Ten minutes passed, and Liu Zheng went upstairs again.
When he arrived at the door of 501, all the fruits and vegetables on the floor were gone.
"How did they taste?"
he asked with a smile.
"They tasted pretty good, but they're not enough to buy my life."
The person inside was still resolute, though their tone had softened somewhat.
"This is just a foot in the door."
Liu Zheng shook his head.
He had never expected a little food to buy someone's life. It wasn't like it was perfect-quality food.
"Can we have a proper talk now?"
Liu Zheng asked.
"You want me dead, but I want to live. There's no way to have a proper talk."
the person inside said.
"If I can't deliver the takeout, I'll definitely die. But accepting it doesn't necessarily mean you'll die."
"I've delivered to a lot of people. So long as they were willing to cooperate, not a single one has died so far. At most, they were just beaten back to their original form."
"As long as you don't die, no matter how serious your injuries are, I can help heal you. The 'Imhetem' Clinic, the Bai Family, even the hospitals—I have people in all of them."
he said.
"You mean the Bai Family from the Beyond-the-Pass Five Families?"
the person inside asked.
"That's right. You know them?"
"I met someone from the Bai Family at the Vegetarian Salon."
the person inside replied.
The Bai Family's original form was hedgehogs. Hedgehogs were omnivores; they ate fruit, vegetables, snakes, bugs, rats, and all sorts of things. It wasn't strange for one of them to be a strict vegetarian.
"Oh, then that works out. You can call and ask whether what I said is true."
"...We broke up a long time ago."
After