Magical girls also have intensity anxiety

Chapter 82 Wreckage

After breaking through the corridor, Wu An encountered no further substantial obstacles, only protective doors and walls that had been smashed through with a single punch.

We didn't see any members of the Phantom Society along the way; they seemed to have hidden themselves well in advance.

At this moment, she was standing in front of a closed alloy door, with a sign on it that read "Experimental Area".

Through the crack in the door, a faint smell of blood could be detected, which stood out starkly against the otherwise odorless air.

A faint aura of filthy magic lingered behind the door.

Next to the alloy door was a retinal recognition device, but there was no one inside to help her open the door.

Knocking on the alloy door, the echo was also very solid, its thickness quite unusual.

She raised her fist and delivered a powerful punch.

boom!!

A piercing alarm sounded, and the lights in the corridor went out, replaced by red warning lights.

The alloy door is very shockproof; when magic hits it, you can feel a distinct resistance.

On the other side of the iron gate, a barrier was likely set up to help counteract the damage from the magic.

Wu An stopped using magic and instead punched the center of the alloy door repeatedly. The door crack first curled up, then rolled outwards, and finally flipped open.

She stopped, and liquid magic flowed from her fingertips, filling the small crater in the alloy door. Then she forcefully pressed the curled metal edge back, covering the alloy door with magic to reinforce it with all her might.

Wu An stepped back a few steps, pointing to the center of the alloy door, where the sealed liquid magic expanded.

Clang!

The alloy door was twisted open by stress in the center, revealing cracks that even spread to the surrounding walls.

As Wu Pei approached, he delivered another powerful punch, causing the already strained metal door to buckle inward, revealing a gap.

Upon entering, one finds rooms enclosed by glass domes, protected by barriers that make them difficult to open from the inside.

Inside the glass dome... it's more like a magical girl than a magical girl, though it's a close call.

There are quite a few of them; most of the magical girls in Qishan City are probably here.

In the hazy red light, Wu Pei could barely make out their faces.

She raised her phone to take a picture, but all she captured was a thick red fog.

Even with the phone Xiao Hei gave me, it still didn't work.

"Should we ask Li Huanhuan to pass on the message to Jin Yu...?"

A shadow fell over Wu An's face. When she saw the scene before her, she knew that things were beyond her control.

gurgle gurgle—

Through the glass, a sticky, writhing sound came from the direction of the floor.

A dark shadow moved toward the glass through the hazy pink mist.

Wu An crouched down, and the shadowy figure behind the glass gradually became clearer.

Accompanied by a strong smell of blood, a human-shaped face vaguely emerged from the mist. It looked extremely weak, with nothing reflected in its turbid purple eyes and its dark gray face covered with cracks.

"Uh...uh..."

As it opened its mouth, an extremely faint, hoarse sound escaped from its throat, making it difficult to understand what it was saying.

However, the gradually brightening eyes of the other person, and the drool that kept seeping from the corner of their mouth, clearly showed her desire.

It grinned, gave a sinister laugh, and like a ferocious beast gathering its power, suddenly lunged forward.

Bang!

The glass dome engraved with a barrier blocked it, but it pounced on it like a madman. In just a few blows, its head shattered, and crimson blood smeared the glass without stopping. As it pounded, the flesh on its head was visibly regenerating.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

In an instant, the glass domes throughout the experimental area resounded with crashing sounds and hoarse roars, all directed toward Wu An.

Suppressing the surging desire in his heart, Wu An stood up.

After walking a few steps, I saw an employee handbook hanging on the wall. The font was specially treated so that the words could be clearly seen even in this dimly lit environment.

1. No one may touch the subjects in the experimental area without the president's permission.

2. Before proceeding with the transformation process, ensure the magical girl has reached her flowering stage; otherwise, the transformation will likely fail, leaving her as a wreck.

3. Transformation of magical girls who have reached the fourth rank is prohibited.

4. If a half-witch is successfully transformed, the corresponding experimental area must be isolated immediately.

Wu An read through the list one by one, and at the end, he also listed the characteristics of witches at each stage.

What fails to transform is the irrational remains.

When it reaches the flowering period, it can transform into a fourth-order half-witch. The half-witch has very long claws and cracks around the edges of its face.

If it is a fourth-order magical girl, after a successful transformation, she will become a fifth-order witch, with similar characteristics to a half-witch, except that the cracks on her face will widen.

Further transformations were not listed, since Qishan City is just a small place and there are no fifth-tier magical girls.

The specific conversion principle was not explained clearly.

Because the flowering period is a latent stage, it is impossible to tell from the surface whether a magical girl is in the "flowering period".

Sometimes, even magical girls might not be sure if they're in their "blossoming" stage. The system uses a [magic power] stat distribution to determine a magical girl's rank.

Therefore, the remains lying on the ground were probably the third-tier magical girls who were mistaken for being in their flowering stage.

"Waaaaah...uh...waaaaah..."

Wu An's ears twitched. Amidst the annoying thud of banging against the wall, there was a low, mournful sob.

She lowered her footsteps, suppressed her magic, and crept toward the direction of the crying.

After passing through countless glass enclosures, Wu An finally saw a brightly lit experimental area.

Unlike other glass enclosures, this one did not emit the pink smoke.

All there was was a bed, spilled food, and a girl with long fingernails and a cracked face.

She covered her ears with her sharp claws, her whole body almost curled up in a ball, sobbing in suppressed sobs.

Many of the magical girls he had met a few times, Wu An could not remember their faces.

However, Wu An remembered the girl in front of him clearly, whom he had only met once.

Zhu Huan.

The human form is generally named Lin Yuhuan.

Boom—

Wu An tapped on the glass cover, but Zhu Huan seemed not to hear her and ignored her.

Boom—

I knocked again, but nothing happened.

She walked to the control panel, fiddled around for a bit, and found the switch for feeding rice.

After hesitating for a moment, she pressed the switch.

The glass cover had a small opening, but it was still completely isolated from the interior; the protection was very thorough.

Without compensation, a crystal nucleus is pinched out, placed into a small opening, and the device is operated to deliver it.

The glass dome was very effective at isolating magic, and her connection with the crystal core was almost severed.

Even though I was in Changming City before, almost a city away, I could still clearly sense the situation on the other side.

"What do you want to do?!"

Suddenly a sound came from above. Wu An looked towards the source of the sound and saw that the screen hanging on the wall had lit up at some point.

However, no images were shown; only the sounds of otters were displayed.

"Let her out, what's wrong?"

"I advise you not to do this. If she gets out, we'll all die, including you!"

"If she becomes a witch, wouldn't she be on your side?"

The question about no compensation was a bit pointed, and Minase didn't know how to answer it. She just warned, "Witches are very bloodthirsty, more so than you can imagine. Killing is as natural to them as breathing. This isn't a figure of speech, it's a fact. If they don't kill, they'll become so depressed that they'll commit suicide... I advise you not to touch her."

"So, the things you created are things you can't control at all?" Wu'an continued to ask.

""

She was met with silence.

"The message has been delivered; I advise you to take care of yourself."

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After saying that, the otter turned off its own sound.

"If you're not even confident in your abilities, why pretend to be an expert?"

Wu An muttered something, then placed his hand on the glass, activating the crystal nucleus.

"Hey! Are you crazy?!"

Ignoring the roar in its ears, threads seeped from the crystal core and slowly swam towards Zhu Huan. The speed was slow and even somewhat unstable, but it eventually managed to reach him.

"Stop! Or you'll really die!"

"Stop now! It's not too late!"

Wu An tilted her head, frowned, and asked, "Are you a magical girl, or am I? How could you possibly know more about magical girls than I do?"

Although her appearance had changed, Zhu Huan no longer possessed the aura that had angered Wu An, and was far removed from those remains.

"These are completely different things!"

The otter roared, but it couldn't stop the silk threads from drifting towards Zhu Huan, eventually landing on her hand.

Zhu Huan jolted awake, stood up blankly, looked around, and rubbed her eyes as if she hadn't woken up properly after seeing outside the glass.

The threads began to twist, forming what Wu Pei wanted to say: "Lin Yuhuan?"

Her expression froze; although she didn't give a verbal response, it was enough to confirm it.