GRMFBS CH203

{Is anyone looking at the point leaderboard?}

OP:

Why are I Just Saved the World! and Approaching Science’s point rankings jumping back and forth? Is there a bug in the forum?

2L:

OP, you just wait, @Administrator Lingyu will come charging over right now.

3L:

Hahaha, the forum was built with the participation of the Network Ghost.

5L:

Then what’s going on with the point leaderboard? Why are their points changing so rapidly in a short time?

7L:

So it’s Approaching Science and I Just Saved the World! repeatedly transferring large sums of points to each other?

I Just Saved the World!’s point ranking has even moved, how many points must that be!

10L:

Who cares how many points, they aren’t mine anyway. But why are they transferring points like this?

15L:

Who knows? Let me @ them to ask for you all.

@I Just Saved the World! @Approaching Science

17L “come ask”:

Why are you calling me? I don’t know either.

20L:

Approaching Science has already dropped to sixty-seventh place; he’s going to fall off the leaderboard. He probably transferred most of his points to I Just Saved the World!, right?

What is the relationship between the two of them?

24L:

Could that very impressive collaborative information-type I Just Saved the World! mentioned in a reply last time be Approaching Science?

25L:

Is anyone going to open the melon? Is anyone going to open the melon?

No one opened the melon. Moreover, the rankings of these two were still jumping back and forth.

Zhan Yan and Gu Jiancheng, wearing the personas of Approaching Science and I Just Saved the World! respectively, engaged in a tug-of-war akin to giving and receiving red envelopes during the New Year.

They jumped back and forth with the core content being “No, I couldn’t possibly accept” and “If I tell you to take it, take it!”

The people in the forum were sick of looking at the leaderboard.

57L:

Big shots, if you feel those points are too hot to handle, you might as well give them to me.

The big shot Deep Shadow was too stubborn, so Zhan Yan ultimately accepted the big shot’s good intentions. This way, if he saved up another three hundred thousand or so points, he could exchange them for a thunder talisman for his boyfriend!

Thank you, big shot Deep Shadow! In the future, he would definitely pay frequent attention to the gossip threads related to Deep Shadow, guaranteeing not to let any crisis with foreshadowing slip by!

Gu Jiancheng was in a pretty good mood lately because the internship at the pig farm was ending soon. He had hung a little countdown sign in his heart, counting the days every day until he could see Yan Yan. That was why he also had the mood to tug-of-war over points a few times.

Seeing Approaching Science’s grateful reply, Gu Jiancheng’s mood improved even more. So what if the Wan Yao Alliance and the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau were both trying to rope in Approaching Science? He had won this round!

I Just Saved the World!: [There’s no need to thank me.]

I Just Saved the World!: [You’re worth it.]

I Just Saved the World!: [How should I send the Candle Dragon power?]

Approaching Science: [Just pass it to the Wan Yao Alliance for me.]

Gu Jiancheng: ???

Hmph!

After Zhan Yan settled the Candle Dragon power on Deep Shadow’s end, he had nothing to do for the time being. He could only try using the search bar to see if he could find any useful information while waiting for the Candle Dragon to wake up again and give him a blessing.

Before two days had passed, there was a message in the family group.

Zhan Jinli: [Mentong County sent over several boxes of grapes; I’ll deliver them to you all.]

Zhan Jinli: [[Photo]]

The grapes in the boxes were packaged very carefully and were almost completely undamaged.

Ji Yueming: [No need to deliver any to me; a batch was also sent to the company.]

Zhan Yunkai: [Just deliver them to the film and television company.]

Zhan Suiru had already returned home from her “art salon.”

Zhan Suiru: [I’ll deliver the ones for Yan Yan.]

Last time she said she was going to see her little brother, it was actually the puppet who went. She wanted to go see him with her own eyes and give her little brother’s small curly hair a trim.

Zhan Jinli immediately sent a message: [Then take Xingxing with you too.]

The last time he brought Xingxing to see his little brother, Xingxing was asleep when they left. Neither he nor his little brother woke Xingxing up, and Zhan Jinli just carried Xingxing away directly. As a result, the little guy started throwing a tantrum after waking up, feeling that it was all Zhan Jinli’s fault he didn’t get to say goodbye to Zhan Yan.

The Li Hua cat actually had quite a temper; so many days had passed and he was still throwing a tantrum.

Zhan Jinli couldn’t stand it anymore.

Zhan Suiru: [OK]

Seeing this, Zhan Yan just remembered that it was already July, and the earliest ripening grapes were already hitting the market.

He immediately contacted Luo Luoluo.

Zhan Yan: [Sister Luoluo, help me pack a few more boxes of grapes and deliver them to these people.]

Old Master Huan’s family, the fitness maniac Wen Yinghui, the cat-sniffing maniac Professor Miao… and various other acquaintances.

For the seniors who taught him morning exercises in the cultivation circle, like Old Man Weng Yan and Granny Zhuo Shu, there was no need to go through the company. He could directly contact the old grape demon Puyang Xia and have him deliver the grapes directly from Mentong County.

Zhan Yan drew up a spreadsheet for Luo Luoluo and remembered the game matter, wondering if his popularity had passed. Back then, on a whim, he had changed the fruit the character was holding from an apple to grapes just for promotion, but he was too busy to handle this a while ago. Now that grapes were hitting the market, it was a perfect time to pair it with a wave of promotion.

He also sent his thoughts to Luo Luoluo.

Luo Luoluo: [It hasn’t completely passed; popularity always lasts for a while.]

Luo Luoluo: [Do you want to open a Weibo account too? I’ll handle the promotional content on this end, and you just have to post it when the time comes.]

Zhan Yan felt this was great. The feeling of not having to worry about anything was so nice!

He registered an account and then posted a few photos taken during his costume fitting.

After a while, the first comment appeared below:

“Hehe, another high-quality fake.”

Zhan Yan: ???

What was going on, were there already people starting to make high-quality fakes of him?

Zhan Yan searched around and found there were actually quite a few. Because his name had never been disclosed online, the names of the accounts imitating him were also all over the place. Some used the game character’s name, some involved Shoude Company, and some fabricated a name that looked like a real person’s name.

They were much more dedicated than him; the content they posted even included daily life and banquet photos. Judging purely by content, they looked more like him than he did, having only posted a few photos from his costume fitting.

Zhan Yan: What an eye-opener!

Luo Luoluo’s efficiency on her end was rapid. While Zhan Yan’s verification was still queuing up for approval, she had already sorted out the joint promotion for the “Not As Good As Lychee” big grapes.

Luo Luoluo told him to interact with the game’s official account “Dawn Continent” first to prove he was real, and then use his own account to promote the grapes.

After Zhan Yan interacted with the game’s official account, he directly posted the grape-selling promotional content Luo Luoluo sent him.

After posting, Zhan Yan closed Weibo and continued to eat melons and go to work.

His dad was busy collecting Candle Dragon power and couldn’t come home for the time being.

His mom also temporarily couldn’t return. Infinite was damaged this time, and the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau planned to take advantage of the situation and pursue them.

Zhan Yan organized some information words that might be useful for Yang Ran’s condition and continuously corrected them based on actual results. Now, every time he searched through gossip threads, he would add these information words to search them all together. Who knew which one might take effect?

He habitually added his newly adjusted information words to run a joint search. Still nothing.

Being unable to find anything all this time, Zhan Yan was a bit anxious. Although his sister seemed completely normal on the surface, she was definitely suffering more than he was.

Wasn’t the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau constantly inquiring about news of the “Artisan” before the apocalyptic world connection? Why couldn’t he dig up a single useful gossip thread?

Zhan Yan started scrolling down the threads one by one.

As he scrolled, he came across a piece of gossip he hadn’t noticed before:

Before the apocalyptic world connection, his mom and Deputy Bureau Chief Ning Xi had already guessed that the Artisan was Rong Sui!

Zhan Yan was slightly shocked. This was the first time someone else had eaten the melon of his identity being exposed before he did. Big shots truly could not be underestimated.

After the shock, Zhan Yan realized something wasn’t right.

Given Ning Xi’s control-freak temper, how could he possibly have done nothing after knowing Rong Sui was the Artisan? Moreover, now that the apocalyptic world connection was over, his sister had caused such a huge change on the coast. Yet the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau still hadn’t sought out his sister—although it was also because his sister ran fast and hid well, according to their style, they shouldn’t just let it go like this!

They definitely did something! It was just that he couldn’t find it.

Zhan Yan decided to switch targets this time and started focusing on searching Ning Xi’s gossip threads.

Ning Xi’s gossip threads were unusually concise; apart from work, it was just daily life. Every piece of gossip was very short, often looking like this:

[After working for two hours, Ning Xi decided to stand up and look out the window.]

[After finishing lunch, Ning Xi went back to work.]

[During a break from work, Ning Xi changed the water for his pet marimo moss ball, still failing to notice that the little marimo his apprentice gave him was made of plastic.]

[Ning Xi worked continuously for eighteen hours and was forcibly dragged away to rest by subordinates afraid he would die of sudden cardiac arrest.]

…

Little marimo… pfft. The Deputy Bureau Chief’s daily life actually had a bit of gap moe.

But this wasn’t the main point! The main point was that the information density of his gossip threads was way too low!

Although Ning Xi’s gossip threads weren’t un-loadable like the Monster Doctor’s, how was this brevity not just another form of mosaic censoring?

Of course I know he’s working! But the work content is what’s important!

Other big shots would also cause the information depth of certain things to be too deep for the Gossip System to dig up because their vigilance toward important information was too high. But Zhan Yan scrolled through a hundred or so of Ning Xi’s gossip threads continuously, and they were all in this style!

Did he have no unimportant information in his heart?!

Zhan Yan was a bit bewildered.

Was it because everything the Deputy Bureau Chief came into contact with on a daily basis was this highly confidential, or was it because a control freak just had super high vigilance?

Heh! Isn’t it just a lack of information depth? I’ll go upgrade it right now!

Zhan Yan opened the information drive and took another look; the tab responsible for information depth was the “Organizations” tab.

Excellent, his next goal was to crazily grind all sorts of organization information words!

Organization-type information words weren’t his focus of collection before, and there were quite a few that could be collected. This included large and small sects in the cultivation world, large and small circles of information-types, and even organizations of ordinary people. But recently, a major player had been added! After the apocalyptic world integrated into the game world, the new world possessed a more stable substance. The locations, “NPCs”, items, organizations, and so on inside were all leveled-up information words; to Zhan Yan, it was an undeveloped new upgrade point.

Speaking of which, since this new world was born, he hadn’t yet freed up his hands to investigate it. He wondered what kind of world it was.

Zhan Yan searched the gossip threads. The new world needed a new name; the apocalypse had already been reborn, so the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau temporarily gave the new world a substitute name. They felt the game’s name was very good, and temporarily called it the “Dawn World.”

The Dawn World simultaneously fused the settings of the game world and the rules of the apocalyptic world.

The apocalyptic world had been damaged too severely, practically equivalent to a blank slate, so it only took one day for the two worlds to finish breaking in their physical laws and other basic world rules. As for other detailed settings, they all followed the original “game world” settings.

Qi Ye and Wan Shitong had expended a massive amount of effort on this game, and all aspects tended towards perfection.

Currently, the two were leading the network-types from the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance to explore the Dawn World together.

Wan Shitong proudly introduced the basic game settings to them: “…Furthermore, the natural lifespan set for this world has also been lengthened. Humans are a hundred and fifty, and those with other extraordinary creature bloodlines might be even longer—there’s also a probability of it being shorter.”

They passed by a bar, and Qi Ye tapped the wooden sign on the wall: “So, when it says minors are forbidden from entering here, it means 23 years old.”

Nie Yu suddenly had a bad premonition: “This game of yours doesn’t have a minor protection mode, does it?”

Wan Shitong scratched his head: “Uh, this is a must-have. When we made this game, it was cross-referenced with the regular version of the game to find bugs, so all settings had to be consistent. The law mandates that minors have gaming time limits, so…”

[Because the Network Ghost Nie Yu is a minor, she reached the 5-hour game time limit and was kicked out of the game world by the “Deep Shadow” NPC.]