Chapter 229 - Heard about Yufei Again (1/2)

Hao Ning said as he stepped forward in big strides. He greeted Chen Busheng in the distance. “Hello, do you remember me?”

“It’s you guys!” Chen Busheng saw Hao Ning and Liu Shuai behind. He stood up happily, “I have been waiting for you!”

“Eh?” Hao Ning looked at Liu Shuai and said strangely, “waiting for us? For what?”

“YES!” Chen Busheng was a little bit excited, “I heard your news from grandma. She told me all.”

Hao Ning frowned and felt confused about “all” from Chen Busheng. He did not know if grandma had told the Soul Cutter. He believed she was very likely to have told it to Chen Busheng. Now it made Hao Ning have a bad impression on Chen Busheng. He posted a tentative question to him, “so why do you look for us?”

“You guys know where Yufei is, right?” Chen Busheng’s sudden question made all of them confused, “you know, right?”

“Um…” Hao Ning stretched his head, and he knew what he meant was Long Fei, but how could he explain that Long Fei was in the Dragon Temple? He pondered for a while and decided to answer him with the same words of teacher Ren, “Yufei now is in kiyonaga.”

“I did not mean that dragon.” Chen Busheng shook his head and said seriously, “both of us do not disguise. What I said is Yufei, not Long Fei!”

“You—” Hao Ning thought he said that too early. As the saying went, the surprise today could bear comparison with the surprise in the past month. Now the words of Chen Busheng were the biggest surprise today, which meant Chen Busheng knew clearly that Long Fei and Yufei were two different people and he even knew that Long Fei is not human but the Dragon God. When did he know that? Hao Ning got confused and asked subliminally, “how many do you know?”

He regretted for his question, because his question certified that Yufei was not Long Fei. Since Chen Busheng had knew it, he thought there was no need to conceal it.

“What do I know?” Chen Busheng said with a bitter smile, “I thought Yufei had died. All were a dream. I thought I could treat Long Fei as the shadow of Yufei after I met Long Fei. But today my grandma told me that, I knew shadow was just shadow. The moment I knew that you had Macro Quantum, I knew I couldn’t regard Long Fei as Yufei any longer…”

As expected by Hao Ning, teacher Ren had told Chen Busheng the issue of Macro Quantum.

“This person is insane?” Hao Ning asked Liu Shuai and Zhou Yuan in front of Chen Busheng, “why can’t I understand a word of him?”

“We all know what you did.” Though Liu Shuai liked Xiao Wen and Chen Busheng was her brother, he had a bad impression on Chen Busheng. “But we do not know Yufei, and I can’t tell you more.”

“But I can tell you more about Macro Quantum.” Chen Busheng wiped his face and said in a low voice, “I know that you come here for that, right?”

“You—” Zhou Yuan now understood and he squinted looking at Chen Busheng, “you want to do an exchange? Using what you know about Macro Quantum to exchange what we know? What do you want from us?”

“I want nothing.” Chen Busheng said slowly, “I just want you to listen to a story and you can make a decision if you want to help me after you know the story.”

“Help you?” Hao Ning thought that he could know the information about Macro Quantum which was useful to them no matter what Chen want to exchange. So, he nodded, “OK, tell me the story while we are having a meal.”

This was a restaurant of roast duck. The roast duck of Ping Jing was very famous, especially in this restaurant. It offered not only delicate food but also wonderful performance of duck-cutting by chef in a private room. The cut duck was so crisp. It would be very delicious that the cut duck was rolled up into a thin and soft cake with the side fish such as fermented flour sauce, sliced scallion and cucumber stick.

Each one of the four people had his own thought, and all of them did not focus on the act of the chef and the delicious food.

After the chef got out of the room, Hao Ning looked at Chen Busheng and said, “go ahead.”

“Um…where shall I start?” Chen Busheng frowned and hesitated.

“Brother, you are so funny.” Hao Ning sneered and eat the food. “You are the one who find us and want to tell a story to us, but you even do not know where to start? I think you can start with how you killed Yufei. No, I must correct, from that you killed Yufei twice.”

It was clear that Hao Ning had a bad impression on Chen Busheng, or he would not say that at table.

“Hao Ning!” Liu Shuai knew that Hao Ning’s harsh words were due to the issue of Long Fei, and he persuaded, “clam down. Let’s start from the Macro Quantum.”

Hao Ning felt so funny that Liu Shuai always did mediation for him, but today the condition was reversed. He thought Liu Shuai was right that he was not so rational just now because he and his friends came here mainly for Macro Quantum.

“The Macro Quantum,” Chen Busheng said with a bitter smile, “I shall start from the death of Yufei—no, by your words, from my killing to Yufei.” Chen Busheng shook his head, “I have never thought that this issue now changes from Long Fei’s opinion…”

“Isn’t that true?” Hao Ning did not hide his thought since Chen Busheng had talked about it. “Are you still thinking that you are innocent?”

“Have you guys heard about the upsurge of Qi Gong last century?” Chen Busheng suddenly talked about this issue. “I think you may remember it. At that time, people—”

“We know it.” Hao Ning wove his hands. The other day Mr. Hu had criticized this issue, and he did not want to hear the criticism again. “At that time many people practiced the Qi Gong. The mass was crazy about it and there were even people practicing it by holding a pot on their heads. I know that and you have no need to talk about it again.”

“OK.” Chen Busheng was holding the cup and said slowly. “My parents were scientific and technical workers. But unluckily, they practiced a kind of Qi Gong which was so odd.”

“Eh?” Hao Ning asked, “and then?

“You know, some people were mental after practicing that.” Chen Busheng kept saying, “my parents got some trouble at that time.”

“You mean,” Liu Shuai asked, “your parents, the son and daughter of teacher Chen, were mental after the practice?”

“Mental?” Chen Busheng said with a bitter smile. “I remember your major is biology. You tell me if the man who is mental knows that he himself is mental?”

“Eh…” Liu Shuai was stunned. He had few studies in this filed. He worked very hard to decode the fake Manjusri by using his little knowledge of psychology, and now he couldn’t answer the question.

Chen Bushang looked at Liu Shuai without a word, and then he laughed, “my parents did not know that they are mental at that time, and they believed that they knew the truth of the universe. They, as the scientific and technical workers, used their child, namely me, to do the experiment.”

“Experiment? Using their child? ” Zhou Yuan shuttered. His parents were so terrible. He did not dare to ask the detail of the experiment.

“I don’t want to talk about the details of the experiment.” Chen Busheng laughed bitterly. Though that was just the memory, he still shuttered unconsciously. “I was very young. They probably believed that I would feel nothing in the experiment, but I was mental after their demise.”

Demise… Hao Ning understood what he meant. The result was the same as Mr. Hu’s Xue Muhua. Hao Ning sighed and asked, “what happened to your mind?”

“I had illusion inside my body probably. “Chen Busheng added, “it seemed that somebody often talked to me lightly and even there were several ME in my brain. I was very young, and I always was in a daze. My grandparents did not know my condition. I had been struggling against the illusion in my mind in the whole time at school till I entered into Qing Bei University.”

“What! You are the god of study…” Liu Shuai praised him inappropriately, “you even were enrolled by Qing Bei University…” Liu Shuai found Zhou Yuan and Hao Ning were glaring at himself, and then he stopped talking and let Chen Busheng continued.

“I thought I would conduct suicide some day in the university if I couldn’t tolerate the struggling.” Chen Busheng now had a hopeful smile, and added, “but I met a person who changed my life, Yufei.”

“Yufei?” Hao Ning felt so strange. From his words and face, it seemed that he had no spite to Yufei.

“Right. Because we both lost our parents at the very young age,” Chen Busheng added, “so we got closer in the university. And then he knew my mental problem. But he did not alienate me. Otherwise, he kept helping me. He was younger than me but he was the one who treated me so good. Gradually I found that I—”

Chen Busheng’s hands shuttered with the cup. Hao Ning saw his struggling.

Finally, Chen Busheng said it out. “I found I fell in love with him.”

“What!” Liu Shuai and Hao Ning shouted spontaneously. What he said was totally different from what they heard from Long Fei. According to Long Fei’s words, Yufei was killed because he fell in love with Chen Busheng and Chen urged to get rid of Yufei. Now, what’s the matter with this issue? Rashomon of Li Yufei?

Chen Busheng now did not know Liu Shuai and Hao Ning was suspicious to him, and he thought they were so surprised by his love for Yufei which was unacceptable by the world. But since he had told them the issue, he did not want to think much. “I know that you have your own thoughts on this issue, but Yufei and I love each other very much. We two have no other bad thoughts.”

“Wait.” Hao Ning couldn’t help but ask, “you love each other? You mean you knew that Yufei loved you at that time? And Yufei also knew that you love him?”

“Of course,” Chen Busheng felt so strange. “he absolutely loved me, and he definitely knew that I love him.”

“Hao Ning,” Zhou Yuan patted Hao Ning on his shoulder, “let Chen tell the whole thing.”

Hao Ning understood what Zhou Yuan meant. If Chen Busheng told a lie, there must be a burst seam if Hao Ning did not pose his question.

“Thank you,” Chen Busheng nodded, “due to Yufei’s magic experience at his young age, he thought my problem was that my soul had got abnormal. In other words, due to the experience in my young age, my soul got sick and under that circumstance, the sick soul was incurable.”

“I was in very serious trouble, so Yufei sought the method for curing my soul,” Chen Busheng laughed, “curing soul, it’s funny, right? We are arguing if soul exists, but Yufei has already believed in the soul and started to find method to cure soul.”

Hao Ning and his friends were silent. It was normal that Yufei believed in soul who was affected by Long Fei, but Long Fei had such an advancing idea to cure soul. At least half a month ago, even Hao Ning, who had been apotheosized, knew nothing about Curing Soul.

“But at that time, there was no material.” Chen Busheng added, “Yufei had searched on all materials in school and only found one material finally. And the author of the material was dead at the upsurge of Qi Gong. Just because of his special experience of medical study including Chinese medicine study since his young age, he could better accept and study the soul knowledge…”

“Xue Muhua?” Hao Ning patted his head. He was the child of Mr. Hu’s comrade-in-arms. “Is he Xue Muhua?”

“How do you know that?” Chen Busheng was very surprised, but he added after Hao Ning made a gesture to let him go on. “Yes, Xue Muhan studied medicine early and then studied quantum mechanics after my grandma, so he posed a hypothesis: if the soul of human is the expression of a sort of quantum state’s self-observation in the level of brain?”

“Um…, excuse me.” Liu Shuai scratched his head and asked Chen Bushneg. “I can’t catch your last sentence.”

“Not only you,” Chen Busheng said with a bitter smile, “even I could not understand that at that time. But Chen Yufei understood that, and he explained it to me for so long till I got it.”

“You…tell us,” Hao Ning knew more about quantum mechanics, “we can learn some from you.”

“The normal quantum state is in a state of probability superposition when there is no observer, you know this?” Chen Busheng posed this question and Hao Ning nodded. The rest of the two people were very confused. Chen said, “fine, no more explanation. You just regard them as an unstable state where there is no observer.”

Zhou Yuan and Liu Shuai got so desperate by Chen Busheng’s words. What is ” you just regard them as an unstable state where there is no observer.”? It was not simple! The smart always hit the stupid unconsciously forever!

Chen Busheng did not know what Zhou Yuan and Liu Shuai thought and continued to explain. His explanation was hardly understood by Hao Ning. “When an observer appears, the state of the quantum collapses into a certain value. So Xue Muhua assumes in his own data that the human soul, that is, the brain of human, for no reason, does the self-observation to his own awareness, causing the entire quantum state collapsing from an uncertain probability state to a determined state. The soul state is identical to the self due to the self-observation of self-awareness. The explanation from another angle can be called—”

“The awareness can be gained through inner observation?” Liu Shuai spoke it out. He once explained to Hao Ning that why the soul changes if a man’s face and clothes change. From the description of Chen Busheng, it is the expression of self-awareness. Liu Shuai added, “this seems to have relations with the inner self in psychology?”

“Maybe,” Chen Busheng added, “I know little about this field, but Yufei was so excited. He thought if the man’s soul exists in the state of quantum, the soul could be handled through some methods of a quantum state. And for me, the place where my soul got trouble was restored, namely my soul was restored by operation.”

“Restored by operation…” Hao Ning was speechless with his mouth opening. The idea would even make Xiao Hong surprised. But for Xiao Hong, as the immortal, there was no such a conception of operation. Hao Ning praised, “how audacious Yufei is!”

“So Yufei really acted.” Chen Busheng now felt upset, “he believed at that time, since the soul was something in a quantum state, there must some microcosmic particles that could have an influence. The first plan he thought was to sue some radioactive substances. And considering the harm to human body, he chose the lighter radioactive substance—indium.”

“Indium?” Hao Ning was surprised. He remembered it. According to Long Fei, Yufei was killed by this substance, “you mean, Yufei actively chose the substance indium?”

“Yes,” Chen Busheng nodded, “but unfortunately, there was no effect on the research and he got some healthy trouble due to long-term exposure to indium.”

“Then why you are fine?” Zhou Yuan asked suddenly, “you were very close, and you wouldn’t be safe as he got some trouble?”

“At that time, he would not let me get closer to him.” Chen Busheng shook his head, “he did the experiment on his body.”

“And then,” Chen Busheng added, “he seemed to think about the key point. That is if the soul is in a state of quantum, ordinary radioactive materials and quantum states cannot have any effect on the soul. It is simple to understand. If there is the soul which can be affected by other substance in a state of quantum, will the soul be so delicate?”

“And then?” Hao Ning asked, “and then what did Yufei find out?” The reason why Hao Ning asked this question was that the soul of Yufei was split so badly when Long Fei found Yufei’s unusual condition.

“Later he posed a hypothesis to me.” Chen Busheng nodded and pointed at Hao Ning, “in this world, there exist more macroscopic particles. If those particles can be in the state of quantum, it can be in a state of collapse in the case of being observed by the observer. It is possible to act on the quantum state soul of our microcosm.”

“Then…” Liu Shuai got confused again, “could you explain it?”