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It turns out she was lucky, for even as she finished typing the message, Lin Xiaolu had not noticed the commotion behind her.

But she was also unlucky, because just as she was a few characters away from sending the message, a bicycle ran a red light at the intersection in front of the cab and zoomed past at breakneck speed.

Screech——

The driver was quick to react, using both hands and feet to slam on the brakes, managing to pull the handbrake just in time to stop inches before hitting the cyclist, narrowly avoiding a traffic accident.

Having completed the maneuver, the driver, still shaken, was overcome with a surge of nameless anger. He rolled down the window and shouted at the cyclist, "What kind of cycling is that, trying to get yourself killed?"

However, the cyclist who had nearly been hit seemed completely oblivious to his brush with death; he just veered off course slightly, glanced back at the driver, then pedaled away without looking back, not even uttering an apology.

Seeing the other party had no intention of stopping, even the driver was somewhat stunned, watching the cyclist's departing figure and muttering, "What kind of person is that?"

And if the driver was just stunned, the passengers in the car were completely brain-dead.

For in the moment of the sudden brake, a mobile phone flew out from the back seat and landed right at Lin Xiaolu's feet.

It was Bai Jingxuan's phone.

She didn't manage to secure it in time, nor to stabilize herself, and bumped forcefully into the back of the seat in front. The mobile phone, which was already being held in an awkward position, slipped from her grasp and led to the current situation.

The screen of the mobile phone was still in the message input interface, but because the keyboard occupied more than half of the screen, the content of the message wasn't completely visible.

Staring at the phone on the ground, the girls were at a loss for words.

Bai Jingxuan's mind buzzed emptily, not knowing what to do; Lin Xiaolu gazed blankly, likely still processing what had happened; Xia Liang's smile had frozen on her face, the casual conversation she had been engaged in getting stuck as well.

Despite the near miss of a car accident, their attention wasn't on the danger that had just occurred but was entirely focused on the mobile phone on the ground.

"Ah... Xiao Xuan, you really need to be more careful!"

Among the three, it was Xia Liang who first snapped back to reality and quickly changed her plan of action, reaching for the phone, "Don't play with your phone in the car, what if you hit something when we braked just now?"

She exhibited a concerned attitude for Bai Jingxuan's safety, trying to take the opportunity to retrieve the phone. But just as her hand was about to touch the phone, another hand pressed down on the back of hers. Find your next read on My Virtual Library Empire

Turning her head stiffly, her gaze met with Lin Xiaolu's.

"What is written on the phone?" Ling Xiaolu blinked her eyes, vaguely aware of something, and asked.

"Uh... um..."

In the back seat, Bai Jingxuan already had her hand outstretched, intending to take the phone from Xia Liang, but when she heard Lin Xiaolu's question, her outstretched hand involuntarily twitched, "It's... it's nothing."

"Nothing? Then why write such a long message?" Lin Xiaolu narrowed her eyes, her thoughts whirring at high speed, "Or rather, what is so urgent that it can't be discussed over a phone call?"

Bai Jingxuan felt sweat seeping out of the back of her hand.

"That is, that is..."

Already not good at lying, she struggled to find excuses, casting a pleading look at Xia Liang once more, but this time, her would-be helper was also in a precarious position.

Xia Liang could only clutch the phone tightly in her hand on the ground, preventing Lin Xiaolu from seeing the message. Having exhausted too many topics in the idle chat earlier, she even struggled to find an excuse to change the subject.

The atmosphere inside the car became tense for a moment. The driver, after sticking his head out to curse, glanced back at the scene inside the car, finding it inexplicable.

With a puzzled scratch of his chin, he pondered whether to ask what had happened, but before he could decide, he caught sight of something even stranger from the corner of his eye.

Turning his head toward the direction he had noticed, his mouth gaped open in shock.

At the same time, the girls, who had been in a standoff, also noticed the unexpected figure. They looked outside the car window and their eyes widened in disbelief.

——There was a Remnant Beast.

It was only at this moment that they realized what the cyclist who had run the red light was actually doing: it wasn't that he was looking for trouble, but rather a Remnant Beast was chasing him, and he was trying to escape.

Watching the Remnant Beast that had suddenly appeared at the intersection, Lin Xiaolu couldn't help but look across the road, hoping to see if Hong Siyu's car was still there, but all she saw was emptiness.

She realized that if she didn't catch up now, she might really lose track of Hong Siyu.

As much as her emotions urged her to ask the driver to continue the chase, her reason told her: as a Magical Girl, no matter the situation, dealing with Remnant Beasts was always the priority.

With scant time to choose, she looked at the open road ahead and eventually let out a sigh of lament.