Chapter 48: The judgment ends, and the white shadow comes to the world!

Li Qiang’s terrified screams still echoed in the desolate wilderness.
Meanwhile, in the livestream, billions of viewers were frozen, their minds stuck on the surreal sight of Zhang Biao being “pressed” into the ground by that white light.
This supernatural spectacle shattered everyone’s worldview.

In the police command center, the gray-haired Chief watched a living person executed before his eyes, unable to comprehend the method used.
No longer able to maintain his facade of calm, he slammed the keyboard, roaring as he typed a furious bullet comment.

[[Official Certification] Gan City Police Chief: Stop! You’re a murderer now! This stain will follow you forever—you’ll never escape it!]

The golden comment, sharp with unprecedented anger, streaked across the screen.
Lin Qingya glanced at it, her face, obscured by data noise, showing no emotion.
The synthesized voice responded faintly.

“So what?”
“Come and catch me if you can.”

The simple words were a resounding, invisible slap, striking the faces of every official in the room.
After a brief silence, the livestream’s bullet comments erupted again.

[Hahahahaha! I’m dying! Exactly! Catch them if you can!]
[Right! Go catch the boss if you’re so great! Can’t catch them, so what’s all this noise?]
[Police: Can’t catch them. Not even close.]
[That face-slap—ow! I can feel it through the screen!]

Behind the screen, the Chief nearly choked, his vision darkening with rage.
Catch them?
If they could, would they be in this mess?
Would they be humiliated like scolded children in front of the entire city by a shadowy figure whose gender they couldn’t even discern?
He pinched the bridge of his nose, barely steadying himself.
No more brute force—he needed another approach!
Taking a deep breath, he typed, aiming to dismantle the vigilante’s actions from a moral high ground.

[[Official Certification] Gan City Police Chief: Have you considered the consequences? I told you, young one, think of the bigger picture! If you do this, how many will imitate you?]
[[Official Certification] Gan City Police Chief: If everyone takes justice into their own hands and tramples the rules like you, what’s the point of the law? You’ll plunge society into chaos!]

These words carried weight, pointing to a deeper, broader societal issue.
The bullet comments slowed, and many fervent viewers calmed, pondering the implications.
If everyone acted like this, what would the world become?
It was a valid concern.

Just as public opinion began to shift subtly, the white silhouette, which had been facing sideways, slowly turned to face the phone’s camera head-on.
For the first time, Lin Qingya looked directly into the lens, as if locking eyes with every viewer through the screen.
The cold synthesized voice, tinged with mockery, rang out clearly.

“Disrupt order?”
“Chief, isn’t it a bit presumptuous to make that assumption?”
She paused, her voice rising sharply, each word piercing with conviction.

“I don’t know if my actions today will benefit society’s order.”
“But I do know!”
“If I stand by and watch today, no one will raise a flag for me tomorrow!”
“No person with a conscience could sit idly by in the face of such heinous, infuriating crimes!”

Earth-shattering!
Her words thundered, clearing the last traces of doubt and confusion from everyone’s hearts!
The crowd outside the station fell silent.
The command center was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
Countless people before their screens, standing or sitting, felt a surge of heat from their soles to their skulls!

If I stand by and watch today, no one will raise a flag for me tomorrow!
Perfectly said!
This was true righteousness!

Among the crowd, Wei Re’s body trembled, her eyes instantly red.
She finally understood—Qingya wasn’t just clearing her name.
She was defending something that could never be forgotten, in the most brutal way possible!

Lin Qingya turned away, ignoring the now-meaningless golden comments on the screen.
At this point, any persuasion was just useless noise.
She would use her own methods to slap the face of the hidden manipulator toying with the fates of all magical girls!
One punch to clear the way, sparing a hundred punches later!
Trying to frame her, Lin Qingya?
They’d better weigh whether they could afford the price!

Bang!
Her figure flashed, appearing before the paralyzed Li Qiang, her fist slamming into his face.
Bang!
Bang!
She pounded him, turning his face into a bloody mess, roaring with fury.

“Kids, huh?”
“Fine!”
“If the law won’t judge you, I will!”
“If the bigger picture spares you, I’ll kill you!”

As her words fell, her right fist glowed again with that void-like white light!
Li Qiang, battered beyond recognition, saw the growing white glow in his pupils, letting out an inhuman scream.
Lin Qingya’s fist struck.
Without suspense, like Zhang Biao, Li Qiang was consumed by the unstoppable void force, silently passing through the ground, plummeting into the ten-thousand-meter abyss below, into endless darkness.

The livestream erupted!
A tsunami of bullet comments nearly crashed everyone’s screens.

[If I stand by and watch today, no one will raise a flag for me tomorrow!]
[If I stand by and watch today, no one will raise a flag for me tomorrow!]
[Well killed! So well killed!!]
[I’ve never seen anything this satisfying! I witnessed Gan City’s night of legend!]

This was likely the most thrilling, cathartic, and exhilarating thing the audience had ever seen!
Behind the screen, the Chief’s vision darkened, collapsing back into his chair, exhausted.
He closed his eyes, pinching his nose bridge, unable to utter a word.

In the command center, all his colleagues fell silent.
They knew it was over.
In this game, they’d lost—utterly and completely.
The opponent had left them no room for negotiation from the start.

In the wilderness, Lin Qingya slowly approached her final target.
Ma Hua.
By now, Ma Hua was incoherent with fear, curled up on the ground, trembling like a sieve.
Seeing the white reaper approach, he broke down completely, tears and snot streaming, kowtowing desperately.

“I was wrong! I was wrong! Sir! I really was wrong! I’ll never do it again!”
“Sir! It was me! I confessed the truth! Please, spare me! I’ll be good, I’ll serve you like a dog…”

Lin Qingya stopped before him, looking down coldly.
“You don’t know you were wrong.”
“You just know you’re about to die.”

Ma Hua froze, then kowtowed even harder, babbling confessions, grasping for any lifeline.

“But…”
Lin Qingya’s voice sounded again.
“You do seem a bit more human than those two animals.”

At this, Ma Hua’s eyes flared with desperate hope, as if glimpsing salvation!
Lin Qingya said no more, slowly raising her right fist.
The familiar white glow, symbolizing end and void, gathered once more.

“As a reward…”
“I won’t beat you. I’ll make it quick.”

Ma Hua’s fleeting joy solidified into despair.
His eyes bulged, fixated on the fist, wrapped in white light, growing larger in his vision.

“You need to understand.”
Lin Qingya’s voice delivered the final judgment from the depths of the underworld.
“When an avalanche comes, no snowflake is innocent.”

“Ah—!!!”
A heart-wrenching scream cut off abruptly.
The world no longer contained Ma Hua.

Lin Qingya withdrew her fist, brushing off nonexistent dust.
She turned to the camera, her flat synthesized voice declaring to the city.

“As you’ve seen, all three bullies have been executed.”
“The time is exactly midnight.”

She paused, her gaze seeming to pierce the screen, scanning every dark corner of the city.
“I know these three aren’t the only ones who bully others in school.”
“You’d better hope I don’t find out who you are.”
“Or your fate will be the same as these three scumbags.”

Her words landed.
Before the audience could fully savor this cathartic execution, the screen went black.
The livestream cut off cleanly.

Lin Qingya turned off her phone, slipping it into her pocket.
She took a deep breath, slowly releasing her magical girl transformation.
A tidal wave of exhaustion surged over her, and she collapsed onto the cold, rough concrete.
Lifting her head, she gazed at the dark purple, overcast sky.

That night, Gan City changed forever.
Countless people lay awake.
The ruthless, taciturn vigilante who judged evil with thunderous means gained a massive following.
Online, discussions about them exploded.
Soon, netizens coined a name for this mysterious figure, known only by a white data silhouette—
“White Shadow.”

Fan groups, forums, and social media pages for “White Shadow” sprang up like mushrooms after rain.
A legend of a new era was born.