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

A red light flashed, and the alarm blared.

Gray Raven pulled out countless explosives from under her fluffy skirt and launched a frenzied attack on the factory.

Under the suppressive fire of the Gray Ravens, the attacks of the Tianyi Group's security forces were repelled wave after wave.

Xu Ting didn't even have a chance to perform; he could only watch the gray crows put on a show.

"How much stuff are you carrying under your skirt?"

Xu Ting couldn't help but ask.

Gray Raven casually tossed a magnetic grenade, blasting an automated robot into immobility, and replied:

"If you're curious about what's under my skirt, I'll lift it up and show you when I have time."

Helpless, Xu Ting could only guess that the other party had used magic with storage functions.

Gray Raven became a magical girl much earlier than I did, so she couldn't compare in terms of the breadth of her magic.

The first-mover advantage still exists objectively.

If even a Gray Raven is like this, what will happen to the veteran magical girl from the Tianyi Group?

"The enemy is here."

The crow flew back from a distance and reported its findings to Xu Ting.

"Get ready."

The only person the crow could call an enemy was that magical girl from the Tianyi Group, a veteran in Xu Ting's eyes.

Xu Ting relayed the information to Gray Raven, who nodded heavily and said:

"Proceed according to plan. I'll handle the direct confrontation with the enemy, while you look for opportunities to use the wooden spikes from the outside."

"If the enemy attacks me first, should we switch roles, or forcefully execute the original plan?" Xu Ting asked.

"Don't worry," Gray Raven chuckled self-deprecatingly, "the enemy will definitely target me first."

Her words were very certain.

Xu Ting seemed to be deep in thought, and retreated behind Gray Crow.

The next moment, a heat wave surged from the front.

Xu Ting had experienced many heat waves: the heat wave after a bomb exploded, the heat wave when a building caught fire, and even the terrifying and painful heat wave before a microwave weapon boiled the air. But none of those were the heat wave she was feeling now.

There was no burning pain, no anguish, only an extremely strong... resentment.

Pop, pop, pop.

The enemy, wearing high heels, came from the depths of the corridor.

"I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw the surveillance footage."

She winked and mocked in an exaggerated tone:

"Isn't this 'Young Miss'?"

"Long time no see! Have you found good friends to play magical girl house with?"

The enemy is a short-haired adult woman who is still wearing her original office attire and red-rimmed glasses and has not transformed.

"Don't call me that, you lackey of Tianyi Group."

Gray Raven pulled a large, gold-trimmed cleaver from under her skirt, her face grim as she pointed it at her opponent.

"She clearly doesn't like being called by nicknames, yet she turns around and calls others by mean nicknames."

"After escaping to the lower city, your manners have really been thoroughly corrupted, young lady."

The enemy opened her palm, and a sharp longsword appeared in her hand along with a speck of light.

"My name is Zhanye. I hope you will call me by that name."

With a casual wave of her hand, a red sword beam shot towards the gray crow.

The gray crow brandished its large cleaver.

Magic gathered on the blade, colliding head-on with the sword's edge.

boom--

The sword's edge shattered on the blade, and Gray Raven staggered a few steps.

Seeing this, the magical girl who called herself Zhanye showed a disappointed expression.

"What happened? Where is your magic core?"

"The report says 'the strongest coloring period of the year,' and the 'Grey Demon' with hands stained with blood—how come he's just a brat without a magic core?"

"Isn't that just like that timid little girl next to her who refuses to show her face?"

Zhan Ye's words contained a wealth of information.

Gray Demon—Xu Ting had heard of this name before; this codename belonged to a crazed cyber madman.

Cyber ​​psychopaths are a daily occurrence in He City, but very few manage to break through to their own codenames, and the Grey Demon is the rarest of them all.

The reason is simple: the Grey Demon is a cyber-psychotic who developed symptoms in the Midtown area.

Unlike the downtown area where human life is cheap, the residents of the central district are more or less connected with the government and large corporations, and the suppression of cyberpsychosis is the most severe.

But the Gray Demons defied the odds and committed crimes against the people, killing countless ordinary citizens and wiping out dozens of riot police units, causing the Hezhi City government to lose face and the entire Central District to be filled with fear.

But now Zhanye is saying that Gray Raven is the "Gray Demon"?

"It seems your best friend doesn't know about your past yet." Zhan Ye glanced at Xu Ting, then turned his attention back to Gray Raven.

"Should I explain to her what you did?"

A barely perceptible smile appeared at the corner of Gray Raven's mouth.

She immediately suppressed it, feigning resistance as she replied:

"I forbid you to talk about those things."

good acting.

Xu Ting understood Gray Raven's intentions. Their mission was to buy time for Huan Guang to plant a time bomb. Now that Zhan Ye happened to be a chatterbox, she could let her talk nonsense to her heart's content and delay the inevitable without fighting.

Let Zhanye chat more at work; she'll realize her mistake when her performance bonus is docked.

"If the young lady forbids me from saying it, then I won't say it."

However, the crow's provocation seemed to have backfired.

Zhan Ye once again brandished his longsword, and two sword beams simultaneously attacked Xu Ting and Hui Ya.

Gray Raven barely withstood the sword strike again, while Xu Ting also condensed a magical shield to block the sword's edge.

But unlike the grey crow.

She took the blow from the side.

The sword's edge grazed the shield and cleaved into the wall beside Xu Ting, creating a half-meter-deep gash, but it failed to harm Xu Ting in the slightest.

"Your sword strike wasn't very effective either."

Seeing that Xu Ting was unharmed, Gray Crow breathed a sigh of relief and then provocatively said.

"How did you become a magical girl? With this weak swordsmanship? You're not even as good as me back in the day."

"You, an experimental subject abandoned by your parents, dare to talk to me about your background?"

Zhan Ye took off his glasses, put them in his chest pocket, and said with a cold smile.

"My parents are just low-level employees, unlike you, Miss, but they love me. Do your parents love you?"

"They signed the agreement behind your back and used you as a guinea pig—you know what a guinea pig is, right? They're like a 'survival item' in prisons, you're pretty much one of them."

"Your parents tampered with your brain-computer interface; your parents orchestrated the entire scam."

"The blood you spilled in Midtown included some of theirs."

The gray crow remained silent for a long time before answering:

"You're right."

"I genuinely believed that cute and cuddly 'Contract Beast' back then, and didn't realize it was a robot manufactured by Tianyi Group."

"I really didn't realize that my sensory system had been completely controlled, and that I had killed many innocent people in the central district as if they were evil beasts."

"But now..."

Gray Raven looked at Zhanye defiantly, and the entire factory trembled violently. A towering explosion originated from the inner area, and even those in the outer area could feel the deafening roar.

"I have a job, do you?"

The illusory light that had retreated from the inner area brought Xu Ting and Gray Raven back into the range of the invisibility magic.

Only Zhanye remained in the empty corridor, the walls glowing red from the heat.