Hell Game: Starting from Metropolis

He rolled his eyes and walked towards cemetery number 10086.

When I got to the tombstone, offerings were indeed laid out on the ground.

The packaging looks quite normal and doesn't reflect any cemetery characteristics.

Liu Zheng picked up the bottle of red wine and gently shook it. A bronze nail engraved with runes was faintly visible in the wine.

Well, it's still quite unique.

He looked at the tombstone; a huge pig's head took up most of the photo.

However, compared to Oink, this red pig looks much more amiable, giving off a festive vibe.

He was wearing sunglasses, a bowler hat, a red tie, a suit, and had two small, upturned mustaches.

If Oink looks like a ruthless man full of accidents, then Red Pig looks like a gentleman with a lot of stories to tell.

He then looked at the information about the tomb's occupant.

Name: Red Pig

Cause of death: Execution by firing squad

Charge: Illegally flying an aircraft across the border

There were several more paragraphs of text below, but they were all covered by black paint and could not be seen.

Liu Zheng stared at the tombstone, speechless.

Good heavens, I just learned about the border situation from Niu Ma, and now I've seen a ruthless guy who dares to illegally cross the border.

However, the fact that he was buried in a cemetery after being executed shows that the city hall is quite humane.

He unwrapped the cake and pizza, and removed the corks from the wine bottles, placing them all under the tombstone, directly opposite the photograph.

“Mr. Red Pig, I am Liu Zheng, a deliveryman from the Bloody Restaurant. These are my friends. We are here to help Niu Ma sweep your grave.”

"I didn't know what you liked, so I ordered the B-grade meal. It's a bit simple, but I hope you won't mind."

May your soul be as vast as the Eastern Sea, your spirit as enduring as the Southern Mountain, and may you enjoy eternal peace in the afterlife.

After Liu Zheng finished saying the auspicious words, he looked at the red wine with some hesitation.

In reality, this bottle of wine would either be spilled on the ground or on a tombstone.

But the spirit of Porco Rosso is still there, so doing this seems a bit inappropriate.

After thinking about it, he decided to just leave it as is.

"Let's go."

Liu Zheng turned to Nightingale and the other two and said.

But as soon as he turned around, he saw the three men's expressions of utter disbelief.

He turned around stiffly and saw a pig-headed man in a suit leaning halfway out of the tomb, looking at him with his arms crossed.

"You're saying you're here to help cattle and horses?"

Red Pig asked calmly.

"right?"

Liu Zheng wished he could slap himself twice.

This guy was most likely lured in by the names of cattle and horses.

"Yes or no?"

"That's right, I'm the younger brother of the ox and horse. They sent me to sweep your grave."

He went all out.

Why doesn't it come by itself?

The red pig asked.

"It's afraid you'll beat it up."

Liu Zheng said frankly.

Do you know why I beat it up?

Red Pig sneered.

"I don't know, and I don't want to know."

He shook his head.

He already knows enough secrets; who knows which one will be the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

"But I still have to tell you, otherwise it would be too unfair if I beat you to death."

The red pig shook its head.

"Then tell me, would you like a drink first?"

Liu Zheng raised his wine glass.

"You seem to have suddenly stopped being afraid."

The red pig watched him with great interest.

It can smell the scent of fear on living people, but the scent on the human in front of it suddenly disappeared.

"Fear comes from the unknown. Since you've already decided to cause me trouble, what's there to be afraid of? At worst, we'll fight to the death."

Liu Zheng said frankly.

"That's interesting. Let's chat while we drink. Would those three beautiful ladies over there like to share a drink with me?"

Red Pig extended an invitation to Nightingale and her two companions.

It seems the information from Niu Ma was correct; it is indeed quite friendly towards females.

"Okay."

Nightingale took the sea woman's hand in a very open and generous manner and led her to the front of the tomb.

She could sense that the ghost in front of her was very powerful, but she was confident that she could still escape.

The vampire girl also skipped and hopped over to Liu Zheng's side.

Although she wasn't as strong as Nightingale, the cemetery was her domain, so she definitely wouldn't die there.

Of course, protecting Liu Zheng was beyond their capabilities.

"Ladies, please wait a moment."

The red pig retreated back into the tomb chamber, only to emerge a moment later, carrying five goblets.

"Give me the drink."

He took the red wine from Liu Zheng and poured a third of it into each of the wine glasses.

"Please. This wine has a unique flavor. Please don't drink too much at first, especially this vampire lady."

Red Pig distributed the wine glasses to everyone.

His tone was gentle, and his movements were soft; there was no sign of his irritability whatsoever.

Liu Zheng took a small sip as instructed, and the mellow wine slid into his mouth, wetting his tongue.

Then, a heavy, coppery smell overwhelmed his taste buds.

He felt his mind was also overwhelmed by the smell of copper rust, making it almost impossible for him to think.

Liu Zheng shook his head violently, and it took him a while to shake off that terrible feeling.

He glanced at the others, who all had roughly the same expression.

The vampire girl immediately started cosplaying as a statue on the spot, and it looks like she won't wake up anytime soon.

But I wasn't really expecting her to fight anyway, so it's not a big problem.

"The story begins one night three years ago."

Red Pig put down his wine glass and said.

"Sigh, it's starting."

Liu Zheng sighed inwardly, but he still had to pretend to be eager to hear it.

"That day, my small plane crashed in a forest."

"I escaped by chance and walked along the path, trying to find someone to help me, but I ended up walking into a tunnel."

"what?"

He felt like he had heard this backstory somewhere before.

Red Pig ignored Liu Zheng's fuss and continued speaking.

"After passing through the tunnel, I arrived in a strange world. It was a bustling and prosperous bathhouse street."

"I was enthusiastically pulled inside by the staff there, who offered me countless delicacies that even Bloody Restaurant couldn't compare to, and all of them were free."

This sounds even more familiar, don't think that just because you have the same director you can just randomly mix and match plots.

"Let me guess, you turned into a pig after eating those foods?"

Liu Zheng squinted and said.

"That's right, I was put in the pigsty and fattened up for a few days before being sent to market."

"But the girl who guards the pigsty couldn't bear it and stole the medicine to lift the curse for me. Unfortunately, I was discovered on the way and half of it was stolen, so I still have this pig head."

"She wanted me to run away alone, but how could I possibly do such a thing?"

"So I took her and escaped from Fish Farm Street, and escaped to my plane."

"Fortunately, I managed to repair the plane and take her away from that forest back to the metropolis."

Red Pig said.

So this eerie city is called Metropolis, which sounds pretty sophisticated.

Liu Zheng thought to himself.

"After she came back, I arranged for her to work in logistics at my flight school."

"A month later, I confessed my feelings to her, and she accepted."

Three months later, she proposed to me, and I said yes.

No, wait a minute?

Never mind, it's alright, you can continue.

"Six months later, we decided to have a child. I worked even harder, wanting to create better conditions for our child."

"But then, misfortune struck."

The red pig's tone changed from warm to heavy.

"She suddenly fell ill, and her condition deteriorated rapidly. In less than a month, she was unable to even stand up."

"I tried many methods and asked many people for help, but I still couldn't cure her."

"Finally, I found out through a connection that her race migrated from abroad, and that they had this genetic disease after they migrated here."

"I think if I could bring her back to her hometown, perhaps she could recover without medicine."

"So I flew my beloved plane, with my beloved woman, across the border on a blood moon night."

"But the very next second after I crossed the border, I was shot down by the Border Authority's anti-aircraft guns."

"Do you know why?"

Red Pig stared at Liu Zheng and asked.

"Could it be that the cattle and horses betrayed you?"

He said with some guilt.

Although cattle and horses are not considered extremely wicked, they are not exactly good people either.

If the price is high enough, it might not necessarily uphold its loyalty.