Chapter 1196 - D504: That Summer Has Already Reached Its Limit

The scene in front of me darkened suddenly and then brightened again, with the illusion realm switching once more.

The shadows that were pervading from all directions disappeared in the blink of an eye, and what appeared before me again was the scenery of the underground parking lot of the apartment.

As the extraordinary power retreated, the sensor lights in the parking lot lit up one by one, casting a dry and silent air in the empty concrete space, where even underground, one could feel the lingering heat of summer above.

The Mute Girl (middle school version), who had been standing atop the car with arms akimbo, surveying the surroundings, suddenly staggered, her knees buckling, almost toppling headfirst from the car roof.

She barely steadied herself, jumped down from the roof with a sullen face.

Seeing this, the Shield Woman quickly pushed open the car door and came out to support her, her tone tense, "What was that just now? Is it resolved? Are you hurt?"

"Alright, alright, I'm fine, stop worrying needlessly."

The Mute Girl waved her hand, steadied her feet, and then asked, "First tell me, what exactly do our parents do overseas?"

Hearing this, the Shield Woman was taken aback.

"Why suddenly ask this?"

"Come on, don't think too much, just tell me, it's not like it's a math problem." The Mute Girl urged rapidly, then casually made up a reason, "Maybe the anomaly just now is related to them."

Though her words were purely made up, the Shield Woman took them seriously and answered earnestly.

"Father and mother run a security company overseas. Although I haven't learned the details, it's quite large in scale. The name should be—"

The Shield Woman first said the company's name fluently in a foreign language, then switched back to this language, articulating its translated name.

"—Huanglan Group."

The Mute Girl immediately took out her phone.

"Izumi, Izumi, what does the Huanglan Group do? Immediately upload all their information to me."

A sweet synthesized voice from the phone assistant rang in the empty parking lot:

"Sure, little sis is asking for all information on the Huanglan Group. To acquire comprehensive details, I will conduct multiple searches simultaneously..."

After a brief pause, the search results began appearing one by one.

'After searching, the Huanglan Group is one of the world's top fifty enterprises, the absolute leader in the security industry, and one of the most dominant super enterprises globally.

'It's a family business founded ten years ago. Its operators were once well-known predators in the investment field. About ten years ago, they seemed to have received anonymous technological support, and with great foresight, predicted the current international chaos and ever-escalating conflicts between regions, swiftly withdrawing from finance completely and shifting all their funds into industry and military, rapidly transforming into the current overlord of the security industry.

'Huanglan Group's core business covers corporate security and private military services, possessing the largest and most potent private armed force globally. Its business achievements are famous worldwide. Meanwhile, the group also delves deeply into manufacturing and military industries. Their high-performance weapons and military vehicles are widely sought after by armed forces around the globe...'

The screen started rolling through a series of intimidating images—steel humanoid armored vehicles, neatly arrayed armed forces, and powerful standard firearms...

"...*."

Seeing this information, the Mute Girl remained silent for a few seconds before letting out a curse.

Not to mention that she can only temporarily regain her Magic Power through blessings now, even if she were in perfect condition, standing here with the pinnacle strength of the second transformation, she would have no chance of winning against this world's armored forces head-on.

No matter which world, a normal person's mind would never entertain the outrageous idea of "taking on the military head-on."

But the Mute Girl knew well that the real purpose behind that "father" establishing this company and this force was to capture his own daughter, to study the extraordinary power she exhibited.

In the real magicless world, such a thing could, of course, never happen.

Not to mention that extraordinary power doesn't exist. Even if it did, creating such an extraordinary armed company from nothing in just ten years would be pure fantasy.

However, this is an illusion realm, and that maniac playing her father would probably be a high-level legendary mage, if not at the palace level, on the kingdom side.

Such a level of mage, if truly broke the world barrier and traversed to the otherworld, with that wisdom and forbidden knowledge, achieving such a feat is not easy but definitely not impossible.

The Dungeon likely made this judgment and directly adjusted the "now" of the illusion based on the changes experienced in the "past" trial.

"...Heh, hehe."

The Mute Girl's gaze was firmly pinned on that glaring red panel that only she could see, releasing a low, sinister laugh.

It turns out that people indeed laugh when extremely angry.

That psychopath-playing-her-father in the illusion world is indeed hateful, but the real villain remains that uninvited panel that arbitrarily imposes "blessings."

Though burning with rage, she also understood that facing such a high-level entity, let alone as just a second transformation Healer, even if a real legendary strongman were to come, they might barely have a chance to counterattack.

But who was the Mute Girl? In merely a few seconds, she suppressed that surging fury and instead, her lips curled into a cold arc.

"Listening to you for just a few lines and you really started thinking you could open a dye factory? Alright then, I'll accompany you to the end."

As she uttered those harsh words, she turned around without hesitation, her long hair slicing through the air in a sharp arc, and she was about to spring into action.

But the panel clearly sensed her rebellious heart and began to flash rapidly, emitting bright red light, obviously about to issue a new directive.

Noticing this, a sense of urgency flashed across the Mute Girl's previously ferocious expression.

"What's wrong—?" Noticing the strange look on her sister's face, the Shield Woman asked more nervously.

The Mute Girl knew she had no time for extensive explanations, so she directly asked, "Where's the nearest elevator?"

Seeing the urgency on her sister's face, the Shield Woman promptly raised her hand to point in a direction.

With that, the Mute Girl sprinted off.

She needed to conduct a divine descent ceremony—to let a higher entity confront a higher entity.

To deal with such a reckless figure, there was no more direct method than this.

For this, she needed to reach the place closest to the Sun as quickly as possible.

But the panel clearly didn't plan to let her act. The red light screen floating at the edge of her view flickered ever faster, the blood red becoming brighter and even the edges began to ring with a dash of holy gold—

[The Perfect Star will provide you new guidance—]

In urgent anticipation, the Mute Girl watched the elevator screen slowly changing floor numbers, fiercely clicking her tongue, ready to kick open the tightly shut elevator doors, intending to ascend directly to the rooftop through the shaft.

However, just as the panel was about to display new text, several streaks of thin electric light inexplicably flashed across the screen, causing those words about to emerge to bizarrely freeze.

[Brother's—]

1~3. Crash in

4~6. Hack in

7~9. Break in

D10=6

♛: Hack in

[Depraved Hero's next action—(the higher, the more aggressive, 90+ apocalypse)]

D100=67

Noticing that the Perfect Star's interference was encountering some obstacle, the Mute Girl was overjoyed.

"Nice! Though I don't know who did what, you did well!"

Seizing this fleeting gap, she darted into the now open elevator, pressing the button for the top floor without hesitation.

The Shield Woman followed closely and squeezed in just as the elevator doors closed. With a slight buzz and a faint feeling of weightlessness, the elevator swiftly ascended to the top floor.

Several tens of seconds later, the elevator doors slid open once more—and before they were even halfway open, the Mute Girl edged through the gap.

She took three steps as two up the last flights of stairs and then kicked open the tightly shut fire escape door to the rooftop.

The season was summer, and the Sun hung high in the sky.

Though the luxurious apartment's elevator had perfectly timed cooling, naturally the rooftop couldn't have any cooling facilities.

As soon as the metal door was kicked open, it was like entering a furnace, a surge of heat wave hit, blowing through the girl's unruly long hair.

However, facing this heat that normal people avoided, the girl narrowed her eyes comfortably, walking into the sunlight, as if soaking in a hot spring, her steps slowing down.

Under the puzzled and nervous gaze of the Shield Woman behind her, she walked steadily to the center of the rooftop, then stood firm on the scorching concrete floor, slowly spreading her arms open—as if intending to embrace the whole sky along with that blazing sun.

[Mute Girl activated the skill: Sin Song]

Then, she lifted her head, staring directly at that blazing, white-hot sun, and sang out:

"Thus, Sun—fall for me."