Transform into a magical girl after getting off work

The night was deep and the people were still, the moonlight was faint and the stars scarce. The lights in the city began to dim, and the night fell like thick ink over the entire land.

Beyond the city, there was no sign of human life, silent as death, and only a few small animals traversed the vast wilderness and jungles.

This was the Wilderness, a place civilization could not cover, a "blank zone" located between human cities.

Blank it was not because it did not exist, but because it was off-limits, deliberately left unexplored. No one knew how long they could survive after entering the Wilderness because almost no one ever returned alive.

Over time, "Wilderness" had even become a word specifically used to scare children. Many parents would frighten their disobedient children with a threat, "Keep causing trouble and I'll throw you into the Wilderness," which was remarkably effective. Generations grew up with such admonitions, accustomed to the notion that "the Wilderness is very dangerous," and never thinking of venturing out.

Of course, human curiosity is boundless. As the society's information network gradually developed, more and more people became keen to explore the mysteries of the Wilderness. Among them were even some internet celebrities who wanted to challenge themselves by going there, but these people often ended up missing in the Wilderness, adding a touch of mystery and horror to this ancient legend.

To block out the dangers within the Wilderness, people built towering protective barriers outside the cities and established landship passages for travel between them. The only lifeline between cities was these passages, which, like the blood vessels of civilization, connected all the cities of the world, and the materials and information as well.

These protective barriers seemed to possess some magical power; as long as they stood, the cities were generally safe. People could live and work in peace as if all that lay within the Wilderness had nothing to do with them.

Thus, no one noticed that within the Wilderness outside the city, a wisp of smoke arose against the night.

A desert, a solitary smoke, a waning moon, lingering embers.

A slender figure was curled up by the campfire, clutching her knees, staring directly at the Fangting beneath the protective net.
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The crackling sound of the burning was the only noise at the moment, the dancing flames implying that time still flowed. However, the figure remained motionless, silent, like a lifeless statue.

It was a person in black clothes.

To say they were black clothes might not be accurate, because what the person was wearing was not a Black Ash Dawn-like continuous robe, but an old, tattered black Daoist robe.

The hem of this black Daoist robe was ragged as if it had been torn open, uneven and rugged, and the fit on the upper body was also not quite right, merely cinched at the waist with a belt.

Within the black robe was a woman, still a girl by age, about twenty-eight.

The girl sat silently in the wasteland of the night, her breathing seeming to follow a different rhythm, with the misty white air lingering around the campfire with her breaths, creating a small otherworldly space within three feet of her.

Her slightly raised eyes were tinged with the light of the fire, illuminating the scene within her pupils: a pair of mysterious heterochromatic eyes, gray-black and silver-white, slowly rotating like a pair of Yin-Yang fish.

On the back of her hand was a cinnabar-colored pattern, outlining an eagle with a long tail and long wings. Though there were only a few strokes, they were lifelike as if at any moment the bird could rise into the sky.

She watched Fangting, then after a long silence, closed her eyes. The Yin-Yang fish in her eyes stopped rotating, the respiration with a mysterious power also stopped, and when she lifted her eyelids again, they were just a pair of ink-colored pupils.

"The magic power of the beasts is almost invisible now," she murmured, "It seems I'm still too late, the remnants of the Angel Envoy have no way to survive."

——"It's not a must to save those guys after all."

After she spoke, another voice rose from the darkness beside her: "It's just a simple deal between the leader and the Angel Envoy, better if completed, but no matter if not. Those things are their business, not ours. "

As the voice fell, a slender Black Cat slowly walked out of the darkness and sat next to the girl by the campfire, propping itself up slightly as if stretching.

"Don't get it wrong, our only goal is to retrieve the 'moth's' lost Source of Beasts as soon as possible."

It turned its head and looked at the girl with its vertical pupils: "As long as we get the Source of Beasts, everything else can take a back seat."

"Including the matter that the boss specifically instructed?"

The girl did not avert her gaze: "He said, if possible, to bring along two more people."

"Which two?" inquired the Black Cat, somewhat surprised.

"A girl named Bai Jingxuan, and... Cornflower."

The girl paused before she uttered the latter name: "Didn't the deputy leader tell you? She should have been there at the time."

"...Such matters can only be done to the best of one's ability."

The Black Cat replied: "Although Cornflower has been severely injured for many years, she clearly still possesses some strength. Sparrow was captured in Fangting; the Moth died there; and the magical gear appearing in those internet videos is almost certainly her handiwork."

"Ah, Sparrow... being sent to the inquiry institute like that, it's probably more bad luck than good. I didn't expect that our last meeting would be the last."

The girl's face showed a hint of melancholy: "Well, it doesn't matter, defeated by superior skill, that end is fairly straightforward."