GRMFBS CH274

Zhan Yan, Black Wolf, and Bai Po had been squatting by the doorway, happily chatting away. Halfway through their merry chatter, Zhan Yan felt his legs go a bit numb; after shifting his posture, blood slightly began to circulate again, instantly turning so ticklish and numb that he didn’t dare move.

He tried to stand up: “Hiss…”

Having squatted for too long, he couldn’t stand up at all anymore QAQ.

Catching sight of the large sofa and coffee table not far away, Zhan Yan felt that squatting here made him look like a complete idiot.

Trembling as he tried to stand up, he propped himself against the wall, inching along while asking Black Wolf and Bai Po, “Why aren’t you two sitting down?”

Black Wolf and Bai Po fell silent simultaneously.

Although squatting by the door didn’t let them overhear what was being discussed inside either, they had instinctively stopped at the spot closest to the door.

Ah… this psychological habit is truly annoying.

Black Wolf: “What happened to you?”

The two big shots stood up smoothly from the doorway, while Zhan Yan was still bent over, supporting himself against the wall.

Zhan Yan: “Squatted too long, legs fell asleep.”

Bai Po arched an eyebrow, asking him incredulously, “Legs fell asleep? How could your legs fall asleep?”

The two big shots took one side each, hoisting him up and placing him onto the sofa.

Not daring to move his legs, Zhan Yan grimaced as he shifted positions, then froze in place.

“Isn’t it completely normal for my legs to go numb? Poor blood circulation after squatting for too long. Ordinary mortals are all like this.”

Black Wolf: “You can leap onto a rooftop and you still call yourself an ordinary mortal?”

Zhan Yan smacked his lips with immense nostalgia: “I don’t know how I jumped up there either.”

Thinking back on it, that feeling of boundless freedom had felt truly incredible.

Unfortunately, he couldn’t pull it off at all anymore.

Bai Po: “Could this be the legendary burst of adrenaline in an emergency? Rumor has it some people can lift a truck?”

…What kind of advertorials from public accounts had the Howling Moon Wolf King been reading?

“No, we ordinary humans don’t possess that ability,” Zhan Yan explained.

Black Wolf: “Who cares whether you usually do or not; as long as you managed it once, you can definitely do it a second time.”

He was currently very intrigued by Zhan Yan: “Come on, let’s try it again!”

A pup from Tianshi’s household should naturally possess combat prowess!

It was one thing for the other two to be ordinary humans, but since this one had already entered the supernatural world, he should naturally undergo some training!

With his legs still numb, Zhan Yan said, “Let’s skip that. My physical stamina really is just that of an ordinary person.”

It wasn’t as if he hadn’t tried.

While following Mom and Dad over earlier, he hadn’t been able to resist secretly trying a few hops behind their backs, but he felt his jumping ability hadn’t improved in the slightest, completely unable to recapture that sensation of clearing over a dozen meters in a single bound.

He had only hopped twice before his parents’ footsteps came to a subtle halt, and gossip strips started flooding the system about how both of them found their youngest son utterly adorable.

After that, Zhan Yan didn’t dare bounce anymore, obediently and quietly following behind them.

Bai Po scoffed at the “ordinary mortal” claim: “Managing it means it wasn’t a coincidence. None of us saw through your parents’ true identities, yet you figured it out all on your own, and here you are talking about being an ‘ordinary mortal.'”

Zhan Yan stated self-righteously, “Information and combat are entirely different categories, alright?”

His legs weren’t so numb anymore, so he began slowly stretching his legs to get the blood flowing.

“We information-types are entirely harmless little glass cannons.”

He didn’t plan on hiding his identity as a supernatural user from these people either; hiding it was impossible anyway.

Black Wolf couldn’t help but think of Approaching Science. Both he and Da Wule had been pitted quite miserably.

“Information-types…” He snorted. “Harmless, my ass—”

Before the tail of his sentence could land, Bai Po smacked him upside the back of his head.

Cursing recklessly—just wait and see if Chongming and Tianshi don’t skin you alive when they come out.

Having just wrapped up a batch of urgent administrative duties, Ning Xi turned back to check on the situation here, just in time to hear Zhan Yan’s utterly innocent-sounding “harmless little glass cannon.”

Holding Zhan Yan’s dossier, he told Black Wolf with a headache, “Ask him how he found out about his parents’ identities.”

So this was the kid Ji Yueming was always bragging about to them…

Back when her eldest son and second daughter were in school, she had frequently bragged about them as well. Later, after one opened a bakery and the other an art studio, Ji Yueming stopped bragging—she was afraid her overly curious colleagues would actually go buy things from them.

Thus, the only youngest son left available for bragging became a frequent subject of her praise.

Truly worthy of being the clever, sharp youngest son Tianshi spoke of; isn’t this cleverness a bit over the top?

Black Wolf: “How did you find out about Tianshi and Chongming’s identities?”

Zhan Yan decided to add another layer of insurance for his parents.

Since Mom and Dad’s secret identities had dropped, there was no need to keep his own hidden within a tight circle either.

He offered Black Wolf a bashful smile: “Actually… I am Approaching Science.”

If you guys try to pull any dirty tricks, I’ll know everything~

Whoever tries to tear my parents apart, I’ll leak their dark history!

Ning Xi was left dizzy and seeing stars by this fresh bombshell.

Bai Po came to a sudden realization: “Oh, Chongming’s little fan who also happens to be a fan of Tianshi.”

Black Wolf’s wolf eyes widened: “You’re the one who egged on my little nephew to block me?!”

Zhan Yan: …

“You were clearly the one who annoyed Bai Ji yourself; what does that have to do with me?!”

Black Wolf: “Hmph, you…”

“What are you huffing about?” Ji Yueming opened the door.

Zhan Yunkai stood by her side.

Two pairs of eyes locked onto Black Wolf together.

Black Wolf’s wolf ears popped out with a shing: …

“Nothing, my throat was just itchy.”

Zhan Yan had already hopped up: “Dad, Mom, you finished talking~”

He leaned close, his eyes sparkling as he looked at them, a stray lock of his curly hair drooping beside his cheek.

Ji Yueming smoothed his hair: “Finished talking. Nothing’s wrong.”

Ning Xi sighed over the communicator: “Hand her the communicator.”

Black Wolf passed over the communicator Ji Yueming had left outside earlier.

Ji Yueming ruffled her son’s head again: “I’m going to have a chat with the Deputy Director. You stay with…”

Her gaze shifted toward Zhan Yunkai.

Zhan Yunkai stared at the communicator: “I’ll go with you.”

He wanted to talk with Ning Xi as well.

Bai Po raised an arm: “Go ahead, you two.”

The couple stepped back into the room once more.

Black Wolf hadn’t retracted his ears yet; staring at Zhan Yan, who was acting sweet and cute toward his parents, his ears swiveled awkwardly on his head.

So this is Approaching Science?

The new information-type big shot on the forum who refused to be poached and exploded the moment he was provoked. Tsk, look at this act of playing dumb and acting cute…

Bai Po stared at his ears: “I’ve been meaning to ask for a while now, what’s going on with your ears?”

Black Wolf’s expression shifted instantly, covering his ears: “Nothing.”

Zhan Yan’s curiosity, however, had already been piqued.

He stared at Black Wolf’s ears—though they were covered now, Zhan Yan still remembered how they looked earlier. Two erect wolf ears covered in pure black fur, with a wonderful glossy sheen, looking exceptionally healthy at a glance. They appeared completely fine.

Zhan Yan opened the Gossip System and began searching using “Black Wolf” and “ears” as keywords.

[Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau Seventh Brigade Vice-Captain Geng Xiu sighed while dyeing Black Wolf’s right ear fur: “Captain, your fur grows way too fast; it hasn’t even been a month since the last dye job.”]

Zhan Yan: Hm, hm, hm? Black Wolf’s ears are dyed?!

Keep scrolling back through the gossip strips!

Oh, oh! Black Wolf isn’t black-furred all over; one of his ears inherited the traits of the Howling Moon Wolf, his right ear possessing pure silver-white fur.

Black Wolf felt having one white ear and one black ear looked far too foolish, so he had been dyeing his fur ever since joining the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau.

He, the dignified Captain of the Seventh Brigade, the renowned fierce warrior Black Wolf—when his ears popped out in the heat of battle, one black and one white, what kind of look would that be?!

Zhan Yan couldn’t help staring with amazement at Black Wolf’s head, peering through the gaps between his fingers at the hint of wolf ear peeking out. One black and one white… what would that look like?

His expression was far too obvious; Black Wolf turned his head and glared at him in annoyance.

Information-types were truly damn annoying on this exact point! Let slip even the tiniest shred of a clue, and they could dig out everything.

Awoo. He truly couldn’t do anything to this kid; Approaching Science dug up dark histories at the drop of a hat, and the guy now had two supreme big shots backing him up…

Of course, the most detestable one was still Bai Po!

Covering his ears, Black Wolf turned to glare at Bai Po again. What are you shouting about? You groom and brush your fur all day long; what’s wrong with me dyeing mine a bit?

Bai Po looked with regret at the bit of fur peeking through the gaps of Black Wolf’s right fingers.

He was exceedingly fond of that little wolf ear that looked just like his own. Sigh, kids grow up and turn rebellious…

“Don’t go spouting nonsense,” Black Wolf said, tucking his wolf ears away. “I’ll keep an eye on the Bureau’s wind for you.”

Zhan Yan raised a palm with a beaming smile: “Deal.”

Black Wolf gave him a high-five, then turned to bare his fangs at the muttering Bai Po.

With the grandfather-grandson conflict erupting, they temporarily had no time to ponder how Zhan Yan had leaped onto a three-story rooftop. Zhan Yan quietly resumed scrolling through the gossip strips, keeping one eye on his parents’ negotiations with Ning Xi and the other on how Xiao Gu was doing.

Ning Xi truly lived up to being Ning Xi; from Zhan Yan’s reaction and Tianshi and Chongming approaching him together for talks, he had roughly deduced the outcome of the couple’s discussion.

He skipped the preliminary steps with utmost efficiency, pushing straight forward: “How about we renegotiate the cooperation plans for the Yellowstone Ridge ghost village incident, the Fengyue Island Dragon Pillar, and the Bixia Nature Reserve?”

A bellyful of words was choked back in Zhan Yunkai’s throat.

He turned to look at Ji Yueming: “Is he always this much of a workaholic?”

Without asking about his and Ji Yueming’s situation or Zhan Yan’s condition, he jumped straight into launching cooperation between the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance—weren’t quite a few steps skipped in between?

Ji Yueming smiled at him: “You’ll get used to it.”

“I believe our current understanding is aligned, which suffices to bypass complex and meaningless preliminary procedures,” Ning Xi stated calmly.

If Zhan Yan told them he was Approaching Science, it was impossible for him not to tell his own parents.

Ji Yueming knew who Approaching Science was, and she would certainly discuss it with the Chongming Demon King.

Now that she had brought Zhan Yunkai along to discuss matters, it showed the two had already reached a tacit consensus.

As for Ning Xi, he knew what kind of person Tianshi was. All his previous anxieties and uncertainties had stemmed from not understanding the Chongming Demon King.

Now it was simply that Tianshi and the Chongming Demon King had decided to keep living their lives happily together, hoping that the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance would reach mutual ground as much as possible and avoid major friction even if minor clashes occurred.

Then cooperation was the obvious next step. The ongoing active missions he mentioned were all connected to the Wan Yao Alliance, yet wouldn’t trigger serious conflicts between the two sides. They were perfect for building synergy.

Zhan Yunkai: … Truth be told, adapting to this rhythm actually felt quite refreshing.

Things on Mom and Dad’s end were proceeding quite smoothly. On Xiao Gu’s end, he had already successfully obtained Di Ting’s single horn.

Seeing the gossip strip showing Gu Jiancheng carrying Di Ting’s single horn to find Wan Yan, Zhan Yan breathed a sigh of relief.

Xiao Gu’s efficiency is unbeatable!

[Lin Yuan Ghost King Zhan Jinli is extremely grateful to Deep Shadow Gu Jiancheng, but still finds Deep Shadow’s attitude lately a bit too friendly and somewhat bizarre.]