Chapter 145 The Pope's Palace

After finishing everything and arranging for the volunteers to return home, it was already sunset when Hao Ren took Lolis back. The sparsely populated southern suburbs at this time looked even more like an old town on the verge of abandonment. On the streets, besides the occasional old ladies walking their dogs or the unruly children running around, one could only see groups of dirty stray cats and dogs appearing between the garbage bins and the cracks in the houses—basically, those were Lily's lackeys or Gun's subordinates, coming out to patrol the territory for their masters.

The husky spirit and the cat girl had completely integrated the cat and dog world of the southern suburbs. They each organized a wave of cat and dog armies, wandering around here all day long. Since Gun became human, Lily even got rid of her fear of cats, so their cat-dog war spread directly to the entire city. Those interested could find that the stray cats and dogs in the southern suburbs were now well-organized, with strict divisions of territory from a garbage bin to a lamppost. Every Wednesday and Friday, these two groups would also have a fight on time—however, there were not many people who had the leisure to observe the cat and dog war, so the general feeling of the residents of the southern suburbs was that the stray cats and dogs in this area had recently become more and more united, and then the rats in this area were becoming fewer and fewer day by day...

Here, it is important to mention that the fattest of those rats that were organized and systematically exterminated would basically appear at the door of Hao Ren's bedroom or on his bedside table. Because of this, Hao Ren had to grab Gun's ear and lecture him for half an hour every now and then about how to be a good person...

Hao Ren watched the cat and dog army's scouts poking their heads out on the streets to scout the enemy's situation, and sighed in his heart that Lily and Gun's amateur life was becoming more and more abundant. Lolis looked at the desolate and dilapidated city and couldn't help but open her mouth, "Is this where you live?"

"Yeah," Hao Ren nodded, pointing to the entrance of the small road not far away, "My home is over there, just turn the corner and walk to the end."

"More than I imagined... No, this is not a problem of contrast, this is completely different from what I imagined," Lolis looked at Hao Ren with a particularly strange look, "I thought you would live in a magnificent palace or castle, with countless church knights and priests guarding you, this place... this place looks worse than the capital of Holleta."

"Uh... I really live in this place," Hao Ren realized how Lolis had imagined his home before, and scratched his hair in embarrassment, "Actually, I also have palaces and castles, there is my Sun King Temple on Planet Irim, and there is also my residence in the Demon King's City. If you want to talk about habitable space stations and space colony fortresses, there are even more... If you feel uncomfortable living in this kind of place, I can arrange for you to settle down in those places."

"No, that's not what I meant," Lolis shook her head immediately, "I'm not the kind of 'queen' who grew up in luxury, I'm just her copy. For me, being able to live in a normal person's house is already more comfortable than a culture tank in a laboratory. I'm just a little curious... the 'pope' beside you, a true god, is usually so simple, are you taking the ascetic route?"

Hao Ren's cold sweat came down on the spot: "Ascetic my ass, I lived here before I became the pope, and I was too lazy to change houses after changing jobs. Let me tell you, our sect never pays attention to ostentation, you see our goddess usually lives in ruins every now and then..."

Lolis thought of the exploding "Celestial Palace", and suddenly felt speechless.

"You're here with me, so just stay here for a few days and relax, and I'll take you to see the customs and culture of Earth. Actually, I was thinking about taking you to see other planets, but to be honest, you can only stay in 'this place' for ten days at most, and after today, there are only nine days left. If I really take you around, you probably won't see much, after all, you're here for a complete vacation, unlike the busy visiting group before, so let's wait for the next opportunity to go to other planets," Hao Ren walked home with Lolis, chatting casually along the way, "Let Wuyue take you to buy some clothes tomorrow, and your hair... to be honest, it's best to deal with it, the color doesn't matter, it's just too long, it's easy to affect traffic when walking on the road..."

Lolis was no longer wearing her elf-style white gauze dress, but had changed into a simple women's thick coat and cotton skirt when she left Kuiper Station, which could be considered Earth-style, but her white hair that could reach her ankles had not been taken care of. Walking on the road, she was simply a walking Weibo headline. Hao Ren dared to bring her back all the way because this was the southern suburbs, not to mention the sparse population, even if he occasionally met an old man or woman walking their dog, they probably wouldn't use their mobile phones to post on WeChat Moments. Lolis was not so eye-catching here, but it would be hard to say if she went to the city center...

In fact, there was another reason why Hao Ren dared to bring Lolis out on the streets of the southern suburbs so swaggeringly, and that was that the residents here had been deeply baptized by Izhaks's face, and had long been in a state of calm even when seeing aliens. Not to mention that he was just bringing back a white-haired girl with hair reaching her heels, even if he led Voldemort past here, acquaintances would at most say, "Is this Brother Wang? Go to the police station to file a case..."

It can be seen that the folk customs in the southern suburbs are simple and honest—they are too lazy to call the police even when they see aliens now...

Hearing this, Lolis touched her long hair, "Hair? People here can't even accept this?"

"It's not that they can't accept it, but it's rare," Hao Ren shrugged, "Earth is different from Holleta, and the place where I live is a small city with no new things. It's normal for you to have a wide variety of races and strange appearances over there, but here, if you have a tuft of yellow hair on your head, you can basically only be found in the rural-urban fringe area. Actually, your ears are also an eye-catching place... but they are basically blocked by your own hair, and they are not very conspicuous."

"Oh, now that you mention it, I do notice it," Lolis blinked, "I am indeed quite conspicuous here—then how about this?"

As she spoke, she stroked her hair casually, and the white hair that reached her ankles changed in the blink of an eye, becoming a black hair that reached her waist, and even the pointed ears full of elven features shrank back—she would still be very eye-catching in the crowd, but that was only due to her beautiful appearance.

Hao Ren was stunned: "I... you had such a convenient skill, why didn't you say so earlier!"

"It's just a simple illusion," Lolis spread her hands, "You didn't tell me to change my appearance at the beginning, if I had known, I would have taken care of my hair and everything just now."

Hao Ren was a little embarrassed: "Uh, actually, I didn't remember it just now—I stayed in the Dream Plane for a long time, and I got used to seeing all kinds of strange creatures. For a while, even I didn't think there was anything wrong with your previous image. To be honest, if your clothes weren't so unlike ethnic style, I wouldn't have even remembered to change your clothes..."

Lolis laughed when she heard this: "Oh, I can understand that. When we first started researching artificial life, we created a lot of strange things. I stayed with those samples for several months and almost forgot what the elven world looked like."

Hao Ren chuckled twice, raised his finger and pointed to the mansion not far ahead: "Okay, we're here, my home is ahead."

The distinctive tall old house stood quietly at the end of the street, with a large open space around it, and behind it was the endless wilderness. The whole thing looked like it was surrounded by an atmosphere of independence from the world. After seeing it, Lolis stared at it silently for three seconds, and gently uttered a sentence: "This is the Pope's Palace."

Hao Ren stepped forward and took out the key to open the door, but before he had time to put the key into the lock, the door in front of him was suddenly pushed open from the inside. Lily poked half of her body out of the door excitedly: "Landlord, Landlord, you're back! I heard your voi... Landlord, where are you?"

Lolis stared blankly as Hao Ren was suddenly knocked away by the opened door, and then Lily came out yelling, and after a long time, she pointed in the direction where Hao Ren flew out: "... He should have landed over there."

Lily was stunned for a moment before noticing Lolis standing not far away, and showed a puzzled expression: "Who are you?"

——From this, it can be seen that huskies are really not suitable for guarding the door. She has to be spoken to before noticing a stranger standing at the door...

Lolis opened her mouth, but before she had time to say anything, Hao Ren had already rushed out of a pile of slag dozens of meters away, rushing towards Lily with the势 of wind and thunder: "You idiot! How many times have I told you not to use so much force when opening the door!!"

Just like any husky who has caused trouble but is still waiting for its owner to cook meat for it, Lily didn't realize what she had just done at all. When she saw Hao Ren rushing over, she waved her hand happily: "Landlord, why did you run over there—who is this at the door... Wow! Don't pull, don't pull, my hair!!"

After a lot of tossing, the door finally quieted down. Hao Ren looked back guiltily at the street, confirmed that no one had seen the movement here, and then pointed to Lolis and introduced: "This is Lolis."

Lily was stunned for a while, and after her brain ran at high speed, she nodded: "Oh—did you take her for plastic surgery? The recovery is not bad."

Hao Ren simply couldn't understand how this husky's brain worked...

"That's magic, do you understand magic—hurry up and call Elizabeth, let her learn this face-changing technique from her, don't always learn how to make邪能 fireballs from her father, at least learn some knowledgeable magic, so that she doesn't have to wear a hat to hide her horns every time she goes out."

Lily nodded and turned to walk into the house: "Oh."

Hao Ren glanced at the door and quickly stopped Lily: "Hey, wait! Come over here and fix the security door first, it's scary to have my face printed on it..."

Lolis kept a smiling expression on her face as she watched this scene, and suddenly looked forward to her life on this planet in the next few days.