Chapter 280

Chapter 280: Möbius Ring, the Nature of Disaster, and the Unwittingly Started Party

It is well known.

Milk is a very changeable word; it can be a noun or an adjective.

In the current context,

The words of the golden retriever seemed very subtle, so subtle that Little Sakura, who had just taken a sip of water, choked and coughed; Charlotte, who had been watching, could not help but take out her camera; Honey Qing, wanting to pull back her toes, took a deep breath, pressed hard against the pearl, and infused it with silky silver magic like milk.

At this moment, the three-minute countdown was just reaching its end.

Xie Qingxuan’s cold expression was stained with worldly desires, the mist in her eyes spread, and her rapid breathing could no longer be hidden. The part of her sitting on the chair instinctively moved forward, and after holding that position for a few seconds, her trembling legs suddenly went weak, making her waist twitch a little.

But the frightening part was that the golden retriever’s final determination made the countdown timer on the phone just exceed three minutes.

In other words, even if they reached the finish line, according to the rules, this game was still Xie Qingxuan’s victory!

Chu Yuanqing pressed her lips together in shame but was too nervous to fully think about it; she looked down at her toes, which seemed drenched as if they were soaked in water, clearly noticing the discrepancies of those few seconds and realizing her defeat, leaving her to quietly wait for the judgment of fate.

Little Sakura was extremely nervous.

Chu Wang Shu was confused.

Charlotte snapped several photos.

The green-eyed cat fainted because it stayed connected and perfectly synced.

In an instant, countless details surged like a hidden current.

However, from Xie Qing Yu’s perspective, she was just pulled by her sister, who had always had a bad relationship with her, and asked for the Wangzai milk that she had previously given but was refused.

But just this piece of information was so shocking to Little Yu, who was used to her sister’s cold glare and rough treatment, that even Violet next to her fell into the same state.

The girl’s mind went blank, and after a moment of confusion, she finally showed a surprised expression. She hurriedly put the plate back, took out the Wangzai milk from her pocket, and placed it on the table in front of her sister.

"Here you go."

After Xie Qing Yu said this, she looked at the golden retriever that had lost its thinking after the moment passed, feeling both nervous and secretly pleased. She naturally viewed her sister’s lowered head and complete avoidance as a kind of cute pride and hesitated in place, unsure of what to say.

And also…

Little Xuan grasped her wrist, sometimes tightening it and sometimes softening it, but now she simply let go. Why was that?

The little butterfly’s pure mind didn’t realize anything was wrong, and it fell into the same thought pattern as its owner. But as a high-emotion Lantern Elf, it knew the importance of knowing when to stop. It quickly patted Xie Qing Yu’s head, urging him not to stand there like a fool.

"Bye, Honey Xuan! See you later!"

As Violet spoke, she pulled Xie Qing Yu away from the dining table.

Chu Yuanqing watched the retreating figure and finally escaped from her anxious state, letting out a deep sigh of relief. She could see that Xie Qingxuan across from her also visibly relaxed.

This elegant beauty lowered her head in silence, her pink lips moved slightly, releasing a warm breath. She wrapped her arms around her slightly warm belly, enjoying the thrill of having had Honey Qing’s milk in front of her sister, and began to savor the flavor like a shining foodie.

Just as expected…

Just like the little facts online say, doing such things in public is quite thrilling.

Moreover, having her sister sitting beside her added a strange sense of guilt.

Thinking about it this way, it seems even more interesting than letting the other person call her "teacher’s wife" for humiliation. Instead, secretly messing around with Honey Qing behind the scenes while watching her sister’s clueless expression?

Xie Qingxuan’s mind was in a haze as the echoes faded, with all sorts of wonderful ideas bubbling up and disappearing. It felt as if she had truly opened a door to something amazing, and she could not help but imagine all kinds of games beyond that door, completely ignoring Honey Qing’s fierce gaze.

Well, even if the golden-haired dog really noticed, it might picture something exciting about being treated forcefully, leading to feelings of anticipation and thrill, which would be almost the same as receiving a reward.

After a long while,

The young girl finally snapped back to reality. She brushed aside the hair that had been covering her face and revealed her beautiful features brightened with the colors of spring. She looked at the dishes on the table, then raised her gaze to Pure White Witch, showing a happy smile and said,

"Little Qing’s cooking is very delicious."

Chu Wang Shu looked up at Xie Qingxuan, noticing her round belly rising and falling with her breath, a glimmer of envy in her eyes. She patted her still-flat stomach and happily agreed,

"Little Qing’s skills have always been great, but I saw Sister Xie hasn’t really touched her chopsticks, so I thought you were full."

After hearing this, Kirimi Miyuki felt like she could crush her chopsticks in frustration.

What good food? Honey Xuan, do you only eat rice?

Little Sakura felt deeply provoked. Although she knew the silly golden retriever didn’t mean any harm and had a silly imagination, it was very frustrating to swallow her own bitterness while the other seemed completely carefree afterward!

However, the pleading look from the Pure White Witch extinguished her desire to tell on her.

There was no choice; even though it seemed absurd, if she guessed correctly, Chu Yuanqing definitely wouldn’t want to look foolish in front of Little Shu.

After all…

Chu Yuanqing, Chu Yuanying, and Charlotte spoke of the hero who saved the world.

As long as she broke the fixed ideas in her mind, it seemed very obvious, didn’t it? Surely Liuli and Little Xuan had connected all the clues by now.

Kirimi Miyuki shook her head; she couldn’t sort out this messy relationship. For now, she set this aside in her heart and began to pinch Liuli’s cheek hard, trying to wake the silly cat.

Well, they had training later, so she couldn’t let Liuli sleep until dawn. Pinching her face until it got puffy wasn’t revenge; it was simply her duty as the leader.

Unfortunately, the green-eyed cat had developed some resistance from repeated "failures." This time, she only fainted for a few minutes and angrily climbed off Little Sakura’s lap just before her face got puffy.

Hmph, if it weren’t for considering Little Qing’s feelings, she could have revealed everything with that silly dog by her side. It would have been a complete tie, not a loss at all!

Tang Liuli was familiar with the art of mental victory and did not feel discouraged at all. In fact, she felt a little happy to have stolen Honey Xuan’s "winning prize."

Of course, about the matter of "collapsing happily on Little Sakura’s lap," she felt quite embarrassed. Later at dinner, she avoided the other’s gaze and buried her head, trying very hard to look innocent.

Charlotte watched each little idol’s different reactions with great interest. Finally, she stopped at her daughter’s clear-eyed expression and suddenly felt an urge to pick her up and lift her high.

However, this "dangerous" action quickly stopped when Chu Wang Shu herself resisted.

Chu Yuanqing silently finished her meal, suddenly feeling a bit tired. She not only didn’t win over Honey Xuan today, but also made Liuli and Miyuki jealous. Plus, with the party-loving Charlotte, the following week is sure to be very chaotic.

But the good news is that this dinner passed without any serious trouble.

Chu Wang Shu didn’t sense the hidden tensions. From her perspective, she was simply fortunate to enjoy a meal made with her mom’s flavor and to taste Sister Charlotte’s cooking. Soon after, everyone left the castle together to head to the dance room for today’s training.

Hmm, although after watching the terrifying battle scenes among the witches today, singing and dancing felt like such a light thing.

But when she thought about how even the powerful Sister Little Yu and Mother Qing still had to work hard in this area, her heart burned with even more determination.

The lovely daughter believed that her hard work would pay off; even a little progress was still progress, and she wanted to become a powerful magical girl like Chu Yuanqing.

So, while most of her teammates were distracted by their silly ideas, the hardworking Chu Wang Shu became a breath of fresh air in the group, truly embodying the spirit of a discipline committee member.

Meanwhile, after dinner, a certain captain-level witch wandering around Salzburg was still lost in the illusion of her sister showing signs of kindness and was looking forward to tomorrow’s gentle training as the Pure White Witch.

Time passed, and the moonlight shone down.

At seven-thirty in the evening, in the master bedroom on the third floor of the castle.

Red and black magic filled the air, creating a magical spell from the concept side.

Chu Yuanqing’s delicate and charming face showed signs of tension; she seemed like a wife avoiding her husband and other men to visit a hotel until she opened the Ten Directions Prison Realm and sighed in relief, quietly taking out the necklace hidden beneath the Lantern Gem from a soft gap.

—The Möbius strip.

This necklace, a little like a representative item, is a rare treasure kept in the Countermeasures Bureau. It is said to be one of the rewards from exploring the Ideal State. She notified Dream Weaver Rabbit to put it in the potted plant in the castle hall after Little Yu entered the castle.

To avoid being discovered by Charlotte, Chu Yuanqing, like a secret agent, finished her meeting with Xie Qingyu and hid the Mobius ring necklace in a place deeper than the Lantern Gem.

After dinner and training, this is one of the few rare moments when she can be alone, to check her items and forge them.

Pure White Witch looked down at the Mobius ring. She infused it with beautiful silver magic, and the pattern, which symbolizes infinity, began to visibly spin. The silver metal casing melted and instantly turned into countless particles of light, merging into the branches and leaves of the Flower of the Soul.

Chu Yuanqing caught a glimpse of the mark in the flowing light. She blinked and instinctively sensed a bit of familiarity, whispering softly:

"This way of energy change is similar to familiar writing…"

"Could the Ideal State be one of the Slit Worlds we once visited?"

Pure White Witch felt that Charlotte might know some insider information. She held back her urge to ask her and peeked into the surface of the spiritual sea, touching the quietly blooming twilight flowers, as if gaining some kind of privilege.

Chu Yuanqing stood up and reached out to touch the space. As ripples spread, a portal, seemingly made of silver to symbolize infinity, appeared before her. She walked straight in, as if she had entered a starry sky, surrounded by dozens of stars.

The girl realized that what Esther gave her was not just a strange object from another world.

To be precise, it was a key to the secret vault of the Countermeasures Bureau, along with some storage capabilities.

The Disaster Debris materials she listed corresponded to the stars floating around her; she could use the key to enter the corresponding shelter and take what she needed.

Chu Yuanqing understood this roundabout way of doing things.

The Disaster Debris that directly caused Su Wan’s death was Grade B – the gift of Beelzebub, and the Disaster Debris she needed this time was mostly of similar danger level, even including a rare Grade A Disaster Debris.

This extremely dangerous Disaster Debris was highly active, and once it thawed and revived, it would eagerly consume flesh and blood, being reborn as a brand new disaster beast.

At that time, if a team led by a captain-level witch was not immediately sent to eliminate it, it could easily lead to the destruction of the city, or even worse consequences.

Therefore, this risk-free way of transport was naturally the best solution.

Esther agreed to Xie Qing Yu’s holiday for this reason, even though the Pure White Witch had created a shocking record during that battle that led the higher-ups to judge that she had captain-level power.

But she couldn’t bloom, and without being able to use the Blooming Flowers, what if the tragedy of Su Wan happens again?

It’s easy to imagine how much effort this super AI put in to meet the Lighthouse’s requirements.

Chu Yuanqing lit up a star with her hand and traveled to the outside of the prison made of liquid metal. She paused in front of the grand building, looking at the golden stream cage where something was wrapped in an icy transparent substance, sparkling with bright red beautiful droplets.

"Tears of the Rose Dragon."

The Pure White Witch revealed its true name, showing a hint of nostalgia; the real Rose Dragon is gentle, looks dreamy and beautiful, loves the young of any creature, and enjoys spreading blessings everywhere.

The roses willingly given by this kind of dragon are said to heal diseases, improve fortune, keep one young forever… and have many other miraculous effects.

Once, in a certain Slit World, she and Charlotte rescued a young Rose Dragon and journeyed together for quite some time, facing various wars and getting caught in the empire’s schemes, while encountering an old Sage and a lonely Demon King.

But after the world reached its end, this adventure vanished, leaving only an ancient reverse scale, seemingly like a rose, from distant times.

However, the Rose Dragon still exists, or perhaps its life form was consumed and recorded by the giant Disaster formed by the Calamity God, becoming one of the templates for the monsters randomly derived from disaster aura.

Chu Yuanqing realized early on that both the newly born Calamity God, deeply rooted in the core of the stars, and the strange and chaotic disaster beasts, which seemed random and never-ending, are essentially a vast and invisible library of information.

The so-called Disaster might be an endless disease that can evolve and reproduce without limit.

In the world like the first playthrough, humanity did not perish immediately, perhaps because they were waiting for new things that were worth recording, worth devouring, and worth learning.

In fact, looking back from now, after the blessings were born, the density and strength of the disaster beast population would adjust by itself, like catalyzing the evolution and growth of civilization, to quickly seize the final fruit.

"But this is also something that can be used."

Chu Yuanqing murmured to herself; her success in the first playthrough was not just because of the gift of immortality, nor the Levatin given by the shrine maiden, nor any other blessings, but the knowledge and nourishment provided through the Slit World that helped her grow.

From a certain perspective, she walked in the footsteps of disasters, accumulating the power to defeat them.

And in the present,

"This is indeed the Tears of the Rose Dragon."

Chu Yuanqing couldn’t help but marvel at the way disaster aura created beasts, a process that rivaled the power of bringing life into being, randomly drawing templates from the "gene pool" that were true forms twisted by the disaster aura.

In other words, as long as she purified the disaster aura and the remnants of the souls within, she could obtain genuine Tears of the Rose Dragon.

It felt as if it reached back to the ancient past, grasping traces of lost civilizations, which could truly be called a miracle.

Chu Yuanqing looked at the tear sealed in the flowing gold and sighed softly.

"Next, there will be a lot to do."

"I hope these Disaster Debris can be transformed into the materials I need, and I also pray that my memories about that part are correct."

As her words faded,

A grand surge of red and black magic overwhelmed this fluid prison…

…

…

Three hours later, in the main bedroom after the Ten Directions Prison Realm was lifted.

Chu Yuanqing tiredly collapsed onto the bed, her golden eyes unfocused. She placed her palm on her forehead and blankly stared at the flickering ceiling, the magic power she had gathered in her lantern almost completely used up.

If it weren’t for the constant flow of willing energy transforming into magical power, her current weakness might even feel like suffocating from lack of oxygen.

"I need to quickly level up my magic to the River Realm. It took so long to complete the baptism; the efficiency is too slow."

The Pure White Witch pressed her forehead for a while; her speed of advancing magic was like a roller coaster compared to others. But with the growing popularity, the total amount of willing energy that kept coming in was nearly enough to exchange for magic units of the Sea Realm.

It is easy to imagine what this conversion rate is like.

One can only say that because her soul keeps shattering, the transformation of magical power takes so long that it is as abstract as continually hitting the pause button while watching a movie.

Chu Yuanqing thought for a moment, rolled to the edge of the bed, grabbed her phone, and glanced at the date. Today is Sunday, a blank day theoretically free from the need to replenish magic. However, whether for the baptism of Disaster Debris or for training Xie Qing Yu, using only 5% of the lantern’s power is not enough.

So…

Fixing magic is necessary.

But I can’t ask Charlotte first; if she finds out her magic is running out so fast, she will definitely guess many things.

So, I can only ask Little Xuan, Miyuki, and Liuli.

The current problem is whether to find one, two, or all of them.

This was the first time Chu Yuanqing thought about this kind of silver thinking; her serious face turned a little red with embarrassment, but she quickly overcame her feelings with a sense of duty. She sat up and said earnestly:

"For Charlotte’s gift, let’s all work together today to fix the lantern back to 9%."