GRMFBS CH279

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The alarm rang continuously for three minutes at 6:30 AM, forcing him awake.

Zhan Yan: “…” He forgot to turn off the alarm last night.

Why get up? Why wake up early when I stayed up all night?

He turned off the alarm and continued to sleep.

“Yan Yan, come eat breakfast once you’re awake,” Zhan Yunkai’s voice drifted through the door.

Zhan Yan: “…”

The soundproofing of the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau is just too poor!

He climbed out of bed, his hair a mess of small curls, and protested to his father: “Dad! Now that you know everything, you can’t keep using your standards to demand fitness results from me!”

There is no way he could ever compete in strength against these big shots even if he practiced for a lifetime, right?

Zhan Yunkai smiled and brought out a table full of breakfast: “So, are you getting up or not?”

The alluring aroma drilled straight into his nose. There were eight or nine plates of various breakfast items on the table.

Zhan Yan gulped: “Dad, why did you make so much?”

Zhan Yunkai: “It’ll all be eaten anyway; no waste.”

Now that his identity was exposed, Zhan Yunkai decided to just let go and used his superhuman speed to prepare an overly lavish breakfast.

Zhan Yan couldn’t resist the temptation of breakfast; he washed up quickly and sat obediently at the dining table to wait for his parents to start eating.

“Don’t overeat. There’s more later,” Ji Yueming said affectionately.

Zhan Yan noticed the items on the cabinet nearby.

[Item Introduction Activated:]

[This is A-073 reagent, with the scent of peach and coffee. It is a specialized product developed by the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau for internal use. It can replenish mental exhaustion while providing stress relief, produced by…]

[This is Purple-Veined Fruit, sweet and slightly sour. It has the effect of healing divine sense and replenishing divine sense consumption, grown in…]

[This is a Little Origin Pill, bitter. Refined by Alchemist Bian Xinbi, it has the effect of soothing divine sense pressure and gradually replenishing divine sense consumption, requires…]…

[This is milk toast made personally by Ghost King Linyuan, Zhan Jinli. The sweetness is startling; it has the function of soothing and replenishing soul energy consumption, as well as mild healing properties, can…]

[The Chongming Demon King, Zhan Yunkai, and the Tianshi, Ji Yueming, noticed that you were eating bread made by Ghost King Linyuan to replenish your spirit, and felt you were truly too pitiful, so they separately searched for substitutes.]

Ahhh, Mom and Dad are so good!

After breakfast, Zhan Yan felt sleepy again. His parents brought the pile of things for him to try. These items weren’t many, all hand-picked by them—the effects weren’t necessarily powerful, but they were absolutely gentle with no side effects. They even tested him for allergies first.

Zhan Yan tried them one by one. After eating, he wasn’t sleepy; he was even spirited, feeling like he could spend another day on the Gossip System and handle another identity reveal without… Pfft, pfft! No! If another one drops, it will be Xiao Gu’s!

His parents looked at him expectantly: “How is it?”

“Is it useful?”

Zhan Yan: “It’s useful!”

He remembered that Nie Yu had told him before that the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau could provide reagents to replenish mental exhaustion from information overload, but he had refused.

Wuwuwu, what have I missed all this time!

Look at how pitiful the child is.

Zhan Yunkai and Ji Yueming packed him a pile of portable pills and reagents.

After testing the reagents, Ji Yueming asked gently:

“Yan Yan, is there anything else you want to tell Mom and Dad?”

At dawn, she and Old Zhan had received transmissions saying that the concepts of “spirit” and “network” were gradually being uncovered, and Deep Shadow also intended to talk to them about this.

Counting it up, Deep Shadow had helped their family quite a bit, so they should return the favor—they had even issued a wanted poster for him before.

Although they didn’t really understand Deep Shadow, Approaching Science was close to Deep Shadow.

Zhan Yan’s heart skipped a beat at her question. He quickly reviewed everything; other than Xiao Gu, there really wasn’t anything left. His brothers’ and sisters’ identities had all been stripped bare.

With a bad premonition, he quickly brought up the first thing he could think of to deflect: “Ah… that, Xiang Liu has been using a dummy account to smear Dad.”

Zhan Yunkai: ?

Is Xiang Liu that childish?

Ji Yueming: ?

Xiang Liu is asking for a beating?

But that wasn’t what they wanted to ask.

Zhan Yunkai couldn’t be bothered to calculate against a defeated opponent, and Ji Yueming secretly made a note against Xiang Liu.

Zhan Yunkai asked directly: “Are you very familiar with Deep Shadow?”

Ahhh, I’m dead, I’m dead, I’m dead… It really is about Xiao Gu!

Zhan Yan struggled to control his expression.

“Ah, yes, we met online.” He stalled while frantically flipping through the gossip strips.

No way, no way? Why are Mom and Dad suddenly asking about Deep Shadow? Has Xiao Gu’s identity been exposed? That shouldn’t be…

He found the gossip strip.

Ah, so it’s just because Deep Shadow wants to discuss the Monster Doctor with the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance. Mom and Dad remembered that Approaching Science is close to Deep Shadow.

He was startled; he thought Xiao Gu was exposed.

“He has cooperated with me many times. I help him investigate anomalies, and he goes to clear them. He usually goes to clear anomalies whenever he has time, regardless of whether there is a reward.

“I checked him; I didn’t find any bad record—he even gives candy to the children he saves.

“Deep Shadow is also a bit cold on the outside but warm on the inside. He’s not easy to get along with before you get familiar, but it’s fine after. Ah, right, his sequelae are also better now; he’s easier to get along with.”

Trying hard to say good things about Xiao Gu!

There is a technique to saying good things; you can’t just keep praising, or Mom and Dad will definitely sense something is wrong.

Ji Yueming: “Do you know how Deep Shadow’s sequelae were cured?”

This has always been something the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau is curious about. If it could be popularized, that would be great.

Zhan Yan: “Hmm… I’m not really sure.”

After all, he didn’t see a clear gossip strip saying Deep Shadow’s sequelae were cured because he fell in love, right? So this doesn’t count as lying. He really can’t be sure.

Both big shots were very curious about Deep Shadow. Zhan Yan was almost sweating from the questions.

Damn… what kind of hellish mission is this? The two big shots are too sharp when they get serious; it’s easy to find even the smallest loophole.

Fortunately, his phone rang halfway through the questioning.

Zhan Yan checked the message; it was from the roommate group, a message from Bao Qingshan asking when he was returning to school, as he had huge gossip to share.

Thank goodness for the rescue! The gossip doesn’t matter, what matters is that I have a reason to interrupt and stop talking about Deep Shadow.

“It’s my roommate. School starts tomorrow, and he’s asking when I’m going back,” Zhan Yan said.

The child starting school is an important matter and cannot be delayed. They could ask about Deep Shadow later.

Zhan Yunkai: “I’ll take you.”

Ji Yueming: “I’ll go too.”

Having just experienced being out of contact, the couple wasn’t very reassured. But they couldn’t ask anyone else to protect Yan Yan; being too special would make it easy to expose him.

Fortunately, Xia Yuexian and Luo Luoluo had already arranged investment projects and film crews in Beiling City, so in a while, they could take turns going there.

Sigh, it would be best if someone could always guard Yan Yan’s side.

School starts tomorrow. The couple sent Zhan Yan to school first, then returned home.

The moment they opened the courtyard gate, the little maple tree was shaking and shaking in the yard.

They both thought of what Ning Xi had reminded them of earlier—to check the living things in the house. This little maple tree had made them feel something was wrong before.

The couple headed straight for the little maple tree and began to check.

But no matter how they checked, the little maple tree looked like a young demon that had just gained intelligence; it might not even know that 1+1=2.

The little maple tree shook in confusion, shaking off two of its most beautiful maple leaves.

Zhan Yunkai picked up a leaf, his heavy pupils staring tightly at the little maple tree. Why can’t I see what’s wrong? Could it be that my innate supernatural power is really broken?

Zhan Yunkai whispered: “Why can’t I see it? I felt this little maple demon grew too fast before.”

Ji Yueming used the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau’s instruments to check it; the data was all normal: “Right, I only gave it plant growth liquid once. By rights, it shouldn’t have grown that fast.”

Hearing this, Zhan Yunkai turned his head, and the couple’s eyes met.

“I… I also secretly fed it demon power before.”

…Case solved. The little maple tree was fine; it was just the two of them secretly feeding it “great tonics” and overfeeding it.

They checked the other plants in the courtyard; they were all normal.

Xingxing was meowing at them from behind the glass door between the living room and the courtyard.

Seriously, leaving me home alone again yesterday. You all went out to play secretly and didn’t bring me!

Zhan Yunkai and Ji Yueming looked at each other. Besides these flowers and plants, the only living thing left in the house was Xingxing.

They opened the door.

Xingxing was just about to lie on the ground and act spoiled when Ji Yueming picked him up.

Ji Yueming took a scanner that looked like a small comb and began to scan, from the tips of his ears to the tip of his tail, back, belly, and four little paws.

The scanner started to beep at Xingxing’s neck position, and on the screen, the small tag under his collar was highlighted.

“This was made by Sui Ru, right?” Ji Yueming flicked the small tag and turned Xingxing toward Zhan Yunkai.

Xingxing looked up at the two people in confusion: “Meow?”

What are you doing?

Zhan Yunkai carefully checked the tag and couldn’t help but exclaim: “Hidden so well.”

If he hadn’t specifically checked, he wouldn’t have discovered that this tag was also a transcendent item.

“There is a hair of Yan Yan’s in here,” Zhan Yunkai said. “Judging by the function, it should be to make the animal wearing the tag close to Yan Yan.”

Both of them remembered the time when Zhan Yan was “disliked by cats and dogs.”

Zhan Yunkai took Xingxing, checking carefully while petting the cat, and said in a tone that wasn’t very certain: “Hmm… it should indeed be an ordinary little cat.”

He checked it back and forth several times. Xingxing thought Zhan Yunkai was playing with him and tumbled around in his arms.

Ji Yueming couldn’t help but laugh when she heard Zhan Yunkai’s tone.

The Chongming Demon King was actually stimulated by the fact that everyone in the family had hidden identities. She had never seen him so unconfident before.

“Let’s bring Xingxing when we go to Beiling City,” Ji Yueming said.

Thinking of Yan Yan’s discouraged look back then, and how his eyes lit up after hugging Xingxing.

Zhan Yan had been keeping his parents’ gossip strip open, fearing that the two would find any loopholes and strip Xiao Gu’s identity.

Seeing that this matter had passed, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Hmph, Xiao Gu keeps making me worry so much; I’ll definitely have to make him pay for it when we meet!

Zhan Yan dragged his luggage, preparing to return to the dorm.

Someone walked up quickly behind him and took the suitcase from his hand.

Zhan Yan turned his head. Under the old ginkgo tree in early autumn, the young man in a gray shirt lowered his head and smiled at him, his eyes like two stars shining brightly as he gazed at him.

By the time Zhan Yan came back to his senses, he realized he was already hugging Gu Jiancheng.

Oh my, I have missed him so, so much.