Chapter 17: 'True Fragrance' has two meanings.

Chu Qingqing's lineage identification curve guarantees a minimum of fifth grade, with a potential to reach fourth grade. Excluding any cheating, her innate talent in bloodline is the strongest among the four present, even slightly surpassing Miss Wang.

At the age of seventeen, which was last year, she had already reached the eighth grade. Her computational ability is also extremely powerful, not acquired through postnatal learning (after all, she comes from a humble background), but innate gifts.

Xie Youyu from the Xie family once praised her as 'astonishing calculation power, as if heaven-bestowed,' referring to this girl's calculation formula, which contains a lot of intuitive elements, even beyond the capabilities of artificial intelligence to decipher.

The effect of this is that the metal she manipulates moves much faster than the average supernaturals, even fast enough to withstand bullet fire. As soon as someone raises a firearm, the liquid metal has already formed a shield to protect her, intercepting bullets from any direction.

So, Chu Qingqing's unauthorized charge this time wasn't entirely reckless, but rather she had full confidence in her own strength. In terms of combat prowess alone, she feels she could easily handle even a seventh-grade supernatural, so how could mere demons possibly be her match!

The monstrous demon sprinted forward, suddenly leaping and pouncing at about ten meters away. Chu Qingqing shouted sharply, and the metallic thorns swiftly thrust forward.

The clash between metal and claws was instant, tearing apart the grotesque body with the thorns. Cheng Jinyang and Xing Yuanzhi watched clearly from afar, while Chu Qingqing was thrown backward.

The opposing monstrosity, surprisingly, seized the moment of its own demise, using its claw to tear open the metal barrier. As its arm was cut by the thorns, it thrust forward into Chu Qingqing's abdomen, completing a mutual destruction.

When the three arrived at Chu Qingqing's side, they saw the violent girl clutching her abdomen, barely conscious, with blood flowing continuously from the torn wound. They could even see her intestines exposed.

Xing Yuanzhi calmly took a half step back, allowing Cheng Jinyang to block her own line of sight.

Cheng Jinyang, with Wang Wanrou on his back, crouched down to examine Chu Qingqing's condition.

"It's hopeless. Let's wait for her to die. Goodbye." He took about ten seconds to confirm the situation before announcing the death sentence of Chu Qingqing.

Chu Qingqing stared blankly at the sky. She could already feel the blood rushing into her body. It was correct to kill the demon to increase her bloodline concentration.

So, after death, she can revive, right...?

She felt a little relieved, but more uncertain fear. If there was even a slight mistake, she might really die this time.

A sense of regret surged again. It seemed like she... had been too confident.

I'm so scared...

"Do you have any last wishes?" Seeing her pale face and trembling lips, Cheng Jinyang teasingly asked, "Do you want to write a will and leave your inheritance to me so I can buy you a more expensive coffin?"

Chu Qingqing was originally still trapped in the terror of life and death, but upon hearing this, she immediately felt a surge of unnamed anger. However, now she was like a dying candle in the wind, unable to deal with him, so she could only close her eyes and ignore him, soon passing away.

After some time passed, she opened her eyes again, only to find herself back at Su Lili's home.

Cheng Jinyang, Xing Yuanzhi, and Wang Wanrou were also by her side. After solving the 'Weird' level, the three of them attempted to challenge the 'ghost' level, but were still wiped out.

Returning to the safe house with the three girls, Cheng Jinyang sighed and said:

"It seems there's still no effective way to deal with the ghost-level monsters. Tonight, our main focus will be on clearing out the Weird level creatures to increase our strength."

"Also, Miss Qingqing, you've experienced the power of the 'Weird' level demons already. Do you still intend to act alone?"

"No, I won't," Chu Qingqing said expressionlessly. "I will cooperate with you in battle."

Having previously sacrificed herself alongside the 'Weird' demon, she realized she couldn't confidently kill these monsters without getting injured, and it also allowed her to release her pent-up bloodlust.

Next, she'll observe how Cheng Jinyang and the others engage in battle.

"Alright, then let me briefly explain our tactics..."

On Cheng Jinyang's side, he explained the principles of the Iron Shooting algorithm to her, while Wang Wanrou sat quietly on the sofa in the corner, her lips slightly parted.

Mind Interface, psychic powers activate!

Suddenly, a small amount of information flowed through her field of observation.

Sure enough, as a dream, the environment we are in actually has its own consciousness, which is why the Mind Interface affects the entire dream.

Or, to speculate more boldly, could it be that the current Wujiang Town, where demons constantly appear, actually exists in the depths of someone's mind? For example, in the brain?

Cheng Jinyang had already finished explaining the tactics on his end. After confirming that Chu Qingqing had understood clearly, he waved his hand boldly and said, "Let's go! To hunt demons!"

Just then, Miss Wang walked up beside him and said matter-of-factly:

"Carry me."

Cheng Jinyang: ......

The surge of heroic spirit in his chest was abruptly interrupted by Miss Wang's 'Carry me.'

There was no way around it. Miss Wang's physical strength was always a weakness, and he couldn't just leave her behind. He could only treat her like a large backpack.

Cheng Jinyang could only let Ah Zhi apply the Light Body technique on Miss Wang, and then he carried her on his back.

Hmm, this feeling, the fragrant and soft backpack isn't too bad...

"Is it fragrant?" Just when he was lost in thought, he suddenly heard Miss Wang on his back ask.

Cheng Jinyang: ......

There it is! Miss Wang's magical mind-reading technique!

Of course, he was already accustomed to it, so he just pretended not to hear, since his own face was thick enough anyway.

Everyone quickly went downstairs, ran out of the compound, rushed to the edge of the alley again, and sure enough, a demon appeared from around the corner at the end of the street.

"Prepare the ammunition!" Cheng Jinyang commanded.

Immediately, Chu Qingqing pressed the car, turning its shell into flowing metal like water, then separating it into countless metal longswords.

Cheng Jinyang then launched the Iron Shooting algorithm, with thousands of swords flying out!

A large number of longswords shot towards the demon, some in sharp straight lines, others sweeping left and right, effectively sealing off all its escape routes!

The demon struggled in vain, quickly being pierced by flying swords, one after another, until it resembled a hedgehog, severely wounded and unable to get up.

Sure enough! Seeing this scene, everyone's spirits were lifted.

In the past, the Iron Shooting were applied on cars with their massive size, but they were easily dodged by demons with high mobility.

Now, with Chu Qingqing's metal manipulation, turning the car shell into numerous compact flying swords, Cheng Jinyang can utilize the advantage of quantity to surround them, completely blocking their path, no longer needing to rely on the terrain of alleys.

Miss Wang is right. This girl Qingqing is indeed a reinforcement puzzle for our team's combat effectiveness!

As they absorbed the blood qi around the demon corpses, Chu Qingqing suddenly spoke up and asked:

"After killing such a 'Weird' level demon, approximately how much can it increase the bloodline concentration?"

"About 20 of them can increase it by 1 Ma," Cheng Jinyang replied.

20 to increase by 1 Ma... Chu Qingqing couldn't help but calculate.

I'll create the flying sword, Cheng Jinyang will launch it. Assuming we harvest one demon per minute, that's 3 Ma per hour?

If we do this for six hours at night, that's an increase of 18 Ma per night? At this rate, in just over a year, I could advance directly to the 7th grade... so fast!

According to the lineage assessment curve, I was supposed to reach the 7th grade around the age of 26, but now it's been brought forward to 19!

Thinking about this, she couldn't help but be filled with anticipation.

Whatever handle, whatever secrets, it doesn't matter anymore. As long as I can stay by Cheng Jinyang's side, earning this easy bloodline growth value every night, even if everyone shouts that I'm a freak all overs the streets, I'll willingly accept it, sweet as syrup!