Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

"Bang~!"

There was a loud explosion, followed by flames coming out from a container area.

As if realizing something, Zhi Xing's running legs gradually stopped, and he looked at the explosion area not far away with a dazed look.

"Could it be..." Zhixing turned around and saw the uniformed police officers running towards him and the police car parked at the entrance of the dock, and an epiphany came to his mind.

"I shouldn't have come here in a police car. Gin always conducts a scene inspection during meetings, and won't allow the presence of police. Furthermore, this operation also aims to lure out Akai Shuichi, so they'll pay extra attention to details like this."

"Why did it turn out like this? I should have had a chance to change, right? Yes, that was when I saw him get out of the taxi queue."

"How could I give up this last chance to save someone just because of a guess?"

As if his ears were shocked by the explosion, Zhixing watched the police slowly approaching but could not hear any other sound. He just stood there blankly. On Zhixing's neck, a tattoo-like pattern was slowly emerging.

Chapter 149 It’s Not a Dream After All

"Brother, shouldn't we catch him now? There's only one police officer at the scene."

The burly man dressed in black and wearing sunglasses got into his driver's seat and turned around to confirm.

The white-haired man called Big Brother waved his hand to signal him to drive, and then explained to his partner:

"Don't worry about him. The boss has already issued an order. At least don't appear in front of him until his prophecy is truly fulfilled."

The veteran driver, Vodka, nodded and began to evacuate along his planned route. Before leaving, he did not forget to express his opinion:

"I feel like he's fulfilled the prophecy. Hasn't he been chased here?"

"Humph, if we only know the future but can't change it, then it's meaningless."

The white-haired man Gin reached into the storage compartment and took out a file. The photo of the death list was placed at the top. Gin took a look, then put it back into the bag and ordered:

"Pay attention to the news reports later. If anyone on this list manages to survive, let me know."

"yes, Sir!"

"Looking back now, it always seems like too much of a coincidence."

"If coming here in a police car is a dead end, then the hope of rescue lies in stopping them before they get here."

"But circling a hundred-meter circle is still too time-consuming. Because the police were there, there wasn't a long line at the hotel. The only people there were those who took advantage of the chaos to flee after the police were drawn up by the screams from upstairs."

"Then I shouldn't have taken a detour from the beginning, but should have rushed straight in. At that time, I would have a high chance of communicating with the other party face to face, and then I might be able to persuade the other party in the name of Haibara Ai or Moroboshi Dai."

"Yes, even with the Witch's Kiss, I can't see the range, so I set it a hundred meters away to be on the safe side. But the second murder happened before the scream was heard."

"After mistakenly killing the second victim, Miyano Akemi had to go through several stages: moving the boxes, taking the elevator, storing the boxes on the first floor, and then waiting in line for a taxi. All of these things take time."

"Perhaps the Witch's Kiss only reacts to immediate death, which is why I didn't notice this possibility during the idol room case."

Zhixing stood there quietly, saying nothing, immersed in his own reflection.

The distance between the police officer and Zhihang was not far. They were just following Zhihang slowly because they were chasing criminals in such an unfamiliar and dark place and were on guard against possible accidents out of professional ethics.

When the explosion occurred, the police officer stopped for a moment, then rushed over and soon arrived next to the paper bank.

After calling out a few times without any response, the police officer looked towards the site of the explosion in a dilemma.

If he remembered correctly, he was actually just a third person following the pursuer. There was another car in front, which was the daughter of Detective Maori and the child who was suspected to be from the future.

The police officer turned around and shouted a few more times. Seeing that Zhihang still did not respond, he looked around at the surrounding situation, roughly memorized the terrain, and rushed towards the direction of the explosion.

Just after the police officer left, Zhixing's eyes suddenly turned and looked at the other party's leaving figure, and his hand instinctively wanted to keep the other party.

But Zhi Xing, who was already weak, was even more sluggish now, so that before he could finish his action, the other party had already turned a corner and disappeared.

Zhixing tilted his neck, letting the moonlight shine on the other side of his neck, where the witch's kiss was already clearly visible. Then he took a step and walked towards the direction of the explosion.

"Thinking further, yes, how could the Witch's Kiss exist? Without this interference, I would have been able to wait in the hall and wait for the woman to leave her box. That must be just my imagination. Perhaps there is some side effect of that dark space that shouldn't exist, causing me to hallucinate."

"Otherwise, how could I dare to use people for experiments in the police station? When did I become so arrogant? It must be an illusion caused by me being too bored in my room."

"The reason I wake up at the crucial part of the dream is because I lack the actual material. I don't lack the feeling of being controlled by the Witch's Kiss, and it's not like I haven't seen other people controlled by the Witch's Kiss before, so it must be just an illusion."

"If I go over there now, the time Miyano Akemi and Gin agreed to meet hasn't arrived yet, so she should still be there, quietly waiting for him to show up! Even if she knows she can't get the 1 billion yen, Gin will at least show up and ask!"

"An explosion or something like that is too unrealistic. This must be an illusion. I should be careful of that dark space that appears when the day changes in the early morning. That thing can cause hallucinations."

A smile appeared on Zhixing's lips, as if as long as he kept moving forward, he would see the perfect ending.

As the paper line approached, a sharp friction sound attracted the attention of the two people at the explosion scene.

The police officer slowly stood up from in front of the body, his hand already touching the rubber plate at his waist, and slowly moved towards the corner of the container where the sound came from.

Conan looked in the direction of the sound with some confusion.

It's strange. If the other party prepared the bomb to silence someone, there should be a way to remotely confirm the other party's life or death. Why would someone come here?

Judging from the noise, the object in the other party's hand is quite heavy. It is unnatural to think that he would dare to approach the explosion scene with such a thing at this time.

Did the cart's wheel break? It's so late, are there still people working at the port? People? Wait, the sound seems to be coming from the direction the police just came from.

Conan realized something and shouted to the police officer who was already guarding the door and preparing to subdue the unknown person:

"Wait, that could be Kamijou Touma coming over there!"

The police officer turned around and looked at Conan, then realized belatedly that he had indeed left Mr. Kamijou there. In this case, the other party should have recovered from that state of not knowing what was going on.

Just as he was thinking about it, Zhixing's face emerged from the darkness in the corner by the firelight from the explosion scene.

“Ah, it really is you, Kamijou…!”

The police officer noticed that someone appeared beside him at the corner. He turned around and saw Zhixing's familiar face. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. However, after Zhixing came out of the corner, he glanced at the situation at the scene, and without hesitation, he smashed the part of the iron bracket that he was dragging with his right hand towards the police officer's head.

That was because Zhixing saw an iron object flying out due to the impact of the explosion on his way over, so he picked it up and held it in his hand. Because it was too heavy, he dropped the other end that was deformed by the explosion on the ground, making a harsh friction sound along the way.

I don’t know if it was a blessing in disguise, but Zhixing’s strength was not enhanced, and the already heavy iron bracket was not swung too fast under Zhixing’s stiff movements.

Although ordinary people would be hit on the head by this sneak attack.

But even though the trained police officer was a little slow to react, he still managed to squat down and avoid the fatal blow that was aimed at his head.

The paper merchant swung the iron bracket and hit the container. He didn't have much strength in his hands, so the iron bracket was naturally knocked out of his hand and hit the arm of the police officer who was holding his head with both hands.

The police officer cried out in pain, then stood up, looked at the unarmed Zhihang in front of him, and threw him to the ground without mercy.

"Wait, police officer!"

Conan had crouched down and was about to activate his high-tech shoes, but when he saw Paper Walker being knocked down without a chance to fight back after his sneak attack, he couldn't help but remind him:

"Kamijo-san might know something, don't knock him out!"

"Boom!"

Zhixing's head hit the ground hard, but he didn't react at all. Instead, because of the change in his body position, another person who was also lying on the ground appeared in Zhixing's sight.

There was a woman lying in a pool of blood. She was clearly near the explosion site, but surprisingly, she did not show many signs of burns.

Instead, there were obvious wounds on his body caused by fragments, and even some iron pieces remained on his body.

Zhixing didn't care about the impact after being knocked down, nor did he make any explanation for his behavior, but the moment he saw the other person's body.

A much stronger feeling of coldness than before spread throughout the body. Zhixing knew that this feeling came from his own despair.

"Why, nothing has changed?"

Conan heard what Zhi Xing said, followed Zhi Xing's line of sight and looked at the corpse next to him. He said with some guesses in his mind:

"Even if you want to change something, you can't use violence. That will only backfire."

Although it was not pleasant to see someone die in front of you, Conan quickly figured out Zhi Xing's motives with his rich experience.

That is the impulse of giving up when ordinary means cannot achieve one's goal.

"If the dead cannot be saved, then it is impossible to murder those who should be alive."

Conan calmly stated the reason that made the police officer holding the paper bank break out in a cold sweat, and then gave his own reason why he thought it was impossible:

"If you are from the future, then no matter what happened to people in the past, they are all the result of death in history. It is nothing more than the chronological order of events."

"But if time is also frozen at a certain time, you wouldn't wait for me to find a clue before rushing over, right? It was the same with the previous incident with Okino Yoko. Inspector Megure had been here for a while before you came, and by that time the murder had already happened a long time ago."

"So the change of time will not affect the change of history, at least the early death time will not have any impact."

Zhixing did not hear Conan's words, but another voice made Zhixing understand:

"Grenades usually kill the enemy not by high temperature, but by the force of the explosion that launches the fragments inside, thereby destroying the fragile human body structure."

"Although the explosion at the scene was caused by humans, if the death occurred at the center of the explosion, it would only be considered as silencing."

"And if he was accidentally caught in the explosion while escaping, it might even be considered that Miyano had set a trap to cover his whereabouts and that he had triggered it himself."

"So fate, in its own way, returned to its original ending."]

"So I am indeed the one who cannot change my fate and whose future karma is zero...yes...yes..."]

"Hmm? What? Am I at a loss for words again?"

The thoughts echoing in his mind were inexplicably stuck, making Zhixing feel a little unhappy. He was about to move his body to vent his anger, but he found that he was pressed to the ground with all four limbs pressed down. He couldn't help but look at the situation behind him.

"Huh? What am I doing?"

His brain was limited and he couldn't see the police officer behind him, but after his attention returned, he quickly saw the body that was parallel to his line of sight.

The moment he saw Miyano Akemi, Zhixing realized his current situation.

"Have you been controlled by the Witch's Kiss again? Tsk, a moment of distraction has cost you this much?"

"Witch's Kiss? What's that?"

Conan left the location of the corpse and was observing the iron bracket dragged by Zhixing. He found that there was no useful clue. Later, he came to Zhixing and heard a voice with a completely different tone from just now. He couldn't help but ask a question.

Jixing's head was being held down by the police officer's hand, so his vision was limited and he couldn't see Conan who was speaking. However, this didn't stop Jixing from explaining to others the settings of his favorite "Madoka Magica". After all, that was how he developed his interest in Madoka studies.

"Uh, Witch's Kiss, it's right here...Ah! Oh no, run!!"

Except for the first witch's kiss, Zhi Xing was always under the protection of many magical girls. He could feel the witch's call from a long distance, so even if he got rid of the control, he was not as anxious as at the beginning.

But what also became a habit was the responsibility of locating the witch after she escaped from control.

Therefore, when Zhixing began to explain, he subconsciously closed his eyes and planned to point in the direction of the witch with his controlled hand.

Zhixing felt that the darkness in his closed vision was no longer so great, as if he was closing his eyes facing the light in a room with the lights on. The light all around made it impossible for Zhixing to find the witch.

Instead, the images of two people beside him appeared in his mind. They were the shapes of two adults.

It was as if she felt that the paper was out of control, or perhaps it was the witch herself.

The moment Zhi Xing shouted "Run!", the surrounding scenery began to distort.

This scene happened to be seen by Xiaolan, who went to call the police, and the many police officers brought by Xiaolan.

Of course, what Xiaolan and the others saw was not a distorted view.

Instead, he came from far away and saw Paper Man Conan and the police officer disappear from his sight.

There was no smoke blocking the view, no scene transitions, as if the layers were hidden, leaving only the burning wood and the body lying in a pool of blood.

Chapter 150 A World Where Science and Magic Coexist

"It's too late! Hide quickly, hide over there!"

Zhi Xing said anxiously while lying on the ground.

Although the police officer released his restraint, Zhixing felt that his body had no strength and he could not stand up immediately. Only then did he react and remind the two people who were involved together.

The police officer who caused Zhixing to be injured was terrified by the inexplicable changes around him, but he reacted immediately and helped Zhixing up. He also took Conan, who was turning around to look around, into his arms.

Then he happily followed the hand that was stretched out along the line of paper and came to a distorted shadow.

Soon the surrounding scenes returned to normal, and there was no longer the distorted lines that made it difficult to see the surroundings clearly.

"Ah~ What is this..." The police officer couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise as he looked at the changes around him.

"Shh~!! It's coming, don't make any noise!"

The paper company quickly issued a silence order, and the police officer hurriedly covered his mouth with his hands and threw the two men to the ground.

"Hiss~Ah"

The paper man twisted his body subconsciously after being hit, and then he realized that he seemed to be seriously injured. It seemed that the police officer did not hold back when he was distracted, and his fragile body could not withstand the strength of long-term training.

Zhixing struggled to turn over, lying on the floor and looking around.

Directly in front of them was an extremely dark wall, and Zhixing and the others were now hiding in the shadow of this wall.

But it was not the first time that Paper Line left and looked up at the unobstructed light area.