GRMFBS CH167

Zhan Suiru felt that conceptual barrier. She didn’t know what the reason was, but she had always retained the cognition of the “spiritual type”, and her consciousness wasn’t modified by this conceptual barrier, which also allowed her to clearly perceive the existence of this barrier now.

Zhan Suiru had no intention of breaking through this conceptual barrier. She bypassed it, and her consciousness entered the network world, her formidable spiritual energy sparkling brilliantly.

She was far too familiar with the use of spiritual energy. Even in the unfamiliar network world, it only took her a few seconds to familiarize herself with how to move around here.

This feeling of unbridled freedom was truly a long-lost sensation.

Zhan Suiru traced Qi Ye’s spiritual energy and chased after it. Even though she had never interacted with this world’s “network-type” superpowered individuals, she knew that Qi Ye’s state of completely disregarding her physical body with her spiritual energy was abnormal.

Her spiritual energy was like a streak of wandering lightning, flashing past among the messy data, shuttling through with hair’s-breadth precision, like a goshawk gliding through a mountain gorge, reaching the other side in just a few flaps of its wings.

Zhan Suiru saw that virtual world built from spiritual energy and data, as well as the densely packed virus anomalies outside it.

She recognized the characteristics of this anomaly at a glance.

Multiplication, mutation; the most minuscule structures could combine into the most diverse states, rapidly making changes based on the spiritual energy characteristics of whoever they came into contact with, becoming an anomalous form that could effectively target the other party.

It didn’t need to understand the enemy in advance; it could adapt to circumstances at top speed to become the form that most suppressed the other party.

A very old-school method, Zhan Suiru evaluated in her heart.

During the time Infinite thought she was out of control, it had attempted to use various anomalies against her; this thing was merely putting a new spin on an old trick.

This thing had an unchangeable flaw—being prone to mutation meant being unstable. As long as one could induce its instability and use the links between this group of anomalies to “infect” them, the entire group could be made to collapse.

When Nie Yu received the message and rushed over to save them, she saw the game world densely surrounded by anomalies.

The game world’s defense data was operating tightly on the surface layer, looking as if it hadn’t been invaded by the anomalies yet, but those virus-like anomalies had multiplied far too much, acting like layers of oil stains or rust, making the orderly and strict data appear mottled and patchy.

An unfamiliar network-type superpowered individual floated in front of the game world. She refracted a dark red light, like a red crystal statue composed of multiple facets.

Her fingertips tapped onto the virus anomalies outside the game world, and the sharp red light cut in like a scalpel. The dark red light covered the virus anomalies, spreading from a point to a surface. The anomalies tainted by the red light plummeted one after another, extinguishing mid-fall.

The anomalies further away sensed the danger and scattered to avoid contact with the anomalies tainted by the red light. But it was unknown how that red light was transmitted; even the virus anomalies that escaped far away on their own turned red out of thin air, then plummeted and extinguished.

A rain sparkling with dark red fluorescence fell in the network world, like countless gemstone fragments pouring down.

Nie Yu was dumbfounded.

Where did this network-type big shot pop out from?!

Only then did Qi Ye and Wan Shitong wretchedly break free from the anomalies’ encirclement. They saw Zhan Suiru and exchanged a confused piece of data.

—Did you call this incredibly awesome big shot over?

—No, I don’t know her.

—I don’t know her either.

It doesn’t matter, let’s go up and thank her first, then we can get to know the big shot.

The two expressed their thanks sincerely. Zhan Suiru distinguished which one was Qi Ye. She was in a pretty good mood today, so she was in the mood to tease the kids.

“Want to repay me?” She hooked her finger toward the game world. “Then give it to me.”

Both Qi Ye and Wan Shitong choked.

One truly couldn’t bear to part with it, which was obvious seeing how these two would rather endure in the pile of anomalies outside than risk entering the game world. The other also wasn’t sure if this newly appeared big shot was reliable or not.

Neither of them was stupid. A glance at today’s situation showed it was targeting this small world the two of them had built. The mysterious big shot was too mysterious, and no one knew her origins, so they couldn’t completely trust her.

Although the big shot saved the two of them, what if this was arranged by Infinite?

Zhan Suiru didn’t tease them anymore. She reached out and pressed onto the barrier of the game world, plating it with a layer of spiritual defense. The translucent red, faintly swirling with fine,碎屑-like fluorescence, looked like a layer of gold-woven tulle.

Qi Ye and Wan Shitong were dumbfounded.

Infinite could only find delicious spiritual energy food in the network world now; it was perfectly normal for it to want a complete virtual world.

Neither Qi Ye nor Wan Shitong had the ability to defend this world, so she came. As for how these two were supposed to enter the game world they built, that was their business.

“Why did it turn out like this?” Zhan Suiru asked. “These kinds of anomalies should have laid dormant on you to follow you in.”

Hearing this question, Wan Shitong, who was preparing to get angry, couldn’t help but shudder.

Right. This kind of hidden, virus-style anomaly wasn’t meant for forceful attacks in the first place. If he hadn’t accidentally discovered the dormant virus anomalies, he would have already brought them into the game world, and these viruses with terrifying multiplication capabilities would have completely taken over their game world by now.

“It was an accident,” Wan Shitong muttered in explanation. “It was that NPC…”

He used Deep Shadow as a prototype to mold an NPC with maxed-out attributes, but because his boss sent him a message, his hand slipped and he adjusted the wrong attribute, causing the highly autonomous NPC to flee directly.

He hadn’t been able to catch this NPC since then.

Because Wan Shitong was one of the builders of the game world, coupled with the special nature of his ability, he could see the situation inside from outside the game world.

Today, before entering the game world, he saw that NPC standing before the world barrier, looking over with an icy gaze and adopting an attacking stance.

Wan Shitong originally wanted to rush in and grab this NPC, but he was stunned by the NPC’s attacking stance. As the builder of the game world, according to its underlying logic, nothing here would attack him.

Then he realized that the “Deep Shadow” NPC’s attacking stance wasn’t aimed at him, but at the things hidden on him.

Afterward, the virus anomalies, realizing they were discovered, began their forceful attack.

Wan Shitong was still harboring lingering fear.

He and Play Games With Me had built a very powerful detection program in the game world; they could also discover dormant virus anomalies by relying on the detection rules within the game world. But when outside the game world, relying purely on themselves, they truly couldn’t discover dormant virus anomalies.

Wuwuwu, this NPC truly lived up to being molded after his boss’s template! He actually knew how to utilize the detection program they built in the game world! And even discovered the virus anomalies hidden on him!

The fearful Wan Shitong couldn’t care less about being angry with the mysterious big shot anymore. If his game world was locked down, then so be it; they would continue once they had the strength to deal with Infinite, who was coveting them. Otherwise, if Infinite accidentally snuck into their home one day, he would die of anger!

Zhan Suiru couldn’t help but sigh that this luck was truly great. Who would have thought Infinite would stumble over a single slip of Wan Shitong’s hand?

Serves it right!

Having resolved the matter on the network, Zhan Suiru restrained her desire to continue researching the network and spiritual energy. She logged out of the network world first and draped a jacket over the still-unconscious Qi Ye. Then she sat leisurely to the side and started a round of a game.

Qi Ye logged out of the network world, and upon raising her head, saw Zhan Suiru sitting to the side playing a mobile game; she shuddered on the spot in fright: “S-S-Sister Zhan! When did you get here?”

Zhan Suiru: “Just arrived a little while ago. If you’re sleepy, why don’t you go rest in a bed? Sleeping slumped over like that is so tiring.”

Qi Ye didn’t know when she arrived and didn’t dare spout nonsense: “I was just thinking of resting for a bit, didn’t expect to fall asleep, hehe…”

Zhan Suiru teased her for a couple of sentences and then let her go.

Logging out of the network world, the surging spiritual energy quietly lay dormant back inside her body, as if it had never existed.

But she was, after all, a supreme overlord who once protected a domain with her spiritual energy. After realizing her power was concealed rather than vanished, even after a long time in a cage, she could still sense that spiritual energy bubbling beneath the ice.

This made her feel reassured, while also becoming more curious about the existence that had modified the concept.

Infinite was deeply versed in human nature. If not for the network’s isolation, it would have long incited these people’s spiritual energy through anomalies and eaten enough of their desires and negative emotions.

But now everything was separated by the network, and network data was transmitted via electrical signals. Thunder was the most resolute and fierce power in this world; although electrical current couldn’t compare to the resolute fierceness of the world’s naturally born thunder, it still carried a trace of similar characteristics.

Although the negative spiritual energy born on the network transmitted emotions through information, the spiritual energy was worn away by the electrical current.

Infinite could eat even less.

Thinking about how the energy Infinite used to stir up trouble recently was a mouthful of food it spent twenty-six long years painstakingly saving up, Zhan Suiru felt delighted.

She really wanted to know who made Infinite suffer from hunger and starvation for so many years.

…

Zhan Yan made cat food for Kitty Wan Yan at school.

Gu Jiancheng acted coquettishly and cute to mooch a meal as well.

Zhan Yan was currently worrying.

Fangpai had sent over the Ghost King Seal traded from Wan Yan, but Zhan Yan didn’t dare to put it on his boyfriend—it was fine now while the Ghost King Seal was sealed in the card, but once unsealed, wouldn’t Kitty Wan Yan recognize it?

Then how could he keep his Approaching Science persona?

Ahhh, didn’t Wan Yan want to go find Ghost King Lin Yuan? Why did he run over to his place and refuse to leave? He couldn’t lack perseverance like this!

The worried Zhan Yan started reflecting on whether he made the cat food too well.

But if he deliberately made it taste bad, Wan Yan would definitely make a fuss.

So he still had to find a way to divert Wan Yan’s attention away from him, preferably a long-term diversion.

There was only one thing that could attract Wan Yan’s attention this much…

Zhan Yan silently apologized to Ghost King Lin Yuan.

He got onto the chaofan forum and used the Approaching Science account to find Wan Yan.

Approaching Science: [I’ve received the Ghost King Seal.]

Approaching Science: [I have a piece of news related to Ghost King Lin Yuan, do you want it?]

Ghost King Wan Yan: [I want it, I want it, I want it!]

Approaching Science: [Infinite has set its sights on Ghost King Lin Yuan. It is researching something that can forcibly attract Ghost King Lin Yuan.]

Approaching Science: [Ghost King Lin Yuan is currently investigating this matter.]

Kitty Wan Yan exploded in anger.

What kind of thing was Infinite, daring to fish his fish?!