GRMFBS CH105

“Got it, got it. Go rest, go on!” Ning Xi urged again.

Ji Yueming stretched lazily, “Then I’m heading home.”

Ning Xi waved his hand, then grabbed Da Wule, who was trying to sneak away. “Don’t run! We’re going to be busy. You lend me a hand.”

They had to arrest those who needed arresting, re-test others, and handle all sorts of follow-ups…

Da Wule: …

Ji Yueming waved at him with a smile.

Da Wule: I knew I shouldn’t have come to watch the fun!

The great Tianshi went home for the Lantern Festival, and taking advantage of her current long vacation, she also made a trip to her company. When she came back, she had a message for Zhan Yan:

“Yanyan, are you interested in shooting a commercial?”

Zhan Yan was still immersed in the cool and satisfying deeds of the great Tianshi blowing up Infinity and tearing apart the tribunal, so he didn’t react to such a realistic matter for a moment, “Huh?”

Ji Yueming explained enthusiastically. It was for the game project that Shoude Company had invested in. They needed to find a few real people to shoot a short promotional video. But shooting a 2D-style promo with real people has high requirements for looks, and the partner couldn’t find anyone satisfactory after searching for a while—there were good-looking big stars in the entertainment industry, but they were too expensive. The partner wanted to find someone cheaper, and so they set their sights on Zhan Yan.

Zhan Yan: “Huh? When did they notice me? Shouldn’t they be looking for Dad if they want someone good-looking?”

“Didn’t you attend some birthday banquet before and meet our client there?” Ji Yueming asked. “Old Zhan’s age doesn’t fit the character. They want to shoot someone with a youthful feel.”

Zhan Yan remembered. He had met Ban Weidong at the birthday banquet, the guy who pretended to be from Shoude Company to try and poach their clients!

It was that client! He was so enthusiastic when talking to him face-to-face, but was secretly planning to use him as free labor!

Ji Yueming: “How about it? Want to give it a try?”

I’ll do it!

Why not, if it saves his own family money?

However, the promotion had to be shot a bit later. The promotional video had one male and one female role, and the other female role was set for Lan Xiqiao. She was the one who had risen to fame through the Meihu opera tour sponsored by Shoude Company. Knowing they were short on people, she was willing to make a guest appearance as a favor. But she had a busy schedule now, so the commercial shoot had to coordinate with her time.

That was no problem. It just so happened that Zhan Yan was planning to use Weng Yan’s entry ticket to attend the Practitioner’s Conference next.

It was cold now, so Zhan Yan bundled himself up like a ball. Because there was a hot spring city on the way, and Zhan Yan had never been in a hot spring before, he was very tempted and bought a transfer ticket to rest in the hot spring city for two days and soak in a hot spring.

The hot spring water could be piped into the room. Zhan Yan filled the tub, and the steamy, faint smell of sulfur rose.

The gossip system promptly reminded him:

[You have entered a fake hot spring hotel that uses sulfur powder and hot water to impersonate a hot spring.]

Zhan Yan: ???

Isn’t this a hot spring city?

The item description then displayed a series of component analyses for him:

[This is some tap water with sulfur powder added, with an H2O content of 99.98%, S content of…]

…Can’t there be any trust between people!

Report! Refund! Expose!

Zhan Yan angrily ran to the front desk and found that there was already someone making a scene.

[The dog demon Gou Hou, relying on the money he saved from working at a dog cafe, came to experience the hot spring, but sniffed out that the hot spring water was fake. He is very angry and is demanding a refund.]

…This is a bit tragic.

But how could a dog demon work at a dog cafe? What kind of employee was he to earn that money? Zhan Yan couldn’t help but let his mind wander, irresistibly wanting to search for which dog cafe it was.

Fortunately, Gou Hou’s wronged and angry voice pulled his attention back.

This front desk had been tested many times and was well-versed in the art of making false counter-charges and playing tai chi. They asked Gou Hou for evidence, saying that without evidence, he was slandering them and would have to bear responsibility.

“How can you guys be like this? I’m telling you, you’ll pay for this sooner or later! Don’t think this is over!”

This was a Northeastern big brother dog demon.

[The dog demon Gou Hou is very angry, but because he is wary of the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau, he dares not make a move. He decides to wait until the middle of the night when no one is around to break the owner’s legs.]

Zhan Yan had returned to his room when he saw the front desk’s attitude. He first opened the gossip system, used the data from the item description to photoshop an electronic inspection report online, then took an empty drink bottle and recorded the whole process of collecting the “hot spring water” from his room.

He walked to the lobby with his phone: “Friends, I’ve recorded the whole process of taking this sample. You all saw it. I’ll send it directly to a testing agency later. This water has not been switched.

“Last time I produced a test report, someone found fault and said I switched the water. This time, you’re all watching.”

The front desk clerk became anxious upon hearing this, thinking Zhan Yan was live-streaming.

Zhan Yan successfully used the photoshopped inspection report to get a refund for himself and Gou Hou.

Gou Hou eagerly shook his hand: “Brother, you’ve helped me a lot! These unscrupulous scoundrels, they really piss me off! They got off too easy!”

“Don’t be angry, don’t be angry.” Zhan Yan smiled and raised his phone, “I never promised not to report and expose them after getting a refund.”

“Brother, you’ve got the moves!” Gou Hou gave him a thumbs-up. “From now on, we’re friends. Let’s add each other as contacts. I’ll treat you to barbecue!”

After eating barbecue, they still had to soak in a hot spring. This time, Zhan Yan learned his lesson and used the gossip system to find a high-quality, real hot spring hotel in advance, and checked in with his new dog demon big brother.

Filling the tub with hot spring water and lying down in it, ah, so comfortable!

It had to be said, humans are just naturally fond of slightly scalding hot water. The fatigue from the previous ordeal dissolved in the hot water. Every pore opened up, the cold accumulated in his body during the winter dissipated, and his muscles relaxed under the gentle patting of the water…

Zhan Yan happily closed his eyes and opened the gossip system to log into the Chaofan Forum.

He had to continue doing more tasks to save up more points and get his boyfriend’s thunder talisman as soon as possible.

Looking at the points leaderboard again, sigh, although the large sum of points Shen Ying gave him last time got him on the leaderboard, he was still far from being able to exchange for a thunder talisman!

Unfortunately, Shen Ying had been busy looking for the “Monster Doctor” recently, so he probably wouldn’t be able to shear any more wool from him for a while.

It wasn’t good to always shear wool from the same person either. He had to develop a few more big bosses.

Mmm, the Wan Yao Alliance was out, that was his dad’s organization. The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau was also out, that was his mom’s organization. As for Chaofu Mountain… they were all too lazy! The ghost kings were all fooling around playing hide-and-seek all day, not doing any tasks or saving up points at all. Last time, the Wanyan Ghost King posted a task to find the Lin Yuan Ghost King for only 20 points.

Better to just look through the points leaderboard directly!

First, pull the leaderboard to the top. At the very top was “Artisan,” a master whose points were so numerous that he had never fallen from the top spot since he reached it, earning a place among the forum’s top ten unsolved mysteries!

“Just how many points does Artisan have?” remains unsolved to this day.

This was a great target for wool-shearing!

Moreover, Artisan often posted tasks with very generous rewards! Zhan Yan had been eyeing them for a long time, but unfortunately, he had never come across an information-based task posted by Artisan before.

Searching the task area, there happened to be a task from Artisan. The content was hidden, and only those who met the threshold for accepting the task could open it to view.

The threshold seemed to be set very high. The task had been posted for several days, but the number of views was still in the single digits.

Zhan Yan clicked on it without much hope.

Most of Artisan’s tasks were related to collecting materials, with occasional experience exchanges, nothing he could do.

The task interface expanded.

Oh ho! He could do this!

This task was to collect information from the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau, no wonder the threshold was so high. The task description was also very vague, just saying it was about the content related to the Infinity Research Institute. Information-gatherers who couldn’t find this data could give up here.

He knew about the Infinity Research Institute! He was the one who watched his mom blow up the infinite fragments in a live broadcast from afar!

However, whether to do this task was still uncertain. He had to see what Artisan wanted to ask. If it was about the Tianshi, he had to see if it would harm his mother’s interests.

Speaking of which, Artisan was a fan of the Tianshi, so he probably wouldn’t do such a thing, right? But it wasn’t certain! Who knew if he was a crazy fan?

Anyway, he’d poke Artisan first and ask.

Approaching Science: “[Task Link]”

“What do you want to ask?”

Artisan replied quickly: “The research subjects inside the Infinity Research Institute.”

Approaching Science: “Those infinite fragments?”

Zhan Yan could answer this with confidence. Those fragments were all destroyed, there was nothing that couldn’t be said.

Artisan: “Yes.”

Approaching Science: “Which one do you want to ask about?”

Artisan: “The largest one.”

Approaching Science: “OK, I’ll take this task.”

“This fragment was left over from twenty-six years ago and was destroyed just two days ago.”

“The Infinity Research Institute was built around it, partly for research and partly to seal the contamination.”

“However, the contamination seal was not very successful, and there was still a slight leak.”

“But there’s no need to worry now.”

“Its codename within the Infinity Research Institute was ‘Apocalypse Fragment’.”

Chongnan Slope. This was the closest inhabited place to the Infinity Research Institute.

Because there was a small wild pond at the bottom of the slope, it was often visited by anglers. So, a small shop and a cleared-out open space for camping had sprung up around it.

Zhan Suiru was here.

She had set up a tent in the campsite. On the surface, it looked no different from other camping tents, but inside, if you lifted a blanket laid on the ground, a door would be revealed. Opening the door and going down, you would find her workshop.

Zhan Suiru sat cross-legged in front of the door, one hand lifting the blanket.

She had brought her workshop and Xiao Ran over, but since bringing them, she had not been down once.

She stared fixedly at the door for a long time, then opened it and walked down the stairs. The door closed automatically behind her, and the blanket spread itself back on the ground, covering all secrets.

The puppet butler was still waiting for her in the workshop. Upon seeing her, he bowed politely, exuding the temperament of a classical nobleman. The mud on his two hands, however, ruined his perfect and elegant posture.

He had been very seriously carrying out Zhan Suiru’s order to continue making sculptures.

“You should go wash your hands first.”

While Xiao Ran was washing his hands, Zhan Suiru began to look at his works from this period.

After listening to Ji Lele’s appreciation, Zhan Suiru had installed a row of shelves on the far right of the workshop, which was now a quarter full. These sculptures occupied the top left corner of the shelves, displayed diagonally downwards from the top left corner, which was Yang Ran’s habit.

Simulated sunlight shone in from the fake window on the left of the workshop, sprinkling on the shelves and sculptures. Under the unrefined light and shadow, every detail of these sculptures was exposed.

Still so ugly.

Tsk, it’s really amazing how Yanyan could appreciate them.

Zhan Suiru looked very seriously.

She tried to see the hidden soul in these ugly sculptures, preferably like a ruler, able to delicately and properly measure every minute change.

Her eyes could be compared to a vernier caliper, her hands could be precise to the milligram. But what was the unit of measurement for a soul?

“Are you trying to change your aesthetic?” the puppet butler asked politely from behind her. “I don’t think that’s a good idea.”

“Then you’d better work hard to improve your own aesthetic as soon as possible,” Zhan Suiru sighed.

“I don’t think that depends on me. I must point out a problem: you did not install an aesthetic module in me.”

Zhan Suiru said without any burden, “Yes, so I’m just trying to make things difficult for you. Is there a problem?”

The puppet butler was silent for a moment: “…No problem.”

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