Chapter 114 Human Heart Is Unfathomable, Disturbance Rose Again (1/2)
”What do you mean?” Liu Shuai stared at Hao Ning, his face filled with righteousness, ”As a righteous promising youngster, don't you even have this little sense of justice?”
”Of course I do, I have as much sense of justice as you do, ”Hao Ning hurriedly nodded in agreement, making Liu Shuai comfortable, while Hao Ning continued speaking,” Of course I support your point of view — — how about this, when we see that person in the future, your punch him first, I will help you right after that. ”
”That's more like it,” Liu Shuai laughed. With Hao Ning, this unreliable 'martial arts expert,' since that person was just an ordinary person, he should be able to take care of him easily. He was in a happy mood, no wonder he would ignore the suddenly appeared strange expression and declaration of Hao Ning.
”Did something happen after that?” Seeing that Liu Shuai had already fallen for this trap, Hao Ning did not continue arguing with him. After thinking for a bit, he continued to ask Long Fei, ”What was that flood that Teacher Ren mentioned?”
”Yeah, that flood …” Long Fei nodded, looked out the window at the gentle breeze and sunshine, and continued to recall, ”A few years later, I used Yufei's knowledge and intelligence in his body to finish the study as a doctoral candidate.”
”No wonder you're so amazing!” Liu Shuai slapped his thigh, and was enlightened, as he praised, ”So you learned so much using Yufei's body! Speaking of which, you are also an expert in ‘Lend Me Your Mana’! ” As he spoke, Liu Shuai glanced at Hao Ning, ”However, there are some people whose borrowed mana cannot last long, and yet you can continuously use it, and even nearly obtained such a high level of degree.”
Strangely, Hao Ning heard Liu Shuai's sarcasm and did not refute it. Instead, he just smiled and did not say a word.
”Well... He's brilliant, he can learn anything. ” Long Fei scratched his head in embarrassment, and then he became sad: ”Back then, Yufei himself did not care too much about his education, he only cared about how much ability he could have. He had once said that a diploma was the most ironic thing in the world, a doctoral degree seems to have the function of a leaf on Adam's and Eve's lower body, to cover up the embarrassment. A small square of paper can cover up a person's emptiness, clumsiness, and stupidity. ”
”That remark was – real and harsh.” Hearing Long Fei's words, Liu Shuai couldn't help but to laugh bitterly, ”A person who hasn't seen through the world couldn't say such words, I really can't think of a teenage boy saying such words.”
”These words were not originated by Yufei, but what Qian Zhongshu said in Fortress Besieged.” Although Hao Ning was correcting Liu Shuai, he still laughed, ”At least you are right about one thing. Being able to say these words when he was still a teenage boy, it is either because Yufei didn't like it when he saw people fighting crazily over a diploma for no reason, or because he only cared about his own abilities and was not willing to consider this piece of proof at all.”
”That's right...” Long Fei's eyes lit up, and he nodded as he agreed to Hao Ning's words, ”Hao Ning, you have really hit the nail on the head. I finally understand, he was willing to sacrifice himself to help that person pursue a doctorate because a diploma was nothing to him, but that person was the most important person in his heart. I've lived for him for so many years, but I don't understand him as well as you do. ”
”Don't say so...” Hao Ning wasn't used to Long Fei comparing him to someone who had already lost all his soul and had a god residing in his body. Thinking about this, Hao Ning thought of Zhou Yuan, who was also a soulless body that had been possessed by a god, and continued to ask him the question that had existed in his heart for a long time, ”At that time, was he really him, or was it you? What exactly is the relationship between the two of you? ”
”I don't know,” Long Fei was a little confused as he closed his eyes and thought for a while, ”This isn't Possession, it's more like a continuation as if I were his life. But I also know that I'm not him, no matter what, in those few years, I lived to become him, and that's it.”
”You lived to become him?” Hao Ning carefully mulled over the meaning of the sentence, and immediately understood the reason why Long Fei, with his extremely high intelligence, would act ridiculously sometimes. How could a person who had lived into someone else's life possibly live normally? It was like a person without financial capabilities suddenly receiving a prize of one hundred million dollars. Since he did not know how to spend it, his style of doing things naturally would not fit in.
”What happened to the flood?” Liu Shuai thought of the question that Hao Ning had asked at the beginning, ”Even though you were in Yufei's body, with your ability, you wouldn't have been drowned to death by the flood, right?”
”At that time, we were traveling together, yes, upstream of the waterfall,” Long Fei nodded his head, and recalled, ”This was something that I could not wrap my head around as well. The weather was originally perfect that day, however, when we were at the river bank, I felt a sudden surge of water in front of us, and before long, heavy rain would start to fall on the river. If there were no surprise, 20 minutes later, the place where we stayed would suffer a big flood that would probably damage the dike.”
”Then why weren't you hurriedly running away?” Hao Ning asked with his eyes wide open, ”In an emergency like that, you had to evacuate the people!”
”Brother, you're so stupid.” Liu Shuai looked at Hao Ning with some sympathy in his eyes, as he said in a disapproving manner, ”Your reasoning could only be used on mortals? Don't forget that this was a Dragon God. What was his first reaction to rain in front of him? ”
”Err …” Hao Ning's face flushed as if he really had not thought about the question from a god's perspective. He subconsciously asked, ”What reaction?”
”Heh — —” Liu Shuai laughed, and the smile of sympathy towards Hao Ning increased, and he laughed, ”You're still asking me? Isn't this idea the one you suggested to Long Fei today? ”
”I did?” Hao Ning thought about it carefully and thought about the bad idea he gave Long Fei this morning to earn more money. ”You didn't actually go upstream to stop the rain, did you?”
”That's right...” Long Fei smiled bitterly, ”That was indeed my reaction back then.” With that, he looked at Liu Shuai and nodded: ”You understand me.”
”I don't, I only understand a little more than ordinary people about the thoughts of gods. Moreover, this is something someone else taught me.” Liu Shuai's eyes dimmed a little, and asked: ”Then what happened next? Why was the flood still coming? ”
”After my soul left Yufei's body, I rushed upstream and discovered that it wasn't rain at all, but …” As Long Fei said till here, his lips shivered, and he suddenly didn't dare say anything.
”What was it? Don't keep us in suspense! ” Liu Shuai was anxious.
”But the sky was leaking …” Long Fei held back for a long time before finally saying these words.
”Puff …” Hao Ning spat out a mouthful of tea at Long Fei. Long Fei pointed at it, and it floated obediently in the air. After that, it flew back into Hao Ning's teacup. Hao Ning was a little disgusted, he put the teacup aside and started to drink water with another cup. With such a ruckus, the originally miserable atmosphere was utterly changed by Long Fei's words, ”The sky leaked, you must be out of your mind. After all, you are a dragon god, don't you know that the rainwater is actually condensed from the cold air after the steam rises …”
”Nonsense, I found it unbelievable just because I knew that.” Long Fei was a little unhappy, he felt that his professionalism as the Dragon God had been challenged, ”I know that you definitely won't believe me if I said this, but what I said was indeed the truth.”
”Alright, alright, how was it leaking?” Hao Ning was a little interested, as he looked at the furious Long Fei in front of him, ”Describe it to me properly.”
”You wouldn't understand even if I told you,” Long Fei looked around, and seeing that the waiters were in the distance chatting while eating sunflower seeds, he waved his hand, and a layer of mist enveloped the surroundings. Hao Ning knew about this technique of Long Fei's. It was an illusion technique, and no matter what happened here, when the people of the outside world looked in this direction, they would not feel that anything was amiss.
Long Fei blew on the teacup, and the tea gradually flowed out from the cup, forming a small river. The water in the small river slowly turned into white steam and rose up, creating a series of clouds in the air, the clouds gradually turned dark, and after a while, a crackling light started to appear from the dark clouds, which Hao Ning knew it was lightning, and started to drizzle down onto the teacup. Long Fei pointed at the drizzle and said, ”This is normal rain or thundershower, you guys understand, right?”
”What, you're going to start the lecture with magic?” Hao Ning found it funny, he suddenly felt that Long Fei's way of narrating natural phenomena was exciting. If Long Fei were not the Dragon God and became a science teacher instead, it would be very suitable for him.
”Stop talking nonsense, look,” Long Fei laughed for what Hao Ning said. As he spoke, the mist disappeared and gradually turned into an egg-shaped thing in blue color. ”This is the blue sky that I saw at that time.” Long Fei said as he pointed to the blue eggshell. Not long after, a hole appeared in the blue eggshell, and after it was broken, water started flowing out of the hole. As if it was free, the water fell into the teacup, and the cup was immediately filled with water, and the water quickly spread onto the table and flowed towards Hao Ning and Liu Shuai.
”F * ck!” The two of them immediately moved back to prevent the water from dripping onto their bodies.
Seeing that, Long Fei stopped his technique, the water then flowed back into the cup as if it was alive, there was still as much water as before, without any leakage, Long Fei looked at the two of them and said: ”That was what the sky, the hole, and the rain looked like on that day.”
”How was this possible?” Liu Shuai was the first to speak, ”Everyone knows that the blue sky is made up of air. How can a hole in a blue sky like this appear, and rainwater seeping out from the hole!”
”That's why it's so strange, and I felt a faint wave of mana inside the hole at the time,” Long Fei nodded his head, narrating the extremely ordinary yet strange matter. ”The strangest thing was that when I wanted to get near to that place, I suddenly felt that my soul was unstable, and when a burst of light arrived, I immediately fainted. When I woke up, I realized that the sky was not leaking anymore, but the river has already risen by a lot and was rushing downstream.”
”The sky was not leaking?” Hao Ning was a little curious about Long Fei's description, ”Are you saying that the rain has stopped?”