GRMFBS CH74

Zhan Yan realized in an instant why Deep Shadow had canceled this task.

Approaching Science: [Did you find a solution to your aftereffects issue?]

This was good too. He had always felt that the aftereffects on Deep Shadow were a hidden danger; resolving them early was a good thing.

Gu Jiancheng saw the transmitting file right after sending the message to Approaching Science. He casually clicked it open; the contents were detailed and comprehensive, all including healing case references to facilitate selection.

Gu Jiancheng was somewhat surprised. He originally thought that in such a short time, Approaching Science could at most investigate a rough list. How did he investigate so quickly this time?

Seeing Approaching Science’s latest reply, he suddenly understood why Approaching Science had rushed the job. Zhan Yan abruptly received a large point transfer from I Just Saved the World!, more than double the price he and Deep Shadow had originally agreed upon! This transfer directly pushed him onto the points leaderboard!

Approaching Science: [Was your account stolen?]

I Just Saved the World!: [I’ll give as much as I want.]

Still that familiar flavor; this boundless arrogance was definitely Deep Shadow himself. Regardless, the one taking advantage was him.

Approaching Science: [Thank you, boss; may the boss make a fortune!]

Gu Jiancheng let out a snort of laughter.

I Just Saved the World!: [Recently, someone might look for you to investigate Infinite fragments. Don’t accept it.]

Tianshi had also reminded him of this. Zhan Yan wanted to probe for a bit more information.

Approaching Science: [Why?]

I Just Saved the World!: [Anyone who seeks you out for this task isn’t a good person.]

Zhan Yan: … This sounded like a reason a child throwing a tantrum would give. But Deep Shadow wasn’t that sort of personality. Zhan Yan thought about it for a moment and roughly understood what he meant.

At this critical juncture, those looking for Infinite fragments were either officials from the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau wanting to destroy or hide them in advance, or those who coveted the Infinite fragments.

If it were the former, they shouldn’t be seeking out personnel outside the Bureau. The latter were greedy and highly likely to harbor malice toward anyone who also knew the locations of the fragments.

Of course he wouldn’t accept it! He even planned to record the people who approached him in his little notebook; maybe he could report a wave of them!

Then he received a private message from Lingyu.

Administrator Lingyu: “Approaching Science, there is a task here that requires you to do it. Are you clear about the Infinite fragments?”

Zhan Yan, holding his little notebook: … This tone was absolutely not the real Lingyu from before! ……

Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau.

Nie Yu, wearing a monocle, stood up and sat down, extremely uneasy.

Seeing her like this, Ji Yueming beckoned to her, “Come over and sit, you’re making me dizzy with all your pacing.”

Nie Yu walked over and sat down, but still couldn’t settle down. “Why did they take my account?”

Ji Yueming patted her. “What are you afraid of? I’m here.”

There were people in the Bureau who wanted the Infinite fragments, using research as a righteous banner when, in reality, it was for their own selfish desires.

Ning Xi was absent at the moment; he was too busy. His sense of responsibility was too heavy; he couldn’t stop worrying about everything, yet a person only has 24 hours in a day. Diverting his attention was very easy; they just needed to arrange a somewhat serious incident to temporarily tie him down.

Ning Xi hadn’t discovered the intentions of those people because he managed too many affairs. He had witnessed firsthand how the technology researched from the Infinite fragments had brought them tremendous improvements.

Without teleportation technology, the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau wouldn’t be able to flexibly dispatch teams like they could now. Without the improvement in weapons and equipment, the casualty rate among the personnel in the execution teams would be at least thirty percent higher.

Every statistic was clearly listed in Ning Xi’s mind. He knew how many human lives and how many families these represented. They weighed heavily on his heart, which was why he valued the research on Infinite fragments.

Ji Yueming was a Captain in the Bureau; she only needed to be responsible for executing missions. Twenty-six years ago, she had experienced the most tragic upheaval and charged deep into Infinite, witnessing what kind of world it was.

She was clear about its ability to bewitch people’s hearts and clear about its cockroach-like, unkillable vitality.

The destroyed Infinite only had scattered fragments left, like incomplete puzzle pieces that could never be pieced back together.

But the Infinite world wasn’t a puzzle; it was a massive world synthesized from countless small worlds. It didn’t need all the fragments to piece the picture back together; it only needed to piece together a single small world to use as a foundation for a complete resurgence.

She didn’t oppose researching Infinite fragments; this kind of research had already been conducted within the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau for many years.

The path of development was to explore the unknown, but people shouldn’t open a Pandora’s box when they didn’t yet have the ability to control the situation. Just like jumping into the deep sea when deep-water submarines hadn’t been invented yet.

Gathering all the Infinite fragments together was the deep sea they currently lacked the power to control. But it didn’t matter. She could cover the bottom line, just as Ning Xi helped her clean up her messes. Family relied on each other, and friends covered each other’s backs.

Nie Yu was infected by Ji Yueming’s overly calm attitude and gradually settled her heart as well. Aside from when writing reports, their Captain was always exceptionally reliable!

Seeing Ji Yueming operating her phone with a strange expression, she grew momentarily curious and glanced down.

…The Captain was actually boosting the charts! Looking closer, the Captain was boosting her husband on the charts!

Right, the Captain’s husband was an actor who was exceptionally good-looking, evaluated by the Foreign Affairs Department as “someone whose face immediately tells you he’s not a decent person.”

Nie Yu: “…Captain!”

Whenever she felt her Captain was incredibly cool and highly reliable, Ji Yueming would pull off some image-ruining maneuver!

Ji Yueming: “Shh, don’t disturb me. His new drama just aired, I’m highly recommending it to you!”

The drama Zhan Yunkai filmed over the holidays was airing. The production crew rushed the work, catching the tail end of Ling Yuteng’s octopus popularity to edit it out.

Although the character Zhan Yunkai played had few scenes, as the “white moonlight” character that tied the whole drama together, he popped out to show his face every now and then—he was too good-looking and his temperament too outstanding; Director Liu couldn’t bear to cut a single frame. He stuffed him in everywhere, almost turning him into the fourth male lead!

Relying on a decent appearance rate, a wonderful character setting, clean and crisp martial arts scenes, and a unique face and temperament, Zhan Yunkai—who was originally just a temporary substitute and only filmed for a few days—saw his popularity skyrocket, even squeezing into the leaderboards.

Seeing this, Ji Yueming thought, How fun! Vote, vote! Push Old Zhan’s popularity up!

Zhan Yunkai still didn’t know his wife was boosting his charts. He was currently within Mount Chaofu, resting on the glistening white leaves of the Wenyu Tree to preen his feathers. The aura of the Underworld made him uncomfortable all over, like a layer of moisture wrapping his feathers.

“Still can’t find traces of Bai Ze?” Zhan Yunkai asked.

Researching the traces of the Mind-Link was just an excuse and a cover for Zhan Yunkai coming to Mount Chaofu; his true purpose was to investigate Bai Ze.

Twenty-six years ago, Bai Ze perished in the war against Infinite. But the circumstances of his fall at the time were rather special, and there had been no news of him since. The Wan Yao Alliance exhausted all sorts of methods, but no matter how they investigated, they couldn’t find anything, and later had to give up.

No one mentioned this matter again. Everyone tacitly agreed that Bai Ze’s soul had scattered and perished.

But the moment the hidden remnants of Infinite surfaced, they began investigating Bai Ze. Infinite wanted to obtain Bai Ze; it had a deep obsession with this, as well as some methods different from this native world.

This raised a glimmer of hope in Zhan Yunkai. Perhaps Bai Ze’s soul hadn’t scattered and perished? Perhaps he had just hidden himself for some special reason?

Ghost King Minghe was formed from the Ming He River in the underworld soil; every soul reincarnating in this world had to be sent to Reincarnation via the Ming He River. As long as Bai Ze’s soul passed through Reincarnation, he inevitably would have waded through Ghost King Minghe’s blood-red sleeves.

That was why Zhan Yunkai came to find Ghost King Minghe.

As for that Corpse Flower Konjac Demon, he had already thrown it to Ghost King Tie Lao to handle. Ghost King Tie Lao was a Ghost King who achieved his status later; his cultivation level and seniority were a notch lower than all the big shots. Now that Ghost King Lin Yuan was missing, Ghost King Wan Yan had a screw loose, and Ghost King Minghe never managed any affairs, only Ghost King Tie Lao diligently worked, single-handedly supporting the massive family business of Mount Chaofu.

Ghost King Minghe propped her head up, lying on her side on the raised roots of the Wenyu Tree. The river of blood flowed beside the roots, nourishing this serene and silent divine tree. She let her hand hang down, dipping it into the river of blood. The river water rippled with her movements, splashing droplets that looked like blood pearls.

“Very hard to find.” She scooped up a handful of river water. “During the time he died, I didn’t have the energy to pay attention to the situation of the souls in the river water. Later, he never came by.”

“Perhaps he reincarnated during that period and hasn’t died since.”

There were too many living beings that could live past twenty-six years; the human population alone was over ten billion! Not to mention the demons.

Those who flowed through the river water would also leave traces in it. Ghost King Minghe had fallen into a deep slumber to recuperate between twenty-six years ago and twenty years ago. Wanting to re-examine the traces from those few years now was beyond troublesome.

“What about Wan Yan?” Zhan Yunkai asked.

He wanted to grab one more able-bodied worker to help look together. But Ghost King Tie Lao was already a total corporate slave; Ghost King Lin Yuan had hidden who-knows-where, leaving only Wan Yan.

When Wan Yan was still Di Ting, his relationship with Zhan Yunkai was quite good; Zhan Yunkai felt he could conscript this worker.

Ghost King Minghe frowned: “That psycho…”

The new term “psycho” was something she learned from the ghosts drifting through the Ming He River. She felt it suited Wan Yan perfectly.

Over twenty years ago, she was in the middle of her deep sleep. That psycho Wan Yan was tumbling all over the mountains looking for Lin Yuan, waking her up.

Ghost King Minghe didn’t indulge his bad habits; she entangled this sick cat in her sleeves and beat him up. But this guy only remembered the food and not the beatings. Even after being beaten several times, he still dared to drill into her sleeves and tumble around, looking to see if Lin Yuan had hidden in the Ming He River—it made sense, Ghost King Lin Yuan was a fish, after all!

Ghost King Minghe was annoyed to death, but Wan Yan had finally managed to piece a soul back together; she couldn’t just beat him until it scattered again.

Now this psycho cat had run off to torment others. Ghost King Minghe left a drop of river water on him to prevent him from carelessly dying again.

She squinted her eyes and peered into the river water. “He’s currently acting as a mascot at a university.”

Zhan Yunkai: ? ……

Beiling Agricultural University.

Duan Hong, carrying various fresh meats and fruits and vegetables, pleaded with Zhan Yan to teach him how to make cat food.

Zhan Yan: “Don’t you know how to make it?”

Duan Hong looked distressed: “I don’t make it as tasty as you do, I got disdained by the wishing cat.”

Zhan Yan: “Huh?” What wishing cat?

Duan Hong: “Didn’t you take me to make a wish to that little white cat before? Later, I went to sacrifice to that ghost myself, and to my surprise, it was really resolved!

“The little white cat is too efficacious! So I planned to buy some tasty food to thank it. But it won’t eat cat kibble, not even the most expensive cat treats and canned food. I could only try making cat food. But it just sniffed it and ran away.”

Duan Hong sighed, “It turned its head and went to gnaw on the dried beef someone else gave it.”

Zhan Yan: “There are others?”

Duan Hong: “Yeah, making wishes to it is super efficacious! The experimental chicken raised by a senior next door went missing. He brought a chicken leg and made a wish to it, and it led him to find the missing chicken.”

Ghost King Wan Yan, Beiling Agricultural University’s newly promoted mascot, the students’ efficacious wishing cat, had become wildly popular among the university students.