The Social Life of the Supreme God

"Liwulin City?" Li Ren murmured.

Since the city they were about to enter was called "Li Wulin City" by Honglian, then the Wulin City they had just left, which was congested and crowded, was the provincial capital city with tens of millions of people living there.

Should it be called "Outer Wulin City" or "Outer Wulin City"?

Before Li Ren could figure out the problem, Honglian had already driven his motorcycle into the dark toll station ahead.

"Here, Li Ren." Honglian said as she stretched out a hand to the back seat, then she slowly spread out her palm in front of Li Ren, and a golden plum blossom five-cent coin appeared in front of Li Ren.

"This is the fee for passing through the toll booth. You will have to hand it over to the toll booth attendant in person later. Only then can you pass through this toll booth safely."

"Passed safely?" Li Ren frowned when he heard this, and immediately realized that things were not simple. He immediately took the 50-cent coin from Honglian's palm and carefully put it deep into his pocket.

During the time the two were talking, the thick black blood vessels that were wrapped around the surface of the motorcycle had already flowed back into Honglian's body along her legs. The black heart that was integrated with the engine quickly weakened, and the translucent metal shell gradually returned to its original deep red color.

Honglian controlled the crimson motorcycle, which had returned to normal, and slowly drove into the strange toll station in front of him, where even the toll booth was painted pure black.

There are four toll booths in the station.

But what’s strange is that on the windows of three of the sentry boxes, there is a small wooden sign with the words “On vacation…” written on it.

Seeing this, Honglian seemed to have thought of something. She sighed helplessly and then drove to the only guardhouse on duty in the middle of the toll station.

"What kind of terrifying existence could the toll booth lady be?" Because of Honglian's words just now, Li Ren had many terrifying associations about the toll booth lady in his mind.

Therefore, as he got closer and closer to the toll booth, his heart was gradually raised to his throat.

Then, Li Ren raised his head hesitantly. He looked inside the toll booth window, which was dark and looked like a black trap opened by a terrifying monster with an unknown face, waiting for its prey to come.

The next moment, his pupils dilated in surprise.

Just because he saw——

Four middle-aged ladies were playing mahjong around a table.

"Four barrels,"

"Eight,"

"Red Center,"

"Little Chicken,"

"Bullshit!"

The aunties were talking to each other and fighting lively, not noticing that there were two young men staring at them eagerly outside the window.

Seeing this, Honglian sighed helplessly again. Then she reached out and knocked on the window of the sentry box, and smoothly switched to the northern dialect: "Auntie, I'm back!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the four aunts turned around at the same time.

Among them, an auntie with curly hair sitting closest to the window was the first to see the person coming. She shouted excitedly: "Oh my god, look, isn't our daughter Da Ya back?"

The lady sitting on her right, wearing flip-flops and holding a cigarette in her mouth, immediately asked, "Hey, why did you bring back a man of unknown origin?"

Opposite Aunt Liqun, another auntie wearing old Shanghai-style pure white silk pajamas smiled and tried to smooth things over: "That boy looks quite handsome and tough. Let's guess, maybe he's Lianlian's boyfriend?"

Finally, there was an auntie sitting in front of the window, with a black mole on her right cheek near the corner of her mouth. She put away the cards and said with a hint of meaning: "You old fools, stop teasing other kids. I just received a notice from the higher-ups that Daya is taking that young man to do some serious work."

The mole-faced lady at the card table stood up and walked slowly towards the two people outside the window: "Daya, did you bring the toll for this kid?"

Honglian nodded in response, and then she smoothly switched to the southwestern dialect: "That must have brought up something."

After Honglian finished speaking, she took out a brand new five-cent coin with a plum blossom shape from the pocket of her shorts, and then raised her hand and threw it to the aunt in the window.

"Good boy." The mole-faced aunt caught the coin.

Then she turned her head and stared at Li Ren in the back seat: "Kid, it's time for you to pay for your life."

"Money for life?" Li Ren was stunned when he heard that.

Then he remembered Honglian's instructions just now, and reacted immediately. He took out the golden fifty-cent coin from his trouser pocket and handed it to the aunt who was extending her hand through the window.

"Good boy, now we have all the money." Aunt Mole said as she opened the iron drawer under the cashier window, which contained piles of golden five-cent coins stuck together with transparent tape.

Then she neatly placed the two coins she had just collected on the top of one of the piles of coins. Then she slowly raised her head and looked at the two of them: "Kids, wait a minute, I'll get you a pass." After saying that, the mole aunt turned and walked towards a large iron cabinet next to the card table, then she opened the cabinet and started searching.

During this time, the aunties who were missing one of the three at the card table looked at Li Ren's face without any concealment. From time to time, they would smile and comment on something among themselves.

Li, who felt embarrassed by being stared at, first forced a smile at the aunts.

Then he quietly leaned close to Honglian's ear and asked in a low voice: "Honglian, I have something to ask you..."

"What's the matter?" Honglian asked puzzledly.

"Just now..." Li Ren said hesitantly, "...You said something about passing safely and buying your life. It makes me wonder what kind of terrifying existence these aunties are."

Li Ren paused, his eyes resting on the three aunties who were washing mahjong tiles: "But after just interacting with them, they seem to be... just ordinary aunties next door, right?"

Upon hearing this, Honglian looked back at Li Ren meaningfully.

Then she replied: "Actually, your initial intuition was correct..."

Honglian pointed at a few aunts and said, "Don't be fooled by the fact that they look kind and benevolent now. But they are all taboos, and they are rule-level taboos..."

Before the surprised Li Ren could speak, Hong Lian continued to ask: "...By the way, do you know what the rule-level taboo is?"

"Not very clear." Li Ren simply shook his head.

When Qingcai was a guest at the committee yesterday, he only briefly explained that taboos are divided into three categories: phenomenon level, rule level and concept level. He did not explain the characteristics of each of these three levels of taboos and how they are classified.

Honglian was not surprised by this, and she took the initiative to explain: "If we compare the 'phenomenal taboo' to the 'superpowers' in anime and movies who have 'superpowers'."

"…Then the 'rule-level taboo' is a special taboo that has at least one 'absolute rule' on this basis."

"Absolute rules?"

"That's right." Honglian nodded: "Take me as an example..."

“…My sister Kallen and I originally lived in a two-dimensional anime world called “Red and Kallen”.”

Honglian pointed to her cheek and said, "It was Huang Ma who used the power of the concept of 'world' to personally model my and Kallen's bodies. That's how we were able to pass through this container and come to the real world in a higher dimension."

"In other words..." She took a deep breath and then added slowly: "...we created the rule-level taboos ourselves from the concept-level taboos."

"And our absolute rule is to continue the character settings from the animation in the real world."

"Continue...the character setting?" Li Ren murmured.

"That's right." Honglian nodded.

She saw Lee's confusion, so she continued to explain, "Just like what you saw before...Karen and I have a symbiotic relationship."

"We can transform together into powerful biological mechas. We can also inhabit mechanical creations like motorcycles and strengthen them into machines that can break the sound barrier. These are the settings we brought from the animation to reality."

Honglian said this and patted the crimson motorcycle beneath him.

"By the way, speaking of supersonic speed..." Honglian slapped her forehead as she spoke, as if she remembered something: "...I just told you that the necessary condition for entering the committee headquarters is to drive faster than the speed of sound on the Wulin Expressway. Do you still remember this?"

"Remember." Li Ren nodded.

"Yes, just remember it." Seeing this, Honglian also nodded in response, and then she continued: "This entry condition comes from the absolute rules of a rule-level taboo that was forcibly detained by the committee."

"…The committee used this rule to create the first line of defense to prevent 'unrelated and hostile elements' from entering the headquarters."

"As for the second line of defense..." Honglian raised his head and looked around: "...It's this toll booth."

Honglian's words prompted the Li people to look up and examine the strange toll station next to them that was painted pure black.

At the same time, Honglian's pleasant voice sounded again: "Don't look at the aunts, they all look very kind and normal now..."

"…But within the committee, the aunts are known as the 'male and female evil' along with the 'cleaning brother'."

"… cleaning man."

Hearing this, Li Ren remembered the terrible taboo called "Cleaning Brother" who had seven heads and fourteen arms and spewed out raging black flames from his mouth from time to time when he followed Qingcai away from the committee yesterday. (End of this chapter)