The road to the energy zone is not difficult to travel, but for the girls, it is full of unimaginable...excitement.

The reason is naturally the black, spider-like, multi-legged monster.

Of course, this is not to say that they are so powerful, but the ability of these multi-legged monsters to transform does give the girls a headache. As they walk along, almost anything they encounter may be transformed by these monsters, which also causes them to be startled. After all, when you walk through a passage, the scene where the vase/notebook/trash can/bookshelf/chair/cardboard box next to you instantly turns into a monster and pounces on you is too terrifying, so even if the red ponytail group arrived at the energy zone without any injuries or illnesses, most of them were already mentally exhausted.

"Okay, keep trying, the energy center is just ahead."

Looking at the four people behind her with somewhat tired and pale faces, Red Ponytail clapped her hands speechlessly. She could also understand the state of others at the moment. After all, this kind of monster was really disgusting... Red Ponytail had never seen a monster that could instantly change its form, but fortunately, after the initial encounter, Red Ponytail used her personal terminal to scan the monster, locked their energy field, and was able to successfully identify it before it transformed.

But for the girls, finding a counterfeit from a pile of inorganic substances is also a troublesome problem, but now the girls have their own way.

"There are three at eleven o'clock."

Red Ponytail opened the door of the energy area, then glanced around and gave an order. The next moment, Xiaohuan beside her suddenly raised her left hand, and dozens of pink arrows flew out, directly hitting all the tables, chairs and trash cans on the left side in front of everyone. Then, accompanied by the familiar "creak" sound, the desk lamp and chair on the desk over there suddenly changed, and three black shadows flashed. The next moment, Yachiyo rushed forward, and a cold light instantly swept across the entire room, cutting the three multi-legged monsters into pieces.

At the same time, the frightened multi-legged monsters disguised as landscape plants and bookshelves on the windowsill suddenly jumped up, and were then skewered like meat by the apricots that had been ready for action.

"You should also be careful not to break anything important..."

Red Ponytail reminded silently, yes, now these magical girls have also found a way to deal with these deformed centipedes, that is, after entering a room, first release an AOE to scare them away, and then clean them all up. Although these centipedes can simulate deformation, their IQ does not seem to be very high. As long as they are frightened, they will stop transforming. This is another reason why the girls can persist until now.

If these monsters were scheming and knew how to disguise themselves without revealing any feelings, then perhaps everyone else would have collapsed by now.

In this way, the group arrived at the energy control area safely (literally).

"Well, you see, it's very simple, just press the button to make it restart."

After looking at the console in front of her, Red Ponytail spoke proudly, while Xingzi carried the spear and stared at Red Ponytail in confusion.

"Is it really as simple as you say? I remember playing similar games before, and in many cases, the power was turned on and nothing happened, and then some fuse was broken and needed to be replaced, or some sub-switches needed to be turned on..."

"I really wish there wasn't this crap around here."

Hearing Xingzi's complaints, the red ponytail's eyes twitched slightly. She was very familiar with this routine, a classic way to delay the game time. The fuse was burned out and needed to be replaced, the battery was dead and needed to be repaired, and so on... forget it, it's useless to think about it any further.

"Everyone come closer."

While looking around, Red Ponytail waved, and then the other four magical girls hurried over.

"Okay, next I hope to restore energy by pressing this switch, and then start the entire space station. Then we can see if we can find any information from the main control computer..."

Having said that, Red Ponytail glanced at Xingzi again.

"No more messy things will happen."

Noticing the look in Red Ponytail's eyes, Xingzi curled her lips and said nothing.

Then, Red Ponytail pressed the button.

“——!!”

Then, everything in front of everyone's eyes suddenly became dark.

"Ah, I knew it. This is standard practice."

In the darkness, Kyoko's voice sounded again, while Yachiyo and Tamaki sighed silently. However, the next moment, a dazzling white light suddenly lit up, illuminating the space that was originally illuminated by the dim emergency light. Faced with the sudden strong light, the magical girls closed their eyes, and then slowly opened them.

Then they were completely stunned by the scene before them.

"Wait wait wait, what's going on? Where are we?"

Xingzi's eyes widened in surprise as she looked at the space in front of her, and the others were not much better. They saw that under the white light, it was not the energy control center they were in just now, but an empty metal passage with no one in it!

"Where is this? This isn't the space station we were in just now."

Xiaohuan also raised the question in confusion at this moment. The reason was very simple. As they walked along just now, they already had a vague understanding of this space station. No matter what, it was very advanced, clean and beautiful, and the ground was also covered with smooth floors. Overall, it was similar to those high-level hospitals and other facilities in their hometown, and it looked very comfortable.

But the passage now looked different. The steel plate full of thin air holes was laid on the ground, and through the air holes one could see the pipes running in all directions. The wall next to it was clean, but somewhat dirty. Not only that, the damp and stuffy feeling coming from the air was also incompatible with the constant temperature central air conditioning in the space station...

"We should have been teleported to another dimension."

Red Ponytail and Homura Akemi seemed very calm about this, but the other three were somewhat uneasy. Unlike Homura Akemi, they were used to traveling through time with Fang Zheng every day. Strictly speaking, this was their first time to experience real time travel, so naturally they were somewhat uneasy.

"Is everything okay? I mean... now we are in another world? Not in the space station anymore? How do we get back then?"

Xiaohuan clenched her hands and asked anxiously.

"Don't worry, I think this should be a cycle."

Red Ponytail patted Xiaohuan's shoulder, signaling her not to be so nervous.

"This is some kind of special trigger mechanism. Only when we complete the predetermined goals will we come to the next world. I think turning on energy control is one of them. What we have to do next is to find the center of the mission target in this world..."

"Someone."

However, before the red ponytail could finish her words, Yachiyo suddenly raised the spear in her hand, warily aimed at the corridor ahead and spoke. At this time, the others also heard the heavy footsteps coming from afar.

"Lie in ambush and see what happens."

Red Ponytail's face changed, and then she quickly lowered her voice and spoke, then made a gesture, and then Yachiyo and Kyoko immediately hid in the two corners of the passage, while Red Ponytail pulled Xiaohuan to hide in the shadows behind, while she held the big sword in one hand and looked forward. As for Akemi Homura, she was at the back holding a gun to protect their backs.

“Boom…boom…boom…”

Not long after, accompanied by the sound of footsteps, several figures appeared on the wall, and at the same time, they seemed to have discovered something and gradually slowed down their pace.

Seeing this, Red Ponytail and Kyoko exchanged a glance. They were not fools. Which magical girl present was not killed from the corpse of a witch? The other party suddenly changed their action mode, which was most likely because they discovered their existence. So soon, Kyoko also made a gesture to Red Ponytail.

Do you want to go up?

According to Xingzi, the first to strike is the strongest, and the last to strike will suffer. Since the other party has discovered the problem, then just go up and solve it.

However, in response to Xingzi's request, the red ponytail thought for a moment, waved her hand, and lowered her gesture.

I won’t move unless the enemy does. Let’s see how the situation develops and wait for my order.

cut.

Xingzi made an indescribable gesture, curled her lips and turned her head away. At the same time, the figure on the opposite side had arrived at the entrance of the passage.

Then, I saw those shadows stop at the entrance of the passage for a moment, then suddenly turn in and raise the black muzzles in their hands——!!

"superior!"

Before she finished her words, the red ponytail suddenly turned into a red light, and she rushed forward with a bright red sword in her hand, cutting the huge gun in front of her into two pieces with one sword. At the same time, Yachiyo and Anzi suddenly rushed out from the left and right, and the spears in their hands flashed rapidly with a cold light. Two "clang clang" sounds of metal collision were heard, and two more guns were knocked to the ground. At the same time, the sharp spears in their hands were against each other's necks.

"Hey, stop it!!"

At the same time, a loud roar came from the opposite rear. It was not until this time that both sides could see each other clearly and were stunned.

Appearing in front of Red Ponytail and the others was a group of Marines who looked like the kind that often appear in Hollywood blockbusters. They were tall, wearing bulletproof vests, helmets on their heads, holding bulky and powerful heavy firepower weapons in their hands, and wearing headphones and headsets on their heads. They looked like people who walked out of a movie.

"Who are you? Are you the survivors here?"

Soon, a white man in military uniform who looked like a captain came over and asked, and what he spoke... was of course English.

Fortunately, since the magical girls are also equipped with personal terminals, communication is not a problem.

"Who are you?"

The red ponytail put down the bright red sword that was pressed against the neck of an opponent's soldier, frowned and asked, and the opponent waved his hand.

"We are the Marines, little sister. Can you put down your weapons first? We can assure you that we are not your enemies... Am I right?"

After hearing the man's words, the girls soon saw a woman with short curly hair and a rather strong appearance walking out. She looked at the girls in surprise, then nodded.

"Yes, we are here to rescue you. Do you know what happened here?"

"Where is this place?"

Red Ponytail did not hide her doubts at all and asked directly. Hearing her question, the soldiers on the opposite side looked at each other in confusion, and then the woman spoke again.

"This is the Lv426 colony...are you all right?"

“…”

Hearing the name, Red Ponytail raised her eyebrows, then she stared at the woman.

She is not pretty, even skinny, quite sturdy, with curly hair...

To be honest, Red Ponytail is very blind to Europeans and Americans. She can hardly tell the difference between most people, but she has a great influence on those with unique looks. For example, Spock, who has two particularly prominent eyebrows, and...

"Ripley?"

Hearing the red-tailed girl's question, the woman widened her eyes in surprise.

"How do you know my name? Who are you?"

“…”

Well, now Red Ponytail knew where they had been thrown.

Son, come out and meet your daddy!!