The villainous magical girl's daily mission is to find fault.

Chapter 553 The Villainous Rooftop and the Righteous Ones

In the dead of night, Chengdu was completely silent.

Only a few night markets remained open, but with the Hero Association's temporary nighttime security patrols, night owls seemed to sense something ominous and hurriedly went home.

In the night sky, three faint trails of flying magic streaked across the sky and came to rest beside the rooftop of an office building, which was decorated in a vast and complex manner.

From a distance, the rooftop of this office building looked no different from any other rooftop, but as soon as they got close, two witches appeared from the void and blocked their way.

"Whoa, witches? Two at once?"

Qiu Baiyang exclaimed in astonishment, instinctively reaching for his wand, but Chi Xue stopped him with a raised hand.

"You two, don't move. Especially you, Lilac."

Chi Xue immediately spoke up to give instructions, and then glanced at the purple magical girl beside her who was already preparing an attack spell.

The purple-clad girl's face remained expressionless. Upon hearing Chi Xue's words, she obediently withdrew the magic she had been preparing to unleash, but her wary gaze towards the witch remained unchanged.

"It was Xinyuehu who sent us here."

Recalling what Xin Yuehu had said in the Divine Stone Communication, Chi Xue spoke to the two witches.

The witches suddenly froze, and after a brief pause, they all stepped aside to make way for the three of them, allowing them to safely pass through the outermost defensive barrier of the rooftop.

After passing through the area that obscured the view, what came into view was the rooftop illegal structure that Xin Yuehu had drastically modified—a live-streaming room, a meeting room, a lounge, and two unidentified fox-themed houses. It was the kind of illegal structure that would make the Construction Bureau explode with a shrill sound.

After gracefully landing on the spacious balcony, the three veteran magical girls looked around in amazement at the building that Xin Yuehu had meticulously decorated and adorned. They then pushed open the door to the reception room and entered the bright and spacious hall.

"Squeak—"

A slight clicking sound from the bearing filled the room, drawing the attention of the two men.

"...You're here, why bring two friends?"

The golden-haired fox girl, who was sitting at her desk writing something, looked up and saw Chi Xue and her two companions, who were visiting the villain's rooftop for the first time. She wagged her tail and waved to them in greeting.

Iris almost immediately stood up from the sofa. The elegant, white-clad magical girl looked at the unfamiliar yet familiar trio before her and politely greeted them:

"Good evening, Senior Chixue, Senior Qiubaiyang, and this gentleman over here..."

"lilac."

The expressionless purple magical girl introduced herself and nodded to the iris. However, her expressionless greeting confused the iris, who thought her greeting was impolite and became flustered.

"Don't mind her, that's just how Zidingxiang is. She's never shown any expression, looking like a wooden doll, but she's actually very happy inside." Qiu Baiyang quickly stepped forward to explain. Zidingxiang seemed to realize that she was facing a junior from the new generation. After hesitating for a moment, she finally managed to squeeze out a polite smile.

"cough."

A soft cough broke the historic meeting between two generations of magical girls in Rongcheng. The four of them looked at the golden-haired fox who walked from the desk to the coffee table and sofa.

"Lilac, right?" The golden-haired fox girl looked at the purple magical girl, lifted the hem of her dress, and gave a slight bow in greeting.

"Nice to meet you, please take care of me."

"...Please guide me." Lilac didn't say much, just nodded to Heart Moon Fox.

The brief greetings had barely ended when Chi Xue eagerly began to speak:

"What exactly happened? What was that you were talking about? What just happened? The iris and that little bird..."

"Let me explain it to you, senior."

Iris took over the conversation, walked up to everyone, and recounted in detail what had happened in her dream before she went to sleep.

From the dense fog enveloping her in the dream, to the unusual appearance of the Fox Gate and a series of bizarre phenomena that violated the TRPG dice rules, to the emergency rescue when Xin Yuehu appeared in the form of the Fox Grand Mage and the sudden gravity suppression, she recounted everything in detail to Chi Xue and the other two.

At first, Qiu Baiyang listened with great interest, but when she heard about the frighteningly thin black shadows and their tidal wave of reckless charges, the retired veteran magical girl immediately showed a troubled expression and quietly shrank behind Zidingxiang.

"Don't worry about her, she's always been at odds with these scary things." Lilac remained calm as always.

"I'm sorry, senior, but those shadowy figures really are like that." Iris apologized with a wry smile.

After he finished speaking, the reception room fell into a brief silence.

Chi Xue pondered, rubbing her chin. She took out the Divine Stone, opened the memo, and quickly typed a few words. Then she had Iris repeat some details, recording them thoughtfully one by one.

Qiu Baiyang was terrified by this ghost story-like nightmare, especially after seeing the thin, dark silhouette sketch drawn by the familiars at Iris Flower's request. As a support-type character, she became even more frightened.

Lilac remained expressionless, but the thoughtful look in this seemingly emotionless girl's eyes did not lie.

Su Tianqing calmly observed everything before her.

After Chi Xue finally finished asking about the last few details, she reviewed and checked the Divine Stone Memorandum, frowned, and let out a long sigh.

"call……"

"So, is there a conclusion yet?" Su Tianqing quickly asked.

Chi Xue slowly shook her head.

"no."

"As Iris said, she entered that dream covered by thick fog while 'sleeping,' while Dandelion told me about what happened last time. She was suddenly enveloped by thick fog while dreaming during her afternoon nap, and then entered an unfamiliar rural town, where she witnessed Garuda's molten gold eyes from the air."

"The commonalities are sleep, fog, and lucid dreams. The only difference is that the dandelion is dragged into a dream where she is alone, while the iris has a second one—the little bird we need to protect."

"...Apart from that, the types and danger levels of the illusions are completely different from the 'foundation' on which they are formed. Even the 'rules' that you, Heart Moon Fox, gave to the world of mental images have been altered into completely unfamiliar situations."

Su Tianqing deeply understood Chi Xue's last analysis.

I have never recalled ever playing the super-damaged scene of the Fox Gate in the mental world. Even the TRPG has been distorted into ARPG, changing from turn-based dice combat to a completely unrelated action-based Musou game, and even has monster-slaying elements like Dark X Destroyer.

What does this have to do with anything?! — This was my first reaction after entering the Gate of Fox Virtue when I realized the iris was in danger and rushed to its rescue.

"During the day, I asked Inari to look up the books I borrowed from the Astral Library in an attempt to find out Garuda's true situation, but Inari said that Garuda may have already descended into the world during the attack a month ago," Akashi continued.

"If her analysis is correct... I believe that with Inari's level of expertise, there shouldn't be any major errors. We must assume that Garuda has already descended to the mortal world, hiding in some extremely secret place watching us... watching everything that happens in Rongcheng."

"Chichi, Chixue, don't say such scary things!"

Qiu Baiyang turned pale with fright and grabbed a cushion on the sofa to hug her. Her petite figure after transforming made her look even smaller.

"This is indeed the most reasonable guess at the moment, but we don't even know where Garuda is, let alone how to fight it."

Heart Moon Fox shook her head and said helplessly, her ears and tail drooping down.

I was truly powerless. Even when I was urgently rescuing the iris just now, I had to use the legendary item [Dream Sensor] that had been refreshed in the Secret Codex shop. It was specifically used to check if anyone had been dragged into the dream by Garuda, and then to issue an alarm and remind me to rush to the rescue.

I didn't expect to use it less than two hours after buying it. I can only say that this Divine Stone was well worth the money.

The atmosphere in the reception room became somewhat awkward.

Heart Moon Fox and Crimson Snow, the two users of the Mind Image, had no further clues. Iris Flower was also completely baffled by Garuda's existence, and Autumn White Poplar and Lilac, the two senior users, were even more clueless.

He had only heard that Chi Xue had made a comeback and was planning to have a barbecue with his old teammates to have some fun, and also ask Zi Dingxiang about her comeback. How did he end up being dragged into Xin Yuehu's villainous territory to discuss some serious topics that could cause the destruction of the world?

"...I say, it's getting late, why don't we all go back and rest?" Lilac suggested.

"At this point, we can only wait until tomorrow to talk about it. There's nothing we can do by just staring at each other like this."

Chi Xue sighed, helplessly stood up, patted the hem of her formal dress, and said to the people in front of her,

"I'll go back and organize today's intelligence first. Tomorrow morning, I'll ask the Hero Association to contact a few reliable experts to see if they can come up with any more reliable conclusions."

Su Tianqing immediately replied:

"Perhaps Inari will come up with some solutions after hearing this news; she's better than anyone else at that."

"Yes, I was going to forward it to her right away, but she should already be asleep by now... I heard she's quite grumpy when she wakes up, especially when she's woken up in the middle of the night." Chi Xue hesitated slightly.

Su Tianqing tilted her ear, looking confused.

Suspicious.

"Huh? Morning grumpiness? I've never heard of that before."

"That's because you haven't had much contact with her. If you call her a few more times in the middle of the night, you'll be able to feel her resentment," Chi Xue said calmly, uttering these shocking words.

Heart Moon Fox's pupils dilated in shock, Autumn Poplar and Lilac also stared wide-eyed without saying a word, and Iris Flower dared not utter a sound.

"...Why are you all looking at me like that?"

"Now I understand why Inari used to dislike you so much."

Lilac spoke those hurtful words with a blank expression.

"If you keep calling me in the middle of the night, I'll find a way to punch you a couple of times."