Yes, I did all of this!

"careful!"

Just as Yuzhi was wondering if this was her chance to transform, Huizi suddenly hugged Yuzhi and protected her.

—Huh?

Yuzhi's eyes widened involuntarily as she felt Huizi's weight pressing down on her, and a look of panic and surprise appeared in her eyes.

Bang......

Before Yu Zhi could think too much, a dark golden light flashed, and ten floating blades swatted away the falling rocks, sending them flying into the distance.

"Wind chimes..."

Seeing these floating blades, Yu Zhi realized what was happening and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Looks like we made it in time."

A calm voice rang out from the air. Feng Ling lowered her hand, glanced at Yu Zhi, and then looked elsewhere.

Her rapid arrival wasn't due to her ability to sense the monster's activity through the corrosive aura, but simply her reaction speed.

—Shin Murin hacked into every surveillance camera in the surrounding city, maintaining a normal daily life while the Zero System in her mind constantly monitored the presence of the monster. So, a few seconds after the roar appeared, she noticed the monster's appearance.

The time it takes to lock onto the location, notify the companions, and transform and fly here is less than half a minute. Arriving before the monster causes greater casualties is enough.

Given their current strength, these magical girls can accomplish more every second. Just now, before Huizi could even get up from the ground, Lingyin arrived at the scene.

She looked around, pretending not to see Yuzhi, and then raised her hand. Everyone, including Yuzhi Huizi, felt as if they were enveloped by something, as if they were in a bubble, and were uncontrollably flown into the air, and then were flown away from the battlefield.

During this journey, Yuzhi and Huizi naturally separated for transport. As the distance between them grew further and further, Huizi couldn't help but shout out:

“Words weave!”

"Don't worry, Huizi, I'll contact you later!"

Knowing that this was Lingyin's intention, Yuzhi told Huizi to calm down, while she herself watched the strange man in the distance from the air.

That image made her heart tighten.

—A group of emaciated zombies appeared in the sulfurous fog, still wearing ordinary people's clothes, which looked like they had just been corrupted.

"hateful......"

Before Yu Zhi could see anything else, the wind shield that enveloped her carried her to an empty alley.

"Transform!"

The purple light dissipated, and Huangyi flew out of the alley and arrived in front of the group of magical girls.

At this moment, Xi Ri had also arrived, and Ling Yin had taken steps to "isolate" people and lead them out of the area to prevent these zombie monsters from causing even greater casualties.

Even so, they were still a little too late. The Key to the Underworld was ready, and the entire street was teeming with zombies, resembling a scene from the apocalypse.

"Radiant Wings".

Upon seeing her arrival, Lingyin and Huangyi exchanged a glance and nodded.

"Thank you, Yin, Ling."

"We can talk about these things later. We need to deal with these weirdos first."

The Zero System in Fengling's brain began to analyze rapidly, and identified a strange person who was subtly different from the other zombies.

"The scales on this zombie are the most obvious. According to the surveillance footage, it may be the source of infection for these people."

As she spoke, the floating cannon beside her fired a beam of light, which accurately struck the strange man in the crowd, but the man immediately raised his hand, and the scales on his body blocked the attack.

The zombie monster raised its hand and roared at the magical girl in the air.

Although the wind chimes' attack was ineffective against it, it did confirm its location for everyone.

Is there any way to rescue them?

Lingyin asked her younger sister.

"...Sunset, try using Golden Flame? Be careful to use healing flames."

"learn."

As the sun rose, golden flames burst forth from its hand.

The abundant energy within her body caused golden flames to spread instantly across the street, engulfing everyone on the street like a golden wave.

The vibrant flames scorched the corrosive gases, and the two energies canceled each other out like ice and fire.

The golden flames of the setting sun are no ordinary flames. In addition to possessing a more dangerous destructive power than black flames and an abundant life force, they are also an extension of the feeling of the setting sun. Even without looking at the flames, one can know what is happening inside.

"Well--"

—But soon her expression darkened, and she spoke to the wind chime while releasing golden flames.

"No... These zombies are completely dead. Even if my flames can restore their bodies, they cannot be brought back to life."

"Yeah......"

Fengling had anticipated this. She glanced at her sister and Huangyi and said, "Then we'll have to kill them... Is that alright?"

"Go for it, Yuuhime-san."

"Don't worry about my feelings."

Huangyi and Lingyin preferred saving ordinary people to dealing with monsters, and both felt sadness and anger upon learning the news.

"The deadly flames are coming!"

The man, whose hand was spewing golden flames, clenched his fist, his thumb pinching the pad of his middle finger, and snapped his fingers: "Explode!"

boom!

The next instant, the vibrant golden flames transformed into dangerous explosive energy, blasting through the entire street.

The snowflakes in the sky were the first to be shaken away, followed by the explosion of the street, with dazzling flashes of light flying everywhere. The entire street was instantly riddled with cracks, and the surrounding buildings were also reduced to fragments in the explosion.

Immediately following the explosion, the intense heat spread, causing the magical girls in the air to blow their long hair and flutter their dresses.

The snowflakes melted, the walls were burned and shattered, and the steel bars embedded in the walls were melted into a pool of molten iron by the high temperature brought by the golden flames.

No one could survive in such high temperatures, but the magical girls had already prepared shields for themselves, not to mention that the aftershocks wouldn't cause them much harm.

Looking at the temperature of the flames, Lingyin glanced at the library not far away—sensing the intense heat, she cast a wind shield over the library, hoping the books inside wouldn't be burned.

"Hmm?" As the golden flames continued to burn on the flat ground called the street, Xi Ri frowned, sensing the strange aura emanating from it.

She raised her hand, extinguished the flames, and saw the scene on the battlefield.

—On the ground, a cocoon made of numerous tentacles enveloped the location of the zombies. The surface of the cocoon was covered with charred black spots, but it did protect the zombies inside.

Squeak, squeak, squeak...

The sound of tentacles rubbing together rang out, and they began to contract, returning to the body of a strange creature inside the cocoon.

The strange man also had a thin body, but it was more slender than the zombies, and its skin did not have greenish scales. Instead, a large number of tentacles grew from the back of its neck.

This feature alone is enough to prove its identity.

Huang Yi frowned: "Leviathan's hanged man?"

"Ha, I was just wondering where to find you!" Yuhi laughed, golden flames erupting from his body.

"Fighting you now is not my intention."

The hanged man spoke, turning to glance at the source of infection in the horde of zombies: "But there's nothing we can do now."

"Ow—"

After the infected zombie let out a roar, its body trembled, and the surrounding zombies also began to tremble. The green orbs of light began to separate from their bodies and fly onto the infected zombie.

"Don't even think about it!"

Yuhi immediately rushed towards the zombie, while the tentacles on the hanged ghost's back began to wriggle, stopping Yuhi's movements.

This one, which looks like it only has a few more tentacles than the other hanged ghosts, actually managed to temporarily stop the sun from rising.

However, the other magical girls weren't stupid either; they spread out and launched attacks on the zombie from various angles.

Beams, wind blades, and sword energy bombarded the zombies, sending up plumes of dust and smoke on the scorched earth.

As the attacks engulfed the zombie monsters, the hanged man glanced back, but no panic rose in his eyes.

Click, click—

Amidst the smoke and dust, the sounds of metal scraping against metal could be heard, hidden among the sounds of battle.

But then, the sound coming from inside made them tense and stop what they were doing.

"Neville Driver—"

Chapter 440: Three Against Four

Listening to the sounds coming from the smoke and dust, Lingyin frowned, then suddenly waved her hand, and a hurricane blew the smoke and dust away.

—Amidst the dust, in front of that zombie monster, Neville simply raised his hand, swallowing all their attacks into a vortex.

"Neville... you actually came too."

Upon seeing this, the magical girls' expressions darkened.

At the same time, the zombie monster behind Duanmu Mo also absorbed those light orbs. After a roar, a pair of fleshy wings unfolded from its back, and its aura surged again and again.

Meanwhile, the ordinary zombies that had separated from the orbs of light lay on the ground, their bodies turning into fragments that scattered in the wind.

"I didn't want to come in the first place."

Duanmu Mo lowered his hand, and the vortex disappeared from the air: "How about this, magical girls, you can pretend you didn't see anything and go home to have a warm hot pot? If you hadn't caused me trouble, I wouldn't have had to come out to work in this freezing weather."

"nonsense......"

Huangyi gripped the wrist guard on his left arm, about to summon Cangyi.

But the next moment, the eyes on Duanmu Mo's helmet lit up, and he suddenly raised his hand and pulled the trigger, firing bullets from the black mist gun at her, forcing Huang Yi to swing his sword to block.

"Cangyi is a real pain. There are bound to be too many uncertainties once she comes out."

Duanmu Mo shouldered the Black Erosion Greatsword and said to the Hanging Ghost, "So, Huangyi is mine, and you can take the rest of the three."

After saying that, he suddenly pushed off and rushed towards Huangyi.

"Well!"