GRMFBS CH159

To achieve his wish of his boyfriend meeting his parents sooner, Zhan Yan worked hard scrolling through gossip entries every day.

One day, the “Did You Have Gossip Today?” group dropped a big piece of news on him.

Mysteries Book: “How is your investigation of the Monster Doctor going?”

Love Pineapple Buns: “Found nothing.”

“Only some old news obtained from Infinite players, which you probably all know.”

Chewing Big Melons: “Me too. This guy’s pollution is too heavy, simply like a mobile black nest.”

Too Lazy to Choose Username: “What’s the situation with this guy? I have no progress either, dare not investigate deeply.”

Happy Guessing Game: “Plus one.”

Waltz: “Plus one.”

Chewing Big Melons: “@Approaching Science Keke, aren’t you also investigating him? Any progress?”

During their investigation of the Monster Doctor, they sensed that this guy had a deep connection with Infinite. The pollution was as heavy as a swamp; they didn’t dare to investigate freely.

This was completely different from treating Approaching Science’s information barrier as a daily task to grind before. Approaching Science had no pollution; if they failed, at most they would be traced back by him. But the Monster Doctor’s information pollution was very heavy, forcing them to be constrained.

Approaching Science: “None.”

“[Dejected Kitten]”

Pure White Puzzle: “Hehe [Arms Akimbo]”

Happy Guessing Game: “Baibai, you found something?”

Chewing Big Melons: “Boss, teach me!”

Waltz: “Boss, teach me!”

Approaching Science: “Boss, teach me!”

Pure White Puzzle: “Aoao and I found it together.”

“His traces appeared on the internet, and we are continuing to track.”

Happy Guessing Game: “Then we need to find network types, right?”

Pure White Puzzle: “Network types are hard to find.”

“[Sigh]”

When information types investigated news, they faced information pollution. Network types searching for relevant anomalies directly on the internet would face the opponent’s counterattack more directly than them.

Zhan Yan suddenly remembered an anomaly he found when he first entered the forum—Teenager’s Resentment.

This was a growth-type anomaly. He tried to investigate the source of this anomaly back then, but because the time the Gossip System could scroll back was limited, he couldn’t find it.

Now his Gossip System had been upgraded several times; maybe he could find something.

Mysteries Book: “Many hidden growth-type anomalies have appeared on the internet. @Approaching Science, I suspect they come from the same place as Teenager’s Resentment.”

Although he said “suspect”, Tu Yue could actually confirm it. Teenager’s Resentment was now in the hands of the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau. They compared it with the anomalies recently caught on the internet and researched, confirming that their transformation from ordinary anomalies to growth-type anomalies all underwent similar modifications.

Zhan Yan started searching with the Gossip System.

When he just discovered Teenager’s Resentment, he hadn’t had the Gossip System for long, had no corresponding keyword matching search, and could at most scroll back less than a year.

The Gossip System, upgraded several times, was very useful. Scrolling all the way back to five years ago, Zhan Yan found the reason why Teenager’s Resentment turned into a growth-type anomaly.

[Chronicle of the World transformed the anomaly “Teenager’s Resentment” into a growth-type anomaly in an experiment. “Teenager’s Resentment” kicked Chronicle of the World, who was not a teenager, off the internet.]

Zhan Yan: This villain is a bit funny.

He started searching for “Chronicle of the World” (Ji Shi Lu). This was a term he hadn’t encountered before. He first dragged this term into the favorites column, and it was automatically classified into the “Spirit” sub-column.

Not a persona of the Monster Doctor. The Monster Doctor was classified in the “Anomaly” sub-column; this “Chronicle of the World” still belonged to normal living beings.

Zhan Yan tried to use “Chronicle of the World” as a keyword for retrieval. The retrieved content was better than that of the Monster Doctor, but there were also a large number of [Loading…] gossip entries.

In the gossip entries that could be loaded recently, Chronicle of the World had been conducting research related to anomalies.

Zhan Yan tried searching with “Chronicle of the World” and “Monster Doctor” as keywords together.

The system loaded for a while and refreshed a melon:

[When the Monster Doctor and Chronicle of the World were persuading newcomers to join them, they painted a picture of the big pie (rosy future) after Infinite’s recovery together for the newcomers, and then fought because of uneven distribution of the big pie.]

[The Monster Doctor and Chronicle of the World had a falling out.]

Zhan Yan: …Pfft.

There were a bit too many gossip entries for Chronicle of the World. He first opened the forum to privately message Deep Shadow to ask, while slowly scrolling down the gossip entries.

Approaching Science: “Is there one called ‘Chronicle of the World’ among you players?”

Deep Shadow happened to be online.

I Just Saved the World!: “No impression.”

“I’ll go ask others.”

Zhan Yan estimated that this Chronicle of the World might not be a player. Someone who could cooperate with the Monster Doctor and then fall out couldn’t be a nobody among players. If Deep Shadow had no impression, someone with such a code name would be either from the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau or the black market, besides players.

Gu Jiancheng started contacting Retired Alliance Leader Zhuo Xun.

Zhuo Xun: “Chronicle of the World? There is such a player.”

Deep Shadow: “And?”

Zhuo Xun: “Boss, you don’t know him?”

Deep Shadow: “I never remember nobodies.”

Zhuo Xun: …

“Chronicle of the World previously ranked up to twenty-first on the leaderboard!”

He hadn’t even reached twenty-first in ranking before. The highest was only twenty-second.

Gu Jiancheng felt he had absolutely no problem.

Deep Shadow: “So what about twenty-first?”

“Wuxia novels write about the World’s Number One Blade; have you seen any novel write about the World’s Number Twenty-First Blade?”

Zhuo Xun: …Suddenly felt the boss made a lot of sense.

Someone like himself, who barely scraped into the top twenty-two at best, was probably just a passerby not even worthy of a name, right?

Sorrow came from within Zhuo Xun, and he ordered Zong Xiaoping to organize information on the twenty-first ranked nobody, Chronicle of the World, for him.

Zong Xiaoping: “Brother Zhuo, think about it from another angle. Boss Deep Shadow has no impression of the twenty-first ranked Chronicle of the World, but he remembers you!”

“Although you only ranked twenty-second, from this point of view, you are much stronger than Chronicle of the World!”

“How about it, Brother Zhuo? Feel honored?”

Zhuo Xun: …

Thank you so much, you closet fan of Deep Shadow!

…

Here, Zhan Yan closed the Gossip System after asking Deep Shadow. He planned to rest for a while before investigating again; he was going to eat with Gu Jiancheng later.

Just after the last class in the morning, Gu Jiancheng said a new window opened in the No. 2 Canteen, rumored to taste good, and messaged him asking if he wanted takeout.

Zhan Yan ordered the meal and waited for him in the professional classroom.

Classmates in the same professional classroom were playing games, a group of people shouting and screaming. After playing for a while, a classmate’s girlfriend from the next class came to get him for lunch. The gaming squad lost a member, and the rest couldn’t form a team.

These single dogs were heartbroken: “Women only affect the speed at which you draw your sword!”

The single dogs spotted Zhan Yan and started pulling him: “Zhan Yan, do you play Throne of Glory?”

This game was the one Qi Ye played with him before.

Zhan Yan: “I play, but I suck at gaming.”

“It’s okay, it’s okay, come play together. Watch brothers carry you to fly!”

Zhan Yan couldn’t refuse, logged in, and grouped into a team with them.

After this group of people saw his account level.

“You’re already in high-end matches.”

“Boss, you hide your light under a bushel!”

“This is called sucking?”

Zhan Yan: “I was carried up by a boss; I really suck myself.”

They didn’t believe it. Even if carried by a boss, to be carried to this level, he couldn’t be that bad.

After playing a round, they started to find it incredible.

“Which boss carried you here?”

“Must be a pro player, right?”

“I believe now that you really suck.”

“Go go go! What suck or not. Yan ah, for the sake of our brotherhood, introduce the boss who carried you!” The sports committee member was about to put an arm around his shoulder when he suddenly felt a chill from behind.

Looking back, Gu Jiancheng looked at him unfathomably, carrying two portions of takeout in his hand.

“What sucks?”

Gu Jiancheng took Zhan Yan’s phone to study. He hadn’t played this game.

Zhan Yan explained the game rules and skills to him. Several people queued for another round.

“Holy crap! Brother Gu, is this really your first time playing?”

“You’re lying, right?”

“Your unfamiliarity at the beginning wasn’t acting, right?”

“Boss, boss, one more round!”

Gu Jiancheng: “Not playing, time to eat.”

He specially bought the meal for Yanyan; it would get cold if they didn’t eat.

“…Men only affect the speed at which you draw your sword!”

Gu Jiancheng ignored the wailing of this group of single dogs. He felt a sense of crisis recently. They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but after Yanyan went home once and came back, why did it feel like he was even busier? Gu Jiancheng didn’t understand and was full of a sense of crisis, always feeling his attractiveness to Yanyan was declining! Who was attracting Yanyan’s attention more than him? Not to mention far away, who was that person taking Yanyan to play games?!

“Do you like playing games? I’ll carry you in the future.” Gu Jiancheng chatted seemingly unintentionally.

“It’s okay, haven’t played for a long time.” Zhan Yan wasn’t very interested in games. Before, he had his sister pecking at each other with him (two noobs playing), and Qi Ye, Little White Wolf Bai Ji, and a mysterious boss carrying him. Now his sister’s studio was busy, Qi Ye was busy with games, Little White Wolf was busy with Demon University coursework, and the mysterious boss “Sledgehammer Eighty” hadn’t been online for a long time either. Zhan Yan himself was also very busy recently.

Gu Jiancheng: “Why not playing anymore? Where is that person who carried you before?”

Zhan Yan looked up at him, raising his eyebrows.

Oh~ He’s jealous!

Gu Jiancheng’s ears turned red from his gaze, lips involuntarily pursing.

“That’s an employee of my sister’s studio; she’s busy with work now.” Zhan Yan smiled and bumped him with his shoulder, “You want to play this game? I’m almost quitting, I’ll lend you the account.”

Gu Jiancheng refused. Yanyan wasn’t playing, so what was he playing for alone?

However, the account was still forced on him.

“Be good, you play by yourself.” After teasing his boyfriend, Zhan Yan contentedly clicked open the Gossip System and started working!

Didn’t know if Deep Shadow finished asking about Chronicle of the World. It didn’t matter if he didn’t finish; he also wanted to talk to Deep Shadow about the Monster Doctor.

Gu Jiancheng who was left behind: …

So who is attracting Yanyan’s attention now?!

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