"The boss sounds happy?"
"Well, I didn’t hear that he was unhappy."
Niu Ma shrugged his shoulders.
If there’s no unhappiness, then it must be happiness.
"Okay. So does the boss want me to come over now?"
Liu Zheng glanced at the time. There were still two hours until his meeting with the novelist, so he should make it in time.
Though even if he couldn’t make it, he would have to go anyway.
"I’ll have something to eat to calm my nerves first."
He took out the replicated Sesame Tofu and ate it in one bite, then left the break room.
He took the elevator to Si Xue’s office, where the interior had changed its skin again.
The previously fiery Lava Sea had transformed into a lush green meadow.
Above the cavern hung a huge glowing sphere, shining like the sun in all directions.
And Si Xue, dressed in a pure white linen dress, leaned against a giant deer.
Everything looked so serenely beautiful, if not for the headless neck of the giant deer continuously spraying blood outward.
She lazily waved to Liu Zheng.
He swallowed, stepping onto the meadow.
The grass under his feet grew wildly, gathering into a green horse that lifted him up and then galloped towards Si Xue.
When he was a few dozen meters away from her, the green horse emitted a whinny like a long wind blowing across the meadow, then forcefully launched him upwards.
Liu Zheng traced an arc in the air, then smashed in front of Si Xue.
Fortunately, the ground was very soft, like a young girl’s toes.
"Have you smelled enough?"
Si Xue asked indifferently.
Liu Zheng moved his face away from her feet and stood up.
"Where’s the person you rescued?"
Si Xue glanced at the Gold Star Medal on his chest and asked.
"I had a friend take her in."
"Let her work at the restaurant."
"Boss, she’s already working at my friend’s place."
"What does your friend do, can it compare with the restaurant?"
"Certainly not, but she’s too frail, I’m worried she would hinder the restaurant’s work."
"Is there anyone weaker than you?"
Si Xue’s tone carried a hint of mockery.
"With so many people in the Metropolis, there should be some."
"Alright, stop beating around the bush. I’m not suggesting, I’m ordering you."
Si Xue stretched out a finger and shook it, smooth and velvety, like a stick of white chocolate.
"Of course, as an employee of the restaurant, I must follow your orders."
Liu Zheng immediately said.
"But, my friend isn’t a restaurant employee, I can’t force her to come."
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"That’s your problem."
Si Xue didn’t pay attention to his excuse.
"Why do you specifically want her to work at the restaurant?"
"Who told you to not hit that woman hard enough, why didn’t you just blow up the whole building?"
"You’re talking about which woman?"
"Peacock, most of the office buildings in the Metropolis are her property."
It really was her, the magnate who left Niu Ma half-paralyzed.
"The first time blowing up an office building, I had no experience, next time I’ll definitely redouble my efforts."
Liu Zheng immediately declared.
"Next time? Do you think the next time you go deliver meals to the office building, you’ll still come out alive?"
Si Xue coldly snorted.
Liu Zheng could bomb skyscrapers under the pretense of delivering food, and skyscrapers could have him killed under the pretense of refusing delivery.
He certainly couldn’t rent a tank every time he made a delivery.
Moreover, skyscrapers had ways of dealing with tanks; last time, they were simply caught off guard.
"Even if I die in that skyscraper, I’ll give you, boss, the most dazzling fireworks display."
Liu Zheng looked at Si Xue and said earnestly.
"Have I been too lenient with you, or have you entered humanity’s rebellious phase? You think you don’t have to bring that man back just because you say so?"
Si Xue was not moved by his words.
"Then, can I use a reward instead?"
"Do you know how precious my rewards are?"
"No, you don’t know. I can turn someone from a lowlife to a second-class citizen with just a word, or make a middle-class race disappear with another."
"And yet, you want to use my reward to protect a janitor?"
Si Xue felt she might have hired a lunatic.
"A life is a life, as long as it’s not my own, one or a dozen makes no difference."
"Moreover, I am confident that I can win another reward from you, boss."
He said with a smile.
"Ha, you’re quite frank and confident."
"All thanks to the great influence of you, boss."
Liu Zheng said humbly.
"Less flattery. What about the hemorrhoid in the sewer? When will you cut it off?"
Si Xue suddenly changed the subject.
"I’ve already contacted the chief surgeon, and the surgery is ready."
He hurriedly took out the silver finger and showed it to her.
"After he heals, ask the sewer for a brain for me."
He was momentarily stunned.
A hemorrhoid surgery in exchange for a brain from the sewer? Even if it agreed, would that kind of brain still be functional?
"Huh, nothing. When the time comes, just give it this deer head, it will surely agree."
Si Xue patted the headless deer carcass behind her.
Liu Zheng looked at the neck leaking blood and felt a sense of déjà vu.
Finally, he pointed at the headless deer carcass and exclaimed.
"This couldn’t be the deer head sign from Unlucky Coffee, could it?"
No wonder Unlucky Coffee knew that delivering to Bloody Restaurant was a one-way trip.
The sign’s body was detained by Bloody Restaurant, let alone the staff.
Liu Zheng could only agree.
Though it meant wasting a reward from the sewer, at least the janitor matter was settled, and Si Xue’s reward was preserved.
After all, he was an employee of Bloody Restaurant, and the rewards from his own boss held a bit more value.
"Hmm, consider yourself savvy."
Si Xue leaned on the grass intending to stand up, and Liu Zheng immediately extended a tentacle to assist her.
Si Xue gave him a strange look but didn’t refuse, and stood up using his tentacle.
Then, she lifted her dress.
Her long, toned legs were exposed under the sunlight, their fair and smooth skin wetted by the dew on the grass.
The breeze kissed her legs, shimmering as if it had wrinkled a pond of pristine water.
Liu Zheng enjoyed the sight for only a moment before he looked up at the sky.
Si Xue didn’t mind, just examining her own legs.
She wasn’t admiring them, but waiting.
Gradually, black hairs sprouted from her smooth pores.
If you looked closely, you’d see they weren’t hairs, but elongated droplets.
Si Xue sighed, then lifted her leg and stuck it into the deer carcass’s neck.
Liu Zheng’s eyes widened.
She wasn’t wearing any pants!