The Host Has Fallen for the Second Female Lead Again - Chapter 105

“What’s the matter?” Ji Mingxiao asked.

Generally, a story starting like this is a multi-part one.

“Because of her disappearance, we had investigated her not long ago. She and a few netizens had agreed to go on an adventure to Spirit Mountain in K City,” Officer Wang said, frowning. He was annoyed with young people these days who look for trouble and run to places they shouldn’t.

Ji Mingxiao: ???

To be honest, if you connect the “Spirit” in “Spirit Mountain” with “ghosts”, the mountain sounds a lot more eerie, and she was indeed right.

“The four of them disappeared together. There have always been many bad rumors about Spirit Mountain,” Officer Wang said, his face looking even worse.

Ji Mingxiao: !!!

“Now we’re worried that the other three might appear in other places. After all, you might not be there to take action in time,” Officer Wang said.

Ji Mingxiao rubbed her temple: “I want to go to Spirit Mountain to take a look.”

Honestly, Ji Mingxiao didn’t think the others would appear in other places. After all, she wasn’t there. She now felt that if she hadn’t used the talisman paper at the time, that person might have come directly to her.

“I also think you should go and have a look. Our people have been there before but didn’t find anything special,” Officer Wang said, looking at Ji Mingxiao. “Maybe we need someone with your professional knowledge to take a look.”

Ji Mingxiao nodded: “Can you reimburse the plane ticket?”

“Reimburse, reimburse,” Officer Wang was a bit speechless, feeling a little tired. Why were the Qin family people so stingy, inheriting the same stinginess and being so calculative?

Ji Mingxiao nodded. For tasks in collaboration with the authorities, the compensation wasn’t much, a few thousand yuan at most.

She didn’t quite understand what Officer Wang’s expression meant—that look of disdain mixed with a hint of helplessness.

Ji Mingxiao narrowed her eyes and got a bit of hair from the lump of flesh.

“Why do you want that?” Officer Wang took two steps back.

“It’s useful,” Ji Mingxiao put the item away. “By the way, do you want a protective talisman?”

“Yes,” Wei Xi’s eyes lit up.

“Five hundred yuan each,” Ji Mingxiao took some out of her bag.

The several police officers looked at each other, and Officer Wang was even more speechless.

“But you don’t have to be afraid, evil spirits generally can’t enter a police station,” Ji Mingxiao said.

“It’s too expensive, can you make it cheaper?” Wei Xi looked at Ji Mingxiao eagerly. To be honest, she was quite timid and couldn’t always stay in the police station.

Ji Mingxiao glanced at the talisman paper in her hand, and nodded: “Okay, first-time purchase gets a discount, one hundred yuan.”

The people next to them quickly gathered around.

“We’re also first-time buyers.”

Ji Mingxiao sold ten protective talismans this time, earning a thousand yuan. To be honest, it might be very difficult for others to draw talismans, but as the protagonist, with her protagonist’s halo, the speed of drawing talismans was incredibly fast. There weren’t so many rules, it was as simple as eating a meal.

“Still a profiteer,” Xi Ruan said.

“It’s all money to buy snacks for you.”

Ji Mingxiao left the hospital and saw a couple running into the hospital, crying and stumbling.

She stopped in her tracks. It was Zhong Yu’s parents.

Ji Mingxiao pursed her lips. What does it feel like when the daughter you’ve raised for so long suddenly dies?

She felt a little irritable and looked up at the sky.

Then she thought of her own father.

Xi Ruan saw Ji Mingxiao’s mood suddenly drop, knowing that she probably thought of something, and silently closed her mouth.

She felt like she should hug her at this time, but she couldn’t touch her at all.

Ji Mingxiao didn’t go back to school, she went directly home.

She put her things away, booked a plane ticket, and contacted the others in the Qin family, preparing to depart the day after tomorrow.

She certainly couldn’t go alone this time.

Ji Mingxiao spent the extra day on preparations.

Officer Wang’s side provided a lot of information about Spirit Mountain, and there were also many rumors about it online.

Searching the news also brings up a lot.

The most recent was the disappearance of four university students at Spirit Mountain. In the past three years, over thirty people have gone missing on Spirit Mountain, and a dozen more have committed suicide there.

This alone was enough to make Spirit Mountain terrifying, not to mention all the strange stories.

“Honestly, if a guardian spirit couldn’t be too far from its guardian, I wouldn’t want to go with you,” Xi Ruan floated behind Ji Mingxiao, and they looked at the phone together.

Ji Mingxiao: …

“I don’t want you to go either, but it’s not safe to leave you here alone,” Ji Mingxiao frowned and took a deep breath.

Xi Ruan narrowed her eyes, felt a little uncomfortable hearing that: “Of course I have to follow you. I’ve also been reading books recently, so maybe I can help then.”

“A sharp tongue but a soft heart, that’s you,” Ji Mingxiao stretched and glanced at her phone, which had lit up. The person who came to help had arrived.

She got up and went out.

Only one person came, Qin Xiu, Qin Wan’s cousin, who was seventeen years old.

Qin Xiu didn’t go to school; he usually studied metaphysics at home. He was a bit reclusive and looked gloomy.

“Cousin,” Qin Xiu said, looking at Ji Mingxiao. He only glanced at her when he entered the door, greeted her, and then didn’t look at her again.

“Mhm, this place is a bit dangerous.”

Qin Xiu nodded.

“I’ve already booked the plane tickets. Listen to my commands after we get on the mountain.”

“Mhm.”

Ji Mingxiao looked at Qin Xiu helplessly. He seemed a little difficult to communicate with.

“Still don’t like to talk?”

Qin Xiu looked up at Ji Mingxiao this time: “It’s not that I don’t like to talk, I just don’t like meaningless conversations.”

“Okay, how much do you know about Spirit Mountain?”

“I’ve been there before, and I did the research this time,” Qin Xiu took a thick stack of papers out of his bag and placed them on the table.

Ji Mingxiao was a little surprised.

“The information I have is more complete than what you’d find online.”

“But I don’t think I can finish reading this today,” Ji Mingxiao flipped through it.

“There’s nothing special about it, mainly the terrain of Spirit Mountain makes it easy for yin energy to gather,” Qin Xiu said. “When we go this time, it’s best to change the Feng Shui of Spirit Mountain, otherwise more things will happen in the future.”

Ji Mingxiao: …

“Okay.”

Ji Mingxiao nodded.

Their plane was at 6 AM on the second day, so they had to leave for the airport at 4 AM. It was very rushed.

She didn’t know when Qin Xiu slept, he was yawning the whole way.

“You can sleep on the plane later.”

“Okay,” Qin Xiu nodded, his eyes wide, looking a bit dull and, staring blankly ahead.

The road was completely clear at 4 AM. The driver sped along the highway, unimpeded.

It was a one-way street, but suddenly a car appeared from the opposite direction. The driver screamed and was about to hit the brakes when he found he couldn’t move. His foot was still on the accelerator.

Ji Mingxiao leaned forward and adjusted the steering wheel, her face looking a bit ugly.

The taxi drove right through the car that had suddenly appeared.

The driver found he could move again and turned his head to look at Ji Mingxiao.

“If you walk at night often, you’ll eventually run into ghosts. From now on, if you see anything abnormal, just drive through it, don’t be afraid,” Ji Mingxiao said.

Driver: ???

How could he not be afraid?!

He was going crazy. This was the first time he had encountered this situation after driving at night for so many years.

The driver took a deep breath.

Ji Mingxiao looked out the window.

“Cousin.”

“Hmm?”

“Is something following you?” Qin Xiu asked.

His voice was already cold and lacked vitality, which made the driver in front even more frightened.

“Yes.”

Qin Xiu raised his hand and took something off of Ji Mingxiao’s body.

Ji Mingxiao took a look and frowned.

It was a small black paper figure. Ji Mingxiao’s small paper figures were usually cut from red paper.

This little black paper figure had been clinging to Ji Mingxiao’s back, perfectly blending in with her black clothes. In the dark, no one could have seen it.

And for some reason, the yin energy on the paper figure hadn’t leaked out at all.

The driver, watching everything in the rearview mirror, wanted to just throw them both out of the car.

They finally arrived at the airport. Ji Mingxiao got out of the car, took out her phone, and was about to say thank you, but the driver had already sped off.

Ji Mingxiao was a bit helpless. She had left a protective talisman in the driver’s car.

“It’s normal to be scared,” Qin Xiu said. Sometimes he would study talismans on the subway, and many people would stay away from him, thinking he was a lunatic.

The airport was still very crowded at 5 AM, bustling and noisy.

Ji Mingxiao and Qin Xiu didn’t have much luggage. When they went through security, the copper coin sword they took out of the bag attracted a lot of stares.

“We’re with a drama troupe,” Ji Mingxiao said with a smile.

The others looked away.

“Why didn’t you just tell the truth?” Qin Xiu frowned.

“I don’t really want to be filmed and put on the internet,” Ji Mingxiao said nonchalantly. “Besides, it’s better for us to be low-key.”

Qin Xiu stopped talking.

Xi Ruan floated out again and swayed in front of Qin Xiu, “Can you see me?”

“Yes,” Qin Xiu nodded.

“Do you have a guardian spirit?”

Qin Xiu shook his head: “Not everyone has a guardian spirit.”

Xi Ruan was a little disappointed. She had been hoping for a companion to talk to. She was almost bored to death; she couldn’t play with her phone or eat, and when there were many people, Ji Mingxiao couldn’t talk to her.

She really should have just embraced her lazy identity back then.

Ji Mingxiao smiled: “Let’s see if there are any fun sprites on Spirit Mountain. If there are, I’ll catch one for you to keep as a companion?”

“Okay,” Xi Ruan’s eyes lit up. Just as she was about to say something, she saw a man and a woman walking not far away and froze. “Is there a child on that woman’s back?”

“Yes,” Ji Mingxiao glanced at it and frowned. “The resentment is a bit strong.”

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