“Unexplained agitation? Looks like we’ve come to the right place.”
“It doesn’t matter if we can’t find the source of the anomaly, as long as we know that demonic energy is in this zoo, and there are signs of it leaking.”
Mad Python hung up the phone and turned to look at the man in black who was adjusting equipment beside him.
“Is your gadget ready?”
“Soon, it’ll be ready tonight. With this, no matter how deeply the demonic energy is hidden, we’ll find it!”
“Didn’t bring your friend today?”
As the villains were plotting trouble for the night, Luo Shuangyue once again ran into Xia Mo at the zoo.
This time, Xia Mo was alone, so Luo Shuangyue casually appeared in front of her and started chatting with her as if no one else was around.
“They have other things to do, and I can’t bring them two days in a row,” Xia Mo looked at the white-haired girl in front of her with complex eyes.
The thought that this girl might be her beloved childhood friend gave her a dream-like, surreal feeling.
However, if you observe carefully, Dark Moth and White Night really are quite similar; their body outlines are almost identical. It’s just that one usually wears more modest clothes, while the other wears skirts and long socks, making it hard to connect them at first glance.
But once suspicion arose in Xia Mo’s mind, these details surfaced one after another, increasing her doubts.
Initially, she only half-believed her suspicions about Luo Shuangyue, but now she believed them by sixty or seventy percent.
If she were to truly smell the same scent on Dark Moth as on Luo Shuangyue, even if she were unwilling to admit it, she would have to accept the fact that her childhood friend was actually a girl.
“Why are you looking at me so strangely…?” Luo Shuangyue noticed Xia Mo’s complex gaze.
Xia Mo quickly patted her cheeks.
She couldn’t let Ming Die get suspicious yet; she needed to find an excuse to gloss over her recent daze.
What excuse should she use? Her gaze swept over Dark Moth’s usual attire, and she immediately had an idea.
“I’m just curious, do you really only have this one outfit?” Xia Mo pointed at the skirt Dark Moth was wearing, then at her own clothes.
The clothes she was wearing today were different from yesterday’s, but Dark Moth always wore the same thing.
As for the pair of shoes on Dark Moth’s feet, which originally belonged to Xia Mo, Xia Mo couldn’t even bother to mention them.
If Dark Moth didn’t even change clothes, how could she change shoes?
Upon hearing Xia Mo’s question, Luo Shuangyue’s face instantly darkened. “You’re really obsessed with this, aren’t you?!”
“What I wear is none of your business, Magical Girl! Isn’t it enough to just wash them every day if they look good?”
“Boring. Instead of focusing on these trivial details, you should think about how to find the source of the anomaly.”
Successfully getting away with that excuse, Xia Mo pressed on, “It’s not trivial at all. If you have time later, I’ll take you to buy some clothes…”
“Are you crazy? I told you I don’t need these things! Can you please focus on more important matters?” Luo Shuangyue was exasperated.
Was Xia Mo’s mental state not right?
Why was she so interested in these things?
What clothes I, Dark Moth, wear has nothing to do with you, Magical Girl Rosemary, does it? We’re enemies, enemies, understand?!
“I told the Ministry of Magic about the anomaly here yesterday, and now the Ministry of Magic has dispatched many investigators to infiltrate and investigate. There should be results soon.”
Being told by Dark Moth that she wasn’t doing her job, Xia Mo immediately retorted.
Just the two of them, no matter how busy they were, couldn’t search every corner of the zoo.
Such matters had to be handled by professionals.
After she told the director about the situation yesterday, it was clear that some people who didn’t fit the local atmosphere had appeared in the zoo today.
Some zoo employees were also being questioned by people in black plain clothes on the roadside.
All of this was thanks to Xia Mo.
The Ministry of Magic investigating here was equivalent to her investigating!
“Over-relying on external forces will lead to losses sooner or later,” Luo Shuangyue coldly replied, completely ignoring that she was actually doing the same thing.
It was just that she sent out fewer people, while Xia Mo called in more.
“Excessive personal heroism is not a good habit, you know. Even the strongest Magical Girls need the help of their companions to defeat powerful enemies.” When it came to this topic, Xia Mo’s confidence was quite strong.
“The power of a Magical Girl comes from these bonds; the power of the subjective is infinite!”
“Didn’t I, Dark Moth, get beaten down by your subjective power once before? What, healed the scar and forgot the pain?”
Luo Shuangyue’s expression stiffened.
Okay, this conversation couldn’t continue. If it did, she’d end up being interrogated by Xia Mo.
“Enough of that. So, after all you people investigating for half a day, what conclusions have you drawn?”
“We have some conclusions, but they’re not very clear. What we know now is that all the animals in the zoo are abnormally restless, except for the snake area; they’re quite calm there,” Xia Mo shook her head.
“The Ministry of Magic plans to conduct a thorough search of the entire zoo tonight after it closes to find the source of this anomaly.”
In every sense, the efficiency of the Ministry of Magic could be said to be incredibly fast.
They received the report yesterday and are already preparing extensively today to dig deep and find the cause of this anomaly.
As for why they aren’t searching during the day, first, the Ministry of Magic needs time to transport various equipment.
If any problems were to arise, after preparations, they could control the disturbance to uninhabited areas.
Second, there’s also the reason that it’s not good to do such work during the day.
Battles between Magical Girls and monsters, if they can avoid the public eye, should be avoided as much as possible.
It’s best for every battle to happen late at night, resolved quietly.
“…Hmph, I’ll be waiting here tonight. White Night’s seal card is my primary target. If you try to stop me, I won’t hold back,” Luo Shuangyue let out an annoyed snort and said to Xia Mo with a stern face.
Her goal was to prevent the seal card from falling into Snake Fang’s hands, so directly snatching the seal card was naturally the best option.
These stored with Monice made Luo Shuangyue feel safer than if they were with the Ministry of Magic.
“So… why are you, Dark Moth, so concerned about the seal card left by Senior White Night?” Xia Mo asked with curiosity.
It seemed that from the beginning, Dark Moth’s focus had always been the seal card left by White Night.
“For power, and to thoroughly eliminate these unstable factors.”