GRMFBS CH155

When Gu Jiancheng was resting and had nothing better to do, he began clearing out his backend inbox.

He didn’t have the habit of clearing his messages, so his inbox was constantly full year-round. After opening it, he casually clicked on the first thread that @’d him.

Heh, it was just cleaning up some anomalies, nothing more.

In the past, he didn’t have the energy to clean up so many at once; continuously using the Sea of Shadows placed too great a burden on his mind. But now that the aftereffects were gone, what was clearing a few anomalies?

Gu Jiancheng disdained stealing other people’s credit. Approaching Science’s information was accurate and fast, and they even mapped out the best route for him, making their cooperation completely worry-free.

However, he felt that Approaching Science didn’t need to take on any more tasks. Information-types were all afraid of pollution, and he had already given enough tasks, not to mention there was also the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance.

Thinking of them, Gu Jiancheng couldn’t help but click his tongue.

The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau raised so many information-types themselves yet still had to snatch up the outside ones, truly useless.

Zhan Yan also saw Deep Shadow’s replies on the forum. This big shot actually quite enjoyed browsing the forum while resting.

Ah, it was rare to hear this domineering, cool, and arrogant big shot praise someone. Zhan Yan felt a little smug.

Because I Just Saved the World! appeared in the forum, the thread quickly became lively.

26L: Big shot! Give us a way to live. I rushed from Nandi to Yuanping Port yesterday, and then from Yuanping Port to Shijiang, but I didn’t catch a single task, and spent hundreds on gas.

27L: Good heavens, I pity you. How many places did you crash into in a row?

28L: Big shot, could you at least state your next target so I can avoid it?

29L I Just Saved the World!: I am heading east.

When Gu Jiancheng previously left his marks, he had no fixed standard; he just prioritized the places with high suspicion and close proximity.

Now he was going to investigate the clues Zhuo Xun gave him, and conveniently clear out anomalies along the way.

30L: Thank you, big shot! I’ll go take tasks in the west right now!

31L: Hehe, you guys are still licking the boots of this kind of bully who forbids others from doing tasks wherever he goes. Is there something wrong with your brains?

Zhan Yan got angry seeing this weirdo and rolled up his sleeves, preparing to display his combat prowess, but new floors refreshed right after.

32L: Laughable. Aren’t tasks just for whoever has the ability to do them? If you have the ability, go do them.

33L I Just Saved the World!: I didn’t forbid it. You can come.

34L: Hahahaha even if he goes, he won’t be able to catch up. Anomalies aren’t good things anyway, isn’t it a good thing that a big shot can clear them? If you don’t have enough ability, just go take on simple tasks. What, are the people who posted the tasks supposed to endure the anomalies’ existence just to wait for you to come get the points?

35L: I posted one of the tasks in Shijiang. Because the points were low and there were few clues, no one ever took it. Even though this wandering anomaly wouldn’t pose a threat to my life, it has troubled me for a long time. Regardless, I am very grateful to the big shot for completing the task and not disdaining the few points I could offer.

36L: Hahahaha you should go then, he didn’t stop you from going. Who can you blame if you can’t complete the task yourself?

Zhan Yan’s anger dissipated.

Seeing Deep Shadow’s calm reply, his style was quite different from before; he actually didn’t directly retort. He got the feeling that Deep Shadow was in a really good mood today?

39L: Hey, hey, hey, aren’t any of you curious about who the big shot’s collaborator is? An average of more than twenty anomaly information searches in an hour and a half is super terrifying, okay?

40L: It’s useless to ask. Either way, it’s an information-type big shot I can’t afford to hire [Doge]

41L: Upstairs, that depends on what kind of task you have. I posted that 30-point task in the big shot’s completion record. My supernatural power isn’t very useful, and I can’t save up many points, so I could only offer that much. The task hung there for months with no one resolving it. The big shot did it for me. I sincerely want to thank the big shot I Just Saved the World! and the other information-type big shot here. Thank you so, so much!

46L: The ability to investigate one anomaly every 4 or 5 minutes on average… there aren’t many information-type big shots in the forum with this capability, right? You don’t even need to dig deep to narrow down the scope.

48L: @I Just Saved the World! Begging for an introduction, I urgently need a powerful information-type collaboration.

51L Gnawing Big Melons: Do you guys think this information-type’s terrifying strength is solely in their search speed? Don’t forget that information-types have to face information pollution when investigating anomaly news. With I Just Saved the World!’s anomaly clearing speed, which information-type could withstand being used by him?

52L: @Gnawing Big Melons! The big shot appears! Big shot, which information-type do you think it is?

53L Gnawing Big Melons: I forgot to switch to my alt account while eating melons… Forget it. Don’t ask, even if you ask I don’t know. Anyway, I don’t have this ability.

54L: Just how many big shots are diving in this thread to eat melons?

55L: Are there any other big shots who can help us analyze it? Alt accounts are fine too.

57L: I suspect there’s more than one collaborator.

58L: But didn’t I Just Saved the World! say “he is very impressive”? That confirms it’s just one collaborator, right?

60L: How strong must their pollution resistance be?! Or is there also a healing-type big shot who can clear pollution?

68L: @I Just Saved the World! Big shot, please answer! Begging for an introduction!

69L: Stop asking, go look at the task section, they’ve already continued clearing anomalies.

There were really quite a few people diving in this thread to eat melons. After Zhan Yan sent the new anomaly information to Deep Shadow, he was madly @’d in the “Did You Eat Melons Today?” group.

Gnawing Big Melons: [@Approaching Science, Ke Ke, is the collaborator mentioned by I Just Saved the World! in this thread you?]

Gnawing Big Melons: [[Link]]

Waltz: [It should be, right? With I Just Saved the World!’s stinky temper, only Ke Ke could collaborate with him.]

Waltz: [We are all people who have been rejected.]

Too Lazy to Name: [We are all people who have been rejected.]

Happy Guessing: [We are all people who have been rejected… no, what do you mean rejected? It was clearly that psycho I Just Saved the World! who actively sought us out to mock us, okay?]

Pure White Puzzle: [Wuwuwu, not being able to compare to them in information searching is one thing, but to not even be able to compare in anti-pollution ability.]

Pure White Puzzle: [I’m a lemon, I’m a lemon! @Approaching Science We’re breaking off our friendship for one second! Unless you hand over your method for resisting pollution!]

Love Eating Pineapple Buns: [@Approaching Science I’m different, I choose to cling to your thighs.]

Love Eating Pineapple Buns: [Big shot, begging to know how you solved the information pollution problem?]

Pure White Puzzle: […Bo Bo, you! Friendship severed!]

Pure White Puzzle: [@Approaching Science Ke Ke, I can cling to your thighs too!]

The more powerful an information-type was, the more severe the information pollution they faced; there wasn’t a single one who didn’t covet a method to solve pollution.

Tu Yue was diving in the group using his Book of Secrets alt, thinking to himself that even if they managed to ask Approaching Science for this method, they could only continue being lemons (jealous). In the Bureau, the siblings Nie Ling and Nie Yu had already been envious, jealous, and hateful for a long time, routinely subjected to Approaching Science’s unintentional humblebrags.

Approaching Science: [Um… I’m not sure either. I’ve always been like this.]

Gnawing Big Melons: [What do you mean you’ve always been like this? Is it what I think it is?]

Gnawing Big Melons: [Ke Ke, have you never felt pollution?]

Approaching Science: [Not exactly, I don’t know if it counts as pollution either.]

Approaching Science: [Sometimes when I use my ability too much, I can’t use it anymore.]

Pure White Puzzle: [And aside from that? No other feelings?]

Approaching Science: [Nope.]

Pure White Puzzle: [Ahhhhh I’m jealous!]

Pure White Puzzle: [When I use my ability too much, I can’t use it either. But that’s because my head hurts so much that I can’t use it.]

Waltz: [The gap between such a big shot and us mortals…]

Too Lazy to Name: [So full of grief and indignation I want to smash my head against a wall!]

Too Lazy to Name: [Is there really no exclusive method to solve pollution?]

Too Lazy to Name: [I’m willing to trade a large price for it.]

If this chat continued any further, things were going to go bad. Approaching Science really didn’t have any exclusive secret manual, but others might not necessarily believe that. Tu Yue spoke up to intercept.

Book of Secrets: [I roughly know the reason.]

Happy Guessing: [Ao Ao! You knew about such a huge treasure and didn’t say it sooner!]

Book of Secrets: [It’s not that I wasn’t saying it, it’s that even if I said it, it’s very difficult to achieve.]

Book of Secrets: [Approaching Science’s lack of fear toward pollution is very likely related to merit.]

They all knew the word “merit,” but to this group of people who stepped into the supernatural through awakening abilities, the word was rather unfamiliar. The group that followed the cultivation system was more familiar with it.

Book of Secrets: [You all haven’t researched much into cultivation, so you aren’t familiar with this.]

Book of Secrets: [Merit is a gift from the world.]

Book of Secrets: [After what happened twenty-six years ago, everyone should be clear that the world is alive and possesses its own will. Cultivators call it the ‘Heavenly Dao’.]

Book of Secrets: [It knows everything that happens to it, and it is also willing to give back to those worthy of being rewarded.]

Pure White Puzzle: [Can merit solve information pollution?]

Book of Secrets: [Yes.]

This research was proposed by Ning Xi. The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau had been researching it for many years and could confirm this result; there just hadn’t been a suitable time to make it public.

Book of Secrets: [Merit can solve information pollution.]

Book of Secrets: [Clearing anomalies can earn merit.]

Book of Secrets: [But our world was heavily injured twenty-six years ago, and the merit it can give back to us cannot offset the pollution we face when investigating anomalies.]

This was why the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau hadn’t made it public.

If the pollution faced during the process of clearing anomalies was a 10, the pollution that the merit rewarded by the world could offset was only a 1. Twenty-six years had passed, and the current situation was much better than back then, but from the perspective of pollution, the effort and reward were still unequal.

Most people couldn’t feel that reward. Even if this research result was made public, they would only suspect that the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau was trying to trick them into clearing anomalies.

Just looking at the result of that thread from earlier made it obvious.

The person who offered 30 points originally replied with the intention to thank them, but after this reply appeared, some anomaly tasks in the areas heading east from Shijiang had their points lowered or were simply canceled altogether.

These people were thinking that since they could use the labor of these two people to clear pollution at a low price or for free, why should they continue to spend high prices?

Tu Yue went to check the task section; I Just Saved the World! and Approaching Science didn’t care at all and were still continuing their steady cleanup.

But the world would not mistreat people.

If one lacked the strength to clear anomalies, being willing to offer points was also considered exerting effort. As long as one was willing to exert effort, there would be merit.

Those who didn’t care about the gain or loss of points would not be made to suffer losses by heaven and earth.

The wisdom of the world’s will would only be greater than that of all living beings, not less.

The use of merit wasn’t solely for clearing pollution; it would provide the best arrangements in places unknown to people.

Those of them who used supernatural powers didn’t feel it deeply, but the cultivators understood this aspect much better than them.

As a librarian for the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau, Tu Yue had seen a lot and slowly comprehended it.

Tianshi narrowly escaped death twenty-six years ago. After that, she endured a state of neither life nor death, often relying on seals to stabilize her physical condition. There were even a few times when she had to be trapped in a specially-made sealing room for consecutive months just to survive.

Twenty years ago, when Tianshi wanted to marry her lover, the Bureau was completely opposed to it. But what about now?

Her family became her strongest anchor. Last time, after she fully unsealed herself at the Infinite Research Institute, she only needed to wear an inhibitor for a few days.

Ning Xi and Tianshi’s teammates had always been worried about her condition and were unwilling to let her fight. As an outsider, Tu Yue could actually see it clearly.

For a cultivator at Tianshi’s level, she had the deepest feelings about her own condition. She felt it was fine and wanted to fight because her condition had indeed been steadily stabilizing day by day over the past twenty-six years.

There was just one thing that still made people a bit worried: Tianshi’s lover and children were all ordinary people with limited lifespans. In the future, if there came a day they had to part, who knows what would happen.

However, Tu Yue believed that heaven and earth must have already made arrangements.

Just like Deep Shadow.

Perhaps this was exactly how Deep Shadow waited and received his healing.