GRMFBS CH127

Puyang Xia was really angry.

How were grapes not as good as lychees?! A guy with no taste!

A person with no taste didn’t deserve to eat grapes! Even if he was his own benefactor!

At this very moment, as a northern grape, although Puyang Xia had never seen a lychee before, he had already decided that lychee would henceforth be his most hated plant!

You just want to eat lychees? Fine! I’ll find them for you!

First:
Puyang Xia: “Where do lychees come from?”

From Lingnan. Puyang Xia was a northern grape, from a place where it could snow heavily in winter. The straight-line distance to Lingnan was over three thousand kilometers.

Puyang Xia was a plant yao, not skilled in long-distance travel. Even if he made it to Lingnan and picked fresh lychees, the newly transformed grape yao had no way to keep the lychees fresh and bring them back.

Puyang Xia, unable to fulfill his benefactor’s wish, humiliatingly bore Teng Yuan a bunch of lychee-flavored grapes.

But Puyang Xia had never tasted lychees either and didn’t know what they tasted like. He could only try his best to adjust the flavor based on Teng Yuan’s descriptions.

Teng Yuan was a cultured man. His adjectives were very rich, beautiful, full of life’s charm and intellectual breadth.

This could also be translated as “not speaking in human terms.”

Puyang Xia did his best to bear a bunch of grapes according to descriptions like “nectar of the gods,” “sweet immortal dew,” and “warm spring stream.” The taste… was hard to describe. In short, it wasn’t lychee-flavored.

Teng Yuan was a picky gourmet and also a poet. He immediately composed a poem for the lychee, lamenting that since leaving Lingnan, he had never again tasted the flavor of the “red jade clusters on the branch” and the “fragrant snow pearls on the jade plate.” What a pity, what a pity.

Puyang Xia: …

Ha! Ha!

I absolutely must go and taste what this “lychee” tastes like!

Puyang Xia, a plant yao, went through great hardships to move his roots and run to Lingnan. To wait for the lychees to ripen, he stayed in Lingnan until the hot and humid summer. The northern grape was not used to this climate and suffered greatly.

After waiting with great difficulty for the lychees to ripen, Puyang Xia picked them to taste.

They’re okay, just averagely delicious. Was Teng Yuan really that obsessed with them?

Puyang Xia grumbled as he devoured a whole basket of lychees.

After returning, Puyang Xia started pestering his benefactor. Every year, he would send Teng Yuan grapes, determined to repay this debt.

But Teng Yuan always said it wasn’t right. One time the texture was wrong, another time the flavor was a bit off.

One time, the grapes Puyang Xia bore were tasted by many people, who all said the flavor was almost identical to lychees. He went to give them to Teng Yuan again. Teng Yuan insisted they tasted like rambutan.

Old Senior Puyang was also persistent. From then on, he became obsessed with lychee-flavored grapes. Teng Yuan had already died and been reincarnated for who knows how many lifetimes, but Puyang Xia was still researching lychee-flavored grapes. He stubbornly researched for more than four hundred years to create the kind of grapes they were eating now.

After finishing this piece of gossip, Zhan Yan understood everything.

No wonder Puyang Xia was so intent on researching lychee-flavored grapes, yet so resolutely refused to promote this biggest selling point, only saying “sweet” in his livestream.

It was just that old Senior Li Huodan was quite pitiful, becoming a part of the play for no reason.

Since he hadn’t found any problems, this investment should be feasible.

Zhan Yan planned to ask tomorrow if the grapes had arrived at home and how they tasted. If they were good, he would recommend them to his mother’s company. But he didn’t know much about this area and hoped he wouldn’t cause his mother a loss…

Before exiting the gossip system, someone @’d him in the information-type experts’ group chat “Did You Get Your Gossip Today?”.

Since getting the points last time, Zhan Yan hadn’t spoken in the group, mainly to prevent others from feeling awkward. It had been so long now. Since they were actively @’ing him, he figured everyone must have gotten used to it.

Zhan Yan clicked into the group and started scanning the chat history.

Pure White Puzzle: “A Black Nest appeared a while ago.”

Loves Pineapple Buns: “???”

“For real?!”

Waltz: “You can’t joke about this!”

Book of Mysteries: “It’s true.”

Waltz: “Heavens, what happened to this Black Nest now?”

Loves Pineapple Buns: “If a Black Nest appeared, then Infinite isn’t just not completely dead, it’s starting to reignite, right?!”

Pure White Puzzle: “No, you guys just don’t believe me, do you?”

Happy Guessing Game: “@Book of Mysteries, Bai Bai is angry. You’re done for.”

Book of Mysteries: “…”

Tu Yue was genuinely a bit worried. Pure White Puzzle’s information breadth was the weakest in the group, but his ability in information depth was unrivaled.

Pure White Puzzle: All information in his ability was like Puzzle pieces. When there were enough known pieces, he could flip over the blank area left after assembling them to reveal its original pattern, completing the missing part.

This ability could be used to investigate any deeply hidden secrets.

Tu Yue had always maintained a good relationship with Pure White Puzzle under the identity of Book of Mysteries, and they sometimes even collaborated. He recently had a task from the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau that he had collaborated on with Pure White Puzzle.

Pure White Puzzle: “You guys are done for!”

Happy Guessing Game: “???”

“What does it have to do with us?”

Pure White Puzzle: “None of you believe my news!”

“Only Ao Ao vouched for me!”

A group of information-type experts not only loved gossip, but were also quite childish.

Zhan Yan continued to scan the chat history.

The experts didn’t mess around for long. The news of the Black Nest was too shocking, and everyone returned to the main topic.

With supplements from Pure White Puzzle and Book of Mysteries, plus what the other information experts had found on their own after learning the news, a lot of information had now been gathered.

It was known that Shenying had discovered the anomaly of this Black Nest’s birth, traced its location through clues, and then eliminated the Black Nest.

Chewing Big Melon: “Is Shenying that ruthless?”

Waltz: “How strong is a Black Nest?”

Chewing Big Melon: “Not sure. Probably only those combat-type experts who faced the enemy head-on 26 years ago would know.”

Too Lazy to Pick a Screen Name: “This thing has been gone for 26 years. None of us have seen it.”

“A Black Nest is a monster’s nest, right? It’s said that people facing a Black Nest will face an almost endless tide of anomalies. In short, it’s very, very strong.”

Pure White Puzzle: “The most terrifying thing about a Black Nest isn’t the anomaly tide, it’s the corruption.”

Book of Mysteries: “Correct.”

Waltz: “Doesn’t the anomaly tide have corruption?”

Book of Mysteries: “It’s not the corruption of the anomalies, but the corruption of the Black Nest itself.”

Tu Yue began to explain the concept to them.

All anomalies carry corruption. The corruption of an anomaly tide is certainly terrifying, but it should still be considered within the scope of the anomaly tide. It could be compared to the sound waves of a swarm of silent mosquitoes, large and wide, but still within the normal range.

The corruption of a Black Nest refers to the corruption inherent to the Black Nest itself. That is a level of corruption that transcends the anomaly tide.

Loves Pineapple Buns: “So Shenying took down the Black Nest while facing this thing?”

“Isn’t his mental state unstable?”

Happy Guessing Game: “Is his state okay now? He won’t have a corruption outbreak, will he?”

Pure White Puzzle: “That’s not clear.”

“Why don’t you guess?”

Happy Guessing Game: “Wait for it.”

Happy Guessing Game went off to use his ability.

After more than ten minutes, he popped up in the group again.

Happy Guessing Game: “Shenying’s state is stable???”

Loves Pineapple Buns: “How did he do it? Hasn’t his state always been very dangerous?”

This was also what Book of Mysteries wanted to know.

The information Tu Yue had was a bit more detailed. The Linyuan Ghost King had seen the scene left after Shenying’s battle with the Black Nest and had passed this information to the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance.

The Black Nest was one thing, Shenying was another.

The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau had a control freak like Ning Xi as its deputy director. It was hard to tolerate an unstable time bomb like Shenying wandering around freely. In these twenty-plus years, they hadn’t just issued a wanted notice for Shenying and left it at that.

The special task force established in the bureau specifically for Shenying had tried various means to understand his situation. Although Shenying’s own information interference was strong, there were also many “I reckon” inspiration-type methods in the world similar to Dry Pine Ravine’s.

It was difficult to obtain other information about Shenying, but at least it could be confirmed that his condition had been continuously deteriorating and had reached a critical point of collapse four years ago.

No one knew whether Shenying’s collapse would be a silent death or a complete madness after being thoroughly corrupted.

To ensure that Shenying’s collapse would not cause adverse effects, the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau had begun implementing a contingency plan four years ago, ready to forcibly determine Shenying’s location through special means and carry out a series of necessary compulsory measures at any time.

As the top information-type expert in the bureau, Tu Yue was part of the mission to determine Shenying’s location. The cost of forcibly breaking through this level of information interference was high. Tu Yue had even signed an informed consent form, prepared for any possible price.

The reason it wasn’t carried out was because forcibly searching for the other party’s location was tantamount to provocation and was very likely to irritate Shenying’s already unstable condition, possibly leading to a premature deterioration and corruption outbreak.

The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau was waiting for an opportunity. The task force had someone on duty 24 hours a day. As soon as it was confirmed that Shenying’s state had entered an unstable outbreak period, they would immediately start the process of locating him and carrying out control measures.

And so, this 24-hour shift continued for four years.

Tu Yue watched as the young man on the night shift went from being full of energy and extremely nervous, to having increasingly heavy dark circles under his eyes, to numbly and peacefully typing out the daily report: No abnormalities.

Shenying’s condition today seems to be even more stable than before.

Every time he thought of Shenying, Tu Yue felt complicated.

At first, it was complicated because of Shenying himself. He was a comrade-in-arms who had helped them fight against Infinite 26 years ago, and he had also left traces of clearing up anomalies many times in these 26 years. But he was also an unstable bomb that could explode at any time and endanger the world. Tu Yue had even prepared to sacrifice himself in this era of peace for this.

Then he prepared for four years. Any amount of tension and complexity had been worn away. Sometimes he even wanted to cheer for Shenying.

Hold on a little longer, expert! How do you know you can’t miraculously heal yourself if you don’t try?

And then Shenying really did miraculously heal himself in these four years!

The last time the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau had detected a deterioration in Shenying’s state through indirect means was about a month ago. At that time, everyone was nervous.

Later, they checked the timeline with the information provided by the Linyuan Ghost King and confirmed that Shenying’s condition had deteriorated that day because he had taken down a Black Nest.

That day, Shenying’s state had briefly slid to the brink of danger, then quickly rose back up quite a bit. Although it was worse than before, it was very stable. Then it suddenly got better, to a state… of almost miraculous self-healing.

This was very shocking!

Clearing corruption and healing a corrupted spirit had always been important topics and scarce abilities. How did Shenying do it? Teach us!

But this Shenying fellow was as difficult to deal with as ever, refusing to respond no matter what. There was no other way. The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau could only try to investigate on their own.

After investigating for a long time with no results, Tu Yue came to the information group to see if there was a breakthrough.

But the others were just a side bonus. The main goal was still Approaching Science.

It had been proven last time that Approaching Science had the ability to directly find information about Shenying.

No matter how much he could find, being able to find anything was a breakthrough. It was better than their entire group being rendered speechless by a wanted notice thrown at them by “I just saved the world!”, right?

Happy Guessing Game: “Didn’t we say last time that Approaching Science can find information about Shenying?”

“@Approaching Science, Expert, please guide us!”

Loves Pineapple Buns: “Expert, please guide us!”

Chewing Big Melon: “Expert, please guide us!”

Zhan Yan thought for a moment and gave an answer.

Approaching Science: “Because of love.”

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