Hell's Handbook

Chapter 416

Back inside Su Jin’s house, Alice suddenly started crying uncontrollably at the dining table. Su Jin got a shock and asked hesitantly, “Surely my cooking isn’t THAT bad…”

“It’s not you. Alice has a special ability. Whenever anybody from the land of fairytales dies, she will be able to sense it.” Geppetto sighed as sadness filled his eyes.

Su Jin froze for a moment. The land of fairytales was long gone, and out of the four lucky survivors, two of them were right here. So the ones who had died could only be the Mad Hatter and Pinocchio.

“Something bad has happened to the Mad Hatter and Pinocchio?” asked Su Jin.

Alice buried her face in her hands and nodded slowly. She was crying too hard to speak and her tears kept falling onto the dining table. Her grief was somehow contagious, and even Su Jin felt terrible inside.

Or perhaps it had nothing to do with Alice. Su Jin was genuinely feeling sad about losing his old friends.

“Mr. Su, now is the time for me to complete the task the Mad Hatter gave me before he left,” said Alice after she wiped her tears away.

Su Jin wasn’t expecting that. “The Mad Hatter needed you to do something?”

“He wanted me to pass you a message, and he told me to tell you only when the time was right. I think… this is the time he was talking about,” said Alice as another tear rolled down her face.

Su Jin remembered that the Mad Hatter did have a private moment with Alice before leaving, but he didn’t think the Mad Hatter was actually leaving a message for him. He nodded and said, “So, what’s the message?”

Alice nodded and replied, “The Mad Hatter wants you to beware the will of the universe.”

“I know that very well. I’ve always been very careful,” Su Jin nodded. He had been treading very cautiously because he knew that the will of the universe was the reason for everything that existed.

But Alice shook her head. “That’s not what he was trying to say. He’s saying that… the will of the universe has come here. He is now in human form and he’s traversing the worlds.”

“What?!” Su Jin’s eyes widened. He knew that the will of the universe would definitely make an appearance eventually, but he didn’t expect the will of the universe to appear this early. He thought that the will of the universe would only come when everything was about to reach the end.

Alice said, “You still don’t get it. The Mad Hatter wants you to be careful because the will of the universe will appear in front of you in a form that you least expect.”

“Can you be a bit more specific?” asked Su Jin with a grimace. The way Alice was going round in circles even though she could have been direct was annoying him. Of course, Su Jin could have used his psychokinesis to scan her thoughts, but he wasn’t going to do that to someone he considered a friend.

“No, I can’t,” Alice shook her head and explained, “I’m not trying to be difficult. You have to understand who we’re discussing right now. We’re talking about the will of the universe. If I describe him too clearly, he might sense it and you’d be in trouble.”

“That sounds a little… over exaggerated…” Su Jin was a little surprised. Was the will of the universe really that powerful?

“I think it’s better to err on the side of caution,” said Alice gravely.

Su Jin nodded in agreement. This possibility surprised him initially, but after giving it more thought, he realized that this was very possible. The will of the universe was the creator and controller of this entire system, so he stood above everything and definitely had powers way beyond the created ones within his system.

At the same time, Su Jin simply couldn’t imagine what sort of surprising form the will of the universe could use to appear before him. It was now more important for him to think about how to build his own temple and his own army of gods that could operate outside of the will of the universe and Hell’s Handbook, so that he could give his friends, family, and anybody willing to join him some basic security.

“Gosh, this is giving me such a headache,” murmured Su Jin as he tapped his head with his knuckles. “Where can I find a planet that’s not within the control of the Handbook?”

“Why do you need such a planet?” asked Geppetto.

“I want to build a temple of my own that can act as a shelter for the people around me. That way, even if I lose this battle, I have a place where my loved ones can live in peace,” said Su Jin quietly.

“I see. Something like that does exist. According to what I’ve heard, some stars possess spatial abilities right from the time they were created. Such stars break into pieces after they burn out or are destroyed, and these pieces continue to possess spatial abilities even as they float in the universe. But most of them would have been completely destroyed by disasters in space. But if you can find one of these pieces and use that to build a planet, the planet will continue to float in space on its own and the Handbook will not be able to detect it,” explained Geppetto in a slow voice.

Su Jin said with some surprise, “Oh my, Geppetto, you know a lot!”

“Pinocchio was the scientist of our world, and everything he knew came from me.” Geppetto’s eyes were filled with pride whenever he talked about Pinocchio, except now, there was sadness mixed in as well.

Su Jin remembered that he had indeed heard from the Mad Hatter that Pinocchio was the scientist of the land of fairytales who had invented several things. Even the blueprint of the boning knife had been provided by Pinocchio.

“A broken piece from a star with spatial abilities… that sounds hard to find,” said Su Jin. Such stars were very few to begin with, and it would be even harder to find any remnants now.

“If you really need to find one, I can help,” said Geppetto.

Su Jin didn’t expect to hear that. “You can?”

“Back in the day I did some research on this. I don’t think it’s too hard to find one, but I will need something that can send a powerful enough signal out,” said Geppetto.

“How powerful is powerful?” asked Su Jin.

“The more powerful, the better. The greater the area that the signal covers, the faster we’ll find such a piece,” said Geppetto.

Su Jin paused to think, then said, “What about me?”

“You…?” Geppetto blinked at him and shook his head. “I… don’t understand what you mean.”

Su Jin explained, “My Spirit Power is psychokinesis, so I am able to send any signal into the world. At the same time, I believe I can receive any signal that comes back too. Of course, that’s just my speculation at the moment.”

“Well, that… that’s plausible.” Geppetto hesitated for a few moments to think, then said, “Let’s just give it a shot! I can’t be certain either.”

The two of them started getting busy, and in just three days, Geppetto was done. He had used just three days to put a computer system together. According to Geppetto, this thing was very similar to an AI computer he had built in the past, so it was like his old computer but with a new interface.

Geppetto used it to program a signal, and he just needed something to send this signal out. Su Jin used his psychokinesis to understand the structure of the signal, mimicked it perfectly, then used his psychokinesis to send it out.

Su Jin’s psychokinesis was incredibly powerful. If he wanted to, he could cover the entire galaxy. But psychokinesis was a power within the Handbook’s system, so he tried not to use it if he didn’t have to.

The signal sent out by his psychokinesis traveled outward rapidly. He sent out a total of eight signals and did his best to make sure they covered as wide an area as possible. The only thing left for him to do was to wait. If he was lucky, he would be able to find what he wanted soon.

Life returned to mundanity. Su Jin put everything down and took a trip back to his hometown. This was a place that was special to him. Regardless of how distant his relationship with his parents was, that was where his soul felt at peace.

In order to fulfill his parents’ materialistic dreams, Su Jin even took special effort to turn himself into a big shot. He made himself a director of sorts at Tracy’s company, so even though he didn’t know what sort of job scope that position entailed, it made him sound like a high flier.

After they heard what Su Jin wanted, Murray, Tracy, and Jack brought a whole group of elites to China and informed Situ Jin ahead of time.

“So… you guys are here to make Su Jin… look like some really big shot?” Situ Jin stared at them in confusion.