The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 542: Hong Kong Past (23)

A flash of lightning streaked across the sky and grew into several sharp branches, dyeing the entire dark world snow-white, and then fell into darkness again.

Accompanied by the roar of thunder, heavy rain poured down.

"It worked! It really worked! Hahahaha! Did you see it? Master Qian!"

In the midst of this rainstorm, a Taoist priest carried an unconscious person out of the park with an ecstatic expression.

Another Taoist priest followed behind him, his face full of trance. After hearing his companion's voice, he also said happily: "Yes, we succeeded. We completed the last piece of the puzzle of cognitive theory. Now, those classical scholars can no longer make any waves... But, is Ah Fa okay?"

"This kid can still hold on!" Taoist Jingde nudged the dead pig-like man on his shoulder and asked, "Afa, can you hear me?"

Ah Fa grumbled in pain and finally fell asleep.

In his dream, Ah Fa returned to the fortress, which was like a maze, and he could not get out no matter how he tried. When he woke up, it was the next day. He opened his eyes and found that he was not at home. After he threw off the quilt, got out of bed, and walked out of the room, he finally figured out where he was.

"Finally you woke up~" Taoist Jingde stood in the living room and nodded to him with a smile: "How did you sleep?"

Looking at the orange-red sunlight outside the window, Ah Fa yawned, turned his head and looked at the clock on the wall. The hour hand pointed to six o'clock, so he shook his head: "Not very well, a little dizzy, feeling like dying."

"It's normal." Taoist Jingde said with a smile, "You are lucky enough. It won't be that easy to die."

Suddenly, Ah Fa's stomach rumbled and he held his stomach and said, "What do we have for breakfast? It's so early, why don't we go have some morning tea and snacks together?"

"Where can I get you some morning tea?" Taoist Lingkong came out of the kitchen and said, "It's already afternoon, and you've slept for more than ten hours. Wait a minute, the meal will be ready. Eat some fruit first to fill your stomach."

"Afternoon?" Ah Fa was startled. He took out his pager and looked at it. Then he immediately made a call on the landline. He picked up an apple and ate it while reporting his safety to his family and the community.

During dinner, Ah Fa asked, "What happened last night? Why can't I remember anything? I only remember you guys circling around me, and then..."

"You really don't remember?" Taoist Jingde tapped his temple and said with a mysterious smile, "Think carefully about what you saw."

This sentence made Ah Fa frown slightly. He seemed to sense something and was a little dazed for a moment, as if something in some distant direction had established a connection with him.

Then, the dark and cramped scene of Kowloon Walled City seemed to appear before his eyes, and he could even smell a faint stench.

"Damn!" Ah Fa stood up suddenly, still a little frightened. He remembered that he really entered that alien space with two Taoists yesterday! There were people living inside! Then... something seemed to have happened, and he was carried out by Taoist Jingde. "The remaining knowledge of Kowloon Walled City is too huge." Qian Xiaoyi shook his head beside him: "It all poured into Brother Fa's mind, making him unable to bear it and fainted."

Taoist Lingkong said, "But our experiment was successful. It proved that in modern society, we can indeed use some means to create a ghost domain that could only be formed naturally by chance in the past. After that, according to the original plan, we will cut off the connection between Ah Fa and the Kowloon Walled City ghost domain, and then return to the mainland. On this point, Senior Brother Jingde and I have a little disagreement..."

At the dinner table, Taoist Lingkong smiled and said, "Don't be nervous. With us here, you will be fine. Don't worry about the impact on you. We will take care of it. After dinner, we will perform a ritual for you, and you can go home and sleep peacefully..."

Just when Ah Fa was relieved, Taoist Jingde suddenly said, "Wait, Master Qian, I think we need to observe Ah Fa's condition a little longer. Don't be so arbitrary. His current situation is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. We may never encounter such a situation again in our lifetime."

Taoist Lingkong hesitated: "But, won't this have an impact on Ah Fa?"

"Yes." Ah Fa also asked: "Won't it have an impact on me? That alien space is not a place for living people to go, right? What if the things in it get entangled with me..."

Taoist Jingde said, "Everything has its pros and cons. Isn't the open-eyed Guan Gong behind you the same? Before you couldn't suppress him, he could kill you, but when you can suppress him, he will be your patron saint. You have experienced so many strange things recently, but you are still full of energy now. Isn't it the credit of Master Guan Erye?"

"That seems to be true." Ah Fa scratched his head: "So you mean, the things in the other dimension will also help me?"

"It's very likely." Taoist Jingde said, "Kowloon Walled City is your home. Even if it's a different dimension inside, they treat you as their own. Otherwise, how could you get in? If you can use it properly, that place can also become your helper like Guan Erye."

"Help..." Ah Fa breathed a sigh of relief: "Why didn't you tell me earlier? You made me worry."

He quickly finished his meal, stood up and said, "We won't do the ritual today. I have an appointment to negotiate tonight. If there's nothing else, let's put this matter off until later. I'm leaving now. Call me if you have anything else."

He left the rental house in a hurry, but he didn't expect that he had slept for nearly a whole day. This was beyond his expectation. He was in the limelight now, and he had squeezed out time to accompany the two Taoists to Kowloon Walled City Park yesterday. He really couldn't delay now. If he went later, the two sides might have already started fighting.

When he left the rental house, he vaguely heard an argument coming from inside, but at the moment his mind was completely focused on the club's business, so he had no time to listen carefully and just left.

Qian Xiaoyi sighed and said, "I can imagine what you are arguing about."

Taoist Lingkong remained silent.

In the rental house, after Ah Fa left, Taoist Ling Kong asked first: "Brother Jingde, what are you doing? Didn't you agree to stop after completing the experiment?"

"What do you mean by stop? It makes us look like a criminal gang, how ugly." Taoist Jingde smiled and comforted him, "Master Qian, calm down and listen to me carefully. I just said that Ah Fa's situation is rare to encounter an example like Kowloon Walled City. If we give up now and return to China, wouldn't it be an isolated case that cannot be replicated? You know which direction the wind is blowing in China now. What if those stubborn classical school question our theory? How can we refute it?"

(End of this chapter)