Apocalypse, then transforming into a magical girl

As the light faded, the man who had been standing there had vanished.

Instead, a petite figure appeared.

She floated quietly, maintaining a perfect distance from the people in front of her.

Raindrops falling beside her would condense into ice crystals and silently fall to either side. The faint glow enveloping her body formed a despairing barrier.

This sudden change in form seemed to freeze time for half a second.

But wolves do not follow this rule.

Almost at the same moment the light appeared, she moved.

She merely waved her hand casually, as if shooing away flies near food, when the burly men pounced on Xiao Lü.

"Ugh—!"

"Bang!"

In an instant, the two burly men were struck in the chest by something at the same time, letting out a short wail before flying backward.

The two men slammed heavily against the wall of the crematorium in the distance, collapsing to the ground like two bags of discarded garbage, unable to get up again.

When forensic doctor Lao Zhang saw all this, the ferocity on his face froze instantly, then shattered, turning into a twisted expression that was a mixture of absurdity and fear.

The mask on his face finally couldn't stay on any longer.

He opened his mouth wide, about to scream, but found a chill spreading from his hands and feet throughout his body.

He looked down in horror and saw countless ice crystals growing wildly from the air, climbing up his limbs and locking him in place.

Then, an irresistible force slowly lifted him off the ground, suspending him in mid-air.

Like a monkfish that has been cut up.

Impossible... This is absolutely impossible!

The absurd feeling of his worldview being completely overturned permeated his mind, even temporarily overshadowing his fear of death.

The existence of magical girls was already troubling him, but... a man becoming a magical girl? What kind of third-rate light novel setting is this?

His desperate gamble, in his mind, should have been foolproof.

This man named Zhao Jia, although somewhat clever, was ultimately just an ordinary person.

Once we lure him here and draw his attention, we can have two burly men ambush him from behind...

Once the knife is pressed against his neck, the girl, whose strength is as great as a ghost, yet whose mind is as simple as a blank sheet of paper, will be completely at his mercy.

A perfect script, a perfect stage.

However, he was wrong.

That's completely wrong.

He stared intently at the green figure floating in the air before him, completely unsure how to react.

He finally realized that he had completely underestimated these two people.

Even if Zhao Jia didn't possess such an incredible transformation ability, and even if the wolf's reaction was half a second slower, his plan would probably still be a joke.

"snort."

Once it was certain that all direct threats had been eliminated, the wolf looked away as if looking at it for even a second would dirty its eyes.

The wolf's figure flashed and silently appeared beside Little Green, standing firmly shoulder to shoulder with her.

The silence lasted only a moment before being shattered by the clamor erupting from the survivors.

Their eyes were filled with confusion, fear, and disorientation.

Some people who were nearby even had their legs go weak and almost collapsed in the mud. They pointed at Little Green and the wolf, their lips trembling, but they couldn't utter a single word.

Many people further away also took a few steps back.

However, there were also many people whose eyes still held a fanaticism.

The little boy from before was now peeking out from his mother's trembling arms, his eyes showing no fear, but rather as if he had seen a hero from a tokusatsu movie appear.

Thus, this place became like a stage for trial.

At the center are two quietly suspended figures, with sinners awaiting judgment in front of them, while on the periphery are all sorts of people.

"What... exactly are you?"

Old Zhang, who had been frozen in ice, finally regained a sliver of reason from his cognitive collapse. He stared intently at Xiao Lü, squeezing out a few hoarse words.

Xiao Lü simply looked at him indifferently and let out a disdainful sneer.

That's a really poor question.

"Is what you really care about 'who I am'?"

"What you care about most is that we seem to have inadvertently interrupted your childish ascension ceremony, right?"

She turned her head and looked at the wolf beside her.

"This guy was particularly interested in your abilities before, wasn't he? Did he ask you a lot of questions about magical girls?"

The wolf paused for a moment, then nodded seriously.

Little Green continued, "Did he ask you questions like, 'Won't you get tired if you use your power too much? How long can you maintain the transformation?'"

The wolf seemed to understand, and she nodded vigorously, adding:

"Yes! He even asked me if I slept well last night."

"That's right." Little Green nodded.

"He's not concerned about your sleep quality; he's trying to make sure you don't fall into an uncontrollable deep sleep like most people do at night."

"He's looking for your weakness, looking for an opportunity to kill you. Because you... are in his way of his grand plan."

She turned back and looked at Old Zhang again.

"You killed that cripple, that executive, that glutton. You even tried to kill the wolf, and tried to frame me. All of this, I suppose, is because you think we disrupted your plans, right?"

Faced with Xiao Lü's accusations, a hint of despair flashed in Lao Zhang's eyes, but he still did not give up his last struggle.

He forced himself to steady himself, his eyes turning crazed and ruthless, and roared at the survivors around him:

"Don't listen to her! It's all speculation! She has no evidence whatsoever!"

"Are you really going to believe a monster of unknown origin, and not me, who has always stood by you through thick and thin? How many wounded people have I saved?"

He tried to create chaos with a final act of incitement, seeking one last chance.

These words did indeed cause a small ripple among the survivors.

After all, although Lao Zhang was in a sorry state, both sides had only made empty promises so far.

Evidence. It seems that both sides are missing this most convincing element.

Seeing his last struggle, Xiao Lü didn't even bother to refute him with words.

She was simply watching Old Zhang quietly, with the look of someone watching a clown performance.

Only after Old Zhang's hysterical roar gradually weakened did she slowly speak:

"The evidence you want is right here."

Amidst Old Zhang's hoarse, panting breaths, she slowly waved her hand.

A block of ice appeared before everyone's eyes.

Inside the ice block, there was a translucent, already dead, ugly worm.

Freezing perfectly preserved its bizarre form from when it was alive, rather than turning it into an indistinguishable pool of black slime after it lost its vitality.

The moment the ice block appeared, Old Zhang's frantic roar came to an abrupt halt.

His pupils suddenly contracted, as if he were seeing the most impossible thing in the world.

For the first time, a pure, undisguised fear appeared on his face.

Parasites that should live inside living organisms or die quickly after leaving their hosts are now being displayed perfectly intact.