The sudden attack interrupted the man's movements and silenced his unspoken mockery.

He stared at the dagger in the magic suit that came out of his chest, his eyes widened, and he made a "ho-ho" sound, but he couldn't spit out half a word, and blood spilled down his throat, making him cough.

"Lamplight, you go and see how the remnant beast is doing, if you can, restrain it, and see if there are any survivors among those sarcomas."

Pulling out the dagger that pierced the back of the enemy's heart, the delphinium kicked it to the ground mercilessly, tied the man with magic silk threads, and then directly hit several Favo runes on the man's body, forming a forbidden magic spell: "I'll interrogate this guy." ”

"Okay." The lantern nodded, and the mana flew into the air, heading straight for the chrysalis above.

In a short time, the roar of the remnant beast and the blast of magic resounded, and it was clear that a battle was also taking place in the sky.

Delphinium glanced up at the battle situation above, then lowered her head and looked at the man who was restrained by her with an extremely cold gaze: "Name, identity, purpose." ”

"Ho...... Ho......" But the man could not reply, only to see that the blood in his throat was still gushing out, and he opened his mouth wide and stared at his eyes, and he was out of breath, and he was about to die.

He looked rather miserable, but the delphinium had no sympathy or empathy for him, and just looked at him quietly.

Everything she had seen and known since entering this lair pointed to the same fact - that the man in front of her was a complete villain. Such a person does not deserve any sympathy.

She just kept staring at the man on the ground, not saying a word.

Dozens of seconds later, looking at the man who still looked like he was about to die, but still seemed to be struggling to survive, Delphinium spoke again: "Have you played enough?" ”

This sentence seemed to become a signal, and after the man on the ground looked at her fixedly for a while, he finally stopped making a voice of unknown meaning, but raised the corners of his mouth slightly: "You are smarter than her, little miss." ”

"It's the first time I've heard of a human who can defeat a Lei-level magical girl, but my instinct tells me that such a person shouldn't be pierced through the heart to become what they are now."

Delphinium said coldly: "Now, give you two choices, tell me where the missing magical girl is, and your plan, you can get the chance to commit suicide or be executed by me with one blow; Or refuse to answer my question, the magical kingdom has a way to get you to speak, but you may not be able to have a more secure way to die. ”

The man relaxed his round eyes, stared at the delphinium for a long time, and after a slight pause, he breathed a sigh of relief: "It's a pity, I don't like leggings." ”

His words made Delphinium stunned for a moment, and after a moment, he gradually realized what he was talking about, and then glanced down at his dress.

"You don't seem to want a peaceful death?"

Delphinium asked, then squatted down holding her skirt down. The magic thread condensed into a dagger in her hand, and she stretched out the dagger and pointed it at the man's eyes: "Or do you want me to do something more inhumane before you are willing to answer my question?" ”

"I don't want to waste time with scumbags, so I don't want to hear any more nonsense from you, tell me your options in three seconds, or this dagger will blind you."

"One."

"Two."

"I said." The man tried to tilt his head to the side, but the magic thread had held his body in place, making it impossible for him to move, "You're really ruthless, much colder than the magical girls who came to me before. ”

Phew!

"Ahh

The dagger slashed through the man's eye socket and cut open his lower eyelid, causing him to scream on the spot.

"Your eyes are saved, but your has made you suffer more."

Delphinium took away the dagger: "Now, name, identity, purpose." ”

The man gasped for a long time before he spoke a little weakly: "Spider, Ember Guard, collect nourishment." ”

"Explain these words in your mouth, and don't tell me riddles." The delphinium narrowed her eyes.

"You don't know?" Hearing Delphinch's words, the man was slightly stunned, and then his gaze wandered on her face, revealing a somewhat inexplicable smile, "Interesting, it's really like the code name that Lei level called you, a caged bird like his name." ”

Delphinium raised her dagger and slashed at the corner of his mouth.

"Hmm!" The man couldn't help but snort again.

"Are you using my code name to provoke me?"

Throwing the dagger in his hand aside, the magic thread recondensed into a new dagger, and the delphinium raised her voice slightly: "I actually don't mind if you continue to do this, but time is limited, I hope you don't talk so much nonsense, otherwise by the end of the interrogation, my promise may have become empty talk." ”

“…… Spider is my code name. ”

Seeing that Delphinium was completely unmoved by his provocation, the man finally said a little honestly: "My identity is the Ember Guard in front of the palace, so I will have my own code name." ”

"Ember guards in front of the palace? Is this your status class? Delphinium asked indifferently.

"Ember army in front of the court, ember guard in front of the palace, ember attendant in front of the king"

The man gasped and spat out three words: "This is not a secret, especially for your Investigation Institute, it should already be information on the table." ”

Without saying a word, the delphinium raised the dagger, and the man shrank his head: "I know! I say! Don't do it! ”

Seeing that Delphinium put down his hand again, he breathed a sigh of relief and continued to explain: "The three identities are ranked from low to high, the lowest is the Ember Army, followed by the Ember Guard, and the highest is the Ember Servant. ”

"The Ember Army in front of the court is the most ordinary member, who does not have his own code name, only a number. For example, among my subordinates, the ember army that fights full-time has the prefix of soldier spider, and with the number, it is soldier spider 1, soldier spider 2, ......"

"And the Ember Guard in front of the hall can get his own code name, and at the same time, as a middle-level person, he will be in charge of a part of the Ember Army."

"The Ember of the King is the person closest to the core of power, and he is also synonymous with great power, and often controls an entire area under his subordinates."

"An entire precinct?"

His words made Delphinus realize something, and continued to ask, "Is the southern part of Donghua Prefecture a district?" ”

"Yes, of course." The man, codenamed Spider, sneered, "But I don't know exactly how many areas there are, and that's not something we Ember guards can know." ”

"And who is the leader of Ember Dawn in this area?" The delphinium stared into his eyes.

"I don't know." Spider smiled.

The cold light flashed, and another wound appeared in his abdomen.

"Ahh

He cried out again, but this time he didn't explain truthfully as before, but said in a cold sweat on his face: "I...... Can't tell. ”

"Can't tell?"

Delphinium frowned slightly, "Maybe I should stab some more painful places next time, help you remember?" ”

"It's not...... Memories are my ...... I can't say it, I can't do it. ”

Spider said intermittently, her face flushed: "I can't say his name to the magical girl, it's his order, I can't disobey." ”

"Disobeying the orders of your superiors will die, and refusing to answer my questions here will also die, which one do you think is better?"

Delphinium asked calmly, "Perhaps you can describe the cost of disobeying orders, I will try to do a little more than your superiors." ”

"I, I said it...... We cannot disobey our superiors. ”

The spider continued to gasp, "Just as a low-level beast cannot disobey a high-level beast, this is the class of life, a ladder that cannot be transgressed. ”

"You mean to say that your superiors' orders to you are absolute and have nothing to do with your will?"

Delphinium raised an eyebrow: "Similar to a remnant beast? Do you really think of yourselves as beasts? ”

"Think? The power of beasts is originally the ladder of our progress, so what's wrong with climbing the path of human strength? ”

After the pain, the spider's voice gradually calmed down: "You magical girls won't understand. ”

"I'm not going to understand the monster's thoughts, I just want to know what you guys did."

Delphinium was unmoved: "Go ahead, explain your purpose clearly, what exactly is 'collecting nutrients'?" ”

"That is, foraging for the beast."

The spider's gaze was aimed at the sky, looking at the spider remnant beast that was fighting with the lantern and obviously falling behind, and a gloom flashed in his eyes: "The beast can devour all the life with magical power, even the most dull ordinary people, they have a faint magic power in their bodies, although it is better than nothing, but it can accumulate a lot." ”

"And if you want to improve efficiency, then you should find food with more powerful magic, such as other beasts, such as the source of magic of the elves, such as ......"

Speaking of this, his gaze was aimed at the neckline of the delphinium, looked at the heart gem that appeared from time to time around her neck, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said, "Your source of magic power." ”

The delphinium was silent for a long time.

She stared at the spider for a long time before she spoke again, "You guys are really a bunch of brutes. ”

What the spiders are saying is not difficult to understand, in other words, the "nourishment" they seek is essentially all beings with magical powers. Whether it's a human, a goblin, a magical girl, or cannibalism with other remnants, it's a fact.

"This is the reality of the world."

The spider said indifferently: "If you don't have the power to protect yourself, you will be devoured one day." ”

"You did all the disappearances of magical girls in Donghua Prefecture in the past two years?"

Delphinium clenched the dagger in her hand: "What about the investigation team that came to Bai'an City before, where are they?" ”

"It's all us? Who knows, but in the case of Bai'an City, I should have done it. ”

Spider stared blankly at the sky, and the corners of his mouth smiled: "It's just a pity, I couldn't catch those rookie magical girls here, I just trapped you in the way, otherwise when I kill her, all the heart gems of this city will belong to me." ”

"You won't have that chance again."

Delphinium said coldly: "Tell me, where are the people from the investigation team, and I will give you a good time." ”

"Investigation team? Ah, you're still talking about those stupid magical girls who came to question me the other day. ”

The spider's eyes wandered, gradually focusing on the face of the delphinch: "You have been asking me about their whereabouts since the beginning, why?" Do your colleagues in the Inquisitor really care that much? Cornflower? ”

Delphinium breathes sluggishly.

His words were inquiry, but he was not asking Delphinium, and he pronounced the code name "Cornflower" in a tone of absolute certainty.

Lantern had called out to the delphinium before, so he had reason to know the code name "Delphinium". But the code name of cornflower, no one has mentioned it in front of this man.

It's possible that the Cattail Squad once mentioned this code name, but why, and what reason do they have to mention themselves in front of this man?

"You still seem to know me?"

Delphinium lowered her voice and raised her dagger again: "Very good, now you have one more thing to explain, I hope the answer to this question will also satisfy me." ”

"I know you, it's not surprising, little miss, you seem to have a little misunderstanding of your popularity."

Spider raised his eyes slightly: "But I'm surprised that the Investigation Institute will let you investigate this matter, and you found the door so quickly, which is really not what I expected." ”

"I repeat, don't talk nonsense." The delphinium held the dagger to his jaw.

"I'm not talking nonsense, I'm telling the truth."

The spider suddenly looked at the delphinium and looked her in the eye seriously: "I just wanted to tell you that you were not my prey in the first place. ”

The delphinium did not shy away from staring at him, but there was a raging fire burning in his cold gaze, as if it was about to burn the person in front of him.

She no longer spoke, but the dagger was pressed upward.

But this time, the dagger failed to pierce the spider's skin.

“…… You see, I said it, I'm not talking nonsense. ”

The spider's face, which was originally extremely pale due to blood loss, had a little more blood, and he grinned again, but this time it was a little cold: "It's your nonsense too much, little miss." ”

"-Delphinch-senpai!"

The next moment, the exclamation of the lantern was heard in the sky.

Almost at the same time as hearing these two voices, the delphinium felt a sense of crisis like a man's back, and immediately let go of the dagger in his hand, and the magic suit instantly turned into a square protective shell, completely protecting itself in it.

Immediately after, purple-black magic power surged from high in the sky, and the flesh and blood threads that emerged from nowhere entrenched in the air, firmly entwining the protective shell of the magic suit in which the delphinium was placed.

A white spider several meters tall hung from the sky with a silk thread, slowly descended to the spider's side, and then picked up its own arthropods and lowered the spider on its back.

The spider sat on the white spider's back, looked at the sky again, and muttered, "Alright, your mission is complete." ”

As his words fell, the chrysalis remnant beast that had been hanging from the huge cobwebs and was fighting with the lantern screamed violently, and its already battered body instantly collapsed and fell straight into the web it had weaved.

The man, codenamed Spider, straightened up from the white spider's back and reached out to grab his neck, but the forbidden magic spell jerked his hand away, giving him a slight look of uncertainty on his face.

It's just that these slight unhappiness was quickly put aside by him, and he looked at the delphinium trapped in the magic suit in front of him, and spoke again:

"You see, I really didn't talk nonsense, as I said, the orders of the high-level remnants are absolute for the low-level remnants."

This sentence made the Delphinium who was originally planning to change his magic form again and cut the meat net around him with a beating.

"High-level remnant beast ......," she looked up at the spider as she realized something, "I just wanted to say why this nest didn't look like a chrysalis nest in the first place. ”

"Your instincts are really sharp."

The spider sitting on the back of the white spider gently stroked the remnant beast under him: "The chrysalis remnant beast can order the worms and eggs that gather in its nest, so why can't the chrysalis itself be ordered?" ”

As if in response to his words, the spider remnant beneath him raised its head and chirped again into the air. Then, the huge spider that had landed on the spider's web trembled, and after a convulsion, it was completely motionless.

"That remnant beast is not the culprit of this incident at all, it is nothing more than a tool."

After looking up, the delphinium lowered its head, stared at the spider and said, "You just controlled it, borrowed its nest, and turned its nest into a tool for your own hunting." ”

Spider smiled.

"You've been asking me where those stupid magical girls have gone."

He spoke, his hand twisting violently, and in the hissing of the white spider remnant, a piece of purple-black flesh was pulled out of its back.

The purple-black piece of flesh was still beating behind the remnant beast, and the spider looked at the piece of flesh with a look of fascination, and then slowly pressed it to his chest:

"It's up to you to bear witness to the answer."

"This is the time of hoe and rebellion."

(End of chapter)