Chapter 97 Raising a flag

Cheng Xianwei took out a piece of tissue from his pocket, and rubbed the small stone, the writing on it became a lot clearer and the end of the words gradually became exposed.

Several other people helped dig out the soil beside the small stele.

The whole picture of this small stone stele was finally fully revealed in front of everyone. In addition to the writing on it, there were pattern gullies on the edge. Although it wasn’t very gorgeous, it was beautiful enough.

Ning Meng stared at the unrecognizable words, her scalp numb.

She took several steps back and stopped when she reached Shi Qi’s side. She reached out and grabbed the corner of his clothes, shaking her head in denial, “I really don’t know…”

Ning Meng didn’t know how the culprit behind this matter knew her real name.

Ever since she transmigrated into this world, she has always been using other people’s names. Whether it was Ning Ning, Meng Ning, or the old lady, she had never revealed her real name to anyone so how could they have known about it?

Unless it was someone from her previous world.

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If something happened to her again this time, wouldn’t Shi Qi go mad?

Ning Meng thought for a while, and told Shi Qi, “Although I don’t know who the person who carved my name is, he knows my name, and he definitely wants to do something to me.”

Shi Qi stared at her, his green eyes deep. After a long time, his gentle voice rang out, “You better not have done it on purpose.”

Ning Meng shivered abruptly.

The pure black stone stele placed in the yellow soil was very conspicuous, and the name outlined on it was even more eye-catching.

Cheng Xianwei looked at it for a while, and then asked the person next to him, “Can you tell what character this is?”

“I can’t really recognize it, it looks too illegible, I don’t recognize it at all.”

“I don’t think this is a common font, it seems to be an ancient font, just like those deliberately written words in the movie.”

Cheng Xianwei was about to turn his head when he saw Shi Qi step forward with a grimace.

Although he didn’t know why the ever-calm Young Master Qi had such an expression, it must be because something had happened without his knowledge, and he felt his heart clunk down.

Ning Meng followed Shi Qi step by step.

Her wrist had been caught in a tight grip since a while ago, unable to budge a single inch. She was afraid that Shi Qi wouldn’t let her go before they left this place.

“What in the world does this mean? Will I die because my name is written on it?” Ning Meng couldn’t help asking the system, “Did he want to harm me? What kind of hatred or resentment does he have towards me?”

Thinking of all the things she had encountered since she transmigrated, she couldn’t help but start getting angry.

She clearly hadn’t offended anyone, but had always lost her life, meeting a bad end every time just because she had the identity of a yin girl.

Ning Meng simply couldn’t understand these people’s thoughts.

A righteous path existed but they insisted on following the evil and crooked one. It would’ve been nice if they grew up just like Shi Qi.

The system said, “It’s not that you will die, but the outcome is more or less the same. This kind of tombstone, soaked in black ink, is usually taken into the tomb and used for a certain purpose.”

Ning Meng asked, “What is this certain purpose?”

The system hesitated for a while before answering, “For example, to borrow your life’s luck.”

Ning Meng was stunned.

She still remembered the scene when she saw the system for the first time. At that time, the system said that she had done a lot of good things in her previous life, so this life that she was bestowed with this time around, had a profound and long-lasting blessing.

Yet she died every time due to accidents.

Now that she could have a new lease of life in this world again, she didn’t expect that such sinister actions still existed, and had become other people’s goal in life.

The system gave her another answer, “This is just a simple guess. After all, the opponent is aggressive, so he must have been planning this for a long time. Before, when you were in the system space, nothing had happened, but now that you have your own body and have come into this world, you’ve become a person of this world so your fate has remained unchanged from before.”

So even though she was destined for a long life, and they, as the transmigration group, had prepared early on for her to use her own body, it was just that in the period of waiting for the body to be made, she had transmigrated into three different bodies and died in every one of them.

This was a clear indication that something abnormal was at play.

Forget about one accident, how could someone die thrice? Although the person was finally taken care of by Shi Qi the second time, the other two incidents were peculiar.

Shi Qi squatted down, and Ning Meng followed suit.

The name written on the stele was her own… She couldn’t help but stroke it, feeling it very slippery to the touch, making her feel curious about what it was made of.

Ning Meng frowned, retracted her hand, and reached under her nose. A fishy smell immediately rushed up. She immediately gagged, and jerked back with a pale face. Then, she was taken into Shi Qi’s arms again.

If it were the usual, she would have to struggled out of his arms, but now her whole person had gone limp.

Along her movements, the fishy scent immediately dissipated into the air.

Cheng Xianwei could not help pinching his nose, “What is that smell? It’s horrid, what in the world is this thing? Young Master Qi, do you know?”

Shi Qi simply held the small stone tablet with his fingers, “It’s a tombstone.”

Cheng Xianwei was flabbergasted, “Then are the characters written on it the name of a person? Young Master Qi, do you know who this person is? Is it the murderer, is he already dead?”

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Shi Qi give him a cold look.

Cheng Xianwei silently closed his mouth, not knowing where he said wrong, but he dared not pipe up again.

Ning Meng didn’t say a word. If she was a murderer, that would have been something. After all, to have killed herself three times was no easy feat.

The stele was only supposed to feel a little heavy on the hand, but Shi Qi felt that it was too heavy.

When the black stone tablet reached his hand, it gradually began to change, the color on it began to fade, turning into a liquid that dripped onto the soil.

Shi Qi didn’t seem to notice, “There is still a piece inside.”

As soon as the voice fell, the outer shell fell off, and the smaller tombstone wrapped inside was exposed in front of everyone.

The tombstone was made of wood, and was dark brown in color. It had the exact same words carved in the middle, only this time, the writing was in bright red.

The tip of Shi Qi’s nose quivered, certain that it was written using blood.

Ning Meng didn’t understand what this meant, until the system answered her, “This is a nested stele, which has a dual function. The first layer is to provide the simplest nourishment using the physique, and the inner layer is the most important luck transmitter. “

Its conjecture was correct, it was indeed for the sake of obtaining her luck.

Ning Meng asked, “Then when I was in the body of the old lady, how did he know that my luck was good? Or is there some other reason?”

The system didn’t answer.

Ning Meng waited for a while, but didn’t hear an answer so she looked at the object in Shi Qi’s hand instead.

Shi Qi stared at the wooden stele without blinking, and suddenly bit his finger and dripped blood onto it. To everyone’s surprise, the blood travelled through the gully, leaving fresh traces.

Ning Meng felt that her body suddenly became hot.

It was like a fire was burning in her heart. She couldn’t help but feel hot, her face growing flushed but this time, it was not from embarrassment but from aridity.

She squirmed around, feeling extremely unbearable.

But seeing that Shi Qi was still looking at the wooden tablet intently, she didn’t want to bother him, so she gritted her teeth and endured the feeling.

Cheng Xianwei watched with bated breath. He took a deep breath and raised his head. From the corner of his eye, he caught Ning Meng standing behind Young Master Qi with a red face, appearing as if she was burning.

Surprised, he asked, “Miss Ning, are you alright? Are you feeling uncomfortable?”

Ning Meng shook her head, “I’m fine I’m fine…”

It was just too hot.

“That’s because of Shi Qi’s blood, he is expelling Yin air.” The system suddenly appeared, “I just went to check some things, and found that some people are really capable. They’re able to see the luck of a soul so perhaps, he was able to see it at that time, however, he didn’t know your true name.”

Ning Meng’s head was still a little muddled, but she understood the gist of it.

Shi Qi had already turned around, rubbing her wrist lightly. He spoke in a low voice, “Just bear it a little longer, it’s going to get better soon.”

Hearing him speak so close to her, Ning Meng’s face turned hot and warm. Now that she was turning red from embarrassment, he wouldn’t be able to pinpoint the exact reason why.

She nodded obediently, “You don’t need to worry about me, I’m fine.”

She only felt a little hotter, as long as she didn’t die, it was fine.

The wooden stele had already transformed in Shi Qi’s hands, and the handwriting outlined by the blood gradually became clear, as if the blood had disappeared out of thin air.

After waiting for a long time, there still remained some traces.

Shi Qi’s expression returned to the expressionless face he showed in the beginning, and one was unable to tell what he was thinking, his fingers running across the tablet.

Cheng Xianwei and the others couldn’t understand, but somehow felt that he was amazing. They stayed at the side, not daring to breathe loudly in fear of disturbing him.

After the blood disappeared, the heat in Ning Meng’s body gradually subsided, and she recovered the fair and pure appearance she had in the beginning.

Shi Qi turned his face to the side, “Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?”

Ning Meng shook her head and replied in a soft voice, “It’s gone.”

However, after this event had passed, she certainly felt her whole body feel much better, unaware that the yin air had been stored in her body for a long time.

“The biggest use of this wooden stele is to bring it into the tomb, but now that it was found to be placed here, it shows that that person has not finished doing everything. He wanted to raise and collect more human souls in, and then kill you again when the time comes so that better results can be achieved. But now that we found out in advance, you don’t need to worry, your great grandson will take care of it.”

The system was evidently looking through the new information, its words sounding enlightened and sensible.

“Don’t be afraid, I have applied for an ability with the superiors, what happened before definitely won’t happen again this time.”

Ning Meng’s neck chilled as she listened to this.

Fortunately, this was discovered early. If it was later and there were enough souls collected inside, the number of deaths increasing, would she also lose her life?

From the system’s words…she inexplicably felt like a flag was being raised.

Whenever anyone says to wait for them to come back, in the end, they usually never come back.