Hidden moth

Chapter 22 Existence is Possibility

Before this, He Kao was just an ordinary programmer, toiling away day after day, just to gain a foothold in the social tide of this era. How could a young man like him not yearn for more exciting and infinite possibilities?
The magician effect mentioned earlier: what if the magicians' performances could be real? He Kao is not a cryptic moth, but he also wants to learn the law.

Although Wu Yanjun rejected his request, it didn't matter. Unless these people had joined forces to design a huge scam specifically to fool him, it would have proved the existence of the hidden moth and various magic techniques.

Since it exists, it means there is a possibility; if it does not exist, then there is no hope.

He Kao put the "original" pendant into the company's storage box, and continued to wear the fake one that Xiao Wu brought. In the next few days, he began to collect various so-called secret methods of cultivation and strange arts on the Internet.

Is there such a thing on the Internet? Not only is there, but there are so many of them that I can't even begin to see them all!

It's hard to tell whether these things are real or fake, or they're all fake. Some of the health-preserving content might work, but they also omit a lot of important content.

He Kao took advantage of his professional expertise and wrote a program that can capture relevant information on the Internet and automatically compare and screen information through artificial intelligence using the company's AI platform.

After running this program, a large number of recurring content fragments were found in the massive amount of data. After tracing the source and integrating them, several seemingly complete sets of so-called secret methods were obtained.

In fact, similar work was also done by the ancient textual research school in the East. By examining a large number of ancient classics, they inferred that the "Book of Documents in Ancient Texts" that was popular at the time was a fake book.

The so-called "Book of Documents in Ancient Texts" is a book that was re-compiled by extracting sentences quoting "Book of Documents" from various ancient classics.

What He Kao is doing today is the equivalent of reverse engineering—forging texts—done by ancient textual scholars. If artificial intelligence had existed back then, the relevant work would have been much simpler.

He Kao was not trying to write any forgeries, he was just organizing the secret techniques, but in the process, he also discovered similar forgeries.

For example, there is a set of alchemy secrets that are written in great detail and vividly, with every detail coming to life, as if you can become an immortal by following them. However, when carefully compared with artificial intelligence, it is discovered that they were all taken from an online novel.

Using this method, many confirmed forgeries were eliminated first, and then the remaining martial arts secrets could not be distinguished between the artificial intelligence and He Kao himself.

After seeing these secret books, He Kao confirmed one thing: the secret methods of the major martial arts schools were indeed not passed on to outsiders, because Wu Yanjun mentioned the ceremony of the sorcerer's promotion, but the secret methods collected by He Kao did not contain this content.

If there is none, then there is none. It seems that these can also be practiced. How should I choose? He Kao chose a technique that starts with visualization. He could also collect many people's practice experiences on the Internet. It seemed that there was nothing wrong with it.

This secret method of visualization is said to be able to eliminate fatigue, beautify the skin, improve physical fitness, enhance abilities in various aspects, and inspire spiritual perception deep in one's consciousness.

He Kao is a decisive person. Once he makes his choice, he starts practicing.

So, at midnight, He Kao sat in meditation on his bed. His ideals were high, but reality was harsh. He only persisted for about ten minutes before giving up. There were two reasons: it was difficult to straighten his waist, and his legs were too numb.

His legs and feet went numb first, then painful, and then some parts of his body seemed to lose sensation. He was already 25 or 26 years old, and he had never practiced meditation since he was a child. What was he thinking about meditating?

He Kao had to end his "cultivation" and loosen his legs. He felt his legs numb and tingling, with alternating hot and cold sensations. He could hardly move at all, and it took him a long time to recover.

What should he do? He Kao recalled another secret manual, which said that even if one couldn't sit cross-legged, there was no need to force it; one could still practice sitting upright. Sitting upright meant sitting on a chair or stool with thighs flat and posture upright.

So He Kao got out of bed and sat on the newly bought wooden stool, and began to practice according to the secret method. He seemed to feel something, but he couldn't tell what the feeling was. Later, he was so sleepy that he went back to bed to sleep.

He thought he had been sitting on the bench practicing for quite a long time, at least one or two hours, but when he looked at the watch, it was only half an hour.

This kind of "cultivation" might have a slight chance of awakening his spiritual sense, because nothing in the world is absolute, and no one dares to say that this will definitely not work. But He Kao didn't know that this action brought him even greater trouble.

Qian had indeed obtained the true magical beast claw, and out of caution, he had already left the place of right and wrong. Ye Yuxuan had completed the promotion ceremony and confirmed that He Kao was not Yin Mo. But what about the others, especially those who had replaced the beast claw?

After someone got the claw, like Qian Guran, they hid away to study it. But they were doomed to find nothing, because it wasn't a real claw, and even if it was, it had nothing to do with the hidden moth.

For those who get the claws, there are three possibilities:

The first is that they are wrong. He Kao is not the hidden moth, and the beast claw is not a hidden moth thing. This is the conclusion that Wu Yanjun and Ye Yuxuan came to.

Secondly, the beast claw was definitely not an ordinary object, but further careful observation was needed. This was Qian's judgment, and since he didn't want to get involved in any more disputes, he simply stayed away and didn't expose himself.

Third, there was no conclusion. The beast claw might be the Hidden Moth's, or it might not be. In short, no one could figure out how to use it. He Kao didn't look like a Hidden Moth, so some might have given up, while others continued to observe. He Kao suddenly couldn't sleep well at night and sat there practicing. Some wondered if this was a ritual to use the Hidden Moth's artifact. It's no wonder they had this idea, as each level of sorcerer advancement was accompanied by rituals.

That day, He Kao opened his eyes in the darkness and nearly fell backwards, mumbling, "Who is it?"

"Keep your voice down! You won't be in danger if you don't move. I just want to ask you a few questions." A person appeared in the room at some point and sat on another stool opposite. He seemed to be masked and his face could not be seen clearly.

As he spoke, he turned on a flashlight and shone it on He Kao's face, while he hid behind the light. This made it even harder for He Kao to see his appearance, but he could see that he was holding a gun in his right hand.

The gun felt heavy and metallic, and it didn't look fake. He Kao's heart was in his throat. He tried to calm himself down and whispered, "What do you want to ask?" He didn't realize that his voice was hoarse.

The mysterious man took out another object from his left hand. In the flashlight, it turned out to be a beast claw pendant. He asked, "How do you use this thing?"

Why was there another animal claw pendant? Was the one he kept in his company locker stolen? He Kao subconsciously pulled the one he was wearing out of his clothes and glanced down.

Mysterious person: "Don't look at it, it's fake... Hey, it's not something I made, could it have been switched again?"

He Kao: "What are you talking about? Switching?"

Mysterious person: "Yes, I switched your pendant... Now it seems that it was switched again. I have studied this thing of yours for a long time, but I didn't find anything, so I came back to ask you, how to use it?"

He Kao: "What do you mean by how to use it? It's just a pendant, just wear it."

Mysterious man: "What ceremony were you performing just now?"

He Kao: "I'm practicing."

Mysterious man: "Which technique?"

He Kao: "The Huangting Visualization Method is on the table." He Kao had already printed out this set of exercises that he decided to practice. It was a total of five A4 sheets and was placed on the computer desk in the living room.

Mysterious person: "Where did you get this technique?"

He Kao: “I searched it online.”

The mysterious man asked several more questions, but still couldn't get to the point. After carefully observing He Kao, he didn't seem to be lying. He tossed the pendant to He Kao and tapped his forehead with the muzzle of his gun.
"Take your things back and don't do anything stupid, otherwise you know the consequences!" After saying that, he turned and left the room.

By the time He Kao reacted, he opened the door in a cold sweat and looked towards the corridor, but the man was nowhere to be seen.

……

Liang Kai returned to his room and turned on his phone to monitor He Kao's movements. He had quietly installed three surveillance cameras in hidden areas of He Kao's apartment, some with infrared capabilities.

He returned the animal claw pendant to He Kao as a final confirmation.

Since He Kao was using a fake pendant, he naturally could no longer become the Hidden Moth. Now that he has the real pendant back, he suddenly disappeared from the room at a certain time, which proves that He Kao is the Hidden Moth and the pendant is the Hidden Moth's thing.

Just now he pointed a gun at He Kao but didn't get the result he wanted. It was impossible for him to really shoot in the apartment building in the middle of the night. Besides, killing He Kao now would be useless and would make things worse.

He saw He Kao walk to the door, open it and look outside, then come back. Should he use the pendant next?

He Kao first called his colleague Huang Xiaopang who lived in the same building and told him about the strange thing that had just happened. Then, at Huang Xiaopang’s suggestion, he actually called the police!
"...I opened my eyes in the middle of the night and saw a dark figure holding a gun...Yes, I was right, it was a pistol."

This was He Kao's call to the police. If he hadn't mentioned the pistol, the police might not have arrived immediately. A shadowy figure was spotted in the house in the middle of the night, and no valuables were missing. Who knew if he was dazed or having a nightmare?

But it was different if he had a gun. Dongguo was a country with a very strict gun ban, and anything involving guns was considered a major crime. The police arrived quickly and asked He Kao what he had lost. He Kao said he had nothing.

As for the bamboo bombs originally hidden in the bedroom, they had already been taken away by Xiaopang, but the police did not search He Kao's apartment. The next step was as expected: checking the surveillance footage.

The police originally thought that this was another false report, but after checking the surveillance, they became uncertain because the surveillance cameras on the 19th to 21st floors of Building of Sesame Apartment were all broken. How could such a coincidence happen?
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