GRMFBS CH176

Zhan Yan found some things that Di Ting had previously come into contact with from the gossip feeds, successfully fooling Wan Yan Cat. Wan Yan Cat decided to dig up Di Ting’s old belongings to find memories first, temporarily putting off the search for Lin Yuan.

Cats are really easy to deceive.

After temporarily resolving the crisis of his brother encountering Wan Yan Cat, Zhan Yan breathed a sigh of relief.

He had seen the gossip feed detailing how his brother planned to deal with Wan Yan Cat. To summarize, it was just two words—beat, throw.

His brother is truly a simple and straightforward person!

Zhan Jinli’s plan was to return to his daily life of being harassed on Chao Fu Mountain. He didn’t dare to hit too hard, and even if he threw him away, he would come back on his own, only gaining a short period of peace each time.

This was how his brother couldn’t stand being reincarnated when he was the Linyuan Ghost King, but now that his reincarnation has been discovered, since he can’t avoid it and can’t reincarnate again, Zhan Jinli simply gave up. If it’s troublesome, then let it be troublesome.

His brother was so laid-back that Zhan Yan wanted to sigh. He still had to rely on him to take action!

This family would fall apart without him!

With the major crisis resolved, Zhan Yan could finally relax.

His thoughts couldn’t help but wander.

Thinking about his brother’s taciturn appearance, and then thinking about the calm and collected appearance of the Linyuan Ghost King.

Then thinking about how his brother nagged Xingxing at home about how kittens should abide by cat virtues, forcing communication education on the child. And thinking again about the personality of the “Lin Yuan” puppet made by the Artisan…

Brother, you have quite a few hidden sides.

Zhan Yan no longer found it difficult to match them up. So what if his brother is the Linyuan Ghost King? Can the Linyuan Ghost King solve the problem of Mom and Dad dating while wearing disguises? No.

The Linyuan Ghost King himself is still being pestered by Wan Yan Cat and has to rely on him to solve it. Thinking about it this way, there isn’t much difference from that socially anxious older brother from before.

His phone received another new message. Zhan Yan opened it and saw it was from Mi Man.

Mi Man wanted to ask Zhan Yan to teach him how to cook. Not much, just two or three dishes would be fine, as long as the Wan Yan Cat was willing to eat them.

Although the weasels haven’t come until now, he was still very worried.

If the Wan Yan Cat leaves and never returns, who can say for sure if these weasels will come back.

Whenever Mi Man closes his eyes now, his mind is filled with those eerie weasel eyes staring at him, and their strange, sharp laughter…

After Zhan Yan left yesterday, Mi Man used a steamed bun to dip into the soup at the bottom of the pot to taste it. He had already given up hope of keeping the Wan Yan Cat, as long as he could attract the Wan Yan Cat to come visit from time to time, that would be enough!

Zhan Yan agreed. Although Wan Yan Cat wouldn’t have the energy to come eat for a short time, he couldn’t explain it to Mi Man. Besides, he had also checked in the Gossip System, and Huang Twenty-Four Lang had decided to give up on him as a target for begging for a title and would never come again.

Mi Man wasn’t home right now; he was at the veterinary station, on duty for the morning shift today.

The route from the rented house to Mi Man’s home passed by the veterinary station, so Zhan Yan went to the veterinary station first.

When he arrived, he happened to catch the owner of the big parrot coming to pick up the bird.

The parrot’s owner was a boss who ran a company in the city. He brought his parrot back with him on this trip home, and when the bird got sick, he sent it here directly for treatment.

The big boss also brought a silk banner. He was very happy to see the big parrot: “Wang Dengji, come.”

Zhan Yan checked the pet tag: “Hey, why does it say its name is Wang Panpan on here?”

The big boss: “…Wang Panpan is me, it’s called Wang Dengji. The registration got mixed up when I sent it to the pet store.”

Zhan Yan: “…Oh.”

If you don’t look at the characters and just listen to the pronunciation, Wang Dengji indeed sounds more like an owner’s name than Wang Panpan.

Wang Dengji was also very happy to see Wang Panpan: “Woof woof! Big dog~ Come here~ Good boy~”

Wang Panpan: …

“It’s angry, thinks I abandoned it here.”

Zhan Yan took the initiative to change the subject: “Mmh mmh, this parrot is quite smart, it can even speak English.”

Wang Dengji: “Woof! Woof! Big dog~ Come here~ Good boy~”

Wang Panpan: “…You stupid bird!”

The big parrot: “Awoo awoo~ Little dog~ So naughty.”

Zhan Yan struggled very hard to hold back his laughter.

Wang Panpan shoved the silk banner into Zhan Yan’s hands and fled in defeat.

If he didn’t leave now, his reputation would be completely ruined.

Zhan Yan opened the silk banner and laughed: “Expert Chicken Healer, Saved My Bird’s Life.”

Seeing him laugh, Mi Man also laughed: “Go check out the office, there’s a whole wall of them there.”

Zhan Yan went to the office to hang the silk banner and also admired the wall of silk banners.

“Cow God Alive, Exceptional Midwifery,” “Meow Meow Meow Meow,” “Egg Removal Expert, Eggs Gone with a Touch”…

After hanging the banner, Mi Man finished packing up and handed over his shift to someone else.

Mi Man took Zhan Yan to his home. Zhan Yan chose a few dishes that didn’t require high heat control to teach him.

Mi Man was very grateful: “The place you guys rented can’t cook, right? Since we’re close anyway, if you want to cook for yourselves, just come to my house.”

Zhan Yan went back and discussed it with the other three, and everyone was very happy.

The reserve food his dad made wasn’t enough for four young guys to eat for three months. Except for the first meal last night where everyone indulged themselves, they had been eating sparingly afterwards. Chu Chengcheng and Cheng Yichu weren’t familiar enough with Zhan Yan yet, so they were embarrassed to eat too much.

Zhan Yan was responsible for cooking, and the other three split the food costs with Mi Man. Since Mi Man planned to learn cooking skills, he prepared the ingredients with Zhan Yan, and the dishwashing was taken over by the other three.

Two days passed like this. When Zhan Yan was having his daily goodnight call with Gu Jiancheng at night, he heard Gu Jiancheng say to him in a tone that tried very hard to appear natural but still inevitably revealed awkwardness: “Yanyan, do you watch game livestreams? I watched some, they’re quite interesting.

“You can take a look if you have time.

“There’s a game streamer called ‘Seven Big Coconuts’, do you know her?”

Zhan Yan: …

Help!

He had almost forgotten about this! Why bring it up again?!

He didn’t know what kind of mental preparation Xiao Gu had done over the past two days, his few sentences sounded like he was reading from a script: “Her streams are pretty good, quite a lot of people like them.

“I think you might want to take a look too.”

Zhan Yan: “Ah… really?”

Gu Jiancheng: “Mmh, yes. I think, um, you might, um, want to take a look.”

Zhan Yan: “…Okay, I got it.”

Gu Jiancheng: “Good… mmh mmh, right. Watch it yourself.”

Zhan Yan: “…”

“Okay, goodnight. I’m hanging up.”

Zhan Yan struggled to end this awkward conversation and buried his face in the pillow, rolling around.

Ahhh why did he have to face this kind of thing?! Couldn’t Gu Jiancheng just pretend not to know?

Thanks for his good intentions but it’s too awkward!!!

Gu Jiancheng felt his heartbeat erratically fast and slow.

He had struggled with himself for two days before making up his mind to tell Yanyan.

Although saying it out loud would be awkward, he was Yanyan’s boyfriend. If even he didn’t say it, who else would tell Yanyan?

Gu Jiancheng felt his heartbeat hadn’t calmed down for a long time, then suddenly sensed something was wrong. This wasn’t his heartbeat, it was the heartbeat transmitted from the sports bracelet. His heartbeat had synchronized with Yanyan’s.

Gu Jiancheng recalled, it seemed to have started when he mentioned the game livestream on the phone. But he was too nervous at the time and didn’t notice.

This reaction… Yanyan wouldn’t have already known when he was on the phone, right?!

…

The next day, the college students were arranged in groups of two to take turns following other veterinarians on house calls.

The first to go on house calls were Chu Chengcheng and Cheng Yichu.

After these two came back, they changed clothes, washed their hands, and went to Mi Man’s house for dinner. When they arrived, they saw only a plate of cold salad on the table besides rice. Mi Man, Zhan Yan, and Bao Qingshan were sitting around the table, their eyes red and silent.

Chu Chengcheng was startled: “What… happened?”

Cheng Yichu asked cautiously: “Are you guys okay?”

Did something happen to an animal at the veterinary station while they were out on calls?

Tears glistened in Mi Man’s eyes, his voice choked: “Don’t ask, just eat quickly.”

Chu Chengcheng and Cheng Yichu sat down to eat with anxiety and worry, feeling that today’s events might not be good.

The two each took a bite of the dish and put it in their mouths, simultaneously bursting into tears.

“Hiss ha! Help, is there water? Is there water?!”

“Help! Help! Hiss—save me!”

Bao Qingshan: “Hahahahahaha! The water is here.”

Mi Man: “Hahahahaha this dish has fulfilled its merit today.”

Zhan Yan: “Pfft. Sorry, my hand shook today and I put too much wasabi.”

Blame Gu Jiancheng. After his call last night, Zhan Yan couldn’t forget about it. While cooking, his thoughts drifted to the awkwardness, and he accidentally squeezed in nearly half a bottle of wasabi sauce.

However, the effect of the wasabi sauce was powerful. After being so spicy that his head cleared up, Zhan Yan could finally stop focusing on that matter.

If Xiao Gu knows, let him know. Could he dare to mock him?

After moving away the merit-fulfilled cold salad and finishing the meal, Zhan Yan received a reply from Nie Yu.

After discussing Infinite’s purpose with Shen Ying, he went to warn Nie Yu to be careful about the situation on the internet side, but Nie Yu was busy because of a newly emerged mysterious internet boss and didn’t reply at the time.

Administrator Lingyu: “Don’t worry, we will be careful.”

“There’s new progress now.”

“Can you help check on the Artisan?”

Check the Artisan…

The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau must have investigated the Artisan before, but they probably only had their internal information department check and didn’t seek outsiders.

They valued maintaining a relationship with the Artisan more. If they hired an outsider to investigate, the situation wouldn’t look good.

Moreover, the account ‘Approaching Science’ has always been a contact person who maintains neutrality. Now that the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau is asking him to help investigate the Artisan, while this can be said to be trust in him, it also shows that the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau’s attitude towards the Artisan has changed.

Did they discover something on the internet?

Zhan Yan opened the Gossip System.

The Artisan’s gossip feeds were still the same, nothing problematic could be seen, except that his puppet butler seemed to have problems recently. Most of the Artisan’s gossip feeds revolved around inspecting, repairing, and adjusting the puppet butler.

Seeing this gossip feed, Zhan Yan remembered again that the Artisan’s puppet butler entry had changed, adding “Xiao Ran” as a suffix, but he hadn’t found the reason for this change. Maybe this is related to the Artisan’s frequent adjustments to the puppet butler recently? Could it also be related to the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau starting to investigate the Artisan?

He hadn’t used his newly upgraded ability yet. The more Zhan Yan thought about it, the more tempted he became, and decided to sneak onto the internet to watch secretly. Just using the new ability to hide, absolutely not making a move—at worst, he’ll call for help. This should definitely be safe.

At the same time, Zhan Suiru, who had made no progress, began to ponder another idea:

The ability she was best at and most suitable for helping Yang Ran recover was her psychic ability. But she couldn’t use her psychic power in reality unless she forcibly broke through the concept replacement of this world.

But doing so would be tantamount to helping Infinite, and she wouldn’t aid the enemy.

If not in the real world, could she help Yang Ran’s consciousness recover in the online world? The puppet butler can connect to the internet now, but it’s different from the internet types entering the online world.

How to send Yang Ran’s consciousness into the online world? In this process, how to ensure his consciousness won’t be harmed? She needs to build a safe space in the online world—this she has to learn from the internet superpowered beings of this world, they are very good at utilizing data. Maybe she also needs to build a data body for Xiao Ran as protection. Hmm… like the NPCs made by Qi Ye and the others?

Zhan Suiru decided to go online first to investigate a suitable environment, and then find Qi Ye and another internet type to learn from. Judging by the game world they built, their abilities should be quite good.

Actually, the Network Ghost ability of the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau is also a suitable object to learn from, but contacting her would make it easy for the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau to notice something, which would be very troublesome.

Sigh, Qi Ye and the others also seem quite familiar with the Network Ghost, so there’s also risk in finding them. If only there was an internet type with good abilities who had no connection to the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau to teach her.

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