Cyber Ghosts

Chapter 201 Shock
“Now these two elders are just like ordinary souls. If you don’t want to use other methods, we will have to let them have a normal birth,” said Niu, looking at his mobile phone, adding, “but we will let them go to rich families.”

“Other methods?” Hao Ning heard the meaning of Niu and asked with a movement in his eyes, “what else can you do?”

“Well…” Niu and Ma were hesitant, “other methods…”

“There must be, isn’t it?” Hao Ning was a little worried, “Tell me? What treasures are needed? Even what belongs to the Bodhisattva‒” Speaking of this, Hao Ning obviously felt Xiao Hong in his eyebrow shaking, “just name it.”

“It takes time,” Niu replied, “but not the ordinary time, but your time, and your time in the past.”

“Time in my past?” Hao Ning listened and felt confused, wondering, “What is the time in my past?”

“You want to let these two people go back to their own bodies. Now that their past memories are gone, there is only one way to do it,” explained Ma. “That is to replace them with the karma of the people who erase their memories. You are the person who gave them Lethe Water. The karma lies in you. Because they will go back to the past, you can only replace them with your past. But in this way, your past will be changed. You will never appear in the world from the date of your birth, but stay in the nether world all the time – “speaking of this, Ma turned to ask Niu, “how many years does he need to stay in this situation?”

“Don’t hurry. I’m calculating,” Niu closed his eyes for a moment. “About two hundred years.”

“Damn!” Hao Ning was wet with cold sweat, “two hundred years? Then I have died many times – oh no, then I would be in the state of the soul, and I should not die. But that doesn’t work! It’s too long! ”

“Don’t hurry!” Niu looked at his mobile phone and Ma’s, bit his teeth and said, “You are lucky. We are in a promotion, and we can give you a discount…”

Hao Ning’s heart was even more broken. What kind of discount did the nether world offer about this kind of stuff? Were there usually unreliable dabblers like him? No way! On second thought, it should be that Niu and Ma took his mobile phones and wanted to make up for him by trying to reduce the time. Thinking of this, he didn’t speak and waited nervously for their result.

Niu was still calculating by himself, “Let me calculate. Plus, my recent points, the latest rules, as well as the human relationship -”

“Don’t just count your points,” Hao Ning said with a nervous, faceless smile, pointing to Ma’s mobile phone. “Can you count Ma’s as well?”

“Hey, don’t say that. Mine is his!” Ma smiled brightly, “We make no distinction between ‘you’ and ‘me’. You can rest assured.”

“25 years!” Niu finished calculating, “Hey, you can catch up with the good times and reduce so much at once, so it’s really a good policy now!”

“Well,” Ma asked, “how old are you this year?”

“Well…” Hao Ning answered honestly, “25 years old.”

“Hey, interesting!” Niu looked at Hao Ning as if he had been a freak. “You’re lucky. We’ll find a way for you. You can go back after the process.”

“What do you mean?” Hao Ning was confused.

“Well,” said Niu secretly, “don’t tell others. We’ll take your past and trap it in the nether world for 25 years and go through a process. Now you’re just 25 years old. Secretly replace the beams and pillars with rotten timbers – no, we should say, operate it, and you can go straight up.”

“But my memory -” Hao Ning understood when it came to him. There must be a way for these two people to keep his memory unchanged. He didn’t expect that it would be so important to bring two mobile phones here.

Thinking of this Hao Ning sighed, “This matter is also because of me, so do it!”

“OK!” Niu said to Ma, “Go tell him.”

“Why me?” Ma said angrily, “I told him last time!”

“Because you just lost the Rock-Paper-Scissors!” Niu shouted, “And you also lost in mobile phone games just now!”

“Fine,” said Ma gloomily, “I’ll go!”

After that, Ma went away without looking back.

“What is he doing?” Hao Ning felt strange and asked, “Why doesn’t he want to go?”

“Go through the process, and then go back to the past,” Niu his sweat. “We have to get your past soul down!”

“Oh…” Hao Ning nodded.

“It’s scary to say,” Niu continued to talk to himself, “that monster… Forget it. ”

“Will it take a long time?” Hao Ning saw that Niu was not willing to say and had to start a small talk, “how long can they finish the progress?”

“You forgot?” Niu said with a smile, “The time of the nether world is not fixed. It may be a long time in their eyes, but it may be a moment in our eyes. Don’t worry. It will be soon – How to play this game?”

“This game? You have to tap this to get through…” After Hao Ning’s explanation, he couldn’t let go of it. He asked tentatively, “Here do you have a person named -”

“Something’s wrong. Something’s wrong!” Hao Ning hadn’t spoken yet. There was a tearing voice from the distance from Ma. When Hao Ning looked back, he saw that Ma was running to him with his life in his hands. A man followed him, holding a baby in his hand. It was strange to say that the baby could go straight away. Thinking about the difference between soul and body. Hao Ning didn’t ask more.

“Mister… Mister Impermanence,” Niu stood up nervously and bowed, “Hello, how fast! You’ve got the soul back so fast. You’re really efficient. Ha ha, ha ha…”

Hao Ning looked carefully. Sure enough, his face was also covered with a paper shell which was half white and half black with one big word “impermanence” on it.

“Damn, black and white unusual ghosts are just ghosts?” Hao Ning was speechless when he saw the shabby nether world. It seemed that there was no surplus food in the nether world! It was just strange that black and white unusual ghosts should be just an ordinary ghost runner. How did he become a mister?

“What’s the matter, Ma?” Niu saw Ma like this. Impermanence didn’t speak, so he had to ask Ma, “Did you offend Mister Impermanence?”

“Offend me? It will be good if he only offended me!” Impermanence didn’t speak until now. Hao Ning was familiar with his voice, but he was not sure. He just listened to Impermanence, “what’s wrong with you staying here? You have to go up with me to do business. It would be fine if you just go up. The time and space between Yin and Yang are chaotic. I told you to not mess with it. See the result!”

Saying that, Impermanence picked up the baby to let Niu see.

“Isn’t that me when I was a child?” Hao Ning looked at the baby. It was the same as a picture of him when he was a child. He did not know what was wrong with it. He could not help asking the Ma, “Is there any problem with this soul?”

“I didn’t think of it,” said Ma wrongly. “I didn’t think of it…”

“What did you not think of?” Niu dare not ask Impermanence, so he had to ask Ma urgently, “Hurry up and tell me!”

“I didn’t expect this man…” Ma pointed to Hao Ning. “He was a twin. I accidentally caught the wrong one…”

“The wrong one?” At this time, Hao Ning seemed to think of something. He jumped in front of Ma and scared Ma. Pointing to the baby, Hao Ning asked the Ma, “You mean you were going to catch me in the twins, but you caught another baby in the twins?”

“Yes,” said Ma gloomily, “it’s all my fault.”

Hao Ning took a breath and asked in a trembling voice, “Does that mean that if I didn’t give Lethe Water to those two people just now, or if I didn’t promise you to take my soul for two old people to give birth, you wouldn’t take my soul, and you wouldn’t take the wrong baby?”

“Of course.” Ma nodded. “It’s strange that you asked. If you didn’t give two old people Lethe Water, now the two old people would probably have given birth smoothly. Why should we take your past soul? Or if you didn’t let us take your past soul, the two babies would grow up smoothly – but you still gave Lethe Water to these two old people, and you also promised me to take it. But I didn’t take your soul just now, and I took the soul of another baby. In the end, the twins look so similar that I hooked up the soul and took it back to the nether world only to find it was the wrong one!”

“Stop it!” Impermanence scolded, “It’s too late when we found that. The baby has become dead. We can only bring the baby’s soul back first. Ma, this time you can’t escape from the punishment!”

Impermanence and Ma were still talking about something, but Hao Ning couldn’t hear anything, and the words of Ma were whirling in his mind: if not for him, these two babies would have grown up smoothly. Didn’t it mean that his younger brother, who never lived before, lost his life because of him?

“Plop”, Hao Ning slumped to the ground, stunned!

“What’s the matter with you?” Before Ma spoke, Impermanence opened his mouth, “What are you afraid of? It’s their fault in work, and it’s also them to be punished. You’re blessed with misfortune and won’t be locked up in the nether world anymore.”

“Brother, I killed you!” Hao Ning burst into tears, which seemed to flow out of the tears he held back for 25 years. No one could stop him.

Hao Ning understood that Yan told him the story of his childhood: his mother was pregnant with twins. When he was born, there was a dead baby. Who should have died was him, but he was wrong in his younger brother’s body? This made it clear that it was he who killed his younger brother who should have been alive with his own hands.

Why, why should another person who has not been born bear his mistake!? Why did he live for 25 years without any guilt? Why was he so heartless! It was all due to his self-righteousness, the perfect logic and the smart way to modify the Bodhisattva’s way to Xiao Hong!

“Yan!” Hao Ning cried suddenly, “Yan! Yan! I want to see Yan! Please, I want to find him and let me die for my brother. I want my brother to live again!” Saying that Hao Ning was about to run outside crazily, “I want to find Yan! Can’t you go back to the past? I don’t want to live my whole life. You let my brother live! I can stay as long as you want in the nether world. Are 200 years enough? No, 2000, 20000 years! It doesn’t matter that I walk through those hells one by one. Please, my brother is innocent. It’s all my fault!”

Hao Ning was just mad at this time, crying. He was pulled back by these people, and the baby was scared to cry out. Hearing the baby’s voice, Hao Ning’s heart seemed to be clear. He was no longer mad, and watched these three people with tears, “I want to find Yan.”

“Don’t hurry. Take it easy,” Impermanence sighed, “You can find Yan. But, first, you should make it clear. Which Yan do you want?”

With that, Impermanence took off the mask. Hao Ning took a look and got shocked. Wasn’t him Yan?

“Right, which Yan are you looking for?” Ma and Niu also took off their masks. Hao Ning looked at their faces. They were also Yan!

“Is anyone looking for Yan?” Said Meng Po who changed a pair of trousers and came over. He took off the mask. He was also Yan!

“You…” With this shock, Hao Ning rolled his eyes, fell to the ground, and became unconscious.

When he woke up again, Hao Ning found himself lying on a bed, with three people sitting next to him. They were all wearing masks, Niu, Ma, and Impermanence.

“Where am I?” Hao Ning asked.

“Are you awake?” Asked Niu.

Hao Ning saw Niu coming and shouted, “don’t touch me!”

“You see. I told you it would be more frightening. You didn’t believe it.” Ma muttered.

“It’s a dream, hehe. It must be a dream,” said Hao Ning, slapping himself in the face. “Damn, it hurts so much!”

“Xiao Hong!” Hao Ning shouted. Unexpectedly, there was no voice. Even Xiao Hong was gone? Would he stay in the nether world and never go back? Hao Ning was not in the mood to think about this at this time. He killed his younger brother. How could he go back to the human world and live on shamelessly?

“Calm down,” said Impermanence. “We have arranged for these two old people. Don’t blame us for not waiting for you to wake up and make decisions. They drank Lethe Water and needed to be reborn immediately.”

With that, Impermanence handed a brocade bag to Hao Ning, “This is what they left when they reincarnated. I think it should be given to you.”

Hao Ning took the brocade bag and opened it. There were two blue things. He didn’t know what they were. Thinking they should be related to Zhou Yuan, he put them in his pocket.

After that, Hao Ning slowly remembered the chaotic scene just now. He grabbed his hair and asked, “Which one of you is Yan?”

“All of us!” Said these three people and were about to take off the masks.

“Don’t take off!” Hao Ning shouted with fear. After that, he calmed down and pointed to Impermanence and said, “You can take it off!”

“OK.” One of Yan appeared in front of Hao Ning. Hao Ning took a breath. One Yan together with Ma and Niu, it looked better than three Yan.

“What’s the matter?” Hao Ning asked Yan who was under the mask of Impermanence strangely.

“It was all because of May 4th Seal God event,” Niu said with a low voice. Hearing that, Yan stared at Niu. Niu stopped talking immediately.

Ma said something in Yan’s ear secretly.

“Ah…” Yan bowed his head and said, “since you can come to the nether world, you must have strong power. It’s OK for you to know.”

Hao Ning wasn’t in the mood to talk. He just looked at this Impermanence Yan and waited for him to continue.

“After May 4th Seal God event,” Yan continued, “the nether world began to learn about the human world slowly, saying that there should be no King Yan and we should eliminate the residual feudal thoughts and achieve equality. This equality was originally a good thing. As a result, everyone watched the world becoming more and more interesting. Everyone rushed to be reincarnated. At first, just some unimportant roles did so. Later, it became out of control. The ghost runners and the ghost judges were all reincarnated. They said it was for the experience of the human world. In fact, it’s actually for fun – so, in the end, we are the only one left.”

“You, the only one?” Hao Ning didn’t understand the logic in this sentence, “There are three of you. Why did you call these people the only one?”

“Yes, Yan was the only one left at that time.” Yan was a little depressed. “He wanted to be reincarnated himself, but he was afraid that the nether world would be a mess without him, so he had to stay.” But there were so many things in the nether world to be done. I didn’t know where he found a magic spell left by an expert. It was a magic replication spell. So, Yan used this replication spell to turn himself into so many separation bodies. He wanted these separation bodies to help manage many things in the nether world.”

“But I don’t know whether there was something wrong with the separation, or the spell was incomplete,” continued Ma for Impermanence Yan. “In a word, Yan’s character was also divided into many bodies. As a result, we were produced. And because of this, the characters of us were different, which led that the separation cannot go back to one body. So, there are all identical Yan like us in the nether world. At first, we didn’t have a mask, and the frightened reincarnated people didn’t dare to drink Lethe Water. They thought they had entered a fake nether world and felt that it was scarier to see these identical faces than to see the ghosts. After a long discussion, we had to wear this -” Ma pointed to his mask, “although it’s scary to put on the mask, it’s better than countless people with the same face, right?”

“This mask is not scary at all, is it?” Hao Ning said to himself. That was why Lan Ruo’s grandma said to Yan, “now the talents in your nether world are poor”. It was not the talents that are poor here. There was only one “talent” here! This was a schizophrenic hospital! No wonder Ma just said, “my points are also his. Isn’t that bullshit?”

“Which Yan knows me?” Hao Ning thought it was a bit messy this time. He didn’t know where that Yan was. He couldn’t help asking, “can you help me find him?”