When the delphinium stepped through the gates of the Strange Scheme, as she had seen before, there was not even the slightest light around, and everything in the darkness was silent.

Unlike the usual darkness caused by the lack of light, in the deep space of the Anomaly, even with the vision of a magical girl, she couldn't see anything clearly, and could only vaguely distinguish the outline of the object.

This is all the more indicative of the fact that something is wrong with the situation in the different policy bureaus.

The delphinium stood in place, threw the glowing magic detection technique into the hall in front of him, and after confirming that there was no hidden ambush in the darkness, he put on several layers of barriers and officially stepped into it.

As she walked forward, the sound of her footsteps echoed through the empty hall.

Click, click, click.

As she walked forward, a voice came from the darkness.

Kiln, Kiln.

The subtle and chaotic sound never stops.

This caused the delphinium to stop in the middle of the empty hall and look around in some strange ways.

Why did it all feel familiar?

She continued to step forward, the crunch of her heels tapping on the ground dissipated the surrounding noise, and after a brief silence, it was replaced by a whisper.

There were men and women, old and young, and the only thing they had in common was that they were all laughing.

The laughter awakened the delphinium's memory, and finally reminded her of the source of this familiarity—the dream she had experienced before.

The hall in the darkness, the laughter of unknown origin, this situation and this scene are exactly the same as their dreams.

It's just that after realizing this, Delphinium's brow became more and more furrowed.

She didn't understand what the connection could be.

There is no doubt that what she is experiencing now is reality, so what was the previous dream? Is it foreknowledge? Is it a warning sign? Or is it some kind of trap?

The doubts in her heart were unanswered, but that didn't stop her, she just quickened her pace and kept going.

She is not afraid of danger, nor is she afraid of enemies, all she worries about is that she will not be able to find clues and solve problems.

As she walked on, the snickering around her mingled with the echo of her footsteps. The sounds grew sharper, and finally, as in the delphinium's dream, began to evolve into noise.

The delphinium was expressionless and indifferent, but raised its hand to strengthen the barrier around it, blocking out the sound waves from these noises.

"Boring trick." She spoke, not letting the noise attack as in her dreams, but reached out, took the azure wand in her hand, and whispered, "Mana constructs, precipitates." ”

Countless blue threads of magic appeared around her as the words spoke. They were layered, trembling, and began to spread out in all directions after the delphinium raised its fingers.

These magic threads slashed towards the periphery, each as sharp as a blade, making a uniform sound of breaking through the air, cutting into every corner of the space.

As long as the enemy has an entity, it is impossible to dodge such an attack.

And as long as she reacts to the attack of the delphinium, whether it is to fight back or block, she can quickly locate the enemy's location.

Delphinium didn't believe in the dream, but she didn't ignore the warning signs. She was inclined to believe that there was indeed an enemy in the space.

It's just that the current Delphinium doesn't have time to play hide and seek with that enemy, she needs to be faster, the faster the better, she knows that she doesn't have that much time.

So she's going to use her magic costume to force that enemy out of the darkness.

The threads of magic swung in all directions, and as the attack reached every corner of the space, the echoes, the voices, and the laughter dissipated as if they had never existed.

It's just that the feeling that came back from the silk thread made Delphinium's eyes widen slightly.

“…… Are you kidding. ”

She hadn't said that in a long time.

The threads did strike the enemy, and they actually struck something that was not a building, different from a dead thing, and by the feel, it was clearly a living thing.

However, every thread attacked the enemy.

Every single one.

In order to confirm the feedback she received, the delphinium increased the output of mana, causing all the mana threads to burst out with stronger mana. While the powerful destructive power further damaged the target it hit, the light of the magic finally illuminated the darkness that was otherwise invisible.

Delphinium looked up at the top of the hall, only to feel that her breath was stagnant.

She couldn't believe her eyes.

If you really want to make an analogy with the scene she sees now, it has to go back to a long time ago, when Lin Yun searched everywhere for the origin of these insects because of the problem of clothes moths in her home.

At that time, he opened many dark corners that were usually closed, just to find out where these ubiquitous little insects gathered. The final place to find was in a completely neglected corner of the storage room, under a mattress that had been discarded.

There, he saw dense swarms of insects that might make people who were afraid of insects scream.

Now, in the view of the delphinch, this is probably the scene.

It's just that instead of insects, she sees animals. Above the ceiling of the Strange Strategy Bureau, there was a dense crowd of countless wrecked beasts that were moving and screaming.

Most of these remnants are only the size of ordinary people, and they can be said to be like children compared to ordinary remnants, but the number is so large that it makes people shudder.

The murmur in the darkness was nothing else, but the collective roar of these remnants of beasts gathered together in the darkness.

At this moment, the remnants of the silk threads had become visibly restless, and the pain made them uneasy. Not willing to continue huddling in place, many of the remnants of the beasts had moved their bodies in an attempt to break away from the crowded ceiling.

As the remnants swelled, something fell from the ceiling and smashed into the ground.

The delphinium stepped forward in silence, looking at the object on the ground with the glow of its magic—a small, square, card-like object.

Stirring the object with a silk thread, and picking it up, it reveals its own form: an identity badge of an employee of the Alien Bureau.

The badge is very well preserved, and the plastic shell on the surface is not damaged in the slightest, so the delphinium can clearly see the ID photo and personal information on it.

It's just that the owner of this identity card is probably already unlucky.

Delphinium stared at the badge silently for two seconds, and when she looked up again, there was no emotion on her cold face.

She raised her hand, and the silk threads in the air buzzed with her movements, responding to her movements, and the next moment she could start a slaughter of the monsters on the ceiling.

Kill these monsters and make them pay for the sins of killing humanity.

It was as if a voice was saying in her heart.

That's right, kill these monsters, they deserve to-

The delphinium suddenly let go of its hand.

No, that wasn't my voice just now.

She clutched her heart and said.

It was a voice that popped into her head, and its first words were to let herself kill the beasts on the ceiling.

Something was wrong, Delphinium told herself.

It was only natural for a magical girl to kill a crippled beast, so why would it encourage herself to do it?

The dream I had in the afternoon seemed to have some kind of inducement in itself, it was making my mind unbalanced, why?

Thinking of this, the delphinium raised her head violently again, and she finally realized that these remnant beasts were also very wrong.

Ordinary crippled beasts, acting according to instinct, have no reason at all. The instincts of the remnants are to destroy and eat, and if a magical target like a magical girl comes into their sight, they will surely attack.

In other words, if there were no other anomalies in these remnants on the ceiling, Delphinium should have been subjected to endless attacks from the first second she walked into the Strange Strategy.

But they didn't.

Even if they were injured by the delphinium with their magic costumes, they still had no intention of attacking, but only moved their bodies to get out of the place where they were attacked.

The remnants just curled up on the ceiling, screaming, screaming, and intimidating, as if they didn't destroy the urge to eat, but ...... Fear?

Why are they afraid? What are they afraid of?

At this moment, Delphinium felt closer to the truth than ever before.

She lowered her head again, looked at the slime-stained ID card on the ground, looked at the extremely clear photo of the employee on the ID card, and after a moment of silence, she suddenly remembered something.

One thing happened not so long ago.

At that time, she went to Bai'an City, fell into the lair of the remnant beast, and found an office in the lair that resembled the Bai'an City Alien Bureau, which contained the corpses of the employees of the Alien Bureau, as well as a remnant beast.

This is not unusual, it is normal for an employee of the Alien Strategy Bureau who strayed into the lair to be killed by a remnant beast.

But there are some details, very strange.

First of all, the door to that office was hidden.

There is no reason for a cruel beast with a tyrannical instinct to keep the door intact, and there is no reason to be polite enough to close the door when he enters the office; In the same way, if an employee of the Alien Bureau found a remnant beast inside the door, there was no reason to go in or even cover the door.

In that case, there was no reason for either the beast or the human to hide the door.

Secondly, in the lair of Bai'an City, Lantern had told herself that she had protected the employees of the Alien Bureau and told them to find a room to hide.

In other words, those employees of the Alien Bureau should have taken the initiative to find the office and finally hid in it together.

Then the remnant beast must have appeared later, and it must have appeared in front of those victims after they had hid, so that it had a chance to kill everyone.

These two facts are contradictory.

If the employees of the Bureau of Aliens first found the vacant office and hid in it, then how did the remnants of the beast enter the office without breaking the door at all?

Could she have guessed that the hidden door wasn't originally hidden, but that the innocent victims had opened the door from the inside when they tried to escape from the office before they died?

So, what does this mean?

- That remnant beast suddenly appeared in the office by some kind of opportunity?

Sudden appearance?

The word sent chills down the mountain's spine.

Even a chrysalis remnant beast can't move in a jumping space at will, so it's definitely impossible for a remnant beast to suddenly appear. If it really "appeared out of nowhere", then what would be the form of this appearance?

Looking up at the ceiling, looking at the remnants of the beasts that were moving in place, the delphinium slowly opened its hand again.

However, this time, she didn't kill these monsters in order to manipulate the magic costume, but let the magic thread circulate among the monsters, scraping, as if looking for something.

Unsurprisingly, her movements were fed back, and as the silk threads stirred through the herd of remnants, more and more unidentified objects began to fall from the sky and fall to the ground with a crisp sound.

Delphinium stepped forward and checked them one by one, only to find that they were all personal belongings of various humans: identity tags, glasses, watches, cell phones, gel pens, and so on.

What's even more surprising is that all of these things are exceptionally well preserved, except for the damage caused by falling from a height.

The delphinium looked at the objects on the ground and was speechless for a long time.

- "Why don't you do it?" ”

A voice came from behind her.

"I can't kill them." Delphinium replied.

"But they're remnants." The voice continued.

This question was filled with a certain frank doubt, as if it was really asking the delphinch, and with this question, the delphinium found that there was a shadow under her feet.

A figure much longer than his own, completely covering his own shadow.

"They're remnants, but they're not remnants either."

The delphinium did not look back, but continued to look at the personal belongings on the ground, and her voice was low:

"They should have been...... Mankind. ”

Her answer also silenced the person behind her who asked the question.

This is what Delphinium finally came to the conclusion that those remnants on the ceiling were humans. Even, a considerable number of them are former employees of the Fangting City Alien Bureau.

The same is true of the Alien Bureau in Bai'an, where the tragedy in that office was not caused by the enemy who appeared from outside, but because of ...... Some of them have become crippled beasts.

One of the employees who was hiding in the office turned into a crippled beast and attacked other unprepared companions, which led to the tragedy.

She should have thought of it a long time ago.

Ember Dawn has mastered a technique called "Beast's Intestine", which allows humans to gain the power of the remnant beast and even manipulate the remnant beast in turn. Then, this technology must have other applications.

Like what...... Turn ordinary people into crippled beasts.

It's just that this technology must not be as perfect as their "Beast's Intestine", and it is impossible to be as violent as the Beast's Intestine, and it can turn into a human again after using it.

The delphinium could feel that the monsters above their heads were actually just the product of a simple stitching.

Humans and remnants are stitched together, like walking corpses, with neither consciousness nor combat power.

It was reluctant to even call them remnants, because their weak bodies and magic could not support them to fight like remnants, and they were inferior to even the lowest level of eggs.

These things on the ceiling, at this moment, are just a bunch of pathetic "monsters".

"But they're beasts now."

The voice behind the delphinium said, "If you don't kill them, they will one day take the first step to hunt for hunger." As they begin to devour living creatures and gain more mana, they will also begin to grow powerful and then become a real hazard. ”

"But they're human." "Innocent humans. ”

"They are monsters, monsters that must be destroyed."

The voice behind the delphinium stated, "We don't have the power to change them back to their original form, their human parts have been completely sewn together with the remnants, and these parts will later turn into their own nourishment, making them real remnants." ”

"I know."

Delphinium's tone was calm, but her hands gradually clenched: "I...... Aware. ”

"You promised me, 'No matter what kind of beast it is, you can destroy it.'"

The voice continued, gradually drawing closer to the delphinium: "Now, it's time to make good on this promise, these things are no longer human, just monsters. ”

- "Senior".

(End of chapter)