Hell Game: Starting from Metropolis

"Can it be taken out of the instance: Yes"

"Why don't you just break off another part for me?"

Liu Zheng asked.

"My things are inconvenient to use in the city. Don't use this thing directly either; wait until those bald monks start chanting their sutras before using it. The effect will be outstanding then."

"That's what the fisherman said."

"Isn't this thing an indiscriminate attack?"

"With your physique, what are you afraid of? At worst, you'll go deaf for a while. Our clan has immunity to attacks from aquatic creatures, so the sea maiden won't have any major problems."

The fisherman explained.

"And what about the nightingale?"

"Then it's none of my business."

The fisherman looked up at the sky.

Okay, okay, so you can protect your daughter and take down the blond guy at the same time, right?

That old rascal, he's got some pretty good ideas.

"Bring us the protective measures; I can't protect the female divers by myself."

Liu Zheng extended his tentacles again.

"whispering sound."

The fisherman reluctantly took out two pieces of fish skin.

"Just roll it into a ball and put it in your ear."

"Four ears, and you're only giving me two pieces of fish skin?"

He suspected that the fisherman was illiterate.

"Didn't you say you didn't need it?"

"Hey, just because I have a strong recovery ability doesn't mean you can treat me like I'm not human, right?"

Liu Zheng expressed his protest.

"What makes you look like a human being? I look more like one than you."

The fisherman glanced at his tentacles and hooves and said.

"Personal attack, huh? Then go ask whoever looks like a human being for help."

He said unhappily.

"Threatening me won't work. I only have these two pieces of fish skin left. I've already given you the talisman, what would I do with the fish skin?"

"Tch. Contact the sewers for me, I need to find Red Ghost."

Seeing that the fisherman didn't seem to be lying, Liu Zheng didn't press the matter further.

"They've been treating me like a pager all day long."

The fisherman complained as he reached his hand into the river again.

"Move forward."

After a moment, he said with his eyes closed.

"Ok."

Liu Zheng walked straight ahead, and after walking about fifty meters, the familiar safety gate appeared in front of him.

The valve turned slowly, and the heavy safety door was pushed open.

Red Ghost had her hands in her coat pockets, scrutinizing him.

"The sewers have never been quiet since you came."

Red Ghost complained.

"So the sewers aren't quiet after all?"

Liu Zheng said he would not take the blame.

With all the poop and farts, there's nowhere quiet.

"At least it won't contact me so frequently."

"Ahem, as the saying goes, a close neighbor is worse than a distant relative. We all live under the same roof, so there's no harm in maintaining good relationships."

He scratched his head and said.

“I don’t think so, and I believe it doesn’t think so either, and the city hall certainly doesn’t think so.”

If the Red Ghost and the sewers became good friends, the city hall would be the first to jump up in protest.

"Haha. Shall we go inside and talk about it?"

Liu Zheng chuckled.

Red Ghost glanced at him, then turned and put him inside.

The moment the safety door closed, Liu Zheng felt a strange sense of relief.

How does it feel to have a gun pointed at you?

Red Ghost suddenly asked.

"Having too much debt means you don't have to worry; having too many lice means you don't feel itchy."

He shrugged.

"You're such a strange person."

Red Ghost shook its head.

"Why do you say that?"

"You've carried so much and still managed to maintain such a calm mindset, but I haven't sensed any ambition or aspirations in you."

Red Ghost said.

"I have ambitions."

"Survival is not ambition, it's just instinct."

Red Ghost said.

"But for me, just surviving in the metropolis is already a very ambitious thing."

Liu Zheng said calmly.

"A ship without a keel will never go far. Whether you choose to be a hero or a villain, you always have to choose a path."

"Then let's wait until I satisfy my instincts. I haven't even climbed to the second to last level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs yet."

He said.

“A gradual approach might not be realistic for you. Forget it, my ship has already sunk, and I'm not qualified to lecture you. Let's go.”

The red phantom drifted forward.

"Uncle Electrician!"

Donya and the other children excitedly rushed over.

"Let me see, has little Donya grown taller?"

Liu Zheng lifted up little Donya and smoothed out her wrinkled scalp.

"Yes, I've grown so much taller."

Donya tried her best to gesture with her little hands.

"That's a lie, she hasn't grown at all."

Paul saw through her little lie.

"Paul! I was talking to the electrician, why did you interrupt? That's so rude of you!"

"Donya said angrily."

"My teacher said that lying is wrong."

Paul said, his neck stiff.

"I'm not lying. You haven't measured me, so how do you know I haven't grown taller?"

Donya said defiantly.

"We're not living people, the dead don't grow taller."

Paul insisted.

"You, you're driving me crazy! I never want to play with you again."

Unable to refute, Donya said angrily.

“Paul is wrong, the dead also grow taller.”

Liu Zheng intervened in the debate between the two children.

"Really? Uncle Electrician."

Donya asked in surprise.

Paul looked doubtful.

“It’s true, I have a vampire friend. She used to be this tall, but after she got injured, she only grew to this height.”

He first gestured the vampire girl's original height, and then gestured her current height.

"They've gotten shorter, not taller."

Paul retorted, unconvinced.

"Yeah, then she'll grow taller once her injury is healed."

Liu Zheng said matter-of-factly.

"Uh"

Paul felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.

"Well, goodness gracious, idiot Paul has been refuted by the electrician."

"Donya said happily, and then kissed Liu Zheng," she said.

His pale lips carried a faint smell of decay, yet he showed no unusual expression.

Red Ghost watched the little farce quietly, a stiff but determined smile on its lips.

Did you bring the milk?

he asked.

"No, but I brought something better."

Liu Zheng said smugly.

"Very good. Children, get ready quickly, the electrician has brought you gifts again."

Red Ghost clapped his hands.

"Hurrah~"

The children shouted happily, then quickly returned to their seats.

"Ta-da! Look what I brought you!"

Liu Zheng took out bottles of hellish honey milk.

"It's yogurt!"

Donya was the first to shout it out.

The children all showed expressions of surprise, and even Red Ghost's eyes revealed a hint of eagerness.

For them, yogurt is a staple food, a side dish, a condiment, and a dessert.