It's a hell game, who can still be a human being?

Chapter 548: French Plane Tree: Enough to Bury Your Whole Family
"You disgusting human, what are you doing here again?"

The tone of the plane tree was still full of disdain.

"I brought you something good."

Liu Zheng said with a smile, then took off the legendary takeout box.

"Did you bring me some wine?"

The plane tree said in surprise.

"Well, I don't have any wine. It's been in serious shortage recently. If you want wine, I have to go restock it."

"So what else can you do?"

The plane trees were greatly disappointed.

"The drinks and desserts from Bad Luck Coffee, this isn't bad, right?"

He took out the portion prepared for the plane tree and placed it in front of the black soil.

"It's normal. This stuff has some taste to you animals, but it's almost like water to us plants."

The French plane tree curled its lips.

"So you mean don't do it?"

Liu Zheng pretended to take it back.

"Who said I don't want it?"

A black tree root broke through the ground and rolled the drinks and dessert into the black soil.

"You took so much from me, you should give me a little compensation."

Said the French plane tree.

“It’s a deal.”

he corrected.

"Just take it! Just take it! I'm already very good that I didn't ask you to rob humans."

The plane tree suddenly became excited.

"Okay, okay, okay. As long as you are happy, facts speak louder than words."

Liu Zheng shrugged.

He was a primate after all, and arguing with a wine-sucking plant would be a loss of face even if he won.

"Hmph, tell me, you sinister human, what are you going to take from me?"

The plane tree asked.

"Look at what you said, can't I just come here to comfort an old friend?"

Liu Zheng's eyes wandered.

"First of all, you and I are not friends."

"Secondly, we've only known each other for a few days. For a tree, this is no different than the first time we met."

"Finally, I've seen your tricks many times. I often hang food on branches to attract those stupid birds and then catch them."

"Do I look like a stupid bird to you?"

The plane tree sneered.

"At least not now."

he said sincerely.

Of course, it’s hard to say after it evolves into a phoenix.

"Then I'll just say it?"

he probed.

"If it's an excessive request, I will beat you up. Don't blame me for not warning you first."

The plane tree threatened.

"It's not too much, I just want to ask you for some roots and bark to make a coffin."

Liu Zheng said with a smile.

"You need three coffins in seven days. Do people who know you die quickly? Why don't you put yourself in one?"

The plane tree rolled its eyes.

"The cemetery is still counting on me to do something, and they don't want to recruit me for the time being. By the way, did anyone come over to spy on you just now?"

he asked.

"Yes, but I saw that guy looked dead and his body was covered with rotten meat. He looked ugly, so I didn't bother to take care of him."

Said the French plane tree.

"After all, they were sent by the funeral home."

Liu Zheng told it about the transaction with the funeral home.

"You sold me out just for some secret technique? As expected, humans are unreliable."

The plane tree said dissatisfiedly.

"You speak as if your movements are hidden from anyone. They have been keeping an eye on you for a long time, but you have changed so much recently that they haven't had time to update the intelligence."

"Besides, if it weren't for me, would you have changed so much in such a short time?"

He argued back sharply.

Speak to people in a human way and to ghosts in a ghost way. You need to use different attitudes when communicating with people of different personalities.
For example, when dealing with people like Niu Ma, Red Ghost, and Doctor Nile, you don't need to say much. The more you keep silent, the more they will remember it.

Of course, it’s a different story when we’re bickering or arguing.

But when communicating with people like French Plantain, Guokou Tangzi, and Wang Manni, you have to repeatedly emphasize your own contributions, otherwise they will really think that they are the ones who suffer the loss.

Similarly, when facing a small person at the bottom of society, if you pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger, there is a high probability that you will really be treated as a pig, so you have to show your cards directly to shock the other party.

"Humph."

The plane tree had no way of refutation and could only snort to express its dissatisfaction.

"My respected French nobleman, the noble Lord De Lego, please be merciful and give me some branches and bark. Anyway, these will be useless when you evolve into a phoenix."

Seeing that words had the upper hand, Liu Zheng softened his attitude again.

"You think those are just branches and bark? They are the essence I shed."

"The skin has already fallen off, so it's just dead skin."

He chuckled.

"Dead skin is also flesh. You can replenish it when you are really exhausted."

The plane tree was still reluctant.

"The problem is that you don't have a very long time to be exhausted. With your current strength, if you can't defeat an enemy even when you are exhausted, you will probably still be unable to defeat him even if you take another breath. Then you will have to rely on me and the helpers I invited."

Liu Zheng said it pointedly.

"Who knows whether you and the helpers you invited are reliable?"

The plane tree muttered.

"But you are definitely unreliable. Besides, we have helped each other to this extent, it is too late for you to talk about a crisis of trust."

His words were still sharp.

"I'm so fed up with you, you disgusting human beings."

The plane tree was speechless and simply hid its face in its trunk.

"Oh, I'm going to Du Kang Winery soon. It's said to be the best winery in the metropolis. The wine they brew is so good that even gods would get drunk. It's a rare opportunity, so I plan to bring some for my friend."

"But my financial resources are limited, so I can only satisfy the request of one friend. I wonder who will be the lucky one~"

Liu Zheng's eyes rolled and he spoke in a drawn-out voice.

"Of course it's me! Big idiots like cows and horses don't know how to taste wine. It's a complete waste to give them wine from Du Kang Winery!"

The plane tree was indeed fooled.

"The sticks and the bark?"

"I want ten bottles of Du Kang Winery's Gold Label."

The plane tree made a request.

"impossible."

He refused without hesitation.

Du Kang Distillery produces many varieties of wine, and each type of wine has three grades: copper label, silver label, and gold label.

Liu Zheng had looked at the purchase list. The total amount of Gold Label wine was less than 100 bottles, and French Plantain Tree wanted one-tenth of it. This was not just a lion's mouth asking for too much, it was a sphinx's mouth asking for too much.

"Five bottles."

The plane tree also knew that it was impossible, so it took a step back.

"Two bottles of gold label, three bottles of silver label, five bottles of bronze label, if you don't want to do it, forget it."

"Humph, a petty human."

The plane tree muttered as it threw out a few branches and pieces of bark from the black soil.

"Is this enough? And why don't you just give me the coffin this time?"

he asked.

"Idiot human, these branches and bark are enough to bury your whole family. And why make a coffin? I'm just a tree, how can I be a professional undertaker?"

The plane tree deeply despised his intelligence.

"I am the only one in my family, and my godfather has already been buried."

Liu Zheng replied nonchalantly.

He rolled up the branches and bark and tried to stuff them into the legendary takeout box, but found that the size was not right, so he had to hold it under his arm like a briefcase.

"gone."

He said hello and went down to the sewer.

"Red Ghost, I would like to borrow your energy for a bit."

Standing by the Xiashui River, Liu Zheng briefly recounted the cause and effect of the incident.

After waiting for a few minutes, there was no response.

"Well, I'm rejected." So what if it's rejected? He didn't have much hope in the first place.

"Why did you come down here without saying hello?"

The fisherman came riding on the fish.

"I'm not looking for you. I'm looking for the Red Ghost."

Liu Zheng said.

"Then have you found it?"

"No, it doesn't see me."

He shrugged.

"Hahaha, you deserve it."

The fisherman gloated.

"Why are you laughing? If it doesn't help, I'll ask you for help."

Liu Zheng told him about borrowing luck.

"You've got the wrong person."

The fisherman shook his head.

"I think so, too. I can tell from the first glance that you are unlucky."

Liu Zheng nodded.

"Bullshit! You are the one who looks miserable."

The fisherman cursed.

"Then why can't you borrow it?"

"My luck is now connected to the sewer, and the sewer's luck is connected to the metropolis."

"Let's not talk about whether you can borrow it or not. Even if you can borrow it, you can't afford it."

The fisherman said.

"That's not necessarily the case."

He said with some confidence.

Not to mention that he has a lot of stamps from big guys on him, there is also an even more unfathomable hell game behind him.

"Well, even if you can afford it. You borrowed the luck, and the next thing you know, the city hall comes and makes you pay it back with interest."

The fisherman sneered.

He even dares to borrow the luck of the metropolis. He really thinks he is the illegitimate son of the Supreme Chancellor.

"Tsk. If you don't want to help, forget it."

Liu Zheng rolled his eyes.

"Who said I won't help?"

"Eh? What's your plan, father-in-law?"

His attitude immediately became respectful, and he even changed the name to one that he thought was more intimate.

"If you keep yelling, I'll make you eat up all the shit those fly men didn't finish eating last time."

The fisherman said sinisterly.

"Dad of the Sea Girl, do you have any good ideas?"

Liu Zheng is quick to accept advice.

"Every time you have to be a bitch, I start to wonder if you have developed some ability that can make you stronger by being a bitch."

The fisherman glared at him.

"Being a bitch is good for your health. Tell me now."

"I know a man whose luck keeps changing between very good and very bad. All you have to do is ask him to write the elegiac couplet when he is very lucky, and you can borrow his good luck."

The fisherman said.

"There is such a god? Will he be willing to help?"

"Then I don't know. I'm not very familiar with him. We've only been fishing together a few times. But I felt at the beginning that his good luck and bad luck were one and the same. If you can destroy his good luck, his bad luck will also disappear. As long as you can make him believe this, he should help."

"After all, it's annoying to have good and bad luck."

For example, just when you caught two rare big fish, the people from the sanitation department came and caught them red-handed. Who can stand this?

"Then please make a phone call for me."

"I don't have his phone number, but I can prepare a gift for you to visit."

As the fisherman spoke, he reached into the river and stirred it, finally pulling out a bucket of pink worms.

Although it is called a worm, its body surface is smooth, and there are long and thin fleshy whiskers on both sides of its head. It is 70% or even 80% similar to a loach.

"What is this?"

Liu Zheng asked.

"What else could it be? My special bait. This bait is specially used to catch big fish. Smaller fish will even be killed by it. There is no fisherman who doesn't like it."

The fisherman said proudly.

"They are all fishermen. Do you think the pond owner will recognize him?"

He suddenly thought.

"It's possible. He looks like a middle-aged man. But in the metropolis, appearance is often not a criterion for judging age."

The fisherman said.

"Then I'll ask later. Where's Brother Sha?"

Liu Zheng asked.

"He went for a stroll. He said he was planning to explore the entire sewer and make a map for you."

"Brother Sha has a heart."

he sighed.

"This guy is really good. But, being too close to him may not be a good thing."

The fisherman said.

"Why do you say that?"

"You look quite old-fashioned now, who knows what you will become in the future. But as long as you don't bully me and the Ama, I don't care even if you kill, burn, rape and rob every day."

"But it's different for Shajiang. He will definitely feel deeply hurt, and then take the initiative to take the responsibility of persuading you to mend your ways. If you are really hopeless, he will kill you for the sake of justice."

The fisherman said.

"Don't say it, it's true."

Liu Zheng smacked his lips.

"Are you afraid?"

"What's there to be afraid of? It's not his turn to sacrifice his own family for the sake of justice."

If he turned bad, the Red Ghost would beat him to death first.

"gone."

He said hello and walked out of the sewer carrying the bait.

"Boss Chef, could you please let Salmon answer the phone?"

Liu Zheng called Napoleon and spoke cautiously.

"My commission?"

"I'm already preparing. My search for salmon is related to the commission."

He explained quickly.

"You better be."

The white-feathered chicken said in a bad tone, and then gave the phone to the calico cat.

"Liu Zheng, what do you want from me?"

The calico cat sounded very happy.

But think about it, it doesn't even have a cell phone, which means no one contacts it normally.

"Good boy salmon, help me wake up your master. I have something to ask him."

Liu Zheng said lovingly.

"Okay meow."

The calico cat was not disappointed, but closed its eyes obediently.

"What?"

The pond owner surfaced and asked impatiently.

"Do you know a person whose luck keeps changing between very good and very bad?"

he asked straight to the point.

"Yeah, I think I know him."

The pond owner thought for a long time before speaking.

It is now in a parasitic state, neither human nor ghost. It would be good if the hard drive capacity can be preserved, but don't expect any access speed.

"I want to borrow his luck."

Liu Zheng told it what had happened and the fisherman's guess.

"The new guy's guess should be correct. I also think his good luck and bad luck are one and the same."

The pond owner said after listening.

"That's great."

Since both the fisherman and the pond owner said so, it should be almost certain.

"What's good? Why do you think he will agree to this?"

The pond owner poured a basin of cold water on his head.

(End of this chapter)