GRMFBS CH249

Chapter 249

…Crap, she had spoken too soon when she told Yanyan to stick with Deep Shadow.

Zhan Suiru was currently regretting it, trying to figure out how she could retract her words.

Gu Jiancheng stared at his screen, his fingertips swiping back and forth unconsciously.

He had wanted to contact Zhan Suiru the moment he received the news that “Rong Sui caught the holder of the other half of the skill book.” However, before he even had time to ask, he received a message from Zhan Suiru first.

His feelings were very complicated.

The first thing he saw was the news that Zhan Yan was being targeted.

Why would he be targeted? Were his and Zhan Suiru’s secret identities exposed? Did someone want to use Yanyan to threaten them?

How did Yanyan get targeted? Was his identity still safe now? Who exactly had their eyes on him? Beat them to death!!!

The big boss Deep Shadow was angry, extremely angry. He was so shocked and furious that he wanted to go grind another thousand or eight hundred anomalies.

But before he even had a chance to ask, he received the next few lines sent by Zhan Suiru.

Mhm, for such a serious matter, he absolutely wouldn’t let Yanyan face any danger!

He definitely won’t separate from Yanyan~

Yanyan had a large family; Zhan Suiru protecting the whole family by herself must be quite hard, making it difficult to look after everyone. How about he tags along during the next holiday? Adding his combat power would make the safety factor skyrocket, right?

Sigh, looking at this trend, maybe he could even get Rong Sui to give him some advice on meeting the parents…

Gu Jiancheng’s thoughts flew around for a long time, pondering how to reply to make himself seem steady and reliable, before finally replying with a single “Okay.”

There was no reply from the other side.

Gu Jiancheng grew alert. Zhan Suiru couldn’t be regretting it, right?

He hurriedly continued sending messages.

Deep Shadow: “The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau said you just caught someone.”
“What happened?”

With the topic pulled to business, Zhan Suiru couldn’t easily interrupt for the moment.

She fabricated another version of the Luo Yigang incident: The Chronicle of the World used the “Lifeline” skill to find Yanyan, wanting to use him to threaten them. Except for hiding Yanyan’s secret identity, everything else was factual.

She also reminded him that in order to protect their ordinary person facades and Yanyan’s existence, she told the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau that she had bumped into Luo Yigang by chance and only discovered him because of a mental imprint. She told Gu Jiancheng not to slip up.

The grinding king Deep Shadow instantly grasped the key point: “You can feel your mental imprint on Luo Yigang?”

Rong Sui: “I can only feel it during direct mental energy contact. Once separated, I can’t feel it anymore.”

Deep Shadow: “Luo Yigang’s strength is lacking, and his connection with the Infinite Will isn’t tight enough either. He only barely counts because of that half a skill book from the Chronicle of the World.”
“If it were the Chronicle of the World, your tracking effect might be better.”
“Has the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau finished interrogating the Chronicle of the World? If they have, it’d be better to let them leave him to you to research the mental imprint.”
“Don’t let it go to waste.”
“Finish the research earlier, find the Monster Doctor and the Infinite Will earlier.”
“Wipe them out in one fell swoop earlier, and we won’t need to worry like we do now.”

Zhan Suiru felt he made a lot of sense. Anyway, Yanyan was safe now, so she might as well go to the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau to take a look. What if she could get all this sorted out before Yanyan’s school started? Then there would be no need for Deep Shadow to stick to her brother every day.

Zhan Suiru turned to look at Zhan Yan. Her little brother sat there obediently looking at her. Sigh, even knowing her brother was Approaching Science, she still couldn’t help but worry he wasn’t clever enough and would be completely eaten alive by Deep Shadow.

Before she even had time to speak, Zhan Yan guessed it: “Sis, do you have business? If you have business, go busy yourself first, don’t worry about me.”

Look at this tacit understanding; she and her eldest brother just didn’t have this. Sigh, she couldn’t disdain her eldest brother anymore. After all, her eldest brother was the only ordinary person in this family and needed to be well protected.

Zhan Suiru rubbed his head: “I’m leaving first. Have fun, and if you encounter danger, remember to ride the motorcycle and run.”

Zhan Yan nodded: “Then be safe, Sis.”

Zhan Suiru left. Gu Jiancheng seamlessly transitioned to contacting Zhan Yan—Since the Infinite could use its sneaky skills to track down Zhan Yan, he no longer needed to deliberately stay away from him. Worrying that his own poorly hidden identity might implicate Yanyan was merely a possibility; the Infinite being able to track Yanyan was already a certainty!

Therefore, sticking close to him and protecting him well was the most important thing!

Gu Jiancheng: “Yanyan, you said earlier that you were going traveling. Are you still going?”
“I don’t have anything to do these next two days, let’s go together.”

Zhan Yan, with his gossip feeds open, saw Student Xiao Gu’s calculations crystal clear.

Tsk tsk tsk, when I asked you to come along earlier you didn’t come. Now that all my secret identities have been dropped in front of my sister, you suddenly remember you want to come over…

Zhan Yan: “Sure.”
“I’m over here at the New Era Gaming Convention, and I plan to wander around the convention for a few days. Do you want to come together? Or do you want to go somewhere else?”

As the saying goes, the most dangerous place is the safest place. Although the Infinite might not necessarily follow this rule and stop sending people to the convention, because of the recent Luo Yigang incident, there were an especially large number of Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau personnel lurking at the convention these days. They were the true guarantee of safety.

Zhan Yan planned to stay here for a few days first, saving him from running around and wasting time on the road. He couldn’t relax forever either; the System needed to be upgraded where necessary, and the gossip feeds that needed checking had to be continually checked…

Zhan Yan scratched his face. He kept feeling like he had forgotten something…

A little green dot popped up on the minimap, darting east, sniffing west, and approaching him.

He tapped the little dot. Oh my, Little Cat Wan Yan had come looking for him!

Ah! Zhan Yan remembered. He still hadn’t told his sister about his brother’s secret identity! How could he have forgotten this!

Right, he had just finished talking about Mom and Dad and was planning to peel off his brother’s vest next, but Xiao Gu suddenly messaged his sister and interrupted the whole thing. Later, his sister had to leave, so they never picked it back up.

It was fine, he could just send a message to his sister now.

Zhan Yan was just about to send the message when a new line popped up in the Gossip System.

[The Ghost King Wan Yan sniffed out that you are inside the hotel. He attempted to enter the hotel to find you, but was stopped at the main entrance by the hotel security guard.]
[The Ghost King Wan Yan has decided to climb up the exterior wall to find you.]

Zhan Yan: ?

There’s no need to be this anxious, right? It was broad daylight right now, and this was an urban area with heavy foot traffic. He and his sister were staying on the fourth floor of the hotel. In broad daylight, a cat climbing all the way up the exterior wall of a hotel to the fourth floor… That was going to make the news, right?!

“Shocking! Spider-Cat Spotted in Urban Area Scaling a Four-Story Building!”

Zhan Yan bolted downstairs at top speed to receive the cat.

Little Cat Wan Yan had just darted across the green belt and nimbly leaped onto the AC outdoor unit on the third floor when he discovered his chef had appeared downstairs.

Little Cat Wan Yan got excited and lunged straight down from the third-floor AC unit, aiming with extreme precision to jump right into Zhan Yan’s arms.

Zhan Yan: …

Have some self-awareness about your weight, please!

He unceremoniously took a step back.

Wan Yan was a Ghost King; even jumping from the thirtieth floor wouldn’t be a problem for him. But with Zhan Yan’s small frame, if he was smashed into by this cannonball, there was no telling if his forearm bones would remain intact.

Little Cat Wan Yan landed in the green belt without even needing to break his fall. Pushing off with his four paws, he bounced up and burrowed straight into Zhan Yan’s arms.

This time, Zhan Yan caught him.

Hey, hey, Little Cat Wan Yan used to be very aloof, at most rubbing his head against him when it was time to eat. Even during his internship, he had only stayed in his arms for less than half an hour when his eldest brother grabbed him and stuffed him there. Why was this meeting so enthusiastic?

Little Cat Wan Yan was mainly driven by a momentary emotional impulse. After bouncing up, he didn’t realize he needed to maintain his cold, aloof Ghost King image—not that he normally possessed that brain cell anyway.

It was really just that he had been feeling a bit wronged lately.

He accidentally ate a weird thing, and when he woke up, he found he had a lot of new memories. But more importantly, he had actually returned to Chaofu Mountain!

No, no! How did he get trapped in Chaofu Mountain again? He had to escape!

Fortunately, he had cleverly and wittily tricked Ming He and successfully escaped.

But after escaping, nothing went his way.

He met a stinky cat, and that stinky cat actually dared to insult him, calling him a little stray with no poop-scooper, no home, and no friends!

Who cared about a poop-scooper? He was a free, independent, and proud little kitty; he didn’t need anyone to take care of him! A strong little kitty like him didn’t need a poop-scooper at all! He had his own fish… Hmph, he didn’t need fish either!

Furthermore, how did he not have a home? Chaofu Mountain… Mmm, that stinky cat said a home was a place where you felt very secure and made a kitty not want to leave. But the poop-scooper always took it outside for stupid reasons like exercising, breathing fresh air, and seeing the outside world.

Chaofu Mountain was a place he always wanted to leave. So could that really count as his home?

But other than Chaofu Mountain, it seemed he really didn’t have anywhere else he often stayed and didn’t want to leave…

So did he truly not have a home? Hmph, not having a home wasn’t important anyway. He could go wherever he wanted. If he always stayed in one place and didn’t want to leave, wouldn’t that be the same as restricting himself to one place?

Friends… of course he had friends! Bai Ze, Approaching Science, and half a chef. A full two and a half friends!

But Bai Ze was gone. He came out this time precisely to look for Bai Ze. But he didn’t know where to look, so he just wandered around aimlessly. After wandering for so long and being mocked by the stinky cat, he still hadn’t found any clues.

In a bad mood, Wan Yan fought for territory as he searched, conquering all the stray cats and house cats he encountered along the way. But the cats couldn’t understand him. Wan Yan felt they were all just underlings who needed his care, not friends.

Wan Yan also considered whether he should ask Approaching Science for help. Approaching Science was amazing at finding people; he had even helped him find Linyuan. Maybe he could find out where Bai Ze was.

But Little Cat Wan Yan had a vague feeling deep down: he couldn’t let outsiders know that he was looking for Bai Ze.

It was fine if Linyuan, Ming He, and Chongming knew—the few who had asked him to look for Bai Ze—but he couldn’t involve outsiders. Because outsiders weren’t necessarily trustworthy and might bring danger… What danger was it again? Wan Yan couldn’t explain it clearly, but he just felt he couldn’t do it.

Although he thought Approaching Science was great, they hadn’t met offline yet. Little Cat Wan Yan felt that even though he was a friend, he was still an outsider, so he couldn’t casually tell him things related to Bai Ze.

Then he… then he only had this half a friend, the chef, left…

Little Cat Wan Yan decided not to hold it against the chef that he had hugged the little tabby cat Xingxing, and officially promoted him back to a full friend.

A friend who wouldn’t let him in the door.

——The hotel didn’t allow pets, so Zhan Yan couldn’t do anything about it. He first took Wan Yan to a nearby pet park and picked a quiet corner to sit down.

Zhan Yan saw that Wan Yan was very depressed. He tentatively rubbed Wan Yan’s head, somewhat troubled: “I can’t turn on a stove to cook for you here.”

Wan Yan twitched his ears. He wasn’t here to eat cat food anyway; he was here to find a friend.

Sigh, if only they could find Di Ting’s single horn sooner. Once they found the horn, Wan Yan would return to normal, his brother wouldn’t have to hide from him, and he wouldn’t be this troubled anymore.

Zhan Yan suddenly remembered another thing. He quickly lowered his head to message Xiao Gu, telling him not to wear the cat paw print stone—that was the payment Wan Yan gave Approaching Science. If Wan Yan spotted it, this secret identity wouldn’t be hidden anymore either.

Gu Jiancheng didn’t mind this minor detail at all.

If he says don’t wear it, I won’t. If Yanyan hadn’t asked him to, he wouldn’t have worn that psycho Wan Yan’s Ghost King Seal in the first place.

Gu Jiancheng: “Okay.”
“Yanyan, what are you doing right now?”

Zhan Yan casually sent him a location pin: “Spacing out in the park.”

Gu Jiancheng was speeding over on the way. He couldn’t wait any longer; he wanted to see Yanyan today!

As for why he appeared so quickly, Gu Jiancheng had already prepared an excuse: he would just say he heard Zhan Yan mention coming to the gaming convention a few days ago, and since he had time after finishing his work, he came over and just happened to be nearby.

Under the dense shade of green trees, the sunlight was pouring down passionately. One person and one cat sat in the pavilion. The wind took shape as it ruffled the fur on the little white cat’s back and the little curls at the young man’s temples and forehead.

Seeing this scene, Gu Jiancheng couldn’t help but hold his breath for a moment.

The picture was beautiful, the atmosphere relaxed.

But… why the hell was that psycho Wan Yan here?!

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