radicalducati Chapter 126 Are dump trucks considered weapons?
Chapter 126 Are dump trucks considered weapons?
Chapter 126 Are dump trucks considered weapons?
The aroma of food wafted from the bank's rooftop office, a stark contrast to the post-apocalyptic atmosphere.
More precisely, it's the unique aroma of cured pork, a blend of salty and smoky flavors.
The sizzling sound of oil being roasted at high temperatures can instantly awaken a person's appetite.
"It smells so good! Yao Yao is amazing!"
Peach hugged her knees, curled up on the sofa, and exclaimed in sincere admiration.
"Yeah, it's Xia Zhaozhao's leftovers. I think if it stays any longer, it really won't be edible."
Peach made a "hmm" sound to indicate that she understood.
Although her sense of smell was captivated by the aroma, her gaze remained fixed on her notebook, her pen scribbling something on the paper.
This smell is a rather luxurious background sound in the apocalypse. However, it also seems to bring some trouble.
It's Xia Zhaozhao's trouble, not hers, so Taozi doesn't care. Besides, Xia Zhaozhao seems to have said she doesn't mind; she must have said that.
"This smell—it'll probably linger in the room for days," Peach muttered to herself.
"A fresh air system isn't a range hood after all," Shi Yao said calmly without turning around. "However, the smell will eventually dissipate."
No sooner had he finished speaking than a tiny change occurred.
The scent in the room was gently guided out the window.
Peach subconsciously turned her gaze to the corner of the room.
The girl who had been sitting quietly by the window may have overheard their conversation, or she may simply have felt that the smell in the room was a bit too strong.
So, she naturally activated her abilities.
Ah, this is what magical girls are like.
Peach silently sighed in her heart, a feeling of envy and awe welling up within her.
She quickly lowered her head and wrote down what she saw and thought in her notebook.
["Wolf": Telekinesis.]
[Applications in daily life: It can be used for indoor air purification and directional ventilation.]
After thinking for a moment, Peach added a heavy note at the end.
[Convenience Level: S]
This is the highest rating she has given to any magical girl's ability, in the strange dimension of "convenience in daily life," as far as she knows it.
"What are you writing?"
Shi Yao's voice pulled Tao Zi out of her focused note-taking. She had turned around at some point and was looking at Tao Zi and her notebook with some curiosity.
"Oh! This is it!" Peach closed the notebook, her face beaming with excitement.
"Yaoyao, don't you think they're amazing? I want to—I want to try interviewing them!"
"An interview?" Shi Yao looked puzzled, but didn't object. "Whatever makes you happy."
"I don't really care, but please don't ask any rude questions—and also, what made you suddenly decide to do all this?"
"Hmm————" Peach tilted her head, seemingly searching earnestly for a plausible reason.
To leave a final testament to this collapsing era? To record the last glimmer of human civilization in the afterglow of the apocalypse? Bah, bah, bah, how unlucky and shameful.
These grand narratives lingered in her mind for less than a second before she quickly dismissed them all.
"It's just that I want to write down everything about them~"
She reopened the notebook and started writing and drawing, eventually sketching a chibi-style wolf portrait.
"Forget about the interview transcript, come and help me serve the food!"
Shi Yao's voice came through.
Upon hearing this, Peach immediately sprang up from the sofa like a spring, ran over, and took the plate of cured meat.
On the sofa, the forgotten notebook was still open.
Besides various scribbled portraits and strange arrows, the pages also listed several major headings.
For example, there were various questions about the basic settings that were full of plot holes, questions about character relationships that seemed designed to create chaos, and all sorts of trap-like questions. It's clear she has a very strong sense of curiosity.
Peach carefully placed the plates of food on the coffee table. These plates were what they had scavenged from the supermarket a few days ago. At the time, the survivors adhered to the principle of taking every last drop, almost tearing the shelves apart as well.
Several simple dishes were casually placed on the table. The wolf merely glanced at them quietly, showing no intention of joining in.
She walked back to the window and turned her gaze to the unchanging crimson rain outside.
It's just flying to the hospital and then flying back—it shouldn't take long, right?
She was lost in thought, her gaze searching the sky.
After an unknown amount of time, just as her little bit of expectation was about to fade away, three points of light appeared at the edge of her vision.
A light instantly lit up her grey eyes. She turned and announced to the other two people in the room in a louder voice than usual, "They're back!"
Upon hearing the news, Shi Yao simply hummed in response and placed the last dish on the table.
Upon hearing this, Peach instantly rushed back to the sofa, grabbed her precious notebook, and her face beamed with the excitement of a reporter about to make a big fuss.
"Wow, it smells so good!"
As soon as Xia Zhaozhao crawled in through the window, she sniffed the air and let out a very happy exclamation.
Her gaze was fixed precisely on Shi Yao, her eyes filled with emotion.
"Yay! I feel like I haven't had a proper meal in ten thousand years!"
This isn't an exaggeration. Just a short while ago, this table was piled high with all sorts of instant noodle packaging boxes.
Little Green also brought Sasha upstairs, who was enthusiastically playing with the lizard.
After everyone took their seats, a banquet that seemed out of step with the times was finally complete.
"Dinner's ready!" Peach announced with a smile.
Xia Zhaozhao, of course, didn't care much about etiquette. She was the first to pick up her chopsticks and began to wolf down her food.
The atmosphere at the dinner table instantly became warm and harmonious because of the food. Peach waited for a while, cleared her throat, and opened her laptop.
Then, in an extremely solemn tone, she announced to everyone present: "All eyes are on me, look at me, look at me!"
"Now, I hereby announce that the first official interview for the Post-Apocalyptic Magical Girl is now beginning!"
"Huh? An interview?"
With her mouth full of cured meat, Xia Zhaozhao asked indistinctly, her face full of confusion.
"Yes!" Peach nodded confidently.
"I was inexplicably saved by you, and inexplicably ended up living here."
"Of course, I'm sincerely grateful for that—but up to now, besides knowing that you're terrible at games but addicted to them, I know absolutely nothing about your affairs!"
"Oh—I see." Xia Zhaozhao swallowed what was in her mouth, ignoring her provocation because she was in a good mood.
Peach glanced at her notebook, at the entry about Xia Zhaozhao.
[Xia Zhaozhao (Shrike): Melee Enhancement?]
[Weakness: Brains (but should be very resilient)]
[Convenience Level: E]
"Alright, let's begin the interview! First up, Xia Zhaozhao!"
Peach struck a pose like a professional reporter.
"Wait!" Xia Zhaozhao immediately raised her hand, solemnly declaring, "Let's get this straight, don't ask me any garbage questions like 'If Little Green and Little White fell into the water at the same time, who would you save first,' or the trolley problem! I refuse to answer!"
"Of course I won't ask such boring questions!" Peach patted her chest to assure her.
"So, could you tell me your age first?"
"18 years old!"
"18 years old? Then you must be a student?"
"He's a former college student, huh~"
"So what are your height and weight?"
"Height is 159 cm and weight is 41 kg."
"Do you exercise regularly? You look quite muscular after your transformation."
"Absolutely not—wait, what kind of rubbish are you asking? That's so low-level!"
Naive!
"Oh, oh! Sorry, sorry!" Peach immediately straightened up. "Then I'll ask you something serious!"
"Well then, next is a question about abilities! You seem to be the fastest flying girl among all magical girls?"
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"Yes!" Xia Zhaozhao's face instantly lit up with pride when this was mentioned.
"When it comes to speed, I'm a professional!"
"Hmm..." Peach nodded thoughtfully, her pen flying across the notebook.
"So, if it weren't for the apocalypse, your delivery work alone could probably put all the delivery drivers in Xinmao out of work."
"That's true—huh? Are you an idiot?"
"There are surveillance cameras everywhere now. If you get caught on camera, you're in big trouble," she pointed out.
"Oh no, no, no! This is easy to solve too!" She suddenly thought of something.
"I'll have Xiaobai fire a huge EMP bomb, and all the surveillance cameras will be blinded! If it weren't for the apocalypse, I could really wipe out those delivery guys!"
"But—" Peach weakly pointed out a fatal logical flaw: "If an EMP bomb is deployed, won't the customers' phones become unusable? How will they place orders?"
"Ah, right."
Peach looked at her sympathetically, silently crossed out what she had just written in her notebook, and made a new judgment.
[Convenience of Living Rating: E-]
She ruthlessly added a minus sign after the already pitiful "E".
"Wait!" Xia Zhaozhao's intuition kicked in at this moment, and she keenly sensed a hint of malice directed at her.
"I feel like you wrote something that's very detrimental to me!"
She pounced on the notebook like a hungry dog, completely ignoring Peach's resistance, and snatched it away.
"E—what the heck is that?!"
Xia Zhaozhao issued a protest filled with grief and indignation.
"My abilities are not what you see at all!"
Xia Zhaozhao is trying to clear her name.
"I can—I can—enhance everything I have that can be used as a weapon!"
As she spoke, she pointed to the wood-chopping knife, but after thinking about it, she felt that this example was not very intuitive.
So she rummaged through the pile of clutter next to her and found a bag of takeout cutlery, from which she took out a fluid spoon.
The next second, she instantly transformed, channeling her magic into the fluid spoon in her hand.
In an instant, the limp spoon suddenly stood upright, becoming straight and hard, with a strange light emanating from its surface.
To prove its strength, Xia Zhaozhao gripped the spoon handle and forcefully poked the table in front of her.
"Bang! Bang!"
The spoon struck the table with a dull thud.
"Wow! This solves the problem of the fluid spoon being useless!" Peach exclaimed sincerely.
"But—why can a spoon be used as a weapon?"
"Huh? Of course! Haven't you heard of that movie? 'The Spoon Killer'?"
"Huh?" Peach's face was full of confusion.
"Magical girls are quite idealistic!" Xia Zhaozhao, in a senior's tone, gave Momo a profound lesson in the basic theories of magical girls.
"Whether it's swords, spears, halberds, axes, hooks, forks, or even bricks, keyboards, and high heels!"
"As long as I genuinely believe this thing can be used to beat people up, I'll upgrade it for everything!"
"You can toss the data cable around however you like without worrying about it breaking! Also, the reinforced iron pot won't get blood on it—so it should be usable as a non-stick pan!"
"I see—" Peach was stunned, wondering whether she should change her rating.
Then, she raised her head and, with an extremely devout gaze, asked a rather important question: "So, can it enhance the [Otherworld Reincarnation Device]? You mean, one of those heavy dump trucks filled with steel coils?"
"ha?"
Xia Zhaozhao froze for three seconds, then clutched her head, her face showing a panic as if a blue screen was about to go blank.
She suddenly turned around, rushed to Xiao Lü's side, grabbed her arm, and shook it desperately.
"Little Green, Little Green! What should I do! I think—I really don't think luck is a weapon!"
"I seem to only see it as a means of transportation, and I don't think I can enhance it! My thinking is too limited! What should I do? What should I do? What should I do?"
"I don't know hypnosis, how can I help you change your cognition?" Xiao Lü said speechlessly.
That said, do hypnotic magical girls really exist? It seems more like they're enemies of magical girls, possessing strange abilities—
Peach looked at Xia Zhaozhao, then at the ratings in her notebook, and a thoughtful expression appeared on her face.
She gently pinched her chin, as if conducting a rigorous and impartial assessment.
After a moment, she nodded solemnly, as if she had made up her mind.
She picked up her pen and, under Xia Zhaozhao's expectant yet nervous gaze, crossed out the glaring "E-".
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Then, he wrote a brand new letter next to it, one that radiated progress.
"D".
"————" Xia Zhaozhao froze.
"Why is it just a 'D'?!"
She angrily questioned, "Reinforced spoons, reinforced non-stick pans! Aren't these amazing? Aren't these convenient?"
"Yes, that's really impressive." Peach gave her a serious affirmation.
"But look—"
She pointed to the wolf beside her: "This is S-rank, no doubt about it."
She then pointed to the little green thing: "It can make ice cubes anytime, it can be used as an air conditioner, it can chill drinks, and it can even be molded into temporary materials. It's an A-grade item."
Then, she turned her gaze back to Xia Zhaozhao, her face filled with sympathy.
"And your abilities—are insignificant in comparison."
Seeing Xia Zhaozhao's frustrated expression, Xiao Lü couldn't help but speak up.
"I'm saying—convenience in daily life, that's not even an important rating, is it? Why are you making such a fuss about something like that?"
"Oh, right."
Next, Peach quickly shifted her focus to the wolf.
The wolf nodded and began his self-introduction in an extremely formal tone: "My anchor is justice, and my ability is symmetrical telekinesis."
She paused for a moment, then added in the same serious tone, "But when you're really, really angry, your abilities can become terrifying."
"?" Xiao Lü was a little surprised. Would she tell outsiders about her abilities in this berserk form so clearly?
The wolf seemed to sense Little Green's confusion, tilted its head, and gave a matter-of-fact look.
"My sister said to be honest."
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