I'm a magical girl in the future

Chapter 101 The Chance of the Future

Inside a rather secluded office in a branch of the Civil Defense Bureau, Yuheng sat quietly at his desk, intently watching the screen.

The screen displayed information about "Magical Girl Empty Box." Some of this information was collected by her subordinates, while some was retrieved from the Civil Defense Bureau's database.

[The owner behind several beverage and food suppliers and upscale bars in Yuehua City. However, Kongxia himself rarely appears in public; all registered owners are agents.]

Through multiple layers of intermediaries and front men, they effectively control several gray industry chains within the city, with business scope including but not limited to intelligence trading and commodity smuggling...

Recently, all underground businesses related to her have suddenly and completely contracted. The reason is unknown.

The legitimate related industries are operating normally, with no abnormalities.

……

Reading these messages gave Yuheng a deeper understanding of the empty box.

The subordinates sent to investigate in secret, guided by the order to "absolutely not expose themselves," could only scratch the surface of the Empty Box Business Empire. Further investigation had to be temporarily abandoned to avoid alerting the enemy.

The empty box gave her the feeling that it was more like a capitalist with no bottom line who accidentally became a magical girl.

Although Noah could no longer provide her with any direct help, Yuheng still gleaned some clues from their previous conversation.

First, there's the motivation behind the empty box.

According to Noah, the ultimate goal of the empty box was simply to make money, which is why it triggered a "disaster" that caused great damage to Moonblossom City.

However, this issue itself presents a significant contradiction. If it causes a massive disaster for the entire city, how will they "raise money"?

Moreover, this disaster even resulted in the deaths of three and injuries to three members of a six-member magical girl squad, including three "Eternal Radiance" level members... This level of disaster is probably second only to the "Unexpected Natural Disaster" ten years ago.

This level of destruction...it must have basically destroyed all the means of production in the entire city, right? Even capitalists are still businessmen at heart. How can they do business after causing such destruction?

The only thing Yuheng could think of was that Kongxia would create a disaster, take advantage of the resulting scarcity of resources, and then dump the resources in his possession at high prices.

Does Kongxia have food suppliers in her business? She'll take the opportunity to inflate prices and then sell to disaster victims.

Just as he considered this possibility, Yuheng immediately shook his head.

No. If a disaster of that magnitude were to occur, the Civil Defense Agency's emergency relief system would be activated immediately, and supplies from all over the world would pour in. In such a situation, any individual's speculative behavior would be insignificant, at most allowing them to make a small profit in the early stages of the disaster.

Moreover, Kongxia's business empire is rooted in Yuehua City. Destroying its own foundation just to resell some supplies... this is clearly a losing proposition.

So, what exactly was her purpose in causing the disaster?

Or rather... how did she single-handedly cause a disaster of that scale?

Yuheng rubbed his forehead, feeling a growing headache the more he thought about it. Perhaps he should try a different approach.

The reason Noah only revealed limited information to herself was because the future outcome could be observed by the empty box.

Any "plan" targeting the empty box will have its probability of "success" or "failure" constantly changing as it is conceived, discussed, and implemented. Once the "success rate" of a certain action is high enough to reach a certain degree of "inevitability," then the event of "the empty box being hunted down" will be seen by her mind.

Therefore, this inescapable net cannot exist in the form of a "plan".

Yuheng closed his eyes, and Noah's always smiling face appeared in his mind.

I can only tell you the core principles. All you need to do is use your power.

Her intention was probably to ignore any motives.

If all you can think about is "targeting the empty box," then you're falling into a cognitive trap.

What we need to do is, at the very last moment, while keeping the 'hunt for the empty box' uncertain, instantly transform the future of the 'empty box's defeat' from a probabilistic event into an 'absolute certainty'.

Yes, don't "plan" the hunt. Instead, create a "situation," a "chance" that makes the "hunt for the empty box" an inevitable "accident."

But where does this element of "chance" come from?

Yuheng closed his eyes and began to analyze the current situation.

"Future Vision" launched—

That's right, now we need to figure out how to use the cards we already have to create a "reasonable" situation.

Compared to Yuheng, her greatest advantage is that she can actively control the future. Yuheng, on the other hand, can only passively accept everything.

However, Yuheng had already conceived half of a novel, but still had no results.

Randomness alone is insufficient. No matter how you arrange the cards in your hand, you cannot escape "human design" and therefore cannot escape the fate of being observed.

Just as Yuheng was getting impatient with no progress, a "beep beep beep" sound suddenly came from the computer.

Yuheng stopped, somewhat annoyed. Her computer was logged into the Civil Defense Bureau's internal communication software; she had muted all other communications, but the audio from the Bureau's high-level meetings was still on. After all, while she didn't want to be disturbed while thinking, she couldn't afford to miss important information.

The phone rang at that moment, indicating that someone from the seven-member council of the Civil Defense Bureau was looking for her, and she had to respond.

Yuheng opened the chat window; it was Tianxuan.

[There's a messenger claiming to be a future assassin in Moonflower City. Why don't you station yourself there? She wants to meet you.]

...And then there are those troubles from the future again.

Yuheng frowned. She felt a strong aversion to those people who were always clamoring for violence in the future. If she could, she would much rather spend time with ordinary people like Noah.

Therefore, Yuheng was not very keen to meet this envoy.

Why should we see her? Shouldn't we remain neutral and not take sides?

【That's what I thought too. But she said she just wanted to meet with the higher-ups of the "Council of Seven" and wouldn't make any demands. I think if it's just a meeting, then there's really no problem.】

Tianxuan... I have no desire to deal with those people.

As Yuheng was pondering how to refuse, a sudden inspiration struck him—

Chance... and here it is!

Regarding the aspects of being "uncontrollable" and "unpredictable"... those future assassins are probably the most random factor!

Thinking of this, Yuheng smiled slightly and typed a reply—

Let her come; I'm at the Yuehua City Civil Defense Bureau.