New Times, New Hell

Ch3 - Hell Organisation in the Human World

Shang Que appeared too natural, and too serious. While feeling absent-minded, Yu Zhengdu suddenly had the misconception that everything in front of him was as it should be.

The atmosphere that was supposed to be extremely horrifying had an inexplicable sense of comedy. Yu Zhengdu felt like he should shudder in fright for a while out of courtesy, but he really couldn't feel the slightest bit of fear. He stared fixedly at Shang Que for a long time, then finally asked, "What kind of organisation is this exactly?"

"To explain it in a way that's easier to understand......" Shang Que thought about it for a moment, then answered, "It should be a Hell organisation in the human world?"

Yu Zhengdu fell into a trance. "Hell?"

"Un, the one you're thinking about right now." Shang Que smoothed his hair out. "Let's talk inside."

They entered Shang Que's office. Shang Que sat down in his chair, and his expression suddenly changed. "Hold on for a moment."

After he spoke, he dragged his keyboard over and his fingers seemed like they were flying as they "pitter-patter" like mad on the keyboard for awhile, then his expression softened. He didn't forget to curse angrily, "Damn it, someone killed me while my computer was turned off."

"......" Yu Zhengdu cooperated with no emotion in his voice, "How despicable."

Shang Que turned his head around to look at him. "Do you know how to write hacks? I want to hunt him down to the ends of the earth."

Yu Zhengdu uttered his suggestion very slowly, "You can just get your ghost employees to scare him."

Shang Que, "......"

Shang Que logged out of the game and pretended as if nothing had happened. "Let's get down to business."

"Simply put, our company is Hell." Shang Que dispensed with the formalities and dove straight to the point, "Which is the afterworld as understood by the human world. We're in charge of the six paths of reincarnation, and we're responsible for putting humans on trial for the merits and demerits accumulated throughout their life — we're the netherworld's Hell that decides what the next life of the dead should be."

Yu Zhengdu was so shocked he hiccuped. From the corner of his eye, he studied this office again that seemed a little plain, and deeply doubted his boss' words. But his fingers still subconsciously pointed downwards, "Shouldn't Hell......be underground?"

Shang Que placed one leg over the other and said in this graceful posture, "Well, that would date back to what happened fifty years ago......"

Ever since Pangu, separated the Sky from Earth, formless chaos was divided into three realms — heaven, the human realm and earth. Heaven became the divine realm, Earth became the ghost world, and between the heavens and the Earth was the human realm. Aside from these, there are the six reincarnation cycles, which differ from one another.

The existence of the three realms and six cycles is mainly maintained by spiritual power and belief, but with the passage of time, spiritual energy is gradually thinning out, The divine realm and the ghost world — that require a lot of spiritual energy to be maintained — became turbulent, and their foundations destablised. However, they were still barely held up by beliefs of the human world.

"Until fifty years ago......"

When he spoke up to this point, Shang Que paused for a moment. Just one glance at him and you could tell that it must have been a period of history that unfolded on a magnificent scale.

Yu Zhengdu couldn't help but move forward a little, and his tone sounded slightly agitated as well, "What happened fifty years ago?"

Shang Que's gaze seemed profound as he said, "Fifty years ago, China launched a large-scale campaign to Destroy the Four Olds and swept away everything related to ghosts and monsters. Belief in ghosts and gods in the human world collapsed completely, and this was equivalent to pulling the carpet from underneath the divine realm and ghost world that was on the verge of falling apart in the first place......"