Campus loan crisis! Shushu is bankrupt?
At three in the morning, Xiaodou huddled in the corner of the dormitory, his tail as bald as a pencil. The mechanical cat's notification tone was cold and merciless:
"The consumption recall period has expired. Your current debt is 23,333 yuan! Please repay immediately, otherwise the 'Sweet Shackles' enforcement measures will be triggered."
The school hunk collapsed holding his calculator: "This is equivalent to my living expenses for three months! What should I do? Should I sell my kidney to buy milk tea?" Snowball squatted aside, fiddling with the three remaining hairs of Xiaodou with his cat claws, with a look of worry in his eyes.
"Let's go to cousin Lin Shen's clinic!" The school hunk suddenly grabbed Xiaodou and stuffed him into his schoolbag. "He said that if you encounter strange animals, just look for him... Even though he has a phobia of rats, this is an emergency!"
Walking through the night streets, Xiaodou glimpsed the words "Lin Shen" on the clinic sign through the crack of his schoolbag, and the rune in his claw heart burned again. The moment he pushed open the door, the scent of disinfectant mingled with the aroma of osmanthus cake from the demonic realm. On the examination table lay Mingshu's sword tassel from the Xiuxian chapter, and a drawer was half-open, revealing an old book with the cover titled "Concept Rat Breeding Manual."
"Meow!" Snowball suddenly leaped onto the examination table and slapped the call bell with his paw. Lin Shen, dressed in a white lab coat, trotted over quickly. His mask covered half his face, but beneath his gloves, his skin bore the star markings of the fox clan from the demonic realm. The moment he saw Xiaodou, his body tensed, and his sneeze shook the stethoscope. "A-Ayuan, why did you bring... a mouse?"
"Cousin, save it!" The school hunk placed Xiaodou on the examination table. "It sheds its hair to make money, and now it's overdrawn and almost dying!"
Lin Shen turned his head away and fished out a bottle of anti-blur spray from a drawer—the very same one developed by Lin Shen's Steampunk personality. He sprayed the spray on Xiaodou's tail, and the bald area suddenly sprouted gear-shaped hairs. At the same time, an energy coin from the Star Wars universe fell out.
"This is..." Lin Shen's voice suddenly dropped. His gloves slipped off, revealing his wrists. A flash of Ling Yuan's tactical pattern flashed across his face. He quickly pulled off his white coat. At the collar of his shirt beneath, Bai Yan's Foxfire symbol resonated with Xiao Dou's gear rune.
Xiaodou suddenly remembered Bai Yan's warmth from the Demon Realm arc and struggled to rub against Lin Shen's palm. Lin Shen stiffened, but didn't shy away. Instead, he gently nudged Xiaodou's nose with his fingertips. This movement caused his sleeve to slide down, revealing the "Abyss" tattoo on the inside. The font was identical to the inscription on Bai Shenyuan's mechanical arm in the Steampunk arc.
"It needs rest." Lin Shen turned around and opened the refrigerator, which was filled with food coupons from the 1960s and elemental fruits from the Western Fantasy chapter. "Also, don't let it chew on strange things in the future... like this." He held up a tentacle gold coin from the Doomsday chapter. The Sky-Swallowing Pattern on the coin and Xiaodou's runes produced visible ripples.
The school hunk suddenly pointed at the photo on the wall and said, "Cousin, the little mouse in this photo..."
In the photo, a young Lin Shen holds a Sky-Swallowing Rat doll, with the steampunk-themed Gear Prison in the background. Lin Shen hurriedly blocks the photo, but accidentally knocks over a bookshelf. A copy of "Strange Tales from the Demonic Realm" falls on Xiaodou's head, and a fragment of the Double-Eyed Rat's diary from the Ancient Story of the House Fighting falls out. Inscribed on it is the phrase, "The day the three souls become one, the Concept Rat King awakens."
The red light of the mechanical cat suddenly lit up in the examination room, and its voice was filled with the murmur of electricity:
"Guardian energy fluctuations detected. Do you want to awaken the three soul memories? Warning: If you refuse, the host will permanently lose the ability to attract wealth!"
Xiaodou looked up and saw Lin Shen's three soul patterns looming in the shadows—Ling Yuan's coldness, Bai Yan's gentleness, and Lin Shen's melancholy, all flashing alternately on the same face. He suddenly remembered the three soul sacrifices from the demon world chapter, and a sob erupted from his throat, spelling out the word "no" with his last three strands of hair.
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