Chapter 164 The Truth
"I should have told you that if you don't change your intentions, I won't allow you to join the Strategy Bureau's operations."
In the director's office of the Strategy Bureau, Lin Yun said helplessly, "Yes, I don't have the power to command a magical girl. If you insist on following me, I can't do anything about it. So I can only tell you: I hope you stay calm. If possible, just watch from the sidelines."
"You said you were just looking? What do you mean by 'looking'? I mean... well, if you can really do that, I have no problem with that."
"An enemy that the Strategy Bureau cannot handle? Of course, I'd rather say I appreciate your help, but please stay calm."
"...Okay, then let's do as you say. Yeah, bye."
Click.
After hanging up the phone, Lin Yun sat behind his desk for a while helplessly, then sighed.
After communicating with Emerald, he roughly understood and sorted out Bai Jingxuan's problem. But understanding the problem does not mean knowing the solution. On the contrary, as Bai Jingxuan's image gradually became clearer in his mind, he became more and more confused about how to deal with this child.
It's not just because of the other party's personality and experience, but also because of the special nature of his magic - a shifter of the background color of a remnant beast.
Personality, experience, magic. These factors added together, accumulated on Bai Jingxuan, mean that this child is almost a time bomb: although everything seems normal at the moment, it may be detonated by external forces at any time, destroying the fragile balance.
Lin Yun was very clear that he was not an education expert. Five months ago, he was still a negligent father who could not get along with his own daughter. It was too difficult for him to figure out how to guide such a child in a short time.
——Or just let her take revenge.
In the end, Lin Yun even had this thought:
Anyway, in the final analysis, she and I are just the senior and junior of the magical girl. Is it really necessary for me to worry about it to that extent? On the bad side, even if this child really starts revenge, what will happen? Homogeneous revenge is human nature. Even Lin Yun himself is like this. Is he really qualified to educate this child? On the good side, maybe Bai Jingxuan is just a child who doesn't know how to understand and shouts scary words every day? If the enemy is really placed in front of her and asked to kill, she may not dare to do it.
The thoughts in his mind gradually diverged, and just when Lin Yun was about to convince himself with this twisted logic, there was a sudden knock on the door.
——Knock, knock.
"Director, I'm Liu Dachun from the Logistics Department."
Then, some dull sounds came from outside the door.
Logistics Department? At this time? His chaotic thoughts were interrupted, and Lin Yun's consciousness returned to reality. He was a little confused at first, but he didn't think about it too much, and then he said, "Please come in."
At the same time, he subconsciously reached into the pocket of his clothes and grasped his heart gem.
This has been his habit since he took office as director.
It's not just because he doesn't trust the people in the Strange Policy Bureau enough, but also because of his troublesome side effects - if the Heart Gem suddenly goes out of control and transforms, he has to make sure he can detect the situation before that.
The same was true now. With these considerations, he reached for the Heart Gem in his pocket, and because of his vigilance, he extended his perception to the door of the director's office: there was a magic thread he had laid in advance, which could sense the magic outside the door and infer the situation in the corridor.
However, the moment he connected the silk thread to his perception, he sensed something strange and his eyes suddenly froze.
There are two magic powers outside the door.
This means that there is not only the "Liu Dachun" who spoke earlier, but also another person hiding in the corridor.
In his perception, one of the magical powers first approached the swing door and opened the door of the director's office. Then, it deliberately adjusted the angle of its body to block the scene behind the door, and slowly entered the director's office.
What was reflected in the visual was a tall man walking in from outside the door.
However, Lin Yun's perception of the thread was clear: until the tall man completely walked into the director's office, the other magical power lurking outside the door still did not move.
Something is wrong.
Lin Yun made a judgment instantly.
The reason was simple: he had no impression of the man who called himself "Liu Dachun".
He had already looked at the employee list of the Strategy Bureau on the day he started working, and since then he has been trying to match everyone's name with their photo. In order to speed up the progress of this work, he sometimes even uses the posture of the delphinium to help his memory. Although it has not been completely completed until now, he can be sure that there is absolutely no employee in the Strategy Bureau who looks like this.
But he did not point it out, but continued to pretend he didn't know, and asked calmly: "What's wrong, is there anything wrong?"
"It's like this, Chief. When we counted the equipment this morning, we found that the remaining quantity didn't seem to match the inventory records. Four pieces of magic weapons were missing."
Liu Dachun stared at Lin Yun intently, his voice flat as if he was reciting a book: "We don't know if there is a mistake in the record or it is really lost, so we want to come to you to confirm it."
"Magic weapons?"
Lin Yun frowned: "I should have told you to keep it safe, how come something went wrong?"
"I'm so sorry, Chief."
The tall man handed over a hard drive with an expressionless face: "So I brought the inventory records. I hope you can confirm the names on it to see if there are any omissions."
Lin Yun took the hard drive from his hand, lowered his head and connected the hard drive to his computer: "Have you checked it first?"
The tall man put one hand behind his back: "Checked."
Lin Yun still looked at the host of his computer: "Didn't you find any problems?"
"No." The tall man took out a ball of purple-black flesh from his pocket.
"How do you do your job? You can't even do such a small thing."
Lin Yun seemed very angry. He leaned over to open the computer and said, "Where is your Minister Li? Call him over quickly."
"Okay, I'll call him now." The man pressed the purple-black flesh to his chest.
"Okay, let me ask you one last question."
"Please go ahead." The man said woodenly.
"Was it Zhuang Yang or Tao Fang who let you in?"
Lin Yun raised his hand and looked at him calmly: "Or is there a hidden chess piece in this strange game that I don't know about?"
These words made the tall man's pupils shrink suddenly.
He opened his mouth almost at the same moment, tightly grasping the purple-black flesh in his hand, wanting to say something. But before he could utter a syllable, blue threads suddenly wrapped around his wrist, directly pulling his hand holding the flesh aside.
The man immediately raised his other hand, which was already holding the medium for the spell, and purple-black magic instantly lit up at his fingertips. But again, he had no chance to activate the spell, and was completely tied to the spot by the blue silk thread.
Lin Yun expressionlessly hooked the silk thread beside him, and the azure silk thread lifted the motionless man high into the air in an instant. Then, he rushed out of the door without saying a word.
In his perception, at the same moment the man was controlled, the magic power outside the door was already moving towards the safe passage.
Seeing Lin Yun's actions, the man hanging in the air knew that his actions were clearly seen, so he immediately stopped thinking and shouted, "Run!"
Unfortunately, both he and the owner of the magic power outside the door realized it too late.
The moment Lin Yun walked into the corridor, he took out the Heart Flower from his pocket and suddenly activated it. The petite blue figure rose into the air from the magic light, and in a few leaps, it caught up with the figure at the end of the corridor, and then did the same thing, controlling it with the blue thread.
The man who was hiding outside the door didn't know why he was caught. He just felt that he was about to escape, but was tied up and hung in the air for no apparent reason. He wanted to find the instigator of this incident, but he could only see Lin Yun standing not far away, staring at him, with a few strands of blue light around him that had not yet dissipated.
When he saw Lin Yun's face clearly, he said nothing more and just closed his eyes numbly.
After Lin Yun finished his transformation, he took a quick look at the other person's appearance and immediately recognized the man's identity. He was the "Zhuang Yang" he mentioned when he questioned the tall man just now.
"Zhuang Yang" and "Tao Fang" were the two people that Lin Yun had secretly marked, but he did not directly catch them as the hidden players of Black Embers Dawn.
The reason why they were kept here was that since the establishment of the Bureau of Strategy, these two people had not done anything that would actually harm the Bureau of Strategy, and their positions were not high, so it was difficult for them to accomplish anything. In addition, the remaining forces of the Black Cinders Dawn were hidden very deep, and it was difficult to find their traces through normal searches, so Lin Yun thought of keeping them as clues to see if he could follow the clues and find clues about the enemy.
However, he had not expected that this hidden agent named Zhuang Yang was so bold that he actually dared to secretly bring the assassin to the bureau during working hours, and the assassin he brought was a beastman.
Looking at the numb man in front of him, Lin Yun was about to ask something, but suddenly an idea flashed in his mind and he suddenly remembered another thing.
Zhuang Yang is here, what is Tao Fang doing? Thinking of this, he took out his cell phone from his pocket without thinking, dialed the number of the Intelligence Department, and directly called a relatively trusted employee, and said hurriedly: "Help me check where Tao Fang is now, and retrieve the surveillance records of her communication records in the past two days. I want to know where she has private contact with people."
After making the above request, he paced back and forth holding his mobile phone, quietly waiting for the other party to give the result.
The order given by the director himself was naturally taken seriously by the Intelligence Department. A few minutes later, all of Tao Fang's activities in recent days were clearly investigated and read to Lin Yun by the Minister of the Intelligence Department himself.
Lin Yun listened carefully to the other party's report, carefully wrote down every place name the other party mentioned, and arranged and compared them in his mind. Until one moment, the other party on the call said a name that made his heart skip a beat.
The moment he heard the name, he felt that his train of thought had been completely cleared up, and he immediately understood what was going on: "—Wait, you just said... Spring by the Lake?"
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"Give up, you are no match for us."
Reaching out to hold down the head of the Strategy Bureau employee in front of him, Bing Feng Qi pulled his fingers out of his neck and gently shook off the blood on his fingertips: "Our time is very precious. Surrender now, and I can give each of you a quick death."
In front of him was the defeated Third Squad of the Special Operations Department.
Li Yingwei, the team leader, was pierced through the chest by an unknown weapon and was now lying on the ground, his life or death unknown; Tian Sheng, who was also the main combat force, was held in the claws of a huge beast, with his head lowered and no sound; only the deputy captain Mu Bensheng was left standing back to back with several team members, gazing at the enemies around them with gnashing teeth.
——The combat strength of the two sides is too disparate.
This Black Cinder Dawn troop that appeared out of nowhere includes one Pupa-level beastman and four Cercidia-level beastman. Any one of these people is enough to deal with the entire Third Squad, let alone when they are gathered together.
The moment the team entered Lakeside Spring, they had already stepped into the enemy's ambush. In just ten minutes, they suffered tragic casualties. If there hadn't been a magical girl in the team, they would probably have been wiped out by now.
What's funny is that just before, they were still worrying about how to get this magical girl to leave and stop following them.
Bai Jingxuan communicated with Lin Yun over the phone, using her stubborn attitude and relatively soft demands to get permission to follow the Third Squad. Unexpectedly, this permission became the life-saving talisman for the entire Third Squad.
It was because of her presence that the team was able to hold out for so long against this group of beastmen.
Bai Jingxuan's magic suit, "Tianyin", can continuously activate and heal the magic power of the team members, so that the three team members equipped with magic weapons can work together to resist the attacks of the worm-level remnant beasts. In addition, Bai Jingxuan herself held back three beastmen, which barely prevented the collapse of the situation from coming so quickly.
However, when the man called "Soldier Bee Seven" by other beastmen took action, the support of the third team seemed like a joke.
The strength of the Pupa-level remnant beasts is no different from a disaster for a slightly smaller city. Even for a magical girl, it must be an elite above the Leaf level, or use human wave tactics to surround and beat it in order to have a chance of winning head-on.
Even if Bingfengqi did not use the beast's organs, but simply applied some magic power and techniques, it was far beyond what the third team could withstand.
Defeat became a matter of course.
After easily killing all the employees of the Yi Ce Bureau at his disposal, Bing Feng Qi's gloomy expression did not change at all. Even his words of persuading them to surrender were just spoken casually. He looked at Bai Jingxuan.
The girl in a green dress was half-kneeling on the ground, covering her chest and breathing hard.
She stepped forward to save the employees of the Strategy Bureau, but was easily knocked down by Bing Feng Qi, and it was difficult for her to even get up.
"I don't intend to kill you, magical girl. To be exact, our target here is you."
Bing Feng Qi said, "Be honest and surrender, and we can even consider not hurting you."
"Cough... cough... why?" Bai Jingxuan gasped for breath, with a look of pain and confusion, "Why are you looking for me?"
"Sorry, I may not have the time to explain this to you."
Bing Fengqi apologized, but there was no regret in his expression: "But you can think that you are important to us, or you can say that you are important to our leader."
"Magical girls... and Zanjuu are enemies."
Bai Jingxuan supported herself and stood up. The music from the music box began to heal her body. "I don't care what you think of me. I'm going to kill you."
"'Kill you'...?"
Bingfeng Qi Gujing's eyes moved slightly: "As expected of the beast boy chosen by the leader, he has great determination, not like those hypocritical magical girls at all."
“But it’s not enough.”
He shook his head slightly, raised his hand, and a beam of magic light shot straight at Mu Bensheng who was not far away.
Mu Bensheng, who was still fighting fiercely with other beastmen, had no time to dodge. He saw the purple-black spell coming straight at him and immediately closed his eyes in despair.
Sizzle.
The beam did not hit him.
Because before the beam hit Mu Bensheng, Bai Jingxuan blocked it with her body.
The originally white and tender arm suddenly became bloody and mangled under the erosion of the purple-black magic power, looking extremely terrifying. However, Bai Jingxuan seemed to be unconscious and still stared at Bing Fengqi.
"You keep telling me, 'Kill you guys.'
Bingfeng Qi looked puzzled: "But your actions are completely different from what you said."
"You said you wanted to kill someone, but you haven't been able to kill anyone yet. Instead, you almost killed yourself in order to protect these insignificant pigs. Why?"
He pointed at Tian Sheng, who was being held by another crippled beast, and Li Yingwei, who was lying on the ground. "You even used most of the power of your magic suit on those two men. Do you still want to save them?"
"Because... I'm a magical girl."
Bai Jingxuan reached out to touch the music box beside her, and the melodious music continued to wash around: "Magical girl, you have to save others."
"Having such a naive attitude will only prevent you from killing anyone."
Bingfeng Qi shook his head indifferently, raised his hand, and gathered magic power on the sharp nail tip: "Your wings are sheltering too many burdens, so you can't spread your wings and fly."
Boom! Green and purple-black magic intertwined in the air, and Bing Fengqi's figure briefly overlapped with Bai Jingxuan. After the fierce impact of magic, Bai Jingxuan flew backwards again.
Bing Fengqi kicked her in the chest, sending her crashing heavily against the protective wall nearby.
"I'll say it again, surrender and don't waste any more time."
He swung his toes, walked forward, grabbed Bai Jingxuan's hair, and dragged the girl down from the wall: "Put away your magic power, or do you want me to break your limbs and take you away? Can your healing power restore your limbs?"
"I...will kill you..."
The girl stared, gritted her teeth, and tried hard to reach out to Bing Feng Qi, but she could not reach the face in front of her.
“What a contradiction.”
Bing Feng Qi looked at her coldly: "It's like a split personality. Sometimes you are human, and sometimes you are a beast. Sometimes you have rationality, and sometimes you only have instincts."
"Tell me, magical girl, what are you hating about?"
His question received no response. Bai Jingxuan just kept reaching out to him, trying to grab his neck.
Slightly tilting his head back, Bing Feng Qi looked at her and asked, "Is your hatred because of those two researchers?"
"What...researcher..."
Bai Jingxuan panted and growled: "My father, my mother, were both killed by the beasts, by you..."
"Dad? Mom? What is that?"
However, her words were interrupted by Bing Feng Qi: "You don't have such a thing."
"I did!" Bai Jingxuan seemed to be further angered by Bing Fengqi's words. She struggled violently, "I did! You clearly killed me!"
"No, you didn't."
Bing Feng Qi looked at her calmly, with a hint of pity in his eyes: "Because you are just a beast we created from abandoned babies, born from experiments."
"You're talking nonsense!"
Bai Jingxuan shouted angrily: "I don't allow you to talk about my parents like that! I will kill you!"
"Don't make me repeat myself, magical girl. No, Beast Boy, you have no parents."
Bing Fengqi held her head with his other hand, staring into her eyes. In the girl's stunned eyes, he spoke word by word:
——"The 'parents' you thought of were nothing more than traitors to the Black Dawn. They were just a pair of researchers who took you out of the organization."
(End of this chapter)
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