Chapter 80

Chapter 80: Excel Version book of life and death

“Eh? Where did this drop me?”

Yama… Yama Prince???

Su Qian’s face was full of question marks.

What kind of strange plane was this?

Su Qian opened the Chat Group and saw it was already lively inside.

Xia Meng Meng (Cultivation Cannon Fodder): “Whoa, the group upgraded, and it even unlocked new features. Isn’t that awesome? Welcome, new member @Li Yi (UnderworldYama King)!”

Jiang Xiao Yu (Apocalypse Survival): “?Excited?Group Storage Space? Wouldn’t that be just like the storage pouches in the cultivation realm?”

Shen Meng Qi (Beast World Darling): “Now I can carry my little toys with me.”

Old driver Shen Meng Qi – confirmed!

Only after hearing Jiang Xiao Yu say that did Su Qian suddenly remember the group had upgraded.

This storage space feature really was useful.

Su Qian (Modern Metropolis): “Wait, did none of you notice the newcomer’s IP address?”

Yama King!

That was the Yama Prince!

Jiang Xiao Yu (Apocalypse Survival): “Ah, I was too busy getting excited about the upgrade and the new features. I really didn’t notice that IP address.”

Shen Meng Qi (Beast World Darling): “UnderworldYama King? Is it what I’m thinking?”

Everyone in the group got curious.

After skimming the group announcement, and judging from everyone’s IP addresses and the chat, the new member basically understood what was going on.

Li Yi (UnderworldYama King): “?Sobbing?My cheat ability finally arrived!”

The new member was a guy, and he poured out his misery with snot and tears. “I just stayed up late to work overtime, and I suddenly dropped dead. Now you’re telling me I even transmigrated?”

Transmigrating was one thing.

Other people transmigrated to cultivate and rise up. Even if they didn’t, they at least became some high-level expert descending the mountain, or a miracle doctor son-in-law.

But him? He got tossed straight into the Underworld.

Su Qian couldn’t help being curious. “Um… are you really the Yama King?”

Li Yi (UnderworldYama King): “?Helpless?I wish I wasn’t, but the moment I opened my eyes, I was in the Underworld. Then a bunch of little ghosts surrounded me and called me Yama Kinglord.”

Li Yi (UnderworldYama King): “Every day it’s endless routine work, endless book of life and death to review. I was just a normal office worker. Life was miserable enough – and now that I’m dead, I still have to keep working.”

Right after that came a whole string of wailing complaint stickers.

Su Qian’s mouth twitched.

“You… you’re basically born to be a workhorse, huh?”

Seeing Su Qian’s message, Li Yi felt even more stabbed in the heart.

Xia Meng Meng (Cultivation Cannon Fodder): “Hahahaha, you’re even more miserable than Xiao Yu.”

Jiang Xiao Yu (Apocalypse Survival): “Quietly pitying you for three seconds.”

Shen Meng Qi (Beast World Darling): “Pity +1.”

Su Qian suddenly got interested. “Then can you help me check how much mortal lifespan I have left?”

No one could help being curious about their own lifespan.

Su Qian was no exception.

Li Yi (UnderworldYama King): “?Crying?Spare me. Across heaven and earth, across all worlds, the thickness of the book of life and death is longer than my life.”

Li Yi (UnderworldYama King): “Even if I flip through it until the year of the monkey and month of the horse, I still might not find your page accurately.”

Su Qian sighed softly. “What a shame. I wanted you to help me see how long I can live.”

Jiang Xiao Yu (Apocalypse Survival): “Haha, so you’re just not?? at the job yet.”

Li Yi suddenly noticed Su Qian’s IP address.

He got so excited he started spamming the group. “Su Qian girl, are you really on Earth?”

Su Qian (Modern Metropolis): “Yeah, I’m on Earth. What’s up?”

Li Yi (UnderworldYama King): “?Excited?Can you burn me a computer?”

Su Qian’s mouth twitched.

Burn a computer?

What a niche phrase.

“Wait, you’re dead and you’re still thinking about using a computer?”

Su Qian couldn’t resist teasing in the group. “Does your Underworld even have internet?”

Li Yi (UnderworldYama King): “No, no, no. I want to trouble you to download an Excel for me. My Underworld work is seriously too complicated. Every day I have all kinds of data to count and all kinds of things to record.”

Li Yi (UnderworldYama King): “It’s all done by hand or with those ancient bookkeeping methods. It’s exhausting me to death.”

“Cough, cough…”

Su Qian almost choked on her own saliva.

She stared at the group messages in shock.

UnderworldYama King…

Office work with Excel…

She really couldn’t connect those two things.

Using Excel to record the book of life and death – that was a first in heaven and earth.

Jiang Xiao Yu (Apocalypse Survival): “Pff – hahahaha! The Underworld’s Yama King using Excel for office work.”

Xia Meng Meng (Cultivation Cannon Fodder): “Hahaha, just imagining it is hilarious. You’re already in the Underworld as the Yama King, and you’re still thinking about using Excel to handle work.”

Li Yi (UnderworldYama King): “I can’t help it. You have no idea how complicated my Underworld work is.”

Li Yi (UnderworldYama King): “Every day I have to deal with all that soul info – names, birth and death dates, what they did in life, causes of death, and more. It’s a huge mess.”

Just hearing Li Yi say that made Su Qian’s head hurt.

“Fine. Tomorrow I’ll go buy you a computer.” Su Qian agreed.

Li Yi was so moved he nearly cried. “Thank you so much, Su Qian girl!”

He kept typing: “I don’t really have any specialties either. Do you raise little ghosts? Want me to send you a few?”

Su Qian: “!!!”

What kind of decent person raises little ghosts?

That was even scarier than Jiang Xiao Yu saying she’d send her a few zombies!

“N-no… really, no need to be that polite.”

Su Qian hurriedly replied in the group and rejected Li Yi’s kindness.

This wasn’t paying her back. This was revenge.

Way too scary.

Just then, Lin Yue finally finished scrolling through the chat and finished eating the gossip.

Su Qian couldn’t help being puzzled. “You’re usually so active when it comes to gossip. Why are you only showing up now?”

The others all chimed in too.

They said Lin Yue had missed the big gossip and looked so wronged she was about to cry.

Lin Yue (Ancient Household Intrigue): “Ugh, don’t even mention it. I went into the palace to attend a banquet with Cold-Faced Prince. The Old Emperor’s most beloved Young Imperial Prince got sick, and the imperial physicians were helpless.”

In an ancient era with poor medical conditions, even a cold and fever could easily take a life.

Lin Yue (Ancient Household Intrigue): “Luckily, Qian Qian girl sent me fever medicine and anti-inflammatories. We woke up the Young Imperial Prince, and the Old Emperor was overjoyed. He rewarded me with a whole pile of gold, silver, and jewels.”

Lin Yue (Ancient Household Intrigue): “Qian Qian girl, are you free? I’ll send some over to you.”

Su Qian’s eyes lit up.

Now this was an effective way of saying thanks.

?Ding! You received a red packet from an ancient transmigrator (ten pearl necklaces, one pair of jadeite bangles, eight gold hairpins, several bolts of fine silk and satin, two pairs of exquisite jade pendants, one gold-inlaid ivory carving ornament). Please accept.?

In an instant, the bed was covered in gold, silver, jewels, and bolts of silk and satin.

Su Qian’s eyes went wide!

Su Qian (Modern Metropolis): “Whoa, Lin Yue, isn’t this a bit too much?!”

Lin Yue (Ancient Household Intrigue): “Haha, Qian Qian girl, as long as you like it. The Old Emperor rewarded all of this to me, and I still have plenty left. Don’t be polite with me.”

Su Qian swallowed hard.

No wonder he was an emperor.

He really did spend big.

If she auctioned these off, it would make money faster than robbing a bank.