Chapter 196 - Principles of Reincarnation (1/2)

After that, Zhou Yuan stunned and sat on the ground without a word.

“What’s the matter with the soul?” Finding Zhou Yuan didn’t say anything, Hao Ning asked Xiao Hong curiously. “What’s wrong with him? Why did he not ask on hearing that her soul is sick?”

“Have you heard that the soul would be sick?” Xiao Hong asked Hao Ning.

“How could I have heard of it before?” Hao Ning responded directly. “And I haven’t heard any story about the sick soul as well. Can people’s ghost get—” Hao Ning suddenly found he said wrong. Dead people were called ghost. He corrected: “Can people’s souls get sick?”

“People’s soul is likely to get sick.” Xiao Hong said, with head lowering. “But it’s rare that the human soul gets sick. Only the soul that over 500 years will get sick. Usually, its fresh will die before the soul got sick. So, there’s no record.”

“I see.” Hao Ning nodded and thought about it. “But when people die, the soul won’t die. Can’t he reincarnate?”

“You knew so much…” Xiao Hong sighed. “Yes, if a soul dies, the body can reincarnate.”

“Yeah, you just said a soul that is over 500 years old may get sick.” Hao Ning thought and said. “If a soul reincarnates many times, it’ll be 500 years old early or late. So, all the soul would be sick one day?”

“Well…” Xiao Hong prevaricated. He didn’t talk any more.

“Ha ha ha, you’re confused!” Knowing Xiao Hong had nothing to say, Hao Ning thought he won and was about to laugh, but he stopped when seeing Zhou Yuan’s expression. “How do you explain it?”

“I didn’t get confused. I’m thinking about how to explain to some layman like you who are unable to practice power.” Xiao Hong thought for a while, and he beat his thigh. “I got an idea! If your computer operating system is broken, or if your computer is infected with a virus and have a Trojan horse virus, what would you do?”

“Delete all files, format the hard drive, and reinstall the system!” After all, Hao Ning majored in computer. He used to help his classmates to do this kind of thing when he was in university. Especially those dormitories downstairs always liked to surf some “unhealthy” websites, and Hao Ning often had to repair computers for them every half a month. Hao Ning did it simply and straightforward, deleted all the files directly and formatted the hard disk. “I am very familiar with this kind of thing.”

“Isn’t the computer much faster after formatting hard drive and reinstalling the system?” Xiao Hong asked, “As if the computer were new again?”

“Of course. The computer became cleaner after all…” Hao Ning responded jauntily. Suddenly he realized what Xiao Hong meant, “You mean, reincarnation is…”

“Yes, the reincarnation is something like hard disk formatting, computer system reinstallation.” Xiao Hong scratched his head and said slowly. “It should be said they’re just similar‒Amitabha, if Zhang knows that I explain reincarnation in this way, I must be educated by him for dozens of years.”

“Nonsense.” Hao Ning scorned. “I never heard of reincarnation is the same as formatting a hard drive!”

“He didn’t talk nonsense.” Zhou Yuan stood up at this time. “After formatting, the hard disk become empty. While there is a process that is very similar to it in reincarnation‒Lethe Water.”

“Sh*t…” Hao Ning sweated. “You mean, drinking the Lethe Water is reinstalling computer‒No no, what should I say?”

“Let me say.” Xiao Hong found Hao Ning was dull when encountering such a thing. He explained: “As long as the time is long enough, the soul will get sick. So, after drinking the Lethe Water and before the reincarnation, the time was to cure of disease. But this treatment is very crude. It’s just like you rudely repaired your students’ computers with virus. After treatment, the computer is getting faster as if a new one, but everything in the computer has gone.”

“Drinking the Lethe Water, the past life would be forgotten…” Hao Ning muttered to himself, “It turned out to be that…”

“Yes.” Xiao Hong nodded. “It’s almost like this. Next time you see Brother Zhang, don’t tell him that I explained it to you. Never mind. Don’t mention this. If he asks you, just listen to him. Anyway, he won’t find fault from what he said only.”

“So, in legendary stories, is someone has their previous life memories,” Hao Ning nodded and continued to speculate. “The result of something goes wrong when drinking the Lethe Water?” ‒ But this doesn’t make sense. Some people have memories of dozens of or even hundreds of years ago. It’s impossible for him to keep memories after drinking Lethe Water for many times in hundreds of years? Then the quality of the Lethe Water is worrying?”

Before Xiao Hong explained, Hao Ning understood: “Oh, I see. He has reincarnated into a turtle in these hundreds of years. Tortoise in one thousand years and turtle in ten thousand years! He lived for enough long time. And after the turtle died, he reincarnated again and the Lethe Water didn’t work as well, so he remembered things of hundreds of years ago. There’s little chance that the Lethe Water didn’t work for many times, but it is still possible for twice in a row. Am I right?”

“Brother Hao Ning, you have no talent in this filed. Stop guessing…” Xiao Hong smiled wryly. “If what you said is true, why he can’t remember he was a turtle in his previous life?”

“Because‒” Hao Ning blushed for Xiao Hong’s problem as like an uncomfortable turtle. “Alright. I admitted I don’t know.”

“Right. Why?” Zhou Yuan asked as well.

“Don’t you care about your mother?” Hao Ning curiously asked, “I’m just listening to the story. You too?”

“Nonsense. Xiao Hong is telling me how to save my mother!” Zhou Yuan angrily said. “I really doubt that there’s also a Lethe Water in your mind. As long as encountering something related to God, you’ll smell it. Even you won’t lose your memory but definitely be confused.”

“Alright! Zhou Yuan is right. How can you understand I cure his mother if I don’t explain it clearly?” Xiao Hong said with a smile, “The reason why those people remembered hundreds of years ago is because of a big secret. The nether world isn’t a certain place at all, but a relatively chaotic time and space. The time of reincarnation of all souls is random in it!”

“What do you mean?” Zhou Yuan listened dazedly, “I don’t understand. Aren’t you talking about ghosts and souls? Why did you mention the time and space? ”

“This was what Brother Zhang told me,” Xiao Hong explained. “I didn’t understand it before. Until recent decades, I got to know technology and learned more.”

“I see. I see.” Hao Ning nodded. Although he didn’t know ghosts, he was very interested in spacetime, science fiction, four-dimensional space. Otherwise, he wouldn’t mention the science fiction The Three-Body Problem as an example. “You mean because of the chaotic and random spacetime in the nether world and reincarnation, a soul couldn’t know what time it will appear when reincarnating. So after drinking the Lethe Water, people are likely to appear in the spacetime of hundreds of years?”

“That’s it.” Xiao Hong nodded. “Bravo. You’re really smart about that. When Brother Zhang said to me for the first time, I didn’t know what he was talking about!”

“I know. I know! That’s it! I see!” Hao Ning beat his thigh, jumped up happily, and then kissed Xiao Hong. “Thank you for solving my biggest problem about the mythology system for many years! Thank you!”

“Is he insane?” Zhou Yuan looked at Xiao Hong, who was rushing to wipe the saliva on his face, so he asked, “What confused?”

“Are you not surprised?” Hao Ning looked at Zhou Yuan. “You have read so many ancient books, mentioning six reincarnations, and a lot of ghost reincarnation? Have you found a problem? Sometimes there are many people in history, sometimes there are fewer people, and the population is gradually growing. If it is the reincarnation of the reincarnation, there were so few people in the past, and there are so many people now, and then the people of the past reincarnate to today, so the soul is definitely not enough. Those who have not enough souls, where did the souls in their bodies come from?”

“Yes, it’s impossible to have no soul…” Zhou Yuan thought for a moment and asked, “Where is it?”

“Fu**er.” Hao Ning said with a smile. “From the other spacetime! Since the Six Paths of Reincarnation is a chaotic spacetime, people may reincarnate in any place. So, the people who died in the past may directly reincarnate in hundreds of years later. In other words, the soul of today’s people may be the one who died a long time ago and reborn to today or –” Hao Ning was muddled saying here. He looked at Xiao Hong, who was looking at him as well and nodded at him. Hao Ning said uncertainly, “or the one who die in future and reincarnates in today?”

“Sh*t. Hao Ning, it’s too scaring!” Zhou Yuan was thrilling, “But how! You mean, when a person was born, his or her soul was reincarnated by another person who dies in the long future? This guy hasn’t actually died? Hasn’t been born even? How could it be possible! How can an alive person become a ghost? And how can it reincarnate without becoming a ghost? – Oops, I’m confused by myself. How could it do it? Definitely impossible!”

“He’s right.” Xiao Hong nodded. “Hao Ning, you really surprised me. I took 300 years to comprehend what Brother Zhang told me. But you just thought of directly. No wonder Brother Zhang said–”

“What did he say?” Hao Ning asked.

“No, nothing.” It seemed Xiao Hong couldn’t say the left. He turned to Zhou Yuan:” Understand?”

“Impossible!” Zhou Yuan shook his head. “How is it possible that today’s souls come from future people?” There has never been such a record or such an oddity in a fantastic story!”

“There is, but just as another form.” Xiao Hong shook his head and looked at Zhou Yuan. “Have you heard of the prophet?”

Hao Ning was scared of hearing the word. “You mean, a prophet is who reincarnates from the future but retains memory because of the wrong Lethe Water, and in the random spacetime of the nether world, it was born in the past?”

“Yes.” Xiao Hong looked at Zhou Yuan who was nearly crazy. And he smiled wryly to Hao Ning: “Is it difficult to understand?”

“No, no, no.” Hao Ning excitedly said with a clapping. “It’s easy to understand!”

After that, Zhou Yuan sat down on the ground numbly. He drew on the ground with his finger and said to himself: “The present souls of reincarnation came from people who have died before or will die after. The future souls of reincarnation came from people who will die, oh no, who have died. People died now will reincarnate in the future. No no no, it’s normal that it reincarnates in the future. But people die in the future will…Oh, where’s my Hui sword? Help me find it. ”

“Don’t think about it. Even Manjusri Bodhisattva can’t help you.” Xiao Hong said with a smile, “Do you know why does Avalokitesvara only have the ability to control the time?”

“Eh?” Hao Ning was curious about that. He said. “Isn’t it because of the Journey to the West which once talked about the time control, and people’s belief affected him?”