It astonished the three of us that my dad had dealt with this cult before. Right after, Chongxi asked with a puzzled face, “Uncle, that doesn’t make sense. If you had dealt with them before, they would no longer exist! How come they rose again from the ashes? Could it be said that the head of the cult was so fierce, even someone like you couldn’t handle it?”

With doubt, I also looked at dad. Chongxi’s opinion was also my opinion. For my dad with such a temperament, he would definitely wipe out such a brutal cult on sight. However, now they showed up again. Could it be that my dad wasn’t powerful enough to root them out back in those years?

Unexpectedly, dad shook his head and said, “You were wrong. I wiped them out already back then.” The three of us looked at each other, puzzled. We didn’t understand him at all. Seeing that we were all lost, dad explained again, “In those years, the head of this cult had nature at his beck and call. Many experts failed to defeat him. I was the one who came forward to behead him. It was an old yellow weasel with high cultivation. But for some reason, it went awry, refining the guts of children as aliment to level up its cultivation. However, it was just a yellow weasel after all, a jack of all trades and master of none. I didn’t even need to try more than one move, and it already dropped dead with its soul vanished. However, it had a junior fellow apprentice who was also a yellow weasel. After seeing that its senior fellow apprentice got killed by me so easily, it knelt down on the floor kowtowing ceaselessly like pounding garlic. I wanted to wipe it out at its roots, but your mother appealed to me saying that although this yellow weasel went awry, it was a kindred spirit. Moreover, its cultivation was still at a low level, and it was not steeped in crime. Therefore I let it off, hoping it would turn over a new leaf. So I stopped and set the yellow weasel and its minions free. The bat was one of those minions…”

Lin Feng and Chongxi both had a look of realization after hearing this. However, I still had one more question. How on earth would the yellow weasel be a kindred spirit? Why would my mom say that the spirit was the same as her? Was my mom a spirit too? That was impossible. I had spirit sight. If she were a spirit, I would have seen it already! And that’s my mother! My dad was a human for sure, which meant my mom must be a human too. Otherwise, how would I exist!? Humans could not cross breed with spirits – they were not the same species. Such a thing wouldn’t work out. Even if it could work out, then… What was I?

I shook my head forcefully and sorted myself out. Then I asked dad, “According to what you said. This cult matter hasn’t really ended yet?” Dad didn’t know how to reply to me. After a short while, he said, “You could either say it has already ended for a long time, or there was still a continuation.”

Dad wouldn’t tell us any more useful information. Therefore the three of us had to leave the Sinology Center. After we went back to Dechang, we finally could have some rest. And we all fell into a deep slumber.

Rubbing his eyes, Lin Feng pushed me awake. Then he turned over and kicked Chongxi awake too. We slept such a long time that when we got up, it was already dinner time. To my surprise, the first thing that Lin Feng said was, “I am going out. Don’t wait for me for dinner.” Then he got dressed and started walking outside. I felt rather baffled and asked from behind, “Where are you going?” Unexpectedly, Lin Feng told me that Yuan Yuan had sent him a message, asking if he had time tonight while we were sleeping, which he didn’t see in the afternoon until he woke up. He texted her back and was going to have a date right now.

It took me quite a while to recall who Yuan Yuan was. Then Chongxi reminded me that she was the girl who showed up in the hotpot restaurant when Dechang was just opened, an old classmate of Chongxi. That rang a bell. There was a girl who visited the center a lot with another girl when it just opened, in which I got confused and asked Chongxi, “Oh, when did Brother Lin start dating her?” Chongxi laughed and said, “Brother is handsome, and also a master in Kung Fu. Girls feel attracted to this type of man. She has visited Brother Lin many times since we opened the center this year. I guess she is also Brother Lin’s cup of tea. That’s why they are dating each other now.”

I felt even more confused and said, “How come I knew nothing about this? Chongxi looked at me as if I were an idiot and said, “You had barely left your room this year and spent the whole time studying your special book. How could you know? People who don’t know you might think you were playing with wheels in the house!”

After hearing what Chongxi said, I felt speechless for quite a while. It seemed that I was indeed a bit too obsessed. Then my stomach started growling. I asked Chongxi, “Where do we have dinner?” Chongxi glanced at me and said, “What choices do we have other than the dumpling house on the opposite of the road.” I said with disdain, “Come on, bro. Can we have something better?” Chongxi glanced at me again and said, “Are you paying? I didn’t earn much money this year. Most of the jobs were offered by Zheng Shuang, and not a penny was earned. A few rich people invited me to help them with geomancy. But after that, they just treated me to a meal or gave me a pair of walnuts. Can walnuts make a living for me?” I felt speechless and showed the message of receiving one million dollars to him. Chongxi stared at the screen for quite a while and asked, “My goodness, how did you get the money?!” I shook my head helplessly and said, “What else did I do? It was given by Zheng Shuang’s uncle.” After hearing how Zheng Shuang’s uncle gave me one million dollars, Chongxi nodded his head to agree. Then he said, “In this case, let’s go for some barbecue, grilled fish, or something like mutton shashlik.”

Without further ado, Chongxi and I went to a Korean barbecue restaurant. Right after we opened the door to enter, we found that Lin Feng and Yuan Yuan were also there sitting at a table talking about something. I whispered to myself, “What a coincidence.” Then Chongxi and I looked at each other in the eye and laughed sneakily. Apparently, Lin Feng and Yuan Yuan didn’t notice us. Then we sat at a table behind them quietly and pretended to look at the menu while actually trying to eavesdrop.

At this moment, Lin Feng was telling Yuan Yuan, “Really! If you didn’t see it with your own eyes, you could never have imagined it. I was scared to death!” I thought to myself, “What is Brother Lin telling?” and looked at Chongxi, who was even more confused with a muddled look on his face. He shook his head towards me showing that he couldn’t understand either. We perked up our ears to listen. Yuan Yuan said, “Are you kidding? How would there be zombies!” Lin Feng laughed and said, “Hey, at the beginning we all thought that they were zombies. But it turned out they were not! Thanks to Shiyan and his sharp eyes. Somehow he recognized that those two were not real Jiangshis. After knowing that they were humans disguised as fake Jiangshis, I got furious immediately and dashed up to give them a beating…”

In the back, Chongxi and I tittered listening to him. I said in my mind, “Why don’t you tell her how scared you were when you faced those two fake Jiangshi?” Chongxi also found it quite amusing. Therefore the two of us just kept snickering with the menu covering our faces. At the side, the waitress got a bit irritated by our behavior, and asked, “Sir, may I take your order…” Then we both got a hold of ourselves.

During dinner, we kept overhearing Lin Feng talking about our experience over these days, withholding our laughter. When he told her about the head of the Thirteen Tapo organization, the old bat spirit, Yuan Yuan asked him surprisedly, “Oh, no! Spirits are real?” Lin Feng said, “Who said that they aren’t. I didn’t believe it in the beginning either. However, since Shiyan said they exist, then they must be real. When we arrived, there was one as expected. Really! The bat was almost as big as a goat!” Then he narrated the whole story at that time, adding details about how manly he was when fighting against the bat spirit smartly. While listening, Yuan Yuan couldn’t help but respond in awe.

The more Lin Feng spoke, the more exaggerated the story became. Then Chongxi and I finally burst out laughing with a puff. It was obvious that Lin Feng noticed the stir behind, turning around, only to find us. He blushed immediately looking at us and smiled at us awkwardly. We waved at him to greet him. Then Lin Feng said with an embarrassed voice, “Oh look at you, showing up from nowhere. That is awkward…” His face got even more flushed after we made fun of him. And at the side, Yuan Yuan chuckled with her hand covering her mouth.

After we finished dinner, Yuan Yuan asked us, “Hey, what Lin Feng just told me, is it true?” I shrugged and replied with a question, “Which part are you referring to?” Lin Feng blushed again after hearing this. Yuan Yuan said, “I was referring to the spirit matter, of course! Hey, are spirits real? How come I have never met one?” I laughed lightly and replied, “How can you be sure that the people you met were all humans?”