Cyber Ghosts

Chapter139 Brothers’ Slaughter
Hao Ning understood that the reason why Zhe tried every means to do such a risky thing that was hardly beneficial to himself was just that he had committed to ghosts and gods. He did express his loyalty in this way, therefore, no matter how Hao Ning deduced Zhe’s words, Zhe was a liar; however, according to Zhou Yuan, Zhe was honest from the bottom of his heart.

The commitment was the real purpose, while the means were presentational forms. Therefore, Hao Ning only saw the logic of presentational forms, but didn’t realize the real purpose.

After all, the will of the people surpassed the presentational logic.

“For Zhe’s Kung Fu…” Liu Shuai still turned his back to others, looked the hall outside of this glass room and recalled that when he first met Zhe who was strong enough to fight against Hao Ning’s “borrowed” but authentic kung fu, “We would have a chance, right? Hao Ning, you have fought with Zhe, so what do you think?”

“That’s right,” Hao Ning nodded. Anyway, he did admire Zhe’s kung fu skills from the bottom of his heart, “Zhe practiced his power in a down-to-earth way, and I think even if he can’t win, it’s still not a big problem to fight hundreds of rounds.”

“But you don’t know…” Ye clenched Zhe’s hand and lost her voice, “but his brother’s preparation…”

“Ye! Don’t guess!” Zhe tried to stop Ye.

After the difference broke out again, Hao Ning and Zhou Yuan looked at each other. From Ye’s emotions, it could tell that she was very obedient. If it hadn’t been a nick of time, Ye wouldn’t have interrupted to say something. So, Ye was so excited and maybe there was something hidden?

“Don’t you believe it now?” Ye sobbed and tightly held Zhe’s hands, “I have already secretly seen that one of the bodyguards made significant progress somehow, even a punch could topple a tree. What’s more, when they cut off from the middle of the tree, it had become hollow!”

“That’s not true! The fist position you talked about is called Seven Sided Strike.” Zhe smiled and comforted Ye, “What you see must be prepared in advance because such fist positions, like Seven Sided Strike, were created by novels, and they did that deliberately to let me scared to accept the challenge. Bluntly, Wang Shi Ming didn’t want me to buy this Dragon King Temple.”

“No, No…” Ye said hurriedly, “I think they’re trying to kill you in this way. When you die, your brother will be relieved. Although Uncle Wang says that he won’t let you take over the company, he likes you more and more over the years.”

“Well, Ye, I know you care about me.” Zhe looked at Ye who was so anxious, embarrassedly smiled to other people and whispered: “Take it easy. I will be all right. Don’t forget that I’m the person who best knows myself! Come on. I said I’d stay with you for the rest of my life.”

Until now, Hao Ning was realized that he used to think that the richer, the happier, but after hearing this, Hao Ning was more convinced of Ye’s words. Zhe’s brother, fearing that Mr. Wang would change his mind, used the Dragon King Temple as a bait to lure Zhe to competing with his bodyguards. Of course, Mr. Wang wouldn’t know that. Even if he knew, in the end, Zhe’s brother could say it happened by accident. But why would Ye know that was Seven Sided Strike?

This was a kind of fist position even would not exist in reality. With the wisdom of these people, if it was not in reality, of course, they knew well that Zhe’s profound understanding of martial arts. At a glance, Zhe could see that it was fake, and it couldn’t scare him at all. In this way, they should have figured out that Zhe would think that this fist position was fake and he would despise the enemy, so that…

Thinking of that, Hao Ning suddenly figured out how vicious they were! He was surprised and looked at Long Fei who was immersed in the tragedy just described by Ye and did not come back to reality. Besides, Zhou Yuan closed his eyes and thought something else. Hao Ning also didn’t want to wait for them to understand. However, if he didn’t say something, he might not have a chance to see Zhe in the future, so he hurriedly said, “You are wrong, Zhe, Seven Sided Strike is real.”

“Real?” Zhe shook his head, smiled gently and said, “how is that possible?”

Long Fei also nodded to agree with Zhe, but Hao Ning smiled to Long Fei and said, “Not really, Long Fei, you know Qili’s kung fu.”

“Qili? I see!” Liu Shuai wiped his face at this time and turned around, not waiting for Long Fei to speak when he eagerly said, “If someone used the way that Qili did to obtain the ability of Seven Sided Strikes, that meant that he could do it either, and if he was a bodyguard who was strong enough…then that was possible, but I couldn’t figure out why they chose Seven Sided Strike?”

“Right! That’s the key!” Hao Ning sneered, looked at Zhe and sighed, “Your brother really thinks highly of you. The most serious thing about the Seven Sided Strike is that if you were skillfully hurt by that, you would not have some bad feelings at that time, but only in the next few days there will be a problem with your internal organs, therefore, even you will not be in great trouble at that time, but a few days after the battle, you will surely die.”

At this point, Hao Ning could not help sighing that the two brothers did not look as harmonious as what Zhe described. Maybe Zhe won some small favors from Wang Shi Ming when they played “Strike of Kings”. Who knew whether Wang Shi Ming deliberately made Zhe take it lightly or not?

“Hao Ning, what you said sounds very reasonable,” Zhe hesitated but nodded. “But the Seven Sided Strike is just the novelist’s imagination. It doesn’t exist.” After saying that, he realized that Hao Ning had just used the power of Cloud Step what came from novels, so he changed his words, “Of course, some kung fu skills like the flying skill may be just exaggerations. In reality, there may be similar bouncing kung fu skills like flying skills, but for Seven Sided Strike…that’s fantasy. It’s something like a kind of more powerful fist position at best…”

“Well…” Hao Ning looked at the small tree next to him and asked Zhe, “If this tree breaks down, can you afford it?”

“Of course, I can” Zhe didn’t understand what Hao Ning meant.

“Seven Sided Strikes, Seven all hurt! Break!” Hao Ning shouted lightly and punched the little tree. The tree shook but did not change at all.

“Hao Ning, it seems that your inner strength is really insufficient…” Seeing that the little tree had not changed, Liu Shuai could not help sighing.

“Nonsense, my inner strength can beat you up to the sky and never come back in an hour!” Hao Ning smiled at Liu Shuai. His index finger pointed at the small tree. A strong force cut off the tree in middle, and then the small tree fell down with branches and leaves, Hao Ning picked up the tree and gave the cut section to Ye and Zhe, “Ye, is the cross-section of the big tree you see the same as this?”

Although the little tree was the same thickness as arms, the section was big enough. Ye looked it carefully and exclaimed, “Yes! Yes! That’s it, but that tree doesn’t have as many cracks in it as it does in your little tree. The little tree was falling apart, but it can’t be seen from the outside…”

“Their kung fu skills are not strong enough,” Hao Ning felt wonderful when he said that, but at this time, in order to save Zhe, he did not care much. “If it were more authentic, that would have been like it. And although it can’t be seen from the outside, if there’s a little wound…”

Hao Ning picked up the knife on the table, gently scratched on the bark of the small tree. With a crash, the scratch immediately enlarged, and the whole trunk all opened. The trunk was just like the dust of the Taoist priest, clearly and independently, no longer close to each other.

“If you get punched, you’ll be like that tree. Whether you have wounds when you practice or your organs fail naturally before long…” Hao Ning said with a wry smile as he looked at Zhe’s expression. “…it’s not a good ending.”

“No, how is this possible…” Zhe looked at the broken tree trunk in Hao Ning’s hand, sat down in his chair, and murmured to himself, “No…No…” It couldn’t tell that whether he did not believe that there couldn’t be such kung fu skill in this world, or that his half-brother would hurt him in this way.

“Don’t you believe it?” Of course, Hao Ning did not know what Zhe was thinking. He continued with a smile and explained, “Just now I used my Flower-picking Finger to split this table with a leaf, and the fist I hit against this tree was Seven Sided Strike. I used One-finger Death Touch to cut off this tree. I also used the Cloud Step just now. Do you still think it’s impossible for the kung fu skills in the novel to appear in reality?”

After that, Hao Ning sighed, “Even if I could figure out that some people in the world master this kind of kung fu skills, I wouldn’t be able to figure out what they would do with it.”

“Master!” Zhe listened and felt more and more astonishing. Before Hao Ning finished speaking, Zhe got up and knelt on his knees and worshiped Hao Ning, which made Hao Ning lose his head. “Master, please teach me this! As long as you teach me, I can get the Dragon Temple in hand, and then I’ll do whatever you want me to do!”

“I see.” Hao Ning nodded and thought that Zhe just wanted to study Cloud Step, not to steal his martial arts, but to resist those people’s fifty movements through this kind of dodging technique. In this way, at least, he could help Long Fei get the Dragon Temple first. As Zhe’s identity was so special that it was inconvenient to show the specific situation, he misunderstood him. In this way, he also had some impulses just now. Thinking of this, Hao Ning wondered, “Why do you have to get the Dragon Temple? You promised Long Fei at that time, but…” Speaking of this, Hao Ning stopped for a while, but ruthlessly said it out, “…but for those rich people I knew, they would pretend that they never said that.”

After Hao Ning finished his words, Zhe looked at Hao Ning with a strange expression and wished to speak but stopped on a second thought.

“I’m not satirizing you,” Hao Ning said, thinking that Zhe might misunderstand him and adding, “I mean if you’ve already known that this is a battle where you lose more than you win, or even if your life is in danger without any gain, why will you still do it?” Hao Ning was very strategic when he said this because he thought there should be other ways, moving the Dragon King Temple to another place, for example. Although Zhe had no place at home, he strategically put forward this proposal instead of demolishing the Dragon King Temple. Mr. Wang would be expected to agree more. Though in this way, the incense in Long Fei’s Temple would certainly not flourish, at least, Zhe would be out of danger.

“Nothing else, my mother had only one requirement for me just before she died,” Zhe said with a gloomy in his eyes. “She wanted me to be a man who always keeps his words.”

“Besides,” Zhe clung to Ye’s hand a little tighter, “if I can’t do what I promised to the man who saved me and Ye, how can I convince Ye that I can fulfill other promises to her?”