Hell Game: Starting from Metropolis

"Are you going to get your hemorrhoids removed or your head cut off?"

Liu Zheng joked.

The Nile doctor transformed back into a warrior wielding a jeweled scimitar and clad in golden armor.

"They're the same. My two knives are famous for being quick at cutting off heads and hemorrhoids."

The Nile doctor tapped his scimitar and said smugly.

Back then, he was able to stand out among a group of priests and become a priest because of his outstanding medical skills among his peers.

"It would be unfortunate to become your enemy."

Liu Zheng complained.

Nobody wants to be touched by a knife that has just been used to remove hemorrhoids. Who knows if the knife was washed after the procedure?

"You're so fussy, let's go."

"The Nile doctor urged."

"Wait, let me call the fisherman first."

Liu Zheng waved his tentacles.

Without a fisherman to meet them, who knows what they'll encounter down there?

Although Doctor Nile looks quite capable, that's all it is.

His system space is currently empty, so he should be careful in everything he does.

"You actually came back, kid."

When the fisherman saw the number, he was quite shocked.

He never expected that someone would return after having the opportunity to leave the metropolis, and so quickly at that.

"So many people need me to come back, and I'm the kind of person who never lets my friends down."

Liu Zheng said.

"Who said I'm friends with you, kid?"

The fisherman spat.

"Of course you're not my friend, Father-in-law~"

He drawled out his words.

"If you want to die, I can grant your wish right now. Huh? You used up my finger?"

The fisherman sensed it and said.

"It's not just your fingers, I've lost everything this time."

Liu Zheng sighed.

After decades of hard work, I'm back to square one.

Hmm, it doesn't seem that exaggerated. Oh well, the meaning is about right.

"Serves you right. Why did you call? Let me make this clear first, don't even think about getting anything out of me."

The fisherman said warily.

"Look at how stingy you are. With our relationship, it would be only right for you to give me a few fish ponds in advance as part of my dowry."

"I'm going to hang up."

The fisherman said indifferently.

"Tch, what a nasty temper. No wonder the female divers don't like to talk to you."

Before the fisherman went berserk, Liu Zheng finally got to the point.

"Two things. First, I'll take the doctor down to perform surgery on the sewers later. Second, prepare some fish for me, not the best quality, but enough of it."

"How much?"

The fisherman asked.

"Give me a ton first."

He said.

"roll!"

The fisherman's roar startled the Nile doctor standing nearby.

"If you can't get it, you don't have to yell at people. The noise was so loud it almost ruptured my eardrums."

Liu Zheng covered his ear piercings and complained.

"Anyway, you can grow too. Do you even know what a ton of sewer fish means? Your restaurant doesn't even get that much stock in a year."

The fisherman shouted.

“We only get the high-end fish from your farm in our restaurant. I don’t need anything that good. You can just get me some random fish from the river.”

He bargained.

"No, there are only thirty. Take it or leave it."

The fisherman said in a harsh voice.

Does he really have contracted out all the rivers in the sewers?

Even if it's fish he raises himself, he sometimes refuses to let them catch him.

"Alright, alright, thirty it is. Get ready, we'll go down into the manhole cover on Rose Street again."

Liu Zheng said.

"understood."

The fisherman slammed down the phone.

"At your age, you still have such a bad temper. Aren't you afraid of high blood pressure and a stroke? Old Ni, you should take a look at the fisherman later. Maybe he has hyperthyroidism or a brain hemorrhage or something."

He pursed his lips.

"I think we should examine you first to see if you have this disease that makes you feel like you'll die if you don't act like a fool."

The Nile doctor chuckled.

"Prejudice, all of this is prejudice. Alright, let's go."

As they left the clinic, the Sphinx looked up at them.

"If I don't come back, I'll leave the clinic to you."

The Nile doctor walked up to it and performed the rites of a descendant of Ra.

"Ah."

The Sphinx gave a faint reply and then closed its eyes.

"Please take care of Xiaomei as well."

Liu Zheng chimed in, joining in the fun.

"roll."

The sphinx said without even lifting its eyelids.

"Tch. You really should improve your staff etiquette training; patients are afraid to come here because of this."

He said to the Nile doctor.

"First of all, it's not my employee. Secondly, it only does this to you and your cattle."

"My boss? What did it do?"

Liu Zheng asked curiously.

"It flipped someone's tail."

"That's what the Nile doctor replied."

"As expected of my boss, I'm still far behind when it comes to being a jerk."

Recalling the glorious history of selling cattle and horses to French plane trees for counterfeit liquor, he said admiringly.

"I think you've already surpassed your teacher."

The Nile doctor twitched the corner of his mouth.

Chatting casually along the way, the two arrived at Rose Street.

It was a bright, sunny day. The plane trees drooped their branches and looked like they were about to suffer from heatstroke.

"Other trees are all striving to grow in order to get more sunlight. But you, the only tree enjoying such good sunlight all to yourself, are barely surviving."

Liu Zheng couldn't help but say.

"I'm not a tropical plant. Besides, as a nobleman of France, isn't it reasonable for me to be afraid of the sun?"

The plane tree barely opened its eyes, and upon seeing him, it spoke with conviction.

"That makes sense. Come on, have some wine to cool off in the heat."

Liu Zheng placed the two bottles of fine wine on the ground.

"liquor!"

The plane tree perked up immediately, stretching out its roots to wrap around the bottle, but then quickly retracted.

"It's not ice."

It said disdainfully.

"No, it's not beer, who drinks something ice cold? Besides, does your mouth really have the function of sensing temperature?"

Liu Zheng complained.

"Mind your own business! I don't care, I just want it iced!"

The plane trees waved their roots and slapped the ground, like a naughty child sitting on the ground throwing a tantrum.

"Okay, okay, I'll chill it and bring it to you later, alright?"

he said helplessly.

This guy used to drink even urine that tasted like alcohol, but now he insists on chilling expensive liquor. He's really become quite picky.

"Hmph! If you have nothing else to do, then leave now and don't disturb my sleep."

The plane tree has closed its eyes again.

Liu Zheng sighed, put away the two bottles of wine, and returned to the Nile doctor's side.

"Your tree friend is quite something."

"That's what the Nile doctor said."

"Oh?"

"Has its life form reached the point where it needs to evolve?"

"That's what the Nile doctor said."

"Yes."

Now that he had figured it out, Liu Zheng decided not to hide it anymore.

"It?"

The Nile doctor suddenly made a questioning sound, and then pulled a gold pendant from his armor.

The pendant's pendant is an equilateral triangle, with an abstract eye in the center.

"Are you calling me, La?"

He knelt down on one knee, then held up the pendant facing the sun.

"Yes, I have remembered your divine message."

A moment later, the Nile doctor stood up and put away the pendant.