Cyber Ghosts

Chapter 161 Seven Weirdos, Unexpected Causes and Outcomes
Zhou Yuan looked at Nezha and was amused. In a sudden, he frowned and walked to the gate of the Dragon Temple, looking up into the sky. He turned on his mobile phone and read some words. He pinched his left hand and shook his phone in his right hand. He turned back and said, “Well, I just had a whim. It seemed that someone is coming.”

Hao Ning was amused as he saw Zhou Yuan’s pretentious posture. Other Immortals always pinched their fingers. But this moment god shook his phone for future expectation. If he set up a booth along the road, there would be no customers in the whole year… Hao Ning complained in his mind. Thinking he was the moment god in Wechat circle, his posture serves his career. So, Hao Ning did not mention this instead of asking, “Who is coming?”

“It’s God’s secret…” Zhou Yuan looked at his phone. He changed his words as he thought that he did it by phone. So, he said, “It’s a Wechat’s secret.”

“You back off!” Hao Ning was so close to laughing at him as he heard it. This moment god behaved normally yesterday. Why did he behave so abnormally today? Hao Ning thought for a while. He understood his behavior. Zhou Yuan felt a little small as he saw the fantastic deeds Hong Hai’er and Nezha did as they walked along. He must behave exaggeratedly to save his face! Thinking of this, Hao Ning did not want to laugh at Zhou Yuan more. He said seriously, “No more bullshit. Who the hell is coming?”

“I do not know.” Zhou Yuan answered seriously, too. “But I can expect that he is coming for Long Fei because they have a smell of Long Fei.”

“You are so professional now? Smell?” Hao Ning thought that as a moment god, Zhou Yuan behaved exaggeratedly. “Long Fei’s smell? It sounds like an unreliable leading role in friction.”

“Anyway, I knew it!” Zhou Yuan recognized that his mind was seen through by Hao Ning. So, he said blushingly, “You should pay attention to the result instead of what I described!”

“Maybe what Zhou Yuan said was right. It may not be the smell,” Xiao Hong said in a low voice. “That is the remains of Long Fei’s soul. It should be them who hurt Long Fei.”

“Something is wrong here.” Liu Shuai looked at the man-shaped figure made of water and said, “Long Fei was taken into the Virtualised reality by Zhou Yuan. How did they know where he was? Did they enter the Virtualised reality, too?”

“In general, it should not be like this. Wait a moment, I will search carefully.” Zhou Yuan said with eyes closed. He continued to say after several breaths, “He was not there. They might not know where Long Fei is. But according to their walking track…”

“Walking track?” Nezha did not understand what he said. He asked, “What is the walking track?”

“I did not know them before. But they have Long Fei’s smell… The remaining soul. By this, no matter the remaining soul is in the Virtualised reality or in this secular world, my phone can sense it.” Seeing Nezha not understand it, Zhou Yuan felt a little proud. He explained patiently, “If so, as long as I want to do it, I can trace where they have gone.”

“You scared me…” Liu Shuai stuck out his tongue. “I need to download a firewall software. What you did was like a hacker’s action.”

“No software is useful. Do you think I’m just a common hacker,” Zhou Yuan looked at Liu Shuai and said scornfully. He continued, “Come on. They should not have hurt Long Fei, or I can’t trace them by only my power.” Zhou Yuan touched his phone while he was speaking. The City map showed on the phone. Some red dots moved here and there on the map. “The red dots are the roads the seven persons who hurt Long Fei walked…”

Zhou Yuan explained to others while he was pointing at the red dots. He looked at the red dots and frowned, “Wow, they are moving so fast.”

“Seven?” After hearing, Hao Ning counted carefully. He made sure there were seven dots. The dots moved so fast that they became a line in the map. More strangely, the seven dots were in the same place at first, then spread into four directions and moved back and forth. After moving like this for a while, they got together in the center of the map again with a slower speed. They were moving toward the Dragon King Temple.

Looking at their movement, Zhou Yuan said, “According to their tracks, I guess that they traced Long Fei to S City and they found Long Fei disappeared. That was the time Long Fei was taken into the Virtualised reality by Hao Ning tens of kilometers away. So, they spread and looked for Long Fei.”

“That’s right,” Liu Shuai nodded, looking at Hao Ning and adding, “Long Fei must have sensed something as he crossed through the maritime sky. But they found nothing. If they found nothing, why did they move toward us? Did they find Long Fei was over here again?”

Liu Shuai looked at Long Fei on the ground. He became a man-shape gradually. He was a transparent waterman just a few minutes ago. Now he was translucent. A small dragon had been shaping at his head place. Liu Shuai knew that this was the Destiny Dragon in Long Fei’s head.

“No,” Zhou Yuan shook his head. “The Virtualised reality is different from this secular world. Even Nezha did not recognize it before, how did an ordinary person find it out?”

“Moving so fast,” Hao Ning looked at the map. The seven red dots were getting closer and closer. “I’m afraid that they are not ordinary persons…”

As they were talking, they heard a big sound. The gate of the Dragon King Temple was closed. Looking at the yard, they found there were several silver-clad men in the yard from nowhere. These persons’ faces were covered by long-gown hoodies. Hao Ning and others did not see them clearly.

“My lords, what can I do for you?” A voice came from the side room, and then an old monk came out. He dressed in a gray robe, holding a string of Buddha beads in his hand. Hao Ning knew he was the abbot of the temple. Last time, when Long Fei came to the Dragon Temple with others for the Immortal Tying Rope, he did want to teach Long Fei to worship the Dragon God.

The real reason was that there was few visitors over the past days. Therefore, the temple could not support the monks due to few donations. Some volunteers came to the temple during festivals. But today was a business day. Those volunteers had to go to work, too. That was the reason why there was only the abbot in the temple.

Due to its simplicity, there was few visitors over the past days. The temple was not afraid of being stolen therefore. After cleaning the temple, the old monk would do something else in the side room. He heard a heavy pound of the gate when he was copying the scriptures on that day. He thought it was the heavy wind that closed the gate. So, he put on his shoes and went out for checking. He was so pleased when he arrived at the yard, seeing seven visitors in the hall. He thought that they would enshrine and give some sea lanterns for the temples.

The old monk walked out of the gate. He looked carefully at the visitors. They seemed to be bad persons. Although the old monk had doubts, he was open-mind. He knew the temple very well. There was nothing worth robbing. He put his hands together, bowed, and said while he was pointing to the Dragon God, “This is the Dragon God Temple in front of you. If you want to worship, please go ahead.”

“Hey, old monk, tell me,” one of them said in a hoarse voice. “Are there any strange things that happened in your temple?”

He should at least call him a master instead of the old monk for politeness. At least he should say “please” if he did not know how to greet. But he did not take off his hat nor called him the master. He behaved so rudely. Generally speaking, if he had been a visitor, he would have asked whether the Gods inside could help him. And the monk would answer this kind of questions like Gods would help real pilgrims. Nobody would ask for something strange in the way the person asked in the first place. It sounded like the temple was haunted. Nobody would be happy about this greeting.

“Amitabha Buddha,” after all, the old monk was a Buddhist. He was not angry. He put his hands together and bowed, “Well, although this Dragon King Temple is a small one, it is in charge of something, too. Regarding the strange things you mentioned, well, well, I never saw it.”

“Never saw it?” The other one turned back and said to the third person. “Second brother, are we wrong?”

“No,” someone said. “We have searched for the whole S City. It is only this temple where can collect the incense. The essence of that thing had been hurt by us. We traced him all the way until he disappeared over here. I guess he played something like Escaping. There is only one temple nearby he can collect incense for his rest. He must be here.”

“Then why there is no his smell at all?” The first one asked.

“Maybe he has something special.” The man took off his hat, showing his head. He had a bald head, too. There was a deep knife scar on his right cheek. It was also a little strange that this man’s skin was also silver, the same as the color of his robe. This man looked at the old monk and said, “Or, did this old monk hide the thing?”

“What’s that thing? No, no, no…” The old monk was not shocked by the man’s skin color. He felt a little scared when he saw the scar. It was a peaceful world now. How did he get that scar? That man must be either a killer or a sociopath. The old monk was not afraid of being robbed. He was afraid of a killer. So, he said immediately, “As a monk, we do not tell lies. I have no reasons to cheat.”

“Master, we all believe what you said,” the other one also took off his hat. He also had silver skin. But there were four knife scars on his head, one on each cheek and two on the back side. This man behaved politely. He continued to say, “We need to find out someone. We felt a little exhausted as we arrived here. And we did not have enough incense for further searching. Can you give us a little?”

“Who are they?” Hao Ning listened to them. Nobody knew whom he asked, “Do you guys know them?”

“No. we don’t,” the others behind him said at the same time.

“Do you know them?” Xiao Hong asked Nezha, adding, “I guess they are Mr. Fei’s men.”

“I don’t know them. Even though they are Mr. Fei’s men, I only know few,” Nezha shook his head, adding, “Mr. Fei had a wide range of businesses with many sectors in his hand. For example, I am the head of South China District of Soul Hunting Sect. But I only knew a few of them because I stayed there for a short time. So, it is difficult for me to tell whether they are Mr. Fei’s men or not.”

“You are prompted?” Hao Ning got to know it, looking at Nezha strangely. “You could be the head of South China District as soon as you got into it. It seemed that Mr. Fei likes you very much. But no one knows whether it is a blessing or a curse.”

“I should thank all of you,” Nezha said, scratching his head and grinning bitterly. “You killed the former heads, the Binary Star Men. There was even no remaining left. Mr. Fei, at the first place, wanted to assign another one from other District, or prompt one from the lower levels. But the death of the Binary Star Men was so weird. Nobody dared to accept the position. So, they all select me to be the head. That was the reason I was prompted.”

“Err…” Hao Ning was stunned. He did not expect this cause and the subsequent outcomes.