Girl, There's Something Wrong With You - Chapter 41

North of Jingkou, there is a small guard post. Every night, the Northern Army station men here to keep watch, ensuring that any demons from the north can be detected in time and a warning can be sent back to Jingkou Town.

Cheng Jinyang arrived at the post and dismissed the guards for the night, choosing to stand watch alone with Xie Guyan, awaiting the arrival of the assailants.

Pulling his coat tighter, he realized he had left in too much of a hurry earlier and hadn’t dressed warmly enough.

Xie Guyan was still standing under the searchlight at the camp gate, eyes closed and silent.

From Cheng Jinyang’s angle, her profile resembled the smiling bride in the wedding photo on the wall of the old house in Wujiang Town by about eighty to ninety percent.

However, his mother, the real Xie Guyan, was indeed dead.

Cheng Jinyang suddenly thought of Su Lili.

But why does Xiao Li still remember me?

Right, Xiao Li was devoured by a demon; strictly speaking, she didn’t die but was “fused.” But Xie Guyan truly died and then was resurrected in the form of a demon.

Both her body and personality had been “formatted.” So, if one day, Xiao Li dies too… even if she resurrects, she won’t be my Xiao Li anymore.

Lost in thought, Cheng Jinyang suddenly heard a sinister laugh in the night ahead.

“Well, isn’t this Xie Guyan?”

“Tianshu Du’e.” Xie Guyan opened her eyes. “You remember me?”

“I’ve never died; how could I forget the former Southern Star Lord?” A tall woman with long hair emerged from the shadows, licking her lips with a cruel smile. “But I didn’t expect that even after dying and resurrecting, you still remember to protect your own son. Could maternal love be so great that it can overcome even the mysteries of the womb?”

Xie Guyan did not answer her question, only coldly saying, “Since you’ve usurped the Southern Star position, let’s settle this according to demon rules.”

“Hmph.” The other’s expression changed as she suddenly rushed toward Cheng Jinyang.

Cheng Jinyang: ?

A thought flashed through his mind like lightning: the opponent mistakenly believed Xie Guyan was here to protect her son, so she attacked him first, attempting to disrupt Xie Guyan’s rationality. But Xie Guyan had anticipated this, even luring the opponent to act this way, thereby setting a trap using himself?

The thought barely crossed his mind when the opponent’s arm pierced his heart. Cheng Jinyang spat blood, his pupils dilating like a supernova. He clawed at the opponent’s arm with his right hand, muscles around the wound tightening to prevent her from pulling away. Yet the opponent didn’t rush to withdraw but bizarrely turned into a mass of flesh and blood, merging into his body.

Cheng Jinyang then felt his body slipping out of his control, his mouth stiffly opening and closing, “Heh heh heh heh, Xie Guyan, even if I’m no match for you, now that I’ve merged with your son, what can you do to kill me?”

In the next moment, Cheng Jinyang was lifted entirely off the ground. Xie Guyan gripped his neck tightly, raising him into the air, her eyes glinting eerily.

“Du’e, do you really think I’d still consider him my son after my resurrection?”

Du’e inside Cheng Jinyang’s body paused slightly, then began to struggle violently and desperately.

Electricity surged from his body, followed by metal thorns, concentrated mental attacks, and gravitational binding and mass effect pressure. Every ability within Cheng Jinyang’s body was used by Du’e.

Before reaching Xie Guyan, they all vanished mysteriously.

“Damn it!” Du’e screamed frantically, “Damn it, damn it, damn it! How can this body be so weak! Nandou, you anticipated this, didn’t you? You used your son as a trap to bind and kill me!!!”

“After all these years,” Xie Guyan said, gripping her throat, “your bad habit of taking shortcuts and ambushing instead of attacking head-on hasn’t changed. Didn’t I tell you that this makes you easy to outmaneuver?”

She extended her free left hand, bringing her index and middle fingers together like a sword, and pointed them towards Cheng Jinyang’s forehead from a distance. “It’s over, Du’e. Return the position of the Star Lord to me.”

“No, no, no!” Cheng Jinyang felt like a chicken about to have its throat slit, struggling desperately but futilely. Xie Guyan’s fingers, as heavy as a mountain, ignored all his resistance and lightly touched his forehead.

Then he collapsed onto the grass, his body regaining control.

“Cough, cough, cough!” Cheng Jinyang coughed forcefully, spitting out the blood in his mouth, and used his body’s self-regeneration ability to heal his damaged neck bones. In his mind, all the girls were silently helping to compute and repair his injuries.

Xie Guyan drew a golden wisp from his forehead, which now spiraled around her two fingers. She then squeezed it forcefully, turning the gold into powder.

“Jinyang,” Miss Wang suddenly spoke in his mind, “Listen to me carefully now.”

She quickly and cautiously gave a few instructions. After listening patiently, Cheng Jinyang clumsily got up, “Mom, um… the Southern Star Lord, is she dead?”

“Dead,” Xie Guyan replied. “If she had chosen to flee instead of trying to take over your body, it would have been very hard for me to catch her.”

At this point, her voice paused and she asked, “I used you as bait, making her think she had a chance and thus tempted to seize your half-demon body. Don’t you resent me for that?”

“No,” Cheng Jinyang shook his head, “If you wanted to kill me, you could have just crushed my head with that finger earlier; there was no need to extract her from my body.”

Xie Guyan was silent for a moment before saying, “Alright, I have to leave.”

“Leave?” Cheng Jinyang was a bit stunned, then hesitantly asked, “Mom, what is your current cultivation level?”

“Star Lord level, second rank,” Xie Guyan replied. “When I killed Du’e just now, I also took her Southern Star Lord fire.”

“I’m now only one step away from the Emperor Lord level. If I stay here, it’s only a matter of time before the Great Emperor Ziwei comes for me, so I need to leave the Eastern Lands quickly.” Her gaze shifted to the distant night sky. “If I successfully ascend to the Emperor Lord level, I’ll come back to see you.”

Before Cheng Jinyang could ask more, her figure gradually turned into nothingness, like snowflakes floating in the air.

“Oh, by the way.”

Xie Guyan’s final, ethereal voice came on the wind:

“The next time I see you, I want to see over a hundred children…”

“…or I’ll personally arrange for demons to breed you.”

Cheng Jinyang: …

Tears rolled down uncontrollably.