GRMFBS CH184

After Zhan Yan logged off the network, he rubbed his face.

He knew many people, and many people had good relationships with him. But just now, when he realized Red Crystal might have already known him, only one person suddenly jumped into his mind.

Who would be the first to notice others’ malice toward him, and tirelessly scrub it clean over and over again?

Zhan Yan opened the Gossip System, took a few deep breaths, and then simultaneously opened the gossip threads under the entries “Zhan Suiru” and “Red Crystal”, attempting to drag them together.

The two stars merged, ascending into his starry sky of information, shining brilliantly at the zenith and casting down a soft glow.

Zhan Yan stared blankly: Ah… he wasn’t really that surprised.

His sister was a network-type big shot, no wonder she was so incredible at playing games.

No wonder he felt Red Crystal was very important previously.

Dad, Mom, and Brother all had transcendent big shot personas, so it was perfectly normal for Sister to have a transcendent big shot persona too, right…

Right my ass! Why wouldn’t their family have a single ordinary person? This situation was obviously not normal, right? What kind of probability was required for this situation to occur? Could he win the first prize if he went out and bought a lottery ticket right now? The probability of winning the first prize must be higher than this, right?!

Abnormal! This situation was absolutely abnormal!

Furthermore, with a bunch of big shots gathered together, what right did he have to blend in?

Zhan Yan felt like a husky that had blended into a pack of wolves.

Yes, he had a golden finger, and the Gossip System was very powerful, but aside from that, there was nothing special about him.

Dad and Mom were super big shots who fought against Infinite twenty-six years ago. Before his brother reincarnated, as Ghost King Lin Yuan, he also messed Infinite up quite badly. Sister originated from the apocalyptic world and likely also fought against Infinite; perhaps due to the recent approach of the apocalyptic world, her abilities were affected and recovered, which was why she now appeared as Red Crystal.

What about himself?

Zhan Yan tried hard to recall. His life growing up had indeed been very ordinary; it was only after obtaining the Gossip System that he started wearing the Approaching Science persona and investigating some anomalous news. Aside from that, he truly had no unordinary life whatsoever.

It wasn’t like he could have a second personality, right?

Zhan Yan felt very flustered.

The reason big shots were big shots wasn’t just because of their powerful abilities. They also possessed weighty experiences, abundant experiential knowledge, and resilient temperaments, just like how the Chongming Demon King once told the little parrot demon, a brilliant soul.

But Zhan Yan had absolutely no memory of experiencing any major events himself, let alone any experiential knowledge. He didn’t want to go through hardships to test his temperament either; he just wanted everyone to live harmoniously and happily.

He felt he was the most useless one in the entire family.

But now, the most useless him knew the personas of the entire family, so the responsibility of resolving the storm that dropping their personas might trigger fell entirely onto his shoulders.

This burden was a bit heavy… God, please help, save me!

Zhan Yan had never prayed to God so devoutly.

God made his phone ring.

Zhan Yan took a look; it was a message from his sister.

Zhan Suiru: “Yan Yan, are you still playing games right now?”

Zhan Suiru didn’t intend to use her big shot account; she purely just wanted to find her little brother to accompany her. Perhaps it was a habit formed during childhood. Yan Yan was always exceptionally sharp since he was little; whenever he sensed she was unhappy, he would pull her along to go out and play.

She almost couldn’t hold back just now. She wanted to let herself loose to crash through the mental concept, letting her boundless psychic power wash into every crack of the ability core, clearing every trace of pollution, freeing Yang Ran’s soul trapped inside, so he wouldn’t have to be imprisoned in a dark room enduring the erosion of pollution anymore.

Who could bear watching someone important to them suffer right before their eyes?

She clearly had the ability to save him.

Zhan Suiru forcibly interrupted her own thoughts. She needed to do something else to prevent her emotions from getting to her head. She also hadn’t played the gaming noob to accompany her little brother in a long time. But if Yan Yan wasn’t playing games now, then forget it.

Zhan Yan thought his sister was still thinking about the rainbow farts. Red Crystal hadn’t been in a good mood lately, seeming like she had some troublesome matters, but he couldn’t find out what, and Red Crystal wasn’t willing to say either. When she was little, his sister would still talk to him when she was unhappy, but after growing up, she didn’t say anything, instead opting to wear a gaming big shot persona to tease him.

He sighed.

Zhan Yan: “Sister, I saw Qi Ye’s livestream.”

“Actually, you don’t need to use your big shot account for me to blow rainbow farts at you.”

“My sister is the best sister in the world. I hope she is happy every day and never has any troublesome matters.”

“If she encounters troublesome matters, I will always be here waiting for her to confide in me.”

“Even if she can’t tell me, there will be others who can listen to Sister confide in them and help Sister resolve the trouble together.”

Family isn’t used to adjust one’s mood after encountering trouble; family supports each other, and they can face troubles together.

Since it was his sister’s persona that encountered trouble, he could also use his persona to figure out a way. Approaching Science already had many channels regarding information; even if he couldn’t do it, he still knew many formidable people.

He could ask others for help, and he had accumulated quite a few things that could be used for exchange.

Zhan Suiru’s hand trembled.

Zhan Yan watched his sister’s chat box say “typing…” for a long time, before she finally sent a message.

Zhan Suiru: “Such a sweet mouth, are you dating someone?”

Zhan Yan: …

Sister!!!

Heh, you’re just relying on the fact that your little brother won’t fall out with you, aren’t you.

Being spoiled and acting arrogant!

Fortunately, although his sister didn’t take the bait and teased him instead, she did listen to his words. The next day, Zhan Yan, wearing his little persona, heard Red Crystal asking him about things that could repair divine sense and clear pollution.

Was his sister injured? Was she polluted?

Zhan Yan felt a wave of nervousness, but after flipping through the gossip threads, he found no related threads.

Then who was his sister asking these things for?

Dammit, his information depth ability wasn’t enough; he couldn’t dig into his sister’s thoughts, only being able to search for things on a behavioral level.

If he couldn’t find it, he’d let it go for now; anyway, he’d help his sister look into it first.

Zhan Yan had helped Deep Shadow look into this kind of thing before, except back then he looked into more people and fewer items.

Anyway, he would organize what he already had and give his sister a copy first, then search for the rest.

The day Zhan Suiru asked, she received a set of documents that very day. It was detailed and complete, clearly showing that blood, sweat, and tears were poured into organizing it.

Was the “squirrel” this capable? Sigh, how could she have the nerve to take this for free? This kid is so enthusiastic…

Recalling the past as well, after seeing her practicing building with data there, he smugly came over and even took the initiative to teach her. Even earlier, after seeing the barrier she laid down outside the game world, he reached out and poked it.

This kid wasn’t ordinarily daring.

He could easily suffer losses.

Zhan Suiru left an emergency contact method for him.

Being this daring, in case he accidentally tripped up, she would be able to make it in time to fish him out.

However, this did indeed make her mood improve. In the reincarnations of the apocalyptic world, she was everyone’s guardian. She was accustomed to relying on herself, so having someone else help out now felt pretty good too.

Zhan Yan busied himself helping his sister collect information. After working for barely two days, he suddenly received a private message from Deep Shadow.

He had only been paying attention to his sister’s side these past few days and accidentally forgot about the situation on Deep Shadow’s end, not having flipped through his gossip threads for several days.

But the big shot Deep Shadow had always been very reliable, so there shouldn’t be any issues, right?

He clicked open the private message.

I Just Saved the World!: “Help me contact the Wan Yao Alliance and the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau.”

Seeing this message, Zhan Yan was startled.

What must have happened for Deep Shadow to take the initiative to contact these two people?

He quickly opened Deep Shadow’s gossip threads.

Deep Shadow’s next message also came through.

I Just Saved the World!: “The Monster Doctor split.”

Zhan Yan: ?

The big shot Deep Shadow’s explanations had always been in a concise style, which was quite a test for the listener’s intellect. Fortunately, Zhan Yan still had the Gossip System. Combining the gossip threads and Deep Shadow’s narration, he finally figured out what was going on.

Deep Shadow had been tracking the Monster Doctor recently. After the big shot’s aftereffects were cured, his strength was extremely fierce; he didn’t give the Monster Doctor the chance to continue playing fishing at all, forcefully killing his way through and digging up the Monster Doctor’s lair.

Then he discovered that the Monster Doctor himself was that nest—he had already turned into a Black Nest.

Deep Shadow wasn’t too surprised. Approaching Science had told him long ago that the Monster Doctor had already turned into an anomaly. Later on, Approaching Science had always found it strenuous to investigate the Monster Doctor, with almost no progress.

With Approaching Science’s strength, he could easily investigate A-rank anomalies. For the Monster Doctor to be this difficult to investigate, he must have turned into a monster more deeply connected to Infinite, such as a Black Nest.

This flesh and blood Black Nest the Monster Doctor transformed into wasn’t very easy to fight. Unlike the empty shell cloakroom Black Nest he fought in the abandoned house, the Monster Doctor had accumulated himself very fully, like a bulging flesh sac, covered in mucus, blood vessels, and many bizarre tumors. Each tumor was a nest incubating a kind of anomaly.

Even though it had already produced many anomalies previously to stop Deep Shadow, this flesh sac was still so plump it was disgusting.

It was also much more troublesome than those small Black Nests Deep Shadow had cooperated with Ghost King Lin Yuan to fight before. Only after Deep Shadow resolved all the external parts of the Monster Doctor did he discover that this guy’s foundation was rooted in another space—a Candle Dragon Remnant.

Without going inside, there was no way to resolve the Monster Doctor. But the Monster Doctor had been entrenched within this Candle Dragon Remnant for a long time; entering the Candle Dragon Remnant was almost equivalent to entering the inside of the Black Nest.

And wanting to destroy a Black Nest from the inside was almost an impossible task. A Black Nest isn’t a biological creature; there’s no such thing as its inside being more fragile than its outside.

The inside of a Black Nest will form an independent space, and unique rules will form within that space—this is Infinite’s specialty. Entering a Black Nest is equivalent to entering a death instance with no tasks, no rest days, and no goals. The only path to survival is to tear the Black Nest open from the inside and break out. But the rules of the Black Nest’s internal space absolutely favor the Black Nest.

This was why he could never figure out how the Monster Doctor survived from inside a Black Nest, to the point where he could still come out and disgust him now.

If he didn’t enter the Candle Dragon Remnant, then Deep Shadow could only think of a way to resolve it from the outside. But Deep Shadow knew absolutely nothing about the Candle Dragon. If he wanted to resolve it, he could only seek help from the Wan Yao Alliance; perhaps there would be someone in the Wan Yao Alliance familiar with the Candle Dragon and Candle Dragon Remnants who knew how to resolve this thing from the outside.

When Zhan Yan saw this, he actually thought the big shot Deep Shadow was coming to seek help, but immediately following, he saw the next gossip thread:

[Deep Shadow sneered and broke into the Candle Dragon Remnant occupied by the Monster Doctor alone.]

The big shot Deep Shadow was truly too daring!