The laundry shop turned out to be rather far. After checking on Google Maps on Tanya's PDA, they realised that the nearest one was about 500 kilometres away.
But the lucky thing was that they noticed that the McDonny's Laundry Shop, the nearest around, had their very own McDelivery service. Which promised to serve "everybody everywhere".
"I guess that includes our dimensionless dimension then." Ray croaked. His voice really did sound like a croak, mainly because he was silently afraid that they'll be stuck here forever or be forced to trudge through the 500 kilometres. Which was quite a lot, covering more metres than bytes in his brain storage.
"OK, I'll call them now. Where's my banana phone?"
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After a day, a man with parcel appeared at one of the doors along the long corridor. He appeared in a weird looking uniform that read "FedUPS".
Apparently, the McDonny call operator baulked at the thought of traveling so far. She suggested a much more convenient way (at least for her) to ensure the delivery of the laundry and the items found inside. Which was to use the delivery services of FedUPS, the new company formed from a horizontal-merger of FedEX and UPS. Hanwen will then pay when he received them.
"Thanks for using FedUPS! We hope you will not be fed up with our service. That'll be 400 million mesos." The deliveryman told them politely.
"That costs da bomb, y'know?" Hanwen grumbled.
After a fierce haggle over the price and reducing it to 399 million mesos, Hanwen took his wand from the parcel and conjured out 399 million mesos to pay the man.
"Now we're ready to go! We're gonna rock da place manz!" Hanwen said excitedly.
He cast the spell, screaming "Teleportaros Infral!" in a high pitched voice.
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Ray looked around and realised he was in a rainforest. With a yellow brick road winding through it.
"I recognise this road! It leads from Oz to my city!" Ray exclaimed. He had traveled to Oz previously to sell his wheat to the pie makers there. The inflation rate in his city was rather low unfortunately for him. Coupled with the stupid price ceilings the lord placed, the prices of wheat were very much lower than in Oz. Wheat was like oil in Oz, fetching 14 thousand mesos a kilogram.
After checking with the PDA on which direction to head, the party consisting of hanwen, ray and tanya proceeded to the his old home, land of the first lord. Filled with a strong sense of purpose and determined to free the people subjected under him. That was their primary wish.
Of course, there were secondary wishes like getting the ChocoCrunch Ray left behind. And also the lord's prized pokemon figurines' collection.
Glossary
inflation rise in general level of prices of goods and services over time
price ceiling government-imposed limit on how high a price can be charged on a product
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