GRMFBS CH218

Zhan Jinli had been seriously and solemnly staring at Zhan Yan. After seeing his brother’s facial muscles start twitching, he concernedly typed to ask: “Doesn’t taste good?”

While his brother was looking down typing, Zhan Yan frantically struggled to control his facial muscles, forcibly swallowing the cake, finally barely managing to control his facial expression before his brother looked up again.

He struggled to raise the corners of his mouth in a smile: “Very good. Brother, I prefer eating bread.”

Zhan Yan was crying rivers internally. Bread could be rolled into bread balls, but cake couldn’t! This mouthful after mouthful of sickeningly sweet—how was he supposed to eat it…

Zhan Jinli nodded thoughtfully and typed: “Then next time I’ll make you bread.”

After his brother left, Zhan Yan poured a large pot of water and carried the cake back to his room.

Before eating cake, first call Xiao Gu.

Gu Jiancheng answered almost the instant the phone rang.

Zhan Yan: “I’m home! What are you doing?”

Gu Jiancheng was looking at houses.

Previously, he’d had no need for fixed assets. When in school, he lived at school. During breaks, he’d go everywhere looking for anomalies to kill. Sometimes he’d stay in hotels, sometimes in the wild, he’d just randomly find a place to stay.

But now that wouldn’t work. After meeting the parents, when Yan Yan’s parents asked where he lived, he still couldn’t say he had no fixed residence, right?

But what kind of house did Yan Yan like?

Gu Jiancheng: “I’m planning to travel around during the holiday. Is there anywhere you particularly like?”

“Me? I like relatively special places. I want to see the seafloor, and tree houses on big trees in forests…” Zhan Yan remembered his dad and the Great Ritual Dancer’s bubble wheel duty on the seafloor, plus Xunmu Demon King’s tree crown hiding many large and small demon clans. Just thinking about it was interesting—he really wanted to go play!

While chatting idly, he opened the gossip system and saw Gu Jiancheng’s latest snippet.

[Gu Jiancheng is taking notes according to the content of your idle chat, preparing to use them as a reference for his house purchase.]

Mm, now there were those underwater hotels. Who knew if they were for sale? As for tree houses… old trees that could support tree houses only existed in deep mountain old forests. He remembered there were tree house hotels too. Just didn’t know if any were residential—worst case, he could build one.

Zhan Yan: ? What?!

Zhan Yan quickly changed his tune: “These places all sound fun to visit occasionally as travel destinations, but living year-round in places so remote from people would definitely be inconvenient hahaha.”

Gu Jiancheng’s note-taking hand paused. He changed the title from house-buying notes to notes for taking his boyfriend traveling in the future.

Zhan Yan breathed a sigh of relief, staring at the gossip snippet and falling into silence.

He didn’t know why, but although Gu Jiancheng already knew the melodramatic TV drama was a misunderstanding and no longer obsessed over domineering CEO declarations, he still felt his romantic partner was becoming more and more like a domineering CEO.

This attitude of wanting to buy underwater grand hotels and tree houses at the slightest disagreement—it really had that “the weather is cold, let Wang break” feeling!

Good thing before Gu Jiancheng’s disguise fell, they hadn’t yet reached the meeting-parents stage. Otherwise, Zhan Yan didn’t even know what Gu Jiancheng would have purchased based on his casual words.

What was all this?!

Zhan Yan opened the gossip snippets while carefully chatting with Gu Jiancheng, terribly afraid of accidentally giving a wrong hint.

Too exhausting. He’d just sat in a car for several hours to get home. Why did he have to suffer like this?

Xiao Gu was clearly very seriously trying to be good to him. Dating was clearly very sweet. Why had it become like this!

Zhan Yan found an excuse to hang up the phone. He breathed a sigh of relief, then looked down to see the cake he’d just taken a bite of.

…Ah, were these the troubles of too much sweetness?

Zhan Yan took one bite of cake with half a cup of water, one bite of cake with half a cup of water.

“Burp.” Got full from drinking water.

Zhan Yan continued organizing things. After organizing, he went downstairs to return the plate.

Auntie Bai’s pastries were still on the table. After all the fussing, the water in his stomach had mostly been absorbed. Seeing Auntie Bai’s pastries, Zhan Yan felt a bit tempted. He hadn’t eaten Auntie Bai’s pastries in a while.

Zhan Yan picked a salted egg yolk meat floss pastry and took a bite.

Wuuwuu—sweet and savory pastries could now only taste savory. His tongue had been pickled ruined by his brother’s cake!

Zhan Yan aggrievedly put down the pastry. By evening his tongue should recover. He’d eat it then.

The door lock sounded. Zhan Suiru opened the front door.

Zhan Yan’s eyes lit up as he went over: “Sister, you’re back.”

Hehe, Yang Ran’s matter was about to be resolved. Sister should be in a good mood now, right? Although he couldn’t let Sister know about his contribution, he still really wanted praise!

Zhan Suiru felt her brother was like an excited little puppy circling around her.

She rubbed Zhan Yan’s little curls, satisfied to see the protective barrier she’d made still tied in her brother’s hair, the little blue crystal swaying back and forth.

Zhan Suiru gave him the small cookies Yang Ran made: “Here, for you.”

The freshly baked cookies smelled amazing.

Zhan Yan: QAQ

But I can’t taste sweetness right now…

Wuu. His brother-in-law’s loving cookies…

“What’s wrong?” Zhan Suiru asked.

Zhan Yan: “Nothing, I just ate too much. Can’t eat anymore now. I’ll eat it later. Sister, there are pastries from Auntie Bai on the table.”

He carefully put away the cookies. He’d seen in the gossip snippets—Yang Ran had baked three ovens of cookies for him, picked the sweetest (…) batch under the standard of harmonious flavor, and selected the most perfectly shaped cookies after baking to pack for him.

Zhan Suiru: Brother doesn’t like the cookies? But his reaction doesn’t seem like that either.

Ai, her brother had grown up. He had his own little secrets now, even a romantic partner.

Zhan Jinli walked out of the kitchen.

Seeing flour on his hands, Zhan Suiru couldn’t help raising an eyebrow.

The siblings’ gazes sparked with lightning.

—What were you doing in the kitchen?

—Making bread for little brother.

Zhan Suiru understood. No wonder brother wouldn’t eat the cookies. She began considering the idea of giving Yang Ran the sweetener she’d previously researched.

She had a long rectangular bag slung over her shoulder.

Zhan Yan asked curiously: “Sister, what’s this?”

“For our brother.” Zhan Suiru put the bag on the coffee table and opened the zipper.

Inside was a folding fishing rod.

After making the fish bait last time, Zhan Suiru had started designing this fishing rod. Originally, she’d planned to give it on Zhan Jinli’s birthday, so she wasn’t in a rush to make it. But late,r when Ji Shilu came looking for her, she put down making the fishing rod. Until the day of Infinite’s contact, she still hadn’t finished it.

The day she took the studio to block Infinite, looking at the unfinished fishing rod, she wasn’t without regrets. She’d thought then that if she had a chance to return, she’d definitely finish it.

Of course, after returning, she’d delayed the fishing rod task. Only after Yang Ran’s matter was confirmed did she finally have time to make the fishing rod again.

Zhan Jinli silently looked at the fishing rod. This thing made it hard not to associate it with a certain broken cat who always wanted to fish.

Xingxing curiously jumped onto the coffee table, lowering his head to paw at the fishing rod.

Zhan Jinli: …

Zhan Suiru: “Does Xingxing also want to fish?”

Zhan Jinli: …

Couldn’t tell for a moment whether his sister was joking or serious giving him this. Just like that fish bait last time.

Zhan Yan: Wuuwuu Brother, quickly say you especially like it! Sister worked very hard making this fishing rod!

Although his brother was a fish in his past life, that wasn’t important!

Zhan Yan desperately gave his brother eye signals.

Zhan Jinli looked at him puzzled for two seconds, then typed: “You want it?”

Zhan Yan: …

Typed back: “You want it!”

Zhan Jinli: …

“Thank you. Next time I’ll take it fishing.” Zhan Jinli expressionlessly typed a message to his sister.

The siblings’ gazes crackled and popped in fierce battle.

Zhan Suiru: Hmph, brother is so troublesome. The protective barrier jewelry she made for him, he stubbornly refused to wear.

Zhan Jinli: Hmph, always with strange ideas. Instead of giving him a fishing rod, why not make him wear his Ghost King seal?

Zhan Yan didn’t notice the siblings’ hidden eye communication. He was very satisfied, taking his cookies and the salted egg yolk meat floss pastry he’d bitten once back to his room.

Tonight he was entering the Dawn World to give Sister Yang Ran’s soul map.

Mm… Approaching Science already knew Rong Sui was the Craftsman and about Yang Ran’s situation, so knowing Rong Sui had another big shot internet-related disguise was very normal, right?

It was just that he had to use Dragon Head’s image in the Dawn World to give Sister the soul map. Ai ai, Dragon Head’s disguise had just been put on and already had to fall as Approaching Science.

This disguise-dropping speed was too fast—much easier than when he stripped Sister’s disguise!

Should he first tell Sister using Approaching Science’s identity?

Zhan Yan logged onto the Chaofan Forum. Before clicking into private messages, he habitually clicked into the random chat section for a glance.

{I have someone I extremely extremely desire. I know he’s also someone many others extremely extremely desire. Now this person has suddenly disappeared. We don’t even have a chance to desire him anymore. Does anyone know what happened?}

Wow, this title aroused Zhan Yan’s curiosity. He couldn’t help but click into the post.

OP: That person’s three badges have disappeared. Although I know I probably can’t get him in this lifetime, now I don’t even have a chance to fantasize.

Does anyone know what happened? Who got that person?

1F:

Who is OP talking about? What three badges?

2F:

Sounds like quite the heartthrob. Practicing charm magic?

3F:

OP isn’t talking about that person in the task section, is he?

OP:

Nod nod, that’s the person. Every time I go in I see him hanging high up there. Although I know I’ll never get him, I’ve always been greedy for him. Every day I hope I could at least get a little peripheral information.

6F:

Ew! OP sounds so perverted and disgusting. Which big shot in the task section is so unlucky to be targeted by you?

8F:

I know who OP is greedy for. Not gonna lie, I’m greedy for him too.

Although I still haven’t been able to get any information about this person, every time I click into the task section I can’t help fantasizing. Now this person’s badges have suddenly disappeared. My fantasies have disappeared too.

12F:

What do the three badges refer to? I went to look at the task section but didn’t find anything related to badges.

18F:

I’m different from you all. You all fantasize about getting this person. I don’t dare. I only hope to get a bit of his exclusive information.

21F:

What are you all talking about? Why can’t I understand?

28F:

Sounds like a bunch of perverts…

33F:

If you don’t understand, don’t participate. Not understanding means you haven’t reached the threshold yet.

37F:

What threshold? Isn’t there one person who can speak clearly? What’s with this pervert encryption—something wrong with you?

49F:

Ai, this heaven-sent wealth didn’t fall on me. Wonder whose head it fell on.

52F:

Square Card? In the task section on the list, the only big shot whose abilities are related to cards is this one.

53F “Hacker”:

Nothing to do with Square Card. They’re talking about the hidden wanted orders.

Not knowing is because you can’t see the hidden wanted orders.

55F:

Caught Hacker big shot!

Big shot, can you explain what hidden wanted orders are about? I didn’t even know this existed.

57F “Hacker”:

Many high-risk anomalies have information pollution, so wanted orders related to high-risk anomalies or other existences that might have information pollution are all hidden. They’re not open to ordinary ability users. Only ability users with sufficient power who’ve passed assessments can see this part of wanted orders.

60F:

Everyone didn’t want to say because they were afraid someone’s curiosity would explode and they’d insist on investigating.

61F:

Ah? So that’s why everyone was talking in riddles before.

But Hacker already said it…

62F “Hacker”:

People who want to court death will court death sooner or later. The world isn’t a kindergarten.

63F “Square Card”:

I tell you improperly handled puffer fish is poisonous. You insist on eating it yourself and get poisoned to death—blame me for telling you puffer fish exists in the world? Stop with the passive aggression, disgusting.

65F:

Hahahahaha

66F:

Big shot, since you’ve already said it’s hidden wanted orders, can you give us a censored explanation of what happened? So anxious not getting the gossip.

70F:

Simply put, the top of the hidden wanted orders section is a capable person wanted by the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau, Wan Yao Alliance, and Chaofu Mountain—three parties. The three wanted orders are called the three badges for short.

The rewards for the three-party wanted orders are very high. Even just getting information could earn a huge amount of points.

So everyone was greedy for this heaven-sent wealth.

72F:

Shocked! First time knowing there’s someone wanted by three parties. Did this person destroy the world?

75F:

Can’t say more, but basically today this person’s three wanted orders all disappeared. Don’t know which big shot arrested and brought them to justice.

77F:

Ai ai, so envious I’m drooling.

Every time entering the hidden section, I could see this person’s wanted orders hanging high at the top. Now they’re gone—quite unaccustomed.

78F:

So can we guess now which big shot caught the person?

82F:

I guess it’s a big shot from the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau. My timing clicking in was quite coincidental. Of the three wanted orders, the first to be removed was the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau’s wanted order. The Wan Yao Alliance and Chaofu Mountain’s wanted orders were only removed later.

83F:

Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau? Could it be the Tianshi?

85F:

Why is it always the Tianshi whenever the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau is mentioned? The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau isn’t without other big shots.

88F:

Don’t fight, or it’ll become a power level war again.

But I really don’t think it’s necessarily the Tianshi. This person could hang on the wanted list for so many years, meaning their concealment abilities are definitely super strong. Not being caught might not be because their combat power is hard to deal with—otherwise several battles’ commotion couldn’t be hidden at all.

I guess it might be an information-type big shot leaning toward tracking who finally found information.

Halfway through reading, Zhan Yan finally decrypted it. What were all those perverted comments before… Made him unable to guess that the person being desired by such a group was actually Xiao Gu.

What “extremely desire,” what “always greedy for him,” what “even getting a bit of information would be good”…

Ew!

Although he knew what they were greedy for was actually the task rewards, he still got goosebumps all over!

How could this post not be forwarded to big shot Deep Shadow?

Hehehehe.

Zhan Yan happily sent the post address to I Just Saved the World!

Then clicked into the hidden section of the task area for a look. Mm, the three-party wanted order at the very top had indeed disappeared. Very accomplished!

At the same time, the Retirees Alliance’s Deep Shadow big shot fan Zong Xiaoping also saw this post. He’d also mixed in an identity that could enter the hidden section by virtue of his special ability.

After scrolling through the post, he checked the hidden section again. He immediately stood up and rushed into Alliance Leader Zhuo Xun’s office.

“Brother Zhuo, something terrible! Big shot Deep Shadow has been arrested by the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau!”

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