Cyberpunk, but urban

Ye Lan grabbed Tiphereth's fist and said with an irritating smile on his face: "Did they tell you that you can't hit me with just violence, kid?"

"Humph, if you missed, then what you were holding in your hand wasn't my hand?"

Tiphereth, who caught the loophole in Ye Lan's words, also laughed. Just when Ye Lan was about to continue teasing her, Tiphereth's other hand, which was not caught, suddenly reached out from her waist and hit Ye Lan lightly.

"How's it going? Did it really hit you this time?"

Ye Lan lowered his head and looked at them. Soon, both of them started laughing, causing many assistant librarians in the natural sciences to look over.

"Speaking of which, how is Angela now?"

"As for her, it's not quite accurate to say that she is still the same. She is curious about everything and sometimes acts like a child." Ye Lan let go of Tiphereth's hand and sat down with her in the lounge on the natural science floor to talk.

"Maybe that's true, after all Angela used to live underground."

For a moment, Ye Lan even felt that he saw some maternal nature in Tiphereth, who had her hands on her knees and was swinging her calves.

"Why do I feel that... your attitude towards Angela is different from when you were in the Lobotomy Corporation?" Ye Lan asked.

"I have a general understanding of her experience. Although she does look a little cold... When I was asleep, I saw some past events. There are also some stories that happened before I woke up. So, it's not that I can't understand Angela."

Tiphereth thought back to the things she had learned from the library while she was sleeping, the old things that only Angela had experienced, so she could no longer maintain the same attitude towards her at the beginning.

"So, Tiphereth, are you going to approve Angela's plan next?"

"No, whether you agree or not is another matter. On that day, I simply agreed to her final conditions. But at least I am still willing to help her now."

Tiphereth stood up and turned to look at Ye Lan. With a big smile on her face, she said to Ye Lan: "Besides, I believe in you, Ye Lan, who is the best employee and has been trying to save the situation for us. You will definitely give us a satisfactory ending, right?"

Chapter 227. Topic: Hod

After playing around for a while, Ye Lan took Tiphereth back to the director's office. Having already learned from Angela that the natural technology layer had been liberated and Tiphereth had awakened, everyone cleaned up their party traces early.

By the time Ye Lan and Tiphereth walked into the director's office, everyone was already sitting in their chairs, chatting about old times from the Lobotomy Corporation days.

"Everyone~ I'm here!"

Tiphereth, who remained calm, waved to the designated librarians in the room, smiling and greeting all the new and old friends.

But soon, everyone who had relaxed discovered that the gentleness that Tiphereth showed in front of them was just a disguise...

"By the way...Malkuth, Hod, Yesod and Netzach, you guys were having a great time drinking, right? You even drank to the point where you completely forgot about me?!"

The gentle smile on Tiphereth's face turned into a cold stare, and for a moment, several former Sephirahs actually thought that the little girl was angry.

"That, that..."

Hod stood up with an awkward smile, and walked towards Tiphereth's position somewhat at a loss, wanting to apologize to her. However, before she took two steps, she saw Ye Lan standing behind Tiphereth, and the happy smile on Ye Lan's face that came from the bottom of her heart.

"Eh?"

A dull expression flashed across Hod's face, and Tiphereth reached out and held her in her arms, "Are you scared by me? How could I really be angry with everyone because of something like this."

"Ye Lan! You must have taught Tiphereth to do this, right?!"

Hod recovered from his momentary daze and immediately figured out the culprit of all this. Among the people present, only Ye Lan went to greet Tiphereth.

When Hod thought of this, he felt a little sorry for the little girl. They had indeed done something wrong by not immediately welcoming the youngest of them, and being frightened by her seemed like an acceptable punishment.

Soon Malkuth saw that Hod, who had just been questioning Ye Lan and preparing to scold Ye Lan, suddenly softened. Our designated librarian of the literature level left Tiphereth's arms, pulled the child to the middle of the group, and sat down on the empty seat.

"..."

She immediately realized that Hod had fallen into the kind of "It's all my fault, I'm happy to bear this small punishment", a bit of a M mentality. Although Hod seemed to enjoy it, Malkuth decided to talk to Ye Lan about her.

"Ye Lan, come here for a moment. No, let's talk outside."

Malkuth glanced at Hod, who was introducing Angelica and Roland to Tiphereth, and almost immediately changed his original idea.

"What's wrong? Malkuth, do you want to take this opportunity to be alone with me? Are you jealous of this kid?" Ye Lan was pulled out by Malkuth without knowing what was going on. The first thing he said was strange words that made Malkuth a little angry.

Malkuth glared at Ye Lan, tapped him on the arm, and then talked to him about Hod's recent abnormal mental state.

After listening to Malkuth's words, Ye Lan thought for a while, and then he said to her: "Hod's problem came from her first life. As Michelle, she was manipulated by the head tuner and finally betrayed, causing almost all the researchers in the institute to be massacred by Binah at that time."

Malkuth nodded. She knew what Ye Lan said about Hod's experience. "I know this. During the days when the Seed of Light was launched by the Lobotomy Corporation, we also talked about the endings of our first lives."

"Hod has such thoughts because of her unbearable guilt. When she was in Lobotomy Corporation, she was finally overwhelmed by this guilt and even chose to use enkephalin to escape."

The story that Ye Lan told next was what Malkuth experienced personally, and what happened before and after dealing with Hod's core suppression.

"I know that too. Ye Lan, didn't you almost suppress Hod's core by yourself? Didn't something happen to you afterwards?"

"Well... I went to see Hod after she woke up. The girl felt that she was hypocritical, but she still wanted to save... or at least comfort someone. Her kindness brought her too much burden, and little by little, she regarded confiding in me as a way to relieve the burden."

At this point, Ye Lan paused. What he was about to say was somewhat private, and he was not sure whether Malkuth could bear this little secret of Hod.

"Why don't you say anything? Please continue."

Malkuth, who still had no idea what Hod had finally asked Ye Lan to do in order to relieve the burden, began to urge her. The feeling of hearing the story stopped halfway through was as uncomfortable as having a kitten scratching her feet.

"Alas, ever since her core was suppressed, Hod has been visiting me more and more often."

"Hmm, so what did you do? Wait, you didn't do that to Hod when he was still a tin box, did you?"

Malkuth was halfway through her speech when a perverted idea came into her mind. But when this idea was applied to Ye Lan, it seemed like something he would do. After all, this guy would fall in love with Angela and kiss himself when he was still an iron box.

"No, what are you thinking... Hod just wants me to criticize her harshly for her mistakes at work and play pranks on her more often."

Ye Lan looked at Malkuth with empty eyes. This girl's mind was really full of yellow garbage today. Her face became hot when he looked at her, and Malkuth immediately kicked Ye Lan's calf.

“Alright, alright, stop staring at me! So it was from that time that Hod developed the psychological habit of feeling happy when being bullied by you...Ye Lan, how are you going to compensate my pure angel-like Hod!”

Ye Lan shrugged and said to her, "I think if she is happy, it doesn't matter if she continues. Don't worry, our company and time will help her recover from this mental state slowly."

Chapter 228. Welcome back to the new company headquarters

"Ye Lan, Makuku. What are you two doing out there in such a mysterious way?"

Just when Ye Lan wanted to continue talking to Malkuth, Hod, who was the core of the topic discussed by Ye Lan and Malkuth, walked out of the director's office.

After introducing Roland and Angelica to Tiphereth, she soon discovered that Ye Lan and Malkuth seemed to have quietly left the director's office.

Out of curiosity and annoyance at being left out by her friends, Hod immediately left the curator's office while everyone was still chatting with Tiphereth. Then, she saw Ye Lan and the other person talking at the door.

"It's Hod, why did you come out?"

Ye Lan greeted Hod as if nothing had happened, and then tried to change the subject with a question.

"I came to look for you. You two sneaked out of the director's office. You must be talking about something sweet that no one else can hear, right?"

Hod put her hands together on the side of her face and spoke to Ye Lan and Malkuth with a smile, as if she thought Ye Lan and Malkuth were secretly saying some sweet words.

Malkuth, who was standing beside Ye Lan, walked silently to Hod and stretched out her hands to pinch her cheeks. She pulled Hod's smooth face hard and roared at her in a low voice: "Hod...what are you thinking about!"

"I know you're not talking about this kind of thing~" Hod, whose cheek was being pulled, smiled gently and held Malkuth's hands, untying them from his face, "So what are you talking about, please tell me, my dear Miss Malkuth~"

"I'm really impressed by you...Ye Lan and I were just talking about you."

Malkuth sighed and told Hod the truth about what she had just talked about with Ye Lan. After hearing what Malkuth said, Hod, who was still rubbing his cheek that was pinched by her, almost laughed out loud.

"Makuku you really are...Ye Lan, our Makuku is really super cute, right?!"

"Of course, pure, passionate, and with a heart that always cares about everyone... I love it!"

Ye Lan joined Hod in praising Malkuth. Malkuth, feeling uncomfortable, immediately jumped behind them and pushed them back to the director's office.

And the topic about Hod came to an end.

After staying in the director's office for a while, the librarians had to go back to their respective floors to deal with the work that the assistant librarians could not handle.

Taking this opportunity, Ye Lan also prepared to take Luna and the others to say goodbye to everyone and temporarily leave the library and return to their office.

He has been away for almost a day, and there's no telling what will happen to the firm with those employees from the Forebrain Corporation branch whom he rescued.

However, Ye Lan, who was helplessly watching the Hateful Queen curled up in the seat of the Yellow Springs Train playing with the handheld game console, certainly could not have imagined what the few finishers who were sitting around in the living room of the office doing nothing were planning at the same time they got on the train.

"I don't know where the boss went. He disappeared as soon as the door was locked."

Lying on the sofa, the former employee from Vchat who had appeared before was boredly flipping through a magazine. Since returning yesterday, the agency has not received any new commissions. This is the most difficult situation for him.

"Alright, alright, even if Sister Yuli and Sister Irene aren't here, you should at least behave yourself, right? When they come back and see the mess you've made in the office, be careful that they'll hang you out of the second-floor window."

The young girl with round-frame glasses pinched her waist and spoke to Huck who was lying on the sofa. As a rare top-five employee, her words were still quite useful among everyone.

"Got it, got it. Lingling, you get angry so easily, be careful not to get old early~" Turning over and sitting up straight, Hake said something that made Lingling's blood boil. As for where he learned this unique skill of mockery, Hake would definitely say that he learned it from his own boss Ye Lan.

At this moment, another office closer who had been late came in, waving a black card in his hand, and shouted to the several closers in the living room with a chuckle, "Look what I found?!"

"Invitation to the library? What are you going to do with this?" Huck turned his head following the voice and looked at the card in his colleague's hand, asking in confusion.

"Have you forgotten? Didn't Boss Ye Lan say that if we are free and bored, we can sign an invitation letter to the library and go to the library?"

The brother stuffed the card into Huck's hand and ran to the drawer next to him to look for a pen that could be used to sign.

"No...are you really planning to go? Isn't it obvious that the boss is trying to trick us?"

Huck blinked when he was handed the library invitation. Although he was curious about the prize "The Book of Lobotomy Corporation" written on the invitation, he was not willing to go to such a place to commit suicide.

"Go ahead, why not?" Lingling took out a pen from her pocket, snatched the invitation from Huck without hesitation, and signed her name on it. "Anyone else wants to go? I have a pen here."

"It's better to go out, go out, than to get moldy here!"

After a moment, Huck was the only one in the living room who had not signed the invitation.

"Huck, you're the only one left. Go or not, hurry up."

Lingling handed him the invitation letter and pen, then stood aside with everyone else waiting for his response.

"Hiss... go! But wait a moment."

"Captain, what are you waiting for?"

The three finishers under him started to get angry, causing Huck to glare at them.

"You have to lock the door of the office first. You two are not as careful as I am at this moment." He sighed and closed and locked the doors and windows of the office one by one. Huck also signed his name on the invitation letter to the library.

As if it was waiting for him, until he signed his name, the invitation took effect and a door leading to the library opened, waiting for them to pass through.

“This is so magical!”

Lingling looked closely at the pattern on the library door and exclaimed in amazement at its appearance.

"Hey, let's go in quickly... To be honest, I have a feeling that we are going to be severely tricked by the boss."

Huck sighed and called everyone into the library door.

Chapter 229. Dreaming back to the past?

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An old steam train emerged from the void and slowly stopped on the street in front of the Weird Idea Office.

"We're here, Yuli, are you okay?"

Ye Lan, who got off the Yellow Springs Train first, supported Yu Li, who was walking out of the train behind him. Yu Li, who felt dizzy from the space transfer, covered her mouth. Her stomach was cramping crazily, trying to vomit out all the food she had eaten in the library today through her esophagus.

"Master Ye Lan, let me help Yuli."

Yuli was a girl after all, and it was too embarrassing for her to vomit in front of the opposite sex. With this mentality that only a girl could think of, Irene, who got off the car after them, bowed and made a suggestion to Ye Lan.

"Then thank you for your help, Irene." Seeing Irene quietly gesture to him, Ye Lan handed Yuli to her.

Immediately afterwards, Luna also dragged the Queen of Hate, who was concentrating on playing games, out of the car. When the little girl passed by Ye Lan, she reached out and pulled the corner of his clothes.

"what happened?"

"Ye Lan, next time when we take Sister Yuli on the Yellow Springs Train, would you like me to try to control her senses?" The little girl suggested to Ye Lan. Although she was not sure whether this could help Yuli, she had to give it a try first.

"Then I'll leave it to you next time."

Ye Lan reached out and touched Luna's head, then reached out and pulled the handle of the office door, "Strange, why is there no one in the office at this time?"

Seeing that the door of the office was locked, Ye Lan took out the key from the dimensional bag on his waist and opened the door of the office. They entered one after another, and Yuli immediately walked into the bathroom on the first floor with the help of Irene.

As for Luna, she silently accompanied the Queen of Hate who was playing games to the second floor, and she would not come downstairs for a while.

Ye Lan, who had become a lonely person in an instant, shrugged his shoulders and walked into the living room of the office. On the coffee table with a pile of half-eaten snacks, Ye Lan found an invitation.