Magical Girl's Knight Brother

"Here we go, Wolf Rider."

At the bedroom door behind him, Tang Zijun was stunned for a moment.

"How did you know I was coming?"

Chang Lei grinned and laughed without turning his head.

"The instant noodles you had tonight were seafood flavored, right?"

Tang Zijun's mouth twitched, and he ignored him, then listened to Chang Lei continue.

"That tastes bad, not good. Spicy or hot and sour tastes better. But I prefer mixed noodles. I don't really like soup."

"Stop, I'm not going to chat about the taste of instant noodles with a greedy person from the mirror plane." Tang Zijun quickly interrupted Chang Lei's words, then walked into the room and closed the door.

Putting down the tools in his hand, Chang Lei turned around slowly.

"Look at you, just come here, what are you getting?"

"You think I'm giving it to you, I'm giving it to my child."

Tang Zijun said subconsciously, then he put the milk and snacks on the bed, and his eyes fell curiously on the desk behind Chang Lei.

"Oh yeah, I was just about to ask, what are you doing? Aren't you supposed to be dissecting alien beast eggs to extract energy? Why are you doing handicrafts now?"

"I'm just 'extracting' energy." Chang Lei took off his glasses and answered as a matter of course.

Tang Zijun noticed that there was a repair loupe stuck on Chang Lei's glasses. This is a snap-on magnifying glass, generally used for repairing watches.

As if noticing that Tang Zijun was a little curious, Chang Lei moved aside and displayed the workbench on the table in front of Tang Zijun.

Under the dim spotlight, a tiny human skeleton that had not yet been assembled lay quietly on a workbench covered with a blue cloth.

It is only the size of a finger, each joint is exquisitely detailed, and each slender rib is clearly visible, as if it is a work of art meticulously crafted by a master.

Chang Lei arranged the unassembled bones neatly aside, yet they still had a certain unfinished and messy beauty.

The humanoid's skull is small and round, only as big as a fingernail. There are fine purple textures on these bones, and each one looks so fragile that it seems that it will be damaged with the slightest touch.

Tang Zijun stared at the things on the table in a daze, as if he had forgotten to breathe.

He had imagined many things before, but he had never anticipated the current situation.

After a long time, a breathing sound was heard, and Tang Zijun turned to look at Chang Lei.

"Don't look at me." Chang Lei shrugged and couldn't help but say, "You don't even know what this thing is. Do you think I know where it came from?"

"Are you sure this isn't Luan Luan's art homework?" Tang Zijun licked his lips.

Chang Lei didn't respond, just stared at Tang Zijun quietly.

I thought to myself, is this thing real or fake? Can't you smell it?

In fact, Tang Zijun just found it a little difficult to accept for a while.

"I know that the beast eggs are not afraid of sunlight and there must be some dark secrets inside. Not to mention a dead baby, I can understand even if there is a magical girl's body inside, but this 'Thumbelina' is a bit..."

"Oh, I was just as surprised as you at first." Chang Lei smiled with a complicated expression, then sighed. "It turns out that the Outer Path Demon has mastered some unknown secrets."

Tang Zijun looked at the corpse with a somewhat uncertain gaze.

After a pause, he looked at Chang Lei again.

"You really don't know what this thing is?"

"I really do not know."

Chang Lei spread his hands.

"Think about it, I've only been around for a few years. I was just promoted to a senior cadre when you targeted me. I even heard information about the Outer Path Demon from other Greedy People. Do you think I know what this thing is?"

Tang Zijun rubbed his temples, his head was a mess.

"Tell me about it in detail. Tell me about your work these days."

"Okay," Chang Lei replied without hesitation. "I dissected the alien beast egg you brought. Besides the formed parts and the alien beast's flesh, I also found quite a bit of bones."

"Most of the bones I could identify were from various animals, mostly large beasts, and some deep-sea predators. Besides that, I also found some small bones of unknown origin."

"What you see now is just one of them. Inside that strange beast egg, there are seven or eight similar 'little human corpses'. Many of them have been digested and decomposed. This is all I can find."

"Seven or eight?"

Tang Zijun suddenly noticed the key point in Chang Lei's words.

"You mean, there's more than one of these things? What does this mean? Has the Outer Dao Demon found the legendary Lilliput Country?"

"Who knows?" Chang Lei crossed his arms. "Maybe we've discovered something we've never noticed before, or maybe it's aliens."

"You really dare to guess"

The aliens all came out, and Tang Zijun rolled his eyes speechlessly.

However, Chang Lei's words gave Tang Zijun an inspiration. If there is a place where these things can exist and will not be discovered by the real world.

Then he knew a relatively reasonable source.

"you say."

Tang Zijun narrowed his eyes.

"Is it possible that these things came from the dream world?"

"Dream world?!"

Chang Lei was stunned when he heard this, and then he began to ponder.

It is obvious that this creature cannot be produced in the real world, but instead has a certain connection with some bizarre world.

If it is a dream world, it can explain the origin of these creatures. After all, in that illusory dimension, it is not surprising to see any strange things.

But after thinking for a long time, Chang Lei slowly shook his head.

".I have to admit, Wolf Rider, your speculation makes sense, but it's highly unlikely."

"Why?" Tang Zijun asked.

"The reason is simple. The inner world is located beneath the real world. Do you know how difficult it is for those outer demons to climb into the dimension of the real world? This hierarchy from the bottom up is very difficult to cross."

Chang Lei said seriously, "It's not that I look down on those mad dogs. They're lowly creatures that have already done their best to even venture into the real world. But telling me they can reach a higher dimensional dream world is absolutely impossible."

"But I did find dark crystals and mirror cores in the dream world, which means that heretics and greedy people do have the possibility of entering the dream world." Tang Zijun said.

But Chang Lei shook his head again. "Your discovery only proves that they've 'visited' the dream world, but can you be sure they went there on their own initiative?"

Tang Zijun fell silent and listened to Chang Lei continue.

"People go missing every day in this world. Not just humans, but even greedy people and demons disappear for no apparent reason."

"You've fought us so many times, you should understand this. The reasons behind this are very complicated, so complicated that no one would take the initiative to look for them."

"And you simply stumbled upon their murder scene. This cannot be considered proof that the Outer Path Demons can access higher-dimensional worlds."

Listening quietly to Chang Lei's story, Tang Zijun sighed thoughtfully.

Although he was reluctant to admit it, Tang Zijun thought that Chang Lei was right. It was too difficult for creatures in lower dimensions to come into contact with higher dimensions. Even he had been passively pulled into the dream world until now.

"Then tell me, what other possible origins does this thing have?"

"I think you shouldn't ask me this question, but someone who knows more about it." Chang Lei smiled at Tang Zijun.

"Someone who is more knowledgeable?" Tang Zijun raised his eyebrows.

"Don't forget, our initial investigation was about that strange energy."

Chang Lei nodded at the corpse on the table.

"Although these little things appear for the first time, don't you think their existence is more in line with natural energy?"

The update time is tentatively scheduled to be 18:00, and it will still be two chapters in a row.

Chapter 110 Biological Specimens

Is it related to natural energy?

After hearing Chang Lei's words, Tang Zijun couldn't help but think of the magical girl and the rainbow crystal flower.

According to Xiao Hui and Xiao Bai, the rainbow crystal flowers come from the natural energy in the real world, that is, pure natural magic, which is a special existence that cannot be touched by humans and evil forces.

Unlike negative energy, the energy fluctuations of nature are relatively positive. Although they are not very sunny, they are at least rich in vitality, which is contrary to the tranquility of the heretic demons.

"Do you suspect that this creature is from the magical girl camp?" Tang Zijun frowned slightly.

"I think it's very likely. In my memory, I don't think there's ever been a creature like this before," Chang Lei said. "Don't be fooled by their small size. Their bones actually hold a powerful energy, which could be considered magic."

In order to allow Tang Zijun to see more clearly, Chang Lei adjusted the folding magnifying glass to the normal position, and then used tweezers to pick up a leg bone the size of a matchstick.

"Look, there are some crystals at the fracture site of this leg bone. This snow-salt-like substance is the so-called residual magic power, but these are too small to be easily discovered."

Tang Zijun didn't know much about magic, and his attention was focused on the purple lines on the surface of the bone.

"These patterns weren't drawn by you with a pen, were they?"

"Of course not." Chang Lei replied without hesitation.

"Then what is this thing? Is it the remaining magic power in this creature's body?" Tang Zijun asked curiously.

"No, actually, according to my speculation, these creatures are the same as humans. The difference lies in their size. They are like humans that have been shrunk several times. And these lines come from the energy of the outer demons."

Chang Lei used a long needle as a teaching rod, pointing at the strange purple lines that extended from the hip bone to the toe bone and had no pattern at all, and continued to explain.

"Look, these lines aren't natural to the bones. They're carved into them by external forces. You should be able to smell the stench. They're the product of negative energy, the work of the Outer Path Demon."

Tang Zijun leaned over to observe carefully, and indeed found that on the surface of those extremely tiny bones, purple lines left pits and marks as if they were burned.

If you don't use a magnifying glass, you may not be able to see the truth of this thing at first glance.

"It should be the traces left inside the alien beast's egg." Although Tang Zijun asked in return, his tone was firm.

Chang Lei nodded slightly. "That's my guess. These little creatures must have been used as raw materials for the alien beast eggs while they were still alive."

"After the alien beast eggs were released into the real world by the outside demons, the endless negative energy not only became the source of power for the alien beast eggs to hatch, but also allowed the magic power in these creatures to transform into new things."

"If my research is correct, then the reason the alien beast eggs are not afraid of sunlight is most likely due to these unknown tiny creatures."

Tang Zijun's impression of the unscrupulous actions of the heretic demons deepened at this time. These guys were indeed just as Chang Lei said, a group of mad dogs with no bottom line.

You know, even most greedy people have a bottom line and remain rational, while the heretics and demons, these monsters do things without considering the consequences.

But it's no wonder. The greedy ones are the evil counterparts of humans. Although they are weird, they still have human thinking. The heretics are different. They are even crazier.

"Our previous speculation was correct. The Outer Demons, or rather, Lord Skeleton, are plotting something. They are using the negative energy of the real world to create a large number of exotic beasts."

"The question is, what is their purpose?" Chang Lei raised his head, looked at Tang Zijun, and continued.

"Although we have solved one problem, there are still two questions that remain. Why does Sir Skeleton cultivate so many exotic beasts? What exactly does he want to do?"

"Could it be that he's trying to help him expand his territory?" Tang Zijun suggested. "You said earlier that different high-ranking officials in the other world have different territories, right? So, could he be trying to seize the power of other high-ranking officials?"

"That's a possibility, but the problem is that there's no sun in the other world. He wouldn't need to train an army of sun-resistant beasts to take action."

"Then his only target should be the real world." Tang Zijun frowned and returned here after going around in circles.

In fact, Tang Zijun had this guess a long time ago. With such a large army, as long as Sir Skeleton wanted, he could make any city in the world fall at any time.

But what Tang Zijun was puzzled about was why he hadn't taken action yet?

"We can put this question aside for now." Chang Lei sat back in his chair. "What I want to know now is that cultivating such a large army requires an enormous amount of energy."

"You just saw it. There are so many corpses of little people in this monster egg alone. Sir Skeleton wants to build an army, so we have to find out where these little people came from."

Yes.

Where do these thumb-sized creatures come from?

Since they are not individuals, it means that they also have their own populations. And since Sir Skeleton has created so many exotic beasts, it means that he has most likely found the location of these creatures' populations.

Thinking of this, Tang Zijun felt a sense of urgency for no reason.

It’s no wonder that he was anxious. It would have been fine if he didn’t know before, but now that he knows, Tang Zijun can no longer remain indifferent.

After all, every time they waste some time, there is a high probability that a villain will die at the hands of Sir Skeleton.

"I have to leave soon."

Tang Zijun stood up and was about to leave when he suddenly thought of something.