Chapter 295 Family Event III: Witch Night (IX)
Black Rose hugged her shoulders and waited silently in a corner of the statue space.

Her face was hidden in the shadows, with only a little light in her eyes, like the shimmering water of a lake. After a long silence, she slowly raised her eyes from the darkness and looked indifferently into the interior of the statue space.

At this time, the only living people in this cramped conference room were the Lost Witch and the Magical Girl Ashes. However, the latter stared at the empty space in front of her and shouted a name like crazy:
"little Red Riding Hood--!"

"Oh? So her name is Little Red Riding Hood? What a lovely name."

The Lost Witch said with interest, raising her finger and tapping her chin, "What a pity... She is Little Red Riding Hood and I am the Big Bad Wolf in the fairy tale, and I am about to eat her up."

Black Rose knew that the Lost Witch's method was very clever. She first killed more than 20 real magical girls to make Bai Zini mistakenly believe them, and then released her own ability to make Ashes fall into hallucinations.

At this moment, Ashes no longer has any doubts in his heart, and the effect of the illusion itself will be twice as effective with half the effort.

"Little Red Riding Hood," Black Rose murmured the name, staring at Ashes with trembling pupils. After a moment, she turned her face slightly and said, "Is that girl... so important to you?"

As she was thinking, the Lost Witch suddenly turned her head slightly to look at her and said in a joking tone: "Black Rose, what are you still doing there? Do you think that if you don't make any noise, 'they' won't know you are here?"

Hearing this, Black Rose raised her head with a cold expression and met her gaze, "I just came to see the ugly appearance of my old friend, do you have any opinion..."

"I see. Enjoy yourselves then."

The Lost Witch responded slowly, hooked her finger slightly, and the lifeless Little Red Riding Hood walked to her side.

Then she lifted Little Red Riding Hood's chin, tilted her head and looked at Ashes, and said slowly: "Tell me... What kind of death do you want me to give her?"

“Don’t…don’t…don’t…don’t…don’t…don’t…”

On the cross, the girl stared at Little Red Riding Hood's face, her lips trembling slightly as she let out a moan, her eyes wide open under her messy hair, but her pupils constricted with fear.

"I don't understand... Where is your arrogance just now? Why is it gone?"

The Lost Witch paused for a moment and took her finger off Little Red Riding Hood's chin. "Before torturing her, the two poor girls whose heads fell to the ground just now asked me to tell them something, so I used magic to keep them alive for a while longer."

The girl in the Gothic skirt was trembling all over. She slowly raised her blood-stained cheek and looked at her angrily with tearful eyes.

At this moment, she suddenly heard many sounds coming from under her feet.

She looked down in a daze, and saw that the heads that fell at her feet made sounds one after another. The heads of more than 20 magical girls were whispering to her.

Some people cursed;

Some people were crying;

Someone screamed;

Someone shouted;

Some people are smiling;

Smiling out of place.

The girl in the Gothic skirt looked pale, and her dull eyes stayed on the smiling head.

The magical girl Hong raised her eyes, her blood-stained lips moved slightly, and there was a gentle smile on her face.

She whispered, "It will be fine... Senior Huijin, Teacher Xiziyue and the others will come to save you, so -"

Before she could finish her words, the Lost Witch stepped on her head and crushed it, and the words stopped abruptly.

Instead, blood was splattered all over the ground, splattering on the stone surface of the altar.

On the cross, the girl's eyes were extremely empty, as if they had lost all color.

"Oh, yeah, that little cutie over here has something to say to you too. Listen to what she wants to say. Otherwise, it'll be such a shame. This will be the last time you see her..."

The Lost Witch whispered in Ashes' ear, then picked up the head of the magical girl Feng from the ground, held her head in both hands, and faced the girl in the Gothic skirt on the cross.

"I hate you, I hate you, I hate you--" Feng murmured, his eyes lowered, staring at the only remaining eye of the magical girl Hong, and then raised his eyes again, his empty eyes staring motionlessly at the girl on the cross, "I hate you."

The next second, her head was thrown to the ground by the Lost Witch and chopped into pieces with a high-heeled shoe.

The chains on the cross trembled wildly, and the girl struggled, howling silently and hysterically.

At this moment, in addition to the sounds of brains splattering and iron chains shaking, Black Rose in the distance also heard a roar coming from behind her and a deafening horn sound.

The next second, the stage equipment of Witch Night trembled, and the ground inside the statue space also trembled faintly.

"Xiziyue is here..."

The witch Black Rose whispered to herself, slowly turned around, and walked out of the space inside the statue quietly and silently without looking back.

Just as she walked out of the statue space, she saw a huge dark green train had crashed into the stage of Witch Night, and at this moment, three magical girls were standing on the roof of the dark green train.

Black Rose glanced at the three giants from the side, then raised her head and looked at the White Wing and Blue Owl flapping their wings and flying from a corner of the sky.

Finally, she slowly turned her neck and her cold eyes rested on Little Red Riding Hood who was flying towards her on a sled.

The witch Black Rose knew clearly why these people bypassed the three magical girls and several witches, so she crossed her arms and waited quietly in the center of the stage, right in front of the witch statue.

"Where's the Witch of Sloth?"

At this moment, she raised her fingers and scratched her chin, and suddenly recalled the figure of the bat-winged witch in her mind. So she raised her eyes slightly and looked around, but did not see Shi Naian.

"Forget it... her mission is over after Witch Night is activated anyway."

Thinking of this, Black Rose closed her eyes.

As the war on the edge of the Witch's Night officially began, chaotic and noisy sounds continued to flow into her ears, but she only cared about the sounds coming from the sky - the cry of elk, the whistling of wind and snow, light and pleasant.

After a while, Black Rose slowly raised its head, using the overlapping layers of thorns to lift its body up into the air, and looked straight at the girl in the Christmas dress who was riding a sleigh against the wind.

In the bitter snow, the girl in the Christmas dress met her eyes.

Then, her panel was reflected in her pupils.

[Codename: Witch Black Rose]

[Real name: He Yinlu]

【Rating: A】

"What a pity... You're a step too late. There are only two witches waiting for you after you go in."

Black Rose looked directly at Little Red Riding Hood and said slowly, "The person you are looking for is no longer here."

On the sleigh, the girl in the Christmas dress replied expressionlessly, "Senior Ashes won't turn into a witch that easily."

"Don't talk like you know her so well—"

Black Rose changed the subject, and as her black hair fluttered, thousands of thorns tangled together rumbled toward the sky, as if a giant bronze python opened its huge mouth towards Little Red Riding Hood.

The two elks cried out, and their eight legs simultaneously stepped on the sky, running wildly to the side on a thin layer of snow, dragging the sled under Little Red Riding Hood under the blood-red sky. The giant thorn python chased after them, but never managed to bite the end of the Christmas sleigh, and even its body was faintly covered by a thin layer of snow, becoming a little sluggish.

"You can run, but what about your friends?"

Black Rose's eyes flashed, and she changed her attacking stance. She raised her right hand and another giant thorn python rose from behind her, dragging its twisted body towards the white dove above the sky.

Bai Yi was startled for a moment, then he flapped his wings suddenly and swooped down with Blue Owl. However, the giant thorn python was so fast that he couldn't get away from it at all.

"Let me go, White Wing!" Blue Owl growled.

Hearing this, White Wing suddenly let go of Blue Owl's shoulders. Seeing that Blue Owl had broken away from White Wing, Black Rose shifted her target again. She lowered her snow-white right hand, and the giant thorn python suddenly lowered its huge head from mid-air and pounced towards Blue Owl.

"Bai Yi, stay away!"

As Blue Owl spoke, he fell from the sky. The moment his knee touched Witch Night Wind, he blurted out the name of a skill.

"The Chosen One."

As soon as he finished speaking, the body under the combat suit glowed like midnight day, covering every inch of his skin.

[Skill Name: Chosen One]

[Skill Introduction: A skill derived from "The Chosen Day". It can only be used on the date specified by "The Chosen Day". After using this skill, all your attributes will double within the next hour.]

【玩家的属性发生变化——身体素质：143点→286点（↑1倍）；神经反应：60点→120点（↑1倍）；精神力量：237点→474点（↑1倍）】

[Your "Physical Fitness" attribute has exceeded the minimum standard of Grade A. ]

[Your "nerve reaction" attribute has exceeded the minimum standard of D level. ]

[Your "Spiritual Power" attribute has exceeded the minimum standard of S-level. ]

Then the Blue Owl raised its eyes, activated its spider reflexes, and did the opposite, rushing towards the witch Black Rose.

At the same time, he swung his right arm and began to rotate it at a fixed frequency, with his arm making one circle per second. It was clearly the preparatory posture for the "spinning arm rock-paper-scissors" game.

"Huh? Did you run in the wrong direction?"

The witch Black Rose said this sarcastically, and immediately hugged her shoulders with her arms. Thousands of thorns suddenly sprang up, like a huge train passing by, blowing layers of whistling wind and crashing into the blue owl head-on.

In an instant, rough thorns like giant black hands appeared in the blue owl's pupils.

However, he was not panicked at all. The magic cat "Bolt" on his shoulder had already taken out two magic cards "Random Flash", and before Black Rose launched the attack, it anticipated it and smashed the two cards with its claws.

The next moment, the bodies of Blue Owl and Yuriko disappeared at the same time. The thick thorns rumbled past like a fallen giant tree, dragging a huge gully on the ground of Witch Night, which was truly shocking.

But "Random Flash" is still "Random Flash", and the instability of this card is already pointed out in the nickname on the surface of the card - the next moment, the bodies of Blue Owl and Yuriko appeared diagonally in front of Black Rose and in front of Black Rose respectively.

Yuriko narrowed his cat eyes and broke out in cold sweat. At this moment, he and the witch were only face to face.

Looking at this scene, Blue Owl frowned. In order to prevent Yuriko from being made into cat meat skewers by Black Rose, he made an extremely risky move and released the E-level skill "Phase Shift" towards Black Rose.

In an instant, the two exchanged positions.

However, Black Rose was quick-witted and swift-handed. She just raised her right hand silently, and the thorns left in place wrapped around Blue Owl's body layer by layer. Those thorns were like cacti, and the sharp parts were like knives that almost cut him in half, while the rough parts were responsible for crushing his body.

Blue Owl did not sit still and wait for death. He grabbed Yuriko's butt and threw her into the air, while crushing the one-time skill card that he had already held in his hand - "Pixel Body". This was the card he exchanged using the effect of the copy card in the abandoned train station half an hour ago.

As the card was crushed, the body of the Blue Owl suddenly turned into a pixelated man and appeared in the mobile phone of the magical girl Little Red Riding Hood who was flying overhead.

You should know that this is the only electronic device on the entire Witch Night stage.

As long as this phone is destroyed, the Blue Owl will turn into a pile of code that no one cares about and die on the cramped electronic screen. At this moment, even in the electronic world, the Blue Owl player continues to rotate his pixel arms, using the "arm-spinning rock-paper-scissors" technique to accumulate strength, and the prompt sound keeps coming from his ears.

[The number of laps accumulated in “Rotating Arms Rock-Paper-Scissors”: 4 laps.]

Outside the mobile phone screen, Yuriko's body flew into the sky and rolled in the air.

Then, the magical girl Little Red Riding Hood came flying in on a sled and caught Yuriko's body.

"Gone..."

Black Rose raised her eyebrows, and then said disdainfully, "Do you know what the strength between us is? You can hide ten thousand times with these inferior means, but if you are touched by me once, you will die ten thousand times..."

At this moment, a wave of white feathers swooped over. She raised her head slightly and turned her gaze to the white wings.

She tilted her head, and her jet-black hair tilted with it. Then thorns rose from the floor of the Witch's Night like a towering iron tower, completely blocking the falling feathers of the white wings.

The next moment, the iron tower made of thorns fell to the right and hit Bai Yi in mid-air. Just as Bai Yi tried to flap his wings to dodge, his body was blocked by the thorny hands attacking from both sides.

He gritted his teeth, but at this moment the thorns on both sides were suddenly covered by a layer of ice and snow and froze in place.

Bai Yi was slightly stunned, and when he looked sideways he saw the magical girl Little Red Riding Hood nodding at him. He suddenly flapped his wings and avoided the giant tower of thorns that was collapsing towards him. A deafening roar came from behind him.

"You're really annoying..." Black Rose said to Little Red Riding Hood.

"It's you who's annoying."

Little Red Riding Hood responded expressionlessly.

At this moment, the magic cat Yuriko jumped onto the shoulder of the magical girl Little Red Riding Hood. At the same time, she and Little Red Riding Hood took out ten cards from their respective magic books, and the man and the cat crushed the cards in mid-air.

One by one, the cards turned into scattered points of light and fell, like fallen dominoes.

As the light spots fell, fireballs, lightning, ground spikes, water waves, wooden stakes, wind blades, and thousands of elemental fluctuations merged into a colorful light above the stage of Witch Night, rushing towards the thin silhouette of the witch Black Rose.

The world seemed to be dyed as day at this moment. Her figure was first lit up by the rushing lightning and fire, and then reflected on the splashing water like flowers. Then even the floor under her feet was pierced by layers of overlapping earth spikes, which swayed wildly towards her swaying dark red skirt.

However, the witch Black Rose remained calm. The noisier the world around her was, the colder her expression became.

She simply raised her right hand with ease, and in an instant, thorns condensed into a giant tree on the stage of Witch Night, growing madly towards the sky. The thorns crawled on the surface of the tree like a python, struggling to climb up.

This gigantic tree protected Black Rose from the wind and rain. All the lightning, thunder, flickering flames, and rippling waves that splashed in the sky were, without exception, completely blocked by the enormous tree. Not even a bit of its remaining power could reach her silhouette, and it was simply crushed into dust under the iron-like black giant.

In an instant, everything fell silent, and the power of the twenty magic cards subsided.

Black Rose held onto the tangled roots of the giant tree and slowly emerged from behind it.

At this moment, the floor under his feet had become riddled with holes due to the recent bombardment. It was in ruins, and the faint dark magic power was overflowing from the broken gaps of Witch Night.

Black Rose looked up straight ahead, silently gazing at the magical girl Little Red Riding Hood with a mocking look in her eyes.

Little Red Riding Hood did not stop, she started the Christmas sleigh, and the two reindeers rushed upwards in the snow.

"I guess she didn't react this much when she heard that I was dead. I'm really confused. You don't deserve it at all..." Black Rose said.

"I don't understand you." Little Red Riding Hood said, as the Christmas sleigh under her sped through the sky, taking her away from Black Rose.

The body of Black Rose was lifted up by layers of thorns, extending forward in mid-air, approaching Little Red Riding Hood with the force of breaking the wind, like a spider crawling on a spider web formed by thorns, moving towards its prey step by step.

Little Red Riding Hood just ran away without looking back, let alone fighting back.

"Kobe isn't dead yet, I don't want to die before him, you bastard!"

Yuriko on her shoulder yelled, raised her cat paw, took out an elemental card from the magic book, and then crushed it. The fireball that was used to fill the gap shot backwards, blocking Black Rose's figure.

However, she just lifted the thorn lightly and tapped it, and the fireball shattered into pieces of sparks, falling to the ground like fireflies extinguished in the wind.

Whoops——!
In an instant, Black Rose threw a spear made of thorns from behind. Little Red Riding Hood was quick-witted and quickly urged the Christmas sleigh to flip suddenly to the right, and the two passed each other.

"What's the point of running away? You're here to save her. If you run away like this, she'll turn into a witch."

Black Rose said slowly.

But the next second, she raised her eyebrows slightly.

The magical girl Little Red Riding Hood's expression remained calm. She slightly lowered the brim of her Christmas hat, and her ice-blue eyes looked directly into Black Rose's eyes.

The Christmas sleigh she was riding suddenly turned around and aimed at Black Rose from a hundred meters away.

At this time, in front of the sled, two elks were bellowing softly. They stepped on the spot, and their powerful hooves created thousands of layers of whistling snow in the air.

Gradually, the snow and wind slowly solidified into a substantial circular barrier, tightly covering the outer edge of the sled.

At the same time, Yuriko, dressed in a red and blue combat uniform, took out five C-level cards from the magic book - "Magic Overdraft", raised her cat claws to smash them, and then released them all at Little Red Riding Hood - these cards were all her stock. In the past two months, she had been coerced and bribed by Little Red Riding Hood and Ke Mingye. She made cards whenever she had free time every day, and finally she managed to make so many magic cards.

Under the blessing of the "Chosen One", Little Red Riding Hood's total magic power had already reached a terrifying level. Even if her magic power release threshold was only 40%, it had already vaguely touched the threshold of a B-level magical girl.

Not to mention that at this moment, Yuriko had bet all her fortune on her.

I watched the two elks keep marching in place, like cattle gathering strength to charge forward;

He looked again at the barrier of ice and snow that continued to condense on the surface of the Christmas sleigh.

Black Rose seemed to realize something, and her eyes were full of contempt and pity when she looked at Little Red Riding Hood again.

"You want to fight me head-on? You are overestimating yourself..."

Black Rose whispered softly, slowly raised her right hand, and thousands of thorns squirmed in the air in an extremely beautiful posture, and finally twisted together, instantly tightened, and woven into an extremely sharp and rough spear. Roses bloomed on the surface of this spear, and the fragrance of flowers filled every corner.

On the other side, as the two elks in front of the Christmas sleigh stepped in place for countless circles, the snow accumulated on their hooves became thicker, and finally the barrier covering the front of the sleigh almost solidified. From a distance, the entire Christmas sleigh looked like a train made of snowflakes.

The next moment, the witch Black Rose raised her right hand, and then slowly let it drop down.

Whoops——!
With a deafening sound of breaking wind, the spear made of thorns and roses rushed forward. The fierce wind blew up Black Rose's hair. Her smooth forehead was exposed to the wind and snow, and her eyes were as cold as poppies growing wildly in an extremely cold place.

This thorn spear was incredibly fast. In less than half a second, it had already flown right in front of the magical girl Little Red Riding Hood.

At the same moment, the two elks stopped accumulating strength on the spot, stomped their feet on the ground, and ran forward angrily.

Wrapped in thousands of pieces of ice and snow, the Christmas sleigh rushed forward like a tornado, heading towards the thorn spear of the witch Black Rose.

As if it could penetrate everything, the spear disappeared into the tornado of ice and snow and collided head-on with the Christmas sleigh. The two remained deadlocked in mid-air for more than a few seconds. Violent ripples of magic power spread outward, ravaging every inch of the floor of Witch Night.

Eventually, the thorn spears gained the upper hand, and thousands of cracks appeared on the ice and snow barrier on the surface of the Christmas sleigh.

But at this moment, the magical girl Little Red Riding Hood sitting on the sled took a deep breath, took out her mobile phone from her pocket and threw it forward.

The mobile phone was flying in the air, and on the electronic screen, the right arm of the pixelated blue owl was constantly rotating.

The next moment, the blue owl broke away from the effect of the "pixel body" and emerged from the mobile phone screen. At the same time, the accumulated multiples of the spinning arm rock-paper-scissors technique had reached its limit.

[Accumulated number of arm rotations: 20, the number of arm rotations has reached the limit, the power currently accumulated in the arm is 10 times the original. ]

[The second effect of the B-level skill "Spinning Arm Rock-Paper-Scissors" has been triggered: release all the power accumulated by spinning in circles, and perform a rock-paper-scissors game with an unknown result (randomly choose one from rock, scissors, and paper). Three different skill effects will appear depending on the different results of the rock-paper-scissors game.]

At this moment, Ke Mingye put on the A-level equipment "Gambler's Gloves" on his hands, and the black crow feather gloves immediately wrapped around his pale fists.

[According to the ability effect of the A-level equipment "Gambler's Gloves", the rock-paper-scissors phase of "Rotary Arm Rock-paper-scissors" has been changed to a self-selected phase. Please choose one from "Rock", "Scissors", or "Paper". 】

"Scissors."

As the cold words fell, the light on the entire arm suddenly flowed upstream like a long river and gathered at a point on his right hand that was raised high. He then raised his index and middle fingers and put them together to form a scissors, so that at this moment, all the light gathered above the two fingers, and then extended out and became a blade of light.

In an instant, the Blue Owl swung its right hand in the shape of scissors forward, and the polar daylight blade on its two fingers slashed out, dancing forward with a hiss!

The world in the wind and snow suddenly changed color at this moment. Only a slanting arc of light could be seen shooting out, expanding forward endlessly, breaking through numerous obstacles, breaking through everything, as if extending to the end of the world.

The next moment, the blade of light swept away the biting snow and wind, splitting through thousands of thorns like a whirlwind, cutting the oncoming thorn spears in half, and then accurately slashing across the waist of the witch Black Rose.

Just like that, she was cut straight in half.

The air was silent for a moment.

Then, blood gushed out like a waterfall, and a clean cut appeared in the middle of the witch Black Rose's body, slowly separating her upper and lower body.

Her face was slightly stunned, and her upper body slid onto the stage of Witch Night with blood all over it.

When she came to her senses, Black Rose slowly raised her eyes and saw that half of her body was still there, and in the blink of an eye it was covered by the howling wind and snow.

The magical girl Little Red Riding Hood raised her wand and covered every corner of her body with thick ice and snow, leaving only her head exposed outside the snow. Her jet-black hair fluttered in the strong wind, and she looked as disheveled as a human head statue at the North Pole.

Looking at this scene, Blue Owl took a deep breath, and the light covering his right hand slowly faded away.

At this moment, the part from his right hand to his right shoulder on his combat uniform had been completely shattered, revealing a charred and bone-exposed arm that hung limply in the air like a broken branch - he was using the "spinning arm rock-paper-scissors" technique released by his body, and the strain that the previous blow had on him was self-evident.

The next moment, Black Rose's upper body slowly fell backwards and landed on the stage of Witch Night.

Before she collapsed completely, she and the girl in the Christmas dress looked into each other's eyes from a very, very far distance.

The bloodstained lips moved slightly.

"Save her..." Black Rose said silently, then fell to the ground and closed her eyes.

Little Red Riding Hood stared at her expressionlessly until she fell down, and then a prompt tone slowly sounded in her ears.

[You have successfully killed an A-level superhuman, and the milestone achievement has been updated. ]

Little Red Riding Hood turned her head and looked.

Beside her, Blue Owl raised his left hand, covering his broken right arm, took a deep breath, turned his head and looked around, only to find that White Wing had disappeared silently above Witch Night.

"Where's Bai Yi..." Blue Owl asked in a hoarse voice, with his almost crippled right hand hanging down.

"While we were fighting, he went into that door."

Little Red Riding Hood raised her snow-white right hand and pointed behind her.

"Then we'll go too."

As Ke Mingye spoke, he turned around and walked towards the door tremblingly. His heart was beating fast and his steps were getting faster and faster. He ignored the pain in his arm. He knew that Bai Zini was behind this door.

Just go through this door... and you'll see her.

At this moment, strange noises suddenly came from all directions. Blue Owl looked sideways and saw gray-white faceless puppets. They looked exactly like the giant puppets that had just wreaked havoc in the city, except that their size had shrunk by more than a hundred times, only the size of an ordinary adult.

Seeing this, Little Red Riding Hood lowered the brim of her hat slightly, turned her head and asked Blue Owl, "Can I stay?"

"Do not."

Blue Owl shook his head, and suddenly a figure descended from the sky on a pair of hot wheels.

Little Red Riding Hood looked up.

The man was wearing a dark red metal ghost mask, his eyes were dark and empty, and two dreadlocks fell from the hole on the back of the helmet, floating gently under the blood-red sky.

He was wearing a short black and red metallic windbreaker, with half of his sleeves seemingly burned off, revealing his slightly red wrists with bulging veins. At this moment, each of his feet was stepping on a dark gold wheel that was rotating at high speed, and the outer edge of the wheel was constantly rubbing out sharp sparks, supporting him standing in mid-air.

At the same time, he was holding a strange spear in his hand - the flame-shaped tassel of the spear was slowly floating like a fiery red ember, and the spear body was engraved with circles of flame wheels; the tip of the spear was also shining brightly with a cold flame.

Little Red Riding Hood raised her head, her gaze resting on the ghost face of the divine Nezha for a moment, meeting the dark and empty eyes, then she retracted her gaze to look at the blue owl.

"Leave these dolls to him...let's go save Bai Zini."

Behind the mask, Ke Mingye spoke hoarsely, then took a breath, simply ignored his injured right arm, and walked quickly towards the huge door embedded in the base of the witch statue.

"Ah."

Little Red Riding Hood nodded, got off the sled, and followed Ke Mingye.

Following closely behind, the figures of the two gradually sank into the shadow behind the giant gate and disappeared.

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