novelcrest Chapter 716 It seems the seniors don't have any solutions either.
Chapter 716 It seems the seniors don't have any solutions either.
"...That's roughly how the whole process went."
"First, three people mysteriously disappeared in the alley. Then, when Kokoro and the others were investigating, they captured a strange person who was suspected of being the perpetrator. However, Hyacinth was still dragged into another dimension during the subsequent investigation, which means that the perpetrator was not eliminated on the spot."
"And she met an unexpected person in the other dimension, who is..." "An albatross, right?"
In the Hero Association's conference room, Nightingale sat in front of a communication terminal maintaining intelligence support for Hyacinth, while a small meeting was taking place at the conference table—
Lilac and Poplar sat side by side, while Iris and the fox spirit Moon Skyheart sat across the table, explaining the entire investigation process.
Upon hearing Lilac utter a familiar code name, Qiu Baiyang blinked in confusion, tilted his head, and asked:
"Wait a minute, Lilac, how do you know? And why is Albatross in this strange alternate dimension?"
"This is a long story. Would you like to hear the detailed and elaborate version or the concise summary?" Lilac nodded.
"Let me explain in detail first, I'm afraid I won't understand."
"It was a dark and stormy night. For dinner, I had boiled sliced pork and scrambled eggs with tomatoes..."
"Why don't you start from the time of Pangu creating the world? Give me a concise summary."
"Oh." Lilac looked disappointed.
"I also wanted to tell you that the boiled pork slices at that restaurant are really delicious, they have a lot of lettuce and konjac in them..." "Okay, okay, let's go eat there tonight, you tell me now, I'm dying to tell you."
Lilac was silent for a few seconds, carefully considering her words before recounting what she had encountered yesterday when she entered that mysterious alternate dimension through the spatial rift.
Iris added details she saw in the Divine Stone. Qiu Baiyang was initially thoughtful, then listened in a daze, and by the end, he was full of question marks.
"Wait a minute, please wait a moment."
Qiu Baiyang raised his hand to stop Zidingxiang from continuing, and looked at the iris.
"Iris, you just said there were two lilacs in that alternate dimension? You both saw them too?"
"Yes, the two Lilac Seniors appeared in the Divine Stone video at the same time. At first, we all thought that the other might be some kind of weirdo disguised as a phantom, but Lilac Senior felt that the opponent was very strange."
"—My magic, and the magic of another me, have merged together."
"Lilac said softly."
This sentence stunned Qiu Baiyang. As a support-type magical girl, she was very experienced in magic and magic power, and naturally she could understand the meaning behind Zidingxiang's words.
Two different kinds of magic can never be fused together. They will only silently disappear or spark fiercely when they collide. The only possibility of magic fusion is that these two seemingly different kinds of magic are actually different manifestations of the same kind of magic.
"Although this conclusion is outrageous, it is highly likely that you and the other lilac in that alternate dimension are the same person."
"Are you kidding me?" Lilac's eyelids twitched a few times as she spoke.
"Of course I'm not joking, I'm serious."
Qiu Baiyang nodded.
"Anything is possible under the influence of magic, and I wouldn't be too surprised if two completely identical people appeared."
After saying that, Qiu Baiyang looked at Nightingale, who was talking non-stop to the other end of the terminal not far away.
In the video communication from the Divine Stone, Hyacinth is fiercely fighting against a giant, monster-like being. The Divine Stone is entrusted to White Spirit for safekeeping and provides a global view, offering support to Hyacinth through close-range magical communication.
The situation seemed dire. Nightingale kept saying "Watch out behind you," prompting Bai Ling to constantly switch the camera angles to piece together the full picture of the battlefield.
As a support character, Qiu Baiyang greatly admired Nightingale, a very capable junior. He couldn't help but wonder what Hyacinth was fighting in the other dimension, so he glanced at the magic screen.
A gigantic, semi-transparent monster suddenly appeared in their field of vision.
Its body was as large as an office building, with a huge umbrella-like canopy at the top, and countless tentacles swaying and waving in the air, trying to surround the hyacinth that was wielding a greatsword under the canopy.
Beside the hyacinth, the crimson magical girl, wearing a hood, wielded her weapon with both hands. Her left hand, holding a hunting knife, rose and fell repeatedly, each strike precisely severing a tentacle. Her right hand, holding a lever shotgun, fired continuously with one hand cocking it, displaying the power of two people in one.
Qiu Baiyang naturally recognized the figure wearing a red hooded cape; the combination of a hunting knife and a hunting rifle was unique in the entire world.
"Chixue? How could she be in there?" Qiu Baiyang muttered to himself curiously.
Before she could react, another magical girl in light green appeared in her field of vision. Qiu Baiyang was speechless, staring intently at the figure casting various support spells on the battlefield, and asked the same question as Zidingxiang:
"who is she?"
"It's most likely another version of you, Senior Qiu Baiyang," Nightingale said, spreading her hands. "The Senior Chi Xue in the video is probably not the person you know either."
"But her fighting style is exactly the same as Akayuki's, especially the way she cocks the lever shotgun with one hand..."
The observation of the battle had ended. Qiu Baiyang paused for a moment, then asked:
"Lilac, you just said that the spatial rift was found by Heart Moon Fox?"
Lilac nodded in agreement.
There's nothing to hide about this. Xin Yuehu was in this conference room at the time. It was she who asked the Hero Association to contact her and rush to the scene to check the situation, which is how she discovered that hidden spatial rift.
The crack was even above the park near my home.
"That's really strange. I had no idea such a place existed," said Lilac. "But it's quite normal that Xin Yuehu, who has deployed many detection familiars in Rongcheng, was able to detect it immediately."
"That's Heart Moon Fox," Qiu Baiyang remarked with the same sentiment.
The group exchanged glances and sighed helplessly almost simultaneously.
On one hand, they were racking their brains over the complex situation in the alternate dimension; on the other hand, something unexpected happened after the information was put together... Whether it was the alternate dimension or the spatial rift, all the clues pointed to the same person:
"Xin Yuehu, she might know more than we do."
After saying this, Iris was given a deep look by both of her seniors. Lilac and Poplar then looked at each other, with a strange feeling in their eyes.
This little fox calls itself a villain, and it acts like a villain in its daily life. It has also gathered a large group of unclaimed stars to form a villain team. It often catches hyacinths and others to pluck them. I never expected that the iris would say such a thing.
But upon further reflection, it seems that this is indeed the case: Xin Yuehu currently possesses more information than the Hero Association. At least for now, even Fengxinzi doesn't know how she entered the alternate dimension; only Xin Yuehu knows how to enter it.
"It's decided!"
Qiu Baiyang slammed his hand on the table and stood up.
"Once Hyacinth rescues the remaining missing persons today, the rest of us will go find Heartmoon Fox to discuss our collaboration!"
Cooperation?
Upon hearing this, both the iris and the nightingale gave a wry smile.
To conspire with a fox for profit, especially with Xin Yuehu, this seemingly cute little fox who actually has a terrifyingly wicked smile, sounds incredibly unreliable no matter how you look at it.