The world has turned into Hell's Game, why should I stay human? Chapter 337 - 317 Return to Metropolis2

Albert flexed his muscles, and the sound of his joints was like that of a large machine starting up.

"Your strength is indeed impressive, but your skills are beneath my notice," he said.

"Of course, out of respect for the God Slayer, I’ll still be as cautious as possible."

He tore off his eyepatch, revealing a flat expanse where his two eyes should have been, not even sockets remained.

In the middle of his forehead, however, there was a huge and deford vertical eye.

Upon closer inspection, this vertical eye was composed of dozens of smaller eyes.

As this vertical eye gazed at Liu Zheng, he suddenly felt completely paralyzed.

"So, farewell, stranger. The next ti we et will probably be on the dissection table."

Albert bowed to him, then slowly advanced.

"I’ve been pondering sothing," Liu Zheng managed to say as he struggled fiercely to move his mouth.

"Oh? What’s that?" Albert asked, continuing his approach unceasingly.

"That body of yours isn’t a body double, is it?"

"Of course not, nurturing a proper body double is quite a troubleso affair," Albert replied.

"Good to know. By the way, why don’t you take a look behind you?"

Liu Zheng kindly suggested.

"Hmm?"

Albert was startled, but his inner eye sensed nothing.

"What’s behind ?" he asked.

"It’s hard to say, why don’t you check it out for yourself?"

"I think I’ll wait until after I’ve dealt with you," Albert said with a sinister smile, swinging a heavy punch at Liu Zheng.

The wind from the punch was fierce and loud.

Liu Zheng admitted to himself that he couldn’t have delivered such a punch.

Clearly, in terms of both strength and skill, this old scholar was superior to him.

"Ah, I told you to look back, why won’t you listen?" Liu Zheng sighed.

As Albert was throwing his punch, he suddenly felt a breeze behind his head, setting off alarms within him; he quickly shrank his head down.

A sharp claw whizzed over the top of his head. Before he could feel relieved, a trendous force hit him in the back.

Albert stumbled forward a few steps, but he still didn’t turn around.

However, beneath him, a small shadow suddenly enlarged, encompassing both him and Liu Zheng.

"ow, serious PUNCH~"

Accompanied by a cutesy cry, a furry giant claw descended from the sky and struck the top of Albert’s head.

The great scholar was flattened like a hamburger patty before he could even scream.

"Liu Zheng, quickly praise , ow~"

San Huamao, back to its original size, bounced over and climbed onto Liu Zheng’s shoulder, calling out.

"Salmon, you are aweso, Salmon, you are incredible, Salmon is the cutest and most handso little kitten in the world~"

He stroked San Huamao’s chin with a tentacle.

"Liu, I’m hungry, I want dried fish, ow~"

San Huamao purred contentedly.

The recent enlargent had taken a good deal of energy, and it needed to replenish its strength.

"The dried fish are all gone, no worries, soone’s going to treat us to a big al soon."

Liu Zheng reassured.

"Oh, then I’m going to sleep, ow~"

San Huamao climbed onto his head and adopted a hen-brooding posture before closing its eyes.

"Sleep well, sleep well," Liu Zheng said indulgently.

He walked to the edge of the Molten Lava Pit and used a tentacle to scoop up the giant Blood Gem.

Ignoring his scorched tentacle, he eagerly read the item description.

"Na: Giant Crescent-Shaped Blood Gem (single-use)"

"Type: Item/Miscellaneous"

"Quality: Perfect"

"Effect One: Direct use can restore one’s ’Blood Quality’."

"Effect Two: When set in a weapon, it provides additional effects."

"Note: I just wanted to have a child with you, what’s wrong with that!"

"Is it removable from the instance: Yes"

"Well, well, a perfect-grade miscellaneous item," Liu Zheng comnted with admiration.

And it was crescent-shaped too; if it had the right additional effects, he didn’t even want to imagine how strong it could be.

Now Liu Zheng felt that his boning knife, a re fine-grade weapon, seed quite unworthy. At least a perfect-grade weapon would be fitting, wouldn’t it?

Co to think of it, Beethoven’s Moonlight Holy Sword seed pretty nice.

Maybe he should figure out a way to swindle the Moonlight Holy Sword from Beethoven’s hands?

He had saved the entire Yate, so it shouldn’t be too much to ask for a weapon of perfect quality as a reward, should it?

As Liu Zheng’s thoughts wandered, the hamburger at that Albert had turned into began to stir.

"It’s still not dead? This old tir’s vitality is just too stubborn, isn’t it?"

He complained while retreating towards teorite Lake.

Even the seemingly sleeping San Huamao was instantly awakened, assuming a hunting pose.

However, the rotting at writhed for a while but didn’t take on a human form, instead growing many pus-bag-like eyeballs.

"Leave, Yate."

With the movent of those eyeballs, a noisy voice entered the minds of Liu Zheng and San Huamao.

The voice consisted of countless minute sounds, both harmonious and contradictory.

"Who are you?"

Liu Zheng asked with a frown.

"Thou need not know, depart, or face death."

The voice said.

"Impossible, I haven’t completed my task, and going back ans death too."

He firmly refused.

"..."

The voice fell silent for a long ti, and just when Liu Zheng thought the negotiation would collapse, a dozen pale little figures erged from the mist.

Each one held sothing: so held the umbilical cord of the Divine Son, others the Tomr Holy Grail, and so the Blood Gem.

"Take and leave."

The tone of the voice grew impatient.

"Fine, I’ll leave!"

Liu Zheng collected all the items and said assertively.

The empty-handed ssengers giggled and holding hands, they ford a circle and danced.

"Step inside."

The voice urged.

"Oh, right, could you pass a ssage to the people of the Church of Suffering for ? Just say that I have returned after completing the task."

He pondered and then spoke.

"Possible."

"Thanks a lot, then."

Before Liu Zheng stepped into the circle ford by the ssengers, his view was imdiately engulfed by thick fog.

"tropolis this ti, has gone too far."

Before he experienced a sense of weightlessness, the voice spoke up again.

When the fog before his eyes dispersed, he was already outside the walls of Yate City.

Looking at the walls before him, Liu Zheng felt a surge of eagerness.

After all, although he had almost completed the procurent tasks, there were still plenty of benefits to be reaped from Yate.

Not to ntion anything else, the giant Blood Gem he had just acquired wasn’t even set yet.

Away from Yate, it wasn’t certain that other places would have the technology.

But after pondering for a while, he gave up the suicidal thought.

After all, the unknown existence was known even by the tropolis, clearly not sothing he could afford to provoke.

"Damn, just stopping here is really frustrating, you know?"

Liu Zheng cursed and turned to walk towards the white gate.

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"How much do you think that kid can complete?"

Out of sheer boredom, 8848 fiddled with the coffee machine while asking.

According to regulations, every ti they send soone across the border, they had to wait by the door, ready to respond at any mont.

And this process was often excruciating.

After all, not only were there no entertainnt facilities at the border, there wasn’t even a network connection.

So placing bets on the outco of those who cross the border had beco one of the favorite pastis of the border managent officers.

"Why don’t you bet on whether he can co back? The place he’s going is no holiday destination."

said.

"How could soone who stirred up such a big fuss in the tropolis die in so backwater place, even if it’s full of troubleso locals?"

responded.

"So how much do you bet he can complete?"

countered.

"I bet he can complete at least 70%."

spoke without hesitation.

"Are you referring to the Bloody Restaurant’s procurent list, or City Hall’s task catalog?"

"Of course, City Hall’s. The Bloody Restaurant’s procurent list is no challenge for him."

declared.

"Heh."

smirked.

"What? You think 70% is too high?"

laughed.

"No, I think it’s too low. I bet he can complete 100%."

said gravely.