GRMFBS CH132

Professor Miao was very grateful to Zhan Yan.

Zhan Yan sympathetically bid farewell to this professor who was completely unaware of his future fate.

Halfway there, he put his hand in his pocket and felt a cat treat stick. This was Wangwang’s snack, which he had forgotten to feed him.

Zhan Yan stood for a few seconds holding the cat treat, pondering that it didn’t seem necessary to send it back, when his leg was suddenly brushed against.

Looking down, a calico cat was rubbing against his leg, looking up at the cat treat in his hand, its large round eyes full of longing. “Meow~”

Zhan Yan was stunned. It could be said that Wangwang wasn’t afraid of him due to being well-traveled, but this calico cat wasn’t afraid of him either. Could it be that his beast-repelling constitution had really healed?

The calico cat circled his leg and rubbed against it again. Zhan Yan was flattered, squatting down to tear open the cat treat and feed it to the calico.

“Calico, aren’t you afraid of me?” Zhan Yan tentatively touched its back. The calico’s ears twitched, but it didn’t move and continued licking the cat treat.

[The calico stray decides to leave this familiar but strange-smelling human after finishing the cat treat.]

Huh? Familiar?

Zhan Yan skimmed through the calico’s previous “gua strips.” Oh, this was from back when the Ghost King Wanyan was still pretending to be a cat and scrounging for food and drink at school. At that time, Wanyan often received all sorts of food offerings, but His Lordship the Ghost King looked down on ordinary food and would often run away after playing with the university students.

Many clever stray cats discovered this pattern and would follow behind Wanyan to get a share of the food and drink. This calico was a particularly fierce one among them, often being the first to eat after Wanyan left.

This was also why it had an impression of Zhan Yan—every time Zhan Yan fed Wanyan, Wanyan would eat every last bite, and they couldn’t get a single mouthful. Zhan Yan felt inexplicably a little guilty.

[The calico stray realizes that the food you offer is tastier than what others offer and really wants to try it.]

The calico had been curious for a long time. Today it finally caught the opportunity, so the usually unfriendly calico started to learn from other “scamming” kittens to come and rub against people.

But although the cat treat Professor Miao prepared for his own cat was very good, it couldn’t compare to the cat food Zhan Yan made. The calico ate it with a slight sense of disappointment, feeling that this cat treat wasn’t worth it coming back to “sell its body” for another scam.

Zhan Yan: …I’ve disappointed the little kitty, my apologies. “How about I… hmm, not tomorrow, the day after tomorrow. How about I bring you some cat food here the day after tomorrow?”

The calico’s ears perked up with a swoosh.

Zhan Yan: “You can understand me?”

The calico stared at him, its gaze unmoving, seemingly a little shocked.

Zhan Yan checked his class schedule. He didn’t have class at this time the day after tomorrow. “Anyway, I’ll bring cat food here at this time the day after tomorrow. If you come, I’ll feed you. If you don’t, I’ll feed another cat.”

The calico had finished the cat treat. Zhan Yan clapped his hands, found a trash can to throw away the wrapper, and when he looked back, the calico had already disappeared into the bushes, its head peeking out from under the shrubs, staring at him motionlessly.

Zhan Yan felt the calico’s reaction was a bit strange. He opened the Gossip System and only then discovered that after adding this cat, he had coincidentally filled up the energy bar in the “Spirit” section for a new little star. This little star was an upgraded version of the second “Animal Communication” little star.

[Congratulations, with your continuous efforts, you have successfully unlocked a reverse golden finger. —Now little animals can understand your words!]

No wonder the calico’s expression was so strange. Stray cats have little contact with people, so it couldn’t understand human speech. Zhan Yan was also startled the day he suddenly understood animal speech.

Back to grinding forum missions and the Gossip group, continuing to work hard to level up!

On the other side, Gu Jiancheng logged into the Chaofan Forum and saw Zoujin Kexue’s reply.

Gu Jiancheng: ??? The mission is too simple, it’s boring, not doing it?

Gu Jiancheng laughed in anger. He went to the mission section and browsed around, discovering that Zoujin Kexue was doing someone else’s mission.

He looked at the mission content. What kind of low-level mission was worth doing?

I Just Saved the World!: “This is the kind of ‘difficult’ mission you like?”

“When did your standards regress to this level?”

“Are the points from this kind of mission even enough to cover the loose change I give?”

Zhan Yan didn’t see Shenying’s private message for the time being. Because at this moment, he had simultaneously received private messages from Ling Yu and Luo Wang.

The matter began when the Ghost King Linyuan discovered that Shenying had taken out a Black Nest, and he then shared this information. After learning of this, the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance made the same decision after a preliminary investigation—find a way to contact Shenying.

The two organizations sat down at the negotiating table to discuss this matter, and then they started arguing about who should contact Shenying.

Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau: “With your Wan Yao Alliance’s lax and casual style, giving you the chance would be a waste. What could you even discuss after finding Shenying?”

Wan Yao Alliance: “Give me a break. Your Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau thinks you can find Shenying? He knows about your control-freak style and wouldn’t show up at all, okay?”

They argued and argued until they almost started fighting again. The Ghost King Linyuan was “eating gua” from a distance. Because he was the one who brought the news, and he also wanted to talk to Shenying, he listened to the whole thing.

Just as the two sides were about to fight, the Ghost King Linyuan asked, “So, can either of you actually find Shenying?”

The two sides immediately fell silent, like a couple who were about to divorce because they couldn’t agree on how to split an imaginary five-million-dollar lottery win.

Zhan Yan was quite amused when he saw this. To extinguish a fire with one sentence, you still had to rely on Linyuan.

In the end, the two organizations decided to look for Shenying separately, and whoever found him would contact him. But if they had a way to find Shenying, they would have found him long ago. Why would they have waited until now?

Shenying had been in hiding for so many years. The reward on the tripartite wanted order was extremely high, yet there was no news. This showed it wasn’t a matter of the major organizations being incompetent; this master was simply not to be found among the common people.

The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance traded insults and harsh words at the negotiating table, then went back and privately worried about how to find Shenying.

First, the librarian Tu Yue provided a clue to the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau: Zoujin Kexue could find information related to Shenying. He learned this through the alternate account of the Book of Mysteries. It was uncertain how much Zoujin Kexue could find, but in short, he could find something, and it seemed he did so without much cost.

Almost simultaneously, the Wan Yao Alliance also learned of this through “Ken Dagua.” And so…

Administrator Ling Yu: “Can you find Shenying’s contact information?”

“The reward is very high, but we require an exclusive buyout.”

“You can also state any demands you have.”

Administrator Luo Wang: “Are you there? Are you there? I have a mission for you.”

“If you can contact Shenying, could you help us get in touch?”

“We can negotiate whatever reward you want, but this information cannot be sold to anyone else.”

Zhan Yan: …

How was he supposed to choose! On one side was the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau, where his mother was, and on the other was the Wan Yao Alliance, where his father was. They clearly had the same goal, why couldn’t they cooperate properly?!

Zhan Yan opened his parents’ “gua strips.”

[The Chongming Demon King Zhan Yunkai observed the negotiations between the Wan Yao Alliance and the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau from afar. He believed that the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau, which had just had a council member exposed as being contaminated by the Infinite, was unreliable. The matter of contacting Shenying should be handled by the Wan Yao Alliance and could absolutely not be conceded.]

[Tianshi Ji Yueming observed the negotiations between the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance from afar. She believed that the Wan Yao Alliance was too free and undisciplined, and had previously had the problem of traitors controlled by the Infinite infiltrating their ranks. The matter of contacting Shenying absolutely could not be handed over to the Wan Yao Alliance.]

[Zhan Yunkai and Ji Yueming decided that they had free time now and would go to Quancheng together for a hot spring vacation.]

Zhan Yan: …

Dad! Mom!

Is this really okay?

Both big shots thought the other’s organization was unreliable. After expressing their opinions, they put on their alternate accounts and went off to sweetly enjoy love and hot springs. Leaving poor Zoujin Kexue alone, not knowing how to balance this bowl of water.

Can’t find him! Can’t contact him! Can’t accept either mission!

Zhan Yan vented internally for five minutes, staring at the forum interface and continuing to worry.

Sigh, he could go crazy internally, but he couldn’t actually do it. If Shenying could cooperate with the two major organizations, it would be a good thing for everyone.

But how to choose? Could he find a way to get the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance to agree to cooperate on this matter?

Zhan Yan went through and sorted all the “gua strips” about the two sides arguing at the meeting table. Excluding the mutual attacks due to old grudges, the reason the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance couldn’t reach an agreement on this matter was mainly because of a fundamental difference in their proposed approaches to contacting Shenying.

The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau believed that the information Shenying possessed was more important. He was the one who understood the Infinite World the most. Why was the Infinite reviving? What did its revival require? What plans would it make? These and other questions had to be figured out no matter what. Only by knowing this would their actions not be passive.

The Wan Yao Alliance believed that Shenying as a person was more important. It was unrealistic to expect someone to pour their heart out and reveal all sorts of secrets upon first contact. The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau’s desire to use those “no matter what” methods was even more unreliable. Since there was an opportunity for contact and a common goal, they should first find a way to bring him into the fold. As for information and such, once he was on their side, they would get it sooner or later.

Zhan Yan could sense the subtle difference in the two sides’ attitudes towards Shenying from these two proposals. The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau’s side had a frank air of “as long as you give us the information, it’s fine if we don’t meet, and we can continue to go our separate ways.” For Shenying, who had always been in hiding, this proposal might have a higher feasibility.

However, when comparing this proposal with the Wan Yao Alliance’s, it seemed the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau had more trust in Shenying’s self-control, no longer seeing him as a ticking time bomb wandering outside. But they didn’t quite trust his ability to execute. Asking for all related information without requesting a meeting implied that the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau would create its own action plan based on this information, without Shenying’s involvement.

The Wan Yao Alliance’s proposal seemed to aim for a deeper, closer relationship with Shenying, but in the current situation, a deeper relationship could also be said to be deeper surveillance. Zhan Yan felt that the Wan Yao Alliance most likely had the idea of “surveillance.”

On the Wan Yao Alliance’s side, there was a burly man over two meters tall participating in the negotiations. He became emotional during the process: “Where has your Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau’s controlling style gone? Are you just going to let a dangerous figure like Shenying off so easily? Letting him wander around freely is a very irresponsible act!”

Zhan Yan looked at his emotional “gua strips” and was a little curious. What kind of loss had he suffered at Shenying’s hands? His reaction was like a stress response.

But this was not the time for eating gua. Zhan Yan became even more worried looking at this point of divergence. The two sides’ proposals were fundamentally different, with no possibility of cooperation. How should he choose?

Just as he was worrying, Zhan Yan saw the red dot of a private message from “I Just Saved the World!”.

Zhan Yan’s eyes lit up.

That’s right, he could just ask Shenying directly! Whichever side Shenying wanted to meet, he would negotiate with that side.

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