Bai'an City is a well-known tourist city in the southern part of Donghua Prefecture, with rich landscapes and natural attractions. What's more, it's also a famous music city, with a large number of world-class music festivals or exhibitions held here every year.

It is home to the largest concert hall and two largest music schools in Donghua Prefecture, and the whole city is full of artistic atmosphere. Not only are the buildings on the street full of tributes and ingenuity, but you can often see huge music venues on the streets, as well as musicians performing on the side of the road.

As a result, tourists and music lovers from all over the world often come to stay here, making the tourism and hospitality industry very prosperous.

When Lin Yun told the driver that the destination of his trip was the Music Park in the Bai'an Economic Development Zone, the driver completely regarded him as a tourist from out of town, and told him about the local attractions in Bai'an City and how to buy special products.

Lin Yun didn't mind the other party's misunderstanding, so he chatted with the driver about the precautions for traveling in Bai'an City, as if he really came here to travel.

Of course, he is not actually a tourist, and the purpose of coming to Bai'an City is not tourism, so the music park he went to is actually the real destination of this trip - Bai'an City Alien Policy Bureau.

There is a common sense on the magical side of the physical realm: each city has a different way of existing.

The most common of these is the Sideline Bureau, which makes no secret of its status as a government agency and its management of the Magician, and has a huge complex of buildings that serves as its headquarters.

According to the information provided by the Investigation Institute to Delphinium, its address is located underground in the Bai'an City Music Park, and all entrances and exits exist in an extremely secret way. If you don't know this, then ordinary people will not be able to find the location of the Bai'an City Alien Policy Bureau anyway.

As for why it is located underneath the music park, the reason is also very realistic: when the bureau set its headquarters here, the economic development zone of Bai'an was still a deserted suburban area.

Later, with the development and expansion of the city, this wild land was finally demarcated as a new urban area, and with the construction of various real estate and public facilities on the surrounding land, the vacant land above the head of the Alien Policy Bureau was particularly eye-catching.

At this point, if the Alien Strategy Bureau does not add some buildings above the headquarters, it will become three hundred taels of silver here.

As a result, it eventually became a music park that fits the character of the city.

If Lin Yun remembers correctly, the time when this music park was built, there was a lot of hype on the Internet. At that time, Anya also asked herself if she wanted to bring Xiaolu and a family of three to play here.

At that time, Lin Yun did not agree immediately, and wanted to wait until the limelight passed and the wind reviews of the scenic spots stabilized before considering whether to use this place as a location for family travel. It's just that after that day, there are no more so-called family trips.

Sitting in the taxi, looking at the bustling street scene outside the window, Lin Yun's thoughts were a little flustered for a while.

In the evening, when the taxi drove out of the port area and officially entered the city of Bai'an, and arrived at the location of the anomaly marked on the map, the sun was already on the verge of setting, and there was only a faint orange glow in the sky.

Traffic slowly moves between the congested roads, forming a long queue, waiting impatiently in front of the traffic lights at one intersection after another. From time to time, cars cross through the gaps, trying to overtake or merge lanes, making the road conditions even worse. The noisy honking of horns came and went, disturbing people's hearts and making them more and more annoying.

As time passed, the afterglow of the setting sun faded and the city's sky began to turn gray. But almost at the same time, the brilliant neon lights began to shine, and the entire city of Bai'an was lit up with colorful lights, and the city of Bai'an seemed to become more lively at night.

This prosperity turned into a picture scroll reflected in the car window, which entered Lin Yun's eyes.

If when he first came here, what Lin Yun felt was just a simple smell of fireworks, then when he really entered Bai'an City, he could feel that everything here was so warm and real.

Is the Cattail Squad missing in such a city?

He couldn't help but think so.

As if in response to his thoughts, the next moment, a loud roar sounded in front of the road.

The original noisy car horns, the mixed music on the street, and the words of the drivers in the car were all dispersed with the roar.

Lin Yun immediately turned his head and looked ahead through the car window, but at night, the neon lights blurred the scene ahead, making it completely impossible to see what was happening.

The roads are still blocked, the traffic is still stagnant, as if the roar was just an illusion and nothing is actually happening.

After a while, the sound of music on the side of the road once again overshadowed the uneasiness in people's hearts, and the passers-by, who had been a little stunned and confused, moved again, and they looked around a little confused, and for a moment they did not know whether to continue walking ahead.

"Master, stop."

But Lin Yun was different from them, and his experience as a magical girl made him judge for the first time: what should happen ahead.

Even if he is in a different place, it is impossible for a magical girl to sit idly by and ignore the crisis, and he must go to the scene to check the situation, so he quickly decided to get out of the car and walk.

Ignoring the driver's gossip of "what are you afraid of, big brother", he finished paying for the car, pushed the car door with his bag, and ran along the sidewalk in the direction of the roar.

After running forward for hundreds of meters, he ran head-on into the flow of people who were walking in the opposite direction of him.

"Don't go any further, turn around and run, there's a remnant beast!"

The young man who was running at the front yelled at him, and then tried to drag Lin Yun away with him.

"Strange Strategy."

Lin Yun didn't move, just calmly said three words to him. The young man opened his mouth with some understanding, let go of his hand, and continued to run away on his own.

Coming to the scene against the crowd, Lin Yun finally saw the scene on the street in the distance: a huge remnant beast was standing on the road and wreaking havoc, trying to catch the people in the car.

Several pedestrians have been injured by it, lying on the side of the road covering their bodies and wailing, and the scene is gloomy.

Lin Yun stood in place and watched for two seconds, then immediately turned around and rushed into the convenience store next to him with his bag.

At this time, there was no one in the convenience store, and both the clerk and the customer chose to flee because of the attack of the beast, he locked his duffel bag in the warehouse, looked at the camera in the corner, frowned, and had to go out along the window again.

He's looking for a place where no one is around.

From the convenience store into the back alley of the street, the alley is empty at the moment, the dark and cramped space can just block the view of the surroundings, even if someone looks out of the window, they will not see Lin Yun's figure.

After making sure that there was no one around, he took the Flower of the Heart from the inside pocket of his coat and placed it on his chest—

— and then, he stopped his tracks.

For almost at the same time, he felt several strong waves of mana passing over his head at high speed, and one of them stopped after advancing a short distance, and then turned back again, back above his head.

"Uncle, what are you doing here?"

A crisp female voice came from above the alley.

Lin Yun looked up and saw a girl wearing a layered princess dress with a pale yellow light around her body floating in the air, looking at her with a puzzled expression.

The fluctuations in her magical power undoubtedly reveal her identity - this is a magical girl.

Lin Yun didn't speak, just silently put away his heart gem, and then pretended not to know anything, and ran along the alley.

"Stop, don't run!"

However, before he could take two steps, he heard another voice overhead, and saw that the magical girl in a pale yellow dress had fallen in front of him: "I just felt it!" You've got a wave of magic here! ”

The girl had long curly light blonde hair, and the bangs on her forehead were combed to both sides, revealing a smooth brain, and she was staring at a pair of clear yellow eyes at the moment, looking at Lin Yun a little arrogantly:

"Who are you? Is it a magician? Sneakily hiding in such a dark place, across the street is the remnants of the beast making trouble, what do you have to do with this? ”

Something bad.

Lin Yun said in his heart.

Although he was alert enough to stop his transformation in time and did not let the other party see the truth, fluctuations in mana were inevitable. When both of them are using magic power, he can perceive the other, and there is no reason why the other party can't perceive him.

But even so, he was still a little surprised in his heart, because even though he had old wounds, his perception ability as a magical girl was still at the level of the bud level. The fact that the other party can perceive each other's magic fluctuations at the same time as herself means that her perception is also quite excellent.

It's just that, judging from the fluctuations of the magic power displayed by the other party, she is far from reaching the standard of the bud level.

Hidden strength? Or is the perception beyond the level of the ability to enlighten?

These doubts were born in his heart, but they were quickly put down again, and Lin Yun knew that what he should be thinking about now was not these miscellaneous things.

He tried to transform in this uninhabited alley, and the fluctuation of magic power was detected by the other party, and if he didn't reveal his identity as a magical girl now, then there was only one explanation - he was a magician.

However, if you admit that you are a magician, then you will face the next question, what are you doing here, just like the other person just asked?

You know, there was a remnant beast making trouble in the direction he came. When a magician encounters a remnant beast, whether it is onlookers or running away, it can be regarded as normal behavioral logic; But hiding in a side alley and secretly rubbing magic is indeed too suspicious.

Thinking about it from another perspective, if Lin Yun himself found such a magic envoy near the scene of the remnant beast's attack, he would also suspect that the other party had anything to do with the remnant beast for the first time.

But when it was his turn to become the one who was suspected, he had to feel a little headache.

Confess your identity as a magical girl directly to the other party? Regardless of the difference between his own body and the appearance of a magical girl, even if there is no such factor, there is no reason for him to reveal his true identity to a strange magical girl.

The true identity of a magical girl is a very private and confidential matter, and many times no one except for her teammates in the same team will know, so he should not make an exception easily.

So, what is the most appropriate statement without recognizing the identity of a magical girl? Lie about being a magician, or continue to pretend to be an ordinary person, claiming that the other person is mistaken?

After a short decision, Lin Yun decided to adopt the latter.

Falsely claiming to be a magician will inevitably face the question of "what are you doing hiding in the alley", which is undoubtedly more difficult to explain. And claiming to be an ordinary person, he only needs to insist that he doesn't know what "magic" is.

Hiding his magic without using his magic, he is confident enough to do so, and no matter how much the other party verifies it, he will only find that he is an "ordinary person".

"I don't know what you're talking about."

So, Lin Yun put on a straight face, pretended to be a little unhappy, and snorted: "Look at your appearance, are you a magical girl?" There's a remnant beast hurting people in the back, why don't you fight the remnant beast and come over to stop me, a passerby, instead? ”

"Huh?"

His rebuttal made the blonde-haired magical girl raise her eyebrows, and then she was dissatisfied: "There are three of us on this trip, and two of my teammates have already gone to deal with the remnant beasts, is there a problem for me to stop you, a magician who doesn't look like a good person at first glance?" ”

…… This kid, isn't his head very good?

Lin Yun couldn't help but doubt in his heart. After all, he only asked the other party a rhetorical question, and the other party quickly explained how many of his companions were.

"I'm not like a good person?"

It's just that it's inconvenient for him to say this kind of suspicion, and he continues to accuse the other party: "This kind of groundless speculation without any evidence, if you are really a magical girl, how can you say it like this?" Don't you feel ashamed to frame innocent people for so easily? ”

"How is it a false planting!"

The blonde girl's eyes widened, and she pointed at Lin Yun and said, "I clearly feel the fluctuation of your magic power here!" ”

"Fluctuations in mana?"

Lin Yun looked at her directly, with a moderate amount of doubt on his face: "What is that?" ”

"You don't know?" The blonde girl was a little stunned, and gradually lowered her outstretched fingers, "You don't know what magic is?" ”

After a brief moment of consternation, she was stunned for a moment, then suddenly raised her eyebrows, and raised her voice as if she was enraged: "Do you treat me as a fool!" ”

"Hmph, forget it, I'll arrest you first, and then let the white thistles judge who you are."

The blonde girl stretched her eyebrows, and said with a bit of arrogance: "If you tie up now, I can not be rough with you." ”

"I told you, I don't know what you're talking about!"

The heart was not good, Lin Yun thought about how to deal with it next, and retreated: "Be careful that I go to the Alien Bureau to report you!" ”

"The Strange Strategy Bureau can't control Miss Ben!"

The blonde girl rushed towards Lin Yun menacingly: "Don't try to run away!" ”

It seems that there is no room for maneuver, so let's transform.

Lin Yun sighed in his heart, and reached out to touch the heart flower on his chest.

Whether it's dealing with the other party's attack or proving his identity, he may have to transform to continue. So he put his hand on the Flower of the Heart, ready to activate it.

- Knock!

"Wow, aa

It's just that this preparation didn't come in handy after all.

Before he could make the next move, he heard a crunch and a scream.

I saw that the blonde girl in front of me tripped over the trash can that was blocking the side of the alley at some point, and then lost her balance, jumped two steps, and fell to the side.

And the direction in which she fell was the direction of the obstacle that tripped over her.

Syllable!

In Lin Yun's sight, the blonde girl was planted straight into the trash can like this, and her upper body was completely pierced, leaving only her two legs still dangling outside.

In the alley, there was silence again.

(End of chapter)