Why did you provoke me?

Qian Chuan stood there, his lips twitching slightly. "You only glanced at it and you already knew I couldn't learn it."

Niannian nodded. "Even without looking, I know. You can't even extract the lines. You know nothing about the application of lines. How can you possibly put them into someone else's mind?"

Qian Chuan gripped the porcelain bottle tightly in his hand.

Seeing this, Qingyuan changed the subject, "Learning these things is for the future. Let's talk about what to do in the present."

Seeing their expressions, Qian Chuan made an excuse that he had other things to do and prepared to leave.

"You child, you haven't finished speaking, why are you in such a hurry?" Qingyuan called out to Qian Chuan, who was about to leave.

Qian Chuan turned around, puzzled. "Is there something else I need to do?"

"Didn't you want to learn how to manipulate lines? Go to the backyard too. If you don't practice, when will you ever learn?"

"But," Qian Chuan felt his face burning, "I don't know how at all."

"So what?" Qingyuan said nonchalantly. "When we first peeled off the alien's skin, we learned from Yu Meng. Back then, I also studied for a long time. When you're learning a skill, it's normal to get criticized or laughed at.

Niannian nodded in agreement. "You need to be more thick-skinned, otherwise you'll learn slowly."

Qian Chuan glanced at Qing Yuan and said, "Didn't you say you were going to teach me?"

Qingyuan smiled, pursing her lips, "I'm going to teach you, but you have to learn the basics first. Without the basics, no matter how clearly I explain it, you won't be able to do it."

Niannian pointed to the empty teacup on the table, "Aunt Qing, tell him to hang that up and see if he can do it?"

Qian Chuan looked at his own figure, which was shorter than the circumference of a teacup. He realized he had oversimplified the problem.

"No way, watch me." Niannian released her lines, and the short lines quickly became thinner and longer in Niannian's hands, circling around the teacup a few times before the teacup came to a steady stop in the air.

"It took me about three months to master this." Niannian traced lines with her index finger, and the cup moved up and down in the air.

Qingyuan nodded in agreement, "I've practiced this too. Back then, we were training for the Alien Lines, but we weren't good enough. In the beginning, if it weren't for Yu Meng holding things together, there wouldn't be the club we have today."

Yu Meng sat there, smiling as she watched them try to persuade Qian Chuan.

It's confirmed; this Qian Chuan is definitely not the original one. In this timeline, Yu Meng hasn't even met anyone, and the stakes have already been explained. He's still hesitant about whether to learn from him.

Yu Meng thought of her eldest sister, Sister Xiu, and the ordinary girls from those families who fought for them so they could learn something.

I also recalled the enthusiasm and sincerity of the people in the city who were eager to learn how to peel the skin off stones.

Yu Meng tapped the table with her hand. "Alright, everyone has their own strengths. You can't force it."

Upon hearing this, Qian Chuan was inexplicably startled and almost blurted out, "I'll go study in the backyard too."

Yu Meng smiled and waved her hand, "Don't force yourself. I think your talent in drug research is simply divinely bestowed. So focus on this area, and let them cooperate in other areas."

Qian Chuan's palms were sweaty. He didn't know what Yu Meng had seen through, but he knew that the original Qian Chuan definitely didn't have such talent.

If he had such talent, he would never have been sent into the alien battlefield.

"I can do it." Qian Chuan still wanted to try his best.

"Whatever you want." Yu Meng didn't say much. She knew all too well the importance of talent; like her, she was born with a silver spoon in her mouth when it came to aliens. It was as easy as eating and drinking.

Yu Meng didn't hide anything from Qian Chuan and said directly, "The main purpose of these people is to cultivate the lines in their brains. There's something special in those lines that I don't know what it is. Now I need you to figure it out." After saying that, she looked at Qian Chuan.

"I understand," Qian Chuan nodded to indicate that he understood.

"The things inside the lines are dangerous. If you don't want to become like them, you must not touch them," Yu Meng reminded her again.

"Yu Meng, what are your thoughts?" Qing Yuan asked seriously.

"We have an idea, but we don't have a good solution right now. This organization is huge, and we can't afford to mess with it. We can only take it one step at a time. However, if we can figure out this drug and understand what's going on with the things in the lines, we'll be able to catch these people red-handed. Once we know who they are, things will be much easier from now on."

"The enemy is in the dark, while we are in the light, which puts us in a very passive position." Qingyuan is not good at these kinds of things either.

"However, I know a very significant characteristic: if these people who maintain their physique have problems, some will experience a precipitous decline in age," Yu Meng added.

"What do you mean?"

"It means that in a short period of time, such as a month or a few days, a person grows old or dies of old age."

Qian Chuan and Niannian both looked incredulous.

"This is also a clue. Xiao Wen and the others are all out there. Have their people keep an eye out for news in this area. Maybe we'll get some unexpected information," Qingyuan said thoughtfully.

"Aunt Qing, this is very dangerous. If they are targeted and have these lines implanted in them, it will be dangerous. Only let a few of your most trusted people know about this."

Qingyuan nodded. "I'll message Xiao Wen in a bit. He's a reliable guy."

After Yu Meng finished saying what she wanted to say, she stood up and said, "Then I'll go back first. I brought back a lot of information. If you need it, you can come to my place to look it up."

Qingyuan and Qianchuan both nodded in agreement.

on the way back.

"Fourth Sister, you seem to have changed a lot since you came back."

"Niannian, it's not that I've changed, it's that I've become someone else's prey. If I hadn't discovered this by chance, do you know what the consequences would have been?"

"Is someone watching you?" Niannian asked again.

"Yes, the time I was almost sold when I was a child was orchestrated by them."

"Huh? How old were you back then? They were already targeting you?" Niannian found it unbelievable. Then she added, "Fourth Sister, it seems like God has blessed you that you're still alive and well."

Yu Meng nodded in agreement, "That's what I think too."

Niannian didn't press Yu Meng about what had happened on her trip. She was used to the rules of the guild and couldn't casually inquire about other people's missions. She just needed to focus on her own tasks.

"Fourth Sister, did you see my name on that list?"

Yu Meng turned to look at her. "What, you want your name on that list too?"

"I was just thinking, I guess I'm a bit of a genius, right? Surely some people are paying attention to me, right?"

Yu Meng reached out and slapped her. "You think this is a good thing? You want to be on the list?"