Apocalypse, then transforming into a magical girl

Chapter 181 The Gate to Death

It's so quiet.

The wolf hovered in mid-air, looking down at the steel forest below.

The massive open-pit mine, the rusty factory buildings, the intricate railway tracks—everything was shrouded in a scarlet rain curtain.

It looks completely different from how I remember it.

The wolf remembered that it had flown over this place many times before. Back then, the area was bustling with activity, filled with the roar of machines and the clamor of people, brimming with life.

She felt somewhat frustrated and slowly landed at the entrance of Longshan Mining.

Then, with a thought, two abandoned cars on the roadside were attracted together like magnets, crushing an aggregate that had just peeked out from the shadows into black mud.

Only after she had done all this did she land.

The small leather shoes clicked and clacked on the cement floor.

"Go in through the main entrance, and be polite," the wolf thought.

Then, he took a step forward.

However, the concrete ground beneath their feet collapsed without warning!

She missed a step.

"ah!"

The wolf was startled by this sudden turn of events and let out a soft, uncontrollable howl.

However, relying on her magical girl instincts, she reacted instantly, stabilizing herself in mid-air and levitating.

She looked around, still somewhat shaken, only to find that the scene before her had completely changed.

The view was completely dark; he was floating in a huge mine shaft.

The sky above was no longer there; instead, there were rock formations and emergency lights.

The emergency lights were flashing at an irregular frequency.

Each brief glimmer of light illuminated only a corner of the cave before quickly plunging it back into darkness.

In the flickering light and shadow, the wolf saw the damp rock face, the supporting steel frame, and the rusty railway tracks beneath its feet.

"A mine—or a cave?"

She didn't land, but continued to hover in the air, quickly becoming alert.

With her telekinetic powers activated, several pieces of similar-sized ore were peeled off from the surrounding rock walls and began to rotate around her in an absolutely symmetrical trajectory, like satellites.

She separated two stones, letting them float to her, and then carefully poked them with her finger.

It's just an ordinary stone.

The wolf felt a little relieved.

However, the wolf soon discovered that the outline of the rock wall in front of him changed slightly with each alternation of light and shadow.

She looked back and saw only pure blackness behind her, with the railway tracks seemingly stretching into endless nothingness.

The emergency lights overhead flickered with increasingly longer intervals. Finally, after one last faint glow, they went out completely.

Only ahead, the light continued to flicker.

The wolf could only suppress the small fear in its heart and slowly fly forward.

She noticed that the emergency lights ahead seemed to be flashing faster.

Just like my own heartbeat.

After flying a distance further, the wolf finally noticed something different ahead.

Clusters of stalactite-like objects hung down from the rock walls at the top of the mine.

No, the wolf moved closer and realized that it wasn't a stalactite at all.

They were pupae hanging upside down, wrapped in sticky silk threads, the outlines of something inside.

Just as she recognized what it was, the emergency light above her head suddenly started flashing wildly, extremely glaring.

In the flickering light and shadow, the pupae began to writhe violently!

"ah!"

The wolf howled again, its body reacting faster than its mind, instantly pulling back several meters.

She quickly mobilized the magic power within her body, and with a thought, the railway tracks and sleepers below were instantly torn apart into countless fragments.

The storm of fragments howled upwards, tearing apart all the pupae that had just begun to wriggle.

After the impact, only some tattered cloth and dripping viscous black liquid remained in mid-air.

They can be killed. They're just ordinary monsters.

The wolf felt a little more at ease.

Since they are just ordinary monsters, it doesn't matter how many there are.

She looked ahead, but the mine was still bottomless, and the same was true behind her.

However, near the battlefield just now, there was a place separated by wooden planks, which looked like a temporary wall.

She manipulated the floating rocks around her and hurled them at the wooden wall.

The wooden wall shattered with a sound.

The wolf hesitated for a moment, but still tentatively flew towards the newly appeared hole.

The moment you pass through the cave entrance, your vision is plunged into pure, lightless darkness.

Immediately afterwards, a tremendous roar came from all directions!

She sensed that countless enormous spherical objects were hurtling towards her from the darkness at high speed.

Before he could even think, the wolf had already used telekinesis to push away the two steel balls that were hurtling towards him.

But more steel balls surged in from all directions, their trajectories chaotic, making it difficult for her to cope for a while.

A few even grazed her clothes as they flew by, the gust of wind they created making her feel a chill.

However, as she gained control of more and more steel balls, the situation quickly reversed.

She used all the steel balls she had captured to construct a perfectly symmetrical rotating spherical shell centered on herself.

External threats were completely isolated.

She looked around, unsure of where she was.

All I know is that I'm in a rotating circular room. Iron balls in this room are rushing towards me, trying to shatter me.

The wolf was getting angry.

She disliked destruction. But now, she forcibly brought all the steel balls she could sense into her control and slammed them hard against the steel cylinder wall of the rotating space.

"Bang—!"

A huge gap was torn open in the cylinder wall, allowing light to shine in.

The wolf tentatively threw a few iron balls out of the gap and heard the loud sound they made when they hit the concrete ground.

Only after confirming it was safe did she crawl out and regain her sight.

She then realized that the cylinder she had been in was not a room at all, but a gigantic machine.

It was about the same height as the three-story villa where my sister and I lived, and it was slowly rotating.

However, now that its structure has been violently destroyed by itself, it finally came to a complete stop after emitting a few harsh scraping sounds.

"I'm sorry. But you want to kill me," the wolf said.

The entire space fell silent again.

The wolf discovered that this giant machine was located in the very center of a huge factory building. Surrounding it were multi-level steel structure operating platforms and walkways.

"So complicated," the wolf thought.

But at least there's light now, which is good.

The wolf walked cautiously along the steel walkways.

Then, with a thought, she split a steel ball in two, then into four, eventually transforming it into countless symmetrical steel blocks that formed a small steel storm around her.

She separated some of the steel blocks and sent them ahead like scouts to explore the way.

The phenomenon of being suddenly teleported elsewhere did not occur on the iron ball.

The wolf seemed to understand.

That kind of thing only happens when you go through a "door".

Each door here leads to a completely random room.

Moreover, those rooms all seemed to want to kill me.

"Why?"

The wolf muttered softly to itself, its voice barely echoing in the empty factory.

She didn't know the answer.

Longshan Mining seems to have gone out of business.

She stood at a crossroads, seeing countless doors. Some led upstairs, some downstairs, and some to other areas on this floor.

The wolf hesitated.

If it were the older sister, what would she choose?

—Probably, my sister was too lazy to choose. She would just pick the nearest door and walk in.

After resting for a while, she separated a small amount of steel from the storm of steel around her and sent it flying into the half-open door in front of her.

There are no abnormalities. I can still sense them and manipulate them.

It seems that it's safe behind this door.

So the wolf slowly went inside.

She then realized that the room didn't seem to want to kill her.

This is an office, and the clock on the wall has stopped.

This reassured the wolf somewhat. Everything here seemed normal.

However, she soon noticed something was wrong.

There were signs that the room had been ransacked.

A chair was overturned on the floor, and the drawers of the filing cabinet next to it were wide open, with the contents ransacked.

An attendance record book happened to be spotted by the wolf. It was currently positioned in a conspicuous spot on a table.

The wolf walked over, extended its fingertip, and gently touched the cover of the logbook.

There doesn't seem to be any danger.

She opened it and flipped through the pages one by one. They were all names she didn't recognize.

No, there are two names I recognize; they belong to those two people with the surname Kong.

She flipped through the pages one by one and noticed something was wrong.

There's a jump in the date record.

She checked it again carefully and found that the paper there had been torn.

The two pages that were torn out happened right around the time of that "framed murder."

The wolf tilted its head, puzzled.

Who tore out these two pages? Why did they tear them out?

If only my older sister were here. She would definitely understand it at a glance.

However, my sister is so lazy, she probably wouldn't want to come to such a far away place.

So, should we have gone to Xinluan first and asked the mayflies for help?

If the mayflies explore this place with me, we should be able to find the answer soon.

The wolf walked out of the office.

The room behind the next door didn't seem to intend to kill her either.

The wolf recognized this as the canteen. It was a large place that could accommodate many people eating together.

However, there was no smell of food in the air, and the wolf felt that it was cold inside.

She paced slowly in the dim light, observing the place. The stainless steel dining table and benches were neatly arranged, cold as tombstones.

Finally, she found a small blackboard hanging on a wall.

The blackboard reads "Today's Menu".

【trot】

Braised pork belly

Dry-fried Cauliflower

Kung Pao Chicken

【Couple's Brain Slices】

—This is a typo.

The wolf thought to itself.

She reached out and gently wiped away the word "step" and the word "brain".

Then, she picked up a piece of chalk and carefully changed "husband and wife brain slices" to "husband and wife lung slices" and "fast step" to "fast food" stroke by stroke.

However, something strange happened right after she corrected the mistake.

She had just finished writing when the character for "meat" in "braised pork" on the menu suddenly started to twist on its own.

Ultimately, it became the character for "brain".

The names of the remaining dishes also seem to have changed.

BrainBrain

Braised Brain

Dry-fried Brains

【Kung Pao Brain Ding】

【Husband and Wife Lung Slices】

That's not right. The wolf felt somewhat confused, and a little displeased.

She was about to pick up the chalk to continue correcting the mistakes on the blackboard when she discovered that the words on the menu were no longer simply being replaced, but had begun to flash and change randomly.

Boiled live brain, fish brain with chopped chili, fish brain with a thousand cuts, fish brain porridge, pickled cabbage brain, slapped brain, three kinds of fresh brain —

The names of all sorts of dishes that looked absolutely awful were frantically jumping around on the blackboard.

The wolf didn't understand.

Why did the blackboard react so strongly?

If my older sister were here, she would probably say something like, "It's stressed."

Then, gradually, the structure of the Chinese characters on the blackboard began to completely collapse, turning into meaningless symbols and distorted lines, like a group of frightened maggots.

Finally, all the garbled text was unified into a single word, which frantically and tirelessly copied itself on the blackboard.

【brain】

BrainBrain

[brain brain ...

"snort!"

The wolf got angry, its cheeks puffed out in a huff.

She picked up the eraser, walked to the blackboard, and forcefully erased all the chalk writing on it.

Clean and tidy.

She looked at the blackboard and nodded in satisfaction.

That's correct.

After erasing the blackboard, the wolf moved on to the next room.

She sniffed; the air was filled with the smell of disinfectant.

It smells like the infirmary.

The room contained a dozen or so iron-framed beds, each covered with a white sheet.

The sheets were bulging, and it looked like people were lying underneath them.

"Sleeping with your head covered is bad for your health," the wolf muttered to himself.

She decided to help them lift the blankets.

Using her powers, she gently lifted a blanket, only to find that it was empty underneath.

"what?"

The wolf seemed a little confused and became more wary.

Using her abilities, she gently lifted another blanket, only to find that it was empty underneath as well.

The third, the fourth, and more than a dozen in a row were all empty.

The wolf showed no expression, but it began to feel agitated.

This feeling is like when I was a child playing hide-and-seek with my older sister, and she would run off to watch TV and forget about me.

It was a really boring prank.

She turned her gaze to the last hospital bed.

However, this time, when her mental energy touched the sheets, she felt a slight resistance.

Something is pulling at the bed sheet from below.

His mental power instantly intensified, and he abruptly ripped the bed sheet off.

"ah!"

In an instant, a person wearing a white coat, without a skull, lay down in front of the wolf!

The area above his eye sockets was completely empty.

The skull and brain have both disappeared.

But his eyes remained fixed on the wolf.

The wolf took a step back.

It was this step that led her to discover a piece of paper that the doctor was clutching tightly in his hand.

Using her telekinesis, she retrieved the note and looked at the words written on it.

【now you】

Just as the wolf read the contents of the note, a soft "click" sound came from the ceiling.

The wolf suddenly raised its head.

A wet, grayish-white brain with sharp, segmented limbs was hanging upside down there.

Then, he pounced on her.

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