Though this was also called setting up stalls, it was not the same as the "stall-setting" people commonly imagined.
The most common sight was mirrors. Mirrors stood everywhere, each one serving as a "door" leading to the stall behind it. Part of the interior scene, or the appearance of the featured goods, would be displayed on the mirror's surface to draw passing customers in.
Besides clusters of upright mirrors, some vendors simply held a sign and stood beside a large box placed behind them. Their goods were listed on the sign, and anyone interested could discuss the details.
Of course, there were also stalls that spread their wares out directly on the ground. But overall, such stalls were rare.
Mainly because there was no security.
With these true street stalls, either the goods were not valuable enough that it mattered if they were casually laid out and lost, or the merchant was powerful enough to fear no one approaching.
Besides the stalls described above, there were also "crystal shell" stalls specially provided by the Crystal-Eyed Race.
They rented crystal shells, then unfolded them into little crystal houses.
The crystal houses served as temporary shops.
Naturally, these rented crystal shell stalls did more than merely provide a place to set up shop. They also came with protective shields, safeguarding the merchants and goods inside to the greatest extent possible.
In addition, colored lights swirled around the crystal shell stalls.
From afar, those colored lights seemed to serve no purpose beyond being pretty and eye-catching. But once passersby approached, the lights condensed into all manner of strange illusions.
For example, directly in front of Angel at that moment stood a pure white crystal house with a rounded dome.
The moment Angel and Laplace approached the crystal house, the goose-yellow lights around it