MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 216 The Resurrected Shell
The morning sun struggled to pierce through the clouds, bringing a touch of warmth to the dark alleyway of Mitakihara City.

Sunlight shone on the boy in the middle of the alley. A long spear was stuck in his chest, and his body was bound with layers of yellow ribbons, like a strange mummy, still in a nailed position.

The faint rise and fall of his chest proved that he was still alive.

Generally speaking, whether pierced through the chest by a spear or bound by ribbons, a normal person would have died long ago.

However, magical girls' weapons have special properties. When they deliberately make contact with objects that are not imbued with magic, they can do so without experiencing any reaction force, which creates this strange phenomenon.

In the morning sunlight, an office worker in a suit and carrying a briefcase yawns as he walks through the alley.

When he saw the yellow "mummy" in the middle of the alley, pierced by a spear and lying diagonally, almost blocking the narrow road, he showed no surprise. He simply raised his foot and stepped over the mummy to leave.

Many people passed through the alley in the early morning, but whether they were early-rising office workers, students, or elderly people going out for a stroll, whether they passed through the alley or just passed the intersection, they all seemed to ignore this strange scene.

It was as if some invisible force distorted their perception, causing them to collectively ignore this obviously abnormal event.

As the sun rose high in the sky, the sweltering air dissipated the last vestiges of shade in the alley, and two beams of light, one red and one yellow, suddenly shone brightly.

After fighting all night, Mami Tomoe and Kyoko Sakura, two magical girls, appeared out of thin air.

They didn't even bother to adjust their posture and just collapsed to the ground.

The passion and excitement that should have been present in the face of fierce battle have vanished, replaced by extreme exhaustion that makes one wish to fall asleep immediately.

Fang Zheng, who had left the hull of the World Sea warship after discovering that the hull itself had vanished into thin air, looked at them in astonishment, then at the boy on the ground who was still tightly bound: "What exactly is going on here?"

"no……"

"Although the Graffiti Witch's familiar stomped and crushed the hull of my World Sea Battleship, I'm not surprised that you can do similar things, since you also have similar powers."

"But the problem is, why was the hull of the World Sea Warship destroyed, but this skin, which was unilaterally regarded as the 'human shell,' was left intact?"

In observer mode, the Founder probe easily penetrated the yellow ribbons, clearly seeing the boy's heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys inside, and even the pork chop rice he ate last night that hadn't been fully digested yet.

"What is this? It blew up my body and then brought my body's 'skin' back to life?"

“And another thing,” he said, looking at a small, hollowed-out metal sphere with spikes at both ends floating on the ground, “you destroyed my World Sea Battleship, how did you manage to make this thing?”

……

"Mami, Kyoko, congratulations!" A clear child's voice came from the side, and a small white animal walked away.

“Kyubi…” Mami Tomoe forced herself to reach out and pull the cute, fluffy white creature that looked like a cat and a dog closer, burying her face in its soft fur and rubbing against it like she was petting a cat.

"Chubi, here you go." She mumbled as she regained a little strength and placed the five Lament Seeds floating in her palm onto Chubi's back.

The red pattern on Cupid's back opened in response, swallowing the five Seeds of Sorrow, whose turbidity had reached the critical point, into the pitch-black void.

"Mami," Sakura Kyoko also propped herself up to sit up, casually tossing six Grief Seeds that had also reached their critical value toward Kyubey, and said weakly, "This time, we've really lost out..."

She reached out and picked up a Seed of Lamentation floating on the ground next to the mummy boy, and sighed: "I used up all the Seeds of Lamentation that I had accumulated over so long, but I only got one new one."

The witch we encountered this time was very strange.

Compared to the past, the scene inside this barrier appears refreshing and unique, and one could even say that the art style is completely different.

Although the witch herself is not particularly powerful, she has a large number of familiars, all of whom are humanoid and have ridiculously high combat skills.

They had no choice but to grit their teeth and expend a lot of magic power in a war of attrition, defeating them one by one in an extremely wasteful manner, like exchanging pieces.

The most fatal thing is that this time the witch's defense, or rather her healing ability, is simply too exaggerated.

Even after all the familiars were destroyed, the witch's true form, which resembled an eye-shaped orb of runes, seemed to have no ability to attack proactively; she simply stood there and let them attack her.

They fought all night long before finally managing to kill the boss, as if they were giving the boss a pedicure.

The problem is, we can't avoid fighting.

The barrier was extremely well sealed. When they realized something was wrong and tried to retreat, they found they couldn't leave at all. They had to defeat the witch, the core of the barrier, for it to dissipate naturally.

“Sakura-san,” Mami Tomoe sat up, took her companion’s hand, and said with a guilty expression, “I’m so sorry, please keep this Sorrow Seed for now. As for the rest, please wait a while, and I will definitely make it up to you!”

"You!" Seeing the heartfelt apology on her face, Sakura Kyoko was furious and gritted her teeth, saying, "You! Are you just hoping to die?!" She brought the Seed of Lamentation in her hand closer to her Soul Gem.

As a cloud of dark mist was absorbed by the Seed of Lamentation, she regained some of her strength.

Next, she brought the Seed of Lamentation close to Mami Tomoe's Soul Gem to purify it.

Sakura Kyoko snorted coldly as she weighed the Soul Gem in her hand, which had been purified twice but still felt empty.

"I don't want your compensation! This Seed of Lamentation seems to have a good capacity, enough for many uses. I'll share it with you for now, and I'll leave once this Seed of Lamentation is used up."

With a hint of mockery on her face, she said, "Otherwise, you, this compassionate and righteous partner, would probably have to go fight witches again in a few days because you lack the Seed of Lamentation, and die in some barrier."

Rubbing her sore eyes, Sakura Kyoko stood up and looked at the yellow "mummy" next to her, who was nailed to the ground by a spear.

She stepped forward and effortlessly drew the spear.

With a "bang," the yellow figure crashed to the ground. Sakura Kyoko casually raised her spear and slashed at the remaining yellow ribbon a few times. The tough ribbon snapped in response, revealing the face of the boy inside.

She yawned widely, looking languid and tired, and said, "Let's go back and rest today, I'm exhausted."

She looked up at the sun in the sky, then turned to Mami and asked, "Mami, you don't have to go to school today, right?"

“But…” A hint of hesitation flashed across Mami Tomoe’s face, as if she was thinking about something.

"Tsk!" Sakura Kyoko's face darkened, clearly showing her impatience. "You, at a time like this, are you still thinking about going to school?"

"What a pretentious fellow. We're magical girls, for crying out loud!"

"Ordinary people can't see us at all, and our actions will be completely ignored. Even if you don't ask for leave, the teachers at school won't even ask where you are, okay?"

As she spoke, she shoved Mami Tomoe: "Hurry back and make me omelet rice and hamburger patties! I'm starving!"

Just as the two were about to leave, a confused and bewildered voice suddenly came from behind them: "Who are you?"

"Huh?" Sakura Kyoko paused for a moment, then turned to look.

The boy possessed by the witch had stood up and was looking around blankly, his eyes filled with confusion.

Sakura Kyoko tugged at Raba Mami's hand, her face filled with astonishment: "Mami! This guy can actually see us?"

"Didn't you say," she asked doubtfully, "that only magical girls and those with magical girl aptitude can notice us in our transformed state?"

"But this guy... looks like a man! Can a man be a magical girl?"

The boy listened, still bewildered, to their language he couldn't understand, and curiously looked around. Memories, like fragmented pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, slowly began to emerge. "Who am I?"

"I'm Fang Zheng... but wasn't I at home playing games? Why am I here? And where is this?"

Looking at the boy in front of him and listening to his muttering, the square-faced man became increasingly confused in observer mode.

"He calls himself Fang Zheng... Does he even have my memories? What's going on in this world? Can he really invade my 'inside' and extract information from my cube-shaped body?"

He observed them silently for a while, then felt it necessary to communicate with them. So, he tried to switch from "observer mode" back to "creative mode".

But at this moment...

The boy staggered a few steps, his mind a jumble of old and new memories, making him feel dizzy and disoriented.

Just then, a strange, indescribable feeling quietly surfaced in his heart. He subconsciously reached out and waved casually.

Suddenly, irregular cracks, like pixels, appeared on the ground beneath his feet, as if reality had been ripped open. "Huh? What is this?" The boy was stunned by this unexpected phenomenon.

"Oh no! Sakura-san, run!" Mami Tomoe, who had always harbored suspicions about the boy, suddenly narrowed her eyes and realized something was wrong. She immediately shouted, "There's more than one witch possessing him! Run!"

"What!" Sakura Kyoko's expression changed drastically. Without thinking, she immediately grabbed Tomoe Mami's hand. The spear in her hand shone brightly, and she slammed it fiercely into the ground!
The enormous reaction force traveled along the gun barrel, propelling the two men like cannonballs towards the alley entrance.

This is the fastest way for them, as magical girls, to move over short distances.

However, it was too late.

(End of this chapter)