Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

"Ah, help me! Mr. Edogawa! Everyone!"

Passerby A, who was attacked directly, was not injured, but he was unable to break free from the mouth despite struggling hard. He could only look towards the crowd and shout for help.

Hearing the voice of Passerby A, everyone else was shocked, and then covered their mouths more carefully and dared not make any sound.

A few brave men opened their eyes and looked, and found that there was only one monster, and the most dangerous part was its head, which was now being used to restrain Passerby A.

He was eager to help, and seeing this, Zhixing quickly made an X gesture above his head and pointed outside.

Several people squinted their eyes and looked outside. It took them a while to notice the outlines of other monsters outside. Suddenly, no one dared to act rashly.

Zhi Xing watched as the passerby A, who was being taken away, was not injured, but instead went from begging for help to pleading and cursing. He then looked at the other familiars that had been attracted by the sound, and after finding that there were no more familiars around, he touched his phone, still not daring to open the screen to confirm the time, and silently prayed in his heart:

"Homura, Asami, Kyoko, Blue Hair, come on, it's patrol time already, isn't it."

Although the patrol time with Kazuyuki was postponed, Mami Tomoe had no plans to sit idle at home.

When I went to school today, I had already confirmed with Sayaka that I was safe, so I contacted Sayaka in the evening and agreed on a location to go on patrol together.

"Buzz~buzz~"

"Asami, your phone is ringing. Could it be that Conan leaked your phone number?"

Sayaka held up her phone and spoke to Mami who was using the Soul Gem to search for the witch.

"No, this should be breaking news. You know, this kind of thing is basically caused by the Witch's Kiss. ​​Sayaka can also pay more attention to these. It will be pushed by big data."

"Well, following the news reports and solving the real culprit before the police do, I feel like a superhero."

Mami took the phone and clicked on the city news she was paying special attention to:

"Just 10 minutes ago, a mass disturbance occurred at Line 4, at the ** tram station in northern Mitakihara-cho. The cause of the incident was a person who disappeared from the crowd. The police have secured the scene and are intensively searching for the missing person. As they investigate, if your family or friends haven't returned on time, please confirm whether you can contact them by phone. If not, please call..."

Mami read the news and said concisely:

"Hurry up, there seems to be something wrong at the tram station."

"Okay, it's Sayaka-chan's turn, the messenger of justice! Hey, Asami, wait for me."

Sayaka looked at Asami who had already started running and couldn't help but chase after her, and they both deviated from their original patrol route.

Kyubey rushed back to Homura's residence with Jixing's cell phone. After confirming that there was no trace of Homura, he entered the room where Jixing was temporarily staying through the window and took out the cell phone.

"Will the witch not harm Edogawa Conan? If that's the case, then Conan shouldn't know about it. But Homura said this on purpose. Is it true or false?"

Kyubey blinked his red eyes at the camera that couldn't capture him, then put down his phone and left Homura's house.

At this time, Homura did not check the surveillance, but looked at Kaname Shunko who had just returned home with confusion. Then she heard the sound of Madoka coming down from the second floor. Homura, not wanting to be discovered, quietly left from Madoka's backyard.

"What's going on? Wasn't Shinichi trying to find out about Madoka from Xunzi? Why is she back at this time?"

Homura took out her phone, connected it to the surveillance equipment at home, and turned back the time. She soon discovered that Zhixing had received a call before, then put down her phone, took the phone provided by Asami and went out. Although she came back a while later to take out the trash, she disappeared until the phone that was originally on the table suddenly rose out of thin air and disappeared.

"Is it early? I remember Xiaoyuan's mother should have work and need to work overtime to discuss with clients today. What's the unexpected situation?"

Homura watched the end of the surveillance video, where Kyubey returned the phone. She didn't feel anxious about the paper line, but took out her phone skillfully and made a call:

"Hello, I want to know the whereabouts of a person, yes"

After bargaining skillfully and handing the investigation over to the detective, Homura put down her phone and looked at Madoka's house again. Although it was far away, Homura could still see Madoka and her parents sitting at the table, chatting about something.

Homura then searched the current news and saw the news that someone was missing on the train. Thinking that Asami would have seen it and rushed over, she stopped moving and instead made sure of Madoka's safety while waiting for the detective to report the results of the investigation.

"The next thing to appear should be the Shadow Witch, who will follow the footprints of life. Its movement path shouldn't change much. It will eventually be drawn to the life force in the ocean. Then, it will move to a dock with a city on the left and the ocean on the right, becoming stagnant due to the large amount of life on both sides."

Homura pondered the witch's story background, which was not recorded in the data to deal with the official magical girls, while calculating her next course of action in her mind.

Kyoko, who knew nothing about this, calculated the time and went to play another game after talking to Homura.

Chapter 71: The coming... rescue?

Tanaka walked slowly in front of the remaining 14 people, carefully watching the shadows nearby, intending to see any changes in light when a monster attacked.

After looking around and not finding any long outlines, he calmed down a little and confirmed that Zhixing's previous judgment was correct. There were no monsters nearby for the time being.

Then he turned around and saw the people who had witnessed the monster with their own eyes and were too scared to leave, and he became nervous again.

"At this time, why bother with that troublemaker? We obviously have more people on our side."

Jiro Tanaka looked towards the passage where there was no one, hoping to see Zhi Xing again.

Zhixing is now relying on his advantage of being able to see farther and is hanging far behind the group of familiars.

Although he didn't have time to check, Zhixing felt that the time he had left was too short, and he was afraid that even if he took a bus immediately, it would not be enough.

Moreover, the witch has not hatched yet. Who knows if one person can help the witch hatch successfully?

Therefore, Zhixing looked at the 15 people, selected Tanaka from them to help observe the situation, and then bravely followed.

The familiar did not harm anyone on the spot. The familiar was leading people away, and the witch had not yet hatched.

Zhixing felt that there was a great chance of saving him, so after confirming that there were no familiars around, he gave a few instructions and followed.

Zhixing watched as the passerby walked forward. He had long been afraid to make a sound because of the surrounding demons, but these demons still surrounded the passerby. They would neither fall out of the team and collide with Zhixing, nor continue to attract the passing demons.

"Aren't these familiars supposed to have no sense of perception? Why are they so precisely clustered together?"

Zhixing's doubts did not last long, because after passing through a few doors, Zhixing came to the witch's room on the cliff.

As soon as he saw that he had reached his destination from the door, Zhi Xing immediately fled backwards. He did not dare to make any noise, so he could not run fast, but he had to run far enough to leave a passage for the demon to retreat.

After walking for a while, he found that the familiar did not come out of the door, so he stopped and was a little hesitant for a moment.

If the familiars came out a little slower, I might have met them on the spot if I turned back, but if they went through another door and didn't return the same way, then now was the best time. Besides, I just noted the door, so there was a certain probability that I could return to that group of people the same way.

Zhixing was making a decision, but was then disturbed by the pain in his ears. He could only cover his ears, not knowing which choice was the right one.

"Kyubi, are you there?"

After hesitating for a moment, Zhixing remembered that Kyubey was still in the witch's room before he left, and might be following him now, so he could ask Kyubey to help keep an eye on him.

But Zhixing did not get a response, and he immediately understood in his heart that Kyubey is a race without emotions, so there will be no hesitation or entanglement. When the other party does not speak, he will not speak anymore.

So Zhixing took a few deep breaths and hesitantly reached his hand to his ear.

The paper company decided to use the third method.

The passerby inside just doesn't dare to speak, he is not knocked unconscious, so making a sound and waiting for his response can also confirm the situation, so just take out the coin stuffed in his ear.

Zhi Xing thought about it, but his hand kept hovering between touching the wound → pulling away → hesitating to reach in again, and he never dared to go deeper.

Feeling that time had been wasted again, Zhixing stopped trying. He lamented how cruel he was to himself when he was desperate, and took out his phone to check the time while there were no familiars nearby.

Because it was not kept in one pocket, Zhixing felt in his pocket with both hands, but instead of taking out the phone, he took out the coins.

"How could I have forgotten this again? I wasted my time worrying about it."

The paper company took out some coins in advance to avoid making noise when taking out the coins if they really met the familiar.

Then he carefully moved towards the door, opened it a crack, and threw a coin into the door.

I didn't hear any echo. Was it thrown over the cliff?

The paper merchant then threw the coins in several directions, but surprisingly, no sound of the coins hitting the ground was heard.

Zhihang then realized something and quickly widened the crack in the door and looked inside.

Sure enough, the coin landed smoothly and did not fall to the bottom of the cliff. However, this door blocked the sound, making it impossible for him to hear the movement inside. Therefore, the extra coins he threw successfully attracted the familiar.

Distributed on the road from the door to Passerby A.

Seeing that the sound wouldn't travel, and the familiar couldn't see, Paper opened the door, allowing for a clearer view.

The stone that wrapped the Seed of Sorrow was shining with an unstoppable light. Passerby A, illuminated by the light, could see the surrounding scene clearly. He looked even more desperate and began to struggle again.

But the dog-headed demon holding Passerby A remained unmoved, and the other demons with this demon did not leave Passerby A's side, just like cultists performing a sacrifice.

Looking closer, there are two or three familiars attracted by the coin, distributed near the door, and finally the door in front of Zhixing, which is the dividing line between the two rooms.

"It's hopeless. Despair will stimulate the hatching of witches. It seems that this one person is enough. Then, I should quickly think about how to protect others after the witch hatches and the entire barrier's magical power increases greatly."

Relying on the fact that the familiar inside the door couldn't hear Zhi Xing muttered his thoughts, hoping to attract Kyubey's attention.

However, Zhi Xing, who didn't know that Kyubey was no longer within the barrier, was doomed to waste his efforts.

He hypothetically proposed several possible solutions at the door, but there was no response from Kyubey. Zhixing closed his mouth and his expression returned to calm.

Looking at the light emitted by the Seed of Sorrow in the room, Zhixing knew very well that he now had only two options. One was to prevent the witch from hatching, and the other was to successfully survive after the witch came out and delay until the magical girls arrived.

But Zhixing counted the number of familiars in front of him, and there were 17 of them, including the dog-headed familiar that was holding the passerby.

Zhixing counted again, and after making sure that he was not wrong, he completely gave up the idea of ​​hiding after the witch came out.

Zhixing looked back at the other doors he had not passed, and remembered his ability to freely pass through the edge of the barrier. He shook his head and gave up.

Although the witch's room is not in the middle, it is definitely not on the side. Otherwise, if the magical girl wants to find the witch, wouldn't she have to search the entire barrier?

This position is at least within the inner circle. If you want to get to the edge from here, you have to run outside from the beginning.

Looking at the irritated Seed of Sorrow, Zhi Xing closed his eyes and transferred the coins to his other hand, leaving only one coin.

"I clearly don't have any abilities, so why would I want to save people?"

As soon as the question was raised, the paper company immediately answered itself:

"Oh, that's right. They mistakenly entered the barrier because of me. Even if it was Kyubey's doing, I will definitely regret it later."

"Over a dozen lives, a witch with the strength to consume over a dozen lives, and the possible accidents and consumption of seeds of sorrow in order to defeat the witch. Not only did it not help, but it actually hindered me. After that, I didn't have to do anything."

Zhixing thought about the empty schedule, the several pieces of information that made him despair, and how he could only hide in the shelter when the Witch Night came or watch the magical girls fight from afar.

"It's all the same, whatever."

"Ding~"

Zhi Xing flipped the coin up, then looked up at the pitch-black ceiling in a daze.

"No, I'm all ready. Where's my coin?"

Zhi Xing took out another coin and watched it intently as it bounced up for a distance and disappeared into the air before appearing again.

Zhi Xing grabbed the coin and tentatively dropped it to the ground.

The coin was submerged in the darkness and made no sound.

Zhixing lifted his foot and stepped on the floor.

"Boom!"

The sound was loud enough and was not weakened by the darkness at all.

After groping forward for a while, Zhixing finally found the coin he had just dropped.

"Come to think of it, I didn't hear any sound when I tossed the coin before. Is it because it was an external object?"

Thinking of the coins he had thrown to help everyone out, Zhixing couldn't tell which situation it was.

Just as Zhixing was staring at the ground distractedly, a finger poked his shoulder.

Zhi Xing suddenly shuddered all over, his hair standing on end, and a fact that should have been noticed earlier emerged in his mind.

"Why did I conclude that no sound could be heard in the opposite room?"

While boarding the Line 4 train, Asami and Sayaka summoned their Soul Gems at the same time, but the Soul Gems didn't react at all.

"It can't really be a magic show, it doesn't feel like it."

Sayaka said a little disappointedly.

"No, we can't make a judgment that quickly. At least we should go to the corresponding platform first. Maybe the witch has moved and left this tram line."

Asami cautiously reminded Sayaka not to make hasty judgments.

Sayaka looked at the railroad tracks where only trains passed, thought for a moment, and asked:

"If we arrive at the scene and find the witch still on the tram, and the tram is moving forward, how can we determine which tram the witch is in?"

Mami looked at the inefficient Soul Gem detection method in her hand and felt helpless. She could only say:

"If we confirm that the witch is still on the train, since the train runs back and forth, it's possible we'll encounter her on the way."

"I'll be at the front of the train, and you'll be at the back. We'll communicate telepathically, and if we spot any traces of the witch on a passing train, we'll rush out."

"Wait! How are you going to rush inside the train? Are you going to smash the windows?"

"Of course we're on the train. Even if we're trying to defeat the witch, we can't just cause trouble for others."

Sayaka thought about the scene of herself standing on the top of the tram and said in disbelief: