The Host Has Fallen for the Second Female Lead Again - Chapter 111

“Oh.”

Xi Ruan still gave Ji Mingxiao a look of disdain.

Ji Mingxiao felt a bit drained.

Xianyu watched the two of them interact and silently moved a bit farther away, her disdain also very obvious.

“So we’ve cleared up the matter of Mount Ling, does that mean we’re done?” Xi Ruan asked.

Ji Mingxiao blinked. She had only taken so much leave.

“Huh? We still haven’t found the person yet, and there’s the matter with the K City Xuanxue organization,” Qin Si said, glancing at Xi Ruan.

Ji Mingxiao looked at Qin Si’s expression and was silent for a few seconds.

“Isn’t that your job?”

Qin Si cleared his throat.

“But I think we need your help,” Qin Si said.

Ji Mingxiao felt this guy was just plain lazy.

She rubbed her temples and looked at Qin Si.

“I think you can handle it alone.”

“I don’t think so,” Qin Si sighed. “Many of the Qin family’s children don’t want to study this stuff anymore. They try to explain everything with science. Even when we make them see these things, they think we’re the ones who created it all.”

Ji Mingxiao: …

This was clearly just self-hypnosis.

“So, we still have to rely on you. If the Xuanxue organization wasn’t involved, we could have even cooperated with them,” Qin Si sighed.

Ji Mingxiao frowned. “So how many people in the Qin family are studying this now?”

“In K City, just over a hundred.”

Ji Mingxiao: ???

“Just?” She felt that a hundred-plus people was a lot. And if there were already over a hundred in K City, how many were there in the entire Qin family? No wonder they didn’t need to cooperate with the Xuanxue organization; they were an organization themselves.

“Although it’s over a hundred people, everyone’s skill level is very poor. There aren’t any with exceptional talent. Qin Xu, who came to pick you up, is already one of the best in K City. The others, I always feel, are just using this as an excuse not to go to school.”

Ji Mingxiao frowned. “If they can’t learn it and they don’t go to school, how will they live? Rely on the Qin family to support them? They won’t go out and swindle people, will they?”

“That won’t happen. Even if their talent is poor, they can still read feng shui without any problems.”

Ji Mingxiao: …

It was quite difficult to find a reliable feng shui master these days. If they could help people with feng shui, it didn’t seem like too big of a problem.

Ji Mingxiao didn’t want to talk anymore.

From her current perspective, this Qin Si was the most unreliable.

Moreover, Ji Mingxiao really couldn’t leave. She still had to find her ten thousand points.

After saying goodbye to Qin Si, Ji Mingxiao returned to the accommodation the Qin family had prepared for her. Initially, they wanted her to stay with a member of the Qin family, but fearing she would be uncomfortable, they arranged for her to stay at a hotel instead. Xianyu was in the room next door.

Back in her room, Ji Mingxiao took out all the short strands of hair and put them together.

“What are you going to do?” Xi Ruan watched Ji Mingxiao stick various talismans on the door of the room.

“I want to try a soul-calling ritual.”

Xi Ruan: …

“I’m worried. Don’t get yourself in too deep.”

“That shouldn’t happen.”

Although the ritual was simple, with the excellent talent of her body’s owner, it should be no problem to summon a soul.

Ji Mingxiao lit the candles.

It was just the right time, the (Hour of the Oni), perfect for this kind of thing.

She closed her eyes. Xi Ruan stayed in the jade pendant, sensing the movements around them.

The curtains in the room moved on their own, making a rustling sound.

Ji Mingxiao chanted incantations.

The small lock of hair on the table caught fire.

She immediately opened her eyes, looked around, and frowned in displeasure.

The talismans on the wall already showed signs of being damaged, but no energy was left behind.

Evidently, this thing was even more powerful than she had imagined.

The hair on the table had completely turned into a pile of ashes.

She let out a long sigh.

Xi Ruan ran out again. “I didn’t see anything just now.”

“Me neither.”

Ji Mingxiao narrowed her eyes. Sure enough, the big boss wasn’t going to come just because she called.

As she tidied up, she saw a call from her roommate. There were already more than ten missed calls.

“What’s wrong?” Ji Mingxiao rubbed her temples and called back.

“Are you okay?”

“I’m fine.”

“That’s good. I thought something happened to you. Another bystander jumped off the same building as last time.”

Ji Mingxiao frowned. “Why did someone jump again?”

“I don’t know. I saw it this time too, and it scared me so much!” The other person shrieked, on the verge of tears. “I’m never going to go watch a crowd again.”

Ji Mingxiao: …

“If you’re scared, there’s a small box on my desk with a peace talisman inside. Give one to each person in the dorm.”

“That’s great. I was also planning to go to the temple to pray tomorrow. I didn’t used to believe in these strange things, but this time it was really too scary.”

“Don’t overthink it. Don’t get the peace talisman wet, or it will be useless.”

“Okay.”

Ji Mingxiao hung up the phone, tapped on the table, and called Officer Wang.

He must have been busy and didn’t pick up. He called back a few hours later.

“Another person from our school jumped?”

“Yes, this time they died from the fall. Their parents said their nerves had been a bit off since that day. You might need to come back and take a look. We can’t see anything, and the forensic examination came back completely normal.”

Ji Mingxiao clenched her fists. “Tell people to seal off that building. You can go find other Qin family members. You don’t have to just look for me.”

“That’s true. I’ll hang up for now; things are a mess over here.”

“Okay, let me know if you get any news. I’m still trying to find the big boss and don’t know if I’ll succeed.”

“Alright.”

Ji Mingxiao couldn’t quite understand.

If it already had consciousness, it was normal for it to want to resist this world. But why did it want to kill people?

Did it just have consciousness but no humanity?

Ji Mingxiao walked to the window and looked out.

“It’s just provoking this world. Isn’t that normal?” System A said. “This world is still pretty good. In some worlds, the order is chaotic, as if the apocalypse has descended.”

Ji Mingxiao frowned. “Then that could truly be called a hunting mission.”

She was on the twenty-third floor. Looking down, all the cars looked tiny, like dense, swarming ants.

She still had to find Qin Xiu and the others.

Qin Xiu should be the awakened AI.

The police were moving quickly. A wanted poster had already been issued.

After all, so many people had died.

After Mount Ling was cleared, the police went in and re-examined the bones. All of them belonged to people who had died in the past few years.

Qin Xiu and the others didn’t dare show their faces at all now.

“She’s too ruthless. She’s even cooperating with the police. And those idiots are actually helping her.”

“Should we tell them that Qin Wan isn’t Qin Wan at all?”

…

Qin Xiu listened to the people next to him discussing, and he looked down at his phone.

To avoid being found, he had already changed his SIM card. The dim light of the phone reflected on his face.

He was a bit irritable.

He had clearly wanted to become better, but now he was hiding like a rat.

Qin Xiu glanced at the others again.

Ever since he found out he was just an insignificant NPC, he had indeed been very upset. He felt he was different.

Now, looking at these people, he suddenly understood why they were NPCs.

If he wasn’t an NPC, he probably wouldn’t have made such a foolish decision like this.

Qin Xiu wanted to go back.

He got up and left the room. They were currently living in a small village. Because they had left in a hurry, they didn’t have much money. The rented house was a dump, but because it was a dump, they didn’t need any (procedures).

The sky outside was a bit overcast.

A person walked over, looking to be in their twenties, dressed very casually. But with that face, whatever they wore had a sense of style.

He glanced at Qin Xiu and then walked straight inside.

Qin Xiu heard a gasp from inside.

He thought about it for a moment, then turned and walked back.

“Qin Wan performed a soul-calling ritual on me.”

“Huh? Boss, are you okay?”

“I’m fine.”

Qin Xiu felt his hands and feet turn cold. He hadn’t expected this person to be the one who designed everything.

“So, boss, what do we do now?”

“You guys stay here. Don’t alert the enemy. Three people have come this time. As long as we take all three of them down, we can leave. At a necessary time, we might have to fight head-on.”

“Yeah, what are we afraid of? We have so many people.”

The man looked at the person who spoke and smiled, saying nothing.

For him, everything was just a sacrifice. He wasn’t interested in whether these people’s actions were futile, as long as they could cause trouble for those people.

Qin Xiu frowned. He felt the man’s expression was off, but the others all thought the man’s smile was meant to be encouraging, and they one by one told him to rest assured.

“Boss, this is Qin Wan’s cousin.”

“I know.” The man nodded and looked at Qin Xiu. That look made Qin Xiu very uncomfortable.

Qin Xiu took a step back.

“I know everything you’re thinking.”

Qin Xiu frowned.

“You don’t believe me?”

“But there’s nothing you can do even if you don’t. You’ve already boarded my ship, so you have to listen to me.”

Qin Xiu clenched his fists.

“She won’t trust you anymore, either,” the man showed a kind smile. “Don’t think about running away. I won’t let you.”

Qin Xiu lowered his eyes.

The room was quiet. The man didn’t linger for too long, leaving after saying a few words.

He even told them to find another place and create another corpse forest.

After the man left, Qin Xiu was punched.

“You actually wanted to run away?”

“I didn’t.” Qin Xiu was very calm. He then looked at the others. “I just thought you were too useless. I brought the person over, but you didn’t even watch her properly. I just wanted to find a new partner.”

The faces of the others turned dark.

Qin Xiu rubbed his face, then punched the other person’s face in return.

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