GRMFBS CH166

Zhan Yan: “Is that…”

Gu Jiancheng casually turned Zhan Yan’s head back: “I want to go back to the dorm.”

“Alright, wait until I finish feeding the geese.” Zhan Yan continued turning his head, “Is that…”

Gu Jiancheng continued holding Zhan Yan’s face and turning it back: “Look at the geese. The geese are so cute. Let’s quickly finish feeding them and go back early.”

Zhan Yan still wanted to turn his head: “The little goslings are very cute, but the big geese are terribly fierce when they bite people. I thought I just saw…”

He couldn’t load the gossip threads right now, so he wasn’t sure if what he just saw was Ghost King Wan Yan transforming back into their school’s Wishing Cat and returning.

Gu Jiancheng grabbed the back of his head with one hand and turned it back: “Yan Yan…”

Zhan Yan blinked. Gu Jiancheng’s long eyelashes were right before his eyes, and the dark irises beneath the lashes were like burning stars.

Zhan Yan was momentarily bewitched by his beauty, and then firmly pushed Gu Jiancheng away: “This trick doesn’t work on me anymore. Did you recognize that it was the Wishing Cat?”

Was he still jealous of him making cat food for the Wishing Cat?

Gu Jiancheng’s expression suddenly became pitiful, his dark eyes seemingly covered in a layer of mist.

What should he do? Did Yan Yan not like his face anymore?

Was his beauty fading and love waning?

Zhan Yan tried to refuse firmly: “This trick…”

Gu Jiancheng lowered his eyes in disappointment.

It still worked.

Forget it, forget it. Who cares why Ghost King Wan Yan came over. We’ll talk about it tomorrow when the Gossip System recovers.

Zhan Yan went to pick up the feed bucket.

The big and small geese nearby suddenly started honking and quacking, running around in a panic.

Kitty Wan Yan had arrived.

After escaping Mount Chaofu, Kitty Wan Yan was very happy for a while, and even interacted with the tourists in the mortal realm’s Mount Chaofu.

The tourists were very surprised to see a cat in the mountains and used their food to tease him.

Kitty Wan Yan sniffed their starch sausages, turned his head, sneezed, and walked away.

He even heard the group of tourists far behind him saying things like, “This is a real wildcat.” “It only eats purely natural and wild food, it scorns our artificial, inferior food.”

Kitty Wan Yan left them behind. After descending the mountain, he didn’t know where to go anymore.

He wanted to find Lin Yuan, but where was Lin Yuan?

Having left Mount Chaofu, where could he go?

Wan Yan remembered when he was in his dream, he took the black iron fish pendant, left Mount Chaofu, and went to find Bai Ze.

But Bai Ze was gone now, so he needed to find Lin Yuan to help him look for Bai Ze together.

Kitty Wan Yan thought of his personal chef. How about going to find him?

And so, Wan Yan came to Northern Agricultural University.

Following the scent of his personal chef, Wan Yan tracked all the way to the lake, only to find the other party feeding big geese.

Wan Yan was very dissatisfied with this.

He walked over menacingly, scaring the little goslings into a panic.

The big geese were very dissatisfied with Kitty Wan Yan for scaring the little goslings; they spread their large wings and stretched their necks at Kitty Wan Yan: “Honk—”

Kitty Wan Yan flattened his ears: “Meowww—”

Zhan Yan quickly intervened to stop the fight.

While helping, Gu Jiancheng developed a new understanding of Ghost King Wan Yan.

Too magical! This was the first time he had seen a Ghost King who would fight with ordinary big geese!

Next time he saw Ghost King Lin Yuan, he’d ask what the other Ghost Kings of Mount Chaofu were like.

The big geese honked loudly at Zhan Yan, filling his ears with complaints and insults aimed at the “long-tailed idiot who doesn’t know water”.

Although Kitty Wan Yan couldn’t understand what the big geese were saying, seeing them honking at Zhan Yan, he also meowed at Zhan Yan.

“How could you cook for these long necks?”

Zhan Yan: …

Facing such a chaotic situation for the first time in his life, he really didn’t know how to satisfy both sides.

Zhan Yan coaxed the simple-minded big geese away first, having Gu Jiancheng throw all the feed near their nest.

The big geese waddled away to eat with the little goslings.

After Gu Jiancheng finished feeding them, he pulled Zhan Yan: “This cat is too fierce, let’s go too.”

In short, stay away from that psychotic Ghost King Wan Yan.

Kitty Wan Yan became even more displeased and meowed at Gu Jiancheng.

What kind of guy dared to drive a wedge between him and the chef he valued!

Gu Jiancheng narrowed his eyes, starting to ponder the possibility of secretly beating up the cat using his Deep Shadow persona.

Zhan Yan: …

“I didn’t bring any delicious food today either. How about I make you some tomorrow?” Zhan Yan coaxed Kitty Wan Yan away as well, and then took Gu Jiancheng back to the dorm to coax his boyfriend.

Gu Jiancheng hugged his waist and wouldn’t let go: “We’re going to be separated during the internship.”

Being reminded by him, Zhan Yan also started feeling early pangs of missing him. Sigh, the vacation was only one month, but the internship was three months.

Seeing Zhan Yan become melancholic as well, Gu Jiancheng started feeling guilty.

He felt it was all caused by him abusing Ghost King Lin Yuan’s Interdependent Fortune and Misfortune out of eagerness for quick success.

Zhan Yan was still talking about the information he asked his seniors about—the factory Gu Jiancheng was assigned to this time wasn’t the strictest type. The strictest type only allowed you to bring one set of clothes, necessary IDs, and electronic devices like phones and laptops. For the breeding farm Gu Jiancheng was assigned to, apart from prohibited items, anything else could be brought in as long as it went through the disinfection process.

But liquids like shampoo and body wash were not allowed; the factory would provide them.

In that case, the sleep-aiding essential oil couldn’t be brought in.

Zhan Yan remembered Gu Jiancheng had a problem with sleeping poorly. Later, after using the essential oil prepared by his sister, he hadn’t noticed him sleeping poorly again. But if the internship location didn’t allow essential oils… could the essential oil be made into something solid like a fragrant bead?

Zhan Yan acted immediately, sending a message to his sister to ask.

When Zhan Suiru received her brother’s message, she happened to be tired from working and planned to take a break.

Making it into fragrant beads wasn’t hard, but why did Yan Yan suddenly want to make essential oil into fragrant beads? This didn’t fit her brother’s usual habits; could it be a gift for a friend?

Zhan Suiru’s radar went off again. Sigh, as early as last summer vacation, she suspected her brother might be in a relationship, but there was no evidence then. Later, various things came up and she got busy, leaving her with no time to pay attention.

Yan Yan wouldn’t tell them, but he was good friends with Qi Ye; she wondered if any information would leak from Qi Ye’s side.

Zhan Suiru sent a message to Qi Ye asking, but Qi Ye didn’t reply; she might be busy.

Xiao Ran was urging her to go home again.

Previously, he always wanted her to grind, but now seeing Zhan Suiru researching things he didn’t understand every day, coupled with being affected by the approaching apocalyptic world, her state becoming increasingly gloomy, he wanted her to rest again.

Zhan Suiru had been having dreams constantly.

Her world was destroyed by her own hands.

She always dreamed of that day.

Infinite fed on human desires and negative emotions; these all relied on the spirit to produce. The stronger the spirit, the more satisfied it felt.

While Infinite was waging war against this world, it began to crave more energy. The small instance worlds it captured became its sacrifices; it polluted every living being except Zhan Suiru into anomalies—this was truly very easy. Even if the pollution at that time couldn’t break through Zhan Suiru’s spiritual defense circle, every other person had been polluted in previous instance reincarnations.

Infinite only needed to vibrate that timeline of the past, and the insufficiently heavy beads would vibrate along with the thread.

It couldn’t vibrate Zhan Suiru, but this was exactly what it wanted.

The Overlord in the apocalyptic world, one of its most delicious fruits.

Zhan Suiru detonated her supernatural power core, dying together with her world that was left with nothing but pollution.

Infinite couldn’t even think about getting anything from her.

But she didn’t expect herself to survive.

Nor did she expect their souls to be hidden within the supernatural power core.

Before being completely polluted, Yang Ran dug out his own core and gave it to her.

Perhaps she wouldn’t be the only survivor anymore.

Zhan Suiru went to tease Xiao Ran: “Little brother went to school, he’s not at home right now.”

“Only my older brother is home.”

She watched as the gears in Xiao Ran’s pupils started to turn and jam, looking very conflicted.

Zhan Suiru: “Besides, I haven’t accepted any orders for a while, nor have I made anything. I won’t be able to make anything even if I go home.”

Now the puppet butler answered fluently: “It’s okay, I made them.”

He pulled open the curtain, revealing three large shelves stuffed full of sculptures.

Zhan Suiru was instantly shocked by the ugliness.

Xiao Ran still possessed a paranoid drive for manufacturing, but since he now believed Zhan Suiru’s state wasn’t suitable for grinding, he started grinding himself.

Only then did Zhan Suiru realize that when she wasn’t around, Xiao Ran was making sculptures every day. The studio was almost out of space!

“This… I… you…” Zhan Suiru was momentarily speechless.

Although Xiao Ran didn’t have much expression on his face, the implication in his actions was quite proud.

“I’ll take a batch to the studio over there.” Zhan Suiru recovered from the shock of the ugliness and gave Xiao Ran a thumbs-up. “Excellent, keep going!”

Meanwhile, in the studio, Qi Ye was facing the computer to log onto the network.

She originally just intended to clean the studio as usual today and didn’t plan on using her supernatural power here, but halfway through cleaning, she suddenly received an emergency distress message from Wan Shitong—this guy was besieged by network anomalies near the game world.

In order to save this somewhat unreliable partner, Qi Ye had no choice but to temporarily log onto the network using the computer in the studio.

Upon arriving at the location, Qi Ye finally realized how miserably Wan Shitong was besieged. He was like a piece of pastry swarmed by anomalies acting like ants; they rapidly replicated and multiplied like viruses. For every batch Wan Shitong cleared, another batch arrived. He was forcibly blocked just a few steps away from the game world.

Qi Ye observed for a bit and prepared to enter the game world from another location. The game world was meticulously built by her and Wan Shitong; its built-in defense and attack capabilities made it practically a moving fortress in the network world.

Did Wan Shitong get blocked outside before he could enter the game world? Why didn’t he use the game world to clear the anomalies?

Arriving outside the barrier of the game world, Qi Ye saw the message Wan Shitong left attached to it:

“Don’t open the door. Virus.”

The message was left in a great hurry, and Qi Ye instantly became vigilant.

She caught a few anomalies and discovered what was wrong with them. Not only did they multiply extremely fast, but they also mutated extremely fast; they were extremely minuscule, almost able to hide unnoticed within the crevices of information.

When the game world’s entrances and exits weren’t open, its defense was seamless. But if she and Wan Shitong opened the door to enter or exit, creating a gap, these virus anomalies could potentially hide in the crevices of information and slip in. No, not potentially, these anomalies were designed for exactly this! Someone had their eyes on their game world.

No wonder Wan Shitong didn’t return to the game world; it wasn’t that he couldn’t, but that he didn’t dare to.

Qi Ye realized this virus was extremely troublesome, not something she and Wan Shitong could handle alone; they needed to find someone to help. But Wan Shitong was being besieged and looked like he wouldn’t be able to hold on much longer.

She had to fish Wan Shitong out first, then go find people.

So Qi Ye went to fish him out.

And then she got trapped herself.

Damn it! These things even figured out her and Wan Shitong’s abilities!

Wan Shitong looked at her guiltily: “I only discovered it after I fell in, I didn’t have time to leave a message for you.”

Qi Ye: “It’s fine, the two of us can hold on for a bit longer. I sent the message out, let’s wait for people to come save us.”

She was prepared in advance and managed to send out the detailed situation along with a distress message before completely falling in. It was just unknown how long it would take for people to arrive.

However, there was still a troublesome matter right now—after they were completely trapped, they lost connection with their physical bodies, looking as if they had fallen asleep. Wan Shitong logged on in a safe environment, but Qi Ye was in the studio.

Fortunately, Sister Zhan generally wouldn’t come, so it should be fine.

As soon as Zhan Suiru entered the studio, she sensed something was wrong.

She found Qi Ye slumped over the computer. Qi Ye’s eyes were closed, her breathing steady and her complexion normal; she looked just like she had fallen asleep.

But Zhan Suiru detected that her spiritual energy was connected to the computer.

Spiritual energy… Ever since arriving in this world, Zhan Suiru had never seen such pure spiritual energy projected outward. It was usually utilized as spiritual sense condensed by cultivators, or combined with some sort of spell; it had never appeared on its own.

Zhan Suiru originally thought this was a unique rule of this world.

She stared at the seemingly deeply sleeping Qi Ye, countless thoughts flashing through her mind in an instant.

Such spiritual energy far exceeded that of ordinary people; Qi Ye was a superpowered individual.

Her spirit entered the network; so this was what network-type superpowered individuals were like.

…

In this world, pure spiritual energy could only be used in the network; it was normally suppressed.

No wonder she hadn’t discovered Qi Ye was a superpowered individual all this time.

…

But this rule was very strange; it shouldn’t be an original rule of this world.

…

Zhan Suiru reached out to the computer, mimicking Qi Ye’s spiritual energy to make contact with it.

She had always thought her spiritual energy was destroyed along with her supernatural power core and her world. But now she felt the surging spiritual energy once again, like a long-trapped river finally breaking through the dam and entering the network world.

So that was it.

The concept of this world had been replaced by someone.

Spirit = Network

Infinite couldn’t achieve satiation in the real world, so it could only attempt to harvest negative spiritual energy from the network. But separated by the virtual and reality, in a world cobbled together by electrical signals, how much could it actually eat?

How wonderful.

Starve it to death!