Què Yì’s new QA version is still being perfected.
Today, the busiest team was the QA team, but everyone else wasn’t particularly busy—it was essentially a day off for them.
They just spent the day eating, drinking, and having fun at the company to relax.
The Wenan Group had new work again, needing to fill in event copy.
This time, there was a rather embarrassing piece of copy that was handed off to Greta, who was on leave, asking her to work remotely and write those syrupy-sweet messages meant for the players.
Sometimes, Què Yì’s games sent emails to players—either to celebrate their birthdays, or the birthdays of in-game characters, or various holiday greetings.
In short, they had to write some cringey sweet talk that felt almost like roleplaying.
These tasks were light, so the Wenan Group wasn’t particularly busy.
Huan Hong’s injuries had also healed somewhat, and she had recovered some combat capability—she could fight again.
Jin Luan set a time: tonight.
She planned to sneak into the sewer for a deep investigation.
All the preparations were ready.
Why tonight?
According to Jin Luan, tonight presented an opportunity to go down and investigate that place.
Miss it, and there might never be another chance.
Song Wuli didn’t understand and asked about the specifics—why was tonight the only chance for the investigation?
Jin Luan explained the reason in the Sisterhood’s group chat.
She had discovered that after they investigated the sewer that night, the Eastern Alliance’s people also arrived at that location and started digging downward, trying to carve a tunnel to a depth of 3,000 meters underground.
“Just a few days?”
Huan Hong asked.
“Is technology this terrifying now?”
“They’ll almost reach it this afternoon. It’s expected to break through tonight.”
While Huan Hong was grumbling, Yin Lin was thinking about something else.
Had Jin Luan left on purpose that night?
Knowing that the two of them couldn’t go down—how did Jin Luan have such high intelligence?
Was this still Jin Luan?
Could she be a reincarnation of Zhuge Liang?
Yin Lin constructed some logic in her mind, imagining that Jin Luan and Huang Yi had coordinated.
Let Yin Lin act as a radar to detect the underground cavity, then send Huang Yi to convince the Eastern Alliance to put in the effort to dig, and finally secretly let the Magical Girls sneak in to explore.
Although Song Wuli felt something was off, he had already come up with a similar guess.
Old Song had lived in the greenhouse for so long and usually didn’t like playing mind games with people—his tactical intelligence hadn’t improved much.
Ultimately, his ability in this area was only at an average human level; it wasn’t a specialty.
Huan Hong didn’t think much about it either.
Even though she had known Jin Luan for a long time, she just asked another question:
“Wow, how did you get so smart?”
She also didn’t dig deeper.
It wasn’t until they met late at night, seeing the large bag Jin Luan was carrying, that Yin Lin finally began to suspect something—but she didn’t voice it and held back.
Miss Yin remembered her persona and maintained her habit of frequently mocking others.
“You wouldn’t have been kicked out of your house by your family for falling behind in your studies for so long, would you?”
Jin Luan was accustomed to her unfriendly mouth and explained:
“The bag is for the preparations for this operation.”
She hung her large bag on her uchigatana, using the magic wand as a porter.
Jin Luan had even researched where the Eastern Alliance was digging.
They started the tunnel from a metro line, not from the sewer or on the street.
That section of the metro was closed off and guarded.
Strangely, a few of the guards happened to be going to the bathroom or sleeping.
Just like that, the three sisters infiltrated.
It was obviously pre-arranged—even Huan Hong could tell.
Under Jin Luan’s lead, the three sisters entered the metro tunnel.
When they reached the excavation site, they saw many people there.
A small base had already been constructed, and workers were busy.
The Special Task Force people were also there, but the Defeated Team wasn’t.
They had already broken through.
They had just used a robot to probe the underground situation and got bad news.
The robot couldn’t explore; a real person had to go down.
To speed up the digging, the hole they made was only 60 cm in diameter.
A person could be lowered in a cage.
If they were going to do that, the passenger’s shoulder width had to be less than 50 cm, which eliminated many people.
The three sisters continued to hide, waiting for something.
Jin Luan opened her bag and first took out three items.
They were single-tube night vision devices.
Huh?
High-tech like that?
They felt a bit out of place but still put them on.
Jin Luan kept checking the time.
A few minutes later, at 23:40.
Something happened at the small base—seemed like they were arranging a post-breakthrough tactic.
Everyone gathered in a remote place for a meeting.
This was too obvious.
It was clearly to create an opportunity for the Magical Girls to enter, deliberately pulling people away.
Jin Luan led the team and immediately flew to the hole, diving in first.
Although the hole was narrow, for the petite Magical Girls, it was quite spacious—they could easily go down.
Huan Hong went in second, Yin Lin third.
Miss Yin really didn’t like this hole; she felt a bit claustrophobic.
Her mind involuntarily recalled some terrifying scenes from movies.
Like the walls suddenly closing in and crushing people to death.
Or the ceiling collapsing and burying people alive.
Or someone dropping a knife from above, stabbing the people below.
In short, flying through this stretch was uncomfortable and frightening.
Fortunately, their flight speed was fast enough.
They crossed this artificially carved deep hole in two minutes.
The single-tube night vision device turned on, allowing her left eye to barely see the surroundings.
There were actually buildings here—it wasn’t a cave.
No wonder it wasn’t suitable for small robots or drones to explore.
It turned out the hole had been dug right into a small plaza—a bit of luck.
It was probably about 1,000 square meters.
The walls were all made of stone blocks, and the only entrance was a huge door.
That door couldn’t be opened by small robots or small drones; they would need a larger robot or manual force.
The moment Jin Luan descended, she opened her bag again.
She pulled out some small oxygen cylinders and breathing apparatuses.
Without giving Huan Hong and Yin Lin a chance to refuse, she forced them onto them.
Then she quietly arranged a plan: have Yin Lin turn on her device first, using the breathing apparatus along the way.
When her oxygen ran out, switch to Huan Hong, and finally to Jin Luan.
If the air here was problematic and caused others to collapse, at least one person could stay active and open the oxygen for the teammates.
Yin Lin and Huan Hong were stunned.
Was this really Jin Luan?
Her IQ was this high?
Her mind so meticulous?
Not only that, Jin Luan also pulled thin string from her big bag.
She let out the string as she walked.
One end of the string was tied to a stone surface to secure it.
She explained that this was to guard against illusion magic—she had heard about it but didn’t understand it deeply.
Jin Luan briefly explained:
“Some Magical Girls or Demonic Creatures can use psychic attacks to make people lose their sense of direction.”
“Now we’re laying a string. If we get hit by a psychic attack and can’t see the way, we can feel along this string to find the hole and escape from this place.”
“Even without a psychic attack, if the night vision device fails and there’s no other light source, we can follow this thin string back.”
Listening to Jin Luan’s explanation, Huan Hong and Yin Lin were truly shocked.
This was way too smart.
It was like a completely different person from the old Jin Luan.
The old Jin Luan wasn’t stupid—she was actually somewhat clever and had a decent brain.
But compared to now, there was a clear difference.
Could IQ increase in such a short time?
Yin Lin increasingly felt that Jin Luan and Huang Yi were cooperating, with Huang Yi behind the scenes coming up with strategies.
These recent actions of Jin Luan—she couldn’t have thought of them on her own.