GRMFBS CH229

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When Ji Yueming arrived at the headquarters of the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau, she saw Black Wolf looking all indignant, not even interested in coming to spar with her.

“What’s wrong?” Ji Yueming asked.

“Deep Shadow and Rong Sui have absolutely no taste!”

The food made by the head chef is so delicious! Those two only praised it out of politeness; their hearts weren’t in it at all!

Ji Yueming understood.

Black Wolf had two major hobbies: one was challenging her, and the other was eating the food cooked by the head chef.

The head chef had no combat power; other than having an exceptionally keen tongue, he was an ordinary person who respected food to the extreme. Once, some crazy person in the cafeteria used the boba in their milk tea as a Peashooter, which infuriated the head chef—those pearls were made from carefully selected tapioca flour, kneaded by hand by his apprentices! You don’t have to like it, but you cannot waste it!

Black Wolf pinned down the boba-spitter and let the head chef knock him on the head with a big ladle, one knock for every boba stuck to the wall.

Ning Xi had sent Ji Yueming a message in advance:

“Deep Shadow said a friend of his is a fan of yours and wants your autograph.”

Ji Yueming: “A fan? Who is it?”

Signing an autograph was simple. But she was very curious. To have a relationship good enough with Deep Shadow that he would ask for an autograph on their behalf, while also being a fan of hers… She racked her brain. ‘Approaching Science’ fit the criteria, but if he wanted an autograph, he could just ask himself; there was no need to go through Deep Shadow.

Ning Xi: “I don’t know. Deep Shadow didn’t say.”

Ji Yueming: “Okay. When should I give it to him?”

Ning Xi: “They are in the secret room right now; wait until they come out.”

It was already afternoon. The sun was tilting westward, and the shadows of all things began to slant. In a few more hours, it would be dark.

Gu Jiancheng and Zhan Suiru were familiarizing themselves with each other’s powers in the secret room.

Long ago, Deep Shadow and Rong Sui had fought each other for a full three months; they had even joined forces to resolve a Black Nest during a truce. Both were incredibly familiar with the other’s abilities. But during this mutual contact, both sensed changes in the other’s power.

The snow-like mental power was less biting; the sluggish shadows had become light. Suffering had once settled in their powers like limescale; now, all that turbidity had been washed away.

Looking at Deep Shadow, Zhan Suiru thought: Deep Shadow has indeed changed; like me, he has found peace in this world. Who healed him?

Looking at Zhan Suiru, Gu Jiancheng thought: Rong Sui has moved on from the past, is it because of the family she found in this world? Yanyan definitely gets some credit!

Thousands of miles away, Zhan Yan sat cross-legged on a beanbag chair, nervously watching the Gossip feeds.

【Deep Shadow Gu Jiancheng’s shadow and Zhan Suiru’s mental power adapt well to each other.】

Zhan Yan let out a huge sigh of relief.

Very good, both big shots are reliable people, nothing unexpected will… Pfft pfft pfft! Everything will go perfectly! All wishes will come true! Smooth sailing!

Zhan Yan grabbed Xingxing’s two little front paws, put them together, and bowed: “Instant success! Easily resolved! Lucky stars shining bright!”

Xingxing’s education level hadn’t yet reached the point of understanding four-character idioms. He looked at Zhan Yan in confusion: “Meow?”

Zhan Jinli knocked on the door, bringing his little brother freshly baked sweet bread, steaming hot, sweet, and soft.

Seeing them, Zhan Yan felt like he was seeing his large-capacity batteries.

He continued holding Xingxing’s little paws together and bowed to Zhan Jinli: “Thank you, Brother.”

Xingxing: …

He understood that sentence!

Xingxing pulled his paws out of Zhan Yan’s hands and jumped to the ground.

The lowest-ranking pooper-scooper is a terrible cook, so disgusting.

Xingxing sniffed the bread. It smells really good!

But he remembered his experience eating egg tarts last time.

Blegh!

Zhan Jinli ignored the little kitten and ruffled his little brother’s curly hair.

After Zhan Jinli left the room, Zhan Yan continued rolling bread balls. These were his combat reserves for tonight!

After finishing rolling the bread balls, Zhan Yan sent Xingxing out of the room.

“Alright, Xingxing, I have some things to do tonight. Can you sleep by yourself?”

The fierce summer sun sank towards the west, the sky’s colors looking like they were melting into ink, and the wind sticking to his skin gradually cooled.

Zhan Yan’s phone vibrated, and Gu Jiancheng’s message lit up on the screen.

“I have some things to do later, so it’s not convenient to call.”

“Saying goodnight to you in advance.”

Zhan Yan unlocked the screen, his fingers rising and falling.

“Goodnight.”

“Wishing you smooth sailing.”

“[Kiss]”

The warm orange afterglow faded in the west, and the shadows of the world climbed all over the sky.

Gu Jiancheng put away his phone and entered the secret room.

Yang Ran’s puppet body lay on the table. His chest cavity was already open, revealing an intricate and complex hidden box. Rong Sui sat beside him, holding his hand.

He turned his eyes to look at Deep Shadow and revealed a smile.

Don’t be nervous, it’s okay.

He squeezed Rong Sui’s hand twice.

Gu Jiancheng couldn’t help but snort.

Who is nervous?

“I have been inside the core of the Infinite; I have seen its rules.”

He hadn’t failed in the most difficult times, so he wouldn’t even consider failure now!

Zhan Suiru’s mouth curled up. Her hand covered the puppet’s eyes.

“Xiao Ran, go to sleep.”

Yang Ran closed his eyes, his consciousness withdrew, and his soul fell asleep.

Zhan Suiru opened the hidden box, revealing the bronze ability core.

Shadows unfurled from beneath Gu Jiancheng’s feet, gradually enveloping the entire secret room.

The two people who had bid each other goodnight didn’t sleep.

Under the same night sky, one was preparing to save someone, while the other was watching him.

Zhan Yan swallowed a handful of bread balls, entered the Gossip System’s information star chart, and simultaneously touched the stars for “Gu Jiancheng,” “Zhan Suiru,” and “Yang Ran.”

Only by truly witnessing the entire process of clearing the Infinite’s curse would one know that Gu Jiancheng bore the greatest pressure.

The secret room was an inanimate object already confirmed to be problem-free. Da Wuyue and Nie Ling were jointly monitoring the situation, and if anything went wrong, the Tianshi was there, able to buy them enough time.

The soul map was prepared in advance, and Yang Ran’s soul had no defenses against Zhan Suiru, slumbering enveloped in mental power like fine snow.

Only Gu Jiancheng was the sole surgeon at the operating table, clearing away the pollution within the soul fissures that Zhan Suiru opened up for him.

The tranquil, profound dark shadows came into contact with the dense, vile patterns in Yang Ran’s soul. Those things, deeply embedded in the scars like dodder, melted upon touching the dark shadows.

The bright moon gradually rose from the eastern corner of the sky to its zenith, traversing the star-studded river of stars.

The clear moonlight melted all turbidity; the night was as transparent as pure black crystal, and the dark shadows were clear, tranquil, and peaceful.

Yang Ran’s soul slept peacefully in the fine snow; the hideous, vile patterns were suppressed into stillness.

Melting, devouring—clean wounds were revealed wherever the shadows passed.

The fine snow filled the cracks, like a gentle embrace.

When the morning star brightened and the full moon descended to the west, Zhan Yan finally saw the melon strip he had been eagerly anticipating:

【Deep Shadow Gu Jiancheng devoured all the Infinite’s power within Yang Ran’s soul; nothing remains.】

That’s great!

Zhan Yan couldn’t help but cheer in his heart.

Inside the secret room, Gu Jiancheng and Zhan Suiru were conducting post-clearance checks.

Zhan Yan cheerfully logged into the ‘Approaching Science’ account and sent a message to the small group for treating Yang Ran.

Approaching Science: “It’s all cleared out! Nothing left behind!”

The two people currently inspecting inside the secret room couldn’t see the message; Ning Xi, Great Ritual Dancer, and Nie Ling outside the secret room saw it first.

Seeing the message Ning Xi sent her, Ji Yueming smiled faintly.

The secret room no longer needed her continuous protection, but she didn’t leave; the dense net formed by thunder firmly guarded the place. The two inside were presumably still conducting rigorous, repeated checks.

When dawn awakened the sleeping birds, and the first chirp sounded under the gray-blue sky, the secret room’s door opened from the inside.

Gu Jiancheng took out his phone, saw the message ‘Approaching Science’ had sent in the small group, and the corner of his mouth curled up.

Of course, he wouldn’t fail.

At the same time, his private messages on the supernatural forum were flashing incessantly. Opening them, it was ‘Approaching Science’ again.

Approaching Science: “Boss is awesome!!!”

“Got it done in one night!”

“And not a trace left behind!”

“So cool, so cool!”

“Ah, is this the power of a big shot?”

“[Scattering flowers] [Scattering flowers] [Scattering flowers]”

Gu Jiancheng’s eyebrows raised involuntarily, the corners of his mouth turning up higher and higher.

He looked up and saw the several people waiting outside.

A layer of lightning net enveloped the outside, extending underground along the pre-arranged metal ground net, wrapping the entire secret room within.

Great Ritual Dancer and Nie Ling stood inside the lightning net, while a person wearing a robe and a thunder-patterned mask stood outside it. Although he couldn’t see her face, Gu Jiancheng felt she was smiling at him.

“It’s over. Rong Sui is treating him inside,” Gu Jiancheng said.

The Infinite’s curse was like seeping into the wounds of Yang Ran’s soul, forcing the crevices open and then gripping them tightly. Now that the Infinite’s power had been cleared away, Yang Ran’s soul had also lost part of its support. Zhan Suiru had to use this opportunity to repair his soul as much as possible and provide support once again.

Nie Ling breathed a sigh of relief. Sporting two dark circles under his eyes, his eyes shone as streams of data refreshed on his monocle.

Ah, so great! Using the secret room this time allowed him to collect a massive amount of valuable data, which might just solve the bottleneck in his upcoming research.

Deep in research mode, Nie Ling completely lost his usual mature and steady demeanor. He turned around and stood before the lightning net: “Captain, let me out.”

Seeing his hyperactive state, Ji Yueming said: “Go back to sleep; you are not allowed to go to the lab.”

Nie Ling purely awakened a superpower; he hadn’t cultivated. His physical training and meditation were only done because the bureau arranged them for him under the guise of missions. With his foundation, he couldn’t handle pulling all-nighters consecutively.

Nie Ling: “I am very awake right now.”

Ji Yueming: “This is an order. Protest again, and I’ll lock your access to the lab.”

Nie Ling: …

“Oh.”

He walked dejectedly through the entrance Ji Yueming opened for him.

Great Ritual Dancer leaned against the wall and smiled: “How about it? The benefits in our bureau are very humane. Maybe we can try integrating later, and I can play support for you.”

“Thank you, no need.” Gu Jiancheng’s gaze turned to the other person, “Tianshi?”

He and the Tianshi had never truly met.

During those twenty-seven years, Gu Jiancheng had spent most of his time roaming around killing abnormalities. He was avoiding the people from the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau, and the people from the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau had been trying to prevent the unwell Tianshi from running into him.

Twenty-seven years ago, while sitting on the Infinite’s Supreme Balance, he had seen the Tianshi on the battlefield of this world. At that time, she used more than just lightning techniques, and her lightning techniques weren’t that terrifying yet.

Later, when he rushed out of the Supreme Balance, shattering the bet with the Infinite, and charged toward the Infinite’s core, he knew he could only point the way at best. Breaking through the heavy obstacles outside the Infinite’s core had exhausted him; he had no strength left to inflict damage on the Infinite.

And he didn’t know if the people of this world could seize the sliver of opportunity he created and inflict enough heavy damage on the Infinite before it could hide its core again.

Without hesitation, a burst of light exploded behind him. The fiercest thunder he had ever seen closely pursued him, smashing viciously against the core of the Infinite in its most ferocious posture.

To be a fan of such a person, ‘Approaching Science’ had good taste.

【Deep Shadow Gu Jiancheng believes you are frantically praising him in private messages because you are afraid he forgot to ask the Tianshi for an autograph.】

Zhan Yan: …

I clearly did it to put you in a better mood, so you wouldn’t do something in front of your future mother-in-law that you’d regret later, okay?

【Deep Shadow Gu Jiancheng got the autograph for you.】

【Tianshi Ji Yueming is curious about Deep Shadow’s friend who is a Tianshi fan (you).】

【Tianshi Ji Yueming noticed the differences in Deep Shadow Gu Jiancheng compared to twenty-seven years ago and is curious about the person who caused this change in him (you).】

Zhan Yan: Okay, okay, I got it. My mom is very curious about me now and wants to expose my secret identity. But that’s not important; what’s important is what she thinks of Classmate Xiao Gu now!

His mom’s thoughts didn’t pop up for the time being; what popped up were his sister’s. His sister had preliminarily stabilized Yang Ran’s soul and had now put him back into her studio.

【Zhan Suiru sincerely thanked Deep Shadow Gu Jiancheng.】

【Deep Shadow Gu Jiancheng feels smug and is in a very good mood for successfully raising the favorability of his future sister-in-law, Zhan Suiru.】

Oh, Xiao Gu…

His phone alarm suddenly went off. Zhan Yan looked at the screen and realized it was already 6:30 AM, time for his morning exercises.

Ah… I stayed up all night without realizing it.

After turning off the alarm, the screen remained lit.

The message Gu Jiancheng had just sent him scrolled across the screen: “Did you sleep well?”

Having stayed up all night, Zhan Yan typed on his phone to reply: “Very well.”

He paused, unable to help but ask: “What about you? Is everything okay?”

Although he had already seen it in the Gossip feeds, he still wanted to hear him confirm it personally.

Gu Jiancheng: “I am very well too.”

It seemed he also couldn’t help wanting to share his good mood, as new messages came through one after another.

“My things went very smoothly last night.”

“Do you know why?”

Zhan Yan cooperatively asked: “Why?”

Gu Jiancheng: “Because before starting last night, you wished me smooth sailing.”

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