GRMFBS CH72

Quan Liping took a severe beating and cried, whimpering, “Boss, I was wrong, Boss! Please let me go!”

The little white cat stopped: “Meow.”

“Where were you wrong?”

This was spoken in the language of ghosts. Quan Liping could understand it. After understanding it, he cried again.

This boss looked like a little white cat, but his strength was terrifying! His imposing aura was as heavy as a mountain, and Quan Liping couldn’t even muster up the will to resist! Such a formidable boss coming up and beating him right away—how was he supposed to know what he did wrong?!

“W-whatever you think I did wrong, that’s what I did wrong. Just give me some guidance, and I will definitely change!” Quan Liping wept bitterly.

“You extorted offerings from someone?”

Quan Liping suddenly realized: “I won’t ever dare to do it again!”

He had just seen that kid looking so honest and easy to bully, which was why he extorted him. If he had known there was such a huge backer, he wouldn’t have dared even if you beat him to death!

Ghost King Wan Yan was satisfied.

Hmph! Saying he had something to do so he couldn’t make him cat food! Now that the matter was resolved for him, he had to make up for the cat food!

The little white cat twitched his whiskers and turned his head to head back to Beiling Agricultural University.

Over at Beiling Agricultural University, Duan Hong had just finished buying all the offerings when he suddenly received a phone call.

The call was from his senior graduate student. Duan Hong was a good student and was highly regarded by an old professor at the university, who let him participate in some research. The senior was calling to tell him that there was a problem with the white rabbits they were researching, and asked him to hurry over.

Duan Hong was suddenly in a dilemma. On one hand was his studies, and on the other was the ghost encounter. If he went to his senior’s side now, he wouldn’t be able to make it in time to sacrifice to the haunting ghost. If he offered the sacrifices later, who knew if he’d be hit with new extortions.

“Go to the lab first. Your studies are more important. Don’t worry, the sacrifices will definitely be fine,” Bao Qingshan said.

Zhan Yan also comforted him, “It’s fine, haven’t you already prayed to the little white cat?”

Gu Jiancheng also said two brief words: “It’s fine.”

Duan Hong gritted his teeth and decided to go to his senior first. His dream was to be accepted for graduate studies under that old professor! He didn’t even go home for the holidays because of this! Didn’t that ghost just want to extort him? At worst, he’d just offer a few more sacrifices!

Duan Hong left in a hurry.

Gu Jiancheng: “I’m heading out for a bit.”

Since he happened to run into it, he would go ahead and deal with that wild ghost in advance, to save Zhan Yan from having to go over there.

Bao Qingshan: “I have some things to do too.”

Since Duan Hong temporarily couldn’t go, he might as well go over and take a look in advance. Resolving it as early as possible would save trouble later.

Zhan Yan: “Then I’ll carry these things back.”

He had already seen from the Gossip System strips that Ghost King Wan Yan had given Quan Liping a severe beating. The cat would definitely come back looking for him for cat food later; he needed to hurry up and start making it first.

Leaving the school, Gu Jiancheng found a deserted place, faded into the shadows, and directly sneaked to the place where Duan Hong made his sacrifices.

A wild ghost was lying next to that wild grave, matching the residual ghost energy on Duan Hong.

“Are you the one extorting offerings?” Gu Jiancheng asked.

Quan Liping had finally sent away the previous fiend and was lying on the ground catching his breath when he suddenly heard a voice that seemed to echo from a bottomless cavern, making him shudder in fright.

He lifted his head and saw a figure entirely hidden in the shadows, radiating a cold and terrifying aura, looking at him.

“I-I-I…” Quan Liping was utterly terrified.

Gu Jiancheng sneered, raised his foot, and kicked!

After delivering a beating, Gu Jiancheng asked coldly, “Still going to extort people?”

“I won’t! I won’t ever dare to do it again!” Quan Liping wept bitterly once more.

Gu Jiancheng left, satisfied.

Quan Liping didn’t dare stay there anymore. Once Gu Jiancheng left, he crawled and scrambled away to hide.

Wuu-wuu-wuu, he just extorted some offerings; how did he attract yet another fiend!

Bao Qingshan took the bus, but he couldn’t find the spot when he reached the suburbs. In this desolate wilderness, the weeds were almost chest-high. Who could even see if there was a grave under their feet in a place like this!

He didn’t know where Duan Hong’s sacrificial spot was, but it was easy to handle. He cultivated his “spiritual energy,” after all!

Bao Qingshan strolled casually and hadn’t been wandering for a few minutes before he encountered a wild ghost.

He opened his Yin-Yang Eye and looked the ghost up and down. “Hey! You over there, were you the one repeatedly demanding offerings from someone earlier?”

Quan Liping turned and ran!

He didn’t get away.

Bao Qingshan’s spiritual energy was incredibly sharp! Wherever Quan Liping hid, Bao Qingshan could bump into him just by casually strolling.

Bao Qingshan poked Quan Liping, who could no longer run. “Come, let’s chat. Why did you extort people? Or should I send you to the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau?”

Quan Liping wept bitterly for the third time. “Wuu-wuu-wuu, I was wrong, I won’t ever dare to extort anyone again!”

At this time, Zhan Yan had just finished making the cat food and was squatting by the roadside with the returned Gu Jiancheng to feed Ghost King Wan Yan.

By the standards of an ordinary person, Zhan Yan’s culinary skills could actually be considered among the good ones. There was no helping it; since they were young, his father had spoiled the palates of all three of them, yet he often went on business trips to act, leaving them at home to fend for themselves. Honed over so many years, although the three of them rated each other’s cooking as “unpalatable,” that was only in comparison to Zhan Yunkai.

If anyone else came to taste it, all three of them were quite good at cooking—excluding his brother’s cakes and dishes that required sugar.

The little white cat ate very happily.

Gu Jiancheng squatted side-by-side with Zhan Yan, and suddenly blurted out a sentence, “I haven’t even tasted your cooking yet.”

Zhan Yan: …Gu Jiancheng’s jealousy was flying more and more out of nowhere.

The little white cat’s ears twitched.

Hehe, I just exerted effort to settle that extorting wild ghost! What is an ordinary person like you competing for? You guys made a huge profit on my appearance fee, alright!

Zhan Yan patted Gu Jiancheng’s knee. “The school doesn’t have the facilities. Cat food is easy to make. How about you try some cat food?”

The little white cat immediately raised his head, his golden eyes staring at the two people.

Zhan Yan: “…I’m joking, I’m joking! We won’t snatch yours!”

Gu Jiancheng and the little white cat gazed at each other. A pair of bright golden cat eyes and a pair of deep, dark eyes. After looking at each other for a few seconds, they both turned their heads away.

Hmph!

It’s just a cat! No matter what, it only gets to eat cat food!

Heh.

It’s just a human! He can only watch me eat!

When the little white cat finished eating, Zhan Yan picked up the bowl he had bought specifically for him to take back and wash. From now on, this would be His Excellency Ghost King Wan Yan’s designated rice bowl.

When Zhan Yan prepared to stand up, he swayed and almost sat backward onto the ground.

Gu Jiancheng supported him just in time: “What’s wrong?”

Zhan Yan: “My legs went numb QAQ” ……

Duan Hong was busy for several hours before resolving his issue, and by now it was already noon. His senior said he wanted to treat him to a meal, but Duan Hong refused; he still hadn’t resolved his ghost encounter.

The midday sun shone overhead, warming him through and through. Duan Hong squinted at the sun. Ghosts were all afraid of the sun.

After being interrupted like this, his roommates had all gone off to do their own things. Duan Hong didn’t want to trouble everyone to make another trip just for his sake. Wasn’t it just an extorting ghost?

After pumping himself up, Duan Hong went on another shopping spree and took double the offerings to find the ghost.

When Quan Liping saw Duan Hong coming with offerings in hand, his knees instantly gave out.

Wuu-wuu-wuu, I’m begging you! Please stop bringing me offerings! I won’t ever dare to do it again! You are the granddaddy here!

……

Classes were starting tomorrow, so Zhan Yan prepared to seize the time to check on the current situation and also complete the tasks he had accumulated. First, he would look at the situation on his father’s side.

[The Chongming Demon King took the Corpse Flower Konjac Demon to Mount Chaofu and found Ghost King Minghe, hoping she could help research a method to quickly discover traces of the Mind-Link.]

Oh, it looked like the cooperation was going pretty well.

[The Nine-Tailed Demon King went to the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau to discuss cooperation matters, encountered his old rival Da Wule, and after mutually provoking each other, they got into a fight.]

[Tianshi went to the Infinite player faction ‘Retirees’ Alliance’ to discuss cooperation matters, discovered the wanted criminal Bug King Tong Shu hidden in the Retirees’ Alliance, and fought with them.]

[The Retirees’ Alliance was extremely indignant, expressing, “Aren’t you just bullying us because Deep Shadow, the most powerful among our players, isn’t here?”] ……

Aside from the first one, everyone’s cooperation wasn’t going very smoothly… Zhan Yan couldn’t help but flip through the gossip strips of the various factions to see what sort of accumulated grievances everyone actually had; couldn’t they be resolved a bit?

[After unremitting effort and research, Bug King Tong Shu finally cultivated cold-resistant mosquitoes and mutated cockroaches.]

[Bug King Tong Shu was listed as a wanted criminal by the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau.]

This truly made it impossible for anyone who ‘ate’ this strip of gossip to not agree with the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau. He was wanted for good reason!

That being said, the current situation was also quite worrying.

The Mind-Link was a novelty to the people of their native world; it was a rather rare item even within the Infinite world. Only a double-digit number of them had slipped into the real world. The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance hadn’t come into contact with this sort of thing before, so naturally, they lacked the avenues to understand it.

Now, the existence of the Mind-Link had surfaced. Amidst the dead ashes of Infinite, apart from the sparks ready to ignite, ruthless poisons had always been lurking. They needed to find people who better understood the predecessor of these ashes to help them sift out the things that had always been hidden within.

The Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance had long been dealing with the players from Infinite. However, the players willing to join the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau weren’t any formidable powerhouses, and barely any of them had even heard the name of the Mind-Link.

It was understandable. Among the powerhouses who had carved their way out of the Infinite world, not a single one could tolerate the control-freak style of the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau. The players willing to join on their own initiative had all survived merely due to luck; they joined the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau because they wanted to seek asylum.

There were slightly more players willing to join the Wan Yao Alliance, but the Wan Yao Alliance had always maintained vigilance toward humans. Only those with a few specific professions, and who had passed magical arts testing, would be approved to join the Wan Yao Alliance.

The vast majority of players who survived Infinite hadn’t joined any local factions. They either vanished into the sea of humanity, not wanting to get mixed up in anything anymore, or became lone wolves like Gu Jiancheng, or banded together to form organizations of various sizes, such as the broker’s black market, as well as the Retirees’ Alliance.

These organizations might cooperate with the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau or the Wan Yao Alliance, but their attitudes were extremely prudent. The players didn’t trust that these official organizations could treat them well, and the official organizations didn’t trust that these players who had experienced the Infinite world could honestly abide by the rules of the real world.

The most typical example was Deep Shadow. This guy had quietly caught a Garbled Anomaly on his own and was pushing the progress at lightning speed. He was also a wanted person and could only work solo, plus he had some aftereffects of unknown circumstances.

Zhan Yan worried that if he kept blindly pushing the progress like this on his own, he would end up playing himself to death. It was best to find a healing-type supernatural being who could treat him as soon as possible. Obviously, everyone had the same goal; why couldn’t they unite for a bit?

Zhan Yan couldn’t help but sigh. If only he had good relationships with all these big shots, he could at least find a way to mediate and reconcile them.