Apocalypse, then transforming into a magical girl

Little Green and the wolf are flying along the viaduct.

When I first learned to fly, the comfortable feeling of freedom from gravity really brought me a lot of dopamine, which I really liked.

However, no amount of novelty can last long in the face of "daily life." The happiness brought by flying quickly depreciated, eventually becoming just another mode of transportation, no different from the subway.

No, it's even more crowded than the subway.

She could clearly feel the wingman next to her trying to get closer to her little by little.

Little Green sighed helplessly in her heart, but then a thought suddenly came to her mind.

"Speaking of which..."

She turned her head slightly to look at the wolf beside her.

The wolf turned its head and quietly watched her, waiting for her to speak next.

"You came here because you noticed the explosion, didn't you?"

"Yes," the wolf replied earnestly, "Very powerful energy."

"Want to go check it out? It's on the way anyway... I think it must be quite spectacular."

"Okay." The wolf didn't hesitate at all.

The two lowered their flight altitude, and the ruins of the Zuoan Interchange came into view in a short time.

The situation remains similar to before; in the apocalypse, no one will take care of it.

Nearly 10,000 tons of steel bars and concrete fragments were piled up here in a disorderly manner.

Apart from the temporary base the survivors had initially chosen, a small, relatively flat area had been cleared around this highway maintenance company.

The wolf hovered silently, discerning the horrific scene below in the darkness, as if mourning an ancient battlefield.

After a long while, she spoke softly, as if talking to herself.

"The overpass...it must hurt a lot."

It was still that pure pity and sorrow for inanimate things.

...Logically speaking, a person executed by cannon fire would have their nerves destroyed instantly and should not feel pain.

The same principle should apply to reinforced concrete structures, Xiao Lü thought.

However, the wolves beside him clearly didn't like hearing such a cold reply.

Xiao Lv felt as if a special neural pathway had been developed in her cerebral cortex to understand the brainwaves of wolves.

After thinking for a moment, she simply changed to a more innocent way of saying it, which had a touch of fairy tale.

"No, I think it was completely dead before we blew it up."

The wolf's gaze shifted from the ruins to Little Green, awaiting her next words.

"Before we blew it up, the inside of the overpass had already been hollowed out by a swarm of termite-like monsters."

"In other words, its internal organs have been completely replaced. Like... a shell inhabited by a hermit crab? Of course, not as cute as a hermit crab."

"All we did was clear out the monsters that had taken over this place," Little Green said calmly.

The wolf remained silent for a moment, seemingly processing this new information carefully.

"I see." She nodded gently, seemingly relieved.

"In other words, it gave it a very grand funeral as its mission came to an end."

The wolf sighed, as if it had finally resolved some inner conflict.

Then, the sadness about inorganic matter gradually faded from her face, replaced by pure curiosity.

"How did you manage to do that?"

"It was probably... a magical girl with weapons, driving a tanker truck full of ether, that crashed off the collapsed overpass."

Little Green gestured with her hands to indicate the approximate location of the name.

"Then, another melee-type magical girl threw two hyperbaric oxygen tanks at us."

She pointed to the spot where Xia Zhaozhao had been standing.

"Doing this will make the explosion extremely powerful... so even you felt the explosion."

She paused, then added:

"In fact, we originally wanted to build a viaduct to connect several important survivor strongholds that we knew well."

"However, because those termites have hollowed out this place, we need to go around it from below, which is a bit dangerous."

The wolf listened quietly, scanning back and forth along the broken sides of the viaduct.

A moment later, she looked at Xiao Lü again and spoke in a matter-of-fact tone:

"Let me help."

"Huh? How can I help?" Xiao Lü couldn't keep up with her jumping thoughts for a moment.

Help? Clean up construction debris? That doesn't seem very meaningful.

The wolf stretched out its slender finger and pointed to the other side of the viaduct.

"I think its mission is far from over."

"I want to... rebuild it."

Xiao Lü felt her brain freeze for half a second.

Rebuild? How is that possible? It's not like I used super glue to fix a Gundam that a naughty kid broke.

However, what she said next confirmed to Xiao Lü that she was serious, very serious.

"I just killed someone," she said calmly.

"So, punish one evil and promote one good. I think as long as the overpass can be revived, I can probably rest easy."

...To balance the evil of killing a minor villain, must such a large-scale act of good be performed? Little Green felt that the neural pathway that processes wolf language was about to overload again.

Even if her telekinesis is incredibly powerful, it's impossible for her to mold tens of thousands of tons of reinforced concrete back to its original shape, right? This is simply not something magic can do.

However, Xiao Lü remained calm, after all, neither of them understood engineering mechanics. What if there was some simpler method?

She remembered that Xia Zhaozhao's major seemed to be civil engineering... Never mind, that's obviously not going to work, there's no point in relying on her.

But Bai Shuyuan would definitely understand. Besides, he did have quite a few things on his plate that he needed to confirm with her.

"Of course I wouldn't object. However, whether it can be done and how to do it might require a more professional person to plan it out."

"Let's go back first and ask that magical girl with a weaponry background for her opinion."

"Her name is Bai Shuyuan, her anchor point is 'seeking knowledge,' and her code name is 'wren.'"

"...jiāo...liáo?"

The wolf repeated the obscure word somewhat awkwardly, tilting its head.

"Yes, wren, the name of a small bird, at least that's what she told me."

"Let's discuss the viaduct issue tomorrow. It's getting late today."

She said this not because she felt tired, but because she could sense that the seemingly calm person beside her wasn't actually that mentally stable.

Completely erasing a consciousness at the subcellular level, like that, would be a very difficult task even for a wolf.

She needs to rest, Xiao Lü thought.

The wolf nodded, his eyes showing no sign of urgency.

"Hmm, I'm not in a hurry."

That's good. Her obsession with punishing evil and promoting good won't flare up on the spot like an obsessive-compulsive disorder. In any case, that's good news.

There are still many empty rooms on the top floor of the bank, more than enough to temporarily accommodate one person.

Moreover, I really need to formally introduce this newly acquainted magical girl, whose combat power is beyond the norm, to everyone.