The villainous magical girl's daily mission is to find fault.

Chapter 688 The senior's sources of information are always rather special.

The Hero Association is actually very generous about the retirement of magical girls.

After all, the magical girls fight monsters entirely on their own initiative. The Hero Association has never forced heroes or magical girls to fight monsters. All the heroes and magical girls gather together with a passion to participate in the monster-fighting.

The association merely coordinates tasks for them and distributes their salaries, performance bonuses, and social insurance and housing fund contributions.

As frontline combatants against the astral monsters, magical girls have very lenient retirement conditions. They can almost retire whenever they want, and are also welcome to return to the field after retirement, just like Inari, who is currently active on the front lines of the fight against monsters in Hong Kong.

"I feel like these measures are a bit too lenient, is it really okay?" Nan Xiaofeng shrugged and complained.

The girl in the casual dress blinked, put down the half-finished iced cola from the fast food restaurant, and nodded gently.

"After all, the association has been operating for so many years, and such measures are tailor-made for the current situation. I don't think it's a matter of which is better or worse; only an operating strategy that is suitable for the current environment is the best."

"Besides, fighting monsters is actually quite energy-consuming... After passing that passionate age, I felt that I couldn't keep overshadowing the younger generation, so it would be interesting to do something else."

"That makes a lot of sense..." Nan Xiaofeng nodded in agreement.

After some casual conversation, Nan Xiaofeng learned the reason why the association had arranged for him to have a special meeting with two seniors.

"The reason I troubled you two to make this special trip is because there is some important information that can only be presented in person, so that we can answer your questions as thoroughly as possible."

"Oh? What kind of information is it specifically?"

"This... Little Purple, you're the one who found that thing, so tell me what you think of it."

The girl in the casual dress turned to look at the silent girl with glasses beside her. The two looked at each other, and the girl called Little Purple clearly had an expression on her face that looked like she was looking at a monster.

"It's been so many years and you're still calling me Little Purple... Can't you just call me Little Zi like Hongxing does?"

"Oh, then, esteemed Ms. Li Xiaozhi..." "Stop, that's even more disgusting." "Why are you insulting me?!"

"It's still my former teammates' witty remarks and responses that are the most insightful," Nan Xiaofeng thought to himself.

"Just pretend you didn't hear what I just said."

The girl with glasses got up and switched places with her companion, sitting down next to Hyacinth and saying to her,

"I was the one who suggested this meeting. Let me show you both this first."

After saying that, the bespectacled girl, called Li Xiaozhi, took out her phone and opened a video recording.

Nan Xiaofeng leaned forward, and Lin Muyao also craned her neck to look over, both staring at the blurry image in the video caused by the vigorous running:

It was a rather eerie scene—the person filming was running frantically through an empty building, as if hiding from something. Heavy footsteps and panting could be heard throughout the video, making it impossible to discern what was making those sounds.

Even through the screen, Hyacinth could feel the fear in the photographer's eyes as they fled, as if they were trying their best to escape something.

After running for more than twenty seconds, the photographer finally found a place that looked like a safe house. With a sob in his voice, he exclaimed, "Thank God I finally found it!" and rushed into the safe house.

The equipment that could record video was left outside the gate, and the view was skewed to one side, only showing what was happening at the gate from the edge of the lens:

"Tap, tap."

Clear footsteps sounded, and the girl's shoes appeared at the edge of the camera's field of vision with each step. Then, a rhythmic, soft knocking sounded, and the video abruptly ended.

Nan Xiaofeng looked up blankly, her eyes revealing a clear bewilderment, as if to say, "What was this video about?"

Even Lin Muyao, who is usually quite quick-witted, was completely baffled. She frowned slightly and looked hesitant, as if she was carefully analyzing this nonsensical video in her mind.

Fortunately, the senior in front of them didn't intend to keep them in suspense. After the two finished watching the video, he directly told them about its source:

"Some time ago, about seven days ago, during the days when you went to the mountain city to support Qiu Gui, the Rongcheng Heroes Association received two missing person reports. A student went missing while passing through an alley on his way home from school."

"The student's parents and family searched all night, and the hero on duty searched the missing area several times but could not find any trace of her. This incident caused a huge uproar in the local community."

"The following night, a video blogger went to the location of the disappearance to film a video, but was discovered by the hero on duty. In a panic, he ran into the alley..."

Li Xiaozhi paused briefly, pushed up her glasses, and the lenses reflected the astonishment on Fengxinzi and Lin Muyao's faces.

"Could it be that this blogger has also disappeared...?" Nan Xiaofeng asked tentatively.

The senior colleague next to him nodded.

"That's right, he disappeared too, just the moment he disappeared into the alley."

The four of them looked at each other in silence. Nan Xiaofeng swallowed hard to suppress the fear rising in his heart, and tentatively asked:

"Then... then how did this video come about? Didn't they say that the blogger disappeared along with his equipment?"

"You might not believe it, but I found it while I was passing by."

Li Xiaozhi shook her head helplessly.

"I know the idea of ​​'finding it while passing by' is a bit too coincidental... but I really did find it in a very inconspicuous place—on a gazebo seat in the park next to my house."

Such a description only makes the whole matter more confusing.

Nan Xiaofeng raised his hand to stop his senior from continuing, pinched his chin, rolled his eyes, and simply summarized the explanation in a way that even Bai Ling could understand:

"So, in other words, during our journey to the mountain city, two mysterious disappearances occurred in Chengdu, and even the heroes were powerless to solve them, right?"

"That's one way to understand it," Li Xiaozhi nodded.

Nan Xiaofeng suddenly felt that this matter wasn't so important anymore.

After all, after Garuda was destroyed, its residual magic scattered around the world formed many new types of monsters with the ability of "domain". The most prominent feature of these monsters is that they can drag people and magical girls into their domain, which is similar to a mental world.

After expressing their opinions, Lin Muyao was the first to refute them.

"That's not right. If it was the work of a freak from the territory, then logically, that recording device shouldn't be in the park."

Pointing out the suspicious points incisively, Lin Muyao drew everyone's attention to herself and presented her series of analyses:

"Unless the monster in this area immediately moves to a different location after attacking passersby and bloggers, and brings other contents from the area to that park, it would be impossible for the objects to be transferred."

"Furthermore, theoretically, strange beings cannot move while their domains are deployed—Rongcheng is covered by the Mind World of Heart Moon Fox, what domain could be more robust than the Mind World?"

Although he was reluctant to admit it, Nan Xiaofeng had to agree with the theory proposed by Lin Muyao.

The mental world of Xin Yuehu is truly solid; even Garuda would have to exert considerable effort to break through it. Ordinary monsters would have no chance of moving their [domain] at will under such a thick mental cover.

"And I also noticed something else," Lin Muyao continued.

"At the end of the video, a person appears in the frame. Who is she?"