Get off work and become a magical girl

Chapter 16
At noon three days later, in Lin Yun's office.

After finishing the work in the morning and having no other tasks, Lin Yun rarely had a clean lunch break, where he could sit at his desk and scan the information on the computer screen for a limited time.

Five days have passed since the night when Lin Xiaolu was in danger. During this period of time, apart from his work, he taught a few magic girl rookie classes. The girl-related news is the main one.

It's not that he wants to use such an inefficient method, but that the survey feedback from the Bureau of Different Strategies is not smooth.Rather, even Fangting City's Different Strategy Bureau itself seems to have no idea of ​​the reasons for the disappearance of magical girls and beasts in the past two years.

According to the archive documents provided by Hongsiyu: there have been 132 cases of magic-related crimes and assaults in Fangting City in the past two years.Among them, 129 cases were committed by magicians, and 125 cases were solved by the Bureau of Different Strategies, and the suspects were arrested; 3 cases were attacks by beasts, all of which occurred in the half month after Lin Xiaolu became a magical girl.

In other words, in the previous two years, the number of occurrences of residual beasts was zero.

It's not that Lin Yun rarely appeared as he thought, but that there are no witness records at all.

Correspondingly, the archives of the Fangting City Different Policy Bureau show that no employee of the Different Policy Bureau has ever had contact with the sower "Nini", and they have no idea whether the sower has come or not. Fangting City.

Whether this "Nini" didn't come on purpose, or if something happened on the way, no one knows.

What's more troublesome is that without the Seeder, the Different Strategy Bureau even lost the way to connect with the magic kingdom.

The magical kingdom has always had a superior attitude towards the material world.The Different Policy Bureau nominally has the right to contact magical girls and assist them in their work, but actually has no qualifications to restrain and manage magical girls.

Except for those large central cities, ordinary small and medium-sized city governments do not have the capital to communicate and negotiate with the magic kingdom.

In the end, when facing magical girls, the Different Policy Bureau is just a logistics service organization that provides after-battle services for them and properly protects their data privacy and security.

What they can do, in fact, is mainly to manage the various behaviors of ordinary magic practitioners in the city - magicians, recruit suitable magicians, and arrest magician criminals.As for magical girls, they have no right to interfere.

Whether it is meritorious service or violation of regulations, the power to reward, punish and manage magical girls is only in the country.

Under such unequal and high-pressure rules, the Different Policy Bureau of Fangting City can only try to contact the Different Policy Bureaus of other cities, trying to contact the country through the seeders of other cities to ask when the new seeder of his city will arrive.

For the first three times, the answer he got was "coming soon", after the three times, the kingdom party no longer gave any answer.

As a result, the two sides fell into a strange stalemate. The country side ignored Fangting City's questions about the new sower, and Fangting City's Bureau of Different Strategies did not dare to ask more questions.

Fortunately, in the past two years, the remnant beast disappeared for some reason, so this huge city just muddled along amidst anxiety and hesitation.

——Until Moko came to this city.

It sounds like this made new doubts point to Mo Ke.

But according to Lin Yun's own judgment, this possibility is very low.

This is not his blind faith, but because he knows a deeper secret: in the magic kingdom, goblins are absolutely loyal to the royal court.

Of course, there is no lack of suspicion, so these days he often continues to put pressure on Moco as a delphinium, trying to swindle some information from it.

The conclusion is that there is no gain, and Mo Ke can't say anything.

In desperation, Lin Yun kept his last doubts, and left a tracking spell on it to monitor its general movements, so it would not be useless to work on this kind of thing.

In fact, he was more inclined to think that it was Mo Ke's arrival that broke a certain balance in Fangting City.

It's just that this hidden balance is completely submerged below the surface, and more investigation is needed to see the full picture.

The functions that the Bureau of Different Strategies can provide are limited, and Hongsi and entrusted other cities to pass on to the magic kingdom for help are temporarily unable to respond.Right now, only he can handle all this.

He had to plan for the worst possibility: the magical kingdom would not send support.

That's why he agreed to recruit Xia Liang.

As for why he made such a judgment, that had nothing to do with the current incident.

In the end, it became like this. He was facing the computer alone, flipping through the news, searching for all kinds of clues.Many different policy bureaus are unable to judge whether the news is related to the magic side, but his rich experience can give a judgment.

The good news is, he does have some clues.

At the beginning, he also tried to search for some clues in the past two years, but he found very little. He could only find that the number of missing persons had increased; he had to increase the scope to five or ten years, and even the photos in the news reports were so long ago that Anya could be seen. , but nothing was achieved except to make my mood worse.

At the end of this rebuff, Lin Yun chose a method he didn't want to use: the urban legend search method.

This method was not created by him himself, but from another magical girl companion in Fangting City when he was young——Su Shengzi.

Su Shengzi is keen on collecting urban legends and strange tales, and after some research, he has integrated them into a comprehensive understanding. Through a lot of actual combat experience, he put forward a theory that sounds extremely nonsense but has some truth: more than [-]% of them are rumored to be "personally-eyes" The urban legends of "what I see" all originate from remnants of beasts.

The reason why this theory is called nonsense is because there is no rigorous statistics behind it, it is just something that Su Shengzi came up with while sitting at home drinking afternoon tea one afternoon.

There is some truth to it, in fact, because this theory coincides with the logic of the evolution of the remnant beast: after the remnant beast has evolved to the stage of "chrysalis", in order to reserve sufficient magic power and nutrients to start the next stage of evolution, it needs to "build a nest." ".

After building a nest, a pupa-level remnant beast will use a certain area as a base to distort the time and space of the entire area to form its own nest, which is also its own "chrysalis".After that, the hunt will be centered on its own den.

At the chrysalis stage, the remnant beast is no longer as brainless as it was at the egg stage, acting only on instinct, but possessing the wisdom of a beast.They began to act more stealthily, hiding from the tracking of the magical girl and the Different Strategy Bureau, and fulfilling their own feeding needs.

The power of the pupa-level beasts and the sufficient food in their lairs will also attract many lower-level beasts to parasitize them, but these low-level beasts and pupa-levels are often not in a vassal relationship. If they are seen by the pupa-level beasts, only Will be swallowed in one gulp as a snack.

Remnants' recipes are all-encompassing, which naturally includes other remnants.

It is also because of this that the behavioral logic of the remnant beast in the pupa stage is actually very easy to lead to urban legends in the city where it is located.

If it is a city where magical girls are normally stationed, relying on normal information exchange with the outside world and long-term carpet patrols by a large number of magical girls, it is almost impossible for pupa-level beasts to hide in the city.

Their chrysalis is a shell to protect themselves, and it is also a cage to lock themselves in. Once the lair is discovered, there is basically nowhere to escape. They can only wait for a large group of magical girls to come and beat them up, or to fight with elite magical girls who are called. Fight to the death.

However, Fangting City is different.

Lin Yun now suspects that there may be a pupa-level remnant beast hiding in Fangting City, and it is related to the current series of monsters.

The long-term vacancy of magical girls is enough to provide time for the birth of pupa-level remnant beasts, and the huge Fangting City also provides a hiding space. In addition, the "disappearance of remnant beast attacks" itself can also be used by pupa-level remnant beasts. Existence to explain, this suspicion is not unreasonable.

He told Hong Siyu about this conjecture, and Hong Siyu also paid attention to it, and promised to assist in the search.It's just about the beast, he doesn't want to just wait for the news.

Now, the news can't provide information, I'm afraid we really have to start with urban legends.

Based on keywords such as "Fangting City", "urban legend", and "strange talk", he extracted information from various forums and media, and found many strange and specious rumors.

For example, "The Singing of the Sewer", "The Abandoned Construction Site with Mirror Inversion", "Flickering Street Lights", etc., many half-truths and half-false supernatural jokes made Lin Yun feel chilly at noon.

However, these news lack evidence. If he really wants to find clues, he will have to verify them one by one in order to know which one is more credible.

Thinking of this, he was about to move the mouse to switch webpages when he suddenly felt a vibration coming from his pocket.

It's a cell phone, and it's "Delphinium's cell phone."He judged this by the position of the pocket.

It looks like he has to use the magical girl form again, he thought.

Three days ago, he and Lin Xiaolu found Xia Liang in Electric Appliance Street, successfully made her a magical girl, briefly confirmed Xia Liang's status, left their contact information, and disbanded on the spot.

From then on, every other night, Lin Yun would gather the two of them at the old place to teach about magical girls.

Among them are how to exercise and improve magic power, and common sense that a magical girl should know as a profession, but the most important thing is the fighting awareness when fighting with remnant beasts.

What are the instinctive behaviors of common beasts, where are the general flaws, what moves need to be careful, etc.

Many of these are the wisdom left by the predecessors, and there are also many experiences summed up by Delphinium itself, so there should be no problem in terms of rationality.But according to her thinking, after a few days of theoretical teaching, she may need to wait for a chance to fight and practice.

Taking out the phone and looking at the screen, he found that it was indeed a call from Lin Xiaolu. Lin Yun thought about it for a while, then sighed slightly, turned into a delphinium, and then connected the call:

"Hello? Is there something wrong?"

"Ah, Senior Delphinium?"

Different from the last time when Mo Ke robbed the phone, this time Delphinium really heard Lin Xiaolu's voice: "Excuse me, but Mo Ke just found the remnant beast!"

really.

Delphinium was not surprised, it was almost as expected in her heart, several days had passed since the last beast attack, and it was expected that it would be time for the next one to appear.

So she didn't say much, and asked Lin Xiaolu about the location and current situation of the Remnant Beast, and then she was ready to set off.

However, just as she was about to hang up the phone, she heard a voice outside the door that made her feel suffocated.

——"Minister, are you there?"

someone is coming.

She could tell who the voice came from, and there was no doubt that it was a subordinate in her department.

what to do?Is it too late to cancel the transformation now?It seems too late!

A series of thoughts flashed through Delphinium's mind, and it was too late to say it, and while she was thinking about these, she saw that the doorknob of the office had been pushed down.

A young man counted the documents in his hand and pushed open the door, then raised his head and looked into the room——

All I saw was an empty room.

"Huh? When did the minister go out?"

He felt a little strange, because if he remembered correctly, he had seen the minister of his department walk into the office before.

He poked his head out and looked to the left and right sides. He confirmed that the office was really empty, then scratched his head, turned around and left with a strange expression on his face.

What he didn't expect was that just behind the empty desk, in the space under the desk, there was a petite girl curled up there with hesitation, staring at the screen of her mobile phone, pressing her thumb on the screen before hanging up the phone. s position.

It wasn't until the footsteps at the office door disappeared into the distance that she breathed a sigh of relief: Thanks to her quick reaction, not only hung up the phone in time, but also took advantage of the opportunity to hide under the table.

Otherwise, whether it is the conversation after being heard by Lin Xiaolu, or the appearance of delphinium sitting in the office by the people who entered the office, it would be quite a tricky situation.

Looks like I'll have to lock the door before answering the phone next time.

Thinking like this, she looked through the gap under the table, and after confirming that no one was at the door of the office, she released the transformation, and got out from under the table in a little embarrassment.

After tidying up his clothes, he pretended to be nonchalant and walked out of the office. When he was out of sight of others, he immediately quickened his pace and rushed towards the place where the remnant beast appeared as mentioned earlier.

(End of this chapter)