Cyber Ghosts

Chapter 151 Inventing the Soul
Hao Ning thought in mind: “I wasn’t expecting anything quite so… elaborate.” But he still made a gesture to let Xiao Hong keep talking.

Looked at Hao Ning, Xiao Hong said, “Hao Ning, after investigating every related fact in all respects, I knew how the Wishes Scriptures was intercepted.”

“What was going on?” Hao Ning realized why Xiao Hong was here. It was because Zhang Chi Hang had been irritated by the interception of the Wishes Scriptures and then Xiao Hong came to this company.

“It was caused by this kind of bug that could steal an idea from someone’s mind,” Xiao Hong explained. “It is the secret organization you are in,” said he as he pointed to Nezha. “this group that invented this new type of … What should I call it? A new item. It can burrow into a human body and steal the idea from someone’s mind. And if someone has an idea that the bug wants to know, the bug can intercept and report it to anywhere it is needed.”

“Like the hacker who gets secret information on the internet?” Liu Shuai said as he listened to the description. “This is just like the hacker on a human consciousness level!”

“Yes!” said Xiao Hong, slapping his thigh gleefully. He looked at Liu Shuai excitedly, “We see eye to eye! I said the same at that time, but Hao Ning just didn’t believe it.”

“Well…” Hao Ning was embarrassed but he continued to ask, “But how could the bug know, intercept and report people’s minds? As far as I know, there is no technology like this. Liu Shuai, you are a biologist and technologist and your teacher specializes in neurology. Have you heard of it yet?”

“Well…” Liu Shuai thought carefully. “Indeed, I have never heard of a technology like that. Today’s brainwave research is on the elemental level. As for reading people’s minds and transmitting such information, it is only the scenario from a science fiction movie.”

“Truly so,” answered Xiao Hong, with a smile. “I was thinking the exact same thing at first. I told myself it was impossible. But one day I finally figured out what happened.”

“What?” Liu Shuai was clearly very interested in technological problem like this. “What have you figured out?”

“This is not a technological product at all,” said Xiao Hong enthusiastically, “Let me ask you one question. Why are people’s wishes recorded on the Wishes Scriptures?”

“Well…”Liu Shuai froze as the question baffled him. Hao Ning picked up on that very quickly, “Because the belief they have?”

“Bingo. Then why the Buddha can get to know people’s wishes through beliefs?” Xiao Hong suggested, just like a teacher who was telling a story.

“Because it is exactly what people are thinking,” The words just tumbled out of Hao Ning’s mouth. Then he looked at Xiao Hong and said, “I see. You mean that the sources of belief and thinking are…”

“It is likely that they are the same!” Xiao Hong looked as excited as a geek who just uncovered a big mystery of the world. “So, the abilities to steal an idea and make a wish do not depend on the current technology, but on belief!”

“Belief?” Hao Ning gazed at Xiao Hong with his eyes widely opened. The theory was highly imaginative. “How?”

“Soul. It is about the soul,” said Xiao Hong, laughing. “Because people have souls. Souls have beliefs, which brings God into existence. At the same time, the God knows the wishes of people. So, does this mean that the soul has something to do with the thinking?”

Xiao Hong created a bug in a swing of the finger. Except this bug was red, it was as the same as the one before. Obviously, this bug was an illusion cast by Xiao Hong. “Why this kind of bug can peep at people’s wishes? Because it emerges out of the soul. It is not the real thing at all!”

“It emerges out of the soul?” said Hao Ning while slapping his thigh. “Yeah. It comes out of the soul. Of course, it is connected with the soul. Although we are not clear about the connection between soul and thinking. But the two must be related in some way. So, it is not strange that the bug can read people’s minds.”

“Right. Hao Ning, you are so clever!” Xiao Hong thumbed up to his words.

“It is nothing.” Hao Ning was a little embarrassed about the praise. “Deduction. It’s nothing but the deduction.”

“Excuse me,” Liu Shuai interrupted their heated discussion and pointed to Nezha, “Why would Nezha have such thing on him? He doesn’t need to make a wish to anybody.”

“As the bug is able to know what people are thinking and transmit such information to somewhere,” said Xiao Hong, looking very serious. “Then what else can it do except spying on people’s wishes? You are a computer expert and I’m sure you know it better than I do.”

“What do you mean? Is it…” Liu Shuai stared at him in disbelief, “monitoring?”

“That’s right!” Xiao Hong said and pounded on the table. He looked at Nezha and said, “I had not thought about that. I can’t believe that someone put so many bugs on you. All of a sudden, your four sense organs, including eyes, ears, nose and mouth, were all being watched. I have thought one bug that spies on mind is enough. It is not easy to make. But you cost them a lot of money. You must have been worth a great deal.”

“Can you be more specific about the four sense organs?” Hao Ning whispered to Liu Shuai this question he was burning to ask.

“It’s not the four sense organs. They are eyes, ears, nose, mouth, body and consciousness,” explained Liu Shuai, “It is written in the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra. But the inserts in Nezha’s body only appeared in eyes, ears, nose and mouth. So, Xiao Hong called them the four sense organs.” After the explanation, Liu Shuai asked, “Why would you think one bug is enough?”

“Because what you think,” explained Xiao Hong, “is more important than what you see. In this way, the reason they put many bugs on Nezha is that…”

“…is that they couldn’t put them into Nezha’s mind!” Hao Ning realized that all of a sudden and interrupted Xiao Hong. “Nezha is the Lotus’s incarnation. So, his soul is different from human. There is also a saying that Nezha doesn’t have any soul. Thus, no magic weapon can read Nezha’s mind.” Hao Ning’s description was more and more like the legendary story. He looked at Nezha and said, “By the way, do you have a soul or not?” After saying this, he took a glance at Zhou Yuan either intentionally or unintentionally

“How is that possible?” Nezha shook his head, laughing. “Though I am the incarnation of lotus, I have souls. But my soul is different.”

“Then there is another possibility,” Hao Ning wondered, “The bug is only effective to certain people. It’s not very helpful for those with special souls.”

“That makes sense, indeed,” Xiao Hong nodded to show approval. “So what happened was that someone wanted the bugs to read Nezha’s minds. As a result, it failed. So it was decided to adopt the fallback solution by putting bugs in his eyes, ear, nose and mouth to spy on what he saw, heard, smelt and tasted.”

“Creepy,” Zhou Yuan felt sick as he heard it, “Is this person a voyeur?”

“Nezha, who the hell is this person? Do you know?” Hao Ning thought the thing was more complicated than he imagined when he heard Xiao Hong’s analysis. “Based on what you’ve said, you have just arrived on earth.” That evoked Hao Ning curiosity about how Nezha came to the world. But he thought twice and didn’t ask it. “Who wants to watch you from every angle?”

“I didn’t know he had been lying to me! He has no plan to help me find my teacher,” said Nezha. He didn’t speak until he heard the analysis. He became really nervous and knelt in front of Hao Ning. “I beg you the master to save my teacher!” He almost cried out after saying this.

“What are you doing?” Hao Ning was originally immersed in the analysis then he got flustered when he saw Nezha knelt down suddenly.

Xiao Hong could not help laughing at Hao Ning’s panic. But when he saw the serious look of Nezha, he was hurried to help him up. But unexpectedly, Nezha still knelt down and refused to stand up. Hao Ning had no other way but to say that he would try his best to help Nezha. Then Nezha stood up.

“You look exactly as the same as Long Fei!” cursed Hao Ning in mind. “All of you are used to force others.” Though he was thinking like this, he still said, “I can only guarantee that I will do whatever I can do. You can not blame me if things are way out of my league.”

“Okay, as long as the master can help me,” said Nezha with a smile through tears, “there is nothing you can’t do.”

“By the way, Hao Ning, when did you became,” asked Xiao Hong with the strain of not laughing, “the Master Hongjun?”

“Nonsense! Don’t follow the crowd.” Hao Ning blushed and ignored the question. He asked Nezha, “You said that you have trouble. What do you mean? Have you any idea who put the Spiritual Flying Bugs on you?”

“Spiritual Flying,” Liu Shuai whispered to correct him, but Hao Ning ignored him.

“If I guess right, it is Mr. Fei who did this,” Nezha murmured, bent his head.

“Yeah,” Hao Ning and others sat down and had a few swallows of tea. As Liu Shuai sipped and slurped the tea, he said, “Well.”

“Don’t you think it is this weird?” said Nezha while looked at Hao Ning. “You guys already knew that person is Mr. Fei?”

“We didn’t know,” Hao Ning waved his hand with a smile. “But when you told us it is him, we are not surprised by it at all.”

“Sorry,” Xiao Hong asked doubtfully. “The Mr. Fei you guys are talking is Fei Changhe, the boss of Qihe Group?”

“Fei Changhe?” They cried out with one voice. “Is he Mr. Fei?”

“Yes,” Nezha nodded at the same time.

Looking at the reaction of Nezha and others, Xiao Hong frowned and said, “What’s the matter with you?”

“Well… Things are like this,” Hao Ning explained as he scratched his head. “Nezha, you may think that we saved you out of the blue at the night when you were kidnapped. But, in fact, at that night, we have seen the whole process. The riffraff fought against each other; then you guys picked up the pieces; and then Mr. Fei appeared; and then Doctor Xue saved lives; then you erased the memories; and finally, you came out and used your the Red Armillary Sash.”

Nezha didn’t speak but Zhou Yuan said to himself, “In this way, Mr. Fei we saw that night is the boss of Qihe Group as Xiao Hong has mentioned. I have never heard of a boss of the mining company is interested in this.”

“Yes,” Liu Shuai nodded. “Though we don’t know the character of Mr. Fei, his subordinates behaved badly. People from different groups killed each other to get the treasure and those from the same group also did this out of jealousy. Judging from this, Mr. Fei is not a good person as well.”

“Well, you outsiders know better than me. I mean, I think I know someone, but in fact not deep enough,” said Nezha with a sigh when he heard Liu Shuai’s words. Then he said out of curiosity, “What did you just say? You guys watched all the process last night? I didn’t find it, but how could his subordinates didn’t find you guys either? They are very competent with many magical weapons.”

Zhou Yuan was glad and planned to show the illusion created by him. Then Xiao Hong interrupted him, “Hao Ning, what do you mean? I am a little confused. Does Nezha have anything to do with Doctor Xue?”