GRMFBS CH76

Zhan Jinli had just finished class, his apron still dusted with powdered sugar.

His bangs were pinned up and tucked inside a chef’s hat. When he took off his mask, his entire face was revealed.

The instructor initially took photos of his cake, but upon turning around and seeing his handsome face, they really wanted to take a picture of him together with the cake.

What a great enrollment advertisement!

Unfortunately, he didn’t agree.

The fondant instructor was extremely regretful.

The young man was good-looking and highly skilled, but he had a social anxiety problem. At first, they even thought he was deaf and mute. But he seemed a bit different from ordinary people with social anxiety. Apart from not speaking, he was completely normal in other aspects. His gaze was deep and dark, making people subconsciously feel a sense of respect when they looked at him.

Zhan Jinli packed up his belongings, nodded to the others, and returned to the hotel.

Returning to the hotel was just a cover; he still had to go out later.

The location for this fondant cake training class was in Fengyu City. He chose this class partly for this reason—Mount Chaofu was located in the suburbs of Fengyu City.

Taking advantage of Ghost King Wan Yan’s absence, he planned to quietly return to Mount Chaofu to retrieve something.

Before going out, Zhan Jinli logged into the chaofan forum to take another look and confirm Ghost King Wan Yan’s movements. Just in case he was unluckily caught red-handed, there would be a huge scene.

Then, he saw the thread posted by Approaching Science.

“Salty-faction Hungry Ghost”—these four words quickly triggered Zhan Jinli’s memory.

That Hungry Ghost that had barged into his shop and been affected by a nameless anomaly, had yelled its very first sentence to him after waking up: “I will never be part of the sweet-faction again!”

This Hungry Ghost had been kept by his side the entire time. This original poster was hinting that they knew his location!

Being found by Ghost King Wan Yan was secondary; it would just be a bit troublesome at most. The most important thing was his family! If someone discovered his family and wanted to use them to threaten him… Zhan Jinli’s vigilance rapidly spiked, nearly bursting through the charts.

Approaching Science. Who was this person?

Zhan Jinli first did a search on the chaofan forum.

An information-type supernatural being who had been quite famous lately. Their most famous deeds: finding the Youth’s Grudge, getting Square Card to help with promotion, and guessing his administrator account name.

There was no way Zhan Jinli believed it was a guess!!! Approaching Science must have been paying attention to him for a long time! This was someone who had premeditated this!

Zhan Jinli’s vigilance went off the charts.

Approaching Science might already know his identity, his address, and his family! His family was in danger!

Zhan Jinli couldn’t control himself anymore; he especially wanted to go home and check right now!

But he couldn’t. He still had his rationality. Approaching Science might not have accurately pinpointed him. He couldn’t be sure of Approaching Science’s method of obtaining information. What if going home now ended up exposing their information instead?

Moreover, he needed to know what Approaching Science’s goal was!

Zhan Jinli replied to the thread, and upon seeing Approaching Science reply, he suddenly remembered that he hadn’t opened his private messages.

He enabled receiving private messages from people he followed, and then followed Approaching Science.

Administrator Rather Die Than Own A Cat: [What do you want to say?]

Then Approaching Science dropped a massive bombshell on him:

There was currently a group of people suspected to be related to Infinite doing bad things, and the method they were using to do bad things was his divine ability!

Putting aside whether he doubted this news or not, Zhan Jinli’s suspicion towards Approaching Science was even greater at this moment.

Administrator Rather Die Than Own A Cat: [What did you mean by posting that thread?]

Seeing this message, Zhan Yan understood. His thread seemed to have scared Ghost King Lin Yuan into puffing up like a startled cat.

It made sense. The man had been hiding from Ghost King Wan Yan perfectly well, without a single issue for over twenty years. The moment he appeared, he hinted that he knew the man’s location. It was impossible for someone not to be on guard.

Zhan Yan earnestly expressed that he had only resorted to this poor strategy because he couldn’t find him. In reality, he didn’t know the location of that Hungry Ghost; he just accidentally found out that the Hungry Ghost was in his hands.

Ghost King Lin Yuan didn’t believe him.

Left with no other choice, Zhan Yan pulled Luowang out to testify for him.

Zhan Jinli looked at Approaching Science telling him to contact Luowang before finally reacting.

Right, he had just forgotten about this!

Zhan Jinli swiftly contacted Luowang.

Luowang happened to be investigating this group of people muddying the waters. As soon as he heard Ghost King Lin Yuan asking, he immediately pulled him in to help with the work.

Luowang: [Approaching Science? Totally trustworthy!] Luowang: [Rest assured, I’ve never sensed any malice from him.] Luowang: [Even our Chongming Demon King particularly likes him.] Luowang: [Even if you can’t trust me, can’t you trust the Chongming Demon King?]

Zhan Jinli wanted to ask for more details, but ended up having a pile of tasks shoved over to him by Luowang:

Luowang: [These are the suspicious lists in various communities. Go and see which of them used your curse power. I’ll assign a network-type supernatural being to provide cover for you.]

Approaching Science’s discovery was extremely important. Originally, if Ghost King Lin Yuan hadn’t appeared, Luowang was planning to commission Approaching Science to investigate this matter. But since Ghost King Lin Yuan popped up himself, then he was the most suitable ghost for the job!

Zhan Jinli: […]

Fine then.

With the dual verification from Luowang and the Chongming Demon King, Approaching Science was barely considered trustworthy.

But he still needed to remain vigilant!

Before starting the investigation, Zhan Jinli went back to the chaofan forum to take another look. Ghost King Wan Yan was throwing a tantrum and rolling around looking for him.

Heh! He just wouldn’t pay attention to him!

Zhan Yan delegated all the tasks and logged off the forum with complete trust in the big shots.

Ah, it felt so good to have reliable big shots! He could just be a lowly melon-eating spectator!

After logging off the forum, Zhan Yan happened to run into Qi Ye coming to look for him to play games.

Qi Ye hadn’t played games for a while. The initial results of the game she and Wan Shitong were developing together had come out, so she had been busy with that recently. Having a bit of free time these past two days, she prepared to stream some gameplay, only to log onto her account and find it filled with fans urging her to stream.

[Big Coconut’s 24th day without streaming, clocking in]

[Big Coconut’s 25th day without streaming, clocking in]

[Big Coconut, you’re not even writing your work diary anymore. Are you just relying on your boss being busy and not going to the studio at all? I’m going to report you to the boss!]

…

Qi Ye started the live broadcast, and it wasn’t long before the bullet screen comments started goofing off:

[You’ve let it get to your head, Big Coconut. Almost a month without streaming, you’re way too full of yourself! Heartbroken]

[No way, you haven’t streamed for over half a month, and you just want to casually gloss over it like this?]

[Unless you perform a handstand while gaming, there’s no way we’re letting this slide!]

[You’re being too dry! Swap out! Swap in someone who knows how to say nice things!]

[Where’s the little brother? Where’s my sweet-talking little brother—]

…

So Qi Ye sent Zhan Yan a message.

As soon as Zhan Yan came on screen:

[Wow… this familiar sense of being a noob!]

[Hahahaha—!]

Qi Ye was accidentally sabotaged by Zhan Yan. Zhan Yan was frantically praising her while apologizing. The bullet screen was entirely filled with “hahaha.” Qi Ye felt that the vibe of her live broadcast room was getting more and more comedic; everyone was very happy to watch her get sabotaged in all sorts of creative ways.

After sabotaging people for so long, Zhan Yan felt quite embarrassed and asked Qi Ye where White Hair Hottie was—having two people carry one was always easier than one carrying one.

Qi Ye: “He seems to be busy writing his thesis lately.”

Just as she finished speaking, Qi Ye’s phone suddenly rang. She signaled for a pause, “It’s my boss.”

Zhan Suiru came to invite Qi Ye to play games together.

She had been too busy lately. She had managed to bluff her way through the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau’s task of finding Infinite fragments, but a new task had arrived—a task related to her previously claiming that she was also very good at handling anomaly pollution.

However, this time, the task wasn’t given to her by the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau. It was directly sent to her by Tianshi through a private message on the chaofan forum. The requirements were quite complex and difficult.

But Artisan was VERY! EX! CITED!

Wuwuwu, my idol sent me an order!!!

There wasn’t a single person on the entire chaofan forum who didn’t know that Artisan was a fan of Tianshi. Previously, she had even generously thrown away points to hire people to scold Tianshi’s haters. After joyfully earning a joint ban during the flame war, she created an alt account to continue. Later, she got into another argument over fanfiction with someone who insisted on shipping a couple no matter what.

A bored individual on the chaofan forum had tallied it up; boss Artisan’s alt accounts had reached up to number 26 at most, which showed her dedication.

Zhan Suiru was very happy because boss Tianshi promised to include a talisman stamped with the Tianshi seal in her payment. What was this called? This was called exclusive merchandise!

But what followed wasn’t very smooth… The payment Tianshi offered was high, but the demands were equally high. Zhan Suiru grinded away for several days, only to get stuck yet again.

Flip the table! Smash the workbench! Go onto the chaofan forum and go crazy!

Since going crazy was still not enough to soothe her irritable mood, Zhan Suiru decided to play games and slaughter some noobs.

Slaughtering noobs who were too weak was boring; it felt like bullying. Her little employee Qi Ye was perfect! She had skills! Under her hands, she could at least hold out for a while! It wouldn’t be completely one-sided, which would make the fight too boring.

Therefore, Zhan Suiru called Qi Ye to invite her for a game.

Hearing Qi Ye get invited to play games by her boss, the bullet screen immediately started spamming “hahahahaha”.

[Want to see Big Coconut get slaughtered as a noob by her boss—]

Qi Ye: “Um, I’m streaming right now, is that okay?”

Zhan Suiru: “I don’t have a problem with it. If it’s inconvenient for you, then forget it.”

A string of comments instantly swept past the bullet screen: [It’s convenient!][It must be convenient!]

Qi Ye muted her mic: “I’m also still playing with Zhan Yan.”

Zhan Suiru thought for a moment and suddenly became excited!

She used to spoil her younger brother. When playing games with Zhan Yan, she would pretend that she was also a little noob, and every time it was just two noobs pecking at each other. Although watching him believe it was true was very amusing, being regarded by him as a super awesome gaming boss should be very interesting too!

Dropping her disguise was impossible; Zhan Yan didn’t know this gaming account of hers.

“Come, come, come! Then I definitely want to play together even more!”

“Don’t tell him I’m his sister.”

Qi Ye indicated that she understood.

She sent a message to Zhan Yan: Qi Ye: [I’ll pull a big shot in.]

Zhan Yan: [Sure!]

[“Sledgehammer Eighty” has joined your party.]

Qi Ye unmuted her mic and smiled smugly amidst the chorus of “noob slaughter” in the bullet screen, “How could it be me getting slaughtered? The boss is on my team~ Next up is the boss carrying me!”

Zhan Suiru slaughtered everyone in all directions in the game.

Bullet screen:

[Holy crap!!! Big Coconut’s boss is this fierce?!]

Zhan Yan: “Wow! Which gaming god is this?!”

Time to start praising!

[Eh, eh? Why is the little brother calling the boss “big shot”? Doesn’t he know that’s his sister?]

Qi Ye said in a very quiet voice, “He doesn’t know. When my boss plays games with her little brother, she always pretends to be a total noob. The little brother has always thought she was just as bad as him. The boss is putting on an alt identity right now.”

The bullet screen instantly went crazy with “hahaha.”

[The boss spoils her little brother so much!]

[Did she come on a big shot alt account just to enjoy her little brother’s praises?]

[I’m dying of laughter!]

Qi Ye said, “Stop spamming. If you guys want to keep watching the drama in the future, be a little more stealthy. If the little brother finds out, you won’t get to watch anymore!”

Fortunately, Zhan Yan didn’t like watching live streams. He had already activated his frantic praising mode towards the big shot.

“Sledgehammer Eighty” never replied a single sentence, but silently carried him to victory.

Zhan Yan felt that this was an aloof and high-level gaming boss.

After finishing the game, Qi Ye privately poked him to ask what he thought of “Sledgehammer Eighty”.

Zhan Yan: [Too amazing! That execution was professional, right?] Zhan Yan: [She hasn’t said a word the whole time. Is the big shot quite aloof?] Zhan Yan: [But she’s very nice! She didn’t get impatient once.]

Following her boss’s orders, Qi Ye gathered the intel and forwarded it to her boss’s desk.

Zhan Suiru burst into a wide smile looking at the chat records Qi Ye forwarded.

Ahahahahaha, in Yan Yan’s eyes, she was a super amazing, aloof big shot!

Purely from a gaming experience perspective, these few rounds weren’t actually that exhilarating. The randomly matched opponents had average skills, and only Yan Yan’s wildly creative noob plays brought her a sliver of novelty.

However, she was put into an excellent mood from being showered with her younger brother’s sweet-talking praises!

Now, the frustration from her crafting difficulties had all dissipated, and her inspiration had arrived!

Humming a song, Zhan Suiru went to the workbench. She watched the puppet butler jotting down notes in a small notebook nearby and curiously peeked over: “Xiao Ran, what are you writing down?”

Puppet Butler: “A reminder to tell you to log onto your alt account and go play games with your younger brother the next time you get stuck.”

Extremely effective!