GRMFBS CH190

The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau was already wrapping up the matter of the Flesh and Blood Server.

Zhan Yan focused his energy on the Chronicle of the World and his sister.

The Chronicle of the World’s gossip feeds were loading extremely slowly and were very laggy. Zhan Yan already had experience with this; it meant he was just like the Monster Doctor, deeply entangled with Infinity.

The gossip feeds on his sister’s side weren’t lagging, but they were paused.

Ahhh, is it because he consumed too much again?

Zhan Yan started shoving bread balls into his mouth frantically.

While eating, a gossip feed suddenly popped out.

[The Monster Doctor sensed subtle spatiotemporal disturbances in Taijin Township and discovered a Candle Dragon remnant.]

Ahhh, it’s the gossip feed he searched for earlier about how the Monster Doctor found Candle Dragon remnants!

Maybe because he ate too many bread balls, this recharge not only loaded the gossip feed that was in the process of loading but also brought out a few related gossips.

The Monster Doctor could be so sensitive to spatiotemporal disturbances because he relied on Infinity, an expert in manipulating spacetime.

In this regard, their own world couldn’t compare, as the Candle Dragon, who was best at spacetime, was still sleeping.

However, Zhan Yan had a flash of inspiration and thought of a roundabout way.

He typed “subtle spatiotemporal disturbance” into the search bar.

[The Monster Doctor sensed subtle spatiotemporal disturbances in Zhongyi Mountain and discovered a Candle Dragon remnant.]

Zhan Yan couldn’t help clenching his fist in his heart. Yes! Just like this! The Monster Doctor goes to find Candle Dragon remnants, and he goes to call people to rob the Monster Doctor!

He logged into the Approaching Science account and sent the message to Luo Wang!

Administrator Luo Wang: “Amazing! How did you find out?”

Approaching Science: “Hehe, I can’t find Candle Dragon remnants, but the Monster Doctor can. Let’s go rob what he finds!”

Administrator Luo Wang: “[Thumbs Up]”

“I love this idea of yours to death!”

Approaching Science: “I’ll call you when I find a new one!”

Checking gossip feeds about spatiotemporal disturbances involved the Monster Doctor, and the consumption was quite large. Zhan Yan decided to continue checking later. He had other things to check.

After Hong Jing exited the network world, his sister’s gossip feed interface hadn’t moved.

Zhan Yan started searching for the clue he found earlier—that World Fragment—at the same time.

How did it get into Sister’s hands?

There were very few gossip feeds related to the World Fragment, and he soon saw it.

On New Year’s Eve, Mom destroyed the largest Infinity fragment “Apocalypse Fragment” in the Infinity Research Institute. After the thunder washed away all pollution, a small World Fragment was left behind from the “Apocalypse Fragment.”

Later, the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau traded this fragment to the Artisan.

After removing irrelevant gossip feeds, these were the only ones truly related to the World Fragment.

That is to say, the World Fragment in Sister’s hand was obtained from the Artisan.

Hmm… Sister and the Artisan both originated from the Apocalypse world, so it’s normal for them to have a connection, but why didn’t the gossip feeds show it at all? Why did the Artisan give the World Fragment to Sister?

While checking, Nie Yu sent him a message again.

Administrator Domain: “The Flesh and Blood Server has been resolved.”

“Have you found anything checking the Artisan?”

Approaching Science: “Checking now. Why are you checking him? Did you find any problems?”

Administrator Domain: “Not sure yet, just suspicion.”

“Be careful, he might be more than just a ‘Artisan’.”

More than just a “Artisan”? What does this mean? Does the Artisan have other hidden identities?

Both clues pointed to the Artisan. Zhan Yan had already started searching.

[Through the recorded “God Control Technique,” the Chronicle of the World controlled Tequila to find the Artisan. He proposed a condition very important to the Artisan, demanding the Artisan share the usage rights of the Apocalypse World Fragment with him.]

So the Chronicle of the World went to find the Artisan!

The Apocalypse World Fragment… Although he doesn’t know what use this thing has, at this critical period, the Chronicle of the World wanting its usage rights must be related to the approaching Apocalypse World.

Behind the Chronicle of the World was Infinity. Infinity wanted the World Fragment; Infinity wanted the Apocalypse World!

It had previously tried to bewitch people from the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau to collect Infinity fragments to piece together a small world for itself. But that plan was ruined by the Tianshi, so now it had set its sights on the Apocalypse World.

The approach of the Apocalypse World was an accident that Infinity hadn’t anticipated, so it couldn’t prepare in advance. This was why its methods seemed rough. It used the Monster Doctor to distract everyone, while during this period, it kept letting the Chronicle of the World look for a breakthrough point in the Apocalypse World.

Breakthrough point… no, no, its breakthrough point wasn’t just the Apocalypse World Fragment. If it were just the World Fragment, it wouldn’t need to go roundabout to find the Artisan for a transaction; it had other means and didn’t need to delay until now.

It spent so much time not only looking for the Apocalypse World Fragment but also finding that condition very important to the Artisan!

The Artisan was also its target!

Did the Artisan become a target because he originated from the Apocalypse?

Sister also originated from the Apocalypse! Would she also become a target of the Apocalypse?!

Zhan Yan quickly called his sister.

Sister answered quickly: “Hello? Yan Yan?”

Zhan Yan: “Sister, where are you?”

Zhan Suiru: “I’m in the studio? What? Is something wrong?”

Zhan Yan looked at the gossip feed; it didn’t show his sister lying to him.

He breathed a sigh of relief and started making up random excuses: “Nothing. Sister, I heard our area isn’t safe recently, don’t go to other places randomly.”

Zhan Suiru was originally in a bad mood, but now she was amused by her little worrywart brother: “Don’t worry, I won’t run around.”

The siblings chatted for a while, and Zhan Suiru hung up the phone. Without her brother’s chattering nagging, her ears suddenly returned to quietness.

The studio in front of her was orderly, not tidied by her. She often put tools casually on the workbench after using them, especially when her work wasn’t going smoothly.

These were all tidied by Xiao Ran. Every time, he would carefully clean and oil every tool, then put them back in their original positions, which were also the most convenient positions.

Zhan Suiru didn’t install this in his program. This was Yang Ran’s habit.

His own life was often messy; he ate a bite when he remembered, rolled himself in the quilt on the bed when he felt he had to sleep, but his studio was always tidy and orderly.

He was always very, very hardworking.

On the side of the studio, there was a large shelf incompatible with the overall style, covered by a curtain.

Without opening it, Zhan Suiru knew there must be many more sculptures on it.

Xiao Ran carried out every command of hers seriously. Every time she wasn’t there, after tidying up the studio, when he had nothing to do, he would start making sculptures.

Even earlier, Zhan Suiru had observed through the camera when she wasn’t there. Unable to say if it was anticipation or something else, she saw Xiao Ran standing motionless after tidying up the studio, like a robot turned off.

She stared at the curtain for a bit too long, and Xiao Ran asked considerately: “Do you need me to open the curtain?”

Zhan Suiru took a breath: “Open it.”

A very eye-sore wall appeared.

Zhan Suiru observed this wall.

These works were arranged in chronological order. They seemed to be growing.

In the earliest days, she asked Xiao Ran to make sculptures to cope with her art studio. At that time, the sculptures Xiao Ran made were almost replicas of monsters in the apocalypse. That ugliness was a precise description of horror, just a replica.

Later, his sculptures changed. Horror was diluted, but they became uglier due to discordance.

A trapped soul was struggling with all its might, trying to squeeze something out of the cracks to convey to her.

She watched more and more parts struggling out of these sculptures.

Like life growing.

But from a certain point, this growth stagnated.

As if the cracks that could be opened ended there, leaving only hard granite around.

Zhan Suiru tried to fill in some fragments of the superpower core. At first, it did have some effect. But later, progress stagnated again.

Zhan Suiru had a feeling. This wasn’t a problem she could solve by continuing to fill the superpower core.

What Infinity brought her through the Chronicle of the World, besides the transaction invitation, was a more hidden threat, so hidden that the Chronicle of the World might not even have noticed.

The pollution on Yang Ran’s soul wasn’t as simple as she thought; it had Infinity’s handiwork. He couldn’t come out.

“Do you want to play games with your brother for a while?”

Zhan Suiru smiled softly: “No, Xiao Ran. I’m fine now, no need to find my brother to play games.

“Come, we need to start working now.

“I need to make a puppet.”

A “Zhan Suiru” puppet.

…

Hanging up the phone, Zhan Yan started searching for that “condition very important to the Artisan.” The Chronicle of the World taking this to find the Artisan was nothing more than coercion and bribery.

Infinity wanted the usage rights of the Apocalypse World Fragment, but the Apocalypse World Fragment had already merged into the game world. He didn’t know how the Artisan replied; the gossip feed didn’t show.

Zhan Yan knew the Artisan always had a deeply hidden secret. He would intentionally chat with him about souls and collect relevant information, but the gossip system couldn’t dig up his reason for doing so.

The system’s ability to dig deep information was already very high now, but it still couldn’t display the Artisan’s inner thoughts.

He hid himself too deeply.

Since the gossip system didn’t work, start from other aspects. Zhan Yan had to know what condition the Chronicle of the World offered. Only by knowing this condition could he possibly persuade the Artisan not to be bewitched by Infinity.

He was afraid Infinity would make the Artisan hurt his sister.

How did the Chronicle of the World learn the Artisan’s secret? Because of Infinity? Infinity once controlled the Apocalypse for many years; it must know the Artisan very well.

Some past secrets were only known to people from the past… He also knew someone who had contact with the Artisan of the past!

Zhan Yan quickly logged into the Approaching Science account, poking Deep Shadow fiercely on one side, and asking Luo Wang for help on the other.

Deep Shadow had been to the Apocalypse dungeon before, and Luo Wang was a Dream Demon, able to trace desires directly.

Poke Deep Shadow first.

Approaching Science: “Do you know the Artisan in the Apocalypse dungeon?”

Then find Luo Wang.

Approaching Science: “Can you help me see what the Artisan desires most?”

Administrator Luo Wang: “No problem.”

“But he hasn’t spoken in the forum for a while, I need to spend some time, wait a bit.”

Deep Shadow also replied.

I Just Saved the World!: “Collected information, not familiar.”

“‘Artisan’ Yang Ran, he is the deputy of ‘Lord’ Rong Sui, the semi-substantial ruler of Hope Base.”

“He has a very powerful manufacturing superpower. The entire Hope Base is his fortress. It is full of complex secret passages, mechanisms, surveillance, and weapons. As long as he wants, that thing can even become a mobile turret.”

“It can be said that as long as one enters Hope Base, one enters Yang Ran’s control.”

“Players once tried to distract Yang Ran with other things so he couldn’t pay attention to what happened in the base. But Yang Ran also installed intelligence for the base, so even if he was often busy and invisible, the base was still under his control. Those lower-level managers couldn’t fight against him at all.”

“But manufacturing superpowers can’t resist pollution. There must be help from mental superpowers so people living in the mobile turret won’t gradually be polluted into anomalies.”

“So Hope Base has another controller, ‘Lord’ Rong Sui. Rong Sui’s spiritual power is very strong. She can envelop the entire base under her spiritual domain. That is almost an absolute domain, a control more detailed than the fortress. If not considering the living standards within the base, solely from the aspect of guarding the base’s safety, Rong Sui’s ability can almost completely cover Yang Ran’s ability.”

On the other side, Luo Wang’s message arrived.

Administrator Luo Wang: “Ah… I have news that probably isn’t too good.”

“The Artisan’s desire is hidden very deep, but very strong…”

“He wants to resurrect someone.”

Deep Shadow’s messages continued.

I Just Saved the World!: “Players also tried to separate these two people, but whether before or after the dungeon had problems, they never succeeded.”

“Yang Ran admires/loves Rong Sui. The biggest purpose of him building the fortress was so Rong Sui wouldn’t have to use spiritual power to guard the base all the time.”

Those dreams resurfaced in Zhan Yan’s mind.

Yang Ran did everything he could just to build a place for Rong Sui where she could rest with peace of mind.

Rong Sui died in the apocalypse, and Yang Ran wanted to resurrect her…

Zhan Yan was speechless for a moment.

Deep Shadow sent the information and didn’t receive a reply, so he sent another message asking.

I Just Saved the World!: “You are interested in the Artisan?”

Zhan Yan’s mind was a bit chaotic.

Did Infinity promise the Artisan resurrection? Did he believe it? What promise could they give the Artisan? Is there any way to satisfy both sides?

He didn’t want the Artisan to become an enemy, nor did he want the Artisan to fall to Infinity…

Deep Shadow was pressing. This big shot was extremely sharp. He had to give a suitable reason. Otherwise, after discovering this, this big shot might run directly to find the Artisan, and it wouldn’t be impossible for them to fight…

Zhan Yan started talking nonsense.

Approaching Science: “Yeah. He is number one on the leaderboard after all.”

“I also want to earn his points.”

Gu Jiancheng: ???

What’s wrong with me being ranked sixth?!

Is it because the points I give you aren’t enough?!

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