Chapter 288 Measurement
The surrounding scenery kept flying forward in Cornflower's sight. In the deserted streets, the huge beast was the only focus of his vision.
Despite its huge size of nearly 30 meters, this crippled beast was extremely agile, especially in a straight-line chase, its speed was even higher than the flying speed of the two magical girls.
That's why, even though its first attack was avoided by Cornflower's silk thread, it was able to quickly adjust its posture and once again extend its claws towards the two magical girls in the air.
The mucus covering its body came into play at this moment. Not only did it allow it to slide quickly in the street, which was quite narrow for it, like skating on dry land, but the splashing mucus also sprayed towards the two people in front of it at a speed faster than it was.
Cornflower didn't want to be touched by this strange mucus. The charred ground showed that these things were definitely not good.
"one."
So when she explained her intention to Nina, she used the ruler in her hand without hesitation.
She first led Nina to dodge the slime that was about to cover the surface - the slime had been thrown out from the beginning with the purpose of casting a wide net, so if they wanted to avoid getting wet, the space left for them to move was very limited - then she kept her movements straight and slowly raised the ruler in front of her.
"two."
While avoiding the slime, the space in this space where she could stay for a while was extremely limited, and the few remaining spots unsurprisingly became the targets of the remaining beasts. In fact, if Cornflower could not come up with any countermeasures, they would almost certainly be hit head-on by this crippled beast.
But Cornflower still maintained her final calm, and the ruler kept moving within her sight, looking for the most suitable position for it.
"three."
Finally, the ruler hovered at a certain angle in Cornflower's field of vision. In her opinion, the ruler just connected the claws of the crippled beast with an empty building nearby.
As she shouted, Nina cooperated and stopped retreating. Before the claw that was almost in front of her touched her, she suddenly sank down and lowered her head.
The movement she made at this moment was not enough to avoid the attack of the crippled beast, so by doing this, she was putting all her trust in Cornflower's previous instructions.
——“Cross-rub”! A huge noise came into her ears at this moment. She could hear the sound of some kind of building being torn apart in an instant, but then, there was a certain kind of flesh and even shell being crushed and twisted, with a teeth-grinding cracking sound.
"Swoosh"! A fierce wind whistled past her ears, as if something had passed over her head at that moment, and even the sound was about to be left behind by that thing.
"boom"! Then, a violent, earth-shaking crash came from behind her.
Nina raised her head and found that the beast was no longer in front of her. Looking back, she found that the beast that was about to pounce on her had crashed into the ground behind her in a dog-eating-shit posture. The cracked stones and the collapsing buildings around it silently told of the force and intensity of the collision.
One of the crippled beast's claws was still stubbornly stretched out, but Mo He could see that the "shell" that originally covered its body had shattered into pieces, revealing the flesh and blood that was also oozing with pus and blood and twisted into a ball. There was no doubt that the cracking sound she had just heard was the sound of the crippled beast's arm cracking.
“…Amazing.”
She knew that her captain must have done something just now. Although she didn't know what method he used, it must be some very strange ability to create such a scene.
"It's not over yet, be careful."
Cornflower on the side remained calm. She did not put away the ruler in her hand, but quickly raised it up again. While bringing the crippled beast and the ruler back into her sight, she had also connected a part of the crippled beast's body to the ground through the ruler.
This time, the "0" mark on her ruler was aligned with the surface of the pit, while the "10" mark corresponded to the mouthparts of the remaining beast.
Several streaks of light flashed across the surface of the ruler, and the brief glow proved that this magic weapon was playing its role. Then, in Nina's eyes, the movements of this crippled beast, which was originally trying to support itself to stand up again, suddenly became strange.
Although it was not stuck by anything, the head of the crippled beast seemed to be fixed in place. It tried to lift up its deformed head, but no matter how hard it tried, it was of no use.
It tried to move its head left and right, but it could only move in a funny arc around a certain point on the ground. From a visual point of view, it seemed as if there was an invisible "pole" connecting the mouthparts of the beast to the ground.
It can't move away because the pole is connected to its mouthparts; it can't move closer because the pole blocks its mouthparts.
Seeing this scene, Nina's brain, which was almost frozen due to tension and fear, finally regained some thinking ability, and she deduced what happened at the moment she lowered her head.
——That is, the claws of the crippled beast should have been connected to the building nearby by her captain in the same way.
Because it still maintained its forward momentum at the moment of connection, when it found that its claws could not swing and could not continue to move downward to grab the magical girl in front of it, its body still maintained its forward inertia.
The speed close to the speed of sound allowed its body to pass directly over the magical girls, but at the same time, its claws were still shackled in place, firmly connected to the facade of a building nearby. At this moment, its original sprinting speed turned into a weapon that tore itself apart, completely tearing its upper limbs apart.
Then, the facade of the building was torn into pieces by the tremendous force, and could no longer restrict the movement of the crippled beast. Without this pulling force, the crippled beast crashed straight into the ground from mid-air, just like the unlucky guy on the other side of a tug-of-war who suddenly let go, and finally smashed a shallow pit in the ground.
After several unsuccessful attempts, the crippled beast finally realized what was happening, and it continued to drag its head while using all four limbs. The twisted claws twitched unconsciously on the ground, and after a moment they suddenly lifted up as if they were injected with hormones and grabbed towards their own mouthparts - obviously, they were going to tear off the organ that restricted their movements in order to regain their freedom.
But Cornflower didn't intend to give it this chance.
She took out the ruler in her hand again. This time, she aligned the 0 mark of the ruler with the claw of the crippled beast, and the other end pointed directly at the head of the crippled beast.
Immediately, the claws of the beast that were about to touch the mouthparts were suspended in mid-air again, unable to move forward an inch.
After that, she used the same method to fix the other four limbs of the crippled beast. The crippled beast immediately knelt down as if it was wearing heavy shackles, and could only move unnaturally on the spot.
This is the power of the ruler in Cornflower's "Weaving Life" magic suit: "measurement and fixation".
Any "distance" measured by this ruler will be fixed to an unchangeable value during the period of the magic of cornflower.
However, this "distance" must be a very specific concept. For example, what she is fixing now is the "distance between the mouthparts and the ground" and the "distance between the skin of the limbs and the ground" of the remaining beast. That's why the situation just now happened. When she fixed the distance between the claw muscles of the crippled beast and the wall of the building, the building could not withstand the tearing force, causing the wall to shatter and the crippled beast to fly out.
(End of this chapter)
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