The address attached to Lilia's letter was not difficult to find.

Because it coincides with the location of the prefectural Central Police Station building.

Hikari and Arisa stayed at home, and they had made an appointment to discuss the cultural festival in June.

Outside the glass windows, the shadows of the wire posts cross the field of view in a fixed rhythm and finally stop.

Li Wu got off the tram and after walking a distance, he arrived at his destination.

The police station was like a black seal, squarely poked into the surrounding buildings, and at the gate in front of it was the detective lady who had not been seen for a while.

Lilia Moriarty still wears her trademark millet beret, covered with wavy coffee-colored hair that flows smoothly all the way to the collar of her pale gray jacket, and her owner frowns as if she is bothered by something.

She was so distracted that Li Wu suddenly raised her head and let out a small exclamation when she walked in front of her.

"Oh!"

"Is this a greeting?"

Li Wu made a joke.

"Please don't get me wrong." Lilia said seriously, "It's just that I usually play the role that suddenly appears and scares others. ”

One of her abilities is a reduced sense of presence, which is indeed very suitable for playing the kind of elusive character who turns around and disappears.

"How did you come up with the idea of writing a letter to me here?"

Lilia led him into the police station building in front of her, and Li Wu asked in a low voice, "It can't be because you suddenly fell in love with the detective's retro style, right?" ”

"Mr. Li Wu is still the same as his previous impression, what about Miss Hoshikawa? How is she doing? ”

"It's still very energetic, we went to the hot spring inn again not long ago."

Realizing that the other party deliberately avoided this topic, Li Wu cooperatively diverted the flow of the conversation.

There were not many people in the lobby on the first floor, but as soon as the uniformed police officers saw Lilia leading the way, they would act as if they didn't see them, and let the two go straight to the elevator hall in the center.

Miss Detective waited until the door opened and glanced inside.

"Great, there's no one in there. It seems that we don't have to wait here. ”

Li Wu noticed that the elevator here had an extra groove under the floor button.

Lilia stepped into it first, pulling out something that resembled an ID card and swiping it through the apparently artificially created groove, then pressing the button on the top layer.

"Listen to what you mean, could it be that there is a hidden door like the Nine and Three-Quarters platform here that needs to avoid ordinary people?"

He asked.

"That's pretty much it."

It was probably this metaphor from her hometown work that triggered her laughter, and Lilia relaxed, "Do you see the expressions of those people on the first floor?" They still regard me as a relationship with some high-ranking official and giant. ”

The elevator rose at a constant speed, and Li Wu followed her words and asked, "This reminds me, last time I heard Xingchuan say that your Public Security Ninth Class is the most closely cooperating with the official supernatural organization, how did this do it under the premise that ordinary people can't accurately recognize supernatural powers?" ”

The building is only twelve stories tall, and the numbers on the elevator screen in the dialogue room have jumped to twelve.

But it's still on the rise.

"Magical girls still have prime ministers." Lilia teased someone who wasn't there.

"People who have the power of the anomalous will always have some advantage in the usual social competition, and the inability of ordinary people to recognize this is also part of the advantage. The nine lessons can be regarded as, well, systematically accumulating the power obtained through this. ”

She said vaguely, but Li Wu could probably guess it.

I also want to know that an organization that can make one of its members look like a super connected household in the eyes of ordinary people in the police station, must have a lot of power in the superficial world.

The elevator hall is still rising at a constant speed as if it were going to take the two men up to the stratosphere.

"There will also be people who are not satisfied with this, but use their power more violently to directly harm others. That's why the law is necessary. ”

Lilia's expression returned to gloom, and her intuition told Li Wu that the meat was coming.

Sure enough, she spoke, "First of all, I'm sorry for not contacting you much during this time. I'm a little nervous about the means of communication through electronic media right now, and there have been several recent operations where there have been intelligence leaks, suspected to be cyber channels. ”

"Something to do with what I said?"

Unsure of whether it was safe in the elevator room, he deliberately used words that were not clear.

"It's clear here."

Lilia leaned against the mirror-smooth side wall, "Recently, there has been a surge in superpower crime incidents in various places, in fact, there is a vicious incident in Chiyo City right now, and I still ran out temporarily. ”

She looked over: "Then, there is a piece of gossip about the information peddlers, soothsayers, and wizards...... In short, it is rumored in the streets and alleys of the supernatural world that an organization called the Unity Society has mastered the technology of artificially developing superpowers. ”

"Where is the source?"

Li Wu asked bluntly.

Lilia shook her head regretfully: "A tree without roots, you can't find a source. In addition, apart from the fierce response of the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau, few organizations believe or are interested, and the Countermeasures Bureau usually deals with superpower-related matters. ”

It seems that Hoshikawa's report is still effective.

"Aren't you interested in Lesson Nine?"

"Yes, a little." Lilia rhythmically tapped her knuckles on the side wall of the elevator, "But you're busy dealing with crimes, so I'm asking you to come and watch from the sidelines, maybe this matter has something to do with the Guiyi Society?" ”

The elevator stopped.

"Please."

Miss Detective took off her hat and made a priority gesture.

The metal doors moved to the sides, and a steam-like white gas came out, as if the elevator had been replaced with a different object during the ascent.

Li Wu had expected to see invisible buildings suspended above the city, and when he looked down, he could see the white clouds and miniature buildings through the glass floor.

But the actual scene was still unexpected.

The black and white stone bricks stretch like a chessboard indefinitely, and at least 100 meters above is shrouded in an arched indigo dome, on which precision-biting copper gears spin tirelessly, and occasionally planetary spheres streak from left to right, as if simulating the process of the rising sun and setting the moon.

The dome curves gracefully on both sides, connecting to the four pure white walls, each with windows that resemble the observation deck of the villa, but from the outside it is not the early summer sun, but the darkness of the deep sky of the universe and the indifferent starlight as an embellishment.

There is no light source in the room, but it is still bright. Although the style of the decoration is solemn as if it was a cathedral fished out of some ancient history, the atmosphere in front of you is like a social animal workplace that is a hundred times noisy.

A large group of ...... Colorful characters scream and run around the hall like the author rushing to deliver the manuscript, the housewife scrambling for the last sale item, and Clark Kent, who has been stabbed in the eye by kryptonite.

Forgive him for using the adjective brilliant and colorful.

There aren't many regularized human transcendents he has come into contact with, and Aoi Hoshikawa and the red-haired magical girl in her memory are all beautiful girls with online appearances; Miss Miko doesn't say anything else, at least her colleagues should be in the same style as her.

Why are you highlighting a mash-up style here?

I saw a brown stone man holding a long humanoid object like a noodle in his hand and rampage, shouting "Get out of the way, Rubber Man is going to die", and by the way, he crashed into a group of orange men escorting a silver suitcase in the middle of the road.

The suitcase that had been knocked into the sky opened automatically, squeezing out disc-like creatures with long tentacles dragging them, shooting out blue light in a scream, and the orange-clad people who were knocked into the air shrunk into small sizes as soon as they were illuminated, crying and running in all directions.

They tripped over the black-clad man who was carrying a white cocoon next to them, and as the cocoon wriggled inside, the humanoid creature with moth wings crawled out of it and screamed and pounced on the woman with a metal prosthetic body as it approached them.

Confusion began to spread, accompanied by increasingly frequent screams.

"Team Mike has been wiped out by the disc creatures!"

"Something unusual has happened in Area K!"

"The Mothman has run out! By the way, I let go of the Loch Ness Monster, which is a rare sample of only one! ”

"Sir, the cherished sample was shot by a stray bullet and died!"

A cheerful blonde man in a cape stood in the middle of the field, trying to quell the riots: "And you, my friends, are the real heroes!" ”

Lilia looked at the farce in front of her with some embarrassment and cleared her throat.

"Don't worry, they'll take care of it, let's go about our business."

She stepped out of the elevator, turned around to face Li Wu, and opened her hands.

"Ms. Hoshikawa must have told you about the concept of worldview, right?"

She seemed to remember the disdain of the magical girl in the hot spring before for the ninth lesson of the public security, and added: "Myths, monsters, and magic may not be very good at such things, but UMA (unidentified lifeforms), UFOs (unidentified flying objects), superpower crimes, and heretical technology are our fields." ”

"Welcome to the headquarters of the Ninth Division of Public Security!"

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