Hell Game: Starting from Metropolis

Liu Zheng patiently corrected him.

Don't you think saying that makes you even more perverted?

The shop owner glanced at him sideways.

".Leave."

He carried the box and strode out of the newsstand.

When I looked back after leaving the shop, the shop owner was still sleeping with a newspaper covering his face.

This made Liu Zheng wonder if the person he had just spoken with was the same store manager.

But once he got the item, it no longer mattered to him.

Carrying the box, Liu Zheng sprinted towards Rose Street.

Throughout the journey, strange wriggling sounds kept coming from the box, but he ignored them.

Upon arriving at Rose Street, the plane trees were looking up at the sky.

"What are you doing?"

Liu Zheng walked over and asked.

"Don't make a sound, I'm waiting for the bird."

The plane tree gestured for him to shut up.

"Oh."

He shut his mouth and looked up to see what was happening.

A few minutes later, a tiny black dot appeared on the horizon.

The small black dot is getting closer and bigger.

Gradually, Liu Zheng also got a clear look at what it looked like.

It was a large bird with full plumage, its wingspan reaching seven or eight meters.

But its head is not a bird's head, but a beautiful woman's head.

Its body is not that of a bird, but rather that of a naked and alluring woman.

However, the bird's claws were indeed bird claws, and they were extremely large, more than twice the size of the claws of the emu that Liu Zheng had seen.

The claws gleamed with a metallic sheen, and given their size, a single swipe could probably pierce right through an armored vehicle.

Monsters with human heads and bird bodies are common in mythology, but with his vast knowledge, he quickly made the connection.

This should be the Guhuoniao from Chinese mythology, also known as the Heavenly Emperor's Daughter or the Night Wanderer.

Legend has it that when it wears feathers it is a bird, and when it takes off its feathers it becomes a woman.

The Guhuoniao (a mythical bird) does not reproduce; instead, it steals other people's children and raises them as its own.

The Guhuoniao quickly flew to the top of the plane tree. Upon seeing Liu Zheng, a joyful smile appeared on its face. With a flap of its wings, it was about to swoop down and snatch him away.

Before Liu Zheng could react, five or more roots burst out of the ground, swinging like five fingers, slapping the Guhuoniao hard.

The large bird, resembling a small airplane, was instantly flung away, spinning in the air for over a dozen times before finally coming to a stop.

"Are you getting cocky, or am I too weak to wield a knife while wearing Lego?"

The plane tree looked at the dizzy and disoriented Ubume and said coldly.

"Gu Huo, Gu Huo".

After recovering, the Guhuoniao cried out, its voice sounding somewhat aggrieved.

"So what if you're just a human? You can only take what I give you; you can't take what I don't give you."

"If there's a next time, I'll hang you on my tree branch. Do you understand?"

The plane tree shouted sternly.

"Gu Huo, Gu Huo".

The Guhuoniao nodded repeatedly.

"Hmph, if you don't discipline someone for three days, they'll start climbing on the roof and tearing off the tiles. Tell me quickly, what news do you have?"

"Gu Huo?"

The Guhuoniao pointed at Liu Zheng with its wings.

There's no need to hide it from him.

The plane tree shook its head.

He was slightly moved.

"Anyway, he can't understand what you're saying."

The plane tree added.

"cut."

I knew this tree wasn't so heartwarming.

"Let's get it, let's get it."

The Guhuoniao let out a long cry.

"Got it. Keep an eye on that line and let me know if anything happens."

The plane tree gave its instructions.

"Let's get it."

The Guhuoniao nodded, then stuck out its long, bright red tongue and licked its face.

"Are you that hungry? You're really going to throw a tree at me."

The plane tree may have verbally expressed its disdain, but it secretly took action.

One by one, they emerged from the soil, sending out dark shadows into the air.

Upon closer inspection, Liu Zheng realized they were the corpses of rats.

Judging from their appearance, they should be the same species as the black rats he encountered in the sewers, but it's unclear whether they belong to the same group.

"Gu Huo Gu Huo!"

The Guhuoniao cheered and flew around in the air, catching the rat carcasses thrown at it with its beak and swallowing them whole without even chewing.

If Liu Zheng had seen this scene upon entering the metropolis, his rationality might have been triggered.

But now his heart is completely calm, and he even has the leisure to identify which bird species the bird part of the Guhuoniao belongs to.

The result came out quickly: there was no result.

After all, most of his zoological knowledge comes from the animal world.

"get out."

After the mice were fed, the plane tree said impatiently.

The Guhuoniao didn't mind and flew high in the direction it had come from.

As she turned around, she even gave Liu Zheng a flirtatious wink, to which he responded with a tentacle middle finger.

This woman was just about to eat him alive; does she really think he doesn't hold grudges?

That being said, it was only recently that the plane trees stopped it.

Otherwise, with his legendary status boost, it's hard to say who would be the one to devour whom.

"What are you looking for me for?"

The plane tree asked.

"Why don't you tell me what the bird said to you first?"

Liu Zheng put the boning knife he had pulled out back down.

"Are you curious?"

"Just normal curiosity, you don't have to tell me."

He shrugged.

To be honest, I am a little curious. After all, the plane tree usually knows nothing about anything, so information that even it cares about must be very important.

“Telling you isn’t out of the question, since you’ve already signed the Annual Ring Contract. You just need to promise that you won’t leak the information I’m telling you to anyone.”

"French plane tree," said the speaker after thinking for a moment.

"Okay, I promise I won't leak the information you told me to anyone."

Liu Zheng readily agreed.

As soon as he finished speaking, countless roots burst forth from the ground, completely surrounding the two of them.

"I'm using it to help me observe the border."

After taking precautions to keep the information confidential, the French plane tree said.

"Why are you observing the border? Are you trying to cross illegally?"

he said in surprise.

"Yes."

The London plane tree actually admitted it.

"You can't even get out of this street, how are you going to smuggle yourself across?"

"Didn't you tell me to evolve into a phoenix?"

The plane tree gave him a disapproving look.

"What does your evolution into a phoenix have to do with your illegal immigration? To evade the restaurant's capture?"

Liu Zheng asked.

"Idiot human. I couldn't have smuggled myself in while I was in a weakened state. Now that I'm out of that state, what am I afraid of at the restaurant?"

"That's impossible to say."

he muttered under his breath.

Inside Si Xue's obsidian pillar, there seems to be a phoenix imprisoned, and it looks to be of a rather high quality.

"What did you say?"

"Nothing. So why did you try to cross the border illegally?"

Liu Zheng asked.

Chapter 185 Dare to touch me? I'll twist your head off!

"You think becoming a phoenix is ​​just a matter of hatching from an egg? I still have to travel the world and cultivate the five virtues before I can truly evolve into a five-colored phoenix."

"It's a plane tree," said the French plane tree.

What are the five virtues?

"Virtue, propriety, righteousness, trustworthiness, and benevolence."

The plane trees return.

"Well, then you really need to smuggle yourself out of the country."

In a metropolis where everyone is a villain, trying to achieve these five virtues is no different from overthrowing the city hall.

"That's easy for you to say. The bird told me that it has seen dozens of border crossings over the years, and not a single one has succeeded."

The sound of the plane trees is a bit annoying.

"If I have the chance, I'll try to find out for you."

Liu Zheng said.

"You? Don't bring the city hall people here."