"Suspicious."

A few days later, in the evening, after returning home from the patrol, Lin Xiaolu sat on the sofa alone, her face was calm, and she sighed in a deep voice: "It's really suspicious." ”

Because there have been no remnant beasts in Fangting City in recent days, and they have a relatively certain understanding of the area under their jurisdiction, the girls' patrol work will inevitably be discounted. Patrolling, which used to take up nearly two hours after school, has now been reduced to one hour.

After completing the fixed tasks, the girls, who had nothing to do and did not want to study, naturally gathered in the living room and took their favorite place on the sofa.

On her side, Xia Liang was originally watching the TV intently, but after hearing Lin Xiaolu's deep groan beside her, he turned his head to look at her, and then looked at the TV screen again with an expressionless face.

"It's so suspicious."

Lin Xiaolu repeated this sentence again, and raised her voice for some reason: "I feel that something is happening in secret, and I am being kept in the dark." ”

Xia Liang still turned a deaf ear and watched the TV calmly.

Glancing at Xia Liang, seeing that he didn't have the slightest intention of answering, Lin Xiaolu narrowed his eyes slightly. Standing up from her seat and walking behind the other party, she bent her legs, squatted in Xia Liang's ear, and said word by word: "It's too much, it's suspicious." ”

“…… What do you want to say? ”

Reluctantly turning his gaze away from the TV, Xia Liang showed a somewhat perfunctory smile: "Suspicious? Have you spotted any suspicious characters lately? ”

"Suspicious characters? Well...... Probably? Lin Xiaolu straightened up, with a thoughtful look on her face.

"Who?"

"The woman."

"Who is 'that woman', how can I understand what you say?"

Xia Liang reluctantly pulled out a dry smile: "Don't you have a more recognizable name?" ”

Lin Xiaolu couldn't help but breathe, pursed her lips and paused for a long time before she reluctantly held back a sentence from her mouth: "That's it...... The woman named Hong Siyu. ”

“…… Ha. ”

Xia Liang sighed slightly, and a look of "I know" flashed from her face: "You are talking about red...... Sister, what's wrong with her? ”

"Don't you think it's weird?"

Lin Xiaolu grabbed the back of the sofa with both hands, revealing half of her face from behind: "Why did that woman disappear for so long before, and why did she suddenly become a magical girl recently, after all, why can a retired magical girl recover her strength?" She was vague about that; However, why has her cooking become better these days? Outrageous! ”

"Isn't that a good thing......

Xia Liang lowered his eyebrows, slightly distressed: "You see, Sister Hong has become a magical girl again, and the obstacles in cooking have been overcome, so it won't hurt everyone." ”

"I didn't say it's a bad thing, the point is why? There have been so many strange things lately, and it always feels like it's happening when I don't know it. For example, the explosion of the gas pipeline in the community two weeks ago, the degree of damage is definitely a cruelty, right? A few days ago, the building of the Alien Bureau had just been completed and collapsed, and the Delphinium also informed us in advance that we had a strong enemy. ”

Lin Xiaolu obviously didn't buy this answer, and folded her hands to count all kinds of abnormal matters: "As for Hong Sihe, there will be no pie in the sky in the world, what happened to her after she disappeared for so many days?" I always felt like she was hiding something from us! And it must have something to do with these strange things! ”

"Haha......"

Because he really didn't know what to say, Xia Liang could only continue to laugh dryly: "So what? ”

"I need to know the truth!" Lin Xiaolu patted the back of the sofa heavily, and said solemnly, "Even if you have to use some means!" ”

Just as she said this, Bai Jingxuan also happened to come up from the training ground in the basement. She held Mo Ke in one hand, wiped the sweat on her cheeks with a towel with the other, and looked at Lin Xiaolu in the living room with some doubts: "The truth? What is my sister talking about? ”

"Talking about all kinds of strange things in Fangting City recently, the most suspicious ones are Hongsi and that woman."

Lin Xiaolu turned her face sideways and looked at Bai Jingxuan: "It's another gas explosion in the community, and it's the collapse of the building of the Different Policy Bureau, aren't you curious about what's going on behind the scenes?" ”

"Residential gas explosion...... Is it? Slowing down the speed of her speech, chewing the word lightly in her mouth, Bai Jingxuan opened her mouth slightly, but suddenly remembered something and covered her mouth.

"What are you doing with your mouth covered?" Lin Xiaolu looked at her with some suspicion, and after a while, she also reacted violently and stood up from the back of the sofa: "No, isn't the Lixing District your patrol range?" ”

"Ahh

Bai Jingxuan exclaimed uncontrollably, and then waved her hand again and again: "I don't know anything!" I didn't see anything when I was on patrol! ”

"What do you mean you haven't seen anything? What do you really know, kid? ”

Lin Xiaolu strode towards Bai Jingxuan: "Quick! Be honest! ”

"Mom won't let ...... No, it's me who can't say! Bai Jingxuan held on to the handrail of the stairs and took two steps back.

"Mom? Delphinium? Ha? ”

Lin Xiaolu's eyes widened slightly: "Does this matter have anything to do with Delphinium?" I don't know? ”

Even Xia Liang, who had been sloppy on the side, raised his head in some surprise and looked in the direction where Bai Jingxuan was.

"Bai Jingxuan, I am your senior, and logically speaking, I am still your future sister. So, don't lie to your sister. ”

Lin Xiaolu stretched out her hands and put them on Bai Jingxuan's shoulders, as if there was a whirlpool in her dark eyes: "Come, tell me, what did Delphinium secretly do with you?" ”

"Hmm...... I ......" Bai Jingxuan clutched the corners of her clothes with both hands, obviously in a dilemma, she couldn't say a word for a long time, she could only look at Xia Liang with some help.

Seeing her asking for help like this, although Xia Liang was also very curious, he could only start to solve the siege: "Anla, Xiaolu, don't be so the child, you scared her, but she couldn't say it, right?" ”

"Uh-huh!" Bai Jingxuan nodded again and again.

"Me, it's scary?"

Lin Xiaolu blinked, let go of the hands pressed on Bai Jingxuan's shoulders, and looked back at Xia Liang: "Then don't force the elementary school students first, Xia Liang, I suddenly remembered, do you also have a little problem?" ”

"At the beginning of this semester, you and Delphinium were always alone for some reason, right? Even the parent-teacher conference seems to have something going on, and I always know something that I don't know Delphinium said and didn't say, can you explain your situation first? ”

Goo.

Xia Liang subconsciously swallowed his saliva.

"How-how? Whether we are at school or in a secret base, don't we all be together every day? ”

She glanced up, and her voice was slightly out of tune: "I just have a better memory, you don't remember it yourself, right?" ”

“…… Suspicious. ”

Squinting her eyes, Lin Xiaolu looked at Xia Liang, and then at Bai Jingxuan behind her, and I don't know how many times she repeated this sentence today: "It's too suspicious." I think everyone is suspicious now. Could it be that all of you have something to hide from me, and I'm the only one who doesn't know anything? ”

"Oops, you're really thinking too much!"

"Uh-huh!"

Xia Liang and Bai Jingxuan hurriedly responded, interrupting Lin Xiaolu's words: "Don't talk about this topic, weren't you talking about Sister Hong just now?" Where is the topic going, talk about business, how do you plan to get the truth from her? ”

"Huh? Oh...... That's what you say. ”

The train of thought was brought back by Xia Liangcong, Lin Xiaolu immediately switched to a line of thinking, and thought: "My initial idea now is to find time to confront her, but I always feel that I may not be able to get the result I want." ”

"A confrontation is really not a good idea."

Xia Liang, who was still lacking in interest, reversed the state of fishing in troubled waters, and took the initiative to suggest: "I think I should knock on the side first and lure her to say contradictory things." ”

"Uh-huh!" Bai Jingxuan is also very enthusiastic to prove her existence.

"Knock on the side? That's what you're good at, right? ”

Lin Xiaolu raised her eyebrows: "Anyway, pretending to be well-behaved to ask some negative damage questions is your strength, right?" ”

"I won't accept slander for no reason."

The enthusiastic smile on Xia Liang's face did not change: "The dark and subjective description of 'pretending' and 'yin damage' is not needed. ”

"Anyway, it's a deliberate setup." Lin Xiaolu rolled her eyes: "It's just a good guy who doesn't defend against you." ”

"What do you mean by fooling the good old man?"

Xia Liang was suddenly a little dissatisfied and said, "I'm obviously helping you find a way!" ”

"Too slow! It's too unstable! When there is a result, I am afraid that any conspiracy she has already completed! ”

Lin Xiaolu shook his head: "Rejected!" Change one! ”

- "I thought I could find a chance to sneak her down and see what she's up to right now." A voice said suddenly.

"Track, don't ......"

Lin Xiaolu frowned: "It's easy to say, but it's very difficult to implement, and the last tracking was a complete failure." ”

"Although I don't know what happened to the last tracking, it must have been caused by insufficient preparation, incomplete props, and irregular actions."

The voice that suddenly appeared continued: "If these problems can be solved, tracking is actually a very efficient means, after all, this is how private detectives handled cases in the early years. ”

"That's true."

Lin Xiaolu was slightly moved, but still a little hesitant: "However, when it comes to solving problems, these things are not so easy to solve, right?" Props, action or something......"

"It's okay, if you really have such intentions, I can help."

"Really? I didn't expect any of us to be able to help...... No, who are you! ”

Halfway through speaking, she realized that something was wrong, and Lin Xiaolu finally discovered that this voice did not belong to either Xia Liang and Bai Jingxuan, or even Moke, but came from a very strange direction - the floor-to-ceiling window of the living room.

The girls gathered in the living room looked sideways and saw a strange-looking spherical creature standing there. Judging by the pair of small flapping wings on its back, it was most likely a goblin.

Of course, it might be a stretch to say that it's a living thing: because the other person has a distinctly artificial joint structure on their body, and looks more like a doll than a living being. And this fairy doll was standing outside the floor-to-ceiling window at this time, with a big face against the glass, and said Fang Cai's words in an urn-like voice.

“…… What is it? ”

Regarding this strange existence that suddenly appeared, Lin Xiaolu was stunned for a long time, and then put forward a guess with some hesitation: "Remnant beast? ”

"What a rude child, I'm not the same as that pathetic monster. Even by my appearance and my intellectual conversation, you should be able to see that I am a goblin. ”

The doll stood outside the window and tapped the glass with its short paws: "So, can you open the window first?" Let me go in and talk about it first, it's so windy and cold outside. ”

"At this time, appearing outside the house and tricking minors into opening the windows won't be a good thing even if it's not a crippled beast, right?"

Lin Xiaolu took out her heart gem with some vigilance: "Xia Liang, we directly transformed into it." ”

"What does it mean? Young people nowadays are too vicious! ”

The goblin doll outside the window trembled: "I appeared here obviously without showing any hostility, and came here with a feeling of concern for my juniors, but I didn't have any reason to suffer this kind of treatment?" ”

"Suddenly lying outside someone's window and saying something sneaky is suspicious enough, right? What the hell are you? ”

Lin Xiaolu's face was full of suspicion: "You actually instigated others to follow you, you shouldn't have been sent by someone like Ember Dawn to divide the world, right?" ”

"Ahem, I was actually described as a group of barbarians in Ember Dawn, if it weren't for someone of noble character like me, I'm afraid I would be furious by now. No, even I'd be a little angry. ”

The fairy doll cleared his throat in a fuzzy voice and said in an old-fashioned manner, "As for asking me what it is?" Do you mean, let me introduce myself in the midst of such a cold snap and cold wind? ”

"Moko, this guy looks like a goblin, have you ever seen it?"

"I haven't seen it."

Mo Ke looked at the doll outside the window: "And the magic fluctuations on this guy's body are not at all like a normal goblin, it should be a fake." ”

Lin Xiaolu nodded: "Okay, Xia Liang, we made it." ”

"No violence! Isn't it condemnable for your conscience to hurt a powerless goblin as a magical girl? ”

The fairy doll outside the window waved its claws again and again: "What's more, the elders came to you all the way to help, but they didn't get courtesy, not to mention, they were violently abused, think about it, is this appropriate?" ”

"I don't have such an elder who looks like a ball!"

Lin Xiaolu pointed to the doll and said, "So you can make it clear, who are you!" ”

"Alas, the present afterlife ......"

The fairy doll outside the window sighed in a similar way, and then puffed up its round belly: "Forget it, since you are so eager, then you have to listen well." I'm just a goblin who happens to pass by and likes to gossip, you can call me ......'goblin fairy'".

(End of chapter)