Chapter 230 - Another Three Gods Paradox (1/2)

“Yep?” “Well?” Hao Ning looked at Zhou Yuan, wondering, “what do you mean?”

“Virtualized reality.” Zhou Yuan nodded. “I made our four, including Chen Busheng, surrounded by the virtualized reality. Just like the last time we dealt with Yi Pingzhi. And I conjured near him, so he would see Chen as he thought. This Chen would do whatever he wanted. In this case, just making use of Yi’s Spiritual Flying Bugs, we can know what he wanted on earth.

“Well, it makes sense.” Liu Shuai also thought it was a good idea. “If he really helped Chen Busheng find Yufei, then it will be fine for Chen Busheng to appear again. “Well, it makes sense.” Liu Shuai also thought it was a good idea. “If he wanted to help Chen to find Yufei sincerely, it doesn’t matter even if the true Chen Busheng appears. And if he tried to kill Chen, we can take precautions in advance.”

“What spell are you talking about?” “Are you talking about any spell?” It seemed that Chen has heard from Yufei before. He asked curiously, “you mean to create another me?”

“Well…” Zhou Yuan wanted to explain the difference between his spell and the camouflage. But considering that Chen may not understand it, he nodded and said, “yes, a camouflage.”

“I have no question about other parts.” Hao Ning deduced carefully. Then he said frowningly, “but there’s always a time lag in the image of Yi’s Spiritual Flying Bugs that we saw from your phone. If something happened like last time about Lele, we would be in the dock.”

Zhou Yuan knew what Hao Ning meant. At the night when everyone found Lele from the mobile phone, it was too late to save the music due to the delay of Spiritual Flying Bugs. Although it is unlikely to be in a similar situation in Pingjing, Zhou Yuan still agrees with Hao Ning’s concerns for the sake of safety. “In this case, we should stay in the Virtualized reality and visit Yi Pingzhi following the fake Chen Busheng.”

“What?” “What?” Lui Shuai and Hao Ning shouted. They understood that Zhou Yuan wanted the four to hide in the Virtualized reality. But if they do see the freak person Yi, their feeling would be different from the Spiritual Flying Bugs on the phone, which was dangerous to some extent.

Hao Ning has not spoken yet, and Liu Shuai first expressed his opinion. Liu Shuai showed his opinion “you’ve known Yi’s capability. What if his spell breaks your Virtualized reality?”

“It won’t happen.” Zhou Yuan waved his hands smilingly, “his best spell is scattering beans and make them soldiers with Immortal Cutter. First, his spell is difficult to use. If we are in the Virtualized reality, he won’t find us. The Virtualized reality isn’t like the cloak spell. Cloak is easy to be touched and be found. But the virtualized reality can’t be touched at all. Since he can’t discover us, how can he use the Immortal Cutter?”

“It makes sense.” Hao Ning nodded. He could probably imagine it, but all the powerful spells cost a lot. Who will use their trump card on a group of weak enemies? The most powerful part of Zhou Yuan’s Virtualized reality was that the opponents can’t notice it. Hao Ning pound the table and said, “let’s go now!”

So, then the four came to the place where Yi Pingzhi would meet Chen Busheng in Zhou’s virtualized reality–near a dormitory of Qingbei University.

When talking about this place, Chen’s eyes moved. Hao Ning worried about he had some other thoughts, asking, “is there anything wrong here?”

“It’s not inappropriate, it’s weird.” Chen Busheng shook his head. As he was already on the Qingbei campus, the four people walked slowly in the false realm. Chen Busheng said with a sinking look, “the dormitory at the time of school is more representative, but I am rather strange. How did he know the dormitory, or even if it was possible that Yufei told him, why did he want to meet me here? “There’s a bit strange,” Chen shook his head. As they had already been in the compus, they walked slowly. Chen thought for a while and said, “this is a meaningful dorm where I lived with Yufei. But I’m curious about how he knew this. Maybe Yufei told him, but why he asked me to meet him here? It’s impossible that Yufei is still here?”

“Maybe just you think too much?” Liu Shuai thought and said, “he might be afraid that you can’t find the right way so ask you to somewhere you’re certainly know?”

“Stop guessing,” Hao Ning reminded, “he’s already be there. Let’s go quickly.” Then they went to Yi’s back at once.

Of course, he only saw a fake Chen Busheng who hurried to walk. But embarrassingly, these several guys in the virtualized reality can’t see the Chen standing in front of Yi.

“Alas,” Zhou Yuan patted his head, “it seemed that you cannot see the fake Chen. I forgot that if the real Chen in the virtualized reality, we can’t see the fake one.” Then Zhou Yuan clicked on Chen’s forehead and flicked to the out. The fake Chen appeared at once. Zhou Yuan giggled and said, “it’s the spell I ‘developed’ recently. It can show us the false things even we are in the virtualized reality.”

“Shoo…” Liu Shuai made a hiss posture, “Stop showing off. Focus.”

“Mr. Yi!” The fake Chen was anxious, “do you know where’s Yufei? Where’s him?”

“Don’t worry, Mr. Chen.” Yi smiled with polite, different from his previous expressions, “Yufei is in a safe place. But it’ll take some time to get there.”

“Why didn’t he come to me, but you take me there?” The fake Chen’s expression changed a bit after hearing that. He asked suspiciously, “is it true that Yufei asked you to find me?”

“Zhou Yuan.” Seeing the fake Chen and Yi actively talking outside, Hao Ning smiled and said, “the guy comes from your spell is a drama queen. Normally speaking, it’s pretty good that the fake one can say “yes, good.” But Chen should doubt Yi? You know even when Monkey King coped with Zhen Yuanzi in the Journey to the West, the fake four guys he made by stones can only talk carelessly when encountering Zhen’s doubt. Then Zhen found it strange, catching the four. Your spell is so powerful that the fake one looked like the exact person.”

Hao Ning said so much. He truly marveled at Zhou Yuan’s spell. He didn’t know any spell but listened to fantastic stories often. It was easy to change things into men, who had no intelligence at all. So, these “men” can only instinctively respond and behave. If it can do what a real man can do, that was not a “change” at all but a “creation”, just like Nuwa in Chinese mystery.

Zhou Yuan was watching Yi Pingzhi explaining to Chen Busheng. The fake Chen still asked questions one by one, while Yi didn’t get angry but explained patiently. On hearing Hao Ning said that, Zhou smiled, “don’t you remember? The Chen I made is just the one that Yi imagined. So how Chen responded to Yi is not controlled by himself. That’s just how Yi subconsciously wanted.

“I see. I do forget it.” Hao Ning suddenly recalled what Zhou Yuan had told him. What camouflage did was what the caster wanted. But what Zhou Yuan’s spell did was what the one under the spell wanted. Yi was not talking to the fake Chen, but to himself. Hao Ning felt stranger, “does Yi have self-destructive tendency? Why did he hope Chen to ask him questions in his imagination?”

Then he asked directly the real Chen in the virtualized reality, “if it were you, would you ask so many questions?”

“How come!” The real Chen was also listening to the conversation and had become impatient about so many sharp questions. “I’ve waited Yufei for more than ten years. I would chase the clue about him in the world with all my effort. Why would I waste my time asking so many questions? In fact, this fake Chen is so annoying. Why did he keep asking? I can’t wait to see Yufei now!”

“I’m afraid you had to be thankful for the fake Chen.” Zhou Yuan frowned at that time, coldly said, “the more questions the imagined Chen asked, which exactly meant, the more afraid Yi was. Yi was worried that Chen had doubt. He has planned all including the answer in his mind —— didn’t you realize that Yi answered Chen so fluently without any hesitation?”

After Zhou Yuan’s words, the other guys saw the conversation carefully——It turned out that Yi was like reciting rather than answering. But it was hard to notice that if it were not Zhou Yuan’s reminding.

Hao Ning nodded, “depending on the formal contact, I found Yi was truly cautious. He hopes everything can be arranged well before or can expect what others would think. He really prepared much this time…”

In this case, it indeed needs pondering.

“Mr. Chen,” Yi smiled and said, “do you have any other questions?”

“No,” Chen smiled regretfully, “I’m sorry. I’m not a suspicious man. With so many years passed, I can’t believe the news about Yufei for a while.”

“I understand,” Yi nodded and then pointed to the student building behind, “Shall we go?”

“There? That was where I’ve lived with Yufei before.” The fake Chen looked at the dorm, “you meant Yufei is in the dorm all the time? How come!”

Then Hao Ning blurted out, “maybe his ghost?”

Hao Ning himself and Zhou Yuan were scared. Hao Ning said cautiously, “it won’t be a haunted house.”

It’s no wonder that the fake Chen’s words were evocative. In horror fiction, when someone died, his/her ghost would float in his living house. This kind of house was normally a haunted house. Often at this time, there would come a hero to defeat them.

“At least you’ve experienced a lot.” Liu Shuai smiled and pat the two’s shoulders, “In that year, Yufei’s soul had vanished. How come he was still there? And if it’s true, how come Long Fei can’t find him? Relax. It’ll be fine.”

“Mr. Chen, please don’t tell him about what I told you.” Yi smiled mysteriously, “I just wish to give you a surprise. It’s more meaningful that you meet each other again in where you lived before. He has made those students in this dorm living in a five-star hotel. And he is waiting for you in your dorm——He was hoping I cover your eyes and then take you in and gave you a surprise. But I think I’ll be more suspicious if I do that now.”

Before the fake Chen speaking, the inside real Chen started to wipe his tears. “How come I doubt you. He’s so naughty still and even wanted to surprise me. It’s the biggest surprise to see him!”

Then Chen was ready to go out excitedly, while Zhou Yuan and Hao Ning pulled him at once. “You can’t touch him now. He can’t see you as well. Don’t be so sensitive. Let’s go first.”

The door of the dormitory is on the other side of the building. They walked around the dormitory following Yi and walks to the door. It’s true that the dormitory was brightly lit, and there were only a few students, who still went out in snatches. And several of them saw Chen and said with smile to Chen “Congratulations.” Some said, “you are so brave!” etc.

The fake Chen smiled and nodded while the real Chen had been crying. “This’s what Yu Fei desired most that year. Living in a world without discrimination and everyone was blessed. ”

Hao Ning sighed. In these years, the public opinions on gay men have become more and more tolerant and understandable. It’s totally different from those years when Chen was in school. It’s no wonder that Chen felt so emotional. The fake Yi certainly can’t understand it. He just accepted these blessings.

After everyone entered the dorm, Chen suddenly recalled something and quickly ran out to stand at the door. Then he shook his head in disbelief, blinked his eyes and patted his head. Looking at Yi has already gone upstairs, Hao Ning quickly pulled Chen into the room. “Bro, what are you doing? You’re going to see your old lover. A meeting phobia?”

“No, no.” Chen scratched his head. “It’s hard to say. It seems not the right dorm.”

“What do you mean?” Liu Shuai said strangely. “Did you even forget the dorm of you and Yufei? ” So that’s your affair?”

“No.” Chen smiled bitterly. “The place is right. But the room is definitely not the same room!”

“…” The other three guys looked at Chen like they are looking a fool. What does that mean? Does a building contain two dorms?

“Come to see this-” Chen went out of the dorm door and pointed to a place on the right side. “There was a line of letters BSYFYSYS here, which represented Busheng and Yufei forever. We snakingly carved this on his birthday. Every year I would come back to see if it’s still there. I’ve been here in the daytime. It was there, how can it be gone now?”

Then Chen looked around and recalled it carefully. “No. The door seemed to be the wrong place. It’s about two meters to the right of the formal position.” Then he went two steps to the left and pointed to a wall. “Here’s the original door. Now the door was moved there——well, do you think I’m crazy?”

Chen felt that he got crazy. How could a door move to the right for two or three meters?

Listening to Chen saying so, Zhou Yuan’s expression changed. He pulled others and said, “let’s go quickly!”

After everyone ran into this strange dorm, Zhou Yuan stood on the ground and felt it with eyes closed. “It is really not the original dorm.”

Hao Ning looked at Zhou Yuan. “What do you mean? How’s this going? ”

“The building we saw from the outside is just the dorm in Chen’s memory.” Zhou Yuan explained. “But someone used a method to copy a space in this dorm that is the same as the original. This space cannot be overlapped with the original, so a door was opened next to the original door. And it covers temporarily the original door in some way. In this case, we can only enter the copy space and won’t find anything unusual then. But they won’t expect that Chen would find this detail.”

“What is this spell?” Liu Shuai said curiously, “I didn’t seem to have heard of such a spell? I’ve only heard of opening up a space or a fairyland with the superpower but never heard of copying an identical building in the original place and opening another door to enter.”

“Let’s go. I’ll tell you then.” Zhou Yuan explained as he walked. “Of course, because this sort of spell can only be used by the pleb moment god like me.”