The Host Has Fallen for the Second Female Lead Again - Chapter 100

Ji Mingxiao frowned.

There was no way to know what kind of relationship they had, after all, Xi Ruan couldn’t remember anything.

But it didn’t matter, as long as the mission was completed.

“Used a bug? What bug?” Ji Mingxiao asked.

System A was silent for a few seconds: “Host, do you think I’d tell you? Salted fish’s actions are considered a violation, but she has special privileges, so it doesn’t matter.”

“Anyway, there are a lot of rumors about salted fish, it’s best not to have too much contact. Her situation is a bit complicated,” System A said cautiously. “This is what I heard from other systems, after so many years…”

Ji Mingxiao pondered: “But it’s not like I can choose not to contact her. I didn’t do anything, but trouble still came knocking on my door, didn’t it?”

System A fell silent again. This was true, but there was nothing else to be done.

When Ji Mingxiao returned, she got off the carriage and saw Xi Ruan standing at the palace gate.

“How did you do it?” Xi Ruan ran towards Ji Mingxiao, even though it was a mission that was destined to fail.

“I don’t know, a person’s heart is unpredictable,” Ji Mingxiao said with some emotion. “But as long as we can pass, it’s fine.”

She reached out and ruffled Xi Ruan’s hair: “Should we take a break for a while before doing the next mission?”

“Why?” Xi Ruan frowned. “Maybe not, I don’t have much savings.”

“Sigh, okay then. It seems that being lazy requires capital.”

Xi Ruan stared into Ji Mingxiao’s eyes: “Are you sure you’re not hiding something from me?”

“There is one thing. Do you know ‘Salted fish’?”

Xi Ruan was stunned for a moment. The palace maids around them looked over, their expressions a little strange, as the question “Do you know ‘Salted fish’?” was really odd.

“I don’t remember,” Xi Ruan blinked. “What’s wrong?”

“She helped complete the mission, and that’s what I was hiding from you.” Ji Mingxiao thought for a moment and decided to reveal the most useless bit of gossip.

Xi Ruan rubbed her chin: “We’re probably not close. Maybe I helped her before? It’s quite normal for mission worlds to overlap.”

“Well, as long as she doesn’t have any malicious intentions towards us, it’s fine. No matter what, you’re mine alone,” Ji Mingxiao ruffled Xi Ruan’s hair, shifting the topic from her secrecy to her jealousy, and quickly diverted Xi Ruan’s attention. “The new clothes I had made for you are just finished. Want to try them on before we go back?”

“Okay.” Xi Ruan nodded, and sure enough, she didn’t ask any more questions.

The new clothes had been in the making for a long time, but they were handmade, and Ji Mingxiao had a lot of requirements that didn’t quite fit the era, so the production was very slow.

“Super beautiful,” Ji Mingxiao said, her eyes lighting up as she watched Xi Ruan walk out from behind the screen. She then started to flatter her: “I used to think there were no fairies in the world, until I met you.”

“Where did you learn such cheesy pickup lines? So greasy.” Although Xi Ruan said this, her expression clearly showed that she was happy. She turned around in front of the mirror, her chin slightly raised.

Ji Mingxiao had the system take a few pictures of Xi Ruan.

“I wish I could take this with me,” Ji Mingxiao said, touching the clothes on Xi Ruan.

“Host, you can take them with you, but it requires a lot of points.”

Ji Mingxiao looked in the mall and saw that it would cost a whopping 10,000 points.

She decided to forget about it. Her current financial situation didn’t allow for such luxury.

“I’m just wearing it for fun, it’s not practical for action anyway, why would I take it back?” Xi Ruan said casually, but her eyes were fixed on the mirror, as if she wanted to remember every detail. She clearly loved it very much.

Ji Mingxiao quietly held Xi Ruan’s hand, her voice a little low: “I’ll buy you a closet full of clothes in the future.”

“Okay.” Xi Ruan nodded, and seeing Ji Mingxiao’s expression, she smiled: “It’s just one dress, why that face, CEO Ji!”

She pinched Ji Mingxiao’s face: “You’ll make me feel even more useless. This is good, people should be content.”

Xi Ruan gave Ji Mingxiao another look: “I know, it’s hard to go from luxury to frugality. You’ll get used to it, I’ll be with you.”

Ji Mingxiao didn’t say anything else, she just rubbed Xi Ruan’s face.

When they returned to their space, Ji Mingxiao lay on the bed, not moving.

“Don’t be so upset. Xi Ruan clearly doesn’t mind herself,” System A consoled.

“You don’t understand,” Ji Mingxiao stared at the ceiling. Who wouldn’t want to give their little fairy a better life?

“Don’t overthink it, just be happy.”

Ji Mingxiao took a deep breath, sat up, and opened her bracelet.

Name: Ji Mingxiao Code Name: Xiao Xiao Completed Worlds: S (4), A (1), B (1), C (0), D (0), F (0) Points: 29800 Rest Time: 1275 days Ranking: 96697th

Ji Mingxiao stared at her points for a while and sighed. Five worlds and she still didn’t have 30,000 points. This kind of progress was really discouraging.

[Hunter Mission Invitation] – from Salted fish

Ji Mingxiao was stunned and sat up straight.

“What’s a hunter mission?” Ji Mingxiao accepted Salted fish’s friend request. As soon as the question popped into her head, the other party sent over the details of the hunter mission.

Hunter missions are high-point missions, but they are also more dangerous. The worlds they go to have major bugs and can contain awakened AI NPCs. These awakened NPCs can cause real damage to the mission takers. If you get hurt in the mission world, the injury will be carried over to the system space. Similarly, if you’re killed by an NPC in the world, you’re really dead.

These worlds include basic mission rewards and rewards for hunting awakened NPCs. One NPC is worth 10,000 points.

Ji Mingxiao’s eyes instantly lit up when she saw that number.

“Host! These worlds are very dangerous, with a death rate as high as 90%,” System A exclaimed.

“High risk, high reward,” Ji Mingxiao pursed her lips.

System A: ???

“Host?” System A took a deep breath and directly contacted Xi Ruan.

Xi Ruan was a little surprised to see a message from Ji Mingxiao’s system. After opening it and reading the content, she was stunned for a moment, then she rushed out of her room and ran towards Ji Mingxiao’s room.

When she heard the knock on the door, Ji Mingxiao wasn’t surprised at all. She was just about to open the door when Xi Ruan came in by herself and grabbed her wrist.

“If you’re going, take me with you.”

Ji Mingxiao: …

System A: ???

“How can we go together? Isn’t it random?”

“You can invite people to these missions. Did someone invite you?”

“Yeah, Salted fish.”

Xi Ruan frowned: “That person definitely has no good intentions.”

Ji Mingxiao showed Xi Ruan her conversation with Salted fish.

[Xiao Xiao: My wife might not agree.]

[Salted fish: …]

[Salted fish: You’re already being targeted anyway, why not go in and kill the person who’s been bothering you? That person should be an awakened NPC from a certain world.]

“Someone’s been bothering you? I knew you were hiding something from me!” Xi Ruan shouted, raising her hand and punching Ji Mingxiao twice. “You even lied to me!”

“I didn’t lie to you, I just hid it from you,” Ji Mingxiao took a small step back, looking at Xi Ruan. “Calm down, be good.”

[Xiao Xiao: What world?]

[Salted fish: Of course, it’s an S-class world.]

[Xiao Xiao: Why is that NPC bothering me?]

[Salted fish: Because there aren’t many people with such quirky operations. Plus, when you and I were on the mission, we didn’t use our real faces, so it’s normal to get mixed up. Also, it might know Xi Ruan.]

[Salted fish: Don’t worry, I have nothing to do with your wife. Looking at her is like looking at my great-great-great-great-granddaughter. There was a problem in a world, and I just helped out a little.]

Xi Ruan’s hand paused, she frowned, and glanced at Ji Mingxiao.

[Salted fish: So, do you want to come and help?]

[Xiao Xiao: A big shot like you can do it alone, right?]

[Salted fish: I don’t think so. It’s an S-class world with a high level of collapse. There are quite a few intelligent systems, and it’s too tiring to do it alone.]

Ji Mingxiao was a bit helpless. This meant that she could do it alone, but she just didn’t want to?

[Salted fish: I can give you 10,000 points.]

Ji Mingxiao was speechless.

[Xiao Xiao: One NPC is already 10,000.]

[Salted fish: 11,000, at most.]

Ji Mingxiao was a bit speechless, the corner of her mouth twitching slightly.

[Xiao Xiao: Okay, I’m bringing Xi Ruan.]

[Salted fish: Okay, just invite her to form a team.]

System A was silent, then silent again.

“Are you really going to do this?”

“Yeah.” Ji Mingxiao turned her head to look at Xi Ruan. “Are you scared?”

“Scared of what?” Although Xi Ruan said this, Ji Mingxiao could feel her hand trembling slightly when she held it.

She kissed Xi Ruan’s forehead: “We’ll get out of this.”

“Okay.” Xi Ruan nodded.

Salted fish sent over the general content of the world. BUG worlds would send out the world settings in advance so that the mission takers would know, but there was no script, because the world was already chaotic and many things wouldn’t follow the original rules.

It was a spiritual and metaphysical world, with three selectable roles, like a role-playing game. However, Ji Mingxiao’s role was fixed because she was the protagonist, and it was a “scumbag” protagonist world, automatically bound to a scumbag system.

The other two roles were the protagonist’s guardian spirit and the protagonist’s senior sister.

Xi Ruan wanted to choose the guardian spirit.

“If you choose the guardian spirit, does that mean I won’t be able to touch you?” Ji Mingxiao frowned.

[Salted fish: You two don’t have to discuss it. I’m not going to be the guardian spirit anyway, I don’t want to watch you two being lovey-dovey all the time.]

[Xiao Xiao: …]

And so, it was settled. Xi Ruan would be the guardian spirit, and Salted fish would be the senior sister.

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