Chapter 134

Qin Ye shut his eyes and took a deep breath.

Calm down and endure… calm down and endure… Isn’t this just akin to experiencing a rejected phone call? Do I really lack such bad friends as this? No… not at all… there’s no lack of such people out there…

“I’ve just gone to the design department to inquire about the drawings.” He opened his eyes and spoke, “They mentioned that…”

“A flower in my left hand and a sword in my right, a million years of snow falls from the lashes of my eyes. A drop of tear, ahhh ahhh ahh… This is I, ahh ahh ahh!!!”

Qin Ye had just been dealt several heavy blows in quick succession by the outlandish silicone doll. Fortunately, he was already numb to her attacks, and he continued without any expressions on his face, “We’re on the cusp of the great revivification of Hell. All that we need for the commencement of works now is a topological map of Hell. Seeing that the chairman of the board of the new Hell is working his ass off, shouldn’t you, the CEO, be pulling your weight as well?”

The noise on the other end of the light screen immediately paused, and Arthis responded suspiciously, “To think that I would be able to see you working diligently in my lifetime… Apologies for being slow, things have changed far too quickly, and I’m still trying to get used to it… Could your drastic personality change have resulted from readers’ complaints of your craven and cowardly behaviour?”

“... I’m warning you. We may be close, but I’m still prepared to sue you for slander if you dare say another word! Haven’t you noticed my domineering display over the last ten chapters?!” Qin Ye retorted with great indignation.

“Oh hehehe… Seems like a certain young man’s ego has become overly inflated… have you already cast the fear of Lin Han’s domineering display to the back of your mind?”

Some confrontations weren’t matters that could be easily resolved in the span of a few minutes.

The two vicious serpents bit back at each other for close to half an hour before they finally ran out of venom in their venom sacs. Both sides were defeated and panting hard when Qin Ye finally stretched out his hand towards the light screen, “I don’t want to discuss such banal things any longer. Hand over the topological map of Hell!”

“What makes you think I have it?” Qin Ye could only imagine the look of delight on Arthis’ face right now as she picked her nose pettily, completely devoid of any dignity concomitant with her rank as an Infernal Judge - How dare you give me such an attitude? Go on! I want to see how you’ll still end up begging at my heels!

He gritted his teeth and exploded, “How am I supposed to know what special buildings and facilities to construct in Hell without a topological map? You’d previously even mentioned the soul induction platform and the Yin mourning hall - are these all but a bunch of baloney?!”

Arthis paused, and her voice grew somber, “You don’t have it?”

“How could I possibly have something like that?!” Qin Ye stared at the screen in horror, “You… really don’t have it either?”

Arthis grew silent for a few seconds. Then, the light screen rippled, before quickly revealing the image of the City of Salvation. Then, Arthis continued, “That’s not possible. You must have it! I’ve seen these things whenever I’d visited the Yama-Kings back then. Every Yama-King has one such map hanging at the back of his office. Unfortunately, I wasn’t qualified to have access to something like that. I’d heard that the map was something that was drawn up by one of the founding Yama-Kings, who’d then painstakingly surveyed and measured the land inch by inch. This was something that was put to use and updated whenever Hell expanded again. It’s something of great importance.”

Qin Ye thought hard about it, but he couldn’t recall ever receiving something even remotely close to that of a topological map. Then, just as he was about to respond, he noticed that Arthis had already vanished from the screen. She reappeared several seconds later, “It’s hard to discuss these matters remotely. Wait there. I’ll come right over.”

One second later… the talisman was suddenly dyed with a reddish hue that quickly spread out into the surroundings, transforming into a two square-feet light screen. Following that… a silicone doll with disheveled black hair began to slowly crawl through the red screen of light…

She crawled out…

Out of the screen…

For some strange reason, Qin Ye found this scene particularly reminiscent of something.

Why do I suddenly get the urge to cut the connection midway as she’s climbing through the screen… I want to kick this Sadako cosplayer back to where she’s come from… What do I do? I don’t think I can hold myself back any longer! Help!

Arthis crawled out from the screen in a horrific, twisted manner. Midway through the efforts, she suddenly paused, and lifted one of her hands, “Help me out?”

“Turn off the TV?” Qin Ye responded unkindly.

“No… I must have eaten too much and my belly is a little bit bloated. I’m stuck… do me a favour and pull me out… Say, do you think I’ve eaten too much and gone out of shape?”

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