Feng Ling raised her right hand, and green air currents converged from all directions toward the orange cat, doing their best to slow it down.
Sensing that its movement was hindered, the demon beast stopped in its tracks and indeed stopped crashing around, instead noticing the two conspicuous figures of magical girls on the road.
Its pupils wavered between the green and blue figures for a moment before quickly locking onto Feng Ling.
The electric glow on its body intensified, and then it transformed into a silver lightning bolt, charging straight toward Feng Ling.
“Wind Barrier.”
Feng Ling extended both hands forward and shouted the name of her technique.
In truth, this technique was just using wind to form a deceleration zone.
In previous battles, she had always been too lazy to call it out, but ever since she started managing a fan economy, she had developed the habit of shouting out every technique because it looked cool to shout.
But Feng Ling was actually at a loss for words at times; the so-called techniques were just combinations of wind and other words, purely shouting whatever came to mind.
The orange cat’s speed visibly slowed under the resistance of the Wind Barrier, but the layer of silver light on its body also grew brighter and brighter, as if the electric current was fully resisting the suppression of air pressure.
Feng Ling increased the wind speed to maximum.
The air currents and the electric light on the cat’s body rubbed together in midair, producing sparks that crackled and popped.
But the orange cat still advanced against the wind wall.
Although its speed had decreased considerably, it was still approaching at a fairly fast pace.
“Lian Ge, I’ll count three, two, one. Pull me away.”
“Okay.”
Lian Ge didn’t know what Feng Ling’s plan was, but she still hooked her hand around Feng Ling’s waist.
“Three, two, one!”
Feng Ling’s hands suddenly pulled back to both sides, and the Wind Barrier completely dissipated in an instant.
The orange cat, which had been fully resisting the wind pressure, lost all resistance in a flash, and the entire cat shot downward out of control like it had been launched from a slingshot.
And at the same moment the wind wall disappeared, Lian Ge pushed off with all her strength while holding Feng Ling, carrying them both upward and to the side.
The cat and the two girls passed each other.
The orange cat hit the ground face-first, smashing solidly into the asphalt road and creating a large crater.
Feng Ling struggled out of Lian Ge’s arms, tiptoed over to the edge of the crater, and leaned in to look.
The orange cat was tremblingly crawling out of the broken asphalt, dazed and disoriented from the impact.
For the moment, it should be immobile.
Only then did Feng Ling get a clear look at it.
It was just an extremely ordinary orange cat, with a small broken section of data cable hanging from its mouth.
The copper wires at the break were twisted and sticking out, probably just bitten off not long ago.
It seems this cat had bitten a data cable and, on the verge of death, received the concept granting of “Electricity,” thus managing to survive, but in the process became a demon beast.
This type of demon beast, whose appearance hadn’t even changed, was already the weakest tier.
Now that it had crashed headfirst into the ground, it was quite injured, unable even to walk steadily.
After squirming a couple of steps, it collapsed again.
Feng Ling walked up proactively, crouched down with her hands on her knees, and flicked her finger, using the power of wind to tap it on the forehead from a distance.
The demon beast, already unsteady, completely collapsed, its eyes closed—it must have fainted.
Having knocked the demon beast unconscious, Feng Ling finally breathed a sigh of relief and realized that today’s live streaming material had increased again.
She could brag about herself fiercely.
Moreover, knocking a demon beast unconscious had much more value than killing it.
Qia Bi was a riddle-speaker, and gave them little information about the birth of demon beasts.
A demon beast of this size was just right for the Magical Girl Association to study.
Now all that remained was to wait for the Association’s support staff to arrive.
While the Association’s support staff hadn’t arrived yet, Feng Ling quietly moved back to the demon beast’s side, crouched down, took out her phone, held it at a forty-five-degree downward angle, and took pictures for the evening’s live stream.
On the screen, the orange cat lay on the ground, unconscious.
Feng Ling adjusted the angle to include her face in the frame with the cat, maintained a half-squatting posture, and pressed the shutter with a click.
Feng Ling had originally wanted to make a peace sign, but thought it might be inappropriate, so she quickly retracted the two fingers that hadn’t even fully straightened back into a fist, and her smile turned serious.
Lian Ge stood by, watching Feng Ling’s actions, and in her heart, she naturally added a thick filter over this little demon beast.
‘Feng Ling must be very sad. Although they have to be hostile due to different paths, seeing a being that also originated from a demon beast fall before her—even a child like Feng Ling who always appears optimistic and cheerful—must feel bad inside.’
Lian Ge quietly pressed her hand to her own chest, feeling that she should do something to comfort her.
But considering Feng Ling’s personality, saying nothing might be the most respectful thing.
Having made up her mind, Lian Ge silently stepped aside, offering her respects to Feng Ling.
But on Feng Ling’s side, she was actually having a good time.
After taking the photos, Feng Ling hadn’t stood up yet when suddenly a crimson figure flashed past her.
The speed of that flashing figure was so fast that Feng Ling had no time to react.
She only felt a burst of hot air explode beside her, and it lifted her entire body off the ground.
Her body tumbled several times in the air, the bells on her ankles clattering loudly, and then she plunged headfirst into the roadside greenery.
Feng Ling struggled to get up from the bushes, first spitting out two mouthfuls of dirt, then rubbing her eyes with the back of her hand.
She had thought a demon beast had attacked, but that wasn’t the case—it was because there was an extra person in the middle of the road.
Her black combat suit tightly wrapped around her slender figure.
A red longsword was held in her right hand, and the blade still had the embers of burning flames.
Without a doubt, she was the Magical Girl Chiyun, crouching in the spot where the orange cat had been just moments ago, piercing the cat’s body with her sword in a very standard, cool pose.
Flames spread along the blade toward the demon beast, instantly covering its entire body.
Soon, only a small pile of ashes remained on the spot.
“What are you doing?”
Feng Ling jumped up from the greenery and walked angrily toward Chiyun.
Chiyun pressed her hand to her mouth, looking very surprised and aggrieved.
“But I just saved you.”
“I didn’t even know.”
Feng Ling was still dusty, with many shrub leaves stuck in her hair.
Chiyun, on the other hand, acted even more aggrieved.
“Feng Ling, you have to believe me. I saw from up in the sky just now that this demon beast suddenly emitted electricity, preparing to launch a fatal blow before dying. I was afraid you wouldn’t be able to dodge in time, so in my urgency I…”
“The situation was urgent then, and I really didn’t control my strength well, accidentally affecting you. But I truly wanted to help you. How can you think I deliberately harmed you?”
Feng Ling could tell that Chiyun was trying to suppress her deliberately, just that her methods were a bit like school bullying, like a child… but then again, Feng Ling had taken a slice of her pie, so her actions were just out of anxiety.
Feng Ling didn’t really care; as long as it didn’t affect her earning money, she would just ignore it.
But then, as Feng Ling had already stepped back a few paces, someone walked from behind her to the front.
“Senior Chiyun, I was watching the whole time. There was nothing like what you said. You were clearly intentional just now, weren’t you?”
But Lian Ge stepped forward and shielded Feng Ling behind her, obviously not intending to let this go.