GRMFBS CH195

Zhan Yan was very anxious: I have so much intelligence to re-sort! I also have to re-check if your vests are safe! I don’t want to accompany the puppet anymore! But I can’t say any of this!

Unhappy!

Aggrieved!

Zhan Yan: “Wuwuwu, I just really, really want to eat the sweet bread made by Brother!”

Zhan Jinli’s private messages exploded.

Zhan Suiru: “Did you secretly feed our little brother the desserts you made before?”

Ji Yueming: “Jinli ah, do you know why Yan Yan suddenly wants to eat your pastries so much?”

Zhan Yunkai: “Jinli, did Yan Yan say anything to you?”

Zhan Jinli: …How would I know?!

Why is this pot dumped on my head again?!

Lord Ghost King Lin Yuan was also very aggrieved and messaged his brother to ask.

Zhan Jinli: “Do you want to eat something sweet?”

Zhan Yan: “No. I’m not interested in sugar, I just want to eat what you made.”

Zhan Jinli fell into deep thought.

Not interested in sweets, only wants what he made.

Besides being sweet, his pastries only had one other special feature—they could turn into ghost food.

Humans ate food to nourish the body; ghosts ate food to nourish the soul.

Living people couldn’t eat ghost food, but his pastries had an extra step, allowing living people to eat them too.

Could it be that Yan Yan had consumed too much mental energy recently and needed nourishment? Was his internship that draining?

Not necessarily! His brother was now a brother who could talk nonsense!

Zhan Jinli messaged his sister: “Take Yan Yan for a checkup first. I’ll go back and check later.”

He would personally check his brother’s condition when he had time.

Zhan Yan was dragged for a checkup. At least from the perspective of modern medicine and his sister’s puppet detection function, his body had no problems and was very healthy. Due to long-term exercise, his condition was even better than most people.

Zhan Yan decided to act shamelessly: “Anyway, I just want to eat bread made by Brother. I want to eat it very, very much!”

Anyway, his brother went through this process back then. Since the checkup showed no problems, they let him be.

Zhan Yan planned to replicate it.

Anyway, Mom and Dad weren’t home now, and Brother and Sister were busy, so they couldn’t keep fussing over him eating sweet bread.

Zhan Yan managed to send away his sister’s puppet and secure short-term sweet bread freedom. It was already dark. Zhan Yan returned to his room and breathed a sigh of relief. He finally had time to sort out his sister’s gossip feed.

Just opened the entry, before he could look closely, Deep Shadow suddenly sent him a series of messages.

One message after another, with the momentum of not stopping until the goal was reached.

What was so urgent?

Zhan Yan logged onto the forum.

Laozi Just Saved the World!: “The apocalypse is about to merge.”

“Estimated within three days, possibly even faster.”

“It’s Infinite’s handiwork; it’s very good at this.”

“Time is running out.”

Zhan Yan was shocked.

What happened? Last time he checked the melon strip, there was still half a month! Only three days had passed.

Opened the Gossip System and started searching.

[The Apocalyptic World is approaching this world… It is expected to merge with this world in [2 days 22:42:24].]

This melon strip even had a countdown timer. The time on it was decreasing every second, and the speed of decrease was obviously faster than the normal flow of time!

In other words, they actually had even less time. What happened? Spit out the ten-plus days you swallowed!

Zhan Yan was going crazy inside, but he had to deal with this urgently.

Reply to Deep Shadow first.

Approaching Science: “Got it, I’ll go notify others.”

“What does ‘Infinite’s handiwork’ mean?”

Sent messages to the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Myriad Demon Alliance. Besides Luo Wang and Ling Yu, he also messaged his parents’ accounts directly. If he didn’t receive a reply within three minutes, he planned to find someone else for emergency notification.

Besides this, he had to check the gossip feed. Infinite suddenly interfering and making the apocalypse approach faster must have a conspiracy. And how did it do it?!

Deep Shadow replied to him. Combined with the gossip feed, Zhan Yan figured out what happened.

Infinite often captured other small worlds. It was experienced and skilled in solving problems like world escape and repulsion between world barriers.

There was probably no other world better at this than it, after all, other worlds generally didn’t do such unethical things.

This world had no experience in this, so it was normal to be tricked accidentally.

Players knew more about Infinite’s nature and methods. The Retirees Alliance started tracking this matter after learning the apocalypse was approaching. Several players with special abilities unsealed their abilities and tried to capture Infinite’s movements in this matter.

Now they caught it, but unfortunately, they didn’t know how Infinite did it, so they didn’t know how to stop it for now.

Deep Shadow guessed it was a special technique that shouldn’t consume much of Infinite.

It wanted the apocalyptic world; it needed a small world as a base for its recovery. Now it thought it was ready and didn’t want to give this world more time to prepare. It wanted to catch them off guard.

The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau received the news from the Retirees Alliance at the same time. The Myriad Demon Alliance notified Chaofu Mountain. They had emergency contact methods, much faster than Zhan Yan finding his brother on the forum.

“Adjust the formation to standby state. Check the parts connected to the underworld nodes again. Report the Hengtian Instrument data to me…” Ning Xi arranged every task clearly and started contacting people on shift.

The Hengtian Instrument was used to monitor the apocalypse access point.

The merging of two worlds wasn’t like two spaces touching each other, not like one box hitting another. It was a connection of higher dimensions. There would be spatial turbulence, but that was only part of it. More was the friction of rules. No living beings existed in the apocalypse anymore, so their fusion wouldn’t cause life-related problems, but there would be a series of impacts including physical laws and material foundations.

Ning Xi had tried to deduce the access method of the two worlds. Unfortunately, his Great Divination skills were too crippled. Without using cultivation and relying only on calculation techniques, he ultimately couldn’t calculate any results.

However, his cultivation was crippled, but his brain wasn’t. Relying on the data monitored by the Hengtian Instrument, he could also deduce the nodes where the apocalypse would impact their world the most.

The Myriad Demon Alliance had accelerated the repair of this world’s barrier in these aspects during this time, trying their best to minimize these impacts and make the integration of the apocalypse a slow and gentle process.

Three days. This time wasn’t long, but it was enough for him. He had left a margin for accidents when making the initial plan. Now everything was ready. The exact time of three days was actually easier for him to arrange.

“Also, monitor the movements in the black market.”

…

“Protect the secret chamber; I’m going to Chaofu Mountain.” Deep in Shennongjia, Zhan Yunkai took a deep breath, spread his wings, and took off.

When two worlds connected, time and space would inevitably oscillate. This would be the time when accidents were most likely to occur.

“Don’t worry.” Demon King Xunmu’s old voice guaranteed. His roots hid that secret space even deeper.

Both the formation and the world barrier needed the cooperation of the underworld. Zhan Yunkai and other Demon Kings assigned tasks and flew into the netherworld.

…

Zhan Jinli had urgently returned to the underworld. There were still several nodes in the underworld formation that needed Tie Lao’s coordination. He was delayed for half a day when he went to find Tie Lao before. He was going to handle it now; two days were enough.

…

In the black market.

“I’m saying, listen seriously. I’m serious, both the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Myriad Demon Alliance have made big moves. Something big is definitely about to happen, I guess related to the apocalypse. This is a big secret; finding it out so quickly is all my ability. Telling you now is all out of friendship.”

Zhan Suiru had the comms open, Broker chattering inside, while she focused on adjusting the puppet that just returned.

She felt Broker was almost driven crazy by the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau recently, completely abandoning his previous theory of maintaining mystery and babbling like a fool.

But Broker reminding her now meant he indeed notified her as soon as he received the news—she had also just received news from Chronicle.

The accelerated approach of the apocalypse was Infinite’s handiwork. It knew where the apocalypse would merge.

Apocalyptic world fragment, Rong Sui’s help. Infinite wanted her to provide these to gain half the control of the apocalyptic world as its habitat and recovery place.

Half a dead world in exchange for Yang Ran’s resurrection.

“Thanks for your friendship.” Zhan Suiru finished the final adjustment of the puppet. She put down the tools in her hand and said perfunctorily, “I will thank you.”

Broker was very dissatisfied with her perfunctoriness, but Zhan Suiru had already hung up.

She looked at another “herself” in front of her and muttered to herself: “This should be no problem.”

Zhan Suiru took the puppet to the reception room. Looking back at Xiao Ran who followed her closely, she smiled and reached out to pat his head: “Go back to the workshop.”

The gears in Xiao Ran’s pupils turned fast and slow. For the first time, he didn’t obey the order immediately.

Zhan Suiru almost saw understanding in those eyes exposing mechanical structures. She couldn’t help but take a step forward.

Xiao Ran raised his hand, slowly and gently gave her a hug, then returned to the workshop.

Zhan Suiru gasped violently. It was as if that brief hug pulled all the air out of her lungs, making her feel pain.

She spent a breath calming down, watching the workshop door close in front of her.

Zhan Suiru reached out her hand. Under the effect of her ability, the workshop began to shrink, finally becoming a silver cube the size of a die, landing in her palm.

She threaded a necklace through the small hole on the edge of the cube, lifted her hair, and tied a knot behind her neck.

Now only this reception room remained here, besides the flashy surface decorations, there were various mechanisms hidden underneath.

Zhan Suiru took out the reception room controller, adjusted “Broker” to a non-attack target, then casually threw the controller onto the coffee table.

Just treat this as a gift for Broker. Although he was annoying, in the later stages of their cooperation, Broker indeed helped her withstand a lot of pressure.

Zhan Suiru dragged out an invisible motorcycle, got on it, became invisible with it, and headed to the location agreed upon with Chronicle.

She had confirmed that the pollution in Yang Ran’s ability core wasn’t as simple as she thought. That wasn’t simple pollution; there were Infinite’s shackles inside.

Zhan Suiru didn’t know when Infinite tampered with it. It had controlled the apocalypse for many years; it had too many opportunities.

However, soon all this wouldn’t matter.

…

Zhan Yan opened a series of melon strip panels in the Gossip System. They were displayed before his eyes in split columns. Relying on the system backup function and the training of being washed by information flow when entering the net, it was enough for him to roughly understand the situation of all parties. Zhan Yan scanned once and found that all the big shots were reliable, and there was nothing he needed to remind them of.

But he still had one most important task: his sister’s vest!

Artisan was his sister. Artisan was targeted by Infinite. Chronicle must have asked his sister to do something!

Zhan Yan dragged out his sister, Chronicle, and Monster Doctor’s gossip feed, preparing to search deeply.

From receiving the news, he had been staring at the changes in his sister’s melon strip. The melon strip showed his sister had been adjusting that puppet. Zhan Yan didn’t believe she only did this. She must plan to do something else dangerous!

He typed “Zhan Suiru” and “Infinite” in the search bar.

The melon strip started loading, stuttering.

Zhan Yan took several bags of sweet bread into the room and kneaded them into bread balls. He must dig out what Infinite wanted his sister to do tonight!

His sister’s melon strip refreshed.

[Zhan Suiru sent a fake message to her family, saying she was going to attend an art salon for about a week.]

Zhan Yan’s phone immediately rang with a message notification. His sister’s little lie scrolled on the screen.

He pursed his lips tightly, ate a handful of bread balls, and started poking his sister’s loading melon strip.

When he poked that melon strip, Candle Dragon’s blessing vibrated on him. The power of time drilled into the selected information faster than the mental power recovered by the bread balls.

Time was like a ring, end to end; time was like a wheel, rolling forward.

Time was both cyclical and forward-moving. Cyclical and forward-moving time shed dust, covering the secrets of the past from those who didn’t understand it.

Powerful spirit could pass through the curtain of time dust, and Candle Dragon’s blessing could disperse their concealment.

The dust of time would no longer obscure his eyes.

Unprepared, Zhan Yan’s head hit the headboard with a thud.

Instantly entered a dream.

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