GRMFBS CH192

The cat demon ghost was stunned.

Ah… is this new puppet’s combat power so fierce? It could tear down a piece of Lord Tie Lao’s magical artifact…

Because the ghost king statue was removed, the Tie Lao Hall became restless. Numerous ghost images on the door pillars, bricks, and tiles were eager to move, and shrill screams and howls were faintly rising.

Zhan Jinli gripped the door handle and slammed it down. The iron door hit the ground with a sound like a giant bell, and a lofty, solitary, and cold pressure swept through the entire hall.

The restless ghost images were deterred and hid one by one, wishing they didn’t exist. The exquisitely cast pillars, bricks, and tiles instantly became smooth, and the majestic and exquisite hall gained a sense of simple beauty.

The cat demon ghost reacted.

No matter how powerful a puppet was, it wouldn’t have the pressure of a ghost king, and it was impossible to scare these yin and evil energies into such submissive shrinking.

No, this is the real Ghost King Lin Yuan!

“Y-y-y-you…” The cat demon ghost couldn’t help but retreat, hitting his calf on the sofa, and fell backwards without paying attention.

Going to die, going to die, going to die! How did this damn job run straight into Lord Lin Yuan’s hands?!

He was so scared that his cat ears and tail popped out.

The “Lin Yuan” puppet’s eyes lit up, pouncing to grab the cat tail: “Oh~ Big tail~ Fluffy big tail~ My favorite big cat tail~”

The cat demon ghost almost fainted from fear, hating that he was already dead and couldn’t actually faint.

“L-l-let go! Let go, do you have a death wish?!” He tremblingly pulled back his tail.

Zhan Jinli watched the puppet, which looked exactly like his ghost form, reveal an unspeakable expression and bury its face in the other’s tail.

With a dark face, he went up and pulled the puppet off, asking the cat demon ghost: “What’s going on?”

The cat demon ghost shook uncontrollably, his ears shaking along with him: “L-L-Lord, i-i-it was L-Lord Tie Lao, h-h-h-hired me to s-s-supervise…”

The “Lin Yuan” puppet was being held by the collar by Zhan Jinli but was still restless, staring at the pair of cat ears with bright eyes, continuing to sigh: “Oh~”

Zhan Jinli: “Put your beast form away.”

The cat demon ghost tried several times, but because he was too terrified, he couldn’t do it right. The ears and tail didn’t retract, but his hands were almost turning into claws. He said with a mournful face: “S-s-sorry, I-I d-didn’t mean to.”

Zhan Jinli saw he was almost scared out of his wits and patted him on the head.

The cat demon ghost felt as if he was being poured with clear spring water. A cool energy spread from the top of his head down through his ghost body. The fear that almost scattered his soul disappeared, and his ears and tail involuntarily retracted.

The “Lin Yuan” puppet looked disappointed: “Oh…”

Zhan Jinli couldn’t stand it. He sealed its mouth and tongue, bound it to a chair with ghost energy, and asked the cat demon ghost to explain.

The cat demon ghost was still scared, but finally able to speak properly. He stood straight and lowered his head to report: “Lord Lin Yuan, I was hired by Lord Tie Lao to supervise this puppet’s work.

“This puppet was custom-made by Lord Tie Lao. It has high intelligence but just loves sniffing cats. Every time it completes a task, I turn back into my original form and let him pet me for a while… um…”

The cat demon ghost remembered the tragedy that just happened under the real Ghost King Lin Yuan’s nose and started stammering again.

Zhan Jinli: “Why did Tie Lao order a puppet of me?”

The cat demon ghost’s eyes wandered, hands grabbing at the sides of his legs: “Ah… um, I-I just heard some rumors… I don’t know if they are true or false. I didn’t say it, I just heard it. I’m just retelling it, I really don’t know the truth…”

Zhan Jinli: “Speak.”

The cat demon ghost stopped talking, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and said with the air of facing death: “I heard Lord Tie Lao ordered this puppet to play with Lord Wan Yan…”

Zhan Jinli remembered when he was helping Tie Lao with work before, Tie Lao guaranteed him that he had already handled Wan Yan.

So this is how you handled it?

Tie Lao, you’re good!

The “Lin Yuan” puppet was trying hard to untie the ghost energy binding and actually managed to undo the mouth seal.

“You’re not allowed to bully the little kitty!”

Zhan Jinli then realized that this puppet’s combat power was quite high, and its resistance to various spells was also good.

Zhan Jinli: “What did Tie Lao make you do?”

The “Lin Yuan” puppet had a temper: “You scared the little kitty; I’m not telling you!”

The cat demon ghost trembled again. Because Ghost King Lin Yuan had expressionlessly shifted his gaze to him.

N-n-no way, he’s not going to use him to threaten this puppet, is he?

Zhan Jinli: “Not talking? Then I’ll make it so no cats in this world grow ears or tails.”

Since he had just slapped away the cat demon ghost’s ears and tail, this threat was very persuasive.

The “Lin Yuan” puppet imagined cats without ears or tails, round bald heads and butts… No!

To protect the ears and tails of all cats in the world, the “Lin Yuan” puppet submitted.

He reluctantly detailed a series of things he did. From despising Wan Yan in another mode to exposing his belly and burying his face to sniff cats in this mode, from playing around in Chaofu Mountain every day to coming here to sniff cats while working…

Zhan Jinli: “Another mode?”

“Yes, another mode. It is said to be a mode designed according to your personality. Oh my god, he actually dislikes cats! Cats are the cutest animals in the world! You have no taste at all. Think about it, their fluffy little paws, their soft little ears, their warm bellies…” The puppet went from listless to flushed with excitement, “How can a person not like cats? How can you bear to refuse a cat? People who haven’t experienced cats will never understand that happiness. It’s so pitiful not to experience it. Let me help you, really. Imagine when they knead you with their little paws…”

“Thanks, I’m gonna puke.” Zhan Jinli interrupted it expressionlessly, “Tell me how to switch to the other mode.”

The “Lin Yuan” puppet firmly refused.

The cat demon ghost tremblingly told Zhan Jinli the switch was on the wrist.

He hoped Lord Lin Yuan wouldn’t hold a grudge against him. He didn’t mean to be petted by a puppet that looked exactly like Lord Lin Yuan. It was just that the reward Lord Tie Lao offered was too tempting.

Before, when doing this job, he always felt harassed by the puppet. Now he felt like a perverted cat harassing Lord Lin Yuan.

The “Lin Yuan” puppet screamed sadly as if betrayed, eyes wide, looking at him in disbelief: “Oh! How can you bear to do this to me?”

Zhan Jinli grabbed the “Lin Yuan” puppet’s wrist. He really couldn’t stand seeing his own face make such an expression.

Switch designed on the wrist? Was Artisan deliberate or coincidental? Why was it exactly the same as Wan Yan’s psychotic cat hobby?

What kind of ghost cat-loving mode did they create?! Switching to the mode that fits his personality should be normal, right?

After the “Lin Yuan” puppet switched modes, its expression suddenly became disdainful: “Release this Seat! How dare a mere rat treat this Seat like this? Hm? Why do you look exactly like this Seat?

“I understand, you dressed up like this on purpose to attract this Seat’s attention, right? Heh! You scheming little fan, I won’t accept a follower like you who doesn’t know the height of the sky and the depth of the earth!”

At the same time, sensing his magical artifact door being removed, the Tie Lao Ghost King, who rushed back frantically, arrived at the door just in time to see this scene.

Tie Lao: …

It’s over.

He saw Senior Lin Yuan slowly turn his head and smile at him.

In all these years, it was the first time he saw Senior Lin Yuan smile.

A smile overflowing with murderous aura.

…

[Ghost King Lin Yuan Zhan Jinli beat up Ghost King Tie Lao.]

[Ghost King Lin Yuan Zhan Jinli made a note about Artisan in his heart.]

Early the next morning, as soon as Zhan Yan got up, he saw these two melons in the special follow column.

Hmm? What happened?

Scroll back.

Pfft! That puppet of his brother was discovered!

Light a candle for Tie Lao and Artisan. His brother’s “fortune and misfortune come together” is not easy to bear.

Sigh, can his brother’s “fortune and misfortune come together” help with the Artisan matter? Let Infinite and Chronicle, who come to cooperate with Artisan have bad luck!

Artisan… continue to check Rong Sui’s whereabouts today. Artisan must absolutely not side with Infinite!

Besides that, Mom and Dad’s gossip feed also refreshed.

Mom went to the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau to re-coordinate the formation and showed great interest in the flesh and blood server, so she was chased home by Ning Xi to rest.

Dad finished delivering the Candle Dragon power to the sleeping Candle Dragon. His shift was over, and he was anxious to go home to see his wife. Beating Xiangliu could wait.

Zhan Yan washed up and exercised while gossip, then took a bag of bread from the fridge for breakfast.

Bao Qingshan looked like he wanted to say something when he saw him taking the bread.

Zhan Yan pretended not to see, took the bread and a cup of water back to his room. Otherwise, he couldn’t explain why he would rather roll the bread into balls to eat it.

Before he could search for Rong Sui’s whereabouts, a melon strip he followed specially popped up:

[The Apocalyptic World is approaching this world… It is expected to merge with this world in half a month to two months.]

Ah ah. As the apocalypse approached, the Gossip System’s prediction of the time of the apocalyptic world’s formal merger became more accurate.

The shortest time remaining was only half a month. Zhan Yan felt a sense of crisis exploding. He had to get it done within half a month!

Stuff bread balls, check Rong Sui and Chronicle!

Maybe because he grabbed the keyword “resurrection,” when he searched again, the communication between Chronicle and Artisan loaded in more detail.

Damn Chronicle, this unethical thing! He pretended he also had someone he wanted to resurrect to evoke Artisan’s sympathy and deceive him!

Artisan… Artisan’s gossip feed didn’t refresh anything special, just that he started making puppets again.

Rong Sui’s gossip feed couldn’t be refreshed at all. Unknown if it was because the time was too distant or because those events happened in the apocalypse.

Worried. But he couldn’t just drag on with no progress.

Contact Artisan directly? But he didn’t have any bargaining chips to persuade him.

He also couldn’t guarantee he could handle this completely. If he couldn’t solve it, a bunch of people would be pitted…

Need to get outside help.

Zhan Yan went through everyone he knew and decided to go to Mom.

Not saying Dad is unreliable, but Artisan is a fan of Tianshi. He should listen to Tianshi a bit, right?

Zhan Yan refreshed all the gossip feed he could again. After confirming he really couldn’t find a breakthrough, he logged into the Approaching Science account and started contacting Tianshi.

Mom happened to be online.

Zhan Yan told her everything from Luo Wang helping him find out Artisan wanted resurrection, to Chronicle controlling Tequila to negotiate with Artisan using resurrection as a condition, and his suspicion that the person Artisan wanted to resurrect was Rong Sui.

Tianshi: “You came to me instead of Nie Yu because you are worried that after the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau learns about this, their chosen method of handling it will push Artisan to the other side?”

Of course. With Vice Director Ning’s control freak personality, he would probably want to forcibly control Artisan, right?

Approaching Science: “I feel Artisan isn’t a character that can be controlled.”

Not many people could hide their purposes and thoughts in the Gossip System’s gossip feed. The people Zhan Yan encountered in the Gossip System who could do this were all big shots. Artisan was the one who hid the most and the deepest among those he encountered.

Tianshi: “Don’t worry. Thank you.”

The news brought by Approaching Science was very important. But Ji Yueming wasn’t worried.

Ning Xi was a control freak, but not a brainless one. Only the weak would want to use force to compel others to obey their arrangements.

Ning Xi asking Nie Yu to find Approaching Science to investigate Artisan was because they found some clues while tracking Chronicle. Now they could confirm—

“Artisan” wasn’t Artisan. The survivor from the apocalypse wasn’t Yang Ran, but Lord Rong Sui.

Ning Xi: “Rong Sui… Since she wants resurrection, Yang Ran’s soul must be in her hands.”

He started paying attention when “Artisan” collected information about souls from various channels. At that time, Chronicle hadn’t come knocking, and Infinite didn’t know the survivor was Rong Sui.

The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau had too little information about the apocalypse, but fortunately, Infinite knew a lot.

So, sometimes following the enemy to find clues was much easier.

With these confirmed, the direction of many plans could be determined.

Ning Xi: “You have to come back to the bureau to help.”

Ji Yueming: “No problem.”

At the same time, Zhan Yunkai, who finished handling everything, opened the family group chat and typed a line expectantly.

Zhan Yunkai: “I’m coming home today.”

Ji Yueming’s message came out almost simultaneously with his: “Something came up at the company, I have to leave for a few days.”