Chapter 292 Family Event : Witch Night (VI)
October 7st, 08:34 am, in the temporary operations meeting room on the th floor of the Super Hero Association.

A group of superheroes including Blue Owl, White Wing, Octopus Man, and Red Giant gathered here.

The gold medal commander "Che Zhengchen" was appointed to become the temporary commander-in-chief of this emergency.

He leaned over the podium, reviewing the densely packed report on the tablet through his glasses, and said solemnly: "The Magical Girls Alliance has currently issued an emergency evacuation notice for the city center."

"They used magic cards to create four huge teleportation magic circles around the city in advance. All the citizens can do is step into the magic circle and leave the center of the Beijing area immediately."

Having said this, Che Zhengchen paused for a moment.

He said with a worried tone: "Even so... there are too many residents in the city center. The four magic circles alone cannot evacuate all residents in a short period of time. This means we must buy time for those citizens who have not yet left."

As he spoke, he adjusted his black-framed glasses and raised his eyes from the tablet screen.

"There are currently only five superhero teams on standby at the Beijing Ring Association branch building, and their levels are no lower than C. They are led by 'Balloon Man', 'Octopus Man', 'General Winter', 'White Wing', and 'Red Giant'. Everyone here is not an unknown person, and they are often active in Beijing Ring. I believe you all have a certain impression of each other, so I won't introduce them in detail.

"Before the operation begins, there is one thing I must state in advance: the risk of death in this aid operation is extremely high. If anyone here wants to withdraw from the operation, I will not have any complaints. As the commander-in-chief, I allow anyone of you to withdraw from the team."

After saying that, Che Zhengchen raised his head and slowly looked around, his eyes sweeping over all the superheroes present.

Finally, he smiled warmly, "I understand. Finally, let me explain our mission. Our mission is to assist the magical girls of the Alliance and help them successfully reach the top of that huge stage."

He paused and said, "Similarly, the three magical girls will come to support us. According to the information I just received, they are heading to Denmark, Britain, and Iceland to deal with the giant magic puppets set up by the puppet witch in advance. They will return to Huanjing in no time. We must hold the defense line strictly until they come back."

As he spoke, Che Zhengchen broadcast real-time images of three villages and towns in Denmark, the United Kingdom, and Iceland.

Bai Yi looked up and saw the gray-white giants on the image and couldn't help but gasp. He thought that even the three giants might not be able to defeat these puppets quickly, right?

"Where are the other magical girls?" The paunchy Balloon Man touched his belly wrapped in a yellow battle suit and asked in a muffled voice, "Commander Che, they won't just want us to die, right?"

"They're outside."

Che Zhengchen pushed his glasses up on his nose and pointed out the window.

Everyone followed his fingertips and saw the magical girls Kunezakura, Ryukako, Little Red Riding Hood, Qili and others floating in the air with magic. Their silhouettes were cold, their skirts fluttering, and their eyes were quietly staring at the Witch Night in the distance.

"I see. Can we get going now? I want to beat up those witches."

The red giant wearing a red X mask hugged his shoulders and spoke coldly.

"Don't be anxious, okay? Just follow the commander's orders." said the octopus man, his hair as messy as ever, and his eyes as lazy as ever.

Che Zhengchen took a deep breath and met the eyes of the nine-fold cherry blossoms outside the window.

He turned around and said, "Before the operation begins, let me explain our goal again. We will hold out until the three magical girls return to Huanjing and cover these magical girls as they approach the floating platform temporarily named 'Witch Night'."

"Then let's go. Although the so-called 'Witch Night' has been suspended in mid-air without any reaction since a while ago, we'd better take the initiative and attack immediately. After all, we don't know what those witches will do next."

The quasi-Round Table hero "General Winter", wearing a suit of extremely cold armor, spoke slowly and walked out of the meeting room.

At this moment, he felt a little excited in his heart - if he could achieve great military exploits in this disaster-level event, then he would be able to be promoted to a Round Table hero as a matter of course.

There is no doubt that this battle will be the last hurdle in his march into the Round Table.

At this moment, Blue Owl was leaning against the window of the combat conference room, glancing at the Witch Night stage equipment outside the window.

"I wanted to ask you before, what exactly is this thing?"

Bai Yi walked over and pointed at the puppy in red and blue combat uniform on Blue Owl's shoulder.

"Lightning Dog." Blue Owl spread his hands, "Uh... No, it's changed its name. It's now called Magic Lightning Dog."

"Woof!" Yuriko barked.

The telekinetic sister hugged her shoulders, stared at the red and blue lightning dog on Blue Owl's shoulders, and said unhappily: "You always do these weird things."

Bai Yi shrugged, "Forget it, forget it. We all know that Comrade Blue Owl likes to do unexpected things."

"By the way, have you found your sister?" Blue Owl raised his hand and scratched his forehead, and suddenly asked.

Hearing this, Bai Yi's expression darkened slightly.

He said, "No, I haven't been able to contact her since a few days ago. It may be related to these witches, just like you said." He then asked, "Where is your sister?"

“I haven’t found it yet.”

As he spoke, Blue Owl tilted his head slightly, looked up at the rectangular platform in the sky, and stared at the witch statue that reached the sky. "But I think... they should all be there. As long as we can get on that stage, we can find them."

"Really? Then let's go and bring them back." Bai Yi lowered his voice, hiding the anger in his voice and expression.

"Yeah." Blue Owl nodded.

Suddenly, a staff member outside the meeting room exclaimed, attracting the attention of all the superheroes.

"That thing is reacting--!"

Hearing this, Che Zhengchen adjusted his glasses, frowned and looked up at the sky; Blue Owl and Bai Yi both looked up.

The witch statue in the center of the stage suddenly burst into a radiance that reached the sky, and in an instant, a huge curtain of light enveloped the entire stage. The plane of the stage slowly turned into a circle, and the edges and corners were gradually smoothed out.

Then, from the east, west, south, and north edges of the stage, “paper figures” the size of adults slowly rose up. These paper figures swayed erratically in the air, holding hands to form a pale circle, spinning rapidly, and shouting in German:

"ErlsungErlsungErlsungErlsungErlsungErlsung (Redemption)——"

Not only that, the bottom of the Witch Night slowly opened up, extending one pure white line after another. Surrounded by countless pure white lines, it looked like a floating jellyfish, and those lines looked like electrified jellyfish tentacles.

Blue Owl frowned and stared at the lines, an introduction panel reflected in his pupils.

[“Thread of Destiny” is the medium used by Witch Night to manipulate the giant puppet. ]

The next moment, Witch Night "swung" the thread of fate upwards, and then dropped it heavily downwards, as if a giant jellyfish was floating in the air and waving its electric tentacles.

Accompanied by a whistling wind, suddenly, huge human figures as tall as fifty meters appeared at the end of the line, appearing silently in the air.

It was like hearing thunder in the silence, and the brains of everyone who saw this scene exploded.

"Extra-large puppet?" Bai Yi said hoarsely.

"How could that be? Someone from the Alliance told me that if the Puppet Witch wants to arrange this kind of puppets, she can only make arrangements in advance--" Che Zhengchen murmured in shock.

In his slightly widened eyes, these huge gray-white figures were like puppets controlled by strings in a theater. As the "thread of fate" fell towards the city, the puppets fell down one by one.

It was as if intercontinental missiles had landed one after another, and the huge waves they created toppled high-rise buildings one after another. In an instant, the rainbow-lit commercial district was in ruins. The surging dust waves were like a violent flood, destroying the former prosperity in an instant.

The blue owl was slightly startled.

The next moment, as the dust waves dissipated, ten oversized puppets slowly raised their heads, and the clearly organized magic patterns on their bodies glowed with a dark red dangerous light in the dust.

They let out eerie screams towards the sky, demonstrating the aggressiveness of the invaders.

"Ten puppets?" he thought.

"The stage of Witch Night, are those giant puppets being controlled by strings?" Bai Yi murmured.

Blue Owl said nonchalantly, "I heard from those magical girls that the ability of Witch Night might be to amplify and expand the influence of the witch's ability. In other words... the puppet witch might have strengthened her own power through this stage, so even without setting it up in advance, she can release the giant puppet strengthened by Witch Night."

"Hey, hey, hey, with so many puppets, it shouldn't be difficult to flatten our city, right?" Bai Yi said in a daze.

Blue Owl frowned and raised his head again, looking towards the stage under the blood-red sky.

At this time, the stage installation called "Witch's Night" has been completely awakened, and the witch statue in the center is glowing a strange blood-red light towards the sky.

The entire stage was spinning at high speed to the rhythmic music. The falling thread of fate danced along with it. The colorful light curtain moved above the stage, illuminating one breathtaking figure after another.

[Special Building Introduction: Witch's Night (super-large floating stage device, which requires the magic power of six extremely talented witches to activate the device)]

[Ability 1: Witch Night can amplify the characteristics and abilities of witches, and expand the range of influence of the abilities countless times through huge stage devices.]

[Ability 2: In the statue space above Witch Night, while Witch Night is activated, sacrifice the most talented witch in the world on the altar, and the "Witch of Jealousy" will be born into the sacrificed witch, realizing the "greatest resurrection in the world."]

Looking at the introduction of the second ability, Blue Owl was slightly startled and his pupils contracted to the extreme.

At this moment, a terrifying guess appeared in his mind - they left Bai Zini inside the altar instead of using her magic to awaken Witch Night because they planned to turn her into a witch and then sacrifice her to awaken the legendary 'Witch of Jealousy'?
He lowered his mask and hissed softly, the air filled with the smell of tobacco piercing his lungs like a sharp sword.

Behind the mask, there was a fierce light in his pupils.

"What's wrong with you?" Bai Yi asked.

"It's alright, we should get going."

Blue Owl said this, looking at the ten oversized puppets that Witch Night had dropped into the city.

At this moment, ten faceless gray-white giants were wreaking havoc inside the Rainbow Commercial Street, slowly moving in different directions, as if they had been given different missions.

There are tiny "lines" on their heads, connecting to the bottom of the Witch Night stage.

Are these "strings of fate" controlling the puppets' actions? Blue Owl guessed that perhaps if these strings of fate were cut, the puppets would lose their ability to move?

"Let's go... If we delay any longer, those puppets will destroy our city."

Bai Yi responded and walked out of the meeting room with Blue Owl and the nun.

At this moment, a mysterious singing voice suddenly sounded from the blood-red sky. It was as if God was plucking the strings of a harp on the top of the clouds, playing the sound of nature. This music poured into the city like a rainstorm and fell into everyone's ears.

As soon as Blue Owl walked out of the conference room, he heard the familiar voice and immediately recognized the owner of the voice.

He had heard it through Kobe's ears, so he knew clearly that it was the voice of the Crown Dream Witch. Blue Owl was startled for a moment, then suddenly raised his head and looked through the glass curtain wall at the stage device in the air. The singing formed a substantial energy wave, spreading around Beijing like a storm, with nowhere to escape and no one to stop it.

Wearing a round hat and with blue wavy hair, the Crowned Dream Witch stood on the edge of the stage, opened her mouth, and sang wantonly to the city. The howling snow and wind in the air could not cover her loud singing voice, as if the Siren, a female demon who often lived on the sea in Greek mythology, was singing. The extremely seductive voice floated towards this steel ocean called "city", shuttling between high-rise buildings and streets.

"Is she using the stage equipment of Witch Night to spread her dream-inducing ability?" he wondered.

It was mentioned in the system introduction that Witch Night can infinitely multiply the influence range of "witch ability". At this moment, Crown Dream Witch is using this feature of Witch Night to spread her dream-inducing magic.

Just then, I heard "plop" and "plop" sounds beside me, like a duck falling into the water.

Blue Owl slowly turned his neck and saw the staff on the aisle falling down one after another.

The mental defense capabilities of ordinary people are simply incomparable to those of the superhumans. Under this level of mental invasion, even most of the superhumans with ordinary abilities will inevitably fall into a deep sleep, not to mention these normal people.

With the help of Witch Night, the singing of Crown Dream Witch poured down from the sky like a flood, drowning the city in an instant.

Soon, the whole city fell into a deep sleep.

It was clearly dawn, but the world seemed to have returned to darkness.

In the sky, the helicopter pilot sat in the driver's seat, tilting his head and falling asleep. With the hum of the wings, the helicopter lost control and crashed into the top of a skyscraper. The explosion lit up the sky at dawn like fireworks.
On land, the bus driver was sleeping. The dark front of the bus hit a telephone pole, which in turn hit a nearby traffic light. Electric sparks splashed violently downward along with the falling snow. Loud bangs sounded alternately, but they could not cover up the mysterious singing.

The citizens were lining up in dense queues, filling the streets and alleys, moving towards the teleportation magic circle set up by the magical girls. From the air, they looked like a migrating ant colony.

However, as the singing of the Crown Dream Witch was amplified countless times by the Witch Night and entered people's ears, their bodies fell down one after another like dominoes, almost forming a human wave that slapped above the crowded streets.

Then the city's machinery began to spin out of control, and the whole world seemed to be howling madly.

"You guys need to move faster--!"

Hearing the singing, Che Zhengchen put his forehead against the aisle and growled. Then he lost his ability to resist and slowly collapsed on the blackboard of the temporary strategic meeting room, falling into a deep sleep.

"Are you all right?"

Seeing this, General Winter slowly turned his head and looked around, then asked the nearly twenty superheroes on the aisle.

"I'm fine." The octopus man said, "I'm just a little confused, but I shouldn't fall asleep... It seems that the witch's singing is more effective on ordinary people."

As they were speaking, bursts of soul-stirring screams suddenly came from the distance.

I saw those giant puppets connected by the thread of fate moving their gray-white bodies, knocking aside the tall buildings along the way, and walking side by side towards the association building. Every step was like a landslide, and the wailing of the city could be heard.

Facing the faceless puppet, General Winter's face was grim. He clenched the ice sword in his hands and stabbed it into the floor. The air on the aisle seemed to be a little colder, falling below zero degrees. Since Che Zhengchen had already fallen, the one who had absolute command at this time was naturally him, who had the most seniority in the association branch.

Judging from the situation before him, the danger level of this battle was far beyond his initial impression.

As the leader of these superheroes, he must give the right command, otherwise the entire association building, and even the entire Beijing area, may be destroyed by those puppets.

He said in a deep voice: "Since the three giants of the Alliance have not returned yet, let's not rush to attack the stage called Witch Night. We must first stop the puppets they released in time to prevent the harm from spreading further."

The octopus man said, "Then let's start with the three puppets in front. They are heading towards the branch buildings of the Alliance and the Superhero Association. They pose the greatest threat to us."

The Red Giant said unhappily: "Anyway, let's kill these puppets first, and then go kill those witches in the sky, right?"

"Yes, let's get started."

As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Yi suddenly spread out a pair of huge white wings, lifted up the body of the Blue Owl from behind, rushed out from the open glass curtain wall, and flew straight towards the three super-giant puppets that were coming towards him.

At the same time, in the Lao Jingmai District in Huanjing City, there was a Lao Jingmai Internet Cafe downstairs from Bo Ke’s residence.

The Superhero Association's disaster evacuation sirens rang out throughout the neighborhood, and warning signs of a lion with a sword at the ready lit up on billboards on every tall building.

However, inside this old black Internet cafe, the proprietress, who was over 50 years old, was listening to pop rock music with headphones on, while dialing an unknown number on the phone, impatiently pressing the phone number keys again and again, but the call was not connected.

The "beep, beep" sound is annoying.

As soon as the boss lady put down the phone, she received a panicked reminder from the new network administrator. She just took off her headphones, frowned and said, "You look like you're constipated. What happened outside?"

Muttering to herself, the proprietress picked up a cigarette and slowly walked out of the Internet cafe.

She put her hands on her hips, scratched the pale hair on her forehead, and squinted at the blood-red sky in the distance.

"Oh my, what's going on? Are we still allowed to open the store?"

she muttered.

The lady boss thought, just now she was in the Internet cafe, dialing the phone and leaving messages for others, and now everything has turned upside down. This world is really magical...

As for whose phone call it was?

The person he called was naturally the one who often told others in the Internet cafe that he was a "legendary detective."

Ergouzi hasn't come to work since a few days ago. She cursed him in the message on the phone, thinking that it was too easy for you to be a network administrator. You know, network administrators need academic qualifications these days. Even if we are a black Internet cafe, is it fair for him to disappear without even resigning?

She thought that who else but herself would be blind enough to want a talent like Ergou? But this guy didn't show any gratitude and just ran away without saying a word.

After leaving so many messages, the boss lady became so angry that she decided to ignore this idiot.

But then he thought, if he didn't take the child in, who else would?

Where would the child live in the future? The proprietress felt a little soft-hearted.

But Ergouzi still didn't answer her calls for several days, as if he had disappeared from the face of the earth.

She was thinking that something might have happened to Ergouzi. This kid had a unique way of thinking and his brain was different from that of ordinary people. What if he was fooled by those pyramid schemes?

So I was hesitating whether to call the police or post a missing person notice or something, but I also felt that posting Ergouzi's photos everywhere on the streets was simply a form of spiritual pollution. That guy has the temperament of an Erha. He is handsome, but he is not photogenic.

The proprietress walked out of the Internet cafe in confusion, and was just about to smoke a cigarette to get some fresh air, when she saw this scene.

"What happened? The world has changed so much?"

Looking at the blood-red sky, the Internet cafe owner was slightly startled and took off her headphones. Only then did she understand why no one came to surf the Internet so early this morning.

The next moment, she suddenly raised her head, and through the dust and fog that filled the city, she stared at the gray-white giant that was slowly approaching with trembling eyes. The rumbling footsteps like an earthquake almost drowned out the alarms that echoed through the streets and alleys.

"Oh my God……"

The proprietress was stunned, and the cigarette she had just lit fell from the corner of her mouth, splashing sporadic sparks on the ground.

At this moment, a ethereal and beautiful song floated from the blood-red sky, like the song of a mermaid from the ocean. Listening to this song, the proprietress held her forehead, her consciousness suddenly became hazy, as if leaves were flying, and the world was spinning.

She suddenly felt very sleepy and could hardly open her eyes. She raised her hand to hold the wall at the entrance of the Internet cafe and forced herself to look around.

I saw people falling to the ground one after another on the street, sleeping soundly like babies in cradles.

Seeing this scene, the proprietress felt weak all over and slowly fell backwards.

As she fell to the ground, her empty eyes reflected the Witch Night in the distance - the Crown Dream Witch was standing on the edge of the stage, bathed in the light curtain, softly humming a lullaby that would lull people to sleep.

The next moment, she slowly closed her eyelids, and her white-haired head was about to hit the ground.

At this moment, a hand suddenly supported her body.

"Don't be afraid, old woman... Mr. Paranoia is here."

The man said so, then gently carried the proprietress' body on his back and slowly carried her into the Internet cafe.

In the dimly lit Internet cafe, young internet-addicted teenagers who were still surfing the Internet in the "no-smoking area" fell down one after another, their heads hitting their ashtrays, sleeping like the dead.

At this moment, the Internet cafe owner suddenly felt a little more conscious for some reason, as if the man carrying her had used some tricks. She slowly opened her eyelids despite her still groggy consciousness, and looked at the man's back with tired eyes.

The man was thin and had a sickly pale complexion. He was a boy but had his hair tied in a ponytail.

The lady boss's lips moved slightly, and she said incoherently: "Er Gouzi... why are you back?"

Her tone was mixed with surprise and blame. She thought to herself, you little brat, you didn't show up when you should have, but now you come back to seek death...you are such a fool.

“Hehe… Actually, I’ve been preparing for a long time.”

The paranoid lord said confidently, placing the proprietress down on the gaming chair at the front desk.

"What are you preparing for? You didn't answer my call. Are you trying to kill yourself?"

"I have been practicing intensively for a few days, spending tens of thousands of mall coins, and even creating an origin card... Hehe, this is the magical girl among magical girls. I have to go now, old woman, you should take a nap first."

"No... Er... Er Gouzi, where are you... where are you going?"

The proprietress slumped in the gaming chair, staring at the paranoid figure’s back, muttering in a weak voice.

"Leave it to me, old lady. I will definitely protect your Internet cafe."

Paranoia said in a low voice with a blank expression.

He raised his hand and patted the proprietress on the back, then turned and walked towards the exit of the Internet cafe, facing the giant puppet walking towards the Lao Jingmai Street District, unzipped the elementary school student's backpack behind him, and took out a dark red knife from it.

At this time, the proprietress could no longer see his back clearly, and even the sound of the huge footsteps approaching by her ears became blurry.

Finally, before the lady boss could no longer resist the urge to sleep and completely closed her eyes...

She didn't know if it was an illusion, but she seemed to see a girl wearing a dark red dress and holding a dark red sickle... The girl stepped on the ground majestically and turned into a dark red meteor and rushed towards the giant in the dome.

　My sister wants a monthly pass. Without it, she will have to sneak into Africa hand in hand with the paranoid adults.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)