Chapter 187 - The Fourth Wall (1/2)

“You shouldn’t say it’s lucky,” Hao Ning looked at Xiao Hong with half a smile. “You should say that no wonder Avalokitesvara hide Mountain Lojia ‒ Don’t ask me why. I guess it. Our Avalokitesvara is really mysterious.”

“This is the first time you praise him sincerely!” Liu Shuai said in surprise: “You should praise him sincerely?”

“Get out!” Hao Ning responded a bit angrily, thinking about what Zhang Chi Hang was doing.

“Stop it.” Xiao Hong took the contract and looked at it. “In this case, the two brother’s contract is certainly a farce. The Dragon Temple naturally doesn’t need this contract. ‒ No, it’s not a usual contract.”

After saying this, Xiao Hong’s expression changed.

“Alas…” That woman shook her head and said remorsefully: “I was deluded by Doctor Xue. I not only made myself look like Shi Ming and bargained with Wang Shi Zhe but also used the soul contract.”

“Soul contract?” Liu Shuai was confused. “What is this contract? What is a soul contract?”

“Hmm… Good method…” Zhou Yuan seriously said with head nodding and eyes squinting. “This is an occult from the Western Region…”

“An occult from the Western Region?” Seeing Zhou Yuan saying so, Liu Shuai quickly asked: “What is it? You even know this?”

“Eh… well, I don’t know.” Zhou Yuan felt a little embarrassed but said stubbornly. “But isn’t it what novel said? Everything you haven’t seen is either an occult from the Western Region, or an ancient relic, or a leftover of alien. I think an occult would be the most suitable…”

“Can you not prove your existence at this time?” Liu Shuai knew that was Zhou Yuan’s nonsense, and he swore: “Can’t you shut up?”

“OK.” Zhou Yuan scratched his head. Seeing Liu Shuai glaring at him, he added quickly: “Come on. I’m the god of friends circle. I’ll feel uncomfortable in it sometimes if I don’t validate my existence. It’s my occupational disease. Sorry.” And then he smiled at Xiao Hong and said: “Please, please.”

“This is an occult from the Western Region…” Xiao Hong whispered but then stunned, for he was influenced by Zhou Yuan. He smiled awkwardly and correct: “No, no. This is a western occult. It was used in a contract that the devil signs with humans with the temptation of achieving human’s wish but at the cost of their soul.”

“How can it exist?” Zhou Yuan seemed to be ignorant of western history. He asked subconsciously: “Why did the devil kill humans with a contract?”

“Is it because of the distortion of reality results from people’s beliefs?” Hao Ning understood. He asked cautiously: “In western history, people valued contract. So, the transaction between the devil and the human was also mainly accomplished by the contract. Right?”

“You truly master in Chinese and Western knowledge…” The woman nodded. “I’m glad that Shi Ming and you are friends.”

“Who said Shi Ming and I are friends?” Hao Ning didn’t like the woman. “We’re still antagonistic not long ago, OK?”

“The soul contract is only superficial.” Xiao Hong didn’t respond to Hao Ning. He looked down at the contract. “The essence of the soul contract is not the content, but the two souls. So, there are two characters: First, they can’t help each other cheat. Second, no one can tear the contract by hurting the other.”

“Sh*t…” Hao Ning understood. He knew why they couldn’t hurt each other. It was because after signing the contract, if one was very strong and killed the other to avoid admitting it, the contract would be void. But why couldn’t they help each other cheat?

Not only Hao Ning, Zhou Yuan and Liu Shuai also asked the same question.

“It seemed that there has been a devil who fell in love with the contractor,” Xiao Hong thought for a while. “trying to help the other to evade the punishment of the contract. Such things were rare, but still existed.”

“Ah!” Liu Shuai immediately understood. “Unexpectedly, West is a place where a devil complies with legal!”

“What do you mean?” Xiao Hong thought it was an irony. “Did you mean that own Huaxia doesn’t comply legal?”

“No, no, no.” Liu Shuai said with an ingratiating smile. “We compel better. We are in a modern rule of the law society, right?”

“So.” Hao Ning didn’t respond to Liu Shuai, but continued to ask: “Why are you so nervous, Xiao Hong?”

“Because he thought that since Doctor Xue was dead,” the woman gasped and said, “the contract was useless. Or he wanted to save Shi Ming and used it as a bargaining chip to exchange my compromise on the contract. But this doesn’t work.”

“Alas…” Xiao Hong looked up at the sky. “Couldn’t imagine that you’re the one who understood me most.”

“We are both dealing with money.” the woman said dejectedly. “How difficult will it be to understand each other?”

“So what?” Hao Ning continued: “Didn’t you say that you can revalue the Dragon Temple? How about valuing it 100 million yuan?”

“The minimum valuation of the Dragon Temple is 200 million yuan, according to the recent market information.” The woman continued. “Even if Sudhana is so powerful, he won’t know where’s the bottom.”

“200 million?” Hao Ning and others screamed. They didn’t suspect her quotation. The price had been doubled, but if there really built a subway and construct business circles, the increasing price would be reasonable. If so, there would still be a 100 million yuan’s gap.

“200 million yuan! Deal! ” Hao Ning gnashed his teeth and said to Xiao Hong: “Fortunately, we prepared more…”

“I’m afraid that’s it.” Xiao Hong looked at the sky and then the woman. “How long do we have?”

“At most,” She closed her eyes and answered: “two weeks.”

“What do you mean?” Liu Shuai asked. Hao Ning said nothing. He probably knew what Xiao Hong meant.

“The time of the news spreading.” Xiao Hong nodded. This time was similar to his estimation. “Two weeks is the limit. After two weeks, the public would know the news, and then the rise of the land price…”

Liu Shuai understood, muttered: “The land price would lose control if the public knew it. Particularly, there’s a temple where people pray. In addition, although in the past, Dragon Temple has a few incenses, Long Fei was responsible, and almost every prayer for a child has been met. It had terrific words of mouth. I am afraid that there will be more and more people knowing the news and coveting the temple. We can’t control it anymore at that time.”

“Prayer for a child?” Xiao Hong’s eyes moved, and suddenly there seemed to be something coming to his mind. He smiled: “Let me think about it.”

“You…” That woman saw these people were still discussing the Dragon Temple, feeling confused: “I’ve seen this temple. There’s nothing valuable. Why are you so concerned?” Then she took a breath. “As you are so powerful, the incense of the Dragon Temple isn’t important at all!”

She meant everyone, but only looked at Hao Ning and Xiao Hong. It wasn’t difficult to understand. Just now, everyone had seen their powerful arts.

“Besides arts, there are people’s hearts…” Hao Ning felt this sentence seemed familiar and said it involuntarily. He rescuing Long Fei wasn’t for incense or reward, but just follow his heart. Long Fei and Zhou Yuan were both his friends. He didn’t think much.

“You have two choices now.” Xiao Hong didn’t answer the woman’s question. “One is to give up this affair. I’ll help you to enjoy incense in Mountain Lojia. So that your power and cultivation would be immortal, and five hundred years later, you are still an Auspicious Beast. The other is ‒” Xiao Hong took out a Jade Goddess of Mercy. “I build a spell boundary depending on your present cultivation, and retain your affairs in the kalasa of Jade Goddess of Mercy, but you will have no cultivation.”

“This master said well.” The woman smiled wanly but happily. She pointed to Hao Ning, saying: “Besides arts, there are people’s hearts. I practice my art just for knowing people’s hearts. Now I got my telesthesia with a man, hard to forget. In that case, why should I care about my arts? ”

“Bravo!” Zhou Yuan couldn’t help praising: “You’ve become a Buddha!”

“What does he mean?” Zhe asked unbearably.

“…” Zhou Yuan didn’t want to explain to Zhe. Hao Ning thought and said: “It means that if you’ve already accomplished communism, who cares about the matters at its primary stage?”

“The master has great wisdom!” The woman’s eyes lit up, “I admired!”

“Eh…” Hao Ning thought he hadn’t great wisdom at all, embarrassingly scratching his head. “Just accidentally.”

“In this case,” Xiao Hong reached out and pointed, and then the woman suddenly sparkled and was gradually wrapped by lights. “Come in.” As soon as he said, the woman wrapped by lights went into the kalasa of Jade Goddess of Mercy.

“I know you will choose this way.” Xiao Hong dejected, seemingly saying to himself, seemingly to that woman as well. “Just still hold a wish in the heart, so I asked again. Well, well. The waterside flower pines for love, while the heartless brook babbles on.”

After that, Xiao Hong hung the Jade Goddess of Mercy on the neck of Wang Shi Ming, who was still playing games excitedly. However, the moment when the Jade Goddess of Mercy hung in his neck, Wang Shi Ming shed tears in his excited and smiling face. Tears ran down his cheeks, dripping on the Jade Goddess of Mercy constantly. Suddenly the Jade Goddess of Mercy shone, and four characters appeared: You know me.

“Well!” Hao Ning saw Xiao Hong’s expression and knew his thought. Definitely, Xiao Hong fell in love with the Pixiu. Easy to understand, they work in a familiar direction and must have a lot in common. One was a thousand-years lad, and the other was an Auspicious Beast. Nothing strange.

But in Pixiu’s eye, there was Wang Shi Ming only, who always played games. Xiao Hong had shown explicitly and implicitly, but she didn’t respond still. Anything else he could do?

Seeing Xiao Hong silent, Hao Ning had to hold him with arm and comfort: “Don’t be upset. I’ll find you a better one.”

“Promise?” Xiao Hong wiped his nose and looked at Hao Ning.

“I promise. I promise,” said Hao Ning. “It’s over. Let’s go!”

“Just go?” Zhe suddenly asked.

Hao Ning planned to ask those three guys coming and helping their childe to go back. Hearing Zhe, he looked back to him: “What else?”

“Fight finished,” Zhe asked seriously. “Don’t we pick up the equipment?”

“Uh-huh?” Zhou Yuan stunned and immediately laughed. “You’re really the model of self-made rich men, and can’t bear throw anything—Hao Ning, Zhe means why you don’t take away the Manjusri’s body?”