The Host Has Fallen for the Second Female Lead Again - Chapter 44

“As someone who got to be your Lin family’s private doctor, I still have some connections, you know,” Xi Ruan huffed lightly.

Ji Mingxiao laughed, “That’s pretty impressive, isn’t it?”

“Mhm.” Xi Ruan slightly raised her chin. “My character setting is excellent.”

“Okay.” Ji Mingxiao nodded, clapping her hands in support.

The assembly time was tomorrow.

A perfectly good summer vacation was just gone, even though it was only a little over ten days long.

Ji Mingxiao finished packing her things; her luggage wasn’t much, just a small suitcase.

Of course, the mecha was a large item.

Although they would provide combat mechas there, people with custom mechas had to bring their own.

They would be transported together.

The difference between a regular mecha and a custom one was significant, similar to the difference between a free user and a paying user.

Ji Mingxiao was very curious about what would happen if the transport ship carrying the mechas was hijacked.

When she said this out loud, she was met with a look of disdain from Xi Ruan.

“Can’t you think of something good for a change?” Xi Ruan said with a deadpan expression.

“Just a random guess.”

“As the female lead, don’t just guess bad plot points, because if you do, there’s a high chance they’ll come true,” Xi Ruan said very seriously.

Ji Mingxiao: …

“System, is that for real?”

“No, but if you want the other party to have more screen time, there’s an eighty percent chance they will because of your thoughts, after all, they’re someone the protagonist wishes to keep around,” System A said.

Ji Mingxiao looked at Xi Ruan and smiled, a mischievous glint in her eyes.

“What’s wrong?” Xi Ruan noticed Ji Mingxiao’s expression and had a bad feeling.

“Nothing.” Ji Mingxiao gave a very gentle smile.

Xi Ruan: ???

“Mhm, don’t worry, from now on I’ll just think about other things. I’ll think about you more.”

Xi Ruan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized something. “No, no, no! Don’t think about me! Absolutely do not think about me!”

“Oh, I can’t control it. There’s nothing I can do.” Ji Mingxiao waved at Xi Ruan and returned to her room.

Xi Ruan: …

“Why do you two enjoy hurting each other so much?” System A was very confused.

“I just wanted to tease her,” Ji Mingxiao said, rubbing her neck.

Since the assembly time was at 6 AM, she went to bed early.

She had been a bit nervous before, but as someone who had been transformed by a golden finger, she wasn’t scared at all.

To be honest, she didn’t really like using these skill cards. If it weren’t for the special circumstances back then, she wouldn’t have used them. On one hand, they were too expensive. On the other hand, using this kind of thing always made her feel like she was cheating during every test.

However, the feeling of becoming a great master without doing anything was kind of exhilarating, like finding a million dollars on the street.

In short, Ji Mingxiao was constantly wavering between feeling a little embarrassed and feeling really great.

But she decided that in the next world, unless there were special circumstances, she wouldn’t use this thing. It was too easy to get addicted.

The next morning, Ji Mingxiao deliberately walked down the stairs quietly. When she got down, she saw Xi Ruan already sitting on the sofa.

“Are you going too?”

“Mhm, my application has been approved. I can go with you guys,” Xi Ruan smiled.

“Aren’t you scared?”

“What’s there to be scared of?” Xi Ruan looked at Ji Mingxiao. “Besides, I’ll be in the rear, so I don’t have to fight anyone.”

“So, are you scared?”

Ji Mingxiao: …

To be honest, she was a little scared. As someone who had always taken down opponents with words and strategies, suddenly going to a battlefield where she might have to kill people felt very uncomfortable. After all, she was a young lady who grew up in a time of peace, and her mindset couldn’t change that quickly.

“Don’t worry, the system has protections for that. It won’t let you feel uncomfortable,” Xi Ruan patted Ji Mingxiao’s shoulder. “Looks like you still have some moral bottom lines.”

Ji Mingxiao: ???

“I’m very curious what kind of image you have of me in your mind.”

Xi Ruan didn’t say anything, just smacked her lips. “You guess. Saying it out loud might hurt the feelings between us.”

Ji Mingxiao suddenly reached out and pulled the other person over, messing up her hair.

After messing up her hair, she clapped her hands and went to the dining room to have breakfast, a look of “I have done a good deed and hid my name” on her face, leaving Xi Ruan roaring in the living room.

The two arrived at the school at a normal time, neither early nor late.

Because of her golden finger, Ji Mingxiao had basically been occupying the number one spot in the solo combat department for a long time. Before, some people suspected she was using performance-enhancing drugs, but after searching for a long time, they found nothing. In the end, everyone came to the conclusion that “this person was just hiding her true strength, all to deceive Xue Qingran’s eyes.”

After the rumor got out, everyone’s eyes when they looked at Ji Mingxiao were filled with a strange kind of “admiration.”

To this, Ji Mingxiao just thought: …

The wisdom of the masses is indeed invincible.

After lining up in the team, Ji Mingxiao and Xi Ruan went their separate ways.

Ji Mingxiao had to go and activate her mecha. There were only about twenty people who had custom mechas, and nobody was really talking. It was very quiet.

“You guys will go with the mechas and separate from the others,” the leading teacher said.

The few of them acknowledged this, then piloted their mechas to the docking bay of the spaceship and went directly to the passenger cabin.

There were many active-duty soldiers, probably urgently transferred there to protect the mechas.

Ji Mingxiao greeted them and sat down in her designated seat. It was very quiet; no one was talking.

“Teacher, can I ask what the situation is over there?” Ji Mingxiao waited until everyone was seated and then looked at the teacher leading the team.

The teacher frowned, looking a little displeased. “You’ll know when you get there. Don’t ask random questions.”

Ji Mingxiao didn’t say anything else, but she frowned and opened her optical computer to take a look.

“Put your optical computer away. We’re about to do a space jump.”

Ji Mingxiao was stunned for a moment. Why were they in such a hurry?

Although it was some distance from the front line, it would only take three or four days to get there. A space jump could get them there in half an hour, but it required a huge amount of rare fuel.

Why the rush?

“System, nothing bad is going to happen, is it?” Ji Mingxiao said, her brows furrowed.

System A was silent for a long time.

“Host, you have triggered an S-class side quest. The estimated difficulty is high. Quest content: Escape from the Forbidden Zone of F541.”

Ji Mingxiao: ???

She looked around and then at the person standing there. It was indeed a teacher from her school.

Was someone in the teacher’s team colluding with others?

“Are they here to steal the mechas?”

“Most likely,” System A said.

Ji Mingxiao: …

“Didn’t you say nothing bad was going to happen?”

“I remember saying it probably wouldn’t,” System A defended.

As for what was actually said, Ji Mingxiao couldn’t remember, but System A had the records. However, to save its own skin, it was going to shift the blame, of course.

Ji Mingxiao pressed a button on her optical computer.

The person immediately turned around and looked at her.

“Didn’t I tell you not to play with your optical computer?”

Ji Mingxiao looked at the person. “I want to contact my homeroom teacher.”

“You’re sitting here, which means you’re already a soldier! I hope you can follow the rules.”

“But I’m not. I want to have a call with my homeroom teacher! This is completely within the rules,” Ji Mingxiao said, looking at the person. “Why are you trying to stop me? Are you using a huge amount of fuel for a space jump just to send twenty students and forty soldiers to the front line?”

“Don’t you think that’s ridiculous?”

The people next to Ji Mingxiao also looked over when they heard her words.

The person stared at Ji Mingxiao. “Are you doubting your teacher?”

“Why can’t I doubt? As someone who has been harmed by a girlfriend, isn’t it normal to have some doubts about you?” Ji Mingxiao said, looking at the person.

“Well, your doubts are pretty accurate. It’s just a pity you’re too late.” The person took a step back, and Ji Mingxiao and the others were instantly trapped in a cage.

It looked very similar to the laser cage Ji Mingxiao had seen in sci-fi movies, the kind that would cut you in half if you tried to pass through.

She took out her optical computer and saw that the message she had just sent had been intercepted.

Ji Mingxiao was a bit annoyed and sat back down in her seat.

The forty soldiers were obviously shocked as well, and it was very quiet for a moment.

“What do we do now?” a few students instinctively looked at Ji Mingxiao, and even the group of soldiers looked over.

Ji Mingxiao: ???

“How should I know?” Ji Mingxiao casually took something out of her backpack and threw it at the laser.

A faint smell of scorching spread through the air. The item had been split into two halves and fell to the ground.

“What do we do?” Ji Mingxiao looked at the group of soldiers.

They looked at each other.

Although they were all well-trained, they couldn’t withstand a laser.

“Should we call the mechas over?”

Now it was the students’ turn to look at each other.

“Guys, if mechas were that fragile, could they even be on the battlefield?” Ji Mingxiao was a little speechless.

She quietly took out her “remote control” and paused.

“Oh, the signal’s blocked. How annoying.” Ji Mingxiao felt it, and sure enough, there was no movement from the mecha. “Tsk.”

“Are we going to have to wait until we land?” a boy asked, his expression looking awful.

The spaceship suddenly began to vibrate violently.

The space jump had begun.

Everyone’s expressions became even worse.

“Can we negotiate?” a boy sitting in the corner asked. “Let them let us go, and we’ll give up the mecha permissions.”

“What are you talking about?” one of the soldiers said.

“What else can we do? They clearly want the mechas. If we give them the mechas, we can live. If we don’t, we die, and then they’ll just dismantle the mechas. What’s the difference? The mechas will still end up in their hands,” the boy continued.

“We’ve already been taken to a strange place. Are you still counting on them to send us back? We need to use the mechas as leverage to gain more benefits. Only by not telling them what they need can we stay alive. After all, dismantling the mechas is the worst option,” Ji Mingxiao said, looking at the boy. “If we tell them, they’ll just kill us afterward. It’s much more cost-effective and convenient for them.”

“You sure have a silver tongue.”

A woman walked over. She had a great figure and was wearing a cheongsam and high heels, looking like she could walk the runway at any moment. She had a sultry look, and her makeup was a bit heavy.

Some of the boys behind her were already staring with their mouths agape.

The woman smirked, one hand on her chest and the other touching her lips. “What a pity, such a youthful age.”

Ji Mingxiao didn’t like this opening.

The woman looked at her, a strong smile on her face. “We recently developed a new machine that can make people tell the truth. We haven’t experimented with it yet, and you guys are a great batch of test subjects.”

“So, none of you should even think about escaping.”

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