“What?” Hao Ning’s eyes widened. The man in front of him was even more daring than him to mention that everything had a spirit. “Did you say everything has a spirit?”

“It’s also called the pantheism. Human in earlier times believed that all the things in the world had souls,” Zhang Dalong seemed to be recounting it carefully, “There are records in many books. It can be considered an early form of philosophy.”

“And do you believe in it?” Liu Shuai glanced at Zhou Yuan and asked.

Jienan also looked at Zhang Dalong, and he did not speak.

“Me?” Zhang Dalong looked at the few young men in front of him and laughed, “What I said today was also said by Zhang Dalong, not by Zhang Xiaolong.”

“Err …” This time, it was Hao Ning who was stunned, “Got it, please speak.”

“About that everything has a spirit,” Zhang Dalong laughed, “I don’t know if everything has a spirit or not, but I am sure that the products I make have souls.”

“Again.” Jienan laughed bitterly, “You always say that in new employee training. It would be all right if it were just a metaphor, or to make everyone take responsibility for their work…”

“You misunderstand,” Zhang Dalong said as he waved his hand, but he was not angry at all. “I am not making a metaphor. I feel it, and this feeling gets more and more intense recently.”

Zhang Dalong was about to continue speaking when he suddenly felt that he had talked too much, so he looked towards Hao Ning, only to realize that they were also listening to him. Then he laughed, “That’s too much. We should let the guests speak.”

“It’s fine,” Hao Ning hurriedly said, “Please continue.”

“Since I developed the first mailbox-type software,” Zhang Dalong recalled, “For a while, I felt that this mailbox seemed to have a life. When people send their mail through this product, I felt the pulse and heartbeat of it. Later, when my business failed, and I had no way out, someone suggested me to put ads in my software to get some income. I knew I could live with them, but I felt that the life was resisting it, so I insisted on not inserting ads. ”

Hao Ning knew the story well since he was familiar with the internet industry. Back in the day, many people were using this man’s software, but it could not bring profits, so he had to sell it in the end. However, this was the first time Hao Ning heard about his thought at that moment.

“Take the WeChat that you’re all using now as an example,” Zhang Dalong looked at Hao Ning and the others, whom all nodded their heads. After all, this app had already become a national-level product. “As more and more people start using it, I can slowly feel that this product also seems to have a spirit and life. ”

“But what does this have to do with them?” Hearing Zhang Dalong’s words, Jienan smiled slightly but did not express his opinion, while he still shot a question.

“You’re asking the essential part,” Zhang Dalong nodded his head approvingly and looked at Hao Ning and the others, “For all these years, I’ve felt more and more that I can talk to this WeChat spirit. I mean, it can talk, so can I.”

“Does it worsen your sleep and spirit?” Liu Shuai suddenly asked, “You can’t sleep and work according to the normal schedule, and even if you manage to adjust it forcefully, it will return after some time, right?”

“How do you know that?” Jienan said in shock, then realized that he should not speak, so he immediately gestured for Zhang Dalong to continue.

“Until recently, I noticed that the spirit of WeChat in my body had changed. Sometimes it’s more; sometimes it’s less, and sometimes it’s more erratic,” Zhang Dalong closed his eyes and thought about how to describe it, “Slowly, it seems to have become another ‘person’ somewhere outside. I’m sorry I can only use the word ‘person’ to describe it. Today, I suddenly felt the WeChat spirit in my body changing drastically, and the ‘person’ outside was extremely ‘clear,’ so I asked Jienan to bring me to S City, to find you, and meet him.” After Zhang Dalong finished speaking, he looked at Zhou Yuan.

“You mean,” Jienan looked at Zhou Yuan with an expression of disbelief, “Zhou Yuan is he the ‘person’ you spoke of?”

“What’s going on here?” Hao Ning asked Liu Shuai in a low voice, “How come Zhang Dalong could feel Zhou Yuan? Does he know that the WeChat moment has become a god? ”

“Don’t worry. Let me think!” Liu Shuai frowned, and Hao Ning did not want to disturb him either.

“I know how impossible that kind of thought is. After all, it’s just a matter of my intuition,” Zhang Dalong laughed at himself with some sense of loneliness. “What I just said might be wrong.”

“No,” Liu Shuai opened his mouth at this time, “What you said is most likely correct.”

“What?” Zhang Dalong and Jienan looked at Liu Shuai, while Hao Ning could not understand why Liu Shuai would suddenly say that. Zhang Dalong immediately asked, “So, you guys also felt the spirit of this product?” His words were somewhat agitated and were slightly different from the calm and collected manner he had when he first arrived.

“Well, that’ not the case…” Liu Shuai scratched his head and laughed embarrassedly. He noticed the disappointment in Zhang Dalong’s eyes, so he quickly said, “We can’t feel it, but, erm, let’s not talk about this for now. We should discuss your problem first, Mr. Zhang Dalong.”

“My problem?” Zhang Dalong was surprised that he opened his eyes wide. Jienan was also curious. Even Hao Ning did not know what Liu Shuai was about to say.

“The Power of Merit.” Liu Shuai thought for a while, then said, “I finally know the meaning of this phrase that my master told me, but I never expected that I would encounter such a phenomenon.”

“Power of Merit?” The others shouted in unison.

“Yes,” Liu Shuai looked at the few of them and was about to ask, but after thinking for a moment, he asked Hao Ning, “Let me ask you, how did Empress Nyuwa become a saint in the novels?”

“What is he talking about?” Zhang Dalong asked Jienan with a confused face, “I can understand every single word he said, but not the combination.” Jienan laughed bitterly. He also seemed to be confused about what was going on.

“What the heck are you talking about?” Hao Ning was also confused at first. He did not know what Liu Shuai was saying the entire time, but the moment he shot those words, Hao Ning suddenly comprehended. “Are you saying that the reason why Nyuwa became a saint?”

“Nonsense!” Liu Shuai curled his lips with indifference. “Hurry up. I know you have some knowledge about it.”

“Well..” Hao Ning understood what Liu Shuai was asking, “You are talking about the things in fantasy novels, ain’t you?” As he said that, he looked at Jienan embarrassedly, and as expected, Jienan felt a little disdain. Hao Ning thought for a while and said, “In legends, there are a few ways to become a saint. The first is to born into a saint. The second is to behead three corpses. The third is to become a saint by strength, and the fourth, which is a specialty of Empress Nyuwa became a saint, is to achieve it by the power of merit. She has two great merits. One is to create human, and the other is to heal heaven. With these two great merits, she can become a saint. ”

“I have also read that kind of novels,” Jienan pondered, “But that is only in novels. It can’t exist in reality, right?”

Liu Shuai did not care what Jienan said. He continued to ask, “Do you remember the power of faith that Avok, that Zhang Chi Hang spoke of?”

“Geez…” Hao Ning was so scared that he broke out in cold sweat, “Are you saying that the power of merit exists because people have faith in it?”