Chapter 223

If it were in a dedicated environment like the base, it would naturally be 100% confident in controlling the situation without any accidents. However, if it were to openly hatch Calamity Beasts in the city of Vienna and guide this monster to test Chu Yuanqing, that would be a completely different matter.

Therefore, the moment this proposal emerged, its excessively high risk led the AI module to reject it on its own.

Of course, there is still room for easing tensions.

As long as a [Witch] is temporarily summoned to take care of the patient, or the Saintess is simply sent over, the aforementioned risks will not be a problem.

Dream Weaver Rabbit retrieved all the [Witch's ] schedule data.

Because humanity only has four months left, almost all of these girls' vacations have been postponed to four months later. The guards of the forbidden area also adopt a rotation system. If you want to transfer people, you have to write an application report, go through layers of approval, and then select priority for overall allocation.

In short, it's very troublesome.

That Doomsday Diva is quite free, but she's also very busy. She has to exorcise the calamity and prepare for a commercial performance. She has only just finished [Lighting Up] and plans to use this commercial performance to complete the final accumulation of magic power and reach the [Flower Bloom] stage.

This person has been confirmed as a [Lighthouse], so his advancement priority is naturally higher than testing another [Lighthouse] candidate.

Moreover, while Dream Weaver Rabbit, as a Super AI, certainly has extremely high authority, coordinating a great deal of information and being in charge of the Savior Plan <Flash Dance>, it does not have the authority to command the Saintess, or rather... no one does.

Humans must respect [the lighthouse].

Only in this way can the [lighthouse] possibly respond with a human miracle.

Dream Weaver Rabbit whispered:

"Let's put the trial on hold for now. We'll talk to Charlotte after her commercial performance. I believe she's better at guiding people to the truth than I am."

The words had faded.

Dream Weaver Rabbit then ordered all the staff on standby to retrieve all the [Calamity Species] planted according to the Little Idol's travel routes. Now that the test was over, there was no need for Chu Yuanqing to clean them up any further, otherwise the training resources in the Vienna Division would soon be insufficient.

But a few seconds later,

The data in the Super AI's pupils flowed like a tide, its body seemed to evaporate into nothingness, transforming into a streak of light that swept into the cable, issuing a barrage of commands in an instant with perfect order.

Vienna's highest security authority was taken over, armed forces stationed at the base were mobilized, and the local police department began to mobilize, all heading towards Carinthus Street in the inner city.

All of this can be attributed to the [Calamity Species] that was placed on the street and was out of service, which suddenly underwent an extremely terrifying mutation.

--It withered.

--As if drained dry.

This can only mean that a more advanced [Calamity Species] is hidden in that area, or even... a terrifying Calamity Beasts that has already hatched and is in its dormant stage!

At the same time.

Carinthon Avenue, also known as the Golden U.

Located in Vienna's first district, in the city center, this area is a world-renowned pedestrian zone. The National Opera House and St. Stephen's Cathedral are located here, and the area is filled with international brand stores, coexisting harmoniously with typical Vienna family businesses.

The sun was shining brightly today, and the streets were bustling with tourists from all over the world and local pedestrians, their movements as chaotic as swimming fish, flowing endlessly under the blue sky.

After the Little Idol came out of the church that day, they all parted ways here, each choosing a gift for Chu Yuanqing.

However, because the place was so huge, with the shopping area alone covering nearly 100,000 square meters, they didn't do much shopping that day. So, after visiting a few attractions, they decided to stroll around for a while and have lunch.

The Green Eyed Cat looked a little listless; she preferred the food Qing Bao cooked herself.

Well Vienna's cuisine, aside from the added benefit of its local specialties, is generally far inferior in quality to the culinary paradise of Great Xia in the Donghuang Federation, let alone compared to the refined skills of the Pure White Witch.

Of course, Tang Liuli also admitted that what she might miss most was Chu Yuanqing's alluring appearance in the kitchen, wearing an apron that showed off her supple waist and tying her long hair into a side braid, radiating maternal glow.

So, the Social Anxiety Cat had a very wicked idea. She secretly decided that next time she needed to Magic Replenishment, she would ask Qing Bao to change into that very wifely outfit with her white hair and golden eyes!

Hmm, it would be best to let Qing Bao cosplay as Mommy again, then play a game of lap pillows, ear picking, head touching, and sticking things on, and finally crawl into bed to play a super serious doctor game.

Thinking of this, Green Eyed Cat suddenly shuddered, her senses heightened by the arousal. She secretly swallowed, unable to help but be amazed by this imagination. It turned out that her wisdom had not yet reached its limit, yet she could actually come up with such a lewd idea for Qing Bao?!

Xie Qingxuan observed Tang Liuli's changing expression, her eyes sparkling with curiosity. A true master always retains the heart of a student. Although she had exhausted the wisdom of the Social Anxiety Cat, she believed that there was still something worth learning from her.

Hmm, I'll use rock-paper-scissors and reverse psychology to trick Liuli into telling me.

The Golden Haired Doggy is also struggling with how to make Qing Bao even more enamored with him.

Although she has a great figure, to the point that even after binding her chest, she would still look very tight in a sweater, Xiao Qing's rationality is hard to shake off. Even though it's obvious that she likes to pinch, she never indulges herself and is very innocent.

This indicates that simple seduction has reached a certain limit. The next step is either to make Xiao Qing fully accept the relationship, or to reach a new high and break through the seductive threshold of the winning lingerie, making the other party unable to resist forcing her into the car.

I'm so troubled. Before I try to deceive Liuli, I should probably go pick out a more revealing undergarment.

Xie Qingxuan believed that persistent seduction would definitely work. At the very least, she could get Xiao Qing to help make some mulled wine, and she believed that sooner or later they could return to the realm of sharing champagne.

Unaware that her two teammates were filled with erotic thoughts, Kiriwake Yayoi, being the most innocent member of the team, was preoccupied with striving to become Magical Girl and was even thinking about finding an opportunity to... no, to ask Qing Bao for advice on becoming Qing Bao Magical Girl.

The Little Cotton-padded Jacket was shopping attentively. She wasn't responsible for recording footage today, and she was very happy shopping the whole time. Sometimes she would look at the various goods in the shop windows, sometimes she would watch the musicians playing the cello on the street, and occasionally she would take out her phone to take pictures and reply to messages from her fans on Weibo. She seemed very fulfilled.

Chu Yuanqing was the most troubled. Not only was she terrible at filming, completely clueless about finding the right angles when recording footage, but she also had to worry about Vienna's security situation today.

--There's too much filth!

The Pure White Witch didn't realize that the Dream Weaver Rabbit was behind it. In her mind, the eggs of the Calamity Beasts were as troublesome as flies. Unless you used some kind of blessing ability to create a targeted barrier, or had a highly refined spiritual sense like herself, there would always be some that slipped through the net no matter how hard you tried to clean them up.

Chu Yuanqing's real concern was that if all cities were like this, then after the collapse of [Pure White], even if the thirteen Disaster God did not immediately recover, there would still be heavy casualties.

Chu Yuanqing didn't think the authorities were inactive. After all, in the current era where there were no blessings and only magic, even if hundreds of thousands of [Witch] were cultivated, it wouldn't be enough. Not to mention, according to the information obtained from the Dream Weaver Rabbit, it had only been about ten years since Yaoshi had made concrete progress in his research.

[Witch] are extremely rare resources; there might not even be ten thousand of them in the entire world.

The creation of the <Flash Dance> project was likely largely due to the need to address the problem of the insufficient number of [Witch].

"Xiao Qing, look, there's an ad for <FlashDance> over there."

Chu Wangshu pointed to the advertising billboard outside the coffee shop in the distance. It was more of an advertisement for Shining Shine Front than for Flash Dance, featuring Charlotte in a Roman dress in both real-life and anime style.

The <Shine Front> skin was released earlier than the Great Xia, and it has already progressed from a unified stage outfit to having other paid skins.

The first skin released was the Roman dress skin for the Doomsday Diva. She seemed to be very popular in Vienna, with many young people who don't drink coffee crowding around the billboards to scan the QR code, getting introduced to the game and downloading it.

Chu Yuanqing was also tempted. Like a fool experiencing a gacha game for the first time, she eagerly walked forward to download the Austria version of <Shine Front>, hoping to draw a Charlotte.

Kiriwake Yayoi wanted to complain a bit; she felt that this game was turning into a trap for Qing Bao.

Well, Little Sakura still hasn't realized the dangerous Charlotte element inside, making her arguably the most oblivious and clueless of the three Little Idol.

Xie Qingxuan accurately commented:

"Xiao Qing, the <Shine Front> event here is just like ours. If you can't draw an A-Class character, you can only capture them offline. This pay-to-win event is practically useless; it's just adding some prizes for Charlotte and her fans' hide-and-seek game."

Chu Yuanqing paused, feeling a little disappointed. She wanted to see what Charlotte's 3D model looked like in the game.

But...

Thinking about it carefully, it's not a big deal, is it? It's not difficult for me to capture it offline.

The Pure White Witch regained her senses, but then a strange wavelength came from afar, instantly touching her spiritual senses and causing her pupils to burst with golden light. She abruptly turned her head to look up at the sky.

Subsequently, a gloomy, foggy atmosphere flowed backward, obscuring the blue sky and white clouds over the streets.

This is a scene that cannot yet be reflected in the Material World. Only when it is truly rendered to a great extent will it be revealed to the world like a veil being lifted, and can be regarded as a harbinger of crisis.

That's at least the scene of C-Class [Calamity Species] hatching.

Chu Yuanqing placed the camera in Little Cotton-padded Jacket's arms, intending to rush towards the scene immediately. However, as soon as she took a step, she looked at the girls beside her who were completely unaware of the crisis, her beautiful face slightly furrowed. She simply pulled them along and jogged towards the center of the disaster.

In this environment, getting people away from you is the most dangerous thing to do.

This city is rife with filth; if its toxic energy were to form a domain, it could easily attract even more calamities. What if she just left, and a Calamity Beasts attacked this place the very next moment?

Chu Yuanqing was confident that she could protect everyone. She first wrapped the four Little Idol in a layer of magical protection, and then layered them with Magic Clones. In the event of a crisis, they could act as a medium for [Echoes of the Past], directly diverting power and granting them the ability to annihilate calamities.

As for keeping it a secret from his daughter?

Since the Calamity Beasts has suddenly become an interlude on the journey, we can only adapt to it. Blindly pampering and protecting it will only make us completely lose the ability to resist when a real crisis occurs.

So, let's take this opportunity to let Xiao Shu know a little about the truth of the world in advance.

Chu Wangshu instinctively felt uneasy. The gem within her soul spun rapidly, triggering Heart Tide that enveloped her, forming a faint layer of magical protection. She nervously clutched her camera and asked:

"Xiao Qing, why are you running that way?"

A dark cross was outlined in Xie Qingxuan's pupils. She was in a state of [Meditation State], and under the blessing of [Flow State], her senses were heightened. She even saw the pillar of calamity leading to the sky. She knew in her heart that this was the same monster from the second Public Performance.

Tang Liuli's heart pounded. As a genius born with the [Cocoon of the Heart], she could roughly guess what had happened. However, since Xiao Qing was taking them with her, it meant that she must have a way to protect them.

Green Eyed Cat was timid, but she also trusted Chu Yuanqing, so she wasn't so scared that her legs went weak. In fact, she felt a subtle excitement, as if she had returned to the brief moment when she could occasionally enjoy extreme sports, which temporarily overcame her fear.

With each step forward, Kiriwake Yayoi felt as if she were lifting a veil over the world. Her senses were sharper after last night's events, and she instantly understood something, using the [Perfect Performance Method] to control her heartbeat and emotions.

The girl's eyes seemed to reflect the great fire that had burned down East Flow Island. She suppressed the subtle sense of déjà vu and murmured:

"That looks like the Plague Pillar?"

Tang Liuli couldn't answer the question. Her expression was dazed, and her pupils were unfocused, as if she were traveling through a dream, looking at the bizarre and fantastical things that had deviated from reality.

At this moment, the memories of the three seemed to touch some kind of medium, and something hidden within them stirred and broke free. Their visions were blurred, and they could hardly see the scene on Carinthon Street. Instead, they saw... all sorts of hellish scenes far more desolate and hopeless than this.

Chu Yuanqing was unaware of this change. She was like a parent holding their children's hands, using Magic Thread to link all the Little Idol to prevent them from getting lost, while she focused on moving forward, preparing for the second battle using magic.

The disguise in the Pure White Witch's eyes burned away, and the gilded color flowed like lava. Her hair, which swayed in the wind, faded into the holy Tianshan Snow. Her entire aura and presence changed completely. The charm that was only exaggerated when she held a lantern was passively amplified was now the norm.

This dazzling display, as beautiful as flowers and as lovely as poetry, attracted the attention of many passersby within a few breaths, causing quite a stir. If her aura hadn't shifted to a solemn and dignified tone as her emotions changed, it would surely have drawn a large crowd of people to send her flowers.

However, this was not the end. Her unique Magic Armor was also unveiled to the public for the first time.

Chu Yuanqing's clothes were covered and transformed by silver magic, turning into a gradient gray dress in the magic of the mind. Her head was adorned with a hair ornament surrounded by white flowers, and the skirt, like waves scorching in the flames, blurred out the desolation of extreme prosperity, as well as that sense of the shattering of bubbles.

--The Magic Armor is complete.

Now, compared to the dazzling display of her true self, she exudes a decadence that reflects her real circumstances. Every stitch on her dress seems to reveal the core of tragedy, making the surrounding atmosphere as somber as the cold moonlight.

With each breath, Chu Yuanqing felt the magical energy fluctuations within her body amplified tenfold, and her physical attributes boosted beyond human limits. She experienced a long-lost taste of wielding power.

Magic Armor.

This distinctive symbol of Magical Girl also represents a true form of combat.

Chu Yuanqing's control over magic was even more refined, and even the rate at which she could recover magic was greatly amplified. With a wave of her hand, she added a round magic shell to the bewildered girl in the Little Cotton-padded Jacket. After doing the same to the other girls, she seemed to be pulling several Water Walking Ball and instantly flew to the center of the incident.

Chu Yuanqing no longer cared what the higher-ups at Flash Dance would think. In her eyes, eradicating the calamity and protecting innocent people was far more important than exposing some of her own secrets.

At that moment, the Pure White Witch ignored the crowd of passersby who were unaware of the situation, caught up in the frenzy, and taking pictures with their phones. She stood still in the square and glanced at the source of the calamity.

It is a sculptural building that is highly representative of the Baroque era.

During the Middle Ages, a plague known as the Black Death claimed two-thirds of the lives in Vienna.

The emperor at the time was helpless in the face of this disaster, and later ordered the construction of this Black Death Memorial Pillar to commemorate the victims of the calamity.

This is a common type of Holy Trinity column in Europe. At the top are the Holy Father, the Holy Son, and the Holy Spirit. In the middle is Emperor Leopold kneeling on one knee, removing his crown, and praying to God for peace and health for his people. The rest are surrounded and attached to various figures, forming a complete tall column.

Ironically, the very top cross is stained with the filth that corrodes gold, and a thick aura of calamity entangles and engulfs it. The Holy Father, the Holy Son, the Holy Spirit, and even the emperor kneeling before his people, who originally symbolized mourning and blessing, have all come to life, descending from their altar in monstrous forms.

At this moment, the building, which has stood for hundreds of years, has been defiled by the original concept it was built. Passersby who were not yet aware of the crisis are also caught in confusion and fear, causing the surrounding atmosphere to freeze into a quagmire.

Meanwhile, sirens blared in the distance.

Fire alarms suddenly blared down Carinthia Street, signaling the start of an emergency evacuation.

Chu Yuanqing's expression was calm, her eyes burning with golden light. She looked at the Calamity Beasts, just as she had 17 years ago, when she chose to draw her Flame Sword against the calamity that trampled this land, and once again reclaimed... that raging killing intent.

Book Title: <These Strange Things Are All Me>

Introduction: [Juzi]

"My name is Luo Ling."

"I'm just an ordinary high school student."

"I always thought that way, until one day... I got sick."

"After getting sick, the world seems to have changed a bit..."

The girl stood before the bizarre creature, now only half intact, muttering to herself, while holding the other half in her hand, she leisurely put it into her mouth.

A bizarre creature cloaked in human skin wreaks havoc; a demon devouring flesh cries incessantly, while a mournful Diva sings softly, awakening Him from His slumber in the void.