The crucial day had arrived.
Yin Lin opened her eyes, feeling extremely sleepy and groggy.
She pulled out her phone to check the time; it was only 6:00 AM.
Her biological clock, developed over many years, usually woke her up punctually around 8:00 AM, yet it was only 6:00 now.
It was a bit strange, but she didn’t think much of it and went back to sleep. Her head felt heavy and uncomfortable.
She didn’t wake again until the 8:00 AM alarm went off.
Opening her eyes, she felt much more awake, though her head still didn’t feel quite right.
She felt like she hadn’t slept well, and there was a chilly breeze between her legs.
Only then did she realize she was still in her magical girl form.
She remembered her dazed state last night—going out to the suburbs with Huang Yi for a late-night snack, drinking some grape soda, and snacking on melon seeds.
Afterward, she started feeling unwell. Could that soda have contained alcohol?
She hadn’t asked Huang Yi for clarification.
Then she had flown back in a daze, hadn’t showered, hadn’t canceled her transformation, and had just fallen into a deep sleep like that.
At the thought that she might have blacked out from drinking, she hurriedly felt her ** chest. The feel was normal, the sensation was normal, and there were no signs of having been tampered with.
She pulled off her underwear to check, and everything was fine there too.
Huang Yi probably had no interest in a little brat like her. Last night was likely just a common case of being drunk?
Yin Lin breathed a sigh of relief.
She canceled her transformation and returned to her state as Song Wuli.
He pulled back the curtains and looked outside. The piercing sunlight streamed in, making it difficult for him to keep his eyes open.
Was the sun already this blinding at 8:00 AM? Was the sun particularly fierce today?
He rubbed his eyes, went to the bathroom to wash up, and then made a simple breakfast of egg fried rice.
He turned on the TV to watch the morning news.
“This is a very new type of Aberrant! It is an extremely rare Aberrant, possibly a high-ranking one!”
The content on the television was explosive. It was indeed news, but it didn’t look like the morning news; it was a special report.
The footage was shaky because the cameraman and the reporter were both running for their lives.
A building had collapsed, crashing down toward the street.
Song Wuli took a bite of his fried rice and chewed, remaining very calm.
Although that building had collapsed, it didn’t seem to have hit anyone. It looked spectacular, but there were likely no casualties.
Dust and smoke billowed at the scene. Once the dust had cleared slightly, the cameraman’s lens zoomed in and focused on a target flying in the sky.
A Flight-type Aberrant was flying through the air, looking to be about two meters tall.
Something wasn’t right. This was too short; the height of Aberrants was generally much taller than this.
Moreover, Flight-type Aberrants were rare and hardly ever appeared in the city. For some reason, most of those Flight-type Aberrants wandered around in remote, uninhabited areas and almost never showed up in cities.
The sudden appearance of a lone Flight-type Aberrant today seemed a bit abrupt and illogical.
But then he thought, since the other party was an Aberrant, why care about logic?
If a monster wants to show up, it shows up. It’s not like they only show up when Ultraman is on the clock, right?
Their whole thing was being free-spirited and unpredictable.
The cameraman did another close-up, continuing to film that strange Aberrant.
At that moment, the Aberrant was seen cracking a whip, tearing a massive fissure into another building nearby.
Huh? An Aberrant holding a whip?
Wait, why does that whip look so familiar?
Song Wuli’s sense of fear was instantly triggered, and goosebumps broke out all over his body.
The TV screen flickered, showing a close-up of the magical girls also flying in the air nearby—it was Jin Luan and Huan Hong.
Huh? Isn’t it only eight o’clock? How are they already on the scene?
Is this a replay of some past event? Or is it a magical girl movie?
Old Song took another bite of fried rice and glanced at a corner of the television, which displayed the current time.
10:25 AM.
What the hell? It’s already 10:30?
He picked up his silver phone and looked at it; it said 8:25 AM.
He looked up at the TV again. It was indeed 10:25 AM.
He looked back down at his phone. It was indeed 8:25.
No, how could the time on the phone be wrong?
He unlocked the phone to check. There were messages inside from Jin Luan and Huan Hong.
***
The time rewinds back over half an hour.
Jin Luan and Huan Hong were waiting on the rooftop. They hadn’t been able to contact Yin Lin or Huang Yi.
Gradually, they became a bit uneasy, wondering if something had happened.
Suddenly, Jin Luan sensed something—the aura of magic power. It was at the edge of her sensory range, quite a distance from here.
She hurriedly took flight and headed toward that location.
The people from the Eastern Alliance naturally saw Jin Luan’s movements and tracked them.
After flying for a certain distance, Huan Hong also sensed that magic power.
The two of them looked in shock at the thing getting closer. It was an Aberrant that looked only two meters tall, holding a whip and destroying buildings.
As the Flight-type Aberrant raised its hand and brought down the whip, a long scratch would be lashed into a building. After a few more lashes, the building would just collapse like that. Many humans were fleeing on the roads, but the buildings didn’t crush them when they fell.
!
The Flight-type Aberrant continued its spree of wanton destruction. It flew down to the streets and whipped the cars parked by the roadside. With one strike, a car would be split into two sections.
Some people abandoned their cars and fled on foot.
The Flight-type Aberrant kept wildly brandishing its whip in the air, creating one thrilling scene after another, scaring the wits out of those humans.
Adults held their children, pleading with the Aberrant, hoping it wouldn’t hurt them.
The children, meanwhile, were praying for the magical girls to appear quickly.
“Stop right there!” Jin Luan shouted at the Aberrant.
The Flight-type Aberrant actually stopped and turned around to look at them.
They confronted the Flight-type Aberrant from a distance of thirty meters.
Seeing that the magical girls had appeared, the other people quickly began to flee, while some shouted: “Go for it, magical girls! Defeat the Aberrant and drive it away!”
Jin Luan stared at the Aberrant. The words at the tip of her tongue couldn’t be spoken. She didn’t say what she originally intended, but changed her tune: “You damned Aberrant, we magical girls will not let you have your way! Prepare to die!”
Her voice was stiff, giving off a feeling like she was reading from a script.
Huan Hong, meanwhile, whispered a question to Jin Luan: “I keep feeling… this isn’t an Aberrant. What do you think?”
Jin Luan: “Right now, this is an Aberrant. Get ready for battle.”
She was very serious, and her blade was already unsheathed.
However, the Flight-type Aberrant began to flee. Its flight speed was exceptionally fast, exceeding that of Jin Luan and Huan Hong.
Everywhere the Aberrant passed, it would continuously destroy buildings. Occasionally, it would dive toward the humans fleeing in panic, brandishing its whip at them.
Even the concrete road surface was whipped into deep trenches by the Aberrant’s lashes. The elevated bridges were even less able to withstand a single strike from this Flight-type Aberrant, snapping easily into two pieces and falling from the sky to crash onto the ground.
Jin Luan and Huan Hong felt like they were being led on a wild goose chase; they couldn’t catch up to the Aberrant.
The Aberrant, however, could continuously fly further away to cause destruction, leaving only when they got close.
They played this game for half an hour, throwing people into a state of panic. The people over by Next Day Plaza also knew that a Flight-type Aberrant had appeared, and some began to evacuate in an orderly fashion.