Chapter 203 - Relief (2/2)
Hao Ning fainted with his rolling eyes after he said those words.
“NO!” Xiao Hong got panic and the persuasion method by Avalokitesvara was not fit in this situation. He clutched the philtrum of Hao Ning. It was clear that Hao Ning’s mind was hurt, and it would be terrible if the situation was not ceased.
Xiao Hong was at a loss and suddenly he thought of a good thing. He took a book from his pocket. The book was a classic thread-bound book without many pages. It seemed that the book was so valuable by Xiao Hong’s gesture when holding the book.
Xiao Hong opened the book and the front page read Heart Sutra.
“Bro Hao Ning, listen to me,” Xiao Hong quickly turned the pages and said, “the sutra was written by Avalokitesvara with immense powers. There was only one piece of the book in this world and it was good for the use of calming mind: Avalokitesvara, bla bla bla bla…”
“Ah!” Xiao Hong just said the two sentences, and suddenly a very loud voice shouted, “who read aloud the treasure in the day time?”
At this moment, a man came out of the grave. Xiao Hong found that it was a strange young man who was strange with his hands holding several strings of mutton shashlik. He took a Chinese hamburger in this right hand and a plastic bag which was written with the words Dough of Lao Sun.”
It is unclear that if he took those things to visit the grave of somebody or stole and ate oblation of others.
“Who are you!” Xiao Hong thought that man was definitely not an ordinary person with his sudden appearance from nowhere. But judging from his behavior, he was unlikely to be an immortal. Xiao Hong squinted her eyes and asked, “what the hell are you?”
Hao Ning felt cozy after he heard of those lection words. He turned back and got shocked. His surprised face turned to be happy from sadness and finally, he laughed, “Yan! You are Yan, right?”
“How do you know my name?” That man was strange, “who are you?”
“Are you Yan who is responsible for the position of Impermanence?” Hao Ning felt a sort of excited and He believed that a man who could fly into the sky and fall down to the ground, must be Yan rather than Niu and Ma. He got even more excited and scratched Yan’s shoulder to shake, “you are Yan, the man who can go to the hell and go back to the world, right?”
“Ah…right, right!” Yen felt astonished by Hao Ning’s behavior. Yan was about to escape when Hao Ning grabbed him, but he could not do it from any direction because Hao Ning embraced him from all directions. When he planned to escape under the ground, he found that the man who held sutra had the utmost energy of the world and he could not escape. Now Yan felt his body would be fell apart by Hao Ning’s shake. He said nervously, “I am Yan. I am the Yan who is in the position of Impermanence. Stop shaking me! My several strings of mutton shashlik almost fell down to the ground!”
One piece of mutton fell down to the ground. He felt it a pity. He found those two people had great powers that were superior to himself, but he wanted not to surrender: “You are powerful, but you need to compensate my mutton!”
“Fine, fine, fine,” Hao Ning felt so happy but grunted, “compensate? Shit! Why you find me so late?”
“Find you?” Yan was eating the rest of the mutton and looked at Hao Ning, “who are you? Why should I find you? Um…because you have mutton shashlik?”
“I have Mutton and Bread Pieces in Soup too!” Hao Ning felt angry and punched Yan, “I am Hao Ning! You have not found me since you returned from the mirror. Don’t you remember?”
“Hao Ning?” Yan was so astonished that his mutton fell down to the ground, “you are the Hao Ning who went to the hell?”
“Em…” Hao Ning held Yan again excitedly, “you know me! You know me!”
“You are wrong. I am not that Yan!” Yan pointed out his finger and the Mutton and Bread Pieces in Soup, mutton shashlik and dough all vanished, and then Yan wiped his mouth with a laugh. He reached his hands and wanted to shake hands with Hao Ning. Hao Ning felt disgusting and stepped back. Yan wiped his hands by his clothes laughingly and said, “I am not that Yan.”
“Em?” Hao Ning looked at Yan strangely, “you are not Yan who is in the position Impermanence?”
“I am the Yan with the position Impermanence, but I am not the Yan with the position Impermanence you met before. Oh god! What am I talking about?” Yan felt so confused and then explained, “since you went to hell, you have been famous. All are thinking about why that happened. Finally, the Yan in the position Impermanence thought there was only one Impermanence who was responsible for soul-grabbing in the land of the Celestial Empire so that the land was divided into several parts. He was responsible for the part of Great China, and the detailed issues were charged by Yan in each sub-part. I was responsible for the great northwest region for soul-grabbing, and there were some Yens in the next level region. The Yan in the upper side would get a bonus if the Yan in the lower side grabbed one soul—”
“All right, I got it,” Hao Ning remembered that Yan had said that he was responsible for the soul-grabbing in Great China. The Yan he met was the head of the group. But where did this Yan learn the system of soul-grabbing with bonus? It was like a pyramid system.
Hao Ning had no time to think of those details and asked directly, “where is he?”
“He…” Yan frowned, “I have no idea. Last time he backed and seemed to be wounded. He seemed to be checking something after self-cultivation. But I had no much connection with him and that’s all I know.”
“OK…” Hao Ning felt disappointed and looked at Yan. It seemed that Yan did not recover well from Hao Ning’s house. The things he checked might have something to do with the soul. Hao Ning asked, “you two looked so similar. Last time I came back, Xiao Niu or Xiao Ma told me that if one Yan in the nether world knew, all Yans knew. But now you all are not so familiar?”
“People will change, so does Yan. Although we two look similar we have different personalities,” Yan found that Hao Ning was a little bit upset and added, “since the power of body division had got some trouble, we had tried to get integrated, but we found later that we were getting more different as time went by. Though we have the same face we have our own roads respectively. Each Yan is independent and there is no way to come back. Finally, we received the reality that we have the same face but different identities. No one should be responsible and worried about others. The same face should be fixed in cause and effect.”
“But you…” Hao Ning felt still confused, “do you not derive from one Yan?” Hao Ning added, “though the body division has some trouble, you must come from one Yan!”
“So what? In this world, trouble will come when you always care about the past and it is meaningless!” Yan smiled, “children are born by their parents and children should be the same with their parents? Even siblings and twins, no one should live by whom?”
Hao Ning was astonished by Yan’s words and was in a daze without any word.