(I suddenly realized while flipping through the book that bile is weakly alkaline, but I've been writing it as acid QAQ. Fine, I admit it—I'm a terrible student.)
"Oh? Do tell. I'm all ears!"
"I'm all ears for your shit ×2."
"I'm all ears for your shit ×350234."
"Ahem, who said we didn't have materials?"
[Hannibal] waved for everyone to follow him, walked to the edge of the suspended platform, leaned halfway over, and pointed down.
Everyone followed his finger.
Below the Hanging City, the vast expanse of roiling yellow-green liquid thundered.
"Did you forget how we got here? That bile is full of monsters! Isn't everything down there living raw material?"
[Data Maniac] came over and corrected them. "A quick science lesson: everyone thought it was acid before, but judging from the damage calculation the system just gave us, it's actually extremely concentrated, strongly alkaline bile. Falling in won't just cost HP—your character's body fat will instantly saponify and dissolve."
"Who cares whether it's acid or alkali?" Brute Force Yields Miracles's eyes lit up. "As long as there are monsters down there, with meat and bones, that's our construction materials warehouse!"
"But... isn't it too high?" Cloud Pomelo glanced down and immediately felt dizzy.
Hannibal and Bi Ren Liang Mou exchanged a look and sprang into action.
All the Flesh Artisans and Life Sages present were mobilized. The Life Sages sprayed gel with all their might, while the Flesh Artisans began frantically twisting ropes.
A few hours later, two tough biological cables as thick as thighs and several thousand meters long hung down from the Hanging City.
"This is the fixed pulley we learned about in second grade! We can use it to haul cargo later!"
At the very bottom of the cables, less than fifty meters above the