The villainous magical girl's daily mission is to find fault.

Chapter 596 Is it reasonable to use cheats in a zombie game?

"Hmm? You want to know how these were taken care of?"

After leaping down from the mosaic-covered hill of zombies, Messiah casually tossed aside the blood-stained handkerchief in his hand, leaving his hands clean and untouched by any trace of dirt.

"Yes, I never expected that the victims this time would be the two of you, and I certainly never expected..."

Hellcat hesitated for a moment, glancing around at the zombies scattered across the ground, their images blurred with pixels, before speaking.

I have a deep impression of this mental image. It is one of the few video games that I played with Sasha and Marigold. Although the two novices acted like novices, they still understood the atmosphere of the zombie horde quite well.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to create such a bloody and violent zombie-fighting scene with flying flesh and blood.

"Although these zombies are all NPCs that originally existed in the Mind World, their numbers are still quite terrifying. It's amazing that you two were able to take down so many so easily."

Su Tianqing peeked out from behind the catgirl, shook her fox tail vigorously a few times, and said with a sigh.

Garuda's invasion of the mind image has only just begun, and these zombies have not yet shown the form of shadowy monsters; they can only be NPCs that come with the mind image itself.

The Messiah, brimming with confidence, puffed out his flat chest and answered:

"Hmph~ Of course! The two of us used to be known as... wait, what was our old code name again?"

Halfway through his sentence, Messiah suddenly forgot something and quickly turned to Moira, who had also easily jumped down the mountain of zombies, and asked her a question.

The latter pushed up his glasses, thought for a moment, and replied:

"I think they said we were some kind of legendary couple."

"Wow, that's so corny. It sounds like the kind of nickname we used twenty years ago. I think it would be better to call us the Black and White Duo."

"I don't think your naming skills are any better," Moira retorted expressionlessly.

He walked up to the three magical girls, looked down and exchanged a glance with each of them, then spread his hands and shrugged.

From Moira's explanation, Su Tianqing roughly understood what had just happened.

"We were supposed to be in charge of surveillance and logistics tonight, but for some reason we suddenly felt very sleepy, and then everything went black and we collapsed."

"When I woke up, I thought I was dreaming, but then I remembered Garuda's dream imagery and wondered if we had been dragged into the dream imagery."

"And it really is true," Messiah replied.

"When we first landed, the two of us were standing at the intersection, and these things immediately started howling and lunging at us. It took us a little effort to get rid of them..."

Hearing this, the magical girls turned around and glanced at the small mountain of zombies that had been piled up.

This is what you call "taking a little effort"? What would it be like if the two of you went all out to wipe them out? Su Tianqing couldn't imagine.

Nan Jiayu and Chi Xue exchanged a silent glance, mentally simulating how they would react if they encountered zombies of this size. After a brief moment of thought, a hint of awe crept into their eyes as they looked at Moira and Messiah.

Psychic abilities are truly outrageous.

The topic of the heroes' combat prowess quickly shifted to more serious matters:

The giant egg Garuda used to invade the mind has already fallen. We must reach the site before it hatches and find a way to verify Inari's idea—

Can an observer's observation of the giant egg's incubation affect the physical form of the hatched organism?

To be honest, from a scientific and objective standpoint, Su Tianqing thought this overly subjective approach was a bit too unscientific. But then she thought that in a world where magical girls were everywhere and superheroes were as common as dogs, talking about science itself didn't seem very scientific...

"Is this the place?" The fox girl activated her light magic and looked at the huge crater in the center of the street that had been completely destroyed.

"Hmm, judging from the trajectory, it can only be here."

The Hellcat moved closer to the fox girl, following the light of the illumination magic to look at the collapsed road surface, and then spoke as if it had remembered something:

"Speaking of which, we also saw a similar large pit in the abandoned factory."

"It seems that Garuda used to drop giant eggs like this back then, just smashing them down from the sky... Wasn't he afraid of breaking the eggshells?" Su Tianqing muttered to herself.

At this point, worrying about whether Garuda's egg would be intact was no longer of much use, Su Tianqing thought to herself.

From the crater, one can discern that the area surrounding the ruins is an open subway station. The collapse of the crater has turned the entire subway station into a mess, with rubble and debris everywhere, which only adds to the atmosphere of an apocalyptic crisis.

Instead of jumping directly down the pit, the group entered the underground through a nearby subway entrance and walked along the passageway where only emergency lighting was still barely working.

After turning two corners, a spacious station came into view—the zombie NPCs inside the station roared in a formulaic manner as if they had triggered code, and pounced on this side.

"Do we have to fight these NPCs before we can even investigate?" Chi Xue said casually as she walked forward, holding up her baseball bat.

"Who knows? Anyway, we have to clear them out first, or things might go wrong later." Hellcat also raised the firearm in his hand.

But the one standing at the very front of the line was a petite girl with white hair and red eyes. She casually gathered her ponytail that fell to her temples and tossed it behind her head, with her hands hanging at her sides and her body slightly leaning forward, looking ready to go.

"Miss Messiah?" "Do you want to go first? We'll cover you."

Seeing Messiah's eager expression, Akashi and Hellcat quickly spoke to her, but she simply waved her hand, indicating that the two of them didn't need to worry.

"No need for cover. Aren't you all in a hurry to see what's going on with that giant egg? I'll buy you some time."

"Buy time? How are you going to buy time?" Chi Xue was a little puzzled, but the two of them still obediently took a half step back, giving her enough room to maneuver.

The S-class hero [Messiah] has long been responsible for the logistics and support of the Chengdu Hero Association. She has demonstrated her psychic abilities in front of Su Tianqing and Nan Jiayu.

"...[World]." The white-haired girl murmured to herself, her psionic energy surging.

A crisp, cracking sound rang in my ears as something broke.

The next instant, the broken object was restored and healed in an instant. Messiah's figure disappeared from the vicinity and then appeared at the far end of the station as if teleported. At the same time, the heads of all the zombie NPCs in the entire station exploded and collapsed!

"Wow!"

Su Tianqing couldn't help but gasp in surprise.

The scene was truly spectacular: whether they had already started to pounce or were staying at a distance and not moving for the time being, all the zombie NPCs had their heads blown off by something heavy in an instant. There was no time difference, and the process of being blown off could not be seen. It was as if the process itself had disappeared in the realm of time.

"Done. No need to waste any more time dealing with them. Let's move on."

Messiah turned to the crowd and spoke. Only then did Su Tianqing notice that her fists were covered in blood, which looked rather terrifying at first glance.

Her psychic ability, "World," has a simple, brutal, and flawless effect: time stop.

With the support of a superhero who could instantly kill almost all zombie NPCs, the group swaggered through the subway station and arrived at the edge of the ruins that had been crushed by the giant egg.

Akashi looked rather unhappy, idly fiddling with the shotgun and baseball bat in her hand with a crooked mouth.

Su Tianqing felt she could understand what the girl was thinking—she was probably looking forward to fighting zombies, since "fighting through hordes of zombies with melee weapons" is an essential and exhilarating scene in almost all zombie movies and games.

Or they could be carrying a heavy machine gun and firing away, or wielding a shotgun and taking down NPCs one by one, instead of having a superhuman who can stop time stop in front of them and wipe out all the NPCs! What's the difference between that and cheating in a video game?

In short!

Climbing up a fairly sturdy concrete slab to the edge of the ruins, Su Tianqing glanced at the giant black-patterned egg lying quietly in the middle of the pit, put her hands on her hips and said.

"Now that Messiah and Moira have cleared the area for us, let's think about how to carry out Inari-san's conjecture!"

Before the three of them lay a large pit visible from the ground. The giant egg, which they had seen several times before, lay quietly in the middle, showing no signs of hatching or summoning any shadow monsters around it. It was as quiet as a decorative background object with no apparent purpose.

"...Should I step aside? I still have a subconscious feeling that a shadow monster might hatch from inside it," Akashi said involuntarily.

"Then Miss Chixue, you should step aside for now. I and Maomao will handle things here." Su Tianqing gave the senior a thumbs up.

After Chi Xue left, Su Tianqing quickly pulled the cat girl to the giant egg and seized the opportunity to observe and examine it up close.

"Don't get too close, it could be dangerous."

"No, no, no, Kitty, you absolutely mustn't have that 'it's dangerous' thought today." Su Tianqing held up a finger and waved it from side to side, then whispered in the catgirl's ear.

"Later, Kitty, just do what I told you and talk to yourself in your mind... Don't think about anything else, just focus on this sentence and talk to yourself."

The fox's tail swayed excitedly from side to side.

The cat's tail swayed and curled at times, sometimes raised high and sometimes taut and lowered, as if it had heard something that shocked it.

When Su Tianqing broke free from her whispered state and stood before him, looking at him expectantly, Nan Jiayu finally revealed his true thoughts:

"Is this... really reliable?"

"Never mind whether it's reliable or not, let's rehearse it first!"

After saying this, Su Tianqing excitedly ran to the giant egg again, and Nan Jiayu had no choice but to walk forward with her, looking at the black-striped giant egg in front of them that was as stable as Mount Tai.

The cat and fox took a deep breath and then said:

"I……"

"I bet you can hatch a sweet, soft, beautifully singing, and gorgeous winged loli!"