GRMFBS CH177

Perhaps because of the upgraded new function, Zhan Yan’s experience of entering the internet this time was different from before.

He felt a huge neural network emerge in his consciousness. Against a deep blue background, azure fluorescence formed a dot matrix, with white glowing nodes and lines interconnecting within the matrix, resembling the neural network in the human brain.

Many meteor-like glimmers hung in the neural network, and many of them made him feel a sense of compatibility—this was the information related to him on the internet.

Zhan Yan first tried the feeling of hiding under information. He felt like a tiny electron, sliding quickly along the neural network, and under the guidance of his consciousness, he entered a meteor that was compatible with him.

[Hahahaha, when will Brother Cha Wang realize that Da Chui Ba Shi is his sister? Looking forward to it.]

Zhan Yan: …

Fine, isn’t it just being forced to face his own gossip feeds? Nothing to be ashamed of.

Thanks to the old iron (buddy) for providing the information hiding spot!

Zhan Yan began to try shuttling between various hiding spots, sliding along the electronic neural network.

Sliding back and forth~ Sliding back and forth~

Hehe, it’s actually quite exhilarating.

[Who is this curly-haired brother showing only his profile to Zhan Yunkai?]

[Photo from Old Man Luan’s birthday banquet—Zhan Yan’s top of the head in the crowd.]

[There’s a junior in our school who has this animal-attracting constitution. Just standing there, small animals will come to bump into him. We often use him to find escaped experimental animals.]

[An award-winning photograph—Zhan Yan standing side by side with Gu Jiancheng on a field ridge.]

[His Majesty Chongming’s cub is so cute.]

[Approaching Science is too hard to tease.]

[Went to the venue today and met my high school classmate and his boyfriend. They look so compatible.]

[Me encontré con un nuevo amigo.] (I met a new friend.)

…

Zhan Yan originally thought he didn’t have many gossip feeds on the internet that could be used for hiding, just a bit of popularity brought by Qi Ye as Cai Cai’s “Cha Wang” brother. He didn’t expect there to be quite a lot. Apart from the popularity brought by Qi Ye, the most attention came from his dad’s identity as an actor. After his dad’s two sudden bursts of popularity, the video of him helping his dad get rid of the stalking manager was dug up and speculated upon. However, because he was protected by Little Star’s information confidentiality, his identity was never dug up each time.

Him attending the birthday banquet, photos taken inadvertently, mentions of him by people he knew… these scattered pieces of information had now become his sanctuary. They knew him, thought of him, he left an impression in their hearts, mostly good, many, many friendly ones…

Zhan Yan felt like he had been impacted.

He suddenly remembered his childhood.

He hadn’t thought about his childhood for a long time.

From the time he had memories, he appeared in front of the orphanage. He didn’t remember why he was there.

He wasn’t as talkative as he is now since childhood. He was always silent when he was little, not much better than his brother. He heard someone call him “little mute” behind his back, and later some called him that to his face.

Silent children were considered well-behaved, but also easily ignored. He knew very well why, but he remained silent, like a habit that was hard to break.

Later, he entered this new home, and without him noticing, he became what he is now.

He exists here, as one of the sentient beings, and is also known by the sentient beings.

[Voice: The ripening of a grape is the death of the grape, but dead grapes can turn into wine. Nothing is fixed.]

This was one of the game lines recorded by Zhan Yan when shooting a promotional advertisement for Shoude Company.

Zhan Yan wanted to go near the game world in the network. This piece of information was closest to there. Although he didn’t know why, he just went.

He rode this piece of information to the place closest to the game world it could reach.

Zhan Yan saw a very spectacular world.

It was so big.

Even in the vast online world, its volume was awe-inspiring. The operation of the surface data was regular and beautiful, rigorous, meticulous, and full of creativity, constituting a beauty unique to it.

And the unseen interior of the game world became exceptionally attractive because of this—its exterior was already so beautiful, what kind of magnificent world would the inside reveal?

However, this world was not open now, and it was firmly sealed.

A layer of semi-transparent dark red light adhered to the outside of the world, shining with fine golden flowing light.

It was undoubtedly beautiful, but that dark red hue reminded Zhan Yan of blood. Not the kind in horror movies, but it did possess some indescribable deterrent power, heavy and majestic.

This must be the protection set up by that mysterious internet boss, right?

Zhan Yan couldn’t help but be attracted. He couldn’t say why, but he was particularly curious about this layer of protection. It seemed that to him, it wasn’t just rare, but also had a subtle intimacy.

He decided to get closer to it.

This layer of dark red light aroused many associations in his heart. Many familiar and unfamiliar images flashed through his mind, disappearing before he could capture them.

He wanted to catch those images and thoughts that flashed by like meteors. Maybe he needed to get a little closer, a little closer, and the things he thought of could become clearer.

…He thought of a dream. Last time he dreamed of that perspective where he could see the Candle Dragon, the world was like a black crystal with countless stars suspended in it. His perspective moved away from the Candle Dragon and the world, and then he saw another world. That world tightly wrapped in rust and stains.

He felt regret in the dream, and then he saw countless lights erupting from inside that world… Why would he associate it with this?

Without Zhan Yan noticing, he had already gotten too close, so close that he began to break away from the limit of that piece of information.

After Zhan Suiru entered the net, she went straight to the game world. She decided to start her research from this big guy.

This time she restrained her psychic power as much as possible. She didn’t want to attract others’ attention, and crushed all the network anomalies she found along the way.

Although she had restrained her psychic power to the extreme, she still felt unparalleled freedom. She had been separated from her psychic power for too long, a full twenty-six… soon to be twenty-seven years.

The return of familiar power made her feel at ease and cheerful. If she were here, she should have more ways to improve Xiao Ran’s situation.

But she needed to familiarize herself with the interaction between data and psychic power first.

Arriving outside the game world, Zhan Suiru first checked her psychic barrier. Very good, no problems at all.

The psychic barrier also had a recording function. She checked it and found that Qi Ye, the internet type who built the game world with her, the Network Ghost of the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau, and some other internet superpowered beings had come over quite often during this time. They were all studying her psychic barrier.

Because the game world was too vast, they busied themselves cautiously like diligent little ants.

She also recorded some fragmented data from them:

[Where did this mysterious boss come from, this is too awesome!]

[Never seen this method before.]

[You’re here too? I think almost all internet types have come to visit these few days, right?]

[Isn’t that right, this is such a rare event…]

…

Most of them didn’t dare to touch her psychic barrier directly, even tentative research was cautious. Only the people from the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau used a strange item of unknown origin to test her psychic barrier—are there items in the online world too? Or is this item also composed of data, just like this game world built jointly by data and psychic power?

Probably because they hadn’t figured anything out for many days, fewer and fewer people came. Except for a few internet types arranged by the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau on rotation nearby, there was no one else now.

These internet types completely failed to notice that Zhan Suiru was already close to the game world. She hid her psychic power into the barrier and began to study what the data flowing on the surface of the game world was all about.

Halfway through the research, Zhan Suiru vaguely felt something approaching. She scanned sensitively but found nothing.

After a while, this feeling became stronger, accompanied by a strange intuition—she felt like a pine tree targeted by a squirrel. The squirrel targeting her was sneaking closer, wanting to break a pine cone off her.

Zhan Suiru stopped researching and began to wait intently.

After waiting for a while, she finally found a clue. There was a group of data with abnormal flow approaching the game world.

That group of data stopped at a distance from the game world.

Zhan Suiru became alert.

What is this? Is it a new trick by Infinite?

Before Zhan Suiru decided to strike first, she saw an internet type gradually detach from that group of data and quietly approach the game world.

Oh, this is the “squirrel”.

Those few rotating internet types discovered nothing and were still constantly producing junk data such as “I want to get off work.” “Let’s eat mountain delicacy noodles for the next meal.”

The “squirrel” quietly approached her psychic barrier without anyone else noticing.

Then, reached out and touched it.

Zhan Suiru: …So bold.

The “squirrel” was the first person to touch the barrier directly.

Although her psychic barrier indeed wouldn’t launch an attack just because of contact, others didn’t know that.

She stared at this bold internet type for a while.

This guy’s ability looks good. Judging by his sneaky, cat-like appearance, he shouldn’t be very familiar with the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau. Zhan Suiru intuitively felt this person was not bad either.

It’s him! She’ll ask him for teaching later!

Zhan Yan wasn’t actually that reckless. He had used Item Appraisal to check. Although Item Appraisal couldn’t identify much about this layer of dark red barrier, it could confirm that this thing was very stable and wouldn’t be triggered casually. Just touching it wouldn’t cause trouble.

He fell into a strange intuition that this dark red barrier was very important to him. Not the kind of important where he must obtain it, but it was connected to some things that were very important to Zhan Yan.

He wanted to understand it. Maybe he would have another important dream because of it and get some information from it.

Zhan Yan tried touching this layer of dark red light.

It was indeed very stable and had no reaction to Zhan Yan’s touch.

So Zhan Yan tried poking it again. He could poke it, but the deeper he went, the greater the rebounding force. He could only poke in a fingertip at most.

Zhan Yan was a little disappointed. He had touched it, but those things that flashed through his mind before didn’t become clearer, and now there were no new inspirations born.

Maybe he needs a deeper understanding of this layer of psychic barrier?

Not sure, touch it again and see.

He fiddled here for a long time, and the people on rotation sent by the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau finally discovered him.

“Hey, what are you doing?”

Zhan Yan subconsciously wanted to hide, only to remember that he had already broken away from stealth.

“I came to research this,” Zhan Yan said.

Ning Xi and Nie Yu both kept Approaching Science’s internet ability confidential. Others didn’t know he was Approaching Science; these two just thought he was an ordinary internet type.

“Why did you touch it directly?” They said, “What if there’s danger?”

As long as one is an internet type, they can perceive the terrifyingly powerful force within when approaching this barrier, and deeply feel the huge gap between themselves and the boss who set up this barrier.

So many internet types came and went here to investigate, and none dared to touch it directly. Not because there are no fools among internet types, but because of the terrible deterrence coming from the barrier.

Zhan Yan still had one hand resting on the psychic barrier, and he scratched it twice more.

“Oh oh, it’s fine, look, I…”

Zhan Suiru’s mischievous side kicked in, and she slowly emerged from the psychic barrier: “You what?”

Zhan Yan suddenly froze.

Ahhh how come he got caught so coincidentally?!

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