GRMFBS CH175

The melon-eater eventually becomes the melon.

The Heavenly Dao spins the wheel of reincarnation; whom has the Heavens ever spared.

What goes around always comes around.

…

Zhan Yan found that collection of livestream highlight clips. The person who made the compilation even gave it a name, calling it “The Rainbow-Fart Blowing Noob Little Brother and the Big Shot Sister Hiding Her Persona”.

Zhan Yan: …

He watched it all the way through with strong resolve, and after finishing it, he felt like he had become a useless badger.

Zhan Yan was a very open-minded person.

He didn’t actually care too much about the “hahaha”s of the livestream viewers, but why did Gu Jiancheng have to find out?!

He felt his image was completely gone…

Zhan Yan found Gu Jiancheng’s WeChat with trembling hands, wanting to ask, yet not daring to.

At this moment, he saw Gu Jiancheng’s status change to “typing…” and then this status disappeared. After a while, it changed back to “typing…”, but he still didn’t receive any message from Gu Jiancheng.

It was as if he could see classmate Xiao Gu’s conflicted and hesitant look 🙂

Ahhhh, why did his boyfriend have to find out?!

Oh right, it was him who shoved the game account to Gu Jiancheng.

He wanted to time-travel back and beat himself to death.

Zhan Yan looked at the “typing…” status repeatedly flashing, took a deep breath, and exited the private chat interface. He wasn’t going to look anymore!

Gu Jiancheng was extremely conflicted.

He didn’t know if he should remind Yan Yan a little. If he didn’t remind him, it felt a bit wrong… If he did remind him, Yan Yan would definitely be very embarrassed…

But Yan Yan frantically blowing praises looked so cute! He wanted to hear it…

As long as he also played with a gaming big shot persona and carried Yan Yan in games, he would be able to hear it.

Sigh, but that wouldn’t do; that would be intentionally deceiving Yan Yan.

But he really, really wanted to hear it…

While Gu Jiancheng was conflicting with himself, a commotion came from the shadow avatar’s side.

A writhing ball of light crashed down in front of him, using a thousand writhing mouths radiating light pollution to loudly sing a twisted hymn: “Praise the Sun! Praise the Sun! Exalt the Radiance! Exalt the Light!”

Every time a mouth opened, it spat out a beam of blinding light.

It was like a disco ball had gone mad.

Gu Jiancheng: …Where did the Monster Doctor get this perverted inspiration from? Just what kind of crap does he usually look at?!

Previously, the things the Monster Doctor created only hurt the eyes; now, they hurt both the eyes and the ears.

Gu Jiancheng began to beat up the anomaly.

After clearing out this batch of anomalies, he still hadn’t seen a trace of the Monster Doctor.

Gu Jiancheng felt he was getting closer and closer to him, but irritation was simultaneously brewing in his heart.

Since Infinite wanted to use the Monster Doctor to string him along, he wanted to immediately finish off the Monster Doctor and make their calculations fall through.

But regardless of whether he finished off the Monster Doctor early or late, he couldn’t participate in the network-type world.

This feeling of being unable to control things made Gu Jiancheng feel anxious.

He felt a trace of something being wrong. The network world was something he completely couldn’t participate in; was he like this in Infinite too? Was it that he had never encountered an instance within the network world in Infinite, or did he rely on Wan Shitong when encountering such a situation?

He couldn’t remember clearly. He had gone through far too many tasks in Infinite, and many memories had become blurry. When every single task was soul-stirring, “soul-stirring” became commonplace.

He remembered that he indeed had times during instance tasks where he relied on the abilities of others, but had there ever been a time when he had to completely rely on others like this?

If he had experienced tasks where he was completely unable to participate, given his personality, he definitely would have tried to find a way to patch this flaw—this kind of incomplete ability was simply too fatal.

Yet he still didn’t have any network-type abilities now. Was it because the rules of Infinite were different from this world, and there were no network-type worlds in Infinite?

The more Gu Jiancheng recalled, the more he felt something was wrong.

The stars twinkled over the Sea of Shadows, and his anxiety was gradually calmed. The sports bracelet on his wrist was vibrating somewhat irregularly; did something happen on Yan Yan’s end?

Watching a movie on a rest day, or some other activity causing emotional fluctuations?

Gu Jiancheng guessed for a while, and his thoughts drifted boundlessly back to the livestream highlight clips.

Yan Yan was truly cute.

But how should he remind him…

Gu Jiancheng started agonizing over it again.

…

Zhan Yan originally wanted to forget about the livestream highlight clips, but he discovered that his “Items” tab little star had upgraded from scrolling through these gossip threads.

Freaking hell, game items counted as “items” too!

The Items tab had upgraded twice before; one time gave him the item description ability, and the other unlocked the historical records of the item descriptions for him.

Now a new ability had appeared. It was extremely practical, but how should he put it…

This ability was related to the network. It allowed Zhan Yan’s consciousness to conceal itself within any piece of information related to him. When he was concealed within this piece of information, he could be completely covered by the information referring to him within it.

For example, the comment “Little brother Melon Badger King is a noob at games”. Zhan Yan could hide beneath the information of “little brother Melon Badger King”. Because this information matched him, almost no one in the network could discover his consciousness. In other words, he could now be even more concealed than a “Network Ghost”; every piece of information related to him on the network could transform into his sanctuary and his eyes.

But correspondingly, the restrictions on this concealment were also huge. He could only hide within information related to himself, and where this information could appear on the network depended on the information itself.

“Little brother Melon Badger King is a noob at games” could appear in an entertainment comment section, but it couldn’t appear on an academic forum.

If he wanted to go to a place without this information, he could only give up this concealment.

Although there were quite a few restrictions, there was no denying that this was still an incredibly powerful ability.

[You don’t seem to be happy about this upgrade. Why?]

[Hey, cheer up. Just imagine it, as long as more gossip concerning me circulates on the network, the stronger my abilities will be!]

Zhan Yan: …

Meow. He wanted to hammer the system.

Forget it. It was his own golden finger, and besides, he couldn’t hit it anyway.

Zhan Yan quickly calmed his mind.

This ability was still very practical for his current self. Because Nie Yu hadn’t had the time to teach him how to deal with network-type anomalies, and the current network environment was relatively dangerous, Zhan Yan hadn’t entered the network for a while.

Now he could totally use this ability to enter the network and take a look.

Zhan Yan had checked it out; Nie Yu was suddenly busy because of a newly emerged mysterious network-type big shot.

He used gossip threads to watch the big shot clear network virus anomalies from afar, and it was simply explosively cool!

This made Zhan Yan, who had yet to personally clear an anomaly, extremely envious.

In the past, he could only eat melons, and that was that. But now he could enter the network-type world. Who didn’t have a bit of a combat fantasy?

But this big shot only had this one gossip thread, with zero prior information. It was shockingly mysterious.

However, entering the network and the matter of the mysterious network-type big shot could wait. He currently had a bunch of things to sort out.

Now that he had already uncovered his sister’s persona in advance, there would no longer be any stimulation like when his parents and his brother dropped their personas.

Zhan Yan ran through the calculations in his head. Looking at it now, as long as the contradiction in stances was resolved, his parents could completely accompany each other for the long haul, and his brother was fine too. Even though his brother belonged to Mount Chaofu, Mount Chaofu was so laid-back that they had no contradictions with anyone. All that was left were the lifespan issues of him and his sister.

When he went home, he would teach his sister the cultivation technique!

He took another look at Wan Yan Ghost King’s gossip threads.

[Wan Yan Ghost King got lost in the Soul-Bewildering Forest for the thirty-second time. Thinking about how he painstakingly searched for a path in the bewildering fog while Lin Yuan secretly raised another cat, Wan Yan Ghost King’s belly full of anger was hard to vent, and he cursed the Soul-Bewildering Forest to go bald.]

[The Soul-Bewildering Forest opened up a path for Wan Yan Ghost King.]

??? Was the Soul-Bewildering Forest alive?

Why did it have no backbone? What does a forest have to fear about going bald?

Since Kitty Wan Yan had escaped so quickly, Zhan Yan was hit with an urgent task and hurriedly poked Kitty Wan Yan hard.

He absolutely could not let Wan Yan head straight for his brother!

If his parents bumped into him, his brother’s persona would drop instantly; and once his brother’s persona dropped, it would easily trigger a chain reaction causing his parents to drop theirs to each other.

Fortunately, Kitty Wan Yan was blinded by anger, thinking only of cursing Lin Yuan first. The first thing he did after coming out and getting internet access was to log onto the chaofan forum and post a thread cursing Lin Yuan.

Zhan Yan took a look. The content of the thread was very long, the phrasing rather messy, profoundly expressing Kitty Wan Yan’s furious inner feelings. Its central idea was “Lin Yuan, you actually raised another cat, you big liar!”

Below the post followed a bunch of melon-eating masses searching everywhere for insiders to spill the tea.

6L:

The melon is here, the melon is here! Selling sunflower seeds and cola in the front row.

8L:

Does anyone know what kind of love and hate relationship exists between Wan Yan Ghost King and Ghost King Lin Yuan?

9L:

Is there a need to ask? It’s nothing more than him falling in love with him but he doesn’t love him, he chases and he flees, they both have no wings to fly away, finally he suddenly wakes up to reality but his heart is already like dead ashes, so it reverses and starts with him chasing and him fleeing…

10L:

??? Upstairs, do you have a death wish?

Do you want to take a look at whose melon this is?

14L:

Holy shit, I was dazed from sleep. I listened to a melodramatic dog-blood novel to help me sleep, and my brain got stuffed with a bunch of dog-blood plots.

I’m sorry, Big Shot Wan Yan! Please forgive a fool whose brain was chewed on by dogs, don’t curse me! I wish you find Ghost King Lin Yuan soon, that you’re sweet and harmonious, love each other dearly, are as close as brothers, stick together like form and shadow, and have a happy family!!!

15L:

Pfft hahahaha, my damn self that loves to watch the world burn. Didn’t get to eat Wan Yan Ghost King’s melon, but seeing upstairs scared this miserably makes me so happy too.

17L:

QAQ Stop watching the drama, begging to ask why my reply can’t be deleted?

18L:

Upstairs, is it because your credit score isn’t high enough? If your credit score isn’t high enough, you have to apply to an administrator to delete it.

But as for our forum’s administrators… Luo Wang and Lingyu aren’t very active recently, and if the other one sees it, you’ll still have to apologize again, hahaha.

Sympathies.

20L:

Stop scaring people, Wan Yan Ghost King won’t casually issue severe curses. The commenter has nothing to be afraid of.

21L:

Is upstairs an insider? Let’s spill the tea!

22L:

So he will casually issue non-severe curses?

24L:

Can’t spill it, I’m not clear on what’s going on either.

Wan Yan Ghost King will toss out small curses like shedding hair, balding, or having no paper when going to the toilet; it’s nothing to be afraid of.

26L:

For real? I always thought Wan Yan Ghost King was a very gloomy and terrifying figure.

27L:

Balding is very terrifying too!!!

29L:

Stop derailing the thread you guys, does no one care about the content of Wan Yan Ghost King’s post?

30L:

Wan Yan Ghost King being gloomy and terrifying… Ever since he started posting on the forum to find Lin Yuan, his image could never be gloomy and terrifying again, okay?

31L:

So is anyone going to spill the tea or not?

34L:

Why did Wan Yan Ghost King say Ghost King Lin Yuan is a liar?

35L:

Upstairs, have you taken a look at Ghost King Lin Yuan’s account? @Administrator Rather Die Than Own A Cat

37L:

Oh oh oh, why does Ghost King Lin Yuan not raise cats? What cat is he raising now? Why is Wan Yan Ghost King so agitated?

40L:

Don’t know, aren’t we all waiting for the tea to be spilled?

43L:

It’s fine if no one spills it. Based on past patterns, after a while, Wan Yan Ghost King will curse out the situation in the post.

45L:

Wan Yan Ghost King opening a post to curse, could it be that he can’t contact Ghost King Lin Yuan again, and can only shout across the airwaves through the forum?

However, the melon-eating crowds did not get Wan Yan Ghost King’s follow-up.

After Kitty Wan Yan finished posting his curses, he finally noticed the flashing little red dot on his message inbox.

He wasn’t in the mood to read messages. He was very angry.

But a cat couldn’t resist batting at a continuously flashing red dot.

Kitty Wan Yan swatted open the message inbox and noticed a private message from an acquaintance inside.

Approaching Science! Right, he still hadn’t thanked Approaching Science!

Approaching Science’s information was so accurate; after he went, he found Lin Yuan right away!

Hmph hmph hmph! Minghe, Tie Lao, and the others all stopped him from finding Lin Yuan; only Approaching Science helped him. Wan Yan decided he wouldn’t pay attention to those people anymore. From now on, Approaching Science was his third friend after Bai Ze and the cook!

Hmm… the cook hugged that dragon-li cat raised by Lin Yuan, so Wan Yan crossed out half of the cook’s name. It would depend on the cook’s performance in the future!

Kitty Wan Yan clicked open Approaching Science’s private message, and was then captivated.

Aiya! What Approaching Science said made sense!

Hmph hmph hmph! Didn’t Lin Yuan bully him simply because he couldn’t beat Lin Yuan?

Just wait! Wait until Approaching Science helped him recover his memories, and he found a way to change back into the big guy from his dream; then he’d go find Lin Yuan!

He’d make it so Lin Yuan could never pick him up by the scruff of his neck again!