Sudden Turn!

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, it was already three in the afternoon.

"Whew..."

Molly sheathed her sword and exhaled a breath of hot air.

With a thought, she brought up the Proficiency Panel.

[Fifth-Tier Basic Swordsmanship: 902/10000]

Looking at the number on the panel, Molly sighed.

"Ugh, half a day of training only increased my proficiency by a little over five hundred. This speed is really a bit slow..."

A phone suddenly began to ring.

Ring-ring-ring.

Puzzled, Molly took out her phone and saw that Luoxi was calling. She answered it.

Luoxi's voice on the other end was hurried and grave.

"Molly, where are you right now?"

"I'm practicing swordsmanship at home. What's wrong?"

"Something happened."

Luoxi's voice was filled with anxiety.

"Someone who looks exactly like your transformed form hijacked a passenger plane!"

"She even recorded a video and posted it online, saying she's going to crash the plane into the tallest building in A City!"

"What?!"

Molly's pupils abruptly contracted.

Hijack a passenger plane?

Impersonate her?

And crash it into the tallest building in A City?

This was completely insane!

The tallest building in A City was the city's financial center. It had over a hundred floors and housed tens of thousands of office workers.

If the plane truly crashed into it, the consequences would be unimaginable!

Not only would it cause enormous casualties, it would trigger a collapse, turning the entire building into a blazing ruin!

"I don't have any good options right now either."

There was helplessness in Luoxi's voice.

"There are more than two hundred passengers on the plane. They're all hostages."

"I can fly, but there's no way I can intercept a high-speed passenger plane."

"..."

"I understand."

Molly took a deep breath, suppressing the shock and fury in her heart.

After hanging up, Molly immediately opened a webpage.

Sure enough, the trending list had a news item about "Magical Girl Pale Hijacking a Passenger Plane"!

She opened one of the videos.

In the footage, a silver-haired girl identical to her stood in the cockpit of the passenger plane, a ferocious grin on her face.

Her voice was sharp and piercing as she spoke to the camera.

"Hello, everyone. I'm Magical Girl Pale! Today, I'm going to accomplish a feat worthy of being carved into history!"

"I'm going to crash this plane into A City's financial center! I'll let those lofty people have a taste of despair!"

The camera shifted, revealing that all the passengers in the cabin had their hands and feet bound by silver-white bands of light.

Their faces were pale, their bodies trembling, their eyes filled with terror.

The video was only thirty seconds long, yet it was like a bomb that set off an uproar across the internet.

The comment section was filled with curses.

[Magical Girl Pale? More like a witch! Hijacking a passenger plane is utterly deranged, I say!]

[This is terrifying! How could she do such a thing? Those passengers are innocent!]

[I even thought she was a hero before. I never expected her to be this kind of person! Pah!]

[Hurry up and arrest this witch! Execute her! Execute her, I say!]

The more Molly read, the heavier her heart became.

What felt even more wrong was that a large portion of those comments carried the verbal tic "I say," making it obvious that someone was deliberately steering the narrative and manipulating public opinion.

"Sure enough, only the people who want to frame you know how innocent you are."

Molly gritted her teeth, the flames of rage blazing within her.

She knew she could not sit around and wait for death.

If she could not prove her innocence in time, she would not only bear infamy for the rest of her life, but also allow the real masterminds to remain at large.

Molly walked to the window, leapt out, and landed on the rooftop.

Her gaze was locked on the city center, sharp as a sword.

"Whoever you are, I'll definitely expose your true face!"

Molly took a deep breath, slightly bent her legs, and sprinted madly toward the city center.

She moved incredibly fast, leaping and weaving between the rooftops of residential buildings like an agile cheetah.

Just as she had not run far, a massive roar came from the distance.

Molly looked up and saw a passenger plane trailing a long stream of exhaust as it charged straight toward the building!

The plane was moving so fast that it was about to crash into the building!

On the ground, people on both sides of the street stopped in their tracks and watched the scene in terror.

Some were so frightened that they even shut their eyes, unable to watch the impending tragedy.

"!!!"

Molly's heart clenched, and a powerful sense of helplessness surged through her.

She was fast, but the plane was faster.

Even if she gave it everything she had, there was no way she could reach it before it hit the building!

"Why... why am I still so weak?"

Molly clenched her fists, her nails digging deeply into her palms.

"I've clearly worked so hard. I've clearly broken through to Fifth-Tier Basic Swordsmanship and comprehended Sword Intent... but it's still not enough! I still can't do anything!"

She watched the plane draw ever closer, watched the building about to be destroyed, watched the desperate people below, and felt her heart fill with unwillingness and self-reproach.

Then, a crisp voice suddenly rang out in her mind.

"I can help you!"

It was Little Mo!

Molly froze. Before she could react, the bracelet on her wrist suddenly erupted with a dazzling blue light.

Little Mo's figure floated out from the bracelet. Her eyes were closed, and her tiny body radiated a gentle yet incomparably powerful glow.

"Bzzzz—!"

A warm power poured from Little Mo's body, flowing endlessly into Molly.

Molly's entire body trembled as an unprecedented force exploded within her.

Her speed instantly soared. Her body became weightless, and she could actually fly through the air!

Her silver-white magical outfit became even purer and more sacred beneath the light, while faint golden patterns emerged upon the hem of her skirt, brimming with divinity.

Her eyes also became detached, as though she were a god looking down upon the mortal world.

"This is..."

Molly felt the changes within her in shock. Before she could speak, Little Mo's voice rang out again.

"Master, there's no time! I'll control your body!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Molly felt her body grow light. Her consciousness was temporarily pulled away, and Little Mo completely took over control of her body.

Controlling Molly's body, Little Mo shot toward the passenger plane like a bolt of lightning!

Her speed was beyond imagination!

In the blink of an eye, she arrived directly in front of the passenger plane!

At that moment, the plane was less than a hundred meters away from the financial center!

The people on the street all shook their heads in despair, waiting for the thunderous impact.

But then, they witnessed a sight they would never forget for the rest of their lives—

The "witch" they had been cursing, that silver-white figure, actually appeared in front of the plane!

She stretched out one hand and lightly placed it before the nose of the speeding aircraft!

Boom!

With a deafening crash, the plane's engines let out a piercing roar, and the immense impact slammed viciously into Molly's hand!

Yet to everyone's shock, the hundred-ton passenger plane was forcibly brought to a halt by her single hand!

Time seemed to freeze at that moment.

"!!!"

Everyone on the street widened their eyes, their mouths hanging open wide enough to fit an egg.

"..."

The curses and terrified screams vanished without a trace, replaced by deathly silence.

More than ten seconds passed before someone finally came to their senses and cried out.

"Holy shit! She... she stopped a plane with her hand?!"

"Did... did I see that wrong just now? That was a plane! How could she possibly stop it?!"

"Isn't that Magical Girl Pale? Why did she stop the plane? Wasn't she going to use it to destroy the building?"

The crowd instantly erupted, gasps and exclamations rising one after another.

"??!"

In a dark corner of the street, the Mimic Demon watched the scene. The smug grin on his face instantly froze, his eyes filling with disbelief and terror.

He had secretly gotten off the plane long ago and hidden here, ready to admire his "masterpiece."

But he never could have imagined that Molly would suddenly erupt with such immense power and stop the plane barehanded!

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

"How could she be this strong?!"

The Mimic Demon's body trembled, his heart gripped by terror.