Citibank, as the Academy’s largest bank, offered not only online digital currency savings but also offline physical property storage services.
Citibank possessed some Folding Space technology, and those offline physical property storage services were individual independent Folded Spaces.
There were no surveillance cameras, no other people. As long as you knew the specific coordinates and the password, you could enter.
Even if the chairman of Citibank came, they couldn’t enter any independent Folded Space.
This was also Citibank’s foundation.
Normally, identity verification was required, but since Dalian was dead, only the password was needed to enter her account’s Folded Space.
To buy her life, Dalian had told Su Ling her password.
Su Ling had learned from Suzuki that many people had their eyes on Dalian’s inheritance. She quickly made an excuse to slip away, then followed Dalian’s directions to Citibank. She entered the coordinates for her account and arrived at the independent Folded Space.
Originally, Su Ling had wanted to get the tens of billions of Moni in online property. But Dalian said that was just a string of numbers given by the Star Chamber of Commerce. The real good stuff was in the offline Folded Space—that was Dalian’s actual retirement fund.
“60660722”
In front of her was just an oval metal door. On the door was a simple set of numbered buttons.
She entered the password Dalian had given her, and the heavy metal door slowly opened.
“Is this password your birthday?” Su Ling asked.
“No. It’s the day I met someone.” Dalian’s cat face showed a hint of emotion.
Witch Era 6066, July 22nd. The day she first met Ling.
Su Ling pouted.
On her shoulder sat G502.
In her arms, she held Dalian.
The door finally opened.
Su Ling and G502 peeked their little heads in. The next moment, their eyes were dazzled.
“S-so blinding!”
Inside, it glittered with gold, nearly blinding their dog eyes.
Dalian broke free from Su Ling’s embrace and walked in with elegant cat steps.
The space inside wasn’t large—about ten square meters.
But it was piled high with gold coins, and that golden shimmer came from these coins.
“This is Moni. Yes, the monetary unit.”
“Moni are magic gold coins, very rare. Legend says Moni is the flesh and blood of a deceased Sequence Witch, but that’s just a legend.”
“Tens of thousands of years ago, Witches used this physical Moni as currency. Unfortunately, over time, Moni became scarcer. Only those non-magic gold coins remained, and the Witch Empire had no choice but to gradually replace physical currency with virtual currency.”
Dalian leaped onto a small pile of Moni and explained.
Looking at Su Ling and G502, who seemed like country bumpkins entering a city, she felt a sense of superiority.
“Magic gold coins?” Su Ling picked up a Moni. It had a hexagram pattern engraved on it, with golden light flowing inside. She felt her own Magic being slowly drawn toward it.
It really did have magic!
“Then isn’t this a Magic Artifact?”
Magical tools were Magic Artifacts.
“In a way, yes.”
“Ancient Witches used Moni for alchemy, cultivation, or restoring depleted magic. You could say it wasn’t just currency—it was a universal Magic Artifact.”
Too bad it was non-renewable; otherwise, with such practicality, it would never have been eliminated.
Su Ling’s mind conjured a scene.
In ancient times, Witches fought each other, each carrying a large handful of shiny Moni. When their magic ran out, they’d call a truce and pull out the shiny Moni to restore their power.
She found the image kind of amusing.
“But this is just a few million at most. As precious as it is, it still pales in comparison to the tens of billions—maybe even a thousand billion—in virtual currency.”
“The most valuable stuff is still underneath.”
Dalian started digging through the gold coins.
Seeing that, Su Ling also began digging.
Soon, she saw what was underneath and froze for a moment.
It was a large wooden box.
Dalian opened it, also a little excited.
Inside the wooden box were several potion bottles and a few pieces of parchment.
“Meow! I really did plan ahead, hehe.”
Dalian took out a green potion and drank it.
The next moment, her form rapidly changed.
Her black fur began to shed, turning into creamy white skin.
Her small body grew taller, becoming curvaceous with prominent front and back.
Her dark green pupils gradually enlarged. Soon, a big sister with long hair down to her waist, creamy white skin, and dark green eyes, completely naked, appeared before Su Ling and G502.
Su Ling stared in shock.
But Dalian, now in human form, showed no shyness. She even reached out to Su Ling.
“W-what?”
“Give me some clothes.”
Su Ling snapped out of it and hurriedly pulled a set of clothes from her Storage Pouch.
She had bought this Storage Pouch earlier and usually just stored some clothes or food in it.
Su Ling’s face flushed slightly.
Dalian was really enchanting now.
“Don’t stare. You’ve already spayed me; I don’t feel anything anymore. If you want to do it, it’d just be like doing it with a doll,” Dalian said nonchalantly while putting on clothes.
Su Ling roared with a red face. “You jerk! Hurry up and get dressed!”
Dalian shrugged and finally finished dressing.
“Is that a Polymorph Potion? Why did you keep something like that here?” Su Ling asked, puzzled.
“Planning ahead. Besides the Polymorph Potion, there’s also an All-Poison Antidote Potion, and a potion to turn into anyone…”
These potions were not cheap. Dalian had spent a lot of money to buy them.
“Of course, the most valuable things are these recipes.”
Dalian picked up the parchment pieces in the box and handed them to Su Ling.
“All second-tier, and one third-tier. These are priceless on the market.”
Potion-making was a huge profit business. No one would sell their recipes.
Recipes were like golden-egg-laying hens. Only fools would sell them.
Dalian had gotten these recipes through cheating, swindling, and some “habits” of stealing back in the day.
The main reason she hadn’t wanted to stay at the Academy back then was that quite a few people there were thieves stealing recipes.
Once she was discovered, the outcome didn’t need thinking—it would be tragic.
Su Ling listened and felt like she was holding a hot potato.
“If you don’t want them, that’s fine. You can take the Moni and leave the recipes here.” Dalian glanced at G502, who was on high alert, and sighed helplessly. “And you—I’m just an ordinary Witch now. Oh no, I’ve only taken the Polymorph Potion, not the Witch Potion. I’m not even a Witch yet—I’m just an Outsider. I can’t beat you guys.”
G502 still didn’t let her guard down.
After all, one cannot be too cautious.
This really hurt Dalian’s feelings.
Damn it! She stole so much of her cat food, and there’s no trust at all?
Too heartbreaking for this kitty.
Su Ling didn’t pay attention to these two goofballs. She just stared at the recipes, her eyes flickering.
Finally, she gritted her teeth and took them all.
“A fool would turn down a bargain!”
Maybe one day she’d become an alchemist?
She pulled out her Storage Pouch and swept all the Moni into it.
Soon, the place was bare.
Su Ling weighed the bulging Storage Pouch and looked at Dalian. “Are you sure you’re giving all this to me? No regrets?”
“Sigh, money is meant to be spent. Better to give it to you than to someone else.” Dalian shrugged and habitually pounced into Su Ling’s arms.
But she forgot she was now in her tall, mature form. She accidentally knocked Su Ling over.
Their eyes met. Awkward.
“Damn it! I knew you had bad intentions!” G502 shrieked, transforming into a knee-high little Loli. She climbed onto Dalian and started punching and kicking.
Dalian tried to get up but was pushed down again by G502’s antics.
Su Ling felt an enormous softness pressing against her chest, and her face turned crimson.
But Dalian felt nothing.
She was already spayed. All she wanted was to get up quickly.
But with G502 on her back, she tried several times and failed.
Su Ling’s forehead bulged with veins.
“Both of you… get off me!”
After a chaotic struggle, the three finally separated.
But Su Ling was breathing heavily and glared resentfully at Dalian, who was licking her paws in a corner.
Dalian had turned back into her cat form.
If Su Ling hadn’t known she was spayed, she would have really thought she did it on purpose.
“This money can buy your life, but it’s not enough.” Su Ling laid her cards on the table.
She couldn’t just forgive Dalian that easily.
Aside from the Original Owner, Dalian was the one she hated the most.
Dalian had no choice. “Then what do you want?”
“A contract. Become my contracted beast.”
“Fine.”
The answer was so straightforward that Su Ling was a little surprised.
But Dalian explained casually: “I know who you are. I’m someone who’s already died once. If I leave you, I’ll have to start over. It’s easier to just latch onto a powerful patron.”
The Zerg Queen—that was a patron not everyone could latch onto.
“My Queen, I think she might have ulterior motives.” G502 turned back into a doll and flew onto Su Ling’s shoulder.
Dalian got red. “You jerk! I stole so much cat food, and you won’t say a word for me?”
“You made the Queen suffer so much before. How can I say good things about you? The Queen not killing you is already merciful.”
That was the truth.
Su Ling killing Dalian would have been perfectly justifiable.
After all, Dalian had really pushed Su Ling to the brink.
Dalian was completely out of moves. She lay on the ground, exposing her belly. “Then what do you want? Want me to turn into human form and let you guys have some fun?” “What the heck do you take me for?! I told you, just contract with me!” Su Ling said angrily.
Lies had no power; truth was the sharp blade.
Contract Magic belonged to the [Truth] Sequence, but it was only first-tier. It wasn’t restricted by Sequence—all Witches could use it. It was so common you could find it with a simple online search.
The main catch was that the conditions were too harsh. Both parties had to be completely willing.
In this era, what Witch would willingly become someone else’s contracted beast?
Su Ling placed her hand on Dalian’s head and chanted the incantation she had just learned online. Soon, a flash of light appeared. A faint blood-red mark emerged on Dalian’s forehead, and a similar mark flashed on the back of Su Ling’s hand.
Immediately after, Su Ling felt the connection between herself and Dalian.
She could sense that Dalian’s life was now at her whim.
This connection was at the soul level. Unless she willingly dissolved it, there was no other way to break the contract.
Su Ling breathed a sigh of relief.
Only then did she feel a little at ease.
She pulled out the Magic Cube. Under Dalian and G502’s curious gazes, she scattered the Moni again.
“My Queen, what is this?” G502 was an Imperial Guard. Her previous actions had made Su Ling stop doubting her loyalty.
And Dalian was now her contracted beast, so Su Ling felt safe experimenting.
“E’zi Magic Cube. Do you know about it?”
G502 and Dalian both shook their heads.
Su Ling wasn’t annoyed. She hadn’t expected them to know anyway.
Since these Moni had magic, she thought of the Magic Cube.
After all, what she needed most now was magic.
She wondered if the magic from these Moni would have any effect on the Magic Cube.
Su Ling briefly explained, and Dalian and G502 stared in shock.
They also figured out why Su Ling had previously used Luo Qianxue’s [Heaven’s Fall].
“Wuwuwu, My Queen! I knew your Fusilli Festival was for a deeper purpose! For the Zerg, to grow stronger, you sacrificed so much!” G502’s tiny brain went into overdrive, instantly imagining Su Ling willingly sacrificing herself to hunt magic and grow stronger for the sake of the Zerg’s revival. She was moved to tears.
Dalian also looked at Su Ling in shock.
Could it be… that everything before was part of this Queen’s scheme?
Siiip—maybe even everything she herself had done now was also part of the scheme?
Su Ling was extremely embarrassed at that moment and wished she could dig a hole to crawl into.
She… she was just genuinely enjoying being pressed down by beautiful girls.
And she’d found that being on top was not fun at all.
She worked herself to exhaustion, almost getting tendonitis in her hands, while the ones underneath—like Long Ying and Ji Lingyuan—were fainting from pleasure. She, on the other hand, was dead tired.
Seriously, she didn’t know why Witches wanted to be on top so much.
She decided: from now on, she’d be the bottom.
Where was the fun in being on top?
Ahem, getting off track.
Su Ling tossed the Magic Cube in her hand, then picked up a Moni.
The reason she wanted to experiment here was that physical Moni, now almost completely obsolete, was too flashy outside. Who knew if someone might see it and cause trouble?
It was better to do it here. There was no one else. And since Dalian was her contracted beast and G502 was her loyal Imperial Guard, she wasn’t worried about her secret leaking with them present.
Now, Su Ling placed the Moni on the Magic Cube. Three pairs of eyes stared expectantly at the Cube.
[Too little.]
Soon, the Magic Cube gave Su Ling feedback.
“Too little?”
Well, one Moni—how much magic could it have?
Su Ling hurriedly poured out a large pile of Moni.
[Too little.]
[Not enough, not enough, not enough!]
[More, more!]
Dalian turned back into human form and helped Su Ling put the Moni onto the Magic Cube.
They worked like an assembly line, Moni flashing nonstop. Soon, the ground was littered with Moni that had no glow at all.
These were Moni drained of magic—now just ordinary gold coins.
Su Ling and the others were exhausted. Dalian turned back into a cat again, lying on the ground, belly up, twitching.
G502 turned back into a doll and lay on Dalian’s belly, her small wings still trembling.
Su Ling’s vision went black.
This was several million Moni!
Finally, just as the Moni were about to run out, the Magic Cube sent a message.
[It’s, it’s, it’s coming!]
Su Ling was overjoyed.
The fifth face of the Magic Cube slowly emerged—a faint portrait.
But what shocked Su Ling was that the other four—Luo Ganxue, Long Ying, an unfamiliar Elf, and Ji Lingyuan—were all chibi portraits. This fifth portrait, however, was extremely realistic.
Pointy ears, short golden hair, a pair of tightly shut eyes.
“W-who is this?” Su Ling swallowed, her voice trembling.
She never expected it to actually succeed.
Dalian woke up too, her cat legs trembling.
At this moment, the three of them felt a suffocating pressure.
“I-if what you said is right, and the Magic Cube can show the owner of the magic, then… then…”
That would mean this was the owner of the magic in the Moni!
Out of nowhere, the three thought of the legend Dalian had casually mentioned earlier.
Legend said Moni was the flesh and blood of a fallen Sequence Witch.
The three of them were dumbfounded.
Just then, Su Ling suddenly received a scream from the Magic Cube.
[Oh no! There’s a gaze piercing through time and space!]
Almost at the same moment, the realistic portrait on the fifth face of the Magic Cube—those tightly shut eyes—flung open wide.
Su Ling’s mind went blank.
S-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-she was alive!
—
“Blocked off? Are you sure the person is inside?”
Right now, outside Citibank, the place was packed with people.
Ling and Nuowa stood at the outermost edge, next to them stood a white-haired little Loli with an antenna on her head.
The manager of Citibank, Hua Manlou.
“Hmph! Do you think I’d lie to you?”
“We can’t enter the Folded Space, but she’ll definitely come out. If we wait here, unless a Sequence Witch comes, she’ll have no chance of escaping!”
Hua Manlou wore cool sunglasses, tilted her cute little face up, and said coolly.
For that star-level Star Destroyer Fleet, she was going all in!
As soon as she finished speaking—
“Boom!”
It sounded like the sky was collapsing.
Everyone was stunned.
They instinctively looked.
Citibank’s original location had vanished.
And above it, the sky really did collapse.
The sky shattered like broken glass, cracking inch by inch.
In the cracks, everyone actually saw a galaxy.
A cascading galaxy!
Then, round, engraved gold coins cascaded down from the pouring galaxy like an avalanche!
At the same time.
The newly repaired Magic Monitoring Station.
The same little Loli monitor was still there.
She was still asleep, a snot bubble on the tip of her nose, expanding and contracting with her breath.
Suddenly, the Magic Monitoring Station exploded.
The little Loli woke with a start.
Staring at the familiar scene, her little head buzzed.
Seriously? Again?