GRMFBS CH63

Wait, Approaching Science wouldn’t even accept it when they offered extra money, but then took the initiative to run over to the Wan Yao Alliance to work for them for free?

Didn’t he still want to save up points to exchange for Tianshi’s Lightning Talisman?!

Didn’t he also think Tianshi was really cool?!

What kind of magic potion did the Wan Yao Alliance feed him?!

Nie Yu typed furiously in indignation, questioning Luowang, and forwarded this latest situation to the internal group chat for the relevant personnel in the Bureau.

The internal group chat was filled with question marks.

They had clearly cooperated very happily with Approaching Science before! Tianshi and Lingyu both had smooth communications with Approaching Science, and there were absolutely no visible problems!

Why did the attitude suddenly change?

Over on the other side, Luowang replied again:

Luowang: [I didn’t do anything.]

Luowang: [Was he scared off by your style of doing things?]

Nie Yu synchronized his communication with Luowang to the group.

Style. Approaching Science had long known about the control-freak style of the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau, so that shouldn’t be the problem, otherwise he would have run away ages ago. They hadn’t been investigating Approaching Science recently either, so it couldn’t have been that which scared him off.

Recent style problems… they currently had someone with an improper style right there in their group!

Everyone’s gazes turned toward Da Wule.

Lingzhou Wendi: [???]

Tianshi: [@Da Wule it must be you who scared him off.]

Nie Yu: [Exactly! [Condemn][Condemn]]

Lingzhou Wendi: […Why can’t kids take a joke?]

…

Over at the Wan Yao Alliance, the interrogation of the traitor had already yielded preliminary results.

The Corpse Flower Konjac Demon was not the mastermind; he was just a minor lackey who was swiftly discarded after losing his use value.

The mastermind behind the scenes was deeply hidden, and the Corpse Flower Konjac Demon didn’t know much. However, his actions within the Wan Yao Alliance had already revealed some clues.

Whether or not to accept the help of Approaching Science, Luowang couldn’t directly make the call; mainly, it was because the Chongming Demon King was very angry, so she had to ask about this matter.

Zhan Yunkai was currently cooking.

Zhan Yan was heading back to school in the afternoon, so he was making a simple meal for Zhan Yan to take with him.

Zhan Yan was circling his dad in the kitchen, feeling incredibly blissful surrounded by all sorts of aromas.

The Chongming Demon King of the Wan Yao Alliance was personally cooking for him, how could he not be biased towards the Wan Yao Alliance?

“If you’re craving it, eat a bit first. I made a lot,” Zhan Yunkai said.

“I want some too!” Zhan Suiru popped up, reaching out to snag a chicken wing.

“Shoo! Did you wash your hands?” Zhan Yunkai tapped the back of her hand with his chopsticks.

Zhan Suiru dodged nimbly: “I washed them!”

Zhan Yan had just scooped half a bowl of rice, and filled the remaining half with chicken wings.

There were still several hours before he set off for school, so they decided to watch a movie together. Originally, they decided to let Ji Yueming pick.

Ji Yueming ruffled Zhan Yan’s little curly hair: “I have trouble making choices, you pick.”

Zhan Yan picked a horror movie.

He even asked for everyone’s opinion: “Are you guys scared?”

Zhan Yunkai and Ji Yueming exchanged a glance. Speaking of which… although they were an old married couple, they hadn’t tried the “horror movie” trope yet.

Zhan Yan turned his gaze to his sister: “If you’re scared, you can hug my arm.”

Zhan Suiru spread a whole table of snacks and handed him a bag of potato chips: “Don’t look down on your sister, who knows who will be hugging whose arm!”

Zhan Yan hadn’t watched a horror movie before. He wasn’t afraid of these things, he just found them boring. But Gu Jiancheng seemed to really like watching them, and since he told horror stories so interestingly, he also wanted to learn more about them.

As the horror movie played, Zhan Yunkai and Ji Yueming leaned against each other.

The screen was a bloody mess.

Zhan Suiru had already polished off half a plate of chicken wings, and was now happily crunching away on potato chips.

Zhan Yan, holding fries in one hand and ketchup in the other, watched with rapt attention.

Zhan Yunkai and Ji Yueming couldn’t help but exchange another worried look.

Were these two kids just unfazed, or were their aesthetics a bit skewed?

Halfway through, Zhan Suiru felt a bit bored. The plot of this movie was average; its main focus was going all out on the horror effects. But she had seen far more terrifying things in the apocalypse. If one couldn’t feel the horror, this movie’s rating could be cut in half.

She snapped out of her thoughts and nudged Zhan Yan, who was watching a horror movie for the first time, with her elbow: “If you’re scared, you don’t have to force yourself to hold on.”

“I’m not scared at all.” Zhan Yan took the opportunity to fish a large handful of potato chips from her pocket.

“Shh!” Zhan Yunkai spoke up in dissatisfaction.

Children were indeed the great enemies of a couple’s sweet atmosphere!

The siblings quieted down.

When the movie finished playing, Ji Yueming saw the director’s name in the credits and asked Zhan Yunkai: “Hey, has this director worked with you before?”

Seeing the name, Zhan Yunkai remembered: “Oh, oh, it’s him.”

“Ji Lele, quite an interesting person. The only director in Mingtang Pictures who specializes in horror movies. But he doesn’t dare watch the horror movies he shoots himself.”

I heard he cried from fear the first time he attended a test screening of his own film.

…

In the afternoon, returning to school, Zhan Yan carried a bag of lunchboxes on his back, and wasn’t long before he was stopped.

A white long-haired cat walked in front of him, came to a halt, squatted down, and looked at him with golden eyes.

This very polite appearance was very familiar.

“Is there something you need?” Zhan Yan asked.

The very polite little white cat looked at his backpack: “Meow.”

“Want.”

Is a cat’s nose this sensitive? Zhan Yan was surprised, and then rejected it.

“No, this is for human consumption. It has seasonings in it, you can’t eat it.”

“Meow.” The little white cat shuffled forward two steps, lowered its head, and rubbed against him.

“Want.”

“Not giving it.” Zhan Yan sidestepped the little white cat.

The little white cat circled back in front of him, its golden eyes remaining stubbornly persistent: “Meow.”

[You have been entangled by a little white cat with a peculiar digestive function that is extremely persistent and never gives up.]

After a few back-and-forths, Zhan Yan confirmed that he truly couldn’t outlast this system-certified persistent little kitten, so he shared a chicken wing with it. Since the system had certified its peculiar digestive function, one chicken wing shouldn’t have a big impact.

The kitty’s round eyes revealed a thoroughly blissful expression after it clamped its mouth onto the chicken wing.

Zhan Yan took the opportunity to slip away.

Just as he returned to school, he received a reply from Luowang. The Wan Yao Alliance had issued him a task: investigate the anomaly on the Corpse Flower Konjac Demon.

During the interrogation of the Corpse Flower Konjac Demon, the Wan Yao Alliance discovered a strange imprint in his soul. The Wan Yao Alliance’s task was to investigate the origin and purpose of this imprint.

Zhan Yan extracted the keywords to search and discovered a new term: “Mind-Link”.

This term was categorized under the “Items” column, and successfully filled up the energy bar that had been saving up for a long time.

[Oh my, has something unrecognizable appeared again? How dare such a trivial matter affect my melon-eating?! Here, take the item description!]

Oho! The item description is here!

A tiny inverted triangle appeared under all the item information words; after clicking on it, the item description could be seen.

[“Mind-Link”, originating from the Infinite world, pure white and soft, shaped like silk, can…]

After reading the item description, Zhan Yan couldn’t hold back a hiss. This thing was incredibly vicious!

However, the imprint on the Corpse Flower Konjac Demon wasn’t that terrifying. It was merely a mark left by utilizing the Mind-Link, which could ensure the Corpse Flower Konjac Demon couldn’t leak any news related to the person behind the scenes, but it couldn’t manipulate the soul like a complete Mind-Link.

In other words, the Corpse Flower Konjac Demon betrayed them voluntarily! Or rather, he already had an ulterior motive when he entered the Wan Yao Alliance.

Zhan Yan organized the information, sent it to Luowang, and earned a large sum of points again.

This… included half from his dad, right? How embarrassing to accept it.

Zhan Yan tactfully brought it up. Giving him the normal compensation was fine; there was no need for the Chongming Demon King to pay out of his own pocket to give him double.

They were all family!

Administrator Luowang: [How did you find out?]

Right after asking, Luowang realized. Approaching Science was a very formidable information-type, could he have investigated it himself?!

This was a bit terrifying! To be able to break through His Majesty Chongming’s information interference, what kind of strength must this be?!

Luowang immediately reported it upward.

Zhan Yunkai was reading the report Gong Yun handed to him.

It just so happened that Gong Yun had compiled the things the alliance had investigated into a booklet and handed it to him.

As Zhan Yunkai read, he began to sneer. The awe-inspiring pressure within his double pupils made it almost impossible for one to lift their head.

“He’s looking for Bai Ze.” Zhan Yunkai’s voice was very soft, smashing against the floor like shattered glazed jade, every sound splashing out a piercingly cold blade.

“Go contact the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau.”

This time, Zhan Yunkai interfaced directly with Deputy Bureau Chief Ning Xi.

Ning Xi had dark circles hanging under his eyes; it looked like he hadn’t slept well for a while.

He understood why the Chongming Demon King was looking for him.

Garbled Anomaly Number 2 and the Corpse Flower Konjac Demon were in Beiling City going after the Infinite fragments. But those who wanted to obtain the Infinite fragments might not necessarily want Infinite to revive—the Chongming Demon King said this with extreme sarcasm, and Ning Xi just pretended not to hear it.

The research value of the Infinite fragments was very high; many pieces of black technology within the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau were researched from them, such as that headquarters which could be directly teleported in and out of from anywhere in the world.

But to want the Infinite fragments while simultaneously searching for Bai Ze, that could only be the will of Infinite—it had already partially awakened, and was currently plotting to continue its revival.

Ning Xi furrowed his brows: “Didn’t Bai Ze already fall twenty-six years ago?”

“Therefore, what he’s looking for are his remains.” Zhan Yunkai mocked coldly, “Bones, flesh, skin, fur, claws, eyes… aren’t you humans the ones who best understand how to dismantle and utilize the remains of demons?”

Ning Xi took a deep breath, rubbing his temples with a headache: “Your Excellency Chongming…”

After finishing his chat with Ning Xi, Zhan Yunkai received Luowang’s message.

In all fairness, aside from Ning Xi’s control-freak flaws, he was quite good in other areas; he was the type of person the divine Chongming bird naturally appreciated. Moreover, no matter how much of a control freak he was, he couldn’t control a demon king.

But Zhan Yunkai found the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau very displeasing, and by extension, found this Deputy Bureau Chief very displeasing as well.

Seeing Luowang bring up the issue of Approaching Science’s strength to him, Zhan Yunkai gave her a speechless expression.

Chongming: [Wasn’t he also the one who dug up Ghost King Lin Yuan’s online username before?]

Wasn’t Approaching Science’s strong ability something they had known for a long time?

Luowang: […Right.]

Mainly, the matter of the username felt unimportant, but the Chongming Demon King paying out of his own pocket sounded much more important!

Zhan Yunkai felt that she had been led by Approaching Science into getting melon-eating to her head.

He wanted to know even more what Approaching Science’s reaction was after knowing that half the points he received were paid by him.

Luowang synchronized the chat records, and along with it, also told him about how Approaching Science had previously rejected the high-point task from the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau, yet took the initiative to seek him out to express a willingness to help for free.

The Demon King His Majesty, who was currently in a bad mood, saw Approaching Science’s reply and revealed a kindly smile.

Oh my, what’s there to be embarrassed about accepting? Why so happy and so grateful, what a good child!