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"Phew...it's finally done." Tia sat down.

Hua Zhen and Jin Jin both breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

Having survived a life-or-death crisis, the three of them have now reached a tacit reconciliation.

"You've worked hard." Hua Zhen warmly opened a Da Rou energy bar. "You must be tired. Have something to eat. This is my favorite chocolate flavor."

"No way, you're not even wearing clothes, where did you pull that out from?" Tia stared at the energy bar in Hua Zhen's hand with horrified eyes. "I don't eat chocolate-flavored poop!"

"You've gone too far!" Hua Zhen said angrily. "Do you think I'm that kind of disgusting person? It's not like I'm delivering heroin to prison. What makes you think I took this chocolate-flavored energy bar out of my ass?!"

"You've given yourself away. I never said that."

"I took it from my backpack..." Hua Zhen said, exhausted.

"I said..." Miss Jin Jin huddled on the spot, trembling, hugging herself, "Could...could you give me back my clothes first?"

Her expression at that moment was one of utter despair.

However, her hair covered her face, so Hua Zhen and Tia Ge couldn't see her.

"Oh, here you go, put it on."

Tia took off her black robe and handed it over, which also relieved Hua Zhen of her naked appearance in the cemetery.

The vapor from the purple liquid quickly dissipated.

Everyone could see the crescent moon in the night sky again, clear and bright.

I wonder if Miss Moon will also go "Oh ho ho ho"...

think carefully.

The moon revolves around the Earth... or rather, this other planet in another world.

In a sense, it can be considered the sow of this planet!

"Alright, it's time to go down now. We've settled this matter. Hua Zhen, you have to treat us when we get back. I want a barbecue feast!"

Tiague looked smug, clearly feeling that she had made a great contribution to the operation.

If it weren't for her, Hua Zhen and Miss Jin Jin would have been doomed tonight.

After returning, not only will he get a thousand Sola, but he will also be able to remove the curse from his body. It is only right and proper for Hua Zhen to treat everyone!

"Okay, I happen to have some coupons. I haven't had a good meal in a long time."

Hua Zhen nodded in agreement.

A barbecue meal isn't cheap, costing several hundred Sola.

However, the price will be much cheaper if there are coupons available.

The coupons were given to him by Miss Anna. Apparently, the guild often organizes team-building activities, and since Miss Anna doesn't really like barbecue, she gave them all to Hua Zhen.

Hua Zhen had been reluctant to eat them and originally planned to pack them up and sell them on a day off.

I never expected to use it in this kind of situation.

"You guys seem to be having a lot of fun," Jin Jin clicked her tongue. "How can you be so shameless?"

"What do you mean?" Tiague sensed gunpowder in the other person's words. "You want to fight?"

As she spoke, she placed one hand on Jinjin's head with ill intent and shook it incessantly.

"How dare you! You dare to provoke me, Lady Tia, at this distance? Try using magic then! You think you're so tough?!"

The sense of déjà vu was so familiar that Hua Zhen couldn't help but experience visual hallucinations.

Where did Liu Huaqiang come from?

"Take a good look!" Jin Jin slapped Tia's hand away, pointing to the devastated cemetery. "The remains of the people and their families in Farlands are all gone, completely gone! And you still have the nerve to go back and eat barbecue?!"

Hua Zhen and Tia Ge exchanged a glance, then said in unison:

"So what? You can't skip meals because of this."

"What...?!" Jin Jin crossed her arms in anger. "Let's be clear beforehand, I admit I was wrong, but you all have to bear at least half the responsibility, right?"

"responsibility?"

"Yeah, the whole cemetery is a mess, and I don't have any 'manpower' to allocate right now. This can't be kept secret anytime soon, right?! Then it'll all be clear what will happen to us!"

Tia was taken aback.

indeed.

The cemetery is in a rather bad state right now.

There were no more remains in the cemetery, so Miss Jinjin had no choice but to try and use the skeletons.

Besides, this commission was issued by a professor from the magic academy, so it will definitely be easy to trace it back to me and Hua Zhen in the end!

Thinking of this, Tia couldn't help but subconsciously look at Hua Zhen.

"So?" Hua Zhen asked, "Miss Jin Jin, what do you want to do?"

"We'll pay half of that compensation then."

"Haha," Hua Zhen laughed, "Even if you sold me, Tia, Karula, and a female hyena together by weight, it wouldn't be enough to cover the losses. If I have to pay off debts for the rest of my life, I might as well just die here and be tortured by the dead in turn, which would at least atone for my sins."

"Am I supposed to pay for everything myself?" Jin Jin protested. "Then I might as well just die right here."

"Don't worry, there's always a way. Besides, this isn't something that can't be solved." Hua Zhen chuckled. "There are only a few of us in the cemetery tonight, which means that as long as we can restore the cemetery to its original state, this incident will never have happened."

"W-Will this work?" Jin Jin asked hesitantly.

"Of course, what kind of good person would dig up a tombstone to look at it when they come to the cemetery to pay their respects to their family?" Hua Zhen said. "Besides, the person who commissioned the project was only concerned about the skeleton soldiers that appeared in the cemetery. If a few of us work together, we can restore the cemetery to a near-perfect state."

Since a crime scene has already been established.

So what the criminal should be doing at this moment is obviously covering up the evidence!

To be honest... Jin Jin also thought of this method.

However, she gave up because she had no dead people to command.

Now that Hua Zhen brought it up again, she realized something.

So I have to do it myself?

"Hua Zhen, you have so many clever ideas," Tia clicked her tongue. "Although I don't feel guilty about this at all, you're still more shrewd than me when you came up with this idea. Money really does make people think."

"That's true, Tia. Not long after becoming an adventurer, I felt that my income was not very good, so I used legal means to avoid paying about 1500 sola in taxes."

"What?!" Tia exclaimed anxiously, "Teach me! Teach me! I want to learn too!"

"Look at you, you're in such a hurry again, Tia. Now... what should you call me?"

"Mr. Hua Zhen, from this day forward, you are the man in my heart who has evaded the most taxes in Farlands!"

"That sounds a bit odd. You're not secretly insulting me, are you?"

"Speaking of which..." Jin Jin spoke up at this point, "How long will it take us to finish working on such a large cemetery?"

"With Karula's help, we should be able to finish before morning, right?"

"Ah! My barbecue!"

"Forget about it. If you don't do something, you'll probably never get to eat barbecue in your life," Hua Zhen said. "In the face of money, let's put aside our grudges and cooperate for now. It's just a matter of burying the broken soil back up; it'll just take a little more time... Hmm?"

He hadn't finished speaking.

The people in the tree then felt the tremor.

The tremors were intense in the redwood tree, as if a super-powered pink carrying pole had been turned up to its maximum setting.

"W-What's going on?!"

"Why are you all staring at me..." Jinjin clung tightly to the tree trunk. "I don't know either!"

"The pavilion! Over there at the pavilion!" Tia suddenly exclaimed.

The group looked over.

Suddenly, the ground on the other side of the pavilion cracked.

A large skeleton, three meters tall, emerged from the damp ground.

Although it looks like a human skeleton at first glance, it is impossible for a human to have such a large body. Moreover, the skull of this skeleton is not a human skull, but more like that of some kind of wild animal.

Hua Zhen and Tia Ge still didn't understand what was going on.

But Jin Jin, being a necromancer, suddenly understood and broke out in a cold sweat.

No wonder there are such high-quality magic sources in the cemetery.

It turns out that the corpse of a powerful monster was buried here and had been dormant for many years before being activated by her magic circle and necromancy.

Jinjin came to the cemetery for two reasons.

One reason was to temporarily house my father and the others, and the other was to find a way to restore their senses.

Unlike ordinary magicians.

A necromancer's training requires a great deal of luck and hardship.

The necromancy passed down through the Edward family must undergo three trials.

That's why the souls of my father and the others were preserved after their deaths.

A few days ago, when Jin Jin was settling her father and others in the cemetery, the necromancy she cast also affected the corpse of this demon that had been buried underground for decades or even longer.

The spell she created initially consisted of simply aggregating additional large amounts of magical energy in the air.

The cemetery's unique environment amplifies her magic as a necromancer.

But it was precisely because of this that the monster's bones were nourished.

Although the elders in the family, except for her cousin, were all stronger than her, they were ultimately just skeletons and had not undergone "physical transformation," so they did not notice anything unusual.

Only Jin Jin was foolish enough to think she had found a treasure and was preparing to refine this magic to create a larger spell.

"Well……"

Jin Jin was unsure whether she should tell the truth.

If I said anything, I'd definitely get beaten up by the two people in front of me.

But then again...

If Hua Zhen and Tia Ge hadn't interfered and prevented me from activating the subsequent necromancy manipulation, my spell might have actually succeeded, and this skeleton wouldn't have emerged from the ground.

It's too late no matter which one it is.

The massive, seemingly impenetrable skeleton of the demon has already launched its attack.

Sprint! Sprint!

Its speed was as fast as an iron torrent.

Unfortunately, no matter how fierce he was in life, his skeleton had become extremely fragile after so many years of death.

The massive skeleton disintegrated the instant it hit the redwood tree due to the reaction force, with bones scattering all over the ground. The redwood tree, being of such a size, merely shook violently without breaking.

But the people in the tree thought differently.

The powerful impact made it impossible for Hua Zhen and the others to stand, and they all fell from the tree.

Hua Zhen reacted quickly, grabbing the tree trunk. The grip and finger strength from his golden finger allowed him to hold on tightly and prevent him from falling further.

Tia and Karula were hanging up because the ropes that were connected to Hua Zhenzhen had been shortened, and even Shiva managed to stay on by biting Tia's shoe.

As for Miss Jin Jin, she wasn't so lucky.

She screamed.

The person was in freefall.

Two seconds later, the screaming stopped abruptly.

The three of them heard a dull "splat" sound at the same time.

"Buhou..." Tia said, "I think I heard something ominous."

"I heard it too."

After confirming that the large skeleton could not be reassembled, Hua Zhen immediately climbed down and came to Miss Jin Jin's side.

I originally wanted to check on Miss Jin's survival status.

But upon seeing her up close, both Hua Zhen and Tia Ge couldn't help but look away from her.

"Isn't the direction of that foot a little off?" Tia asked.

"Actually, the entire knee rotated 180 degrees..."

"If you land face-first, is there any risk of survival?"

"Oh dear, speaking of which... these redwood trees are really quite tall."

Its height of over twenty meters is equivalent to that of an eight-story building.

If there's no cushioning material falling down, it's practically certain death.

Hua Zhen took away Shiva and Karula, who were still eyeing Miss Jin Jin's shapely buttocks, and silently stared at her corpse for a while.

Actually, she's a pretty girl with a great figure...

How did it suddenly become like this?

The cemetery returned to tranquility.

Hua Zhen wanted to collect Miss Jin Jin's body, but she didn't know where to bury her.

"Alright, alright, this should be fine now," Tia said casually. "We should also... Waa ...

Before she could finish speaking, Tia started screaming.

Because a pale arm grabbed her ankle.

Turning my head, I saw it was Miss Jin Jin.

Miss Jin Jin turned her head, her face full of grief, and little pearls fell in a cascade.

"Why...why am I so unlucky?"

"I just wanted to do something for my family, but things got sabotaged... The magic circle was destroyed... I was forced to take off my clothes... and then I had to fall from such a height... Waaaaaah..."

Although Tia was carefree, upon seeing that Jinjin was still alive, she immediately planned to take out first aid medical supplies from her backpack.

Hua Zhen patted her on the shoulder and shook her head.

He could tell that Miss Jin's injuries were too severe; she couldn't be saved by emergency measures alone. At this moment, it was just a temporary resurgence of her strength.

"Miss Jin Jin, do you have any last words?" Hua Zhen asked.

"Take me...to find my sister, Omango, she's in...the...slums...of Farlands."

It turned out to be the case.

Do you still have family members, so do you want to see them one last time?

"I will." Tia took her hand. "Go in peace... I forgive you."

"I...I..."

"What?"

"I really want to..."

Miss Jin Jin moved her lips desperately.

"Your mothers are all grass-fed..."

RIP.

Miss Jin Jin passed away just like that.

"Sigh, she wasn't a bad person, actually. She even thought about compensating the families of the deceased buried in the cemetery," Tia said with regret. "If only I could have caught her in time."

"This isn't your fault." Hua Zhen patted Tia Ge on the shoulder. "Let's sing a song to send Miss Jin Jin off."

"What song? I'm not very good at singing."

"It's alright, just follow me," Hua Zhen said, looking up at the sky at a 45-degree angle, her voice melancholic, "It's been a long day, without you, my friend..."

……

……

late at night.

The period before dawn when people are sleeping the most soundly.

Hua Zhen and Tia Ge have already returned to Farlans by carriage.

It was still the same snakeskin bag it came in with.

However, there was an extra person's corpse inside.

Upon arriving at the location Miss Jin Jin had mentioned before her death—the doorway of a dilapidated tin shack—Hua Zhen and Tia Ge quietly tossed the snakeskin bag at the door, knocked, and then made their escape.