Heimat der Spirituosen

Kapitel 27

"Your room with... Third Sister!?"

"Hahaha, no, hahaha." Lou Lijia chuckled dryly.

That dry, lifeless voice immediately suggested something was wrong, but thankfully Lou Lifan wasn't like them. He wasn't interested in gossip and was afraid they'd use it as an excuse, so he remained silent. But trouble like this can't be quelled simply by one or two people trying to stop it, so many things… well, they're bound to turn out very unsatisfactorily!

霈林海就是那种非常会无意中挑起事端的人，他看了看身边几个装聋作哑的人，问出了一句让大家都非常想杀死他的话——“啊，这么说的话，楼大姐和楼三姐是情人喽。” 楼厉佳大惊，一拳砸上他的脑袋，另外青筋爆出的两个女人扑上去一顿狂揍，直到他鼻青脸肿了才住手。

"Hmph...you brat! I'll teach you to talk nonsense!" Lou Liyan clapped his hands and walked away, still furious.

"If it weren't for the recent full moon, hmph...you brat, I'd curse you to death!" Lou Liya clapped her hands, still fuming, and walked away. The so-called full moon didn't refer to the full moon in the sky, but rather to the tide of spiritual energy within the human body. However, this was only initially the case; later, it became a specific term for the magical energy tides of witches. During a full moon, magical energy reaches its most uncontrollable peak. At this time, most witches would try to use their abilities as little as possible, otherwise, it might cause irreparable consequences.

"But...but..." Pei Linhai, still oblivious to his mistake, persisted in pressing for an answer, "You two clearly came out as a couple..."

"I think you're really tired of living," Lou Lifan said, his voice as cold as if he were in the Arctic. His eyes, which were strikingly similar to his three older sisters', flashed a deadly light at Pei Linhai. "So, according to you, people living between lovers must be lovers? Hmm? Is that right? Hmm?"

He asked the question, but his eyes clearly said, "If you dare to agree, I'll fill you with cement and sink you to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean."

Pei Linhai was well aware of the consequences of lying, and he certainly wouldn't admit to such a thing. So he lowered his head and cautiously replied, "Of course...no..."

"So we're not 'now' either." Lou Liyan swayed her hips and walked to Lou Lifan's bedside, then lay down. "Ah—I'm so tired! I'm exhausted! I'm going to sleep for a while, but don't forget about our bags."

After she said that, the other two witches also started yawning, completely forgetting the "almost bloodshed" they had just caused.

"Ah, I'm so sleepy, Li Fan. Remember our bags, let's all take a nap first."

"Remember, our bag."

They put the two beds together, and the three women lay down haphazardly. Within two minutes, they were snoring away without any decorum.

Pei Linhai, still unwilling to give up, asked Lou Lifan while holding his face, which was bruised and battered. "Lifan... can you tell me what your older sister meant when she said they're not a couple 'now'?"

Lou Lifan stiffened his neck and remained silent.

"Could it be that..."

“She didn’t say anything!” Lou Lifan walked to the window with a dark face and looked out through the window he had just opened. “Before you worry about those irrelevant things, you should worry about the practical issues first.”

Pei Linhai was baffled. He walked over to Lou Lifan and looked in the direction Lou Lifan was looking—and then burst into dry laughter. “It seems to be much bigger than our door, hahahaha…”

Right under their window, three huge suitcases were neatly arranged.

"Oh, right, there's one more question, Li Fan."

"..."

"They sleep here, where will we sleep?"

"..."

The two glanced at the darkening sky and remained silent.

With the witches taking over their beds, Pei Linhai and Lou Lifan had to sleep on the floor. The witches occupied the beds, and most of the remaining space in the room was also taken up by their luggage. They couldn't even sleep comfortably on the floor, so they had to move the sofa to someone else's room and squeeze into a small corner under the window to rest.

They had considered squeezing into another room, but it seemed to be a curse between lovers; whenever they left this room, they were destined to be drowsy but unable to sleep. Despite their attempts to appease them, the three witches wouldn't let them go. After suddenly falling asleep, they all woke up in the middle of the night as if by prior arrangement, then one by one went to the bathroom to shower, dragging their enormous bags from one side of the room to the other, taking things out and putting them back, sometimes whispering and laughing, sometimes laughing loudly and maliciously, their schemes a mystery.

If they could sleep in such a noisy environment, their nerves must be made of steel—unfortunately, they weren't. They dared not protest, or even let them know they were awake, otherwise who knew what terrible things awaited them. So they gave each other a wry smile, and then quickly closed their eyes again, pretending to be asleep.

For the next week, they endured this inhuman existence. During the day, while they attended classes, the three witches would wander around, reconnecting with familiar faces from their previous stays. At night, they were exhausted and longed to rest, but the witches wouldn't let them go. One minute they wanted delicious food, the next they wanted to "get to know" the handsome men in other rooms. Even when they had nothing to do, they would find something to order them around. If they dared to disobey, the witches would throw a tantrum, threatening suicide. If that didn't work, they would adopt a witch's stance, saying, "Hmph, you dare to disobey witches? You're asking for trouble! Die! I curse you!" The two helpless, pitiful souls were forced to run around for their fleeting whims.

However, thanks to their help, they also saw some very interesting things. If they hadn't been there, they probably would never have seen those sights in their lives.

For example, Tian Jin. One day, she opened her door, and coincidentally, the door to the room opposite also opened. The eldest sister of the Lou family came out, and the two bumped into each other face to face. Normally, this wouldn't be a big deal, and someone as sinister as Tian Jin would never react to such a trivial matter—usually, in such situations, the other person would scream and run away. But that day, she acted as if she had seen a ghost, emitting a high-frequency destructive sound wave that ordinary people couldn't imagine. The lights in the hallway snapped several times, and then she turned and ran back into her room, refusing to step out again.

Later, Lou Lifan and the others learned that she was actually a short-term student in a precognition course run by the eldest sister of the Lou family, and had suffered a lot under Lou Liyan's hands...

For example, the perverted principal hadn't appeared since the day they heard they were coming, but the three witches were very persistent and chased him all the way to the top of the 140-story teaching building, forcing him to jump off the building. However, for some reason, he didn't use a protective shield and ended up half-dead from the fall, requiring bandages to be wrapped around him for more than half a month.

Later they found out that their claims of being "on good terms with the perverted principal" were complete lies. They were just good gamblers who had made the perverted principal lose everything, including his pants, on several occasions. Even after they graduated, he still owed Lou Lijia more than two million yuan... In short, they were just trying to escape their debts.

Take Yuan Ni, for example… Yuan Ni's case is rather special. The one who suffered the humiliation wasn't Yuan Ni, but Lou Liya, the third sister of the Lou family. They had their eyes on a handsome young man, whose grade they didn't know, and planned to follow him. Unfortunately, things went wrong when they made eye contact with Yuan Ni, who was returning home from school. Lou Lifan and Pei Linhai, who were forced to follow her, hadn't even realized what was happening when they saw Lou Liya, pale-faced, frantically searching for a hiding place. Lou Lifan, thinking she was looking for a place to relieve herself, asked a question, only to be immediately beaten senseless by her.

But just like that, Yuni looked this way. Lou Liya turned pale and tried to run away, but was stopped by Yuni's words, "Ah, isn't that Liya?^^".

"Haha, hahaha, Yuni, hello! It's such a coincidence that we meet again at this school, hahahahaha." That stiff laughter was something Lou Lifan had never heard before as her younger brother.

Junni walked over gracefully, took Lou Liya's arm as she looked like she wanted to die, and said, "It is indeed a great coincidence, hehehehe, let's get to know each other better..." Then she staggered and dragged her away.

Lou Lifan was astonished; how could anyone in this world scare his older sister like that? Lou Liyan and Lou Lijia, however, burst into laughter. It turned out that when Lou Liya was still a student, she was admired by many girls. Yuan Ni was in the same year as them and unfortunately, she was also one of their admirers, even more persistent than witches. Her favorite pastime was staking out outside Lou Liya's room, and she almost used a love spell to bind their future destinies together. Lou Liya still hadn't found a boyfriend, and sometimes she wondered if Yuan Ni had secretly cut her red thread of fate…

Of course, they didn't find out that Juni was actually a boy until after graduation.

Lou Liya hadn't returned by evening. Lou Liyan and Lou Lijia, contrary to their usual behavior, neither cared where she had gone nor made any attempt to eavesdrop. They simply stayed obediently in their room—though, of course, they still had to keep their younger brother and the other handsome man under their thumb.

Lou Lifan and Pei Linhai were still huddled in that small space under the window, looking as pitiful as children raised by a stepmother.

"Li Fan, when are they finally leaving...?" Pei Linhai asked with a mournful face.

Lou Lifan also wanted to know the answer, but the problem was that those three witches were extremely willful. Unless they could find something more interesting to them, they would never leave so easily.

"Unless a miracle occurs..."

Lou Liyan and Lou Lijia listlessly read books on the bed. After a while, they started rolling around in boredom.

"How boring!"

"Yeah, it's so boring..."

It's so boring when there's no one to mess with! Those two kids are useless too; not only did they not fight back, they actually hid in the corner without saying a word! They made it impossible for the girls to find anything to cause trouble for!

"Why isn't Li Ya back yet? So boring! So boring! So incredibly boring!" They were the three-person boredom-finding trio; if one of them was missing, it would naturally be less fun...

"This is so boring!"

"boring……"

"..."

"Ah! That's right! I've got it!" Lou Liyan and Lou Lijia's eyes met, and suddenly they screamed in unison, startling Lou Lifan so much that he jumped up.

These two women... what strange tricks have these two women come up with this time?

The two women laughed loudly, their gazes burning fiercely at the two men. Their gazes were terrifying; the two men involuntarily pressed their backs against the wall, wishing they could disappear inside.

Do you know what it means to be in a romantic relationship?

"I don't know..." Looking at your faces, I don't want to know! Those malicious looks are too blatant!

"Hehehehe... Let me tell you a fact," Lou Lijia twisted to Lou Lifan's side, sat down, and hugged his shoulders tightly, ignoring whether he got goosebumps or not, her laughter becoming increasingly terrifying, "In the more than four hundred years since the founding of Byte Academy, everyone who has lived between these couples has become a happy couple in their first year, and 99.9% of the couples get married in their graduation year! Do you want to see the wedding photos of every couple? They're all in the academy's history museum! Hahaha... Hahaha..."

Her laughter no longer resembled a smile, but rather sounded like she was being choked, gasping for breath.

Lou Lifan understood what she meant. In other words, he and Pei Linhai… A terrifying image flashed through his mind, which he immediately deleted instinctively. However, he wasn't afraid of this. When he first moved in, he had heard about this terrible curse from many people, both related and unrelated, and had seen photos that proved the happy marriages that had been created under the curse. But he didn't believe that such a ridiculous curse could come true for two men.

“I don’t care,” he said with a straight face. “Didn’t my eldest sister and third sister live here before? Don’t tell me the curse suddenly stopped working when they moved in!”

The eldest sister of the Lou family let out a high-pitched laugh, then coquettishly moved closer to Pei Linhai: "Did you think we could stop the curse of this room from the start? After living here for half a year, we... Oh ho ho ho ho..."

Pei Linhai and Lou Lifan suddenly felt a chill.

"...Of course we have nothing, but that level of curse is beyond our ability to resist. If this continues, we might really..."

Lou Lifan hypnotized himself: I didn't hear anything, I didn't hear anything, I didn't hear anything...

"But just when we were most troubled, we finally got a very important piece of information from our lovely principal—about breaking the curse."

Even a fool would know that they weren't really "inquiring"; they were probably using despicable methods like gambling to coerce that pervert into handing over the solution.

Lou Lifan looked at her. Although he tried to appear indifferent, his anxiety was palpable and impossible to hide. His obvious expression clearly revealed his desperate need for a solution, but… “So, you really, really want to know… how we broke the curse between lovers, right?”

“...That’s right.” But please stop looking at us like that, it gives us nightmares.

"So we're going to tell you the secret to liberation. Do you want to hear it?"

"..."

"Do you want to hear it?"

It wasn't that he didn't want to listen, but Lou Lifan was considering it. His sister always had a purpose in everything she did, and the general principle was usually "playing"! "Having fun!" He didn't believe they would suddenly have a change of heart and teach them a solution. The most likely reason was that they had thought of some interesting way to bully them and wanted to try it out on them under this pretext. However, he couldn't rule out the possibility that their method was actually possible. The only thing he was certain of was that such a way to escape was definitely not a good idea; otherwise, they would never have told them.

"Hey! Do you guys even want to know?"

Pei Linhai was unaware of these implications. He had originally intended to follow Lou Lifan's lead, but seeing that Lou seemed to be hesitating about something, and fearing that the witches might retract their original plan in anger, he thought for three seconds before loudly replying, "Yes!"

Lou Lifan knew he had no choice but to accept it now. He glared at him angrily, but didn't object. He replied in a low voice, "Yes..."

"Speak louder, the gentle older sisters can't hear you~"

"I want to!!" I'll blast you to death!

Pushing aside the three enormous pieces of luggage, I managed to clear a small space in the very center of the room—a "small" space that was just big enough for one person to stand in, and too small for most people to squeeze in.

Lou Liyan, Lou Lijia, and Lou Lifan all stood in the gaps between the bags, but Pei Linhai was pushed to that small spot and made to stand there.

"Your abilities are omnipotent, aren't they?" Lou Lijia told him, "There is a different space here. Open a spatial hole where you are standing, so that this space can connect with that space."

Pei Linhai pointed to his feet: "Here?"

"right."

"...Won't I fall?"

"Stop talking nonsense!" The beautiful woman transformed into a ferocious demon. "I told you to drive, so drive! Ask again and I'll kill you!"

Pei Linhai chose to fall rather than be killed. He stretched out his right index finger and drew a circle around his body in the air. As the last gap in the circle was sealed, a black hole the same size as the circle he had drawn appeared beneath his feet. Of course, due to gravity, Pei Linhai only had time to let out a cry before falling silently into the hole.

"Huh?!" Lou Lijia was very surprised. "Li Fan, doesn't he know how to fly with spiritual energy?"

"No way." Of course, a newbie who had only been exposed to paranormal abilities for three years couldn't possibly be one.

Why didn't he tell me?

"...You didn't ask." They wouldn't even let him say it.

"I'm so sorry to him." Without a trace of apology, Lou Lijia jumped into the black hole.

Lou Liyan and Lou Lifan, who didn't even bother to speak, followed her and jumped down one after the other.

The spatial rift opened by Pei Linhai was dark, narrow, and long. Lou Lifan descended into the darkness for a long time, almost to the point of despair, when suddenly his eyes lit up. As if by a deliberate dividing line, the blackness instantly turned into a bright orange. At the same time, he felt the part of his body that was levitating with spiritual energy touch an unusually soft place. He knew he had reached the bottom and released the support of his spiritual energy. Sure enough, his feet felt like they were stepping on cotton, with no foothold. He turned his head and looked around, finding himself in a bag-shaped orange space, the walls around the space emitting a soft light. Pei Linhai was not far from him, looking around at the situation.

They were currently at what appeared to be the entrance to some kind of tunnel, with four exits, each a similarly long and narrow tunnel. All the tunnels emitted that orange glow; the walls were smooth, and the orange light emanated from within them, faint and comforting.

"How is it?" Lou Lifan asked.

“I don’t feel anything particularly different,” Pei Linhai replied, frowning. What he meant by “no feeling” was a directional premonition, a premonition that guides him to a safer place. This feeling is very important in supernatural abilities; with it, one can avoid most extremely dangerous situations.

“I didn’t feel anything either,” Lou Lifan said. “And I just felt like…very uncomfortable.”

Pei Linhai agreed.