Chapter 18: The Truth
"I should have told you that if you don't change your intentions, I won't allow you to join the Alien Bureau."
In the director's room of the Different Strategy Bureau, Lin Yun said helplessly: "Yes, I don't have the authority to command a magical girl, and I can't do anything if you insist on following up, so I can only tell you: I hope you are calm." If possible, stay on the sidelines. β
"You said you were just looking? What behaviors does your so-called 'look' encapsulate? I mean...... Well, if you can really do it, I have no opinion. β
"An enemy that the Alien Bureau can't deal with? Of course you can, and I would like to thank you for your help, but be sure to stay calm. β
ββ¦β¦ Well, then do as you say, well, bye. β
Click.
Hanging up the phone, Lin Yun sat behind the desk helplessly for a while, and then sighed.
After communicating with the emerald, he probably understood and sorted out Bai Jingxuan's problems. But understanding a problem doesn't mean knowing the solution. On the contrary, as Bai Jingxuan's image gradually became clear in his mind, he became more and more unsure of how to deal with this child's affairs.
Not only because of the other party's personality and experience, but also because of its special magical nature - the offset of the background color of the remnant beast.
Character, experience, magic. The combination of these factors, accumulated in Bai Jingxuan's body, means that this child is almost a complete time bomb: although everything seems to be normal at the moment, it may be detonated by external forces at any time, destroying the fragile balance.
I'm not much of an education expert myself - Lin Yun knows this very well. You must know that 5 months ago, he was a delinquent father who had a bad relationship with his daughter. It was still too difficult for him to figure out how to guide such a child for a while.
- Otherwise, let her go for revenge.
In the end, Lin Yun even had such an idea:
Anyway, in the end, I'm just a magical girl and a junior relationship, is it really necessary for me to worry about that?
On the bad side, what if the kid did get revenge? Homomorphic revenge is human nature, even if Lin Yun himself is like this, is he really qualified to educate this child?
On the bright side, maybe Bai Jingxuan is just a child who is ignorant and shouts scary words every day? really put the enemy in front of her and let her kill, she might not dare to do it.
The thoughts in his mind gradually diverged, and just as Lin Yun himself was about to use this crooked theory to persuade himself, there was a sudden knock on the door.
- Knock knock.
"Director, I'm Liu Dachun from the Logistics Department."
Immediately after, some muffled voices came from outside the door.
Logistics? At this time?
The chaotic thinking was interrupted, Lin Yun's consciousness returned to reality, he first had some doubts in his heart, but he didn't think about it, and then said, "Please come in." β
At the same time, he subconsciously reached into the pocket of his clothes and grasped the jewel of his heart.
This has been a habit since he took office as director.
Not just because he didn't trust the people of the Alien Bureau enough, but also because of the troublesome side effect of his troublesome transformation if the Heart Gem suddenly spiraled out of control and caused it to transform, he had to make sure he could detect the situation before then.
It's the same right now. Out of these considerations, he groped for the heart gem in his pocket, and because of his vigilance, he spread his perception to the door of the director's office: there was a magic thread he had laid in advance, and he could sense the magic outside the door and deduce the situation in the corridor.
However, the moment he connected the silk thread to his perception, he sensed something unusual, and his eyes suddenly froze.
There are two copies of magic outside the door.
This means that it is not only "Liu Dachun" who spoke before, but also another person, who is hiding in the corridor.
In his perception, one of the magic forces first approached the swing door and opened the door to the director's office. Then he deliberately adjusted the angle of his body to block the scene behind the door, and slowly entered the director's room.
In the visual, a tall man walked in through the door.
However, Lin Yun's silk thread perception was clear: until the tall man completely walked into the director's room, there was still no movement from the other magic lurking outside the door.
Wrong.
Lin Yun made a judgment in an instant.
There is no other reason, just because he has no impression of this man who calls himself "Liu Dachun".
He had already looked at the staff roster of the Bureau on the day he was hired, and since then he has been trying to match everyone's names with their photos. In order to speed up the progress of this work, he sometimes even uses the posture of the delphinium to aid his memory. Although it has not been completely completed until now, he can be sure that there are absolutely no employees in the Bureau who have grown up like this.
But he didn't pick it out, but continued to pretend not to know, and asked calmly, "What's wrong, is there something wrong?" β
"That's right, Director, when we counted the equipment this morning, we found that the remaining quantity did not seem to match the entry and exit records, and there were four pieces of magic weapons missing."
"Liu Dachun" stared at Lin Yun intently, his voice did not fluctuate, as if he was reciting a book: "We don't know if the record is wrong or really lost, so we want to come to you to confirm." β
"Magical armament?"
Lin Yun frowned: "I should have instructed you to keep it strictly, how could there be a situation like this?" β
"I'm very sorry, Director."
The tall man handed out a hard drive with an expressionless face: "So I brought the storage record, I hope you can confirm the name on it and see if there are any omissions." β
Lin Yun took the hard disk in his hand, lowered his head and connected the hard disk to his computer: "Have you checked it first?" β
The tall man put one hand behind his back: "Checked." β
Lin Yun still looked at the host of his computer: "Didn't you find any problems?" β
"Nope." The tall man pulled out a mass of purple-black flesh from his pocket.
"How the hell do you work? I can't do this little thing. β
Lin Yun seemed to be very angry, leaning over to turn on the computer, and said, "What about you Minister Li?" Hurry up and call him over. β
"Okay, I'll call him." The man pressed the purple-black flesh to his chest.
"Okay, then I'll ask you one last question."
"Speak, please." The man said indifferently.
"Is it Zhuang Yang or Tao Fang who let you in?"
Lin Yun raised his hand and looked at him calmly:
"Or is there a shadow in this bureau that I don't know about?"
This sentence made the tall man's pupils suddenly constrict.
Almost instantly, he opened his mouth, clutching the purple-black flesh in his hand, wanting to say something. But before he could spit out a syllable, blue threads suddenly wrapped around his wrists, pulling his fleshy hand aside.
The man immediately raised his other hand, which already held the medium used for the technique, and the purple-black magic power instantly lit up at his fingertips. But in the same way, he didn't have a chance to activate the technique at all, and he was completely tied in place by the blue silk thread.
Lin Yun hooked the silk thread around him expressionlessly, and the azure silk thread lifted the immobile man into the air in an instant, and then he rushed out of the door without saying a word.
In his perception, at the same moment that the man was controlled, the magic outside the door was already moving towards the safe passage.
Seeing Lin Yun's actions, the man who was hanging in the air didn't know that the behavior of the others was clearly seen, and he immediately stopped thinking about it, and shouted loudly: "Run!" β
It's a pity that neither he nor the owner of the magic outside the door realized it too late.
The moment Lin Yun walked into the corridor, he took the Heart Flower out of his pocket and activated it violently. The petite blue figure rose from the light of the magic, and a few people had already chased after the figure at the end of the corridor, and then concocted it in the same way, using the blue silk thread to control it.
The man who was hiding outside the door didn't know why he was caught, and he only felt that he was about to escape, but he was inexplicably tied up and hung into the air. He wanted to find the initiator of this matter, but he could only see Lin Yun standing not far away staring at him, and there were still a few wisps of blue brilliance around him that had not yet dissipated.
When he saw Lin Yun's face clearly, he didn't say anything anymore, but closed his eyes a little numbly.
Lin Yun, who had lifted the transformation, took a slight look at the image of the other party, and immediately recognized the identity of this man, which was the "Zhuang Yang" he mentioned when he asked the tall man just now.
"Zhuang Yang" and "Tao Fang", these two people are the dark sons of the black embers that Lin Yun has secretly marked, but he has not directly pulled out of them.
The reason why they were left behind was because since the re-establishment of the Different Strategy Bureau, these two people had not done anything that really harmed the Different Strategy Bureau, and their positions were not high, so it was difficult to achieve great things. In addition, the remaining forces of Ember Dawn are hidden very deeply, and it is difficult to find traces in a normal search, so Lin Yun thought about leaving them as clues to see if he could follow the vine and find clues to the enemy.
He didn't expect that this dark son named Zhuang Yang was so bold that he would dare to secretly lure the assassin to the bureau during work hours, and he still attracted a beast.
Looking at the numb man in front of him, Lin Yun just wanted to ask, but suddenly a flash of inspiration suddenly reminded him of another thing.
Zhuang Yang is here, what is Tao Fang doing?
Thinking of this, he took out his mobile phone from his pocket without thinking, dialed the number of the intelligence department, and directly called a relatively trusted employee, and said hurriedly:
"Help me find out where Tao Fang is now, and access the monitoring of her communication records in the past two days, I want to know where she has private contact with people."
After making the above request, he held his mobile phone and paced in place, quietly waiting for the other party to give the result.
The order given by the director himself was naturally highly valued by the Ministry of Intelligence, and a few minutes later, all the tracks of Tao Fang's activities in recent days were clearly investigated, and the minister of the Ministry of Intelligence personally read it to Lin Yun.
Lin Yun listened carefully to the other party's report, carefully wrote down every place name the other party said, and arranged and compared it in his heart. Until a certain moment, the other side of the call said a name that made his heart skip a beat.
The moment he heard this name, he felt that his thinking was completely opened, and he immediately figured out what the situation was now:
"βWait, what did you just say...... Spring by the lake? β
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"Give up, you're no match for us."
Reaching out and pressing the head of the employee of the Strange Strategy Bureau in front of him, Soldier Bee Seven pulled his finger out of his neck and gently shook off the blood stains on his fingertips: "Our time is precious, surrender now, I can give each of you a happy death." β
In front of him was the third squad of the Special Operations Department, which had collapsed.
As the captain, Li Yingwei was pierced in the chest by an unknown sharp weapon, and was lying on the ground at this time, not knowing whether he was alive or dead; Tian Sheng, who is also the main combat power, was pinched in the claws of a huge remnant beast, hanging his head and making no sound; Only the vice-captain Mu Bensheng and a few team members stood back to back, gritting their teeth and looking at the enemies around them.
-- The disparity in combat strength between the two sides is too great.
This Ember Dawn force that came out of nowhere, including one Chrysalis beast and four Worm Rank beasts, one of these people alone was enough to deal with the entire third squad, let alone gather together.
The moment the team stepped into the lakeside spring, they had already stepped into the ambush circle of the other party, and in just ten minutes, there were tragic casualties. If it weren't for the fact that there happened to be a magical girl in the team, I'm afraid they would have been wiped out by now.
The funny thing is that just before, they were still struggling with how to get the magical girl to leave and not continue to follow them.
Bai Jingxuan communicated with Lin Yun on the phone, and exchanged her stubborn attitude and relatively softened demands for permission to follow the third team. Unexpectedly, this permission became a lifesaver for the entire third team.
It was because of her that the team was able to hold up in front of this group of beasts for so long.
Bai Jingxuan's magic costume, "Tianyin", can continue to magically activate and heal the team members, so that the three team members equipped with magic weapons can work together to resist the attacks of the remnants of the worm rank. In addition, Bai Jingxuan herself restrained the three beasts alone, so he barely let the collapse of the situation not come so quickly.
However, when the man known as the "Soldier Bee Seven" by the other beasts made a move, the support of the third team seemed like a joke.
The strength of the chrysalis remnant beast is no less than a disaster for a slightly smaller city. Even if it is a magical girl, it must be an elite above the leaf level, or use crowd tactics to fight to be able to defeat it head-on.
Even if Bing Bee Seven didn't use the Beast's Intestine, he just used some magic power and spells ordinarily, it was far from what the third team could bear.
The rout has become a matter of course.
Easily killed all the employees of the Alien Bureau at his hand, and the gloomy complexion of the Soldier Bee Seven did not change in any way, and even the words of persuasion were just casual words, he looked at Bai Jingxuan.
The girl in a green dress was half-kneeling on the ground, clutching her heart, gasping for breath with difficulty.
She stepped forward to save the employees of the Alien Bureau, but was easily knocked down by Bing Bee Seven, and it was difficult to even get up.
"I didn't mean to kill you, magical girl, to be exact, our target here is you."
Soldier Bee Seven spoke: "Be honest, if we are captured, we can even consider not harming you." β
"Ahem...... Cough...... Why? Bai Jingxuan gasped, with a little puzzlement in her painful expression, "You, why are you looking for me?" β
"I'm sorry, I probably didn't have time to explain this to you."
Soldier Bee Qi said apologetic words, but there was no apology in his expression: "But you can think that you are important to us, or rather, you are important to our leader. β
"Magical Girl...... and the remnants are enemies. β
Bai Jingxuan stood up with her body propped up, and the music from the music box began to continue to heal her own body: "I don't care what you think of me, I'm going to kill you." β
"'Kill you'...... ? β
Soldier Bee Qigujing Wubo's eyes moved slightly: "It is worthy of being a beast hand-picked by the leader, it is really a good determination, not at all like those hypocritical magical girls." β
"But that's not enough."
He shook his head slightly, raised his hand, and a beam of magic light shot straight towards Mu Bensheng not far away.
Mu Bensheng, who was still fighting fiercely with other beasts, had no time to dodge at all, and when he saw the purple-black technique coming straight towards him, he suddenly closed his eyes in some despair.
Zila.
The beam did not hit him.
Because before the beam hit Mu Bensheng, it was blocked by Bai Jingxuan with his body.
The originally white and tender arm suddenly became bloody and blurry under the erosion of purple-black magic, and it looked extremely terrifying, but Bai Jingxuan still stared at Bing Bee Qi as if she was unconscious.
"You've been telling me, 'Kill you.'"
Bing Bee looked puzzled: "However, your behavior is completely different from what you said. β
"You say you want to kill someone, but you haven't been able to kill anyone so far; On the contrary, these inconsequential pigs, you have almost killed yourself in order to protect them, why? β
He pointed to Tian Sheng, who was pinched in his hand by another remnant beast not far away, and Li Yingwei, who fell to the ground: "You even blessed most of the power of the magic suit on those two men, and you still want to save them?" β
"Because...... I'm a magical girl. β
Bai Jingxuan stretched out her hand to stroke the music box beside her, and the melodious music continued to cleanse the surroundings: "Magical girl, you have to save others." β
"With such an innocent attitude, you will only not be able to kill anyone."
Bing Bee Qi shook his head indifferently, raised his hand, and the magic of the sharp nails condensed: "There are too many burdens behind the wings, and you can't spread your wings and soar." β
Rumble!
The green and purple black magic power staggered in the air, and the figure of Bing Bee Seven briefly overlapped with Bai Jingxuan, and after the fierce magic impact, Bai Jingxuan flew out again heavily.
Soldier Bee Seven kicked her in the heart, slamming it hard against the protective wall on the side.
"I repeat, don't waste any more time."
He shook his toes, stepped forward, grabbed Bai Jingxuan's hair, and dragged the girl off the wall: "Put away your magic, or do you want me to break your limbs and take you away again?" Will this healing power of yours be able to restore limbs? β
"I ...... I'm going to kill you......"
The girl glared, gritted her teeth, and tried to reach for the soldier bee seven, but she couldn't reach the face in front of her.
"It's a contradiction."
Bing Bee Qi looked at her coldly: "It's like a split personality, one moment it's a human, another it's a beast: one moment it's rational, and the other time it's just instinct." β
"Tell me, magical girl, what are you hating?"
His questions went unanswered. Bai Jingxuan just kept reaching out to him, trying to grab his neck.
Tilting his head slightly, Bing Bee Qi looked at her and said, "Is your hatred because of those two researchers?" β
"What...... Researcher ......"
Bai Jingxuan gasped and roared: "My father, my mother, are all remnants of the beast, and they are all ...... by you."
"Dad? Mom? What is that? β
However, her words were interrupted by Bing Bee Seven: "You don't have such a thing. β
"I have!" As if further angered by Bing Bee Qi's words, Bai Jingxuan struggled violently, "I have!" Apparently you killed me! β
"No, you don't."
Bing Bee Qi looked at her faintly, and his eyes revealed a little pity: "Because you are just a beast born from experiments that we made out of abandoned babies." β
"You're talking nonsense!"
Bai Jingxuan shouted angrily: "I don't allow you to talk about my parents like this!" I'll kill you! β
"Don't make me repeat it, magical girl. No, beast, you don't have parents. β
Bing Bee Qi pressed her head with his other hand, stared at her eyes, and in the girl's stunned gaze, said word by word:
- "What you think of as 'parents' are nothing more than traitors to the dawn of the ashes. It's a pair that brought you out of the organization, researchers. β
(End of chapter)