GRMFBS CH112

Zhan Suiru also lacked the mood to confide in her idol Tianshi, and hastily concluded this conversation.

In short, it was that the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau handed over the fragments of the doomsday segment to her, and she helped the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau develop a high-precision, low-cost, and mass-producible pollution monitoring system.

Ji Yueming communicated with Ning Xi and agreed to this condition.

Ning Xi expressed, “Let’s see if we can take this opportunity to poach the Artisan into the Bureau.”

“The transaction items this time are very precious. How does he plan to exchange them?” Ning Xi was calculating shrewdly.

The Artisan’s research data could be sent via transmission, but the world fragments left behind by the doomsday segment were physical objects. If they wanted to trade, it was highly likely they would need to meet offline. This was a great opportunity for recruitment—meeting and talking could resolve the Artisan’s misunderstandings regarding the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau. He wouldn’t even need to join immediately; they could simply find a few researchers to collaborate with the Artisan first. Wouldn’t it be better for everyone to broaden their thinking together?

Tianshi: “Just like before, pass it through a broker.”

Ning Xi’s wishful thinking was shattered, and he was quite unwilling.

“A broker is not someone worth trusting. Isn’t the Artisan afraid that he will pocket the items?”

Tianshi: “The Artisan said that he helped set up the black market’s defense system.”

So he wasn’t afraid. If the broker dared to embezzle her things, his black market would be gone.

Ning Xi had no choice but to regretfully give up.

Sigh, the development of talent recruitment was always so difficult. The Artisan couldn’t be poached, and Approaching Science couldn’t be poached either.

Mentioning Approaching Science, Ning Xi remembered another thing.

Ning Xi: “I feel that if we put in some effort, we might not necessarily fail to poach Approaching Science. He’s helping you argue on the chaofan forum, did you see it?”

Ji Yueming hadn’t seen it; her interest piqued, and she logged onto the chaofan forum.

The battle on the chaofan forum had temporarily subsided. Those who scolded the Chongming Demon King were all muted and banned by Luowang, and those who scolded Tianshi didn’t dare to make a peep—Approaching Science’s combat power was much higher than the Artisan’s! At most, the Artisan would use his money to get a bunch of people to scold together; someone with a thick enough skin could completely continue to act unreasonably while being besieged. Approaching Science was different; upon a single disagreement, he would genuinely dig up dark histories!

A new task quietly appeared in the task area. The publisher was anonymous, and the task content was to find the dark history of Approaching Science.

This anonymous task was quickly brought over to the casual chat section and ridiculed.

2L: A fun-seeker watching the excitement. How long do you guys guess it’ll take for Approaching Science to dig out who wants to find his dark history?

3L: Issuing a task to dig up the dark history of an information-type big shot, is this brain completely muddled by anger? Afraid that others won’t be able to dig up info on him?

4L: It can’t be dug up if it’s anonymous, right? There isn’t even a screen name. If even this can be dug up, is the chaofan forum security still reliable?

5L “Pure White Puzzle”: Anonymous definitely can’t be dug up, unless it’s a special supernatural power with a direct tracing desire like Luowang. But at this point in time, eighty percent of those who issued this task are people who just argued with Approaching Science, and the remaining twenty percent are people who had conflicts with him on the chaofan forum before. Starting with these people will more or less help you find them.

7L: Big shot Pure White Puzzle!

This was also a famous information-type big shot on the chaofan forum who usually lurked; unexpectedly, he also appeared.

The thread derailed for several floors after that. Some asked if Pure White Puzzle and Approaching Science knew each other, while others asked how long he guessed it would take for Approaching Science to find the task publisher. With a whole bunch of random questions, Pure White Puzzle didn’t answer any, and only appeared once more later.

49L “Pure White Puzzle”: Stop derailing the thread, I was just curious and came to eat some melons (gossip).

Pure White Puzzle didn’t pop up in the thread anymore, but messages in the private small group chat were scrolling rapidly.

Happy Guessing Game: [Come, come, come, the betting pool is open! Everyone, bet on how long it will take Approaching Science to dig out who wants his dark material?]

Pure White Puzzle: [I guess it will come out today.]

Happy Guessing Game: [Tch!]

Happy Guessing Game: [You’re no fun. What’s the point of guessing by the day? We need to be accurate to the hour!]

Loves Eating Pineapple Buns: [I bet 5 hours.]

Waltz: [I bet 4 hours.]

Book of Secrets: [Not betting. Gambling is harmful to physical and mental health, and it drains wealth.]

Happy Guessing Game: [Ao’ao, you’re so boring.]

Happy Guessing Game: [Being so serious will make you age very fast.]

Happy Guessing Game: [I bet 3 hours.]

Book of Secrets: [Boring.]

While Zhan Yan was unaware, Approaching Science had already been followed by the circle of information-type big shots for a long time.

A group of big shots were lurking, reading his posts, and trying to eat his melons.

Because of Approaching Science’s unexpected debut performance, he was noticed by this group of big shots as soon as he popped up on the chaofan forum.

The networks of these information-type supernatural beings were generally quite broad, and they pretty much all knew each other. High-level information-type supernatural beings would form a circle; this was caused by the characteristics of their abilities.

Information-type wasn’t a job that strictly required having supernatural power; ordinary people could also become information merchants. These supernatural beings, of course, wouldn’t be rigid either.

No single information-type could independently juggle all types of information, so they would communicate with each other, exchange information, and also guard against each other.

When a newcomer emerged, they would undergo observation and evaluation, and then it would be decided whether this person could enter their circle.

The higher the circle, the fewer the people. In the most top-tier circles, the most important assessment item was instead not ability, but character.

Much of the information circulated in their circle couldn’t be easily leaked. If someone with a bad character entered, who knows how many people would be screwed over.

The circles of information-type supernatural beings varied in size. Generally speaking, after a new information-type supernatural being appeared, someone would quickly invite him to join a circle. The abilities and information scope in these circles weren’t too high, but they could allow newcomers to quickly understand the unique ecological environment of information-type supernatural beings, and also allow the supernatural beings in the circle to have an initial impression of him and form a judgment for further contact.

After that, he would enter some new circles and leave some old ones. During this process, top-tier information-type supernatural beings like Pure White Puzzle would also form an understanding and judgment from the lower circles they monitored, deciding whether to absorb him into their own circle.

But Approaching Science, this weirdo, after popping up in the chaofan forum, hadn’t entered a single circle!

At first, they thought Approaching Science just hadn’t entered the circles they monitored, but after asking around top-to-bottom, they realized this guy hadn’t communicated with other information-type supernatural beings at all! It was as if no one had ever sent him an invitation.

Zhan Yan, of course, had received invitations, quite a few in fact, but he hadn’t replied to a single one.

When Zhan Yan first entered the chaofan forum, he was cautious, terrified that others would dig up his identity. Because he couldn’t open his Yin-Yang Eye, he always felt he couldn’t be considered a true supernatural being, but was essentially still an ordinary person. Therefore, he always avoided these information-type supernatural beings like the plague.

This made it extremely difficult for these information-type big shots to understand him. Probing to investigate him would always be blocked by a layer of information concealment. The only thing they could judge was that his information confidentiality ability was absolutely of the highest tier. If they wanted to know more about him, they could only judge based on his replies on the chaofan forum.

This group of big shots even opened a betting pool on him.

Happy Guessing Game: [Has no one joined?]

Happy Guessing Game: [Friends, has anyone found other news about Approaching Science?]

Happy Guessing Game: [The prize pool has accumulated very, very high!]

Happy Guessing Game: [Does nobody want so many points?]

Waltz: [No.]

Waltz: [That layer of information gray fog of his is too hard to deal with.]

Waltz: [I try once a day, and haven’t broken through until now.]

Gnawing a Big Melon: [Haven’t gnawed it down so far +1]

Book of Secrets: [Approaching Science has a good relationship with both the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance.]

Book of Secrets: [Frequently takes tasks directly from both sides.]

Happy Guessing Game: [Damn!]

Happy Guessing Game: [The prize pool has an owner???]

Pure White Puzzle: [@Book of Secrets Big shot! How did you break through the information gray fog?! Teach me!]

Waltz: [@Book of Secrets Big shot! How did you break through the information gray fog?! Teach me!]

Gnawing a Big Melon: [@Book of Secrets Big shot! How did you break through the information gray fog?! Teach me!] …

Book of Secrets: [Didn’t break through.]

Book of Secrets: [Found out through off-board tactics.]

This meant he got the news through his own connections, without using supernatural power.

Happy Guessing Game: [Off-board tactics are also impressive, at least it’s a breakthrough.]

Happy Guessing Game: [But the prize pool won’t be issued then.]

Loves Eating Pineapple Buns: [His connection with the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau should be because he connected with Administrator Lingyu during the ‘Youth’s Grudge‘ incident, but how did he connect with the Wan Yao Alliance?]

Too Lazy to Pick a Screen Name: [Because he’s a fan of the Chongming Demon King?]

Gnawing a Big Melon: [Isn’t he also a fan of Tianshi?]

Gnawing a Big Melon: [Look at his combat power when he stood up for Tianshi this time.]

Pure White Puzzle: [Even with this, the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau couldn’t poach him.]

Book of Secrets: [The Wan Yao Alliance is also poaching him.]

Pure White Puzzle: [Sigh, those two sides have such a bad relationship, hasn’t he capsized while playing both sides?]

Being poached was normal, and being poached by both sides at the same time was also normal. But one had to either choose one side or refuse both; there was no such thing as hovering indecisively between the two sides, stringing both parties along to make them compete and then profiting oneself. The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance weren’t fools.

Just the momentum of Black Wolf publicly poaching him a while ago made it obvious they felt there was still hope for Approaching Science to join their Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau, and Book of Secrets also said the Wan Yao Alliance was currently poaching him too. Did this mean he hadn’t completely refused either side? It couldn’t possibly be that he refused both sides, but he was so awesome that both the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance were reluctant to give up and were still trying hard to poach him, right?

Gnawing a Big Melon: [Approaching Science is awesome. I realized he has never followed the normal path!]

Too Lazy to Pick a Screen Name: [To not capsize even with this! Master of balancing water!]

Waltz: [Master of balancing water!]

Loves Eating Pineapple Buns: [Master of balancing water!]

…

Happy Guessing Game: [So when can we pull him in and let me learn some water-balancing experience?]

Book of Secrets: [Stop chatting idly.]

Book of Secrets: [Approaching Science’s dark material task has been accepted.]

Happy Guessing Game: [???]

Happy Guessing Game: [Who accepted it?]

Pure White Puzzle: [Not me.]

Waltz: [Not me.]

Gnawing a Big Melon: [Not me.]

…

After asking around, no one admitted to it.

Book of Secrets: [Go look for yourselves.]

Book of Secrets: [Approaching Science accepted it himself.]

Happy Guessing Game: [???]

Zhan Yan saw that task and couldn’t even be bothered to look up which guy was behind it; he directly clicked “Accept Task”.

[Accepter: Approaching Science]

[Submitted Content: My biggest dark history is lowering my standards to argue with you bunch of shady clowns.]