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"Aa ...

Miss Jin Jin immediately screamed and covered her eyes.

Tia didn't seem surprised at all, and slapped SpongeBob away.

She had already seen this thing in the Goblin Cave.

I looked at it again after leaving the Adventurers' Guild that night, but the world has become immune to it now.

"Who wants to take your yellowish panties? What are you up to now?" Tia stared at Hua Zhen with dead fish eyes. "I'm telling you... you don't have some kind of weird fetish, do you?"

"A strange hobby?" Hua Zhen was taken aback.

"It's like wearing a coat over a vacuum inside, then suddenly pulling it off in a dark alleyway at night when a little boy is playing nearby... That's what the women of Lonnos love to do!"

"Damn it, this isn't my job to do this!" Hua Zhen said angrily, her mouth twisting in a grimace. "If you want to live, do as I say!"

"Huh~?"

"Listen up... and you, you bastard, stop covering your eyes and pretending to be an innocent bitch, you're clearly peeking through your fingers!"

Hua Zhen shoved Jin Jin's hand away, pressed her head down, and said, "If you want to live, you need to fix the magic circle as quickly as possible. Tia Ge, you're in charge of putting it back in the pavilion."

"Me?" Tia pointed to herself. "How do I do that?"

"Don't speak yet, listen to me," Hua Zhen picked up the rope tied to her body. "I'll hold the rope in a moment, you grab the other end and swing across. I'll hold the rope tight and provide you with swinging assistance."

Jin Jin's eyes lit up after hearing this.

Hey, that's a good idea!

"But the purple liquid below is already half a person's height," Miss Jin said, looking down. "Won't it still have to touch the ground?"

"That's why we need clothes for protection," Hua Zhen said. "I've examined these liquids closely. They're very thick, like...snot, so they can't penetrate like water. In other words...as long as Tia Ge covers her whole body with clothes, she'll be fine coming into contact with these liquids for a short time. And Tia Ge can throw knives, so if she throws them accurately, that'll be even better."

"Hey hey hey hey... Dude!" Tia was getting anxious. "Have you considered the distance from this tree to the gazebo? It's at least thirty meters from here to there, but I can only be 24 meters away from you at most!"

"That's why I asked you to do it," Hua Zhen said slowly.

"What does that mean?"

"Can't you stop time?" Hua Zhen whispered in Tia Ge's ear, "I'll climb to the top of a branch and try to shorten the distance to the gazebo. When the time comes, you swing over, calculate the distance, activate time stop, and then grab the rope to swing back to a safe distance. Then I'll pull you back as fast as I can."

"You can do that?!" Tia was shocked.

"There's no other way right now, we can only give it a try. How so? Are you willing to do it?"

"Damn it..." Tiague stared at the viscous liquid rising below, "I'll risk it!"

Seeing how readily Tia agreed, Hua Zhen hesitated for a moment.

"Can you keep the distance? I don't want to see you explode into a bloody mist halfway through your swing."

"You're talking to me about distance when I'm throwing knives?" Tia scoffed.

"Great! I knew I hadn't misjudged you!"

Hua Zhen readily gave all her clothes to Tia Ge.

Although it was chilly, and I felt like a monkey hanging from a tree in ancient times, playing around, it was the best way to cope.

Suddenly, Hua Zhen felt a chill down her spine.

Negative emotions began to spread in my heart.

Looking back, he saw that Karula and Shiva had quietly crept up behind him at some point, their eyes filled with lustful desire.

"You think you can take my money?!"

Hua Zhen also waved the mother and daughter away without any politeness.

But then I thought about it and realized I still needed to consider the distance between Tia and Ge later.

Then they brought Carula over.

Then, using the ropes attached to her body, she connected herself to them.

Karula offered no resistance whatsoever, acting like an obedient rag doll, allowing herself to be manipulated. However, her crimson eyes remained fixed on Hua Zhen's lower body, and there seemed to be drool dripping from the corner of her mouth.

The girl's soft, delicate body pressed tightly against his back.

Hua Zhen seemed to be able to feel a strange sensation coming from the skin on her back.

It felt like tiny bamboo shoots pressing against the back of his heart.

I never expected that Karula would be such a huge, mature woman.

Holy crap, that's so true!

Miss Jin Jin, who was standing to the side, was shocked by what she saw.

He actually bonded up with such a petite girl?!

Look closely, and you'll see a young man who's completely naked, just like a Dior swaying in the wind, forcibly binding a cute girl to his body.

What a depraved man!

Jin Jin secretly made up her mind that when she got back, she would contact the Public Security Bureau and have those latex-clad female law enforcement officers who were specifically responsible for punishing women from Lonos whip Hua Zhen until her skin was torn and bleeding.

We can no longer allow such evildoers to commit crimes!

Just as Miss Jin was thinking this, an unfriendly look was cast over her.

"What are you looking at, chicken feathers?" Hua Zhen turned around, his eyes resembling those of Tiger Brother.

"Uh... I... I didn't see it." Jinjin turned her head away. "Who said I saw it?"

"How am I supposed to see anything if you don't even have a feather?" Jin Jin thought to herself.

I didn't realize this guy was the type to shave his head.

Or is it that he was born with a bald constitution?

Regardless of which one, does it really feel right?

"Then hurry up and set up the magic circle for me!"

"oh oh……"

Jin Jin turned her head away, looking somewhat aggrieved, and then began fiddling with her magic circle.

More than ten minutes have passed.

The purple liquid under the tree was still rising, and the redwood tree where Hua Zhen and the others were staying, which had been growing for who knows how many years, had completely lost all its leaves, leaving its branches bare.

"Isn't it ready yet?!" Tia asked impatiently, arms crossed.

She was already wrapped up very tightly at this moment.

Besides Hua Zhen's clothes, she also used all the medical bandages in her backpack.

"I've done my best..." Jin Jin said irritably. "Do you think magic is something you can just casually chant a spell for?"

"I don't understand, meow. Please hurry up and say it," Hua Zhen said. "We're not magicians. This is your job, isn't it?"

"Then shut up!" Jin Jin snorted. "You're adventurers, but you don't understand the principles of magic. I bet you'll all fall into a trap and die sooner or later..."

"What's so difficult about magic?" Tia asked, puzzled. "Isn't it just about controlling magic power and spells? Why does it take so much time?"

"Don't talk nonsense if you're an outsider! If you want to use magic, you must first follow the rules."

Jin Jin had no choice but to explain to the two laymen while she was working.

"The user must first establish a connection with the Great Source of Magic, and then use their own Small Source of Magic as a benchmark to influence the manifestation of the Great Source of Magic, or output or change the nature of their own magic... Of course, inherent skills are an exception. Constructing spells, connecting magic... every step must be flawless. Otherwise, why do you think I set up arrays? Isn't it just to save trouble?!"

Hua Zhen is not ignorant of the principles of magic.

In fact, he had some knowledge of it.

In short, if magic is likened to a car, then magic power is the gasoline.

Without gasoline, a car cannot start.

Without magic, spells cannot be constructed.

The most crucial point is how to establish a connection between gasoline and cars, which requires manufacturing components such as engines, and in magic, this is the most complicated part.

Therefore, magic requires a great deal of preparation.

However, by constructing the magic circle in advance, magicians can save a lot of tedious steps and time.

It took about five more minutes for Jinjin to finish her preparations.

She placed a magic stone with a magic circle engraving in Tia's palm.

"The simplified magic circle isn't enough for me to cast spells quickly... Although casting spells wouldn't be very effective anyway, I've inscribed a more precise spell within it, which can conversely prevent the leakage of magic power... You should know what to do next, right?"

"Of course." Tiague reached for the magic stone, then suddenly paused, "Huh?"

"What's wrong now?"

"It seems like we're missing some fabric here..."

Tia noticed that there was still a gap on her right arm.

Both she and Hua Zhen looked at Miss Jin Jin.

"W-What are you doing..." Jin Jin covered her robe in terror. "I...I only have this one coat."

"Just lend it to me!" Tia said impatiently. "What kind of woman is this, fussing over nothing?!"

"No, no...!"

Miss Jin covered herself up even tighter.

"If all else fails, you swing over, and I'll take off my clothes?" Tia raised an eyebrow.

"Waaah... I... I can't do it...!"

"If you can't do it, then shut up!" Tia exclaimed angrily. "We don't have much time left. Once that slime completely covers my head, we'll all just wait to die!"

"Sigh." Hua Zhen sighed, "Miss Jin Jin, look at me again?"

"I even gave Tia Ge my SpongeBob SquarePants silk panties to use as a headscarf. Isn't your life more important than shame?"

"Exactly!" Tia nodded repeatedly. "This robe of yours provides me with all-around protection. I really don't want to come into contact with that weird purple slime!"

Jin Jin suddenly felt that her life was very bitter.

Honestly, if it were just a simple leak of magic, she could have dealt with it herself using necromancy.

But that strange purple liquid could even dissolve a skeleton.

There's no other way now...

Jin Jin felt like a respectable woman forced into prostitution...

"Hurry up, even if it's for your own life, Miss Jin, please make this sacrifice, okay?"

"Gurgle..."

The desire to survive ultimately triumphed over shame.

Jin Jin, her face filled with shame, took off her black robe.

As her skin was revealed, Hua Zhen and Tia Ge's eyes widened slowly.

Oh my god...!

So when Jinjin said "she only has one coat," she wasn't referring to the number of clothes in her wardrobe, but rather the one she was wearing!

Looking at that stunningly beautiful and voluptuous figure, Tiague smiled and clicked her tongue, saying, "What kind of decent person only wears a black robe on the outside?"

"Compared to me, this is more in line with the style of the women of Lonos that you just described!" Hua Zhen chimed in. "By the way, your taste in lingerie is quite good."

"Gulp... You might as well just kill me!"

Jin Jin was wearing only a black lace lining and squatted down, hugging herself.

"Alright, alright, compared to Hua Zhen, you're already very lucky. At least you still have clothes to wear!"

Tia wrapped the still-warm robe around her body, making sure there were no gaps from head to toe except for her eyes, before she began her operation.

Hua Zhen led Karula closer to the end of the thick branch.

After making sure the branch could still hold up, Hua Zhen tied Tia Ge's rope around her waist, holding the branch with one hand and pulling the rope with the other.

"Alright, go for it!" Hua Zhen said, "Let's do a beautiful leap of faith!"

"call……"

Tia looked at the height of more than 20 meters above the ground and took a deep breath.

Then she turned around and chuckled.

"Please lower me down slowly, I'm afraid the rope will strangle me if I jump."

Tia slowly descended the rope.

Once she was sure it was about right, Hua Zhen started swinging the rope, and Tia Ge's swing amplitude increased.

Once she was sure she was close enough, she released the ropes and leaped towards the pavilion!

five meters...

Three meters...

Tia estimated the distance in her mind.

Just as she was about to surpass Hua Zhen by 24 meters, she resolutely activated the time stop.

Everything stopped at that moment.

Tia's heart was in her throat.

If the curse's power exceeds her time-stopping limitation, she will explode in the world where time has stopped. When the time limit expires, Hua Zhen and Jin Jin will only see her suddenly turn into a blood flower, without even the explosion process.

Fortunately, the curse did not take effect after Tia went beyond the distance limit.

"Okay!"

Tia Ge timed her move perfectly, landing lightly on the stone pillar above the pavilion.

My knees are a little sore.

But I don't have time to worry about that now.

Just as Tia was about to throw the magic stone engraved with the magic circle down, she suddenly saw a strange scene.

Under the cool moonlight, in the center of the pavilion, bubbles were bubbling and frothing. Because time had stopped, the bubbles on the purple liquid had not yet burst. Some were large, and some were small, as if they had just emerged.

Although she was a little confused, Tia didn't waste any time.

She threw the magic stone down, then turned and grabbed the rope that was suspended in mid-air.

Three seconds left.

If a safe distance cannot be reached within three seconds.

Then her fate will be extremely tragic after the time stop ends.

Fortunately, in this world where time stands still, only she can move freely.

Moreover, Hua Zhen had prepared protective gear for her in advance.

Tia grabbed the rope and pushed off the stone pillar behind her, swinging forward and using the momentum of the swing to quickly shorten the distance before deliberately landing in the purple liquid.

That solves the distance problem.

Time stop ends.

Thanks to the thick fabric protection, Tia Go was not stained with the purple liquid.

Hua Zhen, relying on the powerful grip provided by his "golden finger," immediately pulled her out of the purple liquid and back onto the tree.

"Now... should it be okay?"

"As long as you don't litter, my magic circle will activate. By the way..."

Just as Jinjin was about to ask Tia what to say.

A wisp of steam suddenly appeared.

As everyone looked, the purple slime below began to dissipate, evaporating into wisps of smoke, and the magical energy within it was almost gone, far from reaching the concentration needed to take effect.

Within seconds, the cemetery was shrouded in a thick fog.