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Chapter 183 French Plane Tree: I’m waiting for my bird, what are you waiting for?

Chapter 183: Chapter 183 French Plane Tree: I’m waiting for my bird, what are you waiting for?

"For male or female use?"

asked the shopkeeper.

"Male."

"What species?"

"Minotaur. But its thing is a mummy’s."

Liu Zheng said.

"Ah?"

The shopkeeper looked at him, a question mark over his head.

"I remember minotaurs being quite strong. Why dress them up as mummies?"

"That’s not convenient to reveal. Anyway, that mummy’s thing has a very high performance. Help me find an exceptionally durable one, best if even an impact drill couldn’t damage it,"

he said.

"You might as well go buy a hydraulic press then."

The shopkeeper rolled his eyes.

"You have such a big shop; surely you have this type of stock?"

Liu Zheng raised an eyebrow.

"Sure, we do have it, but can you afford it?"

Although it was a basic provocation, the shopkeeper still took the bait.

"How much?"

"Including the magazine you want to buy, it’s a total of five thousand. If we go with the promised fifty percent discount, that’s two thousand five hundred."

The shopkeeper calculated and said.

"Here."

He grandly waved his tentacle.

Such a small issue. He thought it would be fifty thousand.

"What, do all the new employees at Bloody Restaurant have this much money now?"

The shopkeeper was utterly baffled.

"I’m exceptionally talented. Come on, hurry up and get the stock ready. I have deliveries to make."

Liu Zheng urged.

"You just said you had plenty of time."

The shopkeeper muttered as he walked into the warehouse and returned a while later, holding a box.

"Here, inside are five magazines, two photo books, and the toy you wanted."

"Great."

He grabbed the box and walked straight out of the store.

"Wait, aren’t you going to check the goods? No returns or exchanges once you leave."

The shopkeeper called after him.

"No need to check. The monk can escape, but the temple can’t. If you cheat me, I’ll make you fly up to the sky just like the ’Sunshine’ pet store."

Liu Zheng smiled amiably.

Check my ass. The posters alone were crazy inducing, seeing the real deal would probably make me end up like a broken bull.

"Besides, you’re not likely to get those books only once, right? If I want to unlock anything else, I’d still have to come to you,"

he said.

"Hmph, as if I don’t have any other options. Wait a moment."

The shopkeeper ran into the warehouse again and then put a bottle of lubricant into the box.

"This is an extra gift, enough for that mummy’s thing to last awhile,"

he said.

"It’s a second-hand mummy’s thing I’m getting for someone else."

Liu Zheng corrected tirelessly.

"Don’t you think that what you said sounds even more perverted?"

The shopkeeper glared at him sideways.

"...I’m off."

He held the box and strode out of the newsstand.

When he looked back, the shopkeeper still had his face covered with newspapers, appearing to be asleep.

This made Liu Zheng wonder if he was indeed interacting with the same shopkeeper earlier.

But now that he had the goods, it didn’t really matter whether it was the same person or not.

Holding the box, Liu Zheng sprinted towards Rose Street.

Along the way, odd squirming noises kept coming from inside the box, which he ignored completely.

When he reached Rose Street, French Plane Tree was looking up at the sky.

"What are you up to?"

Liu Zheng walked over and asked.

"Quiet, I’m waiting for a bird,"

French Plane Tree signaled him to be silent.

"Oh."

He closed his mouth and looked up alongside.

A few minutes later, a sesame-sized black spot appeared at the edge of the sky.

The little black spot grew closer and larger.

Gradually, Liu Zheng could also make out its appearance,

It was a large bird with abundant feathers, its wingspan at least seven or eight meters wide.

However, its head wasn’t that of a bird, but a beautiful woman’s head.

And its body wasn’t that of a bird either, but a naked, enchanting woman’s body.

But the large bird’s claws were indeed bird talons and exceptionally big at that, twice as big as any emu claws Liu Zheng had seen.

The claws gleamed with a metallic luster. With that size, one swipe could probably pierce through an armored vehicle’s body.

In mythology, creatures with a woman’s head and a bird’s body were common, but with his wealth of knowledge, he quickly matched it up.

This should be a Hua Country mythical creature known as the Heavenly Emperor’s daughter, also called Night Wanderer.

Legend had it that it wore feathers as a bird and became a woman when it shed them.

The Heavenly Emperor’s daughter didn’t have children of her own and would steal others’ children to raise as her own.

The Heavenly Emperor’s daughter soon flew over French Plane Tree, and upon seeing Liu Zheng, a joyful smile appeared on her face. She flapped her wings, ready to swoop down and snatch him away.

Before Liu Zheng could react, five roots shot out of the ground, moving like fingers, and slapped the Heavenly Emperor’s daughter hard.

Like a small airplane, the giant bird was suddenly whisked away, spinning dozens of times in the air before it finally stopped.

"Is it you who drifted, or can I, Dai Legao, no longer wield a knife?"

French Plane Tree coldly said to the dizzy bird.

"Gu Huo, Gu Huo."

After recovering, the Gu Huo bird called out, its voice sounding somewhat aggrieved.

"So what if it’s just a human? What I give to you, you can hold; what I don’t, you can’t snatch."

"Next time, I’ll hang you from my branches. Do you understand?"

French Plane Tree shouted sternly.

"Gu Huo, Gu Huo."

The Gu Huo bird nodded repeatedly.

"Hmph, three days without a beating and you’re at the roof stripping tiles again. Speak up, any news?"

"Gu Huo?"

The Gu Huo bird pointed at Liu Zheng with its wing.

"No need to hide it from him."

French Plane Tree shook its head.

He was slightly moved.

"He can’t understand you anyway,"

French Plane Tree added.

"Tch."

I knew this tree wasn’t that warm-hearted.

"Gu Huo Gu Huo..."

The Gu Huo bird gave a long cry.

"Got it, keep watching that line and inform me immediately if anything happens."

French Plane Tree instructed.

"Gu Huo Gu Huo."

The Gu Huo bird nodded, then stretched out its crimson tongue and licked its face.

"Are you that hungry? Really putting my tree to shame."

French Plane Tree spoke disdainfully, but then took action.

Several roots emerged from the soil and flung one shadow after another into the air.

Liu Zheng looked closely and saw they were corpses of rats.

They seemed to be of the same species as the black rats he had encountered in the sewer, though it was unclear if they were from the same swarm.

"Gu Huo Gu Huo!"

The Gu Huo bird cheered, continually flying around in the air, catching the thrown rat corpses with its mouth and swallowing them whole without even chewing.

If Liu Zheng had seen this scene when he first entered the Metropolis, it might have triggered a decline in his rationality.

But now his heart was unruffled, and he even leisurely tried to identify which type of bird part of the Gu Huo bird belonged to.

The result came out quickly: there was no result.

After all, most of his zoological knowledge came from Animal Planet.

"Get lost."

After feeding the rats, French Plane Tree spoke impatiently.

The Gu Huo bird didn’t mind and spread its wings to fly high in the direction it came from.

As it turned, it even threw a flirtatious look at Liu Zheng, who responded with a middle finger.

This dame was just about to eat him, really thinking he doesn’t hold grudges.

Come to think of it, it was only because French Plane Tree just stopped it.

Otherwise, with his Legendary Armor boost, it’s still uncertain who would eat whom.

"What do you want from me?"

French Plane Tree asked.

"How about you first tell me what that bird told you?"

Liu Zheng re-sheathed the boning knife he had drawn.

"Are you curious?"

"Just mildly curious. It’s fine if you don’t want to say."

He shrugged his shoulders.

To be curious was true to some extent, especially since French Plane Tree was usually clueless, and any information it cared so much about must be crucial.

"Telling you is not impossible, since you’ve signed the Ring Contract. First promise me you won’t leak what I tell you to anyone else,"

French Plane Tree pondered before speaking.

"Okay, I promise I won’t leak anything you tell me to anyone else."

Liu Zheng said promptly.

The moment he spoke, countless roots burst from the ground, completely sealing off the surroundings.

"I asked it to monitor the border line for me,"

French Plane Tree said, having taken the security measures.

"Monitor the border line? Are you planning to smuggle yourself out?"

He exclaimed in surprise.

"Exactly."

French Plane Tree admitted.

"You can’t even leave this street, how are you planning to smuggle?"

"Isn’t it you who told me to evolve into a Phoenix?"

French Plane Tree gave him a look.

"What does evolving into a Phoenix have to do with smuggling? Is it to avoid capture by the restaurant?"

Liu Zheng asked.

"Idiotic human. I can’t possibly smuggle when I’m in a weak state, and why would I fear the restaurant after I’m through my weak phase?"

"That remains to be seen."

He muttered under his breath.

In Si Xue’s Obsidian Pillar, there seems to be a Phoenix confined, and it looked like a high-grade one.

"What did you say?"

"Nothing. So why are you smuggling then?"

Liu Zheng asked.

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