On the eve of the college entrance examination, Lin Siyun, who had been in glory for three years, suddenly died in a car accident. Not only did she die miserably, but she was not even free after death. She was affected by a mysterious force and turned into a ghost, killing people indiscriminately.
At the beginning, Ji Mingxia guessed that Lin Siyun's abnormal changes were related to this blood-red ring.
Looking back now, I'm afraid that after Lin Siyun got the ring, she couldn't resist the temptation and made abnormal choices time and time again, gaining the beauty and glory that should not have belonged to her, and finally sacrificed her life to the ring.
In addition to Lin Siyun, Li You's life also underwent minor changes.
She went from being an unknown video blogger to becoming an internet celebrity with a huge number of fans and huge amounts of money.
However, compared to Lin Siyun, Li You was naturally beautiful and had good academic performance. Perhaps she did not gain as much from this choice, so the blood-red ring did not take her life immediately.
When she realized there was something wrong with the ring, with Li You's intelligence, she should have immediately thought of her six good friends whom she had known for many years.
Ever since they played that game and gave two rings to Li You and Lin Siyun, her six friends have become more and more fortunate in their careers, and have been thriving in recent years.
They didn't have a ring, but they had such good luck. Obviously, everything was built on the sacrifices of the two of them.
As soon as Lin Siyun died, Li You planned this forest vacation, and a group of people with their own ulterior motives gathered together.
In just one night, there were already deaths.
The first to die was Lu Liang, followed by Shi Wei.
Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning did not witness the deaths of these two people with their own eyes, so they had no way of judging the truth.
The third person to die was Zhou Li, who was killed by Song Yuelin.
It had only been five days since Zhou Li's death.
At this time, Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning came to the forest and met Song Yuelin by chance.
Song Yuelin introduced the rules of the hide-and-seek game in the forest to Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning: every evening at the devil's hour, monsters would appear and play hide-and-seek with humans. The first person to be found would be slaughtered and taken away by the monsters.
It was dusk, and Song Yuelin took Yu Ning and Ji Mingxia to hide together.
Song Yuelin seemed to be kind-hearted, but in fact he had evil intentions. After the three of them hid, they deliberately exposed Ji Mingxia to the monster.
However, man proposes, God disposes. The monster was not interested in Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning at all. In addition, Yu Ning had two mysterious items in his hands to protect himself. In the end, Song Yuelin's cleverness backfired. Not only did he fail to lead the monster to kill Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning, but he was targeted by the monster instead.
In order to save his life, Song Yuelin sacrificed Zhou Li's body to the monster and escaped.
Up to this point, there was at least one loophole in Song Yuelin's words.
There are seven people in the forest. The monster appears every evening and kills at least one person.
But it was the fifth day that Song Yuelin had entered the forest. Even including Zhou Li, who was killed by humans, and Li You, who was mistakenly thought to be dead, the monster only killed four people in total.
Kill four people in five days, so what does the monster do on the free day
After Song Yuelin fled, only Yu Ning and Ji Mingxia were left at the scene.
They knew too little information to speculate the truth.
What was certain at that time was that in addition to Song Yuelin and Li You, Meng Xinyi and Bao Guangyuan were also alive, so Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning walked deeper into the forest, hoping to meet these two people.
They were lucky enough to meet up with Bao Guangyuan and Meng Xinyi on the sixth day. That afternoon, when Bao Guangyuan and Meng Xinyi were planning to get supplies for Yu Ning and Ji Mingxia, the monster did not play by the rules and appeared early.
The regular pattern of monster appearances was broken again.
In other words, the theory that the monster kills one person every day is not valid.
It is also not unreasonable that the monster appears punctually at dusk.
The rules of the game mentioned by Song Yuelin were completely overturned, but they still found the pattern of the monsters' appearance.
Until today, the monster reappeared.
This time, not only did it not appear at dusk, but when it appeared again, it killed two people in a row.
But the strange thing was that when facing Bao Guangyuan who was going to die, the monster seemed to see nothing and just walked away.
Li You hid among the monsters. She wanted to kill Bao Guangyuan, but she couldn't violate the rules of the game.
At this moment, Yu Ning's words completely awakened Ji Mingxia.
The real rule of the game is killing at dusk.
The rules of the hide-and-seek game a few years ago are the same as those of the current hide-and-seek game. The right to choose is in the hands of the parties from beginning to end.
If you have evil thoughts in your heart, monsters will be attracted and their bloodthirsty killing intent will be aroused.
The first time Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning encountered the monster was when Song Yuelin wanted to kill them;
The second time they encountered the monster was when Bao Guangyuan and Meng Xinyi wanted to steal their resources...
Apart from this, at other times, when they have no evil thoughts in their hearts, the monsters will appear.
Until last night, Meng Xinyi stole Yu Ning's backpack and went down the mountain. Maybe, she encountered a monster as soon as she got down the mountain; maybe, she met Song Yuelin at the foot of the mountain...
No matter what the outcome, both men eventually died at the hands of the monster.
Today is the seventh day that Li You, Song Yuelin and their group have entered the forest.
Among the seven people, except Li You, only Bao Guangyuan was left.
In the absence of any evil thoughts, Li You and the monster forcibly appeared, but he had no way to activate the power of the mysterious item, so he was vulnerable. After a few rounds, he fell to Yu Ning.
Even after Li You failed, the blood-red ring left it impatiently and looked for a new owner.
At this moment, Li You did lose to them, but he just lost to the rules of the game.
"What do you mean? So that's how it is. What does Yu Ning mean by that?" Bao Guangyuan saw Ji Mingxia's face full of understanding after Yu Ning finished speaking, so he hid behind Ji Mingxia and hurriedly asked.
Seeing that Li You was no longer a threat, Ji Mingxia relaxed a little and explained to Bao Guangyuan, "We all thought that Li You was dead, and after her death, she was transformed into a ghost monster by the ring to seek revenge and kill people. But she is still alive now. Although we don't know how she got the energy of the ring, the power she got is limited. This game of hide-and-seek, including Li You, also needs to abide by the rules of the game.
"The more dark and harmful thoughts you have in your mind, the easier it is for monsters to appear and kill people, and vice versa. When you decide to harm someone, this monster, whether it is Li You or a monster, will be unable to do anything to you."
Ji Mingxia said to Bao Guangyuan: "To put it simply, you are completely safe."
Bao Guangyuan was confused at first, but he understood the last sentence immediately. He opened his eyes wide and asked, "Really?"
Ji Mingxia saw him like this, and saw that Li You's face was pale and it looked like he was about to die. He sighed and said, "When you played the game, you were just a junior high school student and had no say. After the game ended, you lost your memory and fell into a coma. It was you who decided to give the ring to Li You and Lin Siyun, not to mention that you lost your memory for the next few years... After coming to this forest, you didn't take the initiative to harm anyone. In this whole thing, you are quite innocent—"
Ji Mingxia was speaking when he was suddenly interrupted by Li You.
"What do you know? You guys are interfering in our affairs. What do you know?!" Li You shouted.
Although she was still alive, she seemed to have only a few breaths left. Although her face was hideous and she was shouting angrily, her voice was not loud, but rather very sharp: "The most innocent people are me and Siyun! We had agreed to go to high school together, take the college entrance examination together, and after graduating from college, support each other and stay together forever! Just because you were blinded by greed, you ignored the danger and ran to the suburbs to play a game, and lost the game. Now you want Siyun and I to bear all this, why?!
"Before we started playing the game, we warned everyone that this invitation was very strange and came out of nowhere, and that it might have been arranged by the hotel, but you went anyway for the thrill.
"If there was no ring, Siyun would not be tempted, and would exhaust her luck in order to become beautiful and outstanding.
"She won't die, and I will sacrifice my body and soul to the ring for revenge, and become this half-human, half-ghost monster..."
As Li You spoke, he looked at his skinny body that was about to die, and his eyes suddenly turned red: "But even if I turned into a monster, I couldn't kill everyone... When they harmed us, no one helped us.
"Siyun died so tragically. She had nightmares every night, dreaming that she was being sacrificed. She hid for so long, struggled for so long, but that day finally came.
"When she died, the car ran over her body. She dragged her intestines and crawled a long way. The ground was covered with her blood. At that time, who came to help us? Who came to save us?"
Li You said, looking at Yu Ning and Ji Mingxia with hatred: "When innocent people were killed, you didn't lend a helping hand. Now that innocent people want to fight back, you all jump out one by one and stand on the moral high ground. Why? What right do you have to stop me?!"
After she finished speaking, she gasped violently and coughed a few times. The next moment, Li You vomited several mouthfuls of blood.
The blood spurted out of her mouth, dark red blood mixed with blood clots and minced meat, it looked really shocking.
Considering her thin and pale appearance, both Ji Mingxia and Bao Guangyuan were shocked.
The opposite of everyone else's reaction was Li You's expression.
When he saw himself spitting out so much blood, Li You was not angry or frightened, but burst into laughter on the spot.
She stuck out her tongue, licked the dark red blood at the corner of her mouth, smiled and looked up at Yu Ning: "So what if you take it away, the curse has already begun..."
curse?!
These two words are not good words.
Even in an ordinary world without supernatural events, everyone is terrified by the mention of curses, let alone in this special world.
The first thing Ji Mingxia thought of was the blood-red ring that Yu Ning had just taken away, and he believed that Li You had done something to the ring.
He no longer cared about his fear of Li You, and immediately rushed forward and asked, "What curse? Who are you going to curse?"
"I will curse whoever harms me to this point." Li You was very satisfied to see Ji Mingxia's panic, with a bloody mouth, confused eyes and crazy expression. She said to Ji Mingxia: "You gave me the ring just to use me as a sacrifice to the ring? Siyun is too stupid. She thinks she is paying the price for her greed. She would rather die than harm others. I am different."
Li You said slowly: "I made a deal with the ring, and the ring uses its energy to drive me. If it wants a sacrifice, I will kill people and sacrifice all the blood to it; if it wants a soul, I will offer myself as a sacrifice and curse all those who have harmed me..."
Before Li You finished speaking, he let out a "wow" and vomited a few mouthfuls of blood.
The color of the blood became darker and darker, and the minced meat was mixed with internal organs, which looked horrible and disgusting.
Li You chuckled, and said as if chanting a spell: "Before me, the person who holds this ring will bear the backlash and curse of me and the ring. I will curse his soul to decay, his body to rot, and he will live forever and ever in hell."
As she spoke, the triangular emblem on her head became fainter and fainter, and gradually disappeared.
Without the support of the triangular emblem, Li You seemed to have lost all his strength. His body went limp and he fell to the ground.
The ground was covered with her vomited blood and pieces of flesh. The dark red blood stained her clothes and skin. Li You lay in a pool of her own blood: "All those who harmed me will die a good death. I will finally sleep with the one I love..."
Her voice became lower and lower, and finally she slowly closed her eyes.
The moment her breathing stopped, the barrier around the forest shattered completely with a crisp "bang" sound, like broken glass.
Obviously, the surrounding scenery did not change much, but when the barrier was broken, a breeze blew, blowing across the entire forest.
Wherever the wind touched, fine dust was blown up.
The broken limbs and pieces of flesh scattered all over the ground seemed to have passed their frozen shelf life in an instant. In the blink of an eye, they turned into long-rotten bones. When the wind blew, they turned into dust and disappeared without a trace.
Li You, the only one with his body intact, also underwent a huge change at this moment.
It was as if all the blood had been sucked out of her body, and her body shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye. The girl who originally had a beautiful appearance instantly turned into a horrible mummy after her death.
When the wind blew her body, the mummy was like dust, being rolled up little by little and finally washed to the surface of the water.
The water of the Love Spring flows quietly, taking away the ashes that have turned into powder, and also taking away all the love and hate.
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Li You used her own soul and blood to curse the previous owner of the ring, and the curse took effect from the moment she died.
The forest barrier was broken, a new curse took effect, and Li You died in front of everyone.
Seeing her body shrinking into a mummy and then disappearing before their eyes was a scene that was both poignant and terrifying. For a moment, no one was speaking.
Among the three, Ji Mingxia and Bao Guangyuan were both shocked by Li You's death.
After going through so many things, they had seen monsters and ghosts many times, but for Ji Mingxia, it was the first time he saw a person die in front of him.
Watching the other person transform from a living person into a dead body and disappear, the shock was so great that it chilled his heart.
Only Yu Ning looked calm, not affected at all.
After noticing that Ji Mingxia looked a little pale, Yu Ning walked over to him and called him, "Mingxia."
When Ji Mingxia heard Yu Ning's voice, his heart warmed and he suddenly came back to his senses.
The next moment, he quickly grabbed Yu Ning's hand and said, "Yu Ning, this ring is too weird. It actually has the function of cursing. It's unheard of... Do you feel anything? Do you feel uncomfortable? Is there anything abnormal about this ring?"
Ji Mingxia said this, and hurriedly checked on Yu Ning's condition.
Yu Ning quickly held Ji Mingxia's hand and said, "I'm fine, don't be nervous. I'm fine and the ring is normal."
He knew that Li You’s death had scared Ji Mingxia a little, Yu Ning said, and directly spread out his palms, showing the two rings in front of Ji Mingxia.
The two rings seemed to sense something and immediately floated out from Yu Ning's palm, spinning around in the same place for several times.
Seeing that Ji Mingxia didn't react, one of the rings floated up with the other ring like a ring.
They circled around Yu Ning's hand for a while, then around Ji Mingxia's hand, swaying back and forth like living things, and rubbing against Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning's hands from time to time.
He didn't know if it was Ji Mingxia's illusion, but he actually saw some flattering intentions from the way the two rings flew back and forth.
Looking at the two rings that were performing hard, and then looking at Yu Ning, Ji Mingxia suddenly came to his senses.
I almost forgot that Yu Ning is the protagonist.
With the aura of the protagonist, Li You, a supporting character whose name doesn't even appear, will never be able to hurt him.
As for the two rings...
Look at this fawning look...
Ji Mingxia was completely relieved!
Yu Ning let the ring perform and said to Ji Mingxia: "The whole thing was caused by the man who sent out the invitation and organized the game, the promoters were Song Yuelin and others, and the final victims were Li You and Lin Siyun.
"After Lin Siyun died, Li You started killing people for revenge. The people she wanted to kill were her former companions, and the person she wanted to curse was also the mysterious man who sent the invitation letter."
Bao Guangyuan had no evil thoughts in his heart, and Li You's murder plan was not executed perfectly, so he was full of resentment before he died.
At this moment, she had regained some consciousness. Seeing Ji Mingxia, Yu Ning and Bao Guangyuan standing together, she regarded Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning as bad people.
But in fact, Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning had no involvement in this matter from beginning to end.
They did not deliberately obstruct Li You, nor did they deliberately protect Bao Guangyuan, Song Yuelin and others.
The reason they came to the forest was because Lin Siyun turned into a ghost and killed people indiscriminately. Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning accidentally got the ring, and in order to avoid being affected by another ring, they entered the forest.
Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning were outsiders in the whole incident. Li You killed them, and the curse after Li You's death could not hurt them.
In Ji Mingxia's opinion, the mysterious man dominated the entire game and caused this series of tragedies. It was understandable that Li You wanted to curse him before he died.
In this matter, Ji Mingxia even stood on Li You's side and agreed with her point of view.
Today, Lin Siyun, Li You, Lu Liang, Shi Wei, Zhou Li, Song Yuelin, and Meng Xinyi are all dead.
That mysterious man was also cursed by Li You, and he will definitely have a miserable end and a hapless death in the future.
After the whole incident, the only one who survived was Bao Guangyuan. He was a minor at the time and had no intention of harming anyone now. The reason he was still alive was, firstly, because he had a bad heart, and secondly, because he was just lucky.
With Li You's death and the breaking of the forest barrier, the matter finally came to a brief end.
It has been nearly a month since Ji Mingxia traveled to this world and saw Lin Siyun's ghost on the first night, until today.
Thinking of the countless dangerous situations he had experienced during this period, which were finally over today, Ji Mingxia breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, although the process was difficult, it was not without gain.
He and Zhao Zhuoyue were roommates and good friends; he and Yu Ning shared hardships and trusted each other.
And Yu Ning obtained several very special mysterious items: a pair of rings and a bronze mirror.
Zhao Zhuoyue and his men were still waiting for them at Quanzhuang. Ji Mingxia said to Yu Ning, "So can we get ready to go now?"
"Yeah." Seeing that Ji Mingxia had no interest in the ring, Yu Ning put away the ring that was still trying hard to show off his style.
The rings glowed red twice willingly, and as Yu Ning put them into his pocket, the pair of blood-red rings finally lay quietly without moving.
Bao Guangyuan was still standing there, staring blankly at the ground.
The broken pieces of flesh and body parts that were all over the ground just now have now completely disappeared. The ground is empty, with nothing but dust and weeds.
The monsters, the minced meat, the mummies, the curse... those horrific killings, those hideous truths, seemed to be his illusions, just like an absurd dream.
For Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning, although everything that happened in the forest was horrifying, it was ultimately the life and death of strangers. They were shocked by the fighting among their own kind, but they did not have any emotional entanglements with these people.
It was also the first time for Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning to see a ghost. After a little adjustment, their mentality returned to normal.
But for Bao Guangyuan, these dead people were all friends he had known for many years.
From his youth till now, several years have passed, all those people and events, like a gust of wind, in the blink of an eye, they are all gone, leaving him alone standing there.
He stared at the ground for a long time, until Yu Ning and Ji Mingxia started to pack up, Bao Guangyuan came back to his senses in a daze: "Then can I... leave too?"
"Of course." Ji Mingxia said.
Bao Guangyuan found it a little unbelievable: "Then I'm leaving now?"
"Let's go." Ji Mingxia said.
"I'm really leaving." Bao Guangyuan confirmed again.
"No one is stopping you, really." Seeing his silly look, Ji Mingxia couldn't help but say, "If you go down now, you will sleep at the foot of the mountain tonight."
"Ah?" Bao Guangyuan was stunned when he heard this, "Can I still go home?"
Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning didn't have much stuff, and they didn't plan to leave now, so they just needed to tidy up a bit.
Ji Mingxia packed up his things, walked up to Bao Guangyuan, and said, "It's three o'clock in the afternoon. We are halfway up the mountain of Qingshanquan."
"Yeah." Bao Guangyuan nodded.
"It's dark when we go down the mountain. It will take another day to walk from Qingshan Spring to the edge of the forest. Even if you sleep and travel all night, you won't reach the edge of the forest until tomorrow." Ji Mingxia said, "Can you travel in the dark all night?"
Bao Guangyuan shook his head.
Ji Mingxia said: "We can do that, so we decided to go down the mountain at dawn tomorrow."
Bao Guangyuan understood what was going on and immediately hugged Ji Mingxia's thighs tightly: "I'm with you guys!!"
Ji Mingxia was suddenly hugged by his thighs and he almost stood still.
When he shook, his ears started to hurt. Ji Mingxia quickly covered his ears and said, "Don't shake me, don't shake me, it hurts..."
As soon as Ji Mingxia finished speaking, Bao Guangyuan was pulled away by Yu Ning.
As soon as he saw Yu Ning coming, Bao Guangyuan instantly became obedient. He shrank to the side, trying to reduce his presence, fearing that Yu Ning would find fault with him.
Yu Ning was completely focused on Ji Mingxia. Seeing him covering his ears and frowning, Yu Ning gently took Ji Mingxia's hand away and then looked at Ji Mingxia's ears carefully.
Ji Mingxia's skin is very healthy and white. The skin on his ears and neck is relatively thin, and the light blue blood vessels are clearly visible.
Compared to ordinary people, Ji Mingxia's ears are slightly smaller, with thin ear bones, as delicate and exquisite as white jade.
Yu Ning touched Ji Mingxia's ear, and Ji Mingxia felt as if an electric current was passing through his hand. He shuddered and half of his body was almost numb.
This sudden attack made Ji Mingxia's reaction slow by half a beat.
He jumped away, and the next moment, Ji Mingxia heard Yu Ning say: "Let me help you take a look."
“Oh, oh…” Ji Mingxia felt a little uncomfortable after hearing that.
If Yu Ning touches him, he will go numb. If he really starts to clean his ears, then he... will definitely be exposed (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻!
Yu Ning said: "I'll just take a look and then I'll go in."
Ji Mingxia: …Why does this sound familiar
Although he felt comfortable letting Yu Ning look at his ears, the stinging pain in his ear canal was indeed uncomfortable.
The matter of the blood-red ring has finally come to an end. Tomorrow they will go down the mountain and return to the hotel. It will take them at least a day to walk.
Ji Mingxia's ears hurt whenever he shook his head. It would be best to solve the ear problem as soon as possible so that he can travel more easily tomorrow.
He didn't want to delay everyone's trip because of himself.
There is nothing in this mountain. Every extra day you stay here is a day of suffering. Everyone wants to go home early and return to normal life.
Therefore, although he was extremely embarrassed, Ji Mingxia finally nodded at Yu Ning's request.
"I'll go get a cotton swab." Yu Ning said.
Ji Mingxia lowered his head and watched Yu Ning open the backpack, feeling extremely nervous.
At this moment, Bao Guangyuan, who had been hiding in the corner, suddenly came over and whispered, "Mingxia, is there someone over there?"
"Ah?" Ji Mingxia was stunned.
Seeing Bao Guangyuan's small eyes fixed on the distance, he hurriedly looked in the direction of Bao Guangyuan's sight.
At this moment, Ji Mingxia was located halfway up the Qingshanquan Mountain. Due to the high terrain, the view was quite far.
The location that Bao Guangyuan pointed to was exactly the location of a dense forest somewhere downstream of Qingshan Spring.
It is very quiet there at the moment, with nothing but mountains and water.
Bao Guangyuan whispered: "I just seemed to see a figure walking inside."
"How is it possible... Li You led you into this area in order to kill people, and then sealed it off with a barrier, so ordinary people can't get in. It's been less than half an hour since Li You died, and this is the center of the barrier. It's impossible for someone to walk here." Ji Mingxia murmured, and after a few seconds, he changed the subject, "Unless..."
"Unless what?" Bao Guangyuan asked quickly.
Yu Ning's voice came from behind: "Unless, this person has been in the barrier all along."
"What do you mean... Are you saying that besides us, there have always been other people in this area?!" Bao Guangyuan was shocked and felt unwell. "Who is this person? Could he be a monster, a murderer, or something like that..."
He had barely managed to survive, and wanted to return to the normal world every moment. But at this critical moment, something dangerous would appear again and try to kill him
Compared to the trembling Bao Guangyuan, Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning's expressions seemed much more serious.
There are still people in the forest. There have always been signs of this.
First of all, in addition to the blood-red ring, the monster that Li You transformed into also had a golden triangular emblem engraved on her head.
Ji Mingxia had previously thought that this was another mysterious item, but until Li You's death, no extra mysterious items dropped, and the triangular emblem simply disappeared.
Until Li You's death, she never explained the origin of the triangular emblem.
Second, before Li You died, he kept blaming Yu Ning and Ji Mingxia, treating them as the perpetrators.
You know, Yu Ning and Ji Mingxia never interfered in Li You's affairs from beginning to end. Why would Li You be so hostile
There is only one possibility, that Li You met other people before meeting Yu Ning and Ji Mingxia.
When seeing Yu Ning and Ji Mingxia, Li You immediately agreed in his heart that Yu Ning and Ji Mingxia were in cahoots with others.
Since Li You was already on the verge of death and was still thinking about the curse before she died, Ji Mingxia and Yu Ning didn't have time to ask her anything, as she just passed away.
These mysteries have become unsolved mysteries.
Because he wanted to leave here quickly, Ji Mingxia didn't think too much about it.
He never expected that in just a short moment, someone would be walking towards them.
The terrain of Qingshanquan is dangerous. They are located halfway up the mountain. It is absolutely impossible for a normal person to climb up the mountain at this time.
The only possibility is... that person is looking for them.
Looking at the whole thing, so far, the only person whose identity remains a mystery and whose true identity has not been revealed is the mysterious man who sent the invitation letter and gave the blood-red ring.
Thinking of that mysterious man, Ji Mingxia felt a chill down his spine.
Behind a seemingly trivial game are seven lives.
To say that this man was a vicious and cruel person would be an exaggeration.
So, now... is he about to show up
Both Bao Guangyuan and Ji Mingxia became nervous.
Yu Ning also changed his position unconsciously and walked in front of Ji Mingxia, staring vigilantly in the direction of the person coming.
In his hands, the ring and the bronze mirror were ready for action.
No one dared to underestimate this mysterious man who was about to appear, and all three of them were facing a formidable enemy.
As time passed bit by bit, the figure shuttled through the dense forest, walked closer with big strides, and appeared in Ji Mingxia's sight.
This is a tall middle-aged man.
He was dressed in black, with broad shoulders and a narrow waist, and carrying a black backpack. He seemed to blend into the night.
Under the short black hair, the face looks as deep as if it was carved by a knife.
When he approached Yu Ning and Ji Mingxia, the bronze bell hanging around his waist, which had been silent, suddenly moved and made a crisp sound.
The man paused.
His eyes were dark as he quietly swept across the three people present, first landing on Bao Guangyuan, then slowly moving away, finally stopping on Yu Ning and Ji Mingxia.
When Ji Mingxia saw him like that, his whole body froze.
This man, this look, this body shape... Most importantly, this bronze bell—
The contents of the novel surged in Ji Mingxia's mind, corresponding one by one to the man in front of him.
A name slowly emerged. Ji Mingxia stared at the man with wide eyes. He was so surprised that he could hardly control himself and blurted out the name.
"Pei, Pei Yuan...?"