Five Frozen Centuries-Chapter 407 - Underworld Library
Chapter 407: Underworld Library
After Liu Hao explained this, Wei Huo basically understood what this place was like.
After dinner, they bid Liu Hao farewell. Wei Huo then headed to school. There was a lot of information about the Underworld in the school library, and Wei Huo needed to find some useful information.
He observed the strange world as he walked. There was no doubt that this place had been transformed into a modern city.
However, the sky was always pitch-black. Although there were lights, they were dim. The entire city was gray.
Wu Bin mumbled, “I think I’ve seen this place before.”
Wei Huo said, “Didn’t you see it in your dream?”
Wu Bin was stunned. He said, “I think so, but I can’t remember the dream clearly. It seems like a long time has passed.”
Wei Huo said, “I’ve observed you. You’re the only peak Epic-ranked creature among the bus drivers. It seems like you came here for some reason.”
Wu Bin reacted. “Peak Epic-ranked creature? Have I reached this realm?”
Wei Huo said, “Based on your current age, about 300 years have passed since you parted ways with me. That means you should have stayed in the Underworld for at least 250 years.”
Wu Bin was shocked. “I’ve been here for so long? Why don’t I feel anything?”
Wei Huo said, “You’re being controlled by the Rule Power. You’ve lost your sense of time.”
Wu Bin mumbled, “That means I’ve driven a bus for over 250 years?”
A 250-year-old driver should be considered an experienced driver. He could be considered an Epic-ranked veteran.
Wei Huo thought about it and said, “I don’t think so. The bus seems to know how to drive itself. That’s weird. In that case, there shouldn’t be a need for a driver. Could the bus consume soul energy to move? Is that why it needs a driver?”
Wu Bin felt a chill run down his spine as he said, “It consumes soul power?”
Wei Huo was so anxious because Wu Bin had once said that this dream was a message from his future self. However, any person who could ignore the river of time and bring news to their future self had to be a Mythical creature. At the moment, Wu Bin might not even have reached the Legendary stage.
Everything seemed to be shrouded by fog, making it difficult to detect anything.
Wei Huo arrived at the school’s library. The school was so huge that it was as big as a county. There were all sorts of students in it, both young and old, male and female.
Based on the fact that they had bodies, they should be able to get married, have children, and build a family. This was indeed more in line with the interests of the Underworld. After all, if they had descendants and nurtured them from a young age, they would not need to keep recruiting people from the real world.
Wei Huo was curious about that.
The Underworld needed professional staff, so they had to prepare a model educational system for their children. That way, they could nurture the geniuses the Underworld wanted.
However, humans were not like that. If one tried to nurture him like that, he would grow into another person. That was what humans were like.
However, the Underworld had Rule Power, which was a cheating ability. This ability could even confuse people’s hearts and make them willingly do something without any complaints. The children who had lived in the Underworld for many years and been controlled by the Rule Power were definitely the same.
What Wei Huo wanted to know was if, under the control of such cruel Rule Power, a child would grow into a unique flower with its own thoughts.
Was the soul an inner being?
Was the soul unique?
Wei Huo entered the library with that question in mind. At the same time, he had given Wu Bin a quest.
He had asked Wu Bin to go to the Tenth Hall in the Underworld for an inspection. He had wanted to go to the 18th level of Hell for an inspection. However, Wei Huo had given him a level-three Divine Artifact as a protective item because there would be danger there.
Wei Huo went to the library to search for useful information. At the same time, he was distracted by searching for people he knew in the Underworld.
Since he had met Wu Bin, he might meet other people as well. Besides, he had spent tens of thousands of years outside. Only a few hundred years had passed in the Underworld. He might even meet some old friends.
Unfortunately, Wei Huo could not find the Snake God and Chen Xuanyue. He could not help but suspect that there was more than one Underworld.
The Underworld that Wei Huo was in seemed to only be targeted at the Chinese. Wei Huo did not even see anyone from another country, nor had he heard of anyone using another language. As for aliens, he had never seen any before.
Wei Huo felt that there was more than one Underworld. Or perhaps, living creatures without any concept of the Underworld could not enter it.
Wei Huo found the answer in the library.
He found the answer in a book called ‘The History of the Underworld’. According to this book, the Underworld had taken shape 35,000 years ago. From then on, the Underworld had been formed. It had been very deserted at the time and not as well-developed as it was now. There were many people there now.
Back then, this place had only been a dark red land. There had been nothing else there.
Upon seeing this record, Wei Huo suddenly realized that if the Underworld was the Recycle Bin, the construction date of the Recycle Bin would be when the computer had been installed and the system had started operating.
However, computers needed a lot of work before they started operating. For example, they had to be assembled, hard disks and hardware needed to be installed, and the system had to be installed as well. All sorts of work had to be completed before the computer could be turned on.
There would usually be a few icons after the screen was turned on. The Recycle Bin was definitely one of them.
If the composition of the world was the same, the day the Underworld had appeared should be the beginning of everything.
As for the worlds connected to the center, they might have been added later. It was just like when one installed an operating system into the computer before they started downloading software online.
Of course, this was only a method of understanding. Wei Huo was not sure what the real situation was, but he felt that he was beginning to come into contact with the truth.
Wei Huo stayed in the library without sleeping. Meanwhile, Wu Bin went to various corners of the Underworld to investigate on his behalf and reported back to him.
Not only were there 10 halls used for judgment in the Underworld, but there were also 18 levels of Hell. There was also the Bridge of Helplessness and the Reincarnation Pond.
Wei Huo asked Wu Bin to investigate these places.
The situation was indeed unexpected. First of all, the legendary Meng Po had disappeared and been replaced by a Meng Po soup chain store. After all, too many people had been reincarnated, and there would be even more of them. Therefore, the efficiency of working alone was too low.
That was why a chain store was opened. It could increase the efficiency of work, facilitate the operation of the world, and also help the management of the Underworld.
However, as Wu Bin kept investigating, he suddenly discovered an unusual phenomenon. He returned and reported to Wei Huo, “Master, there’s a problem with the Underworld!”
