GRMFBS CH187

The self-protection barrier of the game world did not counterattack Zhan Suiru’s spiritual power. It was as if the World Fragment had become a special pass, and Zhan Suiru, who held it, gained permission along with it.

Zhan Suiru broke into the game world quite rapidly.

Then, she was stopped—more accurately, stopped by an NPC.

The runaway NPC secretly created by Wan Shitong, based on Deep Shadow, blocked Zhan Suiru’s path.

Zhan Suiru stopped abruptly.

She was startled by this NPC.

This NPC looked too much like Deep Shadow!

Not in appearance, but in that calm yet crazy temperament.

Back when she was the biggest BOSS in the apocalypse dungeon, 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 an instant before realizing. This wasn’t Deep Shadow, just an NPC. Judging by the looks of it, he was the NPC Wan Shitong mentioned who alerted him to the virus anomaly.

That Wan Shitong could make an NPC resemble Deep Shadow so closely meant he knew Deep Shadow.

They didn’t create this game world just for their own amusement; sooner or later, it would be made public. That Wan Shitong dared to make such an NPC meant his relationship with Deep Shadow was quite good.

Tsk tsk, this world really has hidden dragons and crouching tigers. A casually recruited small employee has a connection with Deep Shadow.

But an NPC is just an NPC, not the real Deep Shadow.

Zhan Suiru bypassed him, preparing to continue chasing the World Fragment. Part of her spiritual 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 as his sister fought with the NPC based on “Deep Shadow” in the gossip feed.

Why is this happening?

The gossip feed wasn’t detailed enough. He just saw his sister use the identity of Hong Jing to check the protective barrier outside the game world, then his sister’s World Fragment was sucked away by the game world, then his sister entered the game world, then the game world started to mutate, and his sister started fighting with the NPC.

The world changes too fast, I can’t keep up.

Can you guys give me a recap?

Where did that World Fragment on his sister come from? Why did the game world suck it away? What does the game world’s mutation have to do with the World Fragment? Why did that NPC stop his sister?

Old questions hadn’t been resolved, and new questions were born. Zhan Yan could only stare closely at the gossip feed.

Zhan Suiru fought very restrainedly. It would be easy for her to deal with a mere NPC. But when Wan Shitong created this NPC, he gave it too high permissions. This NPC could even utilize the defense system inside the game world!

Zhan Suiru didn’t want to destroy this game world over an accident. But while she knew when to hold back, this NPC refused to yield no matter what.

Zhan Suiru: Temper is getting harder to suppress!

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

Deep Shadow knows how to communicate and understands human language. This NPC doesn’t say a word! What kind of problem is this?!

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

She tried her best not to destroy this game world too thoroughly, making it easier for Wan Shitong and Qi Ye to repair.

Dark red spiritual power gradually began to expand. Just the 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 disappearing.

Zhan Suiru: …

???

He actually slipped away?!!

Seriously, is there something wrong with this NPC set up by Wan Shitong?!

Zhan Suiru had already left a spiritual imprint on that NPC. She decided to find her World Fragment first and deal with this punch-worthy NPC later!

Zhan Suiru was just about to follow her spiritual power attached to the World Fragment to track it down when she suddenly froze.

Why does she feel that the bit of spiritual power she attached has spread to the entire game world?!

The game world… the game world swallowed her World Fragment?

Spit it out for me!!!

Zhan Suiru found the NPC who slipped away, her aura full of murderous intent: “Speak! What happened?!”

This NPC was intentionally stalling her!

[Zhan Suiru threatened the NPC built based on Deep Shadow.]

[The NPC built based on Deep Shadow showed Zhan Suiru the game world after merging with the World Fragment.]

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

[Zhan Suiru exited the game world with satisfaction.]

Zhan Yan: ???

So what exactly happened?

How can you skip gossips like this?!

System, wake up! System, are you broken?

Serve me the gossip!!!

The gossip system played dead and refused to open the gossip for him.

Fine, I know the system level isn’t high enough. Still need to scroll through gossip feeds to level up.

It doesn’t matter. Before leveling up, he can uncover part of the gossip by himself!

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

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

Zhan Yan entered the network and started running towards the game world. He wanted to see what mutation happened to this game world!

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

Zhan Yan hid until he saw his sister leave, then crept towards the game world sneakily.

After getting close, he was in a dilemma.

The game world was now tightly surrounded by his sister’s dark red barrier. When he came last time, the item introduction directly introduced the outer barrier and completely ignored the game world enclosed inside.

How to do the item introduction now?

Zhan Yan started tinkering with the system—You are already a mature gossip system! You should learn to eat gossips by yourself!

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

Very good! Now he can redefine the target for item introduction!

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

The small inverted triangle for item introduction appeared again. Clicking on the small inverted triangle, the item introduction successfully changed from the barrier to the game world.

[This is a virtual game world that integrates the abilities of Wan Shitong and “Play Games With Me” Qi Ye, and by a stroke of luck, merged with a World Fragment. Now it possesses a sliver of possibility to contact reality.]

Looking at the history record of the item introduction:

[This is a virtual world located in the network. Although it integrates the abilities of Wan Shitong and “Play Games With Me” Qi Ye, it is still a virtual world existing only in the network.]

So what does this mean? Could this game world become real? Why is Sister satisfied with this?

Also, where did that World Fragment in Sister’s hand come from? He remembers…

Zhan Yan suddenly received an urgent message from Nie Yu.

Last time he forwarded Deep Shadow’s reminder, Nie Yu was so busy she only replied “Roger” and sent no other messages.

Now it seemed the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau had new progress.

Zhan Yan opened the message.

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

Zhan Yan: Let me see, let me see!

He quickly opened the gossip feed and started watching.

The network world is a world vaster than reality. Countless people over countless years have accumulated a massive amount of data for the network. Surface level, deep level, logical, illogical, and a large amount of redundant junk data.

These things built the network into a huge and complex maze.

Even the top network types couldn’t completely clean up this growing and changing network world.

Nie Yu could only lead the team of the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau to try their best to trace clues. This process was not only troublesome but also difficult. The most fatal thing was that she and everyone tried their best, but they could never get close to the source, as if they were always circling in place.

After circling a few times, Nie Yu came up with a new idea—the source of these growing network anomalies was not on the net.

The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau traced according to this line of thought and indeed found new clues.

Nie Yu: “We have delimited a rough range. Can you help us determine the specific location?”

That thing has too much pollution. It’s more appropriate to find Approaching Science, an information type with maxed out resistance.

No problem!

After receiving the clues given by Nie Yu, Zhan Yan immediately started searching.

[With the help of the Chronicle of the World, the Monster Doctor split off a flesh and blood server.]

…

[The Monster Doctor hid the split-off flesh and blood server at 17 Binmeng Street.]

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

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

On his brother and Deep Shadow’s side, it was the Monster Doctor. On the network anomaly side, it was also the Monster Doctor.

Where did the Chronicle of the World go?

But it wasn’t just him. The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau, the Wan Yao Alliance, and the gossip group hadn’t found any other movements either.

The Chronicle of the World isn’t dead. Why is he hiding so deep?

Black Market.

Zhan Suiru had already exited the network world.

The accident that happened in the game world was a good thing for her. The game world was safer than the network world. Now its nature had changed and started to align with reality.

This game world was the same game they sought investment from Shoude Company for, but they made two versions: one for ordinary people and one for network types. They used these two versions of the game to experiment and support each other, using the ordinary version to help find bugs in the supernatural version, and also trying some supernatural applications in the ordinary version.

This led to a connection between the two games. In the past, this connection didn’t mean anything; the difference between virtual and reality blocked everything. But after the World Fragment merged in, and the game world possessed a trace of “reality” characteristics, Zhan Suiru could try to let Xiao Ran enter the game world through the channel of the ordinary game.

Although the requirements for using this channel were high, it was more stable than directly using the World Fragment to carry consciousness. And she already met all the requirements to use this channel—she had certain control over the game world, and her spiritual power was strong enough.

But there was no rush to try now. The game their family invested in hadn’t gone online yet. She had to wait for it to go online and try using this channel herself first. After she tested and confirmed that one could indeed enter the game world through the ordinary game, she would then try to bring Xiao Ran in.

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

She decided to go to the official website first to understand the situation of her own company.

Opened her own company’s official website.

[Page crashing…]

Zhan Suiru: ???

Checked it out, the blame was on her.

She had been clearing messages about Yan Yan on the net for several days continuously, resulting in both Shoude Company and Yan Yan becoming famous once.

Unable to find Yan Yan, they all poured into Shoude Company’s official website. Shoude Company’s official website was just a vanity project; apart from looking good, it was completely useless. So after a large number of people poured in, the page crash became a very normal thing.

Switched to search the game’s official website. Very good, the game’s official website didn’t crash.

Zhan Suiru seriously understood it. This game also had different versions. Tycoon bosses could buy a full set of physical game equipment, including VR, omnidirectional treadmills, and glove sensors, simulating a holographic experience for ordinary people as much as possible.

The ordinary version would go online in a week.

Still have to wait another week… Zhan Suiru didn’t really want to wait. She decided to ask Luo Luoluo for an internal account for early experience.

Just got the internal account, game downloading, Xiao Ran suddenly reminded her:

“You have a new emergency communication.”

“Is it the Broker again? Ignore him.”

“Not the Broker, it’s Tequila.”

Zhan Suiru paused. Tequila, a very promising information type in the Black Market. She had given him her emergency contact when developing her own information channels.

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

Zhan Suiru opened the message.

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

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