Chapter 87 Serial Number NO.0, The Day of Qiamat

The night was like a curtain, covering the brightly lit old Jingmai district.

In the house of the Bo Ke family, sporadic lights cast the shadows of people inside the house on the curtains. Some people were sitting in front of the window reading a book; some were sitting at the table playing with their mobile phones; some people opened the curtains, held their face with both hands, and stared at the night sky in a daze. Under the moonlight, her snow-white hair swayed gently.

Amid the incessant chirping of cicadas, the lights behind the windows went out one by one in the evening breeze, and the entire apartment building became dark.

At this moment, in one of the dim rooms.

Ke Mingye lay on the bed, his arms behind his head, his mind full of mixed thoughts.

"Roll the dice once a day, and on the night of June 6, the 'Disaster Dice' will evolve into a C-rank skill."

"With my current strength, it's still too difficult to intervene in the dispute between my second brother and the elementary school student... The elementary school student can easily bite me to death, and the ninja sent by the Ninja Clan is probably not much worse. But if I throw the dice a little better on July 7th, maybe it will have a miraculous effect?"

He took a long breath, closed his eyes, and tried to wake himself up from sleepiness, but he tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep.

I simply picked up the phone beside my pillow, unlocked the screen, my eyes stayed on the homepage for a second, and then I opened the browser out of boredom.

Ke Mingye glanced at Baidu's hot search list and clicked on the website ranked fifth on the hot search list - "Magical Girls League Official Website".

According to statistics, the official website of the Magical Girls League has nearly 5 million visits every day, which shows the level of attention paid to it by netizens.

As long as there are magical girls who have appeared in various parts of the world, their files will be recorded on the official website of the Alliance, even if they have only appeared in public once, or have never joined the Alliance.

However, their real names were not disclosed.

Normally, only official insiders have the authority to check the true identity of magical girls, and others can only view some of their partial information, such as: "favorite food", "hateful things", "what they will do at the celebration party after defeating the villain", "mate selection preferences"...

In fact, they are all useless information, and the official didn’t even release the birthday.

If the magical girl has business cooperation with some companies, at the bottom of the file it will be written "I heard that this magical girl likes 'Misty Summer' brand potato chips", "I heard that this magical girl usually uses 'Lille Kraft' brand skin care products" and other information used for commercial promotion.

There is also a blatant jump link next to it, the intention is so obvious that it needs no explanation, but there will always be some fanatical fans who will take the bait.

In today's era of traffic, no matter what field a business is in, if it cannot spend money to find a magical girl or a superhero to endorse it, it will sooner or later be crushed by its peers.

If you are lucky enough to invite world-class celebrities such as "Ferlando Gomes" and "Xi Ziyue", then even if the quality of the products is poor, they will most likely be sold out overnight.

Ke Mingye was browsing the official website aimlessly, his eyes sweeping across beautiful little faces with sweet smiles, feeling somewhat aesthetically fatigued, until he came across a girl in a black Gothic dress.

It’s like seeing a unique crow among a flock of white pigeons.

Ash's file photo stood out among the group of magical girls. The others had some smile on their faces, or at most had no expression.

She had a cold face, her head slightly tilted to the right, and her eyes were full of disdain.

She looked like she was forced to do business. Most likely, her profile photo was taken by Xiziyue and others. With her temper, she only listened to the words of the three masters.

When you click into the file, you can't even see any information like "favorite food" or "things you're afraid of". Looking down the entire row, except for a big "Ashes" written behind the column for the magical girl's code name, the rest of the space is empty.

"You are so willful, sister."

Ke Mingye chuckled softly and kept his finger on her file for two seconds. He thought that if it weren't for Xiziyue, her biological mother, supporting her, Bai Zini would not be so arrogant.

But he was quite curious, which one was Bai Zini's true appearance? Was it the domineering and arrogant magical girl Hui Jin... or the girl next door at home?
Or maybe, she is both of them?

Ke Mingye thought carelessly as he slowly slid his finger downwards, and the face of the magical girl Ashes disappeared from the screen.

Looking down, I saw that the official website of the Alliance would regularly release information on a batch of "Magical Girl Interns" to attract the attention and interest of the public.

As the name suggests, these magical girls are all interning in the Alliance.

If some magical girl trainees are more capable than their looks, they will officially join the Alliance and start fighting criminals;

But if the magical girl trainees' appearance is more outstanding than their ability, then the Alliance will provide them with another option: debut as an idol, sign a contract with an agency, learn to sing and dance rap, and strive to shine on the stage.

At the same time, they will sign a profit-sharing agreement. As long as they perform well and are popular, they can bring a lot of economic benefits to the Girls' Alliance.

Normally, the Magical Girls Alliance of each country would have a cooperation channel with the local idol management company:
——The Alliance recommends talented magical girls to idol management companies, and the management companies give corresponding profit shares based on their performance and give back to the Magical Girls Alliance.

As an important profit-making channel for the Tongmenghui, this mutually beneficial mode of cooperation has also received strong support from the government.

It’s just that due to the concern about the death rate of underage magical girls, Chinese netizens have recently been increasingly opposed to magical girls. As a result, idols who debuted as magical girl trainees have naturally been boycotted in the entertainment industry.

One of the profit channels was hit hard, so the Chinese branch of the Magical Girls League was naturally in danger, and it was all supported by Xiziyue working overtime to shoot commercials.

If she alone had not brought tens of millions of economic benefits to the Chinese branch of the Tongmenghui, the branch would not have been able to survive until now.

Ke Mingye looked through the data of a group of magical girl trainees, and found that 70% of them chose to debut as idols. This data is somewhat exaggerated. Perhaps influenced by Chinese public opinion, other countries have also begun to face up to the issue of the mortality rate of magical girls.

But they are not like China, which has a total boycott of magical girls. Instead, they believe that magical girls are more suitable to be a vase than to fight criminals - just like black people have a racial talent in rap, magical girls have a natural advantage in being liked, and it would be a pity to waste them.

Ke Mingye yawned, with tears of sleepiness in his eyes, and continued to swipe the screen with his fingers.

The official website of the Alliance also publicly records some information about magic cards.

According to current statistics, there are a total of 126 types of magic cards in the world, including some self-created cards. For example, among the three giants, Utena's [Holy Sword Burst], Lilai's [Iceberg Fall], Xiziyue's [Time and Space Train]...

The first two are A-level cards, and the latter is an S-level card.

Only extremely talented magical girls can create their own cards, and these three are among them. Otherwise, they would not have become the representatives of contemporary magical girls.

But ordinary magical girls can create magic cards. The way to create them is to extract a small part of the comet fragments from their body, use tools to shape the fragments, and turn them into a card engraved with magic patterns.

During the creation process, you can also whimsically add some mystical materials, so that the created cards may have strange effects.

Xiziyue has summarized some rules and experiences for creating cards, and generously shared them on the official website of the Alliance.

However, according to statistics from the association, the comet fragments in the body of an ordinary magical girl are enough to create at most 300 magic cards.

If they don't know how to control themselves and use up all the comet fragments, they will lose their magical girl powers and might turn back into normal people - after all, the power of comet magical girls comes from the fragments in their bodies.

"Can I also make cards?" Ke Mingye thought, "I can turn the doll into a magical girl, extract the comet fragments from its body, and make it into cards. I can prepare some extra cards for emergencies... Whether I'm playing a dungeon or doing something outside, magic cards can come in handy."

However, it is easy to create, but it is difficult to master the cards. Each magic card has a corresponding difficulty to get started, and the higher the level of the card, the more difficult it is to control.

They must inject magic of the same nature as the cards into the cards and resonate with the cards in order to activate the cards and use them for their own purposes.

When the magical girl Ashes was chasing the superhuman criminal this morning, she used a B-level magic card [Gas].

Aside from special elemental types like ice and snow, wind magic cards are the most difficult to control among the ordinary elemental types.

From this we can see that Ashes is not bad at using magic cards at all, but has simply reached his rebellious stage and does not want to use them.

For the safety of the magical girls, the official only makes very little card information public - even some fake websites have counted more card types based on past magical girls' battle videos than what is shown on the Alliance's official website.

Ke Mingye opened the card catalog on the official website, and the first card that caught his eye was the one with serial number NO.000 - [Day of Qiamat].

Comet Qiamat first appeared three thousand years ago, which means... the first magical girl was also born three thousand years ago. It is not an exaggeration to call her the ancestor of magical girls.

It was the ancestor of magical girls who left behind the record of this magic card with serial number 0, which symbolizes the beginning of everything.

Apart from her, no other magical girl has ever used this card in the past three thousand years, which means that this is almost a card that only exists in legends.

According to rumors on the Internet, a magical girl once appeared in the Mayan tribe that predicted the end of the world.

The magical girl said that this card named [Day of Qiamat] cannot be crafted. It will only appear on the day when the Qiamat comet arrives. Only on that day can the power of the card be released...

Then, there is a one in ten million chance that the magical girl chosen by the comet will receive a magic card on that day - "The Day of Qiamat".

In the past three thousand years, except for the first magical girl, no other magical girl has ever been given this card by the comet.

As for the effect of this ancestor-level card, no one knows. There are only some messy speculations on the Internet, but who can guess what happened three thousand years ago?

Thinking of this, Ke Mingye raised his eyebrows and suddenly remembered something. So he exited the website and typed "when will Comet Qiamat pass by the Earth next time" into the search engine of his browser.

"The Comet Qiamat will take away all the power of this generation of magical girls and scatter new comet fragments on the earth. Girls who come into contact with these fragments will become magical girls... So, if the comet happens to arrive this year, can it save some people from death?"

"Also... there's no need for me to go against Bai Zini."

Thinking of this, Ke Mingye hesitated for a moment, then slowly lowered his index finger and pressed the search button.

As the page refreshed, the displayed results suddenly came into his sight.

[The next time Comet Qiamat returns to Earth is on the night of June 2029, 06. ]

Ke Mingye was stunned for two seconds, then shuddered violently, with the date reflected in his slightly contracted pupils.

"Isn't this... the day before the extinction mission deadline ends?" he thought.

　Asking for a monthly ticket!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)