AMRWFA -Chapter 108 His Brain Might Be More Than Just a Walnut

Besides my cousin, someone else turned into an animal?

Xie Xiuming… that name sounds familiar…

Better check online later.

While thinking this, Shi Yanli asked, “So, what should I be careful about?”

“Ah, there are a lot of things to watch out for, especially at your uncle’s house. I don’t know how your relationship with them is or whether anything you say would have an effect. If it does, that’s good. I’ll make a timetable for you later. Follow it to remind them—when it’s time, they need to stay put and not go anywhere, or else something could happen…”

Shi Yanli nodded in agreement. Plane crashes, car accidents… she definitely needed to be careful. It would be best to mark everyone in the family, especially her father—she hadn’t forgotten about that White Moonlight incident.

The only problem was that Ruan Yaoyao was just mumbling this in her mind, not saying it out loud, so Shi Yanli couldn’t ask directly.

No matter—she had already thought of a plan. She’d invite Yu Xiangqiao and her mother-in-law, Ruan Yaoyao, to her house. That way, she’d find out everything herself.

White Moonlight? That had to be stopped before it even started.

Meanwhile, Xiao Ai got so angry that it started cursing. It hadn’t learned many curse words, so it just repeated a few lines over and over:

“Ahhhh… are you even listening?!”

“You’re terrible! How can you bully a bird like this?!”

“I’m talking to you—can you hear me?!”

…

Shi Yanli glanced at Xiao Ai and said to Ruan Yaoyao, “Sorry, Aunt Yuan, I might need you to take care of Xiao Ai for a while. My grandfather is old and can’t handle too much excitement; I’m afraid if I take it home it might cause trouble. I’ll leave it with you for now and come see it whenever I can.”

“No problem, leave it here. Even if you wanted to take it, in its current state, we can’t let you.”

【Obviously. Xie Xiumin is still here with me. If I let this brainless thing go back, and it doesn’t keep its mouth shut, I’d be exposed.】

【Also, those other people only escaped Li Tingting’s control because of me. Your cousin is like this now—if you take it back and it gets controlled again, what then?】

【No matter what, wait until it’s back to normal first.】

Controlled?!

Shi Yanli wasn’t sure if she was overthinking, but those two words sounded terrifying.

Later, after leaving Ruan Yaoyao’s place and signing a confidentiality agreement, she realized Ruan Yaoyao hadn’t lied: the heroine, Li Tingting, really did have the power to control people.

Otherwise, her cousin wouldn’t have suddenly fainted and turned into a bird. That was the result of being “controlled.”

Hearing this, Shi Yanli thought: “…Am I in a different world?”

How else could something so absurd happen?

She messaged Yu Xiangqiao, who replied: [If I hadn’t experienced it myself, I wouldn’t believe it either. Your cousin only lost his memory and became a bird. I was worse—I was possessed, my husband was taken over, and I lost my daughter. Can you imagine?]

Shi Yanli: [?!]

Shi Yanli: [Are you scaring me?!]

Shi Yanli: [Possessed?!]

Yu Xiangqiao: [Yes, I was possessed. I wasn’t the first—people had already been possessed for years when it happened to me. I can’t say who exactly, but I just want to tell you this is 100% real.]

Yu Xiangqiao: [I’m extremely lucky that my mother-in-law awakened and got special abilities. Without her, you wouldn’t even be seeing me today.]

Yu Xiangqiao: [And my daughter… I gave birth to a daughter. You know? In some online novel, she’s written as a fake rich daughter, and a cannon fodder character at that…]

Shi Yanli: [If it weren’t for the national team, I’d have thought you were making this up.]

Shi Yanli: [By the way, the Xie Xiuming I found online—is he the one your mom mentioned?]

Yu Xiangqiao: [You mean, is the one in my family that Xie Xiuming?]

Yu Xiangqiao: [Yes, that’s him!]

Yu Xiangqiao: [Your cousin will meet him soon—they’ll have a companion.]

Shi Yanli twitched her lips. She guessed her cousin definitely didn’t want that kind of companion.

Indeed, Xiao Ai didn’t want this at all.

When it saw Xie Xiuming the dog, something felt off—but when the dog barked a few times, it almost fell off its perch.

Because it heard the dog say: “Oh, you’re my successor!”

“Poor thing!”

“I heard you got rescued, but you still don’t believe you’re human, and think you’re a bird.”

“If you’re a perfectly good person, why insist on being a bird?”

…

Flapping its wings, Xiao Ai clutched the perch in terror and said: “Y-you… you became sentient too?!”

“I get it—you were captured by them too, right?”

Glancing angrily around, it didn’t see the two women but still felt the urge to unleash fire.

It cursed those two women—it was perfectly fine with its original master. Why drag it here?

Just because they had power and influence, they thought they could do whatever they wanted?

It would never submit.

Seeing Xie Xiuming unrestrained, it even wanted him to escape. If possible, it also wanted him to send a message to its master, telling them it was here.

Xie Xiuming squatted on the ground, looking up at the chattering bird, feeling like he was staring at an idiot.

Sigh…

How naïve can this thing be? Li Tingting picked him probably because he was so gullible.

Xie Xiuming was deeply doubtful. Anyone as smart as him would run the moment something felt wrong. But Xiao Ai…

“You’ve already seen your cousin, so why do you still think you’re a bird? If you really were a bird, look at the birds around you—are any of them as smart as you? Don’t you see the difference?”

Just like it could tell that Xiao Mao, the German Shepherd, was smart but couldn’t communicate.

Yes, exactly.

When Li Tingting took it to the park before, it played happily with the other dogs but couldn’t actually communicate with them.

Back then, it just thought it had become sentient, above the mundane, and couldn’t communicate with ordinary dogs.

Now, it realized the real reason—they were fundamentally different. One was a real dog, one was a human.

Xiao Ai tilted its head: “Different? Aren’t we all birds?”

Xie Xiuming: “Can you communicate with them?”

Xiao Ai: “…Not really. They’re a bit dumb, they don’t understand me.”

Xie Xiuming: “Then why can I understand you? You’re a bird, I’m a dog—we’re different species.”

Xiao Ai replied matter-of-factly: “Because we’re sentient!]

Xie Xiuming: “But didn’t you just say you were a regular bird and denied being sentient?”

Xiao Ai: “That was to trick the bad people. What if I admitted it and they used me for evil experiments, treating me like a lab rat?”

Xiao Ai: “I’ve seen a lot of cartoons—they always do that.”

Xie Xiuming: “…Does your family not teach patriotism?”

Xiao Ai looked puzzled: “What does that have to do with patriotism?”

Xie Xiuming: “The national team is involved—why do you think they’re bad? Do you think they’re deceiving the national team, or that the national team is blind?”

Otherwise, how could even a simple trick fool you? Clearly, the national team and the women were fine—it’s Xiao Ai that has the problem.

His brain… probably isn’t just the size of a walnut.