My wife is a magical girl, how can I be the villain?

The three of them reached the top floor and, after inspecting the area, went up the fire escape to the rooftop, where Hua Lingyou was about to set up the machine she was holding.

Hua Lingyou found a central open space and squatted down. She opened the suitcase in her hand, revealing a strangely shaped machine inside. A stone that shimmered with magical light was embedded in the machine, obviously serving as a medium for setting up a magic array.

Tang Ming glanced back at Boss Xiao, who was standing far behind watching. The other man was afraid of losing his life and might get hurt if something went wrong while the magic array was being set up.

Tang Ming moved slightly closer to Hua Lingyou and said, "Are we even being this generous with our magic circles? Giving them away so easily?"

"Having connections is great, otherwise how do you think our organization survives in the city? If we didn't have connections, we would have been exposed long ago." Hua Lingyou looked up at Tang Ming strangely, then lowered her head to continue fiddling with the machine in her hands.

"Besides, this magic circle isn't worth much, and it's not the core reason why I went to so much trouble." Hua Lingyou wiped her sweat. The sun on the rooftop was still a bit harsh; it was only May, and the sun was already showing no mercy.

"Could it be the same as the previous mission...?" Tang Ming suddenly realized.

"Yes, scan the structure of this region, and then inject heterogeneous material."

"What's the point of doing this? With just this little bit, we could have a whole bunch of transformations..." Tang Ming asked, seemingly unintentionally.

"You don't need to worry about this for now, you don't really understand it anyway, I'll explain it to you later." Hua Lingyou probably felt it wasn't right to dismiss her junior like this, so she added, "Anyway, you know this is for the boss's grand plan."

Having finished their conversation, Hua Lingyou had also finished her work. The metal rod standing upright in the box was raised to a height of one meter, then spun in place, a beam of light swept around the surroundings, and then turned into a light screen that passed through the entire hotel building.

The next moment, a purple-gold magic circle formed beneath their feet, then expanded continuously, its color gradually fading from deep purple to light purple, and finally disappearing completely.

The magic circle had successfully enveloped most of the upper part of the building. The magic medium inside the dark machine detached and fell to the ground. The magic stone lost its luster and was picked up by Tang Ming; its magic power had been completely absorbed.

Tang Ming couldn't help but wonder if he could use magic after transforming, using the alien substance while simultaneously wielding magic...

Hua Lingyou seemed to know what he was thinking, and took the magic stone from his hand with a disgruntled expression.

"Don't even think about it. Magic and heterogeneous substances are incompatible. Magic has a natural burning and corrosive effect on heterogeneous substances."

Tang Ming nodded, somewhat disappointed, but this was something he should have understood long ago. The magical girl's physique and physical abilities were completely incomparable to the void beasts filled with heterogeneous energy. The fact that she could suppress the void beasts with clumsy and rudimentary combat methods from the very beginning of the contract was due to her ability to fly and maneuver, and her reliance on the restraint of magical attacks.

Seeing the two pack up their things and walk towards them, Xiao Erdong quickly grinned and walked closer to show his friendliness.

"Lingyou—is this all settled? Aren't you afraid the magical girl will tear the house down?" Xiao Erdong rubbed his hands together like a fly. He had seen the scene just now, and the intense magical energy fluctuations made him shudder.

Although he didn't know how powerful it was, he felt inexplicably at ease. Of course, what he didn't know was that an extremely pure and stable foreign substance had already been ejected from the building's structure and flowed into the interior.

The slight anomaly was also concealed by the magic circle, which is another reason why Hua Lingyou gave away benefits for free.

Both of them had finished their work, and it was noon. At Xiao Erdong's enthusiastic invitation, Hua Lingyou pretended to decline for a while, but then agreed to have lunch with him at the hotel restaurant.

Maintaining a good relationship with Boss Xiao was one of the reasons she came in person; she still wasn't comfortable leaving these matters to Tang Ming alone.

Tang Ming followed behind the two. The lunch that followed did not abandon him. Although Tang Ming secretly guessed that Xiao Erdong definitely wanted to invite Hua Lingyou to lunch alone.

He was somewhat surprised, though. Although Hua Lingyou was the company's top salesperson, she was just an insurance company salesperson... Tang Ming could tell that Xiao Erdong's politeness was not out of covetousness, but genuine respect.

Tang Ming thought that Hua Lingyou's public identity shouldn't warrant such treatment, and perhaps the real reason was the boss of Anmeng Insurance whom he had never met.

This made him even more curious about his boss...

"Little Tang! Eat more, don't be shy, the chefs are all from my family, just let me know if you need more!"

Xiao Erdong waved his hand magnanimously, befitting a big boss with countless assets under his name. Tang Ming, being a young man, naturally followed suit like a chicken pecking at rice, and even toasted with him in a fawning manner.

Of course, they were drinking cola.

"Why is this red wine still bubbling... How old are you? Can't you even have a glass?" Xiao Erdong found it somewhat amusing.

"It's not that I don't want to drink, I have to drive..."

"Boss Xiao, if you let him drink, then I won't. Anyway, one of us has to drive." Hua Lingyou swirled her wine glass, the crimson liquid rippling in waves.

Xiao Erdong waved his hand and said, "What's there to be afraid of? I'll send someone to take you back."

"That won't do," Hua Lingyou pouted. "We still have to go back to the company to report, and we have to work this afternoon. If the boss sees us like this, we'll be punished."

"Well... alright then." Hearing that his boss was going to punish him, Xiao Erdong stopped urging him to drink. He was an open-minded boss, and although he had a lot of wrinkles and his mind was no longer young, he wouldn't do anything stupid that would offend young people.

"It's not a good time to be too noisy at noon, Miss Lingyou, why don't you have a drink with me?"

"It would be impolite of me to refuse!"

The two men grinned and picked up their wine glasses, downing them in one gulp with a crisp "clink."

"Just have a drink..." Tang Ming watched as the other person started pouring a second glass, silently grumbling to himself. Then, holding his own glass in both hands, he took another sip of cola.

Despite being the tallest person there, he appeared extremely inexperienced at the dinner, and the three of them sitting at the round table seemed to be separated by two separate tables...

He sat at the children's table.

Halfway through the dinner, Tang Ming's phone vibrated. He glanced at the other two people chatting happily, then took a quick look at it. It was an internal communication from the organization—a message from Zeng Que.

He wasn't familiar with Zeng Que. Although they were colleagues and there weren't many people in the organization, Zeng Que couldn't transform into a virtual beast and spent most of his time working in the Demon Extermination Department, where he also served as the organization's intelligence liaison.

The first time he met the other party was on the day after his first official mission against Qiang Hong. Hua Lingyou was furious in the conference room, accusing Zeng Que of spreading false information.

Only then did he understand why Hua Lingyou knew so much about the Demon Department before each mission, and even knew a lot about the city's archives and companies. It seemed that the organization did not have a bunch of low-level employees.

It seems they've been "leeching" off the Anti-Demon Department.

Tang Ming, you know me, right? Where are you now?

Upon seeing Zeng Que's first message, Tang Ming glanced at the cheerful Hua Lingyou, wondering why she wasn't looking for her old partner but instead coming to him.

[My senior colleague and I are having dinner with a client, an insurance client.]

Okay, to make a long story short, someone is investigating your file; it's one of my people.

Upon seeing this message, Tang Ming's heart skipped a beat, and he raised a brow with his right eye.