After turning off the water and wiping her body with a towel, she picked up the bathrobe nearby and put it on.
As soon as she tied the sash, Cipher opened her eyes and muttered to herself, "It really feels much better after a bath, but bathing itself was a bit... uncomfortable..."
With that, Cipher tugged at her bathrobe, then scurried back to her room as if fleeing.
Upon entering her room, Cipher saw several unopened packages of clothes and a hairdryer already placed on her bed.
She went over and rummaged through the clothes, discovering that they even included women's intimate apparel.
Seeing this, Cipher's face flushed red again, but due to previous experiences, she quickly adapted. She tore open the packaging and put it on herself.
After getting dressed, she weakly set the hairdryer aside and lay down on the bed. She didn't bother with her still-damp tail ears and hair for the time being, instead letting her mind wander.
'The Reverse Current Alliance has been driven away for now, and the system has successfully updated, but why are Lauren and the others having problems again?'
'It's only been three days since I arrived here, yet one thing after another keeps happening... When will it ever end?'
Cipher felt a bit irritated, but for now, she couldn't think of any better solution. Her only option was to wait for Lauren and the others to wake up and then ask them what exactly happened.
Ultimately, her hard power was still a bit insufficient. After all, even though she was a demigod, she was merely a super-modeled mechanism.
'Sigh... I wonder what I'll get if I draw a gold card next time? I've only done about thirty draws so far, there are at least forty more draws until the guaranteed pull...'
Cipher sighed silently, unsure if it was due to the frustration of needing forty more draws or her deep hatred for this damned guaranteed pull mechanism in the gacha pool.
'I should earn money first, use the money to draw cards, and once I get a gold card, then I'll figure out what to do next!'
'I should go ask Claire about the credit points first, even though I only have a little over 1.3 million left...'
Thinking this, Cipher abruptly sat up and walked towards the living room.
She now had a clear goal in the short term, and what she needed to do was achieve that goal!
As soon as she entered the living room, Cipher immediately saw Claire sitting there, reading a book.
"Boss, you're dressed."
"Mm... I am."
"Oh, right, Claire, what's with that three million credit point transfer that suddenly appeared in my account? Did you transfer all of your assets?"
Seeing Cipher emerge, Claire looked up and greeted her. Cipher instinctively responded, then brought up the matter of the credit points to Claire.
Hearing Cipher's question, Claire didn't seem surprised. She nodded and replied, "Because when I was confronting the Reverse Current Alliance members in the warehouse, I felt that aura of death, so I suspected you were in danger outside."
"At the time, the people in the warehouse were blocking me from leaving, but I remembered you once said that the more credit points you have, the stronger you become, so I directly transferred all my credit points to your terminal."
"So that's what happened..."
Cipher suddenly understood, finally knowing why Claire had transferred her the money.
"So, were those two people sold?"
"They were sold. The other party paid very promptly, giving two million without even batting an eye."
"Two... two million?! And they paid so promptly?!"
Upon hearing that number, Cipher's eyes immediately turned the color of gold coins.
To draw cards, she needed to earn a lot and a lot of money, so how to earn money and where to earn it became an important question.
But now, she thought she knew where to earn money.
"Uh... Boss Cipher, are you alright?"
Seeing Cipher suddenly stand still, Claire was unsure what had happened and asked hesitantly.
"I'm perfectly fine!" Hearing Claire's question, Cipher immediately snapped out of it, then excitedly replied to her.
"Because I've thought of a great way to get rich!"
With that, Cipher turned and left the living room, heading towards the study room...
However, just as she entered, Cipher suddenly remembered that she hadn't returned the money yet, so she turned back and shouted to the still-confused Claire in the living room:
"Claire! I still need the credit points you transferred me, so I'll return a portion to you now. Consider it a loan from you, and once I earn money, I'll return all of it!"
Then she used her terminal to transfer over three hundred thousand credit points, leaving only the one million credit points needed to acquire Castorice's ability. After that, she opened the secret passage and walked into the basement.
Upon reaching the basement, Cipher walked directly towards where Shen was.
"Hey, Boss Shen, wake up."
Standing in front of him, Cipher shook the still-sleeping Shen.
But after shaking him for a while, he didn't wake up.
"Is Claire's medicine still active? Then I guess I'll have to ask Claire how to wake him up."
Looking at the seemingly unawakable Shen, Cipher frowned and muttered to herself.
She then returned to the living room and told Claire about it.
"He can be woken up, but to prevent him from waking up directly, I gave him three or four doses of medicine. Even with an antidote, it would probably take over an hour to wake him."
"An hour?"
Hearing this answer, Cipher was not very satisfied, because there's a good saying: if you're not proactive in making money, there's something wrong with your thinking. Just thinking about having to wait over an hour to make money made her feel uncomfortable all over.
But now, even the creator of this medicine couldn't make him wake up quickly, so she could only...
No, there was still one more way.
'Can I tell a lie that I can instantly wake Shen, and then pay the system to make that lie a reality?'
Thinking of this, Cipher quickly returned to the basement. She looked at the unconscious Shen and silently uttered a lie:
"I have the ability to instantly awaken the man in front of me."
[5000 credit points consumed. Lie comes true, but the lie will expire after awakening or after ten minutes.]
As this text appeared, Cipher instantly felt a strange power emerge in her palm.
"It worked!"
Feeling the power in her hand, Cipher immediately became happy.
Then she looked at the sleeping Shen, then at her own palm, suddenly a little confused.
"But how do I wake him up?"