GRMFBS CH172

Crashing and banging sounds came from the room next door.

Xingxing immediately pricked up its ears and stood up.

Zhan Yan: “Don’t move, I’ll go!”

Xingxing gave him a distrustful look.

Didn’t you just say it was fine earlier!

Zhan Yan: …

Zhan Yan forcibly kept Xingxing in the room and ran to knock on the door.

“Ge! Kitty! Stop fighting, this is someone else’s house! If you keep fighting, there won’t be any delicious food left!”

Five minutes later, Zhan Jinli opened the door carrying the cat.

The cat’s fur was a tangled mess, and Zhan Jinli’s sleeves were shredded into ribbons.

The room, however, was perfectly intact; Ghost King Lin Yuan had protected the room with magic before starting to beat up the cat.

Kitty Wan Yan bared his fangs, brandished his claws, and cursed randomly. Zhan Jinli expressionlessly typed with one hand: “Yan Yan, stay in your room for a while, I’m taking this cat out to spend some alone time.”

The Ghost King marched out aggressively carrying the cat and slammed the door shut.

Zhan Yan hurriedly followed out to open the door, but the person and the cat were nowhere to be seen outside.

[Ghost King Lin Yuan, Zhan Jinli, took Wan Yan Ghost King and teleported to a nearby uninhabited area to start fighting.]

Zhan Yan: …

He couldn’t catch up to them now.

He could only watch the drama from afar.

[Wan Yan Ghost King cursed Ghost King Lin Yuan, Zhan Jinli, to go bald.]

[Wan Yan Ghost King’s curse on Ghost King Lin Yuan, Zhan Jinli, failed to take effect.]

[Wan Yan Ghost King cursed Ghost King Lin Yuan, Zhan Jinli, to never be able to eat delicious food.]

[Wan Yan Ghost King’s curse on Ghost King Lin Yuan, Zhan Jinli, failed to take effect.]

[Wan Yan Ghost King cursed Ghost King Lin Yuan, Zhan Jinli, to be hated by the dragon-li cat he raised.]

[Wan Yan Ghost King’s curse on Ghost King Lin Yuan, Zhan Jinli, failed to take effect.]

It seemed Kitty Wan Yan was truly infuriated.

But Kitty Wan Yan’s cursing ability came from Ghost King Lin Yuan’s demon core, so it had no effect on Zhan Jinli. Seeing that it kept failing to take effect, Kitty Wan Yan became even angrier, letting out a “meow-ow” and lunging toward Zhan Jinli’s wrist.

Zhan Jinli sneered, raising his arm to dodge it; this damn cat just loved biting his wrist.

Failing to bite the wrist, he bit the front of his shirt instead.

Riiip—

Zhan Jinli: …

He didn’t bring spare clothes when he came to visit his brother!

Rolling up his sleeves… there were no sleeves left. Beat the cat!

Just as Zhan Yan was paying attention to the battle between his brother and Kitty Wan Yan, Deep Shadow’s private message popped up very tactlessly.

Worried it was something important, Zhan Yan clicked open the private message and saw Deep Shadow complaining to him about Ghost King Lin Yuan.

Deep Shadow felt that Ghost King Lin Yuan was getting increasingly excessively lazy; previously, he would come to investigate during the day and run off at night, but now he wasn’t even coming during the day, and even said he might not have time in the next few days.

Approaching Science: [Maybe Ghost King Lin Yuan just happens to have something very important to do.]

Approaching Science: [Besides, striking a balance between work and rest is quite normal.]

Gu Jiancheng: ???

What’s going on with Approaching Science?

He wasn’t like this a couple of days ago!

Zhan Yan: Sorry, but I am just a very biased person.

Previously, boss, you were more familiar to me, but now Ghost King Lin Yuan is my brother.

And his brother was currently being pestered by Wan Yan.

Approaching Science: [How about we investigate on our own first?]

Approaching Science: [Didn’t you think Infinite was trying to make a feint to the east while attacking the west?]

Approaching Science: [I’ll come investigate with you later.]

I Just Saved the World!: […]

I Just Saved the World!: [Heh.]

However, Approaching Science didn’t reply again.

Suffocating!

Zhan Yan didn’t have the energy to reply to the big shot Deep Shadow, because the battle between his brother and Kitty Wan Yan finally ended.

His brother suppressed Kitty Wan Yan with one hand and opened the Yin Road with the other, preparing to forcibly send Wan Yan back to Mount Chaofu.

A damn cat like this should be locked up!

Wan Yan struggled with a “meow-ow” for a long time but couldn’t break free; he stopped struggling, let out a despondent “mew” from his throat, and started shedding tears, patter by patter.

Zhan Jinli felt the cold, wet ghost tears dripping on his hand and froze.

He stiffened for a moment and asked: “Why are you crying?”

Wan Yan cried incredibly sadly. With his fur all messed up, his wailing grew louder and louder; he ignored Zhan Jinli and just kept shedding tears.

Zhan Jinli had never faced a situation like this before.

When he knew Di Ting in the past, Di Ting had never cried. Later, when Di Ting died and its soul was saved to become a mentally deranged Ghost King, Wan Yan was so energetic and vigorous that it made people want to tie him up, stuff him into a hole, and block it with a giant boulder so he could never come out to play that damn “Kitty Fishing” game again. He would go crazy, cause a ruckus, and cause trouble everywhere, but he had never cried.

How could someone who caused so much trouble cry?

What should he do if he cried?

Zhan Jinli started recalling past situations where he encountered people crying.

After reincarnating… it seemed he had never dealt with a situation where someone was crying either. His parents had never cried, and his sister would have nightmares when she was little; sometimes she would wake up startled with tears on her face, and then she would carry her pillow, knock on their parents’ door, and go in to sleep with them.

There were a few times their parents weren’t around, so she came to find him. She wouldn’t speak, just sat next to him, and after a while, she would get sleepy and fall asleep; Zhan Jinli would then give his bed to her.

Later, when his sister grew up, she never had nightmares again, nor did she cry.

As for his brother… he really had never cried, but he would fake cry when he was little! Since Zhan Jinli didn’t speak and would hide when he heard others speaking to him, in the eyes of the very young Zhan Yan back then, it seemed like his brother was ignoring him. Zhan Yan tried all sorts of methods, sometimes even fake crying—without a single tear—and peeking at him through his fingers!

Before reincarnating, there were some ghosts who cried to him. They were mostly dissatisfied with their past lives, the afterlife, or their destination in the next life. But the Underworld is ruthless, and Reincarnation operates steadily. He wouldn’t do anything because of their tearful complaints.

In his previous life, many people cried to him too. At that time, he was a River God. In his temple, there was a constant flow of people—believers, tourists, some smiling, some crying.

They cried to him because they were begging him for something.

He listened to their wishes. Some he ignored, some he fulfilled, and for some he couldn’t fulfill, he could only offer a little comfort.

Ignore him?

Seeing Kitty Wan Yan crying so sadly, Zhan Jinli let go of his hand and awkwardly smoothed out Wan Yan’s messy fur.

“Why are you crying?”

Most people stopped crying once their wishes were fulfilled.

Wan Yan originally didn’t want to pay attention to him, but he heard an ethereal divinity in Lin Yuan’s voice, along with an indescribable gentleness.

He felt a bit panicked, and a bit of a feeling he couldn’t describe; at a loss for what to do, he raised his paw and pressed it against Zhan Jinli’s pants leg.

“I, hic, I looked for you for so long.” Kitty Wan Yan sobbed aggrievedly, “I searched for you so painstakingly.”

“They trapped me on Mount Chaofu. To escape Mount Chaofu, I tried so, so many times.”

“It’s not like I forgot you on purpose. I was trying hard to remember.”

“I remembered everything.”

“You dotted the eyes of this black iron fish.”

Zhan Jinli’s hand paused: “You remembered everything?”

If Di Ting had remembered everything, then treating him like a mentally ill cat really was quite impolite.

Kitty Wan Yan nodded: “But the moment you saw me, you wanted to run!”

Zhan Jinli’s heart softened a bit: “Sorry, I thought…”

Upon hearing the first three words, Kitty Wan Yan nodded vigorously: “You even raise another cat!”

Zhan Jinli’s hand paused: “You know you aren’t a cat, right?”

Kitty Wan Yan was confused: “Huh? I am a cat now.”

He wasn’t one when he was alive, but didn’t he turn into a cat after dying?

Zhan Jinli: “…Why did you come looking for me.”

Kitty Wan Yan: “Because cats are supposed to fish, I…”

Zhan Jinli expressionlessly picked up Wan Yan by the scruff of his neck and stuffed him into the Yin Road.

Heh, his momentary softness was completely unnecessary!

[Ghost King Lin Yuan, Zhan Jinli, attempted to throw Wan Yan Ghost King back into Mount Chaofu. Wan Yan Ghost King struggled fiercely, deviating from the route, and fell into the Underworld’s Soul-Bewildering Forest.]

Zhan Yan: Uh… what kind of place was the Soul-Bewildering Forest? When would Wan Yan Ghost King run out to find his brother again? If Wan Yan Ghost King ran out again, did his brother still have a way to hide?

Maybe he should figure out a way to make Wan Yan recover his memory faster; he would go use the Approaching Science account to find Wan Yan right now!

Zhan Yan logged onto the forum and poked Wan Yan Ghost King, but Wan Yan didn’t reply for the time being. His brother returned first.

The Ghost King teleported back directly from over there; before teleporting, he even used a spell to check if anyone was around here.

Zhan Yan opened the door, looked, and was stunned by his brother’s appearance.

His brother’s clothes were torn hideously by Wan Yan.

Zhan Yan hurriedly beckoned his brother in to change clothes. He had brought a few sets of spare clothes, but his brother was much taller than him. Zhan Yan dug out his loosest set to give his brother.

It was okay, not too short, just a bit tight.

Zhan Yan looked at the ripped strips of cloth on the floor. With the clothes torn to this extent, logically, he would definitely have been scratched by the cat, and getting scratched by a stray cat required vaccination. His brother was a Ghost King, so he would definitely be fine, and Kitty Wan Yan was also a Ghost King, so he wouldn’t carry the germs stray cats might carry.

But he wasn’t supposed to know his brother and Kitty Wan Yan were Ghost Kings, so as a veterinary student, should he remind his brother to get a vaccine?

Although he had already accepted in his heart that his brother was Ghost King Lin Yuan, it was still a bit difficult to equate his brother with Ghost King Lin Yuan face-to-face.

Zhan Yan rubbed his face, took out his phone, and started typing.

Zhan Jinli also typed: “I’ll go get it when I get back. It’s getting late, I’m taking Xingxing back.”

Xingxing had already waited until it fell asleep, curled up on the soft mat purring.

Zhan Jinli steadily and accurately scooped up the soft mat, and Xingxing surprisingly didn’t wake up.

He opened the door to leave and happened to bump into the other three college students returning from work face-to-face.

Zhan Yan: “This is my ge; he came to deliver some things to me. These are my classmates.”

Zhan Jinli nodded at them and left, carrying the mat and the cat on it with one arm.

Chu Chengcheng: “Your brother is so cool.”

Cheng Yichu: “When he opened the door, I was startled. He was like a secret agent in a movie.”

Chu Chengcheng: “What does your brother do? His clothes were skin-tight, wow, those muscles!”

From an outsider’s perspective, his brother really fit the persona of Ghost King Lin Yuan. What a cold, ruthless, and taciturn big shot.

Zhan Yan temporarily didn’t know how to chat about his brother, so he switched the topic: “My ge runs a bakery, but the cakes he makes only look good, they don’t taste good. My ge brought me some food. Have you guys had dinner yet? Come, come, come, let’s eat together.”

After eating the food, the few of them quickly bowed in admiration to Zhan Yunkai’s cooking skills.

Cheng Yichu rubbed his belly and muttered: “If you inherited this skill, then I know why Teacher Mi couldn’t keep the Wishing Cat.”

Chu Chengcheng: “He said the Wishing Cat probably just had no fate with him.”

Bao Qingshan: “I feel your brother has fate with the Wishing Cat. Is my feeling inaccurate again this time?”

Zhan Yan: No, it’s actually quite accurate.

Returning to his room, Zhan Yan logged onto the forum again.

Wan Yan Ghost King still hadn’t replied. It had been so long, what was Wan Yan doing?

Zhan Yan started using the Gossip System to search.

The Soul-Bewildering Forest was a natural maze in the Underworld. Kitty Wan Yan was extremely bad at navigating mazes and was temporarily trapped inside.

[Wan Yan Ghost King got lost for the twelfth time in the Soul-Bewildering Forest; he was extremely angry and prepared to open the chaofan forum to argue with Ghost King Lin Yuan.]

[There is no Underworld internet connection in the Soul-Bewildering Forest. Wan Yan Ghost King could not log onto the chaofan forum and was extremely furious.]

Zhan Yan: So he couldn’t connect to the internet… then there was no rush.

He just needed to make sure that when Wan Yan came out of the Soul-Bewildering Forest, he wouldn’t rush to find his brother after seeing his message.

This was simple, he just needed to continue scamming the cat.

—Do you know why you failed again after finding Lin Yuan? Because you can’t beat Lin Yuan!

Do you know why you can’t beat Lin Yuan? Because you haven’t recovered your memory!

Wasn’t your size in your dream much bigger than now? Much more majestic?

Therefore, you must completely recover your memory first before going to find Lin Yuan.

Once Wan Yan’s memory fully recovered, he should be normal, right? Then it wouldn’t matter whether he went to find his brother or not.

Zhan Yan sorted it out. Yeah, there shouldn’t be any problems now.

Since Wan Yan couldn’t reply to messages for the time being, Zhan Yan logged out of the chaofan forum first.

It was just that he felt like he had forgotten something.

What did he forget…