What if you were targeted by a cool and aloof beauty?

"Then...then can we still go on a date tomorrow? Can you still buy me ice cream?" She tugged at An Chen's sleeve and asked.

"Well, how should I put it..." An Chen made a troubled expression.

"?" Jiuge asked, puzzled.

"Answer me first." He looked at Jiuge.

"Answer what?" Jiuge was completely baffled.

"Which one tastes better, the ice cream your Uncle Knight bought or the ice cream I bought?" An Chen asked quietly.

"..." Jiuge was stunned for a few seconds.

"Yours is delicious." She scratched her head.

"Okay, let's go on a date tomorrow then." An Chen made a helpless expression.

"You seem unwilling?" Jiuge asked warily.

“That fake expression was flirting,” An Chen immediately corrected himself.

"?" Jiuge was stunned again.

Before Jiuge could react, An Chen gave Jiuge a quick kiss on the cheek.

"Oh dear!" Jiuge's face turned bright red instantly.

"Your reaction...does that mean you're unwilling?" An Chen asked innocently.

"No...no." Jiuge tucked her hair behind her ear, then touched her face, explaining in a flustered manner.

"Then kiss me." With that, the shameless An Chen pointed to his cheek.

Chapter 197 The Man-Eating Mountain (Seeking monthly votes and subscriptions)

With her ears turning red, Jiu Ge kissed An Chen and then shyly covered her face.

"Alright, alright, let's talk about the knights first." An Chen patted Jiu Ge's head.

Jiuge is so easily embarrassed.

For some reason, he didn't feel shy at all when doing these things; in fact, he seemed very natural.

Even now, An Chen even wants to kiss Jiu Ge a few more times.

Is it really because he's too shameless?

He chuckled and pulled his phone out of his belt.

“Hmm…” Jiuge removed her hand from her eyes.

She did remember that An Chen initially wanted to come in because he wanted to talk about the knights.

"I checked the location of the Knight's first mission a few days from now and looked up some information." An Chen opened the search history.

According to the knight, the first mission location is on a mountain road in Liancheng.

The task is to go inside and walk around the entire area, recording all the unscientific events that occur inside.

The task sounds easy, but considering the news reports and urban legends, the difficulty goes beyond just being a little high.

Urban legends have referred to this mountain road as "Man-Eating Mountain".

Just like his name suggests, it is said that if someone goes to this mountain, nine out of ten will never come back.

The Swallowing Man Mountain is steep and rugged, with deep forests at its base.

The total area is not large, but a considerable number of people have gone missing there over the years.

There are many missing persons whose names can be found online.

It's quite strange, even though the area isn't very large, almost no search and rescue teams have been able to find the missing people.

Even more strangely, the rescue team always managed to come out safely every time they entered the Man-Eating Mountain.

Over time, many people even began to suspect that the search and rescue team was not working diligently and was not seriously searching for the missing persons.

Some relatives of the missing persons even went to question the matter.

However, when their families re-entered the man-eating mountain with the search and rescue team, they found exactly the same thing: nothing.

"Are these missing persons records?" Jiu Ge frowned as she looked at An Chen's phone screen.

Since the association has included it in its mission list, it means that the disappearance of people on this mountain must be closely related to metaphysics.

“If we can find the source of this…maybe someone can still be saved?” she asked.

“The possibility is very small, it’s been too long. The first person to disappear was more than 20 years ago, the second was 10 years ago, the third was 7 years ago, and the fourth, fifth and sixth were all 5 years ago. For the past few years, no one has dared to go there,” An Chen said.

The four boys who went missing more than 20 years ago were four boys who had just finished their college entrance exams and were going on an adventure to celebrate their good results.

The four boys were all wearing blue and white school uniforms, and in case of any unexpected situation, they all carried a lot of emergency supplies.

But less than a day later, they lost contact with the outside world.

When the search and rescue team went in, they found the four bags that had fallen to the ground in the woods at the foot of the mountain.

Everything in the bag fell out and was scattered in a very messy way.

It was as if they had encountered some wild beast and were fleeing in an emergency.

Later, the search and rescue team took the missing person's family to the location where the backpack was found a second time.

About a meter away from where the backpack was found, there were two pairs of chopsticks stuck upside down in the soil.

Twenty years have passed. If the four of them were still alive, they would be around forty years old now.

The person who disappeared ten years ago was a middle-aged woman.

It seems that one day she had a dream in which someone invited her to go to that mountain to play.

The next day, the woman seemed to be possessed and, disregarding her family's objections, secretly ran away.

Sure enough, they disappeared without a trace after that.

An elderly man disappeared seven years ago.

He has always been a staunch Marxist and loves mountain climbing. During his holidays, he has visited many mountains and forests with urban legends, and nothing has ever happened to him.

On the day he went missing, according to the GPS records on the old man's mobile phone, he single-handedly and at an extremely fast speed crossed from the far left to the far right of the mountain.

And finally, the signal disappeared into the forest at the foot of the mountain.

When the search and rescue team went to look for the person, they found notes left by the old man recording the coordinates in several places.

But in the end, following the clues on the note, the group still couldn't find the old man.

They couldn't even find the old man's phone.

The fourth, fifth, and sixth disappearances all occurred five years ago.

It was precisely because the events of five years ago were so bizarre that the Mountain of Man-Eating got its name.

First, there were two boys who had just come of age and were among the first to go missing.

They kept in touch with their families from the first day to the second morning and sent them photos of their mountain climb.

But not long after, the family could no longer contact the two boys.

According to photos later posted online by family members.

A strange shadow appeared next to the boy's photo.

The family of the missing person saw this photo more than 20 years ago and contacted the reporter, saying that the shadow in the photo was wearing blue and white clothes.

The second group of missing persons included a man in his thirties.

That night, the man called the Liancheng police for help, gave them his location and a string of strange numbers, and then shouted for help several times.

The call was then disconnected.

The third group of missing persons included the male owner of a small shop at the foot of the man-eating mountain.

According to his wife, that was the day in question.

On the first day, her husband suddenly told her that he saw several people asking him for food, but in the blink of an eye, those people disappeared.

Worried that the people would starve to death in the mountains without food, the husband carried a large bag filled with food and went into the mountains.

It was precisely because of these three consecutive incidents five years ago that the mountain was named "Man-Eating Mountain," and the stories of all the missing persons with names and identities were compiled into articles and published by those with ulterior motives.

At the time, this caused a huge uproar online.

“Alas…” After hearing the details, Jiuge took a deep breath.

"Could it be one of Jingcheng's colleagues...?" She asked cautiously, looking at the photo on her phone that really did have a shadowy image of a blue and white school uniform.

Jiuge felt a cold sweat breaking out on her back.

The photo of the two boys is taken at the foot of a mountain, but there is no mountain road behind them at all.

It's really weird that someone could take those kinds of photos...

“I don’t think the chances are very high…” An Chen patted Jiu Ge on the shoulder to comfort her.

If it disappeared from Liancheng.

The other party's family and association could not possibly be unaware of this.

“But… these disappearances all seem pretty creepy…” Jiuge said, taking a breath and hugging An Chen’s shoulders.

"It's also possible that the story has been embellished, or that the photo is photoshopped or just a coincidence." An Chen, on the other hand, quite enjoyed the feeling of Jiu Ge hugging his arm because she was startled.

“But…” Jiuge sniffed, her expression growing increasingly terrified.

Chapter 198 The Death of Jiuge (Seeking monthly votes and subscriptions)

The details of each of these disappearances are too complex to recount in detail.

Upon closer examination, one can sense an unusual and eerie atmosphere.

Not to mention the sheer weight of all the events combined and the chilling speculations that arise from them.

Jiuge felt goosebumps rise on her skin.