The villainous magical girl's daily mission is to find fault.

During the time she was dealing with the albatrosses, Su Tianqing overlooked something very important:

Bai Ling has a close relationship with that meerkat Mengmeng. More than two years ago, this white ferret was hit by a mysterious divine stone at home.

A divine stone, seemingly appearing out of thin air, fell from the ceiling, containing an encrypted message that Bai Ling couldn't decrypt despite her great efforts.

When I first learned about this, I didn't pay much attention to it. At most, I thought there were quite a few riddle tellers among stargazers. But if we look at it from the perspective of albatrosses' antics now...

"Without a doubt."

The fox spirit Yue Tianxin put on a pair of magic glasses from somewhere, carefully examined the rather worn-out divine stone in her hand, and said.

Bai Ling straightened her sable waist, standing very tall, almost as tall as the fox spirit when standing upright with her ears included.

"Senior Bai Ling, after you found this Divine Stone at home, did you do anything with it?" Yue Tianxin asked.

After a two-second silence, the white sable elf shook its head repeatedly.

"No, I didn't do anything. I just occasionally take it out to replenish its magic power and make sure it can still power on normally."

Oh? Bai Ling is rarely this reliable, which greatly surprised Su Tianqing.

She even remembered to replenish the magic power of the Divine Stone regularly to ensure that the stored information would not be damaged due to a lack of magic power, and she did not use any brute-force attacks that could damage the Divine Stone itself.

This made Yue Tianxin, who was driving a manual transmission car, look at Bai Ling with new respect and couldn't help but praise her a few times.

"That's amazing, Senior Bai Ling! Thanks to you, this data was preserved intact!"

"Ah... oh, is that so? Hehehe..."

Hearing the fox spirit's praise, Bai Ling couldn't help but reach out her sable paw and scratch her shoulder, her face immediately beaming with a smile.

Yue Tianxin refocused her attention on the divine stone in her hand.

The Divine Stone was brimming with magic and functioning exceptionally well. The recordings and other data stored within it showed no signs of damage, and he was currently copying them onto his own Divine Stone for further study.

From its appearance, this sacred stone is no longer recognizable as it was when it was sent into the new millennium: the outer shell has been completely replaced, and the light curtain magic has been replaced with an older version.

Even the internal control magic of the Divine Stone has been significantly altered. It seems that someone who is very familiar with the specifications of the Divine Stone has made considerable custom adjustments to it. No wonder Bai Ling couldn't decipher it no matter how many people she searched for, and she didn't even know the true model of this Divine Stone.

In addition to the internal control magic, all other accompanying magic of the Divine Stone was cleaned up, and all magic capacity was merged into a huge storage space—to store the ridiculously large encrypted recording and another compressed file package.

"But then again... Senior Bai Ling, could you think back carefully to what you were doing when you found the Divine Scripture Stone?"

Looking at the progress bar of the copied file in her hand gradually filling up on the other divine stone, Yue Tianxin spoke up.

Although Bai Ling said that she was thinking, "If only Senior Mengmeng could help me," more information might have an unexpected effect.

After much thought, Bai Ling couldn't come up with any more information. She only mentioned her graduation thesis and a bunch of retake exams that she was working on at the time.

Yue Tianxin finally gained a proper understanding of Bai Ling's status as a member of the "royal path" faction.

Who can graduate from stargazing by taking eight required professional courses? Bai Ling is truly a fish that slipped through the net of stargazing education.

The file copying process was very fast, and in the blink of an eye, it was completely copied onto Yue Tianxin's Divine Stone. She immediately began to try to decrypt it according to the decoding cipher text generated by the Hero Association.

It was getting late, so the stargazers said goodbye and went home to rest.

Yue Tianxin returned to the property she had purchased in the Star Realm and fell into a deep sleep. The Divine Stone was transmitted via the tail network to Su Tianqing, who immediately handed it over to the familiars to begin decoding.

Because this fox has another very important thing to do—to promptly comfort the hyacinth.

"Xiao Feng, are you alright?"

Su Tianqing typed this line of text into the chat software and clicked send.

I did not expect to receive a reply immediately.

Hyacinth is currently in a strange trance mode – Hua Ling and Mu Yao are taking turns calling Nan Xiaofeng with their cell phone magic stones, but neither of them receives a reply.

Tian Nanxing and Shuo Ye tried to search for Hyacinth's possible whereabouts throughout Rongcheng, but Hyacinth was, after all, a standard star, and even the world's first shining star. It was too difficult for these two newcomers to track her down.

Two minutes passed, and there was still no reply on the chat software. Helpless, Su Tianqing switched to another group and sent a shrug emoji.

She didn't reply to me.

A single line of text has stirred up a huge wave of discussion.

【Magical Girl Sparkle (Lin Muyao)】: Oh no, oh no!

[Big Bone Turns into Light (Wang Xiaowang)]: Oh no, oh no +1

【Invincible Dark Goddess (Sasha)】: What should we do? Is there any other way for us to contact each other?

Karin was the only one who didn't speak, but the "typing" label kept appearing on her profile picture.

Since Hyacinth left without a word, no one could contact her. Su Tianqing only learned about it from Hualing and the others not long ago, and was pulled into a strange group called "Someone is missing!!"

[Lin Muyao]: What should we do then? Does Sister Tianqing have a way to find Xiaofeng's location?

[Su Tianqing]: I'm sorry... I don't have that kind of powerful magic...

[Wang Xiaowang]: Then I'll go find Alice and ask her for help. Alice will definitely be able to contact Xinyuehu!

[Lin Muyao]: We absolutely mustn't go to Xin Yuehu at a time like this! She'll definitely make us pay double later!

[Wang Xiaowang]: But we can't just stand by and watch Xiaofeng disappear like this, can we?

[Sasa]: I'll fly out again and look around.

The group chat was filled with nonsensical chatter.

I was about to say something more when an unread message suddenly popped up in the background. I switched screens and saw that the unread message was showing Nan Xiaofeng's profile picture.

[Su Tianqing]: You replied to me.

With just a simple sentence, Su Tianqing quickly switched to the chat window with Nan Xiaofeng.

[Nan Xiaofeng]: Sister Tianqing, I'm sorry for making you worry. I calmed down somewhere where no one was around.

This was followed by an emoji of someone bowing their head in apology.

Su Tianqing pondered for a moment how to advise her, but before she could finish typing her concerned question, Nan Xiaofeng sent another message:

[Nan Xiaofeng]: I know this might be asking too much, but, Sister Tianqing, can I rely on you like before?

A pause of a few seconds.

Su Tianqing deleted the sentence she hadn't finished typing, brought the microphone to her lips, and spoke softly:

"Sure, let's find a place tonight or tomorrow morning and have a good talk."

"I'll always be here, and I'll never leave."