Chapter 27 Grand Welcome
"Yes, yes, I understand. I'm so sorry."
In the dark sewer, a man's voice, slightly tired, came from above.
"Yes, OK. If your maintenance personnel can't solve it, we will come to provide service to you as soon as possible tomorrow morning..."
It was 11 o'clock in the evening. Lin Yun was standing at an open sewer entrance with his cell phone in his hand. He made a promise to the person on the other end of the phone with an expressionless but sincere tone.
Then he put down the phone, opened the text message interface, edited a message and sent it. Only then did he put away his phone and sighed.
He was investigating everywhere in pursuit of the locations where the urban legend was spread. In the middle of the night, a customer complained about the phone call from his subordinate, and he was also blamed for not having a signal in the sewer. It was really exhausting.
Fortunately, there were only a few spots left. If there really were any Pupa-level remnants in Fangting City's sewers, he could pull them out of their hiding place tonight.
Holding the heart flower and transforming into a magical girl again, Delphinium flew towards the next rumored location in the night.
"The Song of the Sewer" is an urban legend that has become popular on the Internet recently. Although there are many versions, when tracing its source, most of the posters who claim to have experienced it personally claim that it originated in Fangting City.
The content of this urban legend is that when you pass by the sewer entrance late at night, you can occasionally hear a vague, very strange but beautiful song. Although it is not a human language, it seems to convey some kind of emotion. Just like the legendary siren, it tempts passers-by and makes people want to find out what's going on.
Once someone is mesmerized by this kind of singing, they will inevitably want to get closer to the source, and even move the manhole cover to try to listen to its beautiful melody at a closer distance. Eventually, they will be caught by the hand extending from the manhole cover and dragged directly into the darkness.
If someone ignores the singing and has no interest in it, he will be completely trapped in the same area as if he were trapped in a ghost wall. The singing in the sewer will become stronger and closer until he is completely addicted to it.
Only those who showed enough appreciation, but not complete enchantment, could leave the area where the singing was heard safely.
As this strange story spread, some serious remarks even appeared, saying that seeing a sewer manhole cover that was open but not closed meant that someone had been murdered, and that it would definitely lead to news of someone missing nearby.
However, the delphinium could not see it.
Every time she searched the sewer while enduring the stench, she rarely saw any missing people or even rats. In the dark and depressing sewer, there were only the sounds of flowing water and wind.
Recalling the urban legend, Delphinium kept focusing on his hearing, trying to catch any traces of the so-called "singing", but to no avail.
In this way, she floated and flew in the maze-like pipes for half an hour.
The gray-yellow walls and densely packed pipes that kept appearing before her eyes were annoying, but she still forced herself to keep searching. Unfortunately, this trip was still fruitless.
Unable to find what she wanted, Delphinium had to choose to go to the next place. But when she was about to choose a path to leave, she suddenly realized something was wrong: - She had been flying for half an hour, but she didn't even encounter an exit?
Her consciousness, which had been somewhat drowsy, suddenly became clear, and her dormant magic became restless. Delphinium moved her hands, drew a few lines, and then released her magic, which spread out in circles like sound waves. She waited there, and after some exploration, she realized that she might have finally found the right place.
Not only because she sensed extremely subtle residual magical power, but also because of the obviously abnormal spatial structure here: it was not a normal city sewer at all, but a sewer only in appearance, but actually had a structure like an ant nest, a nested spatial maze.
This is the symbol of the nest of the "Pupa"-level remnant beast, which distorts the original space of reality.
Adjusting her flight state to lower her floating height, several balls of magic light flew out of her sleeves, lighting up the surrounding vision. Her hands kept moving, quickly moving in the void. Along with this movement, several Favor runes jumped out from her fingers and flew around, forming a faint magic barrier. After a moment, the light went out along with the runes.
This series of actions used up half of the techniques that Delphinium had mastered. Most of the techniques she learned were auxiliary abilities related to detection and protection. When facing a powerful enemy, any technique was never too much.
After completing this series of preparations, Delphinium raised his spirits to meet the enemies that might arrive at any time.
Pupa-level remnant beasts were relatively rare enemies for her in the past. Now, 19 years have passed, and her current strength has indeed declined a lot compared to before. For enemies that cannot be guaranteed to be defeated, a cautious attitude is the most important thing.
Traveling along the extensive passages, Delphinium would first use the magic light ball to illuminate the environment when passing through each intersection to avoid being attacked by enemies in the dark.
This subconscious vigilance was soon rewarded - she discovered a remnant beast lurking at the top of the passage at a certain turn.
Like a piece of rotten meat smashed against the wall, the scattered minced meat stuck to the wall, and the tentacle-like flesh buds fixed its body in place. There was no doubt that this was an egg-level remnant beast.
"Plop!" In a few breaths, it was pierced by a magic beam from the hurrying Delphinium. The deterrent roar that had not yet been uttered was forever suppressed in its mouth, and it fell dully on the water, splashing a piece of dirt.
He stretched out his hand, and the starlight gathered in it, collecting the residual echoes of the egg level, and the Delphinium continued to move forward.
Since she encountered this crippled beast, she encountered more and more enemies along the way.
A large number of egg-level remnants, and even a few worm-level remnants, rushed towards her from all directions of the tunnel. It seemed as if something was directing them to accurately find the location of the larkspur.
The delphinium was not afraid at all.
If she hadn't been demonstrating to the newcomers, she wouldn't have needed to put in any effort to deal with this level of enemy. The magic suit was released, and deadly magic threads spread all around. Many of the beasts that rushed over were hit head-on before they could react, and were directly cut into pieces by the sharp threads.
She walked forward with an expressionless face, and from time to time, injured beasts would roar and fall down along the way.
The sewer tunnels were like a slaughterhouse, except that what was slaughtered there were not livestock, but dead animals. The smell of blood even overwhelmed the stench that the sewers were supposed to have, and the yellow water was dyed red by the blood of the dead animals.
Delphinium did not count how many remaining beasts it had killed. It only remembered that in the end it was too lazy to even collect the egg-level remnants.
Until finally, she heard singing.
It was not the vague a cappella singing as rumored, but a grand and magnificent chorus like a gorgeous performance.
What appeared before her was no longer a narrow tunnel, but a huge cave that normally could not appear in the sewer.
You can't see the top at a glance, all you can see are tangled pipes and bricks, and countless sewers extend out from all sides of the cave. A huge amount of sewage flows down from all directions and gathers into a bottomless pool.
Above the pool of water, there is the being that is making the singing sound.
It was not a siren, nor a mermaid, it was undoubtedly a crippled beast.
Delphinium looked up, and the first thing that caught its eye was meat, pieces of meat, and flesh limbs.
Flesh and blood that looked like intestines were hanging in the air, covering the entire sky of the cave like a string of colorful flags, just like a festival. In the center was a huge beast hanging from the sky, with only pink and red flesh all over its body, like a fish with its scales and skin peeled off, but without the eyes and gills of a fish, only a huge mouthparts.
At this moment, the huge mouthparts opened and closed, squirming like those of humans, and the graceful singing that came out of them resounded throughout the surrounding corridors. The strong echoes mixed together to form a chaotic chorus that sounded sacred and solemn.
There was no human language in this voice, but Delphinium seemed to understand its meaning: it was welcoming, welcoming the arrival of the magical girl.
(End of this chapter)
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