LRAB Chapter 263 The False Dragon
Chapter 263 The False Dragon
Chapter 263 The False Dragon
After finishing dinner, Tang Zijun neatly cleared away the dishes and chopsticks, then turned and called Qin Nan out.
Qin Nan didn't refuse; she put on her clothes and went out with Tang Zijun.
As soon as they stepped out of the building, Qin Nan couldn't help but ask, "Why did you call me out? I've been traveling all day to get back to Snow City. It's been such a bumpy ride. Can't you let me rest for a bit?"
"You can rest whenever you want, or are you planning to stay home and help Tang Cao copy homework?" Tang Zijun raised an eyebrow.
Upon hearing this, Qin Nan tensed up immediately.
She would rather fight the most dangerous evil creatures than focus on her homework; in fact, she probably wouldn't have been able to keep going if she hadn't been copying the answers.
"Fine, you're right. You have no idea how terrifying that thing is. I almost fell asleep while holding that pen." With a sigh, Qin Nan perked up again. "So why did you call me out?"
"It's nothing serious, I just want to ask you about something."
"Sure, ask me anything," Qin Nan said casually. "As long as I know the answer, I'll tell you everything I know."
"No rush, come with me first." Tang Zijun looked around and, seeing that there were no people around, walked towards the artificial lake in the community.
"Where are we going?"
Qin Nan was a little confused, and then he saw Tang Zijun leap into the lake.
Strangely, Tang Zijun's body vanished into the light and shadow the instant it touched the lake's surface, without causing a ripple.
Startled for a moment, Qin Nan realized that they were about to use the reverse passage. After a slight hesitation, she jumped in as well.
A feeling of weightlessness washed over her, and in the blink of an eye, the surrounding environment changed. After Qin Nan regained her balance, she found herself in a dimly lit room.
The room wasn't small, about 70 or 80 square meters, and it was very clean. There were two large cabinets against the wall, filled with all sorts of books and documents.
In the center of the room, there was a large desk.
Before Qin Nan could even see what was on the table, the black chair behind the table turned around.
"You've arrived."
"Oh my god..."
Qin Nan twitched the corner of her mouth.
"Old Chang, are you crazy? Why aren't you turning on the lights? Do you know how much you look like a villain who won't survive three episodes?"
"..." Qin Nanyi's words caused three black lines to slide down Chang Lei's cheeks. "Only you humans need light, okay? I think this..."
The environment is quite nice, and it doesn't interfere with my review of materials.
Just as Chang Lei was speaking, Tang Zijun walked to the table with practiced ease and pressed a button. Immediately, the room became brightly lit.
Qin Nan leaned closer. "Do you all usually put the light switch on the table?"
"What light switch? This is the central control system." Chang Lei raised his hand and swiped on the table. Immediately afterward, the entire desktop lit up slightly, and system icons appeared one by one.
It was only then that Qin Nan noticed that the glass on the table was made of a material similar to a mobile phone screen; the entire tabletop resembled a tablet computer magnified countless times.
"Wow, that's high-tech!" Qin Nan couldn't help but gape.
This facility was completely different from her previous understanding of technology. The only place this kind of thing could appear was in movies, and this was the first time she had seen it in real life.
"It's just a concept device; it'll be several years before it hits the market. You can think of it as a combination of a smart home appliance and a tablet," Chang Lei grinned as he explained.
At this moment, Tang Zijun spoke up. "Old Chang, have you finished collecting the information I asked you to find?"
"I've been quite busy these past few days, but I certainly can't neglect the tasks you've assigned me." Chang Lei traced a few lines on the table with his finger, and soon, a series of documents were brought up.
As he moved, the lights in the room dimmed slightly, and then a blue light beam shot out from the optical lens on the front of the table, projecting onto the opposite wall.
Qin Nan's gaze was drawn to the light screen, and she looked over curiously.
On the wall, a file was unlocked and opened, and then files and photos popped out and covered the entire wall.
"This is."
"The Lingnan Massacre twelve years ago, the 'Magical Girl' murder case, the greedy individual's manipulation of the illusory dragon, and the corresponding aftermath are all here."
Chang Lei's gaze lingered on the light screen for a moment before he looked at Tang Zijun beside him and continued speaking.
"This matter occurred a long time ago, and the details were suppressed by the surviving magical girls at the time, so it was not discovered until the Magical Investigation Bureau was established and the investigation was reopened."
Listening to Chang Lei's words and seeing the files on the wall, Qin Nan blinked uncomfortably, then something suddenly popped into her mind.
"Hey, wait, this... this couldn't be..."
"Yes, just as you thought. This is the huge and terrible incident that caused Tan Zhixin's serious injury and severely damaged that generation of magical girls in Lingnan." Tang Zijun's gaze fell on the wall screen.
There, photos of young girls were projected.
The girls in the photos are mostly smiling, but the upper half of their faces are blurred out.
In addition to the girl's photos, there were also some photos from the scene, showing that the forest in the photos had been completely destroyed.
"Event Name: [Dragon of Illusion], Event Date: September xx, 2013, Enemy: Greedy Ones, Human Girl (no mistake), Participating Magical Girls: 19, Survivors: 4."
Chang Lei tapped on the table and then continued.
"According to insiders and the investigation by the Magic Bureau agents, the incident was caused by a greedy person who deceived an ignorant girl, making her believe that she had become a magical girl. For a period of one year and three months, the greedy person accompanied the girl in fighting against the heretical demons."
"During this time, no one noticed anything unusual, including the other magical girls and spirit beasts. No one noticed anything wrong with her magic. Even after the girl went berserk, the magical girls who arrived believed that she was being controlled by the Greedy One."
"This misjudgment also severely damaged the magical girls; in order to save their comrades, they did not go all out from the start."
This led the girl to brutally murder multiple magical girls, absorbing their power to create the illusory dragon.
As Chang Lei narrated, photos were projected onto the wall.
Although these photos were mostly taken by agents from the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics when they returned to the crime scene not long ago, Qin Nan could still imagine how brutal the battle must have been.
"After the illusory dragon descended, the remaining magical girls and the magical girls who arrived later worked together and paid a great price to defeat it. However, the instigator, the greedy one, took advantage of the chaos to leave."
Tang Zijun frowned. "That greedy person..."
"Ah, based on the available intelligence and my understanding of those guys, the greedy one who caused this chaos must be 'The One Who Is.' Only she has the power to turn illusion into reality."
At this point, Chang Lei looked at Tang Zijun.
"You've forgotten, back then, to kill you, she conjured several 'knights' just like you."
"That's true..." Tang Zijun stroked her chin.
In the latter half of the battle against the greedy, the enemies he faced were mostly high-ranking members of the greedy faction.
They are all individuals with extremely terrifying abilities.
Their abilities are incredibly diverse and extremely threatening, but the one that impressed Tang Zijun the most was this possessor.
One possibility is that the way they use the belt is too iconic, or it could be that the owner has a good understanding of human culture.
During the battle against her, the possessor used illusory abilities to summon many well-known "Kamen Riders".
Although they were all illusions transformed from human delusions, those knights did indeed make Tang Zijun feel a great threat.
Fortunately, Kamen Rider Phantom's power is the same as the power of the Supporter.
They were basically fighting themselves in their normal state, and it wasn't like they would suddenly switch to their final form mid-fight. Otherwise, they wouldn't have had any chance of winning at all.
"What happened to that advocate in the end?" Qin Nan couldn't help but ask.
"Dead," Chang Lei replied casually, pointing at Tang Zijun. "He kicked him to death. You can take a look in the fish tank; it's the triangular one."
Upon hearing this, Qin Nan felt her lips go dry and slowly shifted her gaze to Tang Zijun.
"I didn't know she had done these things at the time," Tang Zijun sighed. "It's my fault, I made her death too easy..."
Chang Lei tapped the table again, and the screen changed its display. "Following the bureau's subsequent investigation, all four remaining magical girls have lost their transformation powers. Of the three, two have gone abroad, one is now a four-star agent in the bureau, and the other is Tan Zhixin."
"Wait, retrieve the files of those who were killed in the line of duty."
"This is what you want to see, right?" Knowing some inside information, Chang Lei naturally understood what Tang Zijun's goal was, and he quickly pulled up a document from the archives.
The photo on the first page of the document shows a charming little girl.
She had short black hair, was wearing sportswear, and had a tomboyish look. In the name section...
The words "loss" were clearly written on it.
"Shi: This surname is so rare." Qin Nan leaned forward.
"This is the name of someone who lost their surname in ancient times due to some event. Later, they continued to use 'Shi' (失) as their surname, which is indeed quite rare," Tang Zijun explained.
Chang Lei was silent for a moment, then spoke. "This lost woman should be the Shadow Woman, right?"
"Wait, Shadowwoman, wasn't Shadowwoman dead?"
Qin Nan was confused by Tang Zijun. She didn't understand why she would investigate the file of a dead person.
"It's true that Shadow Woman is dead..." Tang Zijun's gaze sharpened.
"But aren't you curious about how the Shadow Woman was created?"