Chapter 176 Baiwu
Unexpected reinforcements rushed into the battlefield with great momentum, and the purple-red light curtain that had not yet dissipated made the scene in front of them particularly dreamy. Delphinium blinked, and confirmed again and again that she was not hallucinating, and then she spoke in surprise:
"Asagao? Is it really you?"
She didn't know if this was the "reinforcement" that Emerald mentioned. If so, it would be too surprising because she never thought that this person would be Hong Siyu.
After all, it has not been a month since the Full Moon Festival, and Hong Siyu was sent to the kingdom for treatment this month. It was indeed beyond Cuiqiao's expectation that she could return to Fangting City at this time.
More importantly, Hong Si and Ben should no longer have the ability to turn into a magical girl.
As a retired magical girl, her magic source should have long been dormant, and her magical girl power should have been returned. Moreover, she was previously controlled by Moss and even transformed into a crippled beast. After such a torment, it was impossible for her to become a magical girl again.
However, facts are more important than anything else. The hand holding up Delphinium's knee is so real, and the face in front of her is so vivid. The girl who should have existed only in her memory has indeed appeared here.
"It's really me, Senior."
The hands holding Delphinium slowly loosened, letting its feet fall to the ground. The girl in purple clothes lowered her head slightly and said, "I'm back, and I'm sorry I'm back late."
"Why can you ..."
"Hush, let's stop talking about the past here. I'll explain it to you when everything is over."
Perhaps because of the slightly intimate behavior before, Hong Siyu looked a little uncomfortable. She placed the book in her hand across the front of Cuique and gently interrupted her unspoken words:
"Now, we have to get rid of the enemy in front of us first."
After she finished speaking, she turned her head and looked at Yuan not far away, and the expression on her face changed from gentle to tense.
"41422..."
However, Yuan did not seem to be aroused by the words of the visitor. Instead, he thoughtfully read the codename reported by Hong Siyu: "Have all the codenames started with 4 characters now?"
"Your focus is so strange! Just focus on the battle!"
Semi corrected him, "And the number starting with 4 was forty years ago. Didn't you notice that there are many magical girls with the same number inside the claw marks?"
"No one usually listens to other people's certification plate numbers."
Yuan waved his hand perfunctorily: "As for focusing on the battle, there is no need to remind me."
"Be careful. If the opponent has a word card and uses some strange wonderland, you might end up in trouble."
Semi stressed with concern: "Let's fight quickly and decisively. If reinforcements come, it will be difficult to deal with."
"Don't worry, I never intend to underestimate my opponent."
Yuan slightly adjusted his stance, and his eyes, which had been slightly blurred due to the alcohol, refocused and became somewhat sharp: "A lion will use all its strength to fight a rabbit."
The atmosphere in the reception room was slightly stagnant, and both sides stopped talking. Then, with a loud bang, Yuan's figure suddenly disappeared from the spot, and her fist stretched out in front of Hong Siyu at a speed that ordinary people could not see at all, and the originally intact wall behind her was destroyed in an instant.
Glass, concrete, bricks, tiles, steel bars, and all the building structures belonging to the walls were shattered into pieces. The scattered dust floated in the air like haze and slowly fell to the ground.
And in front of her fist was an extremely thick magic barrier.
It would be unfair to describe this spell as a magic barrier, because from the outside, it was basically a magic wall. The thickness of more than half a meter completely isolated the power of Yuan's punch. In the entire reception room, only the space behind the magic barrier was intact.
Hong Siyu spread out her hands, in her palms was an open notebook, on the pages made of magic, lines of runes were flashing with strange brilliance. These brilliances formed a wall in front of her, thus blocking Yuan's attack.
"not bad."
The punch was not fully effective, but Yuan was not surprised but happy. A smile of delight appeared in her drunkenness. She stepped back slightly, raised her hand, relaxed her fist, lowered her wrist slightly, and suddenly punched again, hitting the barrier directly, but she turned her wrist before hitting the barrier, and suddenly increased her strength in a split second.
Crash!
The punch hit, and a huge gap was created in the seemingly indestructible barrier. Yuan threw a punch, followed by another one, and in an instant he threw several punches in succession, all hitting the same point, and the thick magic wall collapsed.
After destroying the magic barrier created by Hong Siyu, Yuan's face did not show any extra expression. She just hooked her finger, raised the corner of her mouth slightly, and said to Hong Siyu:
"Come again."
As soon as she finished her words, she found that the space around her suddenly distorted, and several magical spears of unknown origin passed by her.
These shaped spears appeared suddenly and disappeared suddenly, unlike ordinary spells that had traces to follow. Their attack trajectories were quite tricky. However, Yuan simply moved his body and easily avoided them.
After dodging this round of attacks, she looked at Hong Siyu again, but before she could say anything, countless turbulent flows of magical power suddenly fell from mid-air and enveloped her.
Boom!
The dazzling magical light almost made the watching Delphinium unable to open its eyes.
And this was just the beginning. After the turbulence, there was space distortion; after the space distortion, there were soul rays; after the soul rays, there was hypnotic curse; after the curse, there were seals and restraints... The dazzling array of techniques seemed to bombard the small reception room without a break, turning the surroundings into ruins in almost an instant.
However, Yuan's movements were also very swift. She seemed to be weak and boneless, moving between the techniques in all kinds of bizarre postures. While dodging a wide variety of techniques, she rushed out of the reception room, flew out of the building of the Strategy Bureau, and ran at high speed in the sky.
Faced with this situation, Hong Siyu tightly grasped the notebook in her hand, her expression slightly restrained, but her hands did not slow down at all. She quickly flipped the pages of the book, and every time she turned a page, she only tapped it lightly, and a magic formula far beyond the ordinary specifications suddenly appeared. There was no chanting, no gestures, and even no need for runes to be recorded. These spells seemed to exist originally and could be performed at will.
And Kuizi knew that this was the ability of Hong Siyu's magic suit - "Memory".
The appearance of "Memory" is just like the one Hong Si holds in his hand. It is an ordinary-looking notebook. When it was first obtained, it did not even have any special abilities. All it could do was allow the user to record words on it.
However, this does not mean that it is a useless magic outfit. On the contrary, the ability of memory is actually very promising: everything recorded on the pages of the notebook by the user can be reproduced with magic power as long as the user has enough magic power.
The so-called "things" include but are not limited to small objects in daily life, such as stones, pencils, and lipsticks; they also include extraordinary magic spells. As long as the spells are thought of and recorded in the memory, they can be stimulated by magic power to achieve instant reproduction.
Of course, this kind of reproduction is not without limitations. The things reproduced can never exceed the strength of the user's memory and records, and if the magic power provided is insufficient, the authenticity of the reproduction will be greatly reduced. There will be phenomena such as similar in form but not in spirit, similar in spirit but not in form, or simply a pile of mud being reproduced.
This also resulted in Hong Siyu being unable to pose any combat power when she first obtained the magic suit: her magic power was too weak at that time, and she could not reproduce anything decent at all.
It was not until the time when Cuiqiao was about to retire that the role of Yiji in Hongsi and Shouhuo underwent a transformation.
As Hong Siyu was promoted to the Leaf level, she gained the ability to learn and construct spells. Memory instantly became an extremely powerful spellcasting plug-in: with it, Hong Siyu's process of learning spells was much simpler than that of other magical girls. Compared to other people using an extremely tedious process to construct and fix their own commonly used spells, Hong Siyu only needed to record the spells she had learned and understood in a book, and she could use the spells with a proficiency and efficiency far exceeding others.
She could even continuously optimize her spells. Take the seemingly exaggerated magic barrier for example. If the magic used to release the magic barrier today was 1% less, it could be recorded in the memory to refresh the original record; if the magic barrier released tomorrow was 5% thicker than before, it could be recorded in the memory again... Over time, the spells recorded in Hong Si's memory were far beyond ordinary specifications and were optimized to the extreme in all aspects.
Magical girls who use high-powered spells as if they were ordinary magic beams are commonly referred to in the country as turrets.
Hong Siyu, or Chao Yan, is the best among the "Battery" magical girls.
In the reception room of the Strategy Bureau, which had been reduced to ruins, Hong Siyu's eyes were fixed on Yuan, watching his every move. Countless spells of various types bloomed in the air like fireworks, and the breathtaking fire suppression bombarded all the way, causing passers-by on the ground to stop and watch.
Even though Yuan thought she had extraordinary agility, she was still unable to take care of herself in the continuous artillery fire, not to mention that she had Semi with her. The black cat fairy was even more frightened at this moment.
"Think of a solution quickly, idiot!"
It held onto Kite's shoulders tightly, and narrowly missed a spell while flying in the air, causing a layer of fur on its body to be scraped off. "Stop playing! If you keep playing, I'll be in trouble!"
“That’s what I said… but it’s hard to get close.”
Yuan repeatedly moved in the air while muttering, "You know my skill level. It's too much for me to counterattack and close the distance at the same time."
"Then use Wonderland! Use your magic suit!"
Sammy meowed and yelled, "Get rid of her quickly! Be careful or I'll report you to the leader!"
"It's a bit boring to use my wonderland to deal with this kind of artillery lady."
After dodging a curse that nearly brushed past his forehead, Yuan landed diagonally on the outer wall of the Strategy Bureau building. He lightly kicked the glass wall with his feet and passed through the encirclement of several magic beams. "However, the other party has taken such a serious approach. I should indeed show some strength to fight back."
As she said this, a string of inky black liquid metal swirled up along her arm. The inky black metal flowed like ink, leaving traces in the air like a painting, and gradually condensed between her fingers.
This liquid metal of unknown purpose had been surrounding Yuan before, but she had no intention of using it to fight, and only used it to resist attacks occasionally. Now, she seemed to finally have the intention to show its use.
Twisting its body in mid-air, it stood upside down, and the kite seemed to be suspended in the air as if frozen, with its body facing the direction where Hong Siyu was.
She opened her arms, and her hands gradually moved apart, one in front of the other. Then, the ink-black metal outlined an inky black bow between her hands.
"Baiwu, draw your bow."
Her lips opened and closed slightly, and an arrow feather appeared on the bowstring of the black bow as if a stroke of ink was added. The arrow that seemed to be drawn turned from virtual to real, but it was solidified on the bow, and the temperature around them seemed to drop a lot.
Then, she let go of her hand without any hesitation, and the arrow shot out with a "whoosh" the moment she let go, shooting straight towards Hong Siyu's throat.
The distance between the two people seemed far, but it was actually less than a hundred meters. None of the many spells in between could stop the attack of the arrow, so in just a moment, the arrow had flown in front of Hong Siyu.
Although it was just a slender arrow, the ominous magic power shrouding the arrowhead was enough to attract everyone's attention. From Delphinium's perspective, the magic power on this arrow far exceeded the bud level and had undoubtedly reached the flower level. The terrifying magic power was enough to scare people.
If this arrow hits the Bureau of Strategy, not to mention the building of the Bureau, there will be no survivors in this entire block; and if it hits a person, even a magical girl, it will not be difficult to destroy her true form and take her life.
She knew very well that Hong Siyu was only at the Bud level until she retired, and there was no way she could take this arrow. If she allowed it to hit her, the result would undoubtedly be fatal.
Realizing the lethality of this attack, Cuiqiao summoned her magic suit almost at the same moment and blocked it in front of Hong Siyu without hesitation. At the same time, she used silk thread to try to pull him aside to avoid this horrific blow.
However, before the silk thread touched Hong Siyu, she heard a gentle voice of comfort.
"It's okay, Senior, she can't hurt me."
In the purple-red magic light, Hong Siyu, holding a notebook, turned her head to the side. Her peaceful smile was filled with a confidence that Kuroko had never seen before. She looked at Kuroko and said seriously, "I said, I'm back, so I will never let you get hurt again."
After saying this, she raised her head, her eyes met the flying black arrow, closed the notebook with one hand, and opened her lips slightly:
——"Morning glory, great prosperity in bloom, a hundred memories of the sea."
Thanks to book friend Shili-1005 for being the leader cat, thanks to book friend Tianshengyang for being the helmsman cat, and thanks to the rich cat.
(End of this chapter)
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