After being rescued again by the Lifa Male using Rewind Magic, Yin Lin felt a little desperate.
The Eastern Alliance, having witnessed that scene, also felt some despair.
It was already known that poison gas bombs were ineffective, flashbangs were ineffective, and even a fully charged Magic Power Cannon couldn’t kill it in time. When firing from 100 meters, the Lifa Male could react.
As long as instant kill wasn’t possible, it could activate Rewind Magic.
Was she really going to have to do another zero-meter self-destruct?
An uncharged Magic Power Cannon at zero-meter self-destruct barely managed to kill the Lifa Male. Now it was fully charged. If she could get within zero meters and self-destruct, maybe she could actually kill it and stop it from using Rewind Magic.
But that move was too dangerous—it would blow herself up.
At that point, she’d have to deal with not just the demonic creature’s attack but a double attack including her own cannon strike.
Just like when she faced the Lightning Man.
Back then, she had Jin Luan’s support. Now it was almost a one-on-one fight, with only simple drone interference support from the Eastern Alliance.
But there was one difference now compared to the Lightning Man.
Yin Lin had finally escaped the underground and gained air superiority.
Time started flowing again.
Yin Lin flew back into the sky, rapidly leaving the ground, rising to over a hundred meters.
At that moment, the Lifa Male actually used Rewind Magic to cancel the Liftoff Magic.
Yin Lin, who was a hundred meters high, was rewound back down to the ground.
A small detail once again raised suspicion in the Eastern Alliance.
The Lifa Male also changed its combat strategy, no longer wasting those few seconds dealing with the annoying drones.
It launched forward like a shot, sprinting toward Yin Lin a hundred meters away.
The concrete road, sturdy for humans, was nothing but sand for a demonic creature.
When it launched, it stomped a huge hole in the ground, its feet slipping a bit, unable to start as cleanly as a track athlete.
When it sprinted to half the distance to Yin Lin, the magical girl had already flown to over a hundred meters in height.
It attempted a big jump.
That jump was indeed astonishing.
It stomped a deep crater into the ground, far more exaggerated than those low- and intermediate-level demonic creatures.
It successfully leaped over a hundred meters, almost reaching Yin Lin.
It failed to grab her.
Just when it seemed she would escape into the sky, the Lifa Male used Fast Punch, sending a mana-infused punch wind that knocked Yin Lin away.
Even from that distance, the hit broke her shield and caused moderate injury.
But the Lifa Male seemed to suffer from left-brain-right-brain conflict.
Just after dealing moderate damage to Yin Lin, watching her spin out of control higher into the air, the demonic creature used Rewind Magic again.
The distance between them began to close in the air.
Yin Lin returned to the state before the counterattack, while the demonic creature slowly returned to before its jump.
It rewound further, to the moment before Yin Lin used the fully charged Magic Power Cannon, when she was still underground and about to rise.
At that time, the Lifa Male was being harassed by the Eastern Alliance’s drones.
After this rewind, Yin Lin changed her strategy and did not ascend again.
The Lifa Male also changed its strategy.
It ignored the drones and sprinted toward the collapsed area, not giving Yin Lin a chance to escape from the underground tunnel and take flight.
The Eastern Alliance had many experts, and they easily spotted the demonic creature’s problem.
It wasn’t wearing headphones.
At this point, it was acting without command, relying entirely on its own will.
Another detail.
After Yin Lin first ascended, the Lifa Male knew it couldn’t catch her, so it pulled her back with Rewind.
Then it abandoned the drone harassment and chased Yin Lin directly.
The second time it failed to catch her, it injured her, but knowing it hadn’t killed her, the demonic creature rewound again, sending Yin Lin back to before she had returned to the surface.
That is, now.
Based on these details, it seemed the demonic creature’s left and right brains were fighting each other.
It wanted to use violence on Yin Lin, beating her to death directly.
But it also realized that fists alone couldn’t easily kill her, so it kept rewinding, looking for an opportunity to kill her.
Its behavioral logic differed from that of a normal, mentally sound person.
Like the emperor’s golden hoe, the Lifa Male had the powerful magic of Rewind but didn’t use it to its full effect, wasting it instead.
It wasn’t familiar with using this ability, and hadn’t truly integrated Rewind Magic into its own combat.
“It’s like it just learned this magic not long ago.”
The experts at the Countermeasure Center gave their judgment.
“A demonic creature has such terrifying physical attack ability and can also use such powerful magic? What are the odds?”
“Pretty rare, but considering it’s an Executive-level Fiend, anything’s possible.”
“Also, there’s a conflict in this demonic creature’s behavior. It wants to attack violently, but also wants to use tactics. It’s as if two forces are controlling the body.”
“Are you saying it has a split personality?”
“Not exactly. I think the Lifa Male must have been trained, with tactics in its head, but because it’s too stupid, it can’t actually execute them and prefers to act on violent instinct.”
At the Countermeasure Center, the experts argued, offering many different viewpoints and analyzing quite a few useful things.
Before, they might not have known why the demonic creature was behaving so abnormally.
Now they knew—it was probably the Star Summoning Society manipulating the demonic creature from behind.
They might have taught it tactics, but the creature’s brain couldn’t execute them, preferring to act on instinct.
Thus, the Lifa Male’s fight with Yin Lin didn’t produce optimal results.
If it had kept close combat, it would have had a high chance of killing Yin Lin.
If it had used Rewind Magic for tactics, it also would have had a high chance of killing her.
But it tried to implement both, causing neither path to achieve maximum effect.
As expected of experts—they saw things very clearly.
In contrast, Yin Lin hadn’t noticed yet.
She felt overwhelmed, beaten painfully by the Lifa Male’s mixed attacks.
From the experts’ perspective, watching her get beaten, they thought she was simply the victim of a Garen QWER keyboard roll.
But as the person involved, she didn’t feel that way.
Instead, she felt like she was being hit by all sorts of chaotic attacks—knockback, knockup, suppress, silence, execute—and couldn’t handle them at all.
It wasn’t just one Garen attacking her; it felt like she was being surrounded by a super soldier combining Lee Sin, Garen, Ekko, and Sett.
Just as Yin Lin was stuck with the Lifa Male guarding the entrance and couldn’t fly out, something unexpected happened.
A red figure appeared at the horizon.
When this scene appeared, viewers in the live broadcast room were shocked.
“Huan Hong?”
What level was she?
Old viewers who had watched this live broadcast room for years knew Huan Hong very well.
Liang Tai had just finished swapping in new live broadcast equipment and launched a backup drone.
The viewers in the live broadcast room were stunned.
Even the Eastern Alliance was stunned.
How dare Huan Hong come here?
Was this a fight she could join?
Was she here to feed experience?
No.
As a magical girl, she knew better than most how strong the Lifa Male was.
The only one who could kill it now was Yin Lin.
Someone had to help, to give Yin Lin a chance to fire that Magic Power Cannon.
Even knowing that one finger of the Lifa Male could kill her, Huan Hong still came.
Because as magical girls, they couldn’t rely on anyone else anymore.
When the sky fell, it was the magical girls who held it up.
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