Hell Game: Starting from Metropolis

Chapter 13 Convergence

A large, pure white spider slowly crawled down the silk thread, its two forelegs holding up a stack of clothes.

It descended in front of Liu Zheng, its eight eyes and four eyes staring at each other.

The giant spider impatiently threw the clothes on the ground and quickly crawled away.

"Hey, that's a really bad attitude."

Liu Zheng swung his tentacles and almost slapped the giant spider's butt.

"It's not unusual for someone in charge of logistics to have a bad attitude. But you, kid, your temper is getting worse."

"The ox and horse said."

"There's nothing I can do, I have irritability now."

He shrugged.

"I advise you to tone it down a bit; restaurants are different from outside."

"I will try my best."

Liu Zheng nodded.

He picked up the new work clothes and put them on.

His new uniform was a cloak with openings on both sides, allowing him to extend his tentacles.

It was quite large, enough to perfectly conceal his figure.

"You look just like those eccentrics in the old town."

"The cows and horses complained."

"Really? I think it's pretty good."

He sat cross-legged on the ground, placed the notebook on the stool, and began practicing calligraphy.

Liu Zheng had a stern face, like a deep-sea fish under stress.

The slender tentacles coiled around the pen barrel, circle after circle, as if strangling prey.

"sky."

He wrote the first word in the notebook.

Unsurprisingly, the pen is crooked and uneven; it wasn't originally invented for octopuses or jellyfish.

"land."

Liu Zheng wrote down the second character.

This time the lines are much straighter, but every bend has become a rounded corner.

"Possessing righteous energy, it manifests in various forms. Below, it becomes rivers and mountains; above, it becomes the sun and stars."

He ignored the oddly shaped characters and continued writing them one by one until he finished the entire article.

"Isn't it strange that a monster without a face can recite the 'Ode to Righteousness' from memory?"

Liu Zheng asked himself.

"Although I don't know what 'Ode to Righteousness' is, whatever you write now will be very strange."

The ox and horse raised their heads and added insult to injury.

"Makes sense."

He looked at the big face of the cow and horse and suddenly asked a question.

"Boss, have you ever eaten a person?"

"Kid, you think you're something just because you don't know your place? You want to go toe-to-toe with me?"

The ox and horse sneered and stood up.

Its muscles gradually bulged, and the fur covering them shone with a metallic luster.

"Let me tell you, even the executive chef and head chef wouldn't dare raise their voice at me. I've eaten people, men and women, young and old, so what?"

The ox and horse stomped their feet, and a shallow pit immediately appeared on the ground.

The flying pebbles cut Liu Zheng's tentacle, and before a drop of blood could seep out, the wound had already healed.

The ox and horse grunted. They were nothing more than unkillable meat targets.

"Your fur coat must be hard to maintain, right?"

"Nonsense, I spend a third of my salary every month on contact lens solution."

The ox and horse stroked their fur, looking pained.

"You certainly don't want to be bothered by the smell of this stuff, right?"

Liu Zheng took out the fossil of the maggot in the sea of ​​feces.

"Hmph, I'll just take a few more showers."

The ox and horse's pupils constricted slightly, yet they stubbornly persisted.

"Then what will you do if I bring out this next?"

He took out a lighter.

"grass!"

The cattle and horses trembled violently.

Although a big explosion might not kill it, it would certainly burn off all its fur.

"Are you fucking crazy? What did I do to you that you want to fight me to the death?"

The ox and horse asked, half surprised and half angry.

"Because I'm sick."

"You are definitely sick."

The oxen and horses nodded.

"I really have a problem, I have irritability."

Liu Zheng said earnestly.

"I just wanted to live, but as soon as I came in, you beat me half to death. Everywhere I looked were man-eating monsters, and a single wrong word could mean certain death. Delivering takeout forced me to eat inhuman food, I heard some strange gospel, and in the end, I turned into a non-human monster myself. The most ridiculous thing is..."

"I worked so hard to finish the job, but I still didn't get paid."

"Hey, do you think I should be angry?"

He stared at the tuft of hair on the heads of the cattle and horses and asked.

"Isn't salary paid at the end of the month?"

The ox and horse asked curiously.

"What did you say?"

A cluster of flames suddenly lit up.

"You have to be angry. Anyone who isn't angry is a coward."

Niu Ma immediately said.

"Very good. Stick your head over here."

"What?"

The ox and horse looked wary.

"What are you afraid of? It won't kill you anyway."

Liu Zheng said.

"Hmph, I'd like to see what tricks you're up to."

The ox and horse were determined that if Liu Zheng dared to cause trouble, they would risk going bald to kill him.

The large head of the ox and horse stretched out in front of Liu Zheng, who was rummaging in his pocket.

He pulled out a pack of cigarettes.

"Want a smoke, buddy?"

He asked with a grin.

"???"

Niu Ma looked exasperated.

"smoke."

It opened its mouth.

Liu Zheng stuffed three cigarettes into the mouths of the cattle and horses, and then lit one for himself.

The lounge was filled with smoke, and soon a sweet, cloying smell permeated the air.

"Jiaxin Candy 1916, where did you get this?"

The ox and horse exhaled two smoke rings from their nostrils.

"Like the lighter, it was found on the security guards of Yipin Tianshu."

Liu Zheng swallowed the smoke, savoring the burning sensation in his throat.

If it were before, he would have coughed up his lungs by now.

Although the flesh deformity did not cure his illness, it did reshape his atrophied respiratory muscles.

"Humph."

The ox and horse proudly raised their chins.

Liu Zheng ignored it.

The oxen and horses, feeling they were being follyed, vigorously swung their tails.

"This world is a dog-eat-dog world. I've eaten not only humans, but also cattle and horses."

It took a deep drag of its cigarette.

"But I have never eaten people on purpose, and the deaths of those delivery drivers were not intentional on my part."

"Have a smoke."

Liu Zheng said calmly.

The man, the ox, and the horse stopped talking and quietly finished their pack of cigarettes.

"Besides Ascension Moss, what else can you get to drink?"

He threw the cigarette pack into the air and then flicked it away.

"You want to make a deal with that tree?"

"You recognize it?"

"Nonsense, you've only been here a few days, kid?"

The ox and horse said disdainfully.

"The boss is awesome."

Liu Zheng offered a flattering remark that was neither too strong nor too weak.

"No, if you praise me now, I'll feel all prickly. I always feel like you're up to no good and want to kill me."

The oxen and horses swayed their hooves repeatedly.

“I can definitely get my hands on some good stuff, enough to exchange for at least half of that tree’s fortune.”

It thought for a moment and said.

"However, the agreed condition was Ascension to Heaven. If you want to change it to something else, then it depends on whether the reward for clearing the level is worth it."

"it is good."