GRMFBS CH267

The starry sky rotated, the stars operating on magnificent and mysterious star trails.

Gu Jiancheng felt a trace of familiarity, but before he had time to ponder the source of this familiarity, the starry sky began to fade, and another world emerged before him.

A Candle Dragon remnant. Gu Jiancheng immediately recognized where he had entered.

Did Approaching Science fall into this Candle Dragon remnant, which was why he couldn’t be contacted?

Gu Jiancheng surveyed his surroundings while thinking. He looked up and saw the coiled Candle Dragon in the sky. This was the scene from twenty-seven years ago when this world was invaded by Infinite.

So far, there was nothing special. Most Candle Dragon remnants were like this, recording chaotic fragments of time from the Candle Dragon loop twenty-seven years ago.

But this Candle Dragon fragment definitely wasn’t ordinary; otherwise, Approaching Science wouldn’t have created such a… tracing key.

Gu Jiancheng observed his surroundings but couldn’t find a breakthrough.

It didn’t matter; if there was no breakthrough, he would just do as usual—fiercely beat up anomalies!

Shadows spread out from beneath Gu Jiancheng’s feet, searching for the auras of anomalies.

The big boss Deep Shadow was addicted to clearing anomalies; he casually picked a direction and cleared a path forward.

Halfway through, Gu Jiancheng suddenly looked up at the valley in the distance and frowned.

He felt many anomalies gathered there, along with Harvester players.

This quantity was unusually large; it would be considered a major operation even during Infinite’s attack on this world.

Gu Jiancheng began to recall what he had seen on the Supreme Balance. Which battle caused such a huge commotion?

Before he could remember, he arrived.

A group of anomalies and Harvesters were coordinating a siege. He couldn’t temporarily see who the target of the siege was because the other party had already been sealed inside by various skills.

He didn’t care who was being besieged; killing anomalies was the right thing to do anyway.

The big boss Deep Shadow charged up and started fighting, viciously hammering the anomalies and Harvesters.

The sealing skills were swallowed by the shadows, revealing the target of the siege.

Gu Jiancheng glanced at him.

…Di Ting?

Zhan Yan let out a long sigh of relief, thanking the heavens.

He had tried various methods but couldn’t control the situation; he could only follow Di Ting’s perspective and watch him slowly head towards a dead end.

The desolate past events made him feel as uncomfortable as a shriveled, crumpled orange, but what was even more tragic was that these past events were already over, yet he now very likely had to die along with this piece of the past… Was his golden finger really this unreliable?!

Di Ting fled once, and the big boss Deep Shadow didn’t appear; Di Ting fled three times, and the big boss Deep Shadow still didn’t appear; Di Ting fled ten times, and Zhan Yan was anxiously awaiting the big boss Deep Shadow’s arrival.

Di Ting fled forty-eight times, and Zhan Yan started cheering Di Ting on.

He couldn’t count on Xiao Gu anymore; he’d better continue figuring out a way to switch perspectives.

However, on the forty-ninth time, Di Ting was cornered.

All things were still urgently whispering.

“…There is something here…”

“…There is something here…”

…

From all directions, the same worried voice; the voice saying “there is nothing here” never appeared.

He was surrounded.

Di Ting stopped, turned to look around, and then looked up at the sky.

The Candle Dragon’s body was hidden in the red or black clouds; she seemed to lack even the energy to mutter incessantly, and only a vague sense of endurance and persistence remained in her heart’s voice.

Zhan Yan, attached to Di Ting’s vision, could hear the sounds Di Ting heard but couldn’t hear Di Ting’s own thoughts.

Why would he willingly walk to this point? Zhan Yan felt a wave of sorrow in his heart.

The anomalies and Harvesters closed in; Di Ting no longer ran and began to fight.

But how long could Di Ting, who couldn’t even be considered a support type, hold out?

A mournful wail of snapping came from his single horn.

This was probably the time Di Ting became a Ghost King, right?

Zhan Yan suddenly felt he could control this body.

…What use is it letting me control it now?! His fighting skills on four legs were even worse than Di Ting’s, okay?!

Just as he felt despair, shadows like a tidal wave smashed all the skills besieging him.

Zhan Yan’s eyes immediately lit up.

Xiao Gu! Never late at the crucial moment, simply a hero arriving on seven-colored auspicious clouds!

Zhan Yan controlled the four legs to stand firm—he didn’t dare to walk now, afraid of accidentally tripping on flat ground.

The big boss Deep Shadow lived up to his Top 1 status; he easily dealt with all the anomalies and Harvesters besieging Di Ting.

Zhan Yan looked at Gu Jiancheng with sparkling eyes.

The big boss Deep Shadow finished clearing the battlefield and looked at Di Ting.

“Heh!”

Zhan Yan: ???

Gu Jiancheng looked down at Di Ting.

So this is the image left behind in the past by that psycho cat Wan Yan?

So weak. And he dared to compete for Yan Yan’s attention.

Zhan Yan thought for a moment and roughly guessed what was going on with Gu Jiancheng.

Oh my, Xiao Gu is still holding a grudge.

There was nothing he could do; who told him to be attached to Wan Yan’s perspective now.

The crisis was resolved, and he could now move as well. Next, he should find Wan Yan’s horn. Wan Yan’s horn… was still sitting nicely on his head. It had almost snapped just now, but Xiao Gu descended from the heavens like a divine soldier and saved it.

But the horn on his head definitely wasn’t the one they were looking for.

He didn’t know where to find clues yet, but there were still anomalies and Harvesters in this Candle Dragon fragment, and he was just a little weakling who had never fought head-on and had just switched to a four-legged body.

So, he needed to cling to a strong thigh!

Zhan Yan tentatively lifted a front paw and took a step forward: “Thank you.”

Gu Jiancheng snorted: “So weak.”

Zhan Yan: …

The big boss Deep Shadow turned and walked away, preparing to continue clearing anomalies.

Zhan Yan: “Wait, wait, wait! Where are you going? Take me with you.”

He ran forward anxiously, and unsurprisingly… having just started using four legs to walk, he tripped and fell immediately.

Crawling on the ground with four legs was quite different from crawling as a human; the joints of four legs and the joints of a person lying prone were different!

Gu Jiancheng stopped and turned to look at him: “Are you just beginning to tame your limbs?”

Zhan Yan: …

Yes!

If you’re so capable, why don’t you come in and try?

He mumbled, got up, and tried walking again. Stumbling and swaying, it took him almost a minute to cover a distance of ten meters.

Looking at Di Ting’s condition, Gu Jiancheng figured he was probably badly injured. But he didn’t have healing abilities either, and this was just a past image. He would let him endure it himself.

He muttered a whole string of words in his heart, but his feet didn’t move; he stood there waiting for Di Ting to come over.

The valley was quite large; Gu Jiancheng stood at the edge, and Di Ting stood in the center.

When Zhan Yan first started walking, it was incredibly awkward and crooked, but after walking a distance, he adapted to the feeling of moving on four legs. He could even run now.

Hey! My adaptability is super strong!

He controlled Di Ting’s body to start running, and soon he could bounce lightly. To be honest, this felt much happier than using a human body; when he used his own body, he couldn’t jump ten meters away.

Zhan Yan quickly ran to Gu Jiancheng’s side, lowered his head, and looked down at him.

The strange beast’s body was truly huge; Xiao Gu, using an ordinary human body close to 1.9 meters tall, could only reach his legs now.

Gu Jiancheng took two steps back, looking up at him with an displeased gaze.

Zhan Yan: Oh my~ I’m so sorry I can’t shrink.

Gu Jiancheng snorted and continued looking for anomalies. Although his gaze looked very displeased, he didn’t sink into the shadows the entire way, allowing the injured Di Ting to keep up.

Zhan Yan followed behind him, smiling involuntarily. He knew Xiao Gu was soft-hearted.

He had successfully clung to a strong thigh, and his safety was temporarily guaranteed. Next, he still had to find clues to Di Ting’s single horn, but how should he find it? And why was he suddenly able to control this body? Was it because Di Ting had already died at this time?

No, he had started being able to control the body before Xiao Gu came to the rescue; Di Ting was still alive at that time…

At that time, Di Ting had actively wanted to break off his horn, because he couldn’t let it fall into Infinite’s hands.

He had planned to hide his horn. Where could he have sent his horn at that time?

…

The farmhouse.

Matthias was already in a complete panic; he found the farmhouse owner and babbled a string of Spanish.

The farmhouse owner looked blankly at this foreigner: “Don’t rush, I can’t understand this. Where is the Chinese person who came with you?”

Matthias took out his phone and opened a translation app.

After some communication, the farmhouse owner’s entire family got up and started searching for him.

“It’s fine,” the owner consoled Matthias loudly, though Matthias couldn’t understand a word. “There aren’t any dangerous places here; he probably just got drunk and fell asleep somewhere.”

The owner’s younger son was checking the surveillance cameras in the yard, while the others followed Matthias around looking for him, shouting as they searched.

After shouting for about ten minutes with no response, they first received a call from the owner’s son.

The child’s voice trembled over the phone, sounding close to tears.

“Come back quickly, come back… I found the surveillance footage for that area.”

“What happened, what happened?” The hearts of everyone listening to the call skipped a beat.

Rushing back hastily, they found the child, who had been home alone, huddled in front of the surveillance computer, looking at them with tearful eyes, a layer of goosebumps on his arms.

Everyone crowded their heads around the monitor and watched him adjust the footage to the correct time for playback.

The night surveillance footage was in black and white; the top-down perspective showed the entire yard, and there was sound, though it wasn’t very clear.

At 8:23 PM, Matthias and Zhan Yan were grilling and eating in front of the barbecue.

Matthias held a beer, Zhan Yan held skewers, and the two were chatting.

Zhan Yan finished the skewer in his hand, placed the stick into a small bucket, stood up, and walked towards an old willow tree by the edge of the yard.

There were two bushes next to the tree that perfectly blocked the surveillance view up to a person’s waist. There was no other cover around the bushes.

Zhan Yan bent down, his figure blocked by the bushes. Two bottles of drinks rolled out from beside the bushes.

The child clicked fast-forward.

Four minutes passed, and there was no movement behind the bushes. Matthias’s shouts came through the surveillance audio. They couldn’t understand the other Spanish words, but these few shouts of “Yan” were understandable.

In the footage, Matthias also stood up, walked under the willow tree, and looked around to find him.

The crowd of onlookers all got goosebumps.

A perfectly fine, living person ran behind the bushes, crouched down to get a drink, and then never came out; he just disappeared like that?

The farmhouse owner swallowed hard with difficulty, his voice trembling: “This… let’s call the police.”

“Can the police handle this? Shouldn’t we look for a professional master or something…”

“I want to move…”

Before the trembling farmhouse owner could call the police, chaos erupted in two other places as well.

At 8:00 PM, Zhan Yunkai was in Mingtang Pictures’ recording studio.

His line delivery perfectly matched the AI setting, producing an inorganic, non-human aesthetic.

The sound engineer couldn’t help but sigh in admiration: “This is what you call a misplaced treasure.”

The recording went very smoothly, and Zhan Yunkai continued reading lines into the microphone: “I cannot…”

At 8:25, Zhan Yunkai suddenly couldn’t feel the feather he had left on his youngest son.

He abruptly stopped.

The demon assistant asked in confusion: “Teacher Zhan?”

Zhan Yunkai took off his headphones: “I’m sorry, something urgent came up, I need to leave for a bit.”

He hurried out of the recording studio.

The sound engineer didn’t say a word; after Zhan Yunkai left, he let out a long breath to the assistant: “What happened to Teacher Zhan? His expression just now was terrifying.”

The assistant had already picked up his phone and started calling Xia Yuexian.

“I don’t know.” It was also his first time hearing Chongming Demon King use that tone… It sounded calm, but it was so scary that people didn’t dare to make a sound.

8:20

Ji Yueming was working overtime at the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau. Since Old Zhan was coming back late today anyway, she decided to add an extra training session for her team members, only to accidentally bump into Black Wolf.

A simple training session accidentally turned into a sparring match between the two teams; the sparring match accidentally drew the captains in; and after the captains joined the fray, it accidentally turned into a situation where the team members couldn’t intervene.

Now, only Black Wolf and Tianshi were left in the arena; the members of both sides sat by the sidelines eating dinner and watching, the atmosphere friendly enough that they could even exchange dishes.

Sigh, let them fight, let them fight; Black Wolf was a provocative battle fanatic, and Tianshi wasn’t fighting seriously either. The captains both knew what they were doing.

8:25

In the training ground, lightning flashed suddenly, accompanied by a loud bang.

Black Wolf was struck until his fur stood on end; he let out an “aow” of excitement and wanted to charge forward.

He missed his pounce; Ji Yueming had already dodged out of the training ground’s protective range.

Everyone else dropped their chopsticks in fright.

What happened, what happened? Did Black Wolf really anger Tianshi?

Lightning overflowed from Ji Yueming’s eyes; the terrifying aura was released and then immediately retracted, leaving people’s legs weak.

Just a moment ago, she had suddenly lost the connection to the Lightning Talisman she had left on Yan Yan.

“I’m sorry, I couldn’t hold back.”

Ji Yueming left in a hurry, every word like a clap of thunder.