The coffee was packed, the food supplies were stocked, and all the snacks for the road had been bought.
Jiang Han kicked at her shoes, lowered her head, and searched through the top-tier witches' chat group for information on the Garden Pipes.
The Garden Pipes used an Astral Realm propulsion system. Put simply, a fuel that produced explosive airflow when burned was ignited within the Astral Realm, and through the Astral Realm's unique physical properties, that blast became a harmless driving force.
This regulated the climate, ecosystem, and accelerated airflow within the pipes.
However, because of its complex Astral Realm marker points, the Garden Pipes occasionally drew in valuable treasures. Sometimes, research trash made by witches would also be purified by the Astral Realm, become useful items, and get sucked inside. Thus, the Garden Pipes had dozens of [Discarded Parts Fields] that even top-tier witches frequented. There was always some treasure to be found there, especially when combined with witches' utterly unreasonable specialized abilities.
Abilities like the cat lamps' power to spawn a treasure chest out of thin air were rare among witches, but they did exist.
For example, Lilian had an ability that let her rummage through discarded parts and suddenly dig up the latest, trendiest Anjie-5099 graphics card. It was exceedingly mysterious; there was no need to trace its origins. Even the tax bureau would not find fault with such a thing—just treat it as a treasure casually generated under Anjie's favor.
Witches who acquired good treasures by collecting worn-out junk collectively called themselves:
[Junk Collectors]
"Four thousand five hundred a day per cat? That's so expensive. Can't you make it cheaper?"
Lilian was haggling with the dwarven witch owner of the vintage café.
Perched atop the dwarven witch owner's fluffy—super fluffy—long hair was a stacked pile of