The Host Has Fallen for the Second Female Lead Again - Chapter 102

“I know. You guys should leave first, everyone. It’s almost enough to get to a warm place,” Ji Mingxiao said.

“Miss Qin, I’ll leave it to you,” the boss sighed.

Ji Mingxiao nodded and went to the control room to check the surveillance footage again.

Sure enough, among the six girls was Xiang Ying.

The six of them were already in a bit of a panic. The temperature outside was already so low, and as a haunted house with a radiating black mist, the temperature inside could only be lower.

The black mist was corrupting this area, turning it into an isolated island.

Ji Mingxiao took out several talismans from her bag based on her memory and stuck them on the exterior wall of the haunted house.

The black mist thinned slightly, and everyone would completely bypass this area until the matter was resolved.

Six people were enough. There couldn’t be any more people coming here.

Ji Mingxiao took a copper coin sword from her bag and shook it in her hand.

“What do we do now?” Xi Ruan asked, looking at Ji Mingxiao.

“Follow your intuition.”

If there was something she couldn’t do, the system would automatically help. Besides, Ji Mingxiao trusted Qin Wan’s muscle memory.

Xi Ruan looked around. The place made her very uncomfortable. Although she had wanted to stay outside with Ji Mingxiao, she finally went back into the jade pendant.

Ji Mingxiao took a deep breath.

“Even though I’m not outside, my heart is with you!”

Ji Mingxiao:…

She felt a bit helpless. Before entering the haunted house, she had found a non-scary mask to wear, as she didn’t want to reveal her identity in front of Xiang Ying.

Although according to the plot, revealing her identity was inevitable, it definitely wasn’t now.

“Be careful,” Xi Ruan reminded her again.

“Mhm.” Ji Mingxiao slowly took one step after another into the haunted house.

It was indeed more than ten degrees colder than outside. If she could, Ji Mingxiao would have wanted to wrap herself in a down jacket. Moreover, this cold could penetrate to her bones. The chill spread from the soles of her feet to her brain, and Ji Mingxiao already wanted to run.

Ji Mingxiao took out two talismans, muttered incantations, and the talismans flew from her hand, shooting forward like two flashes of fire.

She used them to scout the way. To be honest, she had no way of spotting the ‘dirty things’ in this situation. The things had already merged with the surrounding black mist.

And anything that could affect such a large area was clearly not some ordinary ghost.

The talismans would find the location of the six girls for Ji Mingxiao.

After waiting for about a minute, Ji Mingxiao continued forward. When she arrived, only the talismans were floating in the air, but no one was there.

Silence. Silence was all Ji Mingxiao had at this moment.

She really wanted to run away now!

Ji Mingxiao took a deep breath. Although Xi Ruan didn’t know exactly what was happening, she was still startled by the two floating sparks of fire.

“There must be other spaces around here. The people must have been pulled into one,” Ji Mingxiao took out other items. The talismans burned in the air, their smoke drifting and then slowly turning into a thin line that stretched outwards.

To be honest, this scene was unusually eerie, as the line was only visible thanks to the dim lights inside the haunted house and the two talismans floating nearby.

The smoke line circled in the air, then headed directly toward a nearby wall, spreading across its surface and slowly covering the entire wall.

Ji Mingxiao: …

Xi Ruan: !!!

Ji Mingxiao held the copper coin sword in her hand, and her body moved on its own. She wasn’t too sure what she was doing. She could only hear the sound of wind. The surroundings suddenly lit up, but only for an instant. The wall in front of her disappeared in a flash, replaced by a very messy room.

More than a dozen people were scattered on the ground. Ji Mingxiao guessed these were the previously missing people. She checked them one by one. They seemed to only be unconscious, but they were all frowning, clearly trapped in a nightmare.

“They are all missing a soul and a spirit,” Ji Mingxiao stood up, looked around, took a deep breath, and sat down cross-legged on the ground.

She lit incense to summon the spirits.

“Are we just going to wait like this?”

“Mhm.” Ji Mingxiao didn’t believe the thing wouldn’t come. Besides, she really didn’t want to run around randomly in an unfamiliar place.

Since the people were all here, the ‘thing’ was definitely going to come over.

After waiting for about half an hour, Ji Mingxiao’s legs were numb, but she finally felt a change in her surroundings.

“Finally, it’s here.” Ji Mingxiao yawned, held the copper coin sword in her right hand, and directly struck the corner of the room.

Simple and brutal, no pleasantries.

“Why did you attack directly!” the other party exclaimed.

“What else? I don’t have time to listen to you prattle on,” Ji Mingxiao said grumpily. After being in this freezing place for so long, expecting her to be in a good mood was a pipe dream.

System A was a little emotional. She was truly angry this time, she had even given up the bickering part.

Ji Mingxiao was very fast. Qin Wan was a skilled fighter, and Ji Mingxiao had also practiced before. The two combined looked incredibly impressive.

It took her only about five minutes to pull the ‘thing’ out of the corner. She had prepared for everything, and this was the end result?

It was just a little ghost, not even a vengeful spirit, and it didn’t have the ability to cause trouble over an entire area.

The ending didn’t match the process. Even if she had a lucky card and was having a streak of good luck, it shouldn’t have been like this.

But after putting the ‘thing’ into a ghost-catching bottle, all the black mist around them disappeared. This proved that the black mist was indeed coming from it.

Ji Mingxiao shook the bottle, frowned, and then put the item into her bag.

After that, she started to cast spells to call back the missing souls.

“Is something wrong?” System A asked.

“Do you even need to ask? It’s obvious that there’s a problem.” Ji Mingxiao raised her hand, shook the red thread in her hand, tied the people together, and slowly led them out of the haunted house.

“It looks a lot like a zombie procession,” Xi Ruan complained.

It was indeed similar. Ji Mingxiao had mesmerized them, which would reduce the possibility of her being exposed.

After leading the people out of the haunted house, Ji Mingxiao loosened the rope. The people hadn’t woken up yet and all fell down again.

Ji Mingxiao then carefully checked the haunted house again but didn’t find anything strange.

She told the boss she was leaving directly. The money would be transferred to her card later, and she also told the boss not to reveal her identity. If anyone asked who solved the problem, he only needed to say it was someone from the Qin family.

Although the boss didn’t understand why, he still agreed.

That night, the haunted house was trending on social media. The missing people appeared at the haunted house’s entrance, the staff was all gone, and there were strange actions of dispersing tourists. It all seemed incredibly bizarre, and there were all sorts of theories.

Ji Mingxiao took a glance at the theories. Some people’s analysis was quite plausible, but they were all off the mark.

She looked at the thing in the bottle.

After she came back last night, the little ghost in the bottle had turned into a puddle of water. The water looked no different from regular tap water.

But floating in the water were small black things. They were tiny, but they were very obvious in the transparent water.

“Could it be… hair?” After a few minutes of hesitation, Ji Mingxiao used a magical artifact to pull the thing out, not daring to touch it directly.

Ji Mingxiao frowned. For the next three hours, she used various methods but couldn’t find any more clues. Her eyes were so sore she thought they would die. In the end, she put the thing in a box, waiting for the ‘idle’ one to come and take a look.

But she thought it was probably hair.

Since Ji Mingxiao had arrived here, she hadn’t contacted Xiang Ying. However, before going to sleep, Xiang Ying sent her a message.

[Xiang Ying: Did you see the trending topic?]

[Qin Wan: No, why?]

[Xiang Ying: That haunted house I went to today had an accident. Why don’t you care about me at all? I clearly told you before that I was going to that haunted house.]

From her tone, it seemed she had been waiting for Ji Mingxiao to contact her. Ji Mingxiao raised her eyebrows. Since she was so expectant, she shouldn’t disappoint her.

[Qin Wan: You’re fine now, aren’t you? Why are you making a fuss?]

System A: There it is! The scumbag girlfriend line.

Xiang Ying was also stunned. She never expected Qin Wan to speak to her like that.

[Xiang Ying: What do you mean?]

[Qin Wan: Didn’t I tell you not to go?]

Qin Wan had indeed told Xiang Ying before not to go, because A City had been a bit restless lately.

[Xiang Ying: I’m so sad right now. Can’t you comfort me? Do you know what I went through today? Qin Wan, are you going to break up with me?]

Ji Mingxiao raised her eyebrows.

[Qin Wan: Break up?]

[Qin Wan: You said it. Then goodbye.]

System A: ???

“Host, what are you doing!”

Although Xi Ruan still hated Ji Mingxiao’s mission, seeing Ji Mingxiao’s actions truly shocked her.

“Going with the flow. The main goal here is to find the NPC with the problem, isn’t it? The hunter mission can be a little loose, but it still needs to have a completion rate,” Ji Mingxiao rubbed her neck. Just as she was about to continue, Xiang Ying called.

The other party was also a pampered little princess, used to being spoiled and willful. As soon as Ji Mingxiao answered the phone, she heard the other party’s sharp voice.

“Qin Wan! You’re actually breaking up with me?”

Ji Mingxiao rubbed her ear: “Didn’t you say it yourself?”

“I was just saying it! Can’t you just coax me?”

“Why should I coax you? We’re both living our lives for the first time,” Ji Mingxiao said nonchalantly, her voice sounding a bit lazy.

There was a few seconds of silence on the other end. She took a deep breath, seemingly about to say something, but Ji Mingxiao didn’t give her the chance.

“Bye-bye, then. There will be someone better next. Goodbye.”

After saying that, Ji Mingxiao hung up the phone and blocked her number and WeChat.

“Knowing her personality, you’ll be hung on her social media feed soon,” Xi Ruan said.

“Let her hang me then,” Ji Mingxiao tapped the table.

“Host, you can’t just put all your hope in finding the AI. This is a primary mission. Although the hunting mission can be a bit more relaxed, it still needs to be completed,” System A said, feeling exhausted and trying to persuade her earnestly.

“I know. Since she’s in the plot, she will definitely appear later. I just don’t want to get tangled up with her emotionally.”

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