Chapter 376

"... Didn't what I just said sound like something a jerk would say?"

Fang Ming left the hotel, he belatedly realized this.

He said that what he just said sounded so familiar!

Don't some scumbags say this to their female partners when they're two-timing?

"No, no, no, I'm not a scumbag. I haven't officially started dating Xiao Chun yet... Damn, why does saying that make me sound like a scumbag?"

Fang Ming tried to justify himself, but the more he tried, the more he felt like a complete jerk.

It gives the impression that he's keeping Xiao Chun on his toes while simultaneously looking for a backup plan...

No, I almost got led astray.

He and Stella were completely innocent, and he and Xiao Chun had not officially established a relationship yet. Moreover, in his current state, if he were to establish a relationship with someone, he was afraid that some unknown force would simply wipe out the entire world.

Therefore, I am innocent! I am not a scumbag!

That's right, that's exactly it!

Finding a reason for himself, Fang Ming transformed into Xiao Bai and flew towards the place he had agreed upon with Stella.

Stella had everything prepared.

After a night of debugging and experimentation, Stella easily connected to the Magic Network without any help from Xiao Bai.

And without any surprises, they found the last hidden base of the Aurora Society.

What surprised Xiao Bai a little was that the Aurora Society's final base was located in Antarctica.

"No wonder I couldn't find it after looking for so long, turns out it had run into here."

Xiao Bai, who had come to Antarctica with Stella, murmured to himself as he looked down at the empty ice below.

The Magic Network does indeed cover the entire globe, even extending to places like Antarctica.

However, compared to densely populated big cities, Magic Network does not pay much attention to remote areas.

Xiao Bai wouldn't care about places like the Antarctica and Antarctic where there are hardly any people.

Unexpectedly, the Aurora Society's actual headquarters was located here.

Volume 4 <Magic Autumn> Theatrical Edition and Season 3: Chapter 407 The Sunset of the Aurora Society

Having pinpointed the true location of the Aurora Society, Xiao Bai in the sky raised his hand to create chains, intending to turn this entire area upside down.

Forget about the Aurora Society or anything else, just eliminate it physically.

It solves everything once and for all, saving you time and effort.

But just as Xiao Bai raised his hand, and the sound of chains ringing out, Stella suddenly called out to Xiao Bai:

"Etc."

"Um?"

Xiao Bai looked over in confusion.

Stella placed her hand on the side of her forehead, closed her eyes, and focused on sensing the situation at the Aurora Society headquarters. With a rather strange expression, she said to Xiao Bai:

"They... they seem to have... committed suicide?"

"Um???"

Upon hearing Stella's words, Xiao Bai was stunned for a long time.

She frowned, pondered for a moment, then retracted the chains and asked Stella, "Where is the entrance to headquarters?"

Stella pointed somewhere below.

Having located the base's entrance, the two of them together lifted the ice layer, broke through the entrance, and entered.

And just as Stella said, it seems that the Aurora Society members here did indeed commit suicide.

As soon as they entered the base, they saw various corpses lying on the ground, scattered haphazardly.

The bodies included those of researchers and security personnel.

Judging from their demeanor and the way they held their guns, it was clear that these security personnel first killed the experimenters who were trying to escape, and then turned their guns on themselves to commit suicide.

Xiao Bai frowned as he looked at the corpse on the ground.

She asked Stella, "Did they just commit suicide?"

"It seems like... after I sensed them?" Stella's thought.

After a while, she added, "It must have been shortly after the end of the third episode; they probably anticipated our arrival."

"It's not hard to guess."

The Sky Screen is shown all over the world, and even in Antarctica, people who Aurora Society can see it clearly.

Through the Sky Screen, they could determine that Stella possessed the ability to monitor ordinary people all over the world. Therefore, it was not difficult to guess that Stella would find them based on what was happening in the Sky Screen.

It's unclear whether Aurora Society actually met Stella Magical Girls.

But they dared not gamble, or rather, they had no other choice.

Inside the Antarctica base, resources were abundant enough for them to live on for a very long time, but as long as the Magical Girls were watching them, they couldn't show their faces.

After such a long period of isolation from the outside world, many people have developed psychological problems.

Then, once one person begins to commit suicide, a chain reaction ensues.

Then, the base's high command issued an order to begin clearing the base.

As it stands, this is roughly how things went. Whether this is the truth or not, we'll need to find the survivors in the base or check the surveillance footage to find out.

But given the current situation, finding survivors seems highly unlikely.

Where do they create Demons?

Xiao Bai then asked.

Stella took a small step forward to lead the way for Xiao Bai, saying, "I'll take you there. Also, they're not Demons, they're weirdos. The Aurora Society far behind what they were on the Sky Screen; they don't have the technology to create Demons."

Whether it's scientific technology or magical technology, both require resources for research.

The Aurora Society was sealed off in the real world by Magical Girls, and all the bases were destroyed by Xiao Bai and her friends, leaving only this one base still standing.

Without support from other bases and without technological exchange, the Aurora Society's development remains in its initial stages.

That is, the very beginning of the first part of the Sky Screen Li spin-off.

It's not even as good as the technology shown in the current Aurora Society in the Sky Screen, let alone the technology shown in the final episode of the spin-off.

The ability to create an 'Aging' Demons is likely the Aurora Society's final act.

Creating more Demons has become impossible.

This is also a positive change brought about by the Sky Screen.

At least in the real world, the situation where all the worlds that appeared in the Sky Screen were inhabited by Demons will never happen again.

Xiao Bai followed Stella into the base, while Stella, based on her previous observations, led Xiao Bai toward the laboratory where the monsters were created.

But as they approached the laboratory, Stella suddenly stopped.

Xiao Bai looked at her.

Stella exclaimed in surprise, "There are still people alive..."

"A survivor?"

"No... it's not a survivor, it's him!" Stella turned to Xiao Bai and said, "Avery! His real body is right here!"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Bai narrowed her eyes. Before Stella could continue, she summoned her scythe and with a gentle slash, the incredibly sturdy metal door of the laboratory crumbled into metal fragments right before her eyes.

Scattered all over the ground.

Avery sat quietly in front of the culture tank.

Behind him were various culture tanks used to cultivate monsters, but now these tanks were all broken, and all the monsters inside were dead. The liquid that had flowed out was spilled all over the laboratory floor.

Avery sat there quietly, holding a gun, as if waiting for someone.

Only when the laboratory door in front of him shattered did Avery raise his head to look ahead.

A petite, silver-haired girl, resembling a ten-year-old child, and a girl with short brown hair but no bear ears.

Magical Girl Xiao Bai, and Witch Stella.

"I've been waiting for a long time, Xiao Bai."

When Avery saw Xiao Bai come up to him, he grinned.

Xiao Bai strode into the laboratory, surveyed its current state, and questioned Avery:

"What trick are you playing now?"

"It's nothing, I just know we've lost our chance, so I thought I'd do you a good deed one last time and give you a big gift."

Avery looked up, smiled, and asked Xiao Bai, "What do you think of this gift?"

Xiao Bai didn't answer; her gaze fell on Avery's side.

At his feet, besides the freak's corpse, were several other corpses dressed in suits.

Xiao Bai recognized them; these people were all high-ranking members of the Aurora Society, the real high-ranking members. Their clones were in charge of the Aurora Society Group on the surface, but now, they, like their clones, had all become corpses.

Xiao Bai stared at them for a long time before turning to look at Stella.

Stella was taken aback at first, then understood what Xiao Bai meant. She immediately sensed it and replied to Xiao Bai:

"... It's the original body; everything here is the original body."

Only after receiving Stella's confirmation did Xiao Bai look at Avery with a strange expression.

So, the Aurora Society has essentially wiped itself out?

Looking at the only Aurora Society executive sitting there, Xiao Bai pondered for a moment, then pulled up a chair and began a conversation with Avery face-to-face:

What exactly do you want to do?

Avery sighed, "I just... wanted to follow in the footsteps of Magical Girls."

"Ha, like you in the Sky Screen?"

Xiao Bai said sarcastically.

Avery didn't take it seriously. He laughed and said, "You should have guessed it by now. The me in the final episode of the spin-off is just a clone."

"It's precisely because he's a clone that he's become somewhat... Paranoia in certain ways."

Avery pointed to his head as he spoke.

It goes without saying what he meant by 'certain aspects'.

Avery then added, "That's why when the 'ideal' I set for him collapses, he goes insane; otherwise, he wouldn't have done something like killing Magical Girls."

At this point, Avery sighed, "As expected, implanted ideals are prone to becoming distorted. That guy wasn't me at all; it's better that you guys eliminated him."

How many clones of yourself have you made?

"I made as many as there were bases, but most of the 'me's' were not very noticeable. Some couldn't even be instilled with ideals; they were simply the worst of the worst... Never mind, there's no point in talking about it."

Avery's clones, along with the base where the clones were located, had already been dealt with by Xiao Bai and the other Magical Girls.

Xiao Bai stared at the gun in Avery's hand, then his gaze gradually moved upwards, meeting Avery's eyes.

She asked softly:

"So, you're now planning to 'turn over a new leaf'?"

"Reform yourself? Hahaha, even if I really said that, would you believe me?"

Avery laughed. "From the moment I saw the Sky Screen appear, I knew my fate was sealed. I was just unwilling to give up so easily, which is why I became more radical and created more monsters in ways I didn't like before."

"Heh, although I wasn't much better off in the Sky Screen either. It seems that no matter what world I'm in, I'll eventually walk down this path of no return."

Xiao Bai looked at Avery calmly, without responding.