Ji Mingxia was startled.
He contacted only his grandmother after he and Yu Ning came out of the hotel and he didn’t even tell her where he was. His phone had been switched off for the past few days, and it was less than ten minutes since he switched it back on, even the police couldn’t locate him that fast. How did Pei Yuan know that he was in the mountains?!
Ji Mingxia thought of the look he had just exchanged with Yan Guang and whispered, “Are you looking for us?”
Pei Yuan said, “I’m not the only one looking for you, everyone is looking for you.”
Ji Mingxia originally wanted to ask Pei Yuan about Yu Ning, but was instead stunned and confused upon hearing Pei Yuan’s words.
He still remembered when they first met. Pei Yuan was full of hostility towards Yu Ning, and he had always suspected that Yu Ning was “contaminated”.
After Yu Ning followed Pei Yuan to the Institute, the problem with Yu Ning was not solved, and even at the start of the school year, the Institute still did not want to let him go. It was Yu Ning who used the public opinion from the outside world to force the research institute to let him go.
Now that Yu Ning had mutated, would Pei Yuan want to take him back when he sees such a Yu Ning?
Supernatural incidents were occurring all over the world, so the organization behind Pei Yuan must have entered a state of war. Under such special circumstances, it was unknown as to what they would do to Yu Ning after they found him.
Ji Mingxia was anxious at the thought that Yan Guang, the Ding couple, and countless other capable people were all looking for them.
He gripped the phone tightly and was just about to hang up and turn it off when Pei Yuan hurriedly spoke up as if he had guessed that Ji Mingxia was going to do it. “Mingxia, Yu Ning isn’t with you, right?”
“Why are you asking?” Ji Mingxia said warily.
“I want to talk to you.” Pei Yuan immediately said.
Seeing that Ji Mingxia was silent and did not respond, Pei Yuan added, “It’s best if Yu Ning is not with you, the person I’m looking for is you.”
Ji Mingxia hesitantly said, “What do you want to see me about?”
“To discuss …… Yu Ning’s mutation.” Pei Yuan said.
Pei Yuan’s words instantly hit on Ji Mingxia’s weakness.
But if he went to see Pei Yuan, and Yu Ning remained in the shadows, he could ask Pei Yuan about the matter and at the same time ensure Yu Ning’s safety.
This was exactly what Ji Mingxia wanted.
He ran out of reasons to refuse and immediately said, “Where are you, I’ll come see you.”
“There’s a pavilion halfway down the mountain, I’ll wait for you there.” Pei Yuan said.
That pavilion was far away from where Yu Ning was sleeping, so Ji Mingxia felt more at ease and agreed at once.
Although Ji Mingxia walked slowly, going down the mountain was much easier than going up. In less than twenty minutes, he arrived near the pavilion, where Pei Yuan was already standing inside and waiting for him.
Ji Mingxia deliberately looked around and used his extraordinary eyesight to check out the area. After making sure that Pei Yuan was the only one there, he walked forward.
Before Ji Mingxia got close, the bell at Pei Yuan’s waist suddenly trembled, emitting a distant ringing sound.
Pei Yuan looked down at the bronze bell for two seconds. When he turned around and saw only Ji Mingxia walking towards him, Pei Yuan gave him a deep look.
Ji Mingxia only felt that the expression on Pei Yuan’s face was very strange, very different from the look he had when they last saw each other.
However, he was concerned about Yu Ning, so he did not care what Pei Yuan thought. He immediately walked forward and went straight to the point, “How did you know that Yu Ning mutated?”
“He would be fine if he hadn’t absorbed dozens of mysterious items into his body. If it wasn’t for Yu Ning’s special physique, he would have turned into pieces by now.” Pei Yuan said.
Ji Mingxia was shocked.
Dozens of mysterious items?!
Yu Ning only told him that because of his special genes, he could easily be assimilated with mysterious items, thus creating a mutation.
But Ji Mingxia never expected that dozens of mysterious items had been absorbed into Yu Ning’s body!
He always thought that Yu Ning had only the rings and the bronze mirror!
Pei Yuan saw Ji Mingxia’s shocked expression and was afraid that he did not understand the full picture of what was going on, so he immediately said: “Since last year, mysterious items all over the world started to behave chaotically. The number of supernatural events last year alone was dozens of times more than that in previous years, and this year, in just one month, the incident rate has been a hundred times more than that of the past. It is like a mysterious item, sensed some kind of summons and awoke from their slumber and by a week ago, they directly erupted, so much so that even the state could no longer conceal them. At least hundreds of thousands of people around the world have been dying every day because of mysterious items.”
Ji Mingxia looked at Pei Yuan with wide eyes, “Are there people among you that are like Yu Ning?”
“There are.” Pei Yuan said, “Yu Ning should have told you that the ability to manipulate mysterious items is determined by the mutated genes in our bodies. When mysterious items break out, some people would try to absorb them to stop casualties from appearing, but so far, a person could only take in a maximum of ten mysterious items at a time. This is not because the person has poor tolerance. Normally, mysterious items are like animals, they have their own territories and unless they have to feed, it is rare for them to gather together in one place. But ever since the mysterious items rioted, they started appearing more frequently and because there isn’t enough territory to go around, the lower end mysterious items are forced to gather together, but even then, it would be about ten pieces at a time, it is unlikely that there will be more than that.”
When Ji Mingxia heard that, recalled the time he was trapped with Yu Ning Ke Chengxuan and the others. Before he knew what was going on, he was suddenly separated from Yu Ning and transferred to a room full of mysterious items. There were layers upon layers of mysterious items and as far as the eye could see, there were at least tens of thousands of them ……
The bell at Pei Yuan’s waist was still swinging back and forth. He observed Ji Mingxia’s expression and slowly said, “So far, only Yu Ning has absorbed a quantity that far exceeds that of normal people, if this continues, he will soon die.”
Ji Mingxia jerked his head up and looked at Pei Yuan, “Why is that, is it just because his status is different from others?”
Because he was the protagonist so he had to endure far more pain than normal people?!
Ji Mingxia could not help but clench his fists when he thought of the cracks all over Yu Ning’s body and his bleeding eyes.
“It’s because you were by his side.” Pei Yuan said.
Ji Mingxia froze, almost thinking he had heard wrong: “What did you say?”
On seeing that Ji Mingxia was getting emotional, Pei Yuan clenched the bronze bell at his waist and slowly said, “It’s because of you, Ji Mingxia, you guided countless mysterious items to gather together and Yu Ning absorbed them to protect you.”
Ji Mingxia looked at Pei Yuan incredulously, “You must be joking.”
“I never thought that it would be you either.” Pei Yuan whispered, “Yu Ning protected you so well and was always by your side. When the mysterious items rioted, and kept gathering towards you, the first thing everyone did was to suspect Yu Ning, who had a special physique. Even now, several people are looking for Yu Ning, and with Yu Ning’s misdirection, no one ever suspected you.”
Ji Mingxia looked at Pei Yuan, trying to find a trace of a joke on his face.
But Pei Yuan was serious at the moment, and he was even looking at Ji Mingxia with extreme vigilance.
Ji Mingxia finally discovered why he felt Pei Yuan was strange this time.
At this moment, Pei Yuan’s body was tense, he was clenching the bronze bell with one hand, while the little finger and ring finger of his other hand were curled, and the other three fingers were straight; this was a posture where he could form a seal at any time.
Ji Mingxia had seen how powerful Pei Yuan’s crest was, and it was also described in the novel that the most powerful mysterious item on Pei Yuan’s body was none other than this bronze bell.
Although Pei Yuan was standing in front of Ji Mingxia and speaking with him at length, he was on guard and ready to fight at any time.
Pei Yuan was very powerful but he was making a posture as if meeting a formidable opponent. This showed that he had a deep fear of Ji Mingxia, and it was absolutely impossible for him to be making a foolish joke.
Ji Mingxia asked slowly, “Why are you sure that this is all related to me?”
“The bell.” Pei Yuan said.
Ji Mingxia stared at the bronze bell that kept trembling.
He and Pei Yuan met at the Love Spring Mountain because Pei Yuan’s bell rang suddenly, he then followed the bell and eventually found Yu Ning and Ji Mingxia’s group.
At that time, Ji Mingxia looked like an ordinary person, but Yu Ning emanated danger so Pei Yuan took it that the bell was warning him of the contaminated Yu Ning.
But this time, Yu Ning was not around but the bell still rang when Ji Mingxia came.
It was self-evident who the culprit was.
Pei Yuan saw Ji Mingxia’s dumbfounded face and could not help but sigh in his heart.
Although he and Ji Mingxia had only met three times, they had a bond and Pei Yuan looked at Ji Mingxia like his junior.
Ji Mingxia looked good and had a good personality, and seemed to be a calm and ordinary person.
And it was ordinary people like Ji Mingxia that Pei Yuan had been protecting for so many years.
If there was no conclusive evidence, Pei Yuan would not have been willing to believe that the source of all this was the most harmless-looking Ji Mingxia.
The rioting mysterious items had put the whole world in danger, and special people like him were so busy. Everyone was trying to find the source and it was only last month that a suspicious place was identified, it was Funan County.
In the small county of Funan, tens of thousands of mysterious items had gathered in just a few weeks, but the strange thing was that as soon as the mysterious objects entered Funan County, they withdrew their edge and disappeared completely, as if they had gone invisible, with no trace of them to be found.
At first, Pei Yuan and the others were stationed in Funan County to keep watch, in case this huge pile of mysterious items erupted and something unexpected happened.
However, as the world suffered catastrophes, the county was quiet. Pei Yuan and the others had to temporarily withdraw to deal with other emergencies as they were short of manpower.
During this period, Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning’s experiences at H University were naturally presented to the Institute.
But as there were no fatalities, they were quickly ignored.
It was only when the Ding family’s case surfaced that they came to the forefront again.
And it was at this time that Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning returned to Funan County.
Immediately afterwards, in less than a day’s time, a supernatural incident broke out within Funan County, attracting national attention.
There were tens of thousands of mysterious items lurking in the centre of the tiny county. The Institute wanted to send people there, but it was unable to do so.
Only a few hundred people were trapped, but once special people were involved, who knew whether the tens of thousands of mysterious objects would suddenly erupt.
There were hundreds of thousands of people in Funan County, hundreds of thousands of people in the city where Funan County was located, and in the whole province, there were hundreds of millions of people.
If the tens of thousands of mysterious items were to explode together, not only the county but also the entire province would be in danger.
Not to mention the Institute, the whole country could not afford the gamble.
Therefore, even when the matter of Ke Chengxuan’s distress made news, neither the state nor the Institute dared to act rashly.
It was not until Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning took the initiative to enter and, in just one day, rescued many of the trapped people and also completely pacified the lurking mysterious items.
On that day, just after Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning left the hotel, the first thing the government agents did upon entering was to pull up the hotel surveillance.
Although the hotel and school surveillance was not available before the distorted space was cracked, the cameras in the hotel lobby were the first to be activated when the people broke out.
The moment Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning stepped out of the door, the countless mysterious objects turning into streams of light and flying towards Ji Mingxia, and eventually being blocked by Yu Ning, was all thoroughly captured by the surveillance.
But because Yu Ning looked fierce, while Ji Mingxia stood beside Yu Ning like a little sheep, most people, even after seeing this surveillance video, did not suspect Ji Mingxia, and immediately decided that the source of all this was Yu Ning.
Only Pei Yuan, who had been in contact with them, became suspicious.
It was this suspicion that led Pei Yuan to investigate Ji Mingxia’s past and eventually found the abnormalities in Banana Leaf Village during Ji Mingxia’s summer vacation, as well as surveillance of Ding Jialin handing him a golden mask at the entrance of the school a few months ago, and instead facing a backlash.
No one knew what happened ever since Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning left the hotel and entered the mountains, all the mysterious items that were still rioting gradually stopped and kept coming in this direction.
Those who were on missions to stop the mysterious items were finally free, so they converged on this place.
Many people wanted to find Yu Ning, but Pei Yuan only wanted to find Ji Mingxia.
After waiting for several days, Pei Yuan finally found Ji Mingxia.
The moment Ji Mingxia appeared alone and the bell rang, Pei Yuan was finally convinced that it was Ji Mingxia he should have guarded against from the start.
Seeing Ji Mingxia staring blankly at the trembling bronze bell, Pei Yuan said, “Haven’t you ever doubted yourself? The starting point of the supernatural incident in Furnan County was the dormitory where you lived last year.”
`The dormitory?`
Ji Mingxia stared blankly at Pei Yuan.
The room that was densely occupied by mysterious items turned out to be the dormitory he had lived in at the beginning?
The entire space was distorted, and that dormitory had been inhabited by freshmen since Ji Mingxia graduated, the entire room looked very different from last year. In addition, so many mysterious items were densely piled up in there so Ji Mingxia didn’t even notice that it was the dormitory he had lived in.
Why would the starting point be in the dormitory where he had lived?
He transmigrated just before the entrance exams, and once the exams were over, he had moved out of the dormitory. So what was so special about a place he had lived in for just a few days?
—Wait, when he transmigrated.…
Pei Yuan saw Ji Mingxia’s face change and slowly said, “It seems that you have noticed the frequent abnormal things around you. Although everyone thinks you are an ordinary person, mysterious items can’t be mistaken, they already showed their subservience to you long ago.”
Ji Mingxia looked at Pei Yuan blankly, unable to speak for a long time because he was so shocked.
Thinking back carefully, it was not that there were no clues.
In his world, Ji Mingxia was an ordinary person without any abnormal abilities, but once he transmigrated, he suddenly possessed the special ability of seeing ghosts.
In the book, Yu Ning’s special physique attracted ghosts but whenever Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning were together, the ghosts always attacked Ji Mingxia first.
At Quanzhuang hotel, the bronze mirror reset everyone’s memories, only Yu Ning and Ji Mingxia were not affected.
During the summer vacation, Yu Ning was not with Ji Mingxia but he was attacked by the copper coin in Banana Leaf Village. The blood red ring protected Ji Mingxia, and then the mysterious item, which could never be damaged, became cracked and disappeared on the spot, and all the longevity that had been sucked was returned.
Inside the girls’ dormitory building at H University, Ji Mingxia always thought that it was Yu Ning’s arrival that saved everyone, but strangely enough, Yu Ning avoided talking about it afterwards.
When Ding Jialin handed him the golden mask, he spat out blood and fled on the spot, the Ding couple even poured out all their efforts, but still couldn’t save his life.
As for the other day in Funan County, several inexplicable things happened.
Ji Mingxia was clearly standing beside Yu Ning, but in the blink of an eye, he was transported to the mysterious items, all of which surrounded him and allowed him to enter and exit freely.
The countless monsters and ghosts in the distorted space avoided Ji Mingxia as soon as he approached. His heart was set on finding Yu Ning without distractions, and he actually managed to find him in a very short period of time ……
At first, Ji Mingxia attributed all this to Yu Ning, to the protagonist halo.
As Yu Ning’s situation became dire, Ji Mingxia instinctively avoided anything to do with mysterious items and ghosts, unwilling to think about them in detail.
It was not until this moment, with Pei Yuan’s reminder, that he had to face reality.
Scenes of past events came back to him, he looked at Pei Yuan’s bronze bell that was constantly trembling and buzzing. The bell was not warning Pei Yuan against Yu Ning, but him!
Ji Mingxia always thought that Yu Ning was different from the rest, but it turned out that he was the most different one.
Pei Yuan said: “I have read your relevant information, the blood red ring suddenly appeared in the school, but before that time, you were just an ordinary person and had never been involved with mysterious items. After that, your relationship with Yu Ning improved greatly and you frequently collected mysterious items with him. It’s not that no one would ever suspect you, but anyone who has ever met you would not think you would be the root cause of this global turmoil.”
Pei Yuan looked at Ji Mingxia and said in a deep voice, “Ji Mingxia, what kind of person are you?”
Ji Mingxia lowered his eyes.
He was indeed an ordinary person, the only unusual thing was that he had crossed over from another world.
He had crossed over with his body and as soon as he opened his eyes, he found himself in the dormitory, while the original Ji Mingxia had disappeared.
His hypothesis was that the space around him and the original Ji Mingxia was displaced, and they swapped bodies.
One couldn’t sense this spatial shift except mysterious items that have special energy, they were probably attracted by the energy from this momentary spatial fluctuation.
As a result, there were always mysterious items appearing around him. At first, they would take the initiative to attack him, but as he started evolving, for example better eyesight, stronger hearing, etc. they started to avoid him.
This would also explain why several mysterious items gathered in the dormitory where he had lived before and lurked there.
“You’re from the Institute and have the power of the country behind you.” Ji Mingxia had gradually calmed down, and instead of answering Pei Yuan’s words, he took the initiative to ask. “So you must have studied mysterious items for many years and know a lot about their origins.”
Pei Yuan sensed Ji Mingxia’s shifting emotions.
Compared to the silly high school student at Love Spring Mountain a few months ago, it was obvious that Ji Mingxia had made a lot of progress in the past six months.
However, Ji Mingxia had silently acquiesced that he was the reason mysterious items were rioting, so Pei Yuan was in no hurry and slowly said, “We suspect that these mysterious items came from another dimension.”
Ji Mingxia’s pupils contracted.
‘Sure enough!’
Pei Yuan continued, “The earliest clear records of mysterious items can be traced back to the Ming and Qing dynasties. Due to the wartime turmoil and the supernatural events caused by mysterious items, they were often mixed up with local folklore and strange stories so there were very few records. That was until the end of the Qing dynasty when an organization of special people emerged and started sealing and collecting mysterious items in a targeted manner. The leader of the organization was my ancestor and evidence suggests that he did not belong to this world, but perhaps came from another dimension.”
Ji Mingxia stared at Pei Yuan with wide eyes and shock.
Pei Yuan’s ancestor came from another world?
“How did you guys come to that conclusion?” Ji Mingxia muttered.
“Because he appeared out of thin air. All his identities, his childhood memories, his past…all were forged.”
Oh damn 👁️👁️🍿