GRMFBS CH157

Wan Yan finally managed to extricate himself from the “Lin Yuan” puppet’s demonic clutches, completely exhausted of any energy to covet the Wenyu Tree’s leaves. He found a stone of roughly the same size and pressed a cat paw print onto it.

Done!

Now to ship it out. Once Approaching Science received it, he would go find Approaching Science for more clues!

However, since he had already remembered so much now, Lin Yuan shouldn’t be angry anymore, right? He wanted to go out and find Lin Yuan!

Ah, and also, he remembered Bai Ze this time! They really were friends!

But Chongming said Bai Ze was already dead. Chongming brought him back to Mount Chaofu specifically to search for traces of Bai Ze’s reincarnation in the Ming He River.

He had already searched the Ming He River for a long time previously without finding anything. If he continued searching for Bai Ze in the Ming He River, he wouldn’t be able to leave Mount Chaofu to find Lin Yuan. He could also wait until he found traces of Bai Ze first before looking for Lin Yuan, but if he stayed, how long would it take to find traces of Bai Ze?

The Ming He River was so vast, and there were so many reincarnating souls, especially during that particular period.

Wan Yan flicked his tail in distress. Beside him, the “Lin Yuan” puppet, which had switched modes, looked down from a high vantage point: “Hmph, foolish little kitty, you are nothing but…”

Wan Yan abruptly raised his head, his eyes shining brightly.

The “Lin Yuan” puppet immediately shut its mouth, a wary expression on its face: “What do you want to do?”

“You go find Bai Ze!”

“Find who?”

“Go to the Ming He River to find Bai Ze.”

Wan Yan grew impatient. He suddenly leaped up and pounced the unresponsive “Lin Yuan” puppet into the Ming He River.

The “Lin Yuan” puppet: …

“You! Gurgle… You… gurgle… stupid cat! Dumb… glub, dumb cat!”

Ghost King Minghe flicked his sleeve and fished the “Lin Yuan” puppet and Wan Yan the cat out of the Ming He River together.

“He’s just a puppet, he doesn’t have the ability to work in the Ming He River.”

Wan Yan was very disappointed. But this gave him a new idea; he could go out and find Lin Yuan first, then come back with Lin Yuan to search for traces of Bai Ze in the Ming He River together.

But right now he was trapped in Mount Chaofu, unable to leave at all. Damn it!

Wan Yan shook his fur unhappily. Just how could he get out to find Lin Yuan?

Ghost King Tie Lao also missed Ghost King Lin Yuan.

A while ago, Ghost King Lin Yuan was originally able to stay for two consecutive days to work. But for some unknown reason these past two days, he went back to leaving every day. After returning a few times, he came back and said he had new matters to attend to and couldn’t come for the time being.

After experiencing a period of having a reliable senior greatly reduce the workload, returning to the days of working alone as a ghost was truly agonizing. Although it was a 007 schedule either way, the quality and efficiency of the work were completely different!

Hopefully, Senior Lin Yuan’s matters would go smoothly, so he could finish his business early and return to help out soon!

Zhan Jinli was investigating along the clues of the fish bait. He directly sought out the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau to ask about the situation and learned from them the source of all the materials Yu Luo used to make the fish bait.

Zhan Jinli investigated all of them one by one and confirmed that the problem lay with the butterfly bush used to make the distiller’s yeast.

He found that particular butterfly bush.

The butterfly bush grew near the water. It was currently in its blooming season, and strings of small pink flowers swayed in the wind, emitting a faint fragrance.

A large fish in the water leaped up vigorously, opened its mouth to bite off a string of butterfly bush flowers, and fell back into the water. After a short while, it floated sideways on the water’s surface, dead drunk. The remaining small fish and shrimp that couldn’t jump up pecked at the scattered petals floating down, one by one losing consciousness as well.

The water’s surface around this butterfly bush was covered in floating fish and shrimp.

Zhan Jinli snapped off a flower, brought it close to sniff, and frowned.

To other living creatures, this fragrance was just an ordinary plant scent, but to aquatic creatures, it possessed an irresistible allure. This allure had an anomalous trait, but Zhan Jinli hadn’t been able to perceive it in the fish bait previously. Through the process of making distiller’s yeast, brewing wine, and then taking the wine dregs to make fish bait, the anomalous trait had been worn down to an extremely weak level, but its allure to aquatic creatures had been preserved.

Zhan Jinli informed the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau about this discovery.

Twenty-six years had passed; they were clearing out anomalies, and the anomalies were also using various methods to hide their existence.

In addition to this, Zhan Jinli also smelled a trace of a familiar blood scent in the floral fragrance—the scent of his ghost blood from before his reincarnation.

Although his fish demon body was dead, his demon core had remained in his ghost body. Therefore, his Ghost King physique also carried somewhat the characteristics of his demon body.

As a great aquatic demon following the Divine Path, after his flesh and blood were targeted and transformed, it inevitably produced an attraction to the aquatic tribes.

No wonder the Luoyu was lured into taking the bait.

Zhan Jinli recalled the cursed scales he had been tracking previously.

Was Infinite collecting information on the combat power of everyone in this world to study these messy anomalies, or was it only targeting him? Did he have some special significance to Infinite?

Zhan Jinli stretched out his hand, his five fingers curling slightly. The entire butterfly bush was instantly enveloped in Yin energy and disappeared from its spot.

…

Zhan Suiru brought the fish bait back to her studio and used instruments to analyze its composition. Earthworms, wine dregs, corn, sesame oil… and vitamin B.

Besides that, there was nothing special. The rest were just common ingredients for fish bait. Could it be that the vitamin B lured the Luoyu? Was this Luoyu deficient in vitamins?

She couldn’t figure it out.

Zhan Suiru froze the fish bait as a backup. Since she hadn’t found any problems anyway, and her younger brother had returned to school and wouldn’t have any further contact with this thing, she would just leave it for now. Hmm… her older brother also had a portion; she had to find a way to get it, she couldn’t let a suspicious item remain in his hands.

She hadn’t seen her older brother enjoying fishing in the past, could it be a recently developed hobby? Had he finished all those orders at his bakery?

Zhan Suiru suddenly thought of Zhan Jinli complaining to their parents and making her go home to feed Xingxing. Could his own reason for going out at night and not coming home be to night fish?

Wasn’t it just a new hobby? What was there that he couldn’t say?

Thinking about it more, she hadn’t seen Zhan Jinli bringing any fish home recently either. Could it be because he hadn’t caught a single one, so he was too embarrassed to mention it?

Zhan Suiru felt this was highly likely.

Hmm… She’d find time to make a fishing rod; that would take care of his birthday present this year. Today, she would first mix up a batch of fish bait and swap it out for the suspicious bait her older brother had.

Zhan Suiru checked her watch. Yan Yan should be arriving at the station soon. And it wouldn’t be long before Yan Yan’s birthday arrived. The birthdays for the three of them were all set based on the day they were adopted. Yan Yan’s was in the spring, earlier than both of theirs. What should she give Yan Yan this year…

Zhan Yan was doing tasks on the high-speed rail.

Why else would they say the big shot Deep Shadow was a ruthless character? He hadn’t stopped grinding anomalies for the past few days. While Zhan Yan was receiving a message from Fang Pai, Deep Shadow caught him online and sent him an anomaly address to investigate.

It was a waste not to earn the points.

After completing two tasks, Deep Shadow sent a message.

I Just Saved the World!: “This is enough for now.”

Approaching Science: “Are you not doing tasks for now?”

I Just Saved the World!: “En.”

I Just Saved the World!: “Not doing anymore today.”

It just so happened that Zhan Yan wasn’t planning on doing anymore either. His train would arrive at the station in half an hour, and he would be busy heading back to school to unpack, so he wouldn’t have free time for a while anyway.

Zhan Yan exited the chaofan forum and used the Gossip System during the remaining half hour to search up Wan Yan Ghost King and Ghost King Lin Yuan’s past. Once he received Wan Yan Ghost King’s Ghost King’s Mark, he could directly compile these clues and send them to him.

He didn’t know if Wan Yan Ghost King would return to normal after recovering his memories, but even if he didn’t, he would definitely go look for Ghost King Lin Yuan. But it didn’t matter, it wasn’t his business anyway, let Ghost King Lin Yuan have a headache over it.

Zhan Yan carried his suitcase out of the station.

When he went home, he carried a small bag; when he returned to school, it became a large suitcase. Without a doubt, it was full of delicious food.

During the two days he was home, his dad cooked a ton of delicious food.

Fearing he would be busy soon and leave the picky eaters at home hungry, his dad first made a large batch that stuffed the fridge at his mom’s company full, then stuffed the large fridge and freezer at home full as well.

Since his brother and sister couldn’t consume that much, they stuffed a whole lot into Zhan Yan’s suitcase.

Just out of the station, Zhan Yan spotted Gu Jiancheng.

He stood in the crowd, straight as a tree, his slender neck half-lowered, not looking at anyone, yet the people around him involuntarily left a small empty space around him.

Zhan Yan’s heart skipped a beat in disappointment of himself, and a smile involuntarily appeared on his face.

It had to be said, Gu Jiancheng’s tall stature and that aura of chuunibyou were so unique in a sea of people that one could find him at a glance.

Ah, he really was handsome!

Zhan Yan waved as he walked over. He didn’t expect Gu Jiancheng to spot him immediately. A lot of people were pouring out of the station all at once, and everyone was in motion. His height wasn’t at the level of standing out from the crowd either.

But just as he raised his hand, Gu Jiancheng lifted his head, looking perfectly in his direction. The moment their eyes met, a gentle smile instantly bloomed on the previously expressionless face, his eyes shining brightly like stars.

Zhan Yan couldn’t help but walk toward him quickly. Once out of the railing, they hugged each other.

Zhan Yan smelled the clean soap scent on him and couldn’t help taking a deep breath.

It turned out that even if they called every day and immediately shared interesting things when they encountered them, he still missed him very, very much.

He couldn’t help but start thinking about the holidays a few months away, thinking about having to separate again then, and the longing that would begin at that time.

But his parents’ alias matter still hadn’t been resolved; this truly wasn’t a good time to meet the parents. What should he do? He still had to work hard and quickly resolve the issue of his parents dating while in disguise.

Returning to school, Zhan Yan sent a message in the family group chat to report he had arrived safely.

His sister and his brother were fighting in the group chat again.

The cause was that Zhan Suiru had mixed a batch of fish bait and wanted to trade it with Zhan Jinli. Zhan Jinli refused to trade; he even wanted to take back the half block of fish bait Zhan Suiru had. If he had known this thing was related to anomalies, he never would have shared half of it with his sister in the first place.

After her attempts at coercion and bribery failed, Zhan Suiru started snitching to their parents, saying her brother went out night fishing and didn’t come home late at night. Night fishing out in the wilderness late at night was truly too dangerous; as his younger sister, she was very worried!

Zhan Jinli: “?”

“What night fishing?”

Zhan Suiru: “If you weren’t night fishing, why did you want the fish bait?”

“If you weren’t night fishing, why didn’t you come home at night?”

Zhan Jinli: “Didn’t you also not come home at night?”

“Didn’t you also take the fish bait?”

“Were you night fishing too?”

Zhan Suiru: “I was sleeping at the studio.”

“Where were you sleeping?”

“Can that small bakery of yours house a person?”

“I gave the fish bait to a client of mine who likes to fish.”

“Who can you give it to?”

Zhan Suiru wove her lie with complete confidence. Everyone in the family knew she had a vast network, but what about her brother? With his silent, socially anxious personality, who could he possibly know?

Zhan Yan suddenly remembered another hobby of his brother’s… His brother liked to secretly stay alone in love hotels!