Girl, There's Something Wrong With You - Chapter 44

In the dream, at Wujiang Town, facing the Ghost Gate Challenge.

Once again, they were annihilated by the so-called demon god Cai Zhaoqin. The group respawned in the safe house, where they found Miss Wang sitting in her seat with a gloomy face, her cold gaze sweeping over everyone.

What was coming next was, once again, a storm of angry scolding.

“At 3.5 seconds into the battle, I should have had you, Qingqing, block the 2 o’clock direction with the metal network, right?” Wang Wanrou said coldly. “Can someone tell me what kind of brain would interpret my instructions as using a metal blade to cut the opponent instead?”

“Because she was surrounded by super-high-temperature flames at that time, I thought if we used the metal network, it would melt,” Chu Qingqing tried to explain. “Using a blade might hit her before it melted…”

“Oh.” Wang Wanrou stood up, her sarcasm evident. “So it seems Qingqing thinks she can be the team’s tactical commander now, and that position should belong to you.”

“…Sorry.” Chu Qingqing was sweating profusely.

“Enough, Wanrou.” Cheng Jinyang intervened, “Qingqing didn’t do it on purpose.”

“I understand,” Wang Wanrou said with a cold smile. “Qingqing keeps making these foolish mistakes because she thinks she can attract some insignificant man’s attention.”

The girls exchanged glances in silence.

“How about this: if Qingqing makes a similar mistake next time, we’ll have Cheng Jinyang randomly choose between Xing Yuanzhi and Cui Jinqi for a kiss,” Wang Wanrou said indifferently. “Maybe that will motivate Qingqing to perform better…”

“Yay!” Cui Xiaoniang cheered.

“No!” Qingqing pleaded urgently. “I will be serious next time!”

Cheng Jinyang: ?

He didn’t know what expression to make and could only pretend he hadn’t heard anything.

At this moment, the girls couldn’t yet fight in a connected state, and Cai Zhaoqin required them to participate personally and pass the assessment to proceed through the subsequent light gate.

Therefore, to find an effective way to break through the fourth rank, everyone had to pick up the long-unused group cooperation tactics and, under Miss Wang’s fifth-rank mental link, attempt a fierce battle with Cai Zhaoqin.

The result was complete annihilation.

Even Cheng Jinyang in his demonized state could barely hold his own against the opponent for a few minutes. Now split among eight ladies, they were no match for the demon god.

Only Wang Wanrou was confident, directing everyone strictly according to her commands… resulting in twenty consecutive wipeouts.

In response, Miss Wang claimed it was because the executors did not “properly execute her perfect tactics.”

Although it did seem that way, everyone was unwilling to admit their mistakes and preferred to think that Miss Wang’s commands were too harsh, making it difficult for them to adapt.

“Sister Xiao Pei, at the 7-second explosion, you missed Xing Yuanzhi, causing the opponent to fall and trigger a chain of subsequent failures,” Wang Wanrou continued. “Of course, if Qingqing had followed the instructions accurately earlier, this part could have been saved.”

“It was my oversight,” Zheng Qiupei admitted the mistake readily.

“Yunyun, you fired two extra laser shots later on,” Wang Wanrou continued.

“Just extra shots, not missed ones,” Lu Qingyun retorted. “The extra shots were to complete your tactical order.”

“Fine, it seems I need to include more redundancies in my instructions to prevent your barren brain from failing to achieve high precision commands,” Wang Wanrou said sarcastically.

Lu Qingyun trembled with anger but could only remain silent.

Wang Wanrou then scanned everyone once more and coldly said:

“Next, we will devise a new tactical plan.”

“Ah? Another new plan…” The girls complained, “We haven’t even grasped the old one yet; how can we switch to a new tactic?”

“Do you really think you can use the same trick on the opponent twice?” Wang Wanrou laughed, as if they had made a very amusing joke. “Do you think that great demon is as brainless as you are?”

“Wait a minute,” Cui Jinqi couldn’t take it anymore. “With your complicated tactics, even if we memorize them, we can’t execute them perfectly once. How could the demon god possibly remember them? Besides, changing tactics every time we fail makes it hard for everyone to keep up with your pace! Wanrou, isn’t there a simpler, easier-to-execute tactic?”

“There is,” Wang Wanrou replied tersely. “You could just self-destruct to kill her. I think that’s the simplest tactic for you.”

Cui Jinqi: ………

“I have an idea,” Xing Yuanzhi said. “Wanrou, as Jinqi mentioned, there’s no need to change tactics every time we fail. While I understand your pursuit of perfection, the opponent might not necessarily require us to use a perfect tactic to handle the challenge. This is just a test level after all.”

“Right,” Cheng Jinyang agreed. “Since the number of attempts is unlimited and the cost of failure is almost negligible, why not improve gradually? We don’t need to achieve perfection on the first try.”

Miss Wang looked at him with a blank stare for a moment before slowly replying:

“These tactical plans were never perfect. They are filled with redundancy and safeguards to account for the fact that some of you might act on your own, make repeated mistakes, or be too clever for your own good.”

“You’re just constantly lowering my expectations of you.”

At this point, her voice paused slightly:

“Stick to the previous plan. If there are further mistakes, the punishment will be ‘watching Jinyang kiss the girl who performed best’.”

For some reason, while everyone was a bit disheartened earlier, they seemed to suddenly become full of energy.

Miss Wang repeated the battle plan, and this time everyone listened attentively.

Some hoped to perform best to win the kiss, while others, being overly shy, subconsciously aimed to avoid performing too well to prevent being publicly executed.

Only Cheng Jinyang wondered if Miss Wang was just talking casually. He sighed inwardly.

He even heard Qingqing repeatedly whispering to herself: “Don’t act on your own, don’t act on your own…”

Unlike others, Chu Qingqing’s thinking was more intuitive, relying heavily on instinct for calculations. This meant her metal manipulation was naturally faster. The trade-off was that in a crisis, various thoughts and instincts would emerge in her mind.

Most of the time, these instincts were lifesaving, but executing Miss Wang’s tactics proved difficult…

Leaving the safe house and facing Cai Zhaoqin once again, they saw the demon god elegantly stretching and moving her shoulders, saying:

“Without the strength to keep up, memorizing tactics is useless.”

“Heh.” Miss Wang responded with a smile, implying:

“You’ll soon find out whether it’s useful or not.”