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Then, I turned my head and looked.

Shiva, who had been running, had somehow ended up on a tall grave mound, her tail curled up in fear. Karula was also crouching there with her, but she didn't seem to be aware of the danger. After the cemetery marathon, she was sticking out her tongue as if she was cooling down.

A strange purple slime seeped into the soles of his shoes, but for the time being, there was nothing else unusual about it except that the shoes were dirty.

But Hua Zhen knew very well what was going on.

The effect of this viscous liquid is probably to erode life force. At this moment, most of the vegetation in the cemetery has withered, and this stuff will probably not do anything good if it comes into contact with a human body.

Considering the changes in the surrounding environment and Shiva's performance, Hua Zhen immediately made up her mind.

There's no way to get out of the cemetery now.

Before they even reach the cemetery entrance, the rapidly rising slime will likely submerge their ankles, the liquid seeping into their shoes and into their skin, potentially causing serious consequences.

At that point, Tia and Karula's feet... will probably be beyond repair.

How can someone be worthy of being my teammate if they don't have a pair of pretty and delicious feet?

So he ran toward Shiva.

Upon getting close, he picked up Shiva with one hand and grabbed Karula with the other.

With the man and dog tucked under her arm, Hua Zhen ran towards the redwood tree, which was over twenty meters tall, at the back of the cemetery. That redwood tree was the highest point in the entire cemetery, enough to buy her a lot of time.

"Hua Zhen, I... I can't climb trees!"

Although Tia, who was following behind, guessed Hua Zhen's idea, she herself could not climb trees.

As someone with very weak physical abilities who possesses the ability to stop time, it's difficult for Tia to even climb a long slope, let alone climb a tree.

"Here you go!" Upon reaching the tree, Hua Zhen tossed Shiva to Tia Go. "Tie the rope shorter, and I'll take you up."

"Hmm...it's so heavy?!"

Hua Zhen wrapped the rope around himself a few more times, securing Karula to his back. Tia followed suit, tying Shiva to her chest. Fortunately, they had already removed their iron pots when they were being chased by the skeleton army, otherwise they would have wasted even more time.

After confirming that Karula was securely tied up, Hua Zhen began to climb upwards.

Strong fingers gripped tightly onto the rough surface of the tree trunk.

Hua Zhen exerted all his strength and climbed up the tree trunk like a gecko.

Normally, a climber who has received long-term professional training has finger strength and grip strength far exceeding that of ordinary people, so climbing trees is not a very difficult thing for them.

But the difficulty Hua Zhen is facing now far exceeds that of these professional climbers.

Because in addition to his own weight.

The weights of Karula, Shiva, and Tia were also transferred to Hua Zhen's body via ropes connecting them.

This was much more difficult than when Hua Zhen climbed the hotel wall before.

But then the cheat code kicked in.

With her powerful fingers and grip, combined with the strength of her entire body's muscles, Hua Zhen's fingers gripped the tree trunk tightly, leaving deep indentations where her fingers were positioned to provide a good fulcrum.

Hua Zhen climbed upwards and arrived at the thick tree trunk, which was more than 20 meters high.

Tia stared blankly as she moved further and further away from the dangerous ground, feeling as if she were being slowly lifted up in an elevator.

Only then did she understand why Hua Zhen had said to shorten the rope.

It turns out it was so that it would be convenient to take them up with us.

"Holy crap, Nakupeta!" Tia looked at the panting Hua Zhen in surprise, "No wonder you said you were going to find a rich woman, you really do have something!"

Tia couldn't help but think about what Hua Zhen would be like after he became successful.

Those succubus ladies who usually strutted around Round Corner Street, who were just marveling at how easy it was to make money, instantly turned pale and scattered like birds when they saw Mr. Hua walk into the store looking all respectable. They were terrified that Mr. Hua would give them a backflip...

Wow, those fingers are strong!

Thinking of this, Tia felt grateful for her decision that evening.

If I had agreed to cooperate with Hua Zhen back then because of Sora...

I'm afraid I'll be the first to suffer before the succubus lady does.

It's pure torture!

As expected, my father was right to warn me to keep myself pure and virtuous.

“Of course,” Hua Zhen said. “I’ve long thought that the reason Spider-Man is so poor is because he hasn’t opened his mind. He wanders around all day without knowing how to use his abilities to find a rich woman and make a fortune. He wouldn’t have to work a miserable job and would have more time to fight evil and do good.”

"I can't take it anymore! What have you idiots done?!" A slightly frantic voice came from not far away.

Take a closer look.

It turned out to be Miss Oujinjin, the necromancer who was squatting on the tree branch.

"Oh my, isn't this Miss Cement?" Tia covered her mouth and laughed mischievously. "Looks like something unexpected happened. I'm so sorry for accidentally damaging your magic circle..."

At this point, the opponent's "century-old family soul ring" had weakened considerably.

This distance.

this location.

Even without activating the time stop function, simply cutting the tree branch is enough to make Miss Jin fall from a height of nearly seven stories.

So it seems that Hua's guess was correct.

Jin Jin was able to cast the spell so quickly because of the magic array that had been set up in the cemetery beforehand.

So when the magic circle was blown away by Hua Zhen's Bouncing Bomb, her magic instantly became unbalanced.

"Are you idiots? You really are idiots!" Jin Jin said, somewhat devastated. "I spent several nights carefully constructing this magic circle, and you just blew it all up! Do you know how much effort and money I spent?"

"If we don't blow up your magic circle, are we just going to let you pour cement on it?" Tia scoffed, unconcerned. "Why are you complaining to us? Do you expect us to pay you back? If you're short of money, go sell yourself on the street. Don't come here whining..."

Rather, she seemed rather smug at that moment, her face clearly saying "I'm ready to fight if you want," completely devoid of any previous desire to apologize.

At this distance, Tiague, who possesses the ability to stop time, will not be at a disadvantage.

"This...this is clearly your fault!"

Jin Jin gritted her teeth in anger, her beautiful face filled with grievance and fury.

"You think I'd just swallow this insult, using my dad's bones like a dog's chew toy?"

"Damn it... Come on, let's review this," Tia said defiantly. "Don't you know why we came to attack your father? If it weren't for you bringing a few idiot skeletons to scare the new students at the magic academy in the middle of the night, would we have received this commission?"

"This..." Jin Jin was speechless for a moment. "I...I didn't know anything about this!"

"Then let me ask you, is this all because of those skeletons in your family?" Tia said. "Just stay put, why would you be being pressured? If you don't believe me, summon those skeletons right now and confront them!"

"Then you can't use my old man's leg bone as a chew toy!"

"Who knew that pale, white thing was your father?" Tia scoffed. "As for that bone, it was indeed our oversight. Otherwise, we would have packed it up and destroyed it long ago. You can't even keep an eye on your own father, so what are you pretending to be, this dutiful daughter?"

Miss Jin Jin was clearly no match for Tia Ge in arguing, and her full chest heaved violently.

She jumped to her feet: "Ughhhhh... I can't take it anymore! I'm going to swear right now, swear like crazy! I'll fuck your mother!"

"Welcome, welcome," Tia said with a grin. "It would be best to find a few more goblins for her to enjoy."

Seeing that the two women were about to pull each other's hair and start fighting, Hua Zhen quickly stepped in to smooth things over.

"I say... it's not too late for all heroes to fight after we've dealt with the immediate crisis... the water level is rising higher and higher, and this tree doesn't seem to be able to hold on for much longer."

The leaves from the tree were swirling and falling through the air.

The strange purple liquid seeping from the cemetery surface has now risen to about thirty centimeters.

The lush redwoods are now withering away at a visible rate. The once vibrant trunks are gradually drying out, and the once emerald green leaves are now like faded, withered leaves that crumble at the slightest touch. Even the bark looks like paper stuck to the Darou energy bar after the energy bar has been used up, and it can be easily peeled off with a gentle tear.

"Miss Jin Jin, what exactly did you do in the cemetery?" Hua Zhen couldn't help but ask. "What exactly is that purple liquid down there?"

"I...I don't know either."

"What?" Tia's eyes widened. "Your words are as absurd as if you went to Round Corner Street, bought Purple Mood, got caught, and then claimed you didn't know what it was!"

"You're asking me? I have no idea!" Jin Jin retorted angrily. "I only sensed unusual magical fluctuations in this cemetery, so I planned to investigate and perhaps utilize its magic. To prevent any mishaps, I even set up protective measures against potential magic leakage... Who knew you'd just blow it up like that?!"

"So this is our fault?" Hua Zhen asked.

"No, no, no, if she hadn't insisted on pouring that cement, things wouldn't have turned out like this." Tia shook her head. "So this has nothing to do with us, Hua Zhen!"

Jin Jin snorted: "Wait until this strange solution drowns you before you say that."

Time passed second by second.

The purple liquid below had risen to half a person's height.

The redwood tree's stiffness was deteriorating, and Hua Zhen could feel that the slight bend in the branch he was standing on was getting worse, almost like it was becoming impotent.

At this rate, they will most likely be flooded before dawn.

Hua Zhen felt like he and his group were like monkeys trapped in a tree during a flood, forced to watch helplessly as the surging water rushed past below; jumping in would likely mean certain death.

Why the hell is killing a skeleton soldier such a big deal?!

Karula and Shiva didn't seem to feel any sense of crisis.

Once they were away from the purple liquid, the mother and daughter even had the leisure to scratch their ears on the thick branches.

Hua Zhen knew she couldn't wait any longer.

"Miss Jin Jin, we're all in the same boat now, is there any way to salvage this?" Hua Zhen asked.

"How could that be?" Jin Jin shook her head. "To fix the situation, we need to reset the magic array, but I don't want to touch that corrosive liquid down there. Judging from the current state, it has an extremely strong corrosive effect on life force."

"Why would there be something like this in a cemetery?" Hua Zhen asked, puzzled.

"It's not surprising, actually," Tia said. "Hua Zhen, you don't know the history of Farlans, do you?"

"history?"

"Although it was something someone else told me... it's good to hear it," Tia said. "Fallands was just a small town a long time ago. Adventurers made a living by hunting monsters in the underground labyrinth. Occasionally, monsters would run up from the labyrinth, and after killing them, their corpses would be buried together. Later, Fallands expanded and gradually became the megacity it is today. Urban land became extremely valuable, so a cemetery was built near this area on the outskirts. It is said that this cemetery is where the corpses of monsters were once buried."

"So... what does this have to do with the current situation?" Hua Zhen asked. "Could it be some kind of anomaly caused by the monster's corpse? That's impossible, isn't it?"

"No, it's possible," Jin Jin said thoughtfully. "I was wondering where these unusual magic points came from, but now I have a clue. A very small number of powerful monsters possess the 'Deathrattle' skill, which is triggered under specific conditions after death... Maybe one of them is buried here."

"It was clearly caused by your necromancy, wasn't it?" Tia retorted.

"What? You were the ones who used the bomb..."

"Alright, alright, you two, there's no point in dwelling on this," Hua Zhen earnestly advised the two who were already on the verge of conflict. "What's done is done. What we need to do now is solve the problem. What's the point of arguing here? Isn't it a bit too late to realize you forgot to bring condoms after you've already finished?"

Tia and Miss Jin remained silent.

Hey, that's right.

We're all in the same boat now, so why make things difficult for each other?

"Miss Jin Jin, we can't touch that strange liquid, but what about the skeleton soldiers?" Hua Zhen asked. "Could we use them to repair the magic circle?"

"No." Jin Jin shook her head. "Didn't you see what's happening below? These strange liquids will corrode them. The key to necromancy lies in giving low-level life forms the form of magic, first refining the dead, then refining the living. Although to the world this life form is not a true 'resurrection,' in nature it's not much different, so those solutions will dissolve bones."

Hua Zhen followed her gaze.

Sure enough, most of the bones were dissolved, leaving only white bone fragments floating on the purple liquid.

"So...we scattered the ashes of hundreds of family members of Farlans?" Tia Go's forehead was covered in cold sweat.

"Don't panic, panicking won't help," Hua Zhen pressed down on Tia's hand. "As long as the timing is well concealed, no one will know. Generally speaking, no one would dig up a grave to see if their loved ones are sleeping peacefully inside when they are paying respects to their relatives."

Hua Zhen paused for a moment, then said, "Besides, this was done by Miss Jin Jin, it has nothing to do with us."

"You two are truly a match made in heaven!" Miss Jin Jin gritted her teeth.

"Getting back to the point, anyway... as long as the magic circle is fixed, that should be fine, right?"

"Probably..." Jin Jin sighed. "Since it's an abnormal leakage of magic power, then all we need to do is plug this 'leak.' Although I can use other mediums to inscribe magic circles, how to send them over there is a problem."

"Think about it," Tia said. "There must be a way."

But I thought about it for a full five minutes.

Neither Tiague nor Oujinjin could come up with a solution.

Both of them sighed at the same time.

Jin Jin felt a little regretful.

If I had known it would turn out like this, I shouldn't have insisted on teaching those two guys a lesson by pouring cement into them. I should have just poured cement into their pits instead, at least then they wouldn't be throwing weird bombs around.

Tia also felt somewhat lost.

Dad...

My daughter, I haven't made a name for myself yet, I haven't reached the pinnacle of society...

Could it be that this messy cemetery is where I, Tia, will die without a burial place?

Just as the two were feeling down, a pair of yellow underwear suddenly appeared in front of them.

Those bright yellow shorts were so eye-catching, and SpongeBob SquarePants on them was giving Jinjin and Tia a bright smile.

"I've got a plan. Anyway... take my panties first."

Hua Zhen was naked from the waist down, and her smile was as bright as SpongeBob SquarePants on his underwear.