GRMFBS CH206

Gu Jiancheng was almost annoyed by his laughter.

Zhan Yan felt that Gu Jiancheng, suffering from a chuunibyou flare-up, was just too fun.

Holding the bath towel, his eyes and brows brimmed with a smile: “Satisfied, very satisfied. Handsome guy, come home with me.”

Gu Jiancheng’s eyes lit up: “Okay, okay!”

Going home to meet the parents!

Zhan Yan threw the bath towel at him: “Wait a bit first. Dry yourself off and get out, let me take a shower.”

After Zhan Yan finished showering, he suddenly realized something. Hey, could Gu Jiancheng have intentionally left the bath towel outside?

He wrapped himself in the bath towel and returned to the room.

Gu Jiancheng had already changed clothes and was drying his hair. His face was no longer red, his complexion returning to normal. A few drops of water dripped from the ends of his hair onto his neck, sliding down to the dip of his spine. As his arms moved the towel to dry his hair, it pulled at his shoulder and back muscles, his well-defined back stretching and rippling rhythmically.

Zhan Yan leaned over and poked him: “Hey, did you leave the bath towel outside on purpose?”

Gu Jiancheng turned red again.

Aiya, so fun!

Having finished teasing his boyfriend, Zhan Yan started tidying up and changing clothes.

Student Xiao Gu was incredibly clingy; Zhan Yan didn’t find time to check the forum until night time.

The big shot Deep Shadow still hadn’t replied to him. Tsk, what was he busy with? He couldn’t have gone to accompany his lover again, right?

The next day Zhan Yan had to go to his internship. Gu Jiancheng couldn’t be clingy all the way to the veterinary station, so he could only watch Zhan Yan leave after completing a clingy morning exercise and a clingy breakfast.

After being left alone, Gu Jiancheng finally remembered to check the forum.

He frowned upon seeing Approaching Science’s message.

Healing-type? Approaching Science had compiled a list of healing-types for him before, and it was already very comprehensive. He did indeed know a few healing-types who weren’t on the list, but those few people’s abilities wouldn’t even make it into the first tier on that list.

Approaching Science’s information-type ability was very strong. For him to come asking about healing-types, could he have encountered a very difficult and troublesome matter?

I Just Saved the World!: [Almost all the healing-types I know are in the list you compiled for me.]

I Just Saved the World!: [There are a few who aren’t on it.]

I Just Saved the World!: [[File]]

I Just Saved the World!: [Did you encounter some trouble?]

Seeing the reply, Zhan Yan immediately opened the file and searched the names inside one by one.

After searching through them all, he felt that these few healing-types weren’t the particularly strong kind. His only harvest was adding a few more information words to his information drive.

Zhan Yan became confused.

Ah? Could Deep Shadow’s lover be hidden within the list he had compiled previously? Did some slip through the net when he checked before? He would sort through them all over again!

Approaching Science: [There is a very troublesome matter, and I don’t know if a healing-type can solve it either.]

Approaching Science: [Thank you, big shot, I’ll keep looking.]

Zhan Yan counted his tasks.

Besides checking healing-type superpowered individuals again, he also needed to accumulate organization-type information words to upgrade his information depth ability as soon as possible, to see what preparations Ning Xi had actually made regarding the matter of “the Artisan is Rong Sui”.

There were also ability-type information words. This could unlock the “Information Confidentiality” little star, which was used to protect his mom’s persona. Originally, he was almost full QAQ.

The good news was that there was a bunch of new information words waiting to be collected in the Dawn World, so refilling his energy gauge would be easy. The bad news was that now he also needed to gather two more confidentiality little stars for his brother and sister…

Although there were no conflicts between his brother and sister’s identities, if the two of them lost their personas, it could easily trigger a chain reaction that would drag his parents into losing theirs as well.

Zhan Yan began to earnestly grind information words.

For some reason, checking information regarding the apocalyptic world went extremely smoothly and was highly detailed, almost as if the apocalyptic world couldn’t wait to stuff all its related information into him.

Zhan Yan simultaneously ate a bunch of melons about other people exploring the Dawn World.

[“Walking Bug” teased a puppy with a grilled sausage while exploring the Dawn World. After quickly pulling his hand back seven times in a row, preventing the puppy from eating it, the puppy transformed into a berserk hellhound and chased “Walking Bug” for seven streets trying to bite him.]

[“Another Bug?” attempted to dine and dash while exploring the Dawn World, got put on the town’s wanted list, and was caught by the guards and thrown into the back kitchen to wash dishes.]

…

Wan Shitong and Qi Ye spent these two days solely bailing people out.

Qi Ye squatted on the beach and poked the sprawled Wan Shitong: “Why do I feel like they’re just treating this as a game now.”

Wan Shitong was paralyzed on the sand: “Let them play. Wasn’t our original intention in designing this world to make a gam—ow!”

Wan Shitong grabbed his butt, howled, and jumped up.

Qi Ye: “What’s wrong, what’s wrong?”

A crab crawled out from a sand hole, brandishing its large pincers triumphantly.

Wan Shitong picked it up resentfully: “I feel like these rules are getting weirder and weirder. This world originally shouldn’t be able to cause any harm to the two of us!”

Qi Ye: “You didn’t lose any HP either.”

Wan Shitong: “Whose side are you on anyway?”

Qi Ye: “…Cough. Hey, don’t you think this crab is a little weird.”

Wan Shitong pinched the crab’s belly and shook it back and forth: “Hehe, can’t pinch me right… ow!”

Another pair of small pincers reached out from under the crab’s belly and clamped onto his finger.

Qi Ye helped him pry the crab off: “I recall we never designed this kind of creature.”

Wan Shitong: “Of course we didn’t design it!”

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have dared to pinch the crab’s belly like that.

“It must be because of the fusion with the apocalyptic world.” Qi Ye poked the crab with an item. “Hey, do you feel like the changes are happening faster and faster?”

It was as if the two worlds had started accelerating their fusion on detailed concepts. Strange concepts were like a rainstorm. Previously, this rain only fell like a light drizzle, but now it was starting to pour down in buckets.

The two of them discussed with the Network Ghost about what was going on with this sudden acceleration of fusion.

Nie Yu frowned and pondered for a long time. For some reason, she suddenly remembered the time she asked Deputy Bureau Chief Ning about the essence of network-type supernatural powers. She sensed many vague and blurry things, but couldn’t quite figure them out.

“Perhaps it’s not that the rain has gotten heavier; perhaps the lake has become wider.”

Previously, the area where water could enter was only a tiny patch, so concepts from the apocalyptic world could only seep in slowly. But now the inlet had been opened up, so the apocalypse started desperately pouring its concepts inside.

“I think this Dawn World holds other significance for us.” Nie Yu didn’t know how to clearly express her vague feeling. She suddenly thought of Red Crystal. If they could pull Red Crystal over to research it, that would be great. Speaking of which, why hadn’t Red Crystal appeared recently?

…

Zhan Suiru had just left the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau with Xiao Ran.

Yang Ran’s situation was much more troublesome than Long Shelan’s. The inhibitor Long Shelan wore would only be effective on him for one day. However, there was a specially-made secret room inside the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau. That was their true method of completely isolating Infinite’s power; the inhibitor was just a portable, simplified version.

This kind of secret room required regular ritual blessings from the Grand Musician to ensure the rules of this world could be maintained.

Zhan Suiru had taken him to try it. In that room, Yang Ran’s curled-up soul was able to stretch out anew.

But the trouble was that it was a room. Yang Ran’s soul could only find freedom within this small chamber.

On the condition of joining the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau as an external staff member, Zhan Suiru traded for the Bureau to renovate her workshop into a secret room capable of isolating Infinite’s power, and to regularly assist with its maintenance.

“I also want a set of inhibitors,” Zhan Suiru said.

She wanted to take Yang Ran to see this world, and she also wanted to take him to see Ji Lele’s movie. It featured the sculptures Xiao Ran had made, from beneath whose exteriors Ji Lele had caught a glimpse of his life.

“Let’s go to this one.” She chose a nearby movie theater.

It was said that this place had newly upgraded its equipment and rolled out 5D movies, which she had never experienced either.

…

When the weekend arrived, Zhan Yan and the others went to the movie theater where they had booked tickets.

After getting the tickets, Zhan Yan took a look: “It’s 5D?”

Bao Qingshan nodded: “Yeah, yeah, they’re having a promotion. 5D is even discounted if you bring a student ID. After the discount, it’s the same price as a regular ticket.”

Chu Chengcheng: “I’ve never experienced 5D before. Hey, have you guys experienced it?”

Cheng Yichu: “I haven’t either. I heard watching 5D movies feels totally immersive.”

Chu Chengcheng: “…We’re watching a horror movie, right?”

Everyone turned their heads in unison to look at Bao Qingshan.

Bao Qingshan: “…Why look at me? Didn’t you guys all say you weren’t scared?”

After entering the theater, Old Bao sat in the middle. On his left were Cheng Yichu and Chu Chengcheng, and on his right were Zhan Yan and Gu Jiancheng.

The air conditioning in the theater was blasted on high. Not only did it provide a refreshing summer, but it also necessitated long sleeves.

Zhan Yan and Gu Jiancheng exchanged a glance. Both of them decided to learn from their previously failed haunted house experience.

Be scared! We absolutely have to be scared! Then we can cuddle openly and legitimately!

The movie began. As the sound effects started, during the light drizzle in the opening credits, everyone was first sprayed with a face full of water.

Zhan Yan started to have a bad premonition about 5D’s “immersive experience.”

The ghost suddenly attacked from behind the protagonist. Before Zhan Yan could even pretend to be scared and cuddle his boyfriend, he was first punched by his chair.

When the ghost whispered in the protagonist’s ear, a blower blew cold air by his ear; when the protagonist ran away, the chair bumped him around like galloping on a horse; when the protagonist accidentally fell down the stairs, the chair tossed him left and right while pummeling his back; when the protagonist held up a mop, roared, and attacked the ghost, the chair slammed him thud again.

Zhan Yan: …

It was one thing to be immersed as the human, but why were they being immersed as the ghost too?!

It felt like paying money to get beaten up.

Gu Jiancheng whispered into his ear: “Yan Yan, are you cold? I brought a jacket.”

Not only did he bring a jacket, he also brought tissues to wipe off the “light drizzle” covering their heads.

Gu Jiancheng was tall and heavily built, so his jacket was also large. Zhan Yan shared half of it. The two of them squeezed together towards the middle as much as possible, covering themselves with the same jacket.

Forget it, forget it. Even though it didn’t turn out as romantic as planned, being like this now was quite sweet too.

On the other side, Chu Chengcheng and Cheng Yichu were terrified to death. They screamed when the ghost spoke and the chair blew air; screamed when there was a jump scare and the chair sprayed mist; screamed when the character bled and water dripped on their heads… Screaming and screaming, the two good bros tightly hugged each other.

Sitting in the middle, Bao Qingshan independently experienced both being the ordinary person bullied by the ghost and being the ghost severely beaten up. On his left was a pair of good bros hugging each other and trembling; on his right was a young couple sharing the same jacket.

The ghost on the big screen lunged towards the camera with a sinister grin, raising a chorus of screams amidst the cold wind.

Ah, the biting cold wind, extraordinarily desolate.

Bao Qingshan began looking for his own shots in the movie.

Although he remembered his position, the edited footage with added special effects was vastly different from when it was shot, so he couldn’t confirm it at a glance.

After watching for a long time, Bao Qingshan finally spotted himself in the scene where the entire class collectively turned their heads. But not long after, he saw Zhan Yan in a close-up shot, and then again, and again.

Good heavens, the director had secretly given him extra screen time!

Zhan Yan was good-looking, belonging to the mild and non-aggressive type. He had just appeared in the protagonist’s dream earlier, walking on the road with a group of college students, smiling radiantly like the sun. In the next second, it suddenly transitioned to him looking expressionless and pale-faced, a streak of bloody tears flowing from his pitch-black, ethereal eyes. It was unknown how they handled it in post-production, but beyond the horror, it inexplicably made people feel mournful.

When the movie ended and the lights came on, Chu Chengcheng and Cheng Yichu immediately sat up straight, pretending it wasn’t the two of them who were screaming in terror earlier.

Chu Chengcheng tried very hard to find a topic to distract himself from the fear: “Hey, I was only paying attention to the plot, didn’t really pay attention to finding anyone. Did you guys look for yourselves?”

Cheng Yichu: “I didn’t pay much attention either, it seemed like Zhan Yan had some screen time.”

Bao Qingshan: “Right, I saw it too. I found myself, but I didn’t see Gu Jiancheng.”

That was indeed true. Ji Lele felt Gu Jiancheng stood out too much in the frame and didn’t harmonize well, so he stuffed him into obscure nooks and crannies where he was barely visible.

Zhan Yan had stuck with Gu Jiancheng. If not for the three close-up shots Ji Lele added for him, he wouldn’t have been found either.

Zhan Yan: “He’s in it. In that scene in the small grove, he’s behind the tree in the bottom right corner, half blocked by the tree. In the playground scene, he’s next to the basketball hoop in the wide shot. Also…”

The other three were dumbfounded. What kind of eyesight was this?

Gu Jiancheng was immensely touched. Aiya, Yan Yan paid so much attention to me!

Zhan Yan relied on the Gossip System’s backup and retrieval functions to count all of Gu Jiancheng’s shots, and then counted everyone else’s.

“Chu Chengcheng is in the classroom scene; you were in the third row by the window. You’re in the hallway scene too…”

“Cheng Yichu is in…”

Gu Jiancheng: His smile gradually disappeared.

Sob! So it wasn’t special treatment just for me?

At the same time, in the seats a few rows ahead of them.

Zhan Suiru spent the entire movie paying attention to the sculptures in the film.

The sculptures didn’t have many scenes, but every scene was very special. Ji Lele had processed the shots using his unique aesthetic; with the coordination of light and shadow, color tones, composition, and more, the ugly sculptures radiated a bizarre vitality.

She felt as if she could once again see the traces of Yang Ran’s struggles through the lens.

She held Yang Ran’s hand.

“Did you see it?” Zhan Suiru said softly.

This was a director who liked Yang Ran’s sculptures. She felt she should let him come and see.

Yang Ran’s fingers curled up uneasily, and Zhan Suiru realized he was actually blushing.

“I made them so ugly…” Yang Ran was extremely disgusted by the sculptures he had made.

Zhan Suiru: Oh right, almost forgot, Xiao Ran had high artistic pursuits for his own works.

She remembered there was still an entire wall filled with sculptures in the workshop. Yang Ran’s memories of the past were blurry, only faintly recalling a few images. He still didn’t know how many “ugly” sculptures he had already made.

Zhan Suiru laughed, her eyes flashing with a teasing anticipation: “Oh, I haven’t taken you to see the workshop yet.”

The people in the movie theater gradually decreased, and the volume of the ending theme song gradually faded away.

The sounds of conversation on both sides became clear.

Zhan Yan and Zhan Suiru both turned their heads sensitively at the same time, and their gazes met.