Underworld Player Chapter 55 - The Coach Bound for the Underworld

The large coach bus glided smoothly along a wide road.

Inside, in the window seat of the very last row, Bai Zhi read the short, but clearly acrimonious text and raised a single, amused eyebrow.

...They managed to stomach even that? Perhaps they're not the sharpest tool in the shed...

Now that he knew how far he could push the supernatural entity texting him, it made executing the rest of his plan easier. Bai Zhi knew it was time to rein it in, so as he readied Bane in one hand, he sent out his next text with a much more cooperative tone.

<Very well, since you asked nicely... What's the deal with this bus? Why can't I get off?>

After a few seconds, Bai Zhi got a text that revealed a surprising fact.

<That coach goes straight to the Underworld.>

<Underworld? Well, isn't this fancy? Instead of sending Ox-head and Horse-face or the Black and White Guards* with iron chains to drag souls to the afterlife, they've upgraded the service to a coach! Do you think they'd treat me better if I said I was Sun Wukong?**>

After a brief silence, his counterpart dumped a long text on him.

<I am not unfamiliar with your human folklore, but I can tell you that if they were to emerge into your world, there would be no more divine deities, only demons and monsters... The Underworld I'm referring to is not the same place you may think you know from your legends.>

Without waiting for Bai Zhi's response, they sent another text immediately after the last one.

<If you want to walk out alive instead of dying for no reason in that terrifying place, you have to listen closely to what I'm about to say.>

<It's probably gonna be Hell according to the Taoists or according to Dante... By the way, are there any succubi in the Underworld? Scantily clad, really hot chicks, you know? If there are lolita-types, even better. I'd love to bring home a loli succubus.>

<...Could you get it together? We're talking about a serious life-or-death situation here!>

<Exactly, so you gotta tell me if there are gonna be loli succubi in Hell!>

<......Trus

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