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

Chung Chi-lap hasn't managed to ride the wave of popularity for a long time.

For a journalist, failing to capitalize on trending topics means failing to generate revenue.

For employees of "Deep Sea Media", failing to meet performance targets is tantamount to being laid off.

For residents of the central district, losing their jobs means death.

People in the lower district can strive to reach the middle district, but people in the middle district cannot survive in the lower district.

Chung Kei-lap knows nothing about firearms, has no savings, doesn't know any gangs in the downtown area, and has no relatives or friends who can help him.

Once he's fired, he'll have to find a way to commit suicide to collect insurance money, so as not to implicate his family and turn them into experimental subjects for medical research.

Therefore, he really wanted to write a report about "magical girls".

Several days have passed since the epitaph incident, and Tianyi Group has still not made any response. Only a few newspapers closely connected with the forces in the lower city have published a few reports involving the magical girl merger.

Even so, those reports still attracted a huge amount of traffic.

Deepsea Media also wanted to write similar reports, but their target audience was office workers in the central district. In the past, they only focused on building relationships in the business world and didn't care about anything in the lower district.

As a result, Deepsea Media suffered a crushing defeat in this battle.

The owner of Deepsea Media was furious about this. He even offered a large sum of money, saying that as long as someone could provide firsthand information about the magical girl, he would grant that person the right to live in the Upper City.

Chung Chi-lap did indeed have firsthand information.

Two days ago, he left the Lower City feeling disheartened, intending to try his luck at interviewing a spokesperson for the Sky Tower. That's when he encountered a magical girl with red eyes.

And that terrifying yet beautiful great being allowed him to write a report in his mind.

A report related to the Blackwater Gang, Wu Qingshuang, magical girls, and evil god apostles.

Chung Chi-lap desperately wanted to publish this report. Based on its content alone, he could create a new uproar in the Hezhi City press and easily save his life.

But his master wouldn't allow it.

Chung Chi-lap could only painfully suppress his desires and wait for things to take a turn for the better.

But now, things have really taken a turn for the better.

He was completely stunned when he hung up the encrypted communication with his master.

He could hardly tell if this was reality or a dream, and could only walk towards the boss's office in a daze, his body seemingly no longer under his control.

What propelled this body forward was the raging tide of the times.

"The boss, the mastermind behind the epitaph incident, wants to do an exclusive interview with us."

After hearing Zhong Qili's words and confirming that he was not joking, the boss of Deep Sea Media picked up his glasses from the table with trembling hands.

......

"Ready? Exclusive interview."

Xu Ting looked at Jiang Chenglian, who was trembling with excitement, and asked.

"I'm... I'm ready." Jiang Chenglian responded with an air of obvious unpreparedness.

Xu Ting looked helplessly at his younger sister and said:

"Why are you so nervous? You don't need to be on camera. I'll just relay the interview content. Even if you say something wrong, I can correct you."

"Well, you're right," Jiang Chenglian said nervously, swallowing hard.

For safety reasons, Xu Ting arranged the interview as follows.

The four parties involved in this interview were Mystery Power, Xu Ting, Jiang Chenglian, and Deep Sea Media.

First, Mi Yan's men were responsible for contacting Deep Sea Media to move Zhong Qili blindfolded to a safe house in the Central District.

Secondly, Jiang Chenglian, representing the gravediggers [Shaohua], communicated with Xu Ting;

Then, through the connection of the Eye of Fear, Xu Ting relayed Jiang Chenglian's words to Zhong Qili, the junior reporter she was controlling;

Finally, Chung Chi-li wrote a report based on the interviews and published it under the name of Deep Sea Media.

All four parties were very satisfied with this.

Like Jiang Chenglian, Mi Yan was originally rebelling against Tianyi Group, and it was naturally in her interest to make Tianyi Group suffer a setback in the public opinion arena;

For Deepsea Media, popularity is everything. As long as the report gets enough views, they don't care if it's Tianyi Group or not.

For Xu Ting, this was a good opportunity to test Jiang Cheng's mettle and hone his skills.

After seeing this report, Tianyi Group will surely launch a fierce counterattack. If Jiang Chenglian were to see the ruthless methods of Tianyi Group, this girl might understand how cruel the path she is walking is.

In this way, she might be able to give up and honestly live the life of an ordinary person.

If crows can strip gray crows of their power, they can naturally strip Jiang Chenglian of his power as well.

Thus began the interview led by Xu Ting.

"Are you ready?"

After a moment, Xu Ting asked again.

"Mm," Jiang Chenglian replied, straightening his body.

Alright, let's start like this.

Xu Ting sat down in the chair opposite Jiang Chenglian and asked the first question:

"Are you the mastermind behind the epitaph incident? Can you provide any evidence?"

"That's right, I am the mastermind behind the epitaph incident, a magical girl named [Shaohua]." Jiang Chenglian lied without any shame, much like her brother.

"I will not provide any relevant proof, because the reaction of Tianyi Group after this report was published will prove these points to me."

Xu Ting asked the second question:

"Miss Shaohua, what is the purpose behind the epitaph incident you orchestrated?"

Jiang Chenglian took a deep breath and said:

"Our goal is to expose the ugly face of the Tianyi Group and let the people of Hezhi City recognize who their biggest enemy is."

Judging from Jiang Chenglian's demeanor, this was less of Shaohua's goal and more of something she wanted to do.

"Miss Shaohua, why did you say that Tianyi Group stole your power? What kind of grudge exists between the magical girls and Tianyi Group?"

Upon hearing this question, Jiang Chenglian remained uncomfortably silent for a long time.

Finally, she gave a very tantalizing answer: "Sorry, I can't disclose that information."

"Miss Shaohua, how will you accuse Tianyi Group?"

Jiang Cheng confidently gave an answer to this question:

"Magical girls are beings born to defeat evil beasts."

"The Tianyi Group clearly possesses the power of magical girls, but it only uses it to rule Hezhi City and suppress dissidents, watching as most of the earth's land is ravaged by evil beasts, and tacitly allowing human civilization to head towards destruction."

"That's exactly the kind of evil I'm accusing them of."

"As a proper magical girl, I have always fought against evil beasts in the wilderness and protected the refugees of the wilderness."

"But we are still not up to the task. There are fewer and fewer new magical girls, and our fighting force is in short supply."

"So, I imitated Prometheus in mythology, stole the fire that was being hoarded by the Heavenly Will Group, and poured a total of sixty-four portions of power into the Lower City, giving birth to sixty-four magical girls."

Sixty-four magical girls?

This was the first time Xu Ting had ever heard of this number.

Jiang Chenglian is Shao Hua's companion, the "gravedigger," and her ability to utter such precise numbers is unlikely to be unfounded.

In other words, besides Xu Ting, Qi Li, Huan Guang, Hui Ya, Wu Qing Shuang, and the mysterious girl who rescued Wu Qing Shuang, there are fifty-eight magical girls in the Lower City.

I wonder if Jiang Cheng's training counts as one of them...

Jiang Chenglian's answer did not end there; she continued to elaborate on her, or rather, the magical girl Shaohua's, purpose:

"My original plan was to unite these sixty-four magical girls to fight against the evil beasts in the wilderness. Even if we couldn't defeat the evil beasts immediately, we could at least expand a new land for everyone in Hell City to survive."

"But Tianyi Group won't allow us to do that."

"They just screamed and roared, accusing us of being petty thieves who stole power, and ordering us to return the magical girl power that rightfully belonged to all of humanity!"

"Everyone in Hezhi City, are you really going to sit idly by and watch Tianyi Group wipe out any possibility of reclaiming new land?"

"Magical girls of the Lower City, don't you want to unite and resist the malice from the Celestial Will Group?"