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Zhan Yan relayed Deep Shadow’s message to the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau. Nie Yu forwarded the message to several relevant big shots.

Tu Yue fell completely silent after seeing it, thinking to himself that Deputy Bureau Chief Ning’s intuition was truly incredible. Ning Xi also fell silent. He had just made a speculation; he hadn’t expected the effect to be this fast.

Only Nie Yu was muttering: “Now the Artisan is contacted with Approaching Science’s help, and Deep Shadow is also contacted with Approaching Science’s help. I remember his relationship with the Wan Yao Alliance is quite good too…”

Ji Yueming: “Right, didn’t the Chongming Demon King subsidize his task points out of his own pocket before?”

Nie Yu: “He’s become the relay contact person for all our important figures.”

“Captain, do you quite like him too?”

Ji Yueming: “I think he’s very good.”

Nie Yu: “A true master of the sea, terrifyingly so!”

Ning Xi rubbed his forehead, elevating the importance of Approaching Science again and again. The confirmation results regarding the doomsday news had come out over these two days. The information provided by Approaching Science, the Artisan, and Deep Shadow was all accurate.

Approaching Science had contacted them within twelve hours after the gravitational tide occurred, providing the two pieces of news about the doomsday connection time and the doomsday being dead.

He shouldn’t have been in contact with the Artisan at that time, which meant he found this out on his own.

Ning Xi’s desire to cherish talent rose again: “He still doesn’t accept help?”

They had previously worried about Approaching Science’s pollution issue. Tianshi even took the initiative to contact him, but this kid only asked how to increase animal affinity and had absolutely no other requests. He wouldn’t learn the meditation techniques they offered, he didn’t want the free potions provided, and Tu Yue said he had never raised any demands for ability growth or avoiding pollution in the information-type exchange group.

Nie Yu was already used to Approaching Science unconsciously flexing: “He just hasn’t experienced the suffering of information pollution.”

Talent grew very well on its own. Ning Xi continued rubbing his brow; what he was thinking about now was the information provided by Deep Shadow and the Artisan.

The Artisan said she destroyed the doomsday world, leaving no living things behind.

Deep Shadow said the doomsday world’s most powerful and terrifying BOSS, “Lord” Rong Sui, went mad.

Why would the Artisan destroy her own world? How did she do it? What is her relationship with “Lord” Rong Sui? What happened between them? Where did Rong Sui go? Is she dead? Or did she survive like the Artisan?

To figure out these things, they still needed to find Deep Shadow and the Artisan, and to contact those two, they could only go through Approaching Science.

Ning Xi felt extremely uneasy about this situation where crucial points were controlled by someone else. There had to be some sort of bond; if not an emotional bond, a material bond would do too.

“Does Approaching Science truly have nothing he wants?” Tu Yue: “He is investigating a player from Infinite called ‘Monster Doctor’. Pure White Jigsaw and I recently just uncovered some clues.” Ning Xi sighed: “Keep investigating.”

The Monster Doctor was someone they needed to investigate anyway.

Why was Approaching Science so unyielding through lack of desire?

The unyielding-through-lack-of-desire Approaching Science fretted every day about how to protect his parents’ secret identities.

That day in the major classroom, Zhan Yan suddenly heard a familiar voice, sounding very much like his dad.

Zhan Yan sensitively turned his head.

The classmate at the next desk was scrolling through videos, and the sound coming from his phone was someone singing “Nothing is More Beautiful Than the Sunset Glow.”

The video hadn’t played for more than two lines when the other classmates also turned their heads.

“Who’s singing this? This voice is really beautiful.”

The terrible audio quality of the phone speaker couldn’t mask how beautiful it was; the timbre was mellow and steady, like a sunlit singing spring, or the chime of a distant mountain bell.

“I don’t know, it’s a video circulating online. Seems to have been shot by some senior choir themselves.”

The classmate scrolling through the videos shared the link to the class group chat, letting everyone open it and watch for themselves.

Zhan Yan opened the link.

…Wasn’t this the community cultural troupe his dad had joined?

The person singing was surrounded by several people, only revealing half a profile, but Zhan Yan still recognized it at a glance: this was his dad!

The classmates around him were still gossiping enthusiastically.

“Holy crap, which senior choir is this awesome! Is this a retired professional singer?”

“Never heard a singer with this voice before.”

“Who is this person singing?”

“This video has gone viral. Can anyone find the source?”

This link was posted by a big V account and didn’t tag the video source. The retweets had already broken a hundred thousand, and the comments were also 999+.

The top trending comment was: “Good heavens, the first time I want to go to a concert to listen to the sunset glow.”

Zhan Yan even seriously pondered it.

If he arranged a concert for his dad with the time overlapping his current shift schedule, could he make his dad swap shifts with someone else, so he wouldn’t be scheduled with his mom?

“Looks like someone found the source of the video.”

Zhan Yan abruptly snapped back to reality.

No, no! The biggest impact of this matter would be that if his dad was dug out, his identity as a C-list actor would go viral again!

Zhan Yan fiercely scrolled through the comment section. A few scattered people said he looked familiar, and then immediately after, he saw his dad’s fans.

“This is our Old Zhan! I recognized this face at a glance!!!”

“Who is Old Zhan?”

“Zhan Yunkai, that guy in red clothes and golden armor from last year who went viral outside his circle.”

“Oh, oh, I remember! That food blogger.”

“Sad @Zhan Yunkai @Zhan Yunkai @Zhan Yunkai Hurry up and explain that you’re really not a food blogger.”

“Don’t explain. Every time I see the various soups he’s been posting on Weibo recently, I get craving. Last time he even poisoned us late at night by posting the kumquat paste he boiled.”

“The video is so blurry, how can you be sure whose it is?”

“It can’t be Zhan Yunkai, right? He’s in the entertainment industry; if he could sing this well, would he still be a C-list actor?”

“If it were anyone else, I definitely wouldn’t believe it. But with how zen Old Zhan is, it really isn’t certain.”

“Truly the first time seeing an actor who doesn’t participate in any activities besides filming. I suspect he’s a rich second generation just playing around.”

“@Zhan Yunkai @Zhan Yunkai @Zhan Yunkai Is this singing person you or not?”

They say netizens are detectives. The source of the video had already been dug out. It was a video account of a senior community cultural troupe, with almost no management. Everything posted on it were performance or practice videos of old grandpas and grandmas. The filming wasn’t professional either; they just put a phone on a stand and hit record.

The video account was opened by the old man with the soup paste recipe.

The old man liked to keep records, but with so many videos accumulating over months and years, his hard drive couldn’t take it. The old man’s children taught him how to open a video account, using this as an online hard drive.

After the video account was discovered, people sent DMs asking if the person in the video was Zhan Yunkai.

At first, the old man wasn’t on guard, nor did he know their “Teacher Xiao Zhan” was an actor who had once gone viral, so he directly replied: “That’s right, which neighbor are you?”

Later, when the old man realized something was wrong, it was already too late; his reply had been forwarded out as evidence.

The old man hurriedly called Zhan Yunkai in a panic: “Hello? Teacher Xiao Zhan? I’m sorry, it seems I’ve caused trouble for you…”

Zhan Yan was reading the text broadcast in the Gossip System.

His dad pulled his phone out from his feathers, answered the call, comforted the old man, and then immediately contacted Xia Yuexian to ask her to help handle it.

It wasn’t handled successfully.

Because Director Liu, whose production Zhan Yunkai had previously helped out with as a stand-in, intervened.

After the screenshot of the old man’s answer was spread out, there were still a group of people questioning, saying that if Zhan Yunkai had this voice, why had no one ever heard him before?

Director Liu aggressively reposted it: “One listen and you know this voice is Zhan Yunkai’s.”

He even enthusiastically replied to netizens below.

Netizen: “If Zhan Yunkai’s voice is so good, why did he still use dubbing?”

Director Liu: “Because his line delivery is too terrible. It breaks my heart. You tell me, how can a person who sings so well not know how to deliver lines?”

Netizen: “How terrible? I don’t believe it.”

Director Liu: “I have behind-the-scenes footage in my inventory as proof!”

Netizen: “Then hurry up and release it!!!”

“Ten minutes have passed, why haven’t you released the footage yet! I’m dying of anxiety.”

“Let me see, let me see!”

Director Liu spent ten minutes carefully selecting a behind-the-scenes clip from his hard drive.

It was Zhan Yunkai’s longest line, over six hundred words, written in semi-classical Chinese. The most important thing was that Zhan Yunkai’s styling in this scene was fantastic.

In the video, Zhan Yunkai, clad in red clothes and golden armor, stood by the water, reciting the lines in one breath without stumbling. His tone was pleasant and his reading fluent, but he had absolutely no emotion, at a level degraded several years behind modern AI voices.

But the scenery was beautiful and the person was gorgeous, so the netizens’ enthusiasm flared up immediately, and they rushed to watch the original drama.

This drama had a revenue-sharing agreement with the platform, and Director Liu had also invested in it, so he was overjoyed.

The viewers who finished watching the original drama came back to nitpick:

“It’s over, now when I listen to the dubbed version I feel the voice isn’t good enough, and when I listen to the original version I feel the lines lack emotion. Tell me, what should we do about this?”

Zhan Yunkai’s Weibo was also blowing up underneath.

“Bro, I beg you, hold a concert. You sing so well, why must you force yourself to act?”

“Let’s have an interview, what led you to not enter the singer circle for so many years? Do you really love acting that much?”

“Stop acting, I beg you, your acting skills really aren’t good. Switch careers. I’ve already calculated your next career path for you. Trust me, I’m a professional fortune-teller; you can only be a C-list actor, but if you switch to being a singer, you’ll absolutely skyrocket.”

Zhan Yan watched helplessly as a fight broke out in his dad’s comment section.

“No, I understand urging Old Zhan to sing, I want to listen too, but what’s up with urging him not to act?!”

“Do you know what a huge waste it is for a face like that not to act?!”

“Who does Old Zhan’s bad acting bother? It’s not like he plays roles that require acting skills.”

Zhan Yan noticed another familiar figure.

Jiu Your Head: [What’s so good about this to listen to?]

As expected, he was attacked by others again.

Zhan Yan flipped through the gossip threads, and sure enough, this familiar ID still belonged to Xiang Liu.

[The Nine-Headed Demon King Xiang Liu used his smurf account ‘Jiu Your Head’ to anti-fan Zhan Yunkai. Because the opponents were too numerous, he lost the argument and was extremely furious.]

…

[The Nine-Headed Demon King Xiang Liu used his smurf account ‘Jiu Your Head’ to anti-fan Zhan Yunkai. He argued to a draw and felt extremely unreconciled.]

…

[The Nine-Headed Demon King Xiang Liu learned that the parrot demon Wu Ying had abandoned her research on “Variety Improvement and Demon Race Aptitude.”]

Zhan Yan read all the content before and after this gossip thread.

Xiang Liu heard that Wu Ying abandoned her research after listening to Zhan Yunkai, and felt that Wu Ying considered Zhan Yunkai wiser than him, which made him extremely furious.

He had also heard the part where Zhan Yunkai used Tianshi as an example.

While scrolling through the gossip threads, Zhan Yan suddenly thought of an idea. He decided to start duping Xiang Liu.

The first step to duping Xiang Liu was to be able to talk to him.

The Approaching Science account wouldn’t work; everyone knew Approaching Science was a fan of the Chongming Demon King.

Zhan Yan opened a smurf account, followed Xiang Liu’s smurf account in the forum to complain about the Chongming Demon King together, and soon became a chatty online friend with Xiang Liu.

He heard many pieces of gossip about his dad from Xiang Liu.

Xiang Liu said Chongming was a hopeless neat freak.

Zhan Yan followed the gossip thread and found it:

[Chongming disdained how wherever Xiang Liu went turned into a flooded marsh, and forbade him from coming to his territory.]

Xiang Liu also said Chongming had pathological OCD.

[Chongming told Xiang Liu to smooth out his nine heads before speaking to him.]

Xiang Liu’s nine heads had originally been dancing about perfectly fine on their own, but after being told this by Chongming, he suddenly didn’t know where to put them comfortably, and his necks were stiff for several days straight.

After Zhan Yan finished eating the gossip, he helped Xiang Liu connect this string of information together:

Chongming highly admired Tianshi—Chongming couldn’t defeat Tianshi—Chongming and Tianshi weren’t particularly familiar with each other yet—Chongming and Tianshi were scheduled on a shift together.

An idea pewed into existence in Xiang Liu’s nine heads:

He wanted to swap shifts with Chongming, and then use the opportunity of the shift schedule to make friends with Tianshi, stealing away the partner Chongming admired! In the future, when he argued with Chongming, he could pull Tianshi in as a helper!

Hehehe!