GRMFBS CH202

Because of the apocalyptic projection created by Infinite, traces of Candle Dragon power were left everywhere after the projections disappeared.

A portion was collected by the members of the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance, who were responsible for handling these projections at the time. Another portion fell into the hands of the Retirees Alliance and Deep Shadow. There was some in the Underworld as well, but not much. The remaining part hadn’t been cleaned up in time; it remained where the projections dissipated, hidden in the crevices of space-time.

Zhan Yan first sorted out the locations of the power still remaining in place and sent the information to his dad. Hmm, Dad is beating up Xiangliu, which means he doesn’t have anything important going on right now and can go collect the Candle Dragon power.

Zhan Yunkai was currently paying a visit to Xiangliu.

Xiangliu wasn’t enjoying the visit very much.

He revealed his massive true form, rolling in the swamp. His nine heads faced the sky, mouths wide open exposing fangs as if about to roar, looking ferocious and menacing.

“I was wrong, I was wrong! Are you done yet? If you hit me again, I’m really going to get angry! Ow!”

Xiangliu didn’t want to be a coward either. But Chongming and the Great Dancer had no martial ethics! They were ganging up on him!

Chongming was already a difficult opponent to deal with, and the Great Dancer’s support abilities were ridiculously strong. Xiangliu wanted to resist at first, but he was soon pressed into the mud and pummeled by the Chongming bird, who was boosted by the Great Dancer.

Xiangliu’s nine heads were all buzzing from the knocks. They twisted around chaotically but couldn’t bite the big bird flying agilely in the air.

He felt very aggrieved: “Isn’t it just a shift change? I’m angry, I’m really angry now!”

Lingzhou Wendi, holding a hand bell and with a small drum at his waist, provided a rhythmic accompaniment and said with a smile, “Don’t be angry. Look how well you’re snake-dancing?”

Xiangliu: …

Zhan Yunkai seized the opportunity to slap Xiangliu’s Head #5 with a claw. He had a good memory; he would hit every head and wouldn’t miss a single one.

Xiangliu let out a howl and lay flat in the swamp, giving up. He started rolling around, flinging countless mud droplets into the sky: “Chongming, you’re helping an outsider bully someone from your own alliance!”

Zhan Yunkai sneered, cast a barrier spell to block the mud, and spread his giant claws, ready to fly down and pick up this rogue snake.

Suddenly, a special notification tone sounded from within his feathers.

Zhan Yunkai paused. He plucked his phone out from his feathers and tapped it to look.

His double pupils dilated.

Approaching Science had drawn him a map of Candle Dragon power!

This was much more important than visiting Xiangliu.

Zhan Yunkai looked down and asked Lingzhou Wendi, “Shall we end the visit here for today?”

Lingzhou Wendi felt a bit regrettable: “Alright.”

The human and the demon ended their visit. Zhan Yunkai flapped his wings, sent Lingzhou Wendi back, and began collecting Candle Dragon power according to the map.

Zhan Yan silently lit a candle for Xiangliu in the Gossip System and felt gratified by the harmonious and friendly relationship his dad had established with the Great Dancer.

Look, look, the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance can get along harmoniously and friendly after all!

The gratified Zhan Yan asked his dad about the Candle Dragon’s blessing.

Zhan Yunkai was a bit worried after receiving the message. Approaching Science wanted the Candle Dragon’s blessing, but he couldn’t be sure about this either. The Candle Dragon spent most of her time sleeping, and no one knew when she would wake up. Even when she was awake, she wasn’t truly lucid; it was more like sleepwalking. Communication with the Candle Dragon in this state was difficult.

Chongming: “Do you want some other blessing?”

Aside from the Candle Dragon, he could ask for blessings from any of the Ten Great Demon Kings, and even from great demons like the Blue Bird who hadn’t joined the Wan Yao Alliance. Ah… forget about Xiangliu. He was a ferocious demon and didn’t do blessings; he was actually quite good at inviting disaster.

Zhan Yan was worried. Would other Demon Kings’ blessings… be useful?

The Candle Dragon’s blessing was useful because it could peel back the past hidden by time. Perhaps other Demon Kings might have some blessings related to eating melons (gossip)?

Approaching Science: “What blessings are there?”

Chongming: “Wait a moment.”

[Chongming Demon King Zhan Yunkai dumped the task on his subordinate, the Black-necked Crane Demon Gong Yun.]

It wasn’t troublesome for Gong Yun to compile this information. The great demons had lived for a long time, and their abilities were no secret. The blessings they could give were mostly related to their own abilities.

What Gong Yun cared about was why His Majesty Chongming suddenly paid attention to this.

His Majesty Chongming wanted blessings from other Demon Kings? No, if that were the case, His Majesty wouldn’t need a list. A list was for showing others—was this for someone else to choose a blessing? Who had such great face?

Gong Yun thought about it and felt that the big shots who had enough face with His Majesty wouldn’t need this trouble; they could get blessings themselves. Who had His Majesty Chongming been in contact with recently… Oh, right! His Majesty went with the Great Dancer to visit Xiangliu.

But it shouldn’t be the Great Dancer who wanted it. The Great Dancer had wide connections; if he wanted a blessing, he could go himself. Even if he wasn’t familiar with someone and asked His Majesty Chongming for help, there was no need to pull a list.

Then was it Xiangliu?

That was possible. Xiangliu wasn’t very popular among demons. But why would he want a blessing? And why would His Majesty ask for a list for him to choose from?

Could it be… His Majesty Chongming despised Xiangliu for being too weak and felt beating him up was boring?

Gong Yun finished compiling the information wearing an 800-meter-thick filter for his Demon King Majesty.

Soon, Zhan Yan received the compiled information.

Gong Yun had drawn up a table for him, categorized very clearly.

Zhan Yan looked through them one by one.

There were blessings that made one impervious to fire and water, immune to all poisons, light-bodied… Why was there one for not getting hungry? Was this a diet blessing?

The blessings were all good, but none seemed related to the information he wanted.

Approaching Science: “No need. I’ll look for more Candle Dragon power.”

Zhan Yunkai understood; Approaching Science only needed the Candle Dragon’s blessing.

He knew the Candle Dragon had given Approaching Science a blessing, but he didn’t know what blessing she had given.

The most special thing about the Candle Dragon’s blessing was time. But what kind of blessing would a time blessing be? Anti-aging? But there were things with similar effects in other blessings. Could it be that Approaching Science was an old man, and anti-aging wasn’t enough—he wanted to reverse his physical age? Was the blessing given by the Candle Dragon a de-aging effect?

In other words, his lively little fan all along might actually be an old man?

Zhan Yunkai fell into deep thought.

Zhan Yan was still worrying about the Candle Dragon power.

He had already found all the Candle Dragon power left out in the wild. To get more, he would have to look in other directions.

Forget about the Candle Dragon power in the hands of the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Retirees Alliance; they could trade directly with the Wan Yao Alliance. The same went for the portion in the Underworld. Apart from these, only the Candle Dragon power collected by Deep Shadow remained.

But Candle Dragon power was very precious, and he didn’t have much to trade with the big shot Deep Shadow… Besides various pieces of information, the rest was his saved points, and quite a few of those points were earned from Deep Shadow. Deep Shadow didn’t lack points; he never exchanged them for physical items. The biggest use of points in his hands was to buy information, and he already had enough points for that.

Zhan Yan was very worried, but his sister’s happiness was more important. He decided to give it a try. Hopefully, Big Shot Deep Shadow would help him out for the sake of their past friendship!

Approaching Science: “Boss, Boss, is the Candle Dragon power you collected useful to you?”

If Deep Shadow needed to use it too, that would be troublesome. But he could ask what Deep Shadow needed it for, and then use the Gossip System to check for alternative solutions.

Deep Shadow replied very quickly.

I Just Saved the World!: “Not really useful.”

“Is it useful to you?”

Gu Jiancheng had insisted on clearing away those harmless projections as well, so he had quite a bit of Candle Dragon power on hand.

But Candle Dragon’s power was incompatible with his abilities, and not everyone could utilize it. He was contemplating handing this power over to the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance via Wan Shitong or the Retirees Alliance, on the condition that they bring him along the next time they beat up Infinite.

However, if Approaching Science wanted it, that was fine too. His negotiation with the Bureau and the Alliance didn’t necessitate Candle Dragon power; this stuff was just a bonus.

Approaching Science: “Yes, yes!”

“Big Shot, can you trade some to me?”

“It would be even better if you could trade it all to me.”

“But I might not have anything you need.”

“I’ve saved some points, but you probably don’t care for them.”

“However, I can promise that in the future, I’ll complete your information tasks immediately, and I won’t charge points!”

Gu Jiancheng originally wanted to just give it to him, but hearing him mention points suddenly reminded him of Approaching Science mentioning the Artisan point ranking being first before.

The big shot sneered.

I Just Saved the World!: “Why wouldn’t I care?”

“Just trade with points.”

Zhan Yan was stunned.

Huh? Why does Deep Shadow want points? Does he have a need for a large amount of points recently?

Approaching Science: “Big Shot, are you short on points?”

“What do you need points for?”

Gu Jiancheng typed expressionlessly.

I Just Saved the World!: “Climbing the leaderboard.”

Zhan Yan: ???

He was even more confused.

Did Big Shot Deep Shadow have some obsession with rankings? It was possible; the big shot used to permanently hang at number one on Infinite’s player leaderboard.

Zhan Yan had long forgotten the nonsense lie he told earlier. But it was fine if Big Shot Deep Shadow wanted points. Otherwise, if he gave nothing but a promise not to charge points in the future, he would feel like he was in debt.

Zhan Yan promptly transferred all his points to I Just Saved the World!. Anyway, he only wanted points to exchange for a Lightning Talisman made by his boyfriend’s mom, but Gu Jiancheng now had Wan Yan-cat’s Ghost King Seal, which was also a very powerful protective talisman. The Lightning Talisman wasn’t urgent.

I Just Saved the World!‘s point ranking suddenly shot up one spot, rising from sixth to fifth.

Approaching Science: “See how much you can trade for this amount.”

Gu Jiancheng was also stunned upon receiving this large sum of points. 362,312 points, down to the last digit. Approaching Science’s name disappeared from the leaderboard as a result.

Approaching Science had transferred all his points to him.

Gu Jiancheng pulled up his transaction records and did a quick count. All the points he had transferred to Approaching Science added up to just over a hundred thousand; the remaining points were all saved by Approaching Science himself.

Approaching Science had always valued points. He didn’t mind thousands of points from big missions, nor did he disdain a dozen points from small missions. In one year, Approaching Science had climbed to first place on the completion leaderboard for information tasks in the mission section. He must have run off to grind missions whenever he had free time.

There were occasional posts on the forum complaining that I Just Saved the World! cleared missions without leaving a path for others, and there were complaints about Approaching Science too. But later, Approaching Science learned to control himself and would leave some easy-to-complete missions for others.

Seeing him save points like this, it was obvious he wanted to exchange them for one of the most expensive items in the forum’s trading section, and that item was very important to him.

Gu Jiancheng suddenly felt that fussing over point rankings with Approaching Science was quite meaningless. It made him seem childish.

He rounded up a lucky number for Approaching Science and transferred 666,666 points back.

I Just Saved the World!: “No need, I was joking.”

“Consider the extra points as a prepayment for your future information services.”

“Candle Dragon power is useless to me. How will you receive it?”

Zhan Yan was stunned by Big Shot Deep Shadow’s generosity.

He immediately transferred the points back.

Approaching Science: “You being willing to give me the Candle Dragon power is already helping me a lot.”

“How can I take your points on top of that?”

Gu Jiancheng transferred the points back again.

I Just Saved the World!: “Your information ability is worth it.”

Users on the forum watching the point leaderboard saw I Just Saved the World!‘s ranking jumping between fifth and sixth repeatedly.

Approaching Science, on the other hand, was playing peek-a-boo on the leaderboard.

???

Are you two playing games?

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