey orders. In other words... if I don't accept this commission, you will find a way to force me to take it. Am I right?"

After reading the handwriting on the note, Ye Lan handed it back. Gloria's mechanical head moved up and down, confirming Ye Lan's understanding in this way.

"Yes, if you refuse, I will indeed use some less friendly means."

Ye Lan did not answer Gloria directly, but turned to Luna and asked: "Luna, do you want to go out with me today to learn how to fight?"

To him, both the thumb commander and the index finger agent who was currently in the office were just objects that could be manipulated at will.

Compared to the conflict between them, the more important thing is whether their little Luna wants to take this opportunity to train herself.

"Me? Sure~" said Luna, holding the moonstone.

She had not given up on developing her innate abilities in the past few days. Although she still let herself fall into the illusion she created with the moonstone, she could see the positions of real objects in the illusion better than at the beginning.

"Very good." Ye Lan turned to look at Gloria: "Then I will accept this commission. Please let me arrange the work in the office, and then I will go to L Nest with you to hunt Thumb."

"Okay~"

Gloria shook her mechanical head and agreed to Ye Lan's request. She watched him walk up to the second floor of the office, then turned her gaze back to Luna.

The little girl's thoughts obviously determined the thoughts of Ye Lan, the representative of the firm. What secrets does she have? Gloria guessed in her heart.

"Big sister, how does it feel to have your entire body replaced with machines? Do you feel greedy when you see delicious food? Do you need to sleep at night?"

As Gloria became more and more curious about Luna, the little girl took the initiative to ask her a series of questions. Whether out of curiosity or out of love for the cuteness of this little girl, Gloria, the index finger agent, gently answered all her questions.

By the time Ye Lan came back, the relationship between little Luna and Gloria had reached the point where the Index Finger Agent was willing to hold her in his arms and tell her stories.

"It seems like your relationship is progressing very quickly."

Ye Lan smiled and said to the two of them while throwing the dimensional bag containing various workshop weapons tailor-made for Luna to the little girl.

"She is a very cute little girl. Mr. Ye Lan, are you really planning to take her with you to carry out the commission?"

Gloria asked Ye Lan, her words filled with concern for Luna.

Chapter 190. Start Commissioning

With the index finger providing the means of transportation and route planning, Ye Lan and Luna were naturally happy to relax. They sat in the extended car with the agent Gloria, waiting for the driver to take them to the L nest.

It has to be said that ever since little Luna got the moonstone, her innate lovable ability has become even more terrifying.

Like Gloria, the index finger agent, all her human body parts except the brain were replaced with mechanical prostheses, but even so, she was easily won over by Luna after several conversations and became the little girl's new friend.

What's even more terrifying is that none of the Index Finger Ascetics who came later to arrange the itinerary were surprised by Gloria's behavior, as if her quickly developing feelings for a girl was a trivial matter that happened from time to time.

"If this continues, I think Luna should just stop calling herself the Child of the Moon and call herself the Urban Succubus instead."

Ye Lan, who had watched the whole process from the side, sighed and thought silently in his heart. In fact, if you want to ask whether he was influenced by Luna, Ye Lan himself probably was.

After Day and Night, he chose to adopt her. If you think about it carefully, it should be the influence of this power. But if you say that Ye Lan would not adopt Luna without the influence, that is not true.

The girl was essentially magnifying her existing emotions, rather than fabricating them. So once the enemy she faced had no feelings for her at all, her instinctive power would lose its effect.

"Sir Gloria, we have entered the L nest. According to the previous investigation, there is a commander with a thumb and his soldiers stationed in the original hotel at the end of this street."

"Mr. Ye Lan, what are your plans?"

Gloria nodded to the ascetic who was the driver, and then turned her attention back to Ye Lan. She maintained a decent and polite attitude and asked Ye Lan about his plan.

"I don't have any plans. I'll just get out of the car and kill everyone alive inside. It's that simple." Ye Lan shrugged and unbuckled his seat belt.

Before getting off the bus, he asked the driver, the ascetic, a question: "Come to think of it, how did you drive with a blindfold on the whole time?"

"This... is just normal driving. With the protection of the command, we can easily move on the road even without looking at the outside world."

The index-finger ascetic scratched his head, attributing his ability to drive without any problems to the power of command.

"alright."

Ye Lan naturally would not believe such nonsense, but since this ascetic did not want to answer how he drove, Ye Lan did not intend to ask any more questions.

After getting out of the car with Luna, Gloria brought four ascetics from another car and walked behind Ye Lan and the others.

"Gloria Agent, are you planning to go in with the two of us as well?"

After taking a look at the ascetics who were deployed in battle formation behind him, Ye Lan asked Gloria.

"The order is to entrust you with assistance, so we should naturally join the battle in person."

Gloria used her index finger to command, so Ye Lan had no reason to refuse them. Faced with this situation, Ye Lan didn't say anything more except to warn them not to get too close.

After choosing a set of He-level ego equipment and putting it on, Ye Lan and Luna, who was holding the moonstone, walked towards Thumb's base together.

In the eyes of the people on the index finger, the two men just took two steps forward and then disappeared from their sight without a trace.

With the moonstone in Luna's hand, the little girl opened a spiritual field that moved with the two of them. Anyone who walked into this field would have their senses taken away by her, and could only observe the environment set by Luna herself within the scope of the field.

It’s a pity that Luna cannot control the sense of touch of people controlled by the position. Once they touch real objects that do not exist in the illusion, they will find problems.

Approaching the main gate, Ye Lan gently turned the door handle. Perhaps because it was noon, the main gate of Thumb Station was not locked for easy access.

"Do you want to go in directly? I may not be able to control all the enemies who can see the main gate~"

Luna tugged at the corner of Ye Lan's clothes and whispered to him.

Ye Lan responded to her: "Good question, so Luna, what are you going to do?"

The difficulty of this commission was something he could easily handle. What was more important was to let Luna learn how to use her own power and how to ambush others.

"Hmmmm... If it were me, I would first find a window to observe the enemy branch inside, right?"

Luna told Ye Lan her thoughts. Ye Lan did not refute anything, but took her to a window.

As a beginner, any idea should not be denied. Rather than having your idea denied, the experience gained from trying it yourself is more important.

Moreover, with Ye Lan watching, even if Luna made any mistakes, the teaching part would only be temporarily ended, and he would take action to clear the thumbs in the room.

So, the little girl who maintained her position was carried by Ye Lan to the bottom edge of the window. She quietly observed the situation inside the house. Four thumb soldiers holding muskets were guarding the entrance and the living room in groups of two.

As Luna had initially judged, the range of her current position was indeed not enough to control the senses of these four people at the same time.

"So now you have a clear idea of ​​the situation in the house. What should we do next?"

Ye Lan asked Luna a new question, asking the little girl to try to take the next step. Luna thought about it and pointed to the roof of the building.

Generally speaking, the roofs of buildings like this have doors that lead down to the rooftops. Even if there are people guarding there, it would still be within the range that would disturb Luna's senses.

"But how do you get up there?" Ye Lan asked.

In fact, the dimensional bag he prepared for Luna contained, in addition to the workshop weapons she had customized, common tools such as ropes for special operations such as climbing walls.

However, Luna did not look for her dimensional bag, but pointed at Ye Lan.

"Ye Lan, you are here."

Luna's plan made Ye Lan laugh. It must be said that Luna's approach was completely fine in terms of using the help available around her. Except... Ye Lan originally planned to let Luna figure it out on her own.

He held her and jumped onto the roof. The entrance to the building was indeed guarded. But the densely packed thumb soldiers were no different from non-existent to Luna.

Luna approached along the blind spot of the stairwell, and the expanded mental field of Moonstone enveloped all the soldiers. Then, in the illusion that everything was normal, they were knocked unconscious one by one by Luna using the one-handed hammer produced by the Arras workshop.

Chapter 191. Difficult to tell true from false

"Ugh... this little hammer is so hard to use."

After knocking out the last thumb soldier, Luna said with a pout. Without sufficient training, it would be difficult for her to kill the enemy directly with this small hammer from the Arras workshop.

"It's fine if you can stun them. In an infiltration like the one we're doing now, sometimes knocking someone out is a better option than killing them."

While Ye Lan was breaking the necks of these thumb soldiers, he said to Luna, "For example, enemies like the Blood Demon will be as obvious as light in their eyes once they bleed. Some enemies may wear instruments to detect vital signs. When you kill someone, the alarm will sound as soon as their vital signs change."

"Then how should I choose?" Luna asked.