Hell Game: Starting from Metropolis

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Why do you think life is so bitter?

Liu Zheng shook his head and said.

"Life is suffering. Of course, death is not necessarily a happy one."

Niu and Ma were surprised that he would say this, and remained silent for a long time before speaking.

“Look at those dead people in the cemetery. If your obsession isn’t strong enough, it will destroy your self. But the stronger your obsession, the more suffering you will experience.”

"So who is truly happy in the metropolis?"

he asked again.

"A tycoon? A high-ranking official? A wealthy and powerful immortal being? Who knows?"

The ox and horse rolled over.

"For me, as long as I have meat to eat and wine to drink, enough money to pay off my loan and have some fun at a brothel, I can get by."

"Other things are for you people who are destined to die young or live forever to think about."

It scratched its belly with its hoof and said.

"Immortality? I never imagined becoming a god."

"You talk as if you can get the job just because you want to. You're always bragging."

The cattle and horses scoffed.

"I don't think you're lucky enough to be a god. Try to live forever in other people's memories; that's a kind of immortality."

"Then let others live on in my memory forever. Immortality is impossible, but being an immortal being is not bad either. A thousand-year-old tortoise, a ten-thousand-year-old turtle, at worst I can ask the salmon's owner for its shell and become a turtle spirit."

Liu Zheng said, half-jokingly.

"Then how will your bloodline be calculated? A black goat cub, a tortoise-human hybrid?"

"Hahaha!!!"

Perhaps finding the name too ridiculous, the ox and horse burst into a tremendous laugh.

"Hey bro, could you please not laugh so loudly? It's hurting my eyes."

He picked at his ear piercing and said expressionlessly.

"Ha ha ha ha!!!!"

The oxen and horses laughed even louder.

"Old sly fox."

Liu was mentally giving it the middle finger.

"Clap!"

The ghostly hand that crawled in from outside glanced at the cow and horse with a puzzled look, pointed at them, and then made a "ton ton ton" gesture towards Liu Zheng.

The meaning is obvious: this guy's drunk?

"Hahaha!"

This time it was Liu Zheng's turn to laugh.

"Screw you, bring me back a few cups of coffee, or I'll beat you to death."

The cattle and horses threatened.

"understood."

He waved his tentacles and took out the damaged dragon fishing rod.

"???"

The ghost pointed at the fishing rod, its mouth agape.

Where is my beer bottle? Where is my big, green beer bottle?

Liu Zheng gave it an apologetic look but didn't say anything more.

The Ghost Hand was burned by Si Xue's golden liquid last time, so it should be able to recognize her aura.

After tenderly touching the fishing rod, Ghost Hand extended a finger towards Liu Zheng and then made a chugging motion.

Liu Zheng guessed that this meant they wanted a bottle of wine in exchange.

After all, Ghost Hand can't go out, so there's no use in using the Dragon Fishing Rod.

And as a beer bottle of perfect quality, what can be exchanged for it is naturally beer of perfect quality.

"I'm in debt for another bottle."

He sighed.

His inventory is growing, and his debts are also growing.

If it were just a perfunctory deal, Liu Zheng could simply run away and renege on his debt.

But most of his current debts are from favors, so he feels embarrassed to default on them.

"Oh well, never mind. Too many lice don't itch, too much debt doesn't worry me."

He hypnotized himself as he picked up the takeout order from the ground.

"Meal: One serving of hash browns"

Address: Jiahe New Residence Property Center

"Person who placed the order: Manager Huang"

Time Limit: One Hour

"Jiahe New Residence again?"

Liu Zheng's first reaction was to take the initiative to order.

But considering that he had already returned the chewing stick, he should have no more entanglements with Jiahe New House.

Surely we can't ask him to return the honorary homeowner medal, can we?

"Um"

Thinking of the honorary homeowner medal, Liu Zheng seemed to be deep in thought.

As the only community where he currently holds an honorary homeowner's medal, the fact that he was assigned a Jiahe New Residence order right after leaving his boss's office, and that it was delivered to the property management center, made it hard for him not to suspect that it was intentional.

As to whether it was deliberate obstruction or deliberate leniency, Liu Zheng leans more towards the latter.

After all, he has now taken on a huge job pulling a coffin with nine dragons. Once it's done, everyone will be happy. Neither the Bloody Restaurant nor Si Xue would have any reason to trip him up.

"Then why not just set a three-day time limit? And the food is still just hash browns, they're really stingy to the extreme."

Liu Zheng complained.

Thinking back to how generous Si Xue was when she offered a seven-day delivery period and even gave him a free day off after he returned, this time it was probably the Bloody Restaurant's doing.

"Well, something is better than nothing."

He shook his head and walked out of the lounge.

Upon opening the lunchbox, a golden-brown, slightly dark potato pancake appeared before Liu Zheng's eyes.

Name: Potato Pancakes (Disposable)

Type: Item

Quality: Average

Effect: Restores stamina.

“Note: Liu Zheng, if you don’t want to live, just say so. There’s no need to provoke me like this.”

"Can it be taken out of the instance: Yes"

"Goodness, this time they're naming names directly."

He twitched the corner of his mouth.

But honestly, this has nothing to do with him. It's the restaurant that's being stingy. Go ahead and confront them if you dare.

You pick the softest persimmons to squeeze, and the softest worms to peck, right? You deserve to be taken advantage of.

Liu Zheng grumbled as he put the food container into the Legendary delivery box.

The green light came on, indicating there was no problem with the food.

It makes sense; an employee who can fry hash browns would have been food long ago.

After exiting the delivery lane, Liu Zheng got directly into the sports car, and the driver also sat in the driver's seat.

Since it's a welfare order, he naturally wants to make full use of the delivery time.

Where should we go first?

Liu Zheng looked at the map and began to think.

First of all, he definitely has to go to that merchant shop that sells dragon dung.

The restaurant originally gave him this order to help him complete the Kowloon Coffin Pulling project. If he doesn't do his job properly and goes to do something else, the restaurant will definitely be unhappy.

Although Liu Zheng was more inclined to side with Si Xue, he wouldn't offend the restaurant without causing a major rift.

Secondly, he'll definitely have to go to the sewers too.

If he can repair the fishing rod, he will have another powerful piece of equipment of perfect or even legendary quality, which will be of great help in his later actions.

Then, I also need to go to the pharmacy that sells Diyega.

The delivery lane is the only way for Liu Zheng to enter and leave the restaurant, and it is obviously not a good idea to keep putting it off.

As for places like Dukang Winery, Shiwan Mountain, cemeteries, and funeral parlors, those can only be considered later.

"Let's go to Rose Street first."

After some thought, Liu Zheng made a decision.

Upon arriving at Rose Street, he waved to the plane trees from afar before diving into the sewers.

"Where's the stuff?"

Upon seeing the fisherman, the latter didn't waste any words and went straight to asking.

"here."

Liu Zheng took out a dragon fishing rod.

"This was such a good thing, how did it end up like this?"

The fisherman stroked his fishing rod and said with heartache.