GRMFBS CH54

Zhan Yan felt very guilty. He hadn’t intentionally put Deep Shadow in that predicament. Yet, the truth remained—he had inadvertently led his wanted partner into an Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau ambush. To make amends for his mistake, he frantically started thinking of ways to get him out.

Then he saw the gossip feed refresh:

[“Who am I?” Deep Shadow sneered, “I am the one who patches up your snail-like speed.”]

[Deep Shadow melted into the shadows and left.]

Zhan Yan breathed a sigh of relief. 

Good, good. 

Deep Shadow was, after all, a wanted criminal across three factions; he was at a level where two ordinary Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau operatives wouldn’t be able to catch him.

He sent a private message to “I just saved the world!”:

Approaching Science: “I’m sorry, the battle there was too fast. I didn’t have time to clarify the situation, and there was a lapse in the information I gave you.”

“Causing you to be cornered by the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau.”

Gu Jiancheng frowned fiercely at the last line.

I just saved the world!: “Cornered by two useless nobodies?”

“Who are you talking about?”

Zhan Yan: Deep Shadow’s arrogance is truly… admirable! This way, he won’t dwell on the incorrect information, right?

Approaching Science: “Of course, your strength is unquestionable.”

“But it was still my mistake.”

“The next two pieces of information are free, consider it my apology.”

Gu Jiancheng felt his anger subside. He looked at the compensation offered by Approaching Science and was quite satisfied. Approaching Science only mentioned two future pieces of information and didn’t state any restrictions, meaning he could ask for any information. The price of information could vary wildly. It seemed quite sincere.

I just saved the world!: “Suit yourself.”

“How are things with the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau?”

Approaching Science: “Caught it.”

I just saved the world!: “Not bad, not too useless.”

Having settled things with Deep Shadow, Zhan Yan happily began collecting information and meticulously reviewing the situation. During this capture of Garbled Anomaly No. 2, he had stumbled upon many new pieces of information, many of which he hadn’t had time to sort through.

Garbled Anomaly No. 2 had come for the Infinite Fragment hidden beneath Tangshui Well. “Infinite” was a new term. Zhan Yan dragged it into his information panel and found that it was categorized under the “Anomaly” section, directly occupying the top, pushing all other anomaly names below it. Immediately, the energy bar above the “Anomaly” section soared, quickly filling up and condensing into a small star.

[What’s going on? You actually have gossip you can’t get? Fuzzy search function is now enabled for you! Don’t tell me you can’t find gossip anymore!]

Zhan Yan’s eyes lit up. He had wanted this feature for a long time! He was going to check the “Infinite” gossip right now!

Hiss… It didn’t load. His head suddenly hurt a little. Could this be what they called information pollution? 

An information term that could instantly overpower all other anomalies and top the anomaly list was indeed not simple! He had been looking up anomaly information a bit too much lately. He should stop for today and search for “Infinite” tomorrow.

Although he couldn’t search for anomalies for now, he could still look up other things, like the Former Ghost King. It was confirmed; this guy was the missing Limyuan Ghost King! The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau had verified it. Zhan Yan unashamedly indulged in eating the internal gossip of the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau.

[Nie Ling, while studying Garbled Anomaly No. 2, sighed, “Thankfully, we had Limyuan Ghost King’s ‘long life’ blessing.”]

[Da Wule, hearing Nie Ling’s sigh, twitched the corner of his mouth as if in pain and said, “That wasn’t a blessing.”]

Hmm? Da Wule! 

This was a new term, and it only had a code name, no actual name. Clearly, a big shot. Zhan Yan dragged this term into his information panel and started searching for this person’s gossip.

[Da Wule, Captain of the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau’s Third Brigade, permanently stationed outside.]

[Nie Yu was very surprised to see Da Wule and asked him why he came back?

Da Wule smiled, “Didn’t the Deputy Director ask me to come back and hook up with a kid? What was his name again… Approaching Science?”]

Zhan Yan: ??? What does that have to do with him?!

Zhan Yan frantically flipped through the gossip, finally sorting out the whole story. 

The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau had previously mistakenly believed that Approaching Science was a fan of the Chongming Demon King, so to recruit him, they found Da Wule, who had a similar style to the Chongming Demon King, to see if he could make Approaching Science a fan. 

Deputy Director Ning Xi’s original words were just to “make contact,” and Da Wule’s return was also because his rotation period had ended.

Understood. 

This was a big shot who liked to talk nonsense. The big shot who liked to talk nonsense seemed to have been tricked by the Limyuan Ghost King before, and he gave a very detailed explanation to the two about what that so-called blessing was. It wasn’t a simple blessing but a curse. 

The effect of this curse… could be understood as a mixed blessing…

Meanwhile, a post was fermenting online, gradually gaining traction as more and more people shared it.

{About my wish to get rich and then getting hit by a car and receiving huge compensation}

OP:

This story begins a month ago. A month ago, I had just lost my job. My scumbag boss was particularly unethical; before firing me, he tricked me into working an extra month of overtime and didn’t even pay me for it! I was staying up late, working like crazy, almost dying from exhaustion, and as soon as I submitted my work, the unethical boss fired me. I was emotionally shattered at the time. My best friend accompanied me to clear my head. I was crying and walking, and as I walked, we passed a cake shop.

The cake shop was about to close, and the staff member didn’t want us to come in. But the smell was so fragrant, my best friend and I pleaded with the staff member to let us in to buy one. Perhaps he saw how miserably I was crying, so the young man let us in. The young man was very handsome. He had already locked up, but he still opened the door for us. Sorry, I’m getting a bit off-topic.

My best friend bought two small cakes and told me to make a wish. I wished that my best friend and I would both get rich, and that my scumbag boss would suffer huge financial losses. Then, half a month later, we both got hit by our boss’s car…

The boss was drunk driving and entirely at fault. Since I was a former employee in the middle of a labor dispute with him, he had a motive for assault. And since he didn’t want to get involved in a criminal case, he paid us a large sum of money. My best friend and I weren’t seriously injured. We’re currently lying in the hospital every day, bored, and just thinking about things when I suddenly remembered the wish I made half a month ago in front of that colorful little cake. Now, it seems that wish has come true, but the way it came true seems a bit… off.

2L: Hahahaha, that twist at the end.

3L: Holy crap! It really is the boss losing a lot of money and you two getting rich.

6L: Sorry, OP, but I really want to laugh, hahahaha. How is this not effective?

7L: Just tell me if the wish came true or not!

13L: Your cake shop advertisement is really creative.

OP: Not an advertisement! Because their cakes are really especially terrible! I’ve never eaten such a terrible cake in my life!

16L: Cake: Feeling wronged. I made your wish come true; does it matter if I taste good?

17L: A wish fulfilled by getting hit by a car? [Witty emoji]

OP: At the time, the staff member reminded us that the owner’s taste was unusual, and the cakes were extremely sweet. We didn’t take it seriously. Now, looking back, it’s just regret. That cake was exquisitely made, very beautiful, and smelled incredibly sweet and fragrant.

OP: Then my friend and I each took a big spoonful.

OP: And then we both couldn’t speak. I felt like my throat was coated. Coated with a large, sticky, sickly sweet syrup. My tongue was also stiff and couldn’t move. It was the first time I realized that extreme sweetness could have a bitter sensation, and not a normal kind of bitterness. It was a kind of incredibly unpleasant extreme sweetness with a bitter taste appearing. I can’t describe it.

OP: Later, we both frantically looked for water and each chugged a bottle before feeling better. We ended up throwing away those two cakes. It’s not that we were wasting food; it’s just that stuff really wasn’t edible!

OP: The reason we remembered making a wish on the cake after the car accident was because that cake left such a profound impression on us! We’ll never forget it in this lifetime!

OP: I don’t know how the owner did it. Directly eating white sugar or drinking honey straight didn’t give that feeling of almost being smothered by sweetness.

33L: Curious now, want to taste how sweet the cake is.

34L: Hahahaha, I want to make a wish on a cake and try it.

36L: Is this the legendary underworld blessing? It came true, but it seems a bit off.

39L: Just tell me if it works or not!

…Zhan Jinli leaned back comfortably on the train bound for Fengyu City, slowly exhaling. Mixed blessings was his divine ability. Twenty-six years ago, he split half of his divine ability and reincarnated, so his ability was not very stable now. 

He could use it actively, but sometimes it would be triggered passively: when he spoke to others, or when others spoke to him, if it was accidentally interpreted as a wish or a blessing, the divine ability would automatically trigger an “underworld blessing.”

However, over the years, he discovered that his mother, Ji Yueming, seemed unaffected by the “underworld” part of his blessing ability. His divine ability could completely manifest on his mother with only the blessing effect and no underworld consequences! It was truly touching in the human world! 

So, whenever he had free time, he would stroll around his mother’s company. Under his blessing, no matter what decisions the company made, it was bound to make a profit!

This matter was finally resolved. The rest could be left to the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau. He would continue to slack off. Zhan Jinli leaned back comfortably in his seat. Hmm, now he just needed to learn how to make fondant cakes.

…Zhan Yan was simultaneously checking the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau’s gossip and diligently researching Limyuan Ghost King’s information. Mixed blessings, what a powerful ability! The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau was currently writing summary reports.

[Fang Zhen, while writing the report, sighed, “Limyuan Ghost King is so aloof!”]

Zhan Yan felt like sighing the same thing. Powerfully saving people in a crisis, then casually drifting away with a slight nod after it was resolved. A bit cool! Then he looked at his troublesome brother.

[Zhan Jinli emerged from an unknown hidden corner.]

His brother had been “crouching in an unknown dark corner” for several hours and finally came out. Zhan Yan sighed. Truly worrying.