Magical girl? There's no going back!

"Is this necessary? You are responsible for finding him, and I am responsible for killing him. It's that simple. I'm not as gentle as Xiaorou. If I catch him, I will burn him to ashes in ten seconds." Wu Yan said confidently.

"My perception barrier can't cover the entire city. If he is determined to hide, finding him will be like looking for a needle in a haystack." Qi Mo shook her head.

"As long as it's a monster, it will definitely have the desire to kill. Will it act again? Then we can just catch it and kill it."

"I'm afraid not. According to Xiaorou's description, this is a highly intelligent monster. He stayed in the same room with the hostage for several hours, but did not hurt her at all. So I think he probably has a way to control his killing urge." Qimo stared at the information recorded in the notebook and continued:

"This means that he can remain hidden in the city until the day he needs to take action."

"It's not the thieves who steal, but the thieves who think about it." At this point, even Wu Yan understood how troublesome the matter was. She crushed the Coke can in her hand and threw it into the trash can. "You know I'm not good at complicated things, so just tell me your plan. As long as I can avenge Xiao Rou, I'll do anything."

"My idea is to set up a large-scale barrier in the city. The perception range of this barrier is very wide, but the accuracy is also very low. I plan to use this method to check one area after another until I find out the approximate range of the enemy's activities. Then I will gradually reduce the size of the barrier and improve its accuracy. This process may take about a month. I hope everyone will not act on their own during this period to avoid alerting the enemy." Qi Mo said, looking at Wu Yan.

"Why are you looking at me? I will be obedient." Wu Yan said reluctantly.

"In addition, when we successfully grasp the location of the monster, my idea is to deal with it in a 2+1 manner, that is, among the three people, only two appear in front of the monster, leaving one person hiding in the dark to prevent the monster from playing some tricks. At the same time, try to evacuate the crowd before taking action to prevent the monster from taking hostages again. As long as we can do this, I believe that the monster's frontal combat power is far inferior to ours." Qi Mo said, drawing a simple schematic diagram on paper.

"That's basically it. Do you have anything to add?" Qimo asked.

"I have no objection, but if possible, please let me kill the monster myself." Xu Rou picked up the fruit tea and took a sip. Qi Mo's plan gave her hope of revenge. At this moment, she had already determined in her heart: only revenge can wash away the humiliation she suffered.

"Okay, under the premise of not affecting the result, I will try my best to arrange for you to deal the final blow to the monster. Well, let's stop here for today. I have to prepare the barrier recently, so I should be very busy - Wu Yan, please accompany Xiao Rou more during this time." Qi Mo stood up and said.

"Don't worry, leave Xiaorou to me. I like cool pretty girls the most!" Wu Yan said with a smile as he hugged Xu Rou in his arms. Qi Mo couldn't help but frowned when she saw them sticking close to each other, but she quickly relaxed.

"I have already paid the bill. The private room time ends at 2pm. If you want to..." Qi Mo was about to say something, but suddenly looked at the ceiling vigilantly.

"What's wrong? Are there mosquitoes?" Wu Yan asked.

"No, I always feel like I'm being watched... This is not the first time since yesterday." Qi Mo said, subconsciously pushing down the hem of her skirt.

"Didn't you set up a shielding barrier in the room? Even if you set off a string of firecrackers in the room, no one outside would be able to detect it, right?" Wu Yan said.

"You're right. I hope I'm just overthinking it." After saying that, Qi Mo turned around and left the private room.

Qi Mo's intuition was not wrong. Li Xuan had already watched the entire live broadcast of this combat meeting between the three magical girls while sitting in a private room in his own coffee shop.

"This guy is not just a pervert." Li Xuan took a sip of the coffee he brewed himself and praised from the bottom of his heart.

In his opinion, Qi Mo's plan was both clever and sound. If he was really watching the live broadcast, Li Xuan would have been tempted to give her some gifts.

However, what Qimo didn't know was that Li Xuan was not a real monster. His evil power was completely given by the system. As long as he didn't use it, even the most sophisticated barrier couldn't distinguish him from ordinary people. And because of the existence of the hunting radar, the magical girls had no chance to hide.

Because of this crucial information gap, Qi Mo's plan is doomed to fail. What Li Xuan needs to do is to use this to collect the defeat CG.

Just as Li Xuan was lost in thought, there was a knock on the door of the private room, and the voice of the store manager came from outside the door: "Boss... There's someone interviewing for a summer job, would you like to take a look?"

"Didn't I tell you not to disturb me? You can handle this kind of trivial matter on your own."

Being interrupted while thinking made Li Xuan sound very unhappy.

"She's a very beautiful female college student!" the store manager added.

"Come in now!"

Chapter 6: The New Maid in the Cafe

After the door opened, a girl stood in front of Li Xuan. She had high eyebrows and smiling eyes. Her long hair was tied into a bun. Except for the bangs and the sideburns on both sides, the rest of the hair was carefully fixed with hairpins.

Perhaps because she was afraid of the scorching sun, she wore a thin sun-protective jacket with an off-white shirt underneath. Judging from the smooth texture, it was probably made of silk. Between the second and third buttons of the shirt, there were two tall peaks. The amazing size that was usually only seen in anime made people worry whether the buttons of the shirt were strong enough.

The hem of her shirt was neatly tucked into her high-waisted skirt, revealing a pair of plump thighs wrapped in black stockings, the thickness of which was estimated to be between 15D and 20D. She was obviously only a few years older than Xu Rou and the others, but her outfit and temperament made her look dignified and intellectual. It was a pity that her calves were blocked by the table, so we couldn't see what kind of shoes she was wearing.

"Mr. Li, can we start?" the girl reminded with a smile.

"Please sit down." Li Xuan smiled and pointed to the chair in front of him and said, "Please briefly introduce yourself first."

The girl sat down, crossed her fingers, looked at Li Xuan and said, "My name is Li Sijie, I am a sophomore studying photography at Qinghe Art College. I like to watch anime and read novels. I don't know much about coffee, but I know the basic types. Summer vacation is coming soon, I hope to apply for a maid job in the store and earn some pocket money."

“Oh, it would be great if such a beautiful person was also a magical girl. I want to see the CG of the defeat of this intellectual big sister.” Li Xuan said regretfully.

"What did you just say?"

"Ah, nothing. I mean I also like watching anime, especially those about magical girls. Let's not talk about this for now: has the manager told you about the salary level in our store?" Li Xuan realized that he had accidentally revealed his thoughts, so he quickly changed the subject.

"The manager has already explained the basic salary and job content. It seems to be a little lower than that of ordinary maid cafes."

"That's right. Although the service staff in our store will dress up as maids, our main selling point is coffee. We will never sell vegetarian dishes at the same price as meat. The store will not require maids to serve customers as their masters. They just need to use a normal attitude. So even though your image and temperament are excellent, we can't offer you a higher salary." Li Xuan said frankly.

"To be honest, I came to apply for a job here because I liked the uniforms there, and secondly, I heard that this store wouldn't make excessive demands on its maids. It's not easy for someone like me to learn to act like a little girl and act coquettishly in front of customers," Li Sijie said with a smile.

"What? Do you like the uniforms in the store?" Li Xuan asked excitedly.

"Yes, I think the uniforms in the store are very tasteful. Although they look tightly wrapped, they have hollowed-out designs in some delicate parts. They look more sexy than those uniforms with very little fabric. The color matching and style are also very layered, and it can be seen that the designer is very attentive. It's a pity that I have been searching for the same clothes on the Internet for a long time, but I couldn't find them." Li Sijie nodded.

"Of course I can't find it, I designed it myself!" If it weren't for the status, Li Xuan would have rushed over to hug her. He spent a lot of effort on this uniform, and although most people think it looks good, they often don't praise it to the point. But Li Sijie's words perfectly expressed Li Xuan's design concept, making him feel like he had met a bosom friend.

"So you are the designer? I'm so lucky." Hearing this, Li Sijie's eyes lit up.

"How about this! Since you like the uniforms in the store, I promise to give you one as long as you work there for more than a month! Of course, this is just my personal gift and you can't tell anyone else in the store." Li Xuan instructed.

"No problem, I will work here throughout the summer. After all, I really need the money." Li Sijie nodded.

"Go find the store manager to get a uniform and let her take you to familiarize you with the store environment. You can come to work during the summer vacation." Li Xuan originally wanted to chat with her more about personal hobbies, but thinking that it was their first meeting after all and he didn't know her personality, he finally held back.

After Li Sijie left, Li Xuan felt in a good mood and began to continue planning his cause of collecting magical girls.

Although Li Xuan's evil energy level has been raised to D+, he still has little confidence in a head-on confrontation. Therefore, he naturally focused his attention on the newly acquired skill "Corrupted Blood".

[Corrupted Blood: The holder can consume evil energy to generate Corrupted Blood, which can be used to create monsters; creatures that directly drink Corrupted Blood have a chance to transform into monsters, and monsters created or transformed in this way will regard the skill holder as the master. (The difficulty of transformation depends on the system level and the willpower of the transformed person)]

Having learned from the last lesson, Li Xuan went to the wilderness alone to conduct the test this time.

The moment the skill was activated, a bright red blood ball slowly condensed in front of him. Li Xuan felt that most of the evil energy in his body was drained away at once, and he almost couldn't even summon his tentacles.

It turns out that this skill consumes so much energy! Isn't it a useless skill?

Li Xuan was murmured in his heart: The blood ball in front of him is only the size of a fist, can it really create a powerful monster?

[Corrupted Blood is activated successfully]

[Current remaining volume 200 ml]

[Number of monsters created: 0/10]

[No template is currently available, please create a new template]

Following the system's prompt, a character creation interface similar to that in a game appeared in front of Li Xuan, where he could freely adjust various data such as species, body shape, additional abilities, and even give his character a name.

Of course, the more powerful the monster's attributes are, the more Corrupted Blood it will consume.

"The degree of freedom is quite high. Let's create a simple one first." Li Xuan filled in some data casually and clicked confirm.

[Monster name: Slime]

[Remaining consumption: 10 ml]

[Additional attribute: tenacity]

A blue slime more than half a person's height soon appeared in front of Li Xuan, jumping around on the ground like a large bouncy ball.

"Jumping, rolling, spinning, singing, playing basketball, leaning against the iron mountain..."

Li Xuan kept giving orders to the slime in his mind, and the latter executed the orders without hesitation. However, if it received some orders that were impossible to do or were relatively complicated, its pig brain would be overloaded and it would just stand there stupidly.

"Attack me with all your strength now." After feeling that the test was almost over, Li Xuan gave the final order.

The slime pounced on Li Xuan without hesitation. Li Xuan stretched out his tentacles and blew it away. However, the slime just rolled on the ground a few times and was not seriously hurt.

"Pretty tough?" This time, Li Xuan attached evil energy to the tentacles and broke the slime into half at once. However, the remaining half still followed Li Xuan's orders, crawled up along the tentacles, and stretched out several pseudopodia to grab Li Xuan.

Li Xuan was startled and quickly raised his hand to shoot a demon energy cannon to smash the slime into pieces.

"Only 10 ml has such strength!" Li Xuan smiled with satisfaction: This slime has a very strong vitality, at least it is qualified as cannon fodder. As for the actual combat effect, we will have to wait until tomorrow to find the cute magic girls to test it.

Chapter 7 Playing with Fire

In the classroom of Qinghe High School, Xu Rou was sitting in the back row by the window, looking unhappy. Although it was already lunch time, she had no appetite or sleep, and just stared blankly out the window. Obviously, the psychological trauma caused by the tentacles was not so easy to heal.

Wu Yan rushed into the classroom carrying a cute lunch box, and sat down in front of Xu Rou on a chair.

"Xiao Rou, don't be so sad, come and have dinner with me, I made this myself~"

"Eh? Did Wu Yan make this herself? But I'm not very hungry..."

"Don't be so quick to say that, look what I did!" Wu Yan said, lifting the lid of the box with an exaggerated movement, revealing the food inside.

"Clang! Your favorite fried shrimp with scrambled eggs!"

Xu Rou was a little surprised and asked, "How do you know I like to eat this?"

"I accidentally heard Qimo say that because you are always frowning, I learned this dish from my mother, just to serve it to you to cheer you up at times like this. Since I'm trying so hard, can you smile a little?" Wu Yan made a face while using his two index fingers to pull up the corners of Xu Rou's mouth, forcing her to smile.

"Pfft~" Xu Rou was really amused by her funny expression. When she first met Wu Yan, Xu Rou thought she was always noisy, but after getting along with her for a long time, she felt that once she was not around, the surroundings seemed too quiet.

"Finally I made you laugh. Your daily task is completed! Let's eat, ah—" Wu Yan said, picking up a piece of shrimp and feeding it into Xu Rou's mouth.

All of this was silently watched by Qimo who was sitting in the corner of the classroom.

"Damn it, it was obviously me who started it, why did it turn out like this? I also wanted to use my own chopsticks to feed Xiaorou and then kiss her indirectly!"

Qimo buried her face in the books to hide her wet eyes. But she couldn't help but have a physiological reaction when she thought of the indirect kiss, and her legs kept rubbing under the desk.

Qi Mo and Xu Rou are childhood sweethearts. They have been in the same school from elementary school to high school, but Wu Yan didn't know them until high school. From then on, they formed a close trio of sisters in the eyes of outsiders.

However, no one noticed that Qimo's feelings for Xu Rou had quietly surpassed the boundaries of friendship. Because of this, every intimate interaction between Wu Yan and Xu Rou, although it was just an unintentional act due to their personalities, from Qimo's perspective, it felt like being bullied.

"Just wait and see! One day, I will make Xiaorou mine."

At this moment, panicked screams of students suddenly came from the playground.

Qi Mo hurriedly opened the window and saw a humanoid monster waving its tentacles towards the teaching building. Judging from the monster's breath, it was the monster that kidnapped Xu Rou that day!

"Wu Yan, calm down..." Qi Mo was about to remind her, but saw Wu Yan had already jumped down from the building in an impatient manner.

"Transform!" Wu Yan shouted in mid-air and took out a hexagram-shaped badge. A blazing flame suddenly ignited in the badge, enveloping Wu Yan's entire body. When Wu Yan landed, the flames on her body gradually turned into a golden red dress, and the badge in her hand turned into two ribbons on her wrists.

"Great! I was worried that I couldn't find you, but you came to my door yourself!" Wu Yan was furious when she saw Li Xuan. She waved the ribbon on her wrist and a burst of flame shot out.

"Hehe, I hope you can be so energetic when you are teased later." Li Xuan dodged the explosion, but dozens of explosions followed. Li Xuan saw that there was no escape, so he had to use his tentacles to block them. More than a dozen tentacles were broken immediately, and his body was also blown away.

"You didn't expect that! This is my escape route!" Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Xuan took advantage of the momentum of being blown away and turned around and ran. Wu Yan was stunned for a moment, then chased after him in anger.

"Xiao Yan! Don't chase him! Be careful of a trap!" Qi Mo stood in the classroom and shouted, but it was too late. She had no choice but to transform with Xu Rou and jump down to support Wu Yan. However, as soon as they landed, more than a dozen half-human-high slimes surrounded them.

"Why are there so many monsters in the school?" Xu Rou was surprised and quickly swung the Moon Blade Axe to chop at the slimes, but these slimes were very tenacious. Even if they were cut in half, they would split into two individuals and continue to attack. Qi Mo's magic was not good at destruction, and the two were dragged there for a while.

While the two were struggling to fight the slime, Wu Yan was getting farther and farther away, gradually leaving the city and coming to the suburbs.

"Stop! You want to leave after offending me? It's not that easy!" Wu Yan chased after him desperately with a breath of anger in his chest.

Finally, Li Xuan stopped in front of an abandoned factory building.

"Hmph, you finally can't run anymore? Now kneel down and let me kick you, and maybe I can even make you die more quickly." Wu Yan confidently put her hands on her waist, as if she had already won.

"Are you still so arrogant when you are about to die? Look around here, don't you think it's familiar?" Li Xuan asked with his arms open.

"Is this...the place where you kidnapped Xiaorou last time? So what? Would you be able to beat me if we were in another place?" Wu Yan said disdainfully.

"You are really stupid. Just as I guessed, as soon as I appear, you will be the first one to catch up with me." Li Xuan smiled and clapped his hands lightly. Suddenly, several light golden tentacles sprang out from the ground and tied up Wu Yan's limbs at once. The tentacles were deeply engraved into the flesh, but Wu Yan did not show the slightest panic expression.

"Haha, do you really think I'm stupid? I was lured to this place by you, and I can tell it's a trap with my toes. I just want to take advantage of you and take this opportunity to kill you!" Wu Yan sneered.

"You are so stupid that you can still say such things even when you are tied up by tentacles." Li Xuan shook his head.

"If it were Qi Mo or Xu Rou, they might be helpless in this situation, right? But I'm different! This kind of trap is meaningless to me! Just a few tentacles, watch me burn them all in one go!" Wu Yan sneered disdainfully, and with a flick of her wrists, a ball of fire immediately condensed on the ruby ​​necklace on her chest.

"I advise you not to..."

"Judge!" Wu Yan roared, and a column of fire shot up with her as the center. The high-temperature flame distorted the air around her.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!!"

The next second, Wu Yan's heart-wrenching cry was heard in the flames.

When the fire column subsided, the tentacles on Wu Yan's body were not burned, but turned into a bright red color. If it weren't for the protection of magic, Wu Yan's skin would have been scorched by now, but even so, the intense heat made her feel pain deep into her bones.

[Monster name: Fire-resistant tentacles]

[Remaining consumption: 15 ml]

[Additional properties: hardening, fire resistance]

Li Xuan looked at the template of his monster with satisfaction, and slowly walked towards Wu Yan: "The skin of these tentacles contains metal, and they have extremely high resistance to fire elements. The result of burning them with fire is to turn them into scorching irons."