Get off work and become a magical girl

Chapter 118 The Lair
At this moment, delphinium finally understood what the sense of disobedience she had been feeling all along was.

The faint sense of crisis that has been lingering in my heart since entering the Different Strategy Bureau; the sense of alienation brought about by the surrounding scenery; and a certain faint but familiar nausea.These senses were mixed together, and the mixture became a sense of disobedience in her heart, which gave her an early warning and kept reminding her of the abnormality here.

After seeing this scene, delphinium already vaguely had an answer to what this space is.

It's just that in order to thoroughly confirm this answer, she needs to do one more thing - go back to the office where the beast was found before.

With this thought in mind, Delphinium was unwilling to delay any longer, and immediately activated her magic power, supported her body to float, and flew towards the direction in memory.

She accelerated all the way along the corridor, and the scenery in the corridor flashed quickly in her peripheral vision, just like what she had seen before, without any change at all.It's just that she has the answer in her heart, and she is no longer confused by it.

Ignoring possible disturbances along the way, delphinium flew straight to the office where the beast had just been discovered, and then pushed forward with one hand, and slammed the door open.

The office door opened, and what she saw was an extremely ordinary office.

There are no corpses, no bloodstains, no ashes left by beasts, only the same incandescent lights as in other rooms, and various office utensils randomly arranged in it.

All traces disappeared, and all the clues discovered before disappeared, as if they had never existed from the beginning.

However, seeing this situation, delphinium's eyes suddenly flashed a light.

There is no other reason, this is the answer she wants.

"I see."

Opening his mouth softly, looking at the situation in front of him, Delphinium did not take another step inward, but made a judgment with an extremely certain tone: "This is indeed a 'nest'."

The "nest" in her mouth is the symbolic ability of a pupa-level remnant beast.

As a stage symbol of the chrysalis-level remnants, the common form of the "nest" is a space maze that distorts the original space of reality and nests in layers.

The scene inside the "nest" is not born out of thin air, but is based on the interception and imitation of the surrounding space based on its location, and on this basis, it is copied, multiplied and distorted.

If a beast's lair is located in the barren next door outside the city, then its lair will appear as a boundless wasteland; An endless ocean without water.

Delphinium has seen such an instance more than once, and the most recent one was just a few months ago.

At that time, Cui Jing found a pupa-level remnant beast underground in Fangting City. The place where the remnant beast nested was the sewer of Fangting City, so the form of its nest was the sewer pipes that were stacked and staggered like an ant's nest. .

The delphiniums at that time were the same as now, they all stepped into the lair of the beast while tracking down the clues of the beast, and thus were absorbed into the labyrinth.

Starting from this premise, delphinium will be able to give a reasonable explanation for everything she found after entering the bureau of different strategies—because this is not a real bureau of different strategies at all, but a simulated bureau of different strategies. The beast lair of the policy bureau.

The space composition method of this lair is to copy and extend the space on the first floor of Bai'an City Different Policy Bureau, splicing together countless spaces similar to the "first floor", and finally forming a complete lair.

Delphinium is not trapped in a different strategy bureau that she cannot get out of, but there are countless "first floors of different strategy bureaus" around her. Although these "first floors" have exactly the same spatial structure, they have copied everything that is infinitely different. The exterior of a living object is the only one that cannot replicate a living creature.

Therefore, there will naturally be no corpses and bloodstains in the office in front of me, because the "first floor" where the victims were killed is not the same space as the delphinium.

Delphinium came here to confirm this.

However, along with solving this mystery, another question appeared in front of her.

That is, this pupa-level remnant beast is absolutely unusual.If it was an ordinary pupa-level remnant beast, it would definitely not be able to do such a thing.

Ordinary beast "nests" only imitate the basic elements of the surrounding space.Similar to the camouflage camouflage of a chameleon, the purpose is to hide its own lair so that it is not so obvious, so the lair of a remnant beast is often just a rough imitation of the original space around it.

Like the current space, completely copying the layout of the entire floor of the Different Policy Bureau without any mistakes is definitely not something that the intelligence of the disabled beast can do.

With the intelligence of the chrysalis-level beasts, they can't understand what these decorations in human buildings are and what their functions are. How can they carve every detail so delicately?
This can also explain why this disabled beast was able to set up its lair next to the Different Strategy Bureau, but so far no information has been disclosed to the magical girl-because this is definitely not a simple nesting event of a disabled beast.

With the answer in mind, delphinium naturally knew what to do now, without a doubt, that was to find the owner of this lair and kill the beast.

As for how to find it, Delphinium thought of a very simple way—to release her magic perception and move towards the direction with the strongest reaction.

In the nest, the concepts of space and time were blurred, so even she didn't know how long it took since Delphinium started searching.

Empty your mind and get rid of distracting thoughts, Delphinium maintains the most sensitive state to ensure that she can detect abnormal magic fluctuations in time.

However, just when she was about to expand the range of sensing again, a very weak wave of magic power appeared in the sensing area.

This weak fluctuation is like a candle that will be extinguished at any time. Although it is still burning, it is indeterminate. If Delphinium hadn't been highly focused all the time, he might have subconsciously ignored it.

And when she stopped to check carefully, she found that this fluctuation was not far from the area she was in.

So delphinium didn't hesitate, and immediately moved towards the direction of the perceived magic fluctuation.

After passing through the multi-level stairway and several "first floors" horizontally, she finally found the target she perceived: it was a girl sitting against the wall in an empty office.

To be precise, it was a magical girl.Because the delphinium can see what it holds in its hand, which is shaped like a bud.

It is a flower of heart that has not yet bloomed, so she should be a bud-level magical girl.

The girl looks about 18 years old, at an age that gradually fades away from her youthfulness and begins to become a little mature.From this point, it can be seen that she should be a skilled magical girl who has served for many years.

It's just that her current state is not perfect. At this time, she has completely changed back to a human state, and her forehead is still soaked with blood.He couldn't even maintain his transformation state, obviously the magic power had been exhausted.

Delphinium squatted down, stretched out his hand in front of the girl's breath, found that he was still breathing, and immediately pressed the heart gem in his hand, and began to inject his own magic power into it.

And as the azure blue magic power continued to pour into the girl's hands, the heart gem gradually shone with a dark brown light, and finally, it became shiny again.

The revival of the Heart Gem, and the return of full magic power made the girl leaning against the wall slowly regain consciousness, opened her eyes from somewhere, and then met the half-squatting delphinium.

The girl was stunned for a while, then suddenly startled, subconsciously wanted to back up, but obviously forgot that she was in the corner, so she only heard a "boom", and the back of her head hit the wall.

The strong dull pain made the girl instantly sober, and she covered the back of her head with her teeth bared. After a while, she raised her head and smiled awkwardly at the delphinium: "Well, I'm sorry... May I ask who you are?"

"Anyway, I saved you just now, so I should ask you this question first."

Released the heart jewel from the girl's hand, Delphinium stood up again: "Who are you? What are you doing here?"

"I?"

The girl looked at the delphinium, her expression froze for a moment, then she raised her voice a little bluntly, and said, "I don't know what you're talking about."

It's just that she just finished saying this when she realized that Delphinium was staring at her left hand.Turning her head slightly and seeing the heart bud that was shining in her hand, she suddenly realized that she had told a very clumsy lie.

After a subtle silence for a while, the girl smiled awkwardly again, and then replied honestly: "My code name is Lantern. I am a local magical girl in Bai'an City."

She wasn't obsessed with hiding her identity, because she could see that the girl in the navy blue dress in front of her was also a magical girl, and since the other party chose to save her, she shouldn't be a bad person.

After stating her identity, she looked at Delphinium again, hoping to get a corresponding answer.

What she didn't know was that Delphinium had already expected her answer.

:

"I am the inspector sent by the Investigation Institute to Bo'an City."

Delphinium said succinctly: "I came here to find the investigation team that disappeared in Bo'an City, and I have already contacted the local magical girl team. They told me that there is a missing team member called 'Dengzhan'. is it you?"

Deng Zhan was slightly stunned: "The local magical girl team, you mean..."

"Among them is a magical girl named White Thistle and a sower named Polly. Before I came here, they asked me to find you."

In order to gain the trust of the magical girl in front of her as soon as possible, Delphinium knew everything she said, and believed everything she said: "It's just that I came here by accident. I didn't expect you to be here too."

"Ah! That's how it is!"

Hearing the news about her companions, the girl was visibly excited: "Have you met Bai Ji and the others? How are they now...cough cough!"

It was probably because she was too emotional, and the violent movements affected the unhealed injuries on the girl's body, causing her to cough violently.

Delphinium immediately pressed her shoulders, and pushed her back to the wall with some helplessness.

"They are still safe at the moment. Rather, the only problem is that everyone is worried about your safety."

She shook her head, and after talking about the situation of the Bai'an City team, she brought the topic back on track, and asked the lamp: "So, can you tell me, what happened to you before you came here? Why did you faint? Here? Have you seen the whereabouts of the cat tail team?"

(End of this chapter)