Cyber Ghosts

Chapter 197 Careful Calculation
“It is easy. To you, it is about reincarnation. However, from my point, it is about time travel. She just needs to travel back to her body. And then she can live through her soul with some minor changes.” Hao Ning said. He squatted on the ground, explaining to Xiao Hong with a drawing. “Look, you choose his mother’s soul of this life. We label it the Soul A. His mother’s body, we call it the Body A. Her memory stops over here. Zhou Yuan played the magical spell 15 days ago. According to this, she doesn’t remember what happened in the past 15 days. That is to say, the Soul A only remembered what happened 15 days ago. Am I right?”

Hao Ning delivered a lecture.

The reason why Hao Ning knew this well not because he had a better logic than others. More importantly, he watched many time travel and science fiction TV series over the past years. The thing was mentioned in these series. However, the case Xiao Hong said to Hao Ning was a special one. It was about her soul traveled back to her own body. Hao Ning got to know this through TV series before. But he witnessed it this time. He was so excited about it. So, he analyzed it for Xiao Hong excitedly.

However, he did not notice that Xiao Hong did not understand it at all. Xiao Hong never saw time travel series before. So, he did not understand what Hao Ning said about traveling back to her body. He did not understand what Hao Ning said. But he was shy to admit it. So, he had to say embarrassedly, “That is the case…”

“And then, through Six Paths of Reincarnation, as what you said,” Hao Ning continued to explain. “After reincarnation of the Soul A, it would be back to several decades ago. His mother’s body is still the Body A. The Body A will receive the Soul A that is reincarnated from the nether world. We call it the Soul B. The Soul B will accompany his mother as she grows up… Of course, you may have ways to process his mother’s memory in the Soul A, making his mother forget the whole thing until 15 days ago. And then the Soul A and the Soul B will be the same. His mother is his mother. However, there are some changes from 15 days ago to now. How can we process the memory of this period?”

“You, who the hell are you?” Xiao Hong said, looking at Hao Ning in horror. “How can you know this so clearly? When Brother Zhang explained this to me. I spent 1000 years understanding it! How can you understand it once you heard it? And what are you talking about for your second part? I really can’t understand what 15 days change?”

“I watched science fiction films such as travel back to the future film, Inception, Triangle when I was free. You need to analyze the contents to understand it.” Hao Ning said with a laugh. He thought that he should not play something logic with him because he was good at it. That was the reason why Avalokitesvara believed that anyone should not do logic analysis for immortals. “The story about traveling back to the past or traveling to the future for something has happened. However, they used the time machine for traveling, instead, in this case, you use reincarnation. The science and technology are the first productivity. You should learn about them when you are free instead of hanging around the corner all the time.”

“Hey, are you angry about what I said?” looking at Xiao Hong, Hao Ning said with a smile. “I have a question for you. One man has died. He reincarnated to his father’s body. That means he is his father, right? And then his father and his mother have a son. The son is him. My question is: Who is he? Is he his father or his son?”

This is a typical question concerning time travel. Hao Ning modified a little when he said it. The original one was that a man traveled back to the past and he killed his father. The question was whether he would be born or not? Hao Ning did not want to tell a bloody story. So, he changed the story to be one concerning ethics.

“Puff…” Xiao Hong was total confused. He fell on the ground, wondering what happened. What he heard was just like the magic formula for Old Fan. He shook his hand and said, “Let me think about it, think about it…”

Seeing Xiao Hong say something finally, Hao Ning checked the drawings on the ground carefully. He frowned while he was biting his finger. He said, “No, I think that it is no need to restore the memory of this period.” He pointed to the Soul A and said. “Am I right?” he added.

Xiao Hong’s eyes were dull. He muttered, “Who is he? He’s his father? No. Is he his son? No…”

Hao Ning knew that Xiao Hong was not good at this. What he just said was the knowledge Zhang Chi Hang forced him to learn. With Xiao Hong’s personality, he had done what he could to repeat what Hao Ning just said. If Hao Ning had to wait for Xiao Hong’s answers, it would be too late. So, Hao Ning left him alone. He drew on the ground and calculated the next.

“All right! Don’t think about it. You won’t get it!” Hao Ning said to Xiao Hong after half of the minute. “Let’s talk about Zhou Yuan’s mother! I have calculated and I found that it was no need to restore Zhou Yuan’s mother’s soul and memory. What we need to do is to make his mother’s soul back to the baby body through the Six Paths of Reincarnation.”

“What?” Xiao Hong was totally confused. He lost himself. “You promise? This is the first time I use the method. Don’t mess it up.” he added.

“Don’t worry!” Hao Ning said in confidence. “I learned a lot from science fiction films and popular science works! Believe me. Let’s do it! I will hold accountability!”

“Boom!” A sound passed from the sky. Hao Ning shrank his neck instinctively. “What happened? Thunder?” he said.

“What thunder?” Xiao Hong said. “Nothing happened,” he added.

“Imaginary sound?” Hao Ning thought. He continued to say, “Here is a problem. How can we manage Zhou Yuan’s father and his mother to reincarnate to their baby bodies respectively?”

“It is out of our control,” Xiao Hong shook his head. “However, it is one of the possibilities for their futures. What we should do is to help choose the future with the possibility we want.”

“Err…” Hao Ning murmured. He thought of it for a while and got to understand it a little. “I know what you mean. You mean that what period they reincarnate is random. But there must be a possible period when Zhou Yuan’s parents can reincarnate to their baby bodies. We should find this future? But, how can we find this future?”

“Hey, hey. Hao Ning, you asked the key part of the problem,” Hao Hong said with a smile. “Don’t forget that the future is also a time concept. Time business is the work of this Bodhisattva. Brother Zhang has given me some magic figures concerning the time. Of which there is a magic figure that can help you find the future you want. When I got those magic figures, I had no idea for them. So, I keep them in secret. We can use them now.”

“Oh, I see!” Hao Ning said. “Let’s do it!” he added.

“No. No.” Xiao Hong shook his head and said, pointing to the Zhou Yuan on the throne. “What about him?” He asked.

“Go with us!” Hao Ning said. He did not understand what Xiao Hong said. “He won’t be scared. You must remember that he was a naughty monkey who created havoc in the nether world,” he added.

Why was Hao Ning so excited? Part of the reason was that he wanted to help Zhou Yuan. Part of the reason was that he wanted to see Yan. Yan had been back to the nether world since they met last time. He also wanted to make clear why Yan’s sound was heard in the dark. However, this man never showed himself recently. Hao Ning was excited when he heard Xiao Hong mentioned the nether world. He did not expect Xiao Hong’s method was related to the nether world.

“I will go for him if he does not come for me.” Hao Ning thought. Seeing Xiao Hong shake his head, he asked, “What’s wrong? You mean Zhou Yuan shouldn’t go with us?”

“Of course, he shouldn’t!” Xiao Hong said. He became confident as he talked about something, he was good at. “Zhou Yuan and his mother are related by blood. If they both go to the nether world, something bad may happen!”

“You are right. Ok, we two go.” Hao Ning said with consent.

“Why will you go?” Xiao Hong said, wondering. “Zhou Yuan has powers. He can help me when he is there. What can you do over there?”

“I can help you…” Hao Ning stopped in a sudden. He was right. What can I do in the nether world? He thought. The six-pulse excalibur? Yes, there were many ghosts in the nether world! But the ghosts did not know how to use the six-pulse excalibur. The Soul Cutter? But it was used to kill ghosts. To go to the nether world with this weapon was just like to go the bank with weapons of mass destruction. His original intention was to ask for a favor, instead, it would turn into a smash with this weapon. Thinking of this, Hao Ning sighed. “Can you take me with you? I want to broaden my horizon.”

“My God. Broaden your horizon? Do you think I look like a professor…” Xiao Hong said in a bitter smile, “and, this magic figure needs much power. It will increase my risks to take you because you have no power at all,” he added.

“Well…” Hao Ning said, frowning. He calculated everything carefully but he failed this part. He had to admit this was his fate. He said, “If you see Yan there. Please say hello to him for me and let him contact me.”

“Who is Yan?” Xiao Hong asked, wondering.

“You don’t know Yan?” Hao Ning asked. He was more wondering than Xiao Hong was. “You don’t know Yan in the nether world? How is it possible?”

“I know none of them in the nether world!” Xiao Hong said. “Why do you think the Sudhana knows Yan?” he added.

“Because Avalokitesvara knows him!” Hao Ning said promptly. “I once heard that somebody asked Yan to look for Avalokitesvara. It was proved that they knew each other very much. You, as the favorite boy of Avalokitesvara, don’t know him?” said Hao Ning.

Hao Ning saw that Xiao Hong felt disgusted when he said “favorite boy”.

“That’s impossible,” Xiao Hong said after vomiting. “I believe that Brother Zhang did not know this Yan. Or I can say, he just heard of him but not knew him very well. Yan would not come to contact Brother Zhang. Brother Zhang and Yan did not work in the same department. If a person who came nowhere wanted to talk with him, they should inform me first. I did not know Yan. How should Brother Zhang know him?” said Xiao Hong.

“How did they not work in the same department?” Hao Ning argued. He added, “Bodhisattva once said, I’m not going to hell. Who’s going to hell? ‘”

“Yes. That is because they do not work in the same department and there are full of dangers. That is the reason why Bodhisattva says, ‘I’m not going to hell. Who’s going to hell’! If they work in the same department, there would be no dangers at all.” Xiao Hong said with confidence. He explained more, “Bodhisattva says this because they work in different departments. If they know each other very well just like neighbors, Bodhisattva would not say that sentence. Did you ever hear Bodhisattva say, ‘I’m not going to Mountain Lingshan. Who’s going to Mountain Lingshan?’ ‘I’m not going to heaven. Who’s going to heaven?'”

“Err… You are right…” Hao Ning said with an agreement. He replied, “Ok, you go alone and please come back as early as you can.”

“Ok. I have to kick you guys out first,” Xiao Hong said, nodding. He turned back and said to Zhou Yuan, “Zhou Yuan, you take Hao Ning with you. I will find a way to save your mother!”

After saying this, Xiao Hong took out a shining magic figure. He unfolded it in the air and sneaked into it! The light of the magic figure became dimer, standing on the ground still. The light turned on and off alternatively, making the place gloomy due to the dark in the Palace of Heavenly Purity.

“Where is he going?” Zhou Yuan saw Xiao Hong disappear and said. He closed his eyes and calculated, “It seemed that he is not in the imaginary place of my mother’s,” he said.

“He went to the other one,” Hao Ning said. He thought for a while, and replied Zhou Yuan by quoting Xiao Hong just said to him about reincarnation in the nether world, “He went to the other space-time,” he quoted.

“Space-time? Did you just say space-time?” Zhou Yuan said, wondering. “Is Xiao Hong an alien with high-technological skills? Is he an alien in four-dimensions? Can he travel space-time?” he asked.

Hao Ning heard about the four-dimensions Zhou Yuan mentioned before. In general, in the science fiction film, the producer preferred to add a time dimension into the three-dimensions and turn the space into four-dimensions. As per the description in the films, humankind couldn’t control the four-dimensions. It is aliens who could control it. That was the reason why Zhou Yuan thought that Xiao Hong was an alien.

“Err… It is a long story. Let’s get out of here first,” Hao Ning said. Thinking that Zhou Yuan might not understand what Xiao Hong told him, Hao Ning stopped to tell him the profound theory. He thought that he would tell him in an easy way later. “We may have an impact on Xiao Hong to use his power over here,” Hao Ning added.

As they were talking, the standing magic figure became brighter suddenly. A hand came out of it with dry fingernails. Each fingernail was 2-3 inches long. A long-hair monster whose faces were covered showed. It said, “Don’t…go…”

“Ghost!”

“Yamamura Junko!”

After screaming, they both felt a little shame on themselves. One of them was a moment god. The other one was a person who had lived with a ghost from the nether world for half a month. They both had undergone so many things. How could they be so scared at a monster? What a shame it wa! As both of them screamed at the same time, there were no reasons to disdain each other. They both selectively forgot the embarrassment of each other’s.

Hao Ning was ready to use his six-pulse excalibur and Soul Cutter. He said in a trembling voice, “You, you, you… Don’t come over. I have weapons to kill ghosts and flesh bodies. Who the hell are you? Anyway, I can kill you no matter who you are. I will stop you hurt anybody…”

“I won’t hurt anybody,” that monster shouted, adding “I am Xiao Hong.”

“Xiao Hong?” Hao Ning replied. Looking at this monster with long hair and long fingernails, Hao Ning continued to say, “What are you talking about? Do you think we don’t know Xiao Hong? You must be a monster from the magic figure. You must have eaten Xiao Hong. Ok, I will avenge Xiao Hong.”

Before Hao Ning took an action, he heard “whirring…” sound from the monster. A scissor made of fire flame flew out of the covered face of the monster. The scissor trimmed the long hair and the long fingernails quickly. Hao Ning stared at the man. It was Xiao Hong!