The private research institute arranged by the Bureau for Emeralds is located in a commercial real estate area under the jurisdiction of the Bureau, in a less popular office building.

The advantage is that it is quiet in the middle of noisy and is not easy to be discovered; The disadvantage is that the place is not big, and it is difficult to talk about grandeur.

In the process of negotiating the location, Emerald once felt that this treatment was really not worthy of her identity as a gemstone scepter, and she had a lot of complaints about it. But Lin Yun was unwilling to agree to her request that she open her mouth to be "a whole floor", and finally compromised into two rooms.

Taking the elevator to the corridor of the office building, Lin Yun walked side by side with the fairy doll and came to the door of the emerald research institute.

"Transform first." Emerald said suddenly.

Lin Yun raised his eyebrows slightly, but after all, he still did not doubt him, took out the gem of the heart, and turned into the appearance of a delphinium. After the transformation, she immediately noticed that the door in front of her had become different.

What originally seemed to be just an ordinary security door in an office building has now become a metal door engraved with intricate runes and flashing with magical light.

“——”

Standing in front of the door, the doll opened its mouth, and a series of voices that did not resemble human language at all came from its mouth. With each syllable, a faint rune lit up on the door, until after he had finished reading a sentence, the shiny runes finally joined into a circle.

Click.

The door opened.

Delphinium followed the doll into the renovated and unrecognizable room, looking around, only to feel that there was no shadow of the original office building anywhere.

The interior of the room is mainly made of copper and iron, and the floor is made of some kind of wood, and the display in it looks magical but technological.

The tall bookshelves are crammed with documents and codexes written in unknown scripts, revealing an air of antiquity and serenity. Sunlight streams through the windows, casting the dust on the bookshelves into golden spots. On the laboratory table by the window, there are reagent bottles of different shapes. The liquid in the bottle shimmers with a multicolored light, which is very eye-catching.

On the wall on the side, several huge mirrors are inlaid in the copper and iron ornamentation, and the top of the mirror is now listed with dense data and runes, which seem to play the role of a display screen.

And in the corner of the research institute, there is also a facility that looks particularly conspicuous.

If Delphinium is not mistaken, it should be a treatment bed. Although it is very different from the image of the treatment bed in the physical hospital, both its size and silhouette remind Delphinium of this medical device that is often seen in hospitals.

"So? Why are you insisting on me coming over so much? ”

After scanning the furnishings of the research institute, Delphinium turned her head to look at the fairy doll on the side: "Just show me off your new house?" ”

"Don't be so anxious, Housheng."

Emerald's voice sounded leisurely: "I think you know very well, I will call you over, naturally it is still for the transaction." ”

"If it was the same as before, I'm afraid I still wouldn't agree." Delphinium frowned in response, "As I said, the better the conditions you give, the more I will doubt your motives. ”

"Really, I've already said that, right? Don't be in a hurry. ”

The fairy doll turned its head, probably trying to show the "shaking its head": "Since I asked you to come over, I will definitely give some new conditions." ”

As he said this, it stretched out its claws and pointed at the treatment table not far away:

"Let's take a look at that, for example."

“…… What's that for? ”

"As you can see, it's a treatment bed. The basic functions are just like those in the physical hospital, but they are optimized for magic and soul. ”

The doll walked to the side of the light curtain and reached out to turn the knob on the operating table: "If you agreed to the deal we said before, that treatment table should be for you to use for pre-conditioning." ”

"Pre-conditioning?" The word made Delphinium can't help but raise an eyebrow.

"Yes, it's a big job to repair the rift in your true nature. After all, the volume is flower-level, and the injury is very serious, and it is not something that can be achieved overnight. ”

The doll's head made a voice without looking back: "Although we will not be able to go to the country until next year for the final restoration work, the work can still be carried out until then." ”

"Specifically?"

"Specifically, you need to use all kinds of means to stabilize your injuries, first make sure that your mana does not continue to drain and spill out. If you continue like this, you won't wait until next year and you'll degenerate to the bud level. ”

The doll looked up at the screen: "It's too troublesome to explain, you lie down on your own, I'll let you try it." ”

"Now."

"Now, there is no need for any exchange of costs and benefits."

The doll turned around, and a simple smile appeared on its fairy-like furry face: "Think of it as the customer experience part of the product promotion, just feel the effect of it." ”

The delphinium did not speak, but the look of suspicion on her face was completely undisguised.

She approached the treatment table that the emerald was referring to, reached out and touched its surface, then raised her hand and looked: "There doesn't seem to be any abnormal magic fluctuations, it doesn't seem to be a trap or a trap." ”

"There's no such thing."

Emerald sighed: "Although I have said it many times, I still want to emphasize once again that I am a person with noble and beautiful qualities, and I will not do that kind of indiscriminate thing." ”

The delphinium did not reply, silently pressed her hands on the edge of the treatment table, and then together they pushed themselves up, jumped slightly, and turned to sit down.

After sitting on the bed, she paused for two seconds and said again, "It's quite comfortable." ”

"It's just a simple optimization of the human body, you know, it's the most cutting-edge achievement in the medical direction of our research institute."

The doll left the screen wall and walked to the treatment bed: "Even if I want to sneak it to the material world, it will take a lot of effort." ”

“…… Secretly? ”

"Yes, secretly. This is something I commissioned my henchmen to transport from the smuggling route. ”

The doll raised its paws and stroked the outline of the instrument: "You should be proud, Housheng." This is the first time I've built my own institute in the material realm, and it's a location that only the two of us know about at the moment. ”

"Yes."

The tone answered without any fluctuations, and the delphinch's gaze swept over the room: "So, take the liberty of asking, is there anything in this room that was transported through official channels and not secretly?" ”

The doll didn't speak, but pointed behind him very confidently.

The delphinium looked in the direction it had indicated, and saw a large experimental bench there.

“…… That test bed? She was a little uncertain.

"No, it's my notepad that I put on it." Emerald is authentic.

"What about other than that?"

"It's gone."

The emerald's lazy voice came from among the dolls: "After all, I didn't report to Your Majesty at all." ”

The delphinium thought for a moment and raised her head again: "Your Excellency, Chief." ”

"What's wrong?"

"We in the material world generally call your behavior 'smuggling' and 'building illegal buildings without permission.'"

"That's a coincidence."

The doll lowered her body and clicked on the operation screen next to the treatment bed: "It seems to be the same definition in the country." ”

"I don't think it's a coincidence, it's simply because your actions are in violation." Delphinium said expressionlessly.

"Well, after all, you can't let Your Majesty know about it."

Emerald was a little helpless: "You think about what we are going to do next, whether it is to help you fabricate a false identity or smuggle back to the magic realm, none of them are legal." So what I'm doing here definitely can't be known to others. ”

"That's why you use a clone?"

"That's why I use a clone."

The doll stretched out its paws and pushed on the delphinch's arm: "Okay, the instrument has been debugged, let's lie down first." ”

The delphinium said no more, and lay down on the treatment bed.

She watched intently as the doll clicked on the control screen, and as it moved, faint waves of magic rippled from inside the machine, regularly washing around the delphinch.

A faint magical light enveloped the delphinium, and a tingling sensation slowly crept up the delphinium's limbs.

The subtle roar of the machine became the only leitmotif in the institute, and the sound of the doll tapping on the screen was its accompaniment. I don't know how long it took, but the doll finally raised its paws, looked at the delphinium and said:

"Okay, take off your clothes next."

"How much?"

"All."

The doll said casually, but after speaking, she found that there was something wrong with the way Delphinium looked at her: "What's wrong?" Why are you looking at me like that? ”

"Your Excellency, I remember that you just said that you are a person with the quality of 'noble and beautiful'."

The delphinium looked at it expressionlessly: "Is what you just said included in this quality?" ”

"Who do you think of me? All said, it's in therapy, treatment. It's not for some unbearable and filthy purpose! Do your doctors in the material world question like this? I'm your attending doctor now, and I'll be born! ”

The doll crossed her waist and said dissatisfiedly: "Let's not say that I don't have as ridiculous interest as you imagined, even if I did, I wouldn't be interested in a little girl like you, what are you worried about?" ”

Delphinium stared at the doll seriously for a moment, but unfortunately nothing could be seen from the puppet's body.

After thinking about it, she felt that she really didn't need to be so guarded against the other party, so she reached out and pressed it on the gem of her heart. The navy blue dress on her body suddenly turned into a magical thread shrouded in light, and the silk thread gradually spread out from tight to thin.

The magical girl's clothes are mainly composed of magical power, and you don't need to be as troublesome as normal clothes if you want to put on and take off, plus the ability of the delphinium already contains silk threads, so the manipulation of clothes is naturally not a problem.

However, just as she was about to take her clothes off her body, she found that the doll in front of her was staring at her motionlessly, with a pair of emerald pupils deep and focused. I don't know if it's an illusion, but the delphinium can still see inexplicably beating numbers and runes in its eyes.

“…… Your Excellency, for the sake of basic social distance and etiquette, can you turn your back a little? ”

"I just put the doppelganger here, the body has been turned back, you can take it off with confidence." The emerald's voice sounded a subtle dissonance.

"Could you please close the eyes of this doppelganger?" The delphinium asked, drooping its eyelids.

"Sorry, this doppelganger doesn't have the ability to close its eyes." The doll said with a wink.

The delphinium gradually let go of its hand on the gem and once again stared at the doll in silence, and the two were locked in a long stalemate at the side of the treatment bed.

After a while, she sat up from the treatment table and jumped to the ground:

"I'm sorry, that's all for today, I'm missing."

She always felt that the emerald had a good plan for bringing herself here, and it was even more contrary to common sense to throw so many bait before. With the character of the other party full of "transactions" and "interests", there must be no reason to let himself take so many advantages.

It's strange enough that the other party will suddenly appear in Fangting City and take the initiative to provide all kinds of help to him, and what kind of "customer experience link" does he even have to provide at the moment? Coupled with the other party's insistence on staring at himself in the process, this sense of disobedience is even stronger.

Although she didn't feel any shyness because she showed her skin, and she believed that the other party was not out of "ridiculous interest", she always felt that there was some other reason for this.

So, after confirming this, she decisively stopped the so-called treatment and planned to leave the place directly.

"Hey, don't go, I finally got the data...... No, I'm going to have a hard time introducing you to the next feature! ”

The fairy doll jumped down from the side of the treatment bed and ran in front of the delphinium: "It's just a matter of taking off your clothes, just a little bit!" There will be no shortage of meat! ”

"'Data that is hard to come by'...... Right? ”

The delphinium leaned down and pressed her palm on the doll's head: "Your Excellency, can you explain to me what kind of data it is?" ”

"Hmm...... You heard it wrong! ”

The doll struggled to wave its claws, trying to reach Delfinch's hand: "I am a proposal full of kindness and sincerity, how can there be such a cold thing as data?" ”

With that, it hooked the delphinium's wrist and began to try to force it in the direction of the treatment table: "Come, let's go back and continue for a while, three minutes...... No, two minutes is fine! ”

But the delphinium stood there, unmoving.

“…… It's just because your gem scepter is always like this that I don't trust you. ”

After hearing Emerald's words, she sighed for some reason, took another step, and walked towards the gate of the institute: "I don't want you to send it, I wish you a smooth research life here, goodbye." ”

The fairy doll that was left behind by her couldn't catch up with a pair of small short legs, and seeing that she was about to leave the institute like this, she finally stood still as if admitting defeat, and then raised her voice:

- "Alright, don't go yet!" I say! ”

Although it was still so lazy, there was obviously a little helplessness in the emerald tone: "Isn't that the reason why I want the source of the beast, and what do you want to bring you here?" I said yes. Anyway, you come back first. ”

The delphinium stopped.

However, she did not return to the treatment bed as the other party said, but continued to remain silent, quietly looking at the doll on the ground.

You start with something real.

That's what she wanted to say.

“…… Do you want me to say it first? In your later life, you really don't see rabbits and don't scatter eagles. ”

Knowing what Delphinium meant, the doll could only sigh and shake its head: "Okay, then I'll tell you something first, and really show my sincerity." ”

"For example, I think about ......"

"Oh, how about starting with 'claw marks'?"

(End of chapter)