The world has turned into Hell's Game, why should I stay human?
Chapter 390 - 343 Niu Ma: Fighting desperately once for someone, only to be met with deception

Chapter 390: Chapter 343 Niu Ma: Fighting desperately once for someone, only to be met with deception

"You hang out in the lounge all day, so if there’s any monitoring to be set up, it should be by you."

Liu Zheng said speechlessly.

"Oh, that seems right. But how did you know?"

"Because I have many friends who are as broke as you."

He replied.

"Oh. Huh? You think I’m broke, then don’t come asking me for money."

Niu Ma suddenly became furious.

"Of course, I look for poor people when I want to borrow money; it’s not so easy to borrow from the rich."

Liu Zheng chuckled, then scooped up the money off the ground.

After adding his own money to make up the amount, he handed it all to the old cowboy.

"Thank you for your patronage."

The old cowboy first gave him a B-grade tomb raiding package, then handed him an egg carton.

However, the carton didn’t contain eggs but yogurt bottles.

"This?"

Liu Zheng’s expression was somewhat puzzled.

Didn’t they say ten buckets? How come it turned into ten bottles?

"Concentrated version. Just add water to dilute it back to a bucket. Make sure to drink it quickly after dilution, or it will spoil."

The old cowboy explained.

"...Fine."

He was too lazy to complain about Metropolis’s magical products anymore.

Liu Zheng took the carton, and the item description immediately popped up.

"Name: Hell Honey Yogurt"

"Type: Item"

"Quality: Fine"

"Effect One: Restores a large amount of stamina, drinking it protects against the erosion of ghostly aura for a while."

"Effect Two: If the player has the ’Dead’ constitution, all attributes permanently +1, up to a maximum increase of 5 points."

"Note: One bucket makes you feel good, two buckets refresh the mind, three buckets grant eternal life."

"Is it removable from the instance: No"

"Damn, why am I not a ’Dead’?"

He lamented upon seeing the second effect.

All attributes permanently +1, and it could even increase by up to 5 points, equivalent to several servings of fine quality food and even offering permanent attribute boosts.

"Are you nuts? Living folks can’t just be ’Dead’. If you really want to, I’d kick you to death right now and then buy you a gravesite next to Red Pig just for company since it’s lonely being a pig alone."

Niu Ma glanced at him.

"Let’s forget about it then. Alive I get beaten, and dead I’d still get beaten. Wouldn’t I just die in vain?"

Liu Zheng said.

Speaking of which, the note mentioned refreshing the mind. I wonder if it would be useful for Sasha.

Thinking this, he stretched his hand out to Niu Ma again.

"Big guy, lend me another twenty thousand."

"Nope, not a penny, don’t even think about it."

After finishing, Niu Ma immediately clamped his mouth shut.

"Hey, isn’t Doctor Nile’s daughter Sasha a bit slow? I figure this yogurt seems to be good for the brain, so I thought of getting her a couple of bottles. Doctor Nile surely won’t refuse to pay, I bet he might even throw in a bit extra for the errand."

"When that happens, the favor is mine, and the errand fee is yours. How about that?"

Liu Zheng said.

"No way, why should the favor be yours when I’m the one paying?"

Niu Ma said this but ended up spitting out the money anyway.

Doctor Nile knew him even better than Liu Zheng, not to mention being fairly wealthy, and he valued his only kinswoman and adopted daughter Sasha more than his own life.

Giving him the yogurt, even if he doesn’t pay the errand fee, waiving a few consult fees wouldn’t be surprising.

"Tomb Guardian sir, can I buy two more buckets?"

Liu Zheng asked.

"Sure."

The old cowboy nodded and handed him two more buckets of yogurt.

"Thank you very much."

He respectfully handed over twenty thousand.

After all, their agreed-upon deal was for twenty buckets, these extra two buckets the old cowboy technically didn’t need to give him a discount.

"There’s a big tomb raiding event going on, aren’t you participating?"

The old cowboy asked after collecting the money.

"You mean that first-time daily purchase of the tomb raiding project, also gifting Ghost Light service once?"

Liu Zheng asked.

With an overall increase in his attributes, his memory had significantly improved; he could remember such phrases without any lapse.

"Exactly. Normally, it costs one million, and you can only buy it once per tomb. But with the gift, it stacks with the bought ones."

The old cowboy replied.

"So what exactly is Ghost Light?"

He had heard of ghost stories but never about Ghost Light.

"After you enter the tomb, a ghost will light your way. Within the range of the light, you are immune to most negative effects, and the air becomes just like the air outside. In potentially dangerous situations, you can also have the ghost assist you with an operation, such as triggering mechanisms or moving objects."

The old cowboy explained.

"With so many functions, it’s indeed like having an extra life."

If you count this event, it was like having two extra lives.

As someone who had once been obsessed with various tomb raiding novels during his teenage years, Liu Zheng couldn’t help but be tempted, immediately thinking of the wordless tombstone large tomb that had shot him with an arrow the first time he entered the public cemetery.

"What are you scheming now?"

Niu Ma nudged him.

"Ah, I’m not scheming anything."

His eyes shifted as he spoke.

"Boy, the moment you open your mouth, I know what shit you’re about to pull. I advise you not to act recklessly; if you’re going to die, first buy some insurance and write my name as the beneficiary."

Niu Ma stood up, pressing his hooves on Liu Zheng’s shoulders, directly forcing him to bow down.

"Metropolis has insurance?"

Liu Zheng was astonished.

"What’s so surprising about that, what place doesn’t have insurance companies?"

Niu Ma was surprised at his astonishment.

"Is there accidental injury insurance?"

"Yes, and there’s also Citizen Life Expectancy Insurance, Species Extinction Insurance too."

Niu Ma replied.

"So do insurance companies open and close one after another?"

He asked with a blank stare.

Given Metropolis’s simple folk customs and the spiritually charged location, not having accidents would be the real surprise.