“Who’s there?” Wang Meili whispered, her pink energy quietly gathering at her fingertips.
Lin Xiaoqiang perked up his ears, carefully trying to identify the source of the footsteps. He could hear rapid heartbeats and heavy breathing, but it didn’t sound like it belonged to just one person.
As the footsteps grew louder, a strange figure emerged into their view. It was a massive creature, covered in slimy scales that faintly glowed with pink light. Its eyes burned like two eerie green lanterns, staring at them viciously.
“What the heck is that?!” Otaku exclaimed, immediately aiming his camera at the strange beast.
Lin Xiaoqiang felt a surge of aggression and chaos from the creature’s mind — it was clearly heavily affected by the aberrant energy and had lost all reason.
“It’s a mutated creature caused by the aberrant energy!” Lin Xiaoqiang warned loudly. “Be careful! It’s extremely dangerous!”
The mutated beast let out a low, guttural roar and lunged at them with incredible speed.
Wang Meili immediately unleashed her gathered pink energy, forming a barrier that shielded the three of them. The creature slammed into the barrier with a heavy thud, causing it to shake violently.
“Such strength!” Wang Meili gritted her teeth, her face straining.
Otaku quickly pulled out his “supernatural weapons” — a spray can filled with unknown liquid and a device that emitted strange sound waves — ready to fight back.
Lin Xiaoqiang tried to communicate mentally with the beast, hoping to find a shred of reason left inside it, but its mind was filled only with blind rage and an insatiable craving for pink energy.
Seeing Wang Meili’s barrier starting to falter, Lin Xiaoqiang decisively dashed toward the faintly glowing device. His intuition told him this was the key to controlling the mutant creature and ending Barbie City’s strange phenomenon.
The mutated beast noticed Lin Xiaoqiang’s move and abandoned its attack on Wang Meili, lunging at Lin Xiaoqiang instead.
“Watch out!” Wang Meili shouted, rapidly unleashing pink energy in an attempt to block it.
Just as the beast was about to pounce on Lin Xiaoqiang, Otaku activated the sound wave device. A sharp, strange wave blasted toward the creature.
The beast was extremely sensitive to the sound waves, emitting a pained roar as its body suddenly stiffened.
Seizing the opportunity, Lin Xiaoqiang leapt onto the glowing device and, guided by memory, started pressing buttons. He recalled Otaku pressing a blue button in the underground lab and quickly found a similar one, pressing it without hesitation!
The device immediately emitted a strong blue light. The previously faint pink glow vanished in an instant. The unsettling whispers in the sewer ceased abruptly, and an odd energy ripple filled the air.
The beast let out a long, anguished howl. Its pink scales rapidly faded, and its massive body shrank down until it returned to a normal, slightly weak crocodile.
At that moment, Barbie City’s “animal language outbreak” also ended. The suddenly talking pets reverted to their original ways of communication.
The sewer’s depths fell silent again. The supernatural research trio had successfully stopped the lingering aberrant energy from spreading, putting an end to this strange “pink conspiracy.”
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