GRMFBS CH164

His Majesty the Chongming Demon King failed to seize the opportunity.

Zhan Yan’s system backup gained another piece of his dad’s dark history.

Zhan Yan was worried sick and tried very hard to be impartial and comfort his jealous Demon King dad.

It’s too hard, these days are really too hard. Didn’t you appreciate the Tianshi very much? You even helped when the Tianshi destroyed the Unlimited Research Institute before. You praised the Tianshi to others, saying things like “soul shining brightly.”

You praised her like that, but you won’t let me praise her!

Zhan Yan was very tired mentally.

The mentally tired Zhan Yan decided to chat with his sister.

Zhan Suiru just woke up from a dream with a start.

The puppet butler gently shook her shoulder: “Are you okay?”

Zhan Suiru’s pupils constricted, grabbing his wrist.

The puppet butler didn’t move: “Are you awake?”

Zhan Suiru slowly released his wrist: “What time is it?”

“It is 2:15 PM now. Are you okay?”

Zhan Suiru rubbed her temples: “Nothing, had a dream.”

As the apocalyptic world gradually approached, she began to sense its existence.

She started to dream, sometimes dreaming of deathly stillness and desolation, sometimes dreaming of when nothing had happened yet. At that time, her world was as vibrant as this world now. Her biggest worry every day was just the approaching deadline for her thesis, just like her growth experienced again in this world.

She just confused the two worlds in her dream, then the apocalypse arrived, and everything she owned collapsed instantly.

Rage and grief impacted her chest. She probably shouted in her dream or waved her arms, so Xiao Ran came to wake her up.

Zhan Suiru took a deep breath, and after recovering, she found Xiao Ran’s wrist frozen there at a strange angle.

Zhan Suiru: “…Sit here, I’ll fix it for you.”

“Why didn’t you make a sound when I broke your wrist?”

Puppet butler: “It won’t hurt.”

Zhan Suiru snorted.

Puppet butler: “You have a new message notification.”

Zhan Suiru: “Not looking.”

She finally finished those tasks and didn’t plan to take any orders for the time being.

The puppet butler paused: “It’s a message from your brother.”

Then I still have to take a look.

Zhan Suiru reinstalled the fixed wrist joint and clicked open her brother’s message.

Her brother shared various happy little things he encountered recently. The big geese in their school pinched a few thieves stealing eggs again, their senior bought thesis ghostwriting online but ended up buying from his own advisor, their teacher’s cat stopped a thief from entering the house by acting cute and spoiled…

Zhan Suiru couldn’t help laughing as she read.

Oh my, brother is so cute.

Zhan Suiru started gossiping with her brother.

She had been busy recently and had no fresh gossip, but she gave the bait she made to her brother (Zhan Jinli).

Zhan Yan saw it in the gossip system.

[Zhan Jinli received Zhan Suiru’s special bait as a gift, his eye corner twitching, momentarily unable to distinguish whether Zhan Suiru wanted to mock him for not catching fish or was serious.]

[Zhan Jinli sniffed the bait and felt it was quite fragrant.]

Zhan Yan was dying of laughter.

Fortunately, his brother didn’t really take a bite.

Zhan Jinli threw the bait Zhan Suiru gave him into the big freezer in the cake shop. He would take it out to feed the fish when he had a chance.

Recently he wasn’t in the mood.

Deep Shadow was too hustle!

Now his daily routine basically consisted of Deep Shadow making wishes to him, and then they would encounter anomalies in various postures, anomalies, idiots helping Unlimited recover, idiots helping Unlimited recover, Black Nests… fortunately no Black Nests.

Then Deep Shadow, this combat maniac, would start his performance, and after the battle, continue to make wishes to the Lin Yuan Ghost King.

Zhan Jinli felt Deep Shadow was like a wild boar out of the pen, dragging him, this half-dead salted fish, running wildly all the way.

This shouldn’t be.

He, a dignified Ghost King, how did he become a wishing machine?

Gu Jiancheng: “Hope we can finish dealing with this thing in peace next.”

“Stop for a moment.” Zhan Jinli couldn’t help stopping him.

Gu Jiancheng: “Can’t stand the consumption of your divine power?”

He stopped considerately. Although the Lin Yuan Ghost King didn’t contribute much in fighting anomalies, the investigation progress was so smooth thanks to his Interdependence of Fortune and Misfortune. The consumption must be considerable.

Zhan Jinli could still hold on, but he acquiesced.

He was afraid if he said he still had strength, Deep Shadow would drag him to continue being reckless.

“Interdependence of Fortune and Misfortune isn’t as simple as you think.” Zhan Jinli tried to explain something academic to him, “Safety and danger interchange, misfortune and fortune generate each other. Fortune and misfortune are like yin and yang, life and death, hardness and softness, coming and going in succession. Things will develop in the opposite direction when they become extreme; prosperity declines when it reaches its peak. Forcibly reversing fortune and misfortune will only invite greater disasters in the future.”

Gu Jiancheng was dizzy from his chanting: “Didn’t you transfer the fortune and misfortune of two worlds twenty-six years ago?”

Zhan Jinli: “So I’ve been paying the price for it for these twenty-six years.”

Living people fear death because everything before death will come to naught after death. A Ghost King reincarnating also needs to discard something. His divine power was uncontrollable, so for twenty-six years he dared not speak to others or listen to others. If not for his family’s utmost tolerance, what kind of fate would such a situation have invited?

His life was smooth now, not becoming an unlucky ghost who gets teeth stuck even when drinking water, because of merit protection.

Gu Jiancheng listened.

But listened a bit late.

Zhan Yan learned not-so-wonderful news from Professor Miao: The Antai Ranch where they were interning had some problems and couldn’t accept interns now. Their batch of interns originally arranged to go there were randomly assigned to other groups.

After the internship list came down, Zhan Yan was assigned to a veterinary station, and Gu Jiancheng was assigned to another breeding farm. It was a pig farm with closed management. In other words, they couldn’t see each other for these three months.

Big boss Deep Shadow was stunned upon hearing the bad news.

Next, he can investigate Unlimited in peace, with no other things distracting him.

Misfortune is what fortune relies on; fortune is where misfortune hides.

Damn! Sure enough, should stay far away from the Lin Yuan Ghost King!

Zhan Yan had been eating melons about Deep Shadow and the Lin Yuan Ghost King every day recently, and felt they matched very well.

Recently Deep Shadow stopped treating the Lin Yuan Ghost King as a wishing machine. Their progress was slower than before but still advancing steadily.

The Lin Yuan Ghost King felt his days were much more comfortable. When Deep Shadow didn’t have holes in his brain, he was a very powerful helper; cooperation was simply too easy.

Moreover, for some reason, Deep Shadow suddenly stopped hustling recently, as if he was anxious to do something before but didn’t need to rush now, like a salted fish who lost its dream. Clearing anomalies carried a flavor of “kill you as fate dictates” and “don’t rush, get beaten slowly.”

Although he didn’t know what Deep Shadow encountered, Zhan Jinli felt his current state was very good.

Just maintain like this. Without the Wanyan Ghost King causing trouble, investigating Unlimited with Deep Shadow as a partner, working during the day, going back to feed stars at night, life is very pleasant.

Zhan Yan searched the Lin Yuan Ghost King’s melon strips and felt the Lin Yuan Ghost King would probably get along well with his brother—his brother’s personality of dying rather than speaking would definitely not trigger the Lin Yuan Ghost King’s divine power.

However, the Lin Yuan Ghost King was a salty party, and his brother was a super sweet tooth monster; they probably couldn’t eat from the same pot.

Zhan Yan was caught off guard and scrolled to Wanyan Ghost King’s melon in the Lin Yuan Ghost King’s melon strips.

Wanyan Ghost King stopped playing with the “Lin Yuan” doll, holding the black iron fish pendant in his mouth every day, pondering how to escape from Chaofu Mountain.

Styx Ghost King was the earliest resident of Chaofu Mountain, and this could also be said to be her territory. She surrounded Chaofu Mountain with the Styx River. Wanyan Cat thought of various ways but simply couldn’t get out.

He squatted by the Styx River, his tail swaying slowly behind him, little cat ears twitching from time to time.

“I’m going to find traces of Bai Ze.” Wanyan plopped into the Styx River.

He scratched around at the bottom of the Styx River for a while, searching further and further, gradually swimming towards the outside of Chaofu Mountain along the flow of the Styx River.

Visibility in the Styx River was poor; everything looked covered by a red veil, and he could only see at most three zhang around.

Wanyan estimated he had swum very, very far, should have swum out of the range of Chaofu Mountain long ago.

Hmph hmph! Even if failed a hundred times, he would try for the hundred and first time!

The hundred and first time will definitely succeed!

He jumped onto the shore, and before he could cheer, he saw Styx Ghost King sitting by the shore looking down at him.

Looking up again, the tall and lush Wenyu Tree covered his head. Branches swayed gently, leaves rustling, as if laughing at him.

Wanyan: “Why are you here?!”

Styx Ghost King propped her chin: “Where do you want to go?”

Wanyan: …

Ah so angry!

Why discovered again?!

Can’t find Lin Yuan if can’t run out. Unhappy.

The dejected Wanyan decided to rest for a while. He had failed a hundred and one times; the hundred and second time would definitely succeed!

He lay down under the root of the Wenyu Tree, curled up with the black iron fish pendant, and slept.

Sleeping Wanyan dreamed again.

He dreamed he became very big, much bigger than now, with a horn growing on his head, majestic and domineering.

If he was this domineering now, Styx Ghost King would definitely not dare to bully him like this!

Running in the dream, he found Bai Ze. He took out the black iron fish pendant to show Bai Ze, happily saying he made another friend.

This black iron fish pendant looked so small against him. When using the cat form, he could hold it in his mouth. After using his original form, it was about the size of his nail. Those two tiny fish eyes were incredibly small.

Di Ting pointed his claw tip at this incredibly small indentation, saying happily to Bai Ze: “Look, it’s here. Lin Yuan dotted the eyes for it!”

Bai Ze hooked the pendant from his claw, fiddling with it over and over for a while:

“It has spirituality after the eyes are dotted.”

“Eh? Is the spirituality of this little thing useful?” Di Ting asked.

“Hmm… Humans sometimes make compasses into fish shapes.”

Di Ting felt this function was useless to him. But he still liked it very much.

“Then you have to remember how you got it,” Bai Ze said.

“Of course I will remember.”

Wanyan woke up from the dream. He fiddled with the black iron fish pendant, thinking of Bai Ze telling him to remember how he got this pendant.

This pendant… When Lin Yuan answered his question, he said there was a record in “Travel Notes of a Guest of Mountains and Seas.” He remembered it was written that there was a place called Yanluo Cave in Chaofu Mountain in the human world. A mortal named Guest of Mountains and Seas was curious where Yanluo Cave led, so he tied the black iron fish pendant with a long rope and lowered it into the cave.

Then this pendant hung down here.

Wanyan suddenly looked up at the top of the Wenyu Tree.

That place led to the human world!

[Wanyan Ghost King escaped from Chaofu Mountain through the Yanluo Cave above the Wenyu Tree and entered the human world.]

[Wanyan Ghost King decided to find Lin Yuan Ghost King.]

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