GRMFBS CH254

Ji Yueming: …
Zhan Suiru: …

The Tianshi boss stood behind her mask without saying a word.
Ah… So you really shouldn’t talk about people behind their backs. Look, didn’t she just get caught red-handed?

The Lord boss remained silently hidden beneath her hat, while her deeply agitated heart was ultimately left with only one word:
Mom—
Moooooom! What do you mean by ‘fans running away’?!

Zhan Suiru felt the heat radiating from her face. Fortunately, she had the hat’s supernatural shadow to cover her, so they couldn’t see.
As long as they can’t see my face, no one will know I’m embarrassed.

The only two people at the scene who didn’t have their faces covered, the siblings Nie Ling and Nie Yu, sat there stiffly.
Nie Ling sat properly with a deadpan expression, as if he didn’t know anything at all. Nie Yu had her head down, shrinking her waist down and pulling her legs up, wishing she could disappear right on the spot.

Zhan Suiru walked over, shoved a delicate little box into Ji Yueming’s hands, and squeezed out three words.
“…Didn’t run.”

After shoving the gift over, Zhan Suiru left, disappearing extremely quickly.
Ji Yueming: “Ah…”
She didn’t manage to call her back in time. Even if she had called her back, she wouldn’t have known how to explain anyway.

Nie Yu poked her brother and whispered, “What did Rong Sui come all the way here for?”
Nie Ling sat up straight, only moving his eyes and eyebrows to give her a look.
Either she made a special trip just to deliver a gift, or she came for official business but got scared off before she could get to it. You choose which one is more awkward.

Nie Yu shrank back and stopped talking.
Ji Yueming opened the box. Inside was a black magnetic button, and it was hard to tell what material it was made of. She picked up the button, and as she tilted its angle, several streaks of blue light emerged from it, just like a cat’s eye stone. However, this light was narrower and sharper than a cat’s eye, looking like suddenly ignited lightning.

Ji Yueming could feel that it wasn’t an ordinary button; it was probably a new type of magical artifact. Unfortunately, the boss who only knew how to use lightning had no idea how to use it.
“I feel like I need an instruction manual.”

Nie Yu couldn’t help but whisper: “Maybe Rong Sui originally intended to introduce it directly.”
“Originally intended,” but now the person had run off.

Nie Ling leaned over. His superpower was research-oriented, which was perfect for this.
After fiddling with it for a while, Nie Ling looked up: “Captain, only you can use this. It only recognizes your power.”
His superpowered probing couldn’t get inside. As expected of the Artisan’s handiwork.

Then she would have to be careful when trying it out. Just in case the thing Rong Sui gave her was a weapon, if she tested it right here, the office would instantly be demolished.

The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau had a martial arts training ground specially designed for the Tianshi.
Back then, Ji Yueming’s condition hadn’t been good. She needed to practice controlling her power again, and she would lose control of it, big or small, from time to time. Ordinary training grounds couldn’t withstand the erupting lightning, so the Bureau built a special training ground just for her. Later, as her condition gradually stabilized, this training ground was opened up. Most of the time, it was used as a regular training ground, and occasionally, it was used for the captains of the major squads to spar.

The person using the training ground today was Black Wolf. He was leading his squad in daily training, and his eyes lit up as soon as he saw Ji Yueming.
“Tianshi? Here for combat practice?”

Nie Yu wanted to facepalm.
Ah… Why is it the Black Wolf? Their captain’s provocative combat fan…

Black Wolf’s team members also wanted to facepalm.
Boss, didn’t you get beaten up enough last time?

Ji Yueming asked curiously, “You hide from Shen Ying but you don’t hide from me. Why? Do you think Shen Ying is more terrifying than me?”
Black Wolf’s vice-captain trembled with fear upon hearing those words.
“No, no! Our captain absolutely didn’t mean that!”

Ji Yueming smiled: “It’s fine, I’m just curious.”
Black Wolf curled his lip: “Shen Ying’s abilities hard-counter mine. It’s too frustrating fighting him.”

Battle maniacs weren’t afraid of getting beaten up, but it was just too awful to have strength and not be able to use it during a fight.
His vice-captain had just sighed in relief when he heard his boss starting to stir up trouble again.
“I don’t know who’s stronger between the two of you either. Do you two want to fight?”

Vice-captain: …
Ji Yueming understood quite well; this was just how battle maniacs were. She skipped over the topic.
“Not interested. When are you guys done training?”

Black Wolf clicked his tongue in disappointment: “Around noon. You need to use the space? Who are you bringing to train? These two?”
The Tianshi had long stopped coming to the training ground to train herself; when she came here, it was usually to train squad members.

Black Wolf’s gaze shifted to Nie Ling and Nie Yu. Didn’t these two squishy support staff only train in escape arts? What use would they have for this space?
Nie Ling and Nie Yu: …You didn’t have to be quite so blunt with that look.

Ji Yueming: “I’m not training, I’m just planning to test something out. I’m in no hurry, you guys keep training, I’ll come back at noon.”
Black Wolf was just about to nod when his vice-captain forcefully interjected: “No, no, no, we’re pretty much done training anyway, we’ll clear the space right now.”

He turned to look at his captain: “Aren’t you curious, sir?”
Prompted by this, Black Wolf also started getting curious. What kind of thing would make the Tianshi specially bring it here to test?
“Then let’s take a look.”

The vice-captain breathed a sigh of relief, clapped his hands, and called for everyone to pause: “Break time is here, let’s clear out a space.”
What a great idea! Not only could they show some goodwill to the Tianshi, but they could also let the team members, who were about to be trained into the ground by the captain, get some rest. Two birds with one stone. Their captain was a combat maniac who trained people extremely harshly.

Ji Yueming entered the training ground, and a group of people watched from the outside. The commotion even drew an increasing number of onlookers.

Ji Yueming infused a bit of lightning into the button.
There were three lightning patterns on the button, and Ji Yueming could sense three different energy circuits. She first controlled the lightning to enter the first pathway.

With a swish, another layer of a red Tianshi robe covered Ji Yueming, and an extra mask appeared on her head… The mask tried to fit over her head but was pushed off by the original lightning-patterned mask she was wearing, and it was now sliding down toward the ground.

Ji Yueming was quick and reached out to catch the mask. She then sent the lightning backward through the circuit, and the red Tianshi robe and mask were both retracted.

The second circuit contained a white Tianshi robe, and the third circuit contained an indigo one. None of them were ordinary clothes or masks either; each set was a formidable magical artifact.

Inside each circuit was a special space, and the bound clothes could be swapped. The special part was that they didn’t need to be manually put on; they equipped themselves directly onto the body. Oh, so it was a one-click outfit-changing item.
It was quite fun.

The people watching from outside the field saw the robe on the Tianshi was changing colors one after another. Red, blue, black, white, constantly shifting back and forth.

Black Wolf turned his head to look at Nie Ling and Nie Yu: “This is the thing you came to test?”
Nie Ling pretended to look up at the sky.
How were we supposed to know what Rong Sui was going to give her…

After testing it out, Ji Yueming brought the button and came out.
Nie Yu practically glued herself to her side: “Captain, Captain! What’s the deal with this thing? It’s so fun. Can it swap to other clothes?”
Ji Yueming: “I don’t know either. Let’s go try it.”

She had her own room at the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau, which had her clothes in it.
While trying out the clothes, Nie Yu kept giving her puppy-dog eyes, absolutely craving that outfit-changing button—she really liked playing dress-up mobile games.
“I want to ask Rong Sui to custom-make one for me too!”
She didn’t care about magical artifact clothes, but she wanted one-click outfit changing!
“Ahhh, how did she even think of researching this? It’s amazing!”

Ji Yueming was wondering the same thing. An ordinary person wouldn’t have the thought process to make a one-click outfit-changing magical artifact. It was too much effort; the time spent researching this would be better spent just changing clothes oneself. Among the gifts Rong Sui gave, those three sets of magical artifacts were the most valuable. However, even though this one-click outfit-changing button wasn’t considered powerful in terms of function, the effort it took might not have been any less than the three sets of artifacts. Furthermore, giving this kind of gift…

Ji Yueming recalled the two words Rong Sui hurriedly said before leaving.
“…Didn’t run.”
It even sounded a little wronged.

Suddenly running over here just to give her a gift, and looking at it, it seemed she had specially prepared it for quite a while. Oh my…
Ji Yueming rubbed her chin: “Why do I feel like Rong Sui is acting spoiled toward me?”

…

Zhan Suiru was messaging her brother, asking if this hurdle had been cleared.
Approaching Science: “Cleared, cleared.”
“Mom really likes the gift you gave her.”
“She’s not unhappy about you fanning over the Chongming Demon King, nor does she have any dissatisfaction toward the Chongming Demon King.”

Zhan Suiru breathed a sigh of relief. A moment later, she couldn’t hold back from continuing to vent to her brother.
Artisan: “[Kitty hammer hitting head]”
“This whole mess feels just like being asked by some wicked relative whether you like daddy or mommy more…”

Approaching Science: “I’ve already experienced that.”
Artisan: “Pat pat.“

While messaging his sister, Zhan Yan was also keeping an eye on the situation on the forum and on his dad’s side.
Things on the forum were fine. Everyone was just eating melons (gossiping), and only Xiang Liu was infuriated, still switching alt accounts to curse, message by message.
“Artisan No. 7” was also cursing back message by message, and once again using the power of “money” in the task section, spending points to hire people to help curse back.

Approaching Science: “Is it brother-in-law?”
His sister had taken a trip to the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau, but Artisan No. 7 hadn’t stopped replying the entire time, so it definitely wasn’t his sister.

Artisan: “Yes.”
“He has a sensitive word dictionary database.”
The puppet body came with its own information database, so cursing was much more convenient for him than for her. He hadn’t been banned even once up to now.

Meanwhile, Xiang Liu had already switched to his 58th alt account.

405L “Artisan No. 7”:
I sincerely suggest you go get your memory checked. You have already been banned 15 times for the exact same word. This is likely a precursor to some sort of brain disease, which could affect your memory, judgment, cognitive abilities, and other aspects.

Zhan Yan: Pfft. Yang Ran really knows how to scold people.

Xiang Liu was going crazy with anger. The nine heads were busy calling each other idiots. Head 1 stated he had only mistakenly used it once, while Head 2 stated he had only mistakenly used it twice. After all nine heads finished scolding each other, they realized the most any of them had mistakenly used it was twice—when they got hot-headed, they would neglect to keep track of what the other heads had done.

It made them look exceptionally intellectually deficient…

[Luo Wang informed the Chongming Demon King, Zhan Yunkai, about the news that the Artisan had opened seven alt accounts on the forum to furiously blast haters for the sake of the Chongming Demon King. Recalling how his own fan “Approaching Science” had previously become a fan of the Tianshi, Zhan Yunkai looked at the news of the Tianshi’s fan, the Artisan, seemingly becoming a fan of his, and felt a subtle sense of smugness.]

Zhan Yan: …
I told you, Dad is pettier than Mom!