GRMFBS CH202

Because of the apocalyptic projection stunt pulled by Infinite, the Candle Dragon power left behind after the projections vanished was now scattered everywhere.

A portion of it was collected by the members of the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance who were responsible for handling these projections at the time. Another portion fell into the hands of the Retirees Alliance and Deep Shadow. There was some in the Underworld as well, but not much. The remaining portion was left in place after the projections dissipated on their own before they could be cleared away, hidden within the crevices of space and time.

Zhan Yan first sorted out the portion still left in place and sent the information to his dad.

Hmm, the fact that his dad was beating up Xiang Liu meant he didn’t have any important matters at the moment and could go collect the Candle Dragon power.

Zhan Yunkai was currently visiting Xiang Liu.

Xiang Liu was not very happy about being visited.

He revealed his massive true form, rolling in the swamp. His nine heads faced the sky, mouths wide open revealing venomous fangs as if about to roar, looking ferocious and malevolent.

“I was wrong, I was wrong! Are you done hitting me? If you hit me again, I’m really going to get angry! Awoo!”

Xiang Liu didn’t want to act cowardly either. But Chongming and the Grand Musician had no martial ethics! They were ganging up on him!

Chongming was already a very difficult opponent to deal with, and the Grand Musician’s support abilities were absurdly strong. Xiang Liu initially wanted to resist, but was quickly pinned to the ground and hammered by the Chongming bird, who was buffed by the Grand Musician.

All nine of Xiang Liu’s heads were knocked so hard they were buzzing. The nine heads twisted around wildly, but couldn’t bite the large bird flying nimbly in the air.

He felt very wronged: “Wasn’t it just a shift change? I’m angry, I’m really angry!”

Lingzhou Wendi held a handbell, a small drum hanging from his waist, playing a rhythmic accompaniment. He smiled and said, “Don’t be angry. Look how well you’re doing the snake dance?”

Xiang Liu: …

Seizing the opportunity, Zhan Yunkai slapped Xiang Liu’s No. 5 head with another claw. His memory was very good; every head would get slapped, not missing a single one.

Xiang Liu howled and collapsed flat in the swamp. He started rolling around, flinging countless mud splatters into the sky: “Chongming, you’re helping an outsider bully someone from your own alliance!”

Zhan Yunkai sneered and deployed a magic barrier to block the mud splatters. Spreading his giant claws, he prepared to fly down and haul this shameless snake up.

Suddenly, a special notification tone chimed from within his feathers.

Zhan Yunkai paused. He pecked out his phone from his feathers and tapped it open to take a look.

His double pupils dilated.

Approaching Science had drawn him a Candle Dragon power map!

This was far more important than visiting Xiang Liu.

Zhan Yunkai looked down and asked Lingzhou Wendi, “Shall we end today’s visit here?”

Lingzhou Wendi felt a bit regretful: “Alright.”

The one human and one demon ended their visit. Zhan Yunkai flapped his wings, sent Lingzhou Wendi back, and began collecting the Candle Dragon power according to the map.

In the Gossip System, Zhan Yan silently lit a candle in mourning for Xiang Liu, and felt gratified by the harmonious and friendly relationship his dad had established with the Grand Musician.

Look, look, the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance can still get along harmoniously and amicably!

The gratified Zhan Yan asked his dad about the Candle Dragon’s blessing.

Zhan Yunkai felt a bit troubled after receiving the message. Approaching Science wanted the Candle Dragon’s blessing, but this was something he couldn’t guarantee either. The Candle Dragon was asleep most of the time, and no one knew when she would wake up. Even when she woke up, she wasn’t truly awake; it was more like sleepwalking. It was very difficult to communicate with the Candle Dragon in this state.

Chongming: [Do you want some other blessings?]

Aside from the Candle Dragon, he could get the blessings of the other Ten Great Demon Kings. He could also get blessings from great demons who hadn’t joined the Wan Yao Alliance, like the Blue Bird. Ah… Xiang Liu was an exception. He was a fierce demon and didn’t do blessings; instead, he was very good at attracting disasters.

Zhan Yan worried. Would the blessings of other Demon Kings… be of any use?

The Candle Dragon’s blessing was useful because it could part the past hidden by time. Perhaps other Demon Kings would also have some blessings related to eating melons (gossiping)?

Approaching Science: [What kind of blessings are there?]

Chongming: [Wait a moment.]

[Chongming Demon King Zhan Yunkai tossed the task to his subordinate, the Black-Necked Crane demon Gong Yun.]

It wasn’t much trouble for Gong Yun to compile this information. The great demons had lived for a long time, and the extent of their abilities was no secret. The blessings they could bestow were mostly related to their own abilities.

What Gong Yun cared about was why His Majesty Chongming suddenly started paying attention to this.

Did His Majesty Chongming want the blessings of other Demon Kings? No, if that were the case, His Majesty Chongming wouldn’t need a list. A list was meant to be shown to others; was he trying to let someone else choose a blessing? Who had that much face?

Gong Yun thought it over and felt that any big shot who had that much face with His Majesty Chongming wouldn’t need to go through all this trouble; they could just get the blessings themselves. Who had His Majesty Chongming been in contact with recently… Oh, right! His Majesty Chongming went to visit Xiang Liu together with the Grand Musician.

But it shouldn’t be the Grand Musician who wanted it. The Grand Musician had a wide circle of friends; he could get whatever blessing he wanted himself. Even if he wasn’t familiar with someone and asked His Majesty Chongming for help, there was no need to pull up a list.

So it was Xiang Liu?

That was actually possible. Xiang Liu didn’t have very good relations with other demons. But why would he want blessings? And why would His Majesty Chongming ask for a list for him to choose from?

Could it be… His Majesty Chongming found Xiang Liu too weak and boring to beat up?

Gong Yun finished compiling the information while wearing an eight-hundred-meter-thick filter of admiration for his Demon King Majesty.

Soon, Zhan Yan received the compiled information.

Gong Yun had drawn up a table for him, categorized very clearly.

Zhan Yan looked through them one by one.

There were ones that could make him impervious to fire and water, ones that made him immune to all poisons, ones that made his body light as a feather… Why was there even one that kept him from getting hungry? Was this a weight-loss blessing?

The blessings were all very good, but none of them seemed to have anything to do with the information he wanted.

Approaching Science: [There’s no need. I’ll just look for more Candle Dragon power.]

Zhan Yunkai understood; Approaching Science only wanted the Candle Dragon’s blessing.

He knew the Candle Dragon gave Approaching Science a blessing, but he didn’t know what blessing it was.

The most special aspect of the Candle Dragon’s blessing was time. But what could a blessing of time look like? Anti-aging? But there were things with similar effects among the other blessings. Could it be that Approaching Science was an elderly person, and anti-aging was no longer enough—he wanted to pull his physical age backwards? Was the blessing given by the Candle Dragon an age-reduction effect?

In other words, his always-lively little fan might actually be an elderly person?

Zhan Yunkai fell into deep thought.

Zhan Yan was still worrying about the Candle Dragon power.

He had already found all the Candle Dragon power left outside. If he wanted to get more Candle Dragon power, he had to look in other directions.

He could forget about the Candle Dragon power in the hands of the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Retirees Alliance; they could trade directly with the Wan Yao Alliance. The portion in the Underworld was the same. Aside from those, only the Candle Dragon power collected by Deep Shadow remained.

But Candle Dragon power was extremely precious, and he had nothing to trade with the big shot Deep Shadow… Besides various pieces of information, all he had left were his accumulated points, and many of these points were earned from Deep Shadow. Deep Shadow wasn’t lacking points either; he never exchanged them for physical items. The biggest use for points in his hands was to buy information, and he already had enough points for that.

Zhan Yan was very worried, but his sister’s happiness was more important. He decided to give it a try. He hoped the big shot Deep Shadow would help him out on account of their past relationship!

Approaching Science: [Boss, boss, is the Candle Dragon power you collected useful to you?]

If Deep Shadow also needed to use them, it would be even more troublesome. But he could ask Deep Shadow what he needed the Candle Dragon power for, and then use the Gossip System to check if there were any alternative solutions.

Deep Shadow replied very quickly.

I Just Saved the World!: [Not of much use.]

I Just Saved the World!: [You have a use for them?]

Gu Jiancheng had insisted on clearing out even those projections that were no longer harmful, so he actually had quite a bit of Candle Dragon power in his hands.

But the Candle Dragon power didn’t align with his abilities, and it wasn’t something just anyone could utilize. He was just pondering how to hand these Candle Dragon powers over to the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance through Wan Shitong or the Retirees Alliance, with the condition being that they bring him along the next time they beat up Infinite.

But if Approaching Science wanted them, that was fine too. He didn’t strictly need the Candle Dragon power to negotiate conditions with the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance; this stuff was just a bonus.

Approaching Science: [Yes, yes!]

Approaching Science: [Big shot, can you trade some to me?]

Approaching Science: [It would be even better if you could trade all of them to me.]

Approaching Science: [But I might not have anything you need.]

Approaching Science: [I’ve also saved up some points, but I figure they won’t catch your eye.]

Approaching Science: [However, I can promise that in the future, I will complete all your information tasks right away, and I won’t charge any points!]

Gu Jiancheng originally wanted to just give them to him, but hearing him mention points suddenly reminded him of what Approaching Science said before about the Artisan being ranked first in points.

The big shot sneered.

I Just Saved the World!: [Why wouldn’t they catch my eye?]

I Just Saved the World!: [Let’s just trade using points.]

Zhan Yan was stunned.

Ah? What did Deep Shadow need points for? Did he have anything recently that required a large amount of points?

Approaching Science: [Big shot, are you lacking points?]

Approaching Science: [What do you need points for?]

Gu Jiancheng typed expressionlessly.

I Just Saved the World!: [To climb the leaderboard.]

Zhan Yan: ???

He was even more confused.

Did the big shot Deep Shadow have some sort of obsession with rankings? It was possible; back in the day, the big shot’s ranking on Infinite’s player leaderboard was permanently fixed at number one.

Zhan Yan had long forgotten the nonsense lie he spun previously. But if the big shot Deep Shadow wanted points, that was fine too. Otherwise, if he didn’t offer anything and only gave a promise to not charge points in the future, he would constantly feel like he was in debt.

Zhan Yan swiftly transferred all his points to I Just Saved the World!.

Anyway, he only wanted points to exchange for a thunder talisman made by his mom for his boyfriend, but Gu Jiancheng already had Kitty Wan Yan’s Ghost King seal on him now, which was also an incredibly strong amulet. There was no rush for a thunder talisman or anything like that.

I Just Saved the World!’s point ranking suddenly shot up one spot, rising from sixth place to fifth place.

Approaching Science: [Just see how many you can trade and trade that much.]

Gu Jiancheng was also slightly taken aback when he received this massive sum of points. 362,312, exact to the last digit. Approaching Science’s name on the point leaderboard vanished along with it.

Approaching Science had transferred absolutely all of his points to him.

Gu Jiancheng pulled up his own transaction history and did a quick calculation. All the points he had transferred to Approaching Science added up to just over a hundred thousand; the remaining points were all saved up by Approaching Science himself.

Approaching Science had always valued points highly. He never thought thousands or tens of thousands of points for a large task were too many, and never thought a dozen points for a small task were too few. In one year, Approaching Science climbed to the number one spot on the leaderboard for information-type task completion in the task section. He had clearly run off to grind tasks whenever he had free time.

There were occasionally posts in the forum complaining that I Just Saved the World! cleared out tasks and left no way for others to survive; complaints about Approaching Science weren’t non-existent either. It was just that later on, Approaching Science learned to control himself and would leave some easy-to-complete tasks for others.

The way he saved points like this clearly showed he wanted to exchange them for one of the most expensive items in the forum’s trading section, and that item was very important to him.

Gu Jiancheng suddenly felt that bickering with Approaching Science over point rankings was quite pointless. It made him seem so childish.

He rounded up a lucky number for Approaching Science and transferred 666,666 points back to him.

I Just Saved the World!: [No need, I was joking.]

I Just Saved the World!: [Consider the extra points as me booking your future information services in advance.]

I Just Saved the World!: [The Candle Dragon power is useless to me. How do you want to receive it?]

Zhan Yan was stunned by the big shot Deep Shadow’s generosity.

He immediately transferred the points right back.

Approaching Science: [You being willing to give me the Candle Dragon power has already helped me a lot.]

Approaching Science: [How could I take your points again?]

Gu Jiancheng transferred the points right back again.

I Just Saved the World!: [Your information ability is worth it.]

Users in the forum who were looking at the point rankings watched as I Just Saved the World!’s point ranking bounced from fifth to sixth, then from fifth to sixth again.

Approaching Science, meanwhile, was playing flash-step on the point leaderboard.

???

Are you two playing around?