Chapter 220 - Pray and Faith

“It’s a morgue.” Jienan smiled and looked at Yun. His eyes could not take off from her face. “But it is heaven, too.”

“This is obviously a lost-soul syndrome!” Mr. Hu said half-jokingly, “They are very sick! I am afraid I will have to use a heavy dose of medicine to save the two people. Otherwise, the two will definitely die soon!”

After he said that, Jienan’s and Yun’s face had all changed, looking at Mr. Hu nervously.

“What kind of heavy medicine?” Zhang Dalong did not understand it and asked curiously, “Can my brother cure this?”

“Marriage.” Mr. Hu said and smiled. “There is no other medicine for this except it.”

“Grandpa!” Yun glared at Mr. Hu with a blushed face. “What are you talking about?”

“Well, no kidding.” Mr. Hu was in a good mood for one more reason. Seeing Hao Ning and others looking relaxed, he asked, “What’s the matter, my friends? Have you made any progress?”

“I don’t know yet.” Xiao Hong answered for others. “But we may find out a solution. As to whether it is possible, we still need to observe for some time.”

Xiao Hong’s so-called observation referred to that she wanted to know how Spiritual Flying Bugs of the Gold Finger saved the Gold Finger through its magic. Judging from the tone of Silver and Bronze, the urgency of the other side rescuing the Golden Finger was far greater than that of their own rescuing these patients. Therefore, the priority now was to wait and see how the other side could rescue others and took the chance to act. However, Xiao Hong’s so-called observation for a period, in the eyes of doctors like Mr. Hu, seemed to be observing the patients.

“Well, well, well! The younger generation will surpass the older! ” Mr. Hu felt relaxed when he heard Xiao Hong saying this. “Today is the weekend. You guys should also go to H city for a visit. Don’t always stay in front of us two old guys.”

Jienan and Yun had just confirmed their relationship. Naturally, they went shopping happily. The purpose of Zhou Yuan and Liu Shuai to H city was to play, and they disappeared. Xiao Hong was completely uninterested in these common amusements. Hao Ning was also thinking about how those people saved the Gold Finger, so the two hit it off and offered to stay and observe the movements of those people. Zhou Yuan thought of it and clicked on Hao Ning’s mobile phone. The software made by Liu Shuai in the mobile phone could also check the Spiritual Flying Bugs in the Gold Finger body.

However, Xiao Hong fell fast asleep when he got in his room. Hao Ning was the only one who looked at his mobile phone for a while, only to find that those people carried the Gold Finger wrapped by random piece of cloth back to somewhere. He couldn’t help but wake Xiao Hong up. “Why don’t they save the Gold Finger quickly? “

“Old brother, can you let me sleep for a while?” Xiao Hong cried in a daze. “Why are you so energetic?”

“There is something in my heart.” Hao Ning said gloomily. “Don’t you care how they treat this person?”

“I don’t care now. So, don’t worry.” Xiao Hong yawned and fell asleep. “They won’t save the man until the stone-gambling shut door this afternoon.”

“Why?” Hao Ning felt strange in his heart and pulled up Xiao Hong and asked, “How do you know so clearly?”

“Old brother, can you let me sleep for a while? “ “You, all right.“ Xiao Hong saw Hao Ning for a while. He had to do it earnestly and explained, “It’s still daytime, and the stone-gambling market is still open. Obviously, these pirated Gold Fingers must be used as stone-gambling consultants for those rich people. They will only go down to the ground to do things when the outsiders of the stone-gambling market are gone.”

“But there are other people.” Hao Ning thought that what Xiao Hong said was not very right. And he retorted, “did you forget the two light and shadow? They can save this man. They won’t bet on stone-gambling on the ground, will they? ”

“Brother Hao Ning, your theology quotient is really …” Xiao Hong scratched his head with a wry smile and looked at Hao Ning tearfully with a yawn. “If you put yourself in the shoes of those bronze fingers and silver fingers, will you know the existence of those two lights?”

“Of course, …” Hao Ning thought carefully, and he understood. “Right, judging from Yi Pingzhi’s behavior, obviously the two shadows have done something shady. And it seems that they are relying on the genuine and pirated super Gold Fingers’ continuous stone-gambling process to get the essence and elixir of the gods. And they don’t seem to want to let those people know this process. And yesterday it seemed that they said that these essences had a much better effect after I went there. In this way, the shadows must be in the dark. ”

“Yes.” Xiao Hong nodded and yawned again. “As long as the stone-gambling market is still working, those people will help others to gamble. The Gold Finger remain dead there. It is estimated that these people will start working underground at night. Only when these pirated Gold Fingers are unoccupied can they save the original Gold Finger.”

The pirated Gold Fingers rescued the original gold Finger … Hao Ning listened to this and felt not so comfortable, but he did not say anything in his heart.

“And you should think about it.” Xiao Hong’s eyes had been so red. “Super Gold Finger’s soul was dead. If they want to save him, they must cast spells. Such kinds of power fluctuations will attract some masters in stone-gambling during the day. Then what will happen? Yesterday you were there to scare them. Will they be so arrogant? ”

“It’s reasonable.” Hao Ning nodded and praised. “Xiao Hong you are so smart.”

“It’s not just me.” said Xiao Hong, adjusting his pillow. “The three of us have thought about it. Only you didn’t think about it. Otherwise, how would Liu Shuai and Zhou Yuan dare to go out and play? They have planned it.”

“Oh …” Hao Ning was a little embarrassed. “Then the two people go out to play without letting me know.”

“Maybe they didn’t expect you to not think of such a simple soul-related thing …” Xiao Hong sighed. “Can I sleep now?”

“Sleep!” Hao Ning was irritated by Xiao Hong’s last words. He lost his temper and said grumpily, “I’ll sleep too!”

After that, he also took a pillow and lay down on another bed. Hao Ning didn’t sleep well last night. He felt sleepy after relieving. He yawned and said, “Oh, I wish I could have a good dream. I also want to dream of the Yuanmingyuan Imperial Garden fucking Zhou Yuan, hey.”

“Well?” Xiao Hong heard the words and moved his ears. He jumped up and pushed Hao Ning. “You can’t sleep. Don’t sleep!”

“What happened to you?” Hao Ning was just a little sleepy. It was very unhappy to be pushed by Xiao Hong. “Isn’t it all solved?”

“I thought of one thing and I wanted to talk to you.” Xiao Hong was a little nervous, and he tempted. “You can’t sleep first.”

“No.” Hao Ning said. “Liu Shuai’s theology foundation is the strongest. You can discuss with them. My theology quotient is negative. It will be good if I don’t add chaos to you.” Then he put the quilt on the head and continued to sleep.

“Oh, my good brother, I am sorry.” Xiao Hong admitted that fast enough. He had been pushing Hao Ning to prevent him from sleeping. “I can only discuss this with you, not them.”

“Well?” Hao Ning was so interested in listening to it. He got up and asked, “What?”

“Could you remember that?” Xiao Hong asked tentatively. ” do you think how old his mother was when we saved his parents?”

“I didn’t pay attention to the old lady and man.” Hao Ning did not know why Xiao Hong mentioned this. “Why do I care about this?”

“Sure enough, your theology quotient is negative.” Xiao Hong sighed. Seeing Hao Ning’s eyes, he said with a smile, “I am talking about me. At that time, I was in your body. When you forced two old people to drink Lethe Water, I felt the ages of the souls of the two old people. I didn’t pay attention to it at the time. Now I think about the sentence you just said, and I feel that it is not right.”

“How old did you think they were at the time?” Hao Ning felt that it was strange to discuss the age of the soul with Xiao Hong. But he still asked, “What is wrong?”

“I felt the souls of Zhou Yuan’s his parents.” Xiao Hong scratched his head and felt embarrassed to say. “It should be more than ninety years old, almost one hundred years old.”

“Nonsense!” Hao Ning shook his head and smiled. “Zhou Yuan is just 25 years old. Can his mother be over 90 years old? You are funny! Doesn’t that mean his mother’s soul gave birth to Zhou Yuan in her 70s? His mother had children when she was in her 70s? Why don’t you say that she has a kid when she is 150-year-old?”

“Yes.” Xiao Hong seemed innocent and nodded seriously. “I was born when my parents were about two hundred years old! At that time, my father still thought it was too early. They hadn’t had enough sex life!”

“…” Hao Ning looked at Xiao Hong who seriously took it for granted. After he thought about it, he understood that Hong Hai’er was called “Great Saint Infant King” in “Journey to the West”. When the Monkey King followed Tang Sanzang to go on a pilgrimage for Buddhist scriptures. Hong Hai’er seemed to be more than 300 years old. The Monkey King was pressed down by the Marble Mountain for five hundred years. Five hundred years ago, the Monkey King and the Bull Demon King had once been sworn brothers. At that time, the Bull Demon King had no children. That was to say, the Bull Demon King and the Princess Iron Fan gave birth to Hong Hai’er after the Monkey King had been pressed under the Marble Mountain. After this increasing and decreasing, Hong Hai’er was born basically after the Monkey King was pressed under the foot of the Marble Mountain for more than one hundred years, so that the Bull Demon King and Princess Iron Fan was more than 100 years old when they gave birth to Hong Hai’er. So, what Xiao Hong said could not be wrong.

Xiao Hong was still saying to himself. “So, when I felt that Zhou Yuan’s mother’s soul was in her 90s, I didn’t care it. I felt that it wasn’t a big deal that his mother had him in her 70s. Nowadays young people are not so serious. Early marriage and early childbirth happen a lot. So, I didn’t think it was a big deal that Zhou Yuan’s mother was more than 70 years old with early pregnancy. After all, this kind of thing belonged to the private affairs of Zhou Yuan’s family. Maybe his parents are about 60 years old when they had pledged to marriage without the permission of parents and were pregnant with Zhou Yuan…”

Xiao Hong’s self-righteous speculation had made Hao Ning upset. Was it early to get married and pregnant in one’s 70s? People pledged to marriage without the permission of parent and got pregnant but unmarried in their 60s. Was it normal? How could Xiao Hong dared to say that?

Speaking of that, Xiao Hong was blushing. He scratched his head and said with a smile. “When you just said, ‘have a good dream’. I only realized that we were in Zhou Yuan’s fucking dream—”

“Imagination.” Hao Ning corrected.

“Well, I just thought about what we are doing in Zhou Yuan’s fucking daydream.” Xiao Hong continued. “I just imagined that people have limited ages. Basically, they would be pregnant in their twenties, right?”

“… Are you saying nonsense?” Hao Ning looked at Xiao Hong and sneered. “My theology quotient is negative and your intelligence quotient is not very high, either…”

“Oh, don’t say this.” Xiao Hong waved his hand. “This is an interesting thing. You can’t find the strange phenomenon that the two old people’s souls are nearly a hundred years old. I found this strange phenomenon normal that they were nearly one hundred years old, and I didn’t think it carefully in my heart. So, we all missed this key point.” Speaking of this, Xiao Hong was shaking his head. “Surely, what big brother Zhang said was right. The problem that everyone didn’t realize is the biggest problem.”

Hao Ning seemed to remember that Zhang Chi Hang had said something similar. But he did not want to sigh with Xiao Hong. He asked, “What is the key point? You tell me.”

“The age! The age of Zhou Yuan’s mother’s soul.” Xiao Hong calculated it with the fingers. “The age of the souls of those who played the game, and the age of the soul of the Gold Fingers in the stone gambling, far exceeded their physical age!”

“Yes.” Hao Ning thought that it took a long time for Xiao Hong to find out what they knew much earlier. He yawned and replied, “This is an objective fact! What is wrong about this?”

“No, the thing we have been confused about is just that we don’t know what have happened to the soul of people played the game and that what happened to the soul of those stone-gambling players.” Xiao Hong was quite excited and automatically ignored Hao Hing’s theological dementia symptoms. “But we know what has happened to Zhou Yuan’s mother, because we all have been into her soul for a while!”

“It makes sense!” Hao Ning patted his thigh and was excited. “It seems that those who played games and gambling stones have built a Yuanmingyuan Imperial Garden and bought a Forbidden City in their imagination!”

“Bang!” Xiao Hong’s forehead slammed onto the bedside table. Hao Ning saw Xiao Hong and immediately understood. Wasn’t this just a nonsense for Xiao Hong? He quickly helped Xiao Hong to stand up and smilingly said, “I am joking. You just continue to talk.”

Xiao Hong said with a wry smile. “It does not blame on you. I just thought of it. Instead of building a Yuanmingyuan Imperial Garden, playing games and gambling stones, they had a common feature: endless use of the ability given to them.”

“Endless use of the ability that one has been given?” Hao Ning pondered what Xiao Hong said. It seemed that this was really the case.

“Big brother Hao Ning, don’t you feel weird?” Xiao Hong continued to analyze. “According to what you have said before, if the ability of those who can gamble stones was borrowed from the Book Elf – every time they use it, their soul will be devoured by the Book Elf. The more they use it, the more their soul should be swallowed up other than getting old.”

“Yeah.” Hao Ning carefully thought about Xiao Hong’s words, and had to say that Xiao Hong’s analysis was correct. And he never thought about these things.

“And as for the people who play the game.” Xiao Hong continued. “They don’t need a Book Elf to improve their ability to play games, but their soul is getting old.”

“As for Zhou Yuan’s mother.” Xiao Hong looked at Hao Ning and explained in detail, “It is even more impossible for a Book Elf to exist. The aging of her soul can only be relevant with her more and more unrealistic imagination in her own mind. Of course, we used to think that this is because of his mother’s insatiable greed, which made her imagination more and more out of control. But now in retrospect, how could an ordinary person, enlarge imagining desire without temperance and cease like that? Wasn’t it surprising that his mother had already reached the point where she didn’t know who she was?”

“It makes sense.” Hao Ning nodded in agreement. “You mean that Zhou Yuan’s mother’s endless use of the ability turning her imagination into reality had caused her soul getting old?”

“It’s very possible.” Xiao Hong frowned. “If this is the case, then the problem is big.”

“What do you mean?” Hao Ning saw Xiao Hong frowned. “Is this another witchcraft?”

“No, there is no magic in the world that can make the soul aging.” Xiao Hong shook his head. “The witchcraft generally devours the soul directly. On the contrary, there is a common behavior in the world that may subtly change the age of the soul and make the soul a little older than the actual age.”

“What behavior?” Hao Ning heard this for the first time. “Does Liu Shuai know?”

“He should have known it. But like I ignored the fact that the mortal soul can’t have a child at the age of 70, he also ignored this normal behavior.” Xiao Hong said with a wry smile. “That behavior is called Praying.”

“So, are you saying that Praying will make the soul accelerate aging?” Hao Ning smiled and shook his head.” I have never heard of that.”

“The correct word is not praying but concentrating on something.” Xiao Hong thought and explained. “I think you may have heard of some extreme legends, such as a general who was under too much pressure and concentrated on thinking the strategy of breaking the enemy, got all his hair white just for one night. Or some people focusing on writing books or painting, had consumed too much of their energy and looked like an old man within three days, etc. Those meant that the souls of them were aging, but this kind of things is very rare. And even if people could be aging, it will not be too excessive. It is often a little bigger than the actual age. Those legends have exaggerated elements, but they are indeed true. The common saying is that too much wisdom hurts people and too much emotion ages people. This is the soul aging caused by too much concentration on certain things.”

“I understood.” Hao Ning nodded. “From your point of view, it does look a bit like it. But you also have said that even if a person focuses on something however much, it will be just a few years older. How can it be such a great gap like 100,000 years?”

“Yeah.” Xiao Hong thought of this too. “I have thought about this and it just breaks. I can’t think of it anymore. I always feel that something is worse, and I am stuck in it. The more I want to think, the more frustrated I am.”

“Yeah.” Hao Ning nodded. “Your feeling is what I felt last night. The more I thought about the essence of the archy, the more uncomfortable and nervous I was, the more I worried about the Yi Pingzhi -”

“The essence of the archy?” Xiao Hong suddenly looked up, staring at Hao Ning, scared and shivered. “No, it won’t be that… If it is that, it will be terrible!”

“Xiao Hong, Xiao Hong.” Hao Ning was scared by Xiao Hong’s appearance. He shook Xiao Hong’s body. “What happened to you? Why are you so scared?”

“I…” Xiao Hong thought of it, but he was afraid to say it until Hao Ning asked him more than ten times. And he just said a sentence, “We thought it wrong. What Yi Pingzhi had done, was not to let those people to to cut the jadeite for him, but to make a huge amount of incense.”

“What do you mean?” Hao Ning didn’t quite understand why Xiao Hong suddenly said that. “Can you say it slowly? I don’t understand.”

“I’m sorry. My thoughts are a little fast.” Xiao Hong shook his head, closed his eyes and thought for a moment, as if wondering how to explain it to Hao Ning. “I need to start with the praying that I have just said. Praying is only used for people to worship the gods. And in the process of worship, faith is generated. Can you understand that?”

“Yes.” Hao Ning nodded. He was too familiar with this matter. “Faith produces Wuxiang fragrance, right?”

“Yes.” Xiao Hong nodded. “In the process of praying, it is because the soul has produced a faith that the life of the soul will be shortened. From the result, the soul of those who pray all year round will be older than ordinary people.” Seeing Hao Ning wanting to open his mouth and ask, Xiao Hong shook his hand. “Don’t hurry. I know what you want to ask. This is not a bad thing. In one case, this kind of aging is very few. Even when one person prays for 100 years in his life, I am afraid that the aging of his soul is older about only a few days to half a year. But because this person has been praying, and his produced faith has become a Wuxiang fragrance. He has gained an opportunity for him to fulfill his wishes by the god the fragrance has made.”

“Hey…” Hao Ning wandered around his mind. “What do you mean?”

“In a nutshell.” Xiao Hong nodded and said. “If a person is praying the Avalokitesvara for a lifetime, then the faith that he produces will become a Wuxiang fragrance of Avalokitesvara, so if he makes a wish, There is a chance he can be satisfied with his wishes by Avalokitesvara. Of course, there are only opportunities. And all their wishes will be summed up in the Wishes Scriptures.”

“So it is.” Hao Ning nodded. He just knew how the Wishes Scriptures that Xiao Hong had mentioned come out. “But why not to satisfy everyone’s wishes?”

“Besides the reason that after the satisfaction, people will not think about making progress. There is another reason.” Xiao Hong said with a smile. “If I haven’t managed the Wishes Scriptures, I won’t have known it. The reason is very simple. The faith produced by a person is very little, so there is not much Wuxiang fragrance in the faiths. These fragrances cannot be used to satisfy everyone’s wishes. They are got from the people and used on the people. But after averaging them, nothing will be left.”

“It’s like this.” Hao Ning understood at this time. “So, when everyone prays, they inadvertently use their very little soul life to produce the Wuxiang fragrance of the faith. And only these incenses gather to a certain extent can they satisfy people’s wishes. Praying is equivalent to buying a lottery ticket. If you don’t pray, your wishes will not be realized. If you pray, you can get a chance.”

“Hey…” Xiao Hong saw Hao Ning comparing the praying to buying a lottery ticket and felt it a little weird. But he nodded. “It’s almost the same thing. When you see Brother Zhang later, don’t say so…”

“I don’t want to see him – what does this have to do with these people?” Hao Ning said. He suddenly understood it here. “Do you mean that the ages of these people’s souls are exhausted through behaviors like praying?”

“I am not sure. I just guess that there is such a possibility.” Xiao Hong nodded with a wry smile. “You think about that. A person who prays for a lifetime will only live for less than half a year. And if these people’s souls have been aging for 100,000 years in a short time and these aging lives are used to pray and produce the Wuxiang incense of faith, it is equivalent to at the same time-”

Xiao Hong took out the calculator of the mobile phone and calculated, “It is the equivalent of the faith that hundreds of thousands of people pray for a hundred years!”

“Oh my god!” Hao Ning heard it and felt scared to sit on the bed. “That can’t be true, can it?”

“This is just my rough calculation.” Xiao Hong was so surprised for a long time after calculating. “But the price is that this soul has no ability to reincarnate again. Let alone those souls of 100,000 years, when souls are more than 500 years old, it will be very difficult for them to reincarnate through the nether world.”

“If you didn’t mention about the essence of the archy, I can’t think of them.” Xiao Hong said. “But you think about it. Besides the Wuxiang fragrance necessary for the becoming gods, what else can you recall the essence of the archy?”

“But I still don’t get it.” Hao Ning continued. “These people didn’t pray. They just kept gambling, drawing lines, and cutting stones. How did this have anything to do with praying?”

“This is what I just figured out.” Xiao Hong frowned and said. “They concentrated on doing this thing, which would also produce a Wuxiang incense of faith. They didn’t necessarily need to pray for a statue. Just like Zhou Yuan’s Moment God, he is also using the fragrance of faiths generated by people’s concentration on the Internet, isn’t it?”

“Speaking of you, you have done such a good thing!” Xiao Hong said that and nodded to Hao Ning, wiping his sweat. “If you didn’t make the Internet incense a god at that time by accident, but let those who have ulterior motives get it, who knows what will happen!”

Hao Ning analyzed, “That is to say, Yi Pingzhi absorbed the Wuxiang fragrance generated by their faith, and gathered together as the essence of the achy through tempting those people to continue to gamble stones.”

“It could be like this!” Xiao Hong nodded.

“But what does he want from this Wuxiang fragrance?” Hao Ning said strangely. “He is not a god.”

“In order to create a more advanced material of the Soul Coin.” Xiao Hong thought and said, “And if you think about it, chopping up a person’s soul can only get the Soul Coin material of this person. But if let this person continue to generate faith and produce a phase less Wuxiang fragrance, let alone the Wuxiang fragrance itself is more useful than the soul of a single person, the producing amount is far more than the soul of this person.”

“It seems that those who are gambling stones are not humans.” Hao Ning said with a wry smile. “Aren’t they just like the leeks, are they?”

“Yeah, they don’t know that they have been being cut off their life of the soul again and again.” Xiao Hong sighed. “They will finally get the end that they will never reincarnate. All these poor soul leeks…”

“But, what method can they use?” Hao Ning frowned. “This is the most critical issue. You have said that it is impossible to make a person’s soul aging like this under normal circumstances.”

“I don’t know.” Xiao Hong shook his head. “I can’t figure this out.” When it comes to that, Xiao Hong lay down.” This is just our guess. The most important thing now is to see how they treat the Gold Finger. We will make further plans. No matter what they do, saving people is still the most important thing. It is useless to say so much now, and I just want to sleep.”

Seeing Xiao Hong having no methods, Hao Ning could just lie down on the bed while thinking about this problem. And he falls asleep.

It was just that in the sleep Hao Ning was so worried. He had a lot of dreams. And finally, he was dreaming that Zhou Yuan was talking about his old story. There used to be a mountain. There was a temple on the hill. And there was an old monk in the temple telling a story. What story was it? Once upon a time there was a mountain and there was a temple on the mountain…

This story made Hao Ning agitated. But when he was about to scold, Liu Shuai’s voice came out again. ” can you tell another stories in addition to this one? I have bought these things after a day of shopping. I don’t know what to do next time if I come with Wen!”

While dreaming, Liu Shuai began to knock on the door, which made Hao Ning more upset. He thought that this dream was too noisy. Liu Shuai has knocked more heavily, and Hao Ning had been confused for a while. He noticed that it was not a dream. It was the time when the two people came back from shopping. He got up and went to open the door unconsciously with anger.