Girl, There's Something Wrong With You - Chapter 19

The Princess of Luling was soaring rapidly through the air. Soon, she encountered her sister coming towards her.

“I’m here!” Nankang swooped down beside her and came to a sudden stop. “I’m fully resupplied… What happened?”

Earlier, to buy her sister time to replenish her ammunition and energy, Luling had volunteered to stay behind to hold off the demon.

This was, of course, extremely dangerous.

The demon’s abilities were both offensive and defensive, and its power was immense. The sisters had barely managed to draw even when fighting together, and now Luling had to face the danger alone, increasing the risk exponentially.

Fortunately, her sister had managed to make it through, but the look on her face… what did it mean?

“Sister!” Luling cried with a tremor in her voice, “Someone saved me just now!”

“Who?” Although it sounded like an unexpected piece of good news, Nankang frowned, sensing that things were not so simple.

“It seems to be Cheng Jinyang!” Luling said in distress.

At first, she hadn’t noticed much, only that the demon pursuing her seemed to have been hit. With the immense pressure of the battlefield and her strained state, Luling didn’t have time to speculate. She just dropped a sound sensor and quickly distanced herself from her pursuer.

Only after she had completely lost the demon did she have time to receive the information packet from the sensor, to see which hero had come to her rescue.

She then matched the waveform to Cheng Jinyang…

But by then, it was too late. If the demon had already launched an attack, Cheng Jinyang’s grade might not be enough to withstand even one blow. How would she explain this to her sister?

As she was at a loss, her sister arrived from the front. After listening to Luling’s brief account, Nankang felt a chill run down her spine. Without saying a word, she rushed towards the battlefield, with Luling hurriedly following behind.

Soon, the two sisters arrived near the battlefield and saw that the massive bank building had been leveled by the shockwave of energy beams.

There were ruins everywhere.

The demon stood in the center of the debris, seemingly searching for something… a body?

The sisters’ eyes turned red.

They unleashed their weapons and began firing furiously at the demon.

…

Underground in the bank.

Cheng Jinyang stumbled forward, leaving a long trail of blood behind him. During the brief moment he was demonized earlier, Ah Zhi sent him a thought.

There was a network of underground passages beneath the bank. The reason was obvious: it was more convenient to use a secret, hard-to-infiltrate underground network for transporting funds than to rely on armored trucks that could be robbed at any time.

Thus, while planning to jump out of the window to escape (as jumping out would allow him to fly away), Cheng Jinyang had also considered using the underground passage as a backup plan. However, the next moment, a terrifying impact shattered his previous hope.

Without a doubt, the demon had not pursued him into the bank because it had even more formidable abilities—capable of wide-area, high-intensity attacks.

This meant that if he had chosen to jump out of the window and quickly fly away, if he was spotted before gaining sufficient distance, a single wide-area attack would leave him no place to hide.

This thought flashed through his mind, and he immediately turned and rushed towards the safety passage leading underground.

The ground beneath him shook violently, and the attack arrived even faster than he had anticipated. The upper part of the bank had not yet been pierced by the demon’s light, but the intense shockwave had already transmitted downwards.

With triple gravity weighing down on him, Cheng Jinyang attempted to activate his demonization again.

Without the constant pressure from the large demon, the state was barely achievable, but the borrowed powers seemed unstable. His connection with the girls was also plagued by poor signals, receiving only fragmented and unclear thoughts from them.

He barely managed to launch a spiritual impact at the cost of his own injuries, accelerating himself towards the vault door ahead. Using metal manipulation, he manipulated the metal, melting a large hole through the locked, anti-theft door marked with the network’s emblem, just a few meters away from the vault door.

He only had time to rush through the newly created opening before being blasted backward by another powerful force, crashing into the vault. More beams of light, seemingly endless, came crashing down, burying the entire underground passage of the bank under the collapsed debris.

…

Rolling a few times in the underground passage, Cheng Jinyang forced himself to stand up, feeling that most of his strength had been drained. The real fatal injury had been from the powerful shockwave that hit his back just before he entered the underground passage.

Had he been struck directly by the light beams, no matter how many defensive abilities he used, whether metal manipulation or spiritual impact, the outcome would have been the same—his judgment wasn’t wrong in that jumping out of the window was essentially suicide.

Even though he had been hit by the residual waves of the attack, and hadn’t had time to activate defensive abilities, it still took most of his life in one blow. The connection from his demonization remained intermittent, and the girls’ abilities were unstable. Cheng Jinyang could only stagger forward, desperately trying to activate the physical activation to heal himself.

His spine was severely shattered, but miraculously his spinal cord wasn’t damaged. Most of his organs showed signs of major bleeding and required urgent repair.

However, the unstable connection for physical activation made his situation even worse.

Cheng Jinyang tried to raise his right hand to wipe the blood streaming down his forehead.

His vision was obscured by blood… he couldn’t see clearly, and there was no water to clean it.

Strangely, there was wind in the underground passage. This was bad; it should have been completely sealed. If there was wind, it meant that the passage ahead might be connected to the outside, and there was a risk that the puppets could enter through the passage…

He stumbled, struggling to maintain his balance, but eventually couldn’t stay upright, collapsing next to the track and leaning weakly against the tunnel wall.

It wasn’t that the demon’s pressure was still present, but rather that his physical strength was insufficient to sustain demonization any longer. He remembered that after first activating the Iron Giant, he had to stay in the hospital for two months. This time, with such severe injuries, who knew how long it would take to recover…

But at least he saved the princess and didn’t drag the girls into this mess…

From here on, it was just a matter of fate…

His head drooped, consciousness fading into darkness. In the last moment of awareness, he seemed to hear urgent footsteps nearby and a familiar voice calling, whether in his mind or from outside:

“Jinyang!”