Cyber Ghosts

“Didn’t you listen to Xiao Hong?” Liu Shuai shook his head. “If there is also such a capable person in the upper reaches, good stones must have been left there.”

“We can also go to the upper reaches!” Hao Ning blurted out, but suddenly he thought of the unfamiliar life and that he didn’t know what would happen there, so he smirked and said, “It seems that it is not reliable, right?”

Thinking of this, with some depression, he picked up a piece of concrete in the basket. While looking at it, he said depressingly, “In this way, I am not deceived. The rough stones outside are not much better than concrete.”

“Yeah, there is nothing good.” Zhou Yuan said depressingly with the mobile phone in his hand, and he found out a picture for Hao Ning. “Look! I even dreamed before that we might find such a piece of violet jadeite with green lines. If we got one, we would easily get rich.”

“Hey, it’s so beautiful!” Hao Ning looked at the picture, and he said in admiration, “How much is it?”

“Well…” Zhou Yuan flipped down and had a look. He said, “The previous record is 33 million yuan per kilogram, and there is no record after that.”

“So expensive!” Hao Ning looked at the picture with his eyes opened, and his saliva almost flowed out. “If we have this, we will make a fortune!”

“Big brother…” Liu Shuai smiled and played with his mobile phone. He looked helpless. “You take this piece of concrete and tell us to get a piece of violet jadeite with green lines? You really think that Bodhisattva is yours, and whenever you need it, it will show up and help you?”

“You are seeking for trouble, aren’t you? Do you believe that I can hit you to death in one hit with the concrete?” Hao Ning, holding the concrete, pretended to hit Liu Shuai. Suddenly, he saw some purple crystals in the concrete with the corner of his eye. It seemed that he hadn’t seen it just now, so he carefully looked at it. Sure enough, when taking advantage of Xiao Hong’s magical mana, Hao Ning clearly saw that there was a small piece of purple crystal inside the concrete and some green lines next to it. Although it was small, it looked exactly the same as the jadeite in the photo just now.

Hao Ning was shocked and was about to scream. But he quickly remembered his previous problems, and then he shut up in time and took a breath, looking around. He found that no one looked at his three pieces of concrete, and then he quietly said to Zhou Yuan, “Zhou Yuan, can you use your Virtualized reality?”

“Crap! Of course, I can use it.” Zhou Yuan continued to look at the mobile phone. He thought about it and said quickly, waving his hand, “Don’t wish to use my Virtualized reality to make a fake stone of jadeite. I can’t bear this cause and effect!”

“No, no!” Hao Ning was sweating in excitement. His voice trembled, and he said, “Hurry up and wrap us in Virtualized reality. Don’t ask me why! Hurry up!”

“OK, okay!” Zhou Yuan impatiently snapped his fingers. “It’s done. What’s wrong? Do you have the urgency?”

“Don’t hurry. Wait a moment. Don’t hurry. Wait! Wait!” The more times Hao Ning asked others not to hurry, the more hurriedly he wanted to look at the concrete. He said to himself, “Quickly and fast! Brother, hurry up!”

Other people looked at Hao Ning’s madness, feeling a little strange. “Hao Ning, what’s the matter with you?”

“It’s done!” Hao Ning sighed with relief. He carefully placed the concrete on the table and then placed Zhou Yuan’s mobile phone next to it. On the phone’s screen was the picture of the jadeite just now. He quite nervously asked Zhou Yuan, “Others can’t see the situation inside, right?”

“They can’t!” Zhou Yuan was a little impatient. “Don’t question my power, or I will kick you out!”

“Well, that’s good.” Hao Ning was so excited that he was already a little nervous, and his fingers pressed gently on the concrete. “Next, it is the moment to witness the miracle!”

His finger did not press hard at all, and he did not use any kung fu skill. With just a light touch, the thin shell of the entire concrete broke open like an egg, and inside of it showed a small piece of purple stone with a click. Everyone looked at it with their straight eyes, and they did not speak for a long while. Wasn’t this exactly the same as the violet jadeite with green lines on the mobile phone next to it?

Hao Ning proudly looked at the stone and then looked at the three people. But the three people looked at the stone like a dinosaur egg, and then they looked at each other, not saying a word.

Xiao Hong first picked up the stone and looked at it against the light carefully. He took the phone and turned on the light of the camera to shine for a long time. Then he closed his eyes and tried to use his power to probe for a while. Then he opened his eyes and looked at the other three people. He nodded and only said three words.

“It is real.”

After saying that, Xiao Hong looked at Hao Ning as if he were a ghost and asked after a long time, “What is going on?”

“Wow!” Hao Ning was so happy that he jumped up at once. “I have made it. I have made it!”

“Make it? What do you mean?” Liu Shuai picked up and looked at the jadeite for a long time. Then he understood Hao Ning’s words. “So, this jadeite is not originally there. Is it what you conjured out?”

“Yeah, that’s what I conjured out!” Hao Ning looked excitedly at several other people, only to find that not only Xiao Hong, but also everyone looked at him like a ghost. He strangely asked, “What happened to you? Did I say wrong?”

“Are you sure? Is this what you conjured out?” Xiao Hong confirmed again and said, “Isn’t it that you prepared it in advance and hid somewhere in your body, and you then juggled when we paid no attention?”

“Big brother, you are overrating me.” Hao Ning had some doubts that Xiao Hong’s IQ suddenly became lower, and he laughed at Xiao Hong and said, “You just said that this was real. How could I afford to buy this kind of thing? If I have the money, why am I still so laborious? Is it not good to save Long Fei directly?”

“Yeah, it makes sense.” Xiao Hong thought for a while and then said, “This is too strange. It is reasonable to say that it is impossible. It should not make sense…”

“How could it be impossible?” Hao Ning said excitedly, “I might have changed.”

“Change? You have changed into a woman?” Liu Shuai smirked and licked his lips evilly. “Hurry up! Let our brothers enjoy this evening!”

“Go away!” Hao Ning knew that Liu Shuai was joking, and he answered Xiao Hong seriously, “I mean that I don’t know why, or for whatever reason, I have finally acquired a spell, and then I turned the concrete into a piece of jadeite. My God! I have finally acquired a spell. I’m going to cultivate, and I’m going to reach the level of Golden Pellet, and even Yuan Ying. Right! Liu Shuai, hand over your Life and Death Disillusionment Two Elements Dust Array. And Xiao Hong, I want to learn your Samadhi True Fire. Can you contact Avalokitesvara? I want to learn from him. Forget it! I can also do the things that make others pregnant, so I don’t have to learn…”

“Crap!” While Hao Ning did not finish his words, Xiao Hong, Zhou Yuan, and Liu Shuai immediately blurted out without hesitation, all with the same voice. “This is simply not a spell at all. It must be fake.”

“Fake? Hey, you are jealous of my power, jealous of me for having the spells that you don’t know.” Hao Ning looked at the three people and shouted angrily. Finding that the three people still did not believe, he quickly looked back and took out another piece of concrete. He said to Xiao Hong. “Look! What is this? Is it concrete? Forget it! I know you can see but can’t say. But it is enough that you can see what’s inside. You look at it first. Don’t blink your eyes!”

While saying, Hao Ning took this concrete, with his eyes staring at the jadeite on Zhou Yuan’s mobile phone screen. Holding the concrete in the hand, he imagined as before.

When looking at the concrete, Xiao Hong’s expression became more and more strange, and he finally started to excitedly grab his own hair while pinching his own neck with the other hand, and his mouth could not make a sound. Until Hao Ning put the concrete on the table and tapped it gently, and then another piece of jadeite came out, Xiao Hong picked up the jadeite and looked at it again. After he finished, he sat on the chair and looked at Hao Ning. After a long while, he finally said a sentence, “What the hell are you…”

“D**n ! What are you?” Seeing that Xiao Hong was not happy but shocked, Hao Ning felt depressed. “Isn’t this conjured out by me? Is it not a good thing for me to have the power? What is wrong with you?”

“The problem is that this can’t be the power.” Liu Shuai was about to break down. He smiled bitterly and looked at Hao Ning. “Big brother, there is no power that can change things like this. I am also wondering what you are on earth…”

“What do you mean?” Hao Ning didn’t understand and then found that Zhou Yuan had the same expression. “Do you think about me in this way as well?”

“Hao Ning!” Zhou Yuan saw that Hao Ning did not understand the cause. Then he sighed and rubbed his forehead. He said, “Do you think that the Buddha’s ability in Journey to the West is high?”

“High!” Hao Ning nodded honestly. “But what does it have to do with this thing?”

“If you have the power,” Zhou Yuan continued to ask, “do you think that you can be more powerful than the Buddha?”

“Crap!” Hao Ning shook his head. “Of course, it is impossible. I am not even as powerful as Monkey King!”

“The Buddha is so powerful, but he still lets the followers chant for people to earn the gold.” Zhou Yuan said earnestly, “If you have the ability to turn concrete into jadeite, why did Buddha not make a bunch of gold himself?”

Hao Ning was reminded of it. He also knew about the story that Zhou Yuan told. After Tang Sanzang and his three apprentices went to the west, they were extorted bribes by Kassapa. When Monkey King refused, Buddha came to help Kassapa and said that when his monks chanted for mortals, the mortal only gave three buckets of gold, and Buddha thought the price was too low. In this way, it was impossible for Buddha to conjure out gold. It seemed to be reasonable when Hao Ning thought about what Zhou Yuan said. If Buddha even didn’t have the ability, how could he have it?

“So, what is going on?” Hao Ning also said strangely, pointing to the jadeite, “Is this jadeite with violet and green lines fake?”

“It is the violet jadeite with green lines… Forget it.” Xiao Hong shook his head and didn’t bother to correct it, but he surely said, “This jadeite is absolutely true. I am not targeting someone here, but it should be said that in the aspect of treasure appraisal, compared with me, everyone present is…, the ordinary.”

Hao Ning believed in Xiao Hong with this aspect, and he suddenly felt strange and said, “What is going on here? You also saw that just now this concrete actually turned into a piece of jadeite in my hand, right?”

“Have you met someone recently?” Liu Shuai thought about it and asked, “Or something?”

“Recently? Haven’t I always stayed with you?” Hao Ning recalled for a while. When he thought about it, he felt very depressed. “I have been helping you guys all the time. How could I have my private time to meet others? In the evening, I have been even looked at by Xiao Hong as a prisoner!”

Xiao Hong smiled and said, “Didn’t I offer you the bed-warming service?”

“So amorous?” Liu Shuai rushed over and asked with a smile, “What about the details?”

“Bed-warming? D**n it!” Hao Ning rubbed his forehead. “On the first night, he insisted on giving me a warm bed. With a mouthful of hot air spouted out from his mouth, my bed was about to burn. When I went to bed, all the bedding became ashes.” After saying that, he pointed to Xiao Hong and scolded, “He is so clever, and since then, he has been sleeping on the sofa, but I have to purchase the new bedding!”

“Hey…” Xiao Hong scratched his head. “There is always too much energy in a young man’s body. Sometimes, it will be difficult to control it.” After saying that, he talked about another topic. “Well, everyone, is there any other idea? How did this jadeite event of Hao Ning happen?”

Zhou Yuan did not take care of these people’s talking nonsense, and he looked at the concrete alone, keeping thinking. Suddenly, an idea hit him, and he picked up the last piece of concrete and handed over it to Hao Ning. He said, “You try this again. Don’t hurry. Don’t use your right hand. Use your left hand!”

“Is there any difference? The left hand and the right hand are both my hands.” Hao Ning tried again without thinking but found that no matter how hard he tried, the concrete was still the concrete.

“Strange!” Hao Ning said to himself, “Is it that the power has run out? I will try again.”

“Stop!” Zhou Yuan put the concrete in Hao Ning’s right hand. “Try again.”

“Okay!” Hao Ning continued to look at the stone, and sure enough, this time, there was a little jadeite. “I got it!”

“I know!” Zhou Yuan cried. “You look at the ring on your right hand. Is there anything unusual?”

“Ring?” Hao Ning now remembered that today he had worn the ring of Soul Cutter on his right hand. Zhou Yuan and others couldn’t see it. When he turned over his hand, he found that the ring was still there, but there was a circle of blue light flowing on the ring. He didn’t find it before, but now it was still turning. The line was a little short and was flying around the ring. “The Soul Cutter is shining! A blue light! No, it’s a blue line.”

Saying that, Hao Ning took off the ring and placed it on the table. With his thinking, the ring became visible for others. Zhou Yuan saw the blue light on the ring and slapped his thigh. “I got it. It is the ring! The ring with Soul Coin Material!”

“What do you mean?” Hao Ning was a little confused. “What are you talking about?”

“When you saved Zhe a few days ago, you might be fighting and not paying attention to these details.” Zhou Yuan said with a smile, “But we were eating melon seeds and just watching. We were cheering for you on the side. At the time,” Zhou Yuan kept speaking, regardless of Hao Ning’s contempt, and he continued to say brazenly, “we saw it clear that when you used the Soul Cutter to turn the blue arms of Doctor Xue into the Soul Coin Material, one part of Soul Coin Material stained on your right hand. Now I think that it is most likely that the Soul Coin Material was absorbed by your Soul Cutter.”

“So what?” Hao Ning thought about it. It seemed that there was such a thing indeed. At that time, only a part of the Soul Coin Material in his hand was turned into the Life and Death Charms to attack the Doctor Xue. Some of it might have been pulled on the ring. Even so, Hao Ning still didn’t understand. “What does this have to do with the jade? Before this, the Soul Cutter just cut everything into powders!”

“Did you forget what the silver seven people said?” Zhou Yuan continued to recall and said, “As to the Soul Cutter, the Yin hurts the soul, while the Yang changes everything. Don’t you feel strange? If it is to destroy something, it should be said that the Yang destroys everything, and if they use the word ‘change’, it should not be to destroy, but to make the object changed.”

“Change?” The other three people tasted Zhou Yuan’s statement. “Change into what?”

“Change into other elements!” Zhou Yuan was a little excited. “Didn’t you find it? There is a big gap between this concrete and the jadeite inside. It’s obvious that the elements in the concrete have been changed and become some other elements with different densities. But the weight is impossible to be changed, and the density of jadeite is much larger than that of concrete, so there are many gaps in the middle!”

“In this way…” Hao Ning picked up the jadeite on the table. “Yes, it’s almost the same as the weight of concrete just now.”

Xiao Hong nodded. “It seems that only this explanation is the most reasonable.”

“In this way, can I change it casually?” Hao Ning was very happy. “We will be rich!”

“Don’t be happy so early…” Zhou Yuan said with a smile, “Try the last concrete again and see how much you can conjure out.”

“OK!” Hao Ning happily picked up the last piece of concrete and continued to “make” the jadeite, but at the end of this trial, there was only so little jadeite inside, and it would not become bigger.

“It is strange.” Hao Ning scratched his head. After knocking it out, he took out the jadeite, which was significantly smaller than the first two pieces. “What is going on?”

“I got it again!” Zhou Yuan laughed. “It seems that with this Hui sword, I become smarter. I think that this Soul Cutter does have the ability to change the elements, but it is uncontrollable for users. As to the reasons why you can control the concrete to become jadeite unconsciously, one is that you and the Soul Cutter have got the level of Integrated Sky and Man, and the other one is the using of the Soul Coin Material. Now the Soul Coin Material has been used up, and naturally, there is no way to change the concrete.”

“I see. Then why don’t we try to get more Soul Coin Material?” After Hao Ning finished these words, he saw that Zhou Yuan and Xiao Hong trembled once and got far away from him. Hao Ning could not help wondering, “What is wrong with you guys?”

“You? Who are you going to kill?” Xiao Hong asked, “Don’t you be afraid of the cause and effect?”

“Who? Oh, I understand.” Hao Ning suddenly remembered that the Soul Coin Material was made by the soul destroyed by the Soul Cutter. It meant that if he wanted to get more Soul Coin Materials, someone’s soul must be taken and destroyed. He would never be willing to do such a thing.

“Bah! What did the inventor of this Soul Cutter think?” After Hao Ning understood, he said indignantly, “In order to make money, he even wants to kill people’s souls.”

“What you said is wrong!” Xiao Hong also understood at this time, and he waved his hands. “The Soul Cutter is made by the men of Mr. Fei. He works in the mining industry. He is short of everything, but there is no shortage of jadeite and money. Besides, this way of changing concrete into jadeite is so complicated. Even if there are countless Soul Coin Materials in his hands, where can he find someone who has got the level of Integrated Sky and Man with the Soul Cutter? I guess that even around the world, only you can make money in this way.”

“Ha-ha!” Liu Shuai laughed when hearing his words. “Hao Ning, you see! You have these skills which sound extremely powerful, but if we think about them deeply, it will be found that they are all useless. You see! You can borrow mana from others, but you need the power to do that, while you can’t practice power yourself. You can change the stone into gold, but you need the help of Soul Coin Material, while you can’t get the Soul Coin Material easily. Ha-ha!”

After saying that, not only Liu Shuai, but also Xiao Hong and Zhou Yuan all laughed.

“D**n ! Stop talking nonsense!” Hao Ning whispered, “Can’t I store a little power now? Maybe in the future, there will be any method for me to get the Soul Coin Material without…”

“To get the Soul Coin Material without killing people?” Liu Shuai smiled. “Well, we are waiting for your good method.”

“Okay, okay! Don’t talk about these useless things.” Hao Ning looked at the Soul Cutter. Although he had such a good thing, he couldn’t afford to use it. He took these pieces of jadeite and asked Xiao Hong, “How much can we get for these pieces of jadeite?”

“Well…” Xiao Hong took these pieces of jadeite in his hands and had a look. Then he shook his head. “Although it is a good thing, the jadeite is too little. I estimate that they should be worth more than 20 million yuan, but no more than 40 million yuan at most.”

“So much money!” Hao Ning exclaimed, but then he said, “But it is still not enough. What should we do?”

“We can only think of another way.” Xiao Hong thought for a while. “We get so much money first. It is mainly because of our limited time. If we have more time, I can find some friends to polish it, and then it can be sold for a good price.”

“Fine! But what should we do now?” Hao Ning said, “Should we take it back or still sell it out here?”

“Both are OK. But being here will be easier to sell it out.” While saying, Xiao Hong looked down and thought about it. “The price may be higher after we take it back, but the time will be longer.”

“Forget it. Only when the money enters our pockets can we feel at ease.” Hao Ning nodded. “Don’t be too greedy. Only the money in our pockets is our own money.”

“OK! But there are still some small details. If we sell it directly, it will be too ostentatious.” Xiao Hong thought for a while and then said, “There should be a method like changing the prince with a civet cat. Let’s go out and buy some ordinary stones. Then we can put these pieces of jadeite into them, pretending to cut it out. It will be relatively low-key. Otherwise, it will be so strange to sell out the jadeite directly in the stone speculation place. Since we are here, it is better to follow the rules of the game here.”

“It makes sense.” Hao Ning thought about it and then said, “Just do it in this way!”