Cyber Ghosts

Chapter 145 Poor Parental Love
A flash of lightning split the sky, and the bright light made Hao Ning’s scalp numb. With only this sentence, Hao Ning fully understood what Long Fei was talking about!

Before Long Fei told Hao Ning that when Long Fei was in S city and realized that Yufei might meet problems, he went to Yufei’s dormitory for the first time and found that only Yufei was in the dormitory. At that time he said, “Although it’s very hot outside, it’s as cold as an icehouse inside the dormitory.” Hao Ning didn’t take it seriously. As a poem goes, grieved o’er the years, flowers make us shed tears; hating to part, hearing birds breaking our heart. Emotional people would use their mood to replace the objective environment when describing things, so when Hao Ning listened to Long Fei’s description, he subconsciously thought that Long Fei was talking about his extremely cold mood at that time.

But Hao Ning neglected a fact: Long Fei was a God who received no literary training at all. He said that Yufei’s dormitory was cold as an icehouse, so Long Fei must really feel cold in the dormitory at that time. Besides, it was during summer vacation, there was no air conditioning in the dormitory, so the coldness was obviously abnormal－just like now, at this moment, it was extremely cold in Hao Ning’s house.

Maybe Long Fei also found this abnormality at that time, but he paid too much attention to Yufei’s soul and did not investigate it.

It was not difficult to understand: No matter how rich one’s imagination was, if Hao Ning had not just broken the soul of the unexpected visitor by driving Soul Cutter with extremely Yin inner strength, or if they had not just rushed back to the living room and found that the temperature in the living room had dropped, or if they hadn’t understood it precisely that extremely Yin inner strength was needed to break the soul with Soul Cutter, which could reduce temperature, because of their previous speculation and discussion, who would think out the necessary connection between the reduction of temperature and soul fragmentation?

To say the least, if Long Fei were not constantly concerning about Yufei, with every scene of Yufei’s life spinning in his mind countless times－if Hao Ning were the only one here tonight, facing the temperature changes in this living room, he could have used this method instead of turning on the air conditioner in the summer. How could they immediately associate the situation here with the condition in Yufei’s dormitory at that time?

With this in mind, Hao Ning fully understood that when Long Fei saw Yufei at that time, Yufei’s soul was broken to pieces. Wasn’t that the same with this broken soul in his own hands now?

Hao Ning couldn’t help frowning: assuming this to be right, would it be impossible that Yufei’s soul was destroyed by the Soul Cutter of Godslayer Sect at that time?

Not to mention Long Fei, Hao Ning, an outsider, could not accept the fact now. “Long Fei, do you mean that Yufei’s soul was also destroyed by the Soul Cutter like this at that time? It was unreasonable. Didn’t you say that someone was jealous of him and poisoned him before? Was it not the matter of the poison?

“Our attention was attracted by the most obvious problem, poisoning, and because indium poisoning was uncommon, Yufei was poisoned by the isotope of indium, which was rarer, and there was even no precedent, which led us to assume subconsciously that his soul was related to this indium poisoning.” Long Fei calmed down a little at this time and looked at Hao Ning with red eyes. “We all thought that Yufei died of poison, but what if he was not only poisoned? What if he’s been hurt twice? For example, his body was poisoned by indium, but what if at that time his soul was hurt by this kind of blades? Only this explained why their dormitory was at such a low temperature when I went there, just like the temperature in this room－I’m so stupid. How could I ignore the temperature in their dormitory. How could I ignore such obvious features?”

Long Fei spoke calmly at first, but he began to blame himself, lowering his head, shrugging his shoulders and spacing out. Hao Ning had never seen Long Fei so depressed. In his impression, Long Fei was a Dragon God with high IQ and low EQ, a god who only cared about his own incense, a Dragon God who knew little about the world. At that time Hao Ning realized that Yufei was really so important in Long Fei’s heart. Only because of the temperature problem which no one would understand, Long Fei would blame himself like this.

On second thought, Hao Ning also understood that Long Fei was the person who gave Yufei life. Their relationship was like brothers, like father and son. If parents met children’s early death in their lifetime, offspring died before its eldership, perhaps this trauma would accompany them for the rest of their lives. With this in mind, Hao Ning couldn’t help signing with feeling: Not all gods could see through everything like Chang Chi Hang who could avoid any karma. Long Fei in front of him was more like a lively and emotional God than Zhang Chi Hang, though his power was low.

Seeing that Long Fei was still blaming himself, Hao Ning quickly comforted him by saying, “Don’t worry, Long Fei, he has passed away. It’s no use for us to be so sad. We should think more about people alive.” Hao Ning finished this sentence and felt that the level of this comforting remark was too low. Yes, generally speaking, this remark was used to cheer up the old people whose children died young. But how could it comfort Long Fei? Long Fei was a god. Who were the people alive for him to consider?

“Think more about people alive?” Long Fei stopped convulsing slowly after hearing this sentence, raised his head, looked at Hao Ning with tears on his face, and repeated the words of Hao Ning, “Who is the person alive do I have to consider…”

“Well, although you don’t have any relatives in man’s world,” Hao Ning scratched his head embarrassingly, but he braced himself to continue. “You still have friends like us. We have such a good relationship. If you keep feeling so sad, we won’t feel good either.”

Long Fei seemed to listen to Hao Ning. After hearing it, he wiped tears, looked at Hao Ning and nodded. “You’re right!－Please!” After saying that, he knelt down immediately.

Hao Ning was stunned. People worshiped God all the time. How could a god kneel to a man? If God knew this, would he hit me with five claps of thunder? Hao Ning also felt his thought was too strange, but he couldn’t keep watching Long Fei on his knees, so he reached out his hands quickly to pull Long Fei up, “What are you doing? Long Fei, stand up. If you knelt to me, I would be afraid of dying in my boots!”

“Brother Hao Ning!” Long Fei knelt still on the ground. Hao Ning could not pull him up. He only heard that Long Fei bowing his head and said, “Please give me this ring. I’m going to Qingbei University to investigate it and find what it is.”

“That’s for sure. Didn’t I promise you before?” Hao Ning said quickly, “You can investigate this ring in any way you like. You can even cut it up and smash it into ashes.” Hao Ning originally wanted to say that you could even smash all the weapons on the table into ashes so that no one would covet them in my house, but when he saw that Long Fei was in a very bad mood, he could not say these irrelevant words.

“Brother Hao Ning, I haven’t finished yet. I’m just a little Dragon. I know that my capacity and power is limited.” Long Fei was still kneeling on the ground and his voice was a little hoarse. “I just thought that if Yufei’s death really had other causes, then the opposite side would have extraordinary abilities－it’s very possible that I can’t compete with them, or will even get my soul broken. But I only ask you for one thing, Brother Hao Ning. If this comes true in the future, within your ability, please revenge Yufei for me!

“Well…Let me think,” Hao Ning was in a dilemma at that moment. On the one hand, although Yufei was very pitiful, Hao Ning didn’t have any communication with Yufei. For him, Yufei was more like the protagonist of a distant tragic story. But who would risk revenging a tragic story protagonist who he was unrelated to? On the other hand, the power of the opposite side was unknown. If they were really as strong as Long Fei’s speculation, their power was so strong that even Long Fei couldn’t resist them, how could Hao Ning avenge on himself? Hao Ning was not arrogant enough to think that he could be invincible to the world with some kung fu skills and power learned from books. If they were in a real fight, Hao Ning was afraid that he couldn’t even compete with a tenth of Long Fei in a long-range attack.

With this in mind, the longer Hao Ning thought, the more hesitated he became. He couldn’t help frowning and said, “It seems to be a little embarrassing…”

Seeing this, Long Fei didn’t get angry and just nodded, “I know what you mean. After all, Yufei is just a dead stranger to you. No matter how much sympathy you have for Yufei, it would be against your will to avenge a stranger. But I know that Hao Ning, you are not a selfish person. I can tell from your efforts to save Zhou Yuan. For his soul, no matter how many things you have gone through all the way, I have never heard you complaining.”

“That’s because Zhou Yuan is our friend. We have feelings for our friends.” Hao Ning nodded. Seeing that Long Fei pointed this out, he didn’t want to hide anything and told the difference. “Naturally, we won’t let our friends get hurt－but as you said, for us Yufei is more like…” Speaking of this, Hao Ning felt his throat went dry and changed the words he was about to say. “If he were still alive, I think we would have a chance to be good friends, but…”

Long Fei nodded. He wasn’t foolish enough to misunderstand Hao Ning’s words, which meant that now Yufei was dead and they couldn’t become friends, so the matter of revenge was embarrassing. Long Fei did not bother with this question. He just asked Hao Ning, “Then am I your friend?”

“Of course.” Hao Ning said it without thinking. Although he didn’t know Long Fei for a long time, let alone Hao Ning, Liu Shuai and Zhou Yuan regarded Long Fei as a friend a long time ago. If nothing else, this little god with power and weaknesses was more real. Compared with Zhang Quan’s sophisticated behavior, Zhang Chi Hang’s being otherworldly, Long Fei was more like a deskmate with both advantages and disadvantages. It was difficult not to want to make friends with such a person.

Thinking of this, Hao Ning realized why he got angry at Long Fei without thinking in the Italian restaurant today: Because he had regarded Long Fei as a friend in his heart for a long time – and only a friend would not stay away from you after you got angry at him.

“You are not only a friend but also a good person,” Hao Ning continued. “You have affection and faith, and know what to love and what to hate.”

“Well, it’s enough for me to have your words.” Long Fei nodded, with his frown loosening slightly, and he stood up with his legs raised. “I have nothing to say.”

“Wait a minute, what you said just now doesn’t mean…” Hao Ning saw the difference in Long Fei’s expression, and immediately thought of a terrible possibility: Long Fei knew that because Hao Ning didn’t know Yufei, so he would not avenge Yufei at all, which could be told from the expression of Long Fei just now. But Long Fei was his friend, so if Long Fei was hurt by the murderer who killed Yufei, Hao Ning would probably spare no effort to save Long Fei or revenge Long Fei. Not only that but also Long Fei was likely to give up escaping and choose to die under the enemy’s hands in exchange for Hao Ning’s “revenge” for Yufei.

If so, it would mean that admitting their friendship would be pushing Long Fei to death! In order to revenge Yufei, this may be the most possible way for Long Fei to make it. Thinking of this Hao Ning shuddered, “Long Fei, don’t be silly. If you can’t compete with the enemy, you must not cut heads. It’s more important to flee for your life! If I find out that you get yourself killed intentionally for our revenge for Yufei, we wouldn’t even be friends anymore!”

Hao Ning knew that Long Fei was too excited to be persuaded by words. He took drastic measures by saying this intentionally. Since Hao Ning said it in advance, that if Long Fei intentionally sought to die, he would not help him, with Long Fei’s good reasoning ability, of course, he would not seek to die easily. However, he still felt the words a little heavy after saying them, so he added, “If Yufei were still alive, He certainly wouldn’t have wanted you to do such foolish things, would he? Did you forget what Zhou Yuan said? Yufei lives because of your heart. If you are not alive, Yufei will be really gone.”

“All right… I promise you, Hao Ning.” Long Fei mediated for a while, smiled bitterly and nodded slightly, but no longer called Hao Ning Brother. “I’m your friend, and you are also my friend. I do not want to put you in danger. I was just saying, in case…”

“There’s no such case!” Hao Ning knew that it was impossible to stop Long Fei, so he had to hold on to Long Fei shoulder tightly. “You must be safe and sound! No matter how strong the enemy is, even if you can only crawl, you have to crawl back to S city for me. Otherwise, I will use the Six-pulse Excalibur to cut your statue into pieces, believe it or not! By that time, even the last person in the world who understand Yufei would disappear.”

“I know. You can rest assured. I will be careful.” after finishing this sentence, Long Fei snapped his finger and vanished.

Hao Ning wanted to tell Long Fei something more. Seeing that he vanished so fast, Hao Ning quickly touched his right hand. Sure enough, the ring also disappeared.

Hao Ning sighed. Originally Long Fei planned to go to Qingbei University tomorrow, but after finding out the possible cause of Yufei’s death, he could not wait for even a second. Maybe all parents would be so anxious when they met the same situation. Hao Ning thought a little and got the answer: Most parents in the world couldn’t wait for even a second, if their children got hurt, and no matter how strong the enemy was or how weak they were, they wouldn’t shrink back. It was for nothing else, just for their own children who died－that was called the poor parental love.

So was Long Fei. He was usually timid and overcautious and might not dare to take action when he was confronted with the enemy whose power was stronger than him, but this time he did not flinch at all. What great courage he had!

Thinking of this, Hao Ning couldn’t help shaking his head. He used to feel strange about that Long Fei cared so much about Yufei. Now he understood it, but he felt ashamed that he could keep the courtesy between friends, but he couldn’t give selflessly like a parent.

What ashamed Hao Ning was that he was a human, but in this respect, he was more like an unworldly god, which was thought to be more like an irony.