“Hmm… I think I understand.”
“So, this Mindscape World is actually a large stage, and the Magic Girls need to collect gold as you described to successfully leave?”
“That’s right, Miss Inari is a quick learner.”
In the live stream room, two Fox Foxes sat side by side, looking down at the entire Foxkov urban area from the perspective of the magic light screen.
Inari curiously examined the exquisite magic light screen in front of her, marveling at the Mindscape World's precision and power, which could achieve such excellent effects.
“But I’m also quite surprised, Miss Inari. This is your first time entering my Mindscape World, and you can already protect yourself by covering yourself with magic power?”
“Because the underlying principle is actually quite easy to understand, but it just… requires a considerable amount of magic power to maintain this protection.”
The Red Fox Girl replied with a wry smile.
For this magic genius, the principle of the Mindscape World only required a moment of serious study to comprehend.
The only thing lacking was magic power, which was also the biggest difference between Star Shadow and ordinary Magic Girls.
Unfortunately, Inari’s biggest weakness lay precisely here—
Her precise magical abilities did not support fine control in her Star Shadow state, and the limitation of her magic power also prevented her from helping her other teammates escape the influence of this Mindscape World.
But she herself had not expected that she was not within Xin Yuehu's teasing range; instead, she was invited to the live stream room as a special guest.
“Thank you to all the viewers for your SCs~”
“Eh? Is this the first time everyone has seen Miss Inari appear? So, does everyone want to interact with Miss Inari~?”
The Golden-haired Fox Girl read the text in the SC column and said happily.
The Red Fox Girl froze for a moment, and the camera familiar immediately flew in front of her, giving Inari a close-up shot.
【Inari is cute】, 【It's Inari without her mask, yay】, 【Is Inari planning a comeback?】
The bullet comments immediately flooded the screen. The Red Fox Girl, who was experiencing online live streaming for the first time, had never seen such a spectacle and was instantly flustered.
“Ah… just, just speak here?”
“Yes, everyone can hear you. Say hello to everyone in the live stream room~”
“Eh, ah… that… everyone, good evening, everyone…?”
【Cute】, 【Good evening】, 【It's a living Inari!】
“So many bullet comments!… Thank you all for your support, I actually… hmm…”
While Inari was nervously responding to the bullet comments, Su Tianqing got a brief moment to breathe and fine-tuned the positions of the familiars placed throughout the city.
But when she turned her head and saw Inari looking so nervous she was almost in tears, she quickly switched the camera back to herself.
“Miss Inari is making her first appearance on my show, everyone’s enthusiasm is very high.”
“But with so many enthusiastic questions, it will take time for Miss Inari to answer them one by one, so please go easy on her~”
“Speaking of which, the Magic Mice’s golden adventure seems to have begun. Let’s give the camera to the first team to appear on the street!”
…
Foxkov City is composed of five large building complexes.
With the central large commercial complex as the core, several wide roads and community commercial clusters are distributed in other areas, along with small roads between buildings, forming a complex urban architectural group.
With Su Tianqing’s original ability, building such a Mindscape World without relying on a real city would certainly be a difficult task.
But if you add the super strong magic control given by that fox mask, creating it in a short time would not be a problem.
In the northern part of this urban area, a Magic Mouse poked its head out from behind the roadside green belt bush.
Opossum Red Zircon, holding a very professional pair of binoculars, was carefully observing the situation across the street.
Soon she pulled her head back and huddled with her teammates.
“How is it, did you find anything?”
“At least six armed familiars are patrolling in front of a school-like building. That should be the place we’re looking for.”
Red Zircon replied.
Two rows of vehicles, blocked by car accidents and roadblocks, were scattered on the street. Several familiars walked aimlessly at the school gate, all heavily armed.
They looked like they were guarding something.
“Gan Lan Shi, did you bring the map? Confirm the location.”
“Here it is.”
Lemming Olivine pulled out a thick map from the backpack behind her, unfolded it on the ground, and pointed to one of the streets.
“Our location is here, North Avenue of Foxkov District. Across the street is Foxkov Municipal Middle School.”
“According to the game rules Xin Yuehu explained to us, the four gold vaults are all protected by familiars. If nothing unexpected happens, one should be hidden in this middle school campus.”
Gan Lan Shi stated her reasoning.
The reason was simple: there were many buildings around, but only this one was guarded by familiars, as if deliberately drawing attention.
“Then we have to find a way to take down this campus. Fortunately, the defenses here don’t seem very strict.”
Kangaroo Aquamarine rolled up her sleeves, picked up the automatic rifle on her back, and said,
“Let’s quickly collect the gold from this vault and investigate the location of the next vault before anyone else!”
“Do you really want to get that limited edition figure?” Lemming Olivine retorted weakly.
But after all, Hai Lan Shi was the captain, and Red Zircon was also somewhat interested in the limited edition figure, so she didn't say much more.
What? You ask why a Kangaroo counts as a Magic Mouse?
Flying Squirrel Zi Ying Shi silently shouldered her sniper rifle and moved to a sniper position, not overthinking these details.
.
“Bang boom!”
“Da da da da da!”
“Boom!!”
A brief, intense exchange of fire.
Under abundant firepower and sniper suppression, the familiars were taken down by the well-equipped Hailanshi Team with just one encounter.
The familiars turned into boxes and disappeared, and the main entrance returned to silence after the brief clamor of gunfire.
“…Is that all?”
Hai Lan Shi walked to the familiars' boxes and asked her companions.
“Looks like it. No further support has been found yet.”
Lemming Olivine replied while checking the loot in the boxes.
When Flying Squirrel Zi Ying Shi ran over, panting, carrying her sniper rifle, the four members of the team all looked towards the silent interior of the campus,
A chilling killing intent inexplicably emanated from the teaching building.
“Be careful, there might be other familiars ambushed inside.” Kangaroo Aquamarine said, loading magic bullets into her magazine,
“Let’s push inside first, investigate the internal situation, and then make other plans…”
But just as she was about to push into the campus, a gray trajectory cut through the air and plunged straight into her helmeted head!
“Crunch!!”
“Bang!”
A faint suppressed gunshot followed.
Kangaroo Aquamarine fell backward.
“I’m critically wounded and down! I’m still alive!”
“Careful! Sniper!”
The remaining three immediately scattered. The Opossum immediately hoisted the fallen Hai Lan Shi onto her shoulder, dodging the subsequent two sniper shots, and hid behind cover, beginning to provide aid.
“What’s going on?! You said the defenses weren’t strict!”
Lemming Olivine immediately complained loudly.
But since they had fallen into an ambush, saying more was useless now. The top priority was to confirm the true situation inside the campus, and by the way…
“You guys are really bold.”
“!!”
A muffled voice came from inside the campus.
Gan Lan Shi peered in the direction of the sound and saw a dark blue figure in the shadows of the teaching building.
She wore a gas mask on her face, a cat-eared helmet on her head, heavy full-body protective armor beneath her tactical vest, and an HK416 assault rifle hanging on her chest.
Hellcat.
She was currently taking off her anti-flash goggles and looking towards the two covers at the entrance.
“—Congratulations, you’ve encountered the BOSS.”
【BOSS Unit, Full-Gear Hellcat】 makes a dazzling appearance!
Hailanshi Team in great danger!