AMRWFA -Chapter 427 Each Busy With Their Own Things

She casually “collected” Picol Weiss.

Clean up the battlefield, retreat immediately.

Ugh… she was just an ordinary person. She knew nothing.

Ruan Yaoyao ran extremely fast, and because of that, she missed the warning signal and the Anomaly Suppression Bureau that rushed over in a panic.

“What happened? There’s no boss-level anomaly nearby. Why are their signals gone?”

“Find them immediately!”

……

Back at the hotel, Ruan Yaoyao’s heart was still pounding violently.

Seeing her return, Jiang Yangran quickly asked whether she had eaten breakfast. If not, she would ask the staff to add a meal.

Ruan Yaoyao waved her hand. “Not yet. Just add something random. I don’t really have an appetite right now.”

She was scared full.

While eating, she realized Hong Pengyi wasn’t there.

Ruan Yaoyao asked, “Where did he go?”

“He said he had something to do and went out early this morning.” Jiang Yangran looked a bit resentful. “Sis, you’re busy at night, and he’s busy during the day. Suddenly I feel so useless.”

“Why would you say that? Didn’t you prepare the food?”

“I didn’t prepare it. The hotel did.”

“But if you didn’t help order it, the hotel might not have brought food that suits our taste. Alright, Yangran, stop overthinking it. Try this fermented rice dumpling—it’s really good~”

It took quite a while for Ruan Yaoyao to finally “comfort” Jiang Yangran.

She quietly exhaled and thought inwardly:

【Sigh… what can I do? Hong Pengyi may look young, but he’s very independent. I can’t control him at all.】

【That kid has too many thoughts. If I’m not careful, he might go berserk and turn into an anomaly. I really don’t dare interfere.】

【If I try to manage him and he ends up becoming like before—turning into a vengeful spirit—then everything I’ve done would be wasted.】

Jiang Yangran: “……”

So she’s the one who suffers for being “sensible,” huh?

She wanted several times to ask what Ruan Yaoyao had done out at night and why she didn’t take her along, but after hearing those inner thoughts, she gave up.

Since she already said taking her would be too dangerous and that she was better off staying behind as a “quick escape option,” what could she even say?

For the first time, Jiang Yangran hated being an ordinary person—completely unable to help with anything.

Ruan Yaoyao felt guilty.

She was doing shady things—how could she bring someone along?

If she brought someone, how would she even do it?

That day when she went out, she was blocked at the hotel entrance by Hong Pengyi.

“I saw it!”

Ruan Yaoyao: ????

“Saw what?”

Hong Pengyi: “You lied to Sister Xiangran. You said you didn’t know people from the Anomaly Suppression Bureau, but you do. I saw you talking to them.”

Ruan Yaoyao looked at his cold expression and felt a headache coming on. “So? Are you going to report me?”

No way, right?

So unlucky?

In reality, it really was that unlucky. When Ruan Yaoyao was mass-collecting anomalies, he just happened to be nearby.

He didn’t directly see her talking to Bureau members, but he saw them appearing in the same area back-to-back. Combined with Ruan Yaoyao’s mysterious behavior and refusal to bring anyone along these past few days, he became suspicious.

He didn’t expect her to be so easy to trick.

Hong Pengyi said coldly, “I’m not a child.”

Ruan Yaoyao: “Then this is…”

“I’m going with you.”

Ruan Yaoyao: “…I’m going to collect anomalies. What are you going to do?”

“I know where anomalies are.”

【I have an identity card. I can navigate directly. I don’t need you to lead the way!】

“I know shortcuts.”

……

In the end, Ruan Yaoyao still brought him along—because if she didn’t, he would just secretly follow behind anyway.

She had finally managed to save him; she didn’t want him to die again and end up dragging her efforts down.

Holding the Soul-Suppressing Spear, she took down anomalies one by one.

When she turned around, she found Hong Pengyi staring intensely at her weapon.

Ruan Yaoyao: “……”

“You’re not thinking about this, are you?” she tested carefully. “This isn’t something a kid should be playing with.”

Hong Pengyi: “Because I’m not a god-born?”

【If I say no, will you start resenting everything? Resenting heaven, earth, and society?】

Her inner voice choked him into silence. He glared at her.

Ruan Yaoyao looked innocent. “It has nothing to do with whether you’re god-born. The main issue is—you’re a minor. Kids can’t play with this.”

Hong Pengyi sneered. “In a world this dangerous, no one knows when they’ll die. You still treat me like a child? Do you think I can even live to adulthood?”

“Yes, of course you can.” After I finish this world’s mission, I’ll take you all home.

Hong Pengyi realized she was firmly refusing to give him the real Soul-Suppressing Spear, so he could only follow behind sulking.

【This kid… why is he so stubborn?】

【I never said he can’t learn.】

【But at least wait until adulthood!】

Hong Pengyi looked at this strange but stubborn woman, not understanding her.

Even his own parents, after discovering he could earn money picking up trash, stopped treating him like a child and expected him to “be independent.”

So why did she insist on seeing him as a child who needed protection?

Did she even know kids like him wouldn’t survive long in the lower strata?

“I’ll make a deal with you. I’ll help you find someone, and you teach me this,” Hong Pengyi insisted.

If this were the real world, Ruan Yaoyao might have agreed—but this was the mirror world. One day everything would return to normal. She really didn’t want to corrupt a minor.

She looked at him hesitantly. “How do you know I’m looking for someone?”

“I saw it.”

How did he see it again? Was he Sherlock Holmes? Or a Conan-type magnet for cases?

Why did he keep bumping into everything she did?

Hong Pengyi: “So? Deal or not?”

Ruan Yaoyao: “Deal—but only after you become an adult.”

That was her bottom line.

Afraid he would be unhappy, she quickly added, “I can teach you something else first, like drawing talismans?”

Weapons were off limits, but talismans should be fine.

Exorcism talismans wouldn’t harm living people anyway.

As for morals and worldview… she’d leave that to “the state dad” after they left the mirror world. She really couldn’t educate a kid who might go dark at any moment.

Just as she was thinking this, Hong Pengyi stared at the talisman in her hand for a long time.

Just when she thought he would refuse, he said:

“Deal.”

Ruan Yaoyao originally thought he would take her to some “informant,” but he did bring her to an informant—

Only to discover that this “informant” was actually an anomaly.

Ruan Yaoyao stared at the creature in front of her, confused.

“You… know it?”

Is it me who’s abnormal, or is it you two?

Who in their right mind makes friends with anomalies?!

Crazy.

The quiet Hong Pengyi nodded. “Mm.”

Because he couldn’t make human friends, he could only befriend anomalies.

“Then why did you react so strongly the last time you saw one?”

Hong Pengyi stared at her, lips pressed together, saying nothing.

Ruan Yaoyao: ????

Fine. This kid really is hard to understand.

Whether it was his “profile” or his fate line, she couldn’t see any connection between him and anomalies. It was normal that she couldn’t figure him out.

Forget it—this kind of difficult case should be left to the state.

Ruan Yaoyao turned to the anomaly. “Do you know who I’m looking for? A person who lives with anomalies—or someone who is imprisoned by them but not eaten.”