GRMFBS CH211

A small watermelon icon with a stem appeared in the search bar and began to spin incessantly.

What does this mean?

Zhan Yan poked the little watermelon several times, but it remained unmoved, continuing to spin at its own frequency.

Is this the icon for “waiting for search results”?

Zhan Yan waited for a while, and the little watermelon stopped.

[Hello, the known conditions for your search are insufficient. Please search again.]

Zhan Yan: …

How do you have the nerve to say this function has nothing to do with jigsaw puzzles? Isn’t this just copying the Pure White Puzzle’s ability?!

Zhan Yan prepared to search from a different angle.

“Please explain the Infinite Curse on Yang Ran in detail.”

This time, while spinning, the little watermelon refreshed content below. The Gossip System, having just consumed many anomaly entries, had new reserves and could analyze the power of the Infinite to some extent.

Zhan Yan carefully studied the content generated by the Gossip System. Yang Ran’s situation was complicated mainly in two aspects.

First, this curse had an automatic backlash setting. It was fine if left alone, but once someone tried to forcibly remove it, the curse would backlash, and Yang Ran’s soul might be lost. This was easy to solve; the secret chamber developed by the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau that completely isolated the influence of the Infinite could create an absolutely safe environment.

Second, the power of the curse was already too deeply entangled with Yang Ran’s soul. Even forcible removal in a safe environment would inevitably harm Yang Ran’s soul.

This was why his sister didn’t dare use spiritual power to forcibly remove the power of the Infinite.

Understood now. To answer “How to solve the Infinite Curse on Yang Ran?”, the known conditions were insufficient. The analysis of the “Infinite Curse” was there, but it still couldn’t be solved, meaning his understanding of Yang Ran, or rather the condition of Yang Ran’s soul, wasn’t enough. Fine, starting tomorrow, he would specifically farm Yang Ran’s gossip feed!

Sleep first tonight.

Zhan Yan got tired of lying on his back and wanted to turn over. As soon as he moved, he found half his arm was in Gu Jiancheng’s embrace, unable to turn.

No matter, he’ll turn the other way.

Zhan Yan turned towards Gu Jiancheng.

Student Gu had his eyes closed, his breathing deep and long. Listening to his breathing, Zhan Yan fell asleep within seconds.

After a while, an arm quietly draped over his waist.

In the Dawn World, Zhan Suiru moved to a quiet place, closed her eyes, and began searching her memories.

She came here not only to check the integration progress but also to investigate Gu Jiancheng.

The more Zhan Suiru thought about it, the more she felt she must have met Gu Jiancheng before. But she had carefully recalled all her memories in this world and still couldn’t remember such a person.

Gu Jiancheng was someone who could leave her with a “heart-skipping beat” impression. Since she couldn’t recall him despite trying, there was only one possibility left—Gu Jiancheng was someone she met before coming to this world.

Then he could only be a player. And he was using her essential oils and incense beads, which perfectly fit the profile of a player with aftereffects!

Ah… little brother really gives me no peace of mind.

Those players are all cunning and deep-minded; no one who survived the Infinite is simple! With just Yan Yan’s little bit of cleverness, how could he outplay them?

Don’t know how Yan Yan explained the origin of the essential oils and incense beads to Gu Jiancheng. If Yan Yan said she gave them, Gu Jiancheng would definitely guess she is also from the supernatural world.

This also has benefits: Gu Jiancheng will be wary and definitely won’t dare hurt Yan Yan.

Just don’t know why he got together with Yan Yan…

Zhan Suiru came to the Dawn World because using spiritual power here didn’t require transition, allowing her to better recall those messy memories of the past and uncover Gu Jiancheng’s identity!

If he dares to lie to Yan Yan…

Zhan Suiru narrowed her eyes, murderous aura overflowing.

The memories of the past were too long and complicated. Zhan Suiru sorted through them for a while without finding a lead. She estimated if she relied solely on recalling, with bad luck, she might not find out even in seventeen or eighteen years.

She had to change her approach and work on two fronts.

First, search for Gu Jiancheng’s information on the internet; maybe there would be some flaws.

Additionally, she could find an information-type superpowered individual to investigate. But this was more troublesome. She couldn’t directly give the name “Gu Jiancheng” to someone to investigate. After all, Gu Jiancheng currently seemed to have no bad record, and her brother seemed to like him quite a bit… Hmm, wait for her to think of a roundabout way.

Zhan Suiru used the Dawn World to transfer to the internet world and began checking information related to Gu Jiancheng.

No flaws found. The fake identity Wan Shitong created for his boss was perfect.

In the fake identity, Gu Jiancheng was a good student with excellent character and academics from childhood, loved life, and developed comprehensively in morality, intelligence, physique, aesthetics, and labor. Just that his family wasn’t very happy; he had no relatives left but inherited a large fortune—this was definitely a fake identity!

After Wan Shitong finished fishing out Dragon Head, he excitedly messaged Gu Jiancheng.

Boss, Boss! Do you know how awesome I am now? I’m no longer just a Network Type who can only spin around in the network. Now I am a Psychic…

Hey, why won’t this message send?

Didn’t he and ‘Play Games With Me’ have permission to send messages directly to the outside?

Wan Shitong studied it for a long time and finally discovered that the Dawn World also blocked information! This was a design they made to check for bugs by cross-referencing with ordinary games back then. Who knew it would be used on himself now.

Fine, blocked is blocked. Wait till he gets out of the Dawn World to chat with the Boss!

Wan Shitong exited the Dawn World, skillfully opened the contact interface with Gu Jiancheng, and then froze.

Wan Shitong: What was I looking for the Boss for again?

Instant amnesia.

Wan Shitong thought for a long time but couldn’t remember. What urgent matter did he want to discuss with the Boss?

While pondering, he skillfully checked Gu Jiancheng’s fake identity again… Hmm? Someone is investigating him!

Bad news! The Boss’s identity is being targeted!

The next morning, as soon as Gu Jiancheng woke up, he saw the message from Wan Shitong.

Someone was investigating his fake identity.

No need to guess; it must be Yan Yan’s sister.

Gu Jiancheng let out a breath.

He wanted to be with Yan Yan; this layer of disguise would probably drop sooner or later. Just didn’t know what Yan Yan’s sister’s supernatural identity was. Hoping it wasn’t someone he had offended…

It’s okay, the first hurdle of meeting the parents is the hardest; others will be simpler.

Gu Jiancheng sorted out the situation. He had to find out Yan Yan’s sister’s identity as soon as possible so he knew how to respond.

He opened the forum and found ‘Approaching Science’ to help investigate someone.

‘Approaching Science’ didn’t reply for the time being. Gu Jiancheng also knew it was difficult to find someone with just these few conditions, so he prepared another direction.

Gu Jiancheng started messaging ‘The Magician’.

‘The Magician’s’ abilities were weird; maybe she could give him a surprise.

Zhan Yan didn’t see the message from Big Shot Deep Shadow asking him to investigate someone for now. He got up early to wash, exercise, eat breakfast, coax Xingxing, coax his boyfriend, and then went to work.

They didn’t have to work full hours this week; the internship ended on Wednesday. Afterward, they could go back to school or go straight home.

Just arriving at the veterinary station, Zhan Yan received a message from his sister.

Zhan Suiru: “Yan Yan, does your boyfriend have insomnia problems? Is that why he needed incense beads because essential oils didn’t work?”

Her essential oils were strong enough. If even the essential oils didn’t work…

Zhan Yan was shaken upon seeing the message. His sister started probing about his Xiao Gu’s situation!

Student Xiao Gu was handsome, had a good figure, excellent grades, and great character. Apart from being slightly chunibyo, he had no faults.

Zhan Yan wasn’t afraid at all! …Wait, no.

Outside the veterinary station, the neutered big yellow dog came to bark and curse again, deeply mourning its lost love.

“How long do you think that dog will keep scolding… Hey, Zhan Yan, what are you thinking about?” Bao Qingshan poked him.

Zhan Yan came back to his senses, looking worried: “Bumped into my sister while watching a movie yesterday.”

Bao Qingshan understood instantly: “You didn’t tell your family you’re dating Gu Jiancheng?”

Zhan Yan nodded: “My sister guessed it and is now probing me in a roundabout way.”

Bao Qingshan instantly imagined a series of wealthy family dramas and property disputes.

Bao Qingshan asked cautiously: “Does it affect your inheritance of shares?”

Zhan Yan didn’t know whether to laugh or cry: “What are you talking about? Nothing like that. My family is very open-minded.”

When his sister was a Lord, Xi Man, the second-ranked psychic ability user in the Hope Base, was gay. Neither his dad nor his brother had the human concepts of homosexuality or heterosexuality. His mom even watched BL dramas with his sister.

When one’s vision could transcend reincarnation and one had experienced life and death, what was important and what wasn’t became completely different.

Bao Qingshan: “Then you’re afraid they won’t approve of Gu Jiancheng? Shouldn’t happen, Gu Jiancheng is excellent, just a bit fierce sometimes.”

Zhan Yan sighed. That was exactly what he was worried about.

He used to think Gu Jiancheng had secrets and was very happy to dig them up. Part of the reason Zhan Yan was attracted to Gu Jiancheng in the beginning was this.

But he didn’t know since when he stopped paying attention to Student Xiao Gu’s secrets—definitely because he was overwhelmed by his family’s vests (secret identities) and didn’t have time to think about it!

Zhan Yan knew Gu Jiancheng had no other family members. He had guessed the occasional sense of danger from Gu Jiancheng was related to this.

But why Student Xiao Gu had a scary aura wasn’t important; what was important was whether he could hide it from his family.

Dad, Mom, Brother, Sister—four big shots, none with bad eyesight.

Student Xiao Gu was great in other aspects, but on this point, Zhan Yan really couldn’t be sure if he could pass.

Worried.

“Do you think it will go smoothly if I take Gu Jiancheng to meet my parents?” Zhan Yan looked at Bao Qingshan expectantly, starting to seek help from metaphysics.

Bao Qingshan: “Ah this… my cultivation isn’t deep enough…”

He tried hard to sense it, but still felt nothing.

Zhan Yan sighed. If not for bumping into his sister by coincidence, he really didn’t want to proceed with meeting the parents right now. His family still had a bunch of vests to sort out.

He replied to his sister: “No, the essential oils work very well. The incense beads were needed because liquids aren’t allowed in the internship place.”

Seeing him so worried, Bao Qingshan said he could specifically help Zhan Yan sense it during his morning cultivation tomorrow.

This was also a path of their Dry Pine Stream cultivation—they didn’t rely solely on naturally occurring inspiration for everything. Sometimes when encountering matters, they could also sense specifically. However, this lacked naturalness, so it shouldn’t be used often, and preferably not on oneself. Using it on a roommate was fine though!

Zhan Yan: “Thank you! I’ll bring you delicious food when I come back from vacation!”

Zhan Suiru saw her brother’s reply.

Hmm… Yan Yan has no need to lie to her about this. The internship information she found online confirmed that liquids indeed weren’t allowed in Gu Jiancheng’s internship place.

But that pig farm is several cities away from where Yan Yan is interning! For him to rush over from so far away to see Yan Yan, he must have ulterior motives!

No, relying on her own investigation is too slow; she needs external help!

…

Zhan Yan didn’t log onto the Chaofan Forum until evening. As soon as he logged in, he saw private messages from two big shots.

I Just Saved The World!: “Help me find someone. I’ve had contact with them before; they possess very strong pollution treatment abilities and know very powerful Network Types.”

Zhan Yan: ?

You’ve had contact and you’re asking me to find them? Doesn’t the mysterious healing-type big shot lover of yours fit the first two conditions? The third one might also fit; healing-type big shots surely have wide connections, so knowing a few strong Network Types is normal.

Zhan Yan could only think of this one person at the moment, but he couldn’t find out their identity either.

He input the three prerequisites given by Deep Shadow into the newly developed Little Encyclopedia search function.

The watermelon icon of the Little Encyclopedia spun a few times and refreshed a line of text:

[Please do not tease the Little Encyclopedia search.]

Zhan Yan: See, I knew it wouldn’t work.

But this was the first time Deep Shadow asked him to investigate someone after giving him all the Candle Dragon power for free and transferring a large sum of points. He had to try harder.

Approaching Science: “Big Shot, these conditions are too vague and hard to investigate. Wait for me; I might have to sift through for a few days.”

Big Shot Deep Shadow replied instantly.

I Just Saved The World!: “No rush, you investigate first. If I have new clues, I’ll add them for you.”

Gu Jiancheng had anticipated that it would be troublesome on ‘Approaching Science’s’ side. Just now, ‘The Magician’ messaged him, saying she had results.

‘The Magician’s’ divination was amazing; often giving surprises when clues were incomplete. Last time, she deciphered from vegetable leaves that the Infinite’s target for researching the Drunken Soul Incense was the Lin Yuan Ghost King.

Hopefully, even if she couldn’t decipher Yan Yan’s sister’s supernatural identity this time, she could find more clues. Preferably something specific, so he could pass the clue to ‘Approaching Science’ to investigate. If ‘Approaching Science’ found any more clues, he could pass them back to ‘The Magician’ for divination. Digging in cycles like this, sooner or later he would dig it out.

“What result?” Gu Jiancheng asked.

‘The Magician’ video called Gu Jiancheng to explain the divination result easily.

With heavy velvet curtains as the background, a mysterious and complex magic circle was drawn on the floor using a mixture of crystal and herb powder. Several herbal candles were lit in the magic circle.

‘The Magician’ wore coral fleece pajamas, with a gorgeously feathered large parrot standing on her shoulder. The human and bird were cracking melon seeds together.

The magic circle was full of melon seed shells.

‘The Magician’ adjusted the camera to focus on the melon seed shells on the ground and explained to Gu Jiancheng: “Look, this is your divination result. See this hidden line? It represents that the person you’re looking for has a deep connection with you. You once left a deep impression on each other, and you once deeply influenced the other’s fate, though not in a bad direction.”

Gu Jiancheng got a headache looking at the messy floor of melon seed shells: “You don’t need to explain the pattern to me, just tell me the result.”

“Fine,” said ‘The Magician’. “The person you asked me to find, according to the result we deciphered together, is your future sister-in-law.”

Gu Jiancheng: …

“Any other content?”

‘The Magician’: “None. To solve this answer for you, Gaga and I cracked almost ten pounds of melon seeds. Can’t crack anymore.”

Her eyes shone with the light of gossip: “Hey, are you and your little boyfriend still good?”

Gu Jiancheng: “Gossiping about me?”

‘The Magician’: “Just say if my calculation is accurate or not!”

Accurate is accurate, but it’s useless.

Gu Jiancheng was a bit worried.

No clues. He didn’t know how many years he had spent in the Infinite; there were too many people whose fates he had influenced. How to investigate Yan Yan’s sister’s identity?

It wasn’t that he insisted on exposing someone’s identity, but mainly because their eyes met at that time, Yan Yan’s sister definitely suspected him. Gu Jiancheng felt his identity as Deep Shadow was very presentable, but the problem was he had offended quite a few people…

Gaga actively joined the topic: “Sister-in-law! Sister-in-law! Destined Sister-in-law!”

‘The Magician’: “Oh right. If my interpretation is accurate, that means you and your partner are going to make it!”

Gu Jiancheng was delighted.