The villainous magical girl's daily mission is to find fault.

That's all the information I can leave you.

The recordings in the Divine Stone end here.

From 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., a full four hours of recording explanations, coupled with the memory impact of a large number of detailed high-definition images, left Nan Xiaofeng mentally overloaded after finishing all the recordings. He almost collapsed onto the table and fell fast asleep.

Fortunately, Xin Yuehu's scribe familiar had completely recorded the text of all the recordings, and with the knowledge assistance provided by Bai Lili and Qiu Gui, it didn't take too long to construct a method to reach that time loop.

Hyacinth quickly fell asleep, slumped over the table, and the girls, not wanting to disturb her deep sleep, tiptoed out of the meeting room to begin their discussion in the next room:

Let's summarize the current situation first.

Bai Lili spoke first.

"First is our opponent this time - the Astral Jellyfish that attacked Chengdu sixteen years ago. Everyone thought it had been destroyed at that time, but in fact it was just blocked in the mental world by the Albatross."

"To add to that, this mental world is incomplete; it's a half-finished product that Albatross inexplicably came up with herself," Heart Moon Fox added.

Bai Lili was stunned for two seconds, but quickly accepted the fact.

After all, Albatross is most famous for her outstanding thinking ability. After being missing for more than ten years, she has been largely forgotten by people today, but for magical girls, Albatross's fighting style is absolutely unique.

"Do you know what her most famous characteristic is?" Qiu Gui suddenly said.

"Hmm? What is it?" Nightingale asked hurriedly from the side, pricking up her ears, ready to listen carefully to the secrets of her predecessor that she had never heard before.

"Albatross wears a thigh holster issued by the Hero Association under her dress, and in extreme cases, she might even wear one on her calf, but she never puts a pistol inside."

"Why?" Nightingale still didn't understand, and was completely unaware that "registered heroes who are adults will be issued weapons."

"..." Qiu Gui remained silent for a few seconds.

"...She usually hangs two enchanted flashbangs under her skirt."

Now Su Tianqing understood why the albatross's fighting style was so unique, making tactics like grabbing whatever was available from the roadside seem less distinctive in comparison.

What does it mean when she suddenly pulls out a flashing bullet from under her skirt during a fight?

"Secondly, regardless of whether that mental world is suitable or not, since Mengmeng explained the Albatross plan in the recording, and the current situation is completely in line with the original plan, we should think about the worst-case scenario."

Bai Lili said this.

The astral jellyfish that attacked Rongcheng possessed very unique characteristics. During its long astral journey, it gained powerful immortality and could transform into a hydra form after being destroyed. In this form, it was almost impossible to kill completely.

Unless all its components are collected and burned to ashes with powerful magical flames, even a single fragment can transform into a new hydra to multiply and eventually return in the form of an astral jellyfish.

However, the transformation from a hydra to a jellyfish is a long process that involves a series of complex magical effects—the terminology is so long that even Lily Bai can't quite remember it.

"In short, this effect reduces the stability of spacetime, which directly enabled Albatross to use this effect to complete her plan."

"The Death Cycle Project"

As she read out the terrifying name of the plan, Bai Lili couldn't help but sigh.

"It can be said that under any other circumstances, Albatross's cycle plan would absolutely not succeed."

"The stability of time is beyond everyone's imagination. Even a genius like Inari could not reverse time: the world lacks a magical material that can embody [reincarnation]."

"But that jellyfish is the perfect material," Qiu Gui replied.

"That's right." Bai Lili nodded.

"Only when facing this jellyfish that can be reborn from death, and by using the jellyfish as an anchoring material for the spell, can this half-finished spell of reversing time possibly take effect."

"But I really can't understand why Albatross would go to such extremes?"

"Hyacinth is already a Shining Star, so maybe we can use its power to weaken the jellyfish's immortality and wipe it out in one fell swoop."

"In the end, she insisted on trapping the jellyfish in an eternal cycle... Sigh, I really don't understand."

Bai Lili's doubts were also acknowledged by Qiu Gui; the two of them simply couldn't figure out why the albatross was doing that.

The thought of magic was then put aside, and the girls brought the topic back to how to enter the cycle created by the albatross.

But things quickly reached a stalemate.

Mengmeng simply explained the Albatross's complete plan and magical details, while also outlining the theoretical method for completely eliminating the jellyfish:

To further refine the death cycle plan and make the time loop more perfect, so that all magical substances can self-circulate in the cycle, we can completely throw the jellyfish out of the timeline and make it disappear from this world.

Once the cycle is complete, the albatross will try to escape from that closed loop—the whole plan comes to an abrupt end at this point, as if the albatross never intended to leave it, and naturally it will not explain how to enter the time loop.

If entering halfway through won't work, then why not start deduce from the beginning by starting with the casting of the spell? Xin Yuehu proposed this idea.

But this idea caused Bai Lili distress:

"Magic is a wonderful thing. It's hard to piece together the whole picture just from hearing people describe it, especially when it's conveyed through pictures and recordings."

Looking at the large stack of summary documents compiled by the fox-like familiars in front of her, Bai Lili frowned, feeling a great headache.

"Even if we knew the principles of the mental world, so what? That unfinished mental image completely defies existing magical laws. Does any of us know the details of how Albatross released it?"

"What if we use the wrong intervention point when we don't know the details?"

The group looked at each other in silence and shook their heads in unison.

The mental world of Xinyuehu is very powerful, but the underlying logic of each of them is almost entirely copied and pasted. Once you understand one, the others will fall into place.

The mental world of Red Rose and Crimson Snow is rather templated and needs to be anchored to the real world, which is also reflected in the macroscopic expression of Albatross [Millennium].

But since she was an albatross, no one knew how many special methods she incorporated into her spells, thinking "I think this will work."

"We are missing a lot of things now."

"We need someone who has personally witnessed the entire process of the Albatross unleashing the Millennium, and who also has sufficient magical knowledge and magical perception to describe the details of the spell's casting. Furthermore, she must have a certain level of expertise in the world of mental images."

"Where can we find this person? I bet we could search the entire city of Chengdu and still not find him."

Bai Lili said angrily.

But it was precisely these angry words that made Su Tianqing's tightly furrowed brows suddenly relax.

The fox spirit raised a finger, widened her eyes, and said:

"Oh, Miss Bai Lili, there really is someone who meets all the conditions you mentioned."

"She witnessed the albatross casting its spell, her magical perception is very high, and most importantly... she's also a Starry Shadow who can use the mental world!"

Bai Lili paused for a second, then two seconds, her mouth gradually opening wider.

Then, together with Qiu Gui, they said that person's name in unison:

"Red Snow!!"