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

Chapter 598 Even in the Metropolis, People Are Being Pressured to Get Married
"Where should I park, sir?"

As Liu Zheng spoke, he expertly handed over a few banknotes.

"I don't care where you park, just don't let me see you. Otherwise, every time I see you, I'll kick you out."

The security guard ignored him and pushed his tentacles back.

"Okay, then I'll park further away."

He frowned slightly, but did not lash out. Instead, he parked his sports car on the side of a road.

When Liu Zheng returned to the entrance of the residential area, the security guard was still staring at him menacingly.

"Brother-in-law, why don't you call the property management? I think the security guard at the gate doesn't seem to be planning to let me in."

He called Silver Wolf.

"it is good."

Not long after hanging up the phone, the walkie-talkie on the security guard's waist rang.

The security guard kept an eye on Liu Zheng while picking up his walkie-talkie.

"Captain, what's wrong? The landlord wants us to let him in? He's just a tenant, what kind of landlord is he?"

"And do you know who this person is? He's a deliveryman from Bloody Restaurant. If we let him in, where will we, the Golden Shield Security Team, put our reputation? In all these years, we haven't let a nobody from Bloody Restaurant in."

The security guard spoke loudly into the walkie-talkie.

To be honest, although he was called a loser, Liu Zheng wasn't that angry.

Putting aside personal feelings, cattle, horses, white-feathered chickens, British horses, and white geese are all beasts, even worse than beasts.

As for salmon, cats are among the most vicious predators, and they will even hunt for pure entertainment, killing the fish without eating it.

Of course, not being angry doesn't stop him from feeling that the security guard was courting death.

"Brother-in-law, it seems the security guard still doesn't intend to let me in."

Liu Zheng called Silver Wolf again.

Normally he would have just gone ahead and done it, but this was a residential area for family members, and he was worried about getting Silver Wolf into trouble.

"Okay, I'll get down now."

Silver Wolf's answer was also straightforward.

"No rush. Brother-in-law, what company is this Golden Shield Security? They're so arrogant!"

Liu Zheng asked.

"This is a property of the Public Security Department, and it's full of their relatives, friends, and temporary workers. They handle the security for the municipal government's residential area. Although it's usually managed by the property management company, the labor relations, wages, and benefits are all handled by Golden Shield Security."

Silver Wolf explained.

"Which department within the Ministry of Public Security specifically falls under its jurisdiction?"

he asked.

"I don't know."

Silver Wolf's intelligence network is not that extensive yet.

"It's okay, I'll make a call and ask."

Liu Zheng called Wangpai.

"Who, who?"

A somewhat panicked voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Hello, I'm Liu Zheng, Nightingale's friend. She gave me your phone number."

He introduced himself.

"Oh, it's you. You startled me. I thought it was another call from a blind date."

Ace breathed a sigh of relief.

"What? Has your family arranged a blind date for you?"

Liu Zheng laughed.

"Yes, they said I'm getting old and I don't cultivate properly, so I can't even take longevity medicine. My father only has me as his child. When he comes back and finds that his lineage has ended, none of them can bear that responsibility, blah blah blah."

"Now they come and wait for me as soon as I get home, so I'm afraid to go home and can only sleep in the office. It's so annoying."

"Ace complained."

"Then just find someone you like and have a baby. You don't even need to get married. Once the baby is born, your relatives can take care of it."

He gave the ace player some advice.

"That won't do. Either don't have children at all, or raise them properly. I don't want to be like my irresponsible father."

Ace flatly refused.

“Okay, I understand. If you don’t mind, I can buy you a house outside, with all the furniture and appliances, and even two maids.”

Liu Zheng showed goodwill.

"Wow, you're really generous. You don't even own a house yourself, do you? No wonder Nightingale speaks so highly of you."

Ace said.

It's not so easy to catch a pie falling from the sky. Since he took credit for Liu Zheng's work, he naturally had to investigate Liu Zheng's situation thoroughly.

As a full-time employee of the Public Security Department, this was a piece of cake.

Of course, all he found was what he was supposed to find.

"Unless one achieves immortality, wealth is ultimately just an external thing. Why not use it to indulge in spending with friends and enjoy life for a hundred years?"

Liu Zheng laughed.

"That makes sense, but when did I become your friend? We haven't even met in person yet."

Ace speaks very frankly.

"As long as there's a chance, that's fine. You can't say we don't even have a chance to become good friends, can you?"

He did not consider it offensive.

"Okay, you're right. Why are you calling me? It can't just be to chat, can it?"

As expected of the Planeswalker's only son, although he's a bit lazy, his intelligence is still there.

"I was going to have dinner at the home of an acquaintance in my city's public security bureau, but I was stopped by security guards from Golden Shield Security. I heard that Golden Shield Security is owned by your public security department, so I wanted to ask how you would handle this, so as not to end up hurting your own people."

Liu Zheng said.

"You've come to the right person. Golden Shield Security is managed by our Logistics Support Department."

The ace replied.

"That's great. Brother Ace, what do you think we should do about this?"

"Just call me Ace, all that 'brother' stuff sounds weird. Give him the phone."

Ace said.

"it is good."

He waved his phone at the security guard, but the guard didn't even look at him.

"It's true what they say: it's easier to see the King of Hell than to deal with his underlings."

Left with no other option, Liu Zheng had to turn on speakerphone.

"He didn't answer the phone, so I put it on speakerphone."

He said to the ace.

"Alright. I'm Bills Khome from the Finance Department of the Logistics Division. Who are you?"

Ace asked loudly.

"what?"

The security guard was stunned for a moment, and his expression visibly turned panicked.

"Boss, hello boss, I am an employee of Golden Shield Security."

He bowed slightly in reply.

"I know you're from Golden Shield Security. I'm asking you your name and who you're related to."

Ace said impatiently.

"I"

The security guard bent over even more, wanting to answer but not daring to.

"Mr. Homei is busy with official duties, yet he still takes the time to concern himself with such trivial matters. Do you know how much trouble you've caused?"

Liu Zheng took over the conversation.

"I, I don't know."

The security guard said with a pained expression.

He would have been incredibly audacious to stop people if he had known Liu Zheng had this connection.

“Stab yourself in the back, and we'll call it quits. Is that alright, Mr. Homei?”

Liu Zheng tossed the rusty knife to the security guard and then asked.

"As long as you're satisfied."

Ace naturally had no objections.

"Thank you, leader."

The security guard looked at Liu Zheng with a hint of gratitude in his eyes, then stabbed himself in the stomach.

"A veteran."

Liu Zheng raised an eyebrow.

The security guard punctured the lower right abdomen, at the midpoint between the navel and the anterior superior iliac spine. As anyone who frequently stabs people knows, this is the point where the internal organs are least likely to be damaged. It is also a commonly used puncture point for surgeons when performing abdominal paracentesis.

He saw through it all, but he didn't say anything.

Just venting his anger and teaching the security guard a lesson is enough. If Liu Zheng really wanted to kill him, he wouldn't have needed to make this call.

"Use your brain before you act tough next time. Can a deliveryman who gets invited to eat in the family compound be an ordinary deliveryman? All you do is cause trouble for the company every day."

"Okay, I'm hanging up now. My takeout has arrived but I haven't picked it up yet."

The ace gave the security guard a dressing down and then hung up the phone. "Although no internal organs were damaged, it still needs to be treated. An infection would be quite troublesome. Take it to see a doctor."

Liu Zheng handed the security guard a few banknotes.

"Thank you, leader."

The security guard said, enduring the pain.

"You're welcome. May I come in?"

he asked.

"Please come in."

The security guard, with one hand covering his wound, opened the access control for him with the other.

"Thank you."

Liu Zheng nodded politely and then walked into the residential area.

"Has the problem been solved?"

I had only taken a few steps when Silver Wolf called again.

"It's resolved, it's already inside the residential area."

he replied.

"Alright, come over quickly, the food and drinks are ready."

After hanging up the phone, Liu Zheng walked quickly towards Silver Wolf's house.

"Unit 1, Room 505, we've arrived."

He quickly arrived at the door of Silver Wolf's house.

Before he could even ring the doorbell, the security door was opened, and a woman wearing a blue embroidered cheongsam opened the door.

The woman's features are 70% similar to Yoko's, but her temperament is more mature and gentle, like a pink and white peach that is alluring.

However, she is actually shorter than Yoko, which makes her retain some of her girlish charm.

"Hello, Ms. Liu, I am Yoko's older sister, Yuriko."

The woman introduced herself.

"Hello, Yuriko-neechan."

Liu Zheng smiled.

"Please come in, Mr. Liu."

Yuriko took the new slippers she had prepared earlier from the shoe rack next to her and bent down to place them in front of him.

Liu Zheng's vision was too high, leaving himself no chance to misjudge.

"Please change your shoes."

"Thank you sister."

After Yuriko got up and reminded him, he lowered his head and put on his slippers.

"Liu Sang is out and about every day, why doesn't she buy herself a better pair of shoes?"

Yuriko asked, frowning.

"There's nothing I can do. I often don't even have legs anymore, so I'm too lazy to buy shoes."

Liu Zheng shrugged.

"Liu Sang has really worked too hard."

Yuriko sighed, her tone carrying a hint of genuine heartache.

"It's alright. Anyway, it's not very convenient for hooves to wear shoes. Going barefoot is more comfortable."

He smiled and said.

"Don't stand at the door talking, come over and sit down to talk."

Silver Wolf's voice came from inside.

"Okay, Dana-san."

Yuriko replied with a smile.

"Dan" is the Japanese word for a wife to use to address her husband, but it is used in a rather casual way, so Yuriko added the suffix "san" to show respect.

Liu Zheng followed Baihezi around the corridor to the restaurant, where Silver Wolf was sitting upright in the main seat.

"sit down."

It pointed to the chair opposite it and said.

"it is good."

Liu Zheng didn't stand on ceremony and pulled out a chair to sit down.

Yuriko naturally sat down next to Ginrou.

He nodded slightly upon seeing this, realizing that Yuriko's status at home was not low.

Liu Zheng shifted his gaze to Silver Wolf, only to find that the other party was dressed even more formally than Yuriko, wearing a crisply pressed blue uniform.

"This is my first uniform. I had Yuriko take it out and iron it today."

Seeing that he was looking at his uniform, Silver Wolf took the initiative to introduce himself.

He nodded, waiting to hear what was to come.

"To get this uniform, I killed hundreds of people, including my enemies, my kin, my friends, and even my former lover."

Upon hearing this, Liu Zheng glanced at Baihezi, only to see her take the silver wolf's paw and clasp it together with both hands.

"And you, having amassed such a vast network of connections and wealth in such a short time, I imagine you have just as many lives on your hands as I have."

Silver Wolf looked at him and said.

"I don't know, I haven't counted them, there are too many."

Liu Zheng said innocently.

He has killed thousands of "beasts" in Atlantis alone, hundreds of "zombies", and a bunch of other random creatures that are hard to add.

"You are born to do great things. It is our family's good fortune to know you."

The silver wolf's fur twitched as it slowly spoke.

"Without you, Yoko might have been turned into a pig for letting that child go. Without you, I wouldn't have been able to get in touch with the 'anti-favor faction' and become the deputy section chief or even the section chief."

"It's nothing."

"Listen to me first."

Liu Zheng was about to exchange a few polite words when Silver Wolf raised his hand to interrupt him.

“Then brother-in-law, please continue.”

He shut his mouth.

"But meeting you was also a misfortune for our family."

"Because we have no foundation, once we get on your chariot, we can only follow you until we reach the end or the chariot is destroyed and we die."

"And what's scary is that we don't even know where we're going."

"So, can you tell me what you really want to do?"

Silver Wolf leaned forward slightly, his emerald green eyes gleaming.

"Live as long as possible."

Liu Zheng replied without hesitation.

"You mean, you want to live forever?"

Silver Wolf was somewhat surprised, but not entirely.

While not the majority of people in the metropolis desire immortality or even eternal life, they are not a minority either.

"Not exactly, but you'd have to live to be at least seventy or eighty years old, right?"

He started working non-stop as soon as he entered the instance, without having time to think about the changes and opportunities that the hellish game brought him.

Perhaps he can also become a Buddha or an ancestor, or attain eternal enlightenment, just like the protagonists in those infinite flow novels.

But at least for now, Liu Zheng just wants to survive in the metropolis for a while longer, so that he can continue to clear the next level smoothly and make the system cure his ALS.

"Um"

Silver Wolf didn't know how to evaluate his goal.

It's not that difficult; there are plenty of ways to prolong life in the metropolis, and there are even ways to transform into an immortal species.

It's easy to say, but many immortal beings die young in the metropolis, and there are countless examples of strong individuals failing.

"Some of the things you do seem to be inconsistent with your goals."

Silver Wolf thought for a moment and said.

"Because besides goals, I also have principles."

Liu Zheng replied.

"What principle?"

"First, do your best to keep your promises."

Second, repay kindness with kindness and revenge with revenge.

he replied.

"That's very difficult to do."

Silver Wolf shook his head.

"Yes, that's why I did so many things that seemed to contradict my goals. It kept me busy all day long, and as soon as I opened my eyes, there were things to do."

Liu Zheng sighed.

"However, I feel at ease. That's enough."

He then said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)