GRMFBS CH138

Gu Jiancheng had instinctively shrunk back into his blankets rapidly, pretending he was still asleep.

Zhan Yan: …

He quietly shifted over, intending to poke Gu Jiancheng’s forehead.

However, the old iron frame bed completely exposed his actions.

Gu Jiancheng sat up and honestly admitted his mistake: “Sorry.” He thought Zhan Yan had been woken up by him poking him.

Zhan Yan lowered his voice: “What’s going on with you?”

Gu Jiancheng also kept his voice low: “I was dreaming and accidentally swung my arm.”

Zhan Yan was afraid of waking up their roommates: “I’ll settle the score with you tomorrow morning.” Right now, he had to figure out what was going on with the doomsday world first.

Zhan Yan lay down and pretended to sleep, starting to frantically search using the Gossip System. Gu Jiancheng also lay down and pretended to sleep, while a shadow avatar quietly slipped out along the windowsill to investigate what that earlier disturbance was.

The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance were both holding emergency meetings. As for Mount Chaofu… Mount Chaofu mainly couldn’t organize a meeting. Besides them, some powerful figures from other organizations were also taking action. In the “Have You Eaten Melon Today?” group chat, a bunch of information-type big shots had also exploded into activity.

Zhan Yan opened several interfaces simultaneously within the system, mooching the discussion information from everyone’s meetings while frantically searching with the search bar. By combining the mooched news and his own searches, Zhan Yan finally managed to roughly understand what had happened.

Infinite was a multi-world aggregate. Besides its main world, there were many small worlds under its control. Twenty-six years ago, “Infinite blew up,” and what blew up was Infinite’s main world. During this process, some small worlds were destroyed, and some small worlds survived. Because the main world was destroyed, these small worlds regained their freedom and were drifting near this world.

The situation with the doomsday world was quite special. It wasn’t destroyed, but it had died. The death of a world meant there were no living beings left inside it. No intelligent life, no beasts, no plants, no single-celled organisms, no viruses… nothing that could be called “living,” and no ghosts either.

Zhan Yan couldn’t help but sigh in relief. At least this way, he wouldn’t have to worry about monsters from the “doomsday” invading this world. Even without monsters, bacteria and viruses from another world were very deadly.

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

Everyone was unclear about the situation in the doomsday world. During the great war back then, all attention was on Infinite’s main world, and no one could spare the energy to pay attention to a small dungeon world. The shared data spread out at the meeting came from the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau; this was the Infinite Research Institute’s years of research on the “doomsday fragment.”

Ever since Tianshi and Deputy Bureau Chief Ning Xi had plowed through and cleaned up the Bureau, the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau now operated at an unimaginably high efficiency. There was absolutely no dissenting voice claiming “this is classified information, it cannot be shared.”

The head of the Research Institute and several key researchers were all invited. Everyone looked at the data together to speculate what the current situation of the doomsday world was; they had to plan for the worst-case scenario.

Zhan Yan learned a piece of information from their discussion. Every world has its own world barrier, and the existence of a world barrier ensures the stability of the rules within that world. As long as there were no problems with the world barrier, even if the doomsday world bordered this world, it wouldn’t affect the rules of this world. Crustal movements, changes in gravitational acceleration, and other such effects would absolutely not occur.

But the problem was, this world’s barrier was damaged during the battle with Infinite twenty-six years ago. Although the barrier had been constantly repairing itself over these twenty-six years—partly through the world’s own self-repair, 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 abilities, they were innately closer to heaven, earth, and nature, and were more adept at repairing the world. The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau, on the other hand, focused more of its energy on cleaning up anomalies and maintaining the stability of the living world.

Although the two major organizations deeply antagonized each other, they naturally reached a complementary cooperation on these two matters.

Upon learning of the existence of the world barrier, Zhan Yan felt at ease. It was fine as long as the laws of physics didn’t change; otherwise, he didn’t even dare to imagine how many scientists would have mental breakdowns or how many instruments would be scrapped. The True Science News Agency probably wouldn’t even be able to fabricate “scientific” news to cover it up.

But the others still weren’t clear about the situation of the doomsday world. They believed that this world’s barrier was still very fragile and couldn’t withstand an anomaly invasion from the doomsday world. The big shots decided to implement a rotating shift to monitor the situation at all times, preventing them from being unable to react in time when the doomsday world connected with theirs.

As top-tier combat power, Tianshi took the lead. Ning Xi secretly sent a message to Ji Yueming. He was worried about Ji Yueming’s physical condition.

Although from current observations, Ji Yueming’s last release of lightning didn’t produce any adverse consequences, this was built on the premise that Ji Yueming hadn’t engaged in combat even once since then.

It had been less than two months; he was worried that her engaging in combat again within a short period would cause hidden consequences to erupt.

Furthermore, for something like a rotating shift, if she didn’t act, it would be fine, but once she did act, it would likely mean another release of lightning. Ning Xi felt that Ji Yueming needed at least another two months of observation!

Ji Yueming calmly accepted the rotating shift arrangement, replying to Ning Xi, “No problem”. She had already been idle for over a month. Although spending time with her children and dating Old Zhan was very happy, the lightning had always been surging in her flesh and blood. Being unable to move for a long time often gave her the illusion of itching. Sometimes she could hear the sound of lightning crossing in her bones, faint yet deafening, stating that they hadn’t rusted yet, that they thirsted for release—lightning never ceases.

Ning Xi and her comrades-in-arms had always worried that her human will would disintegrate under the vast heavenly might of the lightning. But Ji Yueming didn’t think they had the ability to wear away her humanity, scatter her will, or turn her into a pure natural phenomenon—a bolt of lightning. Her family, her relatives, her friends, every event she experienced with them in the past, every instance of happiness, every warm emotion rising from the bottom of her heart, all transformed into her most solid foundation.

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

The big shot Tianshi had calmly made her preparations, but Zhan Yan, who was secretly eavesdropping on the meeting, was no longer calm. The Gossip System couldn’t pick up on a big shot’s inner thoughts. Zhan Yan didn’t know that his mom truly felt her state was extremely stable and even wanted to unleash a few thunderstorms to stretch her muscles; all he felt was worry.

Don’t do it! How could they let a wounded… wait, his mom wasn’t wounded. But she was still in the recovery period! How could they let his mom participate in the rotating shift? She needed to complete at least a three-month observation period!

Zhan Yan’s thought process rarely collided 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 Administrator Lingyu.

In the virtual meeting venue, the person in charge was still talking endlessly, explaining his research on the doomsday, looking very much like a primary school teacher giving a lesson to children.

Person in charge: “Please turn to page 35, paragraph 4. Okay, has everyone found it? Watch closely. Judging from the situation of the doomsday fragment, the ‘doomsday’ is filled everywhere with anomaly monsters polluted by Infinite. We have recorded and compiled the anomaly monsters we observed, and the roster will be distributed to everyone shortly.”

The person in charge spoke very excitedly. There wasn’t a single researcher who didn’t wish for their research results to be displayed and recognized. And right now, he was facing a group of the world’s most top-tier big shots, each and every one of them listening earnestly to his explanation, taking notes, and even waiting to ask questions later, expecting him to answer their doubts.

This was truly, overly exciting!

Fortunately, he still remembered the situation, and transformed his excitement into a more focused and active mindset.

“But please absolutely note, our research on these monsters’ abilities and weaknesses is very limited. The ‘doomsday fragment’ is merely a corner of the doomsday world. This data can serve as a reference, but cannot be fully trusted. The monsters existing in the doomsday 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, formed from a stream of data, suddenly appeared in the virtual meeting room.

“Apologies for interrupting you, Professor.” Nie Yu bowed slightly, “An urgent message. Just now, Approaching Science suddenly contacted me and provided several pieces of important information. Currently, the authenticity of the information cannot be determined.”

The person in charge, who was right in the middle of his excitement…

Please speak, please speak.

Nie Yu: “One, the time it will take for the doomsday world to border ours will be between three months to a year.” “Two, the doomsday world is an already dead world, with no life or souls remaining within it.” “Three, there might still be residual pollution in the doomsday world.”

The third point was Zhan Yan’s own deduction. His Gossip System would become very sluggish whenever it came into contact with Infinite-related information. It was the same for this approach of the doomsday world. The Gossip System had clearly sensed the anomaly beforehand—otherwise, that [Loading…] gossip thread wouldn’t have appeared—but it stubbornly couldn’t load it before the gravitational tide occurred.

The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau obtained some corroborating evidence from the players they contacted. Infinite’s top-tier players could perceive the gravitational tide when two worlds approached each other; this was an experience they had in Infinite. Some were more experienced, while others had only experienced it once. From the mouth of the player with the most seniority, they learned that after the gravitational tide appeared, it would take a minimum of one month and a maximum of two years for the two worlds to make contact. Occasionally, there were situations where a gravitational tide appeared but a new world never made contact; those were worlds that had luckily escaped from Infinite’s predation.

The big shots launched a discussion regarding the new information brought by Approaching Science. They unanimously agreed that the information provided by Approaching Science could serve as a reference, but they still needed to prepare for the worst-case scenario.

Therefore, all arrangements remained unchanged.

Zhan Yan greatly admired their attitude. But you guys involuting yourselves is enough! Don’t drag my mom into it!