“What the hell is going on!!”

At this time, in a dark room, a young girl was having a tantrum.

"What is this? Magical girl? Why is there a magical girl? This doesn't make sense at all! It's simply cheating!"

As she spoke, the girl kicked the monitor in front of her, sending it flying.

“It hurts so much…”

And on the cracked screen, a strange figure laughed.

"It seems we have a lot of guests."

"What can I do?"

The girl stared at the computer with dissatisfaction.

"I didn't expect this to happen!"

"It doesn't matter..."

In response to the girl's complaint, the figure on the screen laughed.

"Akane's crafting talent is top-notch. I'm sure you'll be able to create a monster strong enough to defeat them."

"Hmm...you're right. Indeed, maybe I should think in a different way..."

The girl closed her eyes and began to think, but she did not notice that the camera of the tablet computer in her hand was capturing everything in front of her.

"I see."

Looking at the picture displayed on his personal terminal, Fang Zheng narrowed his eyes. From what he could see so far, the other party seemed to be two people. One of them was responsible for making the monster, and his name was... Thinking of this, Fang Zheng glanced to the side, and soon, the information emerged from the side.

"Akira Shinjo is a student at Tsujuantai High School... From the intelligence data, it seems that there is nothing special about her."

If it was any other boss, Fang Zheng would have confronted him directly. It wouldn’t be the first time he had done such a thing anyway.

But this time, Fang Zheng needed to be more cautious. According to the previous conversation, Xin Tiao Qian was responsible for creating monsters, so could the monster statues in this city also be her work? If so, considering that the monster statue could interfere with human cognition of existence, could she be the god of this world?

As for how Xin Tiao Qian created the monster, Fang Zheng still doesn't know, but it doesn't matter, he has successfully hacked into the other party's tablet computer. As long as he continues to monitor and communicate, it will be enough to find out the truth behind it all.

Besides this, Fang Zheng has one more thing to do.

"Let's go look somewhere else."

After putting away his personal terminal, Fang Zheng glanced around and frowned. He always felt that this world was a little abnormal, just like the previous restoration. Indeed, the power of existence could do similar things. But in Shana's world, if the power of existence was distorted on a large scale, it would cause collapse and disaster.

Although the repair process of this world seems logical, where does the energy come from? The damaged world in Shana's world can also be repaired, but that also requires the power of existence. However, Fang Zheng did not feel this reaction during the repair process of this world.

On the contrary, it gives Founder the feeling that it is like a one-click restore...

This is the case here, but what about other places? Do monsters only appear here? Although it is a basic setting that monsters always keep an eye on Tokyo in special effects dramas, are there other places where similar things happen besides here?

Let’s go and have a look.

Fang Zheng went to do his own thing, and at this moment in the second-hand shop on the other side, three boys and girls were sitting face to face, looking quite depressed.

It was no wonder. Not long ago, they had made up their minds to protect the city and fight the monsters with their own strength and hands. But in the second battle, they were defeated and even saved by a girl who came out of nowhere... This was indeed a big blow to their morale.

“Aaaaaaah!! What’s going on with those magical girls!! It’s so weird! Why did they suddenly appear?! We are the ones who should be defeating the monsters!”

While complaining loudly, a boy wearing glasses couldn't help but reach out and hold his head.

Hearing his complaints, Takarada Rikka looked at him in surprise.

"Huh? Are you crazy? At that time, Xiang-kun was almost killed by the monster. Thanks to their help, he escaped. You are still complaining here?"

"No, that's not what I meant..."

Hearing Takarada Rikka's accusation, the man with glasses was speechless. He was a good friend of Yuta Hibiki, so he was naturally involved in this incident, and even combined himself, Takarada Rikka and Yuta Hibiki to form a "GRIDMAN Alliance".

Of course, in the entire alliance, only Yuta Hibiki himself can transform into a giant and fight monsters. As for Rikka Takarada and the man with glasses, they can only watch the live broadcast in front of that old computer and cheer for Yuta Hibiki.

Although he did not directly participate in the battle, the man with glasses had some savior complex when he thought that he was the only one who remembered everything. As a result, he now found that there were more than just saviors, but also a group of more powerful ones...

"Really? Magical girls should just be magical girls. Why are you coming here to mess things up..."

Although he was very unhappy, Takarada Rikka was right. After all, if the other party hadn't helped him, Hibiki Yuta would have died long ago. Therefore, even though he was very unhappy, the man with glasses only complained a few words. However, at this moment, Hibiki Yuta raised his head and looked at the two of them.

"Then...should we continue fighting?"

"Why?"

When they heard Yuta Hibiki's question, Rikka Takarada and the man with glasses were both stunned.

"Before, we chose to fight because we thought it was something only we could do, but now there are people fighting against monsters, and they seem to be stronger than me..."

"How could you think that!?"

Hearing this, the man with glasses jumped up immediately. He reached out and pressed down on Yuta Hibiki's shoulder, staring at him.

"Listen carefully, Yuta, it's just a failure! Everyone fails! Just stand up again! It's just a defeat, right? Don't be discouraged!"

"Huh? What the hell are you talking about?!"

However, Takarada Rikka obviously did not agree with what the man with glasses said.

"Are you kidding? Do you understand what you are saying? You want your friend to die! Don't forget that Xiang-kun is going to fight the monster head-on. It's fine if he wins, but what if he loses? There was no other way before, someone had to stop the monster. But now, since there is someone more suitable than Xiang-kun, why not just leave it to those magical girls! This way, we don't have to watch him fight in front of the computer every time!"

"How can you say that?!"

Hearing Takarada Rikka's rebuttal, the man with glasses also jumped up.

"Are we going to leave our fate in the hands of a group of suspicious strangers? If we don't protect ourselves, who can we rely on?"

"So what if he's a suspicious stranger? According to what you said, I think GRIDMAN is also suspicious. He appeared in my computer for no apparent reason. And why couldn't it be someone else but Xiangjun? And I suspect that Xiangjun's loss of memory might be related to GRIDMAN!"

"GRIDMAN protected us from the monsters!"

"Those magical girls also protected us and Hibiki-kun from the monsters!"

Just like that, Takarada Rikka and the man with glasses had a big quarrel, and finally both sides parted unhappily. The man with glasses angrily dragged Hibiki Yuta away, and Takarada Rikka also sat at the counter angrily, looking too lazy to care. Only the uncle in the black suit sat at the bar in embarrassment, looking at this and that, not knowing what to say.

It looked like the alliance, which had only just been formed, might be about to be dissolved.

Fang Zheng didn't know what was happening in the thrift store at the moment because he had more important things to deal with.

“…”

Standing in front of the platform, looking at the scene in front of him, Fang Zheng had a serious expression on his face.

Just now, he planned to take a train to a nearby city, bought a ticket, and entered the station. Everything went smoothly. Then Fang Zheng got on the train, and then went forward. Then the train passed through the tunnel and came to a thick fog, and then... When the train stopped again, Fang Zheng was surprised to find that it had returned to the original place.

This immediately made Fang Zheng feel that something was wrong, and he took the train again and went around in a circle, but the result was still the same. The entire train seemed to be traveling in a circular motion. Not only that, later on, Fang Zheng even left the train and tried to walk out of the city on his own.

But he also got lost in the fog. When Fang Zheng walked out of the fog again, he returned to the city.

Fang Zheng, who refused to believe in evil, would certainly not give up. He simply flew into the air and tried to find out the situation outside the city.

Then Fang Zheng saw it.

Outside this city, there is endless fog.

It should be said that this city is the only real entity in this world, and outside of it, there is nothing.

Not only that, when Fang Zheng passed through the clouds and reached high in the sky, he saw something even more surprising.

That was the sky—not the sky, but an upside-down city. However, everything in this city was colorful, looking like electronic components embedded on a circuit board. Fang Zheng could even see a hole blasted out of one place.

No need to ask, that was the result when Kiana diverted the monster's beam attack before.

Now Fang Zheng was sure that this was not a normal world, not even a complete world. He had previously wondered why the other party repaired it so frequently. Wasn't he worried that it would affect the entire world? Now he understood that there was no such possibility.

Since there is only this city in this world, it doesn't matter how you manipulate it.

This reminded Fang Zheng of a movie he had watched before called "City of Souls", in which the protagonist lived in a city that was always dark, but in fact, the city was an alien spaceship. They kidnapped these humans and built such a city in the spaceship, and used their machines to instill reconstructed memories in these humans, allowing them to live in this city and observe humans.

Fang Zheng still remembers that in the movie, after a while, the people in the whole city would fall asleep, and then the aliens would appear and inject new memories with some kind of syringe, and the buildings in the whole city would automatically deform and transform. People's identities would also change. Maybe yesterday you were a poor homeless person on the street, but when you open your eyes today, you will become a wealthy man with a beautiful wife and wearing luxurious clothes, and you will not feel anything wrong, because in your memory, you were originally like this.

Later in the movie, the protagonist wanted to take a train to the beach, but the train stopped at a narrow intersection. The protagonist got off the train and walked along the alley. Finally, at the end of the alley, he saw the beach he had always dreamed of going to - a beach mural painted on the wall.

The frustrated male protagonist angrily smashed the wall and saw the endless starry sky outside. Only then did he realize that he was not in a city, but a huge spaceship.

Now it seems that this place gives Fang Zheng a feeling very similar to that of the movie.

However, considering that the speed of repairing this world was too fast, it was impossible for this spaceship to be abducted by aliens. Fang Zheng was not even sure whether this was the real world. After all, if this was the spiritual world, it was not unreasonable. As a mage, he had seen similar situations before. The world in dreams sometimes looked almost the same as reality.

And if that's the case...

So it seems that the key lies in the girl named Akane Shinjo.