Get off work and become a magical girl

Chapter 350 Uninvited Guest

Lin Xiaolu concentrated on sensing the road and groping forward.

After spending most of the day on the test, she was already very familiar with the use of the spells in the maze. She knew how many meters ahead it was before turning, and which forks in the road were dead ends. These information were all clear to her after she perceived them.

Confident that nothing would go wrong, she walked so fast that at one point, when Mint, who was walking in front of her, suddenly stopped, she had no room to dodge and bumped her head into Mint's back.

Fortunately, it doesn’t hurt too much.

She thought so, then distanced herself from Bohe and asked, "What's wrong?"

Bohe stood there, looking forward with a fixed gaze, but her eyes were unfocused, as if her thoughts were drifting away. After hearing Lin Xiaolu's question, she gradually came back to her senses and grinned, "Ah, I suddenly thought of something, so I was distracted. Sorry, did I hurt you?"

"Not really."

Lin Xiaolu shook her head: "Did you find any problems ahead?"

"No, it's just some of my own personal matters, nothing serious."

Mint brushed the topic aside lightly: "But you said there were problems up front, and it seems to be true."

After a long period of exploration, the three of them had solved two puzzles, and after receiving the reward for the second puzzle, they successfully found a secret passage.

At this moment, they were moving along the secret passage, intending to find the so-called "maze node".

"What's the problem?" It was related to the maze node, or in other words, it was related to a large number of bonus points, so Lin Xiaolu was particularly concerned about it. She was still counting on this wave of bonus points to rank among the top, and she didn't want anything to go wrong.

——"Someone is fighting."

Bai Jingxuan, who was following behind Lin Xiaolu, poked her head out, her face tense: "And the magic power fluctuates a lot, it's very messy, I'm afraid it's not a battle with the remnant beast."

"Well, I'm afraid that other teams approached the node before us, but they fought before entering the node."

Bohe nodded to confirm Bai Jingxuan's statement, and then asked Lin Xiaolu: "What do you mean? Do you want to go and check the situation?"

"Are they fighting to grab the nodes? Why?"

But Lin Xiaolu didn't make a decision right away. Instead, she asked in surprise, "Didn't they say that multiple teams can attack a node together and then split the rewards? Do we have to fight for it?"

"Who knows? Maybe they are worried that there will be too many people and not enough food, so they don't want to share the rewards with other teams."

Mint guessed absentmindedly: "Although it sounds stupid."

By now, most of the candidates have figured out the pros and cons of attacking other teams, so they won't do it unless they can win with a surprise attack. It's meaningless to openly fight with others. So fighting for node rewards sounds like a hot-blooded fool, and even Lin Xiaolu wouldn't do such a thing.

So right now, the battle taking place in front of them seemed wrong no matter how they thought about it.

"So, keep going?"

Bohe asked again: "Should we retreat first, wait for the people ahead to finish their fight and enter the node, and then sneak over?"

"Hmm... I don't think there's any difference."

Lin Xiaolu pondered: "Since they can fight for the node rewards, then they can't be willing to share with us, right? As long as we still plan to go to that node, it seems that there will definitely be a conflict?"

"That's most likely the case."

Mint nodded: "But my advice is to stay as far away as possible, at least don't get affected by their battle..." - "It's over."

Before she finished her words, Bai Jingxuan beside her suddenly said, "The magic fluctuations on one side have disappeared."

"Eh?"

"what?"

This news shocked both Lin Xiaolu and Bohe.

Lin Xiaolu's perception ability was inferior to the other two, so even with Bai Jingxuan's reminder, she still couldn't detect anything unusual. But Bo He quickly explored the front, and then revealed a serious look: "Really... It's over."

"Is the fight over? And they really eliminated the people?"

Lin Xiaolu looked incredulous: "What kind of logic is this? Do you really want to give your scores away?"

"There are only three frequencies of magic power fluctuations left... No, excluding the remaining fluctuations, there is only one frequency left."

Bai Jingxuan continued to report: "Moreover, the source of the fluctuation is approaching us!"

"Discovered us?" Lin Xiaolu was even more surprised.

Mint didn't say anything, but frowned, as if he had thought of something and was hesitant to speak.

"What should we do? Should we retreat quickly as well?"

Seeing that she didn't say anything, Lin Xiaolu took the initiative to ask Bohe: "Or should we find a fork in the road where we came from and hide in..."

"That's too late."

Mint said this with a firm tone.

"What do you mean, it's too late?" Lin Xiaolu felt like a tape recorder, and could only repeat the explosive news from her teammates in a panic.

"We're here." Bai Jingxuan's voice explained Bo He's attitude.

As she finished speaking, a black fog gradually emerged in front of the secret passage. The black fog kept making a rustling sound and approached the three people at a very fast speed. When the distance was close enough, the true face of the black fog finally appeared:
——That's a group of bats.

Because they were packed too tightly together and their flying speed was too uniform, the group of bats looked like a ball of black fog from a distance.

When they arrived in front of Lin Xiaolu and the others, they suddenly stopped. Suddenly, countless bats gathered together and turned into a human figure. The figure took a few steps forward, leaving the black fog, and his face gradually emerged.

She was a girl who looked about fifteen years old. Her long black hair was streaked with red and was combed into a high bun. A golden and red crown was embedded in her hair. The shape of the crown was extremely exaggerated, a giant bat flower. The outer edge that stretched out like bat wings and the hard lines that fell like tiger whiskers attracted everyone's attention all the time.

She was wearing a black and red Gothic dress, like coagulated blood in the dark night. The tight waist pinched out two sharp curves, and the towering stand-up collar tightly wrapped to the chin. The edge of the collar was decorated with a dark red leaf-shaped heart gem, which glowed matte like dried blood in the dim maze.

If I had to use one word to describe the impression this magical girl gave people, it would be "aggressive".

So aggressive that it seems to swallow up everything.

After the black and red magical girl showed up, she first looked at Lin Xiaolu and Bai Jingxuan with her blood-red eyes, then turned to Bo He and smiled, which looked quite elegant and powerful at the same time:
"Good evening, my dear sister. It seems that you have found two very interesting 'friends'?"

(End of this chapter)