Magical Girl Fan Bingbing

Early the next morning.

Jiang Li sat at the dining table, quickly finishing the fried eggs in her bowl, and said to Jiang Ran without looking up, "Dad, I might be back a little late tonight, so don't prepare my dinner."

Jiang Ran walked over with the milk and casually asked, "What's wrong? Are you having extra classes at your tutoring center?"

"No, that's not it." Jiang Li swallowed the food in her mouth and mumbled, "The gathering with my classmates didn't happen yesterday, so we all agreed to make up for it today and have a nice meal."

Jiang Ran didn't think much of it after hearing this. Her daughter was already in puberty and under a lot of academic pressure. There was nothing wrong with her going out with her girlfriends to relax, as long as they were safe and happy.

"Okay, is that enough money? If not, I'll transfer some to you."

"That's enough, thank you Dad!" Jiang Li said with a smile as she slung her backpack over her shoulder.

After they finished getting ready, the two went downstairs one after the other.

As soon as she stepped out of the old, dimly lit stairwell, Jiang Li habitually headed towards that familiar corner, but suddenly stopped in her tracks.

"Dad, where's that old car of yours that you only move when you cough twice?" Jiang Li asked, pointing to the empty parking space with a puzzled look on her face.

"Oh, that car? I took it to be depreciated and sold it yesterday," Jiang Ran said casually.

"Sold it?!" Jiang Li's eyes widened. "You saw it on Zhuanzhuan GG?"

"I just bought a new car, but I'll have to wait a few more days to pick it up. Today we have to take a taxi to school."

Jiang Li stood there for two seconds, processing the information, before a complex expression appeared on her face, somewhere between shock and disbelief.

"Dad, you usually don't even buy new clothes, so why are you suddenly willing to buy a new car?"

"We almost couldn't even get the fire started yesterday, how could we not replace it?"

However, she knew Jiang Ran's usual behavior all too well. She was reluctant to buy even a decent piece of clothing, and she had developed a deep affection for that old, beat-up secondhand car but didn't replace it. Why was she suddenly being so generous now?

Recalling what happened that night, Jiang Li's eyes instantly sharpened: "Dad, tell me the truth... were you really being kept by that woman who drove the Maybach that day?"

Jiang Ran looked at her speechlessly, "If your dad were really being kept by a rich woman, wouldn't it be better if you became a rich second-generation heir?"

"No, no," Jiang Li said seriously. "Rich women these days are all very extravagant. Dad, can you handle a steel wool pad?"

"How come you, a girl, spend all your time looking at this junk online?!" Jiang Ran almost laughed out of anger.

"I'm doing this for your own good, Dad. You can't even satisfy a gentle woman like my mom, how can you handle those ravenous rich women?"

"Who told you that?" Jiang Ran's eyes widened.

"Of course it's my mom. If you don't believe me, go ask her." Jiang Li's tone was very certain.

"If I ask her and she didn't say that, then you're in for a world of hurt!"

"Hehe~ Then go ask."

The two bickered back and forth downstairs in the apartment complex until Jiang Ran hailed a passing taxi, which finally put an end to their banter.

After safely dropping Jiang Li off at the school gate, Jiang Ran didn't get out of the car. Instead, she had the driver turn around and head to the old, nearly abandoned location.

The taxi stopped at an intersection some distance from the small warehouse.

Inside the warehouse, the white hybrid RV sat quietly in the shadows. Leng Qiaoqiao was already waiting there. Today, she wasn't wearing her eye-catching black stockings and CEO outfit; instead, she had changed into a more practical hoodie.

"Teacher Jiang." Leng Qiaoqiao immediately greeted Jiang Ran as she entered.

The sudden appearance of the blue magical girl disrupted Jiang Ran's original plans, and the two of them need to discuss how to adjust them.

Without wasting any words, Leng Qiaoqiao directly revealed the bombshell information she had gathered from the underworld the previous night.

"The blue magical girl who attacked on the street yesterday, and her accomplice, both belong to a hidden organization called the Demon Cult."

"The Demonic Cultivation Society?" Jiang Ran was taken aback, wondering why someone would give their organization such an evil-sounding name. Could it really be the evil organization that the Public Security Bureau was talking about?

"The full name seems to be something like the Demon Alliance Correction Council." Leng Qiaoqiao took out her phone and scrolled through it. "I don't really know much about these things, but it seems to have some connection with the Demon Alliance from twenty years ago. Anyway, people in the underworld are quite wary of it and don't dare to contact them for fear of getting blood on their hands."

Upon hearing these words, Jiang Ran froze on the spot.

The Magical Girls Alliance has been dissolved for twenty years, yet there are still people secretly causing trouble under its name.

And this name... Jiang Ran didn't know how to evaluate it for a moment.

Do they genuinely endorse the path taken by the Magic Alliance back then? Or are they merely using the Magic Alliance's name as a facade, actually seeking something else?

When the Demon Alliance disintegrated, many people did express their opposition, and some even tried to rebuild it, but under pressure from the ten councils, nothing came of it. Jiang Ran assumed that those people had given up long ago.

Unexpectedly, they not only did not disappear, but also developed into an organized and disciplined group, and even dared to openly confront the stationed magical girls in a first-tier city like Tianhai.

Jiang Ran originally regarded them as colleagues, but the words "Demon Alliance" changed the nature of the matter.

He needs to make contact with them in person.

"Besides this, there's a second message." Leng Qiaoqiao's voice pulled Jiang Ran back to reality.

"The bait has been released."

"After I heard the news, I immediately sent a few friends to investigate, and it turned out to be just as you guessed, Professor Jiang."

Leng Qiaoqiao's tone revealed a hint of barely concealed excitement, but it was quickly suppressed by reason: "But this is obviously bait thrown out by the Public Security Bureau. These days, what businessman would willingly lose money? This way of setting the hook is too crude, they didn't even bother to put on an act."

But with profits worth tens of millions, this piece of meat is too lucrative to pass up.

Jiang Ran leaned against the door of the RV, closed her eyes, and pondered for a while.

"We'll split into two groups." Jiang Ran opened her eyes. "Since the Public Security Bureau has launched this sugar-coated bullet, I'll be responsible for figuring out how to lick off the sugar coating."

He turned to Leng Qiaoqiao and continued, "As for the other route, I'll leave it to you. Go and try to contact that demonic cultivation society. It would be best if you could establish formal contact. If they're too wary, at least figure out their true purpose in openly stealing the demonic beast's corpse."

After listening, Leng Qiaoqiao nodded without hesitation: "This demonic cultivation association has been active in the underworld before, but they have kept a low profile. I didn't expect that there would be a magical girl among them."

Leng Qiaoqiao knew that Jiang Ran had some hidden cards he didn't want to reveal. She had known this ever since the Bald Qiang incident. This seemingly harmless physical education teacher was actually much more capable than he appeared.

"In short, I'll take care of the information about the Demonic Cult. Teacher Jiang, please be careful."