GRMFBS CH101

By the time Zhan Yan noticed the little red dots of messages piling up like crazy in the top right corner, he had already single-handedly cleared eight pages of tasks and was forging ahead to complete the ninth.

Zhan Yan pinched the bridge of his nose and decided to take a break.

He casually collected the last new information tag into his information panel. The energy bar in the “Things” column went biu and filled up, turning into a new little star.

[The exciting moment has arrived! The item description has been newly upgraded! A superior user experience awaits! The item description has newly developed a history function. From now on, you will be able to view the historical status of items!
—This is a plate of egg fried rice, but ten minutes ago, it was an egg that had been sitting for three days without hatching and rice that had spent a night in the refrigerator.
Want it? Excited? Come and experience it!]

Zhan Yan’s spirits lifted!

The history record function was here! Zhan Yan quickly looked down, picked up the small silver lock on his chest, and opened the history record of the item description.

[This is a silver lock full of blessings, with an Ag content of 95.5%, Cu content of 2.7%…]

[This is a silver lock full of blessings, with a silver content of 955.]

[This is a top-tier protective talisman silver lock, imbued with the power of thunder’s protection, with a silver content of 955.]

Top-tier protective talisman!

One glance at the points exchange area of the forum was enough to understand the value of these four words. The total number of top-tier talismans in the exchange area was no more than five types, and in twenty-six years, the number that had been exchanged had just broken single digits.

Top-tier and high-tier were a huge watershed. Without the corresponding cultivation level, one could never create a top-tier talisman.

A thunder-attributed, top-tier talisman. Besides Tianshi, was there a second possibility?!

Zhan Yan’s anxious heart, instead of settling, floated even higher.

He opened his mom’s information thread and Tianshi’s information thread and started to compare the timelines.

The abnormal static electricity, the momentarily activated state of the small silver lock, his mother’s insistence that the three of them wear the silver locks… and the perfectly matched timeline!

Zhan Yan swallowed several times in a row and dragged the two interfaces to overlap.

Golden special-effect fireworks were reflected in his unblinking eyes. “Ji Yueming” and “Tianshi” merged into the same information tag. Golden lightning danced on her name, suspended high in the zenith of the information panel.

Even though he had mentally prepared himself beforehand, when the dust settled, his mind was left with only one endlessly repeating sentence:

Tianshi, Tianshi, Tianshi! My mom is Tianshi!

Zhan Yan fell backward, lying on the bed in a star shape.

Xingxing thought Zhan Yan was playing with it and, with a meow, bounced onto Zhan Yan’s chest.

Zhan Yan: …

“You’re already a cat of over five catties! Can you be a little more aware of your own weight?”

Get it off! No lying on the chest!

Although being pressed by a five-plus-catty kitten was still manageable now, Zhan Yan had checked; this little guy could grow to be over ten catties in the future. Zhan Yan didn’t want to experience being crushed by a mountain, so he wouldn’t let it develop the habit of lying on his chest from now on!

Zhan Yan rubbed his chest, which had just been hit by a five-catty meatball, and stared at the golden star floating in his gossip system.

His phone vibrated twice. The software pushed him the latest news.

Zhan Yan absentmindedly clicked on the message. The Spring Festival overtime workers in the news industry had already rushed out the latest news: “Rare lightning strike phenomenon in the suburbs, clearly visible from ten thousand meters away. Experts say it is a rare natural phenomenon.”

Everyone was staying up late for the New Year, and many people had seen that bolt of lightning from afar. Now they were all in the comments section:

“I was filming fireworks with my camera, and that huge bolt of lightning suddenly came, it almost blinded me!”

“What kind of lightning is that, why is it so thick! It looks like a water bucket.”

“This is definitely not normal lightning. Normal lightning has zigs and zags when it strikes down. How can it be straight like this?”

“Which fellow Daoist is undergoing their tribulation here?”

Familiar sand-sculpture netizens, familiar memes, but seeing them now, the feeling was completely different.

How many times in a person’s life can they be hit by a super grand prize?

The master I stan is my mom.

Zhan Yan held down Xingxing, who was still trying to jump on him, with one hand, and touched the small silver lock on his chest with the other.

He had been planning to get a thunder talisman for the whole family, but it turned out his mom had already equipped the whole family!

Sob, Mom is the best!

Mom even said in the forum before that she would give him a thunder talisman. Ah, is this the telepathic connection between mother and son?

Ah, no! He still had to save up for a thunder talisman for Gu Jiancheng. Let him calculate the points…

Zhan Yan finally noticed the little red dot for new message notifications in the top right corner of the forum. What new message was this?

Oh, it was the group of people in the forum suddenly going crazy and @ing him to spill the tea.

Of course, he knew the inside story, but he wouldn’t say! He had to wait and see what his mom’s arrangements were so he could coordinate!

Let him search… those infinite fragments were destroyed, and the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau was now in an uproar. The higher-ups were arguing fiercely, all working overtime. His mom could still come home for the New Year. Tianshi is truly Tianshi!

Come on, let him see who was jumping up and down saying they wanted to punish Tianshi. He wouldn’t be satisfied until he had dug up all their dark history!

Zhan Yan rolled up his sleeves and got to work. In one night, he dug up dirt on all the high-level officials in the Bureau who held ill will towards Tianshi and organized it into a spreadsheet.

His mom was home for the New Year now, but she would have to go back to the Bureau to deal with this matter after a while. This information would definitely be useful!

But Ji Yueming didn’t like to log into the forum much, and she had been busy recently. If he sent it to her directly, she might not see it for a while.

Zhan Yan thought for a moment and first searched for messages from “Admin Ling Yu”. Good, this account was now back in Nie Yu’s hands.

Nie Yu was a little fan of Tianshi. Contacting her was safe!

Zhan Yan started poking her.

Approaching Science: “Are you online?”

“I have important news!”

Nie Yu had been bored to death recently, but tonight, ever since the Captain blew up the Infinity Research Institute, she knew she wouldn’t be getting off work.

But Nie Yu was very happy to work overtime! The Captain was so freaking cool!

Because Approaching Science was someone she had set as a special follow, Nie Yu still took the time to open his private message amidst her busy schedule.

Important news? This person, Approaching Science, never cried wolf.

Admin Ling Yu: “What is it?”

Approaching Science: “You can contact Tianshi, right?”

“Tell Tianshi to log into the forum.”

“I’ll send her the information.”

This made Nie Yu unhappy. How long have you known our Captain? And you’re already playing the “little secrets” game with me?

Admin Ling Yu: “Fine, I’ll pass it on right now.”

“I’ve been a member of Tianshi’s team since I joined the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau.”

“Of course I have a way to contact her immediately.”

Zhan Yan: ?

Why did he feel that Ling Yu’s tone was a bit strange?

Whatever, as long as the information could get to his mom.

After sending the data, Zhan Yan finally had time to deal with the forum members who were crazily @ing him in the water-cooler section.

A quick scan showed that there were all sorts of speculations on the forum now. Photos and videos of that bolt of lightning from various angles were already flying everywhere.

Zhan Yan clicked on one.

The video quality was very high, clearly shot with a professional camera. It started with bursts of fireworks, high-definition and stable. After about twenty seconds, the entire screen suddenly went white, dazzlingly bright. Then the screen gradually darkened, and a pillar of lightning could be seen descending straight from the sky on the right side of the video. A few seconds later, the deafening thunder was received by the camera.

The forum members under the video were going crazy:

2F:
Ahhh, this is definitely the work of Tianshi! What level of thunder magic is this!! Worshipping the master!!!

3F:
Master, teach me, teach me!!
Sob, I’ve been practicing my palm lightning for a year, and my master said it’s pretty good. I can use it to charge my phone.

8F:
Has anyone analyzed Tianshi’s combat power?
This incident has broken all of Tianshi’s previous records of出手, right?

11F:
Stop hyping it, okay? The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau hasn’t given a response yet. It’s not even certain if it’s Tianshi.
In the past records of Tianshi’s actions, the highest level was never this strong, was it?

13F:
If it’s not Tianshi, who could it be? You’re not going to tell me this is a natural phenomenon, are you?

18F:
I’m a Tianshi combat power fan and have been collecting related data. There has indeed never been a record of this intensity before. But there has also never been an anomaly that required this level of intensity, so I’m more concerned now about what actually happened? What kind of situation would require Tianshi to use such a strong thunder spell?
@Admin Ling Yu
Requesting an explanation from the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau.

24F:
I’m more curious about the energy intensity of this one bolt of lightning. So, is anyone actually doing a combat power analysis?
I feel like this combat power is no longer just number one in the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau, right?

25F:
Don’t start a flame war, user above. Aren’t there enough power-level debate threads already?
Who shot the video? With the video’s location and direction, we should be able to analyze where Tianshi’s lightning struck, right?

37F “Just Go For It”:
On my way to the lightning strike location. Everyone, wait for my news.

40F:
Friend, waiting for your news!

85F:
A whole round of flaming is over, has our friend from 37F not come back yet?

188F:
Three rounds are already over. After flaming about combat power, we flamed about stances, and after stances, we flamed about fans. Before the fourth round starts, can we please wait for news from 37F?

192F:
Not sure, but I know the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau must be very busy right now. Usually, if the flaming got this bad, Ling Yu would have come out to clean up the thread long ago.

211F “Just Go For It”:
Friends, I’m almost there. I’ll give you an update first.
I feel like the situation is not quite right. There seems to be a blockade ahead.

213F:
@Just Go For It, be careful! Don’t get yourself caught!

222F “Just Go For It”:
[Video]
Here’s a live stream for everyone.
It seems to be a blockade by the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau.

242F “Just Go For It”:
Crap, I think I’ve been discovered.

After that, “Just Go For It” never appeared again, and the thread started all sorts of speculations.

Zhan Yan searched in his gossip system and found that this guy had wandered into a sensitive area and was taken away for questioning by people from the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau. He would be released after he was cleared of suspicion.

The thread that was asking him to spill the tea was also building up quite fast. The atmosphere inside was much more peaceful, without so much tearing each other apart:

3F:
What “suspected Tianshi”? With lightning that fierce, who else could it be but Tianshi?

OP:
Isn’t this for the sake of rigor? Maybe it’s a rare natural phenomenon? [doge face]

5F:
OP, you’re killing me. What the hell “rare natural phenomenon”? Are you from the Zhenke News Agency?

7F:
Don’t go off-topic, don’t go off-topic. Is no one going to discuss the timing of Tianshi and the Chongming Demon King clashing? One is from the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau, the other from the Wan Yao Alliance. Aren’t these two organizations always quite hostile to each other? Could it be that the two masters are fighting?

Zhan Yan sat up abruptly.

That’s right!

His dad and his mom belong to two major rival organizations!!

No, DAD!!! MOM!!!

How did you two even get together?!!