Post-Apocalyptic America: Synthetic 3D Female Protagonist

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She simply looked at Su Hui with an extremely complex expression.

In her eyes, there was surprise, scrutiny, inquiry, and even a hint of...admiration that she herself was unaware of.

This man always manages to do things that exceed her expectations.

After a long while, she slowly pushed up her cat-eye glasses, her bright red lips curving into a meaningful smile.

"I have traveled to many worlds with the troupe and have met all sorts of people with strange abilities."

Bayonetta's voice was filled with emotion.

"But I have never seen, nor heard of, anyone who could make these beings born of chaos and madness kneel down in such humility and submission."

The witch's gray eyes reflected Su Hui's calm and profound profile.

"You really are special, Su Hui."

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Su Hui merely raised an eyebrow in response to Bayonetta's complex and nuanced remarks.

He didn't care.

After all, only he himself knows that he is a man with a system.

This ability to fundamentally distort the soul and imprint absolute loyalty is beyond the common sense of this world.

As the dust settled on the battle, the tense atmosphere finally eased.

Bayonetta elegantly pushed up her cat-eye glasses, no longer dwelling on Su Hui's mysterious and unpredictable control methods.

She looked up, her gaze passing through the huge hole in the top of the building that had collapsed during the battle, and towards the dark sky shrouded in gloomy clouds.

There, an unimaginably huge, dark purple eye hangs silently, coldly overlooking the land.

Those were grotesque scars formed by dimensional fissures, belonging to another dimension.

"Merlin."

Bayonetta's tone returned to its usual calmness, tinged with a hint of seriousness.

"You must have seen that thing in the sky when you arrived."

Merlin, who was about to put away the Eternal Flower Staff, paused upon hearing this.

She followed Bayonetta's gaze and saw that in those blood-red pupils was reflected the eerie purple giant eye in the sky. An unprecedented solemnity appeared on her pretty face.

"Yes, got it."

"As soon as I entered the singularity's range, I sensed that extremely unstable dimensional energy fluctuation."

Merlin's voice was no longer languid; it became serious and clear.

"This singularity has begun to erode the spatial rules of the main world from the root."

“If it’s not dealt with quickly, this place will become a permanent ‘scar,’ and the power of the dimensional demon will continuously seep in.”

With Merlin's confirmation, Ariana and Daniela's injuries had temporarily stabilized, so Su Hui didn't delay any longer.

"Let's go and take a look inside."

He spoke to Ariana, who was kneeling on the ground.

"Yes, my master."

Ariana responded humbly, then rose respectfully. Surrounded by her three daughters, who had also regained their submissive demeanor, she took the initiative to lead the way, guiding everyone deeper into the building.

After passing through a corridor ravaged by battle, the group finally arrived at the core of the twisted building.

This is the very place Ariana had tried to escape from.

Unlike the enormous, all-encompassing rift in the sky, this one was only a little over a person's height, quietly suspended in mid-air.

It is like a shattered glass mirror, with countless indescribable colors twisting and tumbling within it, forming a dizzying dynamic vortex.

Terrifying dimensional energy was continuously emanating from it, eroding everything around it and condensing large patches of eerie purple crystal clusters on the ground and walls.

Merlin stood beside the rift, looked up again, and through the collapsed hole in the dome, he could see the even larger, dark purple dimensional rift in the sky more clearly. His expression became increasingly solemn.

Bayonetta walked up to her, her gray eyes filled with worry.

"Can it be repaired?"

"Although Ariana has been dealt with, as long as that thing in the sky is still there, this singularity will remain a problem."

"Beyonda said in a deep voice."

"If it is not completely resolved, this place will remain a hidden danger."

Upon hearing this, Su Hui looked at Bayonetta with curiosity.

"You also know about the approaching date of the dimensional collision."

The witch clearly understood Su Hui's doubts and took the initiative to explain: "Just like this thing, it acts like a signal tower, constantly attracting the attention of the dimensional demons, which will accelerate the arrival of the dimensional collision."

Merlin did not answer Bayonetta's question immediately.

She slowly raised the Eternal Flower Staff in her hand and closed her blood-red eyes.

hum-

With a soft hum of magic, brilliant starlight surged from her petite body, transforming into countless runes indistinguishable to the naked eye, soaring into the dark sky.

She was using her magic to investigate the structure and extent of the massive rift.

Time passed by minute by minute.

Merlin's forehead was covered in a fine layer of fragrant sweat, and her originally rosy face had turned pale.

After a long while, she slowly opened her eyes and let out a long breath.

"How about it?"

Bayonetta immediately pressed for more information.

"...It's very troublesome."

Merlin's voice carried a hint of weariness.

"But... it's barely possible."

Her blood-red pupils stared at the crack in the sky, her tone tinged with uncertainty.

"I need some time to set up a large sealing array to temporarily stabilize and isolate it."

"This process will probably take several days."

"In other words, I may have to stay here until the problem is solved."

Upon hearing the result, both Bayonetta and Su Hui nodded.

This is already the best-case scenario.

With the most important problem resolved, everyone's attention returned to the spatial rift in the center of the hall that emitted a purple glow.

Bayonetta noticed that Su Hui's gaze had been fixed on the crack since the beginning, his eyes deep, as if he were pondering something.

A slight smile played on her lips as she gracefully walked to Su Hui's side, her long, shapely legs encased in black stockings.

"how?"

The witch's voice carried a hint of teasing laughter.

"Is this the first time I've ever seen something like this?"

Su Hui did not answer, but instead turned his head to look at her calmly, waiting for her explanation.

Being gazed upon by those eyes that seemed to see through everything, Bayonetta's heart skipped a beat for no reason.

She coughed lightly to cover her momentary lapse in composure, adjusted her glasses, and resumed her mature and elegant witch-like demeanor.

Bayonetta extended her slender fingers, clad in white lace gloves, and pointed towards the purple vortex. With a slight parting of her red lips, she began to explain to Su Hui.

"We call this a 'spatial rift'."

"The interior of the rift is filled with 'dimensional turbulence' of destructive energy, but hidden within this turbulence are some special 'spatial nodes'."

“Every stable spatial node is connected to an unknown parallel world.”

Upon hearing this, Su Hui's eyes flickered slightly.

Bayonetta took in his reaction, and the curve of her red lips became even more meaningful.

"The reason this thing exists is because of the dimensional collision that occurred in your main world. This collision caused damage to the spatial barrier between the 'main world' and certain 'parallel worlds'."

“Some ‘fragments’ of the world will fall in through these cracks.”

"Therefore, on the other side of these rifts, you can often find some rather strange existences from other worlds, which may be objects, living things, energy, or anything else."

Hearing this, Su Hui understood.

This explanation perfectly matches his experience in the special space he had previously entered.

Su Hui's heart skipped a beat.

"In that case, let's go in and take a look."

Without the slightest hesitation, he made the suggestion directly.

However, Bayonetta shook her head and rejected Su Hui's suggestion.

"We... I'm afraid we can't do it."

"Let me explain."

Merlin took the initiative to speak and patiently explained.

At this moment, she regained her dignified and elegant demigod demeanor.

"The dimensional turbulence within the spatial rift is extremely deadly for us... well, for otherworldly visitors who have arrived in this world in a manner akin to 'smuggling'."

"The essence of our souls differs from the rules of this world. Once we enter that pure, disordered dimensional energy, we are easily rejected and torn apart."

She paused, her blood-red pupils fixed intently on Su Hui.

"Therefore, only native humans like Su Hui, who are recognized by this world, can safely pass through that dimensional turbulence."

Is that so?

Su Hui did not doubt Merlin's explanation, after all, he had risked entering once before.

However, after hearing Merlin's explanation, Su Hui couldn't help but feel fear upon thinking about it now.

I was really too arrogant before. If the dimensional turbulence hadn't been unable to harm him, given how much Merlin and Bayonetta feared him, entering without understanding his abilities would have been suicide!

However, this problem no longer exists.

"In that case, you all wait here, I'll go in and take a look by myself."

Su Hui nodded and decided to go in and take a look without hesitation.

"Good luck, hero."

"Don't forget, the princess you rescued is still waiting for you outside!"

Bayonetta winked at him, her fiery red lips curving into a captivating smile.

Su Hui said no more and stepped towards the slowly rotating purple vortex.

Ariana and her three sisters immediately made way for him respectfully, bowing their heads and not daring to obstruct him in the slightest.

Under the complex gazes of the crowd, Su Hui stepped into the vortex that resembled shattered glass without the slightest hesitation.

His figure, like a pebble thrown into water, only stirred up a silent ripple before being completely swallowed up and disappeared by that distorted, churning, eerie color.

Silence fell over the hall once again.

It wasn't until they confirmed that Su Hui's presence had completely disappeared at the other end of the rift that they were able to reach him.

Bayonetta's smile slowly faded. She turned around, a strange light flickering in her gray eyes, and looked at Merlin beside her.

It was a knowing look in their eyes.

Merlin immediately understood.

She stepped forward, extending her elegantly designed Eternal Flower Cane, the radiant bud at its tip gently touching the ever-rotating glass surface of the crack.

A highly subtle magical message, shimmering with silver starlight, traveled along the tip of the staff and silently merged into the turbulent dimensional currents, disappearing instantly.