GRMFBS CH187

The game world’s self-defense barrier did not counterattack Zhan Suiru’s psychic power; it was as if the world fragment had become a special pass, and Zhan Suiru, who held it, was thereby granted permission.

Zhan Suiru broke into the game world quite fiercely.

And then, she was blocked by someone—to be precise, she was blocked by an NPC.

That runaway NPC secretly created by Wan Shitong using Deep Shadow as a prototype blocked Zhan Suiru’s path.

Zhan Suiru suddenly stopped.

This NPC gave her a fright.

This NPC looked way too much like Deep Shadow!

Not the appearance, but that calm yet crazy temperament.

Back when she was still the biggest BOSS in the apocalyptic instance, she had met Deep Shadow. He was the only player who survived her hands, and the only one who persuaded her.

But Zhan Suiru only paused for a moment before realizing. This wasn’t Deep Shadow, just an NPC. By the looks of it, he was that NPC Wan Shitong mentioned who reminded him to notice the virus anomalies.

For Wan Shitong to be able to make an NPC so similar to Deep Shadow proved he knew Deep Shadow.

They didn’t make this game world just for their own amusement; it would be made public sooner or later. The fact that Wan Shitong dared to make such an NPC proved his relationship with Deep Shadow was very good.

Tsk tsk, this world was truly full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers. A minor employee she casually recruited had roundabout ties with Deep Shadow.

However, an NPC was just an NPC, not the real Deep Shadow.

Zhan Suiru bypassed him, preparing to continue chasing her world fragment. A portion of her psychic power was still attached to it, so she wouldn’t lose it.

The NPC blocked her again.

Zhan Suiru narrowed her eyes dangerously.

…

Zhan Yan watched helplessly in the gossip threads as his sister started fighting with the NPC modeled after “Deep Shadow”.

Why was this happening?

The gossip threads weren’t very helpful. He only saw his sister use her Red Crystal persona to check the defensive barrier outside the game world, and then his sister’s world fragment was sucked away by the game world. Then his sister entered the game world, followed by the game world undergoing an abnormal change, and his sister fighting with the NPC.

This world is changing too fast, I can’t quite keep up.

Can you guys give me a recap of the previous events?

Where did that world fragment on his sister come from? Why would the game world suck it away? What did the game world’s abnormal change have to do with the world fragment? Why did that NPC want to block his sister?

Before the old questions were resolved, new questions arose. Zhan Yan could only keep his eyes glued to the gossip threads.

Zhan Suiru fought with extreme restraint. For a mere NPC, it would be very easy for her to dispose of him. However, when Wan Shitong created this NPC, the permissions he granted were too high; this NPC could even utilize the defensive systems within the game world!

Zhan Suiru didn’t want to break this game world to pieces over an accident. But while she knew when to hold back, this NPC absolutely refused to yield.

Zhan Suiru: Gradually becoming unable to suppress her temper!

Even the real Deep Shadow wasn’t as troublesome as this guy!

Deep Shadow knew how to communicate and could understand human speech. This NPC wouldn’t say a single word! What’s wrong with this guy?!

Unable to suppress her temper, Zhan Suiru wanted to get serious.

She tried her best not to shatter this game world too much, so Wan Shitong and Qi Ye would have an easier time repairing it.

Dark red psychic power gradually began to expand. Just a moment before Zhan Suiru was about to strike, the surrounding flames of war suddenly extinguished, and the NPC retreated behind a turret, diving into the shadows and vanishing without a trace.

Zhan Suiru: …

???

He actually slipped away?!!

No, seriously, is there something wrong with this NPC Wan Shitong set up?!

Zhan Suiru had already left a psychic brand on that NPC; she decided to go find her world fragment first, and deal with this punchable NPC later!

Just as Zhan Suiru prepared to follow the psychic power she attached to the world fragment to track it, she suddenly stiffened.

Why did she feel like the little bit of psychic power she attached had spread throughout the entire game world?!

The game world… did the game world swallow her world fragment?

Spit it back out for me!!!

Zhan Suiru found the NPC who slipped away, her murderous aura overflowing: “Speak! What is going on?!”

This NPC was deliberately delaying her!

[Zhan Suiru intimidated the NPC built using Deep Shadow as a prototype.]

[The NPC built using Deep Shadow as a prototype showed Zhan Suiru the game world after fusing with the world fragment.]

[Zhan Suiru understood the situation of the game world and gained partial control over the game world.]

[Zhan Suiru exited the game world in satisfaction.]

Zhan Yan: ???

So what exactly happened?

How can you skip the melon for me like this?!

System, wake up, System, are you broken?

Serve the melon to me!!!

The Gossip System played dead, stubbornly refusing to spill the tea for him.

Fine, he knew the system’s level wasn’t high enough. He still had to scroll through gossip threads to upgrade it.

It didn’t matter; before upgrading, he could also rely on himself to crack open a portion of the melon!

Zhan Yan opened the information drive. The game world was under the “Items” tab; because it combined the abilities of Wan Shitong and Qi Ye, it possessed energy and indeed existed.

Since it belonged to the “Items” category, he could use “Item Appraisal”!

Zhan Yan entered the network and started running towards the game world. He was going to see exactly what abnormal change had happened to this game world!

When he was about to reach the edge of the game world, Zhan Yan first found a concealable piece of information to hide in. He was afraid of being caught red-handed by his sister again.

Zhan Yan stayed hidden until he saw his sister leave, and then he stealthily approached the game world.

After getting closer, he fell into a dilemma.

The game world was now tightly surrounded by his sister’s dark red barrier. When he came last time, the item description directly described the outer barrier, completely ignoring the game world enclosed within.

How was he going to do an item description for this?

Zhan Yan began tinkering with the system—you are already a mature Gossip System! You should learn to eat melons on your own!

After tinkering for a long time, Zhan Yan managed to figure out a function to adjust focus and selection.

Very good! Now he could reposition the target he needed the item description for!

He focused his consciousness on the game world and selected it.

The small inverted triangle of the item description appeared again. Clicking open the small inverted triangle, this time the item description successfully changed from the barrier to the game world.

[This is a virtual game world that combined the abilities of Wan Shitong and “Play Games With Me” Qi Ye, and, having struck dumb luck, fused with a world fragment. It now possesses a trace of possibility to touch reality.]

Looking at the historical records of the item description again:

[This is a virtual world located within the network. Although it combined the abilities of Wan Shitong and “Play Games With Me” Qi Ye, it remains a virtual world that only exists within the network.]

So what did this mean? Was it possible for this game world to become real? Why was his sister very satisfied with this?

Also, where did that world fragment in his sister’s hands come from? He remembered…

Zhan Yan suddenly received an emergency message from Nie Yu.

After he relayed Deep Shadow’s warning last time, Nie Yu was so busy she only replied “acknowledged”, and there were no further messages.

It seemed the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau had new progress now.

Zhan Yan opened the message.

Nie Yu: “We found the source of the network anomalies.”

Zhan Yan: Let me see, let me see!

He rapidly opened the gossip threads to watch the drama unfold.

The network world is a world even vaster than the real world. Countless people over countless years have accumulated a massive amount of data for the network. Superficial, deep, logical, illogical, as well as a massive amount of redundant junk data.

These things constructed the network into a massive and complex maze.

Even the most top-tier network-type could not possibly sweep entirely through this network world that was still growing and changing.

Nie Yu could only lead the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau’s team to try their best to track the clues. This process was not only troublesome but also difficult. The most fatal part was that she and everyone else had tried their best, but they were still unable to approach that source; it felt like they had been constantly going in circles.

After going in circles a few times, Nie Yu came up with a new idea—the source of these growth-type network anomalies was not on the network.

The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau tracked down this line of thought, and as expected, found new clues.

Nie Yu: “We’ve delineated a rough area, can you help us pinpoint the specific location?”

That thing was too polluted; it was more suitable to find an information-type like Approaching Science, whose resistance was maxed out.

No problem!

After Zhan Yan received the clues Nie Yu provided, he immediately started searching.

[With the help of the Book of Secrets, the Monster Doctor split a flesh and blood server.]

…

[The Monster Doctor hid the split flesh and blood server at No. 17 Binmeng Street.]

Zhan Yan sent the message to Nie Yu. The source was in the real world, meaning it was a place he couldn’t participate in. He opened a keyword entry interface to pay attention remotely, his mind constantly spinning.

The source was the Monster Doctor, which perfectly matched the results the Book of Mysteries and the Pure White Puzzle found back then.

It was the Monster Doctor on his brother and Deep Shadow’s end, and it was also the Monster Doctor on the network anomalies’ end.

Where did the Book of Secrets go?

But it wasn’t just him; the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau, the Wan Yao Alliance, and the gossip group, no one had discovered any other movements.

The Book of Secrets wasn’t dead, so what was his purpose in hiding so deeply?

The black market.

Zhan Suiru had already exited the network world.

The accident that occurred in the game world was a good thing for her. The game world was safer than the network world, and now its nature had changed, starting to move closer to reality.

This game world and the game they asked Shoude Company to invest in were the same, just made into two versions: one for ordinary people and one for network-types. They used these two versions of the game as mutual experiments and mutual support, using the ordinary version to help the transcendent version find bugs, and also attempting some transcendent applications within the ordinary version.

This led to a connection appearing between the two games. In the past, this connection had no meaning; the difference between virtual and reality blocked everything. But after the world fragment fused into it, and the game world acquired a trace of “reality” characteristics, Zhan Suiru could attempt to let Xiao Ran enter the game world through the channel of the ordinary game.

Although the usage requirements for this channel were very high, it was more stable than directly using the world fragment to carry consciousness. And she already possessed all the requirements to use this channel—she had gained a certain degree of control over the game world, and her psychic power was strong enough.

But she wasn’t in a hurry to try it now. That game their family invested in hadn’t gone online yet. She had to wait until it went online to try it herself through this channel first. Once she tested it and confirmed she could indeed enter the game world through the ordinary game, she would then attempt to bring Xiao Ran in.

Because of this layer of anticipation, Zhan Suiru rarely cared about company affairs.

She decided to first go on the official website to understand her own company’s situation.

Opening her own company’s official website.

[Page crashing…]

Zhan Suiru: ???

Upon investigation, she found she was to blame.

She had continuously cleared messages on the network for Yan Yan for several days, resulting in both Shoude Company and Yan Yan becoming famous for a while.

Unable to find Yan Yan, they all flooded into Shoude Company’s official website. Shoude Company’s official website was just a vanity project; this thing was completely useless aside from looking nice sitting there. Therefore, after a massive influx of people, the page crashing became a very normal occurrence.

Switching to the game’s official website to search. Very good, the game’s official website hadn’t crashed.

Zhan Suiru took it seriously and learned about it. This game also had different versions. Wealthy big shots could buy the full set of physical gaming equipment, including VR, an omnidirectional treadmill, and sensor gloves, simulating a holographic experience for ordinary people as much as possible.

The ordinary version would take another week to go online.

Having to wait another week… Zhan Suiru didn’t really want to wait. She decided to ask Luo Luoluo for an internal account that could experience it in advance.

Just after obtaining the internal account, and while the game was downloading, Xiao Ran suddenly reminded her:

“You have a new emergency communication.”

“The broker again? Ignore him.”

“It’s not the broker, it’s Tequila.”

Zhan Suiru paused. Tequila, an information-type with great potential in the black market. She had given him her emergency communication when she was developing her own information channels in the past.

Tequila wasn’t someone who would disturb her casually. If he sent an emergency communication, it generally meant there was truly an urgent matter.

Zhan Suiru opened the message.

Tequila: “I am at the door of your studio.”

“Do you want to know how to bring the dead back to life?”