Chapter 131 Pursuit
The azure blue magic trail suddenly streaked across the dark night sky, hidden in the thick clouds, and silently crossed most of the city.
Glancing at the screen of the phone between her fingers, the big "Missed" message on it made her even more uneasy. She frowned, gritted her teeth, and kept increasing her flying speed, heading towards the apartment of Hong Siyu in her memory.
She still couldn't stay at home.
Because when she tried to contact Hong Siyu with her cell phone, she couldn't get through no matter what.
She knew that separating from the newcomers might be the enemy's intention, and the mysterious call that revealed the information might also be a trap set by the enemy. But her intuition told her that what was said on the phone was true.
The other party called out the name "Cornflower" and also called out "Asagao", the magical girl code name belonging to Hong Siyu, which has already increased the credibility of his words. Moreover, this is completely consistent with Delphinium's own speculation.
It is almost impossible for a retired magical girl to regain her magic power. This is an iron rule of the magical kingdom. If you want to see fairies, you must have magic power that exceeds that of ordinary people.
Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for Hong Siyu, a retired magical girl, to see Moko.
Knowing this, thinking again about what Hong Si said when he left, Cuiqiao suddenly sensed a very strange meaning.
Did she already know something? What did "I'll leave it to you, senior" mean? Even more, she suddenly sent all three children to her home tonight. Was she on guard against something? The emergence of a truth prompted the birth of more new questions. Kuiqi felt that her mind was filled with questions, and she felt very tired even when trying to sort out a clue.
If she wanted to get the answers to all this, the most important thing she should do now was to find Hong Siyu.
This is also the reason why she went to the apartment where the other party lived first.
Following the path of memory, he flew to the balcony of Hong Siyu's apartment, and casually pulled open the bolt with the magic thread. Kuija almost jumped into the apartment in front of him and called out to the apartment:
"Hong Siyu!"
However, there was no response from the empty apartment.
Delphinium realized that the worst had really happened.
It has been nearly an hour since Hong Siyu left her home. If nothing unexpected happened, she must have returned home. If she is not at home now, she must have gone somewhere else.
Where would she go? Where could she go? And no matter where she went, was this situation really her own choice?
With these questions in mind, Hongsi turned on the lights in her home and looked around, trying to find any clues in this space.
Hong Siyu's apartment was not tidy, but it was not messy either - except for the quilt thrown casually on the bed and the trash can that was completely overflowing with garbage, it was relatively organized.
Delphinium squatted beside the bed, opened the bedside table and searched for a while, but found nothing except some personal clothes and small items.
She turned around and opened the closet, only to find that the clothes inside were completely over capacity and poured out directly through the hole in the closet. If she hadn't been quick, she would have been buried under the clothes that rushed out.
After fixing the clothes with magic thread, Delphinium searched the closet but still found nothing.
So she walked to the island in the open kitchen and picked up the beer cans on the counter, but found that the aluminum cans were empty, and the dry inner walls showed that they had been placed there a long time ago.
This seems to indicate that Hong Siyu has not returned to this apartment for many days.
Was it because she had been going to the secret base to train new people after work these days? Or was it for some other reason? The problems were not solved with the investigation, but continued to increase. Delphinium tried to find clues about Hongsi and his whereabouts in this apartment, but still found nothing.
The investigation reached a deadlock here.
Helplessly, she could only take out her mobile phone again and open the address book. She felt that she should seek help from the unknown number to see if the other party could provide any clues.
She raised her hand and pressed the call button, then put the phone to her ear and continued to look around the house, but suddenly stopped when she passed the floor-to-ceiling window on the balcony and could not take her eyes away.
——She saw a moth.
It was not an insect in the ordinary sense, but a moth whose size was far beyond common sense, almost as big as a washbasin.
At this moment, the moth was quietly lying outside the floor-to-ceiling window of the apartment balcony, with its wings naturally drooped and its body erected, as if it was watching the scene inside the house.
The reason why the word "wait and see" is used is because Delphinium felt a strong sense of being watched.
She felt like she was being watched by a bug.
The phone next to her ear was still not connected, so Delphinium stood there as if she was making a phone call, staring fixedly at the moth outside the balcony.
“…hiss.”
Then, during this process, a familiar noise suddenly rang from the phone next to my ear.
The strange moth in front of her was indeed strange, but for Delphinium, finding Hong Siyu was the top priority, so she decisively shifted her attention to the phone call and immediately asked, "Hello? Where is Hong Siyu?"
Every unidentified call would be disconnected when discussing key information. She didn't know how long this one would last, so she asked the most core questions without any hesitation.
“Hiss…hiss…”
As if hearing her question, the voice on the other end of the phone began to fluctuate more violently.
After a long burst of noise whose content was indistinguishable, a voice that was even fainter than before finally sounded again: "In... very high..."
"Very high?" Delphinium immediately repeated with a frown.
"...I usually go there..." The faint voice kept stuttering, and the broken words kept being transmitted to Delphinium's ears.
She tried hard to distinguish what the other person said and tried to remember it all, but the voice kept becoming smaller and smaller until it became inaudible.
"Hello? I can't hear you, are you still there?" Delphinium couldn't help but ask to confirm.
There was only noise on the other side of the call.
"Hello?"
The noise remained unchanged.
"Still there?"
--"boom!"
Just as Kuei-Jia was turning up the volume of her phone in order to hear the other party's voice, a deafening roar suddenly came from the other end of the call. The strong impact made Kuei-Jia feel a shock all over her body, and she almost threw the phone away.
Fortunately, she reacted quickly enough and immediately used the magic thread to grab the phone back. However, when she looked at the phone screen again, it showed an interface indicating that the call had been hung up.
Unconvinced, Delphinium dialed the number again, but after a short wait, she was told that the phone was "powered off", leaving no room for error.
This call with the unknown number has come to nothing.
Delphinium looked at the screen of her mobile phone in a daze for a while, then suddenly looked towards the floor-to-ceiling window of the balcony not far away, and saw that the huge moth was still lying on the glass with its wings stretched out. It clearly did not make any sound, but its trembling antennae seemed to be sneering with emotion.
This scene made her feel extremely bad, and she didn't intend to give this strange insect any chance to survive, so she raised her hand and fired a beam of magic.
The azure magic power penetrated the security glass of the French window almost instantly, wrapping the huge moth inside. But when the magic power dissipated, she found that her magic beam did not hit anything except the French window glass, and the moth lying on the window disappeared without a trace like a phantom.
Delphinium walked quickly forward, squatted down to observe the broken French window, and after confirming that there were no insect remains inside, she felt even more confused.
Was it an illusion? To confirm this, Delphinium looked up into the distance, trying to find the trace of the moth, but the dark night sky was dead silent, and there was no flying object.
Lying on the balcony, Kuijin stood on tiptoe and squinted her eyes to look around: It was almost dawn and there was nothing in Fangting City except a few lights. There were no extra vehicles or pedestrians on the road, and most of the shops and tall buildings on the street had turned off their useless decorative lights. In the lonely city, there was nothing worth noticing.
However, when Delphinium continued to look further away, a building with a familiar outline suddenly caught her eye.
At first, Delphinium did not realize what the outline was, but when she thought of it, her eyes suddenly stopped in that direction - because she remembered that it was the Strategy Bureau.
Hong Si lived not far from Fangting City's Special Policy Bureau, only a little over a kilometer away. Probably to save time on her daily commute to work, she chose such a place when renting a house.
Maybe I could go to the Strategy Bureau to ask about the situation? Cuique thought, but at this point in the Strategy Bureau, the real management had already gone off work, so what could I get out of it? Moreover, from her current perspective, the Strategy Bureau in the distance was in endless darkness, and every window was pitch black, with no light coming out of it.
There is not even a light to be seen. Is there really anyone in such a bureau?
This clue still seemed to be blocked, so Kuizi sighed, denied herself, and wanted to turn around and leave. But as soon as she turned around, her feet stopped in place, and then she slowly opened her eyes.
How could there be no one in the Strategy Bureau? You know, the Strategy Bureau is the last magical management organization of a city besides the magical girls, so there will definitely be someone stationed there at all times.
Even though it was almost dawn and there might only be a few office departments and duty teams left in the Strategy Bureau, it shouldn't be as dark and deserted as it is now.
Something is wrong.
Cuiqiao felt that her previous experience in Baian City was activated in an instant. Every memory of the recent past was so clear that she had not forgotten what she encountered there.
The incident in Bai'an City ultimately fell to the hands of the Yi Ce Bureau, so what about Fangting City?
It’s not that she didn’t trust the ability of Fangting City’s Strategy Bureau, but in the previous several attacks, Fangting City’s Strategy Bureau did not show the corresponding sensitivity.
Even though there was no evidence, she suddenly had a thought in her mind: she might have to go to the Strategy Bureau now.
(End of this chapter)
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