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After confirming the new schedule on the data panel, Wei Hua continued to deal with those incredibly trivial and complicated tasks.
4 PM
St. Freya Space City Auditorium.
All the S-class magical girls have arrived at the Grand Hall. Some of the new magical girls became S-class within the past year and have acquired their respective powers.
The conference hall inside the Great Hall was a semi-circular structure. The S-class magical girls were all seated, looking at Selena on the stage in front of them.
"Everyone is here now, so let's officially begin the meeting."
Selena glanced around to make sure all the S-class magical girls had arrived before speaking.
"First and foremost, in order to deal with the witch's threat, we need to temporarily set aside most of our current affairs and fully prepare for war."
Most of the magical girls nodded eagerly, as they had all been tormented by endless paperwork during this period.
However, some magical girls felt helpless. They wanted to say something, but then they thought of their current situation and could only keep quiet.
"Who should take over?" Lylis asked Selena.
“…Crystal International,” Selena said.
“Them? But most of the people at Crystal International are just ordinary people,” Gabriel said calmly. “Or…”
Gabriel didn't say anything more, because most of the magical girls present already knew.
Recruiting officials from various countries into Crystal International.
Essentially, this is tantamount to returning power to the individual countries.
Nowadays, most members of Crystal International are just ordinary people. In the past, most of the capable and committed members in Crystal International branches in various countries died in the War of the Witch of Knowledge, resisting the Divine Army or fighting alongside Muerses to attack Mount Taixu.
Meanwhile, all of Crystal International's members at the Mu Continent headquarters were wiped out by the Star Witch. When Mu Continent was evacuated, none of Crystal International's members evacuated; they gave the opportunity to ordinary people.
“Bringing in the original officials from various countries into Crystal International is a compromise based on reality. We need time to train new support staff,” Selena said helplessly.
Even though magical girls have superhuman strength and energy, there are still too few of them. They alone cannot manage billions of people.
The magical girls remained silent, raising their hands in unison to approve the decision.
"So, next..."
Before Selena could finish speaking, the magical girls present suddenly received an urgent communication from the magical girl squad.
"Senior Selena! The infectious disease that has suddenly appeared in Europe is spreading at an extremely rapid pace! And..." In the communication video, the captain of a magical girl squad sounded somewhat anxious.
"And what?" Lylis asked hastily.
"And patients infected with infectious diseases will suddenly turn into a kind of undead monster after they die!"
However, when the captain of the magical girl squad was speaking, her teammates exclaimed in surprise.
"Oh no! Captain, this infectious disease can also infect animals! Those animals have also mutated into monsters!"
"Some monsters are mutating at an alarming rate!"
Chapter 475 Inferior Garbage Technology
In Europe, a major city in France has been completely overrun by the undead, who died from an infectious disease, and these undead are now spreading to other places.
In the sky, a large, eagle-shaped fighter jet is rapidly descending towards the city.
Hearing the commotion, the undead rushed toward the landing Eagle fighter jet.
The five magical girl team members aboard the Eagle fighter jet had solemn expressions.
Unlike the zombies in movies and TV shows, these undead, formed after being infected by an unknown infectious disease, not only retain their appearance from when they were alive, but also have extremely strong athletic abilities. Even ordinary small-caliber firearms are useless against these undead monsters.
Furthermore, unknown infectious diseases can infect not only humans, but also animals and plants! It can be said that almost any organic life form can be infected!
But what made the magical girl squad look serious was that they sensed the evil magic unique to witches emanating from these undead monsters.
The members of this magical girl squad, codenamed Grey Crane, were not wearing the pretty little dresses typical of magical girls, but instead donned high-tech silver-gray power armor that completely covered them.
The camera system on the power armor transmitted everything in the city to high-ranking officials from various countries and S-class magical girls.
"Prepare to set up the teleportation beacon," the Gray Crane squad leader calmly ordered.
The leader of the Grey Crane Squad then took out a magic crystal and used its magic to set up a magic barrier outside the city.
The magic barrier is a magic usage technique taught by Senior Xia Die. Only now have some magical girls mastered it to a basic level. Although it is only a rudimentary magic barrier, its rapid promotion is not a problem.
In response to the 10th Witch incident, the magical girls used their magic barrier to contain the infectious disease. The magic barrier was powered by magic crystals provided by Shenzhou, which contained 100 HW units of magic power.
The two members of the Gray Crane Squad immediately jumped off the aircraft. Before landing, they used their magic to start a frenzied fire at the crossroads on the ground, burning all the nearby undead monsters to ashes without damaging the surrounding buildings.
When they descended from the sky, the streets were filled with countless charred corpses and a faint smoke.
However, the Gray Crane Squad's power armor completely blocked out the smoke and airborne infectious viruses.
After the Eagle fighter jet landed, a member of the Gray Crane squad quickly smashed a 1-meter-tall cylindrical transmission beacon onto the city street.
Immediately afterwards, one after another fully armed heavy armored vehicles and Alpha tanks were quickly teleported to the streets of the city via teleportation beacons. Then, combat squads consisting of one Alpha tank and three heavy armored vehicles drove to different districts of the city to begin their missions.
Clean up all infected individuals in the city.
The Gray Crane Squad wasn't idle either; they returned to the Eagle fighter jet and headed towards the area with a high concentration of infected, preparing to clear out more infected.
Upon reaching their destination, the entire Gray Crane squad landed directly from the Eagle fighter jet, where the familiar flames once again cleaned up the landing area.
However, in order not to destroy the city and to protect the possible survivors, the Gray Crane Squad did not use large-scale destructive methods, but instead directly teleported heavy cold weapon halberds.
Then they coated the halberds with a layer of magic, both to protect them and to sharpen them to kill the infected.
"Cleanup begins!" the Gray Crane Squad leader announced in a cool voice, then activated the power armor's flight pack and flew towards the charging infected.
The five magical girls instantly transformed into terrifying killing machines, using their agile and precise skills to directly decapitate the infected, killing them. Even though the infected could withstand attacks from small-caliber firearms, it was useless against the magical girls.
One after another, infected bodies, their heads severed, lay dead on the streets.
Even those infected animals that mutated to be more than ten meters or even tens of meters tall still couldn't last even ten seconds against the magical girl squad.
Faced with the mutated, enormous animal infected, the magical girls didn't even bother using magic. They simply pulled out the individual plasma cannons invented in China and fired a shot containing plasma at an ultra-high temperature of 1 million degrees Celsius. No matter how big or hard the animal infected was, it was completely annihilated.
The blood of these infected individuals seemed to retain the vitality they had before death, gushing out as soon as the bodies fell. With the help of the Gray Crane Squad, it quickly formed a river of blood on the street, which then slowly flowed into the city's underground pipes.
In an instant, the entire street was filled with the stench of blood.
However, the magical girls of the Gray Crane Squad did not feel anything. These infected creatures were the work of the 10th Witch and had to be completely and thoroughly eliminated!
This scene also occurred in other cities occupied by infected creatures. Various magical girls rushed to the infected areas at an extremely fast speed to clean up the infected creatures. Faced with the threat of the 10th Witch, the magical girls did not hesitate and controlled the spread of the infectious disease and infected creatures with the most resolute attitude.
Those infected beings are dead to the magical girls, and their magic can sense the evil magic emanating from them.
But what about witches?
The infection caused by this infectious disease, named 'Honkai', is highly contagious, but it cannot be transmitted through the air; it can only be transmitted through bodily fluids. In other words, the disease will only develop after the person is bitten.
Although the Honkai Infectious Disease itself is a highly contagious disease, the magical girls quickly used their magic to set up a barrier to contain it, preventing the disease from spreading to the outside world.
Two days after the outbreak of the Honkai epidemic, more than a dozen cities in Europe that were infected were shrouded in magical barriers and began disinfection work. Other countries were also on full alert, investigating patients infected by the Honkai epidemic while searching for signs of the 10th Witch.
However, the 10th witch didn't have a single hair.
The Ring Observation System at the Antarctic Lighthouse Base sent messages to various countries, finding no indication of the Tenth Witch's powers or high-intensity evil magic within the Earth.
St. Freya Space City, Conference Hall
The S-class magical girls held another meeting to discuss the strangeness of the incident.
“We haven’t found the Tenth Witch anywhere,” Selena said, raising her left hand, which was clad in a glove made of witch power gems. “I couldn’t find any trace of the Tenth Witch even with the power gloves.”
"She doesn't seem to be on Earth."
Lylis added at this point.
"Furthermore, the Honkai corpses and Honkai beasts formed from the Honkai Infectious Disease are all very weak, and the evil magic they contain is also pitifully weak. The 10th Witch's seems a bit weak?"
Those undead and animals infected by the Honkai contagion were given names: Honkai Corpses and Honkai Beasts.
But it's too weak.
The witch's familiars weren't that weak; they weren't something a B-rank magical girl could defeat so easily. The magical girl squads that were dispatched were only B-rank.
“No, never underestimate any witch!” Selena said seriously.
"The 10th Witch must be hiding somewhere! We must find her as soon as possible and then take her down!" Mika clenched her fists and said.
Icelandic underground base, Möbius Laboratory
The supervisor slowly walked out of the laboratory door, feeling somewhat frustrated. He had never expected that the magical girls would seal off and clean it up so quickly. It seemed that the No. 10 compound needed to create the fusion warriors would have to be carried out more covertly.
Inside the Mebius Laboratory, Mebius, imprisoned by the fusion warriors he created, coldly watched the door slowly close.
She was prepared for this, but she didn't expect that the supervisor would get more Compound 10 and secretly keep a few fusion warriors who should have had their genes destroyed.
As an ordinary human, Mebius was powerless to resist the fusion warriors she had created.
Mebius glanced at the fusion warrior beside him, who looked dazed and like a fool, with some messy instruments on his head.
She could tell at a glance what was wrong with these fusion warriors. Parts of their brains had been removed, and they were under the control of certain drugs and Compound 10. They had completely lost their self-awareness and become puppets. They could only be controlled and manipulated through some instruments. Apart from being able to control them simply and exert some fixed magical manipulation methods, they were practically useless.
Mebius felt that even a glance at it was an eyesore.
She gritted her teeth, thinking that she herself was a genius in the field of biology, but now she was being controlled by a bunch of trashy creations, and she was the one who created them!
"Inferior, garbage technology!"
Chapter 476 Searching for the Witch's Trail
Lyris: "The research results are in. The Honkai corpses and Honkai beasts infected by the Honkai Infectious Disease are essentially the result of infection with trace amounts of evil magic."
Not long after, Lailis posted her findings on the Honkai contagion on the magical girls' internal network.
Lyris: "For humans who haven't lost consciousness and become Honkai zombies, we can use pure magic to expel the evil magic from their bodies, and they should recover in a few days."
Lyris: "As for those Honkai corpses that have lost their self-awareness, let's get rid of them completely. They're no longer human."
Lylis: "However, I discovered something interesting."
She posted other findings and photos on the internal network.
Wei Hua: "Huh? Senior Lailis, did you send this to the wrong person?"
Wei Hua looked at the photos on the data panel with a somewhat subtle expression. From their appearance, many of the corrupted corpses did indeed fit the image of zombies that Wei Hua had seen in science fiction movies and TV shows: their eyes were dull and they had lost their minds, only craving flesh and blood.
However, another part of the corrupted corpses doesn't look like corpses at all.
These women, transformed into corrupted corpses, looked as if they had been beautified, resembling their appearance in life, but with more refined features and fairer skin. Apart from their still-dazed gazes and tendency to attack the living, they were essentially indistinguishable from living people.
Lyris: "I didn't post the wrong thing. These are the new Honkai corpses that mutated after the evil magic gradually gathered. They really are like that."
Lailis released another research video on a new female Honkai corpse.
Lyris: "I wonder if the 10th witch has some kind of twisted sense of humor, because she's made these new corpses look quite beautiful."
The magical girls on the internal network didn't find it particularly attractive; they thought it was even more beautiful than themselves. Moreover, knowing that these Honkai corpses were actually humans made them even more disgusted.
Selena: "We still haven't found the 10th Witch within the Earth-Moon area. Heaven knows where she went. We'll probably have to expand our search area."
Lucifer: "So, we'll conduct a thorough search of every planet in the solar system?"
Selena: "We're going to check out the sun where the Seventh Witch was hiding! We'll dig three feet into the ground in the solar system to find her!"
Gabriel: "What if the 10th Witch escapes the solar system?"
Selena: "It's not impossible."
Gabriel: "I don't think so."
Doris: "Then I'll go and search around the outer reaches of the solar system."
Vera: "I'm going too."
Selena: "Okay, you all must be careful. Report anything unusual immediately, and we'll be there right away. By the way, leave a teleportation beacon on each planet in the solar system along your route. We should also expand the Ring of Power."
Wei Hua: "Is this Director Muirsey's plan? I've seen some of her left-behind plans, which include content on expanding the Law of Circles."
Selena: "Yes, it's Director Muirse's plan to expand the detection range of the Law of Rings to the entire solar system."
Tita: "I'll be in charge of testing the expanded The Law of Cycles. I'll let everyone know if I find anything."
Mika: "Tita? You've already mastered your powers?"
Tita: "Yes, otherwise we wouldn't have rashly implemented the expansion plan."
Selena: "Everyone must keep a close eye on things during this period. We absolutely cannot let the 10th Witch cause any more casualties!"