Chapter 9: Shared Misfortune
The next day was sunny and clear.
Mi Xue Zhou stretched and walked out of the aristocrat young lady’s house.
“Haa~~ The beautiful girls in the Royal Palace were really too enthusiastic~~ I didn’t want to stay overnight, but I didn’t expect to play so late!”
Although her body still retained a trace of fatigue, Mi Xue Zhou put on a show of energy and headed towards the third spaceport where the Time Shuttle was located.
Because rest was rest, and work was work, everyone was going to depart again at noon today.
She still had a lot of things to do in the morning… at least, she couldn’t fall behind on the matters of inventory and dispatch.
However, Mi Xue Zhou never expected…
The Time Shuttle was empty.
It was as if it had been abandoned, without Lonis’s fluffy tail, without Elus’s long black hair, without Princess Cécile’s soft whisper. Even Bai Ye, who usually worked diligently, was gone.
(What happened?)
This scene left Mi Xue Zhou a bit confused. She opened her mouth and asked loudly, “Is, is anyone there?”
“Wuwu, it’s big sister!!!!!”
Before Mi Xue Zhou could react, a little girl with pink hair rushed over from the stairs.
Her eyes were red, as if she had just been crying… Upon seeing her, Su Ling rushed forward without hesitation and hugged her tightly.
“Su Ling?”
“Big sister, big sister!! It’s so good that big sister is okay!!!!”
“Wait, Su Ling, what happened? Where is everyone?”
Mi Xue hugged her sister and gently stroked her head.
“Wuwu… everyone, everyone abandoned Su Ling!!”
“Huh?”
“It’s definitely because Su Ling is useless and a burden again, everyone isn’t talking to Su Ling at all, wuwu…”
…
…
What exactly happened?
It turned out that Zhou Su Ling had gone to the coffee shop yesterday and worked a temporary job all day…
And this money? Su Ling used it at the board game store to buy a board game called “Slime Adventure”~
This was something like a slime habitat. It had four tracks inside. The slimes kept inside needed to pass level after level to get food at the finish line.
The levels could be freely combined, and the slime models could be fed freely, so Zhou Su Ling wanted to buy it to play with everyone~~
…
Before parting in the morning, Bai Ye, Lonis, and Elus all said they would come back for dinner…
But what about Su Ling?
Let alone dinner, she waited until she fell asleep, but she didn’t wait for her companions to return.
In the empty ship, there was only Su Ling. Holding the “Slime Adventure” toy, she was at a loss.
Is it because…
Everyone doesn’t want to play with me?
Is it because…
My hobbies are too childish?
…
Stubborn Su Ling thought that everyone was busy and might return late, so she fell asleep on the sofa, expecting everyone to play games happily with her the next morning!
But…
No one was there.
When she woke up in the morning, the Time Shuttle was still quiet. This made Su Ling realize that she had been completely abandoned.
“Wuwu, big sister! I should just go back home and study. Am I… not fit to live on this ship?”
Being abandoned by her friends, Su Ling fell into deep grief.
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Meanwhile, on the other side.
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“Huh? Senior Elus… why are you here?”
Cécile blinked and looked at the black-haired girl who was so close to her.
Actually, because Cécile slept very soundly at night, this wasn’t the first time she had been ambushed at night… In the past, it was her older sister Ling Li, and recently it was the playful sister Candelle.
It was very rare to see Senior Elus as early as today…
…
“Mhm, good morning, Princess Elus…”
Seeing Cécile’s dazed expression, Elus smiled helplessly.
Looking at this princess, she completely couldn’t remember what happened last night?
…
Last night, after seeing that the person she had injured was Princess Cécile, countless speculations appeared in Elus’s mind.
No matter which speculation it was, the urgent matter was to transport Cécile away… If the two of them were discovered by the guards, the consequences would be unimaginable!
However, even the black-hearted Elus did not expect this.
Even when she was half-conscious, Cécile still chanted a teleportation array…
But perhaps because her consciousness was unclear, the destination of this teleportation array was the abandoned dungeons in this prison.
So, the result last night was…
Elus was affected by Princess Cécile’s array and was imprisoned together.
If it were Elus in her prime, she wouldn’t have been afraid of this cage, but her heart was injured. No matter how she tried to pry with her hands, the iron bars did not move at all.
And her ability to strip the five senses could only take effect on living beings.
She couldn’t hypnotize the iron bars and say, “You are a small piece of bamboo,” and expect the bars to open, right?
Thus, the two girls were trapped together.
“Ah, ah? Senior Elus means, we are… trapped in a cage now?”
After knowing the whole story, Princess Cécile’s face turned red with embarrassment.
“That’s right, Cécile, do you have any good ideas?”
“Wuwu… I could use brute force to forcibly pull open the prison’s iron bars. But if I do that, I’ll also trigger the underground prison’s alarm.”
“Oh?”
“Then not only the jailers, but also the waiting Sword and Shield Guards will come to assist. When that happens, if they see me…”
Cécile fell into a state of indecision.
Although this silver-haired princess was gentle and kind, what she feared most was losing face as a princess in front of ordinary people.
Hearing Cécile say that?
Elus also sighed.
Although she wasn’t afraid of those Sword and Shield Guards and the guards, Lonis was, after all, the Hero Princess?
Even if the guards didn’t know now and were just detaining her, if things escalated, wouldn’t the fact that she was pushed down by Lonis become known to everyone?
(Damn it…)
At this point, Elus regretted her decision.
At that time, she just hated that Lonis was so provocative, licking her legs like that, so she called her a rapist and imprisoned her.
And now…
What method could be used to escape from prison?
