The reason Todd thought of an electromagnetic railgun when he saw the albinism girl's actions was because her series of movements were extremely similar to the firing pattern of a railgun.

First, let's talk about the firing principle of an electromagnetic railgun. The gun body generally consists of two parallel, long, straight rails, with a small slider placed between the rails as the projectile. When the two rails are connected to a power source, a strong current flows in from one rail, passes through the slider, and flows back from the other rail, generating a strong magnetic field between the planes of the two rails. Under the action of the Ampere force, the current-carrying slider is launched at a very high speed (theoretically, it can reach sub-light speed).

In comparison, the two parallel, long, straight rails of the railgun are the girl's outstretched arms facing each other; the smaller slider is the iron arrow; and the blue 'lines' on her body are probably the cause of the powerful electric current.

However, it's clearly not the right time to be considering this kind of popular science knowledge now.

Todra pulled Rachel and Hudgens behind the stone table, watching the second electromagnetic cannonball whistle overhead and blast a rock more than a meter tall in the cave into pieces. They unconsciously shrank back.

"Get out!"

Hearing the girl's shrill screams, Todd covered his head, looked at the woman beside him, and asked urgently, "How did you contact her in the past?"

Looking at the rubble scattered on the ground, Rachel said in a panic, "We only talked to each other near the cave entrance before, and this girl didn't cause us any trouble then. I don't know why she suddenly became so angry today. And this strange ability doesn't seem like lightning at all!"

Todd turned back, thinking to himself: This is indeed a lightning-based ability, only it converts electrical energy into kinetic energy. But this kind of offensive ability, similar to an "electromagnetic railgun," is so powerful that it breaks down the dimensional barrier compared to the old abilities that spew flames or release poison gas.

Huggins tightened his armor, raised his longsword, and made as if to stand up: "Commander, if I can find an opportunity, I might be able to get close to her and subdue her."

Todd quickly grabbed him, shaking his head frantically: "Believe me! Against that kind of attack, the defense provided by your armor and the 'Inheritor's' ability is practically nonexistent!"

Todd glanced at the cave ceiling, which was bathed in a dazzling blue glow, and his mind raced.

We need to find a way to let them know we mean no harm.

Todd suddenly remembered that when he lived in the monastery, Huggins could always produce some food no matter when or where, and he immediately had an idea.

He patted Huggins' armor: "Did you bring any food?"

The latter was somewhat surprised by the question, but still hurriedly unfastened his armor and took out half a whole wheat bread, a boiled egg, an apple, a handful of gooseberries, and half a ham from the cloth pouch at his waist...

Todd stared wide-eyed as the food piled higher and higher on the ground. He glanced at Huggins' cloth bag and a thought popped into his head: Could that thing be the legendary 'dimensional bag'?

Fortunately, after pulling out the last bundle of dried bean pods, Huggins finally shook his head at Todd.

The latter gave the other person a deep look, picked out the boiled egg from the pile of food, and flicked it towards the girl with his hand along the ground.

A moment later, the screaming stopped.

Todd cautiously peeked half his head out from the stone table and saw the albino girl holding an egg, staring at him intently with wary eyes. He bent down, picked up an apple from the ground, took a bite, and tossed it to her. Then, bread, ham, gooseberries… Todd always ate a bite himself before tossing it to the girl.

Finally, the albino girl gradually lowered her guard, hugged the food in her arms, retreated to the other end of the cave, and ate quickly while carefully watching for any movement.

For the next hour, Todd and his two companions knelt behind the stone table in an odd posture and spoke with this "hardline" alien.

Due to her long period of isolation, the girl's language skills had somewhat deteriorated, though simple communication was still possible. From her fragmented words, Todd learned of a sad past: the girl's name was Cosette. When she was very young, her memories were hazy; she only remembered entering this cave with her parents. Her parents told Cosette not to wander off, that they would come back for her in a while. The girl believed them and remained in the cold, damp cave, drinking from the cave's spring when thirsty and catching insects and small animals when hungry. Years passed in this waiting.

Todd understood perfectly what Cosette's parents meant by "return." He also vaguely knew that this girl, whose intelligence was no different from that of an average person, might have guessed the cruel truth. However, Cosette had sculpted her parents' figures out of clay, placing her longing for family in her imagination. Perhaps... for her, slowly dying in this cave in a false but warm dream was happier than living in endless despair...

"Cosette, do you know how birds train their chicks to fly?"

Seeing the girl shake her head, Todd continued, "They take their chicks, whose wings haven't fully grown, to the edge of the nest, and then push the fledglings out, forcing them to learn to fly in the air."

Todd slowly stood up from behind the stone table and looked at the girl in front of him: "You can't stay in this nest forever, just as a fledgling can't stay under its parents' wings forever."

Cosette took a step back and said firmly, "I will not leave my mom and dad!"

"What if they die?"

Todd glanced at the clay figure in front of him, then gently pushed it forward with his hand. The two statues representing the girl's parents fell to the ground and broke in two.

"No!!!"

Cosette let out a great wail, took out an iron arrow from her pocket, stretched out her arms, and the blue light around her reappeared.

Huggins stood up and blocked Todd's way; Rachel stretched out her right hand, focused her mind, and used her 'telekinesis' to forcibly lower the girl's arms.

Todd walked up to Cosette, looked at the tears welling in her pale pink eyes, sighed, and slowly said, "I must admit, learning to fly is indeed frustrating and painful. But a bird that survives solely on food will have to eat its parents' corpses for its last meal when there's no more food in the nest after their parents die... So, Cosette, try your best to adapt to that painful world outside..."