After get off work, I become a magical girl

Lin Xiaolu read several different meanings from his words and realized that the reason why Cuiqiao didn't answer the phone before might not be that simple. She asked seriously: "What happened to Cuiqiao? Do you have other accomplices?"

"Delphinium? Is that the code name for the little blue kid?"

The man shrugged. "I'm sorry, but I don't know what will happen to her. After all, what I asked that bastard to do was just to ask her not to ruin my business."

"Bastard?" The word the man kept muttering finally caught Lin Xiaolu's attention. "So you have an accomplice?"

"Curious? Want to ask more? But I'm almost out of conversation, so I have to get down to business."

The man raised his head, his expression unchanged, but his voice became louder and louder: "There is no point in knowing more. After all, you and she will have the same ending - that is death!"

After he finished speaking, a chilling magical power suddenly spread around him.

He took out a piece of purple-black flesh from nowhere and held it in front of him. The flesh emitted a strange halo and pulsated from time to time, as if it had its own life.

"What is that... thing?"

Xia Liang, who had a slightly stronger magical perception ability, couldn't help but cover his mouth and nose: "I feel so disgusting."

"Disgusting? How foolish! This is a treasure of the same nature as your Heart Gem."

Staring at the meat ball in his hand, the man smiled with a pious and gentle look on his face: "Don't you think it has a kind of beauty that makes you want to stop? After all, if you want to follow your naming method, you can call it the 'beast's organ'."

"'Beast's Heart'..."

It was not until she saw his posture that Lin Xiaolu, who had been feeling a strong sense of déjà vu, finally seemed to understand something and revealed a dazed expression.

She finally understood why she had been feeling vaguely irritated ever since she saw the magic barrier covering the orphanage.

Because several months ago, when she had been a magical girl for just a week, she had encountered a similar thing in a wetland park on the outskirts of the city.

She was trapped in the wetland park by a barrier and encountered a remnant of the insect-level beast. If it weren't for Delphinium's timely rescue, she would probably have died there.

And at this moment, she suddenly recalled the night when she was in danger in the wetland park, and recalled a doubt that she had almost forgotten.

That was the almost human-like expression she saw on the face of the crippled insect-level beast when she was struggling under the claws of the crippled insect-level beast.

Is it possible for a crippled beast to make such a human expression?

There is no doubt that it is impossible.

After all, the intelligence of the remnant beasts at a low evolutionary level should be quite low.

Moreover, after that, Lin Xiaolu followed the Jade Bird to defeat many remnant beasts, but she had never seen an individual as close to humans as that night. Most of them were huge and distorted, not to mention that most of them were egg-level remnants that looked like a pile of rotten meat, and even among the worms, there were few that stood on two feet.

Perhaps, they were not "merely remnant beasts" from the very beginning.

"You are, no, are you..."

Lin Xiaolu opened her mouth in surprise, but stopped when the words reached her lips.

Because she immediately realized a deeper problem.

When she first became a magical girl, she was surrounded by barriers and hunted like a trap; now in this welfare home, the same thing seems to be happening to the new magical girl.

Then, another question arose that made her shudder even more.

There was no need to ask about this man's origins. The answer was self-evident. The biggest conspiracy was probably something else:

"...There were no magical girls in Fangting City for nearly two years. What does this have to do with you?"

When she asked this question, even she felt her brain buzzing.

"You seem to have thought of something? Do you need me to praise you for being perceptive?"

The man did not answer her question, but asked in return, his gloomy tone forming a sharp contrast with the pious and gentle expression on his face: "Or is it that the worker who lost contact with Fangting before has some connection with you?"

"Gongchu... is that what you call each other? This matter is indeed related to you two!"

Lin Xiaolu no longer knew why she continued to ask questions.

The truth she guessed was so cruel that she was somewhat unwilling to associate it, but her body was still moving, persistently pursuing the truth.

"What happened? What did you do?" she asked, holding her wand tightly.

"What did you do? You should know. Even if it's not a sacrifice, the magical girl's heart gem is still a very valuable magical material. The benefits alone are enough to make people excited, not to mention facing a mortal enemy?"

Responding to Lin Xiaolu's question somewhat irrelevantly, the man stared at the meat ball in his hand without even looking at her: "There is naturally only one attitude when facing a mortal enemy, and killing them all is the only answer."

"The engineer in your city, codenamed Eleven? That guy must have come after you, right? But now you are all still alive here, is he really dead?"

"Heh, not only did he die in office, but he also leaked the news. The fairies and magical girls that I failed to clean up ruined my plans. Gongchu Eleven really left a mess behind..."

"Well, the useless bastard is dead, so let him die. Although I don't want to clean up after him, let me do his job for now."

I don't know why, but ever since he took out the piece of meat, he started talking incoherently, as if he was talking to himself. The logic behind his words was quite jumpy, like talking in a dream, making it extremely difficult to understand.

But at this point in the conversation, even if he only understood a small part of the information, it was enough for Xia Liang, who originally didn't understand what was going on, to come to his senses and look at the man in black robe with some horror:

"You mean, you're...hunting magical girls?"

At this time, the man was no longer willing to talk to them.

Pressing the ball of flesh in his hand against his chest, the man's expression changed from gentle to excited, and then became fanatical and fierce, and even began to go a little crazy.

"You despicable fake royal court, now is the time for me to carry out the Lord's will and annihilate all of you here!"

He shouted, yelled, and chanted loudly, and the flesh in his hand burst out with strong magic power. He looked at the magical girls in front of him, his eyes widened, and his mouth opened to reveal sharp teeth:

"This is the time to eradicate traitors and suppress rebellion."

As he finished speaking, dark magic power enveloped his entire body. A black mist surged up, and within the dark clouds, the man's originally human figure gradually grew taller, finally reaching several meters in height.

In the surging mist, a beast head with bared fangs and flashing red eyes poked out from the black fog. Amidst the flashing golden runes, the beast's body covered with exaggerated and terrifying pipes also revealed its true appearance from the cold magic.

At this moment, the man who appeared in front of everyone was no longer that man.

In fact, if compared with its essence, the person in front of them is no longer a human being.

——It is a crippled beast.

Chapter 77 Outside the Office Building

2023-04-30

Lin Yun put down his phone and continued to organize the documents on his desk.

After lunch break, Xia Liang inexplicably sent him a text message, saying that he suspected Mo Ke had lied about military intelligence and had not returned recently after claiming to have gone out to look for a magical girl, so he wanted to conduct a follow-up investigation.

Thinking back to when he had been the subject of their investigation some time ago, and now they were pointing the finger at Mo Ke, Lin Yun found it funny, but he did not refuse.

He used the tracking technique that he had previously set up on Moko, and after a simple sensing, he determined his location and shared it with the two girls through the group.

"But... the welfare home?"

While sorting out the documents, his mind gradually wandered: "Maybe there really is a new person?"

Although he is not very positive about whether to recruit new magical girls, if he really meets a talented child, the final decision may still fall on her.

After all, after the previous conversation with his daughter, not only did Lin Xiaolu temporarily let go of his worries, he also figured out many things.

He will quit his job which he has been doing for nearly ten years and devote all his energy to the magical girl-related matters. Once he makes this decision, it actually means one thing - one day, he will investigate the truth of Anya's death.

At the beginning, he did not take any action even though he knew that there were suspicious circumstances surrounding his wife's death. This was because the golden-green cat's eye reminded him that he was now a father and the only relative of his daughter. If something happened to him again, no one would raise his child.

But the situation is different now, my daughter has also become a magical girl.

Although the process was somewhat accidental and even not very pleasant, since she was determined to go down this path, as a father, I should support her as much as possible.

Then there is another option: train your daughter to be strong enough to protect herself from various enemies, and then choose a suitable time to leave.

As a result, I began to think about helping my daughter to train a team.

As early as when he recruited Xia Liang, he had had this idea in his heart, but later he found that his life was too busy with working during the day, being a magical girl, and tutoring two children at night.

With such a crowded schedule, if he rashly recruited new magical girls, not only would he not have time to teach one more person, but there might also be loopholes in protecting their personal safety.

He hopes that while he helps his daughter train the class, every child will be able to grow up safely and steadily, and when they are fully grown, they can face the real storms.

And now that he has chosen to resign, he feels more confident about recruiting new people.

This was also the reason why he took the initiative to agree to let Xia Liang and the others follow Mo Ke.

After arranging the documents on his desk and putting them aside to make sure there were no more omissions, he stood up from his seat and took one last look at his desk.

It would be a lie to say that I have no attachment to this job.

He worked in this position for a long time, and although he experienced a lot of fatigue and unhappiness during this period, he also made many friends and gained a lot of growth. More importantly, this was a way for him to shape his own sociality.

She chose to retire from her magical girl identity and enter the society to become a professional. The motivation for this behavior is not only that she does not want to live off her savings, she wants to use her work income to provide more security for her family life and find something to do for herself, but also that she wants to clarify herself and maintain her original intention.

The essence of a person is a collection of his or her social relations: it is because of meeting, coexisting and influencing different people that each person becomes a unique individual.

Walking out of his office and closing the door gently, Lin Yun breathed a long sigh of relief.

This is the end of it.

After that, he will go to the general manager's office to say hello, and then resign completely, bidding farewell to this part of his career.

During the period, he passed by the office of the Foreign Affairs Dispatch Department. Through the glass window, his eyes met with those of his old colleagues. He saw Liu Guanshan, who was sitting behind his desk with his feet crossed, smiling and raising his hand to him.

Have a couple more drinks when you have time.

This is what his mouth means.

"Come on, who would drink if not for socializing?" Lin Yun cursed with a low laugh through the window.

When he arrived at the door of the general manager's office and saw that it was ajar, he paused, straightened his collar, and then knocked on the door gently.

"Please come in."

A hoarse voice came from inside the door.

As he walked into the door, Lin Yun could see the general manager of his company, a man named Wang Tengfei, sitting behind the desk, looking at him with a smile on his face.

The reason why he is the general manager instead of the president is because Gaosheng is actually still a chain brand.

Its small and home elevator business covers the entire southern Donghua Province, and its headquarters is located in the nearest central city, Yannan City.

When Anya was still alive, Lin Yun would occasionally go on business trips for external affairs; after Anya passed away, in order to better take care of Lin Xiaolu, he took the initiative to apply for the after-sales department. Although it was busier, at least he was always in Fangting City.

At that time, he was also communicating with the general manager in front of him.

The people who changed jobs and resigned now are still the same people, but their mindsets are completely different.