Get off work and become a magical girl

Chapter 233 Cracking the Rules
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In the silent and deserted forest, Mimosa put down the tambourine in her hand, opened her eyes from the closed state, looked around, and showed a thoughtful look: "With my eyes closed, I can hear the sound of fighting, but when I open my eyes, all the sounds are gone."

She just discovered this pattern by accident.

Because when she used the perception ability of the magic suit, she would habitually close her eyes and focus on her hearing, so she discovered this.

Although she is not clear about the principle, after repeated attempts, she can now confirm the authenticity of this rule, that is: if she closes her eyes, she can sense the movements of other companions, but not if she opens her eyes.

So, why is that?

After a little thought, she couldn't help but look up at the blue moon in the sky.

This moon, which originally did not exist in the night sky tonight, is now embedded in the dark night without any sense of incongruity, as if it was supposed to be there.

But Mimosa knew that it was not the real moon, and the current predicament of her group also began with the appearance of this blue moon.

Then, it is naturally the biggest suspect.

Is there something strange about the moonlight? Or is it that looking directly at the moon itself causes some kind of cognitive disturbance? Or is it something else?
Thinking of this, Mimosa chose to close her eyes again.

This was the most likely way to help her find the truth, and she had no other choice.

But this time, when she closed her eyes, she heard the sound of exhalation in front of her, even very close to her.

Then, a voice came from the owner of the breath, with some doubts:
"Who is it? No, you are...Mimosa?"

This voice was not very familiar to Mimosa, but she could still recognize the other party's identity. If her memory was correct, this should be the voice of the magical girl named "White Rose" in Fangting City.

In other words, this time when I closed my eyes, I heard the other person talking.

But this is still not the key point. There is a more important message hidden in the other party's words:

——"Can you see me?"

She did not rush to open her eyes to confirm the other person's identity, but chose to maintain the status quo, because many known signs told her that if she opened her eyes now, she might still not see anything.

"I can see you're right..."

The voice from "White Rose" was a little uncertain: "So what is the situation now? What did that remnant beast do? Where did you go before?"

"There is no 'you'."

Mimosa took a deep breath and kept herself thinking: "I am alone too, I don't know where others are."

"……it is as expected."

Bai Mei paused for a moment, then responded with some understanding: "When I was fighting that beast just now, I was thinking that I might not be the only one who was separated."

"Fight?" Mimosa was a little surprised.

But she remembered very clearly that the magical girl in front of her seemed to be only at the species level, while the enemy named Semi had already reached the level of half-metamorphosis. If a battle broke out between the two, there was no reason for the descendant named Baimei to survive.

But if the other person is already dead, then who is the person in front of you, a human or a ghost?
"Don't look so horrified, okay? I'm not a ghost. I'm not dead."

Perhaps because the expression was too obvious, Bai Mei could tell what Mimosa was thinking at a glance, so she explained helplessly: "Well... Although it may be a bit strange to say this, when I was fighting that guy, my magic suit suddenly awakened, and then I beat it away."

Mimosa used all her willpower to prevent herself from opening her eyes after hearing these words.

"Awakening magic suit?" But she still couldn't help but ask.

"Yeah." Bai Mei responded affirmatively.

"Knock it away?"

"Ah."

After getting these two affirmative answers, Mimosa turned around and ran away without saying a word.

As a magical girl with more than a year of combat experience, Mimosa has seen too many beasts with strange abilities in past battles.

As long as a nest is set up, the remnant beasts can use those strange abilities in it, and some of them can create illusions or disguise themselves.

After encountering such a beast, Mimosa would be cautious every time he entered the beast's lair. He would always observe the surrounding environment and verify the words and deeds of his companions to prevent himself from being deceived and put in danger.

At the moment, the voice seems to be from "White Rose". His words are illogical and full of loopholes. Such a clumsy lie would definitely not be told by him. It is very likely an illusion or disguise created by the remaining beasts in the nest.

In other words, I have fallen into a trap.

Mimosa made this judgment very confidently.

So she turned and ran without hesitation, trying to get as far away from the attack range as possible before the other party could react.

However, before she could run a few steps, she felt as if her body was being pulled by something, and then the back of her clothes was pulled by something.

——"Wait a minute, you guy, why are you running away all of a sudden?"

What followed was Bai Mei's slightly puzzled inquiry.

"Don't try to fool me, you beast!"

Mimosa shouted fearlessly, then picked up the tambourine in her hand and slammed it hard behind herself.

boom!
The sudden burst of sound waves bounced the two people away in different directions. After that, Mimosa had no intention of confirming the effectiveness of her attack, but ran away again.

"Hey, I told you to wait a minute, what are you crazy about?"

Bai Mei, who was bounced away, immediately flew after him and shouted behind her: "What crippled beast are you talking about? I am Bai Mei from Fangting City!"

"You are not!" Mimosa continued to run away.

"Why am I not one?" Bai Mei was puzzled: "There must be a reason, right?"

"A Bud-level magical girl can't possibly defeat a half-moult alone!" Mimosa shouted as she ran.

"Just because of this?" Bai Mei couldn't believe it: "I was clearly telling the truth!"

"Don't try to lie to me!"

"Why would I lie about something like this... Oh, magic! Feel my magic! Magic won't lie!"

Bai Mei thought quickly and said, "A crippled beast can't pretend to have the magic power of a magical girl, right? And if I were a crippled beast, why would I talk to you so nicely?"

"For this kind of thing, there is no need to sense it. I just need to concentrate a little to detect the magic power of the remnant beast..."

Mimosa subconsciously wanted to refute, but after she diverted some of her attention to sense the other party's magic, half of the words were stuck in her throat.

Because what she sensed was indeed the magic power of the magical girl, and the fluctuations of the magic power were somewhat familiar, as if it really belonged to the White Rose she knew.

"You are really Bai..." So she stopped suddenly and subconsciously turned back to confirm with the other party, but what followed was a huge shock and severe pain from her forehead.

boom!
There was another dull sound, this time it was because Bai Mei's head collided with Mimosa's.

Bai Mei, who had been chasing from behind, had never expected that just a few seconds after she shouted, the other party suddenly changed his expression, braked suddenly in mid-air, and even had time to turn his head around, so that she did not take any corresponding action at the first time.

It was this slow reaction that ultimately led to this result.

Both Mimosa and White Rose fell to the ground due to the unexpected collision. One of them held his head and knelt on the ground; the other covered his forehead and curled up his body. They all had a grin on their faces and couldn't utter a word for a long time.

After a long while, Mimosa, who felt the pain eased slightly, slowly raised her head and continued her unfinished question in a hoarse voice: "...Are you really Baimei?"

"I've said it all, I really am."

Bai Mei, or Lin Xiaolu, who also felt extremely painful, wiped the corners of her eyes subconsciously, and felt stars in her eyes, and everything she saw was blurry: "How many times do I have to tell you?"

"You really survived that cruel beast?"

"Of course it's true, but my magic suit and magic power are a bit special."

"And you beat it away?"

"Yes."

Lin Xiaolu nodded: "It's just that the way that guy ran was very strange, it was like he suddenly disappeared, just disappeared."

Mimosa didn't say anything.

Having calmed down a little, she fell into deep thought again.

Excluding this kind of doubt about combat effectiveness, since the "White Rose" in front of him is not a fake but real, it actually provides a huge amount of clues for Mimosa's previous reasoning.

First of all, the phenomenon that all our people were separated was probably related to the blue moon in the sky.

Secondly, when I close my eyes, I seem to be able to communicate with my companions, but when I open my eyes, we lose the perception of each other.

In addition, Semi, as the owner of the nest, does plan to defeat the enemies one by one. He can freely fight with any magical girl in the nest and disappear at any time.

Finally,...

Thinking of this, Mimosa finally spoke again: "Bai Mei, help me do an experiment."

"Huh? Oh."

Lin Xiaolu blinked when she heard this: "How to do it?"

"Don't move, look at me, don't blink."

Mimosa explained this, then raised her head and opened her eyes.

There was nothing in front of her, only the silent woods in the night. There was no white rose, no broken beast, nothing at all, as if everything she had heard when she closed her eyes just now was just an illusion.

But this was not actually unexpected for her.

Mimosa remained calm, looked around, nodded, and closed her eyes again.

——"Huh? Why are you back again?"

Then, she heard an exclamation from Bai Mei.

"What did you see?" Mimosa asked without any further greetings.

"See... you just suddenly disappeared, and then reappeared after a while?"

Lin Xiaolu chose her words carefully: "And just like that crippled beast, it disappeared suddenly." Sure enough.

Mimosa said secretly in her heart.

At this point, she thought she was very close to the answer to the question, because it was all within her guess. There was no doubt that she was almost sure of the rules of the nest.

At this point, she only had one thing left to confirm.

"I see. There is one more step to go."

So she spoke and once again told Lin Xiaolu: "Close your eyes, and if you hear me talking to you, respond to me."

"Is that it?" Lin Xiaolu seemed a little confused.

"That's it." Mimosa said confidently: "I'll count to three, and then you can close your eyes."

"one."

"two."

"three."

After counting to three, Mimosa paused for a moment as the words fell, but did not open her eyes immediately.

She just kept her eyes closed and asked again: "Bai Mei, can you hear me?"

No one responded.

"I'm Mimosa, can you hear me?" she asked again just in case.

Still no sound.

At this point, Mimosa already had the answer in her heart, so she didn't delay any longer and opened her eyes again.

This time, when she opened her eyes, she saw the magical girl in a light blue dress, kneeling in front of her with her eyes closed.

There was no doubt that this was the Bai Mei she knew.

What she saw with her eyes, heard with her ears, and felt with her body, all signs told her that the person in front of her was indeed her colleague and junior from the Fangting City team.

"Bai Mei." Then she called softly again.

"Hmm?" Lin Xiaolu responded with a questioning tone.

"I know the rules here. I have a way that will allow you to quickly find the other people and the location of the crippled beast."

Mimosa looked at her and said, "However, I may not be able to participate in the battle next time, so I hope you can remember a few key points."

"Oh, uh...ah?"

After listening to Mimosa's words in a daze, Lin Xiaolu took a long time to extract the most important information from it: "Do you already know the rules?"

"Don't open your eyes yet, it's almost certain."

Mimosa said firmly, "So we have to hurry up. We have already been delayed due to misunderstandings."

"That's not my fault..."

Lin Xiaolu muttered softly: "Anyway, just say it."

"In this nest, we can assume there are two states, one is 'eyes open' and the other is 'eyes closed'."

Mimosa continued without further ado: "Now, our situation is that people with open eyes cannot see people with open eyes, but people with open eyes can see people with closed eyes; people with closed eyes cannot hear people with closed eyes, but people with closed eyes can hear people with open eyes."

"...tongue twister?" Lin Xiaolu stammered.

"It's okay if you can't remember. Anyway, you have to keep your eyes open. Don't close them."

Mimosa said solemnly: "Then, I will ask Mu Baili and the others to close their eyes. In this way, you can see everyone."

"Uh, them?"

Lin Xiaolu felt that she was getting more and more confused the more she listened: "But the other two people are not here now?"

"It's okay, you don't have to worry about it."

Mimosa said calmly, "But you have to promise me that what you said before, that you can repel the beast, is true."

"This must be true." Lin Xiaolu said seriously.

"...Okay, then, you can open your eyes."

Without doubting anything, Mimosa said this and took out her magic costume again.

Its magic suit is called Eye-Pan, and it has the ability to utilize and control sound waves.

She can sense the propagation of sound waves and perceive the surrounding environment in disguise; she can enhance or weaken the strength of sound waves to make them her own weapons and armor; she can even combine magic with sound waves to do things that are physically impossible.

Like what she's going to do next.

Gently tapping the tambourine in her hand, her magic power slowly seeped into the surrounding environment through her magic outfit. Sound waves invisible to ordinary people spread out and rebounded around, sensing the surrounding environment like a radar.

In her perception, her magic power continued to spread along with the sound waves, until her magic power was almost exhausted and finally touched some insurmountable barriers.

She knew that she had reached the edge of the nest.

The lair of the remnant beast will alienate the space, and the size of the space inside the lair is often different from the original area. In her perception, the area of ​​this lair is definitely far larger than the original size of Yinping Mountain.

"It's a bit of a stretch... but not impossible."

Muttering to herself, she hit the tambourine once more. Then, she closed her eyes and let her voice, wrapped in magic power, spread out along the sound waves.

——"Kumiyuri, Boxue, if you can hear me, do what I say right now."

"If you are in the middle of a battle now, please try to hold on and immediately fire a few magic bullets into the sky, then close your eyes and wait for a few seconds."

"Then repeat this process until you hear Bai Mei's voice. After you hear Bai Mei's voice, don't open your eyes. Keep your eyes closed and communicate with her."

"If you are not in battle now, please fly into the air and look for the trace of another companion's magic bullet, and move towards that direction."

"When you arrive, please close your eyes immediately and wait for Bai Mei to communicate with her."

"Repeat, if you are in combat now..."

Her voice spread throughout the nest along with the rhythm of the magic suit.

In this way, Mimosa repeated the above content three times, making sure that even Lily could understand it, before she finally stopped talking and slowly put down the tambourine in her hand.

Then, just a few seconds later, Lin Xiaolu watched as several magic bullets rose from the woods not far away and exploded in the air like fireworks.

Along with it, there was also black magic mixed in, which seemed to be trying to block it. It was undoubtedly coming from Semi.

At this time, the one fighting with it was Bai Jingxuan, who had already released the remaining magic power of the beast.

Semi had a miserable time in this battle.

Because the leader had mentioned it before, it specifically went to find Bai Jingxuan to see if it could capture this little guy first and complete part of the task ahead of time.

Originally, before it actually found the other party, it had been thinking about how to take this little guy to continue fighting after catching her, but when the battle began, it realized that it was thinking too early.

Because the opponent is really tough.

Although it had an advantage in terms of ability class and mastery of the rules, it could quickly evade many attacks that were unfavorable to it and was not injured for a while. But in fact, it had almost no window to fight back.

If the opponent also uses the magic power of the remnant beast, it means that his own magic power has no restraining effect at all; if the opponent can also use some basic spells, it means that he does not have an advantage in terms of attack methods; if for some reason the opponent's magic power is not inferior to his own, it means that a war of attrition is not valid.

More importantly, the opponent's fighting style is even more desperate than it.

Although a magical girl will not suffer fatal injuries before her true form is damaged, she will allow her claws to pierce her abdomen and blind her opponent's eyes. Is this really the fighting style a magical girl should have?

More importantly, the opponent's magic outfit seemed to have some kind of auxiliary effect. From the moment he found her, Semi could feel that her condition was getting better and better. Her magic power was not reduced at all, and her injuries recovered in an instant. Even her attacks were getting heavier, so much so that even she, who was at the half-metamorphosis level, felt a little overwhelmed.

To be honest, after fighting for so long, it has been wanting to run away again.

In fact, it knew that even if it could get rid of these little girls here, the stone tower that served as a ritual device would be in danger.

But it can't turn back. After all, now it is not a question of how quickly it can resolve the battle, but a question of whether it can still win.

The situation on the battle changed again when Bai Jingxuan suddenly threw several magic bullets into the air.

Although he didn't know the meaning of this behavior, Semi still released magic power out of caution to try to stop it.

The interception was not successful, but in fact, there was no further change after these magic bullets were shot into the sky. So soon, Semi forgot about it as the battle situation evolved.

It never thought that its own rules would be broken in this situation.

So, a few minutes later, when it saw the light blue magic trail falling from the sky and the magical girl holding a spear falling into the battlefield and standing in front of it, it realized how big a mistake it had made.

——"Are you okay? Bo Xue, you look like this, and the claw marks..."

"It's okay, Xiao, um, Sister Baimei, I'm in good condition now."

"You didn't get any manipulation from that guy?"

"Ah, this is not what they did. It has nothing to do with what's happening now."

"…Really? I'll ask you again when I get back."

Two magical girls stood side by side, one with her eyes open and the other had closed her eyes at some point.

The light blue and dark green magic power surged wildly, and for a moment it overwhelmed Semi's magic power.

Looking at the two people who were getting ready to fight, and feeling that he had consumed a lot of magic power, Semi raised his head again and looked at the light yellow magic track that was coming towards here not far away.

Forget it, so be it.

Thinking this in his heart, Semi gave up thinking.

(End of this chapter)