GRMFBS CH161

On this end, after Zhan Yan finished looking through the World Record materials provided by the big shot Deep Shadow, he turned around and handed them over to the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau.

Hmm… anyway, the big shot Deep Shadow agreed to cooperate with the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau, right?

Administrator Lingyu: [Thank you.]

Administrator Lingyu: [If you receive any other relevant information later, please be sure to tell me.]

Zhan Yan felt that Administrator Lingyu’s tone wasn’t quite right. He and Nie Yu were already very familiar with each other, so why use words like “please” and “be sure to”?

Approaching Science: [Who are you?]

Administrator Lingyu: [I am Nie Ling.]

Zhan Yan searched for it in the Gossip System.

Oh, the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau had also noticed the explosive growth of anomalies on the network recently, as well as the Monster Doctor’s tracks. Nie Yu, as a network-type ability user, was assigned the task of tracking down the Monster Doctor.

Her specific ability wasn’t considered the strongest in combat power among network-type abilities, but its concealment was extremely high; it was relatively safe for her to pursue clues.

Because Nie Yu had to devote all her efforts to handling this task, the job of managing the forum was handed over to her older brother, Nie Ling.

Nie Ling invited Approaching Science to cooperate in tracking down the Monster Doctor. Although both sides had been investigating the Monster Doctor’s clues previously, they were just doing their own independent investigations without any deeper cooperation.

Even though his sister’s ability had strong concealment and escape capabilities, she was now facing an opponent who could be linked to Deep Shadow and who made it strenuous even for Approaching Science to investigate; Nie Ling inevitably worried. He hoped to make his sister’s task a bit safer.

Zhan Yan was also willing to cooperate, but he really didn’t have any network-type abilities… No, wait, he should have them.

Zhan Yan remembered that he was able to log into the chaofan forum by connecting directly through the Gossip System, and the same went for entering the group chat. These were all the abilities of the first little star “Information Connection” under the system’s sub-tab.

Previously, he was used to treating “Information Connection” as a built-in function similar to a phone or tablet, but being able to connect to online platforms meant the Gossip System should possess network-type abilities.

[Congratulations on discovering the infinite extensibility of “Information Connection”.]

Zhan Yan’s breath hitched, startled by the word “infinite,” before he realized that this “infinite” was purely in the literal sense. The organization Infinite would be displayed as a distinct term.

Re-clicking on this little star, a multitude of information splashed out like a flying waterfall, drooping and sliding down like heavy curtains.

Zhan Yan knew how to connect to known platforms through the information stream. But what those network-type superpowered individuals could achieve was definitely more than just this. How did they do it?

Approaching Science: [How do network-type superpowered individuals utilize their supernatural power?]

If it were anyone else, this question might be hard to answer. For network-type superpowered individuals, utilizing their supernatural power was like an instinct; it was hard to describe what it was like. For non-network-type superpowered individuals, it was even more impossible to explain.

But it just so happened that the one facing the question right now was Nie Ling.

He himself was not a network-type, but his sister was a network-type.

It happened that Nie Yu was resting right now, so Nie Ling pulled his sister over to ask.

Nie Yu: [Why is Approaching Science asking this? He isn’t a network-type.]

Even though she didn’t know what Approaching Science wanted to do, Nie Yu still tried her best to describe it.

But sometimes it just couldn’t be described, because the language system of ordinary people didn’t contain vocabulary that could be used to describe the feelings of a superpowered individual, and the professional terminology created by network-type superpowered individuals was very difficult for non-network-types to understand. It was as difficult as trying to describe what the color “red” is to a blind person.

Nie Yu: [An overly dense stream of information is like a heavy rain. You need to travel through the rain, but you can’t let the rain soak you completely, or you’ll be bloated to the point of exploding by the information. Anyway, that’s what it means, you get it, right? Capturing information is like trying to find specific raindrops among all this rainwater, but it’s not that hard. Network information has traces and patterns. Specifically searching for it is like… argh, anyway, you get it, right? I won’t explain it. When shuttling through the information stream…]

As blood-related siblings, and with Nie Ling being a research-oriented information-type, he could completely understand his sister’s descriptions that substituted “you get it, right?” whenever she occasionally failed to find the right words.

Not only did Nie Ling understand, but he could also describe it in more easily understandable language. He conveyed the network-type supernatural power experience to Approaching Science.

Since Nie Ling was using the Administrator Lingyu account, Nie Yu simply used her supernatural power to enter the forum and observe. As one of the founders of the forum, her supernatural power itself was a key to enter the forum.

Seeing Nie Ling’s description, Zhan Yan felt a vague sense of enlightenment.

He opened the Gossip System’s information stream interface and closed his eyes.

The information stream surfaced all around him.

Information wasn’t just visual. Hearing, smell, taste, touch, and even feelings in the heart were all information.

Closing his eyes, information fell down like a heavy rain, smashing against his shoulders, sliding off like water droplets on lotus leaves—cold, heavy, wet… hot, soft, slippery…

He stood in the information that slid down as densely as rain, not a single strand of his hair getting wet by them.

Zhan Yan tried reaching out his hand. Where his hand contacted the information rain, a faint fluorescence glowed, and the rainwater suddenly passed through his palm as if passing through a silhouette made of light.

The moment the rainwater passed through, Zhan Yan read that piece of information.

The fluorescence covered him from his palm to his entire body, making his whole person appear as if composed of translucent light. The information rain passed through his body, and every place it made contact glowed with a brighter fluorescence, like little blue ripples splashing up when rainwater hit a fluorescent sea.

Countless pieces of information passing through were read.

—It is now 17:23.

—The moon is beautiful today.

—I hope that flower will bloom tomorrow.

—You are all stardust.

—Hello, world.

…

Piece after piece of information shuttled through his body, leaving behind a fleeting brilliance like shooting stars for him. Countless shooting stars illuminated his body like a river of stars. And Zhan Yan experienced freedom within this bright starry river.

So this was what capturing information felt like.

He opened his eyes, and his glowing body returned to normal. The information streams once again slid past him like water droplets failing to stick to lotus leaves.

He raised his palm, gently pushing aside the information stream in front of him, and walked forward from beneath the parted curtain of information toward a familiar direction.

That should be where the chaofan forum was located.

Nie Yu stared dumbfounded at that figure shrouded in the light mist of information.

Approaching Science?

Wasn’t he a non-network-type? Why was he able to enter here?

Why was his brain not exploding after letting so much information pass through him?

How did he manage to simply open a path instead of having to shuttle through the information corridors?

He had to be a bug, right?!

Nie Yu hadn’t fully immersed herself into the network; she still kept a substantial portion of her consciousness in her own body.

Outside the network, Nie Yu jumped up.

Her colleagues in the same group responsible for clearing network anomalies were startled by her.

“What’s wrong? What’s wrong?” “Did you find the Monster Doctor?” “You weren’t discovered by him, right? Hold on! We’re coming right now!” “Where, where? Quickly look at the location sharing… Eh?”

Nie Yu said, “No, don’t be nervous, it’s nothing major.”

“Wait, no! Something major did happen! But not that kind of major.”

“Argh, anyway, I need to contact the Deputy Bureau Chief. It has nothing to do with the Monster Doctor or anomalies, you guys carry on.”

While searching for Approaching Science in the network, Nie Yu hurriedly ran off to find Ning Xi.

Deputy Bureau Chief! Approaching Science is hacking!!

Nie Yu didn’t catch Approaching Science. Zhan Yan had disconnected.

That state from just now didn’t seem to be maintainable for very long. But Zhan Yan didn’t have that feeling of wanting to eat candy from overexertion like before; it was possibly because he still wasn’t very proficient with this new way of using the ability.

The information he had just absorbed was also a bit much. Right now, his brain was a little dazed, and for a short while, he wouldn’t be able to enter the information stream state like before. The sudden disconnection might also have been a form of self-protection.

However, the new ability was seriously so cool! Were you network-type superpowered individuals able to be this cool every single day?

After a while, Zhan Yan still felt his brain was foggy and found it slightly hard to think, as if a room had been completely stuffed full to the brim, to the point where there was absolutely no room to maneuver.

In order to reorganize and free up some space, Zhan Yan had to sort through all these messy messages stuffed into his brain.

What time is it, the moon is beautiful… it was only 5:30 PM right now on his end, so that moon message must have been sent from somewhere else, right? This all belonged to junk information—toss it out, toss it out!

Why were there even messages from foreigners? Let’s translate it… unusable, set it aside, set it aside.

After sorting out the majority of the information, Zhan Yan felt that his brain could finally turn its gears again. As he continued sorting, he discovered a piece of news somewhat related to him.

Deep Shadow had a long-term collaborative network-type superpowered individual named Wan Shitong, and Wan Shitong had built a gaming world within the network.

Relying on the fact that Deep Shadow lacked network-type abilities, Wan Shitong had secretly created an NPC in the game world using Deep Shadow as the prototype. While Wan Shitong was debugging this NPC, he received a message from Deep Shadow; he trembled in fright and accidentally maxed out the difficulty of obtaining the NPC’s favorability.

The NPC gave Wan Shitong a cold glance, left behind a sneer, turned around, and vanished.

In order to match Deep Shadow’s style, Wan Shitong had cranked multiple attributes of the NPC off the charts. The result was that now, when he wanted to quickly find this NPC to adjust them back, the person was already gone. Currently, Wan Shitong was searching everywhere in the gaming world for this NPC.

Ah, this piece of gossip was just too amusing. If Deep Shadow knew… Zhan Yan began restlessly searching through Deep Shadow’s gossip threads.

Hm? How did Deep Shadow and Ghost King Lin Yuan bump into each other?

Zifeng Valley.

Gu Jiancheng and Zhan Jinli each stood on one side, looking at one another without either of them speaking.

A gust of cold wind blew past, sweeping up a few fallen leaves from the ground.

One was shrouded in Yin energy all over, his face indiscernible; one could only make out that he was wearing a robe with a black background and gold patterns.

The other’s figure was faintly discernible, as if it were just a faded, thin shadow.

The two looked at each other warily, both feeling that the other did not seem like a good person.