After get off work, I become a magical girl

After studying the information, Dengzhan identified several particularly suspicious people, and after a day of follow-up investigation, he narrowed his target to a certain man.

According to the information, this man was once a magician, and was arrested and sentenced by the Bureau of Strategy for engaging in shady business. After being released from prison and deprived of the ability to use magic, he became a vagrant.

During the period before and after the incident with the Cattail Squad, this person appeared several times around the locations that Dengzhan had designated, and his behavior was very suspicious.

After locking onto this person, Dengzhan took decisive action and tried to track his whereabouts. However, what she didn't expect was that she got lost inexplicably during the tracking process.

After following the man into an underground passage, she got lost in it. After several twists and turns, she found herself in a space that looked like a nest.

At first she also thought she had come to the Bureau of Strategy, but soon she met several employees who were also trapped in the Bureau of Strategy. From those employees, she learned that this was not the real Bureau of Strategy at all.

After knowing that this was the nest of the pupa-level remnant beasts, she redefined her goal and began to search for the center of the nest with the purpose of defeating the remnant beasts.

Dengzhan's magic suit has the ability to track and investigate, so in fact, she did it very quickly. She found the center of the nest, and more importantly, she also found the man she had been following all the way.

——The man was feeding the remaining animals.

Chapter 120 Joint Attack

2023-04-30

"Wait, what did you say?"

Kuznetsuzan frowned and interrupted Dengzhan: "People are feeding the crippled beasts? Are you kidding me?"

"I won't joke at a time like this."

Dengzhan emphasized with a serious expression: "But if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I'm afraid I wouldn't believe it."

"Humans who feed the remaining beasts..."

After chewing on the information given by the lantern, Kuijin thought for a moment and realized another blind spot in the information. He suddenly raised his head and asked, "What is he feeding?"

No one answered her question.

Dengzhan just shook his head and said nothing.

However, Cuiqiao already had a guess in her mind. Even if Dengzhan didn't say anything, she could guess roughly, so she said in a deep voice: "Is it a person?"

"...Yeah." Dengzhan's voice was weak, "I couldn't save them."

Delphinium's expression turned cold.

Her fingertips twitched slightly and she subconsciously contracted them inward, as if she was going to make a fist, but after a slight hesitation, she did not make that move after all.

For a moment, she almost blurted out "How dare they?" But the person in front of her was not an enemy, but a companion who had been injured in the battle. There was no need for her to show her anger in front of her companion.

Coldness and anger were what she reserved for her enemies. This group called Black Dawn had left a terrible impression on her.

The remnant beasts are a disaster to mankind and the enemy of magical girls. Every human living in the material world will have more or less bad interactions with the remnant beasts directly or indirectly in their lives.

A less severe case is seeing reports of attacks by brutal beasts from various places on the Internet; a more severe case is that someone you know may have died in an attack by a brutal beast; there may also be cases where the place where you live or work has been destroyed by brutal beasts; even worse, some may themselves be victims of the claws of brutal beasts.

Growing up in such an environment, no matter whether one is an ordinary person or a magician, one should not have the slightest identification with the crippled beasts.

But this group of people who called themselves Black Cinder Dawn broke this bottom line again and again, which made Delphinium more and more upset.

Trying to calm down her agitated emotions, Kuiqi made her tone calm again, and then asked Dengzhan: "So you just went straight up?"

"So I just went straight for it." Dengzhan admitted honestly.

"You are injured, so what about the enemy?"

"At first, I did inflict severe damage on the beast, but after that man came out..." Dengzhan shrugged helplessly.

Obviously, she herself was not satisfied with the result.

"What about those employees of the Strategy Bureau that you met in the nest before? Have you made arrangements for them?" Delphinium asked.

"I had originally planned to help them leave after getting rid of the remaining beasts, but I didn't win, so naturally there was no follow-up."

Dengzhan smiled sheepishly: "So, they should still be hiding somewhere now?"

Her answer reminded Delphinium of the blood-stained office she encountered when she first arrived.

This is not the Strategy Bureau, but just the lair of the beasts. She already knows this. So the offices here are all empty, and there shouldn't be any living people inside.

Thinking about it this way, the victims in that office were obviously ordinary people from the outside world, and it was even very likely that... they were the people mentioned by Dengzhan.

"What's wrong?"

Delphinium's silence caught the attention of the lantern.

"nothing."

Kuizi shook her head and didn't intend to tell the truth to Dengzhan, but gently turned it over.

She did not become more indignant after realizing this fact, but instead felt a little calm, because at this moment, in her heart, the instigator of this incident was already an unforgivable person who must be killed.

Tightening the golden robe behind her, Delphinium asked the lamp, "Can you still find the center of the nest?"

"Now? Although I didn't record the route when I escaped from there, it should be no problem to find it back using the ability of my magic suit..."

Dengzhan blinked his eyes and asked, "Inspector, are you going to go?"

"For me, of course, the sooner the better."

Delphinium said this and stood up: "How is your injury? Do you need me to help you move to a safer position?"

"If you have magic, then there won't be any problem."

Dengzhan stretched his body and slowly stood up against the wall: "As for the battle, my true form has not been damaged too much, so I can deal with the remnant pupa-level beast..."

"If it's just a pupa, leave it to me."

Delphinium took hold of Lantern's arm and propped her up, "Now take me, it's time to sort out the problem here."

Supported by Cuiqiao, Dengzhan took two steps forward. After hearing what he said, he was slightly stunned. Then he said with some emotion: "Senior Cuiqiao, although you look particularly small, the words you said are very reassuring."

"When you compliment someone, you also point out their shortcomings, but that doesn't make them happy."

Delphinium said expressionlessly, "Or did you mean to emphasize that I'm very short and it's uncomfortable for me to support you, and the second half of the sentence is to cover up for yourself?"

"No, no, no, you think too badly of me."

Dengzhan waved his hands in defense, "I just thought of someone I know when I heard you say 'Just leave it to me' and I was inspired to speak out. Maybe it's because she is also in the Investigation Institute. I feel that when you say this kind of thing, it really subtly gives people a sense of trustworthiness."

"Really?" Cuiqiao raised her eyebrows, but ultimately did not continue the topic and just accepted Dengzhan's explanation.

When the topic came to the Investigation Institute, she didn't really have much to say. After all, her position as "Inspector" was just a title, and she had no real connections in the Institute.

Delphinium didn't want to talk more, so Dengzhan also tacitly ended the topic. The two of them stopped talking and just walked towards the center of the nest.

Under normal circumstances, if Delphinium were to use her own techniques combined with her perception to explore the route, the process would be quite long, especially since the space they were currently in was incredibly huge and even more complicated than the nests that Delphinium had experienced in the past.

However, with the magic outfit of Dengzhan, the process became quite easy.

The magic suit of the lantern is a lantern. According to her own statement, when she uses her lantern, marks related to magic will appear in her vision, which can show the traces of magic activities in the corresponding area within a day.

In addition, if she has marked the magical properties of a certain target, she can clearly sense the other party's location within a certain range.

When she came here, she marked the suspicious man in this way, so that she could track the core location of the nest. After fighting with the other party, she also marked the pupa-level remnant beast.

In other words, she now seemed to have a compass in her hand, and the direction it was pointing to was the center of the nest.

With such help, the two people found the location of the owner of the nest without much effort.

It was a huge nest that looked out of place with the surrounding area.

Unlike the "first floor of the Strange Strategies Bureau" that Cuiqiao and the others had seen countless times on the way here, this space still maintained a decoration style similar to that of the Strange Strategies Bureau, with bright white lights and silver-white walls, but if you look closely, you will find that its interior furnishings completely go against common sense.

Tables placed on the wall; filing cabinets tangled into triangles; doors bent into irregular shapes...a distorted scene like a dream appeared before their eyes.

In fact, this also exposes the nature of the beasts - the monsters cannot understand the role of human design of tools.

And in such a distorted space, there is an even more distorted thing, which completely captures the attention of the two magical girls and leaves them no time to care about anything else.

It was a crippled beast that looked like a spider, crawling on a giant web that covered the entire nest, gnawing on something.

There were several huge holes on the body of the beast, and blood was still oozing out. This was obviously what Dengzhan had mentioned before as "severe damage". However, it did not seem to be in a weak state, and still retained the energy to eat.

The spider web beneath it was made entirely of flesh and blood, and looked extremely hideous. The scarlet web spread throughout the entire space, and a fishy odor could be smelled from afar.

And under the huge spider web of flesh and blood, there are tumors several meters high hanging there, motionless.

If you don't pay attention, you will think that these tumors are nothing special, just derivatives of the flesh spider web. But when Delphinium carefully observed, it found that these tumors did not seem to be solid, but more like cocoons wrapped in something. Under the blazing white light in the nest, vague shadows were faintly revealed.

If you look more closely, you'll find that the outlines of these shadows seem very much like humans.

"Those are the victims he captured. The ones in the tumor are all the people he 'fed' to the beast."

Dengzhan followed beside her and lowered his voice, saying, "Although I don't know what means he used, the pupa-level remnant beast behaved very calmly in front of that man. It showed no signs of rioting and accepted his 'feeding' very honestly."

"And those who were 'fed' out were put into that kind of sarcoma. I don't know what will happen to them after they are put in, but the probability is..."

She didn't finish her words, but she didn't need to. The consequences of being caught by a crippled beast were self-evident.

Delphinium frowned.

She felt sick just by looking at the sight before her.

The beasts destroyed cities and killed humans, but she would not feel so disgusted. After all, the nature of the beasts was that they were monsters who only knew how to follow their instincts, and they had no ethical burden when they did evil.

However, when humans collude with cruel beasts, the nature of this matter is completely different.

Killing their own compatriots and even handing them over to cruel beasts as bait, such behavior is so despicable that even the word "disgraceful" cannot describe Delphinium's feelings.

She thought she had seen a lot of "evil", but there were always people who could break the lower limit of her cognition and show a more ugly face.

What kind of person could behave like this?

She couldn't understand it at all.

And the person who made her feel incomprehensible was right in this cave.

Below the tumor covered with blood, flesh and spider webs, there was a human-like figure standing there, looking up at the remaining beast on the spider web in the sky.

The figure was holding an instrument of unknown purpose in his hand. He was observing the crippled beast while adjusting something on the instrument with his hands.

"That's the guy. Do you want to take action?"

Seeing that Kujue also saw the figure, Dengzhan asked, "But you should be careful, Senior Kujue. He is very strong."

"Do it." Delphinium said without any hesitation.