Cyberpunk, but urban

"Sister Angela, Ye Lan suddenly said he wanted to come to the library. You must have called him, right? Tell me what you two talked about?"

This time, the pressure fell on Angela. But for Angela now, it is still a little difficult for her to fully understand what is missing and what is shyness.

"I told him that I hope he can come back to live in the library for a longer period of time, so that he can be by my side and help me."

So, Angela said something casually that made Irene and Yuli's pupils dilate.

"Wow, Sister Angela, you are really... powerful."

Therefore, even Luna was shocked for a while by Angela's shameless statement.

However, the atmosphere in the director's office became normal under Luna's adjustment. Some little girls started to talk about topics, and several girls gradually became more and more excited in chatting with Angela.

After chatting for a while, the designated librarians who had dealt with the abnormalities came back to the director's office one after another to report the situation on their respective floors to Angela.

Yuli and Irene, who were brought by Ye Lan, became the subjects of Malkuth and others' inquiries about the situation outside the library.

Poor Yuri, she was surrounded by the headquarters Sephirahs who she had only seen in the promotions for the first time. For a moment, she almost couldn't remember who she was.

After Ye Lan turned off the singing machine and put it and the Elf Feast's Abnormality Egg back to their respective places, he returned to the director's office and saw Yuli who was surrounded by the designated librarians headed by Malkuth and was being questioned.

"Malkuth, Hod, the two of you should let Yuli go first... She's almost fainted from frightening you guys."

Ye Lan sighed and walked forward, pulled Yuli out of the arms of the two girls, and put her on the empty sofa on the other side of the director's office.

"It's Ye Lan... It must be great to be secretly living with such a cute girl, right?" Hod pretended to be a dirty uncle and nudged Ye Lan with his elbow.

"I can see that you also want to live with Yuli, right? How about I lend her to you for a while?"

Although Ye Lan could understand what Hod meant, he still said to Hod something that only a piece of wood could say.

"Malkuth, I suddenly have the urge to hit someone, what should I do?"

Hod, smiling brightly, turned his head to Malkuth, seeking her advice as there was no other option.

"Hod, please bear with your bad health~"

Malkuth also laughed. No, to be more precise, every designated librarian present laughed. Because, at the same time when Malkuth made her suggestion, Ye Lan had already fallen down due to Hod's uppercut to the abdomen.

Chapter 217. Walking Alone

"Hello? Yes, I have confirmed the target."

A woman with short dark green hair was sitting in a coffee shop on the street, talking to someone on the phone.

"...Time? I should be able to arrive at the office by this time tomorrow."

Yuna is one of the three finishers of the Liming Office. As a fourth-level finisher, the commission she is going to carry out this time is the commission called "Thousand Needles" that Ye Lan will see in the newspaper one day later.

The target's name was De Rui, and he seemed to have signed some kind of contract with Yesterday's Appointment a few days ago. However, the contract signed by the target seemed to contain a considerable number of unfavorable clauses. In just a few days, he had violated the terms of the contract and turned into a ghost.

"The target has started to move again. I'm going to die first."

Yuna waved to the cafe's waiter and paid for the coffee with the waiter in the cafe's uniform.

After leaving the cafe, Yuna slowly followed the man who was once called Dre but was now just a zombie wandering the streets of Alley 22, observing his movements.

In fact, it is not accurate to call him a zombie. The man named Dre is not dead, but for the sake of convenience, Yuna still calls him a zombie because he has lost consciousness but can still move freely.

The two continued to walk along the back alley one after the other. Yuna followed behind them boredly, and couldn't help but think of the results of her previous investigation on Mr. De Rui.

Four days ago, Mr. De Rui tried to place a commission with the Fengyu Firm, hoping that the firm would protect him from the hands of the "devil" after he violated the contract.

According to the closer who received him at Fengyu Office that day, De Rui, who claimed to be an ordinary citizen living in Lane 22, told the closer in the office that the situation was very urgent and he wanted to seek help from Fengyu Office.

The closer said that Dre showed signs of being too tired at that time. His eye bags appeared deep, his hair was messy, and his eyes were lifeless and looked blurry.

The more obvious feature is the symbol on the back of his neck, which looks like some kind of wound left by a weapon from the Branding Workshop.

Even if Dre didn't say anything, you could tell how desperate he was just by looking at him. The finisher told Yuna at the time: "His legs were already unstable, but he still tried his best to get closer to me. After I finally calmed him down, he said a lot of weird things."

"We really don't understand what the demon he was talking about is. It's too unrealistic to ask us to solve the demon. To be honest, I thought that person was just talking nonsense, so I just said a few perfunctory words and let him go."

Just as Yuna recalled this, a violent sound, as if some liquid was boiling, resounded throughout the street.

Yuna looked in the direction of the sound and saw the zombie named Dre, who was repeating strange and confusing words into the air. His body was swelling as if a large number of objects were stuffed into it, and soon it turned into a huge ball of flesh amid the sound of boiling liquid.

"Oops!"

Yuna, realizing something was wrong, turned around and rushed into a shop on the roadside. Amid the screams of the store manager and customers, she jumped into the counter at the deepest part of the store and covered herself with her weapons.

boom!

The street was swollen like a balloon, and Dre just stood there and exploded into a bloody mist. Countless long needles poured out from his body like a rain curtain, piercing the bodies of almost everyone around him.

Those passers-by who were hurt by the long needles began to expand and explode the moment they fled into the distance, triggering a new round of needle rain.

Only one or two passers-by were not hurt by the sudden attack. They tried to flee, but most of them were injured by the subsequent explosions caused by the injured, and they also became bombs full of deadly long needles.

It was not until a long time later that the explosions on the street finally stopped. After checking the weapon in front of her and confirming that there was no problem with it, Yuna finally stood up from behind the counter of the clothing store.

"Fortunately, the weapons of the Branding Workshop are strong enough..."

The store where Yuna was at the moment was also in a mess. The long needles that penetrated the store's glass turned the customers in the store into bombs in the incident. The rain of needles that came with the human body explosion made tiny cracks everywhere in the room.

This store, and even this building, has become a dangerous building because of these long needles and is no longer of any use.

"I, I'm boiling! Help me! Help me!!!"

boom!

Yuna was about to leave when another round of explosions was heard outside the door. Without time to think, she hid back as before. Only when there was no more sound outside did Yuna finally leave the store and walk onto the street.

"Hey! The sister who just came out over there~"

There was a shouting sound coming from the house on the opposite side. Yuna looked in the direction of the sound and saw a big boy who was probably only fifteen or sixteen years old waving his arms at her, as if he had something to say.

"what's up?"

"You are the one who is going to finish it off, right? When investigating, don't stare at the holes or eyeballs of the body! Just now, several people did this and turned into bombs just like those people who were stabbed by the long needles!"

Yuna had to admit that this young man provided her with life-saving information. As the person who was commissioned to investigate, without this reminder, she would definitely have observed the wound and the eyes of the deceased.

"Thank you, please leave here quickly!"

After informing him from a distance, Yuna walked towards Dre's location, which was the center of the explosion. Just as she was about to check the traces left by Dre, a buzzing sound came from a corner nearby.

"Ok?"

Yuna turned around and saw that the prop called the Brainstem Cluster Resonator started up on its own without anyone controlling it. The torn human flesh and blood around it gathered under the control of this machine and turned into a flesh and blood cannon that could spit out long needles ranging in length from 1 to 3 meters.

The giant flesh and blood cannon, with an astonishingly fast speed both in terms of its movement speed and the speed at which it shot out long needles, was running forward rapidly along the street. The moment the giant long needles it shot out touched the surrounding houses, these buildings began to melt uncontrollably.

Chapter 218. Liming Office

"It was a close call at the last moment. I don't know where those guys got the 'Brain Stem Cluster Resonator' from, but they actually fused the flesh and blood on the street together."

"The surrounding buildings began to melt, and the needles sprayed outward like crazy. The people who were hit exploded one after another, and the ground was a mess... At that time, I really thought I was going to die."

Yuna told Salvador, the old man in her own firm, and Philip, a half-newcomer, about what she encountered during the commission.

At this time, she had returned to the Liming Office smoothly, and the content of her commission had been posted on the newspaper in the old man's hand.

Earlier, when Ye Lan and several girls were heading to the library, Salvador, who was holding the Shuanghe tea brewed by Philip, saw the news of the death of an old friend in the Liming Office, where only two people were present.

Of course, Walter, who is obsessed with climbing up the social ladder, can hardly be considered an old friend of Salvador, the star closer.

"Library, isn't that a case classified as an urban legend by the association?"

asked Philip, who was helping Salvador put away the tea set.

"It has now been upgraded to an urban disease. The people from Section 6 of the Southern Second Association seem to have stumbled there."

"So your old friend is..."

Hearing this, Philip understood who Salvador was talking about this morning.

"Yes, it's Walter. It seems that my old friend is also buried in the library. What a disappointing old friend... He worked so hard to climb up, but ended up like this in the end."

Although he was not a friend of a friend, he was still an old colleague who had worked together for a long time. Salvador still sighed for Walter.

Philip, who didn't know the real situation, poured tea for the old man and said to him, "Please accept my condolences. I heard that he was your colleague when you were working at Zwei. You must feel bad."

"What's wrong with that? I've never had a good impression of that old man Walter."

"……Eh?"

Hearing this, Philip was really stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that old man Salvador would say such a thing.

"This person doesn't have the potential to excel. At first glance, he seems to have some brains, but in fact his ideas are very one-sided. Not to mention his habit of adding a rhetorical question at the end of every sentence, which is really disgusting."

"Having said that, I admit that he does have some skills. At least he was able to keep his position in Section 6 and never got demoted. Maybe he knows how to deal with people, or maybe it's just pure luck."

Salvador commented on Walter's character to Philip, and Yuna returned to the office at this time.

"Is the mastermind behind this really the 'Yesterday's Appointment'?"

After listening to Yuna's experience in the commission, Salvador made this judgment.

"Yes, you think so too, right? To be honest, although I personally don't believe in superstition, it seems that magic does exist. There are strange symbols engraved on each needle. Besides, I have never heard of any amplification device that can do this, at least not to my knowledge."

Yuna nodded, and Salvador came to the same conclusion as her. With the support of this respected old man, this commission would not have any follow-up problems.

"Even so, didn't it end safely in the end? Yuna is really the pride of our firm." Salvador said half-jokingly, praising Yuna's contribution to the firm.

"It's like I'm supporting my family... Plus, our office is located in the nest, and the monthly rent is shockingly expensive... You should know that the commission this time is not enough to pay the rent, right?"

Yuna said something that made Philip freeze for a moment. To Philip, who had confessed his love to Yuna but was ruthlessly rejected by her and began to suspect that Yuna had a good impression of Master Salvador, the word "support the family" was like rubbing salt into the psychological wound he had inflicted on himself.

Salvador shook his head. "Don't worry about our financial situation. I received a commission that will keep us going for three months."

"A commission for an urban plague?" Yuna asked.

"Yes."

"Urban...disease?"

Salvador's admission made Philip's heart beat again. He was just worried about Yuna's words, but immediately he fell into worry about the commission of urban disease level.

Philip's fake calmness concealed his abnormality very well. Yuna, who did not find any problems, continued to ask Salvador for more detailed information: "What is the errand? Will our firm handle it alone?"

"It's the library. I contacted the 'Wedge Office' before, but it seems that they have other work and can't spare the time for the time being. Therefore, I decided to let our office handle it alone."

"This commission was delivered directly by the Zwei Association. For various reasons, they felt that this job required an agency that specializes in combat."

"Got it. I'll make some calls then."

After getting the information she wanted from Salvador, Yuna walked outside the office and began to prepare the corresponding materials for this commission.

Salvador, on the other hand, turned his gaze towards Philip, who was experiencing a commission of urban disease level for the first time.

Without the person he loved present, Philip dropped his disguise a little: "...For me, this is the first case of urban disease level."

Seeing that he was a little nervous, Salvador smiled and said, "That's right, Philip. I know this is your first time dealing with a commission of this level, so don't be too nervous. Just think of this as a great opportunity for you to learn from me and Yuna."

As an elder in the firm, the fifty-four-year-old Salvador calmed Philip's nervousness with concern and kindness. By the time Yuna came back from the call, Philip was mentally prepared enough.

Yuna, who had returned to the office, suggested, "If we can finish the work smoothly this time, we can hold a family gathering at the old man's house like before."

Old Salvador was amused by her words, and shook his head and said, "You always have a way to prevent yourself from going hungry, Yuna."

"You know I love delicious food, right? It just so happens that you are a good cook, old man."

The two chatted happily, but ignored Philip beside them.

"Family gathering, huh..." Philip once again found the words in Yuna's unintentional words that could tear open the wounds in his heart.

Lacking confidence and being somewhat cowardly, he always searches for the words that came out of Yuna's conversation with Salvador because of Yuna's rejection in the park, as if thinking about them in such a bad way would make him feel better.

Chapter 219. Philip

"Why the sullen look, Philip? Are you nervous about taking on this urban malady case?"