About becoming a magical girl

Seeing the gazes of Concubine Masaki and everyone else, Shino Mi Nami lowered her gaze.

"...Sorry for saying such depressing words."

"It doesn't matter, you didn't say anything wrong. With the existing combat power of Xijing City alone, it is impossible to continue a battle to mobilize the combat power of the entire city. This is an undisputed fact."

Evenier took the words and said in a deep voice.

"I agree with Masaki Hina's statement that the investigation of the apostles is very important. Whether it is for the deceased companions or for the future of the city, if the hidden dangers of the apostles are not resolved, then we will always be in fear. But equally, I also I think Nami's concerns are something we need to focus on."

"About this...it's no longer a question."

Concubine Masaki nodded, and explained calmly: "The support force of the People's Federation will arrive tonight, and they will become your new comrades-in-arms. The problem of insufficient combat power will also be resolved. Simply put..."

Regarding the transfer, Concubine Masaki did not hide it, and simply explained it to everyone.

Except for Evenier, Nami Shino and the others, most of them looked complicated.

"Then, next, I will explain my preliminary plan with Immortal Origin. If you have any comments, you can put them forward."

Without saying anything more, Concubine Masaki flipped through the documents.

"According to the data, the United Airport in Liujin City has been completely destroyed. Our investigation team can't choose to go to the investigation by air, but if they choose land, they will inevitably face the problem of 'jammer' endurance. Investigative activities are difficult to move forward."

Huge jammers require a correspondingly large space to install and place, and must be equipped with equally bulky functional equipment. Now that ground facilities such as railways in the old era have been destroyed, land travel is an option with extremely low priority.

"But we found another way."

Concubine Masaki opened the map, and an outline of the battle plan appeared on the big screen, densely packed with text marks spread out on the map.

A prominent route is marked on the map.

"From the adjacent tributaries of the former Sakagawa River into the main river, it can directly lead to the upstream water conservancy project 'Shimokitazawa'."

"'Shimokitazawa' is a satellite city of Liuzu City, and it is also a very important water conservancy project. It is only more than ten kilometers away from the 'Yanagizu City'. Two years ago, this water hub town became an uninhabited town due to the fall of Yanazu City. However, reports from other investigation teams show that the equipment here has not been completely abandoned. We can restart the Sakai Monument system of 'Shimokitazawa', use its power network directly as a power supply point, and use 'Shimokitazawa' as the front line of our investigation mission. .”

"Then, starting from this, we will conduct a detailed investigation of Yanazu City."

"But if you want to complete this series of preparations for the battle plan, then the most important task is to carry out the operation to recover the former Sakagawa area."

Masaki Hina said.

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[These chapters involve a lot of things, so they seem extremely long-winded. From this chapter onwards, I will try my best to shorten and omit the explanation. 】

204、Song of the Other Shore

The battle plan covers three phases.

"Operation to Retake Former Sakagawa", "Operation to Establish Frontline Bases", "Operation to Survey Yanazu City".

This is not something that can be summed up in one sentence. There are many parts that need to be discussed and planned in detail. Everyone has participated in the formulation and revision of the combat plan, so the meeting lasted until nightfall.

The time came to nine o'clock in the evening. After the meeting, many people returned to their posts or left the headquarters. Only Masaki Hina, Immortal Hara Ayaka, Shino Mi Nami, Avenir, and Yukina were left in the meeting. people.

The meeting room was empty and quiet, Immortal Hara Ayaka sorted out the documents in her hand, and looked at Concubine Masaki.

"I'll go get ready and wait for you on the tarmac."

"Well, I'll be there soon."

"Colonel Immortal Hara, please follow me."

Immortal Hara Ayaka said goodbye to Avenir and Xue Nai again, and then left with Shino Mi Nami.

"Are you going to Union Airport next?"

Efnir turned his gaze to Concubine Masaki and asked.

"Yeah, the new Commander-in-Chief is coming with 'assistance'. According to the time, it is almost here. As seniors and as the person in charge here, Undead and I need to come forward to greet them. We will probably officially announce their arrival and succession announcement tomorrow."

"You're really busy."

"Well, I think so too, but I don't hate life right now."

"What are you going to do after returning to the central province?"

"It's hard to say... I just hope that after I leave, this city can get out of the crisis brought by the apostle as soon as possible."

In order to eliminate the apostle threat in Xijing City, in addition to the torture and investigation of Sakurai Yuki, Karina and others, a series of combat plans for Mae Sakagawa and Yanazu City are also very important.

The distance between Xijing City and Liujin City is more than 200 kilometers. The arrival of People's Federation's "aid" to Xijing City has provided the feasibility of the action plan. The biggest difficulty is that Xijing City lacks a sufficiently large and strong waterway carrier.

This point can only be solved by external forces, such as the People's Federation, such as other cities. Concubine Masaki also gave a series of alternatives for this, but how to choose in the end, it will not be until the former Sakagawa retakes the battle successfully. Things to keep thinking about.

"By the way, I want you and Xiaoxue Nai to stay because I have other things to discuss with you alone."

Concubine Masaki looked at Xue Nai and said seriously.

"what?"

"Xiao Xue Nai, I want to confirm in advance, have you posted a cover song on SNS?"

"Huh? This...no eh..."

Xue Nai has a relatively introverted personality in front of others, and rarely sings, let alone release cover works.

"I think so too."

"Why do you ask about this?"

Evenier asked suspiciously.

"Some things just need to be confirmed."

Concubine Masaki raised her hand and swiped on the tablet.

"Before the official explanation, Evenier, I want you to listen to this."

With Masaki Hina's voice falling, a melodious melody gradually rose in the combat command room.

It was a popular song right now, but... listening to the familiar prelude, Evenier raised her eyebrows subtly, and Xue Nai beside her also blinked curiously.

"Naoko, isn't this your song?"

"Well... it is indeed..."

As an "idol", Evenier does have many singles under his name, and this is one of them.

This song is a song left by Avenier when he went from being an organization spokesperson to an agent idol. If there is anyone present who is most familiar with this song, then there is no doubt that Avenier himself.

Although everyone else has already left, but... isn't it a little inappropriate to play his single in such a serious place as the combat conference room?

Efnir felt strange and embarrassed, but looking at Masaki Hina's serious face, she swallowed the question that came to her lips.

"Evenier, maybe you have also discovered that this is one of your singles."

Concubine Masaki's eyes moved slightly, and she took a deep breath.

"But in fact, this is a fragment extracted from your battle recording during the period when Code H disappeared, or in other words, it is one of the countless data files parsed from your terminal."

"Data files? No... what the hell is going on? I don't remember having them."

"This is the processed sample, the original is... like this."

After Concubine Masaki finished speaking, there was a harsh noise like glass rubbing.

Evanil frowned slightly.

At this time, she also realized something was wrong.

"this is……"

"This is the sound of your song being played backwards at high speed, that is, the 'noise' you heard when the code-name H disappeared."

Masaki Hina said.

"It was at that time..."

Evanil frowned slightly.

The hooded girl code-named H manipulated the mysterious power that was suspected to come from the ruins. After being subdued by Avenier, she disappeared in an unimaginable way before Avenier's eyes.

At that time, Evenier was blocked from the outside world by a strange layer of mist, not only the vision and hearing were disturbed, but the communication was also disconnected at the same time. At that time, there was this kind of noise like glass scratching in Evenier's headset.

"Yes, it has not been changed. What is suspicious is that other people's portable terminals have not received similar signals. Just like what you said, when the code name H disappeared, all signal communication between us was cut off. This is very unbelievable."

"So, what does that have to do with this thing? Is there anything special about this song?"

Evenier asked.

Although it felt strange, Evenier couldn't imagine if there were any other clues hidden in it.

"Evenier, this is the final recording file obtained after analyzing and processing the suspicious noise that appeared in your communication terminal. It is incredible that this short recording of tens of seconds contains more than 1000 and 350 recording fragments, with a total duration of [-] and [-] hours. These unknown sources of information almost completely fill up your terminal memory chip. The recording date spanned two full years. The day the disaster erosion event' happened."

"This……"

"Does it feel weird?"

Masaki Hina lowered her eyelashes.

"All the file codes have the characteristic codes of our headquarters, but we don't have any archives about these records. No one knows why these things appear here, and the terminal itself can't bear such an amazing writing speed, but the fact It just happened, and..."

Concubine Masaki looked at Evenier with deep eyes.

"Among the 1000 two-hundred-part clips, this song appeared most frequently. We extracted this song, analyzed and compared it repeatedly, and found something else... The singer of this song doesn't seem to be you, Evenier."

Concubine Masaki turned her gaze to Evenier's side, looking at Xue Nai.

"It's your sister, Shiomi Yukina."

Xue Nai froze for a moment, and Efnir frowned slightly.

"That's why I asked you just now, so... do you have any clues?"

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205. The third person

The bedroom lights were blindingly white.

Evenier stuffed his earplugs and stared intently at the player in his hand. The recording files copied from Concubine Masaki were playing back in the earplugs.

"Naoko, are you still thinking about that?"

"Um……"

With her hair buried in the soft pillow, Evenier raised her eyelashes and looked at Xue Nai.

Xue Nai had just finished taking a shower, with only a towel wrapped around her body, while wiping her wet hair, she picked up a hot hair dryer.

"...The song in that recording is more than two years before Naoko became Ephnel... Of course such a thing is impossible, right?"

Xue Nai's words were somewhat inexplicable.

"It is indeed impossible...but I always feel that there is something inconsistent..."

There are a total of 1000 and [-] segments in the recording, with a total length of [-] hours.

These analyzed clips seemed to be obscured by some interference, but they could still be discerned in the turbulent electrical noise. These files were all an agent's battle recording clips.

But what makes people feel weird is that from the messy signals, the characteristic identification code extracted by the information personnel is "Ephnel".

Here's an excerpt from the "Ephnel" battle recording.

The time span is roughly two years before the "Xijing University Specific Erosion Disaster Event".

Obviously, this "Ephnel" is not Ephnel himself, because during the period from four years ago to two years ago, Ephnel was still an ordinary person living as "Naoto Yanase", that is to say, the code name "Ephnel" here belongs to another agent.

Another person with the same code name as myself.

——The agent beacons distributed by People's Federation to various "cities" are all agent-specific equipment imitated and improved based on the "relic beacon system" technology.

What the original "beacon" was unearthed from the ruins looked like. Most of the agents had never actually seen it. The ruins system couldn't match humans, so it needed to be improved and reprogrammed. This is also impossible.

Because the existing technology cannot fully analyze the inherent functions in the "beacon system", all the beacons used by agents are now "incomplete versions".

Of course, as a very important piece of equipment, the beacon is not the only thing.

It's just that the beacons that were finally distributed to each city were one for each code name--beacons are not finished products that can be processed in an assembly line, each beacon needs to be produced from the ruins The rare metals produced are used as the base for casting, and the limited raw materials directly limit the total amount of beacons held by Renlian.