Magical Girl Fan Bingbing

The atmosphere was tense.

Leng Qiaoqiao hesitated for a moment.

She is capable of protecting herself. Having used magic essence for a long time, Leng Qiaoqiao possesses a small amount of magic power within her, which makes her fearless of bullets. However, she is not confident that she can subdue three people while protecting Jiang Ran.

Jiang Ran, standing behind her, also had a headache.

He wasn't afraid of Ah-Qiang, nor was he afraid of the police, but he didn't want to cause trouble.

Moreover, he didn't expect that his first foray into business would lead him to an informant from the Public Security Bureau. It seems that the crackdown pressure on Chu Ying's side has indeed reached this level. Most of the other middlemen still active in Tianhai City are probably bait planted by the Public Security Bureau.

The entire fishpond was full of hooks, except for him and Leng Qiaoqiao, who were just two silly fish.

What's more troublesome is that A-Qiang said he has already notified the police department, and the magical girl could arrive at any time. Jiang Ran doesn't want to be exposed to the authorities for the time being, regardless of her identity.

At this moment, Leng Qiaoqiao took a half step back without making a sound, her shoulder pressed against Jiang Ran's arm, her lips barely moved, and her voice was so low that only the two of them could hear it.

"Teacher Jiang, when things get chaotic, hide behind me, then go around to the car and start the RV."

Seeing that Leng Qiaoqiao was still thinking about protecting her teacher, who was powerless to fight, even in this critical moment, Jiang Ran was honestly a little touched.

"There's no need for that."

Jiang Ran's voice was soft and his tone was calm; he had already thought of a backup plan.

Leng Qiaoqiao was stunned, and then she saw Jiang Ran take something out of his hoodie pocket, and what he held in his hand made Leng Qiaoqiao's pupils shrink sharply.

Having said that, Jiang Ran closed his five fingers and instantly refined them!

Then, an immense and utterly unbelievable magical power erupted from Jiang Ran's body, like a suddenly surging giant wave, so oppressive that it was hard to breathe.

A-Qiang's fierce expression froze. His body instinctively wanted to back away, but his legs wouldn't obey him.

The two burly men were in no better shape; their fingers gripping the guns were trembling, and the bulging veins on the backs of their hands, which had just absorbed magic essence, looked like fireflies against the bright moon in the face of that magic power.

Leng Qiaoqiao was the closest, and her breath caught in her throat for a moment.

Countless thoughts flashed through her mind in that instant, but before these thoughts could take shape, Jiang Ran had already made her move.

He waved his hand.

That immense, unreasonable torrent of magical power, with its overwhelming force, rushed straight towards Ah Qiang and the other two.

Ah Qiang only had time to let out half a scream before he was hit head-on by an invisible truck. The soil beneath his feet exploded, and his body flew backward, his back slamming heavily against a tree trunk more than ten meters away.

The tree trunk trembled violently, and branches and leaves fell to the ground with a rustling sound.

The two burly men fared even worse. One was shot and fell headfirst into the bushes, while the other crashed into a tree branch as thick as a bowl, breaking off and rolling to the ground with the broken branch. His gun was nowhere to be found.

All three of them lost consciousness on the spot.

After sweeping over A-Qiang and the other two, the torrent of magic "out of control" continued to spread outwards, accidentally hitting Leng Qiaoqiao.

Leng Qiaoqiao instinctively tried to resist, but she underestimated the terror of this magic. Her mind went blank for a moment, and she fell backward.

Jiang Ran reached out and caught the back of her head, preventing her from falling directly to the ground.

After confirming that Leng Qiaoqiao had completely lost consciousness, Jiang Ran gently placed her on the ground and straightened up.

A flash of white light.

Her long silver hair cascaded down, her ruby-like pupils shimmered slightly in the sunlight, and her slender figure, encased in a black bodysuit, reappeared.

Jiang Ran looked down at the four people lying haphazardly on the ground and couldn't help but sigh.

"It's really hard for ordinary people to make any money."

After a moment of reflection, Jiang Ran bent down, picked up the unconscious Leng Qiaoqiao, and placed her inside the RV.

After doing all this, Jiang Ran stepped out of the RV, raised her right hand, spread her fingers slightly, and silently recited in her heart.

"The wind rises."

The next second, a strong gust of wind suddenly rose from the ground, like a giant hand supporting the chassis of the RV from below.

The car body swayed slightly at first, and then slowly lifted off the ground.

Then, propelled by the wind, the RV swept across the forest, flying into the distance in an incredible manner, and finally disappeared from sight.

The magical girl Souseiseki's unique magic—controlling nature.

Wind, rain, thunder, lightning, earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions—at his peak, Jiang Ran could easily unleash massive natural disasters that could reshape the landscape, and erasing a city from the map was as simple as raising his hand.

It was precisely because of its enormous killing range and complete disregard for friend and foe that the Demon Alliance used the Azure Star Stone as its ultimate weapon, and it could not be used lightly until the moment when human civilization was truly about to perish.

After seeing the RV off, Jiang Ran returned to the spot where A-Qiang had fallen, squatted down, and used her slender fingers to pull off the thick gold necklace from A-Qiang's neck.

The chain felt heavy in his hand. Jiang Ran held it up to his eyes, his ruby-like pupils narrowing slightly. Magic seeped into the metal, and he quickly locked onto the deeply hidden recording magic.

With a slight twitch of her fingertips, a wisp of extremely fine magic followed the metal texture and drilled in, piercing the core of the recorded magic with the precision of a needle, erasing all the image information stored inside.

But just as he was about to stop, Jiang Ran suddenly paused.

"what?"

Her gaze fell on the underlying structure that recorded the magic, and her brows furrowed slightly.

"This technique... seems familiar."

There are countless ways to record magic, and different magical girls have different habits and methods, just like the handwriting of a calligrapher, each with their own unique style.

The way the magic recorded in this gold necklace was woven at its core seemed familiar to Jiang Ran, as if it were the work of an acquaintance from years ago.

At that moment, a bold idea popped into Jiang Ran's mind.

"Since you're trying to catch my fish, then I won't be polite."

Jiang Ran's lips curled slightly as her fingertips once again probed deep into the magical structure of the gold necklace.

This time, she cleverly embedded a backdoor into the recording magic.

This backdoor will not affect the recording function of magic itself; Ah Qiang will still record whatever he needs to record, and the police station will still receive whatever it needs to receive.

The only difference is that from now on, all the images and sounds recorded by this gold necklace will be simultaneously copied to Jiang Ran while being transmitted to the Public Security Bureau.

In other words, Ah Qiang, the informant for the Public Security Bureau, became a double-agent without his knowledge.

Jiang Ran put the gold necklace back around A-Qiang's neck and wanted to pat his bald head, but she held back in the end.

"Thanks a lot."

Then, she picked up A-Qiang's phone that had fallen to the ground, and quickly swiped her finger across the screen, going through the contacts, chat history, and call logs. With her memory, a quick glance was enough.

Among the contacts were many names from the underworld, as well as several numbers with distinctly different note formats, which were likely contacts from the Public Security Bureau.

Today's deal fell apart. We can't use the five million in cash that A-Qiang brought, but this information is very valuable.

With these channels and intelligence sources, we won't be so passive next time we ship.

Jiang Ran put the phone back next to A-Qiang and stood up.

She tilted her head slightly, her ruby-like eyes gazing into the distance.

She could sense several magical energy fluctuations rapidly approaching, and there was more than one person coming. She was very familiar with one of the fluctuations.

Chu Ying.

Jiang Ran's lips twitched slightly; this child's enthusiasm for work was indeed commendable.

A gentle breeze rose from beneath her feet, like a pair of invisible hands gently supporting Jiang Ran's body.

Her long silver hair fluttered in the air as she hovered in mid-air, looking down at the grove of trees one last time.

Then he reached out, palm down, and gently wiped.

On the ground, the deep tire tracks left by the RV began to slowly close, the turned-up soil returned to its original position, the weeds straightened up again, and the fallen leaves drifted back to their original place.

A few seconds later, the clearing in the woods returned to its original state, with no trace of anyone else having been there except for the three people lying on the ground.

Sensing that the magical energy fluctuations were already close at hand, Jiang Ran didn't linger. She transformed into a gentle breeze and quickly moved away in the direction the RV had gone.

……

A moment later, several figures flew down from the sky, the leader of whom was Chu Ying.

The other magical girls following behind her were all staff members of the Public Security Bureau.

Where are they?

Chu Ying thought she could boost her sales performance again today. A-Qiang's information was very detailed, mentioning things like crystal-level magic elements with unprecedented purity and the fugitive Avenger. It sounded like a major case that could be solved in one fell swoop.

When they arrived at the location, the clearing in the woods was completely empty, with only three precious objects lying haphazardly on the ground.

Chu Ying's face immediately fell.

Without her saying a word, a magical girl with pigtails beside her understood and raised her small hand, gesturing towards the direction of the North Second River not far away.

wow-

A thick waterspout rose from the river, drawing an arc in the air before landing precisely on A-Qiang and his two companions, drenching them from head to toe in the icy water.

Ah Qiang jolted awake, springing to his feet with mud and water all over his face. "Cough cough cough—who...who the hell..."

He instinctively reached for his lower back, then met Chu Ying's eyes.

"Still sleeping here? Where are you?!"

A-Qiang was instantly jolted awake. He scrambled to his feet, looked around, and discovered that the large white RV and the two men in black were gone.

"I...I don't know!" Ah Qiang's voice was filled with confusion and grievance. "They were just here a moment ago, two people, a campervan, and that shipment of goods—"

Ah Qiang opened and closed his mouth repeatedly, and finally began to cry out that he was innocent.

"Captain Fluorite, I assure you, everything I just said is absolutely true!" Ah-Qiang was so anxious that sweat beaded on his bald head as he gesticulated wildly as he described everything that had happened.

Magical girls don't reveal their real IDs to outsiders; Fluorite is Chu Ying's code name.

He recounted the entire transaction process in a rambling manner, from Leng Qiaoqiao taking out the sample, to his inspection of the goods, and then to the silent man in black suddenly pointing out that he was an informant.

He got so excited that he added, "And that batch of goods, the purity is absolutely unprecedented! I've been in this business for so many years, and I've never seen such pure crystal-grade magic essence. I guarantee you, even Captain Fluorite, haven't seen it!"

Chu Ying's brows furrowed.

She didn't rush to express her opinion, but instead turned to the twin-tailed magical girl beside her: "Little Deer, adjust the image in his necklace."

The magical girl codenamed Little Deer nodded, walked up to A-Qiang, injected magic power, and activated the internal function of recording and replaying magic.

A few seconds later, the fawn raised its head, its expression somewhat strange.

"Captain, there's nothing inside."

"What?"

"The recording magic is working normally, but the image data in the storage area is all blank, as if it has been erased."

A-Qiang broke out in a sweat instantly.

How could there be nothing? He wore this chain the whole time, and the recording magic was activated before the transaction started, so it's impossible that nothing was recorded.

Did these three perfectly healthy people really hallucinate?

He turned his pleading gaze to the other two burly men, who had also been awakened by the water jets and were standing to the side in a disheveled and miserable state. When they saw Ah Qiang's eyes, the two nodded frantically.

Chu Ying ignored their explanations. She didn't quite believe A-Qiang's story; such a minor character would make up anything to atone for his crimes. However, out of professional ethics, she still conducted further investigations.

"Any other discoveries?" Chu Ying asked her companion who was surveying the surrounding environment.

A bespectacled, seemingly quiet and reserved magical girl was crouching in the center of an open space, one hand on the ground, her eyes closed as she sensed something.

A moment later, she opened her eyes, her expression becoming serious.

"Captain, there are indeed traces of powerful magic remaining here."

Chu Ying walked over, squatted down, and reached out to sense it. Her pupils then contracted slightly.

A faint trace of magic lingered in the air, so pure it was almost entirely free of impurities, like unpolluted spring water from a deep mountain, clear and bright.

This doesn't seem like a violent magical reaction from magic essence; it's more like the residue left behind after a highly powerful magical girl briefly released her magic.

Chu Ying stood up. This girl, who always appeared cute and playful in front of Jiang Ran, showed a completely different side at work. Her gaze was sharp as she swept over everyone present.

"Little Deer, once you get back, retrieve all the surveillance footage within a three-kilometer radius of this area."

"Amber, analyze the characteristics of these magical traces and compare them with known magical girls in the database."

"Everyone else, expand the search area and don't overlook any suspicious traces."

After assigning the tasks, Chu Ying took one last look at the quiet grove of trees, where nothing seemed to have happened.

While Ah Qiang's words cannot be entirely trusted, the traces of magic on the ground do not lie. It is true that a very powerful person has been here. Moreover, this person not only has the ability to produce high-purity magic essence, but also possesses the insight to see through the disguise of the police informant and the ability to erase encrypted records.

Who is this ruthless person who sneaked into her territory to commit a crime?

Thinking of this, Chu Ying had a vague sense of unease.

"We must find that person immediately!"

"Tianhai City won't allow such an arrogant person to exist!"