Shang Chuan was fast, and Li Huai was no slouch either.
Their trade requests arrived almost one right after the other.
Lan Qingyou didn't waste time. She set the Steel Wool she'd been holding against her chest on the desk, accepted Li Huai's stone slabs, and laid them out across the floor, one by one.
When the first floor ran out of space, she covered the second and third floors, too.
Then she drew Alchemical Arrays on the slabs one after another. It took her an hour to finish all one hundred.
After that, she placed the Large Iron Pots Li Huai had sent on the slabs.
That was when the floating effect came into play.
Although the house was packed to the brim, it was floating in the air, so Lan Qingyou's movements remained quick and orderly.
She weighed the herbs, added water, lit the fires, and stirred.
With the Emerald Stirring Rod in hand, Lan Qingyou hurried back and forth between the floors.
It was destined to be a sleepless night.
That was true for Lan Qingyou and everyone else.
Gu Xiaobei sat idle in her Level 3 Shelter, which she'd decorated with a distinctly ethnic flair, with nothing to do but wait out the night.
In the end, she couldn't sit still any longer.
After tossing the Wood in her hand—which could only add one point of energy—into the core, she opened her friends list and found Li Huai.
Gu Xiaobei: "Do you have any meat left? I need Volcano Beast meat."
Li Huai: "What for?"
Gu Xiaobei: "I'm making a late-night snack for Lan Qingyou."
Li Huai knew what their relationship was, since Gu Xiaobei had been introduced by Lan Qingyou. So he didn't say anything and immediately butchered the Volcano Beast he'd killed that day.