Endless Silver Machine

"Brother Aika, when Senior Sister Lilith was touching her head just now..."

Wei Xi, who finally walked into the house, told everyone in an eager tone before she could even take off her shoes.

Aika and Lan Ming turned back to look at Wei Xi in confusion. As she spoke, she was groping for something in her pure white hair. Her long hair, as smooth as snow, had been rubbed into a mess by herself.

Then, she found a piece of paper folded into the size of a fingernail from her long hair. The snow-white paper color was perfectly hidden in the long pure white hair, and no one noticed it on the way back.

"Senior Lilith left this..."

"Charlotte."

"yes."

Charlotte took out her gloves from her uniform and put them on, then took a fingernail-sized piece of paper from Wei Xi's hand.

After she carefully unfolded the piece of paper, there was no writing inside, but a small chip wrapped inside.

"Does Your Excellency Lilith want to leave any message for us?"

"Your Highness, it may be a trap."

"Lan Ming, what's the use of that chip?"

"A common method of information exchange between nobles. Besides oral transmission, encryption chips are the safest way."

"But there are no tools here that can decipher the code. Only the Imperial Intelligence Agency or the intelligence agencies of major families can do it."

Charlotte placed the small chip and piece of paper on the table, then took out a piece of plastic film from her uniform pocket and wrapped them again.

What Aika hasn't figured out yet is why Senior Lilith used such a roundabout way to leave information.

The only possibility is that she has something unspeakable that she can't explain in front of everyone.

"I wonder if Professor Cocona can do anything..."

"Aika, we can't act rashly now. By using this method, Lilith is already warning us that there is an informant under surveillance from the Bis Empire in Frost Moon Academy. Since she has been in contact with us, now we may also become the target of surveillance. The target of surveillance."

Lan Ming relied on the sense of crisis he had cultivated in the political circle since he was a child to interpret part of the message she wanted to convey from senior Lilith's behavior.

"It's normal for me to go to Professor Cocona. After all, I am her student. Professor Cocona's research laboratory should not be under surveillance yet. The problem is that here..."

"There is no problem here for the time being. I already checked it with 'Candle Dragon Gold' when I came in. I'm sorry, it's not because I don't trust you..."

"I know, be careful when sailing a ship that lasts forever."

"Thank you... That's why I didn't stop Wei Xi when she said Your Excellency Lilith's name here just now."

I thought I would be able to settle down when I got home. Sure enough, as expected, the Bisi Empire has placed surveillance spies in Shuoyue Academy. This is no longer an absolutely safe area.

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That night, after Aika sent Lan Ming and Xia Luo back to the girls' dormitory, they walked to Professor Cocona's research room.

Lan Ming always has Xia Luo by his side, so as long as the two of them are together, there is no need to worry too much.

Senior Lilith's encryption chip was cracked like a toy in the hands of Professor Cocona.

"No data, just an ordinary piece of metal."

"Professor Cocona, are you kidding..."

"There's really nothing!"

Cocona was dissatisfied with Aika's questioning and stepped on the floor of the laboratory with her slippers.

Now Aika could only give up. Professor Cocona said otherwise, it would have been the same result if it had been anyone else.

Why did Senior Lilith spend so much effort but only sent an empty chip?

After Aika returned to the administrator's cabin in confusion, Ling, who was sitting on the sofa to kill time with Wei Xi, immediately answered the question.

"If this chip was not brought back by Xiao Xi, but fell somewhere else, wouldn't it be exposed if someone under surveillance picks it up? Senior Sister Lilith is just planning to tell us that this place is dangerous."

"That's probably what you're thinking... If you just use pieces of paper, we may not pay attention to it, and it's not appropriate to have information in the chip. It seems like you really can't stay at Frost Moon Academy for a long time."

"Then you want to set off to find Classmate Corel?" Ling still crossed her legs, raised her head and leaned on the back of the chair, "Speaking of which, after knowing about Classmate Corel's magic costume, I was thinking that this should be more than the second time. Met her."

"What does it mean?"

Ling recalled that the natural magic when she was attacked by an unknown enemy was very similar to when she first met Corel, and that at that time the Light Flame Sword sensed the special magic wave that only the magic suit had.

"...I'll tell you when I see her. I'm not sure yet. The problem is, if you want to see her, you have to find the 'Sea Fog Fleet' that Princess Lan Ming mentioned, right? This is really like finding a needle in a haystack."

There is still no complete map of the sea outside the mainland, and it takes two days to cross the western sea by airboat.

The "Sea Fog Fleet" in Lan Ming's memory was located in the western waters, but it certainly no longer stayed where it was.

"As for this question, Miss Anjie has some clues."

"When did you go to see Miss Anjie again..."

"Of course it was last night when you went to the girls' dormitory to hold a welcome party for Lan Ming and Xia Luo. I was the only one at home and couldn't find anything else to do."

"Okay, okay, it's our fault to leave you alone at home." Ling waved to Aika as if she was too lazy to pursue the matter further, "Go on, what does Miss Anjie think?"

Outside Rosenberg Prison, Anjie witnessed with her own eyes the orange light bombardment that swept across the night sky and destroyed all the aviation magic ships.

She had also seen bombardments of the same magical color when they were fighting in the sky with the aerial magic ships of the Purple Rose Knights and the Nemesis Society.

The third time I saw a similar attack method was when I escaped from Rosenberg in an airship and was pursued by the Bisi Empire's aviation magic fleet on the way.

"Anjie believes that these three attacks were all carried out by the same person. If that fleet has been secretly observing us, they should be the ones who attacked the Bis Empire three times in a row."

"But there's no evidence for these speculations, right? Maybe it's just a coincidence."

"If we don't try our luck, we won't be able to find any direction, right?"

"This is quite the truth..."

"If it were not a coincidence, but the 'Sea Mist Fleet' had been escorting our airship back to Frost Moon Academy, that fleet might still be staying in the nearby waters now."

"Let me tell you," Ling lowered her crossed legs, but only switched the positions of her left and right legs, "You must not have forgotten the most important thing, right?"

"Sister Ling..."

"It's impossible to forget."

In front of Ling and Wei Xi, Aika can calmly face the fact that Luo Luo is not here.

He had struggled more than once, could he really find out the Nemesis Society if he continued like this? Can Lolo really be saved? Are the goals you have set now too idealistic?

There are no answers to these questions, and there is no single answer.

Whether idealistic or unrealistic, there may be thousands of final results, but there is only one goal as the source.

If you have doubts about your initial goals, how can you take steps forward?

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