Chapter 145 Simulation: 17 Years Hastily Pass By (Part 2)
```
The fourteenth year.
Western countries made compromises with the Eastern powers and established a truly international organization led by the East, seeking a win-win situation for all.
The fifteenth year.
Ming Lun pioneered a new technology that provided a new form of energy.
Fire Energy!
This energy came from a dimension filled with flames, where the fires were extraordinary; they included the Luminous Crystal Fire that could help clear all impurities from the body, the Energy Fire that could release a large amount of energy, and the Spiritual Fire that took on the shape of exotic beasts, among others.
However, because this dimension was too powerful, only Ming Lun had the technology to extract these magical flames and make use of them.
As a result, other powers could not steal them.
Besides, Ming Lun also offered a new product for sale—Energy Beasts.
These were beasts from an energy-filled dimension, lacking intelligence, but capable of symbiosis with the human body. They could grow with their hosts, similar to a parasitic symbiotic relationship.
Once parasitized, the creature would develop a rather simple level of thought...
Energy Beasts could help their hosts actively draw energy from the light, promote deep sleep, be used as a source of energy storage, cling to the body forming battle armor, or even transform into weapons.
In essence, they were multi-purpose beasts.
But only those whose minds were in the Stable Realm could perfectly control these energy creatures.
Today, there were no more than twenty people on Earth who were in the Stable Realm.
Moreover, most people did not want to coexist with another living being; especially when these creatures could explode like small nuclear reactors, even fewer were willing to buy them.
Sun Shisheng knew that the world's perspective had not yet fully shifted and that it required the appearance of someone willing to be the first to try.
Therefore, these energy creatures were currently only available to outstanding students within Minglun Martial School.
Although only those in the Stable Realm could perfectly control these energy creatures, even ordinary people could symbiotically coexist with them—it's just that they couldn't utilize their true effects and had to passively experience the creatures' influence.
The sixteenth year.
In March of this year, a young girl with a rather severe psychological disorder arrived here. Her identity was not simple—she was a junior at Wang Chao University, Xu Ying.
Now, she was married, her husband being that very Su Shilin, though he did not come with her.
And her daughter was named Su Chen.
"Hello, I am from the same college as Wang Chao. Could you please ask Mr. Wang Chao to personally treat my daughter?" Xu Ying entered the consultation room and spoke to a hypnotist.
"Please wait."
The hypnotist intended to dismiss her casually, as over the years, there were not a few who came looking for Wang Chao, claiming to be students and relatives.
Unexpectedly, Wang Chao actually came over.
"Vice-chancellor..."
Wang Chao raised his hand and said, "Leave this to me."
After speaking, he took Xu Ying and Su Chen inside the Quiet Courtyard within the outer part of the estate.
"Mom, I'm not sick."
Although Su Chen knew of the legend of Minglun Martial School, she thought the two were too distant to have any intersection. Besides, she felt she was not ill.
"Nonsense!"
Xu Ying said anxiously, "You speak gibberish all day long, how can you not be sick?"
Upon entering the pavilion, Wang Chao sat opposite Su Chen, poured her a cup of hot tea, and asked, "Can you tell me about your situation?"
"Wang Chao senior, it's like this..."
Wang Chao raised his hand, stopping Xu Ying, and calmly said, "Your child is already seventeen years old, let her speak for herself."
Xu Ying was somewhat nervous and said, "Alright."
Su Chen quietly looked at Wang Chao and said, "I heard you are the most powerful Spirit Master, and that ordinary people will be hypnotized just by seeing you. Why doesn't that happen to me?"
"How can you be sure it hasn't?" Wang Chao asked with a faint smile, lifting his cup of tea.
"Hm?"
Su Chen looked left and right, noticed nothing amiss, touched her own arm, then her gaze fell to the side where no one was present.
Yet, she felt that there was nothing wrong.
"No matter what you say, I'm not sick," Su Chen said with a frown.
"Did I say you were sick?" Wang Chao asked with a light smile.
"You're being unreasonable," Su Chen replied coldly, "And you're just like my mom, not believing me. I really can see ghosts, but neither of you believe it."
"Did I ever say I didn't believe you?" Wang Chao sipped his tea again, set down the cup, and then—
Snapped his fingers.
Suddenly, the scenery around them changed in an instant, turning into a playground.
It was a 400-meter track with a soccer field in the middle, where a few students were playing, including Su Chen.
However, that Su Chen was only eight years old.
"What is this..." Su Chen furrowed her brows, as if remembering—this was her experience at eight years old, when she accidentally hit a classmate in the eye with a frisbee, causing them to go blind.
Sure enough, in the scene, the eight-year-old self was playing frisbee with others, and then, the frisbee slipped from her grip and struck the girl classmate in the eye.
```
The female classmate burst into tears—
Afterwards, her family compensated with two hundred thousand yuan, and then their financial situation declined, and she was forced to transfer schools...
"I don't want to recall such sorrowful memories," Su Chen frowned tightly. "Moreover, what does this have to do with me seeing ghosts? Are you implying that it's because there's something wrong with my psyche that I associate it with them?"
"No," Wang Chao shook his head. "You don't have a problem. On the contrary, your thinking is more active than that of ordinary people, meaning you can perceive more magnetic fields, which is why you can see certain peculiar entities."
Su Chen was puzzled, "You mean, my spiritual power is very strong."
Wang Chao chuckled, "Spiritual cultivation has already become widespread, it seems you haven't studied it properly. The strength of the spirit does have a relationship with the activeness of the spirit, but it is not absolute."
"You are currently at the first stage of deep sleep, with a vitality of only 0.7. It's only because you are too active that you're able to sense things that ordinary people can't."
"And this activeness began with this experience."
Su Chen fell silent.
She remembered that after this experience, her thinking indeed became more active given her mother was clearly not an ordinary woman.
But when it came to compensation, it was a tight squeeze.
It was from then on she began to pay special attention to her parents, realizing their identities were not simple, but that was all, and then, in her trance, she could see many strange figures, which were—ghosts.
Although they vanished in a flash, pulled under the ground, she truly saw them!
Her parents felt that her spiritual power was innately strong and that she would be excellent in psychic cultivation; however, she just couldn't calm her mind for such training.
Her thoughts were too active, always filled with a variety of ideas, never able to settle down, and even entering the first stage of sleep she needed the Hypnotist for extensive adjustments and coaching.
With her own abilities, she simply couldn't enter deep sleep.
Then, the scene changed once more—
In her subsequent growth, Su Chen could always perceive some peculiar magnetic fields, therein sighting the figures of those who had died, and even hearing their wails.
Ghosts, of course, do not exist.
In this world, once a person dies, they truly lose their life. There's no chance for reincarnation, as they return to the void or are pulled into the planet's will.
Generally speaking, only when psychic cultivation reaches the Stable Realm can one, after death, retain some obsessions and combine them with the magnetic field to form images invisible to ordinary people, but they exist for no more than seven days before dissipating into thin air. First published on M|V|L!EMPYR.
Yet, there are people whose souls, after dispersing, resonate with the surrounding magnetic fields, thus preserving a sliver of thought.
But such a tiny thought is the most fragile, existing only for a moment.
For Su Chen to sense this was, in a way, talent.
Su Chen watched all this, her body trembling slightly, and said, "This is what I've seen. It is said that only those with strong spirits can see... but these beings have caused me great trouble."
"Not only do I find it extremely difficult to enter deep sleep, but as soon as I relax, they appear."
"However, at Minglun, I didn't see them, and I even felt peace."
"Can you help me?"
Wang Chao laughed and said, "Of course, although I'm not exactly a doctor, there's no illness in this world that I can't cure that others on the outside could."
"Now follow the breath, and recite this verse—"
"Manifest and secret, the Round Penetration, the True Wondrous Verse..."
Outside, Su Chen closed her eyes, her mouth opening and closing as if muttering something, her tightly shut eyes gradually relaxed, becoming tranquil, entering a state like still water.
"This is deep sleep!" Xu Ying exclaimed. She knew she had searched for many Hypnotists outside, but it took them nearly half a day just to barely let her daughter enter that state.
But Wang Chao, with just one glance.
In dream time it was long, but in the outside world, it was just a moment.
In Xu Ying's eyes, from the moment her daughter came in here and sat down to enter deep sleep, it was less than a second, right?
She felt a newfound reverence for Wang Chao.
What she had previously seen on television didn't impress her, but now she had a different sensation.
Mysterious! Powerful!
Indeed fitting for the Vice-President of Minglun Martial School!
"Alright, your daughter's problem has been solved," Wang Chao said with a light smile.
"Um, can I put it on a tab?"
Although Wang Chao was her friend and senior, the bill still had to be settled clearly.
Asking for such a psychic master as Wang Chao to take personal action, it would cost at least a billion, right?
"I am, after all, your senior, so this time it's for free," Wang Chao said with a faint smile, then changed the subject, "I heard your son is called Su Jie."
Although it was a question, his tone was affirmative.
Xu Ying understood that for someone like Wang Chao, if he willed it, not a single stir anywhere on Earth could be hidden from him, so knowing her son's name was not surprising.
"Yes," Xu Ying admitted openly.
"Why did you choose the name 'Jie'? A normal family, no matter how peculiar the name, wouldn't include the character 'Jie' unless the family name is Wu or Mei, those kinds of surnames," Wang Chao asked calmly.
"It's with the hope that he can overcome any difficulties he faces later on, and his father wanted something more literary, so he chose 'Jie'," Xu Ying said with an awkward smile.
"I see."
Wang Chao appeared noncommittal.
In that year, Wang Chao cured Su Chen of her overly sensitive thinking, allowing her to control it freely, which piqued the curiosity of her younger brother, Su Jie.
The seventeenth year...