Apocalypse, then transforming into a magical girl

Chapter 187 Spinal Cord Sword?

Little Green holds a Shannon counter and uses the constantly changing numbers on the screen to correct its flight path.

The reading started at 0.89 and gradually decreased.

【0.88】————【0.87】————

"It seems it's down there."

Soon after, Xia Zhaozhao's voice came from beside her. There was no nervousness in her tone, but rather some excitement, as if she had finally found the BOSS room.

The three lowered their altitude and looked down.

Ignoring the massive factory buildings, at the heart of this area stands a rusty steel derrick, with many steel cables still attached to it.

Below the derrick, a massive, fortress-like concrete structure connected. Little Green was certain that it was the entrance to the depths of the mine.

The door was a heavy iron gate. The three pushed it open, and in the very center of the room was a bottomless circular opening.

Looking down, it was almost a bottomless abyss.

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"So deep—"

The wolf approached the entrance to the cave and whispered something.

Ignoring the cages suspended above the cave entrance used for ascent and descent, Little Green leaped directly into the cave and slowly flew downwards.

Xia Zhaozhao and the wolf followed closely behind.

Every few dozen meters of descent, an opening appears in the well wall leading to a horizontal tunnel. Looking inside, there is only darkness.

As the depth increased, the faint light from the ground above was completely swallowed up, and the surroundings were plunged into absolute darkness.

Little Green silently increased its luminous intensity.

A soft light emanated from the three people, illuminating the surroundings.

It's natural for magical girls to glow. Moreover, this light seems to be much more convenient than spells like illumination in D&D games, consuming almost no magic power, and the intensity can be adjusted at will.

There probably won't be any issues with stealth-type magical girls being exposed because of this kind of light, right? No, are there really stealth-type magical girls? She continued to descend while pondering these meaningless setting questions.

The deeper you go, the more humid and polluted the air becomes. The temperature also seems to rise.

Xiao Lü even had a strange feeling, as if she had returned to the early days of the apocalypse, with that irritating heat and humidity enveloping her entire body.

"Air conditioner, turn on the little green air conditioner quickly."

Xia Zhaozhao poked Xiao Lü, her tone self-righteous.

"————" Little Green remained expressionless, silently lowering the surrounding temperature.

A cool breeze instantly spread out, bringing the two magical girls beside him to life.

"That's amazing."

The wolf gave a heartfelt exclamation of praise.

"Right, right, that's her most useful skill!"

"————What do you mean by 'this is the most useful'?" Little Green said discontentedly.

Just then, she suddenly noticed that the number on the Shannon counter in her hand had fallen below 0.80.

Moreover, after she descended a few more meters, the readings began to rise strangely.

"what?"

Little Green immediately stopped descending and began to circle around the well wall at its current height.

"—This should be the place."

She finally stopped in front of the entrance to a dark alleyway and pointed inside.

The wolf moved closer, sniffed the air, and then nodded seriously.

"I can smell—the smell of blood."

"No way, you really have a wolf's nose? Code names have this kind of bonus?" Xia Zhaozhao asked in surprise.

"No, I was born with the ability to smell things from very, very far away," the wolf explained.

"That's good. If we really stick to the code names, then Little Green, that mayfly, doesn't seem like it won't live much longer—"

"?"

The alleyways are intricate and labyrinthine.

Xia Zhaozhao thought for a moment, then summoned her greatsword. As she walked, she used the tip of the sword to scratch the rock wall, leaving shallow marks.

"That way, you won't get lost."

"Actually, you only need to mark the intersections slightly, but it doesn't matter, I remember the way—wait."

Xiao Lü stopped mid-sentence.

She sniffed it too.

A strong smell of rust, mixed with the cloying sweetness of something rotting, wafted from the depths of the alley.

"A bloody smell—along with a foul odor!"

"I can smell it too!" Xia Zhaozhao chimed in. "It smells awful!"

Following the increasingly strong stench, the three continued deeper into the alley.

Suddenly, the view opened up before them. A huge mine shaft, several meters high at the top, appeared at the edge of their field of vision.

Moreover, there were also some miscellaneous things piled up there.

After seeing those things clearly, all three of them felt a deep-seated displeasure.

In the center of the enormous mine shaft stood a mound of human brains, resembling a giant statue.

Next to that mound of skulls, there is a "throne" made from the intact ribs that were removed from the mound.

"That's too much." The wolf frowned.

Little Green could clearly sense that the wolf was quite displeased.

Xiao Lü's gaze was fixed intently on the massive mound of brains. She noticed that it was not a simple pile of lifeless objects at all.

On the surface of the Jingguan (a mound of skulls), the grooves and folds resembling the brain are subtly undulating.

At the same time, from the corner of the room, countless figures rose from the shadows and staggered toward them.

They are those brainless people.

The wolf simply waved its paw lightly.

The rocky ground beneath her feet instantly crumbled, turning into countless sharp fragments that swept towards those mindless people with a whoosh!

With wolves around, Xiao Lü focused all her attention on the mound of Jingguan (a type of human pyramid).

She saw a brain on the surface of the Jingguan, its cerebral cortex ruptured without warning!

Immediately afterwards, several huge segments suddenly emerged from the crack!

Then, the brain expands and swells instantly, like popcorn!

Then, like a chain reaction, countless brain monsters hatched from their brains, which served as egg cases!

Clearly, this is the factory that produces these monsters.

Little Green instantly understood, and its magic surged forth, preparing to nip those newborn monsters in the bud.

However, at that moment, she suddenly felt a very faint sound coming from above her head!

She jumped back alertly and looked up sharply.

A dark figure pounced down from the darkness overhead!

"Be careful!"

Xia Zhaozhao shouted, swung her greatsword, and without dodging or avoiding, thrust straight at the dark figure!

"when!"

After a piercing clang of metal on metal, Xia Zhaozhao only stepped back slightly, while the monster seemed to have been thrown back quite a bit!

"Bang!"

The monster crashed heavily to the ground.

What appeared before the three of them was a monster that barely retained a human-like outline.

Its skin had long since disappeared, exposing countless fascia and blood vessels. Its limbs were exceptionally strong, and its legs were completely mutated, clearly a structure designed for high-speed crawling on the rock walls of mines.

No wonder it was able to hang upside down from the cave ceiling so quietly.

Even more bizarrely, its head was actually a huge, still slightly pulsating brain.

And on top of this brain, there was a crown made of human bones.

This bony crown, with its drooping fascia, sways gently.

In one of its hands, it even held a sword—a sword-like object pieced together from an entire human spine.

"Huh? What the hell is this outfit? Trying to be the emperor?" Xia Zhaozhao's tone was full of undisguised contempt.

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