Chapter 172 - Words Provoked Each Other in Group Meeting (1/2)
“However, those are acceptable…” Hao Ning understood what Zhou Yuan’s meaning was. Although he wanted to admit it, he still did not say it.
“People are growing up…” Zhou Yuan drank, shaking his head. He added, “Shake it off. What we are talking about is our guess. It doesn’t mean it must happen in the future.”
“Yes. Leave it alone. Then what will we do now?” Liu Shuai nodded, looking at Nezha. “How can we stop it happening?” He asked.
“Stop? Stop what?” Nezha was wondering. He asked Liu Shuai in reply, “Why will we stop it?”
“Are you crazy?” Liu Shuai was angry. “Do you know what the world will be if everyone becomes that one?”
“Even if so, the civilization of the Celestial Empire will continue,” Nezha said with closed eyes, calculating. He shook his head and said, “I calculated. It seems that it won’t happen.”
“You!” Liu Shuai was outraged. He thought that Nezha might worry about the souls hunting as he did. He did not expect that Nezha did not care about it at all.
“No offense,” Nezha drank and said. “The Celestial Empire has existed for thousands of years. It is not the first time for it to lose its soul…” he said, looking at Xiao Hong. Xiao Hong nodded. Seeing Xiao Hong agreed with him, Nezha continued to say, “From the view of the incense in our books. This is an inevitable period for the people of the Celestial Empire to suffer. As long as the Celestial Empire civilization continues, it is not a bad thing in the long term even there is a period when it goes down and some people are hurt.”
“To you, ordinary people, it is an easy thing to make the Celestial Empire civilization continue,” Xiao Hong saw that Liu Shuai was angry and was close to start a quarrel. He became an intermediator. He said, “Throughout history, as of now, there are only a few old civilizations exist. They also have their own beliefs. They also have an interdependent relationship with their people. However, their Gods neither managed their civilizations well nor could they protect their civilization well. The nations were very prosperous in their peak times. Once they fell into a decline. The Gods fell into a decline much faster than the national strength. The temples and the written words disappeared. Their beliefs and Gods were crushed. Even some of the nations were eliminated. Beliefs will not exist if there are no people. Under such conditions, their Gods have no power to protect their civilizations from dying away. So, please try to understand what Nezha said. He also wanted to help you, but he has his own beliefs.”
Nezha did not anticipate that Xiao Hong would be at his side. He recalled that they fought in the Gods Creation World. He had a sympathetic feeling about themselves.
“What about you?” Zhou Yuan asked Xiao Hong.
“I, of course, will be at your side to stop it… but it doesn’t mean that I should fight against Nezha. A gentleman gets along with others but does not necessarily agree with them. A mean man does the opposite,” Xiao Hong smiled, patting Zhou Yuan’s shoulder. “Despite that I have a different attitude from Nezha’s on this thing, I still can understand his meaning…” Xiao Hong said. He smiled at Nezha, and added, “It will not stop us from being good friends. I believe that once something big things happen, Nezha will handle it in the first place.”
“Of course!” Nezha said, patting the table and smiling.
Although Nezha and Xiao Hong were kids in others’ eyes, they could explain the reasons so clearly. Actually, they had lived for hundreds of years already! They had experienced much.
“Well, Nezha’s thinking is different from Zhang Quan,” Hao Ning thought. Yunzhongzi was a really enthusiastic person. He would be anxious when he saw any abnormal situations in the world. However, Nezha behaved so calmly.
After hearing Xiao Hong’s explanation, Hao Ning also understood. Nezha did not care about the death or life of an individual’s soul. His bottom line, just like what Xiao Hong explained, was to protect the Celestial Empire civilization from interruption. This might be the bottom line of many immortals in the Celestial Empire. Above the bottom line, we saw both Yunzhongzi’s active actions in the world and Avalokitesvara became “Guan Zi Zai” by Closing Five Senses. Then, we had Nezha who actively participated in the actions of the world but did not care about the death or life of an individual.
Closing Five Senses? When this word appeared in Hao Ning’s mind, he thought of something but he could not remember it clearly. Men always did things like this. We tried hard to think of something but the thing walked away from us. He tried for a while and gave up.
It seemed that Nezha would stay out of the business. It was not necessary to force him to do things for them. And, Mr. Fei’s influence was so powerful. Even if Nezha was willing to help, he would not have any better ideas. So, Hao Ning had to find a way to put aside their difference and seek the common ground. He thought of Nezha’s intention. So, he asked, “Nezha, you invest our company’s project. Is it related to the Soul Coin Engine?”
Hearing what Hao Ning said, Liu Shuai cleared his mind. As a god, Nezha had his attitude to nationalities. Although he could do nothing about it, he thought that if he could infiltrate into the enemy, he might get some useful information. Hao Ning did not be entangled with specific things. It might be a good way to detour. Thinking of this, Liu Shuai asked excitedly, “Yes. What do you want us to do for you? Do you need us to program for the Soul Coin Engine?”
Seeing Liu Shuai behave so actively, Hao Ning understood his intention. However, they were many people around. He could not disclose his intention. So, he joined others, looking at Nezha.
Seeing that they could change the topic so quickly, Nezha said with a smile, “This is not much related to the Soul Coin Engine…”
“Oh…” hearing him, Liu Shuai felt disappointed.
“But there is relation…” added Nezha.
“Oh?” hearing him again, Liu Shuai spirited up again.
“Are you Ok?” Seeing Liu Shuai’s tone changed so quickly, Nezha felt a little confused.
“Nothing,” Hao Ning patted Liu Shuai’s shoulder, implicating he should not hurry. “What can we do for you?”
“Well…” Nezha rubbed his forehead. He should have told them this thing in the day. However, he did not expect that something so big happened to Long Fei. It made him forget his intention. So, he said, “You guy know Didi car-hailing, right?”
“Yes, we do!” Hearing he mentioned an APP, Zhou Yuan thought it was his showtime then. Although he was a moment god, he knew that the Pigeon company had relations with this company. He was interested in this. He asked, “What? Does Mr. Fei want to use the Soul Coin Engine to enter into the travel business?”
Hearing what they said, Hao Ning produced a strange imagination: If every phone user loaded a little Soul Coin Material in his/her phone, the phone might float in the air like the sword in the Legend of Sword and Fairy. If so, nobody would need a car to travel, instead, they would ride their phone and fly in the sky. Ancient people had swords to fly and we had phones to fly. That might be the reason the phone was made bigger and bigger. It would be big enough for the user to ride on it. It was so funny, Hao Ning thought.
“No. No. It was not like that. Not so big,” Nezha shook his head and waved his hand quickly. His motion did not match his good image he just behaved. “As you all have experienced that night when a group of people fought in this restaurant, it made it easier to explain it.”
“The Soul Hunting Sect had applied many approaches to fulfill people’s imagination such as teaching people Kung Fu for souls exchange,” Nezha said. He noticed that they looked at him weirdly. He waved his hand promptly, “Don’t look at me. It was not invented by me. It was my predecessor who invented it. And after many people acquired Kung Fu, they wished to use it. The best way to use Kung Fu is to… Oh, I forgot the word.”
“Rob the rich and assist the poor?” Xiao Hong said.
“No.”
“Curb the violent and assist the weak?” Zhou Yuan said.
“No.”
“Uphold justice?” Liu Shuai said.
“No. No. No.”
“Kick somebody’s ass?” Hao Ning said.
“No… Oh, yes,” Nezha patted his head and said. He smiled and gave Hao Ning a thumb. He added, “This is the answer. Kick other’s ass. To kick those who did not dare to kick before. And they can kick their asses without any fear.”
Hearing what Nezha said, they did not look at Nezha. Instead, they looked at Hao Ning with a contemptuous look and said, “Hao Ning, look at you. Your outlook on life and values are too divisive. People tried hard to learn Kung Fu. They just wanted to kick other’s ass? Is this what you are thinking?”
“Why did you all stare at me?” Hao Ning felt embarrassed and said promptly. “This is not my thought. And look at me, I have learned Kung Fu for a long time. Did I aim to kick ass? Don’t blame me. Isn’t it the tactics of online novels? After learning Kung Fu, the actor will kick others continuously with tricks from his first thing to the last thing.”
“What you said made sense…” Zhou Yuan said. He also read some online novels recently. He agreed with Hao Ning after hearing what he said. He added, “But I don’t understand why we will kick others as soon as we get Kung Fu.”