At this moment, the delphinium finally understood what the sense of disobedience she had been feeling all along.

the faint sense of crisis that has been haunting my heart since I entered the Alien Bureau; the sense of alienation brought about by the surrounding scenery; and a faint, but familiar, feeling of nausea. These senses were mixed together, mixed into a sense of disobedience in her heart, sending her a warning and reminding her of the abnormality here.

After seeing this scene, the delphinium already had a vague answer in her heart as to what this space was.

But to be sure of this answer, she needs to do one more thing - go back to the office where the remnant beast was found.

At this thought, the delphinium was unwilling to delay any longer, and immediately activated the magic power, supporting the body to float, flying in the direction of the memory.

She sped all the way down the hallway, the scenery in the hallway flashing through her eyes as quickly as she had seen it before, completely unchanged. But with the answer in her heart, she was no longer confused.

Ignoring any possible distractions along the way, the delphinium flew straight to the office where the remnant had been found, and then slammed the door open with one hand forward.

The office door opened, and all she could see was an extremely ordinary office.

There were no corpses, no blood, no ashes left behind by the remnants, only the incandescent white light like the rest of the room, and the various office utensils that were randomly placed in it.

All traces were gone, and all the clues that had been found before were gone, as if they had not existed in the first place.

However, seeing this scene, a slight glint flashed in the eyes of the delphinium.

For no other reason, this was the answer she wanted.

"I see."

Speaking softly, looking at the situation in front of her, the delphinium did not take another step inward, but made a judgment in an extremely certain tone: "This is indeed a 'nest'. ”

The "nest" in her mouth is the signature ability that belongs to the chrysalis remnant beast.

As a staged symbol of the pupal remnant beast, the common form of the "nest" is a labyrinth of space that distorts the original existence of reality, layered and nested.

The scene inside the "nest" is not born out of thin air, but is the product of intercepting and imitating the surrounding space according to its location, and then replicating, multiplying and distorting it on this basis.

If a remnant's nest is located in a deserted neighbor outside the city, its nest takes the form of an endless wasteland; If the nest is located in a lake, then the nest will manifest itself as an endless ocean that knows no direction and can never reach the surface of the water.

Delphinium had seen such instances more than once, most recently just a few months ago.

At that time, Cuijing found a chrysalis remnant beast under Fangting City, and the location where the remnant beast nested was the sewer of Fangting City, so the manifestation of its nest was the cascading sewer pipes like an anthill.

At that time, the delphinium was the same as now, and in the process of tracking the clues of the remnant beast, it stepped into the nest of the remnant beast, and was absorbed into the labyrinth.

Starting from this premise, the delphinium can give a reasonable explanation for everything she found after entering the Strange Strategy Bureau, because this is not a real Strange Strategy Bureau at all, but a remnant beast's nest that simulates the Strange Strategy Bureau.

The spatial composition of this nest is to replicate and extend the space on the first floor of the Bai'an City Alien Policy Bureau, and stitch together countless spaces similar to the "first floor" to finally form a complete nest.

The delphinium is not trapped in a different strategy bureau that cannot be escaped, but there are countless "first layers of the different strategy bureau" around her, although these "first layers" are exactly the same in spatial structure, replicating the appearance of all inanimate objects, but they cannot replicate living creatures.

Therefore, there will naturally be no corpses and bloodstains in the office in front of you, because the "first floor" where those victims were killed is not the same space as the delphinium is in.

Delphinium came here to confirm this.

However, along with solving this puzzle, another problem appeared in front of her.

That is, this chrysalis remnant beast is absolutely unusual. If it was an ordinary chrysalis beast, it would never be able to do such a thing.

The ordinary "lair" of the remnant beast only mimics the basic elements of the surrounding space. Similar to the chameleon's camouflage camouflage, the purpose is to hide its nest and make it less obvious, so the nest of the remnant beast is often a crude imitation of the original space around it.

Completely replicating the layout of an entire floor of the Alien Bureau without making any mistakes like the current space is definitely not something that the intelligence of a remnant beast can do.

With the intelligence of the pupal beasts, they simply could not understand what these decorations in human buildings were, what they did, how could they have carved every detail so exquisitely?

This also explains why the remnant was able to set up its nest next to the Alien Bureau, but no information has been revealed to the magical girl so far - because this is definitely not a simple remnant nesting event.

With the answer in mind, the delphinium naturally knew what she had to do now, and there was no doubt that it was to find the owner of the nest and kill the remnant.

As for how to find it, the solution that Delphinium came up with was very simple - let go of its magical perception and go all the way in the direction where the reaction was most intense.

In the nest, the concept of space and time is blurred, so even she doesn't know how long it has taken her since the Delphinium began to search.

Emptying the mind and distracting thoughts, the delphinium maintained its sharpest state, ensuring that it was able to detect abnormal magic fluctuations in time.

However, just as she was about to expand the range of her sensing again, a very faint magic fluctuation appeared in the perception area.

This faint fluctuation is like a candle that will be extinguished at any time, although it is still burning, it is uncertain, and if it were not for the constant high concentration of the delphinium, I am afraid that it would be subconsciously ignored.

And when she stopped to check carefully, she realized that this fluctuation was not far from the area she was in.

So the delphinium did not hesitate, and immediately moved in the direction of the perceived magic fluctuations.

After passing through the stairs and several "first floors" horizontally, she finally found the target she perceived: a young girl sitting against a wall in an unoccupied office.

To be exact, it was a magical girl. Because the delphinium can see what it holds in its hand, it is like a bud-like gem.

It's a heart flower that hasn't bloomed yet, so she should be a magical girl at the bud level.

The girl looks to be about 18 years old, at an age when she is gradually fading her youthfulness and beginning to become somewhat mature. From this, it can be seen that she should be a skilled magical girl who has served for many years.

It's just that her current state is not perfect, at this time she has completely changed back to the human state, and her forehead is still soaked with blood. Even his transformation state can't be maintained, obviously his magic power has dried up.

The delphinium crouched down, reached out to probe in front of the girl's snort, and when she found that she was still breathing, she immediately pressed the heart jewel in her hand and began to pour her magic into it.

And as the azure magic continued to pour into the girl's hand, the heart gem gradually shimmered with a dark brown light, and finally, it became shiny again.

The revival of the Heart Jewel and the return of full magic made the girl leaning against the wall slowly regain consciousness, open her eyes from the darkness, and then meet the half-crouching delphinch.

The girl was slightly stunned for a moment, then startled, and subconsciously wanted to step back, but apparently forgot that she was in the corner, so she only heard a "bang", and the back of her head hit the wall.

The strong dull pain made the girl instantly sober, covered the back of her head with bared teeth, and only raised her head after a while, showing a somewhat embarrassed smile at the delphinium: "That, I'm sorry...... Who are you? ”

"Anyway, I saved you just now, so I should ask you this question first."

Letting go of the heart gem in the girl's hand, Delphinium stood up again: "Who is you?" What are you doing in this place? ”

"Me?"

The girl looked at Delphinium, her expression stiffened slightly, and then she raised her voice a little stiffly, and said to him, "I don't know what you're talking about." ”

It was just that she had just finished saying this when she noticed that Delphinch's eyes were staring at her left hand. Turning her head slightly, she saw the heart bud flickering in her hand, and she suddenly realized that she had told a very clumsy lie.

After a subtle silence for a while, the girl smiled a little awkwardly, and then replied honestly, "My code name is Lamp." She is a magical girl who is a native of Bai'an City. ”

She didn't insist on hiding her identity, because she could see that the girl in the navy blue dress in front of her was also a magical girl, and since the other party chose to save herself, she shouldn't be a bad person.

After stating her identity, she looked at Delphinium again, hoping for an answer.

What she didn't know was that Delphinium's answer to her had already been expected.

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"I'm an inspector sent by the Investigation Institute to Bai'an City."

Delphinium was succinct: "I'm here to find the missing investigation team in Bai'an City, and I've been in contact with the local magical girl team, and they told me that there is a missing team member named 'Lantern', is that you?" ”

Lantern was slightly stunned: "The local magical girl squad, you mean ......"

"Among them is a magical girl named White Thistle, and a sower named Polly, who asked me to find you before I came here."

In order to gain the trust of the magical girl in front of her as soon as possible, Delphinium knew everything and believed everything: "It's just that I also came here by accident, and I didn't expect that you were also here." ”

"Ahh So that's it! ”

Hearing the news of her companion, the girl was obviously much more excited: "Have you already seen the white thistles?" How are they now...... Ahem! ”

Probably because she was too emotional, the amplitude of her movements was too violent, and the injuries on the girl's body that had not healed were triggered, making her cough violently.

The delphinium immediately pressed her shoulders and pushed her back to the wall with some helplessness.

"They're safe at the moment, but the only problem is that everyone is worried about your safety."

She shook her head, and after talking about the situation of the team in Bai'an City, she brought the topic back on track and asked towards the lamp, "So, can you tell me, what exactly did you go through before you came here?" Why did you faint here? Have you seen the whereabouts of the Cattail Squad? ”

(End of chapter)