Chapter 757 - 281: Mo He, Cornflower, and Emerald Sparrow_4

Lin Yun extended her hands.

"Hmm, let's make an exchange, or rather, a contract."

She earnestly, valuably, and solemnly accepted this card, then nodded heavily: "You bury the Cornflower for me, let it die. And I'll take away the child's validation card for you, let it live on in this way."

Mo He was stunned for a long time.

Then she slowly approached Lin Yun, extended her hands, and embraced Lin Yun.

The long black hair cascaded down Lin Yun's shoulders, intertwined with azure strands.

"Bless you, Captain, bless you, Nim."

She murmured in a pleading voice beside Lin Yun's ear:

"May your future be smooth, hope you all find the life you want, find the happiness you desire."

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That was a memory lost with its owner, coordinates forgotten.

In the flames of war, when the gate to the Garden was under siege, the Lun Nore Inner City District was also attacked by the Remnant Beasts.

From the beginning, not many people had been stationed in the Inner City District, it was even completely treated as a resting area, so the number of Magical Girls wasn't large either.

And when the city's owner—Emerald was defeated by the enemy, the defensive Barrier of the Inner City District failed, making the already precarious defense lines collapse completely in an instant.

The Inner City District turned into a sea of fire.

Screams, wails, Luennolay's last pure land turned into hell.

And in that hell, several novice Magical Girls squeezed into the queue of civilians, traversing through the city.

They were evacuating out of the city.

It's not that they were deserters, it's just that they were too young, neither combat experience nor magic power was of any use on such a battlefield. So their commander simply threw them into the crowd of civilians, treating them as civilians, and escorting them out of the city together.

However, in the queue, there was a Magical Girl who was always restless, looking around.

Nim Kregios.

This Magical Girl, who was personally transferred into the inner defense team by Cornflower, and now thrown into the civilian queue by the defense team commander, couldn't help but feel uneasy.

The queue of civilians around was noisy, pushing and shoving, clearly, everyone was very frantic, very frightened, eager to evacuate from here.

But perhaps because of this commotion, the queue quickly attracted a group of Remnant Beasts.

"Follow the orders, continue escorting the civilian queue!"

The elder responsible for maintaining the queue said so, letting Nim and others leave with the civilians, while she stayed behind.

Then, the elder never returned.

"Sob... you all, must escape."

When another wave of Remnant Beasts attacked, the slightly older Magical Girl in the group said so and then went out to serve as bait.

The number of people in the queue kept dwindling, civilians constantly falling behind, and Magical Girls continually sacrificing, but the safe passage out of the Inner City District was still far away.

The buildings in the city were almost destroyed by the Remnant Beasts, the roads increasingly difficult to traverse, and the places to hide becoming fewer and fewer, the queue more frequently engaged in battles with the Remnant Beasts, but this was a battlefield, not all Remnant Beasts this queue could handle.

Doom ultimately descended upon this fleeing queue.

Because a Half-Molt blocked their way ahead.

A Half-Molt means nothing on the battlefield, at most a more advanced cannon fodder, but when it blocks this queue of civilians and novice Magical Girls, it's like a natural disaster, like a death sentence.

Even the bait tactic was meaningless because the Magical Girl serving as bait couldn't hold up for long in front of this Remnant Beast, once the bait was killed, the Remnant Beasts were likely to resume their pursuit of this queue.

It all seemed to have turned into a deadlock.

In the dangerous situation, Nim in the queue suddenly remembered something.

She recalled that about a month ago, during a certain lesson, when patrolling with the Captain, the Captain had pointed out the minefield outside the city to her.

That was part of Lunonoire's defenses, powerful enough to harm Remnant Beasts of the Molt Level, and as for a Half-Molt, if the explosions were concentrated enough, blasting it to death wasn't impossible.

But now, the Captain was no longer there, her sister wasn't there either.

Nim didn't even know if they were still alive now because the battlefield they faced was surely ten or even a hundred times more dangerous, and the enemies more vicious.

They were all fighting to the death on the front lines, trying to protect everyone, if the rear fell like this, leading to civilian casualties, their sacrifices would all be in vain.

Nim didn't want this.

She didn't want to waste her predecessors' hard work who had gone to the front lines and sacrificed for everyone.

So, even if the plan she thought of was a bit risky, she decided to step up in this seemingly unsolvable situation.

"Hey, wait, Nim?"

"What are you doing, are you an idiot?"

The other novice Magical Girls tried to dissuade her, in the days spent together they had already established some friendship, and when Nim obviously took a stance to act as bait, or "send herself to death," they inevitably found it unacceptable.

"I have a plan!"

But Nim just shouted that, adjusting the magical power fluctuation she could release to the maximum, confirming that the Remnant Beast's attention was attracted to her, she rushed out.

"Come back to me!"

The calls from her friends were left behind.

In fact, Nim was indeed the best candidate to act as "bait."