Cyberpunk, but urban

Chapter 214. Does this scene look familiar?

"Wow, it looks like Sister Yuli is going to vomit for a while."

Sitting on the steps of the library, Luna shook her legs and spoke to Ye Lan and Irene.

In fact, the Yellow Springs Train itself did not have any effect on Yuli. With Ye Lan around to continuously raise the threshold, Yuli no longer had the fear of abnormalities like she did when she was in the Lobotomy Corporation branch.

Apart from anything else, whether before or after Irene came, she had always been the one taking care of the Queen of Hatred. The girl-like abnormality even put her ego gift, the black heart-shaped hair accessory with a pink border, on Yuli's head early on.

Although this might be Yuli's illusion, ever since she put on this hair accessory, she felt that she seemed to be a little faster whether she was walking or doing things.

So what exactly is making Yuli vomit so much? The answer is actually very simple: Yuli, she is carsick.

Ye Lan couldn't tell whether Yuli was dizzy because of the old steam train, the Yellow Spring Train, or because of the changes it made when traveling through the void. But no matter which one it was, Yuli said she would never ride this train again.

If Ye Lan were to say, it was fortunate that the Yellow Springs Train had no ability to communicate, otherwise just Yuli's words would have likely caused the abnormality to launch an attack.

After all, communication is one of the four jobs of an abnormality.

Under Irene's care, it took Yuli more than ten minutes to finally get rid of the torture of motion sickness, but soon she found that the torture that Ye Lan brought her today was not over yet.

"Are you all done with your rest? Then we'll have to hike up next." Ye Lan pointed to the endless staircase in front of the girls and said to Yuli and Irene, the two girls who came to the library for the first time:

"Oh, by the way, after you step onto the stairs, your physical fitness will be limited to the standard physical fitness of humans. Any enhancements you have done and any equipment you are wearing will become ineffective at this time."

"what???"

Yuli looked at the large amount of weapons she carried in order to avoid being dragged into battle by Ye Lan, and then looked at the long stairs of the library.

"Ye Lan...why don't you just kill me?"

"Hey, Sister Yuli, please stop talking. You've already been caught here. You can't go back to the office even if you don't go up."

Luna was teasing and giggling, and only then did she learn from Luna that their current location was in the center of L Nest, a terrible place that they could never leave on their own without Ye Lan's help.

"Ye Lan, if I die of exhaustion on this long staircase, I will never let you go even if I become a ghost!"

Finally, Ye Lan and his group took Yuli's curse as the starting point and began their journey to climb the library. They walked and rested along the way, which was a good relief for Irene who was carrying a picnic basket.

By the time the group finally climbed the last step and saw the library door, most of the basket of snacks that Irene had carried when she set out had been eaten by Luna, Yuli, and the Queen of Hate, turning them into energy for them to climb the stairs.

"Oh my god, oh my god~ Congratulations everyone for finally climbing the stairs of the library. Now we can officially enter the library."

Although he was a little out of breath, Ye Lan still clapped his hands in a manner consistent with his character and spoke nonsense to Yuli and the others who collapsed in front of the library.

"When you go back, Ye Lan, don't even think about eating the three meals prepared by Irene and I this month!"

Yuli, who was lying on the ground, struggled to grab Ye Lan's ankles, cursed like a ghost demanding her life, and then there was no movement.

After climbing several times and even having Ye Lan carry her for a while, Luna still had some energy left. The little girl came over and turned Yuli over to prevent her from suffocating herself to death.

"Ahahaha... Yuli brought too many things." Irene was also slumped on the ground at this time, but her condition was still better than Yuli's.

"Yuli, this girl, should train hard. Even if she can't train to the physical fitness of a level 5 employee, she should at least train to the point where she can carry these equipment for long-term combat..."

Looking at Yuli who fell asleep as soon as she closed her eyes, Ye Lan could only sigh and cover her with a blanket.

By the time everyone recovered from their fatigue, it was already two hours later. Luna was bored waiting at the door, so she dragged Irene and the Hateful Queen, who were still able to move, into the library. Only Ye Lan and Yuli were left at the door.

"Still angry?"

"Humph!"

"Well, how about we go in first?" Ye Lan sighed and made way for the main entrance of the library.

Yuli put away the blanket she had covered herself with, put her hand on the door of the library and paused for a moment, then turned to Ye Lan and asked, "Ye Lan, you don't have any bad intentions waiting for me to go in, do you?"

“It should be gone…right?”

Subjectively, Ye Lan did not prepare any "mysterious surprises" for Yuli, but if the girl saw some Sephirah that she had only seen in training manuals and company promotions as soon as she entered the door and was frightened by it, he couldn't say for sure.

"Sigh - I promise that you can only eat takeout for the first month after you return." Yuli sighed, pushed open the door of the library, and walked in with Ye Lan.

The two people who entered the library did not see Angela or Malkuth and the others immediately, but they saw a fat man with a strong and pungent smell and a body made of green mucus.

"Huhu... I didn't expect I could drink so much."

The fat man spoke with a smile and kept burping briefly.

“Abnormality!”

"Don't panic, this kid isn't planning on hurting anyone."

Yuli subconsciously wanted to draw her weapon, but Ye Lan, who was walking behind her, held her hands from behind. When Yuli relaxed and no longer planned to draw her weapon, Ye Lan walked in front of the fat man.

The gentleman fairy stared at Ye Lan with a dazed look for a long time, then gave a gentle smile: "It's you... I'm a little... drunk. Do you want this glass of wine?... If not, I'll... drink it myself."

"Okay, okay, give me the wine in your hand, and then go over to sober up." Ye Lan reached out and took the fairy wine from the gentleman fairy's hand, and drove the gentle fat man to the side under the wall.

"It seems that the abnormality I sent here before is running around again." Ye Lan turned around with the wine glass in his hand and shrugged at Yuli.

Chapter 215. Elf Feast

“Ye ye ye ye ye lan!”

Just as Ye Lan was trying to comfort Yuli, saying that this was not a big deal in the library, Yuli let out a stuttering scream.

Ye Lan turned in the direction that Yuli pointed and saw the reason why Yuli was like this. Behind him, Luna, who was riding on a skinny green monster, was led by the monster and went straight through the entrance hall and rushed into the room on the other side of the hall.

"This... this is indeed something I didn't expect."

Ye Lan sighed and rubbed the ring on his hand, and the ego equipment [Afterscent] made with Inawen's core appeared on his body.

"I'm about to teleport, Yuli, don't vomit on me."

Ye Lan, whose face was mostly covered by a pink sun hat, picked up Yuli and held her sideways. The lavender petals engulfed both of them. The next moment, Yuli, feeling dizzy, found herself being held by Princess Ye Lan and blocked in front of the abnormal being that took Luna away.

"If you think about it carefully, it is indeed your turn to wake up."

Ye Lan put Yuli down as he spoke. He raised his hand towards the madly running Elf Feast, and a breeze carrying lavender petals blew in the library.

The petals that exuded the fragrance of the forest gathered in his hands, and a small crossbow appeared in Ye Lan's hand.

Puff, a sound so slight that it was almost imperceptible came from the crossbow. Yuli watched as a small crossbow arrow flew out and hit the skinny and shapeless monster.

Suddenly, countless flowers bloomed from the place where the crossbow arrow hit, and the brilliant and colorful flowers swallowed up the hungry and crazy elf queen layer by layer.

So, the Elf Queen, who was eager to live and to be well fed, closed her dry eyes under the breath of this unknown forest, and turned into dust and dissipated.

"Ye Lan!!!"

Little Luna riding on it slid down the eggshell of the Elf Feast that turned into an Abnormality Egg, and ran and jumped into Ye Lan's arms.

"Well, Ye Lan, you smell like lavender all over now."

Luna plunged into the lingering fragrance and curled her small nose. The scent of lavender overwhelmed her.

"This ego equipment smells good, doesn't it? But when you use the Abnormality's power to teleport, your sister Yuri doesn't seem to be used to it."

Ye Lan chatted and took off his equipment. Beside him, Yuli gradually recovered from the dizziness caused by the teleportation.

"Luna, what on earth did you do to dare to ride on the Abnormality!"

Therefore, Luna, who had done something stupid and dangerous, received a little worried rebuke from Yuri.

"Hey hehe~"

The little girl listened to Yuli's scolding with a silly smile. When she got tired of talking, she told Ye Lan and Yuli what happened when they were still outside the library.

Soon after Luna pulled the Queen of Hate and Irene into the library, the light contained in several books of the Carnival and Vision Office awakened the sleeping Elf Feast.

The Elf Queen, who had been in a state of long-term hunger, immediately commanded the elves who had also turned into deformed monsters due to hunger to start a hunt after she transformed from a book back into an alien body.

However, the hunt encountered setbacks at the very beginning. Angela, who was in charge of the entire library, was the first to discover the awakening of the Elf Feast. Malkuth and her assistant librarians on the history level surrounded them even before they could act.

If the Elf Feast had not caused the other fairy-like anomalies brought back by Ye Lan to escape together, Luna would not have been able to see this anomaly at all.

It’s a pity that there are no ifs.

The escape of multiple subspecies of Fairy Abnormalities caused a loophole in the encirclement of the librarians in the Historical Layer. Although the sudden appearance of the Queen of Hate protected them and the librarians did not suffer any harm, the Fairy Queen escaped from the Historical Layer at that time.

Luna and Irene, who happened to be at the entrance of the library at that time, showed such weak temperament that the Elf Queen regarded them as the easiest targets, so she rushed straight to the entrance of the library.

As for what happened next...Luna only borrowed a little bit of the power of the moonstone. The Elf Queen, who was shrouded in Luna's spiritual state, lost the positions of Luna and Irene and could only wave her claws in vain at the air.

But this alone is meaningless. The Fairy Queen, who has a huge body, may hit her and Irene who are unable to fight directly just by swinging her claws randomly.

"That won't do. I have to take it away."

With this thought in mind, Luna pushed Irene into a safe room, and then controlled the Fairy Queen's senses and climbed onto her back.

The Fairy Queen, whose attention was drawn to Luna's illusion, didn't notice that the real Luna had quietly climbed onto her back and started running straight after the illusion that Luna had created for her.

Then, Ye Lan and Yuli also entered the library.

"I knew you wouldn't let Luna come by herself. To be honest, when I learned from Angela that the little girl was walking the Abnormality by herself, I was really shocked~"

Roland was not late, but after knowing that Ye Lan was here, he relaxed his pace and walked over from the other end of the corridor.

"If you keep rushing here at this speed, I can't feel how nervous you are."

As a joke, Ye Lan put the egg of the Elf Feast's anomaly into his dimensional bag.

"There is another one sobering up in the hall at the entrance. Roland, just tell it to go back to the house. It shouldn't object." Ye Lan said, patting his dimensional bag. "I'll go send this guy to where he should be, and by the way, look for the companions who got separated from Luna."

Roland said teasingly: "Okay, then I'll get back to my work, and you can just play with these lovely girls." Then, he walked straight to the entrance hall without waiting for Ye Lan to react to his words.

"Hey, Roland, there's something behind what you said..."

Ye Lan shook his head, then called on Yuli and Luna to walk in the direction they came from, looking for Irene along the way.

As for Irene, she had been sent to the director's office by Angela. This maid who was supposed to be a member of the Symphony Orchestra became the first person in Ye Lan's world who was supposed to be a member of the Symphony Orchestra to infiltrate the deepest part of the library.

"You said you were a maid in Ye Lan's office? Would Ye Lan actually like this kind of plot?"

Angela's question made Irene a little overwhelmed. She didn't know Angela at all and didn't know how to respond for a moment.

Chapter 216. How does it feel to meet the big boss of the company?

"As soon as I arrived, I saw you bullying our office's maid, Angela."

Ye Lan joked as he walked into the director's office, but Yuli, who was following him, couldn't smile at all. Angela was the de facto manager of their branch of the Lobelia Corporation. In a sense, the branch manager had less authority than Angela.

As a former branch employee, Yuli became nervous on the spot. She pulled Ye Lan's sleeve and stammered to him: "Ye, Ye Lan?! You never told me that Miss Angela would be in the library!"

"You didn't even ask me."

After sending away the flustered Yuli and asking Luna to accompany her to find a place to sit down, Ye Lan asked Angie about the current situation of the library.

Angela smiled at Ye Lan and said to him, "The Elf Feast has been defeated by you. The other abnormalities are not a problem for everyone."

However, the library never gives Angela face. Just when Angela finished saying this and had no time to ask who the girls who came with Ye Lan today were, a new anomaly broke out in the library.

Seeing Angela's expression suddenly turned cold, Ye Lan asked her, "What's wrong? Your face suddenly looks so serious."

"The singing machine suddenly woke up and is located on the technology floor. Yesod and most of the assistant librarians on the technology floor are helping to deal with the escaped fairy-type abnormalities. I'm afraid you are the only one who can get through now."

Angela said this somewhat unhappily. This was not the reason why she wanted Ye Lan to return to the library.

"It's nothing. Just chat with them for a while. I'll be back soon."

After saying something that was hardly comforting, Ye Lan immediately walked out of the director's office without even asking Angela to use the library's power to send him directly to the technology floor.

He-level singing machines were not difficult for Ye Lan to handle. This large industrial meat grinder that called itself a singing machine would only produce the enchanting melody when it was grinding living things. Even without considering his own mental resistance, Ye Lan only needed to shut it down before the meat grinder controlled someone.

In the curator's office, Angela, who had been communicating with Irene for some time, changed her conversation target to the next girl, Yuli.

"You seem to know me and to have a mixture of respect and fear towards me. Tell me who you are."

After Ye Lan left, Angela, who was sitting behind the desk in the director's office, became a little tougher. Our library director rested his chin on his right hand, tilted his head and looked at Yuli, who was pinching the hem of her skirt, waiting for her answer.

"Ms. Angela, hello. I'm an employee of the D-02 branch. My name is Yuli."

Yuli said nervously that the Miss Angela she had seen in the past were all AI on the screen. This time when she saw Angela with her own body in the library, Yuli was not sure for a moment whether she was the prototype of those AIs or AI with its own body.

"An employee of the branch? Ye Lan did tell me about this. But he actually brought you to the library...it seems like you have a good relationship."

A kind of pressure that did not come from the relationship between superiors and subordinates enveloped Yuli, and she felt a little phantom pain in her eye sockets covered by the cute eye mask.

"Fufu, Sister Angela, are you missing Ye Lan?"

Yuli, who was speechless due to the pressure from Angela, finally got help from Luna. As Ye Lan's adopted daughter and the natural charm of the Moon Child, she was able to take the initiative in the communication with Angela, who had a tin head.

The little girl had the same malicious smile on her face as Ye Lan, and she jumped onto Angela's desk.