GRMFBS CH188

Zhan Yan was intensely watching the drama unfold in the gossip threads from afar.

On one hand, after receiving the news, the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau had rapidly rushed to the location of the flesh and blood server, preparing to clear it. At the same time, he was also investigating the Book of Secrets, who was hiding his tracks; this guy definitely harbored bad intentions by staying hidden. On the other hand, he was checking on his sister’s situation. For some reason, he had a lingering feeling of unease.

Multiple lines of gossip threads advanced simultaneously. As he scrolled and scrolled, the gossip threads suddenly stopped refreshing.

Zhan Yan was startled. He switched to search for other gossip threads, but those wouldn’t load either.

Today he had been scrolling through the Monster Doctor’s gossip and investigating the Book of Secrets’ gossip. Both of them were heavy polluters, so the consumption was high. Previously, all he got were [Loading…] when he searched, which didn’t consume much. Now that he could actually search them up, he accidentally depleted his daily melon-eating energy, and the Gossip System refused to let him scroll anymore.

Zhan Yan: Ahhhh why drop the ball at the critical moment!!!

Can I get an advance? Can I borrow tomorrow and the day after’s quota for today? This is exactly when I’m anxious!

A headache wasn’t unbearable. Nie Yu had given him information on being polluted and how to resist pollution before. Just let him investigate! He felt right now was very important!

The Gossip System remained unmoved.

Zhan Yan stood up anxiously and poked fiercely at the Gossip System’s panel.

“Hey Yan, we bought some new watermelon, you can eat…” Bao Qingshan and Zhan Yan looked at each other in dismay.

Zhan Yan retracted his hand: “Ahem, I won’t eat, you guys go ahead.”

Bao Qingshan: “Okay… okay, you keep busy.”

Zhan Yan: …

Did poking fiercely at thin air make him look like a psycho? Forget it, it’s not important!

The main point was how to deal with this stubborn Gossip System first!

He had encountered the state of being unable to scroll before. Back then, he always felt his brain lacked energy and wanted to eat sweets. But facts proved that eating sweets had absolutely no effect other than giving him a sugar addiction. But the very first time, he clearly remembered being able to scroll through the gossip threads again after eating…

He remembered! That time he ate the sliced bread his brother baked!

Because that piece of bread was sickeningly sweet, it gave him the illusion that eating sugar replenished his brain’s energy and allowed him to continue using the Gossip System. But perhaps what took effect wasn’t the sugar, but the bread his brother baked himself!

His brother was Ghost King Lin Yuan after all!

Zhan Yan began recalling the gossip threads. After his brother dropped his persona, he had flipped through the combined gossip threads of “Zhan Jinli” and “Ghost King Lin Yuan” again. It was just that back then, he was anxious to resolve the problem of Kitty Wan Yan looking for his brother, so he skimmed over many threads without looking closely.

It didn’t matter, he had the system backup.

He closed his eyes and reopened that segment of memory from the backup.

Sure enough, the bread and cakes his brother made were special. Eating them directly could replenish divine sense, and if offered as ghost food, a single piece of bread could turn into a mountain of bread.

Although he hadn’t cultivated and didn’t have divine sense, what the Gossip System consumed was something similar; his brother’s bread would work. He was off today, so he would go to his brother’s bakery right now!

Zhan Yan rushed out of his room and ran outside to borrow a car.

Chu Chengcheng wanted to call him over to eat watermelon, and had just started: “Hey…”

Zhan Yan was already out the door.

“In such a hurry, did something happen?” Cheng Yichu asked in confusion.

Bao Qingshan: “Don’t know.”

He tried hard to sense it, but felt nothing.

When he went into the room, he saw Zhan Yan was perfectly fine, even secretly acting crazy by himself. Wasn’t acting crazy in private occasionally completely normal? When Bao Qingshan was alone, he sometimes acted a bit crazy too. Aside from being a little awkward if caught, it only proved he was a lively, healthy, and energetic young man!

Zhan Yan wouldn’t be so embarrassed that he ran away, would he…

Zhan Yan borrowed a car, turned on the navigation, and drove straight to his brother’s bakery.

Oh God, please pray that his brother’s shop is open today. Even if it’s not open, there absolutely must be some surplus stock stored inside! He was truly panicking right now!

With sparks flying and lightning flashing, Zhan Yan sped back, practically hugging the speed limit.

Good news: Brother’s bakery is open.

Strange news: The one running the shop isn’t Brother.

It had been several months since his brother’s bakery went viral, and the hype had cooled down. Although his brother’s cakes were beautiful, they weren’t cheap either. The customer flow had returned to normal now, and there were no more weird influencers coming to check in and harass them. From the outside, his brother’s shop looked perfectly normal right now.

Zhan Yan pushed the door open and entered.

A baby-faced employee greeted him with a face full of smiles: “Welcome wel-wel-wel…”

Zhan Yan and the baby-faced person both froze.

Zhan Yan was wondering who this person was. Unfortunately, the Gossip System couldn’t scroll through gossip threads right now, so he couldn’t check.

Baby-face (Five Little Ghosts): Holy crap, why is Lord Lin Yuan’s little brother suddenly here?

Zhan Yan: “Uh, is the owner of this shop still Zhan Jinli?”

Baby-face: “Yes, yes, you are the shop manager’s little brother, right? We are the new employees hired by the shop manager.”

Matters in the Underworld were truly too busy. Zhan Jinli was so busy that even Ghost King Tie Lao had no time to see him; he really had no energy to manage both sides simultaneously.

But with Mom home recently, he couldn’t find a suitable excuse to close the shop. Ghosts occasionally visited his shop, so he couldn’t hand it over to an ordinary person to manage either.

Zhan Jinli heard that Ghost King Tie Lao ordered a puppet from the Artisan to help him work, which made things much easier. Tie Lao seemingly praised that puppet to high heaven, bluntly stating that if the Artisan’s asking price wasn’t so high, he would have ordered a few more.

Zhan Jinli was also tempted. So he also ordered a puppet from the Artisan.

The Artisan stated he wasn’t accepting orders recently, but Zhan Jinli’s requirements weren’t high. He only needed a puppet with sufficient physical flexibility, a humanoid appearance that wouldn’t give it away, and the ability to be possessed by ghost spirits.

This was simple. The Artisan had made a bunch of puppets during his research in the past that met the criteria. Leaving them there was useless, just gathering dust. So he sold a puppet to him.

After Zhan Jinli received the puppet, he let the Five Ghosts try it out.

The Five Ghosts patted their chests and guaranteed their Lord Ghost King that they would definitely watch the shop well!

After Zhan Jinli left, the five of them fought over this new big toy. Finally, they set up a schedule, taking turns possessing and using the puppet.

Today was the Red Ghost’s turn.

Baby-face (Red Ghost version) was extremely enthusiastic: “The shop manager told us. Do you have any needs? For these styles of fondant cakes, we… no, I also know how to make them.”

Lord Ghost King’s little brother! They had only seen him from afar before, and hadn’t interacted with him yet!

Zhan Yan felt something was a bit strange. His brother ran off to busy himself with Ghost King Lin Yuan’s tasks, and left the shop to a newly hired employee? But now wasn’t the time to think about this.

Zhan Yan: “I don’t want fondant cakes, are there any ordinary cakes or bread?”

He was extremely worried that after his brother got the fondant cake business, he would stop making ordinary cakes and bread.

Zhan Yan waited a few seconds but didn’t get a reply.

The Five Ghosts were fighting in a place Zhan Yan couldn’t see.

The Red Ghost hugged the baby-faced puppet and refused to let go, shouting loudly: “Today is clearly my shift! This puppet is mine for the whole day today!!!”

The Yellow Ghost grabbed his leg and pulled downward: “Today’s situation is special! This is Lord Lin Yuan’s little brother!”

The Black Ghost pried at his fingers: “That’s right, that’s right! You can’t be the only one to experience this!”

The Red Ghost: “Bullshit! We agreed on one ghost per day! Whose fault is it that your luck isn’t as good as mine?!”

The Green Ghost hugged his head and wrenched downward: “Today is special, let go! Everyone takes turns, we’ll compensate you later!”

The White Ghost squeezed under his belly, taking advantage of the Red Ghost being pulled open a crack to forcefully squeeze into the puppet, pushing the Red Ghost out.

Zhan Yan watched that baby-face standing there blankly, feeling even more bizarre: “Hello?”

Baby-face (White Ghost version) nodded reservedly: “Hello.”

Zhan Yan: …?

“Are there any ordinary cakes and bread?”

Baby-face (White Ghost version): “There are.”

Zhan Yan saw he stopped moving after speaking, and had to continue asking: “Where are they?”

Baby-face (Green Ghost version): “Here, here!”

Zhan Yan watched helplessly as this baby-face, who a second ago was extremely reserved and answering one sentence at a time, suddenly skipped to a hidden counter, even waving at him, and said lively: “Look! There are so many kinds here! There are cakes, bread, and small pastries too~”

Zhan Yan: “Uh, okay. Let me take a look.”

He walked over cautiously, maintaining a safe distance from the baby-face.

Baby-face (Yellow Ghost version): “What flavor would you like to eat? Or do you have any specific needs? We also have dinner rolls here, they are very low in calories.”

The Yellow Ghost was extremely steady and confident. Ever since suspecting that Lord Ghost King wanted to conquer the world through the culinary world, they had all learned the craft of making cakes, bread, and desserts. For ordinary people, what they made was much tastier than what Lord Ghost King Lin Yuan made.

Hearing the words “low in calories”, Zhan Yan understood: “Do you have any made by my brother himself?”

Baby-face (Yellow Ghost version) widened his eyes: “Ah? You… are you sure?”

Zhan Yan: “I know, just the super sweet kind.”

Baby-face (Black Ghost version) persuaded gently: “But that kind is super sweet, you might not be able to handle it. Do you want to try something else? They are all very delicious.”

Zhan Yan: “Thank you, no need, I only want what my brother made.”

The Five Ghosts started fighting again. Because they didn’t know if they should give him Lord Ghost King Lin Yuan’s version of bread and pastries.

The Green Ghost was very worried: “We can’t give him this, right? What if we accidentally sweeten Lord Lin Yuan’s little brother to death?”

The Black Ghost was very hesitant: “But he is Lord Lin Yuan’s little brother. He already knows how sweet Lord Lin Yuan’s cakes are. Since he asked for it himself, it should be fine, right?”

The Yellow Ghost disagreed: “But humans are unreliable. Have you forgotten how many humans stupidly kill themselves and end up in the Underworld every year?”

The White Ghost found it hard to choose: “But haven’t other ordinary humans bought Lord Lin Yuan’s cakes before? They didn’t sweeten themselves to death either.”

The Green Ghost and Yellow Ghost voted against it, while the Black Ghost and White Ghost voted for it.

Two votes against two; they found it hard to decide, and turned their gazes to the final ghost.

The Red Ghost, who was tied up in the corner by them, turned his head away: “Hmph! I don’t care. You fought for it yourselves, you take it! Whatever the consequences are, bear them yourselves!”

“What if Lord Lin Yuan’s little brother complains to Lord Ghost King when he returns because we didn’t give him the cake?”

“Then what if we give him the cake, he throws up from the sweetness, and complains to Lord Ghost King?”

Seeing the baby-face freeze again, Zhan Yan was very worried and asked: “Are you okay?”

Why did he feel the employee his brother hired was a bit weird? His personality changed every two sentences; did he have multiple personalities?

“When I first came in, you looked like you weren’t feeling well. Do you need to go to the hospital?”

Even if he discovered he was the shop manager’s little brother, there was no need to get so excited that he crashed, right? Did this employee really have some bizarre illnesses?

Hearing these words, the Red Ghost was extremely moved.

“He said ‘when I first came in’! He remembers me! He’s worried about me!”

Secretly untying his bindings, the Red Ghost darted into the baby-faced puppet while the other four ghosts were fighting, rapidly grabbing a bag of bread and a box of cake from the back and shoving them to Zhan Yan.

Baby-face (Red Ghost version): “We have them, we have them! These are all for you! Ahhhh you’re so nice!”

Zhan Yan: ?

He was a little scared.