Get off work and become a magical girl

Chapter 76

On a midsummer afternoon, in the air-conditioned living room, Lin Xiaolu regained consciousness from a long spiritual meditation, leaned on the sofa, and picked up her phone a little bored.

After casually reading some boring news on social media, and having fun with a few short videos, she put down her phone when she realized something was wrong, and asked doubtfully, "Has Mo Ke been out for too long?"

"Ann, it also has its own things to do."

Xia Liang on the side leaned lazily on the sofa, dragging his voice: "Didn't you say it before, there is some progress in finding the preparation magical girl."

"But it's been too long. I used to go out for a stroll around lunch, but today it's almost three o'clock in the afternoon."

Propping her chin, Lin Xiaolu thought for a moment, raised her eyes after a while, and made a judgment abruptly: "It's weird."

"What's weird?" Xia Liang who was on the sofa was used to her jumpy thinking logic, and continued to ask lazily.

"Moco has something to hide from us." Lin Xiaolu said in a firm tone.

"Fairies also have their own privacy. But I really didn't expect that Xiao Lu, you usually quarrel with Mo Ke, but you actually care about him?" Xia Liang said in a low voice.

Lin Xiaolu rolled her eyes and patted the sofa cushion beside her: "Is this called caring? I'm suspicious!"

"Go, go, go."

Xia Liang supported the back of the sofa and sat up, stretched her waist: "Well——if you doubt it, why don't you go and have a look?"

"No, right? Isn't it time to practice in the afternoon?"

"Isn't it good to ask the junior for a vacation?"

"How can you bother a delphinium for such a reason?"

"Well, what you said..."

Some took out their mobile phones noncommittally, and entered a message to the group of three, Xia Liang said rather simply: "Okay, sent it!"

"Huh? Just now I told you not to do that, why did you send a message without authorization! Hurry up and withdraw!"

Seeing her doing this, Lin Xiaolu raised her eyebrows, then stretched out her hand sideways, trying to grab Xia Liang's phone: "Give me the phone!"

"Hmph, if you don't give it or not, you should be more frank at a time like this."

Taking advantage of her height and wingspan, Xia Liang raised her phone, shaking her arms from side to side, avoiding Lin Xiaolu's fight, and laughed with ease.After playing around for a while, she suddenly felt the phone vibrate in her hand again, so she blinked and put down the phone she was holding high: "...ah, you replied?"

Lin Xiaolu, who was a little annoyed after she couldn't compete, was taken aback, "Reply? So fast?"

"Well, it will be back in seconds."

Xia Liang flicked the message page, drawing out her voice, imitating delphinium's usual cool and calm tone: "Let me read it, what she said is: 'You can go, but remember to come back in time at night, if there is really a newcomer notification Me, I'll be over later.'"

After reading the content of the message page, she turned on the screen to Lin Xiaolu: "That's about it, she seems to agree?"

Lin Xiaolu ignored her, but retracted her body, took out her mobile phone, and read delphinium's words carefully.After confirming that it was consistent with what Xia Liang said, she found that there was a bunch of other content behind it: "What is this? Address?"

"150 meters west of the intersection of Xihe Road and Yuyun Road, Lixing District..."

Xia Liang immediately began to read: "Hey, is the No. [-] Welfare Institute in Fangting City near here?"

"Is this Moco's position?"

"It seems to be, but why does the junior know where Moco is?"

"It's just a position, delphinium knows what's so strange?"

Lin Xiaolu didn't think there was a problem at all, and said proudly: "A magical girl as powerful as her should have a lot of tricks that she hasn't shown at ordinary times. Don't use your narrow vision to limit her ability."

Just looking at her expression, but not listening to what she said, I'm afraid I thought she was so proud because of me.

"Haha...that's right, the juniors are probably well prepared." Faced with Lin Xiaolu's fanatical fans speaking, Xia Liang could only respond with a dry smile.

The two reached a consensus on the strange matter, so they stopped entangled in this topic. Soon, Lin Xiaolu discovered the next suspicious point:
"Speaking of which, as far as the welfare home is concerned, aren't there many children there?"

"It is said that others are children, but they are not necessarily younger than us."

Xia Liang had no choice but to point it out: "But it's really suspicious to say so. Let's set off now, maybe we can catch the current one?"

"However, about the practice..." Lin Xiaolu still hesitated.

She couldn't make up her mind for a long time, Xia Liang raised her index finger and suggested: "Then I'll go and see it alone, and tell you the result?"

"You—ah! You really are!"

This sentence became the last straw that overwhelmed Lin Xiaolu's inner defense, and she couldn't sit still anymore. After all, curiosity prevailed in the struggle in her heart, so she stood up abruptly: "I can't help it! Go and do it!" Go to whoever is afraid of whom!"

It is summer vacation now, and delphinium has given the green light to their itinerary, so there is no obstacle for the two of them to go out.

So, after simply changing into plain clothes for travel, the two of them took the light rail to Lixing District together.

The location of the No. [-] Welfare Institute in Fangting City is on the edge of Lixing District, close to the outskirts of the city. Fortunately, the transportation is very convenient, and it doesn't take much effort to get here.

Passing through the slightly deserted station, Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang strolled along some old streets together, looking around from time to time, looking at the surrounding scenery.

Lixing District is on the easternmost side of Fangting City, and is one of the earliest administrative divisions in Fangting City, so the infrastructure construction is relatively early, both the road surface and the surrounding buildings are relatively old, and because the main body later developed to the west , and eventually turned into the so-called "old city", both the flow of people and traffic became relatively thin.

In addition, it was a weekday afternoon, so when Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang came to this block, they could clearly feel that it was not popular enough.

Fortunately, not far away is the goal of their trip - the No. [-] Welfare Institute in Fangting City. As a building that accommodates a large number of people, the supporting facilities around it are very complete, which somewhat makes up for this faint sense of loneliness.

After continuing to move forward for a few minutes, the two were able to see the buildings and walls of the orphanage in the distance. After confirming that the location provided by Delphinium was correct, they quickened their pace, planning to catch Mo Ke by surprise.

This plan fell through after approaching the orphanage.

Because they found that an invisible wall appeared in front of them at some point, blocking their progress.

Stretching out her hand to feel around, and then taking a closer look, Xia Liang found that the obstacle blocking them in front of her was not really "invisible", but just hard to see.

With her perception ability, otherwise she could sense that there is a considerable amount of magic power circulating in the structure in front of her. Obviously, this is a magic power barrier.

"Little Lu."

Xia Liang's expression then became a little dignified, and the habitual smile on his face also restrained a little: "The situation may be different from what we thought."

Lin Xiaolu reached out and touched the transparent wall in front of her, as if recalling some bad memories, she frowned: "Could this be...a magic barrier?"

The two of them are no longer rookies like they were when they first became magical girls, and they already have a better understanding of basic magic formulas such as "magic barrier".

And there are not many people in this world who can use spells, either they are magicians in the material world, or magical girls whose abilities have reached the leaf level or above.No matter which of the above-mentioned people, it is abnormal to appear around the orphanage and set up a magic barrier here.

"Notify Delphinium first."

Lin Xiaolu's memory of the magic barrier was really not good, and she even felt a sense of inexplicable déjà vu. Her first reaction was to ask for help, and she immediately took out her mobile phone and dialed Delphinium's number.

Delphinium has repeatedly emphasized to her before that once encountering an event that may be beyond her ability, she must be notified first.Although I don't know what is going on with this overprotective request, it does not prevent Lin Xiaolu from obeying her instructions.

Only this time, after waiting for a while holding the phone, her expression became a little dazed: the dialed call went through a long call, but in the end there was only a voice notification that no one answered.

"No one answered?" This was something Lin Xiaolu had never expected before.

"Leave a message in the group, let's try to see if we can use magic to break the barrier."

Facing some urgent situations, Xia Liang took out her heart buds and turned on the transformation immediately: "In this situation, if you have to wait until the junior answers the phone, I'm afraid Mo Ke will be in danger inside."

Hearing her reminder, Lin Xiaolu realized that now is not the time to stand still.After simply leaving a message in the group, she also took out the seed of heart and became a magical girl.

After the two transformed, they began to bombard the barrier with magic beams, trying to crack it with violence.However, although their attacks made the barrier vibrate continuously, they still couldn't completely destroy its structure.

After several attempts to no avail, they had to stop again seeing the rapid consumption of mana.

Lin Xiaolu obviously showed a somewhat anxious expression. Although Xia Liang on the other side failed to make a contribution, she looked at the barrier in front of her thoughtfully: "Maybe, we can change our thinking."

"What idea? What good idea do you have?" Lin Xiaolu was a little puzzled when she heard this.

"Try it and you'll know."

Xia Liang smiled mysteriously, then raised her wand: "Xiao Jin, the magic power structure has been released."

Along with her chanting, the magic wand in her hand turned into a magic nebula, and then gathered again, turning into a small vanity mirror. This is exactly her magic construction—Lead away.

Lin Xiaolu on the side also knew Xia Liang's magical construct, but she didn't think of any use for it: "What are you doing with Yinli?"

"Okay, don't ask so many questions, just watch."

Without further explanation, Xia Liang directly started his own attempt.She divided the mirror in her hand into several sides, and then adjusted the size of one of the mirrors to be large enough, even as tall as a person.

Then, she attached the mirror that was as tall as a person to the magic barrier in front of her.

"One of the abilities of Yinli is to transmit and redirect the magic power between the mirrors. That is to say, the magic power that touches its surface will be transmitted to another mirror."

Xia Liang began to explain: "The junior said in the lecture before that although the magic power barrier is a magic formula, the magic power is still magic in essence, but the magic power in it is arranged in a specific state according to the structure of the formula, so if If I'm right..."

She reached out and pointed to another mirror that wasn't attached to the barrier.

Lin Xiaolu turned her head to look, and saw bursts of light flashing on the mirror at the moment, obviously there was magic power circulating.And the magic power transmitted from this mirror means that it must have a source.

At this moment, no matter how weak her comprehension ability was, she could guess what Xia Liang wanted to do.

At the same time, Xia Liang moved away the half-person-high mirror in front of him, like a magician, facing Xiaolu from the side, and stretched out his hand to the position where the mirror was attached before:
"You see, my guess was right."

In the direction she was pointing at, on the originally seamless barrier, there was a gap in the faint flow of magic power that was enough for people to pass through.

……

……

"The outer barrier didn't respond at all. It seems that you have used some strange tricks."

In the barrier, after the upcoming victory was interrupted, facing the two newly appeared magical girls, the man in black robe felt annoyed at first, but he quickly adjusted his emotions and scanned the lineup in front of him: " But, light blue and purple, the last one left? Then those bastards are still useful."

Not being able to kill Mo Ke at this point, and allowing him to escape successfully while taking advantage of the chaos, certainly aroused the anger in his heart.But this was not his core purpose in the first place, so he didn't lose his temper.

"You know us?" The other party's words revealed a kind of inexplicable confidence, which made Lin Xiaolu feel a little uneasy, and asked with some vigilance.

"Know you? Rather, why don't you know?"

After regaining his composure, the man shook his head, and a weird smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "For example, the shortest blue kid is the strongest among you, right? She's not acting with you now? "

"We have no reason to inform the enemy of the whereabouts of our partners."

Seeing that Lin Xiaolu's expression turned a little off, Xia Liang took the initiative to take over the conversation: "Whether she comes or not, we will subdue you here and use magic power to carry out terrorist attacks. The only way to wait for you is to be arrested. "

"Oh? Really, are you unwilling to report or can't report?"

The man didn't care about her words, as if he didn't care about the situation he was under siege. Instead, he stretched out his hand and counted the people in front of him like counting goods: "Three magical girls, one goblin, pork... no Forget it, are there four sources of magic power in the end? That's it, it can more or less make up for the loss of one sacrificial child.

"What the hell are you talking to yourself about?"

Lin Xiaolu read several different meanings from his words, realized that the reason why Delphinium did not answer the phone before might not be that simple, and asked seriously: "What happened to Delphinium! Do you have any other questions?" partner?"

"Delphinium? Is that the code name for the little blue kid?"

The man shrugged his shoulders: "Sorry, I really don't know what will happen to her. After all, the request I made with that bastard was just to let her not spoil my business."

"Bastard?" The words that the man kept muttering finally caught Lin Xiaolu's attention, "So you really have accomplices?"

"Curious? Want to ask again? But my interest in talking has almost been exhausted, so it's time to get down to business."

Raising his head, the man's expression remained unchanged, but his voice became louder and louder: "It's meaningless to know more, after all, you and her will have the same ending—that is death!"

After saying that, a chilling magic power suddenly spread around him.

I saw that he never knew when he took out a purple-black meat ball and held it flat in front of his body.The ball of flesh exuded a strange halo, pulsating from time to time, as if it had its own life.

"That is... what?"

Xia Liang, who has a slightly stronger ability to perceive magic power, couldn't help covering her mouth and nose: "It feels so disgusting."

"Disgusting? How stupid, this is a treasure of the same nature as your heart gem."

Staring at the meat ball in his hand, the smile on the man's face was a bit pious and gentle: "Don't you think it has a kind of unstoppable beauty? After all, if you want to follow your naming method, you can call it 'The viscera of the beast'."

"'Viscera of the Beast'..."

It wasn't until seeing his posture that Lin Xiaolu, who had been haunted by a strong sense of sight before, showed a somewhat dazed expression as if she had finally figured something out.

She finally understood why she had always felt a faint sense of irritability from the moment she saw the magic barrier covering the orphanage.

Because as early as a few months ago, when she became a magical girl for a week, she encountered a similar thing in the wetland park on the outskirts of the city.

Trapped by barriers in the wetland park, and encountering gnats and beasts, she might have died there if it hadn't been for the timely rescue of delphiniums.

But at this moment, she suddenly recalled the night when she was in danger in the Wetland Park, and recalled a doubt that was almost forgotten by herself.

That was the almost human-like expression she saw on the face of the crippled beast when she was struggling to support it.

Is it possible for the beast to make such a human expression?

No doubt, impossible.

After all, the intelligence of a beast with a low evolutionary level should be quite low.

What's more, after that, Lin Xiaolu actually followed Delphinium to hunt down many remnant beasts, but she has never seen an individual as close to human as that night.Most of them are huge and distorted in shape, not to mention most of them are like egg-level beasts with rotten meat, even among the gnats, there are few that stand on two legs.

Perhaps, they were not "simple beasts" from the beginning.

"You are, no, are you..."

Lin Xiaolu spoke in astonishment, but stopped when the words reached her lips.

Because she immediately realized a deeper problem.

When I first became a magical girl, I was surrounded by barriers and hunted like a trap; now in this orphanage, the same thing seems to be happening to the newly appeared magical girl.

Then, there was another question that made her shudder even more.

There is no need to ask about the origin of this man, the answer is self-evident, the biggest shady should be another thing:

"...There were no magical girls in Fangting City for nearly two years. What does this matter have to do with you?"

When she asked this sentence, even she herself felt her brain buzzing.

"You seem to think of something? Need I praise you for your sharpness?"

To her question, the man didn't answer, but just asked back, his gloomy tone was in sharp contrast to the pious and gentle expression on his face: "Or is it that I lost contact with you at Fangting before, what is the connection with you?"

"Gongchu...that's what you call each other? This matter really has something to do with you!"

Lin Xiaolu no longer knew why she continued to ask questions.

The truth she guessed was so cruel that she was a little reluctant to think about it, but her body was still moving, pursuing the truth persistently.

"What the hell is going on, what have you guys done?" So she asked, clutching her wand tightly.

"What did you do? You should understand. Even if it's not a sacrificial child, the gem of a magical girl's heart is an extremely valuable magic material. The pure benefits are enough to make people's hearts move, let alone facing a deadly enemy?"

Some responded to Lin Xiaolu's question with irrelevant answers. The man stared at the meat ball in his hand without even looking at her: "There is naturally only one attitude towards a mortal enemy, and killing them all is the only answer."

"The codename of the worker in your city should be Eleven? That guy must have approached you, right? But you are still living here, so he is dead?"

"Heh, not only did he die in office, he also leaked the news, and the goblins and magical girls who couldn't be cleaned up ruined my good deeds in turn. It really left a mess..."

"Forget it, useless trash dies as soon as it dies. Although I don't want to wipe the ass of this trash, but now, let me do his work for him."

For some reason, from the time he took out the piece of meat ball, his conversation began to chatter, completely talking to himself, and the logic between the words was quite jumpy, like a dream, which was extremely difficult to understand.

But at this point in the conversation, even if he only understood a small part of the information, it was enough for Xia Liang, who hadn't understood what was going on, to look at the black-robed man in horror:
"You mean, you guys are... hunting magical girls?"

At this time, the man was no longer willing to have a conversation with them.

Pressing the lump of flesh in his hand to his chest, the man's expression changed from gentle to excited, then became frenzied and fierce, and even started to go crazy.

"Despicable false king's court, now is the time for me to act on behalf of the Lord's will and kill you all here!"

He shouted, shouted, and chanted loudly, and the meat ball in his hand burst out with strong magic power.He looked at the magical girls in front of him, his eyes widened, and sharp teeth were exposed from the corners of his split mouth:

"This is the time to eradicate traitors and rebels."

As his voice fell, the black magic power wrapped his body completely, and a black mist surged up. In the cloud, the man's originally human figure gradually became taller, and finally reached a size of several meters.

In the surging mist, a beast head with its fangs bared and red eyes protruded from the black mist. Amidst the flashing golden runes, the beast body covered with exaggerated and terrifying pipes also felt gloomy and cold. The true appearance is revealed in the magic power.

At this moment, the man who appeared in front of everyone was no longer that man.

Even, if it is commensurate with its essence, the one in front of them is no longer a human being.

——but a crippled beast.

(End of this chapter)