Chapter 181 Lin Xiaolu's Suspicion
"suspicious."
A few days later, in the evening, after returning home from patrol, Lin Xiaolu sat alone on the sofa, her face solemn, and she sighed in a deep voice: "This is really too suspicious."
Because there have been no beasts in Fangting City in recent days, and because they have a certain understanding of the area under their jurisdiction, the girls' patrol work has inevitably been reduced. The patrol work that used to take nearly two hours after school has now been compressed to one hour.
After completing their fixed tasks, the girls who had nothing to do and did not want to study naturally gathered in the living room as usual and occupied their favorite seats on the sofa.
Next to her, Xia Liang was watching TV attentively. After hearing Lin Xiaolu's groaning beside him, he turned his head to look at her, then looked at the TV screen again with an expressionless face.
“That’s too suspicious.”
Lin Xiaolu repeated this sentence again, and for some reason raised her voice: "I feel that something is happening secretly, and I am kept in the dark."
Xia Liang still turned a deaf ear and watched TV calmly.
Glancing at Xia Liang, seeing that he had no intention of responding, Lin Xiaolu narrowed her eyes slightly. She stood up from her seat and walked behind him. She bent her legs, squatted beside Xia Liang's ear, and said word by word: "Too suspicious."
"…What do you want to say?"
Reluctantly turning his eyes away from the TV, Xia Liang gave a perfunctory smile: "Suspicious? Have you found any suspicious people recently?"
"Suspicious person? Hmm... probably?" Lin Xiaolu stood up, looking thoughtful.
"who?"
"That woman."
"Who is 'that woman'? I don't understand what you are saying."
Xia Liang forced a dry laugh: "Isn't there any more recognizable name?"
Lin Xiaolu couldn't help but hold her breath, pursed her lips and paused for a long time, then reluctantly uttered a sentence: "It's... the woman named Hong Siyu."
"……ha."
Xia Liang sighed slightly, and a look of "I knew it" flashed across her face: "You are talking about Hong... Sister, what happened to her?"
"Don't you think it's strange?"
Lin Xiaolu held onto the back of the sofa with both hands, revealing half of her face from behind. "Why did that woman disappear for so long before, and why did she suddenly come back as a magical girl recently? How could a retired magical girl regain her strength? It's fine that she was vague about this, but why has her cooking become so delicious these days? It's ridiculous!"
“Isn’t this a good thing…?”
Xia Liang raised his eyebrows, looking slightly distressed: "Look, Sister Hong has become a magical girl again, and has overcome the obstacle of cooking. It's not bad for everyone."
"I didn't say it was a bad thing. The key point is why? There have been too many strange things recently, and I always feel that they happened when I was not aware of it. For example, the gas pipeline in the community exploded two weeks ago. The degree of damage was definitely a beast, right? A few days ago, the newly completed building of the Strategy Bureau collapsed. Cuiqiao also informed us in advance that there were powerful enemies. No matter how you think about it, there must be enemies that have attacked the Strategy Bureau, right?"
Lin Xiaolu obviously didn't buy this answer. She counted the various abnormal things on her fingers: "As for Hong Siyu, there is no such thing as a free lunch in this world. What happened when she disappeared for so many days? I always feel that she is hiding something from us! And it must be related to these weird things!"
"Ha ha……"
Because he really didn't know what to say, Xia Liang could only continue to laugh dryly: "So what?"
"I need to know the truth!" Lin Xiaolu slapped the back of the sofa heavily, saying righteously, "Even if I have to use some means!"
Just as she said this, Bai Jingxuan also came up from the training ground in the basement. She held Mo Ke in one hand and wiped the sweat off her cheek with a towel in the other hand. She looked at Lin Xiaolu in the living room with some doubt: "The truth? What is my sister talking about?"
"Speaking of the various strange things happening in Fangting City recently, the most suspicious ones are Hongsi and that woman."
Lin Xiaolu turned her head and looked at Bai Jingxuan: "There was a gas explosion in the community, and the building of the Strategy Bureau collapsed. Aren't you curious about what happened behind the scenes?"
"Gas explosion in the community...?" Slowing down her speech and chewing the word gently in her mouth, Bai Jingxuan opened her mouth slightly, but suddenly covered her mouth as if she remembered something.
"Why are you covering your mouth?" Lin Xiaolu looked at her suspiciously. After a moment, she suddenly realized what was happening and stood up from behind the sofa. "No, isn't Lixing District your patrol area?"
"ah!"
Bai Jingxuan couldn't help but exclaimed, then waved her hands repeatedly: "I know nothing! I didn't see anything when I was on patrol!"
"What do you mean you didn't see anything? What do you really know, kid?"
Lin Xiaolu strode towards Bai Jingxuan: "Quick! Tell the truth!"
"Mom won't let me... No, it's me who can't say it!" Bai Jingxuan took two steps back, holding the handrail of the stairs.
"Mom? Delphinium? Huh?"
Lin Xiaolu opened her eyes slightly wide: "So this matter is related to Delphinium? I'm the only one who doesn't know?"
Even Xia Liang, who had been playing dumb, raised his head in surprise and looked in the direction of Bai Jingxuan.
"Bai Jingxuan, I am your senior, and logically speaking, I am also your future sister. So, don't lie to your sister."
Lin Xiaolu stretched out her hands and placed them on Bai Jingxuan's shoulders. There seemed to be whirlpools in her dark eyes: "Come, tell me, what did Cuiqiao do secretly with you?"
"Um...I..." Bai Jingxuan clutched the corner of her clothes with both hands, obviously in a dilemma. She couldn't stammer a word for a long time and could only look at Xia Liang as if asking for help.
Seeing her asking for help like this, although Xia Liang was also very curious, he could only start to help: "Don't worry, Xiaolu, don't push the child so hard. If you scare her, she won't be able to say anything, right?"
"Yeah, yeah!" Bai Jingxuan nodded repeatedly.
"I'm, scary?"
Lin Xiaolu blinked, and released her hands from Bai Jingxuan's shoulders, and turned to look at Xia Liang: "Then let's not interrogate the elementary school student for now. Xia Liang, I suddenly remembered that you have some problems too?"
"During the beginning of this semester, you and Delphinium were always alone for unknown reasons, right? Even at the parent-teacher conference, something seemed to have happened, and you always knew things that I didn't even know Delphinium had said or not. Can you explain your situation first?"
Gurgle.
Xia Liang swallowed subconsciously.
"How, how could that be? Aren't we together every day, whether in school or in the secret base?"
She glanced upwards, her voice slightly out of tune: "I just have a better memory of what the young senior said, you just didn't remember it, right?"
"……suspicious."
Squinting her eyes, Lin Xiaolu looked at Xia Liang, then at Bai Jingxuan behind her, and repeated this sentence for the umpteenth time today: "Too suspicious. Everyone I look at now seems suspicious. Could it be that all of you are hiding something from me, and I'm the only one who knows nothing?"
"Oh, you really think too much!"
"Uh-huh!"
Xia Liang and Bai Jingxuan responded immediately, interrupting Lin Xiaolu's words: "Let's not talk about this topic anymore. Weren't you talking about Sister Hong just now? What's the topic going to? Let's talk about business. How do you plan to get the truth from her?"
"Hmm? Oh...you're talking about this."
Xia Liang brought her back to the right track, and Lin Xiaolu immediately switched her line of thought, thinking: "My initial idea now is to find a time to confront her, but I always feel that I may not get the result I want."
"Confrontation is really not a good idea."
Xia Liang, who was originally uninterested, reversed his state of fishing in troubled waters and took the initiative to make a suggestion: "I think we should first use indirect methods to induce her to say something contradictory."
"Yeah!" Bai Jingxuan was also very enthusiastic in proving her existence.
"Brief talk? That's what you're good at?"
Lin Xiaolu raised her eyebrows: "Anyway, pretending to be well-behaved and asking some insidious questions is your strong point, right?"
"I will not accept unwarranted slander."
Xia Liang kept a warm smile on his face: "Dark and subjective descriptions like 'pretentious' and 'sinister' are unnecessary."
"It's just a deliberate trap anyway." Lin Xiaolu rolled her eyes: "It's just to fool the good people who are not on guard against you."
"What do you mean by fooling a nice guy?"
Xia Liang suddenly said with some dissatisfaction: "I am obviously helping you find a solution!"
"Too slow! Too unstable! By the time there is a result, I'm afraid whatever conspiracy she has will have been completed!"
Lin Xiaolu shook her head: "Reject! Change another one!"
——"I think we can find an opportunity to secretly follow her and see what she is doing now." A voice suddenly said.
"Tracking, um..."
Lin Xiaolu frowned: "It's easy to say, but it's difficult to implement. The last tracking attempt was a complete failure."
"Although I don't know what happened during the last tracking, I think it was due to insufficient preparation, incomplete props, and irregular actions."
The voice that suddenly appeared continued, "If these problems can be solved, tracking is actually a very efficient method. After all, that's how private detectives handled cases in the early years."
"That's true, you said."
Lin Xiaolu was somewhat persuaded, but still a little hesitant: "However, when it comes to solving problems, these things are not so easy to solve, right? Props, actions, etc...."
"It's okay. If you really want to do that, I can help."
"Really? I didn't expect there would be someone among us who could help... No, who are you?!"
Halfway through the conversation, Lin Xiaolu realized something was wrong. She finally discovered that the voice did not belong to either Xia Liang or Bai Jingxuan, or even Mo Ke. Instead, it came from a very strange direction - the floor-to-ceiling window in the living room.
The girls gathered in the living room looked over and saw a strange-looking spherical creature standing there. From the fluttering wings behind it, it was probably a fairy.
Of course, it might be a bit far-fetched to say that it was a living thing: because it had obvious artificial joints on its body, it looked more like a doll than a living thing. And this goblin doll was standing outside the French window, with its big face pressed against the glass, and spoke the words just now in a muffled voice.
"……What's this?"
Lin Xiaolu was stunned for a long time by this strange existence that suddenly appeared, and then she hesitantly made a guess: "Remnant beast?"
"You are such an impolite child. I am not the same as that pathetic monster. Even just by looking at my appearance and my intellectual conversation, you should be able to tell that I am a fairy."
The doll stood outside the window and tapped the glass with its short claws: "So, can you open the window first? Let me in first and then talk. It's so windy and cold outside."
"It's outside the house at this time to trick minors into opening the window. Even if it's not a crippled beast, it can't be a good thing, right?"
Lin Xiaolu took out her heart gem with some caution: "Xia Liang, let's just transform and make it."
"What do you mean by 'did it'? Young people these days are so vicious!"
The fairy doll outside the window shuddered. "I showed up here without any hostility. I came here with care for the younger generation, but I was treated like this without any reason?"
"Suddenly you're lying outside someone's window and saying something sneaky. Isn't that enough to make people suspicious? Who on earth are you?"
Lin Xiaolu was full of suspicion: "You actually encouraged others to follow me. Could it be that you were sent by Black Cinders Dawn or someone like that to sow discord?"
"Ahem, you actually used the barbarians of Black Dawn to describe me. If I weren't a person of noble character like me, I would probably be furious now. No, even I would be a little angry."
The fairy doll cleared its throat in a vague voice and said in a mature manner, "As for asking me what I am? Do you mean to let me introduce myself in such a cold current and wind?"
"Moko, this guy looks like a goblin. Have you seen it?"
“No.”
Moko looked at the doll outside the window: "Also, the magical fluctuations of this guy are totally unlike those of a normal fairy. It must be a fake."
Lin Xiaolu nodded: "Okay, Xia Liang, let's do it."
"Oppose violence! As a magical girl, you hurt a powerless fairy. Won't your conscience be condemned?"
The fairy doll outside the window waved its claws repeatedly: "What's more, the elders came all the way to help you, but in the end they were not treated politely, and were violently abused. Think about it, is this appropriate?"
"I don't have any elders who look like balls!"
Lin Xiaolu pointed at the doll and said, "So you better tell me clearly, who are you?"
"Alas, the young people nowadays..."
The fairy doll outside the window sighed in a lifelike manner, then puffed out its round belly: "Forget it, since you are so anxious, you better listen carefully. I am just a fairy who happened to pass by and likes gossip. You can call me...'Fairy Immortal'."
(End of this chapter)
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