Chapter 170: A Family Should Be Neat and Tidy

Yin Lin used her shortest-charge instant-cast magic cannon.

The small ball of light shot out like a snowball.

The firing frequency wasn’t slow, but it wasn’t particularly fast either.

Her aim was mediocre, missing two out of three shots, but one hit. It struck Lv Ye’s chest and exploded, causing some minor injuries.

To hide her magical presence, Lv Ye wasn’t wearing her magical girl uniform. Her clothes’ magical defense was almost zero. At this moment, her physical body’s magical resistance was bearing the brunt, and her physical defense wasn’t high, so she naturally suffered minor injuries.

Yin Lin’s magical ability was too strong and very troublesome.

It was like playing a Souls-like game where the player character had high attack, low defense, and thin health.

The BOSS also had high attack, thin health, and low defense.

Lv Ye was that player challenging the BOSS.

Yin Lin was naturally the big BOSS in her eyes. There were countless ways to deal with Yin Lin: poison gas, frontal assault, attrition—anything would work.

There were plenty of methods.

However, it was also very easy to be instantly killed by Yin Lin, the big BOSS.

Lv Ye had mastered some tricks for dealing with Yin Lin; she must never let Yin Lin enter Phase 2.

That meant before capturing her, she couldn’t humiliate her too harshly, couldn’t break her composure, couldn’t make her too angry, and couldn’t drop her health bar too low. This was the key to victory.

Once Yin Lin started charging her magic cannon or used the Heaven-Splitting Spear, the fight would be impossible to win. She would be killed.

She had to take Yin Lin down during Phase 1 and not let her enter Phase 2.

The battle continued.

Even though only close combat could threaten Yin Lin, Lv Ye started running away again.

Yin Lin vaguely felt something was wrong, but she decided to give chase anyway.

The direction Lv Ye was fleeing was toward Jin Luan and Huan Hong. She might be looking for hostages to use as threats. With this thought in mind, Yin Lin continued to fire short-charge magic cannons while pursuing.

Some flowers, plants, and trees blocked the shots. Fortunately, she had plenty of mana. She kept firing instant-cast magic cannons, and Lv Ye, without her magical girl uniform or a shield, couldn’t hold out much longer after being blasted.

Her whole body was bleeding slightly.

Seeing that the instant-cast magic cannons couldn’t immediately stop Lv Ye’s movement, Yin Lin created a new windbreak wall and pushed it out with even greater force.

It hit Lv Ye again. When Lv Ye was still about ten meters away from Jin Luan and the others, she was finally pushed to the ground once more.

Sometimes, making an enemy lose their mobility immediately was more important than slowly whittling them down.

Lv Ye shouldn’t be able to take Jin Luan and Huan Hong hostage now.

This magical girl with strange fetishes looked quite miserable at the moment, looking like a defeated opponent.

She wanted to appear pitiful, but the frantic, excited expression on her face couldn’t be hidden.

It was extremely absurd and eerie for these two emotions to appear on one person at the same time.

For a moment, it was unclear whether she was surrendering or not.

Yin Lin’s staff pointed at her again.

She sat on the ground and kept backing away, looking very much like she was surrendering and begging for mercy.

Atchoo!

Combined with her nose and eyes, which were red from the spray, and her body covered in injuries from the magic cannon, she looked as if she had been abused.

However… the expression on her face clearly carried a frantic excitement, like a wolf looking at a sheep. She was almost unable to control herself, looking as if she might pounce at any moment.

She was even drooling, her tongue licking the corners of her mouth.

What kind of weird expression was this?

Yin Lin noticed Jin Luan and Huan Hong not far behind, shaking their heads constantly and making muffled wuwuwu sounds, looking very agitated.

I understand what you mean; you’re telling me not to let Lv Ye go.

Yin Lin waved at them, signaling for them to rest assured. She certainly wouldn’t let Lv Ye off easily.

Yin Lin slowly walked toward Lv Ye.

Inwardly, she felt Lv Ye was a bit strange. In her memory, this person loved to resist and loved to attack magical girls.

Why wasn’t she even using her whip now, but instead kept running away, looking like a weak woman?

Strange as it was, she still had to deal with her.

To prevent any underhanded traps, Yin Lin deliberately took a circuitous route, circling around from the side.

Jin Luan and Huan Hong seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and weren’t as agitated anymore.

But they still kept making wuwuwu sounds as if they wanted to say something, shaking their heads as if trying to convey some information.

Yin Lin made a stopping gesture to them again. Don’t worry, relax, I definitely won’t let Lv Ye go.

To put them at ease, Yin Lin actually fired a shot. A minimum-power instant-cast magic cannon hit the defenseless Lv Ye, exploding again and drawing blood from Lv Ye’s shoulder.

Atchoo!

“So evil, attacking even someone who has lost the ability to resist!” Lv Ye still had that strange expression. Although she was frowning in pain, she still had that crazed look as if she wanted to devour someone, as if she wanted to strip Yin Lin bare and eat her up.

“Don’t move. If you move again, I’ll keep firing. Don’t blame me for being ruthless then,” Yin Lin shouted at her.

Lv Ye backed away a few more steps and then stopped. She was only six or seven meters away from Jin Luan and the others, a distance she could reach with a sudden dash.

Yin Lin walked over and stood not far from her. Just as she was about to go over and apprehend Lv Ye, Jin Luan and Huan Hong nearby struggled with all their might, shaking violently.

Their muffled cries were almost as loud as a normal person’s voice.

I understand what you mean; you’re cheering excitedly for my victory.

At that moment, Lv Ye suddenly moved. With her hands over her head, she dashed toward Yin Lin and slammed into her.

Yin Lin didn’t indulge her. An instant-cast magic cannon was fired, creating new wounds on Lv Ye’s body.

Lv Ye also hit Yin Lin, knocking her back a few steps.

In those few steps, Yin Lin felt her leg step on something. It caught her ankle, and then everything turned upside down as she was hung upside down.

Holy crap, there really was a trap?

She wanted to fly away to escape, but her staff was caught by Lv Ye’s whip. With a hard tug, the staff was pulled out of her hand, making her unable to use magic anymore.

She wanted to summon the staff back, but she didn’t have enough power to break free from Lv Ye’s whip.

It’s over!

She quickly covered her skirt to avoid exposing herself.

“Sister, I’m sorry. There were many people watching me just now, so I was wrong. I shouldn’t have attacked you.” Yin Lin immediately begged for mercy, not being stubborn at all and showing no sign of being headstrong.

Lv Ye looked extremely excited, rubbing her small hands together.

First, she took off her backpack and set it aside, not caring about the backpack for now.

There was something more important than investigating the truth. She had endured for a long time and couldn’t hold back anymore.

Looking at Yin Lin hanging upside down in the air, she said, “Little baby, put your hands behind your back.”

Yin Lin obediently did so, watching as Lv Ye took out handcuffs.

She hurriedly said, “Sister, there’s no need for that. I’m very well-behaved.”

Lv Ye didn’t listen to her and still put the handcuffs on her, cuffing her hands behind her back.

Only then did she let Yin Lin down, carrying her over to Jin Luan and Huan Hong, tying the backs of all three of them together.

The whole family was finally together, neat and tidy.