Girl, There's Something Wrong With You - Chapter 48

When night fell and everyone had settled into slumber, they entered the dream realm once more.

After weeks of exploration, they had mostly cleared out the Pudong area, which was densely packed with puppets. Just making a bit of noise nearby would send them swarming out. Despite their numbers, their attacks lacked coordination and posed no real threat.

The only things to fear were the ‘weirds’ and ghosts mixed among the puppet crowds.

Some would consciously hide their clawed arms or bone hammers until they were close enough to strike, while others could turn invisible, phase through walls, or fly, approaching swiftly and stealthily—only detectable through Xiao Wangshu’s electromagnetic wave detection.

With Pudong investigated, their attention turned to Puxi. After all, if they just kill puppets, gaining a little over a thousand Ma per night is the maximum.

However, just reaching the fifth-grade threshold would require a million Ma…

Natural growth alone was hopeless; they had to continue pushing forward in dream exploration.

After mastering the function group, Cheng Jinyang can use the Qiong Biluo algorithm to manipulate multiple targets which is commonly known as the “flying with a sister” technique. This time, their goal was to scout Puxi, so Cheng Jinyang brought Yang Wangshu, who is the strongest in detection ability.

The two flew high in the sky, Xiao Wangshu constantly typing away on the keyboard with excitement, expressing her exhilaration.

Cheng Jinyang jokingly threatened to snatch her mask, finally calming down the overly excited girl.

They swiftly circled around the densely packed high-rise urban area, where below them, the puppets gathered like frenzied fans at an idol’s concert.

“There are so many,” Xiao Wangshu exclaimed, typing rapidly. “If this were a game, having so many monsters attacking simultaneously on the screen, it would be really fun to mow the monsters… No, the computer hardware wouldn’t be able to support at all!”

“Wangshu,” Cheng Jinyang said.

“Huh?”

“Stay focused, will you?”

“Riddle man, get out of the dream, please.”

They bickered incessantly as they suddenly heard a roaring noise from below.

“Watch out!” Cheng Jinyang grabbed her, attempting to dodge sideways, but the weak acceleration of gravity’s attraction was their undoing.

Just a slight deviation caused their bodies to be pierced simultaneously—Xiao Wangshu’s heart shattered, ending her life instantly, while Cheng Jinyang’s abdomen was ripped open, his intestines spilling out.

Across the river in Pudong City, Wang Wanrou, who was watching the grinding of the grinder, suddenly looked up.

“What’s wrong?” Xing Yuanzhi asked curiously beside her.

Wang Wanrou did not answer.

The interface appeared, indicating… he had encountered a near-death situation again?

Then let’s connect.

In an instant, whether it was Chu Qingqing still manipulating the grinder or Xing Yuanzhi waiting nearby, they simultaneously felt a sense of connection.

Consciousness bridged the vast distance, entering Cheng Jinyang’s body.

Back at the scene in Puxi, Cheng Jinyang, with his abdomen gaping, plummeted rapidly to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust upon impact.

The assailant gracefully landed nearby—an athletic, tall “human female,” with faintly visible muscular contours all over her body.

The demon level of demons and monsters, the Mara.

“Who are you? Wild or from the organization?” The woman approached smoothly. “The spiritual realm in Songjiang isn’t ready yet. Who let you in here? Flying around in the sky?”

Gazing at the chaotic scene settling in the dust, she furrowed her brow slightly:

“Dead?”

However, a figure emerged from the midst. Cheng Jinyang slowly straightened up, looking expressionless, his eyes exhibiting a radiating nova-like new star pattern.

“Those eyes…” She frowned. “Southern Dipper? Are you a star official under Southern Dipper Star Lord?”

Seeing his indifferent demeanor, the woman grew a bit anxious and quickly explained:

“I thought you were a wild… Sorry, I’m No. 5 of the Subaru Department under the Guarding God Lord, assigned to patrol the Songjiang area. The attack just now was a misunderstanding…”

She waved her hands in panic, while secretly preparing to strike with her legs. Although the Guardian Star Lord and the Southern Dipper Star Lord were evenly matched, as the fifth of the Subaru Department, she was a rank below the sixth star of the Southern Dipper.

In the demon world, nothing was more dangerous than showing weakness against the strong; they would never tolerate her audacious actions.

Rather than begging for mercy, she decided to take a risky gamble!

With a sudden burst, she propelled herself forward with immense force, causing the ground to sink nearly fifty centimeters beneath her feet.

Like an arrow released from a bow, she swiftly darted towards Cheng Jinyang, aiming a sharp strike towards his head with her right hand shaped like a knife!

No hit?!!

The force did not return to her hand as expected. Swiftly retreating tens of meters aside, Subaru Five saw Cheng Jinyang surrounded by flowing metal, rapidly climbing upwards.

This magic… undoubtedly from a Star Official!

“Did you hear that?! Wanrou, did you hear that?!” Within Cheng Jinyang’s body, the consciousness of girl Qingqing curiously shouted, “What Southern Dipper Star Lord, Guardian Star Lord… and such!”

“Don’t be surprised.” Wang Wanrou coldly replied, “If you have any questions, ask Su Lili.”

“Would you believe it if I told you?” Su Lili remained silent for a long time before asking.

“I only trust my own wisdom,” Wang Wanrou answered.

“Stop arguing,” Cheng Jinyang activated consciousness suppression, silencing everyone, “Focus on helping me calculate.”

In the last battle, to destroy the huge Jinwei Mothership, Cheng Jinyang had to create a specifically tailored steel giant god soldier, using spears of equal volume to pierce through it.

This time, facing smaller, faster enemies, he abandoned the easy-to-hit giant god soldier and instead used the Iron Man tactic:
covering his body surface with steel to create a source of metal mass. He reduced weight through mass effect, then used electromagnetic wave to achieve high-speed displacement, compensating for the lack of acceleration in universal gravitational.

He swiftly glided through the air, simultaneously condensing more metal into a longsword that relentlessly shot downwards.

These flying swords seemed almost imbued with a spirit, tightly gripping his opponent’s movement path no matter how swiftly she darted across the ground.

Realizing she couldn’t escape this way, Subaru Five suddenly leaped from the ground again like a bullet, heading straight towards Cheng Jinyang who was gliding.

Thus, he understood how he had been “shot down” earlier. The opponent’s burst speed was simply too fast; electromagnetic wave couldn’t provide enough evasion speed, and with no available points in the surrounding air to leverage, Cheng Jinyang instinctively adopted a reactive tactical response.

Mass Effect: Azure Realm!

Subaru Five sped through the Azure Realm, her mass and kinetic energy instantly reduced to almost negligible levels, slowing down upon impact with Cheng Jinyang, without even penetrating his metallic shell.

She quickly tried to leverage a push to distance herself, but her own mass suddenly became incredibly heavy, preventing her from picking up speed even with her full burst of effort.

At this moment, the metallic shell suddenly burst open like petals, then lightning-fast closed again, enveloping Subaru Five who couldn’t evade in time.

High temperatures, electric currents, and the cutting and grinding of metal quickly reduced this demon into a mangled mess of flesh, raining down from the petals of metal that burst open once more.

During Cheng Jinyang’s battle, Wang Wanrou and Su Lili in his body reached some kind of consensus, which was—