Apocalypse, then transforming into a magical girl

Chapter 199 A Useless Miracle

Putting aside that absurd theory of Santa Claus's evolution, the very suggestion of "making snow" made Xiao Lü ponder.

She began to imagine it carefully.

Previously, I made ice by directly freezing and shaping liquid water, or simply creating ice blocks out of thin air.

Snow, on the other hand, is formed when gaseous water vapor in the air directly sublimates into countless complex ice crystals.

In terms of difficulty, it seems to be much more challenging.

She shared her analysis and decided to try it out based on her intuition first.

First, imagine snowflakes—no, countless tiny ice crystals—rapidly unleashing their magic upon the air.

Immediately, the saturated water vapor in the air sublimated instantly, freezing even the fine raindrops floating in the air.

Immediately afterwards, something really did float down from the sky.

It's a smoothie. Little Green stretched out her hand, letting the tiny particles fall into her palm.

It felt cold and hard to the touch. With a gentle squeeze, the particles clumped together into a small lump of ice.

This stuff looks more like a product sprayed from an artificial snow machine; it's slush rather than real snow.

"Not really."

She sighed and admitted defeat.

"This is what they call scattering salt in the air, isn't it? —" Xia Zhaozhao's voice came from the side.

"—When did your level of education become so high?"

Xiao Lü glanced at her with some surprise.

"Snow is something that sublimates from condensation nuclei such as dust. I don't think freezing it like that will work—unless you can really manipulate individual water molecules at the molecular level—"

"Oh dear, you can't be a good magical girl if you don't have a good imagination—" Lion sighed, his tone seemingly full of the helplessness of an elder towards a younger person, even though he was older than her.

"First, ignore all your ideas about rationality!"

"Then, wolf," the lion turned to his sister, "quickly help her find those things in the air—condensation nuclei!"

The wolf obediently nodded.

Although the air in front of her didn't change, judging from the wolf's serious expression, Little Green knew that the child had already released his power.

Although it's invisible, using telekinesis to capture suspended dust in the air—given the child's strength, that should make sense, right?

Fine, let's just assume it's true.

Little Green stopped worrying about the principles and reactivated its magic.

She tried to deceive her brain, imagining that the space in front of her had reached the optimal parameters for snowflake sublimation in terms of temperature, humidity, and air pressure.

Then, imagine snowflakes.

The magic was unleashed once more.

This time, something is different.

Under her gaze, tiny crystals appeared out of thin air.

Then, countless snowflakes began to grow, swirl, and slowly drift down.

"Wow----"

The wolf looked at the scene before it and let out a sigh of admiration, its eyes sparkling with pure joy.

"Wow, it worked! It worked!"

The lion was even more excited than her, reaching out to scoop up a handful of falling snowflakes and happily squeezing them in his palm.

"I knew it! Magical girls are free! What's with all those worries! Listen up, just take this!"

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Before the words were even finished, the snowball, accompanied by a whoosh, flew straight toward Little Green's face!

It was expected.

Xiao Lü didn't even turn her head; it was just a thought.

Then, the snowball circled around her, and like a slingshot, it flew directly toward the lion's head!

Wow! That was a fast reaction!

The lion roared and ducked in a panic.

"I knew you would do this."

Little Green responded expressionlessly.

The snowmaking operation didn't stop. Seeing the wolf's genuinely happy expression, Little Green didn't stop her work either, continuing to maintain the output of magic.

Under the crimson light of the sky, a man-made snow curtain quietly drifted down.

—Although, this level of ability control probably doesn't really have much practical use in combat.

Besides being able to see a strange snowfall in this scarlet late summer.

The snowflakes weren't clean; if you looked closely, you could see tiny black powder mixed in. They fell to the ground and quickly formed a thin layer.

In any case, both the current and former magical girls here have sufficient resistance to this level of contamination.

It's not clean, but you won't get sick from playing around with it.

It's unclear who started it, but everyone spontaneously abandoned flying and began a chaotic battle on the thin layer of snow.

The snowballs traced chaotic paths through the air; she couldn't remember the last time she had a snowball fight.

But in any case, she knew that she was really having a snowball fight, and not like in some cheap comics where her body was possessed by some strange gun demon and she was having some kind of hallucination of having a snowball fight.

"Ah, I need to take a shower."

After an unknown amount of time, the lion was the first to declare a ceasefire.

Everyone was covered in snow and looked rather disheveled.

Finally, she could rest. Xiao Lü glanced to the side and saw that the box of "blessings" looked exactly the same size, because the quantity was so terrifying.

"Okay, Wolf, you go ahead."

Xia Zhaozhao said while brushing the snow off her body.

"We'll hold this guy off for you!"

After saying that, she and Little Green stood on either side of the lion.

"————I really don't know how to do anything."

The lion sighed helplessly. He really wasn't a pervert.

"By the way, I've always stayed in a guest room on the first floor because I'm too lazy to climb the stairs."

"There are still quite a few empty rooms on the second floor. You can choose any room you like to sleep in."

"Oh, wait a minute!"

Just as Xiao Lü and Xia Zhaozhao were about to go upstairs to take a look, Lion suddenly called out to them.

"By the way, what brings you to Longshan? Are you asking for help?"

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Xiao Lü stared at her speechlessly. This woman had finally remembered something important.

"no."

"There are two main objectives."

"Firstly, I've come to check on the situation here and, while I'm at it, to hand over the Shannon counter and the communication box to you."

"Mmm~ This is finished!" Lion nodded.

"In return, I can temporarily rent my little sister to you whenever you need her~"

"Secondly, we obtained the resources we needed from Longshan Mining. This step has also been completed."

"Next, we need to find a hydroelectric power station next to that mining company to see if we can start it up by black-starting it."

"Okay~"

The lion merely responded lazily, seemingly uninterested in this important matter.

"I'll drive you there tomorrow," she said casually.

"The terrain here is high, so driving isn't a problem. If we encounter any flooding, I'll have my little sister lift the car up and let it fly for a bit~"

"However," Lion changed the subject, a mischievous smile returning to his face, "we have something else to take care of tomorrow."

"We need to collect protection money first, then we'll take you to the place you mentioned."

"Extortion? What?"

Xiao Lü couldn't quite understand.

Wasn't the policy supposed to be to leave survivors to their own devices? How did it turn into a gangster situation?

"Oh, not those survivors, it's the monster, the monster~"

"A monster?" Xia Zhaozhao and Xiao Lü exchanged a glance, both seeing the same confusion on each other's faces.

"My sister mentioned something about birth defects to me before. After that, we also found one here."

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The lion explained.

"But it's not harmful. That guy's too weak."

"You guys probably know those old folks who keep collecting trash into their homes, right? I think that's a kind of mental illness, something like hoarding disorder?"

"Um."

Little Green knows this.

"What we encountered seemed to be a similar deformed fetus."

"That guy likes to scavenge all sorts of things in his nest. Occasionally he can find something useful, but most of the time, it's just useless junk."

"So," the lion revealed a bright and innocent smile, "I'll make time to visit it once in a while. If it finds anything useful, I'll beat it up until it hands it over!"

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Xiao Lü and Xia Zhaozhao fell silent again.

They suddenly felt a little sorry for the monster they had never met.