The villainous magical girl's daily mission is to find fault.

Chapter 718 Confused Rabbit, Bewildered Cat, Wild Fox

The characteristic of "immortality" is enough to give a fox a headache.

The next morning, while sitting in a classroom at Rongcheng Medical College listening to a professor's lecture, Su Tianqing still couldn't help but think about the animal world program she had watched on TV before going to bed the night before.

Some jellyfish have a very unique characteristic: when they suffer fatal damage or food shortages, they can transform into a polyp form, preying on small, floating creatures on the seabed to gradually grow stronger and eventually form a completely new jellyfish.

During this process, the jellyfish undergoes tremendous changes in its cellular structure, but its essence remains unchanged—it is still the same jellyfish, only it has undergone a unique transformation, thus forming this complete cycle.

This inevitably brings to mind the existence of a certain astral jellyfish.

If... just if, suppose the astral jellyfish that attacked Rongcheng had such characteristics, could that explain the series of events that have occurred?

The astral jellyfish never truly died; it exists in that alternate dimension as a swarm of hydra, instinctively engaging in recurring and converging behaviors...

Shoot the arrow first and then draw the target – this has never been a correct way of reasoning. Su Tianqing did not focus on this possibility that only existed in theory, but instead let her thoughts wander, trying to find more theories that could explain the existence of that alternate dimension.

But even after the morning's long lectures ended, and after having lunch in the cafeteria and returning home for a nap, Su Tianqing still hadn't come up with any groundbreaking, decisive theory.

There are only some scattered inferences, most of which are not very reliable and cannot withstand close scrutiny.

"I have absolutely no clue..." The fox girl tossed and turned on the bed, feeling her head throbbing, as if her fox brain was overloaded.

This is troublesome; things are very troublesome now.

The information we have so far is very limited, and the information is of little value. It consists of only superficial clues, and we haven't uncovered much of anything of deeper value.

The only clue that can be considered decisive so far is the encrypted recording from Bai Ling's side.

If possible, I need to find a way to get Hyacinth into that alternate dimension to investigate again. This time, I'll have her bring Yue Tianxin along, so I can use the automatic Yue Tianxin to gather more information.

But now it's almost impossible for Hyacinth to return to that alternate dimension: there's no reason for it to return.

According to the information provided by Meteor, a space-type superpower user, the spatial stability of that alternate dimension is extremely poor. To put it figuratively, it's "like an A4 sheet of paper floating in the ocean." If Meteor were to teleport several times in that space, it would even tear open a small spatial rift, which is why it dares not conduct a large-scale exploration.

This also explains why that alternate dimension had torn open a spatial rift earlier to allow Lilac to enter and rescue it... This alternate dimension was on the verge of collapse at any moment, so it was perfectly normal for it to spontaneously generate spatial rifts.

Sending a hyacinth into the space to investigate under these circumstances is tantamount to carrying a bomb into a fire to put it out. Once the space itself collapses, the hyacinth will also be lost in the chaotic spatial turbulence and never be able to return.

"Sigh... Am I just supposed to watch this strange alternate dimension disappear like this...?" Su Tianqing muttered to herself helplessly.

We need to find a perfect reason to go inside and investigate.

These thoughts affected the golden fox girl's afternoon nap. She couldn't fall asleep when the alarm clock rang, and had to drag her tired body to the lab class with Nan Jiayu, who was full of energy after a good nap.

This afternoon's class was an anatomy experiment, and the goal was to dissect a white mouse.

After changing into a white lab coat, Su Tianqing sat in the lab classroom watching the professor explain the precautions for today's experiment on the podium, and quietly yawned.

Dissecting mice? I'm already an expert at this. I used mice for my graduate thesis, and I used at least 150 mice as experimental material during the thesis writing process. I could disassemble mice into parts with my eyes closed.

As it happened, the experiment required groups of three. Cat and Fox noticed that a certain socially awkward pink-haired bunny was huddled in a corner, barely noticeable, so they casually pulled her into their group. The three of them stared at the three white mice in the cage, each showing a different expression:

The rabbit, also a rodent, curiously observed the white mice, constantly looking down at its book and muttering about the details of the anesthesia to be administered later.

As a predator, the cat was not used to the bright lights in the laboratory. Its heterochromatic eyes shrank to needle-like length as it stared at the white mice, a sinister smile of a natural enemy appearing on its lips.

Su Tianqing calmly flipped through the experiment manual, her eyes showing no gleam.

"For this experiment, we need to disassemble all the organs in the mouse's abdominal cavity for identification," Su Tianqing, the de facto leader of the group, said, glancing at the cat and rabbit guardians on her left and right.

"Who should go first?"

"Tianqing, you go first, you seem to be more skilled." "Tianqing, you come first, we can learn from you too..."

The order is unsurprising.

Su Tianqing skillfully put on gloves and a mask, reached into the cage, grabbed a small white mouse, pinched its head, and lifted it in front of her. Her pair of blue fox eyes calmly stared at the mouse's empty eyes.

"Hmm... This time, we require that the mice be either killed or anesthetized first..." Nan Jiayu said, holding the experimental manual.

Before she could react, Su Tianqing grabbed the white mouse's tail with her other hand and pulled hard with both hands.

"Click."

A soft cracking sound rang out, and the white mouse instantly went still.

Nan Jiayu and Xia Taotao stared blankly at the euthanized mouse that had been placed on the experimental table in front of them, and then turned to look at the golden-haired fox girl who was wearing a mask and whose expression could not be seen, but whose eyes were as cold as if she had been killing fish in RT-Mart for twenty years.

Their gazes gradually shifted from confusion to terror, then they exchanged glances, confirming something important:

It's incredibly lucky that Tianqing is such a funny villain. If she used that ruthless skill of killing rats instead of having evil thoughts, I can't even imagine how terrifying it would be.

What? You're asking why I, the fox, used such a brutal method to kill the mouse?

Please, if we use anesthesia for everything, where will the research funding for graduate theses come from? The price of anesthetic drugs might even be more expensive than a mouse!

The subsequent experiments were also easy and pleasant, as skillful as strolling around at home.

Su Tianqing dismantled all the organs in the mouse's abdominal cavity in five minutes. The cat and rabbit beside her were still struggling with how to kill the mouse, and were forced to watch Su Tianqing's skillful cervical dislocation execution method three times.

While twisting the mouse's neck, Su Tianqing felt herself fall into a dazed state.

This is probably what it feels like to kill two hundred mice in a laboratory.