Hell's Handbook

Once Su Jin returned to the temple, Ye Yun and the rest immediately came to greet him. They had been worried and fearful for the last two weeks. If The Beginning had not assured them that Su Jin was definitely still alive, they might have gone to fight it out with the will of the universe.

“As long as you’re back, as long as you’re back,” murmured Ye Yun.

Su Jin gave her a smile to console her, then passed Yun Shan and Yun Shui to her. After that, he went to talk to his younger sister and Yang Mengmeng.

Su Qing and Yang Mengmeng looked utterly depressed and cheered up a little when they saw Su Jin. But after Su Qing found out that her parents had been killed by the will of the universe, she nearly suffered a nervous breakdown and wailed miserably as she hugged her child.

Yang Mengmeng did not say anything and Su Jin didn’t know what to do. He could only say to her, “I’m… I’m really sorry about this whole thing.”

“You don’t have to be sorry, Brother Su… even though it wasn’t you, I’ve lived a really blissful life during this past decade.” Yang Mengmeng had a stubborn look in her eyes.

Su Jin didn’t know how to respond to that, so he asked, “In that case… what do you intend to do now?”

“Go home!” said Yang Mengmeng without hesitation.

“Go home?” Su Jin stared at her blankly for a moment, then shook his head. “That’s not a good idea. The will of the universe is someone who kills as he wishes and is a cruel, unfeeling character…”

“No… I’m the one who lived with him for the past ten years, after all. My husband was a humorous man who took great care of me. I don’t care if he’s the will of the universe or some god or demon. I just want to return to my husband’s side. I’m begging you, please send me back…” said Yang Mengmeng obstinately as she implored Su Jin.

Su Jin sighed. What happened over the past ten years? He had no idea. Perhaps the will of the universe had done a good job of pretending to be a good older brother, a good husband, and a good son, but he was just pretending after all. The will of the universe was pretty much playing a first person shooter game. He was having fun going through what the game had to offer and he was going through the game according to how it was designed.

But if one day, he loses interest in this game, he would immediately destroy the entire game, regardless of whether they were humans or things. Even an ordinary gamer might end up doing something destructive within the game once he starts to find it boring.

At the same time, Su Jin couldn’t possibly tell her that the will of the universe was merely treating her as an NPC, so she should stop her delusions about him.

He really couldn’t bring himself to say something like that, and even if he tried, Yang Mengmeng wasn’t going to accept it. She had absolute faith in the man who had given her love and warmth over the past ten years.

“Brother Su, I’m begging you! Perhaps I was in love with you in the past, but now… I know who I’m in love with…” Yang Mengmeng continued to plead with Su Jin to send her back.

Su Jin didn’t know how else to persuade her otherwise and could only nod slightly before speaking gravely to her, “Mengmeng, I can guarantee you that this guy is no longer the same man who spent the last ten years with you. But since you insist on going back, I will send you back to the planet you came from.”

“No, Brother Su, that’s not what I want and you know it. I want to return to his side,” said Yang Mengmeng.

Su Jin paused, then grit his teeth and said, “That’s impossible. If I send you to him, you’d probably get yourself killed. He is not a person who has any respect for human life or gets sentimental. In fact, he’s destroyed countless lives over the past cycles!”

“I’m begging you!” Yang Mengmeng continued to plead with him. She smiled sadly and said, “I have heard some things about him during my stay here, but I feel that… you guys haven’t been fair.”

“We haven’t been fair?”

“Uh huh. He’s the will of the universe and has been looking down at everything as a higher being. Yet he stayed here as a human for the past ten years. I believe that I can teach him what love is and I’m willing to bet my life on it!” said Yang Mengmeng without holding back.

Su Jin was silent for a moment, then he bellowed back at her, “You’re just being naïve! Unbelievably naïve! Mengmeng, you might seriously die!”

“But I’m willing to.” Yang Mengmeng remained as resolute as ever. The look in her eyes was the same one she had when she was younger. She continued to hope despite being in such a hopeless situation.

Su Jin leaned against the wall weakly. He could only nod in response. He never liked forcing anyone to join his team and wouldn’t stop anyone from leaving, so if this was what Yang Mengmeng wanted, he would allow it.

“Take this.” Su Jin grasped the air and a crystal appeared in his hand. He gave it to her and said, “This is a precious item that The Beginning has created. If the will of the universe tries to do anything to you, you can call my name with this crystal in hand and I will come to your rescue.”

“Got it!” Yang Mengmeng happily accepted the crystal.

Su Jin looked at her intently for a few moments, then attached a little of his aura on her, which was to help the will of the universe to detect her and take her away.

He got her into a small spaceship, brought it to a vast area in outer space, released the spaceship and his aura, then left quickly.

Within a few seconds, the will of the universe appeared with the four geniuses. He frowned when he spotted the spaceship, but revealed a little smile when he saw that Yang Mengmeng was in the spaceship.

“Hubby!” Yang Mengmeng opened the spaceship’s door to let everyone in, then ran to the will of the universe and grabbed hold of his hand.

The will of the universe smiled and asked, “Where’s Su Jin?”

“He… sent me here and left,” replied Yang Mengmeng.

“In other words, you’re the only one here?” asked the will of the universe, to which Yang Mengmeng nodded.

A look of displeasure instantly filled his eyes and he snapped, “What a waste of my time!”

“Hubby, stop trying to kill Brother Su, will you? Why don’t we return to how we used to live simply? I’m sure we’ll be happy that way,” said Yang Mengmeng as she held his hand.

But he flung her hand aside and said impatiently, “Playing that game was quite interesting, but I don’t want to keep playing. As for you… you’re quite irritating!”

Yang Mengmeng’s heart skipped a beat in fear. She watched as he pointed a finger at her and she knew what was about to happen to her. She immediately took hold of the crystal that Su Jin gave her, but… when she saw a black beam shoot out from the will of the universe’s finger, she let go of it again because she remembered what she had said. Even if she had to die, she… was willing to.

She turned to ashes once the black beam hit her. The will of the universe looked around casually, then said to Jing Hua and the rest, “Continue looking for where that temple might be. I doubt they can keep running forever.” With that, he disappeared.

The four geniuses exchanged glances, then Phoenix said, “Do you guys find that… there’s something different about the Great One?”

“I can’t put my finger on it, but something about him does seem a little different,” Jing Hua nodded. But he quickly put that aside and said, “That has nothing to do with us. We just need to do what we’re told!” The four geniuses then disappeared as well.

Meanwhile, a wisp in Su Jin’s hand suddenly disappeared. He trembled slightly as his expression fell, murmuring, “Why… why did you have to do that…”

Su Jin did not tell Su Qing about Yang Mengmeng’s death because he was afraid that she would not be able to take it emotionally.

The Beginning told him that there were more than 78,000 current gods in the temple and they were the gods that he had saved previously. All of them were willing to join his temple and would become a powerful and important army for Su Jin, but he had to alter their godhood first.

After taking ten years to understand Oscar’s godhood, Su Jin and The Beginning had already come up with a plan to create their own temple’s brand of godhood. It would be essentially the same as what the will of the universe had created, but a few amendments would uncouple the god from both the Handbook and the will of the universe.

However, trying to do this for nearly 80,000 gods was going to be a big project. This was going to take a lot of time.

Moreover, he also needed Durand and the rest to become gods. During the last ten years, all of them were now good enough to become gods, but they were all waiting for Su Jin’s instructions.