Apocalypse, then transforming into a magical girl

Xiao Lü felt that her body no longer belonged to her. The mental pollution had firmly seized her will, forcing her to mechanically descend the stairs step by step.

He could clearly feel the fear, the chilling sensation of a life threatened. Yet, alongside this fear was an extremely strange flame of will.

Even though his body and mind were screaming to escape, even though his reason told him that he was doomed, the courage to fight was as if it were welded to the depths of his soul, unmoved, and even still burning faintly.

Xia Zhaozhao beside her had completely given up resisting, or rather, her resistance seemed pale and powerless in the face of this mental pollution. Her face was deathly pale, and she kept muttering all sorts of strange dying words.

Finally, they stepped into the third-floor corridor and were involuntarily "invited" into the open door—Li Ding's home.

Then, they saw that thing.

Even though Xiao Lü had prepared herself for the worst, the moment she saw the scene before her, her mind went blank and her stomach churned.

Xia Zhaozhao let out a gasp, her face turning ashen.

It cannot be described in words, nor can it be understood logically.

It was a huge, bloated, writhing ball of flesh. Grayish-white monstrous tissue made up its main body, and its surface was covered with countless remains of humans or monsters.

Human and monster heads hung like grapes on the surface of the fleshy mass, arms and legs protruded haphazardly from the flesh, and all sorts of organs and tissues were fused together in a nauseating way.

At the very top of this enormous mound of skulls was embedded Li Ding's foolish face. His eyes were cloudy and lifeless, yet they shone with a satisfied joy.

It saw Xiao Lü and Xia Zhaozhao.

"Mom...two more female moms have come..." Li Ding's consciousness cheered deep within the fleshy ball.

"But...why do they look...unhappy? Unlike the male and female mothers in front of them, who seem so cheerful..."

"...Ugh...So disgusting..." Xia Zhaozhao felt like gagging, but she forced herself not to vomit. "This thing...drops more sanity than all the bosses in all the R1G games I've ever played combined!"

Xiao Lü is in slightly better condition. But the mental pressure that almost crushes her soul still remains.

But strangely, the moment they stepped into the room, the mental pollution that had forced them to go downstairs seemed to... lessen?

He turned his neck with difficulty to look at Xia Zhaozhao and found that she had also stopped and was no longer completely unable to resist as before.

Could it be...? Little Green quickly realized. The mental pollution she had felt earlier was actually the result of two combined forces!

One is the desire to "come here," and the other is the desire to "integrate." Now that they've arrived, the first desire naturally becomes ineffective.

This also shows that they have some means to resist.

Xia Zhaozhao clearly realized this as well. She assumed a crooked starting stance, and the kitchen knife in her hand gleamed once more.

At the top of the fleshy ball, a confused expression appeared on Li Ding's foolish face.

He could feel his new hands and feet wanting to attack the two new mothers, but his consciousness was resisting.

"Hands, bad... feet, bad..." he tried to control his unruly limbs, "Don't hit... Mom..."

However, he was like a demented emperor who had been sidelined; his monstrous instincts had long since overwhelmed his feeble commands.

Several thick, slimy, grayish-white tentacles and limbs suddenly extended from the surface of the fleshy ball, lunging at Xiao Lü and Xia Zhaozhao like venomous snakes!

The two launched their counterattacks almost simultaneously!

Xia Zhaozhao roared, her cleaver slicing precisely at a tentacle that was trying to wrap around her wrist. A flash of light, and the tentacle snapped off, falling to the ground and turning into a puddle of black mud.

However, she felt that in order to fight against that mental pollution and suppress her will to walk towards the ball of flesh, her movements were far less fluid than they had been on the rooftop.

Xiao Lü reacted at the same time. She suppressed the urge to get closer to the ball of flesh, pushed her hands forward, and the moisture in the air instantly condensed into a thin ice wall in front of her.

At the same time, several ice blades appeared out of thin air and slashed at the limbs of the monsters attacking from the side!

"Snap!" The ice blade severed several tentacles.

Xia Zhaozhao seized the opportunity and, with all her might, slashed fiercely at the head of a monster on the surface of the flesh ball!

His head exploded instantly.

However, this seemingly effective attack did not cause any real damage to the flesh ball.

The area where the destroyed head had been was rapidly writhing, swallowing the remains. Then, a new head emerged from its place—a human head!

"How could this be?" Xia Zhaozhao felt a sense of despair as she looked at the scene. This was simply a lump of mud with infinite regenerative abilities, one that could never be completely cut down!

She was constantly on the run, dodging limbs and tentacles that attacked from all directions. Every time she swung her knife, she had to divert a portion of her willpower to fight against the mental pollution.

The monster seemed to realize that Xia Zhaozhao was a tough nut to crack, so it diverted some of its attack power. More limbs and tentacles surged towards the seemingly weaker and easier-to-merge Little Green!

"Zhao Jia, be careful—" Xia Zhaozhao shouted anxiously to warn him, but she herself was entangled by several tentacles and had no time to protect herself!

Little Green retreated desperately, constantly conjuring ice walls and ice spikes for defense and counterattack. The desire to merge with the monster roared in her mind, almost devouring her sanity.

The ice wall shattered rapidly, and the ice spikes were easily deflected. The monster's limbs continued to shrink, and it had no chance of winning.

Although the monster's attacks were chaotic, its enormous size, exaggerated regenerative ability, and countless limbs, coupled with its pervasive mental pollution, left Zhao Jia with absolutely no chance of victory.

In just a few rounds of combat, Xiao Lü and Xia Zhaozhao were completely suppressed and plunged into an unprecedented crisis.

Xia Zhaozhao exerted all her strength, infusing the last of her magic power into the blade, and painstakingly slashed open the tentacles around her.

Although she had gained a precious moment to catch her breath, her chest heaved violently from the depletion of her magic and excessive tension. The physical exhaustion was secondary; what truly suffocated her was the pervasive mental pollution.

And then there's this hellish scene before my eyes.

She realized that those human heads all belonged to her neighbors, and she even knew many of them. There was Old Man Sun, with whom she had many conflicts, and Aunt Zhou, the neighborhood celebrity who always played matchmaker…

Just a few days ago, they were all living, breathing human beings.

She felt that her daily life had been completely shattered—no matter how much she tried to escape, at this moment she understood that the ordinary and peaceful world she was familiar with and relied on had completely disappeared.

"I...I know her..." Xia Zhaozhao's voice choked as she looked at the lifeless female head. It was Aunt Zhou, but a severely deformed limb extending from beneath Aunt Zhou's head was hurtling towards her with tremendous force!

She instinctively raised the kitchen knife to block.

With a muffled "clang!", the immense force sent numbness through her arm, causing her to stagger backward, barely avoiding another limb connected to Old Man Sun's gray head.

Although she hated the old man to death, at least he used to be a living person, a living person who could curse and cause trouble, but now he has become like this.

"...I know a few of them too."

Little Green struggled to maintain the ice wall in front of her, the desire to merge with the monster eroding her will. At that moment, an exceptionally thick limb was frantically slamming against the ice wall.

At the base of this limb is connected the head of an ordinary-looking man—the middle-aged man who often takes the same elevator to and from get off work with him and occasionally nods to him.

Did he also go home early like me? Unfortunately, he couldn't escape this calamity.

"They... were perfectly fine just a day ago..." Xia Zhaozhao's voice trembled with tears.

"How...how did it turn out like this?"

Xia Zhaozhao's mental pressure had clearly reached its limit, and coupled with the huge consumption of magic power, her movements became increasingly sluggish, and her reactions were also slowed down.

"Watch out!" Little Green keenly sensed the danger and shouted angrily to warn Xia Zhaozhao.

A limb, completely controlled by the monster's head, silently attacked Xia Zhaozhao's neck!

At the same time, that intense mental pollution struck again, causing her to involuntarily stumble a step toward the ball of flesh!

This step conveniently placed her in the attack path of the limbs controlled by the monster's head.

Xia Zhaozhao's pupils contracted sharply. In the face of life and death, she saw the appendages rushing towards her at high speed, but her body felt incredibly heavy. She couldn't even raise her knife to block.

"Am I going to become like this too?" A desperate thought flashed through her mind. "No... I don't want to become this kind of thing..."