GRMFBS CH194

Zhan Suiru felt that her older brother was hopeless. His social anxiety had reached a point where he had completely lost the perception of a normal person.

He actually never realized that Yan Yan could lie!

Her older brother was unreliable, and Yan Yan was incredibly sharp. Zhan Suiru felt she couldn’t handle her younger brother, so she decided to ask her parents for help.

Ji Yueming was at the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau. Ning Xi had already adjusted the formation, and only needed her assistance for the final activation.

Zhan Yunkai had just snatched the second Candle Dragon Remnant Shadow discovered by Monster Doctor. Unfortunately, this Candle Dragon Remnant Shadow was one Monster Doctor had discovered before. It had only remembered the location, planning to use it later. It wasn’t there now. Otherwise, the Demon King would really want to kill that thing directly.

The couple received the news and were both stunned.

The only normal younger son in the family, after having his aesthetics led astray by his sister, now had his taste led astray by his older brother.

It was as if the only straight sapling suddenly turned left, then turned right, bending into an enchanting “S” shape.

Ah ah, how did this happen?

The couple couldn’t help but reflect. Were they really too far removed from ordinary life and unsuitable for raising children?

The two started a private chat.

It was fine if his aesthetics were skewed, but his taste couldn’t be skewed. Eating too much sweet stuff was bad for his health.

The couple decided to take Zhan Yan for a checkup when they returned, but before that, they both expressed their concern for Zhan Yan remotely.

Zhan Yan had just finished washing fruits for his sister when he was suddenly bombarded with messages from his parents.

He was confused for a moment. Ah? How was his bread eating suddenly exposed?

Zhan Yan was still holding the fruit platter, freeing up his other hand to check his phone.

“Yan Yan, why are you still standing there?” His sister called him from the living room.

Zhan Yan looked up and saw Bao Qingshan sneaking into the room.

So it was you, brat!

“Sis!” Zhan Yan put down the fruit platter. “You tattled on me!”

His sister rubbed his head: “Eating too much sweet stuff isn’t healthy. Your hair is long again; I’ll trim it for you.”

Zhan Yan could see his sister was changing the subject. She wanted to hand him over to their parents for education.

Zhan Yan huffed angrily. Who am I stuffing bread balls for?!

Zhan Yan was pressed into a chair by his sister to get a haircut, head down dealing with his parents on his phone.

He hadn’t had a haircut in a while, just tying it casually behind his head every day, so it was messy now.

His sister took a comb and slowly combed his hair out first, her movements skilled and gentle.

But Zhan Yan felt uncomfortable. His attention was constantly pulled from his phone back to his scalp. Every stroke of the comb made him feel uneasy.

His body involuntarily tensed up, almost wanting to jump up from the chair.

“What’s wrong?” His sister stopped and asked.

“Nothing.” Zhan Yan felt strange, but when his sister’s fingers ran through his hair, he couldn’t stand it anymore.

He leaned forward, moving his head out of range first, then stood up.

“Let’s… let’s not cut hair today.” Zhan Yan frowned involuntarily.

Zhan Suiru, watching from afar through the puppet’s pupils, saw her brother’s uncomfortable appearance and sighed softly.

Her brother was so sharp. What to do?

Zhan Yan rubbed his neck uncomfortably and started flipping through gossip feed.

He was so happy to see his sister today that he only focused on accompanying her and hadn’t flipped gossip feed yet.

[You feel uncomfortable all over because you are getting a haircut from the “Zhan Suiru” puppet.]

Zhan Yan’s eyes widened. What the hell?!

He looked up abruptly. His sister stood opposite him, looking at him in confusion.

Continue flipping gossip feed. The one he picked up from the intersection today was this puppet. So where was his sister? Where did his sister go?!

Zhan Yan’s eyes turned red. He wanted to question this puppet, but reason held him back, telling him he couldn’t flip the table just like that.

“What’s wrong with you?” the puppet asked. The tone hiding concern was exactly like his sister’s.

Zhan Yan covered his nose: “Nothing, my nose itches, I want to sneeze.”

He turned his face away and continued flipping gossip feed. He had to figure out what was going on.

His sister’s melon strip stopped at her logging off as Red Crystal, and then hadn’t moved.

Although his sister was a big shot, she was a network type, physically powerless in reality… No, his sister was strong, but just an ordinary person in reality. Did something happen to his sister? Why couldn’t he flip the melon strip!

Gossip System, you piece of trash!! Trash!!!

Zhan Yan simultaneously searched for the origin of this puppet.

Such an exquisite and realistic puppet, he only knew one person who could make it: Artisan…

Had Artisan already made a move on his sister?

How did he know his sister’s true identity? Why did he know his sister so well?

From picking up his sister at the intersection to returning to the rental, Zhan Yan hadn’t noticed anything wrong. Its demeanor, mannerisms, little habits, and quirks were exactly the same as his sister’s. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have failed to notice.

The more alike Artisan could make it, the more scared Zhan Yan became. What did Artisan do to his sister? He was almost trembling while flipping through the gossip feed.

[Artisan made a “Zhan Suiru” puppet in his own image.]

Zhan Yan froze.

[You have seriously slandered your own golden finger!]

He felt his brain was almost unable to turn.

Artisan… own image… What did this mean?

“Yan Yan?” The puppet leaned over with concern.

Zhan Yan saw the rubber band removed from his head still on its wrist. The small rubber band his sister gave him! His sister said she polished that small blue crystal herself!

“You… give me the rubber band!”

The puppet took off the rubber band and handed it to him.

Zhan Yan took back the rubber band and couldn’t help but glare at it.

Zhan Suiru felt glared at by her brother through the puppet.

She was a bit bewildered, but mostly worried.

What was wrong? Yan Yan looked like he was about to cry. Such a sudden change… Besides worry, Zhan Suiru also felt a hint of suspicion.

“You, you sit by yourself first. I… I’ll go coax Mom and Dad first.” Zhan Yan made up an excuse.

Zhan Suiru was successfully led astray: Mom and Dad scolded Yan Yan? So Yan Yan was angry because she tattled? Oh dear, little brother was aggrieved and angry; how to coax him?

Zhan Suiru fell into deep thought.

Zhan Yan returned to his room to clear his messy head.

Opening his sister and Artisan’s gossip feed, he felt his heart pounding wildly.

Artisan made it in his own image… But wasn’t Artisan a man?

With an indescribably complex state of mind, Zhan Yan dragged his sister’s entry and Artisan’s entry together.

The Gossip System performed the familiar star fusion for him again. The gossip feed under the two entries tightly interlocked, refreshed, transformed, and revealed many secrets that couldn’t be shown before.

∵ Sister = Artisan, Sister = Red Crystal

∴ Artisan = Red Crystal

Sis, how do you have two supernatural vests?!

Zhan Yan sniffled and started getting angry.

He just thought Artisan had captured his sister and conducted various terrible experiments like soul searching, and almost wanted to find his parents desperately to strip vests and save her!

From game boss “Hammer Eighty” to “Red Crystal,” and then to “Artisan,” this was the third one!

Why did his sister hide several vests?

Too excessive!

That puppet knocked on the door outside, asking gently what was wrong.

Zhan Yan didn’t even want to pay attention to that puppet. The arrangement he made was to play with his sister; who wanted to play with a puppet?!

Sister is too excessive!!

But he couldn’t not accompany it. He had no reason to know it was just a puppet.

And if his sister was Artisan, a lot of things were different. The apocalypse was about to merge; he had to re-sort the intelligence, and there were many things to do.

The puppet was still knocking.

[Zhan Suiru thinks you were scolded by Mom and Dad, so you are unhappy.]

Zhan Suiru knocked several times but didn’t see Yan Yan open the door, becoming more worried.

What exactly did Mom and Dad say to Yan Yan? Why was he so aggrieved?

Aiya, wasn’t it just Yan Yan eating a sweet bun? She would think of a way to see if she could research a sweetener that wasn’t harmful to the body.

Zhan Yan opened the door. His expression looked normal, but his eyes and nose were still a bit red.

Zhan Suiru coaxed her brother while thinking about the sweetener.

Earlier, after tasting the cake made by Zhan Jinli for the first time, Zhan Suiru had tried to research it. The property of that sweetener was somewhat similar to gold: in one end and out the other, not absorbed, and wouldn’t affect the human body. But its taste was similar to ordinary sugar, not as sweet as what Zhan Jinli used, so he didn’t like using it.

Her brother had so many problems.

Because Zhan Jinli’s annual physical examinations showed no problems later, she shelved it.

If Yan Yan’s taste wasn’t as sweet as her brother’s, this normal-sweetness sweetener should be enough. She would throw it to Zhan Jinli then and let him use this to make pastries for Yan Yan.

Zhan Yan wasn’t very attentive accompanying his sister this day—this was a puppet, not his sister! He had a pile of things to do!

In Zhan Suiru’s eyes, her brother was in particularly low spirits, so she tactfully chatted with her parents.

Little brother just secretly ate a sweet bun; don’t be too strict!

…

Zhan Yunkai returned to the Myriad Demon Alliance with the Candle Dragon power.

Demon King Xunmu was surprised: “Another trace of Candle Dragon power?”

“Clue given by Approaching Science.” Zhan Yunkai felt his judgment was superb; just a pity such a good kid couldn’t be pulled into the Myriad Demon Alliance.

“Oh, I remember, that kid you always wanted to pull in.” Demon King Xunmu recalled, “Let nature take its course. Maybe one day you’ll find the problem solved.”

He slowly shifted backward, layers of roots moving away to reveal a secret passage: “I feel Candle Dragon has been sleeping more and more restlessly recently.”

“Maybe she’s about to wake up.” Zhan Yunkai dropped from the branch and entered the secret passage.

Candle Dragon’s recuperation chamber was inside a tree hollow within Demon King Xunmu’s body. Demon King Xunmu’s aura could perfectly isolate Candle Dragon’s presence, and his vitality-filled power could also nourish the heavily injured Candle Dragon.

The secret passage was formed by thick, twisted roots covered with a thin layer of luminescent moss, emitting a faint yellow glow to provide a little illumination for the dim underground.

But this time Zhan Yunkai discovered new changes.

The colors of the luminescent moss had become colorful: red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple—none were missing. Some moss even changed the color of their light on their own.

The mysterious ancient tree hollow suddenly turned into a dazzling disco style.

Zhan Yunkai couldn’t quite accept this aesthetic: “…What is all this?”

Demon King Xunmu’s voice echoed in his body: “Oh, you mean these cute little mosses?”

Zhan Yunkai stopped talking.

He flew all the way to the innermost secret chamber.

A bright pearl hung at the top of the tree hollow, shedding soft radiance. Zhan Yunkai was glad to see this pearl hadn’t also turned into a colorful style.

The light shed by the pearl formed a barrier. In the secret chamber, an inconspicuous ripple would rise from time to time. under the illumination of the light, they became weaker and weaker until they dissipated. Sometimes they would hit the edge of the light.

These were the powers unconsciously leaked by Candle Dragon while sleeping. The original items in the secret chamber had all been worn into ashes by the power of time, covering the ground with a thin layer of dust. Only a piece of essence stone from Zhongshan Mountain remained.

The Divine Bird Chongming lowered its head close to the light curtain, looking for a long time but failing to find Candle Dragon.

“Where is Candle Dragon?”

A vine extended from the secret chamber, penetrating the radiant barrier of the pearl, avoiding all time ripples, and quickly flipped the essence stone over.

There was a crack on the back of the essence stone. Candle Dragon was only palm-sized, shorter than the claw tip of the Divine Bird Chongming. She had stuffed herself into the crack, sleeping in a strange shape. After the essence stone was flipped over, a section of her tail drooped to the ground, slapping the ground twice as if disturbed.

Zhan Yunkai was silent for a moment: “Her leaked power cracked the essence stone?”

This essence stone came from Zhongshan Mountain, where Candle Dragon used to live. The rocks there had been soaked in Candle Dragon’s power and wouldn’t be easily changed by leaked Candle Dragon power. Its cracking might indicate that Candle Dragon’s power had recovered to a very good level and she would wake up soon.

Demon King Xunmu: “Oh… she hit her head on it while sleeping in a daze.”

Zhan Yunkai: …Oh.

But the Candle Dragon power was indeed becoming more lively.

When Zhan Yunkai turned off the barrier to send the Candle Dragon power in, eight time ripples flashed in succession.

These time ripples were attracted by the Candle Dragon power and flashed even more fiercely. Zhan Yunkai nearly broke two feathers.

Candle Dragon rolled over, balling up the Candle Dragon power that had turned into candle tears to pad her chin, looking very satisfied.

Zhan Yunkai retreated in time and reopened the barrier.

Demon King Xunmu also breathed a sigh of relief: “Good thing you were fast. I was afraid she would break my roots.”

The Candle Dragon power was becoming more and more active. Time flashes couldn’t be dodged at all. Only by sensing strange fluctuations and anticipating the appearance of time ripples could one avoid them in advance.

But the premonition of time ripples appearing was very short, and only Demon Kings skilled in speed could dodge in time. Although Zhan Yunkai was a bird Demon King, he wasn’t the fastest among Demon Kings; the fastest was Demon King Qingyun.

“Let Qingyun do this job next time,” Zhan Yunkai said.

Although getting hit by a time ripple wouldn’t cause injury, the feathers would become very dull!

A complete ripple emanated from the candle tear on Candle Dragon’s chin. Unlike those random leaked ripples before, it flashed and disappeared in mid-air.

But both Demon King Xunmu and Zhan Yunkai captured its nature.

“Oh, a small blessing. Who is it for?” Demon King Xunmu wasn’t very familiar with the information this blessing pointed to.

Zhan Yunkai: “…Approaching Science?”

Tsk. I worked so hard to find Candle Dragon Remnant Shadows and send Candle Dragon power to you; why don’t I see you repaying me?

After leaving the secret passage, the blocked signal connected, and Zhan Yunkai’s phone issued a new message notification.

He took the phone out from his feathers. Just as he was about to look, a question suddenly arose: “When was the signal connected here?”

There used to be no signal here at Demon King Xunmu’s place.

Demon King Xunmu: “Oh oh, I asked a little eagle to help connect it, the one you introduced.”

Zhan Yunkai couldn’t recall. There were thousands of eagle demons he had protected: “Which one?”

Demon King Xunmu’s memory wasn’t very good. He thought for a while before remembering: “Called… Sun Feifei. The one who is particularly good at those human gadgets.”

Zhan Yunkai remembered. Oh, that little fan of his human actor vest.

Demon King Xunmu continued to chatter: “The human web is quite interesting.”

The reason for the birth of the colorful moss was found.

Zhan Yunkai clicked open the message and saw the message from Zhan Suiru.

Yan Yan looked particularly depressed? He didn’t say anything. Zhan Yunkai started messaging Ji Yueming to ask.

Ji Yueming was conducting the final formation debugging and was waiting for the final test to ensure its operation had no problems.

Electronic products would be damaged and fail within the formation range. After everything ended, she took back her phone and saw the messages from Zhan Suiru and Zhan Yunkai.

The couple exchanged information and both started to worry. Yan Yan wasn’t usually like this; did something happen?

They started sending gentle messages asking Zhan Yan what was wrong.

Zhan Yan: …I just want to eat bread and don’t want to accompany the puppet, but I really can’t make up any more excuses!

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