signingbooks Chapter 700 Using the Fox as a Cover
Chapter 700 Using the Fox as a Cover
Since learning about the existence of the Astral Library in Inari, Su Tianqing discovered that the Secret Codex had opened a new page – [Library Borrowing].
By spending a certain number of Divine Stones, one can directly access the Astral Library's collection through the Secret Codex. The price is low and economical, allowing this fox to fully experience the convenience of reading those library books without leaving home.
Su Tianqing felt that this was most likely one of the methods for recycling the divine stones in the secret manual, but that did not detract from the practicality of this function.
With the knowledge provided in the book, Su Tianqing became more and more adept at understanding magic theories, and at the same time gained a completely new understanding of her half-baked "psychic abilities".
At first, I thought that "magic" was a strange skill to manipulate magical power, which only magical girls with certain talents could master freely, and was even closely related to the saying "Your belief is your magic".
In actual combat, the following situation may occur: I, the fox, ambitiously created a super cool combined mecha, ready to fight Hyacinth and the others, when the other side rushed up with shouts of friendship and bonds, and smashed my hard-earned cool mecha to pieces.
The "psychic abilities" of the heroes in the Hero Association are a well-researched ability that has reached a fairly mature stage of research. It is even possible to develop a series of new and practical patents by studying psychic abilities.
For example, the large substation built with the assistance of Qi Yun [Electromagnetic] can control the power supply of the entire Chengdu city, and no matter how high the peak electricity demand is, it cannot be defeated.
...But after reading the book "The Relationship Between Magic and Psychic Abilities," Su Tianqing suddenly realized that she had made a huge mistake.
In fact, the study of magic has been ongoing for thousands of years throughout the world and even across the entire planetary realm, with a wealth of theories and numerous schools of thought. No matter what kind of magic it is, there is a corresponding school of thought for research.
Aside from her own summoning magic, Su Tianqing had no idea where the secret manual had gotten the summoning magic from.
In comparison, psychic abilities in the modern world are truly bizarre and ingenious. These abilities are mainly about throwing bricks at will, but they suffer from the fatal disadvantage of being ineffective against magic. Otherwise, magical girls would no longer be needed to fight monsters.
"In summary."
The golden-haired fox girl stood in front of the communication terminal and spoke to Hyacinth on the other end of the video call.
"Hyacinth, according to my reasoning, if you can use your Shining Star to poke a hole in the sky of that other dimension, we can receive your spatial messages, and even Meteor Teacher can instantly teleport inside to support you."
Meteor, who was listening in, raised an eyebrow but did not raise any objections.
To be honest, Meteor was quite interested in going to that strange alternate dimension to find out what it was all about. She had never seen the "Chengdu of the past" that her colleagues had described, and it would be a great trip to witness it firsthand.
Hyacinth shook its head repeatedly at the fox girl's terrifying request.
"Are you kidding me? Shining Stars aren't something you can just use whenever you want! Every time you use one, you lose a Guardian Star! I only have three on me!"
"Also, I don't even know where this alternate dimension is. What if revealing it causes damage to Rongcheng?"
Cheshire Rabbit raised an eyebrow, intending to say, "Aren't Guardian Stars a dime a dozen? I see Fox has quite a few," but felt that the current atmosphere wasn't quite right to say that, so she kept it to herself.
"Hehehe, since you have this concern, let's execute Plan B." The golden-haired fox girl smiled ambiguously and quickly offered a Plan B.
"Plan B, did you see any living beings besides yourself in that alternate dimension? Did you find any trace of the missing persons?"
After a brief silence, the hyacinth shook its head and answered honestly:
"Not yet. I just saw lights flashing in the office building over here, but they disappeared when I got closer. I'm still trying to figure out where the light was coming from."
"I see... Then you continue exploring and searching inside. Once you find information about the first missing person, I have a way to use them as a medium to pinpoint their exact location in the alternate dimension."
"Using a living person as a medium? I don't think your method is very legitimate," Hyacinth couldn't help but complain.
With no other options available, Nan Xiaofeng had no choice but to climb up the exterior wall of the office building, trying to find the person who had responded to his shout with a flash of light.
While waiting for Hyacinth to continue her exploration, the three of them—Cat, Fox, and Rabbit—learned from Iris and the others about the cause of the missing person case—a video recording from Lilac.
Nightingale even displayed the video on her own sacred stone screen: blurry running and panting, the relief when she found the safe house, and the silhouette of the girl's shoes and feet that appeared in the corner of the screen at the end.
"I remember this. Lilac initially intended for us to analyze it, but we couldn't find the missing person's location, so we had no choice but to completely seal off that alley," Messiah said, squinting.
"Oh dear, why didn't you say you had this clue? Bunny, why don't you analyze it carefully?"
Su Tianqing also showed a relieved expression and spoke up.
While he was still guessing and wondering how to transition to Plan C if Plan B also went wrong with Hyacinth, little did he know that there was a video file right in front of him. Wasn't this the area where Rabbit, the information master, had the advantage?
Cheshire Rabbit solemnly accepted the Divine Stone, and just as he was about to examine it, he was startled and trembled at the gazes of the people around him. His style gradually began to be replaced by wild and abstract lines.
"Oh no! Kitty! Quick, get help for Bunny!"
Seeing that Rabbit's social anxiety and cyberbullying were about to erupt, the fox girl shouted, and the deep blue cat girl immediately appeared behind the abstract rabbit-shaped sketch, delivering a cat claw chop at a 45° angle.
"Kind-hearted!" "Hmm!?"
The art style was restored, and the cat and fox slapped her back from the wild sketch style to the normal bunny girl. They smiled wryly and said, "Let's find a quiet place to analyze this bunny." They pulled her into a small cubicle next to the conference room and closed the door behind them.
The heroes looked at each other in silence.
"Alright, can you concentrate now?"
The fox girl breathed a sigh of relief. The three of them squeezed into the slightly cramped storage room and watched the video being played on the divine stone in the rabbit's hand.
From the initial run to the appearance of the second person after finding the safe house, the video was repeatedly rewound and paused, finally settling on the silhouette of the girl's shoes and feet at the edge of the frame.
Cheshire Rabbit pinched his chin, as if trying to find someone in his mind who resembled the silhouette.
"So, Rabbit, do you know who this person is?" Su Tianqing asked tentatively.
The rabbit girl opened her mouth as if to speak, then suddenly closed it again, pursed her lips, pondered for a while, and gently shook her head.
"I'm not sure, there are too many people who look alike. Judging from the appearance, it resembles the style of a magical costume, but there are so many shoe styles that imitate costumes these days, I don't know who this person is."
"I see... So, Rabbit, putting all logic aside and just going by your intuition, who do you think this person might be?"
Rabbit's intuition is always very accurate.
Faced with such a vast array of options, Cheshire Rabbit's intuition couldn't find a suitable answer for a while. After a long silence, he couldn't come up with a solution and could only shake his head helplessly.
"There are too many, I really can't guess them all."
"Is that so..."
The three fell silent, staring at the silhouette at the edge of the screen, each with the same thought in their minds:
Who is this person who appears at the end of the video?