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Hua Zhen woke up unsteadily.

Where...is this?

His blurred vision made it difficult for him to see his surroundings clearly, but he felt as if there was a blonde, blue-eyed, busty woman in front of him, calling out to him gently.

She leaned down, her eyes as clear as azure lake water, the sweet fragrance of a young girl enveloping Hua Zhen, her vision almost completely filled by her full breasts...

"Heavens...angels?"

Hua Zhen suspected that she was already dead, and that she was being devoured by goblins while unconscious.

Otherwise, there's no reason why someone would be knocked unconscious by a mysterious savage in a smelly goblin cave, only to wake up and be assigned a busty, long-legged, alluring and charming girl by the goblins.

Could it be that I went to a golden-haired heaven after I died?

Thinking of this, Hua Zhen couldn't help but feel a little happy.

Indeed, death is not scary; death is like a cool summer night, allowing one to sleep peacefully without worry.

The only regret is that I haven't spent the little bit of savings I've painstakingly saved and hidden under my bed. I wonder which rummaging boy will end up with it.

Suddenly, Hua Zhen felt his collar being grabbed by the busty beauty in front of him, and his body was shaken violently. Even the discomfort he had felt when he first woke up seemed to have been shaken away.

"What angel! Wake up! I'm your father!"

The vision gradually became clearer.

What came into view was Tia's pretty face, her emerald eyes revealing a hint of anger.

"Huh, Tiague, I'm not dead?"

"Not yet, but I think it will be soon."

As she spoke, Tia loosened Hua Zhen's collar.

Hua Zhen sat up, looking somewhat bewildered at her situation.

It wasn't paradise at all, but a strange little cave.

Beneath me was a cold, hard sensation.

They were surrounded by rusty pillars, which isolated them from the outside world.

Without a doubt, he is now in an iron cage.

Not only that, even Tia and the effeminate young man became his roommates.

At first glance, there was a lot of clutter piled up around.

Things like cleaned bones, boxes and boxes of filthy grease, and tattered clothes—it seems the goblins weren't very good at sorting and managing them. The only light source was the torches on the rock wall, which illuminated the pitiful state of the three people in the cage.

"Um, Tia..." Hua Zhen tried calling out.

"Don't call me unless it's important," Tia said, crouching in a corner of the cage with her knees drawn up to her chest. "You perverted bastard."

"What do you mean? The goblins captured you and put you in a prison play, so why are you taking it out on me? Even if I didn't rescue you immediately, calling me a pervert isn't appropriate, is it?"

"Um," Tia turned her gaze to the effeminate young man, "what's your name?"

"Akuli," the effeminate young man replied, cowering in the corner with a deathly expression.

"Very good, Akuri, I can't quite remember what someone was muttering while they were unconscious. Can you help me recall?"

"I remember... someone kept saying 'I'll never fantasize about a little girl stepping on my face with her bare feet again' while they were unconscious," Akuri honestly replied. "It stinks."

Tia Ge Chaohua raised an eyebrow.

Hua Zhen sneered and shook her index finger from side to side: "You made that up."

"Hua Zhen, I'm going to get lost!"

"Alright, stop yelling!" Hua Zhen lowered her voice. "The most important thing right now is to escape. And Tia, why haven't you thought of a way to escape?"

"What?!" Tia's eyes widened. "Brother, did you think I spent the hour I was locked in this broken cage just picking my ass?"

"I misspoke. What I meant was... what about your Flash ability? Can't it go through the cage?"

"..."

Tia looked at him with an expression that suggested he was mentally challenged.

Okay, it seems I can't wear it.

It seems that Tia's Blink doesn't traverse terrain like it does in the game.

Hua Zhen checked his condition. Apart from feeling a little dizzy, he didn't have any other injuries. However, his backpack had been confiscated and his jacket had been taken off, so he couldn't expect to break the cage with the bouncy bomb.

All that remained on him were the authorization letter in his pocket and a Da Rou energy bar.

This is getting a bit tricky.

"Now look what's happened. Some wild man just appeared out of nowhere and took us both down," Tia said, inspecting the iron cage pillars. "We're going to be boiled in oil soon."

"Waaaaah..."

Suddenly, sobbing began.

Hua Zhen and Tia looked closely and saw that it was Akuri.

The effeminate-looking young man squatted in the corner of the cage, buried his head in his knees, and began to cry.

The crying wasn't loud, but it was mournful and piercing, giving the feeling of a lonely, resentful woman whose husband had run off to have affairs with other women and was never home.

"What are you crying about, you big man?" Tia was getting a little impatient with the crying. "Does crying mean you can escape from this place and run into your mother's warm embrace to nurse? It's shameful."

Upon hearing this, Akuri buried his head and wept even more bitterly.

Hua Zhen sighed deeply.

He knew that only by calmly analyzing the situation could he possibly escape from the goblin cave.

What's needed now is the key to open the cage.

However, intelligence becomes especially important when the key cannot be obtained.

Only by integrating current intelligence and analyzing the situation can we find a glimmer of hope.

So he patted Akuri on the shoulder.

"Don't cry, you brat. We're not at our worst yet. You still have a chance to run back to your mother's warm embrace and nurse," Hua Zhen said. "I have a question for you: how did you get captured by the goblins here?"

"Is there any point in asking these questions?" Tia frowned. "Don't overthink it; rich playboys like this are definitely here looking for thrills!"

"Tia, can you shut up for once?" Hua Zhen looked at Akuri. "Think about it quickly."

Akuri sniffed, finally raised his head, wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and his effeminate style, combined with his rather handsome face, made him look absolutely pitiful.

"I...I...I heard the scenery in the Misty Forest is terrifying. I came here to...to train my manhood."

"Haha!" Tia was amused.

"Masculinity?" Hua Zhen was also taken aback.

"My dad always said I was like a girl, so he was always unhappy with me, especially last year when he found out I was always stealing his socks. He got so angry that he scolded me, kicked me out of the house, and told me not to come back if I couldn't find a girlfriend. Since then, I've vowed to become a man."

"Are you out of your mind?" Tia said. "Why did you steal your dad's socks?"

"Don't you guys find it strange that Dad comes home after a long day of business and throws his sweat-soaked, stained white socks into the laundry basket?"

"You son of a bitch!" Tia couldn't take it anymore. "Hua Zhen, I apologize, but compared to your fantasy of a little girl stepping on your face, this bastard is even more perverted!"

Akuri was so frightened by Tiago that he retreated repeatedly and shrank to the edge of the cage.

"Hey, hey, it's no big deal," Hua Zhen stopped Tia from punching her. "We're all in the same boat now, let's keep things peaceful. Okay, go on, but don't talk about your dad anymore, get to the point!"

Akuri stammered, "I want to be a real man. I've been to Round Corner Street, but I felt disgusted by all those heavily made-up women. But I read in a book that a real man should have authority, and coincidentally, I'm in charge of one of my dad's shops, so I've shown my masculine authority. I make my subordinates work overtime like crazy, and anyone who dares to disobey me gets their pay docked and fired. Nobody dares to disobey me!"

"What?! You motherfucker, so you're making things so difficult for me, forcing me to work night shifts every day and deducting my wages?" Hua Zhen roared angrily, making a move to pounce on him.

Fortunately, Tia stopped him in time.

"Alright, alright, Hua Zhen, it's all over now. Let's think about how to get out of here... Akuri, damn it, get to the point! If you keep babbling on and on about irrelevant things, Hua Zhen and I will beat you up!"

Akuri was terrified.

There were three people in the cage, and now two of them were standing against him.

He glanced at Hua Zhen.

Then she looked at Tia, who had a beautiful figure and face.

Akuri felt both resentful and aggrieved, but dared not show it.

"Help! He was captured by that woman. I even hired a Gold-rank adventurer to protect me, but he was beaten down in no time."

A Gold-rank adventurer?

Hua Zhen was taken aback, and couldn't help but think of what the older sister had said earlier.

The body of a Gold-rank adventurer was found today in the vicinity of the Misty Forest and has been returned to the Adventurers' Guild.

"Escort?" Tia squinted.

"You don't know?" Hua Zhen explained, "Some rich people, in order to seek thrills, will specifically hire adventurers to take them to the wilderness to fight monsters or something. There are also some additional services, such as beating the monster to near death and letting the client finish it off."

"Even a Gold-rank adventurer can't beat that brat?" Tiague gritted her teeth. "How is she so powerful, and even working for goblins?"

"I don't know about that..." Akuri shook his head. "Anyway, after that guy got away, I was arrested, and then you guys came."

It seems that the little wild girl was indeed very strong.

But Hua Zhen still had some doubts.

If neither she nor Tia had died, then why was that Gold-ranked adventurer killed by the other party?

"Alright," Hua Zhen turned her gaze to Tia, "What exactly was the ability of the move you used earlier?"

"Trying to find out what I'm capable of?" Tia scoffed. "Give me 50 Sola and I'll tell you."

Hua Zhen laughed in anger.

"No, sister, you can't ask me for money no matter what. Don't you know who's the richest among the three of us?"

"That's true." Tiague stretched out her hand to Akuri, "Give me 5000 Sola."

"I... I don't have any money on me right now..." Akuri said, looking aggrieved.

"Then let's put it in the books!" Tia sighed. "Alright, this was originally my secret, but now I'll reluctantly tell you. It's my special skill, a divine ability that can stop time."

Upon hearing this, Hua Zhen was taken aback.

Time stops!

Could it be...?

"That's right, this ability to dominate the world is called—'The World,' and the one who can dominate the world is me, Tia Goda!"

That's amazing, Tia!

Hua Zhen never expected that such a book-level ability actually existed.

—Inherent skills.

This is a skill that absolutely cannot be acquired through learning.

Most holders are born with their inherent skills, but a small number of people awaken their skills by honing them to the extreme.

However, in terms of the total number of people who possess inherent skills, they are quite few.

No wonder Tia is so arrogant...

Hua Zhen couldn't help but put herself in his shoes for a moment.

If I had the ability to stop time, what difficulty would there be in exterminating mere goblins?

Quack! Absolutely! Easily!

"What?!" Akuri was furious upon hearing this. "Then how did you manage to get taken down?"

"Skills don't have cooldowns!" Tia exclaimed angrily. "Besides, what right do you have to talk to me like that? If it weren't for you, would I be locked up in this cage right now?"

"It's all your fault for accepting the job! If you accepted the job, you should have come to save me!"

Hua Zhen waved her hand, signaling the two of them to quiet down.

No matter how much we argue now, it's useless.

"Tia, tell me in detail about your abilities."

"for example?"

"The most crucial point," Hua Zhen said seriously, "is that you pause for a few seconds?"

Tia held up five fingers.

Five seconds.

"Can it be used periodically?"

"It takes about a few breaths, depending on my condition. I haven't counted, I just go by feeling. But I can only use it a few times a day. Right now... I should have two left."

"Akuli," Hua Zhen continued, "during the time you were locked in this iron cage, did any goblins bring you food?"

"How could that be?" Akuri shook his head. "Do you think goblins are philanthropists? But... a hyena did bring me food once."

"Hyenas?" Hua Zhen and Tia Ge asked in unison.

"Yes, yes, when I was locked in the cage, a hyena brought me some filthy bread, it was so dirty!" Akuri said, fanning himself in front of his nose with feigned disgust.

Hua Zhen and Tia Ge looked at his raised pinky finger and simultaneously thought that this guy was really effeminate.

"Wait a minute, you mean there are hyenas in this goblin lair?" Hua Zhen asked. "Besides that, can't you just tell me everything at once, you Byd?"

"That's all..." Akuri stammered. "Besides the goblins, I only saw a hyena and that girl."

"Since the hyena wasn't eaten by the goblins, it means it was one of them too." Tia breathed a long sigh of relief. "This goblin lair is really strange. When did goblins start raising human children and hyenas?"

"Isn't that why we're here? To find out what's going on," Hua Zhen said, shrugging. "But let's figure out how to get out of here. I already have an idea."

"real?"

Tia and Akuri looked at Huazhen.

"Of course," Hua Zhen smiled slightly, "In fact, our chances of escaping are quite high!"

Seeing Hua Zhen's confident demeanor, Tia Ge couldn't help but ask him about his plans.

Just then, heavy footsteps sounded outside.

Immediately afterwards, three strong, muscular goblins rushed in, completely surrounding the already cramped space.