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“Go away, go away!” Ji Lele shooed away this group of clueless college students and said huffily, “You’ll know when I finish filming!”

Ji Lele huffily directed people to adjust the scene layout, move the sculpture over, arrange decorative drapery, personally adjust the angle, debug the lighting, reset the camera position, and fussed for a long time.

Xie Dongshu changed his clothes and put on his makeup. Ji Lele explained the scene to him, the two of them gesturing and making notes all over the script.

After a while, Xie Dongshu closed his eyes to adjust his state. He walked onto the set, and with the sound of the clapperboard, his expression towards the sculpture changed.

Zhan Yan quietly watched. After Ji Lele’s modifications, the parts of the sculpture that felt ugly were concealed. The soft fabric modified some of the stiff lines , and the lighting emphasized some parts of the sculpture while blurring others. The entire sculpture looked different.

Like a chick breaking out of its shell.

Birth is also ugly. Wrinkled skin, mucus from the mother’s body, wounds and blood…

Stripping away the concepts of beauty and ugliness, only a naked life and death remained.

Xie Dongshu stood in front of the sculpture, his head slightly raised, his gaze on the sculpture. His face didn’t seem to change much, but with just a slight muscle movement, the feeling of the whole person was different.

Zhan Yan felt sadness from his expression, and his sadness seemed to be projected onto the sculpture through his gaze, making the sculpture also become sad.

The lights moved slowly as Ji Lele had arranged before, from bright to dark, and then from dark to bright. Shadows moved across Xie Dongshu’s face and the sculpture.

Zhan Yan felt his chest thump. He vaguely felt that the sculpture was moving.

It was growing.

Like, like a life in a long-fossilized egg, pecking a small piece of the eggshell, struggling to grow out.

“Cut!” Ji Lele shouted. “Great, that’s a take!”

Zhan Yan suddenly gasped for breath.

Gu Jiancheng grabbed his arm, using a little force to hold him steady.

“Yanyan?”

“I’m fine,” Zhan Yan hadn’t fully recovered. “I’m fine, I just… I think I understand what Director Ji meant.”

Gu Jiancheng’s arm around his tightened suddenly, and he asked, “Then do I still look good to you?”

Zhan Yan was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses. He didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. “Of course you’re good-looking, you’re the best-looking!”

Gu Jiancheng was satisfied.

Xie Dongshu had already adjusted his state and started filming the next scene.

His acting was very good. He could be called a talented actor.

Zhan Yan flipped through the gossip threads: “I think he’s about to get famous.”

Bifang had gotten a free meal and was very embarrassed. But he hadn’t found out Xie Dongshu’s real wish and didn’t dare to enter his dream to ask like last time, afraid of making a mistake.

However, one thing was certain: Xie Dongshu really liked acting. Since it was the entertainment industry… Bifang remembered that there was someone in the Wan Yao Alliance who was in the entertainment industry.

“Do you know how to contact Xia Yuexian?” Bifang asked Luo Wang.

Luo Wang: “That’s easy. I’ll send you her WeChat. You can send her a message on your phone.”

Although Bifang looked young, he really disliked modern technology. After fumbling for a long time without understanding how WeChat worked, he decided to fly directly to find Xia Yuexian.

As soon as Xia Yuexian came out, she saw Bifang, who was half a head shorter than her, standing at the door.

She was very surprised: “Why are you here?”

Mingtang Pictures was an entertainment company, and the people coming and going were very sensitive to appearance. Bifang’s red hair, hanfu, and delicate features were very eye-catching. These gazes were full of evaluation and assessment, guessing if this was a newcomer to the entertainment industry.

Bifang was a little annoyed at being stared at. He said with a straight face, “Let’s go somewhere quiet to talk.”

“Alright,” Xia Yuexian took him into her office.

Bifang asked Xia Yuexian to take care of Xie Dongshu, and he would repay her with a gift.

Xia Yuexian smiled with narrowed eyes, poured him tea, and brought him snacks. “It’s a small matter, a small matter. It’s rare for you to come. Let’s chat.”

Bifang didn’t like to chat, but he was asking for a favor, so he sat down and chatted. They chatted while eating. With a heart of seven orifices and a clear mind, Xia Yuexian quickly found out why Bifang wanted to take care of Xie Dongshu.

Xia Yuexian laughed so hard she was bent over. “So it was you who made him set fires wherever he went!”

Bifang was annoyed, glared at her, and shouted, “Xia Yuexian!”

Zhan Yan watched the two great demons bickering through his gossip system.

“Oh, don’t be angry!” Xia Yuexian waved her hand with a smile. “You have the face of a young man, but you act like a little old man.”

Bifang snorted, “You’ve lived for so many years and you’re not any more mature!”

But it didn’t stop them from talking business. In a short while, they had arranged everything for Xie Dongshu.

“Are you planning to go straight back to the Wan Yao Alliance or stay outside?” Xia Yuexian became serious.

“What’s wrong? I haven’t decided yet,” Bifang asked.

“If you stay outside, if you run into the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau looking for infinite fragments, don’t get involved,” Xia Yuexian said.

“Huh?”

“I can’t say any more,” Xia Yuexian tapped her fingertips. Her lips moved slightly. “Anyway, you just need to know that the masters have already made arrangements.”

…

Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau.

Nie Yu was almost typing sparks out of his keyboard. Nie Ling reminded him from the side, “This is the seventh keyboard you’ve broken this month.”

Nie Yu pushed away from the desk, and the swivel chair slid back. He said huffily, “Then they should give me back my account!”

Nie Ling said slowly, “According to the regulations, that account belongs to the bureau, not to us privately.”

Nie Yu started to glare at her brother. “Whose side are you on?!”

“Keep it down,” Nie Ling rubbed her head. “What’s the rush? Isn’t there still the captain and the others?”

Nie Yu lowered his head and grunted twice. “The captain isn’t doing anything. The deputy director is sick again…”

Deputy Director Ning Xi’s cultivation was crippled twenty-six years ago, and his body was not as good as before. Now he was busy all day. A while ago, in order to tie down Ning Xi, the Twenty-Four Council had unscrupulously created a bunch of things to throw at him. Ning Xi was so busy he couldn’t catch a break. He came back and didn’t even have time to breathe before he fell ill.

Captain Ji Yueming had said she was there, but Nie Yu didn’t know what she had done—the captain looked like she hadn’t done anything.

Now there were more and more infinite fragments in the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau, and the Wan Yao Alliance and Chaofu Mountain were also completely silent. Nie Yu couldn’t help but feel uneasy.

Nie Ling helplessly rubbed her head. Her sister was too young and hadn’t seen how the captain used to do things. A celestial master wasn’t just about using lightning spells to blast things.

But let’s not tell her for now. Nie Yu’s emotions were unstable right now. Telling her too much would make it easy for others to see.

But since he had decided not to say much, he had to find a way to coax his sister.

Just as Nie Ling was about to speak, Nie Yu’s personal information terminal suddenly rang.

“Black Wolf? What is he looking for me for?”

Black Wolf was looking for Nie Yu to check on someone.

“The one who called to report the ‘killing game’ last time, can you find out who it is?”

Nie Yu started to check while asking, “Why did you suddenly think of him?”

Her ability was called “Network Ghost,” but in reality, it wasn’t limited to the internet. Other information networks were also within her ability.

Black Wolf snorted. “The information-type ability in my team is no good. I kicked him out. I want to find a new one. The one who reported last time seems capable.”

“Let me see…” Nie Yu couldn’t find it. She had encountered a familiar information barrier. “…Oh, it’s him. Don’t even think about it. That guy won’t join the bureau, and even if he did, he wouldn’t follow you.”

Black Wolf was unhappy at hearing the last sentence. “What? You look down on me?”

“No. That person is ‘Approaching Science.’ You’ll know if you search the forum.” Nie Yu’s voice became a couple of degrees more lively. “He’s a fan of our captain!”

Black Wolf snorted. “How many information-types does your team have? Still trying to snatch him?”

Nie Yu: “It’s not that we want to snatch him. He won’t even come when we use our captain as bait. If you have a way to persuade him to join our bureau, maybe he can be assigned to your team?”

“I have to try!”

After cutting off the communication, Black Wolf threw his phone aside and logged into the forum on his computer.

His teammate asked from the side, “Boss, are you really going to look for that ‘Approaching Science’?”

“Why not?” Black Wolf had already started to search for “Approaching Science” on the forum.

His teammate was still rambling. “Hey? Didn’t we kick that guy out because…”

Because that guy was sent by the Twenty-Four Council to spy on them privately?

“That doesn’t stop me from digging someone up,” Black Wolf snorted twice, his two eyes shining with excitement. “A fan of the celestial master, and the celestial master hasn’t even managed to dig him up yet. I have to give it a try!”

Teammate: I get it.

Their captain was a battle fan of the celestial master. Although their boss wouldn’t admit it, he would challenge her whenever he had the chance, and then get beaten up. But who could say that this wasn’t a kind of love that had turned to hate?

Every time someone belittled the celestial master’s combat power, it was their captain who rushed up and tore them apart the most fiercely!

On the other end, Nie Yu hung up the communication, her mood much better. “Approaching Science’ actually didn’t use me as a reporting hotline this time!”

She was almost used to “Approaching Science” calling her to report an anomaly from time to time.

Nie Ling knew her sister too well. “You did it on purpose?”

Nie Yu wrinkled her nose and snorted. “I knew he wouldn’t be able to resist when he heard our captain. Let him go and cause trouble with ‘Approaching Science’!”

“Anyway, ‘Approaching Science’ definitely won’t be at a disadvantage.”

“Hey, do you think he sensed that it wasn’t me under the administrator account?”

“I’ll log into a side account to check it out!”

Nie Yu logged into a side account to watch the fun on the forum.

Black Wolf searched for “Approaching Science” on the forum and felt that this guy’s ability was still worth digging up. But… he didn’t look like a fan of the celestial master, more like a fan of Chongming!

Before he started digging, he confirmed with Nie Yu again.

Nie Yu: “That’s because I’m here, and the forum doesn’t have room for him to shine!”

“Do you know why he’s frantically saving points?”

“It’s to exchange for our captain’s lightning talismans!”

“He said it himself, he thinks our captain is handsome.”

“But do you know how hard he is to get?”

“Our captain even offered to give him a lightning talisman, but he didn’t even take it!”

Black Wolf’s interest was successfully piqued. This kid is quite arrogant.

Then he would give him something to be arrogant about.

Big Boss Black Wolf’s way of digging people up was different. He didn’t send a private message, but directly posted on the forum:

{@Approaching Science, the celestial master invited you and you didn’t even come. You’ve got personality. I want to dig you up. Name your conditions.}

At night, after Zhan Yan logged into the forum:

?

His private message inbox was once again full. They were all @ing him.

The more conspicuous one was a private message from “White Hair is the Most Handsome.”

The little wolf demon Bai Ji had previously posted a task in the mission area to find materials for a paper. Zhan Yan had conveniently submitted the “killing game” as a case.

After Bai Ji logged into the forum and saw this information, his first reaction was, how dare they make up such a bizarre case now?

Then he looked at the task submitter. Hmm? Approaching Science? He probably didn’t need to do something like making up data to cheat for points.

So Bai Ji searched the mortal internet and actually found a case of a serial killer for hire!

Oh my! If this case is real, it’s perfect! It’s just that it’s lacking some details. Bai Ji decided to ask “Approaching Science.”

White Hair is the Most Handsome: “Hello, I still have some questions about the ‘killing game’ case. Can we talk?”

“I need more detailed information.”

Because he didn’t get a reply, these two messages were followed by a long period of silence.

Then, more than ten minutes after Black Wolf posted that recruiting post, “White Hair is the Most Handsome” sent him another message: “Do you know Black Wolf?”

A long time passed again.

White Hair is the Most Handsome: “Were you very close before?”

Every two minutes, another seemingly evasive explanation was sent:

“He posted on the forum and @ed you.”

There was definitely a story here! Zhan Yan opened his gossip system.

Oh oh! Big Boss Black Wolf was a half-demon. Back then, because the relationship between the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance was getting worse, he was ostracized within his clan and ran away in a fit of anger.

Black Wolf’s running away was not an ordinary running away. Before he left, he caused some trouble and faked his own death. He even left a will, saying that he would leave all his inheritance to his favorite little nephew, Bai Ji.

Bai Ji was so sad that he cried for a long time. Every year, he would go to Black Wolf’s grave to burn incense, and every time, he would shed tears.

Later, one time, Bai Ji went on a mission with other demons from his clan and happened to run into people from the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau.

The team leader was Black Wolf!

This guy had joined the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau!

So angry!

Bai Ji went back and smashed the tombstone he had secretly erected for Black Wolf. His brother was even laughing at him from the side!

“Silly. Everyone else already knew where he ran off to. Only you were deceived for several years and couldn’t react!”

Bai Ji: …Ah ah ah ah!!!

Bastard little uncle! I’m going to bite you to death next time I see you!

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