GRMFBS CH210

Gu Jiancheng was entirely confused.

Was dragon-headed Yan Yan supposed to eat this? What if he didn’t know how to cook this? Could this also be chopped up and boiled like cat food? Or just eaten raw like this?

While his mind was in turmoil, Zhan Yan had already gone chomp and sucked the jelly in.

Zhan Yan smacked his lips. The texture was lighter, softer, and more tender than jelly. It melted in the mouth and slid right down the throat with a slurp.

He looked down and found that the “Deep Shadow” NPC had stopped at some unknown point and was staring at him. The pitch-black pupils were filled with emotions he couldn’t understand.

“Is it good?”

Zhan Yan savored it for a moment: “Doesn’t really have a taste.”

A new information word appeared in the information drive: “The Lamp is Awake”, categorized under the “Anomaly” tab. Poking it revealed a detailed description:

[The house is very dark; I always leave the lights on. On during the day, on at night. The moment the room goes dark, I get scared. I always feel like something is staring at me.

It is asleep when the lamp is turned on, and only awake when the lamp goes out.

The awakened lamp watches you… watches you…]

This was an anomaly that had appeared in the apocalyptic world. Right, this world didn’t need the concept of this thing, but he could just chew it up and eat it.

Gu Jiancheng quickly accepted Yan Yan’s new diet. He knew where there was more.

The “Deep Shadow” NPC nodded profoundly: “Walk forward.”

After walking for a short while, the “Deep Shadow” NPC suddenly stopped and turned to look at him.

Zhan Yan tilted his head back, looking at the mountain of jellies in front of him, his mouth gradually dropping wide open.

S-so much!

Happiness came too suddenly. Zhan Yan looked at the “Deep Shadow” NPC in pleasant surprise: “Are these all for me?”

Gu Jiancheng nodded with a great sense of accomplishment. All for you, all for you!

Seeing the “Deep Shadow” NPC nod, Zhan Yan happily gave him a hug: “Thank you!”

Caught completely off guard, Gu Jiancheng ended up face-planting into the chest of the two-point-three-meter-tall Yan Yan.

Gu Jiancheng woke up with a start.

Opening his eyes, the room was pitch black. Gu Jiancheng subconsciously turned his head to look at Zhan Yan.

No dragon head, not two point three meters tall. Gu Jiancheng let out a long breath.

What a weird dream he had!

Holding hands wasn’t enough to soothe Gu Jiancheng’s complicated mood. He rolled over, hugged one of Zhan Yan’s arms, closed his eyes, and instantly fell back asleep.

Just as Zhan Yan gave the “Deep Shadow” NPC a friendly hug, he felt the guy stiffen. Then, his arms emptied—the “Deep Shadow” NPC disappeared.

Zhan Yan reminisced about the feeling of relying on his two-meter height to press someone into his embrace.

Hehe, next time Deep Shadow sneered at him, he would come play with the “Deep Shadow” NPC!

This place was really nice. But he had to go back and let Nie Yu know first; otherwise, if she couldn’t contact him, she would probably get anxious.

Zhan Yan spun around in a circle, but couldn’t find the exit.

… “Deep Shadow”, get back here! Tell me how to get out before you leave!

After trying for ages and failing to get out, Zhan Yan decided to lie flat.

Forget it, let’s eat first.

He blissfully buried himself in the mountain of jellies.

It was just… why did he feel like the more he ate, the more there was? Were there this many jellies surging over before?

The densely packed jellies continuously surged over from behind him, piling higher and higher, higher and higher. By the time Zhan Yan looked back, he realized a jelly wall had almost piled up behind him.

The soft and squishy jellies wobbled unsteadily, looking like a highly dangerous structure that could collapse at any moment.

Zhan Yan: !

“Who are you?” Just as Zhan Yan was struggling to climb out of the pile of jellies, he suddenly heard someone ask from behind.

Zhan Yan looked back with difficulty.

Awoo, Sister!

“Give me a hand, quick!”

After entering the Dawn World, Zhan Suiru routinely went to check on the core area first. This place concerned the integration progress of the apocalyptic world, as well as the recovery of the souls from the apocalypse.

There were differences between the souls of the two worlds, and the souls from the apocalypse were equally accumulating injuries from the time resets. They were temporarily unable to participate in this world’s reincarnation cycle. The Dawn World was an excellent recuperation zone. After the apocalyptic souls underwent temporal meshing and healing here, they would be able to join this world’s cycle of reincarnation.

The core area was just like usual; clusters of light concepts dripped down.

Zhan Suiru reached out and caught one.

A small red jelly fell into her palm.

“Hongbo leaf”, the juice extracted by washing it with water would solidify after resting, and could be eaten cold-tossed.

In the past during summer, she really liked buying a bowl of sweet Hongbo on the street, choosing her own toppings to pour over it—sweet and refreshing.

This world also had similar foods, and Zhan Suiru had sought them out to taste them. Grass jelly, immortal tofu, ice jelly… black, green, transparent, but none had the pink tenderness of sweet Hongbo. The texture was similar, but the aroma was different.

After tasting them, Zhan Suiru never went out of her way to look for them again.

She flipped her palm, watching this tiny jelly fall into the sea, turning into a pool of pink shimmering light.

Perhaps before long, plants similar to the Hongbo tree would also appear in this world.

Zhan Suiru looked up at the sky. Hmm… did it feel like the concepts were dripping faster than before? It seemed the speed of concept integration had also increased.

Where was that NPC whose temperament was very much like Deep Shadow?

This NPC made by Wan Shitong was very special. Somehow, it caught the eye of this world, which treated this NPC as its own tool man; whatever needed executing was handed to him. The time Zhan Suiru was forcibly robbed of her world fragments, he was the one who came to stall and negotiate.

This NPC normally didn’t run around and stayed in the core area all the time; why was he absent today?

Zhan Suiru reached out and caught another jelly.

“Screaming Ears”, this was the concept of an anomaly. Zhan Suiru casually tossed it down, watching this concept jelly get rolled and pushed far away by the waves.

She caught another: “Black Kitchen”, yet another anomaly concept.

“One-Point-Eight Meter Eyelashes”, “Blood-Thirsty Pen”… why were there so many anomaly concepts?

Zhan Suiru observed carefully.

The concepts dropping down were generally random, but the directions the unaccepted concepts were pushed toward weren’t random. They were categorized according to some pattern and pushed in different directions respectively.

Right now, there were an especially large number of concept jellies rolling in the “Anomaly” direction, and the sky was also pattering down anomaly concept jellies.

What was this doing? Planning to focus on clearing out all the unusable concepts first? Then how was it going to handle all these anomaly concepts?

The rapidly dropping concepts almost crowded into a small path of jellies. Dark red, light pink, golden orange… big and small, densely packed together, surging forward.

This was Zhan Suiru’s first time seeing this spectacle, and she curiously followed this path forward.

Walking and walking, she spotted a burly man with a dragon head who was nearly buried in the pile of jellies.

Zhan Suiru pulled the person out and discovered this person had an access mark left by that NPC, allowing him to enter and exit the core area freely.

Understood. Now that there was this person… or rather, demon, who could eat concept jellies, the Dawn World wanted to take the opportunity to clear out all the unusable concept jellies first, lest they affect its integration efficiency.

But what kind of demon could eat concept jellies?

Freeing himself from the concept jellies, Zhan Yan heaved a massive sigh of relief: “Thank you, thank you!”

The “Deep Shadow” NPC was truly unreliable. Thank goodness his sister saved him, otherwise he would have been drowned!

Zhan Suiru actually had quite a favorable impression of him.

The earlier the apocalyptic world fully integrated with this one, the earlier the souls from the apocalypse would recover. She was very curious about this dragon-headed person who could eat concepts: “Who are you?”

Was there any dragon-related demon that could eat this much? Taotie? She heard the Nine Sons of the Dragon had two versions, one including Taotie and one without. Could the first version be the real one?

Zhan Yan: “…Don’t you recognize me? I even taught you network-type basics previously!”

Zhan Suiru: Oh, the little squirrel… he looked like this? Completely different from what she imagined!

“You’re a demon?”

Zhan Yan realized his sister’s train of thought had derailed and immediately nodded: “Right, right!”

His sister had four layers of secret identities, why couldn’t he have one more layer?

Zhan Suiru: “How are you able to swallow these things?”

Zhan Yan started spouting nonsense: “This is my innate divine ability.”

Zhan Suiru understood. No wonder that NPC let him in.

Zhan Yan looked at the increasing number of jellies and began to worry blissfully: “When will I ever finish eating all this?”

Zhan Suiru asked him, “How have you been eating them?”

Zhan Yan demonstrated for her. He picked up a jelly, opened his mouth, and went chomp.

Zhan Suiru: Understood. This world’s spiritual concept had always been overwritten; they didn’t know how to use spiritual power.

Concepts inherently belonged to the spiritual category. Eating them one by one with a mouth like this would take forever.

“I’ll teach you.” Zhan Suiru showed him an application of spiritual power.

Snow-white spiritual power wove into a net, netting a huge batch of concept jellies. A spiritual thread connected to every single concept jelly, all of them held in Zhan Suiru’s hand.

“This way, you can eat a lot at once.”

Zhan Yan constructed a giant juice cup and scooped it more than half full with concept jellies. A blender was placed inside the cup.

Vrrrrr— The blender started.

Zhan Suiru stared dumbfounded as he stopped blending and stuck a straw into the juice cup.

Slurp— Burp~

Having collected a suuuuper large amount of information words all at once, Zhan Yan narrowed his eyes blissfully: “Thank you.”

Sister is so great!

Zhan Suiru couldn’t hold back a smile. She felt the little dragon demon wasn’t very old and always came up with fresh ideas, much like her little brother; quite cute.

The core area suddenly rippled again. Zhan Suiru sensed someone coming; it was Wan Shitong.

As the builders of the game world, he and Qi Ye also had authorization to enter the core area.

The identity “Red Crystal” had no reason to appear here, unless she exposed herself as Rong Sui. But Zhan Suiru didn’t intend to do so. Red Crystal was a network-type, Rong Sui was a spiritual-type.

If the identities of “Red Crystal” and “Rong Sui” were equated, many people would associate the relationship between “network” and “spirit”. To the entity that used the “network” concept to overwrite the “spirit” concept, this would be an extra burden.

“Don’t say I was here.” After saying this, Zhan Suiru flashed away and vanished.

Zhan Yan: …Wait! Sister, teach me how to get out first!

However, Zhan Suiru was already gone without a trace.

Great, failed to make someone stay again.

Zhan Yan sat there distressed, no longer eating jellies.

He wouldn’t be trapped for the whole night, would he? He still had to work tomorrow.

[Wan Shitong is heading to the core area to look for you.]

Zhan Yan’s eyes lit up.

Wan Shitong’s mind was a bit dazed right now.

He had just remembered his supernatural power wasn’t surfing the net. Makes sense; to survive in Infinite relying purely on the ability to surf the net, his real supernatural power would have had to be Super Lucky Star.

So he was actually a spiritual-type.

For twenty-six years he always thought he was just a little information-type weakling who only knew how to surf the web. Sometimes when his boss wanted to eliminate more anomalies, he couldn’t search up enough information, which was why his boss went to find Approaching Science.

But now he knew, he was actually a spiritual-type! He could advance to kill enemies and retreat for logistics! He was more amazing than Approaching Science, hahaha!

Approaching Science was just an information-type, wasn’t he? He couldn’t even enter the Dawn World.

Wan Shitong felt smug.

But he was also well aware that whatever could make him confuse his own abilities for twenty-six years was definitely a major event. This matter couldn’t be spoken of casually; he had to discuss it with his boss. Sigh, did his boss know there was a problem with this world, and that his spiritual-type ability was blurred into a network-type?

Wan Shitong thought back carefully, unable to be sure. His boss’s brain worked well and his mind was deep. Even if he knew and kept it hidden without telling him, he wouldn’t be able to tell.

Forget it, he would first help Network Ghost find Dragon Head, and then go find his boss to discuss the matter of spiritual-types and network-types.

Speaking of which, what exactly was the background of this “Dragon Head”? The NPC he sculpted based on his boss had never even spoken a word to him! Why was Dragon Head able to speak with him the moment he came in?!

Zhan Yan didn’t wait long before he saw Wan Shitong.

He scrutinized Zhan Yan for a moment: “Dragon Head?”

[Nie Yu temporarily gave your network-type identity the codename “Dragon Head”.]

Zhan Yan: …You Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau folks really just go with whatever is literal, huh. From “Red Crystal” to “Dragon Head”, you don’t care at all if it sounds nice, do you?

Wan Shitong: “Network Ghost has been looking for you.”

Zhan Yan climbed up from the soft pile of jellies: “Thanks for coming to find me, I’ve been looking around here for ages not knowing how to get out.”

Wan Shitong also drew a magic circle and brought him out.

When Zhan Yan opened his eyes again, he was back in the beginner’s village. The situation here was vastly different from when he left.

A half-dead mermaid was floundering in the beginner’s village pond, tail thrashing like it had a cramp: “Help! I don’t know how to swim!”

An angel frantically flapping its wings rolled down the hillside of the beginner’s village: “Move, move, move! Why aren’t these wings working?!”

A person with claws and a long tail was hugging a large tree in the beginner’s village: “Help, I can’t get down from the tree!”

On the road of the beginner’s village, there was also a centaur who tripped three times for every two steps he took.

Zhan Yan: …

Nie Yu popped out beside him: “Hey, why does the appearance you customized work well, but theirs don’t?”

Zhan Yan: “I didn’t have time to tell you, this customized appearance only works on external organs.”

The mermaid’s gills were sculpted for nothing; they were just a few slits on the neck. The network-type who customized the mermaid originally knew how to swim, but now that they swapped for a tail, they actually didn’t know how anymore, floundering miserably in the pond.

The angel’s wings could flap, but for one, they didn’t know how to use them, and for two, their bone density was too high, so even if they flapped, they wouldn’t be able to fly.

The centaur went without saying. He would have to tame his six limbs for a while.

Nie Yu looked at the monkey-tailed person with frustration over their incompetence: “Your claws and tail work fine, how can you climb a tree and not be able to get down?”

The monkey-tailed person stuck in the tree said with a long face: “I used to be a pure office worker, I’ve never climbed a tree in my entire life…”

Knowing how to customize appearances to yield the maximum benefit was at least considered a gain.

Zhan Yan helped Nie Yu rescue the others, supporting the four-legged centaur as they walked to the Dawn World’s exit.

The centaur inched forward step by step, stopping when they reached the entrance, and looked back at Nie Yu: “Can this count as a workplace injury?”

Before finding a way to recustomize characters in the Dawn World, this centaur account was basically ruined.

Nie Yu: “Yes, yes, yes.”

Zhan Yan sought out Wan Shitong to learn how to enter and exit the core area. Nie Yu enviously followed along to learn from the side—though learning it was useless. Without an access mark, she couldn’t get in.

Now that the game world had integrated the apocalypse, Wan Shitong and Qi Ye were also unable to give others access marks to enter and exit the core. Only the “Deep Shadow” NPC, who to some extent represented the will of this world, could bestow marks.

Wan Shitong was puzzled while teaching him: “Why would he give you the mark to freely enter and exit the core area?”

Eating concepts was not something to be casually exposed. Zhan Yan continued weaving nonsense: “I don’t know, maybe I was pleasing to his eyes.”

Nie Yu: “Hmm?”

Zhan Yan pointed at his dragon head: “Just tell me if this is unique or not.”

Nie Yu: “You wait, I’ll go get someone to sculpt a dragon head right now.”

Zhan Yan wasn’t going to wait. He had already stayed in the Dawn World long enough tonight, and he still had to work tomorrow.

After exiting the Dawn World, Zhan Yan first opened the information drive to take a look.

He was so busy eating earlier that he hadn’t noticed how the collection of these information words was going.

The “Anomaly” tab had accumulated another little star for him. The other tabs hadn’t moved at all.

Zhan Yan: ???

Wait, was everything he ate just anomaly information?

Flip through the gossip threads, flip through the gossip threads!

…So those concept jellies were categorized.

Great, then next time he goes, he’ll switch to another direction. Actually quite convenient.

Let’s first see what little star the anomaly tab saved up for him:

[Do you know how to do puzzles? It’s okay if you don’t, because this function has absolutely nothing to do with puzzles.

—Mini-Encyclopedia Search, making a sparkling debut!

From now on, whether you want to know exactly how many points your sister has, or why the cows in the village aren’t producing milk, you can use the Mini-Encyclopedia to search! However, it does not have the winning numbers for the next lottery.]

Zhan Yan’s eyes lit up.

Ahhh, this function meant that his search function wouldn’t be limited to just searching gossip threads anymore; it could be used as an encyclopedia search, right?

He immediately opened the search bar and entered: “How to resolve the Infinite curse on Yang Ran?”