AMRWFA -Chapter 420 The Exorcism Bureau of the Mirror World

Jiang Yangran quietly shifted a little to the side, trying to slip away.

What kind of “golden thigh” was this? This was clearly a death curse.

“Of course not. I have nothing to do with that so-called Exorcism Bureau,” Ruan Yaoyao immediately denied it.

【What a joke. A department that could casually wait for people to die and turn into ghosts, using any means necessary for refinement—she wanted nothing to do with them.】

Jiang Yangran said, “You’re lying! If you’re not with them, then what was that thing you were holding just now?”

She wasn’t blind.

She clearly saw Ruan Yaoyao use something to take away Mo Zhaodi.

Ruan Yaoyao blinked. “I can suppress ghosts, but that doesn’t mean I’m from the Exorcism Bureau. Can’t I be a wild Taoist?”

【What’s wrong with that? Does this world not have wild ones?】

【But thinking about it, with how domineering the Exorcism Bureau is, they definitely wouldn’t allow ordinary people to know about wild practitioners. If people knew, who would still go to them?】

【Disgusting!】

【Stealing Daoist techniques on one hand, hunting us down on the other, and not even allowing ordinary people to know we exist.】

【Once all wild Taoists are gone, won’t the whole world belong to the Exorcism Bureau?】

So that’s how it is!

Jiang Yangran was shocked. She hadn’t expected the Exorcism Bureau to be this terrifying, not only oppressing people but also suppressing wild Taoists.

Luckily she could hear Ruan Yaoyao’s inner voice—otherwise she would’ve been fooled.

Jiang Yangran quickly put on an apologetic expression. “Sorry, sis. I hadn’t heard of wild Taoists before. But I believe you—you’re a good person, you definitely wouldn’t lie to me.”

【Of course.】

【If I weren’t a good person, you’d already be dead.】

Ruan Yaoyao thought this internally, then shifted the topic and began asking Jiang Yangran about the Exorcism Bureau.

At first it was just suspicion, but after hearing Jiang Yangran explain, she realized the Exorcism Bureau really wasn’t a good place.

They did suppress ghosts—but they weren’t free. They charged heavily for their services, and were known for brutal retaliation, sometimes wiping out entire families.

“Sometimes you don’t even know how you offended them. If they dislike you, they’ll just kill you and turn you into a ghost,” Jiang Yangran said. “That’s why I told you to stay far away from them. People they target rarely end well. But they usually don’t go after ordinary people—just don’t dig into them too much. The farther away, the better…”

Small people had their own survival rules.

Jiang Yangran had survived until now because she followed them strictly.

“Mm, I’ll try,” Ruan Yaoyao replied.

But inwardly she thought: 【It’s not like I don’t want to stay away from them… they may not even let me go.】

【Sigh… being a “wild” one really means I don’t belong to their system.】

Jiang Yangran, however, wasn’t thinking about distancing herself from Ruan Yaoyao. She was more worried that with Ruan Yaoyao’s silly personality, she might get tricked and even help others count money after being sold.

No, she had to keep an eye on her.

As for Hong Pengyi…

Jiang Yangran thought of the young boy she occasionally saw, and then of the “little girl” she had just seen, and felt a little heavy-hearted.

“Sis,” she asked, “when we came out earlier, you said Uncle Hong might beat his son to death… is that true? Could he really be that cruel?”

And what confused her even more was that Mrs. Hong seemed like a good person—how could she just stand by and do nothing?

That was her own child!

“You already know I’m a Taoist. Do you think I would lie? Unless I was wrong.”

【Isn’t that obvious?】

【The word ‘domestic abuser’ on his head was glowing red. A man like that can beat his wife to that state—why would he spare a child who opposes him?】

【What are you even thinking?】

【Domestic violence only has 0 or countless times. Once it starts, unless someone intervenes, it won’t stop on its own.】

……

“Then… can we save him?” Jiang Yangran asked.

“Of course. We can just call the police later…” Ruan Yaoyao had already planned it out. She would time it so the police arrived during the act, catching them in the middle of it.

But then she was surprised when Jiang Yangran looked confused.

“Call the police? What is that?”

“…” Ruan Yaoyao swallowed the explanation that reached her lips. “It means… asking someone for help. When you have a problem, don’t you know how to seek help?”

She felt puzzled. How could she not know what “calling the police” meant?

In this world’s “details page,” Ruan Yaoyao hadn’t seen the word “police” at all. She had assumed it was just hidden due to plot restrictions.

But now that she mentioned it and Jiang Yangran still didn’t understand…

Could it be that “police” had also been erased, just like “ID cards”?

She felt she needed to understand this world more carefully, or she’d expose herself too easily.

Jiang Yangran quickly shifted focus, and instead discussed how to find someone to pretend to be a buyer to “purchase” Hong Pengyi.

“Buy him?” Ruan Yaoyao was shocked. “People can be bought?”

“Yes. Why not? As long as you can afford it and the parents agree, anyone can be sold—boys or girls,” Jiang Yangran said. “Once you buy Hong Pengyi, he becomes yours, and his parents no longer have the right to touch him.”

No way.

Not only was child marriage normal in this world, but even buying and selling children was legal?!

Ruan Yaoyao was completely stunned.

After probing further, she realized that anyone without an ID could be “bought,” regardless of age or gender.

Parents could sell children. Men could sell women.

Supply and demand.

“Wait,” Ruan Yaoyao asked, “you said men can sell women. Then can women sell men?”

Jiang Yangran looked shocked. “What are you talking about? How could women sell men?!”

“Why not? Didn’t you just say—where there’s demand, there’s a market?”

“I know that, but… but women can’t sell men. Only mothers can sell sons, or sons can sell mothers. Daughters can’t sell fathers, and wives can’t sell husbands…”

Ruan Yaoyao didn’t understand. Why not?

Isn’t it all just selling?

Jiang Yangran then gave examples, saying the neighbor Aunt Zheng had experienced it.

After her husband died, she raised her son and daughter alone. When her son grew up and needed money for a girlfriend, he sold both his mother and sister, using the money to fund his relationship.

“Later his girlfriend spent too much money, so Zheng Wei couldn’t stand it anymore and sold the girlfriend, then got a new one…”

Ruan Yaoyao: “……”

If she didn’t know better, she would’ve already called the police.

What kind of logic was this? A grown son selling his own mother and sister?

And even selling his girlfriend?!

Not even a wife—just a girlfriend?!