Off Work, Then Transform into a Magical Girl

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 summer 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 summer, but the brutal beasts had become 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 same time.

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 members.

They were lacking members in battles, lacking members in teaching and training, and even lacking members in information investigation.@@novelbin@@

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 someone who had become a magical girl for life, Lin Yun could completely give up his current job and make exterminating brutal beasts his main source of income. 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 seemed 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 memory suddenly flashed through his mind: it was a scene in a small hospital room, where a man on the bed was smiling and saying something 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 memory by time 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 moment, and then picked up the phone, pressing the answer button. "Hello?"

"Senior, are you there?" Hong Siyu's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Yeah." He responded in a low voice.

"Have you recruited any new members recently?" The voice on the other side sounded somewhat 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 name '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 some news here. Do you want to hear it?"

"Go ahead." Lin Yun replied concisely.

"Okay, it's about the assistance we mentioned before. I contacted several other Bureaus of Special Tactics in different cities, and their replies from the Seeders were more or less the same, saying that they couldn't spare any manpower."

There was some 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 somewhat abrupt manner, "Senior, did you ask me before if I was hiding something 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 something 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 some answers from them that might be different from what we imagined."

After a moment of silence, Hong Siyu continued, "Do you want me to read them out?"

"...Go ahead." Lin Yun said somewhat helplessly.Because he had already roughly guessed what Hong Siyu meant by "a different answer."

The sound of fingernails touching the screen came from the other end of the phone, as if Hong Siyu was doing something on her mobile. Soon, her voice came again:

"The Seeder of Tianyin City, 'Picari' said, 'It's almost the next 20th year, I don't want to get involved in this mess.'"

"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 moment.

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 name was "Cui Que", although this was indeed the name 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 name.

Seeders, or fairies, they are different from Magical Girls, at least in some 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 time, but Shengzi told me 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 somewhat wooden, even somewhat 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 mean we really won't have any reinforcements?"

"Mm, no."

"In that case..."

Perhaps sensing the tense atmosphere, Hong Siyu changed the subject: "Senior, you mentioned before that you were training the newcomers for next year's certification test?"

"Yes." Hearing her mention this, Lin Yun also regained some of his spirits.

"Then, if you can't spare time in the short term, would you like to try another plan?"

Hong Siyu asked somewhat nervously: "For example, let me take a look?"