She was being hunted down, so she became a magical girl.

Shaohua is dead?

How could that be? She only told Miyan that she was leaving, and she hadn't even entered the state of being in a state of uncertainty about her life or death. How could she have fast-forwarded directly to her death?

Xu Ting quickly channeled his magic into the corpse in front of him.

The golden magic within the latter confirmed the raven's statement.

It—no, it is the departed youth.

As Xu Ting's magic came into contact with Shao Hua's magic, the latter seemed to sense the token on Xu Ting's body and quickly attached itself to Xu Ting.

Unlike the power of the Lord's will and the power of the Divine Servant's will, which came unbidden, it restrained itself and attached itself to Xu Ting's body, waiting for Xu Ting to transform it.

"The phenomenon of magic inheritance".

"Shaohua is really dead."

Xu Ting said.

After she finished speaking, her heart suddenly felt heavy.

She came to the temple to obtain clues about Shaohua, hoping that the elusive Shaohua would provide her with assistance.

Defeating Zhanye, rescuing Jiang Chenglian and Huanguang, and even taking on the responsibility of resisting Tianyi Group... She originally wanted Shaohua to do these things, but now it's completely impossible.

Have we reached another dead end?

Xu Ting's mood inevitably soured, but she still rallied her spirits and began to gather clues from the room.

"Shaohua died from her injuries."

The crow that voluntarily performed the autopsy reported,

"High-level magical girls only die from a broken magic core. The fact that Shaohua's body was undamaged proves that she had enough time to repair her body after the magic core was damaged."

"But unfortunately, she couldn't repair her magic core and ultimately died here."

The crow flew to a wooden chair in the room and said:

"There was corpse oil on the wooden chair and on the table in front of her. She must have died while lying face down on the table, and then slid to the ground after death."

"Xu Ting, here's a notebook; perhaps it's worth taking a look."

Xu Ting walked to the table and picked up the notebook that Crow had mentioned.

The notebook's style is exactly the same as Miyan's diary.

Xu Ting already understood what this was; it was Shao Hua's suicide note.

She opened her notebook and began to read by the light of the magic ball.

[Yunyi, you should be the only one who can see this suicide note. Since you've seen it, it means you've become a magical girl of Isshiki's caliber, someone who can stand on their own within the organization.]

First of all, thank you very much for coming to Hezhi City because of my request for help.

[Actually, when I sent you this message, I was already severely injured and near death. But I was worried that my death would give you bad thoughts, affecting your fighting ability and potentially leading to your capture by the Tianyi Group. So I kept it a secret.]

【Feel sorry.】

[I have already made my purpose very clear in the letter requesting help, so I will not repeat it here.]

Let me make a personal request.

[Regarding the collaborator I mentioned in my letter, Miyan, you should have already made contact with her. I hope you can protect her as much as possible.]

Giving her the contract and dragging her into this mess was the biggest regret of my life.

After learning that Miyan had sold the contract to the gang, I actually breathed a sigh of relief.

With the help of the mafia drawing the fire of the Heavenly Will Group, plus your assistance, and that magical girl under her command named Gray Raven, she won't die anytime soon.

After all, Tianyi Group simply doesn't have the resources to spare.

At Zero Airport, we seized over a hundred contract documents, but theoretically, there shouldn't be so many in Hezhi City.

The ruling faction behind the Tianyi Group maintains extremely strict control over contract documents, and there is a fixed quota for the number of magical girls they can recruit each year.

But where there are people, there are interests.

[A large number of ruling-faction magical girls were involved in the smuggling of contract documents; those hundreds of contract documents were contraband smuggled by the Heavenly Will Group to other city-states.]

We stole them, and the underhanded tactics of those mid-to-high-level magical girls from the Tianyi Group were exposed to the anti-corruption authorities.

Ironically, the anti-corruption authorities are far more powerful than us; their crackdown on the Tianyi Group is unprecedented.

Almost all of the magical girls from the Tianyi Group have been taken away for investigation, leaving the Tianyi Group at its weakest point.

[Seize this opportunity and quickly escape with the magical girls who are willing to leave! Leave the city before the magical girls send more people!]

[You should have already recruited some of the magical girls. Don't worry about the rest; their entanglements with the mafia are too deep for you to poach.]

[A great terror lurks in the City of Hell.]

The suicide note ended abruptly.

Xu Ting put it down without saying anything.

"Xu Ting, there's something else in the next room!"

The cawing of crows could be heard.

With a heavy heart, Xu Ting left the room and headed to the "next door" that the crow had mentioned.

The stench of the corpse in the room had lessened somewhat.

"There's a switch on the wall, and there's a light here," said the crow.

Xu Ting turned on the light, and a small, homey room came into view.

In the center of the room was a small dining table, next to which was Shaohua's bed. At one end of the bed against the wall was a power outlet, and a laptop was plugged into it.

Xu Ting picked up the computer, and the computer's lock screen lit up.

It was not turned off; it was waiting for its owner to turn it on again.

Xu Ting turned on the computer.

A dense array of programs appeared on the computer desktop.

"This is......"

"A program to hack into the cemetery system?"

Xu Ting observed for a while and then came to a conclusion.

"The last operation time displayed by the system was the day before the epitaph incident. Shaohua set all operations to timed operations on that day."

Xu Ting said.

"She chose to set a timer, probably because she wouldn't make it to the next day," the crow said quietly.

"A magical girl like her, whose magic core is damaged and who is gradually dying, can clearly know when she will die."

"The epitaph incident is not only an epitaph written for Tianyi Group, nor is it only an epitaph written for the victims persecuted by Tianyi Group; it is also an epitaph written by her for herself."

"Sigh." Xu Ting had a lot to say, but in the end, she couldn't say it.

After a while, she finally spoke:

"Since you harbor such deep hatred for the Tianyi Group, why did you entrust everything to Miyan out of fear and run away far away yourself?"

"What did you go through to give up on yourself, and why did you die here? Your suicide note didn't say anything. I have no idea what kind of person you were."

She saw only fragments of text and a highly decomposed corpse.

Despite having little hope, Xu Ting continued searching the contents of the laptop, hoping to obtain some additional information.

Fortunately, she found it.

"According to the procedure, Shaohua plans to hack into the cemetery system four times and write a total of four epitaphs."

"But there were only three hacking incidents at the time."

Xu Ting said while flipping through the system log.

"Crow, look, the last hacking attempt has been intercepted."

"Strange, Kakita Technology shouldn't have any reason to intercept it."

"They'd love for Tianyi Group to keep making a fool of itself."