About becoming a magical girl

"Do you still have the video in your hand?"

"It's only part of it."

Evenier nodded.

What happened in Xijing City is not a secret, but generally speaking, people in this era have completely shut their eyes and ears. She didn't expect her parents to even pay attention to this, and they seem to know the situation in detail.

In this era of fragmentation, everyone is more willing to care about what is happening around them, and events in other cities, even such major events as "destruction of the city", are rarely discussed.

On the one hand, of course, it is because people are avoiding such negative information intentionally or unintentionally, and the relevant departments also have a certain degree of control over this aspect.

On the other hand, it is related to the abnormal development model of human society.

Because of the lack of a road transportation system, cities cannot be clustered, otherwise the area of ​​cultivated land will be greatly reduced. The most efficient way to ensure the food and clothing of such a large population is to separate the construction of cities and let each region choose a decentralized development model.

But such a model has a very fatal drawback, that is, the blockage of technological production, industrial and agricultural trade between cities.

The safest, fastest and most effective transportation method is air transport planes, but because of the "concealer", the operation and maintenance costs of the air transport system are so high that ordinary people cannot bear it, and it is impossible to carry some large-scale equipment, a large amount of raw materials, and enough food and products to travel between cities.

Then the communication between cities will only be road facilities, but the dangers faced by ground activities in areas outside Sakai must not be ignored.

The energy consumption of the concealer is extremely high, and the volume occupied by the energy supply equipment is also abnormally large. Even if there is a vehicle that can carry it, it will run out of energy before reaching the destination because the speed is not fast enough. Then the next thing to face is the danger of facing the overwhelming erosion body.

Someone once proposed the idea of ​​using old-generation railways and carrying energy supply equipment with several carriages, but it turned out that it was impossible to realize, because the density of erosive bodies on the ground and high-altitude erosive bodies is not the same order of magnitude, and different from aviation lines, facilities such as railway tracks on the ground need regular maintenance, otherwise they cannot be used at all.

So if you don't use the plane, you can only send agents to accompany you for protection, but this will indirectly lead to the emptiness of the city's internal defense forces.

In the end, there was very little communication between the cities.

There are even cities that cut off contact with humans because they cannot afford the maintenance of the road network lines in the relevant areas, and completely block the city into a closed area.

All in all, due to various reasons, the connection between cities has been compressed to a very low level, which is far from the original intention of the joint establishment of human beings in the world. Even though the managers of various cities know the importance of "joint forces", between "lucky" and "imminent danger", most people choose the former.

"Lucky" is still able to survive, and maybe the city will completely disappear in the next few decades, but at least for now, I can choose a moment of peace.

On the contrary, it will continue to face huge risks.

In this era, many people have lost the courage to move forward.

I have to say that Xijing City is lucky, because Concubine Masaki is a commander dispatched from the United Human Beings. She graduated from a military academy and has always strongly advocated the importance of external relations. One of the reasons for the development.

But that's not always the case in some other regions.

It is an undeniable fact that a city's high degree of autonomy can sometimes bring great disadvantages. There, agents become consumables for such degenerate decisions. When all agents in a city are killed in battle, the city's lifespan will also come to an end.

"Of course, this matter is just my guess and your mother's. Because there are so many involved, it has not been reported for the record. It is our unauthorized action."

At this time Yanase Takuma continued.

"Originally, we didn't plan to involve you in this matter, but since you are already an agent, we didn't intend to hide anything from you."

"In other words, this is what you said in the morning?"

"Yes."

"By the way," mother Yanase Kaoru said again, "Naoto, are you feeling well? If it's not convenient for you, you don't have to accompany us there."

What she said was, of course, what happened in the morning.

Avenir felt her cheeks warm when she thought of the scene in the morning when she was pressed against the door by Xue Nai while talking to her mother outside the door.

She shook her head quickly.

"I, I'm fine..."

"Don't force yourself, your dad and I... read all your deeds in Xijing City last night, you really haven't changed."

"Hey??"

"The strongest agent in Xijing City, responsible for the facade, the strongest beautiful girl, the magical girl idol..." Yanase Kaoru smiled and read a lot of titles that Avenir had been given before, "And the latest one, My younger sister controls idols, my elder sister and so on..."

"Hey!???"

The Avonian froze.

"Wait a minute, why would you..."

"There are a lot of discussions related to Evenier, just search for a lot. I had nothing to do last night, so I went online with your dad."

Yanase Kaoru rubbed Evenier's hair.

"Good job Naoto, I'm really proud of you."

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80. Apostle's Technology

After Yanase's parents had a simple breakfast, Evenier drove them to the square near the Orderer's headquarters.

It has been a while since the disaster that day, and the headquarters is still under intense repair and reconstruction. As far as the eye can see, many places are still scattered ruins.

"The Qianbanchuan area has now been occupied, and I have no way to show you there, so I will bring you here first." Avenir stopped the car, looked at the construction site in the distance, and said, "This is the second of the three major erosion events, and it happened a week ago."

"It's just right here. There are too many messy white hole erosion energies in the former Banchuan area that will disturb my results, but not here. Naoto, I want to know, where is the first erosion body to appear here?"

Yanase Takuma asked.

"Just ahead, within a few hundred meters of the headquarters of the Orderer, after investigation and calculation, the area where the erosion occurred first is considered to be the area on the east side of the building."

Evenier pointed forward. Through the car window, the Yanase couple saw a small flowerbed that looked like it had been run over by a steamroller. Now there were only shallow messy grass leaves, because it was nothing Buildings with important functions have been left unattended here, and no construction personnel have come to repair them.

"I see, we plan to get out of the car and have a look first."

"I'll accompany you there."

Yanase Takuma and Yanase Kaoru got out of the car. Considering that this was outside the headquarters of the Orderers, and they came here to investigate privately, in order to avoid attracting too much attention, they did not choose to bring the suitcase with them at the first time, but only brought a detector like a walkie-talkie.

Evenier led them to take out Asakusa.

"This is the area that is considered to be the first to be damaged, but it is not the area that was most severely damaged. After the erosion body appeared, it attacked the headquarters building of the Orderer. At the same time, there were individuals that spread to nearby residential areas. It is speculated that there was more than 40 seconds between the appearance of the erosion body and the alarm from the headquarters. Because of this, the agent was dispatched later than expected."

Evenier told the information he knew.

"In addition to the wounded and dead soldiers and civilians, three proxies were killed, two were missing and two were seriously injured during the battle."

Qinglan and Feiyan have not heard from each other until now. Although they are classified as "missing", everyone knows in their hearts that the possibility of their survival no longer exists.

"The erosion body that appeared in this battle is mainly the 'whale', which is a huge flying erosion body. There is no special form of attack, and its defense is high. It moves by flying and hovering, and occasionally makes an indistinguishable hissing sound. Its own aggressiveness is very limited, and no other special form changes have been seen, but it has never shown a clear attack method."

"In other words, it's just that the individual is big and hard to break, but it doesn't have any threat..."

Yanase Kaoru nodded slightly.

"Not only that, but coincidentally, this type of erosion body also appeared in the erosion disaster that occurred the day before yesterday, and it is strange that it showed an interesting 'guiding' role in the subsequent erosion disaster," The Crow's erosion body protects it from harm."

"Hmm... is it a very rare type of non-destructive attack?"

"Mom, do you know this kind of erosive body?"

"No, I don't know. Your dad and I are not experts in this field. You also know that the appearance of the erosive body is not static. I can't determine its subordinate classification through this description. Besides, the things we have to do It has nothing to do with that either.”

While speaking, his father Yanase Takuma had already squatted down by the side of a damaged curb, rummaged under the rolled up turf, and then scanned his side carefully with the instrument in his hand.

"Mom, what is the relationship between the ruins you and Dad are looking for and these three erosion events? Is there anything I can do to help you?"

"It's nothing. We don't have conclusive evidence for this matter. It's just speculation."

Yanase Takuma said while measuring the data, "By the way, Naoto, you captured an 'Apostle', right?"

"Dad also knows about 'Apostle'?"

"Well, of course I know, but... I don't know much about it."

Yanase Takuma took a deep breath, stood up, and looked for the next location.

"You did a good job, capturing an apostle is a great achievement. Do you know that in the past two weeks, there have been several incidents about the 'Apostle', and at first they were only performing missions outside Sakai The investigation team was attacked by the 'Apostle', and later another city issued a wanted arrest for the Apostle, and now the United side has also noticed this suspicious organization, and is sending special investigators to take over these things."

"Send investigators?"

Efnir frowned slightly, and suddenly remembered what Concubine Masaki Hina had said to her.

Concubine Masaki was considered to be negligent in her duties, and was jointly issued a transfer letter to send a new commander to replace her, and appointed several agents as support, who will rush to Xijing City within two weeks.

If what my father said is true, then this matter may not be explained simply by a literal transfer.

Yanase mother said: "We haven't figured out the origins of those apostles so far. It is foreseeable that now that the alliance is getting stronger, there is a tendency for open and secret struggles between factions and countries to surface."

Saying that, she sighed.

"The conflict of interests still exists even at this critical moment. I even wonder if the so-called 'Apostles' may be one of them. It is said that several cities sent troops to encircle and suppress the apostles, but almost all of them returned without success. It was as if the other party knew about their actions. They even set up an ambush on the path that the action troops must pass. Half of the troops composed of agents and soldiers were killed, and most of the remaining half were injured, but the damage they caused to the other party was very limited."

"Are they that powerful?"

"No, they can avoid the attention of the erosive body through a certain method. The erosive body will not actively attack them, and the attack method they use can use energy to carry out long-distance bombardment. If they do not carry a large number of thermal weapons, it is difficult Defeat them. It is precisely because of the existence of these two weird technologies that the term 'Apostle' can quickly spread among the human union, Naoto, do you know why?"

"clear."

These two technologies, especially the secret of avoiding the attack of the erosive body, are exactly the things that human beings have been exploring to no avail.

The existence of human society now depends entirely on the shell built by the Sakai Monument. The city is hidden inside the shell, so that the erosion body cannot find the existence of the city, but even so, because of the fluctuation of white hole erosion, there will occasionally be "accidents" For the erosive body that breaks into the shell, an agent is needed to destroy it.

However, resources are getting scarcer, and the threat posed by erosive bodies has always existed. If a solution cannot be found once and for all, then the collapse of human society is only a matter of time.

At this time, the technology that can avoid the attack of the eroded body is particularly precious.

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81. Clues

Mother's words are somewhat intriguing, and the things involved in them have long been beyond the scope of Evenier's contact.

"Shortly after, our commander will be transferred back to the central province, and the United will send other people to replace her, and will also send agents to support us."

Evenier considered his words and looked at his mother.

"Mom, do you think this is normal?"

"I don't know very well." Yanase Kaoru sighed, "But there is one thing you can distinguish clearly, that is the 'faction', this kind of thing does exist. Is your commander called Concubine Mazaki? I have never seen her, but looking at the current development of Xijing City, I believe she is a good girl... But some things cannot be changed by one person's power. The United Nations sent a new commander here at this time, either, it was really just to investigate the 'Apostle', or, it was planning to intervene in Xijing The affairs of the city are ready to bring Xijing City into the faction's worldwide layout, and at this time, you have to make a judgment on this."

Evenier nodded, thinking to himself.

In fact, Concubine Masaki herself was also the commander who was dispatched. At that time, Avenier had just been appointed as the agent. The previous commander died in battle, and the agreement made with Avenier was also dusty in the archives. .

At that time, what kind of stand did Princess Mazaki come here with?

Why didn't you reveal your secret?Xue Nai's identity?

Are you watching?

or something else?

The memory has passed for too long, and many details have been deposited in the depths of the memory and cannot be known. Avenir thought about it and erased his thoughts.

"However, this may not be a bad thing. Sometimes, the tree is big enough to enjoy the shade."

Yanase Kaoru said again.

"The new commander may bring opportunities for development, and the supplementary agents will become your comrades-in-arms, so that the security of your missions will also be greatly improved. No matter what the upper echelons of the alliance are, as officers and front-line combat agents in charge of a place, their original intentions are always positive."

"I hope everything goes well..."

"That's right... In fact, your father and I came here to investigate this, and our original intention was to avoid the shackles of factional struggles, and at the same time, we wanted to do one thing..."

Kaoru Yanase looked at Evenier seriously.

"Don't tell anyone what I'm going to say next."

Evenier froze for a moment, then nodded seriously.

"I won't say it."

"Well, I believe you..."

There was no one else nearby, Yanase Kaoru took a look and took a deep breath.

"What we are chasing is the technology used by the apostles. Through a large amount of evidence, we speculate that the source of the technology used by the apostles is very likely to be relics, and it is an undeveloped relic that has not yet been jointly confirmed by human beings... Zhiren, you should also know what a relic represents. The 'beacon system' used by your agent is the product of relic technology. We humans can only understand one percent of the relic technology, and we have already produced two technologies that have completely subverted the scientific world. , who can imagine what kind of world we humans will enter if we fully explain the technology of the relics? What kind of white hole erosion, what kind of eroded bodies, are completely vulnerable to the true power of the relics, but..."

Yanase Kaoru took a deep breath, not knowing where to look.

"However, what the ruins bring is not only the hope of a new era... The stone, someone chiseled it out of the upward stone steps, and someone made it into a weapon. Your father and I conducted a research to try to return those who had been turned into dregs back to their original appearance, but it was obvious that we failed, and the results of our research inevitably went in an uncontrollable direction. The things that were born in the end were by no means what we humans could control. results, and then started the research again on the wrong basis, they discovered the hidden possibility, and then started the human experiment."