At the beginning of December, the weather had turned cold, and the cold wind brought a light snow, and the streets of Fangting City became much paler in winter.

The pale white sky was high and empty, and although the sun was shining, it did not bring a trace of the warmth of the sun. When the cold wind blows, it is mixed with a faint whistling sound, as if it is the roar of nature.

It was a weekend, but there weren't many pedestrians on the road. The streets were filled with a chill, and the few who were away from home were wrapped in heavy winter coats, enduring the cold on their cheeks, and walked through the gray and white pavement. The hustle and bustle of the city is blown away by the cold wind, leaving only silence and loneliness.

In such cold months, most people prefer to spend a rare weekend indoors with full heating on.

The street outside is cold, and the heating inside the house is precious. A layer of glass divides the two worlds of cold and warm, and the mist on the window lattice that has not yet dissipated seems to tell the unwillingness of the cold outside.

"Heh" spit the mist in his mouth on the glass, watching the range of the mist slowly shrink, Lin Xiaolu was a little bored and drew a simple smile on it. Looking at the lonely scenery outside the house through the gap of smiling faces, but still didn't see her equal, and looked back at Xia Liang, who was lying on the sofa and playing with her mobile phone, she couldn't help but sigh:

"Why hasn't the delphinium come back yet?"

"I always feel like you're asking about delphinium, but there's something else hidden in your words."

Xia Liang stared at the phone screen, didn't look back, and said in a lazy voice: "Does being alone with me make you feel so bored?" ”

"Who's alone with you, it's just in a living room."

Lin Xiaolu looked at the smiling face she had just drawn, and saw that after only two sentences, her "artistic masterpiece" had become mottled, and she subconsciously narrowed her eyes: "Don't be sentimental, I'm really just asking about Delfinium." ”

"Even if it doesn't mean anything else, I've asked this question at least three times."

Xia Liang muttered while tapping on the keyboard on the mobile phone screen: "If you don't come back, you haven't come back, no matter how anxious you are, it's useless, don't you have anything else to do?" ”

"Nope."

Lin Xiaolu wiped away the smiling face he had just drawn, and muttered: "The cultivation of magic has entered a bottleneck, the school homework has been written, there are no interesting programs on TV, and there is nothing to do." ”

"What about games? Where's your team of magical girls? ”

"I'm done playing, and I've cleared all the levels."

Turning around from the window and walking back to the center of the living room, Lin Xiaolu sat back on the sofa with a sullen expression: "Mom...... I've also switched to the role of Akebosa.,I've already pulled the level to the highest.,There's no interest in continuing to play.。 ”

"Isn't there a new event? There's also the latest character to come out, called Morning Glory...... Or something? ”

"I'm not interested, it's not my type. The magical girl is still sparkling and more desirable. ”

As soon as she heard the name "Morning Glory", Lin Xiaolu subconsciously pursed her mouth, and the evaluation in her mouth was merciless: "As for the new event, it doesn't feel interesting, isn't it the most old-fashioned villain's debut model play?" It's all badly played in the animation. ”

"Then go and play against other players, I remember that game has a player competition content, right?"

"Huh? Let the magical girl I have worked so hard to cultivate compete with others. There is no benefit in winning, but you will be humiliated if you lose, are you the devil? Lin Xiaolu's eyes widened.

"The devil is the game operation, right? I'm just telling the truth. ”

Xia Liang put down his phone a little helplessly: "This doesn't work, that doesn't work, why don't you go downstairs to train with Xiaoxuan?" ”

"She's already awakened the magic costume, what's the use of me going."

Lin Xiaolu pursed her mouth: "And I always feel that the kid has suddenly become a lot more powerful recently, and I can't take advantage of her now." ”

"If you really want to say that, it is."

Xia Liang nodded thoughtfully: "You can't win against her at all, forget it, I'm almost at the leaf level, and I feel that I still don't have any advantage in facing her." The junior took her alone for special training, and she always felt that something happened to that child that we didn't know. ”

"Will there be?"

Lin Xiaolu propped her elbows on her knees and blinked suspiciously, "I don't feel anything." ”

"Have you noticed, that kid has completely given up the title of 'teacher' recently, and has started to chase the junior and call 'Mom'."

Xia Liang's head leaning on the armrest tilted slightly, and his gaze was opposite to Lin Xiaolu: "Don't you have any thoughts about this?" ”

"What's wrong? I told her after all. ”

Looking at Xia Liang with a confused face, Lin Xiaolu tilted her head: "Primary school students are straightforward and fast-talking, so it's okay to express intimacy like this, right?" ”

"Then why haven't you shouted these days?"

"I'm not a schoolboy! And the delphinium seems to be quite troubled by this title! ”

Lin Xiaolu fiercely pointed out the mistakes in Xia Liang's words, and then leaned back with his hands folded, putting on a thinking posture: "Although according to this progress, there may really be a day...... But after all, the relationship between the two of them hasn't really come to that far, is it too selfish for me to rush to shout like this? ”

“…… If only you wanted. ”

Showing a strange smile that Lin Xiaolu couldn't understand at all, Xia Liang put down his phone. She strained her back and bounced herself off the back of the sofa, changing the subject: "Forget it, let's do the housework together, shall we?" ”

"Huh? No. ”

Lin Xiaolu immediately said with some disgust: "I just did it yesterday, and it was your turn today, right?" Don't try to change the concept and drag me into the water. ”

"You don't have anything to do anyway, do you?"

Xia Liang smiled a little slyly: "It should be regarded as deepening the friendship between us." ”

"Who is rare?"

Lin Xiaolu glanced at her, her whole body was completely spread on the backrest, and at the same time, her heels were cocked, showing her attitude of refusing to land: "Instead of repeating meaningless housework, it is better to have a remnant beast popping up now for me to fight." ”

"Fighting the Beast?"

Xia Liang seemed to hear something very interesting, and showed a cheerful smile with innocence: "If you can't use white magic, you won't be able to beat a slightly more powerful beetle, right?" After all, it's the seed level. ”

"I, you!" Lin Xiaolu's heel that had just been raised smashed to the ground in an instant.

Just as the daily bickering between the two evolved in the direction of meaningless quarrels, a sound from the entrance interrupted the conversation between the two.

Bang!

The crisp sound of the door closing was like a signal, making the eyes of the two turn their eyes in the direction of the entrance together.

If people's ears can also respond to sounds, I'm afraid Lin Xiaolu's ears have stood up now. After all, she knew exactly what the sound of the door closing at such a time meant.

"Delphinium, you ...... back"

Jumping up suddenly in Xia Liang's helpless eyes, Lin Xiaolu trotted to the door, and was about to welcome the other party well, but after his eyes touched the scene at the door, he closed his mouth with a subtle expression.

Because it's not just Delphinium standing there, there's another figure.

It was a magical girl dressed in fuchsia and looked a little familiar, but I couldn't tell where I looked familiar. If she had to say where she had seen a magical girl with this image, it seemed that it was only in the mobile game she had recently played.

But in the face of a person who met for the first time calling the name of a mobile game character, it sounded a bit like a naïve child who couldn't tell the difference between illusory reality, so Lin Xiaolu wisely chose to shut up.

This look of confusion and detachment, and the expression of detachment with vigilance was captured by the delphinch. Therefore, she first glanced at the magical girl, her lips opened slightly, but she stopped talking, and finally closed her eyes slightly, as if she had made some decision, and said:

"Call Bo Xue and Xiao Jin, and by the way, Mo Ke, I'm going to introduce you to the new members."

“…… New members? ”

Lin Xiaolu looked at the girl in the red dress and swallowed the phrase "She looks bigger than all of us" back into her mouth. In the end, he just snorted and left with surprise and doubt.

In a few moments, all the members of the secret base were gathered.

"Let me introduce to you, this is a magical girl who has only recently come to Fangting City, and will join our team as a non-resident member in the future, and will act with us in part of the battle."

Delphinium spread out to the girl beside her with one hand, with a straight face, and said seriously: "Compared to you, she is also a senior, so if you don't understand anything, you can ask her." ”

After speaking, seeing that everyone was silent, she looked around at the girls' reactions, paused, and spoke again: "Do you have anything you want to ask?" ”

After asking this, she saw Xia Liang be the first to raise her hand, so she nodded and motioned for her to ask.

'I don't understand!' What does 'non-resident' mean? ”

After receiving the Delphinch's signal, Xia Liang withdrew his hand with a serious expression, and asked like a good student, "Does it mean that this senior won't be resident in Fangting City?" ”

"No, she will be in Fangting City, but she will not stay in the secret base for a long time, and she will not participate in the usual patrols."

Delphinium explained with the same seriousness: "In general, after she joined our team, only important combat and training will come to help, and the rest of the time there will be other tasks. ”

"Is this senior from the kingdom?"

Bai Jingxuan also asked: "It doesn't feel like a magical girl who was originally in Fangting City. ”

The delphinium pondered the words and responded with a little thought: "This question...... Count, it doesn't count. She is actually more similar to me, originally a native of Fangting City, but something happened later......"

"Mom's friend?"

Bai Jingxuan seemed to take a while to understand this concept, and then nodded obediently: "Then I have nothing to ask." ”

- "I have an opinion! I have an opinion as a seeder! ”

However, Moke spoke up at this time: "Although this is the meaning of the patrol envoy, it is my task to change the magical girl in a city!" I never knew there was such a magical girl in Fangting City, and I hadn't sensed it before! Suddenly such a person came out of nowhere, and then declared to join our team or something, this kind of thing I just learned, it's not in line! ”

"I know it was sudden, but we'll talk about the formalities later."

Delphinium clasped her hands a little helplessly: "In short, today is just to introduce you to know each other, and the specific activities will be discussed later." ”

"Then you have to let us know where she came from, right?"

Lin Xiaolu was the last to speak, but her attitude was the most sharp and direct: "Even if it is introduced by Delfinium, even if it is a senior, a stranger suddenly joins the team or something......"

Her voice grew quieter and quieter at the end, but everyone actually understood what she was trying to say.

In fact, Xia Liang and Bai Jingxuan's previous questions also vaguely revealed this meaning.

After understanding this, even the delphinium couldn't continue to maintain a straight face, showing a helpless expression of "I knew it would be like this", and glanced at the girl beside her.

The eyes of the two met, as if they had completed an exchange that the girls did not understand, and after a while, the strange girl spoke with a little embarrassment:

"That, because I was originally a magical girl in Fangting City...... It's just that I came back recently, no, should I say it's a homecoming? ”

"It's already in Fangting City?" Xia Liang was a little clear, "You are the senior who left Fangting City two years ago?" ”

"No, it's not ......"

"When was that senior? Earlier? Isn't that now retired? ”

Xia Liang tilted his head: "In other words, you are the same as the junior seniors, from Fangting City, but you joined the magic kingdom and only recently came back because of the mission?" ”

"I didn't join the Wizarding Realm."

Obviously she was being questioned by a girl who looked younger than herself, but the girl didn't show the slightest swagger of an older person: "I actually retired before......"

"Retire!"

This time, it was everyone except the delphinium and the goblins who let out an exclamation.

Because everyone, even the goblins, know that retired magical girls will lose their strength and will never be able to transform again. The girl's remarks are undoubtedly challenging their common sense and cognition.

"You're saying that I retired before, but now I can come back as a magical girl?"

Even the most rational Xia Liang was a little dumbfounded for a while: "How did this happen?" Are there any other rules and regulations that we haven't learned? Or is there a privilege in the Wizarding Realm? No, it sounds familiar......"

- "Don't even guess. ”

In the end, it was Delphinium who interrupted the girls' noise, and said helplessly: "Actually, you all know her, she is my junior, and the magical girl's code name is Chaoyan." ”

After saying this, the noise in the living room suddenly ended. It also completely dispelled the doubts of the girls.

Then, when such a doubt was resolved, an even more intense series of surprises erupted.

"Is it Aunt Red?" Bai Jingxuan's voice was the most direct.

"Ah, it's red...... Sister. Xia Liang covered his mouth slightly, still not forgetting to standardize his name.

"It's that strange woman?" Moco was the most polite at this point.

The maidens mingled with the elven shouts, and everyone expressed their surprise, but only one of them did not speak.

That is Lin Xiaolu.

It wasn't that she was too surprised, or that she had a prescient understanding of the truth, but that her focus had already drifted in a strange direction.

She saw the smile that Red Sihe showed to the delphinium with some emotion in her restraint, and also saw the helpless but soft response of the delphinch.

What is their relationship?

Compared with Hong Sihe's true identity, this question has firmly occupied her mind from the moment it appeared, and then, it exploded the alarm in Lin Xiaolu's mind.

(End of chapter)