GRMFBS CH157

Wan Yan finally escaped from the “Linyuan” doll’s clutches and no longer had the energy to covet the Wenyu Tree’s leaves. He found a stone of similar size and pressed a cat paw print on it.

Done!

Next, ship it. After Approaching Science receives it, he will go ask Approaching Science for more clues!

However, now that he has already remembered so much, Linyuan shouldn’t be angry anymore, right? He wants to go out to find Linyuan!

Oh right, this time he also remembered Bai Ze! They really were friends!

But Chongming said Bai Ze was already dead. Chongming brought him back to Chaofu Mountain to find traces of Bai Ze’s reincarnation in the River Styx.

He had already searched in the River Styx for a long time before and found nothing. If he continued to search for Bai Ze in the River Styx, he couldn’t leave Chaofu Mountain to find Linyuan. He could also wait to find traces of Bai Ze first before going to find Linyuan, but if he stayed, how long would it take to find traces of Bai Ze?

The River Styx was so vast, and there were so many reincarnating living beings, especially during that period.

Wan Yan swung his tail worriedly. The “Linyuan” doll, which had switched modes, looked down from above: “Humph, foolish little kitty, just a mere…”

Wan Yan suddenly raised his head, eyes brightening.

The “Linyuan” doll suddenly stopped, expression wary: “What do you want to do?”

“You go find Bai Ze!”

“Find what?”

“Go to the River Styx to find Bai Ze.”

Wan Yan became impatient. He suddenly leaped up and pounced the unresponsive “Linyuan” doll into the River Styx.

“Linyuan” doll: …

“You! Glug… you this… glug… stupid cat! Dum… glug, dumb cat!”

The River Styx Ghost King waved his sleeve, fishing both the “Linyuan” doll and Wan Yan the cat out of the River Styx.

“He’s just a doll; he doesn’t have the ability to work in the River Styx.”

Wan Yan was very disappointed. However, this opened up a new train of thought for him. He could first go out to find Linyuan, then come back with Linyuan to search for traces of Bai Ze from the River Styx together.

But now he was trapped in Chaofu Mountain and couldn’t get out at all. Damn it!

Wan Yan shook his fur unhappily. How exactly could he get out to find Linyuan?

The Iron Prison Ghost King also missed the Linyuan Ghost King.

Linyuan Ghost King had previously been able to stay and work for two consecutive days, but these past two days, for some reason, he started going back every day again. After going back several times, when he came back, he said he had new matters to handle and couldn’t come temporarily.

After experiencing a period when a reliable senior reduced a large amount of work, returning to working alone as one ghost was truly unbearable suffering. Although both were 007 schedules, the quality and efficiency of work were completely different!

Hopefully Senior Linyuan would go smoothly, finish soon, and come back to help soon!

Zhan Jinli was tracing the clues from the fish bait. He directly went to the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau to ask about the situation and learned from them all the material sources Yu Luo used to make the fish bait.

Zhan Jinli traced through everything and confirmed the problem was with the drunken fish grass used to make the fermentation starter.

He found that drunken fish grass plant.

The drunken fish grass grew by the water. It had now reached its flowering period, with strings of small pink flowers swaying in the wind, emitting a faint fragrance.

Large fish in the water leaped up with effort, bit a string of drunken fish grass flowers in their mouths, and fell back into the water. Before long, they floated on the water surface on their sides, drunk. The remaining small fish and shrimp that couldn’t leap up all pecked at the fine scattered petals, also losing consciousness one by one.

The water surface near this drunken fish grass plant was covered with floating fish and shrimp.

Zhan Jinli broke off a flower and brought it close to smell, frowning.

To other living beings, this fragrance was just an ordinary plant smell, but it had an irresistible temptation for aquatic creatures. This temptation had anomalous characteristics, but Zhan Jinli hadn’t been able to detect it in the fish bait before. Through the process of making fermentation starter, brewing wine, and then taking wine dregs to make fish bait, the anomalous characteristics had been worn down to extremely weak, but its temptation to aquatic creatures was retained.

Zhan Jinli reported this discovery to the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau.

Twenty-six years had passed. They were clearing anomalies, and anomalies were also hiding their existence through various means.

Besides this, Zhan Jinli also smelled a trace of familiar blood fragrance in the flower scent—the ghost blood qi from before his reincarnation.

Although his fish demon body died, the demon core remained in his ghost body, so his Ghost King body also carried some characteristics of the demon body.

As a great water demon walking the divine path, his flesh and blood, after being targeted and transformed, inevitably would produce attraction to the water tribe.

No wonder the Luoyu was tempted and hooked.

Zhan Jinli also thought of the curse scales he had traced before.

Did Infinite collect every piece of combat power information he could collect from this world to research these messy anomalies, or was it only targeting him alone? Was there something special about him to Infinite?

Zhan Jinli extended his hand, five fingers slightly curling. The entire drunken fish grass plant was instantly wrapped in yin energy and disappeared from the spot.

…

Zhan Suiru brought the fish bait back to the studio and analyzed the components with instruments. Earthworms, wine dregs, corn, sesame oil… and vitamin B.

Nothing else special. The others were all commonly used materials for making fish bait. Could it be vitamin B that tempted the Luoyu? Was this Luoyu lacking vitamins?

Couldn’t figure it out.

Zhan Suiru froze the fish bait as a backup. Anyway, no problems were found, and her brother returned to school and wouldn’t have any more contact with this thing, so leave it for now. Hmm… her brother also had a portion; she had to find a way to get it, couldn’t let suspicious items remain in her brother’s hands.

Her brother hadn’t shown a love for fishing before; could it be a newly cultivated hobby recently? Had he finished all those orders in his cake shop?

Zhan Suiru suddenly thought of how Zhan Jinli complained to their parents to make her go home to feed Xingxing. He himself went out at night and didn’t come home—wouldn’t it be for night fishing?

It’s just a new hobby; what can’t be said?

Thinking about it, she hadn’t seen Zhan Jinli bringing fish home recently either. Could it be he hadn’t caught any, so he was too embarrassed to say?

Zhan Suiru thought it was very possible.

Hmm… when she had time, she’d make a fishing rod. This year’s birthday gift for him would be set. Today she’d first mix a batch of fish bait and switch out that suspicious fish bait in her brother’s hands.

Zhan Suiru looked at her watch. At this time, Yanyan should be almost at the station. Before long, Yanyan’s birthday would also arrive. Their three birthdays were all set on the day they were adopted. Yanyan’s was in spring, earlier than both of them. What to give Yanyan this year…

Zhan Yan was doing tasks on the high-speed train.

Why else would people say Boss Deep Shadow was ruthless? He hadn’t stopped farming anomalies these past few days. In the time it took Zhan Yan to receive a message from Fang Pai, Deep Shadow caught him online and sent him anomaly addresses to check.

Might as well earn points.

After completing two tasks, Deep Shadow sent a message.

I Just Saved the World!: “That’s it.”

Approaching Science: “Not doing tasks temporarily?”

I Just Saved the World!: “Mm.”

“Not doing any today.”

Just right; Zhan Yan didn’t plan to continue either. His train would arrive in half an hour; he’d be busy tidying up after returning to school and temporarily wouldn’t have time.

Zhan Yan exited the Extraordinary Forum and used the Gossip System to search about the past events between Wan Yan Ghost King and Linyuan Ghost King in the remaining half hour. After receiving Wan Yan Ghost King’s Ghost King Seal, he could directly organize these clues and send them to him.

He wondered if Wan Yan Ghost King would return to normal after recovering his memory. Even if he didn’t recover, he’d definitely go find Linyuan Ghost King anyway. But whatever, it wasn’t his business. Let Linyuan Ghost King have a headache.

Zhan Yan carried his suitcase out of the station.

When going home, he carried a small bag; returning to school, it turned into a large suitcase. Undoubtedly, inside was all delicious food.

His dad made a pile of delicious food during those two days at home.

Dad was afraid he’d be busy again next and starve the picky eaters at home. He first made a large portion to stuff Mom’s company refrigerator full, then stuffed both the big refrigerator and freezer at home full.

Brother and sister couldn’t consume that much, so they stuffed a lot into Zhan Yan’s suitcase.

Just after exiting the station, Zhan Yan saw Gu Jiancheng.

He stood in the crowd, straight like a tree, his slender neck half-lowered, looking at no one, yet people around him involuntarily left him a small space.

Zhan Yan’s heart disobediently jumped twice, and a smile involuntarily appeared on his face.

Had to say, Gu Jiancheng’s tall height and that chuunibyou aura were special enough in the sea of people that he could be spotted at a glance.

Aya, still handsome!

Zhan Yan walked in that direction while waving. He didn’t expect Gu Jiancheng to spot him at a glance; quite a few people surged out of the station at once, all in motion. His height hadn’t reached the level of standing out like a crane among chickens.

But he had just raised his hand when Gu Jiancheng raised his head, looking precisely in his direction. The moment their eyes met, a gentle smile instantly unfolded on his originally expressionless face, eyes shining like stars.

Zhan Yan couldn’t help but walk quickly toward him. Exiting the barrier, they embraced each other.

Zhan Yan smelled the clean soap scent on him and couldn’t help but take a deep breath.

Turns out even with daily phone calls and immediately sharing interesting encounters, he still missed him very, very much.

He couldn’t help but start thinking of the vacation in a few months, thinking that they’d have to part then, thinking of the longing that would begin then.

But the matter of his parents’ personas hadn’t been resolved yet. This really wasn’t a good time to meet parents. What should he do? Or should he work hard to solve the problem of his parents dating while wearing personas early?

Returning to school, Zhan Yan sent a message in the family group to report his safe arrival.

His sister and brother were fighting in the group again.

The cause was that Zhan Suiru mixed a batch of fish bait to exchange with Zhan Jinli. Zhan Jinli refused to exchange; he still wanted to get back that half piece of fish bait in Zhan Suiru’s hands. If he’d known early on this thing was related to anomalies, he wouldn’t have given his sister this half piece.

After Zhan Suiru’s threats and inducements failed, she started tattling to their parents, saying her brother didn’t come home at night to go night fishing. Night fishing in the wild late at night was really too dangerous; as a younger sister, she was very worried!

Zhan Jinli: “?”

“What night fishing?”

Zhan Suiru: “If you’re not night fishing, why do you want fish bait?”

“If you’re not night fishing, why don’t you come home at night?”

Zhan Jinli: “Don’t you also not come home at night?”

“Didn’t you also take fish bait?”

“Do you also night fish?”

Zhan Suiru: “I’m staying at my studio.”

“Where are you staying?”

“Can your little cake shop accommodate people?”

“I gave the fish bait to my client who likes fishing.”

“Who could you give it to?”

Zhan Suiru lied with a straight face. Everyone in the family knew she had wide connections. What about her brother? Could that non-speaking socially anxious personality know anyone?

Zhan Yan suddenly remembered his brother’s other hobby… his brother liked to secretly stay alone in love hotels!

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