“Oh no, big brother and Sister Xiamo aren’t coming home for dinner tonight~”
Seeing the two messages pop up on her phone almost simultaneously, Luo Shuangxing’s eyes curved like crescent moons.
Xiao Mimi, sitting next to her, saw this and couldn’t understand why Luo Shuangxing was smiling so eerily.
Was it just because she’d be eating dinner alone?
“Mimi, don’t you think it’s quite a coincidence?” Realizing Xiao Mimi couldn’t grasp her thoughts, Luo Shuangxing had no choice but to explain with a sigh.
“Sister Xiamo isn’t coming home for dinner because she has to keep an eye on things at the zoo. She can take action anytime something happens, and she also said in her message that Dark Moth is with her.”
Since this was, after all, the Ministry of Magic, Luo Shuangxing didn’t say the name “Dark Moth” directly, instead using “Miss Dark Moth” as a substitute.
“Sister Xiamo isn’t coming home, Dark Moth isn’t coming home, and my brother just happened to send a message at this time saying he has to work overtime and won’t be home tonight.”
You could say it’s a coincidence, maybe, but it’s also highly unlikely to be just a coincidence.
How could a coincidence in your family be so precise, with identical messages sent just a few seconds apart?
“If my suspicion of big brother was originally fifty percent, this one message alone can increase my suspicion by twenty percent.” Luo Shuangxing waved her phone, revealing a sweet smile.
“I’ve heard a saying before, that magical girls attract each other. So now, I’m a magical girl, Sister Xiamo is a magical girl, the person caught between Sister Xiamo and me, there’s no way they could be ordinary, right?”
After listening to Luo Shuangxing’s long speech, Xiao Mimi was still a little confused, but she generally understood what Luo Shuangxing meant.
It was just that the timing was too coincidental, making Luo Shuangxing even more suspicious that her brother was Dark Moth.
“Let’s go, Mimi, let’s have dinner first, and then go meet up with Sister Xiamo and the others!”
Since Xiamo had to stay up all night guarding the zoo, Luo Shuangxing naturally wanted to go accompany her senior.
She couldn’t possibly let her senior suffer through a long night on the front lines while she herself was sound asleep in a warm bed, could she?
Besides, big brother said he wouldn’t be home tonight, so Luo Shuangxing could do whatever she wanted tonight.
After all, big brother wasn’t home.
If Luo Shuangxing suddenly received a call from Luo Shuangyue in the middle of the night, asking why she wasn’t home, Luo Shuangxing could use that to confirm that Dark Moth and her brother were two different people.
Either way, she wouldn’t lose anything.
“The park is already closed. Tourists and staff have all evacuated from the zoo. The Ministry of Magic’s operation is about to begin.”
Holding a hamburger, Luo Shuangyue ate while looking at images of the zoo’s interior on her phone.
She and Xiamo were currently eating dinner at a burger joint outside the zoo.
As for where these images of the zoo’s interior came from, you’d have to ask Xiamo, the Ministry of Magic’s “double agent.”
She directly sent the live stream link to Luo Shuangyue, allowing her to watch freely.
The sky had already turned dim.
It wouldn’t be long before night completely fell.
The Ministry of Magic’s members were thoroughly searching the zoo.
After confirming that no other unrelated individuals remained inside the zoo, they would proceed with further action.
“Which area do you think would be better to search first?” Xiamo leaned in to look at Luo Shuangyue’s phone.
But just as she moved a little closer, Luo Shuangyue retracted her head and hands as if sensing some danger, not giving Xiamo any chance to get close.
“Don’t you have your own phone? Look at your own.” Luo Shuangyue didn’t know why she was so sensitive.
She used to like taking advantage of Xiamo in front of that little fellow Lily of the Valley, so why did her heart skip a beat now whenever Xiamo got close?
How strange.
Luo Shuangyue believed her intuition wouldn’t betray her.
So, what unpleasant thing would happen to her if Xiamo got close?
Xiamo also noticed the girl’s deliberate evasion, but she didn’t know if Dark Moth’s action was an unconscious avoidance or if she had discovered her own little secret.
Both of them had something to hide, and the atmosphere suddenly became strange.
Finally, Xiamo took the initiative to break the awkward silence, pulled out her phone, and opened the Ministry of Magic’s live stream.
She also made an excuse for her previous behavior, “It’s more convenient for two people to look at one screen for communication, and you didn’t say anything when I did that to you last time, but now you’re looking down on me…”
As she spoke, she shot a resentful look at Dark Moth.
“How is that the same?” Luo Shuangyue muttered softly.
Before was before, and now is now.
She felt it was very dangerous to be close to Xiamo right now.
Maybe Xiamo was plotting some conspiracy against her in her mind!
“Why isn’t it the same…? Hmm, the Ministry of Magic seems to be planning to check the reptile area first. Did they really choose this place?” Xiamo mumbled, then turned the topic to the main subject.
This was also the area she felt needed to be investigated first.
When the entire zoo became abnormal, the only place that still seemed normal was the most bizarre.
How could strange things be happening everywhere else, but not in this one spot? Was there some secret here?
“It seems the people from the Ministry of Magic aren’t completely brain-dead. Oh, by the way, there’s a very strange zookeeper in the reptile area. Have you ever seen her?”
Luo Shuangyue also felt there was something wrong with the reptile area, but she had later sent Jiuye and Heizhi to investigate several times and still couldn’t find what the problem was.
Now it seemed she could only wait and see if the Ministry of Magic could find anything.
Unlike evil organizations that could only operate in the shadows, the Ministry of Magic had a much easier time getting things done.
When they said “carpet search,” they meant carpet search.
If even they couldn’t find anything, then Luo Shuangyue might as well give up.
“Huh? Is there?” Xiamo was stunned for a moment, then quickly flipped through today’s investigation report.
But no matter how much she searched, she couldn’t find the strange zookeeper Luo Shuangyue was talking about.
Not only was there no testimony from that zookeeper, but even the other zoo staff hadn’t mentioned this person.
A zookeeper with such a unique appearance and the ability to be close to snakes, how could she possibly be an insignificant nobody?
“No, there are no clues at all.” After quickly reading all the reports, Xiamo looked up and said to Luo Shuangyue, whose expression was solemn.
“No clues at all? So, what I saw wasn’t a ghost…?” Luo Shuangyue slowly rubbed her brow with her index finger, and a bad premonition suddenly arose in her heart.
Could it be that she had just brushed past the most abnormal thing in the zoo the day before?