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

Chapter 570 I Say Mental Imagery Must Have Rules

In the world of mental imagery where card games are the primary form of combat, each person's deck faithfully reflects their personal style.

Take Hellcat for example—her deck has many high-attack, powerful monster cards that can negate various effects activated by the opponent, achieving overwhelming dominance.

White Lily is a type of monster card that uses combos between monster cards to accumulate advantages through repeated back-and-forth maneuvering and control, ultimately leading to victory.

This perfectly matches the fighting style of the two as magical girls. The cat's powerful close combat and the white lily's complex and ever-changing magic are reflected in the deck.

As for Cheshire Rabbit and Red Snow...

The former is an OTK deck that accumulates a certain victory condition in the hand by repeatedly drawing cards. If it cannot OTK, it can still turn into a five-card back row trap.

The latter has a very versatile playstyle. It can either use the effects of monsters and back row spells to nullify and suppress the opponent, or use effects to directly reduce the opponent's life points and look for an opportunity to finish them off.

"Everyone's decks are very unique. This way, when facing a tough opponent, the most suitable person can go up and fight it, which may solve most of the problems."

The fox's tail swayed back and forth, and the fox girl nodded and said.

Imagine this: if Garuda sends out some weak monsters, let the versatile Chi Xue go up and clear them out. A combo can defeat the opponent in two or three rounds, with a very high margin for error.

If you encounter a tough elite monster with a difficult mechanic, send Lily forward and use her combo to control it. If you encounter a boss, send the cat to stack up waves and unleash a five-figure attack to kill the opponent with one punch.

If you encounter a big boss that even a cat can't beat, then bring out the Dark Trap combined with the hand card OTK Rabbit to make the boss wish he were dead.

"That's the effect I wanted. By the way, Xin Yuehu, where's your deck?" Bai Lili asked curiously as she put away the deck box.

"Your ability is to summon all sorts of strange witches; I really can't imagine what kind of deck you would have."

"Well... my deck is a bit special. I've looked at it for a long time and I still don't know what effect it will have." The swaying fox tail paused for a moment, then started swaying again, answering honestly.

Fortunately, no one really cared what their deck was. The only one who was curious, Cat, just peeked at it and immediately got a headache when he saw the effect on his card that looked like a short essay.

To be honest, even Su Tianqing herself didn't quite understand how to play her hand. The effect of each card was written in seven or eight dense lines, and the font was even one or two sizes smaller than everyone else's.

Moreover, at first glance, these are all effects with unclear meanings, such as "Draw two cards to activate, send this card to the graveyard and then draw two cards." As a card-playing novice, I really can't understand them.

"This effect is a bit too much, it's like a storyteller's rant," Hellcat muttered, rubbing his temples.

"Hehe~ Anyway, it'll probably be my turn to play, so why don't you just rush in and beat them up in a couple of rounds, Cat?" Su Tianqing laughed, and the fox girl immediately stuck to the cat girl, turning into a fox accessory.

After getting to know each other's card-playing styles, the group decided to split into three groups to conduct an investigation in the city.

Xin Yuehu naturally teamed up with Hellcat, Cheshire Rabbit teamed up with Chi Xue, and Bai Lili went alone to form her own team.

Before the team could leave the temporary base, Bai Lili quietly followed the cat and fox duo who were about to start their vehicle and leave.

"Um...so, what I mean is..." The petite, fair-skinned girl stood beside the car, scratching her cheek slightly awkwardly, and said, "Um...would you...mind if we formed a three-person team...?"

"What's wrong? Are you scared to walk alone?" Hellcat in the driver's seat mercilessly exposed his weakness.

"You!...I...I'm not scared, I'm worried you won't be able to drive this car properly without a license!" Bai Lili shouted, trying to argue.

A brief silence.

The cat's heterochromatic eyes stared at her, and its fox ears peeked out from the back seat, both eyes scanning her intently.

"...Okay, okay, I admit it. I am a little scared to walk alone, but it's just that I'm afraid I won't be able to warn you guys in time if Garuda attacks. That's really all!"

"Really?"

"Hey, you harpy cat!"

Bai Lili gritted her teeth in anger, but under the cat girl's all-seeing gaze, she had no choice but to slink away and switch seats with Hellcat, start the engine, and drive away from the base.

……

"It's so nice to have a driver," Nan Jiayu said to Bai Lili in the driver's seat, as she sat in the back seat, grooming the fox's tail with a brush.

"Hachiko, don't push your luck! I might really drag you down with me!"

Despite her vehement complaints, Bai Lili's driving skills remained steady and composed, seemingly unaffected by Nan Jiayu's behavior.

Su Tianqing chuckled and teased the cat with her tail, while speaking to Bai Lili, whose face was grim in the driver's seat:

"Speaking of which, Miss Lily Bai."

"uh-huh?"

"Actually, there's something I've always wanted to know. Miss Bai Lili, do you mind if I ask you this here?" the fox girl asked tentatively.

Bai Lili raised an eyebrow and glanced at the golden-haired fox girl in the rearview mirror. Her face, which had been gloomy at the cat girl's teasing, immediately relaxed.

Look at Xinyuehu, this little fox is really something else. She speaks so gently and politely. Although she can be quite intimidating in her little devil form, her reliability and emotional value as a teammate are off the charts.

Unlike some harpy cats.

"Go ahead and ask, what kind of privacy issue is it?"

"When you were in Shanghai, you and Maomao often fought. Were you very close?"

"...!?"

How can you make two people start trembling at the same time with just one sentence? This is it.

Hellcat, who was happily sucking on the fox, immediately stiffened and bristled upon hearing these words that sounded like a scene from a shrine maiden's shrine. It trembled with fear and didn't even dare to turn its head to meet the fox girl's eyes.

Bai Lili almost stepped on the gas pedal, but quickly steadied herself, cold sweat streaming down her face.

The two began brainstorming almost simultaneously—

Bai Lili: What was Xin Yuehu's purpose in saying that? Was she just chatting or was she trying to interrogate me? This is essentially still her mental world. If my answer doesn't satisfy her, will she just seal me into a card and turn me into some strange card sprite? Or is Haji Cat talking bad about me behind my back? Hey, I'm warning you, Haji Cat, don't spread rumors about this amazing, sparkling magical girl just because you went to Rongcheng!

Hellcat: Is Tianqing finally meeting Bai Lili and preparing to fully understand the past? Fortunately, she had honestly explained everything to Fox last time, but Bai Lili might fabricate some false information that has nothing to do with her because of her relationship with her... That hateful Bai Lili must have secretly contacted Fox to spread rumors about her, otherwise why would Fox suddenly think of bringing this up?

Both of them said at the same time: You wretched Lily (Hachiko)! You'd better confess!

Actually, Su Tianqing was just chatting idly, but when she saw how nervous the two of them looked, a sense of pleasure suddenly welled up inside her. She immediately transformed into a mischievous fox and began to try to put a little bit of pressure on them.

Fortunately, the playful fox girl didn't continue to pressure the old rivals. In addition, since Xiaoyu had already sincerely admitted her mistake and apologized, she quickly shifted the topic to the investigation of Garuda.

"Where should we begin?"

"Let's drive around the city slowly for a while. We need to observe whether there are any other hidden elements here," Hellcat said.

Cat and Fox looked to the left and right of the street, while Bai Lili observed the road ahead as she drove forward, trying to find any possible clues.

"Generally speaking, easily identifiable 'abnormal structures' will appear in Garuda's dream visions, such as the broken mage tower at the Fox Gate and the black spire of Foxkov."

Su Tianqing explained the currently known information to the two of them.

At the Gate of Fox Virtue, because he was new to the place and did not expect Garuda's situation, coupled with the significant difference in combat power between the two sides, he was forced to flee with Iris Flower in advance and was unable to find more information.

After entering Foxkov, when he and Akashi, along with Hyacinth, rushed into the dark spire, they unexpectedly found important information about Garuda. Although the Hero Association is still organizing manpower to analyze this information, the photo corridor is definitely the intelligence most relevant to Garuda.

If similar structures exist in this mental world, perhaps we can find more information about Garuda there...?

"Did you see any particularly special buildings?" Su Tianqing asked.

"...All these tall buildings around us look pretty much the same, I don't see anything particularly special," the catgirl answered honestly.

Bai Lili, in the driver's seat, was also a little dizzy from looking at the screen. She focused on driving and took the opportunity while waiting at a red light to gently massage her Qingming acupoint to relieve the soreness in her eyes.

The near-futuristic buildings in the city look beautiful at first glance, but after looking at them for a while, the light pollution makes your eyes feel strained. It's an architectural design that I really have to complain about.

The same GG footage was repeatedly played on a colorful holographic screen. After watching it twice, you would feel like your mind went blank. The pedestrians on the street did not look like a clone army, but you always felt like you had seen these people in a movie.

As expected, this is essentially a chaotic history mountain created by two newcomers, full of reused materials and random creations, with almost every place exuding an atmosphere that makes people exclaim, "Why is this thing here?!"

Fortunately, she had a relatively high tolerance for newcomers and was quite receptive to them, so Bai Lili wasn't too disturbed.

As the girl drove past an intersection, her gaze swept across the road to her right, and something completely out of place in the cityscape suddenly appeared before her eyes:

A jet-black race car, with a shadowy figure sitting in the driver's seat—waiting at a red light.

Bai Lili finally uttered the words that Su Tianqing had anticipated everyone would say when entering these chaotic mental images:

"...What's this?"