Doomsday Train, I went crazy by hoarding billions of items.

Chapter 187 Unable to use skills?
The magical girl's home is in a relatively quiet neighborhood, which suggests that her family was quite well-off in real life.

Jiang Ran knocked on the door once, and a woman with a gentle face opened it.

After seeing Jiang Ran's face clearly, she couldn't help but show a hint of surprise: "Boss, although I already knew you were a girl, but... no one told me you were so young!!!"

After spending so much time together, Jiang Ran still had some basic trust in magical girls.

On the other hand, because the magical girl never knew her real ID, Jiang Ran didn't waste her energy using mimicry and directly used her own face.

This also meant that the magical girl never expected that the person who came to find her "young lady" would be such a young girl.

But having been through many storms, Mahou Shaojiu didn't hesitate for long and quickly ushered Jiang Ran and Xiaobai into her room.

Mahou Shōjiu seemed a little reserved. After getting slippers for Jiang Ran and Xiaobai, he scratched his cheek and said, "I thought you would just show up at my house..."

Jiang Ran smiled and said, "It's probably better to take things a little slower for the first time we meet in person as online friends, right?"

Hearing that familiar tone, the magical girl relaxed a bit: "Then please sit down, I'll pour you a glass of water."

Jiang Ran waved her hand, took out two cups of milk tea from her spatial storage, and handed one to her: "Stop busying yourself, let's get down to business."

Mahou Shōjiu accepted the milk tea with a slightly overwhelmed expression, her eyes even becoming a little moist: "I haven't had this stuff in so long. I used to always be thinking about losing weight, but now I want to drink it, but I haven't had the chance."

Although this instance world looks exactly like reality, it doesn't have the abundant resources that players might expect, let alone snack shops or milk tea shops.

The shops along the street were filled with food models, like a game of make-believe, which looked rather eerie.

If they want to find food, they can only try their luck in residential buildings, and they may also encounter some semi-transparent dangerous creatures from time to time, or be dragged into strange spaces like the Big Tooth and the others.

Mahou Shoujo simply sighed, moved by the scene, and then took out the invitation: "I was suddenly dragged in this morning when I was planning to go out to look for some clues."

"But I wasn't taken to any village; instead, I was taken directly to a luxury cruise ship. But that cruise ship... well, it didn't look like a proper cruise ship. It looked magnificent on the outside, but I could always smell a faint stench about it."

"I heard a warning when I was standing on the deck, telling me to go into the banquet hall immediately. But when I entered the hall, I saw a group of things that were not quite human dancing on their own, with bits of flesh scattered all over the floor with their dance."

As if recalling the scene, the magical girl's expression wasn't too good: "Now I know where those stench came from, but strangely, as soon as I went in, everyone turned to look at me."

"I thought I was going to die, and I was about to reach for the talisman when I suddenly passed out. When I woke up, I was already lying at my doorstep. If I hadn't been holding this invitation in my hand, I would have thought I was just having a strange dream."

After listening to Mahou Shaojiu's explanation, Jiang Ran accepted the invitation.

I couldn't see anything strange about this thing from just looking at photos, but now that I'm holding it in my hand, I can feel the unusual thing. What should have been a hard invitation... is actually warm.

It wasn't the lingering warmth from touching a magical girl's hand. Jiang Ran gently stroked the back cover, and the strange feeling was like touching something alive!
Jiang Ran frowned, looking at the not-so-obvious eye totem. Just as she was about to speak, she suddenly felt a sense of weightlessness!
When her feet touched solid ground again, the invitation in her hand had disappeared, and just as the magical girl had said, she was already on the deck of that luxury cruise ship.

Strangely, Xiaobai, who should have been with her, was not by her side.

She tried to open the game panel, only to find that she seemed to have lost all her abilities.

She couldn't use either the skill panel or the items.

No wonder Xiaobai didn't follow her; this place seems to be a separate realm outside the game.

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The change happened so suddenly that Xiaobai and Mahou, who were standing so close, didn't even have time to react before Jiang Ran disappeared with the invitation.

Xiao Bai was taken aback at first, then immediately realized what was happening, and his face turned extremely ugly.

A dark blue dagger appeared in his hand and was pressed against the magical girl's neck: "What did you do to your master!?"

Even the magical girl was a bit confused, and she stammered, "I...no, it's not me, I don't know what's going on! This is clearly my invitation, does it mean that the person holding the invitation will be taken away?"
"But I really didn't expect that, I just... Oh right, let me check out the big shot's profile picture first!"

After saying that, she carefully opened the game panel and saw that the avatar was still lit up. She breathed a sigh of relief: "Look, the big shot's avatar is still lit up! I guess she must have gone to that cruise ship I went to before."

"With your strength, you'll be fine. You might be back soon. Why don't you wait here for a bit while I go out for a walk and see if I can get another invitation?"

Mahoujo herself was also helpless. She knew that the current situation looked rather suspicious, but honestly, she was just trying to share information with the big boss!

If she had known this would happen, she would never have let the big shot touch that invitation!
Who is trying to frame me?!
Xiaobai scrutinized the seemingly genuine anxiety on Mahou's face, narrowed his eyes, and realized that if Jiang Ran were still here, she would have noticed that his expression was exactly the same as her own.

But he didn't put the dagger away. Instead, he gestured for the magical girl to stay home: "You can't go anywhere until my master appears. If anything happens to my master, we'll all be buried with her."

Mahou was startled by the ruthlessness in Xiaobai's words, but she also knew that she had indeed failed to consider things carefully, which had implicated Jiang Ran. Therefore, she moved her lips slightly but did not refute him. Instead, she said in a gentle tone, "Then let's wait for the big boss to come back. Anyway, the big boss is so strong that he may already know the truth when he comes back."

Xiao Bai put away his dagger; he wasn't as optimistic as Mahou Shoujo.

There are only two possibilities why I couldn't go into that strange space with Jiang Ran: either Jiang Ran was actually very close to me and didn't exceed the range specified by the skill.

Or... the space she's in restricts her skills.

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