GRMFBS CH131

This is so awkward.

Gu Jiancheng put down the Pen of Diagnosis. “I… um, I…”

His mind was a complete blank. What should he do? How could he explain this? Would Yan Yan believe him if he said it was a new type of thermometer?

Zhan Yan sat up.

He had just woken up from a dream packed with information and hadn’t had time to process it yet, only to find his boyfriend trying to draw on his face while he was asleep.

Was Gu Jiancheng this childish? He hadn’t noticed before…

After the speechlessness, Zhan Yan began to feel indignant.

What a childish prank!

Seeing Zhan Yan sit up, Gu Jiancheng hastily used his shadow to hook the chair under his feet. He had been so worried when he came back that he hadn’t paid attention to hiding his abilities and had floated up by stepping on his shadow.

He was a bit nervous when pulling the chair, and its legs made a piercing screech against the floor.

Zhan Yan, afraid he would get more nervous and fall, quickly grabbed his arm. “Steady yourself first!”

Gu Jiancheng obediently stood steady on the chair. His handsome face was half blank, half nervous.

Ah—what kind of image must he have in Yan Yan’s mind now?

He hadn’t even had time to resolve the issue of his classmates being afraid of him from last time…

“Get off the chair first,” Zhan Yan said.

Gu Jiancheng obediently stepped back onto the floor.

Zhan Yan looked at his well-behaved appearance and clicked his tongue internally.

Looking at that cool and handsome face, looking at that obedient and docile demeanor, he just didn’t look like the childish ghost who wanted to draw on his face a few minutes ago.

Did Gu Jiancheng really want to play a prank? Or was there a special reason?

Zhan Yan decided to give him a chance to come clean.

Zhan Yan: “Go on, leniency for those who confess. Why did you want to draw a turtle on my face?”

Gu Jiancheng: “I wasn’t going to draw a turtle.”

Zhan Yan: “If not a turtle, then what were you going to draw?”

Gu Jiancheng: …

What to do? This was impossible to explain.

Unable to find a suitable reason, Gu Jiancheng quickly chose to bow his head. “I was wrong.”

Zhan Yan: …So he really is this childish!

Unable to resist, Zhan Yan leaned over and pinched Gu Jiancheng’s cheek.

Gu Jiancheng looked up, staring at him in shock with a distorted handsome face.

Zhan Yan: “What? You can draw on my face while I’m sleeping, but I can’t pinch your face?”

“You can,” Gu Jiancheng mumbled, his speech slurred as one of his cheeks was being pinched.

Zhan Yan suddenly remembered something, let go, and picked up his phone to check the time.

“16：20, it’s time for class to be over.”

Gu Jiancheng breathed a sigh of relief. Thank goodness, otherwise he would have had to explain why he skipped class to come back. But he felt like he had forgotten something.

Gu Jiancheng: “Are you not feeling well? Why were you sleeping during the day?”

Zhan Yan: “No, I was just sleepy.”

Gu Jiancheng decided to use the Pen of Diagnosis to check again after Zhan Yan fell asleep at night.

It was also because Zhan Yan’s brain had just been stuffed with too much information; otherwise, he would have noticed that class ended at 16:15, and five minutes was definitely not enough time to get from the classroom back to the dorm.

Zhan Yan let Gu Jiancheng off lightly and began to sort through the dream he just had.

First, he opened the Gossip System. As expected, the dream was brought on by the Gossip System again.

Zhan Yan went to find the keychain containing the power of the Zhulong that he had bought at the Cultivator’s Convention and looked at the item description again.

[This is a metal ring that once contained a bit of the Zhulong’s power and was steeped in the dead aura of decay and decline. It has now been exhausted.]

Sure enough, the reason he dreamed this time was because of this keychain.

But why did he dream of the Artisan this time? Had he come into contact with something related to the Artisan?

Zhan Yan recalled his dream.

The man in the dream who said “I am the best Artisan” was named “Yang Ran” or some other homophone.

He used his abilities to clean up and repair that small abandoned camp and happily said to “Sister Suisui,” “From now on, this will be our base!”

Zhan Yan felt that the “Artisan” in his dream should be the number one ranked Artisan on the forum. But what was with the world the Artisan was in?

He remembered that the Artisan had once posted a mission to investigate information about the largest infinite fragment in the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau. Could that be the world the Artisan came from?

Zhan Yan opened the Information Disc. The six columns listed on it scattered and returned to the starry sky-like information universe.

Compared to the earliest appearance of a few scattered stars in a pitch-black space, it had become much denser now.

When they became a bit denser, and his perspective a bit higher, this place would probably become a scene like the black crystal he saw in his dream.

He restored the information universe to its six-column format.

As expected, the “Domain” section, which had been quiet, had gained another full star. Zhan Yan then took a look at the other energy bars.

Huh? Why was the energy bar for his “Ability” section, which he had worked so hard to almost fill for a little star of information confidentiality, suddenly emptied?!!!

Open the Gossip System, check the records!

[For —— reason, some of the energy in the “Ability” column has been consumed.]

Zhan Yan: Can’t you at least tell me what the reason is! It’s very important, okay? He was counting on this little star to add a layer of protection for his mom to prevent her identity from being exposed!

The Gossip System gave no explanation. Zhan Yan was furious.

A few minutes later:

[You discover that powerless fury is useless and decide to start accumulating a new little star.]

Zhan Yan: …

Hmph!

What could he do about his own golden finger? Just spoil it.

Zhan Yan continued to painstakingly accumulate energy. To make up for the loss, he once again cycled through the Transcendent Forum, the cultivator group, and the Gossip group, and started taking missions again.

After several days, upon logging into the Transcendent Forum again, Zhan Yan discovered that Shenying had sought him out for a mission again.

Zhan Yan didn’t really want to accept. Although Shenying was very generous with points, it was now very difficult for him to get new information keywords about abilities from him.

Anyway, Shenying wasn’t looking for him for any important mission; it was just that his addiction to clearing out abnormalities had flared up.

A quick glance at the Gossip System.

[Shenying has cleared out all the nearby abnormalities.]

[Other information-type Transcendent beings were unable to find any abnormalities nearby.]

[Shenying thinks that other information-type Transcendent beings are useless and has decided to find Zoujin Kexue.]

Big brother, you’ve already cleared out all the nearby abnormalities. Who’s supposed to conjure one up for you?

Zhan Yan decided to put Shenying on hold for a bit.

Zoujin Kexue: “The mission you gave is too simple. It’s boring, not doing it.”

After putting Shenying on hold, Zhan Yan continued his regular life of eating gua, doing missions to save energy, morning exercises, attending classes, and discussing the grape factory.

This day, after class, while passing the affiliated veterinary hospital building, Zhan Yan suddenly saw a shadow flash past him, followed by a group of people chasing out in a hurry.

“The cat ran away, the cat ran away!”

“It went that way!”

“Hey! It ran into the bushes!”

“Where did it go?”

Professor Miao, well advanced in years, ran out panting, his face full of panic.

Zhan Yan grabbed a classmate he knew and asked, “Hey, what happened?”

“Professor Miao brought his cat for a check-up today, and as soon as he opened the carrier, the cat bolted.”

At this moment, Professor Miao noticed Zhan Yan. “Zhan Yan, aren’t you especially good at finding animals?”

That was ancient history. Now he was the miraculous scarecrow that all the seniors in the agricultural college yearned for, capable of repelling beasts on the spot.

But looking at the old professor’s anxious and hopeful eyes, Zhan Yan really couldn’t refuse. “I’ll try.”

Even the stars were so clingy with him, maybe his “neutering maniac” constitution had gotten better?

“Try! Try!” Professor Miao said expectantly.

“What’s the cat’s name?” Zhan Yan asked.

He wasn’t good at finding cats, but he could try with the Gossip System.

“It’s called Wangwang, he’s a Ragdoll, looks like this.” Professor Miao wanted to take out his phone to show Zhan Yan a photo, but upon patting his pocket, he realized he had rushed out in such a hurry that he had left his phone in the veterinary hospital.

“No need to look, I saw a photo last year. Isn’t there also a blue cat? The Ragdoll is a mitted one, right?” Zhan Yan said.

“Yes, yes!” Professor Miao nodded repeatedly. “He’s usually very friendly with people and doesn’t fight. He always gets bullied when he fights with the blue cat.”

Ragdolls generally have poor survival skills in the wild. In Professor Miao’s eyes, his delicate little Ragdoll was a fragile little darling who couldn’t lift a finger, which made him extremely worried.

“Alright, I’ll look for him,” Zhan Yan said as he activated the Gossip System.

[The Ragdoll cat Wangwang once again smelled another cat on Miao Bin, became very angry, and decided to go find the little vixen for a fight.]

Wait a minute? What are you, a fragile Ragdoll, going to do?

Wangwang was running with a purpose; he must be chasing the scent of another cat on Professor Miao. Since Wangwang didn’t linger in the vet hospital building and rushed straight outside, could the scent on Professor Miao be from a stray cat?

Zhan Yan: “Professor, did you feed a stray cat earlier?”

Professor Miao: “Ah? Yes.”

He had even petted it a couple of times after feeding it.

A fragile Ragdoll versus a stray cat. Zhan Yan didn’t even dare to imagine the tragic result.

He took some cat treat sticks used to lure cats and started searching for the cat, following the clues given by the Gossip System.

Half an hour later, he saw a violent scene of a mitted, fragile Ragdoll pinning a tuxedo cat to the ground and beating it senseless.

Zhan Yan recognized the tuxedo cat. It was one of the bosses among the nearby stray cat colonies.

…Professor Miao, your Ragdoll, as fragile as Lin Daiyu, has some formidable fighting skills!

Zhan Yan’s arrival broke up the fight between the two cats. The tuxedo cat seized the opportunity, flipped over, slipped out from under the Ragdoll’s paws, and ran.

The Ragdoll instinctively wanted to chase.

Zhan Yan quickly called out, “Wangwang!”

The Ragdoll stopped and turned to look at him.

Zhan Yan: “Your owner is looking for you.”

This Ragdoll was quite intelligent and, having lived with humans for a long time, could understand some words.

Wangwang meowed unhappily.

“What owner? That’s my poop-scooper.”

Zhan Yan: …Fair enough.

“Wangwang.” Zhan Yan squatted down and tentatively beckoned to the Ragdoll. “Come, I’ll take you back. Your poop-scooper is about to go crazy with worry.”

The Ragdoll hesitated for two seconds, still looking unwillingly in the direction the tuxedo cat had fled, seemingly wanting to chase it down for another beating. Perhaps realizing it was too late to catch it, he finally approached, stopping about a step away from Zhan Yan and starting to lick his fur.

Zhan Yan was pleasantly surprised. “You’re not afraid of me!”

The Ragdoll paused, looked at him for a couple of seconds, and continued grooming.

[The Ragdoll cat Wangwang thinks, what’s so scary about a neuterer? Aren’t all the ones under the poop-scooper’s care neutered?]

Got it. This one is well-traveled and knowledgeable.

Zhan Yan moved a little closer and held out his hand. “Wangwang, come, I’ll carry you back.”

The Ragdoll took two steps back and shot him an unhappy look. “Meow.”

Can’t you see I’m grooming myself? How can I see the poop-scooper looking like this?

Oh, so this was a little cat with a sense of image.

Zhan Yan simply sat down on the stone platform. “Wangwang, let’s not run away like this next time, okay? The outside world is very dangerous for a little cat like you.”

The Ragdoll meowed at him unhappily again.

The poop-scooper is so fickle, flirting with others all the time. How can he not manage it? If he doesn’t, those little vixens will be walking all over him!

Zhan Yan realized this Ragdoll was truly intelligent. He wanted to take a picture to tell Professor Miao he had found the cat, but as soon as he raised his phone towards Wangwang, Wangwang unhappily dodged and meowed at him, not allowing him to take an embarrassing photo—he considered his disheveled appearance after a fight to be embarrassing and not to be seen by the poop-scooper.

Zhan Yan could only send a text message, telling Professor Miao the location.

While waiting, Zhan Yan started chatting with the Ragdoll.

When the Ragdoll realized he understood what he meant and wasn’t one of those stupid humans who couldn’t understand meow-speak, his attitude improved considerably.

The Ragdoll looked down its nose, exuding an air of dominance. “How am I so good at fighting? Of course I can fight! How could a mere little vixen be my opponent? That stupid blue cat at home can’t beat me at all, okay? I pretend to be bullied so the poop-scooper will come and comfort me with cat treats.”

Zhan Yan’s eyes widened.

So this is the cunning of a little cat?

“My poop-scooper only ever speaks to me in a high-pitched voice every day. He doesn’t understand anything and is always flirting around!” the Ragdoll continued to complain. “Would I have run out if it weren’t for him?”

Zhan Yan promised to help persuade Professor Miao later that once you have a main queen at home, you shouldn’t provoke other cats.

The Ragdoll was very satisfied with this, thinking he was very perceptive, and granted him the honor of grooming his fur for him.

When Professor Miao arrived panting, Zhan Yan watched with his own eyes as the previously proud and domineering Ragdoll instantly turned into a whimpering creature, pouncing into Professor Miao’s arms and acting cute and weak.

Professor Miao was heartbroken, holding Wangwang and checking him over carefully. “Are you hurt? Were you bullied? Oh, my poor baby, a fragile little cat like you, it’s so dangerous outside! You see how scary it is now? Don’t run off like that again, okay!”

Zhan Yan: …

Your fragile little cat was just pinning down the stray cat boss and beating it senseless.

But he couldn’t say that. It’s easy to offend a cat.

The Ragdoll gave Zhan Yan a look, signaling it was his turn.

Zhan Yan tactfully suggested to Professor Miao that he should stop petting stray cats.

Professor Miao sighed as he held the Ragdoll. “The wildflowers are more fragrant than the flowers at home.”

Zhan Yan: …Don’t say that in front of the cat. Your cat can understand you!

He looked down at the Ragdoll and could have sworn he saw a cold smile on its fluffy face.

The Ragdoll: “Hehe, don’t you worry about it.”

“I have a way to handle this.”

[The Ragdoll cat Wangwang decides to start scratching the bedroom door at 4 AM from tomorrow on.]

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