The Heartthrob Protagonist Just Wants To Monopolize Me Chapter 63

At Ji Mingxia’s words, Yu Ning abruptly turned his head and looked at him with burning eyes.

Ji Mingxia’s face had already turned red halfway through his words and the further he spoke, the lower his voice became.

Feeling Yu Ning looking towards him, Ji Mingxia was too embarrassed and he hurriedly lowered his head, not daring to look at Yu Ning.

At that moment, Bao Guangyuan, who was not far away, waved his hand at Ji Mingxia again.

Ji Mingxia had already said everything he needed to say, and seeing that Bao Guangyuan seemed anxious, Ji Mingxia said, “Bao Guangyuan is calling me, I’ll go over and take a look.”

With that, he quickly turned around and ran towards Bao Guangyuan.

Yu Ning stretched out his hand to pull Ji Mingxia, but unfortunately, Ji Mingxia had already put a distance between them and Yu Ning’s hand did not catch him in time.

As he watched Ji Mingxia run away, Yu Ning lifted his head slightly and looked at Bao Guangyuan with a cool gaze.

Bao Guangyuan waving hand froze and he hurriedly hunched his shoulders, not daring to move.

As the sun went down, the temperature on the mountain began to drop gradually.

A cool breeze blew across Ji Mingxia’s hot cheeks and he gradually calmed down when he reached Bao Guangyuan.

He felt his accelerating heartbeat and simply wanted to beat himself to death.

Damn it! He had been holding back and not showing it. but when he saw Yu Ning looking lonely with his head turned away, Ji Mingxia still couldn’t hold back and spoke inappropriate words.

He could no longer get along with Yu Ning like this.

This time, he was able to restrain himself and only say that Yu Ning was a very important person.

Next time, he might get hot-headed and just say that he liked him!

Ji Mingxia came to Bao Guangyuan and said, “What’s wrong?”

Bao Guangyuan felt Yu Ning’s stare from not far away, then looked at Ji Mingxia who looked annoyed, and whispered, “Is…… everything okay between you and Yu Ning?”

“Everything’s fine.” Ji Mingxia shook his head, “What about your side, what did Pei Yuan say?”

“He didn’t say anything.” Bao Guangyuan said.

Ji Mingxia was slightly surprised, “He didn’t say anything?”

Bao Guangyuan looked at Ji Mingxia’s expression and knew that he had misunderstood. He quickly waved his hand and said, “It’s because I didn’t talk to him…I didn’t know what to say to him ……”

Bao Guangyuan lowered his head somewhat unnaturally, “I didn’t want to talk about what happened before. Why don’t you talk to him? I don’t mind if you tell him, I just don’t want to remember it myself.”

To Bao Guangyuan, whether it was the hide-and-seek game at the abandoned residential building years ago or the hide-and-seek game in the forest these past few days, it was full of inhumane killing and bloodshed.

As long as he thinks back, the images of his family and friend dying flooded his mind.

If he could, he would like to forget it all forever. It had been extremely difficult to narrate things to Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning that day.

And he really didn’t want to go through it all over again to Pei Yuan.

In this regard, Ji Mingxia was understanding.

After he and Yu Ning teamed up, he had become the spokesperson since Yu Ning was not good with words and had zero social skills.

He patted Bao Guangyuan’s shoulder, “Then I’ll go and talk to him, you have a good rest.”

“Okay.” Bao Guangyuan was happy that Ji Mingxia didn’t force him.

Ji Mingxia glanced back at Yu Ning and gestured in Pei Yuan’s direction.

Seeing no reaction from Yu Ning, Ji Mingxia walked towards Pei Yuan.

Pei Yuan had been waiting in the same place, and when Ji Mingxia walked up to him, Pei Yuan said, “It seems that my appearance has caused you a lot of trouble.”

“No no, I didn’t handle it properly. It has nothing to do with you.” Ji Mingxia hurriedly said.

Pei Yuan was the main character, it made sense that he travelled all over.

It was he who changed the plot, causing the protagonist gong and shou to meet early and everything to come to a deadlock.

Not only was Yu Ning not attracted to Pei Yuan, he even questioned Pei Yuan’s actions.

Although Ji Mingxia believed in Pei Yuan’s character, reason told him that Yu Ning’s analysis was, again, quite correct.

Anyway, the first step to solving the dilemma at hand was to communicate with each other frankly.

Thinking of this, Ji Mingxia invited Pei Yuan to sit down, and then took the initiative to tell Pei Yuan about their experiences.

He started from the ghost on campus, to the Quanzhuang Hotel, the edge of the forest and the Love Mountain Spring.

They had experienced too much, and Ji Mingxia didn’t elaborate on some content that should not be said. He focused on the ghost and the rings.

“…… The ring floated out and Li Youzi died. We thought we were the only three on the mountain and planned to spend the night at the spring before going down the mountain tomorrow.” Ji Mingxia said.

He finished the whole story and looked at Pei Yuan quietly, waiting for his reaction.

Pei Yuan listened carefully and when Ji Mingxia finished his narration, Pei Yuan said, “The first ring automatically recognized Yu Ning as its master, and now the second ring, too, is in his hands?”

“Mm.” Ji Mingxia said.

Pei Yuan had seen the two rings in Yu Ning’s hands so there was no need to hide them from him.

Pei Yuan said to Ji Mingxia, “You know more about mysterious items than I thought. Although I don’t know how you know this, but since you do, you should know that Yu Ning’s situation is, well, very abnormal.”

Ji Mingxia was stunned for a moment.  He had always known this point.

In the original book, although Yu Ning had a special physique, he was not involved in battle.

Whenever they beat a copy, Pei Yuan would keep the mysterious items so Yu Ning had never touched them, let alone harnessed them.

He also found it strange that the blood-red ring recognized Yu Ning as its master but since Yu Ning was the protagonist, it must have been because of the protagonist halo, so he didn’t think much of it.

But listening to Pei Yuan, the matter was not that simple?

Pei Yuan added, “Mysterious items have an unknown energy, and only those who have undergone special training can seal the mysterious item, or even master the unknown energy and use it for themselves.”

Pei Yuan looked at Ji Mingxia: “This unknown energy is not something that people are born with, ao if you trade with the devil, you will eventually die at the hands of the devil.”

“Even trained professionals have accidents during this process. As of now, the longest-lived person in our organisation is not older than 50.”

With improved living conditions and medical care, fifty was not a rare age.

The old men and women who moved in the parks looked over fifty and some even had dark hair and looked like they had just passed their middle ages.

The organisation that Pei Yuan worked for, on the other hand, had never had anyone over fifty after all these years. This meant that many people in this profession often died in their 40s.

This news was nothing less than a heavy bomb to Ji Mingxia.

Pei Yuan was a person who specialized in recovering mysterious items, and Yu Ning had already started to come into contact with mysterious items. This meant that both of them had embarked on this path of no return, and neither would live past the age of fifty?

Even without him transmigrating into the book, the original story ended tragically?

No wonder Pei Yuan always kept the mysterious items and never allowed Yu Ning to touch them.

For the readers, *paper people never age, and their minds automatically think that protagonists stay youthful and live happily ever after. Who wants to read a story where the protagonist dies tragically just after their 40s!

*The book characters

Ji Mingxia couldn’t accept reading the book and knowing that the protagonists would end up like that, let alone now that he had transmigrated into the book and met Yu Ning, and Pei Yuan.

“Mingxia, are you alright?” Pei Yuan saw that Ji Mingxia’s face didn’t look right and hurriedly asked.

Ji Mingxia pulled the corner of his mouth, revealing a smile that was worse than crying: “You mean, you and Yu Ning won’t live to be fifty?”

Pei Yuan was stunned by the look in Ji Mingxia’s eyes and his expression became a little unnatural.

He wanted to emphasize Yu Ning’s abnormalities and he didn’t expect Ji Mingxia’s focus to be on his and Yu Ning’s lifespans.

Ji Mingxia’s face looked so sad that Pei Yuan couldn’t bear it and he had to say, “I am a dedicated person, the Pei family has been dealing with mysterious items since our ancestors, we are very experienced in facing them so you don’t have to worry.”

Pei Yuan then turned his words around, “But Yu Ning, like you, is an ordinary student, his current situation is indeed a little dangerous.”

Pei Yuan also narrated to Ji Mingxia about the reason for his appearance in the forest.

Pei Yuan was passing by and happened to notice a strange energy fluctuation in the direction of the forest. It was only after he got closer that he noticed the boundary and he deliberately entered the forest to check it out.

Although he had passed through the boundary and managed to enter further into the forest, he did not know what was going as he had entered on a whim.

He did not know who had set up the boundary and what they were planning to do, nor did he know what the terrain within the forest was like and where he should go from there.

Pei Yuan searched the forest for a day, walking and stopping to look for clues.

He found an abandoned commercial vehicle and there were traces of human and ghost activity near the vehicle, as well as blood. Just when he was about to check it out, he was attacked.

The person who attacked Pei Yuan was none other than Li Youzi.

“She appeared all of a sudden and was familiar with the terrain. She used the bushes and light to interfere with my vision so I failed to catch her and only had time to leave a tracking mark before I lost her.” Pei Yuan said.

This tracking mark was a unique secret technique of the Pei family. It could not only be used for tracking, but could also, to a certain extent, interfere with the play of mysterious items.

The mysterious item’s energy could not be brought into full play, directly interfering with Li Youzi’s murders.

Of course, at certain moments, the energy the crest absorbed from the mysterious object could also be fed back to the user.

Simply put, this triangular-shaped crest helped Pei Yuan have a vague sense of Li Youzi’s situation.

At the same time, every time she killed, Li Youzi’s power would be interfered with; while it can also save her life at a critical moment.

Ji Mingxia read the novel and he knew about Pei Yuan’s abilities. He was very practical and decisive.

However, he preferred Yu Ning, the character, so he only knew a general idea of Pei Yuan’s skill points, but not the details.

With Pei Yuan’s narration, Ji Mingxia instantly matched up all the previous details.

After the triangular crest was carved above Li Youzi’s head, she managed to escape from Yu Ning’s attack with the power of the crest.

But at the same time, when she reappeared the next day after killing two people, she was in a very abnormal state.

It was likely that Li Youzi was unable to use the full power of the ring due to the interference of the crest, which caused her strength to be greatly reduced, and Yu Ning was able to take her down with ease.

The properties of the crest came into play once more when Li Youzu was about to die. The crest supported Li Youzi for a few more minutes until it disappeared and she finally died.

The matter between Pei Yuan and Li Youzi was explained clearly but apart there were still a lot of doubts about him.

Ji Mingxia was in no hurry and quietly listened to Pei Yuan’s account.

After Li Youzi’s death, the boundary disappeared and the energy disturbance was reduced. He had stayed in the forest for two days and had adapted to the environment. He was now familiar with the terrain and understood how to get out of the forest.

Pei Yuan realised that the strange energy that had initially attracted him to the forest had not disappeared.

“I followed the strange energy up the mountain. When I came to you, the bronze bell rang, proving that I was not wrong and that one of you already possessed the traits of mysterious items.” Pei Yuan said.

Ji Mingxia looked at him in surprise.

Pei Yuan’s bronze bell was one of Pei Yuan’s important items and Ji Mingxia had an impression of it.

According to the original story, the bronze bell possessed a consciousness and acuity, and only when faced with a great threat would it ring out to warn its master.

Ji Mingxia also recalled that the bronze bell had rung when Pei Yuan appeared before them earlier.

It was just that, he was shocked that Pei Yuan had appeared and the scene was very confusing for a while, causing him to forget to take this detail into account.

In that case, Pei Yuan appeared here not because of Li Youzi, but because one of them had attracted him from the beginning.

Ji Mingxia trembled and said, “Possessing the traits of mysterious items…… what does that phrase mean ……”

Pei Yuan said, “Mysterious items have unknown energy within them, whether it is the occurrence of supernatural events or our use of mysterious items, the source of everything, is caused by this unknown energy. Under normal circumstances, the unknown energy is stored in the mysterious object, but under very special circumstances, this unknown energy can enter the human body.”

“It is like the electrical energy that is common in our daily lives. We can use it for all sorts of things, but we cannot let it enter our bodies as once it does, it is a step towards death.”

“If you don’t die when the unknown energy enters the body, it ends up assimilating in the body. We call it contamination.”

“The bronze bell didn’t warn me that there were powerful humans or fierce ghosts here, it was to inform me that there was a powerful mysterious object here.” Pei Yuan said, “To the Bronze Bell, one of you is no longer a human being, but one of its kind.”

‘One of its kind……’

Ji Mingxia shuddered and a cold sweat broke out on his back.

Of the three of them, he and Bao Guangyuan had never touched a mysterious object. Although they had encountered various dangers, the two of them were still within the range of ordinary people.

Only Yu Ning was able to harness the mysterious items for his use.

And there was more than one mysterious item on Yu Ning’s body!

In just one month, Yu Ning had collected a pair of rings and a bronze mirror, which added up to three mysterious items!

According to Pei Yuan, it was likely that Yu Ning had been contaminated by the unknown energy?