Cyber Ghosts

Chapter 174 The Mountain Doesn’t Come to Me, But I Can Mediate
“Trust you on what? For you, I…” Hao Ning thought that explanation would only make it worse. He thought it over and decided not to mention it. At that time, thinking of what Xiao Hong had just said, he quickly shifted the topic and said, “What did you just say? Continue to discuss how to get so much money? Did you find a way to get one hundred million for Long Fei?”

“No, not 100 million!” Zhou Yuan stopped kidding. He took the comment and said, “It’s 83 million. You forgot the gold we got yesterday?”

“That’s right,” Xiao Hong continued, as though he was in a calm mood. “I contacted Big Brother Zhang last night for this 83 million.”

“Why? Is he going to lend it to you?” As soon as Liu Shuai heard the name of Zhang Chi Hang, his spirits lifted. He thought that this powerful man could support him somehow.

“No…” Xiao Hong said sadly, “Let alone money, I can’t even find him.”

“Running away? Avalokitesvara ran away with Mountain Lojia?” Hao Ning stared and said, “No, this Bodhisattva is so terrified? Why? Is he under investigation because of corruption?”

“Shh…” Xiao Hong was about to cover Hao Ning’s mouth with his hand. Looking into Hao Ning’s eyes, he flushed and withdrew his hand. This made Hao Ning so angry, but he held it back. Xiao Hong didn’t realize Hao Ning’s expression. He continued, “there’s a god, three feet above. Don’t you dare to talk nonsense, Brother Hao Ning.”

“What above? There are two gods in front of me three feet away.” Hao Ning pointed at Xiao Hong and Zhou Yuan angrily. Zhou Yuan waved his hands and said that he was still far from being a god. Hao Ning ignored him, the moment god who liked showing off and also who without balls, and went on saying, “as you said, he is missing. And we are not allowed to judge him?”

“No, no, no, don’t use ‘we’. You said it. We didn’t say that.” Liu Shuai waved his hand with fear. “Don’t involve us in.” He said, folding his hands together. “Amitabha, Arya Avalokiteshvara, only the person in front of me is disrespectful to you. It has nothing to do with us. If you use thunder to punish him, don’t mistake us for him.”

“… You are such a good brother…” Hao Ning gnashed his teeth and looked at Liu Shuai

“Oh, come on,” Xiao Hong said, seeing that these people were pretending to be serious and laughed off this matter just now. “Although Big Brother Zhang was not here, he still left a note.”

Saying that, Xiao Hong took out a bamboo leaf from his arms, on which there were several big characters written in golden brilliant color:

“If the mountain doesn’t come to me, I’ll go there.”

After seeing the bamboo leave, Liu Shuai asked, “Which mountain did he go to?”

I don’t know which mountain he went to. Xiao Hong replied subconsciously and found himself misled by Liu Shuai. He scratched his head with a bitter smile. “Er… That’s not what it means.”

“If you don’t know which mountain he went to, how can we find him?” Liu Shuai asked directly.

“Avalokitesvara said mountain, but he wasn’t referring to the real mountain,” Hao Ning explained to Liu Shuai, with the words like the nagging of Zhang Chi Hang. “Your teacher Chen also said that, but at that time you were looking at Wen. You certainly can’t remember it.”

“Stop talking nonsense,” speaking of Wen, Liu Shuai was very upset. These days, for the sake of Long Fei, he didn’t contact with Wen. He didn’t know how she was doing. “What do you mean? Say it now.”

“The meaning is literal,” Hao Ning did not know how to explain this simple sentence, “that is, there is a mountain in front of me. If the mountain can’t come to me, then I will go there by myself. It means that we don’t wait for anybody to help us solve the problem. We have to think about how we can solve these problems by ourselves.”

“Oh, it means that if the mountain doesn’t come to me, I’ll go there.” Liu Shuai said to Xiao Hong with a smile. “I would understand, if you said that earlier.”

“Say what? Aren’t these words written on the bamboo leaf…” Xiao Hong muttered and then smiled again. “By studying the eight words of Bodhisattva all night long last night, I finally understood the spirit of Bodhisattva’s instructions. In line with the fine tradition that we should solve difficulties when there are some and create difficulties to solve when there is none, we should play a positive subjective initiative and carry out the guiding ideology of Bodhisattva. After that, I finally came up with a good idea!”

“When you mention Avalokitesvara, do you have to speak in such a tone…” Hao Ning said secretly in his heart, but asked, “what’s the way?”

“Look, we are short of money now. Money can’t come to us, can it?” Xiao Hong pointed to the words on the bamboo leaf and said, “so this money is equivalent to our mountain. It won’t come to us. So, we are going to run towards the mountain of money!”

“You, you, you, you want to rob the bank?” Liu Shuai shivered. He didn’t control his voice, so it went a little loud. His colleagues around him looked at Xiao Hong with a stunned expression.

As soon as Xiao Hong heard that, his face changed, he waved and laughed towards his colleagues to show that he was joking. He waved and called these people to the meeting room. He closed the door and said with a bitter smile, “I said: Can’t you stop guessing, kid, Liu Shuai? I am a God with a name and also a Sudhana under the seat of Bodhisattva. If the Sudhana robs the bank, will that not be equivalent to opening a brothel in the anti-pornography office? How is that possible?”

“What does that mean? You said you were heading for the mountain of money?” Liu Shuai also felt that his idea was weird and shameless. He had to ask back, “How to go to the mountain of money?”

“Where there is more money,” Xiao Hong continued excitedly, “we will go where the money is easy to earn!”

“Where there’s more money?” Hao Ning thought for a moment and said excitedly, “Oh, I see. You mean …”

“Auction!” This was Zhou Yuan’s answer.

“Stock speculation!” This was Hao Ning’s answer.

This is Liu Shuai’s answer. Seeing other people look at their faces like ghosts, Liu Shuai swallowed the word “car” and thanked him. His eyes turned and he even sang, “Shipping money‒car to deliver goods‒ah, there are so many things in the car. La-la-la.”

“No, these are too far away,” Xiao Hong saw that the answers of these people were not the same, so he said his own answer, “stone speculation!”

“What did he say?” Zhou Yuan didn’t seem to understand, “What speculation?”

“He said stone speculation,” Hao Ning explained. He knew why Zhou Yuan didn’t know.

“Does it mean to bet on how big the stone is?” Zhou Yuan still didn’t quite understand, “Isn’t that usually a dice? Have they recently switched to a stone?”

“No,” Liu Shuai looked at Xiao Hong and was amused, but he explained, “Stone speculation is a common way to get rich in online fictions. Usually, the protagonist has some special skills, such as X-ray vision. Often, the way to increase wealth dramatically is stone speculation‒oh, stone speculation is not about the stone, but about Jadeite inside the stone. And there are all kinds of levels. The Jadeite at the highest level can lead to overnight wealth, which could be hundreds of millions.”

“How could such a thing happen?” Zhou Yuan was a little tempted, but he was still uncertain and asked, “I didn’t see this kind of the plots in the online novel I read. Is it a way only for the minority to get rich, or‒a secret way? So, it’s covered up?”

“Ah, cover up what!” Liu Shuai was almost laughing to death because of Zhou Yuan’s serious attitude. “That’s because the website you look through is different from what Liu Shuai does. Maybe it’s just not popular on the website you like. But on some websites…” Hao Ning and Liu Shuai looked at each other and smiled with understanding. “I’m afraid that this way of getting rich has become a well-known secret.”

“What are we waiting for? Let’s hurry!” When Zhou Yuan heard of this good thing, he jumped up quickly, but he saw that Hao Ning and Liu Shuai were calm and not excited at all. “Why aren’t you excited?”

“Wow~ good idea~” Hao Ning faked a smile and gave Xiao Hong a thumb up. “Thanks to you, you can come up with a good way to make a fortune overnight. Ha ha.”

“You?” Xiao Hong saw Hao Ning and Liu Shuai were lethargy after Zhou Yuan’s joke and felt strange. He touched their foreheads, “It’s strange. You are not invaded by exogenous evil. Why are you so lethargy? My body has recovered. You are still so spiritless. Was it because yesterday you spent too much energy and your Yang Qi was damaged? I am an Innate Fire Spirit. Do you want me to use pure Yang Qi to help you make up for it?”

“Ouch, no, no!” Liu Shuai had not spoken yet. Hao Ning jumped up as if he had been bitten by a snake. Make up for it with Xiao Hong’s pure Yang Qi? He did not know how to make up for it. He quickly told the truth, ” Xiao Hong, stone speculation is only a method in novels. Are you really convinced? How could there be real stone speculation!”

“You know only one thing about this, Brother Hao Ning,” Xiao Hong suddenly realized that Hao Ning was worried about this matter. “Other subjects may be made up, but the matter of stone speculation is indeed real. Although it is not as exaggerated as the novel says, there is still the possibility of making some money. I calculated it. If we operate well, these tens of millions would not be a problem.”

“But we are not like those characters in the novel who have those special skills…” Hao Ning yawned. As soon as he said that, he immediately realized that, and said with surprise, “Yes! We have so many gods. Xiao Hong, you can use your power and see what is inside the stone in a minute. Haha, we are going to make a fortune! You really got this, Xiao Hong!”

“Well… I can’t do these things,” Xiao Hong’s face turned a little red. He scratched the back of his head and laughed embarrassingly. “We can only see if someone else has this ability.”

“Why?” Hao Ning felt like eating crayfish and suddenly feeling the sand in the meat. He was a little upset. “Did you use too much energy yesterday? Shall we go later?”

“Well, as Sudhana under the seat of Avalokitesvara, you can’t do these things by yourself, can you?” Liu Shuai guessed. Seeing that Xiao Hong nodded at once and he knew why.

Xiao Hong explained, “God’s involvement in such things has huge karma, and if it comes to me, it would probably be more dangerous. This is what Big Brother Zhang taught me. So, I can only make suggestions on this matter…”

“Otherwise, Nezha?” Hao Ning’s tentative proposal was negated by himself the moment after he said it, “No, no. Yesterday, his reaction showed that he will not do such a thing. Or…”

“Zhou Yuan?” Hao Ning and Liu Shuai looked at Zhou Yuan with an obscene smile, rubbing their hands and licking their lips. “You’re a god. Or can you do that?”

“I, I… What are you going to do? I’m still a child‒I’m still a young god. “Zhou Yuan’s face was tense at that time, and he didn’t look like a moment god at all. “Well, I can’t. My main power is “hypocrisy, kindness, and beauty. You can’t also force me to make fake jadeite to deceive people!”

“It’s not the first time for you to deceive people!” When Hao Ning saw Zhou Yuan’s pretended morality, he was rather disdainful. “Your virtualized reality, your bicycle-riding Maserati, and that…”

“That’s not the same. He can only mix the spurious with the genuine, which can’t make out real money,” Xiao Hong shook his head. “Besides, when it comes to such a large amount of money, Zhou Yuan will suffer a lot of karma.”

“What about that!” Hao Ning slumped into his chair. “Isn’t that just bullshit?”

“Not really,” Xiao Hong looked at Hao Ning with a weird smile. “Don’t we have you?”

“Me? How can I have such power!” Hao Ning jumped up from his chair, stood up and breathed out and said, “You are afraid of karma. Am I not afraid?”

“Ha-ha,” Liu Shuai said disapprovingly, “you’re really panting when people say you’re fat! Xiao Hong and Nezha are gods, entangled the incense of hundreds of millions of believers. Once entangled with karma, the problem is very big. You are just a mortal, and no one holds the belief in you, and you can’t practice the power. What karma do you fear? B*tch! You can only borrow art. Do you think of yourself as a real God?”

“You, you, you!” Hao Ning was suddenly satirized by Liu Shuai. His face was turning from red to white. He was about to raise his hand angrily. Liu Shuai’s attitude immediately turned soft. He flattered and said, “This is an appraisement! I mean, karma doesn’t work that much for you. You can still borrow other people’s power. It’s not innate‒It’s not God, but it’s better than God? Right, Xiao Hong!”

With that, he hurriedly pulled Xiao Hong’s clothes. Xiao Hong ignored Liu Shuai’s dilemma and stroked his hand and laughed, “Yes, Brother Hao Ning, you can borrow art!”

“Borrow it from whom?” Hao Ning probably understood Xiao Hong and Liu Shuai’s meaning but thought that Liu Shuai had a ready tongue recently. Was it the moistening of love?

“You can borrow from whomever you want!” Xiao Hong’s big eyes are almost laughing in a line. “You can borrow mine!”

“Aren’t you afraid of karma?” Hao Ning was confused. About this God-related thing, his reaction seemed to be a little slow. Fortunately, he can’t practice power. Otherwise, he would be the dumbest one in the realm of gods.

“Of course, there would be karma if he uses the power by himself,” Liu Shuai understood at that time, embracing fist towards Xiao Hong to show his admiration. “But if you borrow his art, Xiao Hong would be innocent whatever you do. It’s like Xiao Hong has a gun. If Xiao Hong himself uses a gun to hurt someone, he will be punished. But if you steal his gun‒I mean borrow‒then whatever you do, it will have nothing to do with Xiao Hong!”

“Nonsense,” Hao Ning understood and refuted, “don’t you know that people will be responsible for losing a gun in our fair and rigorous public security system?”

“What’s wrong with you?” Zhou Yuan blinked his eyes and looked at Hao Ning. “I understand. How come you are so smart that you don’t understand?”

“He was born with no magic power wisdom, and he reacted very quickly to mortal things,” Liu Shuai said solemnly to Zhou Yuan. “But it will take a long time if you don’t chop and chew the information up and feed it to him. So, it would take a long time for him to understand and digest it by himself.”

“You’re nauseous. Chopped and chewed and fed to me?” Hao Ning retorted without any confidence but had to admit that Liu Shuai’s words were true. “You can say it directly. Don’t use so many nauseous metaphors.”

“That was just a metaphor. And before you, where did the thing that the power was borrowed come up?” Liu Shuai took a sip of water. “Karma is not a rule made by man, but the set of rules you said is made by man. Well, take a particularly inappropriate example for your understanding. If Xiao Hong pointed the gun directly at the victim, the victim would know that Xiao Hong did it, which is called karma. But if you pointed Xiao Hong’s gun at the victim, the victim would not know that the gun was Xiao Hong’s at all. Karma would have loopholes here. And it will be connected to Xiao Hong‒of course, if someone makes a rule for gods that Xiao Hong who borrows the power to you will bear the consequences with you, Xiao Hong will also be punished. But this punishment is not because of karma, but…”

“But a man-made punishment, isn’t it?” Hao Ning responded, laughing and applauding. “But there’s no such person at all, so Xiao Hong will be all right. I can still borrow Xiao Hong’s art. I would understand earlier if said so before!”

Everything seemed to make sense. Hao Ning hit Xiao Hong excitedly right on his arm. Xiao Hong’s face turned red and did not speak. Hao Ning knew immediately that he had done something wrong again.

“It’s all because I just listened to Lele’s suggestion. It’s nothing to do with Xiao Hong’s buttocks. I’m such a fool!” Hao Ning complained in his heart, but he pretended not seeing the expression of Xiao Hong. He smiled frankly and said, “Xiao Hong, you are really smart!”