Cyber Ghosts

After that, Zhou Yuan stunned and sat on the ground without a word.

“What’s the matter with the soul?” Finding Zhou Yuan didn’t say anything, Hao Ning asked Xiao Hong curiously. “What’s wrong with him? Why did he not ask on hearing that her soul is sick?”

“Have you heard that the soul would be sick?” Xiao Hong asked Hao Ning.

“How could I have heard of it before?” Hao Ning responded directly. “And I haven’t heard any story about the sick soul as well. Can people’s ghost get—” Hao Ning suddenly found he said wrong. Dead people were called ghost. He corrected: “Can people’s souls get sick?”

“People’s soul is likely to get sick.” Xiao Hong said, with head lowering. “But it’s rare that the human soul gets sick. Only the soul that over 500 years will get sick. Usually, its fresh will die before the soul got sick. So, there’s no record.”

“I see.” Hao Ning nodded and thought about it. “But when people die, the soul won’t die. Can’t he reincarnate?”

“You knew so much…” Xiao Hong sighed. “Yes, if a soul dies, the body can reincarnate.”

“Yeah, you just said a soul that is over 500 years old may get sick.” Hao Ning thought and said. “If a soul reincarnates many times, it’ll be 500 years old early or late. So, all the soul would be sick one day?”

“Well…” Xiao Hong prevaricated. He didn’t talk any more.

“Ha ha ha, you’re confused!” Knowing Xiao Hong had nothing to say, Hao Ning thought he won and was about to laugh, but he stopped when seeing Zhou Yuan’s expression. “How do you explain it?”

“I didn’t get confused. I’m thinking about how to explain to some layman like you who are unable to practice power.” Xiao Hong thought for a while, and he beat his thigh. “I got an idea! If your computer operating system is broken, or if your computer is infected with a virus and have a Trojan horse virus, what would you do?”

“Delete all files, format the hard drive, and reinstall the system!” After all, Hao Ning majored in computer. He used to help his classmates to do this kind of thing when he was in university. Especially those dormitories downstairs always liked to surf some “unhealthy” websites, and Hao Ning often had to repair computers for them every half a month. Hao Ning did it simply and straightforward, deleted all the files directly and formatted the hard disk. “I am very familiar with this kind of thing.”

“Isn’t the computer much faster after formatting hard drive and reinstalling the system?” Xiao Hong asked, “As if the computer were new again?”

“Of course. The computer became cleaner after all…” Hao Ning responded jauntily. Suddenly he realized what Xiao Hong meant, “You mean, reincarnation is…”

“Yes, the reincarnation is something like hard disk formatting, computer system reinstallation.” Xiao Hong scratched his head and said slowly. “It should be said they’re just similar‒Amitabha, if Zhang knows that I explain reincarnation in this way, I must be educated by him for dozens of years.”

“Nonsense.” Hao Ning scorned. “I never heard of reincarnation is the same as formatting a hard drive!”

“He didn’t talk nonsense.” Zhou Yuan stood up at this time. “After formatting, the hard disk become empty. While there is a process that is very similar to it in reincarnation‒Lethe Water.”

“Sh*t…” Hao Ning sweated. “You mean, drinking the Lethe Water is reinstalling computer‒No no, what should I say?”

“Let me say.” Xiao Hong found Hao Ning was dull when encountering such a thing. He explained: “As long as the time is long enough, the soul will get sick. So, after drinking the Lethe Water and before the reincarnation, the time was to cure of disease. But this treatment is very crude. It’s just like you rudely repaired your students’ computers with virus. After treatment, the computer is getting faster as if a new one, but everything in the computer has gone.”

“Drinking the Lethe Water, the past life would be forgotten…” Hao Ning muttered to himself, “It turned out to be that…”

“Yes.” Xiao Hong nodded. “It’s almost like this. Next time you see Brother Zhang, don’t tell him that I explained it to you. Never mind. Don’t mention this. If he asks you, just listen to him. Anyway, he won’t find fault from what he said only.”

“So, in legendary stories, is someone has their previous life memories,” Hao Ning nodded and continued to speculate. “The result of something goes wrong when drinking the Lethe Water?” ‒ But this doesn’t make sense. Some people have memories of dozens of or even hundreds of years ago. It’s impossible for him to keep memories after drinking Lethe Water for many times in hundreds of years? Then the quality of the Lethe Water is worrying?”

Before Xiao Hong explained, Hao Ning understood: “Oh, I see. He has reincarnated into a turtle in these hundreds of years. Tortoise in one thousand years and turtle in ten thousand years! He lived for enough long time. And after the turtle died, he reincarnated again and the Lethe Water didn’t work as well, so he remembered things of hundreds of years ago. There’s little chance that the Lethe Water didn’t work for many times, but it is still possible for twice in a row. Am I right?”

“Brother Hao Ning, you have no talent in this filed. Stop guessing…” Xiao Hong smiled wryly. “If what you said is true, why he can’t remember he was a turtle in his previous life?”

“Because‒” Hao Ning blushed for Xiao Hong’s problem as like an uncomfortable turtle. “Alright. I admitted I don’t know.”

“Right. Why?” Zhou Yuan asked as well.

“Don’t you care about your mother?” Hao Ning curiously asked, “I’m just listening to the story. You too?”

“Nonsense. Xiao Hong is telling me how to save my mother!” Zhou Yuan angrily said. “I really doubt that there’s also a Lethe Water in your mind. As long as encountering something related to God, you’ll smell it. Even you won’t lose your memory but definitely be confused.”

“Alright! Zhou Yuan is right. How can you understand I cure his mother if I don’t explain it clearly?” Xiao Hong said with a smile, “The reason why those people remembered hundreds of years ago is because of a big secret. The nether world isn’t a certain place at all, but a relatively chaotic time and space. The time of reincarnation of all souls is random in it!”

“What do you mean?” Zhou Yuan listened dazedly, “I don’t understand. Aren’t you talking about ghosts and souls? Why did you mention the time and space? ”

“This was what Brother Zhang told me,” Xiao Hong explained. “I didn’t understand it before. Until recent decades, I got to know technology and learned more.”

“I see. I see.” Hao Ning nodded. Although he didn’t know ghosts, he was very interested in spacetime, science fiction, four-dimensional space. Otherwise, he wouldn’t mention the science fiction The Three-Body Problem as an example. “You mean because of the chaotic and random spacetime in the nether world and reincarnation, a soul couldn’t know what time it will appear when reincarnating. So after drinking the Lethe Water, people are likely to appear in the spacetime of hundreds of years?”

“That’s it.” Xiao Hong nodded. “Bravo. You’re really smart about that. When Brother Zhang said to me for the first time, I didn’t know what he was talking about!”

“I know. I know! That’s it! I see!” Hao Ning beat his thigh, jumped up happily, and then kissed Xiao Hong. “Thank you for solving my biggest problem about the mythology system for many years! Thank you!”

“Is he insane?” Zhou Yuan looked at Xiao Hong, who was rushing to wipe the saliva on his face, so he asked, “What confused?”

“Are you not surprised?” Hao Ning looked at Zhou Yuan. “You have read so many ancient books, mentioning six reincarnations, and a lot of ghost reincarnation? Have you found a problem? Sometimes there are many people in history, sometimes there are fewer people, and the population is gradually growing. If it is the reincarnation of the reincarnation, there were so few people in the past, and there are so many people now, and then the people of the past reincarnate to today, so the soul is definitely not enough. Those who have not enough souls, where did the souls in their bodies come from?”

“Yes, it’s impossible to have no soul…” Zhou Yuan thought for a moment and asked, “Where is it?”

“Fu**er.” Hao Ning said with a smile. “From the other spacetime! Since the Six Paths of Reincarnation is a chaotic spacetime, people may reincarnate in any place. So, the people who died in the past may directly reincarnate in hundreds of years later. In other words, the soul of today’s people may be the one who died a long time ago and reborn to today or –” Hao Ning was muddled saying here. He looked at Xiao Hong, who was looking at him as well and nodded at him. Hao Ning said uncertainly, “or the one who die in future and reincarnates in today?”

“Sh*t. Hao Ning, it’s too scaring!” Zhou Yuan was thrilling, “But how! You mean, when a person was born, his or her soul was reincarnated by another person who dies in the long future? This guy hasn’t actually died? Hasn’t been born even? How could it be possible! How can an alive person become a ghost? And how can it reincarnate without becoming a ghost? – Oops, I’m confused by myself. How could it do it? Definitely impossible!”

“He’s right.” Xiao Hong nodded. “Hao Ning, you really surprised me. I took 300 years to comprehend what Brother Zhang told me. But you just thought of directly. No wonder Brother Zhang said–”

“What did he say?” Hao Ning asked.

“No, nothing.” It seemed Xiao Hong couldn’t say the left. He turned to Zhou Yuan:” Understand?”

“Impossible!” Zhou Yuan shook his head. “How is it possible that today’s souls come from future people?” There has never been such a record or such an oddity in a fantastic story!”

“There is, but just as another form.” Xiao Hong shook his head and looked at Zhou Yuan. “Have you heard of the prophet?”

Hao Ning was scared of hearing the word. “You mean, a prophet is who reincarnates from the future but retains memory because of the wrong Lethe Water, and in the random spacetime of the nether world, it was born in the past?”

“Yes.” Xiao Hong looked at Zhou Yuan who was nearly crazy. And he smiled wryly to Hao Ning: “Is it difficult to understand?”

“No, no, no.” Hao Ning excitedly said with a clapping. “It’s easy to understand!”

After that, Zhou Yuan sat down on the ground numbly. He drew on the ground with his finger and said to himself: “The present souls of reincarnation came from people who have died before or will die after. The future souls of reincarnation came from people who will die, oh no, who have died. People died now will reincarnate in the future. No no no, it’s normal that it reincarnates in the future. But people die in the future will…Oh, where’s my Hui sword? Help me find it. ”

“Don’t think about it. Even Manjusri Bodhisattva can’t help you.” Xiao Hong said with a smile, “Do you know why does Avalokitesvara only have the ability to control the time?”

“Eh?” Hao Ning was curious about that. He said. “Isn’t it because of the Journey to the West which once talked about the time control, and people’s belief affected him?”

“Did he explain this to you?” Xiao Hong stared at Hao Ning. “Wow. He mon–” Xiao Hong suddenly covered his mouth with a grim face, sweating.

Hao Ning knew that he wanted to say “He monkey.” But it was obvious that if Xiao Hong had spoken out it, it was afraid that he can’t no longer return to the Mountain Lojia. He was just playing outside now, but if had no home to go later, he was really in big trouble.

Hao Ning quickly said: “Wow. He Mon–key King’s respectable and perfect Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva!” Then he smilingly looked at Xiao Hong. “Xiao Hong, did you want to say that?”

“Yes! Yes! Excellent. I just wanna say he’s Monkey King’s respectable Bodhisattva!” Xiao Hong wiped his sweat, holding Hao Ning tightly. Hao Ning felt his heartbeat was so fast, just like after a sauna. “Great! Wonderful!”

“Don’t, don’t do that. I’m dying!” Hao Ning was a little out of breath. He quickly pushed Xiao Hong away. “Go on. What else reason?”

“Time is so complicated to control,” said Xiao Hong. “So, it was not enough that Avalokitesvara only had people’s belief. That was just the first step, or he just strode half of the threshold.”

“Half?” Hao Ning asked, “What about the remaining half?”

“Brother Zhang told me that.” Xiao Hong had calmed down and said. “Even people have a time belief in Bodhisattva, they just were chosen and had that gift. But whether this gift can change into power, then they still need–”

“Need what?” Hao Ning asked at once. He was very interested in the time, so he asked very carefully on hearing someone talked about this. “Just say need what!”

“The opportunity.” Just two words, then Xiao Hong stopped.

“What’s the opportunity?” Hao Ning still asked, “Don’t keep us guessing. Just tell us!”

“I don’t know.” Xiao Hong said with threw his hands up. “He didn’t say any more at the time.”

“You!” Hao Ning was so angry as if he had been watching porn but suddenly power cut. He wanted to give up but was reluctant, just like being a thorn stuck in the heart. “Wouldn’t you ask even he didn’t say!”

“I was insane to ask this!” Xiao Hong became angry as well. He didn’t know why Hao Ning was so interested in this kind of thing. “I was muddled at that time and hoped he could finish it quickly. Why did I keep asking?” When the bell rang in class, but somebody still asked teacher questions so that the others can’t leave, what would you feel?”

“Hum….” Hao Ning didn’t expect this question. “I’m okay…” He looked at Xiao Hong’s contemptuous eyes and said against his will, “But usually that student who asked questions were taken to the toilet to be rebuked by other students. After all, he got everyone else angry…”

“Do you think I’m the god who will get everyone else anger?” Xiao Hong looked outside sullenly without a more word.

“Alright!” Hao Ning realized that he was too anxious. Xiao Hong was obviously not the bookish curious one, not even in front of Zhang Chi Hang. Hao Ning had to comfort him. “Don’t be angry. When it’s over, I’ll find a girlfriend for you, Ok?”

“Really?” Xiao Hong turned back his head immediately. “Then let’s start it.”

Then he found something on his body at once.

“You–” Zhou Yuan was still drawing on the ground. On hearing Xiao Hong talked about that he stood up right away and asked, “How to save?” You haven’t told us the method yet?”

“I’ve finished!” Xiao Hong spoke much faster than before. He said in a hurry: “Come on, hurry up. Give me some, some, some that thing? The more anxious you are and the easier to forget. Oh, come on.”

“Come on…” Hao Ning, watching Xiao Hong was in a muddle as soon as hearing Hao Ning promised to find a girl for him, was afraid Xiao Hong would get into trouble again. He also looked at Zhou Yuan’s overwhelmed expression, becoming more worried. So, he said, “You can save people, but if Zhou Yuan can’t get your method and do something wrong, I won’t help you.”

“Eh?” When hearing that sentence, Xiao Hong paused and turned to Zhou Yuan, asked: “Do you understand?”

“Understand what?! You still said nothing!” Zhou Yuan complained, “Are you whipped?”

“Right.” Xiao Hong answered very shamelessly, and Zhou Yuan didn’t know what to say in a minute.

“You can also try to bear for thousands of years.” Xiao Hong muttered. “I couldn’t contact the Dragon Lady even, just like the saying: rabbits don’t eat the grass by their burrows. Hum! I don’t care even! – Forget it. Let me explain the simple principle: Zhou Yuan’s mother got a soul sick, it’s an incurable disease. The only thing his mother can do is to wait for death—”

“Bang!” Zhou Yuan said nothing, faintly fainted on the ground.

“Zhou Yuan! Zhou Yuan!” Hao Ning was so scared that he immediately slammed Zhou Yuan’s Philtrum. He took out his mobile phone and called “Lend me your Mana” and hit for hundreds of times dozens of acupoints of Zhou Yuan. Then Zhou Yuan slowly woke up.

“Wh…where am I?” Zhou Yuan woke up in a daze, looking at Hao Ning, “Hao Ning? Hey? ”

“Alright. You’re just shocked. Have a break.” said Hao Ning. He took Zhou Yuan to the throne, and then pulled Xiao Hong aside. “Are you crazy? Zhou Yuan is looking for us to save his parents. But you directly said that his mother was hopeless and just wait to die?”

“I haven’t finished yet…” Xiao Hong grumbled. “Who knows that he can’t bear anything. But isn’t he a god?”

“Everybody loves his or her families.” Hao Ning looked at Zhou Yuan’s nothing, and lowered his voice and said to Xiao Hong, “What do you think of your mother and mother? You are also a god. You can see the thoughts of your parents. You think about Zhou Yuan!”

“Well, I know,” Xiao Hong thought for a moment and hesitatingly said, “Can I still tell him?”

“Forget it, in order to prevent you from scaring him out again,” Hao Ning sighed. “You tell me first. Let me listen first, and then think about how to explain to Zhou Yuan.”

“Well, if you can understand what I said, I will be much easier to say.” Xiao Hong said this to make Hao Ning confused, and then said, “The principle is also very simple: His mother’s soul is not saved. Well–”

“Hey, whisper!” Hao Ning quickly made a small gesture.

“Oh, oh,” Xiao Hong said in a low voice. “Is his mother’s soul not saved?”

“I know, you continue,” Hao Ning frowned.

“Okay,” Xiao Hong continued. “Is his mother’s soul not saved?”

“Are you sick!” Hao Ning collapsed. “How old are you in this sentence? Are you a repeater?”

“Because this sentence is very important, don’t say this sentence can’t say the next thing!” Xiao Hong is also anxious. “Can you not interrupt me always!!”

“Hey, Cheng!” For the first time, Hao Ning found that he was so annoyed that he interrupted the speech of others.

“Is his mother’s soul not saved?” Xiao Hong paused and looked at Hao Ning. “How can you not interrupt me?”

“…” Hao Ning quickly broke the internal injury and made a gesture on the occasion of the death. Xiao Hong continued.

“But there is a special way to increase the resistance of the soul to some spells, especially if there is no killing effect like Zhou Yuan, all based on the magic of your own imagination,” Xiao Hong said quite smugly. “However, this condition of resistance to spells is very harsh. It must be that your soul is reborn into your own body. You can go through it again. You don’t ask me why, I just passed the big brother told me. These ones.”

“So, we need to find a possibility of the future, which is his mother is dead, and the soul enters six reincarnations, and it is just half of the problem that the Lethe Water has been drinking,” Xiao Hong continued. “At this time, his mother still keeps this. Half of the memory of the world, this half is not much more, just happened to the memory of his mother before Zhou Yuan cast a spell, and then his mother reincarnates with these memories, when the reincarnation happened to be assigned to his mother was born decades ago. The baby at that time, that is, his mother himself, this soul smoothly entered his mother’s baby body, so this soul with a part of his mother’s memory, re-emerged with his mother, married, child, until now, But this soul is not sick, because this is the soul of his mother, and actually has experienced a spell of Zhou Yuan, the soul has produced some immunity, according to my estimation, even if Zhou Yuan casts again This soul will not get sick. At that time, Zhou Yuan only needs to control the two old people to recover slowly, and the problem is not big. So, don’t you solve it? How is it? It is very difficult to understand. It is difficult to figure out?” Speaking of Xiao Hong quite a bit proud here, he said with a long breath, “If you don’t understand me, I will talk to you carefully again, listen well…”

Looking at the long story of Xiao Hong Yang, Hao Ning’s heart was a bit funny. A simple question could be so complicated in Xiao Hong’s words!

“What is hard to understand? Isn’t it a way to make the soul stronger by this way of crossing to resist the illness caused by Zhou Yuan’s mana? Isn’t this the same as doing vaccines? Just like a person who has had a smallpox will not get it anymore. I didn’t expect the soul to play like this, but listening to your explanation, it seems that it must be the same as his own soul and his original body. But this is the case,” Hao Ning did not wait for Xiao Hong to finish, and continued to think, “This method sounds very good, but the risk is relatively high. The biggest problem is that there is a window of time in the middle. This time is empty. The window is the period from Zhou Yuan to his mother to cast a spell to this period of time. This part of the time is not completely coincident with the time of the total memory of the soul. I count it, about half a month or so. Will there be some kind of time and space in the middle, which will lead to other time and space changes?”

“You…” Xiao Hong listened to Hao Ning’s words, looked strange, and liked to see ghosts. They all cried, “What are you talking about?”