Cyber Ghosts

Chapter 113 Indium without Effects, a God’s Living for a Men
“One day a year later, I suddenly discovered that there seemed to be a problem with the talisman I gave him. Only then did I realize that something might have happened, so I hurriedly went to find him.” Long Fei ignored Hao Ning’s mistake and continued to talk to himself, but his lips were trembling a little, “When I found him, he was lying on his bed in his dorm. Other than him, there was no one else in the entire dorm, it was what you call a summer vacation, it was extremely hot outside, but that day, I felt that his dorm room was as cold as an icehouse. When I saw him, he was still smiling pleasantly, asking me why I was there, and even saying that he was going to introduce me to his classmates, as if he didn’t even know that he was in danger himself. ”

“Was he in danger? he didn’t know? ” Liu Shuai also noticed the abnormality at this moment, “How is that possible?”

“I don’t know much about the longevity of a human body, but I could clearly feel one thing,” Long Fei once again looked at Hao Ning, and took in a deep breath and said, “that is, his soul was running out, not the kind of running that a soul was going to another life after death.” Seeing that Hao Ning was a little confused, Long Fei explained in detail, “— To be exact, in natural deaths, a person’s soul is complete and has only left the physical body. However, even though Yu Fei’s soul was still in his physical body, I almost couldn’t feel it anymore, which means that even if he died, he wouldn’t be able to enter the Six Paths of Reincarnation again nor to be reincarnated. Just like what happened to Zhou Yuan before. ”

“Holy sh*t!” Hao Ning almost jumped up, but he held it back, “Again? Did somebody do a soul-expelling ceremony to him? Did he betray his soul? Was it something over ten years ago? Were people already doing this a dozen years ago? Even in a nationally famous university? ”

“Calm down,” Liu Shuai felt strange, but he still tried to calm Hao Ning down, and asked him carefully, “According to what I know, this kind of soul-expelling business was rarely seen in earlier years. After all, at that time, people still valued their own souls more.” After he finished speaking, he looked at Hao Ning, “After all, other than success, money, and power, there are other things that people believed in.”

“That’s right,” Hao Ning thought about it carefully at this time and nodded, “Furthermore, Yufei has been with you for so many years, he should know about some things regarding the soul. Then who did the soul-expelling rite to him? ”

“It was not a soul-expelling rite,” Long Fei shook his head and said, “I’ve asked him in detail. He said that he has never encountered any strange people, and has never met any cultivators or ghosts or gods either. It was only when I circulated the water element in his body that I found that he was slightly different from the others. I extracted the difference and gave it to him, but I didn’t pay much attention to it until I got my master’s degree after a long time when I realized that the difference in his body was an element.”

“What element?” Although hearing a Dragon God speak of elements was strange, thinking that this person before him was a doctor, Liu Shuai did not feel surprised anymore.

Hao Ning did not speak. He was thinking about the abnormality of what Long Fei had said.

“Indium.” Long Fei looked at the teacup as if he was about to crush it.

“What reason?” Liu Shuai felt a little strange, “Because of what? What cause and effect?”

“Just indium.” Long Fei was startled, but still repeated it, “Indium, you don’t know about indium?”

“You didn’t say why, how would I know why?” Liu Shuai became a little anxious, “Don’t keep me guessing.”

“It’s you, stop messing around, okay?” Hao Ning understood and waved his hand to stop Liu Shuai. He asked Long Fei probingly, “Are you talking about indium the metal element?”

“Right.” Long Fei covered his face, as though he was unwilling to recall that incident.

“Is it an element?” Liu Shuai looked at Hao Ning, “a chemical element? And what about the effect?”

“Have you never memorized the periodic table?” Hao Ning looked at Liu Shuai snappily, “You totally forgot it?”

“Nonsense, I can recite it clearly. Helium, Lithium, Beryllium, Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Fluorine…” Liu Shuai’s face flushed as he quickly argued.

“What kind of ability is it to recite horizontally? You should recite it vertically, that’s what was in the college entrance exam!” Hao Ning rolled his eyes at Liu Shuai, and continued, “Lithium sodium potassium rubidium cesium frankincense, beryllium magnesium calcium strontium barium radium, boron aluminum gallium indium …” After he finished speaking, he did not want to look at Liu Shuai’s blushing face, so he asked, “Is it this indium?”

“Yes,” Long Fei looked at Hao Ning and nodded. “At that time, I didn’t know what it was, but I felt that something was amiss, so I helped him separate the foreign element within his body. A few years later, I found out that it was indium salt, and it’s not just ordinary indium, but an isotope of indium. It was then that I understood the light and the despair in his eyes when he got the substance tested in the lab. ”

“An isotope of indium. Then what is it…” Liu Shuai had obviously forgotten all about the chemistry he learned in the past.

“It’s indium, too, but it should be radioactive.” Hao Ning thought for a while, “I don’t know how much damage it would do to the human body, but the indium salt itself would harm the human body …” After saying that, Hao Ning quickly took out his phone to check, “The toxicity of indium against mammals is comparable to arsenic …”

“What is arsenic?” Liu Shuai felt that today was the day to test his memory in chemistry. “Is it harmful to the human body?”

“Very harmful.” Hao Ning looked at Liu Shuai tenderly and continued, “The compound of impure arsenic is red, so it can also be commonly called — Red Crane Head.”

After saying that, Hao Ning no longer looked at Liu Shuai’s frightened expression and continued to look at his phone: “Because indium poisoning is relatively rare, it is often ignored, causing wrong diagnosis to be made.” Seeing this, Hao Ning couldn’t help but ask Long Fei, “Why?”

“Why what?” Liu Shuai was unable to keep up, and asked with a puzzled look, “Why is indium harmful to the human body?”

“…” Hao Ning was a little speechless, “Firstly, indium salt is scarce, so it definitely wasn’t eaten by mistake, and secondly, the symptoms of poisoning such as headache, unsteady walking, trembling of hands and feet, and so on, are all easy to ignore, people tend to think that they will be able to recover after resting for a few days. Thirdly, indium salt is very strictly managed, even in university, only a few people can reach it, which means that once it’s discovered, the person can easily be exposed, that person took the risk, probably because indium poisoning is rare, and is often ignored. So, analyzing comprehensively, what that person expected was that Yufei could be wrongly diagnosed, and then die quietly–the symptoms of indium poisoning are not easy to check, people might never even find the cause, who could have such an extreme malevolence as to harm Yufei in this way?”

“Why?” Long Fei chuckled coldly, within his sneer, there was an additional tinge of misery. “Later on, when I investigated carefully, I found out that there were two reasons, an obvious one and a hidden one. These reasons, haha …”

“What are you laughing at, say whatever you have to say,” Liu Shuai said somewhat impatiently. “This isn’t writing a novel, cut your crap!”

“Do you remember what Elder Ren said about Yufei before?” Long Fei looked out of the window and said to Liu Shuai, “that Yufei was very warmhearted. He often helps the students in the dorm to answer their names during class time.”

“That’s right, we did the same thing when we were in school,” Liu Shuai blurted out, he thought for a moment and then added, “Of course, not for so many times.”

“But Elder Ren also said that later on, since Yufei was studying so hard, all of the teachers knew him, so he was no longer able to answer for others when the teachers call the roll in classes,” Long Fei said with a bitter smile. “As a result, the fact that those people didn’t attend classes in the past was found out by the teachers, once the teachers found out about this, something terrible would naturally happen to those people. There were naturally some among them who hold resentment towards Yufei. ”

“But Yufei helped them before.” Liu Shuai could not help but be filled with anger, “How could they not be grateful for helping them previously, and feel resentment once he couldn’t help them?”

“If you have always been good to others, they didn’t feel it, they even took it for granted,” Hao Ning poured the three of them some tea and continued, “But once you stop being good to them, they will think that you have become bad, understand?”

“But just because of this?” Liu Shuai’s face was filled with disbelief, “but not to such an extent.”

“This is the origin of all. There is always a reason to bear grudges. But what’s worse is that at that time, Yufei was still young, and he studied hard,” Long Fei thought for a while, before continuing, “So the time he returned to the dorm was always very late, which affected the sleep of many people. As time passed by, the entire dorm gradually started to hate him instead of desolating him.”

“What the f * ck!” Liu Shuai slapped the table, “Were they even human? They didn’t study hard, and they despised others for studying hard? ”

“Long Fei, this shouldn’t be the main reason, right?” Hao Ning ignored Liu Shuai, “Even if the classmates were angry, as long as no one dared to pick a fight, no one would take the initiative to use such a method against Yufei. At most, they would use some small tricks, no?”

“Yeah, but Yufei shouldn’t have …” Long Fei paused for a moment as he said this, but held back his words.

“Shouldn’t have what?” Looking at Long Fei’s expression, Hao Ning felt that something was amiss. He thought for a while before comforting Long Fei, “People cannot be revived if they die. We are not gossiping about the past of Yufei, we just want to know better about his past.”

“He shouldn’t have loved someone he shouldn’t have.” Long Fei said painfully, “That person was the same as Yufei, one of the best students in the grade. At the same time, that person understood Qingbei’s policies very well and knew that in a few years, there would be a continuous study quota for each class, and Yufei would be his biggest competitor. Thus, that person urged Yufei’s dormmates, somehow, they got some indium salt, and poisoned Yufei …”

“The most laughable thing is that,” Long Fei laughed coldly,” on the surface, that person actually spoke up for Yufei and told others not to hold a grudge against him for small matters.”

Long Fei’s eyes became extremely cold and sinister: “Humph! Something so obvious, other than that person, who else could it be?

Hao Ning was silent. It was not impossible. It was just that the frightening jealousy in the hearts of people did not only exist in society.

“The human heart can actually become so bad …” Hearing this, Liu Shuai was stunned, “That is our best university, inside it, there are the pride and pillars of the nation, an ivory tower! Combinations of talent and integrity! ”

“Forget it, stop insulting the ivory tower,” Hao Ning sighed, and asked Liu Shuai: “Did you forget what Avalokitesvara said?”

“What do you mean?” Liu Shuai was about to exclaim, but he was interrupted by Hao Ning, who asked in a displeased tone, “I remember his words very well, have you forgotten about it? You misremember what he said! ”

“Come on, all you can remember are those details, I just missed a ‘still.’ Are you still going to go on?” Hao Ning looked at Liu Shuai, and said disapprovingly, “Do you remember the Avalokitesvara saying that: is the reason why the state official does not allow the citizens to light the lamps that he has become the state official?”

“Are you saying —” Liu Shuai was stunned, and replied, “Those people who entered the Ivory Tower were initially scheming in their hearts? and not because they entered the ivory tower? ”

“Ho ho, I didn’t say anything. It’s just that we shouldn’t mistakenly believe that having both ability and integrity is an objective fact. If a person’s heart is not right, but he is talented, and you insist that he should have both ability and integrity, in the end, it is very likely that he will just be a sanctimonious person. ” Hao Ning continued to look at Long Fei and asked, “Speaking of which, how exactly was the man that Yufei loved?”

“Man?” Liu Shuai was even more shocked, he did not wait for Hao Ning to finish speaking and interrupted him, “What are you talking about? When did Long Fei say that Yu Fei liked men?”

“…” Hao Ning looked at Long Fei quietly, seeing the sad face of Long Fei, he knew that he had guessed correctly, “It is because of this reason that you are unwilling to tell Yufei’s story, right?”

Long Fei looked at Hao Ning for a long time before nodding his head, “He’s already pitiful enough. I don’t wish for anyone to talk too much about a person whose soul has been destroyed.”

“Actually, what you said was already very obvious, one only needs to make a slight deduction,” Hao Ning said as he looked at Liu Shuai. Liu Shuai knew that Hao Ning despised him for not making any deduction, so he blushed and stopped talking, and looked outside the window deliberately, and his ears continued to listen to Hao Ning’s analysis. “Firstly, it’s tough for a girl to find out about this hidden contradiction between boys in a dorm. Secondly, even if she did, it’s impossible for her to urge all the boys from the dorm to do something for her together. Most importantly, if just said that Yufei loved someone he shouldn’t have loved and that that person wanted to kill him because of their competition in the future if it was a girl, she had better approaches, honey trap, for example. However, that person adopted such an extreme approach, that person did it only because he knew that the love of Yufei couldn’t be of any good for him, it would even cause bad influence to him. But at the same time — — “Hao Ning paused here, and could not help but feel a little sad.” That person knew that he could make use of this love, even if he did something not proper, because of the special and secret nature of this love, Yufei would probably not say anything. He would even take more responsibility for him.”

“…” Long Fei looked at Hao Ning and did not speak for a long time, “That’s right, that person used Yufei to pass through it safely, and up until now, no one has investigated on this matter … …”

“Moreover,” Hao Ning thought about it carefully, “Did the person that Yufei loved lived in the same dorm with him?”

“You …” Long Fei lowered his head, “Yes.”

“But, didn’t you just say that you helped him extract the indium from his body?” Liu Shuai thought back to what Long Fei had said just now, “And when you met Yufei, wasn’t he still alive?”

“You want to ask what exactly happened to Yufei, right?” Long Fei looked at Liu Shuai and sighed, “I can stop his body from deteriorating, but I couldn’t stop his soul from dissipating. In the following days, I could only watch as Yufei’s soul disappeared day by day, but I couldn’t do anything about it.”

“In the following week, I watched as a soul that was born from my hand disappeared in front of me.” Long Fei took a sip of tea, and laughed a little desolately, “Is this fate? Ironic.”

“At that time, Yufei was only in his sophomore year, right?” Hao Ning suddenly asked a completely unrelated question, “Yufei was already dead at that time?”

“Dead? That’s right…” Long Fei looked at Hao Ning and sighed, “This is probably what I regretted the most in the past, but I still had to agree to Yufei’s last request.”

“What request?” Liu Shuai asked, “Both his parents had died,” After saying that, Liu Shuai made an apologetic gesture, Long Fei waved his hand to indicate that it was okay before Liu Shuai continued to ask, “Did he have other wishes or concerns?”

“At that time, Yufei already knew that he was harmed by others, and he also knew that it was by somebody he loved,” Long Fei’s face was as cold as frost, “But in the end, he still begged me to attach myself to his body and live for him.”

“Eh?” Hao Ning and Liu Shuai couldn’t help but take a step back, “Is this guy in front of us a god? or a revived person?”

“Don’t overthink into it, just listen to my explanation.” Long Fei knew that the two of them feared him, and waved his hand to continue speaking, “Yufei told me that he didn’t blame that person, that it’s his own fault. He should never have come to this world, and his love for someone shouldn’t have existed. What that person did to him was just what he should have done to himself long ago, he was not harming him, but eliminating his sins. If that person had attacked Yufei when he was young, his parents might not have died — but if Yufei died, the school would investigate everything. That person would not be able to escape, and he shouldn’t let his sins affect the person he loved. ”

“Holysh*t…” Liu Shuai was still in disbelief, he shook his head and said, “Did he have to be so sentimental as to sacrifice his own life so that the scum who harmed him could escape? ”

If you think about it from Yufei’s background, it isn’t impossible, “Hao Ning waved his hand and disagreed with Liu Shuai’s point of view, as he carefully analyzed the situation,” A family misfortune since he was young might cause him to disapprove himself in his heart utterly. His hard work in studying, rather than hoping to improve continuously, would be better said to be using this kind of well-established path of study to try and use his own hard work to offset hid negation on himself. Besides, don’t forget, his first love in his life was to fall in love with a man several years older than him in his puberty.”

“So what?” Liu Shuai disapproved, “Look how many girls like boys love stories nowadays?”

“Huh huh huh,” Hao Ning said with a face full of ridicule. “That’s nowadays, what about a dozen years earlier?”

“Well…” Liu Shuai knew that homosexuality was unacceptable for all schools and the society a dozen years ago, and people were afraid that they couldn’t avoid it quickly enough. Hence, he nodded and asked Long Fei, “What happened after that?”

“After that, I promised Yufei that after his soul dissipated, I would attach myself to his body and live for him.” As Long Fei said this, both Hao Ning and Liu Shuai couldn’t help but shiver. Long Fei continued to speak, “Furthermore, according to his last wish, I secretly protected the person who killed him.”

“What the f * ck!” Liu Shuai said fiercely, “You are still protecting that scumbag? F * ck this kind of person, I will beat him every time I see him. ” After saying that, he thought for a moment before adding, “If I can beat him.”

“Huh huh huh, maybe you will take back those words later.” Hao Ning lightly glanced at Liu Shuai and declined to comment.