Three days later, at noon, Lin Yun was in his office.

After finishing his morning's work 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 with limited time.

Five days have passed since the night Lin Xiaolu was in distress, and in addition to working during this time, he gave lessons to several magical girl rookies, and also began to look up various news on the Internet in the past two days, mainly related to the remnant beast and magical girl in Fangting City.

At first, he also tried to search for some clues that had lasted for nearly two years, but he only found that the number of missing people had increased; I had to increase the scope to five years, ten years, and even the photos in the news reports were long enough to see Anya's figure, but I still found nothing except to make my mood worse.

In the end, Lin Yun chose a method that he didn't want to use: the urban legend search method.

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

Su Shengzi is keen to collect urban legends and strange tales, and after some research, he has put forward a theory that sounds extremely nonsense but has some truth through a lot of practical experience: more than seventy percent of the urban legends that are rumored to be "seen with your own eyes" are all remnant beasts.

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

It is said that it has some truth, but in fact, this theory alludes to the logic of the evolution of the remnant beast: after the remnant beast evolves 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 nesting, the pupal-level remnants will use a certain area as a stronghold, distorting the time and space of the entire area to form their own nests, which are also their own "chrysalis". After that, they will hunt around their own lair.

At the stage of pupa growth, the remnant beast is no longer as brainless as it was in the egg stage and acts only on instinct, but has the wisdom of a beast. They begin to act more stealthily, hiding from the Magical Girl and the Mystery Bureau to fulfill their needs for food.

The strength of the pupal remnants and the abundance of food in the nest will also attract many low-level remnants to parasitize them, but these low-level remnants are often not subordinate to the pupa level, and if they are seen by the pupa remnants, they will only be swallowed as a snack.

The recipes of the remnants are all-encompassing, and naturally they include other remnants as well.

Because of this, the behavior logic of the remnant beast in the chrysalis stage is actually very easy to lead to urban legends in the urban area where it is located.

If it is a city where magical girls are normally stationed, relying on the normal exchange of information with the outside world, as well as the long-term carpet patrol of a large number of magical girls, it is almost impossible for a pupal-level remnant beast to hide in the city.

Their chrysalis is a shell to protect themselves, but also a cage to lock themselves, once the nest is discovered, there is basically nowhere to escape, only to wait for a large group of magical girls to come to the door to fight, or to fight to the death with the elite magical girls who are called.

However, Fangting City is different.

Lin Yun now suspected that there was likely to be a pupal-level remnant beast hiding in Fangting City, and it was related to the current series of strange appearances.

The long-vacant magical girl is enough to provide time for the birth of a chrysalis-level remnant beast, and the huge Fangting City also provides a space to hide, plus the matter of "reduced attacks by remnant beasts" itself can also be explained by the existence of chrysalis-level remnant beasts, this suspicion is not unreasonable.

He told Hong Sihe about this speculation, and Hong Sihe also took it seriously and promised to assist in the search. It's just about the remnant beast, and he doesn't want to just wait for news stupidly, so he has to investigate it himself.

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

He mainly used keywords such as "Fangting City", "Urban Legends" and "Strange Talks" to extract information from major forums and media, and has found a lot of specious and strange rumors from them.

For example, "the song of the sewer", "the abandoned construction site with the mirror reversed", "the flashing street lamp", etc., many half-truths and half-truths made Lin Yun feel cold at noon.

But these messages lack empirical evidence, and if he wants to really find clues, he will probably have to verify them one by one to know which of them is more credible.

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

It's a mobile phone, and it's a "delphinch's phone". He judged this by the position of his pockets.

Looks like he's going to have to use the form of a magical girl again, he thought to himself.

Three days ago, he and Lin Xiaolu found Xia Liang on Electric Street, and after successfully making him a magical girl, they briefly confirmed Xia Liang's status, and then left their contact information and disbanded on the spot.

After that, every other night, Lin Yun would let the two of them gather in the old place to teach magical girl-related knowledge.

Among them, there is how to exercise and improve magic power, and there is also common sense that the profession of magical girl should know, but the most important thing is the battle awareness when fighting with the remnant beast.

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

Many of these are the wisdom left by the predecessors, and there are also a lot of experience summarized by the delphinium itself, so there should be no problem in rationality. But according to her idea, after a few days of theoretical teaching, she may still have to wait for an opportunity to fight and practice.

took out his mobile phone and glanced at the screen, and found that it was indeed a call from Lin Xiaolu, Lin Yun thought about it first, then sighed slightly, and turned into a delphinch, and then connected the phone:

"Hello? Can I help you? ”

"Ah, Delphinch-senpai?"

Different from the situation when Mo Ke robbed the phone last time, this time Delphinium heard a voice that really belonged to Lin Xiaolu: "Excuse me, but Mo Ke just found the remnant beast!" ”

Really.

The delphinium was not surprised, it was about the same as she expected, it had been several days 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 anything, and learned from Lin Xiaolu about the location and current situation of the remnant beast, and then prepared to set off.

It's just that 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's coming.

She could tell who the voice was coming from, no doubt a subordinate of her department.

What to do? Is it too late to lift the transformation? It seems too late!

A series of thoughts passed through Delphinium's mind, and as soon as she thought about it, she saw that the doorknob of her office had been pressed down.

A young man counted the papers in his hand and pushed the door open, then looked up and looked inside—

I saw only an empty room.

"Huh? When did the minister go out? ”

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

Poking his head out and looking to the left and right again, he confirmed that the office was really empty, then scratched his head and turned back and left with a strange expression.

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 in front of her, staring at her phone screen, her thumb pressed on the spot where she had just hung up.

It wasn't until the footsteps at the office door disappeared into the distance that she let out a long sigh of relief: thanks to her quick reaction, she not only hung up the phone in time, but also hid under the desk.

Otherwise, whether it is the conversation after being heard by Lin Xiaolu, or being seen by the person who enters the office to see Delphinium sitting in the office, it is quite a tricky situation.

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

Thinking so, she looked through the gap under the desk to make sure that no one was at the office door before she lifted her transformation and emerged from under the desk in some embarrassment.

After tidying up his clothes, he walked out of the office as if nothing had happened, and when he was out of sight, he immediately quickened his pace and hurried towards the place where the remnant beast appeared as he had said.