Ark Simulator, Don't I Have No Physical Form? Chapter 13

Ren Dong froze for a moment, then noticed that Su Rui had activated Scanning Vision. "Someone's coming. They're armed, they don't belong to the Venice Family, and it looks like they're planning to cause a huge scene here."

Su Rui then displayed the two girls he had spotted through Scanning Vision. One had dark blue hair, while the other had pure white hair, with only the fur along the edges of her ears tinged black.

"This is... Lappland from the Saluzzo Family? And the one beside her is a junior from the Texas Lineage?"

Ren Dong paused, clearly not expecting these two to be the ones coming here. I remember your intelligence said the Saluzzo Family wasn't targeting us.

"Indeed they weren't. My intelligence can't be wrong. But the Saluzzo Family probably thinks there's an opportunity here, so they want to take advantage of this to strike at the Venice Family and expand their own influence."

Su Rui spoke casually as he marked their locations.

"They entered from different places. Which one do you want to deal with first?"

Leave the one from the Saluzzo Family to me. Activate the family alarm.

"Got it."

The moment Su Rui finished speaking, the intrusion alarm blared.

Within the Scanning Vision Su Rui provided, both Texas and Lappland showed surprised expressions before swiftly moving again.

Su Rui could not help laughing in Ren Dong's mind. "You saw how surprised they were, right? They probably thought their partner had slipped up!"

Enough. Focus. We can chat after I drive them back.

"Why not just kill them?"

Su Rui froze for a moment. "Are you planning to let them go?"

Both of them are fairly important to their respective families. Since the Venice Family doesn't have much of a grudge against them, it's best not to go for the kill.

Ren Dong seemed worried that this reason would not be enough to convince Su Rui, so she added another condition.

However, I can drive them back mercilessly, just as you want. Consider it a provocation and retaliation against the Saluzzo Family.

"Good! With me here, you're invincible! The strong should humiliate the weak without mercy!"

Su Rui immediately perked up and marked the shortest route to Lappland. It even cut through several rooms and required smashing a few windows.

"Hurry up. What if the other one gets caught by someone else?"

Trust in her abilities. The fact that only two of them came already says plenty about their strength.

Ren Dong sprinted all the way there. After crashing through a window, she landed before the white-haired wolf girl amid a shower of glass shards.

"Lappland? As far as I remember, the Venice Family hasn't had any conflicts with Saluzzo recently."

Ren Dong aimed her weapon at Lappland, intending to exchange a few words before fighting.

Fortunately, Lappland was even more impatient than Su Rui. She charged at Ren Dong while answering her question.

"Of course it was the old fossils back home trying to take advantage of you. I don't like the old man either, but I think it's a pretty good idea."

But Lappland's attack was easily blocked by Ren Dong.

Su Rui's words might have been a little exaggerated, but he truly had the strength to be arrogant. In Ren Dong's eyes, every movement Lappland made was predicted in advance. Su Rui had even analyzed and grasped her emotions and breathing.

Ren Dong discovered every move before Lappland made it and already knew how to respond.

So long as her opponent was not ridiculously overpowered, Ren Dong truly was invincible.

A smile curled onto Ren Dong's lips as she began answering Lappland's attacks, forcing her back step by step. Every strike seemed capable of taking her life, yet every one stopped at the last instant, merely slicing past her neck or before her eyes.

Lappland had clearly realized that these near misses were not caused by Ren Dong's mistakes. Irritated, she retreated several steps and swung her sword to force Ren Dong back.

"Are you humiliating me? You could have taken my life outright, yet every time you only scare me?"

Ren Dong raised her chin and spoke arrogantly according to Su Rui's prompt.

"You are no match for me. Once you realize that, run away with your tail between your legs."

Lappland froze, as if she had not expected Ren Dong to say that. She gritted her teeth.

"I'll remember this, Ingrid. You'll regret it."

"She knows you?"

Watching Lappland flee in a bedraggled state, Su Rui asked in confusion.

Of course. We're both considered important figures within our respective families. We can't become friends because of our positions, but as opponents, we know each other very well... She can probably tell that the arrogance just now didn't suit my personality.

"What's there to fear? It's not like she can drag me out and beat me up."

Su Rui did not care at all that he had provoked Lappland. "Besides, she might not even guess that I exist. Maybe she'll just think you were in a bad mood today."

Ren Dong's lips curved upward. She shook the weapon in her hand and urged, Let's go find the next target.

"Okay. That Texas girl is currently... Lappland has met up with her."

It's fine. I can still handle the two of them.

"What I mean is, it looks like they're planning to slip away. Hurry up, or you won't get to beat them up."

All right, I understand.

Ren Dong had thought Su Rui was worried about her safety, and felt a little helpless. So he was worried she would not catch up and lose her chance to beat them up?

Fortunately, with Su Rui planning the route and Ren Dong being more familiar with the Venice Family's layout than Texas and Lappland, she still intercepted them.

She even provocatively raised her chin at them. "Come at me together."

You're Acting a Little Strange

"This doesn't seem like you, Ingrid. You're being a little too arrogant today."

Lappland was somewhat puzzled, but she still attacked Ren Dong alongside Texas.

As for Texas, she merely pursed her lips and said nothing.

"Why is Texas acting like such a mute? She hasn't said a single word."

Show her some respect. Texas and I know each other, after all.

"I'm calling her by her name, aren't I? I didn't give her a nickname. Fine, I just won't call her a mute."

Su Rui spoke casually, then reminded Ren Dong, "Raise your hand, block upward, then do a spinning kick thirty-five degrees to the rear left."

Ren Dong reacted immediately. She blocked Lappland's blade while kicking Texas, who had been trying to sneak attack her, away. Texas staggered several steps and nearly fell.

Texas stared at the weapon in her hand in surprise, as though she had not expected Ren Dong's reaction to be so fast.

Su Rui immediately recorded her stunned expression and even added a voice-over when replaying it.

"Damn, that flying kick nearly split my clothes at the seams!"

"Pfft~"

Ren Dong could not hold back her laughter. Noticing the astonished looks from Lappland and Texas, she could not help reproaching Su Rui in embarrassment. Enough, Su Rui. Focus. We're in the middle of a fight!

"I know, but it looks like neither of them plans to keep fighting."

Su Rui glanced at Lappland and Texas, who had already retreated together, and offered a suggestion.

"They seem to be planning to climb over the wall. I have a way for you to kick each of them in the face while they're climbing, sending them flying."

No. That would be far too rude.

"The mafia is way too polite."

Su Rui could not help complaining, then marked another sentence in Ren Dong's vision. "Then leave them with one final line."

Ren Dong looked at the line Su Rui had written, and the corner of her mouth twitched. Still, she spoke to Texas and Lappland, who had already backed up to the wall.

"I'll be waiting right here. You two little trash, come find me again if you're not convinced. I'll beat your teeth out!"

"...Are you really Ingrid?"

Even Texas could not help speaking now, studying Ren Dong with an astonished gaze.

"Of course I am."

Though she felt ashamed inside, Ren Dong outwardly nodded with complete composure.

"All right, playtime is over. You should leave."

"See? I told you Ingrid was acting strange today."

Lappland nodded at Texas, then looked at Ren Dong again.

"That last sentence was more like something Ren Dong would say."

Lappland and Texas then climbed over the wall and left the Venice Family's courtyard, leaving Ren Dong standing there with flushed cheeks. She turned her back to the family members rushing over, unwilling to look at them.

"My suggestion is to say you're red because you exercised too hard and got tired."

... Ren Dong said nothing. She merely turned and nodded at the driver who had come to her side. "They've left."

"Mm. I'll handle the rest."

The driver glanced at her boss, whose face was red for some reason, and nodded.

Although she found Ren Dong's expression a little strange, the driver had already grown accustomed to her boss occasionally doing odd things.

It could not possibly be that someone had been telling Miss Ren Dong jokes in her ear while she fought, right?

The driver shook her head, casting aside such absurd thoughts before beginning to arrange the cleanup.

As Ren Dong achieved more and more for the family, more people within it came to trust her. As Ren Dong's subordinate, the driver's prestige rose along with hers, making it easy for her to assign people work.

While Ren Dong was returning to rest, Su Rui suddenly noticed something and displayed a communication message.

"You know Lappland too? I mean, you actually have her contact information?"

We may occasionally work together. Though we usually remain silent around each other, I do have it. I also have Texas's contact information.

Lappland's message was simple. "You were acting strange today, Ingrid. Did you run into some trouble?"

"She's actually worried about you."

Lappland probably thinks there might be something interesting going on here. But she probably... really does want to help me.

Texas had also sent a message. "Did you run into trouble?"

"Could they both be good people? Why do they both want to help you? Am I some kind of terrible person?"

Of course you're not bad. At least not now, while you're by my side. Ren Dong could not help recalling all the things Su Rui had said—wanting to monitor the entire world, wanting to see blood flow like rivers... What kind of good person had hobbies like that?

"Of course! I'm an exceptionally kind and good person. Whenever I see someone going hungry, I want to lend them a hand."

Su Rui affirmed Ren Dong's words, even nodding to himself in his mind.

The corner of Ren Dong's mouth twitched. She took out her phone, intending to reply.

Ren Dong: "I'm fine. Thank you for your concern. I've just been a little moody lately."

Then Ren Dong discovered that she, Lappland, and Texas had been pulled into a group chat.

But she remembered that they had been communicating through text messages?

She looked at her phone in confusion. They had clearly been having one-on-one text conversations, yet Su Rui had created a group chat. He even had an identity in the group: Ren Dong's Guardian Spirit.

Lappland immediately realized Su Rui existed. "Ren Dong's Guardian Spirit? Is that why you said those things today?"

Ren Dong's Guardian Spirit: "That's right. Actually, those were all things I wanted to say to you two. Trash~"

Texas: "...No wonder."

Ren Dong's Guardian Spirit: "Hello there, other trash~"

Texas: "..."

Enough, Su Rui. Stop teasing them.

For some reason, Ren Dong felt a sense of crisis—not because she feared Su Rui would be discovered, but because she realized Su Rui could interact with other people this way.

Though she knew she should not think like this, after spending this time together, Ren Dong had developed possessiveness toward Su Rui.

Sometimes, the inertia of thought was a terrifying thing.

Ren Dong had already subconsciously regarded Su Rui as someone who belonged solely to her, a treasure that only she could touch.

So when Ren Dong saw Su Rui talking with Texas and Lappland, she felt a little sour, along with a sense of crisis.

In the phone's group chat, Lappland was still trying to pry for information. "Oh~ So you're very capable? Then why don't you meet me in person?"