"Did we win?"
Cheng Jinyang cautiously peered down from the edge of the collapsed hole upstairs.
Even with noise-canceling earplugs, his ears still throbbed from the tremendous firepower unleashed by Peacock Feather downstairs.
It seemed even Princess Sister would have a hard time escaping such terrifying firepower.
But he still felt uneasy! He always felt like Sister Xinnan would appear in front of him the next second, then smile and say:
"A very excellent tactic. But, your flaw lies in one... two... three..."
"Wanrou, what do you think?" When Wang Wanrou walked over to him, he couldn't help but ask.
"It probably won't work." Miss Wang shook her head.
"What should we do then?" Cheng Jinyang immediately asked.
"Put this on." Wang Wanrou handed him a vest.
"What is this?" Cheng Jinyang curiously put it on, feeling the vest heavy and bulging, perhaps with bulletproof alloy plates inside.
But with Sister Xinnan's marksmanship, she would just shoot me in the head directly, so what's the point of wearing this bulletproof vest?
He was about to ask further when he saw Wang Wanrou had already distanced herself, waving at him urgently.
Cheng Jinyang: ???
Then, Princess Sister's hand rested on his shoulder from behind.
"Jinyang..." her voice, with a smile, had just sounded, and both were engulfed by the intense flames of the explosion.
A few seconds later, Cheng Jinyang, now in ghostly form, was stunned for a moment before he suddenly realized:
What bulletproof vest? That was clearly a suicide vest packed with high explosives!
Wang Wanrou, you devious thing!
Cheng Jinyang glanced around again, relieved to find no sign of Sister Xinnan's ghostly figure, then he let out a sigh of relief.
Sure enough, Princess Sister didn't fall for Miss Wang's trick, otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to blame her later.
"Anyway, isn't it a win? Why bother so much as a man? If you have a better way, then go ahead," Wang Wanrou would undoubtedly use this victory to shut him up arrogantly.
On the other hand, even resorting to deceiving and sacrificing comrades, and still not harming Princess Sister in the slightest, he could thoroughly ridicule her later.
Looking again into the distance, he saw the ghosts of Chu Qingqing and Xing Yuanzhi slowly drifting towards him.
"She didn't fall for my Peacock Feather attack," Xing Yuanzhi explained helplessly, "Then, she shot me in the head after I ran out of ammo."
"Okay." Cheng Jinyang thought to himself that although he didn't know how she did it, after all, she was Sister Xinnan. After a whole day of practical combat training, he had lost to her nearly a hundred times. There was no need to dwell too much on it; he could review the video later.
"What about Wang Wanrou?" Chu Qingqing curiously looked around, "Did she succeed?"
With only Miss Wang left, with her weak physique, how could she possibly succeed...
Cheng Jinyang sneered, about to speak when he realized his ghostly state had ended.
He and the other two girls had all returned to solid form.
Cheng Jinyang: ???
Maybe it was time for them to respawn, but it hadn't been a full minute since I died, right?
Then, the three revived individuals saw Princess Sister emerge from the smoke of the explosion, her left hand pressing the stump of her right shoulder, and sighed:
"A very excellent tactic."
Everyone: ......
"But?" Cheng Jinyang waited for a moment, realizing Sister Xinnan hadn't said "but" yet.
"What else is there?" Princess Nankang tapped her shoulder, and a new arm seemed to "grow" there. "As I said, as long as you can attack and harm me, your training mission for today is complete."
She turned to look at Wang Wanrou, praising her with a complex expression:
"Even enduring the pain of sacrificing comrades, one must use any means necessary to kill the enemy. From this perspective, you've passed."
Cheng Jinyang: ???
No, when Miss Wang deceived me into wearing the suicide vest, she probably didn't feel any discomfort at all!
He was sure of it.
Then he saw Wang Wanrou frown slightly, seeming genuinely uncomfortable.
Huh? Cheng Jinyang became uncertain again.
In fact, in a private chat channel that nobody else could hear, Princess Nankang was continuing the sentence she hadn't finished earlier, adding to what she said to Wang Wanrou:
"... But."
"If you ever dare to use Jinyang as bait or even a sacrifice in reality..."
"As long as I know about it, I will immediately break away from the Sima family and then wipe out every member of the Taiyuan Wang family, from young to old, sparing no one."
"Heh heh." Wang Wanrou responded with a disdainful cold laugh.
Princess Nankang silently looked at her, not pressing further.
Among the noble families of the Five Great Families, although not all were arrogant, Wang Wanrou was undoubtedly the epitome of the most arrogant and despicable character.
But this meant there was no explanation for why she would willingly stay with Cheng Jinyang.
A reasonable explanation was that there was an extremely important secret about Cheng Jinyang that made Wang Wanrou, who looked down on everyone, take notice of him, even willing to live with him.
After all this time, Princess Nankang had undoubtedly also noticed this.
But since Cheng Jinyang didn't mention it, she wouldn't ask too much.
She believed that one day, she would wait for Jinyang to tell her personally.
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"I'm leaving." Leaving the Luo Hall, Princess Sister bid farewell to everyone and soon disappeared into the crowd.
Everyone fell silent.
Thanks to Wang Wanrou's excellent performance, today's training goal was finally achieved.
However, no one was happy, feeling that the confidence they had built in killing demons and monsters had been shattered once again.
"I want to go back to the clan territory for a while." Chu Qingqing suddenly said, "To check the latest algorithm data."
"Me too." Xing Yuanzhi said, "I'm about to break through to the eighth grade, I need to go back and inform the family."
"What about Wang Wanrou?" Cheng Jinyang asked.
"No need." Wang Wanrou replied succinctly.
"Okay, let's all meet at the entrance of the Luo Hall tomorrow." Cheng Jinyang nodded.
So everyone bid farewell and went their separate ways.
Cheng Jinyang took Wang Wanrou and hailed a taxi, heading southwest to Wujiang Town in Pukou District.
The taxi driver was a middle-aged man wearing sunglasses. He glanced at the two in the rearview mirror, then skillfully started the car and drove towards Wujiang Town.
Wang Wanrou absentmindedly played with her phone, her exquisite and perfect profile bathed in the sunset glow, like a goddess descended to earth.
Cheng Jinyang sneakily glanced at her with the corner of his eye, then suddenly realized his pants were moving.
It turned out the phone in his pocket was vibrating.
He opened it and saw a message from Wang Wanrou:
"Be careful, this driver seems off."
"What's wrong?" Cheng Jinyang quickly replied, trying to remain calm.
"He looked at my unparalleled beauty in the rearview mirror and didn't seem the least bit astonished or captivated. Isn't that the biggest red flag?" Wang Wanrou replied promptly.
Cheng Jinyang: ???
Can't the driver be gay?