Apocalypse, then transforming into a magical girl

The next day, the ruins of the Left Bank Elevated Road.

Bai Shuyuan, dressed in a raincoat, floated quietly in mid-air, her eyes now completely golden.

Xia Zhaozhao followed behind her listlessly, and yawned idly.

She greatly admired Bai Shuyuan's abilities; in her eyes, it was essentially an enhanced version of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.

"Fortunately, there was a lot of redundancy in the design, and the materials weren't skimped on." Bai Shuyuan observed the area below for a while before saying this.

"Although it was not designed to bear tensile forces from the beginning, if the goal is simply to build a suspension bridge that allows people and light vehicles to cross, its redundancy can indeed meet the requirements."

Xia Zhaozhao couldn't comprehend the world through Bai Shuyuan's eyes at all. No matter how she looked at it, she could only associate it with scene textures in a game. Those eyes possessed built-in structural analysis and perspective; it was simply too overpowered.

Bai Shuyuan's figure moved through the air, finally stopping beside a bridge pier that appeared to be relatively intact. She flew closer and made a mark—an anchor point.

After doing all this, the golden light in her eyes slowly faded.

She turned around and looked at Xia Zhaozhao.

"Let's go, next thing."

"Huh? Where to?" Xia Zhaozhao was stunned for a moment. She thought her task for today was to be a mascot here.

Bai Shuyuan's gaze fell upon the cluster of high-rise buildings in the distance that resembled tombstones.

"Go find more suitable materials."

Xia Zhaozhao's face was full of confusion.

"Materials? Didn't Little Green and the wolf already go to the crematorium to get them?"

"I think most of the materials in crematoriums are made of iron or stainless steel, and their toughness and strength are questionable," Bai Shuyuan said calmly as always.

"High-strength steel cables are easiest to find in elevator shafts."

Oh! Right! Xia Zhaozhao completely understood.

The elevator is indeed suspended by several incredibly thick steel cables.

So she nodded, and together with Bai Shuyuan, they flew towards the cluster of buildings next to them.

The two randomly chose a building that looked relatively tall.

The glass here was shattered in the previous explosion, so there's no need to look for a door; you can easily squeeze through any hole.

The interior of the building was a mess. Broken furniture and trash were scattered all over the floor.

Xia Zhaozhao followed behind Bai Shuyuan, carefully stepping on all sorts of trash, trying not to make any noise, as if she were playing some kind of stealth assassination game.

Suddenly, her ears caught a strange sound.

It was clearly not a human voice; the rhythm of the voice was quite chaotic.

Something's strange!

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Xia Zhaozhao's eyes lit up instantly, a long-lost excitement of about to enter battle mode, which spread throughout her body like an electric current.

She immediately made a "shh" gesture to Bai Shuyuan, crouched down, and stealthily moved toward the source of the sound in what she thought was a very professional stealth posture.

She turned a corner and saw it.

It was an aggregate, its shape barely maintaining the outline of a canine, but the details of its body had completely collapsed.

The surface was no longer covered with fur, but with a constantly writhing black, eerie substance, and strange appendages grew out haphazardly.

It was lowering its head, as if sniffing at something on the ground, making unintelligible sounds from its throat.

"It's even uglier than those zombie dogs in the game," Xia Zhaozhao ruthlessly remarked.

But it didn't matter; a perfect idea quickly took shape in her mind.

This one, although it doesn't look very good, might be able to expand Sasa's Pokédex!

"I'm going!"

She sprang up instantly, like a turtle released from its reins, and charged out!

The zombie dog was clearly caught off guard. As soon as it looked up, it was hit squarely in the face by a powerful flying kick from a magical girl!

It let out a mournful cry and was kicked against the wall with a "thud".

Then, he landed and convulsed.

Bai Shuyuan followed closely behind, her movements were perfectly natural, she simply extended her hand calmly.

"Machete".

"oh oh!"

Xia Zhaozhao drew the weapon that had accompanied her in battle for many years from her waist and handed it over.

Bai Shuyuan took the wood-chopping knife and, like a skilled butcher dissecting an ox, moved with precision and efficiency, separating the aggregate and depriving it of its ability to move with minimal effort.

The entire process was so smooth and seamless that Xia Zhaozhao was amazed.

If things could return to normal in the future... Xiao Bai seems perfectly suited to performing pig slaughtering at the village entrance, which might provide the villagers with something to talk about for the whole year.

"It appears to have devoured a canine individual. It seems to be sniffing out something; these kinds of olfactory-specialized aggregates are very useful."

Bai Shuyuan returned the wood-chopping knife to Xia Zhaozhao, her voice remaining calm.

"You can definitely give it to Sasha. Feed her with Chlorella when you get back, and the damaged tissue can grow back."

Xia Zhaozhao nodded happily.

The two found a cloth bag and put the aggregate body, which had turned into a monstrous pig, into it.

Bai Shuyuan simply handed the bag to Xia Zhaozhao and then turned her gaze to the spot where it had just been sniffing.

She crouched down and examined the dark stains on the ground.

"Blood?"

She found it odd: "It's clearly not something left by a monster."

She pointed to the ground, gesturing for Xia Zhaozhao to come and see as well.

Xia Zhaozhao leaned closer and also noticed the intermittent, inconspicuous trail that stretched deeper into the distance.

This is... the bloodstains left by dragging?

Her heart jumped.

This is absolutely abnormal!

Ordinary aggregates will simply tear their prey apart and devour it on the spot; they will not engage in complex behaviors such as "dragging".

Xia Zhaozhao's brain entered an overclocked state.

After thinking it over, she came to the conclusion that dragging prey indicated that the animal had a sense of "storing food," or that it was taking the prey back to its "nest."

Regardless of the type, it means that this monster possesses a considerable degree of intelligence!

"Xiaobai, step back, I'll go take a look."

Xia Zhaozhao's expression turned serious. She shielded Bai Shuyuan behind her and assumed a defensive stance.

After all, in terms of physical strength, she was far superior to all her magical girl colleagues.

"Without me, you'll get lost."

Bai Shuyuan's voice came from behind her, calm and unquestionable.

"Furthermore, if it's the situation you're guessing... I might be stronger than you when facing 'deformed beings' with special abilities."

Xia Zhaozhao: "..."

She was speechless.

Although I really don't want to admit it, what Xiaobai said seems to be true.

When dealing with those bizarre mental contaminations and special rules, Bai Shuyuan's bug-like brain was indeed much more useful than her greatsword.

She could only nod helplessly, acquiescing to the two-person team adventure mode—the mage leading the baby to clear the map.