"From what you've said, it makes sense that the underworld controls the divorce rate. However, simply controlling divorce doesn't seem like the best solution. There's always a way to separate when there's a relationship. If the relationship breaks down, forcing yourself to stay together probably won't do much to produce offspring."
"Why don't you work on increasing the marriage rate? If there are enough married ghosts, wouldn't there be more ghost babies? Besides, I've heard that marriages arranged by the Old Man Under the Moon are unlikely to end in divorce." Upon hearing Ming Fen's words, Wang Yao's heart stirred, and he steered the conversation toward marriage.
"Oh dear, don't even mention it." Mingfen shook his head repeatedly upon hearing this. "Our Underworld is no longer under the jurisdiction of the Old Man of the Moon. Although the Old Man of the Moon doesn't cause divorces in marriages, he's far too arrogant. He actually offended the Five Senses King of our Underworld!"
"The Five Senses King is not someone to be trifled with. He directly stripped the Old Man of the Moon of his power in the Underworld. It is said that the Old Man of the Moon later complained to the Heavenly Court about this, but the Heavenly Court was also annoyed by the Old Man of the Moon's constant troublemaking, so they didn't come to the Underworld to say anything, and the matter was just left unresolved..."
"Do you think the Old Man of the Moon has nothing better to do than have a full stomach? Our Underworld has the most ghost mouths in the entire Six Realms. You should just focus on arranging marriages and earning merit, instead of offending those important figures you shouldn't have. Do you think our Underworld can't survive without the Old Man of the Moon?"
"Well... even if you get married, you'll still be born. Without the God of Marriage, the underworld will still be the same, won't it?" Mingfen sighed.
"Do you know exactly how the Matchmaker offended the Five Officials King?" Wang Yao thought to himself that this was Xi Fu's doing again, and hurriedly asked.
“I have no idea about that. How could we little devils possibly find out about the affairs of important people?” Mingfen shook his head repeatedly.
Wang Yao pondered for a moment. Since the closure of the underworld was caused by Xi Fu offending the King of Hell, it seemed he still had to go to the celestial realm to ask Fairy Caixia for the reason.
He thought to himself that Xi Fu had already entered the Heavenly Prison. Even if the Five Officials King had some conflicts with him in the past, he should have vented his anger by now. Even if the Five Officials King was confused and insisted on holding the grudge against Xi Fu against the Old Man of the Moon, could the Heavenly Court continue to indulge him?
But Wang Yao thought again, given Xi Fu's temperament, how could he just let the interface window close and let the Five Senses King off the hook like that? There must be many twists and turns involved, so complicated that even Xi Fu was helpless. Otherwise, this matter should have been resolved by Xi Fu.
Thinking about it this way, Wang Yao became somewhat disheartened about opening the Underworld window on the interface panel.
"I wonder what brings you to our Underworld Marriage Office, Immortal?" Mingfen asked, seeing Wang Yao lost in thought. The paths of immortals and the underworld are different; immortals generally wouldn't bother with such a filthy place as the underworld. He was also curious about Wang Yao's reason for visiting the Underworld Marriage Office.
"Um... May I ask which department manages the fortunes of ordinary people?"
Now that he knew why the Underworld interface window was closed, Wang Yao had basically achieved his goal of coming to the Underworld Marriage Office. Next, he thought about dealing with the Molopo matter. Since he was already in the Underworld, he should see if he could resolve this matter while he was at it.
"The 'Mortal Destiny' creation group is managed by the 'Way of Reincarnation' creation group. It's on the tenth floor. How did you get here?" Upon hearing Wang Yao's question, Mingfen's eyes widened in disbelief.
"Tenth floor? This... Do you have an elevator here that can take you upstairs?" Wang Yao didn't understand why he was so surprised, so he just asked.
"To go upstairs here, we can only go through the elevator office and the wandering soul office, but... only ghosts can use the ghost-capturing machines there to go up and down the stairs, while you immortals can't use those things," Mingfen replied.
"From what you're saying, I can't even get from this floor to the tenth floor?" Wang Yao asked in astonishment.
“Of course, if it were that easy to go up to the upper floors, wouldn’t the underworld be in chaos? You immortals need to use different passages to come to different floors of our underworld. If you went to the wrong passage, you have to come up from other realms. You… you must have come from the human realm, right?” the underworld official asked.
Wang Yao nodded. He thought Ming Fen's words made sense. It seemed that if he wanted to go to the tenth floor, he would have to borrow a route from the Immortal Realm. He might as well go directly to Cai Xia and take care of those two things in the Immortal Realm.
"Um, which department is in charge of public security here?" Wang Yao asked again.
The issues with the interface window and Molopo need to be resolved in the Celestial Realm. The only remaining issues are the disappearance of the dozen or so foreigners and Lin Yazhi's transformation into a vengeful ghost. These two issues are similar in nature and can be combined and handled by the Underworld's security department.
He now understands that different floors of the underworld are under the jurisdiction of different underworld agencies. If you bring matters from other floors to this floor, you definitely won't be able to get them done. However, these two matters happened in the human world, and those ten or so foreigners most likely entered this floor.
"Public order? What are you talking about? Public order is a big concept in our Underworld. Is it that a ghost has sneaked off to other realms to cause trouble, or is there a problem within the Underworld itself? Is it that a group of ghosts is causing trouble, or are it just a few individual ghosts committing crimes?"
"Is it a heinous case of killing or abusing ghosts, or stealing or robbing public property in the underworld? Different situations fall under the jurisdiction of different departments and cannot be confused." When Wang Yao mentioned public security issues, Mingfen immediately became serious.
"The security situation in our underworld is very good, unlike the human world which is so chaotic. You must not be mistaken. Last time, a factory in the human world polluted the wastewater, causing many people in a village to develop mental illness. As a result, the higher-ups insisted that it was a ghost story, which forced us to conduct a large-scale security inspection here for half a year."
"It was a real nuisance! Not only did it waste everyone's time, but it also caused many ghosts to lose a lot of job opportunities. Quite a few ghosts fell off buildings during that period. What a disaster!"
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