Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

Xiangzi's brain was probably overloaded by the music, so Miaomeng could only come up with a random excuse for her.

"I'm about to die, why are you telling me to hurry up?!"

Medine's body has grown a lot without her realizing it. Her appearance has gradually changed from that of a thirteen or fourteen-year-old to that of Xiangzi's peer. Her waist-length hair has also changed to a gradient of light blue and dark blue.

If this continues, the original Medine will come back.

Their deception plan was made on a temporary basis based on the current Medine; if the original Medine were to return, all their efforts would be in vain.

Originally, at this point, it didn't really matter what happened to Medine. All they needed to do was find the vault and use the number 345124, which had been reinforced countless times in Medine's mind, to open the vault door and complete the mission.

but.

Even Miao Meng herself didn't know where the "safe door containing all of Medien's important information" was located in the airport.

In fact, the first thing she did after waking up was to check the location of the vault, but all she found was an empty wall.

Medine, as the dream master, has more control over the dream than Meow Dream imagined. Perhaps the witch that turned out to be the green-haired magical girl is also causing trouble. In any case, the vault did not appear where Meow Dream wanted it to appear.

Now, that mysterious vault is like a hidden room in a Metroidvania-style game; it could appear anywhere in the maze. Only the dream's master, Medea, knows exactly where it is.

"Even if you're about to die, don't you want to know the truth? Are you just going to die without knowing why you died?" Miao Meng lowered her eyes and looked down at the girl who was yelling at her. "I think you should know what to choose."

With just a few simple words, Miao Meng's acting was even more vivid than Xiangzi's, leaving a deep impression on Medien's mind.

She finally calmed down.

“You’re right… cough cough…” Medine took a deep breath, then coughed up two mouthfuls of blood.

Miaomeng gave her a handkerchief, and Medine breathed a sigh of relief after wiping the blood from the corner of her mouth.

"Even if I die, I want to know what really happened."

"Then let's not delay."

Miaomeng put Xiangzi down and put her arms around both of their shoulders.

"Let's hurry and find that vault containing the secret..."

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"...This farce should come to an end."

Hailing opened her eyes, but instead of turning around and going back to room A-345, she used the hilt of her knife to pry open the safety window on the roof and jumped onto the space outside the car.

"(The control of the explosion is entirely up to you. Control the timing of the fall.)" Hailing drew the hilt of her second katana, which transformed into two lightsabers in her hand.

"(Then what will you do?)"

"(I'm going to stall for time and find a convenient spot to jump.)"

She didn't plan to go back to her room to wait for the explosion. Three minutes wasn't a long time, but it wasn't short either. If she just waited around in that time and something went wrong, she would be doomed.

She chose to continue risking her life to draw the guards' fire, so that even if someone occasionally slipped through the net and found the room, Mu would be able to handle it easily.

The moment Hailing stepped onto the car, dense red lights, like stars in the night sky, flashed across the hexagonal wall, each light representing a security guard.

By doing this, Hailing is essentially exposing herself to the gaze of all security guards, telling them, "Come and kill me."

That's exactly what she thought too.

Swish.

Hailing moved the half-face mask covering her face to the back of her head, making it look like she had two faces.

Then she pulled out a short knife and, in an awkward posture, made two cuts in her back. Blood oozed from the wounds, but did not flow downwards due to gravity.

Two crimson arms made of blood extended from Hailing's shoulder blades and gripped the hilt of the knife at her waist.

Buzz, buzz.

Third, a fourth lightsaber appeared in her two hands behind her back; those were the hilts of her sword.

Her turquoise pupils were stained with the red of blood, and her mouth stretched open to reveal elongated fangs. She raised her hand, and all the lightsabers assumed a stance befitting the Second Heaven First Class.

Four hands, four knives.

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"Ten seconds!"

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"three minutes."

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"One hour."

“The countdown begins.”

The Tale of Reincarnation: The Path of Fall, the Road of No Return: Chapter 633 In the End, I Won

Xiangzi hurried through a group of people dressed in Arabic clothing, but stopped and looked back when he heard a cough.

Medion stopped again, half-prone on the ground, clutching his chest as if he were coughing up his lungs. When the heart-wrenching coughing finally subsided, a patch of dark red blood foam remained on the ground. Medion wiped his mouth with his sleeve and, with Meow Dream's help, got up.

"I'm alright," she said weakly. "Hurry and find the vault."

"Do you have any other impressions of the vault?" Xiangzi walked up to her and asked. "The more reference points we have, the faster we can find it."

"I...let me think about it." Medion closed her eyes, taking a breath. "Vault, vault...my mind is so confused..."

“There’s no time to stop and take your time now—” Xiangzi suddenly turned his head, squinted his eyes, and looked out the window, “—You can slowly recall things here for a while, don’t move around, Miaomeng, keep an eye on her.”

"What are you going to do?"

Miaomeng, supporting Medine, cast a questioning glance at Xiangzi. Xiangzi's answer, however, sounded incoherent.

"coming soon."

"What's coming?"

Xiangzi pulled the gun blade from the Soul Gem and loaded the Seeds of Sorrow one by one into the magazine. Her gaze pierced through the rain-blurred glass, looking at the blurry, crimson dots of light in the rain.

"Familiar".

The crimson light spots became clearer and clearer, eventually almost touching the glass wall of the terminal building.

Clang——!

The floor-to-ceiling window, which was over ten meters long, was smashed to pieces by something and fell to the ground, crushing several unlucky passengers dragging their suitcases to death.

The red alert drowned out the sound of the torrential rain, and screams echoed throughout the airport as passengers scattered like a flock of startled sheep.

There were three enemies who broke in through the window. Unlike the werewolves on the first floor, which had a fantastical feel, and the security guards on the second floor, which were full of cyberpunk style, the enemies standing in front of Xiangzi now were more realistic.

Their upper bodies resembled tank turrets without the cannon barrel, equipped with a heavy machine gun and a six-tube missile pod. Their lower bodies were made of the artificial muscles that Xiangzi had seen on the intrusion sheath, forming thick legs with explosive muscle curves that looked like animal hind limbs magnified several times.

If Rebecca were here, she would definitely point at this thing and scream.

The "Moonlight" walking tank is one of the advanced weapons being researched at her workplace. It uses the same artificial muscle technology as the Invading Sheath and has two control modes: remote control and AI autonomous control. It can move quickly in complex terrain, and the jumping power provided by the artificial muscles can even allow them to jump onto three-story buildings for ambushes.

In reality, the project is still under development, and the three walking tanks that Xiangzi sees only exist on paper.

But in any case, this is indeed a real war machine, and I don't know why it's appearing in my dream now.

"Moo-!"

The moonlight emitted a roar like a bull's bellow, and the artificially muscular legs, filled with violence, shattered the ground, smashing through the passersby in its path and charging straight toward Xiangzi, like a bull that had spotted a red cloth.

"Keep an eye on her!" Xiangzi emphasized again. "I'll handle them!"

The figure with long blue hair leaped into the air, stepping on the back of the charging Moonlight and jumping behind it. However, Meow Dream had already grabbed Medion's collar and dodged to the side, while Moonlight, having failed to charge, crashed directly into the wall.

"Moo!"

The moonlight lifted the tank turret-shaped head from the gap in the wall, turned back to face Xiangzi, and the six-cell ammunition magazine on its back opened.

But the sound of the missile locking on had barely rang out when Moonlight's chin—if it had a chin—suffered a heavy blow.

The bionic muscles of the hind limbs kicked Moonlight's jaw hard from bottom to top, knocking Moonlight, whose weight was comparable to a medium tank, backward.

This wasn't the first time Xiangzi had seen bionic muscles. From the very beginning, when she used the intrusion sheath to descend to a depth of over 3,000 meters, she had been constantly using the reproduction to repair the artificial muscles on the intrusion sheath. She was well aware of how much power this modern, even near-future, military product could unleash. However, she was frustrated by her lack of understanding in this area, and apart from the intrusion sheath used for airdrops, she couldn't reproduce anything more practical.

But the moment she saw the moonlight, she realized that the creature's legs and the intrusion sheath were made of the same material.

With the aid of her dream, she mimicked the same hind limbs without any scanning, and kicked Moonlight hard.

The walking tank, weighing tens of tons, was kicked and fell backward.

Xiangzi restored the artificial muscle hind limbs to magic, then stepped on the moonlight knees and jumped onto the tank's front, raising the gun blade in his hand.

The trigger was pulled, and the Seed of Lamentation unleashed a powerful burst of fire, propelling the blade along the midline of the moonlight from top to bottom.

With a flash of silver light, the bipedal tank split in two along its center line, sending fluorescent blue coolant soaring into the sky. The split body revealed its now chaotic internal structure.

There are two more.

Xiangzi stood on the rubble, watching warily as the two moonlights circled around her.

If they delay any longer, there won't be enough time. Medine will really die while trying to find her way. There's less than an hour left before they fall. If they don't seize the opportunity, they won't even be able to leave this dream.

She gritted her teeth, and a few drops of bright red blood dripped from her clenched fist. Taking down a Moonlight machine hadn't taken much effort at all; the blood was from her own fingernails pricking her palm.

The continuous, rapid, and uncontrollable changes repeatedly destroyed Xiangzi's every impromptu response, pushing her into an ever-deeper abyss.

Was it because I didn't do a good enough job?

Did I do something wrong?

Why is it always like this?

"It's all your fault! You've made it impossible for me to do this or that. Every time I find a new path, there are new obstacles blocking my way. It's all your fault!"

Xiangzi called out to them, his voice trembling slightly.

A deep resentment welled up in his heart, and the desire to destroy everything was almost breaking through its shackles, completely taking over Xiangzi's entire being.

Xiangzi raised her head and looked at the two moonlights that were cautiously surrounding her, not daring to act rashly. She wiped the sweat from her face with her blood-soaked hands, but the bloodstains left marks that looked like battle scars.

When facing Medine, she had to suppress her anger to avoid ruining the whole plan with her emotions.

But now, there's a "toy" that's just right to vent your frustrations.

Xiangzi exhaled the scorching air churning in his lungs, raised his head, and focused his gaze on the remaining two moonbeams.

The fibers of artificial muscles grew out of thin air from Xiangzi's body, forming two arms that floated in the air.

Xiangzi raised his hand and pressed his knuckles, making a cracking sound. His arm, which was floating in the air, also made the same movement.

"You've made me do so many things, and I still can't get them done—"

Bang.

Xiangzi's figure disappeared from the spot.

The next instant, an exoskeleton made of artificial muscles appeared atop one of the Moonlight machines.

"I need to find a place to vent!"

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Boom————!

A security guard crashed into the wall, the immense impact completely destroying its face mask and revealing the mechanical structure beneath, with gears turning.

Hailing's boots followed closely behind, slamming heavily against the wall and completely crushing the already mangled head of the security guard.

This hexahedral space has no concept of "walls" at all; wherever you step, it's the ground.

Hailing landed heavily on the ground, raising all four arms simultaneously to block the lightsabers coming from different directions.

Sizzle sizzle sizzle —

The green and red beams of light rubbed against each other, the flashes so intense they were almost blinding. Hailing lowered her head, as if looking at the enemy through a mask hanging on the back of her head.

The mask of the demon is also a type of Noh mask.

The masks worn by the security guards are often the "female masks" from Noh plays, where they portray weak female characters. Their eerie smiles, combined with various movements that exceed human joint limits, give the security guards' faces a just-right anthropomorphic feel, making them seem neither human nor inhuman, and sending chills down your spine.

But their masks are always "female masks," representing weakness.

The mask Hailing wears on the back of her head is a ghost mask, a cruel and violent evil spirit or monster, and she is the villain in the drama.

The other characters are food for the evil spirits.