GRMFBS CH154

Zhan Yan: …

For some reason, he felt that his brother’s mode was somewhat familiar.

Zhan Yan couldn’t recall immediately why it felt familiar. But his brother sure was chatty; could it be that he was usually too stifled?

Although his brother and Xingxing seemed unable to get along, his brother loved talking when facing Xingxing; Xingxing was also most lively when with his brother, and it even expressed willingness to hunt and feed his brother in the future.

It had been tiring rushing around and filming these past two days. Zhan Yan yawned, turned off the light, and mumbled: “I’m relieved that you and Brother get along so well. Get along well when I’m not home.”

Xingxing scrambled up instantly, cat eyes round.

Get along well? How did you see that?!

Who gets along well with him?!!

Zhan Yan extended his arm and pressed it back down: “Don’t fuss, sleep.”

The next day was Saturday, and Zhan Yan could still stay at home for two days. The raw footage shot yesterday came out, and the behind-the-scenes clips were also out. The project manager thought the effect was good, and seeing no reason not to use their own little boss, called him to the company again.

When Zhan Yan arrived at the company, the manager coaxed him into doing a motion capture session while he was at it.

Zhan Yan: “What is motion capture?”

The manager explained that motion capture, or mocap for short, simply meant he needed to wear a special suit and perform actions as required, and his movements could then appear on the character model.

Zhan Yan tried to refuse but failed. The manager believed their little boss’s behind-the-scenes clip from yesterday was excellent, and hearing that he worked out long-term, doing actions shouldn’t be a problem, so he dragged their little boss into it.

After Zhan Yan tried a few times, the manager had to admit that the money for hiring a motion capture actor couldn’t be saved.

Zhan Yan breathed a sigh of relief after taking off the hot and tight mocap suit. He wasn’t familiar with this part of the company, and seeing everyone was quite busy, he didn’t ask anyone to show him around and just wandered around by himself.

Halfway through his wandering, a scream suddenly came from behind a room door in the corridor.

Zhan Yan shuddered in fright.

Employees passing by nearby also shivered, all turning their heads to look.

The doorknob was shaking frantically, as if something inside wanted to get out, and hoarse cries for help came from within.

Zhan Yan tried to open the door.

Regardless of what was inside, saving people came first. He had his mother’s thunder talisman on him, so he wasn’t afraid even if it was something supernatural.

Zhan Yan twisted the handle for a long time but couldn’t open it. He asked the employees who had gathered around: “Who has the key? Call them over quickly.”

The manager had already heard the commotion and ran over, panting as he saw the room: “This room has always been locked. The key is with Luo Luoluo.”

“Call her to bring the key quickly. What is this room for?” Zhan Yan asked towards the inside of the room again, “Hey, how are you doing?”

The manager went to call someone. While the call hadn’t connected yet, he explained rapidly: “This room has always been locked, no one is allowed in. I don’t know what it’s for either.”

This description sounded very reassuring! Zhan Yan already saw that the nearby employees’ expressions weren’t right, probably associating it with classic horror themes like “Big company secretly conducting illegal experiments”.

Zhan Yan knew his mother’s company definitely wouldn’t have such problems, but he was worried that inside were things related to his mother’s Tianshi persona.

It was unknown how the person inside got in or what they encountered inside.

This person was crying and screaming, thrashing about for a long time, and even trying to smash the door.

Zhan Yan managed to calm the person down with great difficulty. Hearing many voices outside, the person recovered a bit and choked out: “I… I’m okay. Don’t… don’t leave. Please… please.”

“We won’t leave.” Zhan Yan continued to ask, “Who are you? How did you get in?”

The person inside was vague and couldn’t explain clearly.

Zhan Yan had already opened the Gossip System and started searching.

[Commercial spy Lu Xiong heard that Shoude Company had a secret room that no one was allowed to enter. Convinced that it must hide Shoude Company’s unspeakable secrets, he decided to sneak in and dig up Shoude Company’s leverage.]

Whoa! So this is an enemy thief!

Zhan Yan instantly lost the intention to comfort the other party and prepared to call security.

Luo Luoluo arrived with the key and security guards at the same time.

Zhan Yan asked in a low voice: “Sister Luoluo, what’s in here?”

He hadn’t had time to search in the Gossip System yet.

Luo Luoluo hesitated: “Nothing much, just some things the boss bought.”

Hearing her vague manner, Zhan Yan couldn’t help but start worrying.

Could there really be some things related to his mom’s persona inside?

“Stop watching, everyone back to your posts.” Luo Luoluo dispersed the onlookers and used the key to open the door.

It didn’t open.

Luo Luoluo: “Huh? It is this key.”

She tried several times but couldn’t open it.

The person inside said weakly: “Maybe… maybe the lock is broken.”

Then there was no other way but to call a locksmith.

Luo Luoluo made a call and asked someone to check the surveillance.

While the locksmith was unlocking the door, Zhan Yan finally refreshed the gossip entry about this room.

Inside were sculptures by his sister, Zhan Suiru. When his sister first opened her studio, their parents were intimidated by her works and were very worried that this child’s passion couldn’t support herself, so they disguised themselves as clients to secretly buy her statues.

The bought statues couldn’t be hidden at home as they were easily discovered. Ji Yueming reserved a separate room in the company to store Zhan Suiru’s statues.

Because these statues were too ugly and sore to the eyes, Ji Yueming asked Luo Luoluo to lock this room up.

Commercial spy Lu Xiong picked the lock and sneaked in. Afraid of being discovered, he dared not turn on the lights, using his phone for illumination. At a glance, he saw a monster with twisted limbs. Due to the changes in light and shadow, it seemed to be moving, scaring him to the ground on the spot.

While scrambling up, he accidentally bumped into a sculpture next to him. Turning his head, he came face to face with a sculpture covered in many eyeballs, screaming in terror.

Lu Xiong screamed while crawling towards the door. During the crawl, his collar was hooked by a sculpture. Thinking a monster grabbed him, he was almost scared out of his wits.

Luo Luoluo’s surveillance check also came out, proving that Lu Xiong sneaked in by picking the lock. She tried to question Lu Xiong about who sent him.

Lu Xiong was badly frightened and spoke incoherently. Although he tried hard to hide his identity, he still accidentally let slip his identity as a commercial spy.

While fiddling with the lock, the locksmith couldn’t help gossiping with Zhan Yan: “Is this commercial warfare? How did you manage to set a trap in advance to catch him?”

Zhan Yan: “…We didn’t set a trap.”

Who could have thought that his sister’s sculptures had this effect.

The locksmith didn’t quite believe it and asked again: “What did you put in the room? To scare a person like this.”

Zhan Yan: “Don’t know how he scared himself like that, haha…”

Lu Xiong cried for a while then started begging the locksmith to be faster, begged for a while, saw the door still wasn’t open, and started crying again.

The locksmith got annoyed by his urging. Having fiddled for two hours without opening it: “This lock is broken too badly, the structure is twisted. You guys should call the firefighters.”

Luo Luoluo had no choice but to call the firefighters again.

The locksmith didn’t leave, saying: “Let me see if it works?”

After a while, firefighters and police arrived together.

Luo Luoluo wondered: “I didn’t call the police.”

She had almost questioned Lu Xiong about his bed-wetting childhood during these two hours.

Inside the door, Lu Xiong choked: “Officer… officers, I… I called the police.”

Luo Luoluo: “…You are a commercial spy and you called the police to arrest yourself?”

Lu Xiong: “Boohoo… please, get me out quickly. Arresting me is fine too. It’s too terrifying inside.”

The firefighters checked and found the door lock was deformed from the inside and couldn’t be removed, so they could only dismantle it by force.

The police stayed aside to inquire about what happened. After watching the surveillance and listening to the recording, they confirmed this was a case where a thief accidentally locked himself in a room.

The police officers were also very curious: “What do you keep in this room? How did it scare someone like this?”

Luo Luoluo was vague: “Just some artworks collected by our boss.”

Although Luo Luoluo tried hard to protect her boss’s reputation and everyone’s eyes, the police officers still had to do their duty. After the sobbing Lu Xiong was rescued, they went into the room to search.

This search silenced everyone.

Zhan Yan also took a look. His sister’s early style was not quite the same as now. The sculptures he saw with director Ji Lele before were a bit stream of consciousness, but the sculptures in this room were relatively realistic, more like bringing terrifying monsters from fantasy into reality.

It was unknown what materials his sister used. The texture of the monsters’ skin, flesh, and bones was very realistic. Some eyeballs were transparent, looking like they were watching you from every angle. When the light changed, it even seemed like the eyeballs were turning.

Lu Xiong clung to the police officer and refused to let go: “Boohoo… don’t go, don’t go in, I beg you.”

Police officer: “Nowadays, rich people’s tastes are quite unique, huh.”

Zhan Yan: His mom and sister’s reputations couldn’t be saved after all.

The company was busy dealing with the commercial spy matter and comforting employees to prevent strange rumors from spreading in a couple of days.

Zhan Yan went home by himself. His brother and sister were not there, only the lively Xingxing treating him like a cat tree to climb.

Zhan Yan took out his phone and shared with Gu Jiancheng the joy of “Commercial spy thought locked room had secrets, sneaked in, and got scared to tears by sculptures” today.

Gu Jiancheng was in a good mood receiving the message. After laughing together, he asked when Zhan Yan would return.

Zhan Yan: “Going back tomorrow afternoon.”

Gu Jiancheng: “I’ll pick you up.”

Zhan Yan: “Okay.”

Gu Jiancheng, who could see his boyfriend tomorrow, was very happy. After the communication ended, he was even more motivated to clean up anomalies.

Zhan Yan drove the Gossip System while petting the cat with eyes closed. Boss Deep Shadow really didn’t let people rest, sending him a new address to check for anomalies again.

Because the boss was generous with points, besides checking anomalies, Zhan Yan thoughtfully calculated an optimal action route for him, ensuring he could finish all tasks in one trip with the shortest time and distance.

Boss Deep Shadow worked happily and sent tasks even more frequently.

Zhan Yan simply stayed on the forum. He did tasks when Deep Shadow sent them, and browsed the forum’s chit-chat section when there were no tasks.

Relevant posts had already appeared in the forum:

{@I Just Saved the World! What’s going on? He cleared anomaly tasks in several regions in a row!}

3L:
OP is new, right? Get used to it early. This boss goes crazy every now and then. He does anomaly tasks differently from ordinary people; he sweeps a whole area at once. It started many years ago.

LZ:
No, didn’t you guys check the task area?
I know he has this habit. But he used to sweep only one area at a time. Last time he also stopped after sweeping Beiling City.
This time he swept several places in a row!

7L:
Seeing this post, I thought I posted it.
I’m in Yidong. Recently wanted to farm some anomalies to save points. Just took a task and found it was completed. Found out it was I Just Saved the World! After doing the task, I shifted regions and took tasks in neighboring Nandidao.
Less than half an hour after taking it, while I was checking where the target was, the task was completed again. Checked, and it was I Just Saved the World! again.

8L:
Then I ran to Yuanping Port to take tasks. Just drove to the place, before I could do the task, it was completed! It was I Just Saved the World! again!!!

9L:
Upstairs is a bit miserable, haha.
Wasn’t he doing tasks in Nandidao? How did he run to Yuanping Port without finishing sweeping Nandidao?

10L:
He finished sweeping! I checked the task records on the spot. He finished sweeping all tasks in Nandidao while I was driving from Nandidao to Yuanping Port, can you believe it?

11L:
Real or fake? How is that possible?

12L:
Go check the records in the task area yourself. He averages one and a half hours to sweep a region. I ran for half a day for nothing, didn’t catch a single task.

Zhan Yan felt a faint sense of embarrassment.

Sigh, as long as he is still searching nearby, probably can’t catch the next tasks either.

Deep Shadow sent a message again. Just as Zhan Yan planned to start checking, he noticed the content this time wasn’t a task location.

I Just Saved the World!: “Rest for a bit.”

Approaching Science: “Okay boss.”

“Boss, how is your condition?”

Deep Shadow wouldn’t be unable to hold on from sweeping too many tasks, right?

Is his healing-type boss lover there? Don’t let the sequelae flare up.

I Just Saved the World!: “I am very good.”

Zhan Yan was afraid this boss was being stubborn, so he checked in passing.

[Deep Shadow worried that Approaching Science couldn’t hold on facing a large amount of anomaly information pollution in a short time, so decided to pause cleaning anomalies and take a break.]

Oh my, Boss Deep Shadow is rarely thoughtful. Zhan Yan was slightly touched and readily decided to take a break.

While resting, he continued to browse the post from just now.

14L:
Holy crap! It’s true!

15L:
Is I Just Saved the World! this fierce?

16L:
The time doesn’t add up no matter how you calculate. 24 anomaly tasks in Nandidao, all in different areas. Even if the boss averages 3 minutes per task including travel and solving anomalies, that would take 72 minutes. Looking at the task completion record times, he had less than fifteen minutes left to get from Nandidao to Yuanping Port.

17L:
Less than fifteen minutes should be fine, right? Driving is slow of course, but with abilities, this speed is totally achievable. This at most proves I Just Saved the World! has long-distance rapid movement abilities.

18L:
No, I haven’t finished typing.

19L:
Solving anomalies and traveling are calculated based on the boss being super strong and compressing time as much as possible, but what about his time searching for anomalies? Our tasks don’t have navigation; many just give a trace of suspected anomaly. People who have done this kind of task know that many deep-hiding anomalies take several days just to investigate.

20L:
Is I Just Saved the World!’s search ability also this strong?

21L:
Holy cow, this must be a hexagon warrior (all-rounder), right?
Super fierce combat power, fast speed, and strong search ability. What kind of all-rounder is this?

22L:
No! I don’t believe it!
If the boss is all-round, what am I? A little iron-blooded trash?

23L:
Upstairs hit where it hurts.

24L:
Too hurtful. I’m going to check the boss’s past task records.

25L I Just Saved the World!:
I have a collaborator. He is very amazing.

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