"Wait, what did you say?"

The delphinium frowned and interrupted the lamp's words: "People are feeding the remnants? Aren't you kidding? ”

"I'm not kidding at a time like this."

The lantern looked serious and emphasized: "But if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I'm afraid I wouldn't have believed it." ”

"Human ...... feeding the remnants"

Chewing on the information given by the lamp, the delphinium thought for a moment, realized another blind spot in this information, and raised her head and asked, "What is he feeding with?" ”

No one answered her questions.

Lantern just shook his head and didn't speak.

However, Delphinium already had a guess in her heart, even if the lantern didn't say anything, she could guess a rough idea, so she said in a deep voice: "It's a person?" ”

“…… Well. There was some weakness in the lamp's voice, "I couldn't save them." ”

The delphinch's expression became cold.

Her fingertips jumped slightly, and she subconsciously contracted inward, as if she wanted to make a fist, but after a slight hesitation, she didn't make this movement after all.

For a moment, she almost blurted out the phrase "how dare they". But she was not facing an enemy, but a companion who had been injured in battle, and there was no need for her to show her anger in front of her companion.

Ruthlessness and anger, that's what is left for the enemy. This gang called Ember Dawn has left an extremely bad impression on her mind.

The remnant beast is a disaster for mankind and the enemy of the magical girl, and every human living in the material world will have a bad intersection with the remnant beast more or less directly or indirectly in their life.

To a lesser extent, I saw reports of animal attacks in various places on the Internet; To a slightly more severe degree, there may be acquaintances who died from the attack of the remnant beast; There are also those who live and live in places that have been destroyed by cruel beasts; What's more, they themselves are victims of the claws of the remnants.

Growing up in such an environment, whether a person is an ordinary person or a magician, he should not have the slightest identification with the remnant beast.

But this group of people who call themselves the dawn of black embers are breaking through this bottom line again and again, making the delphinium more and more invisible.

Trying to calm down the emotions that were a little stirred at that moment, the delphinium calmed her tone again, and then asked the lantern, "So you just hit it?" ”

"So I just hit it." Lantern honestly admitted.

"You are wounded, what about the enemy?"

"At first, I did a lot to the beast, but the man came out and ......," Lamplight shrugged his shoulders helplessly.

Obviously, she herself was not satisfied with the results.

"What about the Alien Bureau employees you met in the lair earlier, did you arrange them?" Delphinium then asked.

"I originally planned to help them leave after dealing with the remnant beasts, but I didn't win, so naturally there was no follow-up."

Lantern smiled embarrassedly, "So, they should still be hiding somewhere now, right?" ”

Her answer reminded Delphinium of the blood-stained office she had come across when she arrived.

It wasn't a ploy, it was just a lair of remnants, she already knew it. So the offices here are empty, and there shouldn't be any living people in them.

Thinking about it this way, the victims in that office are obviously ordinary people from the outside world, and it is even very likely that they are ...... These are the people who speak of the mouth of the lamp.

"What's wrong?"

The delphinch's silence caught the attention of the lantern.

"Nothing."

The delphinium shook her head, not intending to reveal the truth to the lamp, but gently uncovering it.

She did not become more indignant because she realized this fact, but on the contrary, she was a little lighter, because at this moment, in her heart, the initiator of this incident was already an unpardonable person who must be killed.

Tightening the golden robe behind her, the delphinium turned to the lamp and asked, "Can you still find out where the center of the nest is?" ”

"Now? I didn't record the route when I fled there, but I should have no problem finding it using my magic disguise......"

Lantern blinked: "Patrol envoy, are you going to go?" ”

"For me, of course, the sooner the better."

Delphinium said this and stood up: "How are your injuries?" Need I help you move to a safer location? ”

"If you have magic, it's fine."

The lamp moved his body for a moment, leaning against the wall and slowly propping himself up: "As for the battle, my true appearance has not been damaged too much, and it is ...... to deal with the chrysalis remnant beast."

"If it's just a chrysalis, just leave it to me."

Delphinium grabbed Lamplight's arm and propped her up, "Take me now, it's time to solve the problem here." ”

Taken two steps forward by the help of the delphinium, and when he heard what he said, the lamp was slightly stunned, and then said with some emotion: "The delphinium senior, although it looks extraordinarily small, the words that come out are very reassuring." ”

"When you praise others, you have to mention your shortcomings in passing, but you can't make others happy."

Delphinium said expressionlessly: "Or did you mean to emphasize that I was short, and it was uncomfortable to hold you, and the second half of the sentence was to cover for yourself?" ”

"No, no, no, you're thinking too badly."

The lamp waved his hand in defense: "I just, when I heard you say, 'Just leave it to me', I thought of an acquaintance of my own, and I was moved." Probably because she is also in the Investigation Institute, I feel that when you say such things, you can really give people a subtle and trustworthy temperament. ”

"Really?" The delphinium raised her eyebrows, but after all, she did not continue the topic, and accepted the lantern's explanation.

When it comes to the Investigation Institute, she actually has nothing to say, after all, her position as an "inspector" can be said to be empty, and she has no substantial connections in the Investigation Institute.

The delphinium did not want to talk more, so the lantern ended the topic tacitly, and the two of them stopped gossiping, and marched towards the center of the nest.

Under normal circumstances, if the delphinium were to use the technique combined with perception to explore the route by themselves, the process would be quite long, especially since the space they were in was unimaginably large, more complicated than the nests that the delphinium had experienced in the past.

However, with the magic costume of the lamp, the process becomes quite easy.

The magic costume of the lantern is shaped like a lantern. According to her own account, when using her own lantern, an imprint related to magic appears in her field of vision, which can show traces of magical activity in the corresponding area during the day.

In addition, if she has marked the magic characteristics of a target, she will be able to clearly perceive the direction of the opponent within a certain range.

This was how she tagged the suspicious man when she arrived, allowing her to track down the heart of the nest. And after fighting with the other party, she even marked the chrysalis remnant beast.

In other words, it was as if she had a compass in her hands, pointing in the center of the nest.

With this help, the two of them found the location of the master of the nest without much effort.

It was a huge lair that seemed out of place in the surrounding area.

Unlike the "first floor of the Alien Bureau" that the two Delphinium visited countless times on the way when they came, although this space still maintains a decoration style similar to that of the Alien Bureau, with blazing white lights and silver-white walls, if you look closely, you will find that its internal furnishings completely violate people's common sense.

a table placed on the wall; entangled into a triangular filing cabinet; Curved into an irregularly shaped door...... A distorted scene like a dream appeared in front of the two of them.

In fact, it also exposes the nature of the beast - the monster does not understand what humans do with the design of tools.

And in such a distorted space, there is an even more distorted thing, which completely steals the attention of the two magical girls, leaving them with no time to care.

It was a spider-like beast crawling on the web that covered the entire nest, gnawing at something.

The remnant beast had several huge holes in its body, and blood was still bubbling out, which was obviously what Lantern had previously called "heavy damage". It's just that it doesn't seem to be in a sluggish state, and it still retains the vitality to eat.

The cobwebs beneath it were made entirely of flesh and blood, and it looked extremely hideous, and the scarlet web spread throughout the space, and a fishy smell could be smelled from afar.

And under the huge flesh and blood cobwebs, there are sarcomas several meters high hanging there, motionless.

If you don't pay attention, you will only think that these sarcomas don't seem to be anything special, just a derivative part of the flesh and cobwebs. But when the delphinium looked closely, it was found that the sarcomas did not seem to be solid, but more like a cocoon wrapped in something, and under the blazing white light in the nest, a faint shadow was faintly revealed in it.

If you look more closely, you will find that the outlines of these shadows seem to be very similar to human beings.

"Those are the victims he captured, and the sarcomas are the people he 'fed' to the remnants."

The lantern followed her side, and said in a low voice, "Although I don't know what means he used, the chrysalis remnant beast behaved very calmly in front of that man, and there was no sign of rioting, and it accepted his 'feeding' very honestly. ”

"And those who are 'fed' out, they are all packed into that kind of sarcoma, I don't know what will happen after being put in, but it is likely to be ......"

She didn't finish her words, but she didn't need to finish them, and the consequences of being caught by the beast were self-evident.

Delphinium frowned.

She felt sick just by seeing what she saw.

Beasts destroying cities and killing humans would not make her feel so disgusted. After all, the essence of the remnants is that they only know how to follow their instincts, and they do not have any ethical baggage when they do evil.

However, the nature of this matter is completely different from that of humans and beasts.

Mutilating one's own compatriots, or even handing over one's own compatriots as bait to the remnant beasts, is an act that even the word "disdainful" cannot describe the mood of the delphinch.

She thinks she's seen a lot of "evil", but there is always someone who can break the lower limit of her cognition and show a more ugly face.

What kind of person can behave like this?

She was completely incomprehensible.

And the person who made her feel incomprehensible was also in this lair at this time.

Beneath the flesh-covered sarcoma, there was a humanoid figure standing there, looking up at the remnants of the cobwebs above.

The figure was holding an instrument of unknown purpose in his hand, and was observing the remnant beast while adjusting something on the instrument with his hand.

"That's the person, do you want to do it?"

Seeing that the delphinium also saw the figure, the lantern followed and asked, "But you may have to be careful with the delphinium senior, he is very strong." ”

"Do it." Delphinium said without hesitation.

Even if she didn't look at the disgusting sight under the cobwebs of flesh and blood, she already had the determination to fight.

I finally came to the core of the lair, and I saw the enemy, so naturally there was no reason to retreat.

After a brief discussion, the two magical girls decided to attack together: the lantern feints to attract each other's attention on the surface, while the delphinium takes the opportunity to surprise and see if they can inflict heavy damage on each other in one fell swoop.

Blue and dark brown, two magic tracks flashed above the nest, the azure blue disappeared immediately, and the dark brown magic tracks chased straight towards the man on the ground.

The man operating the instrument was dressed in a black robe, and he was originally concentrating on observing the remnant beast above his head, but the warning that rose in his heart made him bow his head suddenly, and then stretched out his hand, and the purple-black magic power wrapped around his hand and stopped in front of him.

Rumble!

The purple-black magic formed a magical barrier that blocked the attack from the lantern.

"How dare you come back?"

After seeing the lamp that appeared in front of him and recognizing who the attacker was, the man was slightly surprised, but only at the level of "slightly surprised": "I thought that after you escaped, you would at least find a place to hide for a while, but I didn't expect to come back so quickly and die." ”

The lantern didn't say a word, and at the same time as he casually fired a few magic beams, several Fawo runes flashed on his hand, and then, Fu Wen made a spear and nailed it straight at the man.

As a magical girl at the bud level, Lantern is very proficient in mastering techniques, and because her magic costume ability is more supportive, most of the techniques used are based on strong attacks.

In the face of the stormy attack of the lamp, the man curled the corners of his mouth a little sarcastically, obviously having a way to deal with it in his heart, and did not pay attention to it.

Just as he had shown it. In an instant, the barrier in front of him suddenly changed, turning into a huge mouth that devoured the lantern in reverse, and the spears only supported him for a few seconds before they were disintegrated into several pools of ownerless magic.

And just when he was complacent, feeling that he had made a good enough response, and wanted to mock something more, he felt a chill coming from behind him.

- "Masterpiece, the sixth, the slashing of Kopis." ”

Without giving him time to react, a dagger of magic stabbed him in the back, and the magic surged through all his defenses like a devastating force, and then, piercing through the back of his heart, stabbed out of his chest.

(End of chapter)