It felt like this Liang Tai kid had some issues; he clearly wanted to manufacture some big news.
The title of the live broadcast room was “Magical Girl vs. Tentacle Monster.”
His popularity had naturally soared to the top of the platform, even surpassing the popularity of those dancing girls supported by guilds.
One of the main reasons he was so popular was that he always rushed to the front lines to film explosive, first-hand scenes.
The same was true now.
From a distance of less than one kilometer, the massive body of the Octopus Tentacle Monster could already be captured while filming from the ground.
When he launched his drones for close-up shots, that gargantuan form gave the audience an incredibly immersive experience.
The scene of the Defeated Team’s loss had already been recorded; now, it was the Magical Girls’ turn.
The camera zoomed in for a close-up of Huan Hong and Jin Luan in the air.
‘I feel like Huan Hong is a bit different today… Does she seem more imposing than usual?’
Yao Ruoning sat in her train car on the way back, scrolling through her phone.
From time to time, she looked out the window, concerned about both the situation on the ground and the situation underground.
She didn’t have much faith in Jin Luan and Huan Hong right now, especially Huan Hong.
Huan Hong had only just achieved Resonance, and her combat power was still slowly increasing.
She wasn’t at the point where she could suddenly explode with power and slaughter Demonic Creatures yet.
She still needed several months to develop.
She wouldn’t be able to handle this Octopus Tentacle Monster, which was roughly twenty meters tall.
Huan Hong’s combat relied on heavy physical attacks.
This meant she had to obey the physical laws of the real world, making it difficult for her to deal with high-tonnage targets.
Whatever Jin Luan said, Huan Hong moved in with her Staff.
She leaped down from 100 meters in the air, performing a falling attack.
The Staff slammed heavily onto the Octopus Tentacle Monster’s giant head, shattering the outer tissues and smashing out a one-meter-deep crater.
Then came a series of Flat Slashes, followed by Sky Strike and Dragon Tooth, connecting into a Circle Dance Pole and then a Shattering Strike.
She took a couple of breaths before launching a Meteor Shadow Strike, finishing with a full-strength Brilliant Dragon Crescent Slash.
[“This is great! Every hit landed! Humanity is saved!”]
Cheers erupted in Liang Tai’s live room as the Bullet Screen scrolled frantically.
The Octopus Tentacle Monster’s massive eyes stared at Huan Hong, as if to say, ‘Is that it?’
The large hole in its head was still split open and hadn’t healed immediately.
The Magical Girl’s attacks were somewhat effective; they managed to make its recovery exceptionally slow.
Immediately after, it counterattacked.
A tentacle swept toward her, which Huan Hong managed to avoid with great difficulty.
Unexpectedly, there was a second tentacle that slapped Huan Hong hard, sending her hurtling from the air to the ground.
Just as she was trying to crawl back up, the monster’s smaller tentacles coiled over and wrapped around her body.
The binding wasn’t actually as intense as Greenfield’s.
Greenfield had countless experiences capturing Magical Girls and had conducted academic research on how to bind them, even mixing in artistic elements.
This Tentacle Monster simply coiled around her like a python.
There was still a chance to slip away.
However, there were suckers on its tentacles, which meant Huan Hong couldn’t break free with brute force, nor could she use technique to slide out.
The Tentacle Monster didn’t eat her, nor did it kill her.
It clearly knew it had caught something extraordinary.
Magical Girls were different from ordinary Humans.
It began to treat the Magical Girl differently, and its other thin tentacles reached toward her.
Right at that moment, the image on Yao Ruoning’s phone changed.
A video advertisement started playing; Liang Tai had manually inserted it.
The Bullet Screen immediately erupted in arguments.
[“Is the streamer even human? Inserting an ad at a time like this!”]
[“Unsubscribing.”]
[“We treated you like a brother, and this is how you treat us?”]
[“I paid for this! Let me see!”]
[“I just came back from other live rooms, and none of them are filming as close as Liang.”]
Yao Ruoning also felt it was a total buzzkill.
Since she wasn’t the one fighting the Tentacle Monster, she naturally wanted to see some exciting content.
She finally waited for Liang Tai’s thirty-second advertisement to finish, but then he inserted a brand-new one.
‘Damn it!’
Yao Ruoning had reached a transfer station.
She got off the train and walked for a bit to the new platform to wait for the Metro toward the power plant.
Liang Tai’s live room finally finished the series of consecutive ads, and the image returned.
At a glance, it was already a shot of Jin Luan taking action.
She sliced off the monster’s small tentacles and rescued a dripping wet Huan Hong.
As for why Huan Hong was dripping wet?
It was hard to say; it was complicated.
The two flew at a low altitude, constantly dodging the dense clusters of tentacles.
Yao Ruoning observed the Tentacle Monster’s movement patterns with a research-oriented mindset.
She felt that this monster’s flexibility didn’t seem as high as the ones belonging to the Contract Goddess.
The tentacle minions in the False Space could perform all sorts of nuanced movements.
Whether it was marching or picking a Fruit of the World Tree, they could do it perfectly.
The twenty-meter-tall Octopus Tentacle Monster appearing on the surface was much cruder in its movements.
Its most precise action had been grabbing Huan Hong.
Unfortunately, because the ad had been inserted at that moment, she couldn’t see if there were even more precise movements.
Therefore, Yao Ruoning still found it difficult to judge whether this Tentacle Monster was one of the Contract Goddess’s tentacle toys.
She continued watching.
The Tentacle Monster had over a dozen tentacles waving simultaneously.
The large ones tried to swat the two Magical Girls out of the air, while the small ones tried to grab them, but none succeeded.
Jin Luan was exceptionally courageous at this moment.
Perhaps she had remembered the humiliation of being caught by Greenfield, as she continuously consumed her Mana to fight the Tentacle Monster without being stingy.
The Uchigatana infused with golden flames easily sliced through the small tentacles, but it couldn’t cut the large ones without a Charged Attack.
Even if the tentacles were cut, the creature’s limbs would eventually reconnect, though it took quite a long time.
Jin Luan and Huan Hong exchanged several sets of hand signals.
They were longtime partners and had established tactics.
After receiving the command, Huan Hong began to lower her altitude with a look of pure disgust, intentionally baiting the tentacles to attack.
Her face looked as if she were eating something foul.
Once her altitude dropped, the tentacle activity became even denser, posing a massive threat to her.
By this time, Jin Luan had already risen to the level of the Tentacle Monster’s head.
Right then, Huan Hong was caught by a small tentacle again, which coiled around her waist.
Just as she was about to strike back with her Staff, several more small tentacles seized her left and right arms.
Jin Luan, meanwhile, began a Charged Attack, clearly preparing to land a lethal blow on the Tentacle Monster.
Yet more tentacles grabbed Huan Hong’s legs.
“Let’s insert another ad. Brothers, my shoulders have been sore lately, so I recommend this massage—”
Liang Tai cut the feed again, and another thirty-second advertisement started.
[“Are you kidding me?!”]
[“The streamer is a total scumbag.”]
Even Yao Ruoning felt this kid was being dishonest.
Keeping the good parts for himself and not sharing them with his brothers was just too cold.
This time, the ads ran for ten minutes.
By the time the image returned, the Magical Girls were nowhere to be found.
Were they eaten? Killed?
That was impossible.
Looking at how the Tentacle Monster had treated the Magical Girls differently from the Humans earlier, she knew something was off about it.
It likely wouldn’t kill a Magical Girl.
So, where did Jin Luan and Huan Hong go?
Looking at the scene again, the originally defeated Defeated Team had begun a new round of attacks.
This time, the Special Task Force had also arrived, pouring dense, heavy firepower onto the Tentacle Monster.
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