Cyber Ghosts Chapter 54: Hurting Others Without Blinking

"Let me ask you," Zhou Yuan looked at Liu Shuai, "What's the price of land in S City per square meter?"

"Well, I'm afraid no less than forty thousand." Liu Shuai thought for a while, then laughed bitterly. He must have thought of the hopeless gap between his sal-ary and the price of a house.

"According to what you guys said, there are factories around here. No buildings or stream of people is here." Zhou Yuan dipped his finger in the water in the tea cup, and started to draw on the table, "If you want to increase donations, you must construct relevant buildings and facilities in surrounding areas. How much would it take?"

"Err …" Liu Shuai lowered his head to think about it, then he couldn't help but agree. "You are right. I can't really calculate how much it would take, but it must be a huge number. But what if A Zhe is from an extremely rich family?

"Rich family?" Zhou Yuan sneered, "Do you think a man from an extremely rich family would bring his beloved girlfriend to the place where we ate that day?"

"..." Liu Shuai went silent, and after a while, he said, "It may be possible, isn't it?"

"Yep." Zhou Yuan said seriously. "We live in a world of novel written by an eighteen line poor novelist. He thinks that an extremely rich person will bring his girlfriend and have a candlelight dinner together with us losers in a Cantonese Restaurant, and he can use billions to make the small temple full of visitors and vehicles."

"It's not the time to joke." I couldn't help but laugh, "No matter what, we still saved them. By the way, it seems to me that you have calmed down a lot after coming back here this time, and your logical thinking is much better than before. You are not that garrulous anymore, ain't you."

"That's right." Liu Shuai nodded his head in agreement. "You really made me in troubles with your words."

"Really? I don't know," Zhou Yuan thought about it, but it seemed that he did not recall anything excessive from before, "I just feel that my brain is extremely clear. For example, this time when I went to Hangzhou, there was a person who wanted to hit me at the restaurant — —"

"Someone wants to hit you?" I couldn't help but become nervous as I looked at Zhou Yuan carefully, "How is it, are you injured?"

"Of course not," Zhou Yuan said. "I saw him really hateful, and thought that he might have to hit someone else in the future, so when I dodged his attack, I se-cretly guided the other customers to stabbed four kitchen knives into his body. According to his condition, it should be very painful, but the police and doctors came and the doctor said that it was a slight injury. The police also said that it was appropriate self-defense, so I quickly got free to visit Wu Zhen."

I was stunned by Zhou Yuan's understatement, "Zhou Yuan, do you know what you are talking? You hurt a person, and you don't have a shred of fear or guilt? "

"Why?" When Zhou Yuan heard my question, he felt it was very strange. "He was not going to die, and I didn't do it myself. Even the law can't do anything to me."

"What about morality?" I couldn't help but ask.

"What is morality?" Zhou Yuan smiled at me, "Alright, I'm full now. Thank you for treating me, I'm leaving first."

As he spoke, he stood up and left the room with his stuff.

Liu Shuai and I were the only ones remaining and looking at each other.

"Tell me, what happened to Zhou Yuan?" I couldn't stand the silence in the room, so I asked.

"It looks like he has reached another stage." Liu Shuai looked at the door of the room, as if Zhou Yuan was still there, then he sighed after a long while. "If pre-viously he was subconsciously skilled in logical thinking but inconsiderate in lan-guage, then right now he would have already started to alienate."

"What do you mean alienate?" I asked, not understanding.

"His situation is very special. I can only explain it to you based on my under-standing." Liu Shuai said after thinking about it, "From his words today, I can see that he has a complete set of knowledge about this world. Furthermore, he has begun to have the ability to make use of some of the loopholes in this world and do things that he originally didn't want to do, wasn't willing to do, or didn't dare to do when he had a soul, such as —"

"Such as hurting others with some furtive tactics while not making himself in-volved in it." I took over Liu Shuai's words, "What will happen in the future?"

"Do you remember what Avalokiteshvara said about the sheriff setting fires?" Liu Shuai suddenly asked me this question.

"Sheriff setting fires... Yes, I remember it." I thought about it, then said, "Zhang Chi Hang said that the sheriff set fires not because he took the position of sheriff. He probably had that idea when he was an ordinary person."

"Exactly," Liu Shuai nodded. "Zhou Yuan already has such an idea. He was totally careless when he made the description just now. If he really rises to a higher level in the future, no matter what industry he is…"

I was so scared that my hair stood on end. I couldn't imagine what Zhou Yu-an would be at that time, but it would absolutely not be the same Zhou Yuan in our memory.

I suddenly became fl.u.s.tered. "We planned to discuss Zhou Yuan about his con-ditions today, but it seems like there's no need to discuss it further. Let's just bring him to my place and the three of us can honestly talk and see what we can do." After that, I looked at Liu Shuai, then I thought for a while and firmly said, "I'm sorry, Liu Shuai. I have to save Zhou Yuan first. I'll think of a way to ask Avalokiteshvara to help you later."

Liu Shuai blushed and punched me, "What are you talking about? Are you a man or not? Zhou Yuan is also my friend. He's in such a situation yet you still try to act pretentiously? Don't say anything, I' fine, but it is just Yan… "

"I cannot take care of Yan this time." I continued, "But, Zhou Yuan's soul in Yan's Mirror World. If we cannot get his soul, Avalokiteshvara's medicine wouldn't work. We must properly persuade Yan on this matter."

It was the following night.

I straightly brought Zhou Yuan and Liu Shuai to my place. Zhou Yuan was very obedient. He watched us chatting with Yan who was in the mirror about our current situation.

Yan had gotten addicted to watching online television recently, so we had to turn on the TV and let him watch it while listening us to explain the current situation.

After we finished speaking, Yan blinked and turned off the television. He frowned as he walked back and forth in the mirror world. Liu Shuai and I couldn't help but feel a little scared as we watched him pa.s.sing through us time and time again in the mirror.

"Yan …" I thought for a while and mustered up my courage, "I know that it's not fair with you, but we feel that Zhou Yuan's condition is extremely dangerous. If this goes on, I'm afraid that he won't be able to hold on for long, so I can only ask for your sacrifice."

Yan lowered his head with a distressed expression. After a while, he raised his head and told us, "I understand what you mean. It's fine if I go out sooner or later. Anyway you have found Avalokiteshvara, so there will be more chance to ask him for medicines."

Seeing Yan being so generous, Liu Shuai and I couldn't help but become spirited, as if the dark clouds of the day had been swept away.

"But," Yan thought for a moment. "There is a bad news."

Liu Shuai and I suddenly felt as we fell from heaven to h.e.l.l.

"There is only half of Zhou Yuan's soul left."