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The next day.

On a gloomy, rainy day, the sound of rain pattering outside filled the air.

Rain pattered against the small, round window of the capsule hotel, which resembled an old woman's flimsy frame, and water droplets trickled down the glass in a tangled pattern.

Shiva lay in the corner of the narrow passageway, silently watching the man not far away.

"Urgent! Urgent! Urgent!!"

Inside the capsule hotel, Hua Zhen clutched her lower abdomen and pounded on the toilet door.

"Damn it, Tia, how much longer are you going to stay in there? Did you fall into the toilet? Do you want me to bring you another spoon?"

"Hua Zhen, what's with the rush! Can't I even take a shower for myself and Karula? Besides, you got up so late, and you knock on the door when I'm halfway through my shower!" came the girl's angry voice from the bathroom.

"Take a shower? I haven't seen any of your clothes outside!"

"Idiot, wouldn't it save water if I showered while I was showering?" Tia said indignantly. "Besides, what if you took the opportunity to put some little girl stuff on my underwear?"

There was a faint sound of running water coming from the bathroom, so it seemed that Tia was indeed taking a shower.

However, due to the rain outside and the unstable water pressure in the hotel, it was difficult to hear the difference unless you listened carefully.

"Then why don't you use the public restrooms?!"

"Huh?" Tia was taken aback. "There are public ones too? You should have said so earlier!"

"I...I need to go to the toilet!" Hua Zhen cried out, her face contorted with rage. "I can't hold it anymore!"

"Large or small?" came Tia's voice a few seconds later.

"Little one."

lied to you.

Actually, I want to release both the big and small things at the same time.

Hua Zhen vaguely regretted drinking so much fruit beer last night.

After he and Tia had dumped Miss Jinjin's body in front of a tin shack in the slums, they went to a nearby pub and bought several kegs of chilled fruit beer. Because of its low alcohol content and good fruit flavor and sweetness, it was especially thirst-quenching.

This was a great comfort to Huazhen and Tia, who had just been busy all night.

The two also stopped by the night market to buy some fried skewers.

After returning, they huddled together in this small space of less than ten square meters and feasted. Even Karula and Shiva ate with great enjoyment.

However, perhaps because they were too tired, Hua Zhen and Tia Ge slept until the afternoon.

Pang Guang is about to explode!

Also, the fried skewers that Tia recommended... I don't know if it was because they were too spicy or because the ingredients were bad, but Hua Zhen is feeling really unwell now.

"What? I thought you couldn't handle the spiciness of the fried skewers and were getting diarrhea. Go find a bottle and take care of it yourself." Tia's gloating voice came from inside. "Who told you to steal my can of fruit beer last night? Now you're getting your comeuppance, aren't you?"

Hua Zhen couldn't help but grit her teeth. Did this woman really need a good beating?

However, this matter cannot be entirely attributed to Tia.

Hua Zhen did indeed steal Tia Ge's fruit beer last night because he hadn't had enough of his own.

Tia tried to use time stop to take it back, but the clever Hua Zhen had already stuck her tongue into the bucket right in front of her.

Tia could only glare angrily, like a helpless husband watching Hua Zhen chug down fruit beer.

Who says there's no NTR (Netorare) plot?

However, arguing about it now will be of no use.

Can a living person die from holding in their pee?

"Then give Carla a good bath, make sure she doesn't smell like dog!"

"Okay, okay, I'll definitely wash it more carefully than you."

"How do you know you can wash her better than I have, since I've never even done it?"

Hua Zhen stopped wasting words with Tia Ge, stepped out the door, and found the public restroom on the floor below.

Capsule hotel rooms also come in different categories.

Slightly better options, like the room Hua Zhen rents for 1500 Sola a month, have a private bathroom and a stable supply of magic stone lamps. Pushing open the window, you can even cook simple meals on the outdoor support platform, like boiling noodles.

For cheaper, genuine coffin-style rooms, you'll have to use the communal restrooms.

The toilets are alright, but if you want to shower, you can only go at different times, otherwise they are usually overcrowded. Everywhere you look, there are stylish people.

Hua Zhen squatted in the cramped cubicle, staring silently at the ceiling, occasionally pressing the mosquito repellent spray in her hand.

As for why you have to look at the ceiling while squatting on the toilet, it's because there's nothing else to look at.

Below are the Golden Python, Strawberry Tower, Black Mamba...

All around, there were all sorts of messy little holes, and even if they were filled, they would reappear after a while.

Therefore, only a ceiling with cracked walls can protect your eyes.

The public toilets in the capsule hotel are somewhat like the "row houses" that Hua Zhen used to live in when she was in junior high school. A large canal runs through the area from north to south, with wooden partitions above. Usually, the toilets are flushed once at noon and once again in the evening.

I heard that the women's restrooms are in better condition, so two months ago the male guests took the opportunity to ask the landlady to make an application to have the restrooms renovated.

It's important to understand that guests staying in capsule hotels are generally people with a little money to cover their expenses, so they are long-term guests and wanting to improve their living conditions is a legitimate reason.

However, the other party flatly refused.

The reason is that doing business isn't very profitable these days, and this capsule hotel is already quite affordable.

Everyone initially wanted to argue their case, but apparently one of the guys dug up information that the landlady used to be an adventurer, part of an all-female team, and even had some connection with the female officer of the Farlans Enforcement Bureau…

So everyone dispersed, and the matter was dropped.

The slightly better thing here is that at least the cubicles have doors, unlike the toilets in Huazhen's junior high school, where the view was completely unobstructed, and you could practically dry-dry your toilet. During breaks, you could watch your classmates come and go, puffing away in the smoke-filled toilets. If you forgot your toilet paper, you could just stretch out your hand and a kind friend would occasionally bring you a pack of Jie Rou (a type of toilet paper) for five cents.

Thinking of this, Hua Zhen couldn't help but repent for her past sins.

Back then, he was rather unethical. During breaks, he would run to the first toilet stall and hide there. He would put a lit birthday candle in a small boat made of cardboard, and then, while everyone else was using the toilet, he would quietly put it into a puddle. The boat would float downstream, and then you could hear the screams of his classmates as they burned their bottoms.

Looking back, I was too naive.

Perhaps it was because of the many sins I committed that I was exiled to another world.

Fortunately, there weren't many people in the restroom at this time; everyone had gone out to eat, and no one was smoking in the restroom.

"Is anyone here, bro? Do you have any more toilet paper?" someone suddenly asked from the next cubicle.

"Yes, I have."

"Could you please give me some, please?"

Hua Zhen clicked her tongue inwardly, then pulled out a few tissues from her pocket.

Just as I was about to hand it over, I was horrified to see a hand covered in chocolate sauce reaching out from under the wooden board.

"Hey buddy, what are you doing with your hands?"

"It's written on the wooden board in the cubicle. A little trick: if you only have a little bit of paper, you can wrap it around your finger and then crawl through... I accidentally tore it open, haha."

You're a bull demon, you're a bull!

"There are even people writing these things?" Hua Zhen asked.

"The wisdom of our predecessors, brother! To be honest, the environment in my cubicle is pretty bad. I don't know which idiot messed up and smeared the walls with their fingers dipped in sauce..."

"Brother, do you know what?"

"Um?"

"I've truly reached the end of my life."

This is clearly a case of someone trying to teach you this trick, and they've already torn the paper to shreds!

Hua Zhen carefully handed over the paper, silently making up her mind.

"Once I have more money in a while, I definitely want to move to a different place..."

To put it bluntly... he's so poor that he doesn't even have any romantic thoughts about sharing a room with a pretty blonde girl like Tia.

money.

money.

money.

Money is such a wonderful thing.

Once the curse is resolved, let's think about how to make money quickly.

After using the restroom and returning to the room, Tia had already showered and was sitting on the bed drying her wet, long blonde hair with a towel, while Karula's smooth silver hair had already been dried.

It only took Hua Zhen less than ten minutes to leave and return.

It seems she was indeed trying to finish the job quickly.

"It smells so good..." Hua Zhen smelled the faint scent of lavender.

"It's the shower gel I use, do you want to try it too?"

"Never mind, I'll wash up when I get back," Hua Zhen said. "Now let's go find that guy named Flo. The mission is complete, and he should hand over the method to lift the curse."

……

……

Farlandes.

Upper area.

Golden Iris Magic Academy.

Inside the office, Flo saw the three young men who had appeared yesterday again... and that Thunder Hyena that looked like it knew how to plunder.

"A strange monster corpse?" Professor Flo hissed. "We'll have to get the Adventurers' Guild to investigate this thoroughly."

"That's none of our business, we already agreed on it!" Tia said.

“Yes,” Professor Flo took a small wad of banknotes from his pocket. “Here is a thousand Solas.”

"Is there any way to lift the curse?" Hua Zhen asked, putting away the money.

"As for how to break the curse, well, I do have some ideas, it just depends on whether you dare to do it."

"We're about to lose our lives, what wouldn't we dare to do!" Tia declared eloquently. "Even if we were asked to run through the streets of Farlands right now, we'd do it without hesitation!"

"Tonight is fine," Hua Zhen agreed.

"Don't worry, how could lifting a curse be done in such a nonsensical way?" Professor Flo pointed to the sofa. "Don't rush, have a seat first."

Professor Flo slowly spoke after Hua Zhen and Tia Ge had sat down.

"I do have a solution, and there are similar successful precedents in history. It just depends on whether you're willing to do it. The 'Eye of Curse' is a typical rule-based curse. As long as you're confined within its framework, no matter how much you struggle, it will eventually self-destruct. But think about it the other way around... what if we break out of the rules?"

"Breaking the rules?" Hua Zhen asked.

"You could also interpret this as breaking the rules," Professor Flo said. "The curse the 'Eye of the Curse' has placed on you this time is that you'll explode if you go too far away, and that distance will decrease every day, right?"

"Yes." Tia nodded repeatedly.

"So, have you ever considered what would happen if this distance became negative?"

negative number?!

Hua Zhen and Tia Ge were both startled and looked at each other simultaneously.

Then, as if realizing something was wrong, he quickly looked away.

"Look at you guys, the moment you hear 'negative number,' do you immediately think of connections?" Professor Flo shook his head. "It's still too depressing. This method is theoretically feasible, but also not feasible, because the rule set by the Eye of the Curse is three meters. No matter what, you can't reach a distance of negative three meters through a connection."

"Then, how can we achieve a negative number?" Hua Zhen asked sincerely.

"Now I'll get to the point," Professor Flo said. "Find a very thin but long, durable rope, tie a small iron ball to one end, and have the first person swallow it, then the second person swallow it after it's excreted, and so on..."

Hua Zhenren was stunned, and suddenly had an urge to pick up the ashtray on the low table in front of him and smash it.

What a load of bullshit professor he came from!

What kind of solution is this, the X-Centipede?!

"Hua Zhen," Tia Ge spoke up at this moment, "Can I...can I be the first to swallow the iron ball?"

"You rubbish about iron balls!" Hua Zhen said. "We need a proper method!"

"Right, right," Tia also realized, "the proper solution!"

"This is a lesson for those who repress their emotions. It seems your minds are still relatively normal; they haven't been ruined by repression," Professor Flo said calmly. "Alright, let's get serious. Specifically, it's about cutting off a part of your bodies that can maintain their vitality, such as your meridians or magic circuits... I can ask my colleagues to modify your magic circuits and then implant them into each other's bodies. In this way, a part of your bodies will forever reside within each other's bodies. Although the curse will still exist, it will no longer have any effect."

"You can do that?!" Tia exclaimed in surprise.

"Wait a minute," Hua Zhen said, "I've read some books about magic, and they say that magic circuits connect the whole body and are one of the foundations of life force. If a part of the magic circuits is cut off..."

"Your lives are not in danger," Professor Flo replied, "but you can say goodbye to the profession of adventurer from now on."

"..."

Hua Zhen and Tia Ge both fell silent.

"Hmm... no rush," Professor Flo picked up the recording crystal on the table and fiddled with it, saying calmly, "There's still time to consider. You can go back and think about it carefully."

……

……

After Hua Zhen and Tia Ge left, Professor Flo lit a cigarette and silently fiddled with the recording crystal in his hand.

About half an hour later, someone walked into his office.

The newcomer was a short, white-bearded old man. The mage badge on the left breast of his gray robe was gold, representing a fourth-level mage, also known as a grand mage.

Within the Golden Iris Magic Academy, the archmage is the benchmark for instruction.

"Why are you bothering me instead of working properly?" the white-bearded old man cursed. "Still smoking your lousy cigarettes? No wonder you haven't even gotten a proper professorship after all these years!"

"Don't rush, Amyotha, I didn't call you here to invite you to Round Corner Street," Professor Flo said. "I have something interesting to show you."

As he spoke, he tossed the recording crystal in his hand to the other person.

The white-bearded old man reached out and hooked the recording crystal, which seemed to be attracted to him and landed in his palm.

Magic is infused into it.

The image immediately appeared on the round sphere.

The object in the image is none other than Hua Zhen and his two companions.

But Amyusha's gaze was completely drawn to the silver-haired girl who was dozing off on Huazhen's shoulder.

"Doesn't it look familiar?" Professor Flo smiled. "Our old friend... seems to have returned."