Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

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"call......"

Hailing stood still on the concrete ground surrounded by monsters, adjusted her breathing, bent down, and switched both knives to a reverse grip.

She could feel her control over blood gradually decreasing. Now she could no longer conjure two extra hands and weapons from her blood, giving her a 360-degree, no-dead-angle killing range.

Their physical condition was much worse than before. The battle in the elevator had exhausted them to almost nothing, and the Sorrowful Cubes they carried were almost depleted.

That obviously abnormal battle, coupled with the ever-increasing, invisible influence—not just magic, but Hailing could feel her physical strength weakening as well.

Now, she has to face monsters in almost the same number as those she encountered in the elevator, except that there is no huge mountain of flesh blocking her way.

How to do?

She rushed into the middle of the monsters before she began to think, what should she do?

Roar--!

The wandering monsters sensed an invisible pressure and quickly spotted the conspicuous figure standing boldly among them. The monsters closest to her brandished their bone spikes and pounced on the unmoving figure.

The surging monsters almost instantly submerged the area where Hailing was. They piled on top of each other, wriggling and crawling inwards, looking from a distance like a large bulge.

Anyone who gets trapped in such a bulge would probably be suffocating from the pressure. These monsters wouldn't need to do anything; the pressure alone would be enough to kill them.

However, after the bulges piled up for a moment, they seemed to collapse slightly inside. Then, after collapsing a little, the bulges exploded outwards in a more violent manner.

A tornado rose from where the bulge had been, sweeping up all the stitched monsters around it. The sounds of the wind, the cutting of objects by blades, and the monsters' screams came from within the tornado. Severed limbs and black blood turned the tornado into a pitch-black color.

The tornado spun for nearly twenty seconds before stopping, and black blood fell like rain, scattering across the ground.

After the storm subsided, Hailing's figure, drenched in black blood, appeared at the eye of the storm.

Hailing exhaled the scorching air from her lungs, put the hilt of the knife in her left hand into her mouth, biting the hilt, and took out a Lamentation Cube with her free hand to replenish the magic power she had just used.

She's not the kind of person who relies on magic, but that doesn't mean she can't do anything with magic in this situation.

She couldn't precisely conjure limbs and weapons from blood, but she could certainly accelerate the flow of blood within her internal environment.

The heart rate increases with each breath, and blood circulates faster throughout the body, delivering oxygen to every corner of the body.

Her entire metabolic rate was pushed to the limit, and various hormones were secreted wildly under Hai Ling's control, turning her body into a meat grinder in a short period of time.

The whirlwind of blades cleared a space in the harbor almost instantly.

There were still quite a few monsters left. After clearing a large area, monsters kept pouring in. Visually, it was much more exaggerated than when they were in the elevator. No wonder Hailing had consumed so much energy earlier.

It's hard to imagine how many people were crammed here during the evacuation.

Miaomeng followed behind Hailing, but her eyes kept wandering around, as if searching for something.

"Strange, I think I just saw... that thing... Could it really have been brought to the port?" Meow Dream muttered to herself.

Suddenly, a tiny golden glint flashed in her vision, and Miaomeng's eyes widened in shock.

that's it!

"Nyan Mengzi!" Hailing took the knife hilt from her mouth and shouted behind her, "Ready to charge! Stay close to me!"

However, this time she did not hear a response from Miaomeng.

Hailing suddenly turned around and found that Miaomeng, who should have been behind her, had suddenly disappeared.

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boom--!

A violent explosion occurred not far away. Just seconds before, Xiangzi ducked to avoid a lunge, grabbed the foot of a monster that was lunging at her, and with her other hand, she pried open the pins of several grenades, stuffed them into the monster's mouth on its abdomen, and then threw them towards the pile of monsters in front of her.

Xiangzi covered his ears.

A cloud of dark blood mist exploded not far away, and the sound of the explosion startled all the monsters wandering inside the corridor.

The explosion didn't actually kill many people; instead, it enraged the group. They had been wandering around aimlessly, but now they were focusing all their attention and hatred on Xiangzi.

However, this might be more convenient.

Xiangzi untied the string of grenades tied to his belt, pulled out the pins of a few of them, and threw them to the furthest point from him. Then he immediately shrank to the corner of the wall and used magic to create an iron plate to block in front of him.

In confined spaces, the effects of explosives are more pronounced.

boom--!

There was another, even louder, explosion than before. When Xiangzi poked his head out again, there were far fewer monsters left that could still move.

Xiangzi glanced at the room across the way again. Mu seemed to have found something on the table where the computer was, and curiously pressed a button on it.

"Mu?!"

click -

Xiangzi heard the sound of something closing, and then—

Thunder, rain, the sound of shoveling dirt—it sounded like something was being buried—followed by a guitar intro.

Is this a song?

"What are you doing?" Xiangzi spread his hands, making a puzzled gesture towards the glass.

"I think Xiang will like it," Mu mouthed on the other end. "With music, Xiang will be happy."

Amidst the desolate guitar solo and the singer's hoarse humming, Xiangzi found his toes unconsciously tapping to the rhythm of the music.

".......ha."

Xiangzi helplessly curled the corners of his mouth, unable to deny Mu's words.

Listening to the music, she really started to get excited.

Xiangzi tapped his toes to the rhythm, switching his weapons to two pistols. The bullets inside the pistols were modified to hollow-point bullets, which were more lethal to the flesh.

After blowing up two waves, these will be enough to take care of the rest.

She looked up, twirled the pistol twice around her fingertips, and then pointed it forward.

The monster at the front had a relatively intact upper half of its human head, not completely replaced by other mixed tissues. Long hair hung down to its chest, and its face was as calm as still water. It took a step with its deformed feet, and its wildly waving deformed body affected innocent companions, sweeping a monster that couldn't even stand properly to the ground, which was then trampled by the other monsters that followed.

The next moment, the intro to the song ended, the drumbeats replaced the thunder, the electric guitar replaced the sound of rain, the splashing mud and footsteps were replaced by the understated bass, and the singer was no longer humming alone, but letting his voice flow freely.

Suddenly, the atmosphere became much more enthusiastic.

Xiangzi pulled the trigger.

Bang!

Perhaps influenced by the music, Xiangzi's movements became bolder. She stepped on the monster that was about to fall, leaped into the air, crossed her arms, and pointed the gun directly downwards.

Bullets rained down from the sky.

The bullet expanded and burst after encountering resistance, scattering flesh and blood from the joint area.

While Xiangzi was unusually excited about the music, Mu covered one of his eyes, revealing an expression of enduring pain.

She was in the next passageway, moving forward along with Xiangzi, her gaze fixed on him, unable to look away for a long time.

"I'm sorry, Xiang," she said softly, "I'm going to be a bad kid again this time."

The Tale of Transcendence: Stars and Us: Chapter 806 The Five Elements Key Card

A few minutes later, Hailing arrived at the other side of the harbor, panting heavily.

Behind her, black blood flowed like a river, flowing down to the port floor and mixing with the seawater, turning the seawater black like ink spreading.

As she leaned against the wall, panting, and turned around to find another teammate who had disappeared sometime earlier, she discovered that he was casually leaning against the railing behind her and had even turned off the valve for her.

Once the valve is closed, the remaining monsters in the port will no longer be able to get through.

"Phew, how did we get to the bottom so quickly?" Miao Meng wiped the sweat from her forehead and flicked a gold ID card in her hand. "I didn't feel anything at all, it was like I pressed Skip."

“Because I’m the one doing most of the work, you…” Hailing raised the knife and placed it on Miaomeng’s shoulder, looking at her with dead fish eyes, as if she were looking at a dead person.

Disappearing and reappearing inexplicably, could it be...?

Hailing's gaze gradually turned cold.

"Wow, what are you doing?! Murdering your teammate?!" Meow Dream shuddered in fright.

brush--!

The blade sliced ​​through Miaomeng's clothes, leaving a black mark.

"It's nothing," Hailing said casually. "I just need to borrow your clothes to wipe the blood off."

"Oh, you! You're using me as a rag, aren't you!" Miaomeng yelled. "I'm going to tell Xiangzi!"

“She’ll agree.” Hailing wiped the blade clean, sheathed the sword, and gestured with her chin toward the direction behind Miaomeng. “Isn’t that the hospital over there?”

“Uh, yes.” Miao Meng nodded, showing off the gold ID card she had found in the chaos of battle, and waved it conspicuously in front of Hai Ling.

"?"

Hailing looked at her like she was crazy.

"You were just looking for this thing?"

"While you were busy killing monsters, I was already looking for it." Meow Dream proudly curled its nose. "Don't underestimate the master thief Meow Dream."

"How about that?" She patted Hailing on the shoulder. "Still saying I'm useless?"

“I didn’t say you were useless, I just said that I was the one doing all the work.”

"Hmm...that seems to be the case, but aren't they all the same thing?!"

"is it?"

"That bag is it!"

"So, is this thing important?"

“Of course!” Meow Dream patted her chest. “This thing was supposed to be in the hospital, but who knows what went wrong with the guy who was with it, trying to escape with ordinary people? If I hadn’t seen it, we wouldn’t have been able to open the back door of the hospital!”

"This is a key, right?"

“Yeah, Muko and I have been investigating this thing a lot during our time in the lower city, like these keys.” Meow Dream held out her hand. “There are five of them in total.”

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boom!

The last monster fell to the bullet, and the music ended just then.

Xiangzi put down his pistol, took a deep breath, then took out his black card and walked towards the card reader at the end of the corridor.

“(Xiang, wait a moment.)” At this moment, Mu called out to her from the next corridor.

"(What are you doing?)" Xiangzi stopped in his tracks.

Because of the glass barrier, they could only communicate by reading aloud.

However, for some reason, Xiangzi's voice sounded a little strange, though he couldn't quite put his finger on it... To put it simply, when people talk aloud, their voices sound slightly different from usual, just like when they're talking through a microphone on the phone.

After all, the mediums of transmission are different, so it's normal for there to be some differences.

However, Xiangzi didn't seem to notice any difference in Mu's voice, whether it was reading aloud or speaking normally.

Is it just my imagination?

Or is that really the case?

“(You should be able to find an ID card on the biggest monster you just killed.)” Mu said. “(It was the security supervisor; he should have been with me.)”

"(ID card? Don't I already have one?)" Xiangzi tilted his head and asked.

However, despite saying that, Xiangzi still squatted down and searched the largest monster for a while, eventually finding the slightly different bright red ID card.

What is this thing used for?

"(That's a special ID card needed to access the area behind the hospital.)" Mu said. "(There are five in total; I have one, the security supervisor has one, so we've collected two.)"

"(What if someone runs off with the key card? Then we'll never be able to open the door again.)"

“Those five people aren’t quite right; they probably know a lot of inside information,” Mu explained. “And this hospital isn’t quite right either; I don’t think they’ll just leave.”

"(If I really leave...)"

"(Then all we can do is hope to find them somewhere else.)" Mu shrugged helplessly. "(For the city lord, perhaps the best outcome would be for them to drown in the sea with the key.)"

"......"