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Zhan Yan started eating the gossip about Ghost King Wan Yan.

Wan Yan Cat was having a pretty good time recently.

College students had an abundance of energy. Upon learning about this efficacious wishing cat, they came up with all sorts of tricks. They actually set up three bowls of offerings for him in imitation: fish fillets, chicken tenders, and milk. They even placed a small incense burner in front of the bowls, burning three sticks of incense. The college students bowed devoutly to him.

Wan Yan squatted on the stone pedestal at the foot of the university’s great figure statue, cooperating perfectly by remaining motionless, his golden eyes looking down disdainfully at the bowing college students.

Heh, good taste! Go ahead and make a wish! Seeing as you are the first to treat this Seat with such solemnity, as long as your wish isn’t excessive, this Seat will help you out!

The college student didn’t make a wish. After filming her short video, she happily posted it to her WeChat Moments and even tried to reach up and pet the cat’s head with a laugh: “The wishing cat is so well-behaved! It didn’t move at all just now!”

Wan Yan Cat: Showed his claws!

The college student pulled her hand back, took out her phone, and filmed the little cat showing its claws. The caption read: “The wishing little cat won’t let me pet it [Craving]”

Wan Yan shot her a dark glance, jumped off the pedestal, and left. What garbage fish fillets and chicken tenders! The milk was watered down too! He didn’t care for it!

In all fairness, the college student wasn’t that stingy; the milk just came out of the bag like that.

Wan Yan left, preparing to go find Zhan Yan. After tasting this and that, the cat food made by this human still suited his palate best.

A calico cat that had been hiding nearby darted out, eating the untouched offerings until its belly was round. It drank half the bowl of milk, and even picked up a few pieces of beef jerky in its mouth before leaving. Before jumping off the pedestal, its feral gaze swept around the area below.

Hidden beneath the unnoticed bushes and behind the decorative streetlamps were wild cats, one after another. They were waiting for this fierce calico cat to leave before jumping onto the stone pedestal to split the remaining food.

But Ghost King Wan Yan hadn’t forgotten his main business either. The moment Zhan Yan logged onto the chaofan forum, he saw the post searching for Ghost King Lin Yuan: {@AdministratorRatherDieThanOwnACat @AdministratorRatherDieThanOwnACat @AdministratorRatherDieThanOwnACat}

He had now learned how to @ people, casting his Great Summoning Spell once a day. Now, everyone knew that ‘RatherDieThanOwnACat‘ was Ghost King Lin Yuan’s account.

No wonder the administrator from Mount Chaofu had never appeared! He was hiding from Ghost King Wan Yan!

The masses were very enthusiastic about eating gossip, but right now it was only a one-sided monologue; it wasn’t satisfying enough to ship! The forum had built a very high thread:

“I’m so anxious I’m so anxious I’m so anxious! What kind of gossip is this exactly?! Why does Ghost King Lin Yuan keep hiding from Ghost King Wan Yan?!”

There were people helping to @AdministratorRatherDieThanOwnACat, and also those @-ing him.

“@Approaching Science, hurry and come help open the melon!”

Zhan Yan: How could he open it? Say that Ghost King Wan Yan is a cat and Ghost King Lin Yuan is a fish, so a cat chasing and a fish fleeing is completely normal?

Before he could scroll through many gossip strips, Zhan Yan received a private message from Fang Pai.

Fang Pai: “Have you heard the rumors about the ‘Infinite Treasure’?”

Zhan Yan hadn’t heard of it, but the word ‘Infinite‘ had already stirred his associations. He began to search in the Gossip System.

Fang Pai continued explaining, “The Hacker discovered it through some concealed channels.”

The Hacker was a network-type. The chaofan forum wasn’t the only community on the internet where supernatural beings gathered; it was just the largest and most orthodox one. Communities privately built by other network-type supernatural beings were not few in number. The Hacker discovered it through these channels.

“Infinite Treasure,” something rumored to be capable of enhancing supernatural powers, and even increasing them. This news had probably started circulating a few days ago, accompanied by some specious evidence, yet it had already tempted many people.

The Hacker had also been tempted at first. Then he went back to the chaofan forum to search around and found that there wasn’t a whisper of it on the forum, but some posts serving as foreshadowing began to appear sporadically. These posts were nothing individually, but after knowing about the “Infinite Treasure,” one would realize these posts were actually stirring up people’s emotions in advance—it aimed to set off a wave of restless frenzy when the news of the “Infinite Treasure” moved from the underground into the open.

The Hacker started to feel that this matter wasn’t quite right.

Zhan Yan searched through the Gossip System and roughly understood the situation.

News that the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau was recently looking for Infinite fragments had already leaked—with their actions of looking all over for people to do missions, it would be impossible not to leak. Thus, a group of people wanting to muddy the waters emerged, as well as those harboring dark intentions.

He immediately turned around to find Luowang—who knows who is currently using the account Lingyu these days!

Luowang took it very seriously and went to contact the Hacker. They quickly found those suspicious accounts, traced out all their main and alt accounts, and banned them all in one breath.

A small section of the homepage was instantly cleared out, and the number of floors under other posts also emptied significantly.

Luowang’s clearing of posts was quickly discovered, and someone soon made a post to ask: Those few posts were fine; why did you ban the original poster?

Clearing posts was a phishing tactic.

Luowang was a dream demon, able to directly trace desires. Her rare ability allowed her to sniff out the underlying scent behind some of the accounts that posted, even through the Vajra Ming King’s immovability like a mountain.

—Behind those seemingly innocuous posts, the scent of malice was thick and similar.

Before banning the accounts, Luowang had bundled up these suspicious accounts and given them to someone else to investigate. Her ability allowed her to find the main and alt accounts of the same person. She banned all these accounts together; the banned users could no longer post. So, did these people know she hadn’t just cleared posts but also banned the accounts?

Luowang fished for a bit longer, and when no new fish bit, she repeated her previous operation in one breath.

Zhan Yan entrusted the task to the official personnel, and didn’t remain idle himself. He ate the gossip according to the list one by one, seeing if he could find clues to root out the instigators.

And then he ate a huge piece of gossip!

The Chaofan forum’s defenses were strict, so these people didn’t dare mess around directly, using methods that exploited human psychological weaknesses to stir up trouble. But in other small communities, it was different—they used curses! They used curse power to provoke the dark desires in people’s hearts, compelling those who were stirred to act according to their wishes.

The huge gossip was: this curse power came from Ghost King Lin Yuan!

Zhan Yan hurriedly searched around and confirmed that this matter had nothing to do with Ghost King Lin Yuan, nor did it have anything to do with Wan Yan Cat. But he couldn’t find the reason, so he could only find Ghost King Lin Yuan; perhaps he had a clue.

He went to private message “AdministratorRatherDieThanOwnACat,” only to find that Ghost King Lin Yuan’s private messages were closed. So he went to find Luowang again.

Administrator Luowang: “His private messages have always been closed. Our permissions are the same, so I can’t contact him either.”

It could be said he was hiding from Wan Yan very thoroughly.

Luowang pointed him in another direction: “Lingyu is a network-type, he should be able to contact him.”

But there was no telling who was behind the Lingyu account now. Even if it was the “Network Ghost King” himself, Zhan Yan worried it might be a situation where a group of people was screen-peeking. Zhan Yan didn’t quite trust the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau right now.

With no other choice, Zhan Yan made a post, @AdministratorRatherDieThanOwnACat.

The forum was a mix of good and bad, so he couldn’t just post the matter directly. Then how could he get Ghost King Lin Yuan’s attention?

{I know where the salty-faction Hungry Ghost is. @AdministratorRatherDieThanOwnACat}

That Hungry Ghost harmed by Garbled Anomaly No. 2 was with a former Ghost King, and the former Ghost King was Ghost King Lin Yuan.

Ghost King Lin Yuan was most afraid of being found by Ghost King Wan Yan. Hinting that he knew Ghost King Lin Yuan’s address should be enough to fish Ghost King Lin Yuan out.

By occasionally opening a melon on the forum, the Approaching Science account still had a certain degree of popularity. Coupled with the title @-ing the currently trending Ghost King Lin Yuan, someone quickly replied.

2L:
Waiting to eat the melon!

3L:
What does the title mean? Why didn’t I understand it?

4L:
What salty-faction Hungry Ghost? Do Hungry Ghosts even split into salty-faction and sweet-faction? Do any of you know a Hungry Ghost?

5L:
Sounds pretty reasonable. Shouldn’t Hungry Ghosts be divided into factions according to food taste?

6L: Why @GhostKingLinYuan? Has Ghost King Lin Yuan been dividing Hungry Ghosts into sweet and salty factions all these years he’s been missing?

8L:
So Ghost King Lin Yuan is looking for the salty-faction Hungry Ghost because he’s a salty-faction supporter himself?

9L:
Is Ghost King Lin Yuan hiding from Ghost King Wan Yan because Ghost King Wan Yan is a sweet-faction supporter?

12L:
Is Ghost King Wan Yan looking for Ghost King Lin Yuan because of the sweet and salty faction dispute?

Because this gossip always lacked a reaction from the other party, and Ghost King Wan Yan didn’t know how to do anything but clamor to find someone instead of spilling the gossip himself, everyone didn’t hold out much hope for whether they could eat this melon anymore. So, the goofy netizens started playing around.

15L:
I think simply dividing by sweet and salty factions isn’t very reasonable. It should be refined and accurate, not muddled. So, what do you guys think of dividing by the eight great culinary traditions?

16L:
Upstairs, the Hungry Ghosts are going to riot! Can’t one simultaneously like several culinary traditions?

18L:
@Wan Yan Boss, are you a sweet-faction supporter? ……

Approaching Science hadn’t opened the melon for everyone, and everyone didn’t really mind, all playing around very happily.

36L “AdministratorRatherDieThanOwnACat “:
@Approaching Science What do you want to say?

37L “Approaching Science”:
@AdministratorRatherDieThanOwnACat Let’s chat in private messages.

40L:
Wait??? What did I just see?!

41L:
Ghost King Lin Yuan replied!!! 43L: Ahhhh!!! Is this the first time Ghost King Lin Yuan appeared on the forum??

45L:
Why why why? How exactly did Approaching Science fish Ghost King Lin Yuan up?

46L:
Is salty-faction Hungry Ghost some secret code? Is there a deeper meaning? Any Hungry Ghost friends hurry and analyze it!

47L:
@Wan Yan Hurry, hurry! Ghost King Lin Yuan appeared!

49L:
@Wan Yan So Ghost King Lin Yuan is really hiding because of the sweet and salty faction dispute??

The following floors frantically @-ed Wan Yan, and Ghost King Wan Yan quickly appeared.

68L “Wan Yan”:
@AdministratorRatherDieThanOwnACat Come out!

69L “Wan Yan”:
@AdministratorRatherDieThanOwnACat I want to private message too!

However, until Wan Yan single-handedly spammed the floors past a hundred, Ghost King Lin Yuan never replied.

121L:
Ghost King Lin Yuan openly interacts with Approaching Science but ignores Ghost King Wan Yan.

122L:
Sympathies. Lighting a candle.