allendalepharm Chapter 565 You two, go and kill it.
Chapter 565 You two, go and kill it.
"Relax, take a deep breath, and don't be so tense."
"hiss……"
The winged girl stopped trembling, took a deep breath, and slowly exhaled.
But the feathers on her wings remained very obedient, tightly wrapping around her body to make herself appear less fluffy, and even when someone reminded her, she couldn't completely suppress the tension in her heart.
Seeing the winged girl beside him looking so nervous, Meteor smiled wryly and turned to look at Marigold sitting on the other side.
This was Sasha's first time being summoned to the Hero Association, and he could understand her nervousness. Marigold, being a magical girl, shouldn't be nervous either—
As the gaze settled, the visible tremor in Marigold's eyes was reflected in Meteor's eyes.
Her whole body became somewhat blurred from trembling, and she couldn't find a single stable spot from head to toe. Although the style of the painting didn't undergo the abstract change of a certain pair of bunny sisters, the level of tension was enough to say everything.
"...Miss Marigold, you seem a little nervous."
A bead of cold sweat trickled down the side of Meteor's face. With a wry smile, she casually lifted her hand, and a bottle of mineral water that had been sitting in the corner of the conference room disappeared without warning, appearing in her hand in the blink of an eye.
Marigold cautiously accepted the bottled water that Meteor handed her, feeling the coolness in her palm, which calmed her down a little.
"Hugs, hugs, I'm so sorry... I... I... I'm a little scared..."
"Don't be afraid, have some water and calm down," Meteor said with a smile, trying to appear more approachable.
As the most popular S-class hero in the entire Chengdu Hero Association, and also serving as the dean of the association's affiliated hospital, Meteor has extensive experience in calming emotions and can quickly establish effective communication with the other party.
As for why the two people next to him were so nervous...
Meteor shifted his gaze, picked up the newly delivered "Expert Group Discussion Opinions" in front of him, skipped the redundant foreword, and looked at the summary and recommendations at the end:
After discussion and assessment by the expert panel, the key candidates to combat Garuda should be the winged human Sasha and the magical girl Marigold.
Signed Inari.
"...Hey, shooting star."
Across the conference table, Qi Yun, dressed in her uniform, carefully read the discussion document in her hand and looked up at Liu Xing.
Then he flicked the stack of papers in his hand and said:
Do you think Inari is joking or serious?
"Inari never jokes about such important matters," Meteor sighed softly in reply.
"But... but this is just too outrageous no matter how you look at it."
Qi Yun put down the document in her hand and glanced at the two trembling girls sitting next to Liu Xing. She couldn't imagine what kind of mentality Inari had in writing their names at the end of the document.
Sasha and Marigold are familiar to everyone. The former is an ordinary winged girl, while the latter is a new magical girl who came to Chengdu for further studies. If the two of them were tied together, they probably couldn't even beat the witch summoned by Heart Moon Fox.
Oh no, I bet even a slightly stronger weak monster could easily beat them both up.
Now that Inari has specifically ordered these two to fight Garuda, what's the difference between this and delivering takeout?
Even the veteran Star Shadow, Chi Xue, was sent to the ICU when facing Garuda's projection. If Jinmahua, a newbie, were to face Garuda... she probably wouldn't even qualify as a snack.
Hearing Qi Yun and Liu Xing's conversation, Moira, who was sitting in the chief seat reviewing documents, said:
"Actually, I heard from that little fox that it wasn't about being dragged to fight Garuda, it was something like..."
Upon hearing the phrase "fighting with Garuda," Marigold couldn't help but clench her hands tightly, causing the water in the mineral water bottle to spray all over her face with a "plop."
"puff!!"
"Wow! Marigold, are you alright?!"
Startled, the meteor vanished from its spot and reappeared behind Qi Yun. After pausing for a few seconds, it suddenly realized what was happening and quickly grabbed a box of tissues, handing it to Marigold, who was still clutching half a bottle of mineral water.
Water droplets dripped onto her wet face and body, and a cool breeze blew in from the air conditioner at just the right moment, making the scene a bit more awkward.
A few drops of water landed on the neck of the winged girl next door. The sudden cold touch startled her so much that she flapped her wings and almost took flight inside the room. Fortunately, Moira caught her and prevented the frightened eagle owl from crashing through the conference room ceiling.
Sasha's terrified fluttering startled the already tense Marigold, causing her to tremble even more violently. Meteor had no choice but to start calming her down again.
Looking at the chaotic scene in the conference room, Qi Yun sighed deeply.
I felt like laughing, but laughing out loud now seemed to have a big impact on the atmosphere in the meeting room, so I had to hold it in.
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Five minutes later, the conference room door opened.
However, it wasn't the two fox girls, Kokoro and Inari, who walked in; instead, it was [Iron] Frank.
He was pushing a small cart full of books, the wheels creaking under the weight, the sound particularly jarring in the quiet conference room.
"...?"
Qi Yun exchanged a puzzled look with Frank, then peered over at the thick stack of books on the cart, and even spotted a PXP handheld console and an XTEAM handheld console.
"What are you holding?" Qi Yun activated her psychic abilities, precisely controlling a magnetic field to pull up a metal part on the handheld game console and lift it in front of her.
The back of the handheld console has a label indicating it's an asset of the Hero Association, and there's even a line that says "Top Secret Strategic Material."
Even this S-class hero with super electromagnetic abilities couldn't help but look puzzled when he saw this strange label on the game console.
—Under normal circumstances, [Top Secret Strategic Materials] can only appear on the following objects within the Hero Association:
It was created by Frank the Steel when he was bored, using psionic energy to create a densely packed alloy with atoms, with a density greater than that of neutron star matter.
One of the coffin nails, confirmed to have been kicked away by Ye Xiaomei when she was resurrected, was used many years ago to defeat a powerful witch.
Or perhaps it's a world probe capable of piercing a huge hole in the sky.
What's with handheld game consoles? Can this thing be used as a top-secret strategic resource?
Qi Yun pointed to the label on the handheld console, then to the books on the cart, and voiced a doubt:
"Those books...could they also be 'top secret strategic materials'?"
"You guessed pretty right, every single one of them is," Frank said calmly, picking up a book and placing it on the table before pushing it toward Meteor and his companion.
Meteor curiously reached out and picked it up. First, she flipped open the title page and glanced at the label pasted inside the cover. With a surprised expression, she closed the book and looked at the cover, stunned by the words and colorful illustrations on it:
A collection of classic short stories.
"...?"
Meteor showed the same confused expression as Qiyun.
The second book is a collection of traditional foreign stories.
"...??"
The third one... oh, it's a game disc. Judging from the cover, the game seems to be called "Metal Gear".
"???"
The fourth item... wasn't a game or a storybook, but a box of trading cards from "Yu-Gi-Oh!".
"Wait, what's going on here? What are all these things??"
Qi Yun finally couldn't hold back any longer. She slammed her hand on the table, stood up, and uttered her soul-searching question.
Not for any other reason, but because she had already opened her XTEAM handheld console and saw the 5TB ultra-high capacity memory card, which was a limited allocation from the Hero Association, in the device information, and it was filled with all kinds of video games, she simply couldn't calm down.
If these things appeared in the staff recreation room at the association headquarters, Qi Yun felt that she could accept it 100%, and might even complain, "Didn't I develop a 10T last time? Why are you still using an outdated 5T?"
But if it were to appear as a strategic resource in a pre-battle discussion about dealing with the astral behemoth, Qi Yun felt that either the Hero Association or she herself must have gone mad.
"Don't doubt it, these are the amazing tools we'll be using next."
Before Qi Yun could continue speaking, Messiah, who had followed Frank into the conference room, interrupted her and sat down at the conference table.
Accompanying her were Chi Xue and Xin Yuehu. The two magical girls stood on either side of the conference table, each holding a meeting document, their expressions serious and focused.
"Sigh... You'd better give me a proper explanation. I really can't understand how these things can be turned into strategic resources." Qi Yun sighed, put down the game console, and voiced her doubts.
Seeing this, Messiah grinned and glanced at Chi Xue and Xin Yuehu.
"Miss Akashi, Miss Kokoro, please explain the battle plan."
"Well, let me explain it to you in detail."
Su Tianqing nodded in response, and a magical light screen was unfurled in the conference room.
Inari's plan was explained to everyone in the meeting room. Marigold and Sasha, who were initially nervous, became much calmer after hearing the plan's contents. However, when it came to the specific execution methods, they exchanged a glance and immediately looked puzzled:
"The core of the whole plan lies in the two of you: Marigold and Sasha."
"Me...me?" "But I'm just a newbie..."
Sasha and Marigold answered nervously, neither of them having any confidence.
Especially when the two heard "The design of the mental world is entrusted to you", their faces were filled with expressions of "Can I really do this?"
"I know you have absolutely no experience in designing mental images, and your use of magic is very immature; you're not even magical girls at all."
"But this rare quality is exactly what we need in the Inari plan."
Su Tianqing said earnestly, leaning forward to look at the most nervous calendula.
Sasha thought to herself, "Anyway, I'll do whatever everyone tells me to do." She was a simple-minded and naive girl who was quite accepting of this somewhat inexplicable tactic and even felt a little excited about it.
In contrast, Marigold is the kind of person who knows a little but not much, and is very clear about her own capabilities; at this moment, all she feels is nervousness.
"You two only have one thing to do these next two days."
After saying that, Xinyuehu got up and walked to the large pile of storybooks and game discs stacked on a small cart, and gently patted them a few times with her fox tail.
"Use the magic of reading to read these storybooks and play these games as much as possible, scrambling and mixing the content of the stories and games together, and then filling them into your mental world!"
"The more the better, the more chaotic the better!"
"The more outrageous the better! Ideally, it should be so outrageous it's almost bizarre!"
"Logic and rationality are irrelevant. The best outcome is to ensure that when the next batch of victims targeted by Garuda enters the dreamlike mental image, their first thought is, 'What is this?'"
"This is the first step in the operation against Garuda: the [Mental Image Defense Line]!"