Death Game: Starting as a fraudster, pretending to be a god.

Chapter 558 Precious Gift

This is different from the worry hidden under the anxiety and dissatisfaction of Huo Le in the Nightless City.

At this moment, President Paris already had a sense of calmness in his heart that "he knew the truth".

Although he heard the rumors that suddenly spread in the city that never sleeps when he was first setting up defenses, he was still somewhat worried that he would be suddenly exposed, or that he would be found out and suspected.

But soon, this old fox, who had worked his way up from the bottom to the top and was familiar with the city that never sleeps, was able to smell a special scent from those rumors.

This news... was definitely released intentionally.

Although the purpose of the person who released the news is still unclear, Paris knows...

The more chaotic the situation, the safer you are.

Even if someone reported that he was preparing to facilitate the assassination of a prince or noble, it would be difficult to gain people's trust right away.

Paris even had some doubts...

"Could it be that Forbolo was responsible for all this?"

If that's the case, this person's plan is really too grand.

Almost all the noble circles in the inner city of the City That Never Sleeps were discussing this rumor, whose original source was unknown but seemed very credible.

But no matter what, for President Paris, who has already boarded the pirate ship and knows part of the answer...

These vague rumors, on the contrary, continued to strengthen his confidence.

As for the mysterious disappearance of Forboluo, Paris believed that he must be planning something.

"Respected Lord Huo Le of the Nightless Sky, I don't think you need to worry too much about Mr. Forboluo. After all, his eccentric behavior hasn't been going on overnight..."

"Besides," President Paris glanced at the time on his watch, "even though he hasn't shown up yet, the gift he prepared should be arriving soon."

Although the coming-of-age ceremony and banquet will not begin until the evening, most guests will visit in the afternoon.

However, the birthday gifts prepared by the powerful for Huo Xing in Buyetian were often delivered in advance by servants. On the one hand, it was to avoid trouble, and on the other hand... there were naturally safety considerations.

This is also the customary rule among the nobles - to prevent someone from tampering with the gifts and using them to plot against others.

After detailed safety certification and inspection, the gifts will be stored in warehouses or exhibition halls. At that time, there will be a special session for the Nevernight Fire Apricots to "visit" some of the gifts placed in the exhibition hall.

This is also the main reason why Huo Ming of Nevernight plans to take one away... Time is limited, the procedures are complicated, and there are a large number of gifts, and they have to be moved around... It is easy for mistakes and opportunities to be exploited to occur.

After all, it was called Buyetian Huoxing's birthday party, and many of the gifts were presented to the Buyetian family by nobles and company managers in the name of Buyetian Huoxing. Many of them were of considerable size and number.

Precious, rare, showing off wealth and face, befriending the Nevernight family...

Among the various criteria for gift-giving, Buyetian Huoxing's likes and happiness are the least important; just like the purpose of giving gifts, celebrating Buyetian Huoxing's birthday is also the least important.

Of course, if you still want to hand it over to Buyetian Huoxing personally, you can just inform Buyetian's family in advance - in this way, after the gift is checked and confirmed, the servant will return it to the guest when the guest visits.

Judging from the current applications, it seems that the only one who intends to do so is... Sheng Lankui.

The Shenglan family's gift convoy was the first to arrive.

"The gift from the Shenglan family has arrived."

"Fifteen nightshade plants, twelve pieces of gold brocade embroidery, ten alchemical artifacts for viewing, one Black Swamp Blood Crystal Stone, one Hell Mountain Blood Lotus..."

Boxes of gifts were brought in, followed by the Sorens'.

"Three sets of whole bones of wild beasts, thirty pieces of top-grade red gold, thirty pieces of top-grade white copper, and a bottle of aged wine from Kirishima Manor..."

Shuiyin and the Qiu family arrived almost at the same time.

After that, there were no more gift-delivering convoys in the name of the family. Instead, high-standard gifts sent by the dukes, marquises, and top directors and executives of the three major companies in their personal names appeared one after another, and were delivered personally by their personal assistants or butlers.

Further down the list, the nobles with earl titles and higher-ranking officials would have their descendants come in person to deliver gifts first.

The strict hierarchical order of the City That Never Sleeps was now concretely displayed in the form of a queue at the side door of the Buyetian family.

While the butler and servants of the Buyetian family were counting the gifts in order...

A small pickup truck from Truth Company drove straight in from the other side and stopped directly at the side door.

Huo Le glanced at the bright orange pickup truck with two oranges next to the Truth Company logo on the front, frowned, and looked at Paris: "Why did you send someone to drive directly here?"

Although this was the first time that Huo Le saw it, it was not difficult for her to guess that this wild and ostentatious car was Paris's!

President Paris quickly said, "Your Excellency, although this is my car, I have already lent it out to my men along with the car..."

"Your Excellency, Mr. Huo Le, this car is currently being used by Mr. Forbolo—in other words, the gift he prepared has arrived."

The car door also opened at this time.

Paris looked at the figure walking down and greeted him quickly.

"Stiller, why did you park the car right in front of the door?"

Stiller stood there in silence, then replied, "President, it's Mr. Forbolo's order—he wants me to deliver it as soon as possible."

Then Stiller pointed to the huge box covered with black cloth behind the pickup truck.

This blunt tone made Paris look awkward. He looked at Huo Le of the Nightless Sky and said, "Sir, my subordinate has been working in the Security Department for a long time and has been in the Great Wilderness for a long time. He doesn't know the rules very well."

Huo Le shook his head. "That's fine. Since Forboluo said his gift needs to be delivered as soon as possible, then give him priority..."

"What's the gift?"

As Huo Le of Buyetian was speaking, two servants came forward and lifted the black cloth.

Then, exclamations were heard all around.

“What a great job!”

Even though the people around them were all knowledgeable and experienced, they couldn't help but be amazed by the gift that appeared in the back seat.

Even Buyetian Huo Le nodded slightly, looking a little surprised.

"That's really thoughtful..."

It was a huge landscape aquarium - seaweed, reefs, gravel, everything.

In this world without the sea, ever since the world began to exchange what it had with other worlds, everything related to the "ocean" has become the most luxurious item that can show off one's status!

Ordinary nobles were proud to own a specimen of marine life - even many commoners would tattoo the marine life they had seen and known on their bodies to show their knowledge.

The most powerful people will own aquariums with sea water and marine life!

Aquariums like this one that grow seaweed are extremely expensive.

But this was not enough to arouse the admiration of those around.

Because in this aquarium, everyone saw a lively, small octopus swimming happily inside.

Of course, most people present couldn't recognize it as an octopus, they just knew it was some kind of magical and beautiful sea creature.

Only a few nobles knew what it was - but most of them had never seen a living octopus, and even if they had, they had never seen such a beautiful little pink octopus.

At this moment, even if Buyetian Huo Le had not spoken, no one would be dissatisfied with the gift sent by Forbolo being "cut in line".

Precious gifts like this should come before your mundane possessions!