Chapter 120 Joint Attack
"Wait, what did you say?"
Kuznetsuzan frowned and interrupted Dengzhan: "People are feeding the crippled beasts? Are you kidding me?"
"I won't joke at a time like this."
Dengzhan emphasized with a serious expression: "But if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I'm afraid I wouldn't believe it."
"Humans who feed the remaining beasts..."
After chewing on the information given by the lantern, Kuijin thought for a moment and realized another blind spot in the information. He suddenly raised his head and asked, "What is he feeding?"
No one answered her question.
Dengzhan just shook his head and said nothing.
However, Cuique already had a guess in her mind. Even if Dengzhan didn't say anything, she could guess roughly, so she said in a deep voice: "Is it a person?"
"...Yeah." Dengzhan's voice was weak, "I couldn't save them."
Delphinium's expression turned cold.
Her fingertips twitched slightly, and she subconsciously contracted them inward, as if she was going to make a fist, but after a slight hesitation, she did not make that move after all.
For a second, she almost let the words "How dare they?" slip out of her mouth. But the person in front of her was not an enemy, but a comrade who had been injured in the battle. There was no need for her to show her anger in front of her comrades.
Cruelty and anger are things left to the enemy. This gang called Black Dawn had left an extremely bad impression in her mind.
The remnant beasts are a disaster to mankind and the enemy of magical girls. Every human living in the material world will have more or less bad interactions with the remnant beasts directly or indirectly in their lives.
A less severe case is seeing reports of attacks by brutal beasts from various places on the Internet; a more serious case is that someone you know may have died in an attack by a brutal beast; there may also be cases where the place where you live or work has been destroyed by brutal beasts; even worse, some may themselves be victims of the claws of brutal beasts.
Growing up in such an environment, no matter whether one is an ordinary person or a magician, one should not have the slightest identification with the crippled beasts.
But this group of people who called themselves Black Cinders Dawn broke this bottom line again and again, which made Delphinium more and more upset.
Trying to calm down her agitated emotions, Kuiqi made her tone calm again, and then asked Dengzhan: "So you just went straight up?"
"So I just went straight for it." Dengzhan admitted honestly.
"You are injured, so what about the enemy?"
"At first, I managed to inflict severe damage on the beast, but after that man came out..." Dengzhan shrugged helplessly.
Obviously, she herself was not satisfied with the result.
"What about those employees of the Strategy Bureau that you met in the nest before? Have you made arrangements for them?" Delphinium asked.
"I had originally planned to help them leave after getting rid of the remaining beasts, but I didn't win, so naturally there was no follow-up."
Dengzhan smiled sheepishly: "So, they should still be hiding somewhere now?"
Her answer reminded Delphinium of the blood-stained office she encountered when she first arrived.
This is not the Strategy Bureau, but just the nest of cruel beasts. She already knows this. So the offices here are empty and there shouldn't be any living people inside.
Thinking about it this way, the victims in that office were obviously ordinary people from the outside world, and it was even very likely... they were the people mentioned by Dengzhan.
"What's wrong?"
Delphinium's silence caught the attention of the lantern.
"nothing."
Kuija shook her head and didn't intend to tell the truth to Dengzhan, but gently turned it over.
She did not become more indignant after realizing this fact, but instead felt a little calm, because at this moment, in her heart, the instigator of this incident was already an unforgivable person who must be killed.
Tightening the golden robe behind her, Delphinium asked the lamp, "Can you still find the center of the nest?"
"Now? Although I didn't record the route when I escaped from there, it should be no problem to find it back using the ability of my magic suit..."
Dengzhan blinked his eyes and asked, "Inspector, are you going to go?"
"For me, of course, the sooner the better."
Delphinium said this and stood up: "How is your injury? Do you need me to help you move to a safer position?"
"If you have magic, then there won't be any problem."
Dengzhan stretched his body and slowly stood up against the wall: "As for the battle, my true form has not been damaged too much, so I can deal with the remnant pupa-level beast..."
"If it's just a pupa, leave it to me."
Delphinium took hold of Lantern's arm and propped her up, "Now take me, it's time to sort out the problem here."
Supported by Cuiqiao, Dengzhan took two steps forward. After hearing what Cuiqiao said, he was slightly stunned. Then he said with some emotion: "Senior Cuiqiao, although you look particularly small, the words you said are very reassuring."
"When you praise someone, you also point out their shortcomings, but that doesn't make them happy."
Delphinium said expressionlessly, "Or did you mean to emphasize that I'm very short and it's uncomfortable for me to hold you up, and the second half of the sentence is to cover up for yourself?"
"No, no, no, you think too badly of me."
Dengzhan waved his hands in defense, "I just thought of someone I know when I heard you say 'Just leave it to me' and I was inspired to speak out. Maybe it's because she is also in the Investigation Institute. I feel that when you say this kind of thing, it really subtly gives people a sense of trustworthiness."
"Really?" Cuiqiao raised her eyebrows, but ultimately did not continue the topic and just accepted Dengzhan's explanation.
When the topic came to the Investigation Institute, she didn't really have much to say. After all, her position as "Inspector" was just a title, and she had no real connections in the Institute.
Delphinium didn't want to talk more, so Dengzhan also tacitly ended the topic. The two of them stopped talking and just walked towards the center of the nest.
Under normal circumstances, if Delphinium were to use her own techniques combined with her perception to explore the route, the process would be quite long, especially since the space they were currently in was incredibly huge and even more complicated than the nests that Delphinium had experienced in the past.
However, with the magic outfit of Dengzhan, the process became quite easy.
The magic costume of the lantern looks like a lantern. According to her own statement, when she uses her lantern, magic-related marks will appear in her vision, which can show the traces of magical activities in the corresponding area within a day.
In addition, if she has marked the magical properties of a certain target, she can clearly sense the other party's location within a certain range.
When she came, she marked the suspicious man in this way, thus being able to track the core location of the nest. After fighting with the opponent, she even marked the pupa-level beast.
In other words, she now seemed to have a compass in her hand, and the direction it was pointing to was the center of the nest.
With such help, the two people found the location of the owner of the nest without much effort.
It was a huge nest that looked out of place with the surrounding area.
Unlike the "first floor of the Strange Strategies Bureau" that Cuiqiao and the others had seen countless times on the way here, although this space still maintained a decoration style similar to that of the Strange Strategies Bureau, with bright white lights and silver-white walls, if you look closely, you will find that its interior furnishings completely go against common sense.
Tables placed on the wall; filing cabinets tangled into triangles; doors bent into irregular shapes...a distorted scene like a dream appeared before their eyes.
In fact, this also exposes the nature of the beasts - the monsters cannot understand the role of human design of tools.
And in such a distorted space, there is an even more distorted thing, which completely captures the attention of the two magical girls and leaves them no time to care about anything else.
It was a crippled beast that looked like a spider, crawling on a giant web that covered the entire nest, gnawing on something.
There were several huge holes on the body of the mutilated beast, and blood was still oozing out. This was obviously the "severe injury" that Dengzhan had mentioned before. But its condition does not seem to be sluggish, and it still retains the energy to eat.
The spider web beneath it was made entirely of flesh and blood, and looked extremely hideous. The scarlet web spread throughout the entire space, and a fishy odor could be smelled from afar.
And under the huge spider web of flesh and blood, there are tumors several meters high hanging there, motionless.
If you don't pay attention, you will think that these tumors are nothing special, just derivatives of the flesh spider web. But when Delphinium looked closely, it found that these tumors did not seem to be solid, but more like meat cocoons wrapped around something. Under the bright white light in the nest, vague shadows could be seen faintly from them.
If you look more closely, you'll find that the outlines of these shadows seem very much like humans.
"Those are the victims he captured. The ones in the tumors are all the people he 'fed' to the beast."
Dengzhan followed beside her and lowered his voice, saying, "Although I don't know what means he used, the pupa-level remnant beast behaved very calmly in front of the man. It showed no signs of rioting and accepted his 'feeding' very honestly."
"And those who were 'fed' out were all put into that kind of sarcoma. I don't know what will happen to them after they are put in, but the probability is..."
She didn't finish her words, but she didn't need to. The consequences of being caught by a crippled beast were self-evident.
Delphinium frowned.
She felt sick just by looking at the sight before her.
The beasts destroying cities and killing humans would not make her feel so disgusted. After all, the essence of the remnant beasts is that they are monsters who only know how to follow their instincts, and they have no ethical burden when they do evil.
However, when humans collude with cruel beasts, the nature of this matter is completely different.
Killing their own compatriots and even handing them over to cruel beasts as bait, such behavior is so despicable that even the word "disgraceful" cannot describe Delphinium's feelings.
She thought she had seen a lot of "evil", but there were always people who could break the lower limit of her cognition and show a more ugly face.
What kind of person could behave like this?
She couldn't understand it at all.
And the person who made her feel incomprehensible was right in this nest.
Below the tumor covered with blood, flesh and spider webs, there was a human-like figure standing there, looking up at the remaining beast on the spider web in the sky.
The figure was holding an instrument of unknown purpose in his hand. He was observing the crippled beast while adjusting something on the instrument with his hands.
"That's the guy. Do you want to take action?"
Seeing that Kujue also saw the figure, Dengzhan asked, "But you should be careful, Senior Kujue. He is very strong."
"Do it." Delphinium said without any hesitation.
Even without looking at the disgusting sight beneath the bloody spider web, she had already made up her mind to fight.
After finally reaching the core of the nest and seeing the enemy, there is naturally no reason to retreat.
The two magical girls had a brief discussion and decided to attack together: Lantern would make a feint attack to attract the opponent's attention on the surface, while Delphinium would take the opportunity to launch a surprise attack to see if it could inflict heavy damage on the opponent in one fell swoop.
Two magic tracks, azure blue and dark brown, flashed above the nest. The azure blue disappeared immediately, while the dark brown magic track chased straight towards the man on the ground.
The man operating the instrument was wearing a black robe. He was originally concentrating on observing the crippled beast above his head, but the warning that arose in his heart made him lower his head suddenly, and then he stretched out his hand, with purple-black magic power wrapped around his hand, blocking himself in front of him.
boom! The purple-black magic power formed a magic barrier, blocking the attack from the lamp.
"How dare you come back?"
After seeing the lantern in front of him and recognizing who attacked him, the man was slightly surprised, but only slightly surprised: "I thought you would at least find a place to hide for a while after escaping. I didn't expect you to rush back to die so soon."
Dengzhan said nothing, and casually fired a few magic beams. Several Favor runes flashed on his hand, and then he made the runes into a spear and drove straight at the man.
As a Bud-level magical girl, Dengzhan is very proficient in the mastery of spells. Because her magic equipment abilities are more auxiliary in nature, the spells she uses are mostly based on strong attacks.
Facing the fierce attack from the lantern, the man raised the corner of his mouth in a mocking manner. It was obvious that he had a way to deal with it in his mind and did not take it seriously.
Just as he showed. In an instant, the barrier in front of him suddenly changed, turning into a huge mouth that swallowed the lantern's magic in reverse. The spears only lasted for a few seconds in his hands before being decomposed into several pools of ownerless magic power.
Just when he was feeling complacent with this and thought he had responded well enough and wanted to make some more ridicule, he felt a chill on his back.
——"Masterpiece, No. 6, The Slashing of Kopis."
Without giving him any time to react, a dagger made of magic power pierced his back. The magic power surged, penetrating all his defenses like a whirlwind, then penetrated from his back and stabbed out from his chest.
(End of this chapter)
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