Ye Chenyang stood there, dumbfounded, so Jiang Mian moved a little closer.
"Brother Ye? Did you go stupid?"
"Ah, n-no, I'm fine."
Ye Chenyang snapped out of it at the sight of her radiant smile.
Maybe it was just his imagination, but Jiang Mian seemed a lot more cheerful since she'd returned.
Was it because she'd gained so much?
Or... had she gotten some means of staying alive from those two top-tier Calamities?
Whatever. She was happy, and seeing her happy made him happy too.
Ye Chenyang raised a hand and smoothed her unruly hair.
"How was it out there?"
Jiang Mian shook her head and looked up at him.
"Pretty boring. There was nothing there."
Electronic devices didn't work in the Mist, so she hadn't brought anything with her.
It was fine when she had things to do. But after her storage space and core were full, she'd hoped to have some fun or just lie back and take it easy while things settled. She couldn't even do that.
She could build a house and all, but she wasn't planning to stay in the Mist for long, so there was no need. As soon as she'd finished what she came to do, she'd headed straight back.
"Yeah, I can imagine."
Ye Chenyang gave a slight nod.
The ocean was vast to begin with, and the scenery never changed. Add the Mist shrouding everything, and no psychologically normal human could stand to stay there unless they'd gone for some specific purpose.
He didn't know how deeply the instinct of [Doom] affected Jiang Mian, but it seemed the Sun Mark had come at just the right time.
At least her mind and body still fell within the bounds of "humanity."
Most Aberrants only suffered more and more from the onset of