Cyber Ghosts

The moon shone bright in the dark sky, light piercing through the clouds and casting a dull glow over the forest below.I hid in the corner of an old stone building, half collapsed by time. I wasn’t sure what I was doing here, hiding behind what was left of the old wall. Was I waiting for something? Running from something?“Bring him here!” somebody yelled from the other side of the wall. “Bring me another animal, too. A sika deer should work.”Startled, I turned and pressed myself to the wall, leaning out a bit so I could just see them out of one eye. There were about seven men in black clothes. Two of them had a younger man pinned to the ground. The moonlight shining on his pale skin gave me a clear view of his face and fashionable clothes. “I heard you’re a very disobedient young man,” one of the figures said. “We’ve been asked to help you fix that.”The young man stared back stubbornly.“I’m not disobedient. I just won’t be part of th

“Let me explain the problem with her method,” Yan said. “A body without a soul can learn some amazing abilities, but if you want to keep your body alive, you need something called ‘life exchanging talisman water’. It’s called that because you must take another’s life to extend your own. If Miss Lan is using this method, she’ll need to take another life every forty-nine days. The technique was invented by Shang Yang during the Qin dynasty. His soldiers gained power, but they also had to keep fighting to survive. Bai Qi killed four-hundred-thousand soldiers from Zhao just to obtain more souls to feed his army. After Ying Zheng united the six states, there was not enough bloodshed to feed his army and they slowly died off. It’s part of the reason the Qin dynasty fell. Of course, this is all legend now. Since then, the cycle of rebirth has been fairly stable, and we keep a close watch on souls. This sort of thing doesn’t happen anymore. But it happened today.”Yan sighed."T

I sat on the sofa and looked at Yan in the mirror. The sunlight outside the room was extremely glaring and weak. It was like Zhou Yuan's dull gaze that had passed through the balcony and shone all the way to my feet. It was extremely hot in S City of this season, but I still felt cold all over because of Zhou Yuan.In this past week, I'd already gotten used to Yan in the mirror world. He was very tactful and wouldn't run around. Since the last time I came back, he would basically only appear in the mirror in my living room, and in his words, last time in this living room, he and I had a very enjoyable conversation. Although I always believed that conversation was just a dream, but since he insisted, and since I had too many things to figure out, I no longer argued with him about it anymore.Yan was embarrassed by my stare and scratched his head. He asked me: "What exactly do you want to say? With my current condition, I can only hide in this mirror wor

“Fuck you, Hao Ning!"Early in the morning, a loud roar came out from the office. Everyone looked in the direction of it and got surprised finding that Liu Shuai, who never got angry, was yelling to me, who never allowed anyone to speak with rage in front of me.I looked at Liu Shuai with a mischievous smile, and noticed that everyone's gaze was fixated on the two of us. I hurriedly said, "what are you looking at? You never saw a product manager discussing his demands with an R&D?”Everyone suddenly understood what happened. It seemed like Hao Ning once again shoot some demands that Liu Shuai could not tolerate, which might probably induce a bad situation. Some colleagues looked at me sympathetically, then lowered their heads to continue working.Liu Shuai's face was flushed red. He felt uncomfortable after realizing how loud his voice was, then pulled me into the conference room and closed the door after him.

I looked at Zhou Yuan and said, "I don't think so…"“I can't make everyone happy" Zhou Yuan's tone didn't contain any traces of happiness or anger. "I used to believe that I chose a path that could make me rich in a short time, but no matter how hard I try, I was unable to make it better. I thought that I could make myself more outstanding with Lan Ruo, but in the end, everything happened in vain. My mother is right. Maybe I really am not a qualified son …”He turned to be more and more insane. It was obvious that he had completely denied himself. "Don't think like that. We all know you are very good. You are nice, hardworking, and very popular, otherwise why would we come to see you? Even the director said he wants to visit you as well. "Zhou Yuan shook his head. "It's not what you think. Let me show you something."Zhou Yuan started taking off his T-shirt."Hey, what are