GRMFBS CH138

Gu Jiancheng had already instinctively shrunk back under the covers, pretending to still be asleep.

Zhan Yan: …

He quietly scooted over, preparing to poke Gu Jiancheng’s forehead.

However, the old metal bunk bed completely gave away his movements.

Gu Jiancheng sat up and honestly admitted his mistake: “I’m sorry.”

He thought he had woken Zhan Yan up with the poke.

Zhan Yan lowered his voice: “What was that about?”

Gu Jiancheng also whispered, “I was dreaming and accidentally swung my arm.”

Worried about waking their roommate, Zhan Yan said, “I’ll settle the score with you tomorrow morning.”

Right now, he had to figure out what was going on with the Apocalypse world.

Zhan Yan lay down, pretending to sleep, and began to frantically search with his Gossip System.

Gu Jiancheng also lay down, pretending to sleep, while his shadow incarnation quietly slipped out the window to investigate the disturbance.

Both the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance were holding emergency meetings. Mount Chaofu… Mount Chaofu mostly couldn’t organize a meeting.

Besides them, powerful figures from other organizations were also in action. In the “Did You Get Your Gossip Today?” group chat, a group of information-type bigwigs had also exploded with activity.

Zhan Yan had several interfaces open in his system at the same time, piggybacking on the discussion information from various meetings while frantically searching with the search bar.

By combining the information he gleaned and his own searches, Zhan Yan finally got a rough idea of what was happening.

Infinity was a multi-world conglomerate. Besides its main world, there were many small worlds under its control.

Twenty-six years ago, “Infinity exploded,” and what exploded was Infinity’s main world.

In this process, some small worlds were destroyed, while some survived. Because the main world was destroyed, these small worlds regained their freedom and were now drifting near their own world.

The situation with the Apocalypse world was rather special. It wasn’t destroyed, but it had died.

The death of a world meant that there were no longer any living beings inside it. No intelligent life, no beasts, no plants, no single-celled organisms, no viruses… nothing that could be called “alive,” and no ghosts either.

Zhan Yan couldn’t help but feel relieved. At least this way, he didn’t have to worry about Demons from the “Apocalypse” invading their world. Even without Demons, bacteria and viruses from another world could be very deadly.

The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance were also discussing this issue. After a small meeting between the two, they immediately contacted each other and started a joint meeting, even pulling in the Tie Lao Ghost King and the Minghe Ghost King. Their efficiency was extremely high.

No one was clear on the situation of the Apocalypse world. During the great war back then, everyone’s attention was on Infinity’s main world; no one could spare the energy to pay attention to a small sub-world.

The shared data laid out at the meeting came from the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau, which was the result of the Infinity Research Institute’s years of research on the “Apocalypse Fragment.”

Since the Tianshi and Deputy Director Ning Xi had swept through the Bureau like a plow, the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau was now operating with incredible efficiency. There was absolutely no opposition like “This is classified information and cannot be shared.”

The head of the research institute and some key researchers were invited. Everyone was looking at the data together, speculating on the current state of the Apocalypse world. They had to plan for the worst-case scenario.

Zhan Yan learned one piece of information from their discussion.

Every world has its own world barrier. The existence of the world barrier ensures the stability of the rules within the world. As long as there were no problems with the world barrier, even if the Apocalypse world made contact with their world, it would not affect the rules of their world. Effects like crustal movement and changes in gravitational acceleration would not occur.

But the problem was, their world’s barrier was damaged twenty-six years ago in the battle against Infinity.

Although the barrier had been continuously repairing itself over the past twenty-six years—partly through the world’s own self-healing, partly through the efforts of several great Demons in the Wan Yao Alliance, and a small part undertaken by the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau.

As great Demons born with divine powers, they were naturally closer to nature and better at repairing the world. The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau, on the other hand, focused more on clearing anomalies and maintaining the stability of the mortal world.

Although the two organizations were very much at odds, they had naturally achieved a complementary cooperation in these two matters.

Zhan Yan felt relieved after learning about the existence of the world barrier. As long as the physical rules wouldn’t change, that was good. Otherwise, he couldn’t imagine how many scientists would have a breakdown and how many instruments would be rendered useless. Even True Science News probably couldn’t cook up a “scientific” news story to cover this up.

But the others were still unclear about the situation in the Apocalypse world. They believed that their world’s barrier was still very fragile and could not withstand an invasion of anomalies from the Apocalypse world.

The bigwigs decided to set up a rotation schedule to monitor the situation at all times, in case they were caught off guard when the Apocalypse world made contact.

The Tianshi, as the top combat power, took the lead.

Ning Xi secretly sent a message to Ji Yueming. He was worried about her physical condition.

Although observations so far showed that Ji Yueming’s last release of thunder had no adverse consequences, this was based on the premise that she hadn’t used her powers even once since then.

It had been less than two months. He was worried that if Ji Yueming used her powers again in a short period of time, it would trigger the outbreak of latent consequences.

What’s more, for something like a monitoring shift, if you don’t act, that’s one thing, but if you do, it would probably be another release of thunder.

Ning Xi felt that Ji Yueming needed at least two more months of observation!

Ji Yueming calmly accepted the monitoring shift arrangement and replied to Ning Xi with “No problem.”

She had been idle for over a month. Although she enjoyed spending time with her children and dating Old Zhan, the thunder was constantly surging in her bones. The long period of inactivity often gave her the illusion of an itch. She could sometimes hear the sound of thunder clashing within her bones, faint yet deafening, telling her that they had not rusted, that they longed for release—the thunder never rests.

Ning Xi and her comrades-in-arms had always worried that her human will would crumble under the majestic power of the heavens’ thunder. But Ji Yueming didn’t think they had the ability to wear away her humanity, scatter her will, and turn her into a complete natural phenomenon—a bolt of lightning.

Her family, her loved ones, her friends, every event they experienced together in the past, every moment of joy, every warm feeling that rose from the bottom of her heart, had all become her most solid foundation.

Because of the existence of these people, Ji Yueming would absolutely not allow any existence to harm the world they lived in.

The Tianshi bigwig calmly prepared herself, but Zhan Yan, who was secretly piggybacking on the meeting, was not calm.

The Gossip System couldn’t read the inner thoughts of the bigwigs. Zhan Yan didn’t know that his mother actually felt her condition was very stable and even wanted to unleash a few thunderstorms to stretch her muscles. All he had was worry.

No! How can they let a patient… no, his mom isn’t a patient. But she’s still in a recovery period! How can they let his mom participate in the monitoring shift? She needs at least three full months of observation!

Zhan Yan’s train of thought, for once, coincided with Ning Xi’s. The difference was that Ning Xi couldn’t persuade a determined Tianshi, but “Approaching Science” could provide some useful information.

Zhan Yan began to urgently contact the administrator Ling Yu.

In the virtual conference hall, the person in charge was still explaining his research on the Apocalypse, the process of which was very much like an elementary school teacher giving a lesson to children.

The person in charge: “Everyone, please turn to page 35, paragraph 4. Okay, have you all found it? Pay attention. From the situation of the ‘Apocalypse Fragment,’ the ‘Apocalypse’ is full of anomalous Demons contaminated by Infinity. We have recorded and organized the observed anomalous Demons. The list will be distributed to everyone later.”

The person in charge spoke with great excitement. No researcher doesn’t hope for their research results to be displayed and recognized. And now, he was facing the top bigwigs in this world. Every one of them was listening to his explanation attentively, taking notes, and even waiting to ask questions later, looking forward to him answering their doubts.

This was really, too exciting!

Fortunately, he still remembered what the situation was and transformed his excitement into more focused and active thinking.

“But it is imperative to note that our research on the abilities and weaknesses of these Demons is very limited. The ‘Apocalypse Fragment’ is also just a corner of the Apocalypse world. This information can be used as a reference, but not fully trusted. The Demons that exist in the Apocalypse world will only be more numerous and stronger than what is recorded here…”

Just as he was halfway through his explanation, Nie Yu’s figure, composed of information flow, suddenly appeared in the virtual conference room.

“Sorry to interrupt you, Professor.” Nie Yu bowed slightly. “An urgent message. Just now, ‘Approaching Science’ suddenly contacted me and provided several important pieces of information. The authenticity of the information cannot be judged at this time.”

The person in charge, who was in high spirits…

Go on, go on.

Nie Yu:

“One, the contact time between the Apocalypse world and ours will be between three months and one year.”

“Two, the Apocalypse world is a dead world, with no life or souls left in it.”

“Three, there may still be residual contamination in the Apocalypse world.”

The third point was Zhan Yan’s own deduction. His Gossip System would become very sluggish whenever it encountered information related to Infinity.

The approach of the Apocalypse world this time was the same. The Gossip System had clearly sensed the anomaly in advance—otherwise, that [Loading…] gossip entry wouldn’t have appeared—but before the gravitational tide occurred, it just couldn’t load.

The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau obtained some corroborating evidence from the players they were in contact with.

The top players of Infinity could perceive the gravitational tide when two worlds approached each other; this was an experience they had had in Infinity. Some were more experienced, some had only experienced it once.

From the most senior player, they learned that after a gravitational tide appeared, the two worlds would make contact in as little as one month, or as long as two years.

Occasionally, there were cases where a gravitational tide appeared but no new world ever made contact. Those were the worlds that had luckily escaped from Infinity’s predation.

The bigwigs began to discuss the new information brought by “Approaching Science.” They unanimously agreed that the information provided by “Approaching Science” could be used as a reference, but they still had to prepare for the worst-case scenario.

Therefore, all arrangements remained unchanged.

Zhan Yan greatly admired their attitude.

But you guys can just push yourselves! Don’t bring my mom into it

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