Apocalypse, then transforming into a magical girl

"Evidence?" Xiao Lü asked. "You mean this?"

The survivors looked bewildered.

They craned their necks, curiously examining the piece of ice, whispering among themselves.

"What's that? An insect?"

"How disgusting... Why did she bring this out? What kind of evidence is this?"

The piece of ice containing the insect corpse floated in the air, and Little Green even thoughtfully lit it so that everyone watching could see it clearly.

"Just now, before I woke the wolf, a group of uninvited rats came across the ceiling and headed straight for her."

"Their ultimate goal is probably to kill her while she's asleep."

She paused, letting her words resonate in everyone's minds.

"I imagine you've all experienced similar rat attacks. Those rats' actions seem crazy, but they have a... how should I put it, a strange kind of organization, like a third-rate company team-building exercise."

She moved the ice block slightly closer to the crowd so that everyone could see the ugly insect inside.

"I found this inside the killed rats. Although we don't know the exact mechanism yet, it's highly likely that the rats were able to be remotely controlled because of this."

She paused, then fixed her gaze back on Old Zhang, whose face was ashen.

"The ability to control monsters—how tempting! But the controller probably doesn't come without a price, does they?"

These words made Old Zhang's body tremble.

"Wolf," Little Green's voice softened, "your ability is to manipulate 'symmetrical' objects, isn't it?"

The wolf nodded, seemingly understanding what Little Green wanted her to do next.

Then, she faced the midpoint of the line connecting Old Zhang and the ice, slowly raised her hand, spread her five fingers, and then closed them.

"ah--!"

Old Zhang's screams erupted instantly.

His whole body convulsed comically, as if something was frantically gnawing at his brain.

He began to twist his body frantically, but his frozen limbs made all his struggles futile.

"No—! Stop! Stop now!"

The wolf ignored him.

She had already sensed the foreign object inside Old Zhang's body that didn't belong to him.

Under the horrified gaze of all the survivors, amidst his incessant wails, Old Zhang's right eyeball began to bulge outward unnaturally.

A wriggling outline was clearly visible, as if some living thing was about to burst out of the eye.

"puff--!"

Finally, his eyeball burst open, and a worm, even larger than the one in the ice, stained with blood, dragged out the severed optic nerve.

It writhed helplessly in the air, forming a symmetrical pattern with the insects in the ice.

!

At the moment Old Zhang's eye exploded, the survivors experienced more than just terror.

It seems that not everyone is a bystander.

"My head... my head hurts so much!"

A man who had previously criticized Zhao Jia suddenly clutched his head, knelt down in anguish, and his voice was filled with fear.

His fall was like the first domino to fall.

"Me too... my eyes... I feel like something's moving in my eyes!"

"Help! Help! I don't want to die!"

Subsequently, several other people in the crowd developed the same symptoms.

They rolled on the ground, convulsing violently, screaming, and scratching.

Panic spread like wildfire through the crowd.

Healthy people screamed and ran away from the fallen guys, afraid they'd be next.

"Quiet down! If you want to live!" Little Green shouted.

Those who could still barely endure the excruciating pain now turned their pleading gazes toward her.

Now she understands why, even though distillation technology exists, water resources are precisely distributed to each individual.

It seems they were infected with these things through their drinking water.

Little Green looked at the wolf, who nodded knowingly.

She turned to those who were lying on the ground.

"...The wolf can help you remove the worms from your bodies. But you've already seen the process."

"You might lose an eye, but you'll survive."

This is certainly not a choice. In the face of life, any price is insignificant.

The man who fell first struggled to look at Xiao Lü with the only eye that could still focus.

The other people who fell to the ground also shouted and made the same choice.

"...I want to...live!"

"Um."

After receiving authorization, the wolf nodded slightly.

Her next movements were no longer as swift as before, but instead carried a touch of surgeon's gentleness.

An invisible field of psychic energy instantly enveloped all the people who had fallen to the ground.

"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!..."

A series of soft sounds rang out almost simultaneously.

Several insects, smaller than Old Zhang's, crawled out of the eyeballs of the people lying on the ground.

However, perhaps because the insects had only been parasitizing for a short time and their roots had not penetrated very deeply, they were simply pulled out easily from under the eyes.

Most people's eye structures are not even severely damaged.

It was a stroke of luck amidst misfortune, Xiao Lü thought.

Under the control of telekinesis, those ugly insects did not scatter on the ground, but instead formed an orderly line in the air and slowly flew towards the wolf.

The square fell into a deathly silence, save for the heavy breathing of the survivors, the sound of rain, and the rumble of thunder.

They survived.

Xiao Lü looked at Old Zhang, who was suspended in the air and had completely lost all his support, and didn't say another word.

Preaching was useless, so she simply stepped back half a step, giving the center position to the girl next to her.

The wolf slowly floated forward half a step.

She raised her head, her gray eyes quietly gazing at Old Zhang, devoid of curiosity, confusion, anger, or pity.

The pupils had completely lost their luster, leaving only emptiness.

She glanced at the survivors who were covering their eyes, then her gaze returned to Old Zhang, and she spoke softly.

"They are your friends."

The moment the words left his mouth, Old Zhang felt an invisible force tearing at his limbs. This feeling of being torn apart made him let out a wail.

"You betrayed your friend."

Then she pointed to herself.

"I originally wanted to be friends with you."

This time, the power invaded his internal organs. He felt every organ twisting in different directions. He could no longer howl, because his lungs and vocal cords were no longer under his control.

"But you lied to me."

She looked at Little Green again.

"She is my friend."

That force became even more refined. His skin, muscles, and even every nerve were disintegrated in different directions by this force.

"You shouldn't have touched him."

Finally, her gaze fell upon the parasites that she had levitated in the air using her telekinesis.

"Life is beautiful."

This force has finally reached the cellular level. Each of his cells seems to be in a chaotic, discontinuous field of rotation.

"You've tainted life."

"I need to wipe you off."

The wolf spoke softly.

……

Ultimately, the existence that was once "Old Zhang" had all its cellular structures, and even every organelle, completely shattered.

He turned into a puddle of something that couldn't even be called a blood mist.

Anger caused the wolf's power to completely break through the limitations of "symmetry" in a short period of time.

It even broke through the limitation that "magic can hardly directly interfere with consciousness."

Her power became like that of a god.

A god who knows humility.