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

The next day, at dusk.

The first phase of the treatment program for grey crows is nearing its end.

Aside from a few routine check-ups by the doctor that gave Xu Ting time to eat or sleep, Xu Ting hadn't rested and continued to clean the core fragments from the Gray Raven's body.

Towards the end of the cleanup, the core fragments inside the Gray Raven became difficult to find.

Xu Ting had no choice but to patiently search inch by inch.

As a result, the gray crow's sensation changed from pain to unbearable itching.

The girl, who had been moaning and groaning in pain, suddenly burst into laughter. Huan Guang, who was watching nearby, commented on this:

"Is this some kind of new torture method?"

"Okay, I'll learn."

Huan Guang arrived here half a day ago.

Miyan was worried that something might go wrong during the treatment, so he sent Huanguang to the villa as well.

If you encounter any unexpected and urgent situations, having more help is always a good thing.

But the Grey Raven was very dissatisfied with this decision.

"Don't talk nonsense, you jerk—hehehe, hahaha, loser, slow down, slow down!"

Xu Ting sighed wearily.

"Why do you still have the energy to play around with the illusion?"

Xu Ting slowed down his search for the fragments and said helplessly.

She's exhausted.

Revenge through recursion, meeting with Gray Raven, attacking the deputy factory manager's convoy, the factory battle against Zhanye, searching for Qi Li in the rain, condensing the magic core, dealing with Wu Qingshuang on the ship, and cleaning up the core fragments...

Xu Ting completed all of these tasks in one go.

Even if a magical girl has strong physical abilities, she still accumulates a lot of mental fatigue.

In response to Xu Ting's question, Gray Crow answered energetically:

"I don't know, but I just... um... have inexhaustible energy."

"Perhaps I'm getting better soon?"

The crow mercilessly shattered this illusion:

"She was dying, so she had a brief moment of lucidity before death."

"Xu Ting, I know you're tired, but you have to finish the rest of the work in one go after cleaning up the core fragments."

"Otherwise, without all its cores, the Gray Raven will go berserk with magic, turn into a witch even faster, and eventually die because its constitution cannot keep up."

Upon hearing this, Xu Ting silently sped up the search for the fragments.

Her acceleration made the gray crow, which had finally recovered, unbearably itchy again.

"Hehehehehe, whew whew hahahaha! It's so itchy!"

Xu Ting had never seen a witch, but he figured even a witch couldn't make such a strange noise.

Clearly, the witch-like transformation of the Grey Raven has progressed quite far, and the search must be accelerated.

"Those who have lost their color, who is the person you respect most?"

After more than ten hours of treatment, the gray crow had learned its lesson.

She knew that begging for mercy wouldn't work on Xu Ting, so she tried to distract him by asking him questions.

As long as Xu Ting is distracted, the search speed will naturally slow down.

But Xu Ting wasn't buying it.

"That involves my privacy, I refuse to answer."

"Tsk." Gray Raven's plan failed, and he was about to ask a new question.

But Huan Guang interrupted her:

"I need to answer this question!"

The gray crow suppressed a laugh and said:

"What's the point of answering? I know who you respect."

Huan Guang ignored her and continued speaking to herself:

"The person I respect most is the teacher who taught me how to steal!"

—"What?"

Upon hearing this, Gray Raven flew into a rage. Forget about suppressing her laughter, she angrily rebuked Illusion:

"The person you respect most isn't Master Miyan?"

The phantom light shrank back slightly after being yelled at by the gray crow.

She adopted a defensive stance and said cautiously:

"Lord Mystery did save me..."

"But if my master hadn't taught me this skill, I wouldn't have lived to see the day Lord Miyan saved me."

Hearing Phantom's reply, Gray Raven could no longer remain angry.

She calmed herself down and continued:

"Then the second person you respect must be Master Miyan, right?"

Huan Guang timidly raised her hand:

"The second person I respect most is the grocery store clerk."

"He didn't mind that my money was stolen, and he sold me a lot of food at a 12% discount."

"What? Is Twelvefold more respectable than Lord Mystery?" Gray Raven asked anxiously again.

Xu Ting couldn't stand it any longer and quickly stopped the two noisy girls:

"Quiet down, all of you!"

Perhaps because Xu Ting was the oldest in terms of mental age among the three girls, her words were very intimidating.

Gray Raven and Illusion immediately fell silent. The former obediently lay on the hospital bed, while the latter straightened up and stared intently at the white wall.

In the silence, Xu Ting found the last fragment of magic and stuffed it into the crow's beak.

She let out a long sigh and turned to Huan Guang, saying:

"The treatment has moved to the next step. Please wait outside."

Huan Guang quickly left the scene, and Gray Raven, realizing that he would no longer be itchy, showed an expression of relief.

But Xu Ting's expression was even more serious than before.

"Grey Raven, the most dangerous phase is yet to come."

"I will connect to your mental world and sever the part of your mind that has become witch-like."

"My signature spell is called [Eye of Fear], and it only works when you are afraid."

"Do you have anything you're afraid of? Think about it, think about it over and over again, until I tell you to stop."

What terrifies me? Gray Raven's first thought was Xu Ting's treatment just now.

If you suddenly tell her that she actually needs to undergo that "treatment" for another whole day, she will definitely be terrified and cry.

She tried hard to imagine that scene.

But because this future was unlikely, it didn't instill enough fear in her.

"Think about it differently."

Xu Ting failed to perceive a sufficiently great fear.

Gray Crow immediately imagined the scene of Mi Yan being captured by the Tianyi Group.

This fantasy was a great success.

Xu Ting used the Eye of Fear to connect with Gray Crow.

Instead of giving orders, she followed the crow's instructions, holding the gray crow's doll in one hand and touching the gray crow's forehead with the other, attempting to enter the gray crow's mental world.

Count Hall once attempted to invade Xu Ting's mental world through the Eye of Fear, which serves as a good example.

Xu Ting reversed the process and then invaded Gray Crow's mental world.

There's nothing in the Gray Raven's mental world.

Only her own figure floated in the pitch-black void, eyes closed, as if in eternal sleep.

"What should we do next?"

Xu Ting's figure also appeared in this void. Everything around her instinctively repelled her as an invader, making it difficult for her to move.

The crow answered:

"Smash the gray crow before you."

"What? Are you serious?" Xu Ting looked at Gray Raven's figure with surprise and doubt. "Won't Gray Raven become a vegetable after I smash her to pieces?"

"No, breaking her up was just to find the parts that were contaminated by the witch's power. Once they're cleaned up, I'll put the rest back together."

It sounds very unreliable...

Xu Ting stepped forward and conjured up her familiar military knife in her hand.

The crow mentioned in its teachings that in the spiritual world, anything that the master of the spiritual world has ever seen or imagined can be reproduced with magic.

Having seen Xu Ting's military knife, Gray Raven was naturally able to replicate it.

Xu Ting walked up to the figure of Gray Raven and raised his knife towards Gray Raven's head.

Without hesitation, she swung the knife down—

"Why have you come here?"

The saber was blocked in mid-air by an invisible force.

The gray crow—no, the person who looked exactly like a gray crow—opened his eyes.

As she opened her eyes, her mental world suddenly ceased to be empty. Bustling skyscrapers appeared out of thin air around Xu Ting, and "Grey Raven's" attire changed from a magical girl's nightgown to a new look.

The posture of a witch.

"Crow, let me find the parts that have been corrupted by the witch..."

"But the gray raven before me seems to have transformed into a complete witch."