A mysterious realm descends, and I defy fate in comics.

Chapter 19 I'm not going!

"Have you finished discussing?" Jiang Xingni yawned lazily and glanced at the time on his phone's lock screen.

It had only been twenty minutes since she started to sleep. If they had kept making noise for a little longer, she would have slept much better.

Jiang Xingni thought to himself with a touch of regret.

Pei Zhaoye nodded, and everyone remained silent, waiting for Jiang Xingni to make his assessment of the current situation.

—Aside from Song Juexiao, she really wanted to remind him, but she couldn't speak because Pei Zhaoye was holding her phone tightly, and she couldn't get it out of her hand at all.

Jiang Xing raised an eyebrow, observing their current posture. Although he couldn't hear what they were discussing, he roughly knew what he should say at this moment.

"Are you planning to sneak in?" She rested her chin on one hand and tapped the armrest on the car seat lightly with her fingertips.

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Xing noticed that Pei Zhaoye and Xiao Jiming's smiles widened, and even He Jingtong's lips curled up quite a bit.

Only Song Juexiao glared angrily at the three men and pulled his phone out from under Pei Zhaoye's arm.

Before Song Juexiao could type out what had happened and why she was being asked that question, Xiao Jiming spoke first.

"You think we'll continue to participate?" His smile held a hint of mischief. "Wrong! We're not going to continue."

"Professionals are already handling this; there's no need for us to get involved," He Jingtong rarely chimed in.

"We're still students, aren't we?" Pei Zhaoye added the last sentence.

Finally, the three of them stared intently at Jiang Xingni's expression, trying to discern something unusual from it.

Jiang Xingni noticed the three of them scrutinizing her without any attempt to hide it, and chuckled softly: "Is this the decision you've made?"

She didn't think there was anything wrong with her judgment at all.

Even without the special abilities provided by the system and the forum, Jiang Xingni would still make this judgment.

Comics don't leave events unresolved; if the main characters decide not to address them now, it will only cause greater harm in the future.

If they decide to continue interfering, it will just confirm Jiang Xingni's words: no matter what, Jiang Xingni will not lose out.

She had prepared how to explain things to the system if it raised any questions.

Jiang Xingni waited for a while, but there was nothing but silence, which surprised him.

System: [I'm not that stupid.]

The system defended itself in Jiang Xingni's mind, saying that it really didn't have a penchant for rushing to raise questions only to be proven wrong by Jiang Xingni.

Even though the time bound to Jiang Xingni was short—not even a full 24 hours—the system had already learned to reduce skepticism.

Hearing her words, Xiao Jiming's smile returned to its gentle expression, and he asked softly, "What do you see in us?"

Jiang Xingni then focused her attention on observing their trajectory, which was not much different from what she had guessed, only further confirming Jiang Xingni's guess.

"Your future is tied to it," Jiang Xingni said with a smile, not keeping you in suspense. "No matter what choices you make now, you'll always end up back on that path."

Before Jiang Xingni could ask for more details, the car had already pulled over and come to a stop. The driver lowered the soundproof panel and took the group of minors to the hotel.

"The problem of the wordless book hasn't been completely solved yet, so you'll have to stay in a hotel for now." Song Juexiao quietly approached Jiang Xingni, who was lagging behind, and showed her his words on his phone screen.

Jiang Xingni nodded, indicating that she understood, and then looked at the red-haired girl in front of her, giving her a light hug: "Thank you."

Song Juexiao froze on the spot, somewhat helplessly raising his hand to hug Jiang Xingni.

Jiang Xingni doesn't really care about her environment. She doesn't have any important possessions at home, no family members, and she has never kept cats or dogs.

In other words, even if a meteor were to fall right now and destroy Jiang Xingni's house, Jiang Xingni wouldn't feel the slightest bit heartache.

The room was completely empty; Jiang Xingni had always been accustomed to living a solitary life.

[The comic has been updated!] The system announcement rang out once again.

Jiang Xingni immediately released her grip on Song Juexiao and went directly to the room that the Strange Phenomenon Society had arranged for her.

It was already dawn, and since he couldn't sleep, Jiang Xingni lay down on the sofa next to the bed and opened a comic book.

The newly updated comic doesn't contain anything noteworthy; it's basically just a transitional chapter.

The only thing that caught Jiang Xingni's attention was what the main characters had been talking about while she was asleep.

After a quick glance, Jiang Xingni paused for a moment, then flipped back to examine it more closely.

Confirming that she hadn't misread it, or that their words contained some hidden meaning, Jiang Xingni couldn't help but cover her face with her phone and ask herself earnestly in her mind, "Wait, are those three crazy?"

The system dared not make a sound.

Jiang Xingni initially thought that the four main characters had analyzed the current situation and rationally decided not to participate anymore. Given that Jiang Xingni did not understand the world of superhumans, she would not interrupt, but would instead offer a few subtle reminders.

However, she never imagined that the truth would be that the four of them had already discussed and decided to secretly intervene, but deliberately denied it when Jiang Xingni spoke.

...No? What are they after? Jiang Xingni was completely baffled.

Surely it couldn't just be a test of him? To be honest, Jiang Xingni preferred to believe that they were testing his attitude towards their unconventional behavior.

Besides, the useful information is mainly concentrated in the few pages where Lin Hongguang appears, which introduces various settings such as the Ghost Realm and the levels of abnormal phenomena in the form of narration.

The concept of supernatural objects has already been introduced in previous comics. The wordless book is a clear example of a supernatural object, capable of influencing humans and their surroundings, guiding the emergence of supernatural beings, and even causing the arrival of supernatural realms.

Abnormal events are classified into four levels: A, B, C, and D. Abnormal events that could potentially generate a ghost realm are uniformly classified as level B or above, which is not a mission level that students like the main characters can accept. This time, it was entirely due to the classification error of the Bureau of Anomalies—or the Society of Anomalies, anyway, it's all this organization.

That's why Song Juexiao told Xiao Jiming that he needed to seek compensation.

If Jiang Xingni were in this situation, she would only demand even more.

The girl silently rubbed her temples, no longer thinking about the bizarre ideas that men her age were having—their inexplicable behavior was still swirling in Jiang Xingni's mind—and instead opened the forum.

Having been traveling so much, she barely had time to browse the forums. Now was a good opportunity, and Jiang Xingni was curious to see what kind of comments she would receive on the forums.

[Li Tao, is there any possibility that Jiang Xingni, who has just appeared, will join the main cast?]

[I'm fed up with this scoundrel! Can you please stop introducing new female characters to steal Song Song's spotlight? Song Song is the only female lead, okay? Don't you dare try to piggyback on my fame!]

[Penholder, isn't Xingxing's character design clearly better than Song's? Song Juexiao can't even utter a single coherent sentence; his inclusion in the main cast is purely due to luck and early appearance, right?]