readease Chapter 574 Sometimes people can really laugh in anger.
Chapter 574 Sometimes people can really laugh in anger.
eggshell?
Why eggshells? Is there any necessary connection between a pile of broken eggshell fragments and an abandoned factory?
Moreover, the size of these fragments was extremely exaggerated; Su Tianqing couldn't imagine what could possibly have such a huge egg.
Ostrich eggs? Dinosaur eggs?
Regardless of whether dinosaurs exist in this world, even if they do, they shouldn't appear in the mental world created by Sasha and the others. I have never remembered any ancient creatures like "dinosaurs" appearing in those games and stories.
...Really not? I think I glimpsed a survival sandbox game called ARK on a game console.
"Look at this!"
The fox girl struggled to climb back to the surface from the bottom of the pit, excitedly ran to her companions who were waiting at the edge of the pit, and handed them the huge eggshell fragments she had found at the bottom of the pit.
Hellcat was the first to take it, examined it carefully, but couldn't glean any meaningful information, only knowing that the eggshell itself must be quite large.
Hmm, it's huge. If you put them together, they should be about the same size as my fox tail when it's fluffed up.
"Let's write this down first, and then have it professionally examined after we leave this dreamlike mental image," Chi Xue said.
She glanced back at the other remaining fragments in the pit, and was about to say, "Let's go and bring the rest of the things up to take a look," but then she thought that it wouldn't make much sense to do so, since it wouldn't be right to let five people play an eggshell puzzle game in this place.
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Just as Bai Lili approached the Cheshire Rabbit to examine the eggshell for any unique features, a loud and piercing noise suddenly came from the direction of the factory gate:
"Boom!!"
"...Did you hear that? What's that noise over there?" Chi Xue turned around and asked curiously.
"It sounds like an engine, and there seems to be... a metallic clanging sound?" Su Tianqing muttered to herself, her fox ears clearly distinguishing the type of sound source.
Bai Lili snapped out of her daze of curiosity, blinked, thought for a moment, and then hurriedly shouted:
"Oh no! My car!!"
...
Engine parts, doors, and hoods were scattered on the ground, along with the roof and broken glass from the completely removed car.
As everyone hurriedly ran out of the abandoned factory with a few pieces of eggshell in their hands, the scene of utter devastation before them became the only thing they could see.
There was the burning chassis, the dismantled seats, and the dark shadowy figure fiddling with the steering wheel in its hand—a lighter in its other hand.
"My car! My brand new car!"
Bai Lili rushed to the car engulfed in flames, wailing as she clutched her head, letting out a sharp, piercing scream, lamenting the loss of this hard-won means of transportation.
Seeing the scene before him, Hellcat lost all interest in teasing Lily. He gripped the deck box in his pocket tightly with his right hand, staring intently at the dark shadow that seemed to have damaged the car, ready to launch an attack at any moment.
But just as she was about to start the card duel, Bai Lili took the initiative, drew her own deck, placed it between Hellcat and the shadow, and launched the first battle.
The pristine white magical girl now had a dark expression, her brows furrowed, and her eyes burning with fury. She exuded an imposing aura, determined to annihilate the shadowy figure who had dismantled the car on the spot.
"I'm going to kill you, you bastard!" Bai Lili, furious after her car was smashed, shouted loudly, ready to fight.
After saying that, Bai Lili raised her hand and summoned a magic light screen in front of her. Magic spread around, and the card game area immediately opened up!
Su Tianqing had no idea why Bai Lili was so furious. Her preemptive deployment and fierce attack on the Shadow were not typical of her deck's style. She quickly leaned over to Hellcat, who was watching from the sidelines, and whispered in his ear:
"Hey, Kitty, why is Lily Bai suddenly so angry?"
"It's a long story, but to sum it up, she hates it when her things are smashed, no matter if they're cheap or expensive."
"Back when she was in Shanghai, there was a time when she was dealing with a strange attack. Her electric scooter was flattened by the strange man sitting on it. She was so angry that she whipped the corpse for more than ten minutes to vent her anger."
Hellcat spoke calmly, as if recounting something commonplace.
As she said this, Bai Lili had already fully deployed her card-playing battle formation: a monster card with 3300 attack power was placed at the front, three face-down cards and a field spell reinforced the position, the defense was tight and the pressure was immense.
Magical girl Lily, all-out attack.
While Bai Lili was engaged in a fierce battle with the shadow, the remaining people immediately began to prepare to escape from the factory.
The car was destroyed by fire, and Chi Xue's motorcycle couldn't carry five people. Fortunately, Tu Tu found a perfectly intact black racing car in the factory warehouse, which could barely be considered a means of transportation to escape the place.
Just as Hellcat and Cheshire Rabbit were huddled together trying to enchant the engine with magic, the commotion from Lily's side immediately caught Su Tianqing's attention—
"I use the effect of this face-down card to negate this destruction." The pure white magical girl read out the card's effect. At this moment, only one monster card and one trap card remained on her field, but her opponent suddenly unleashed several cards, instantly regaining the advantage on the field.
Bai Lili was being suppressed by the shadow? Su Tianqing was quite surprised. Normally, someone of her strength wouldn't be in such a difficult situation. Could this shadow be something special?
"It looks like it's going to be tough," Su Tianqing couldn't help but say. "Is it because this Shadow deck is stronger than the previous ones?"
"It's really impressive, it's not in the same league as those little guys from before." Hellcat commented after hearing the question from the person next to him.
Su Tianqing didn't understand card games very well. Even though Maomao gave her a detailed explanation, she could only glean some seemingly important information from it:
The guys she encountered before were like small fry, easily crushed and defeated in one or two rounds. But the shadow that Bai Lili was facing was clearly an elite monster. Not only was its monster attack power much higher, but its various resistances and effect synergies were also much higher, making its strength vastly different.
This hard-fought battle is to be expected.
Fortunately, Bai Lili's experience allowed her to stabilize the situation in time—she saved the monster card with high attack power at the cost of several back row cards. When it was her turn, she used the effect to launch a series of attacks to regroup and instantly destroy the opponent's field.
The opponent attempted a counterattack, but was still unable to break through the solid defense that Bai Lili had rebuilt. In the next turn, the opponent's life points reached zero and they were defeated by a direct attack from a monster card.
"I knew she was good at turning the tide and taking advantage of chaos." Hellcat clapped his hands in approval.
After much effort, Bai Lili finally defeated the elite shadow warrior before her, while Chi Xue successfully started the race car engine and shouted loudly to everyone from the driver's seat:
"Get in the car! We need to get out of here as soon as possible!"
"What's the rush? I've already taken care of this guy. We can still continue investigating this place—"
Before he could finish speaking...
The roar of engines echoed from the distant street corner. Bai Lili shuddered and saw a large, dark mass of cars speeding towards her. She hurriedly darted toward the black luxury race car driven by Chi Xue.
"It seems Garuda is very unhappy that we defeated its elite Shadows and also ransacked its stronghold," Chi Xue muttered to herself.
"Stop talking! Run! Those guys might tear your car apart if they catch up!" Bai Lili jumped into the passenger seat, hurriedly fastened her seatbelt, and urged Chi Xue in the driver's seat.
The latter grinned, pressed the button on the car window next to him, and the racing engine roared and roared, ready to go.
"bring it on."
"Next comes the escape!"
...
Escape? They say they want to escape, but where exactly are they going?
Chi Xue herself wasn't sure what to do, so she just kept driving at full speed along the road until Xin Yuehu opened the portal to leave this mental world and let everyone leave safely.
The race car sped along the road, its enchanted engine running at full speed, the speedometer reaching an incredible number, but it still couldn't completely shake off the pursuers behind it.
"Little fox, how much longer?" Driver Chi Xue glanced at the rearview mirror and asked the back seat.
"Ten minutes. Try your best to shake off those pursuers," Xin Yuehu replied from the back seat.
"Ten minutes..." Chi Xue repeated the time softly.
It wasn't long, but it certainly wasn't short either. Especially when Xin Yuehu held those few eggshell fragments in her hand, Chi Xue could clearly feel that familiar "gaze." In this dreamlike mental image that could be described as Shi Shan's code, no matter where she fled, she couldn't escape Garuda's gaze.
—Garuda's intrusion level has increased significantly; it is now observing the race car it is driving in a manner consistent with the rules of this world.
But since it did not launch an extraordinary attack or use powerful magic to suppress it directly, it means that it is still bound by the rules of the mental world and has not been able to completely break through this blockade from the underlying rules.
This indirectly confirms Inari and Cheshire Rabbit's idea that Garuda is indeed stuck in the mental world, unable to break through to the real world, and can only invade and destroy as much as possible in the mental world.
What's even more intriguing are the eggshell fragments—why did Garuda immediately detect the five-person team's movements after obtaining the fragments, and quickly dispatch so many shadows to surround and pursue them?
Could these fragments be guiding Garuda's gaze? Or perhaps... representing its "presence" filled with destructive intent?
A chilling possibility occurred to Chi Xue as she drove onto a track with exaggerated, continuous drifting, reminiscent of those in some racing games, and mentally repeated the thought to reinforce her memory.
Before she could reinforce this memory, Bai Lili in the passenger seat suddenly called out:
"Look ahead! What's that?"
Everyone stared intently ahead.
In the field of vision is a rather exaggerated suspended track, with a row of semi-transparent cubes that defy the rules of physics and float horizontally in the middle of the track, with a huge question mark logo printed on each cube.
"Wow, that's something!"
Chi Xue was so angry at the scene before her that she laughed. No wonder Garuda hadn't been able to completely invade this mental world for so long; this was simply too heaven-defying.
"You want to escape? You have to run a lap of item race on this track first? Are you kidding me?"