Another day during lunch break, Lin Yun sat in his office, staring blankly at the computer screen.
It had been a week since he stayed over at Xia Liang's house. Xia Liang's motivation in practicing and studying had clearly increased. After that, two new magical girls began their sumr vacation, while Lin Yun continued his hardworking career.
Of course, it was mainly because of his self-imposed pressure.
Working was one thing, but he also needed to review middle school knowledge to help Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang with their studies. In addition to that, there was another task: he had to exterminate brutal beasts.
Perhaps it was because it was sumr, but the brutal beasts had beco as dense as mosquitoes. Previously, it would take half a month to see one brutal beast, but now they could be seen every few days.
Just a few days ago, there were even two different locations that were attacked at the sa ti.
Fortunately, Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang, who were now considered to have basic combat abilities, had no problem dealing with stronger eggs. In the end, they split up and solved the brutal beasts in two different locations with Cui Que.
But even though he was aware of his own abilities, Lin Yun had to admit that the magical girl team in Fangting City was lacking mbers.
They were lacking mbers in battles, lacking mbers in teaching and training, and even lacking mbers in information investigation.
Regarding the previous records of brutal beasts in Fangting City for the past few years, he and Hong Siyu had found many clues during their investigation, and it was almost certain that there were other hidden brutal beasts. However, because of the lack of information, they didn't know if any of them had reached the pupa stage.
In this situation, coupled with the recent fruitful results from exterminating brutal beasts, Lin Yun couldn't help but have a thought: should he completely give up his plan to live in seclusion and just resign?
The echoes obtained from exterminating brutal beasts could actually be used to obtain wealth.
Although they couldn't be directly exchanged for money in the material world, whether it was obtaining the currency of the kingdom or exchanging them for gold, silver, or jewels, there were ways to turn contributions into wealth.
If they didn't mind being exposed and arrested by the Bureau of Special Tactics, magical girls could also exchange their contributions for supplies or weapons and sell them to the common people of the kingdom or the lower-level magic users in the material world. This was a profitable business.
Of course, not many people were willing to use their identities and powers as magical girls to exchange for this kind of hidden wealth. Therefore, weapons and supplies from the magical kingdom were still expensive among magic users in the material world.
As soone who had beco a magical girl for life, Lin Yun could completely give up his current job and make exterminating brutal beasts his main source of inco. In fact, An Ya used to call herself a freelancer, and being a magical girl was her "freelance job." She even jokingly asked Lin Yun if she should support the entire family.
Now, a similar lifestyle to An Ya's was in front of Lin Yun: earning rewards by exterminating brutal beasts. He only needed to use a small portion of the echoes as a subsidy for his family, and the rest could be used to enhance the team's strength.
This kind of life seed feasible, but Lin Yun was still hesitating.
There was no other reason, he just didn't want to.
When he was seventeen, he chose to give up being a magical girl and return to a normal life, focusing on the college entrance examination and job hunting. It was never a choice based on interests.
He didn't want to be a magical girl, and he didn't even want to be involved with the magical kingdom again. Until today, he had been refusing to personally contact the kingdom for many complex reasons.
Thinking of this, a mory suddenly flashed through his mind: it was a scene in a small hospital room, where a man on the bed was smiling and saying sothing to him.
"...Dad, was my choice back then really correct?"
Leaning back in his chair, he couldn't help but mutter to himself.
However, this question was destined to have no answer. The person who could give him an answer was no longer in this world, and even if they were, they had been buried in the corner of mory by ti and could no longer speak to him.
Lost in his thoughts, just as he was still struggling with his next choice, suddenly, his phone in his pocket rang.
Picking up the phone, the displayed contact was Hong Siyu.
He looked at the screen, paused for a mont, and then picked up the phone, pressing the answer button. "Hello?"
"Senior, are you there?" Hong Siyu's voice ca from the other end of the phone.
"Yeah." He responded in a low voice.
"Have you recruited any new mbers recently?" The voice on the other side sounded sowhat frivolous.
Lin Yun looked at the computer screen and said indifferently, "If there's nothing important, can I hang up?"
"It won't hurt to share a little information. The fact that there is no record of the code na 'Xiao Jin' in the Bureau of Special Tactics is enough to show how trustworthy I am, right?" Hong Siyu sounded a bit dissatisfied.
"If there's none, then there's none. I was just worrying about the lack of manpower." Lin Yun said calmly.
"Huh..." Hong Siyu dragged out her voice, apparently not believing it, but she didn't continue to entangle. "Well, I have so news here. Do you want to hear it?"
"Go ahead." Lin Yun replied concisely.
"Okay, it's about the assistance we ntioned before. I contacted several other Bureaus of Special Tactics in different cities, and their replies from the Seeders were more or less the sa, saying that they couldn't spare any manpower."
There was so indescribable emotion in Hong Siyu's voice. "However, the Bureaus of Special Tactics in Xin Yue City and Jing Lan City, their replies from the Seeders... are quite interesting."
"What did they say?" Lin Yun frowned.
Hong Siyu suddenly asked in a sowhat abrupt manner, "Senior, did you ask before if I was hiding sothing from you?"
"Yes, I did."
"Then, it's my turn to ask you this question now."
Hong Siyu's voice went from frivolous to steady. "Did you also have sothing that you didn't tell us before?"
Lin Yun's face slightly darkened, but his voice remained unchanged. "I'm not sure, what do you want to say?"
"Because I got so answers from them that might be different from what we imagined."
After a mont of silence, Hong Siyu continued, "Do you want to read them out?"
"...Go ahead." Lin Yun said sowhat helplessly.Because he had already roughly guessed what Hong Siyu ant by "a different answer."
The sound of fingernails touching the screen ca from the other end of the phone, as if Hong Siyu was doing sothing on her mobile. Soon, her voice ca again:
"The Seeder of Tianyin City, 'Picari' said, 'It's almost the next 20th year, I don't want to get involved in this ss.'"
"The Seeder of Jinglan City, 'Xiaoyouyou' said, 'Are you talking about Fangting City? The one where that person is? Maybe we should forget it? Anyway, I dare not go.'"
"And even if others try to ask, they always act as if they are avoiding the topic."
After saying these, seeing that Lin Yun remained silent, Hong Siyu also fell silent for a mont.
After a while, her voice sounded again with hesitation: "Senior, what they are talking about... or at least, it's not because of the Investigation Institute, right?"
Lin Yun closed his eyes.
Just like he always insisted to Mo Ke that his code na was "Cui Que", although this was indeed the na he was using now, it was also because this was Fangting City, and he was worried that Mo Ke would react to his previous code na.
Seeders, or fairies, they are different from Magical Girls, at least in so respects, they always know more than Magical Girls.
"Haha, of course, I could guess even if you didn't say it, although I'm not sure either."
Lin Yun remained silent, and Hong Siyu continued as if talking to herself; "I wasn't a Magical Girl at that ti, but Shengzi told that 20 years ago, during the 'Garden' defense battle, you were summoned to the Rose Palace..."
—"That's enough, Hong Siyu."
Interrupting her, Lin Yun opened his eyes, his expression was sowhat wooden, even sowhat rigid: "No need to continue, you guessed right."
"Really?"
"Mm, at least part of it, you're right."
"That's really, unimaginable."
Hong Siyu's voice carried a hint of exclamation: "So that's how it is, no other Magical Girl would dare to do this, right?"
"Who knows?" Obviously not wanting to continue this topic, Lin Yun remained noncommittal.
"So, does that an we really won't have any reinforcents?"
"Mm, no."
"In that case..."
Perhaps sensing the tense atmosphere, Hong Siyu changed the subject: "Senior, you ntioned before that you were training the newcors for next year's certification test?"
"Yes." Hearing her ntion this, Lin Yun also regained so of his spirits.
"Then, if you can't spare ti in the short term, would you like to try another plan?"
Hong Siyu asked sowhat nervously: "For example, let take a look?"
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