“You actually expect to control a bunch of free spirits?”
“That's freaking ridiculous.”
Was it ridiculous?
It really was.
Lan Qingyou couldn't help but nod in agreement.
Setting aside the rare few decent people like herself who hadn't committed any crimes, those criminals were all arrogant bastards who thought they were the center of the universe.
Unless all hundred thousand-plus people on the map signed slavery contracts with that Sherlock Cloudley guy...
Otherwise, you could forget about uniting everyone here to form some kind of organization.
Perhaps because it touched upon everyone's personal interests, many people began to launch indiscriminate personal attacks on Boda, the one who had come up with the lousy idea.
After watching for a while and finding it boring, Lan Qingyou was about to pick up her book when her eyes caught something. Between the Area Channel and the Friends list, a new channel called 【Kalim Supreme Council】 had appeared at some point.
When Lan Qingyou reached out to tap it, a warning window popped up on her desk.
【Notice! This is a private channel. Only those with authorization or an invitation may enter.】
Well then.
It seemed this Kalim Supreme Council wasn't just talk.
At the very least, these people possessed the authority to open a new channel.
And with the existence of this channel, in some ways, they had established a somewhat plausible 'legal' presence.
Hmm... Come to think of it, among the tool rewards earlier, she seemed to have seen something called a 【Channel Activation Card】.
At the time, she hadn't paid it much attention because the name suggested it had little to do with alchemy.
Now it seemed that was exactly what was used to open this channel.
Since that thing was C-rank, the person who used it must have been one of the 58 people who received an S-rank evaluation this time, just like her.
To use such a precious opportunity to open this thing... they certainly had some guts.
After a quick glance, Lan Qingyou went back to her book.
Although she wanted to head up to the second floor and read in bed, the Magic Broom was still working. Since it was its first time on the job, she wasn't in a rush.
She wanted to see how the Magic Broom performed.
Since this was her first time handling such an item, she had to familiarize herself with its functions.
Half an hour later, the Magic Broom came down from the second floor. It stopped at the spot where she had activated it and fell to the floor with a clatter.
Good heavens, it even had an auto-return feature. That was pretty good.
Looking at the fallen Magic Broom, Lan Qingyou picked it up and leaned it against the wall before going to inspect its work.
And she had to admit...
The Magic Broom was much more thorough than she was.
It had even cleaned the second-floor terrace, which had been covered in fallen leaves and dust.
In a word: satisfied!
Feeling she had made the right choice, Lan Qingyou finished her inspection, took a bath, and went to bed to read.
The next morning, she took out all the herbs, washed them, and spread them out on the second-floor terrace.
“Listen up. You keep a good eye on these. Don't let the wind blow them away, you hear?”
After finishing lunch, Lan Qingyou placed Steel Wool on the second floor and spoke solemnly, pressing her index finger against its beak.
“Cheep—”
Seeing that Lan Qingyou seemed to be going out to play without it again, Steel Wool opened its beak and bit her finger.
“Shoo, shoo. Kids shouldn't meddle in grown-up business.”
Lan Qingyou didn't coddle it.
Waving her hand to shake off the persistent Steel Wool, she flew out from the terrace.
After all, the little one was still young and didn't even know how to fly. Letting it out would only result in it becoming someone else's meal again.
Today, she was going to start looking for D-rank medicinal ingredients so she could try her hand at making D-rank potions or elixirs.
Of course...
The most important reason was that Basic Alchemy didn't contain any records regarding D-rank herbs. She mainly wanted to go out and identify them, increasing her knowledge while gathering as many samples as possible to bring back.
After all, compared to digging them up slowly by herself, it was much more convenient to buy them from Shang Chuan.
That guy had managed to develop a network of subordinates when there were only ten thousand people; now that there were over a hundred thousand, his business would only flourish even more.
Although she had the option to put out a call in the shop...
Doing so would only waste her time.
So, she would leave the task of sourcing to a professional. She only needed to focus on crafting the potions.
And she wasn't disappointed.
After making a round, Lan Qingyou returned at dusk with a bountiful harvest.
Puncturevine, menthol, black grass, plantain seed, little red flower, sophora root... she had found over a dozen types of D-rank herbs.
And that was just within the Abandoned Forest.
If she were to tour the entire Abandoned Land, she might find even more.
After all, the Abandoned Land now included beaches, valleys, mountains, and lakes. Such varied terrain was bound to have different types of herbs.
But that was just wishful thinking. Lan Qingyou knew her range of activity was limited.
Any further out, and not only would the danger level increase, but she couldn't even be sure if she could make it back in a single day.
Even though the mana tide had passed, the night was still full of various dangers.
And Lan Qingyou didn't want to take risks.
Or rather, she didn't want to risk it for something uncertain.
Shang Chuan: “Is this all of them?”
When Lan Qingyou sent the herb samples to Shang Chuan, he replied immediately.
As expected of a professional merchant; his feedback was incredibly fast.
Lan Qingyou: “For now. I can't reach the other regions of the Forgotten Land, so I have no way of knowing what specific medicinal ingredients are there.”
Shang Chuan: “Leave that to me. I'll try to have people in other regions collect various herbs. It's just a matter of plucking some weeds while they're out hunting and bringing them home to identify. It's no trouble at all.”
Shang Chuan had done this kind of thing before, so he didn't find it difficult.
Lan Qingyou: “Alright. I'll edit my personal homepage in a bit. After you find people to gather herbs, they can check my page.”
Shang Chuan: “Same as before?”
Lan Qingyou: “Yes, it's easier to reference.”
Lan Qingyou nodded and ended the brief conversation, then focused her attention on the herbs.
She took photos of them while writing down their physical characteristics on her personal homepage.
This way, the people gathering herbs on her behalf would have a more direct visual reference.
Of course, the most important part was that Lan Qingyou needed to make a backup for herself.
This backup wasn't for the magic desk; she had also bought quite a few notebooks and such for manual recording.
After all, there was no guarantee that things like the magic desk wouldn't lose their properties and disappear like the chests.
Once she finished editing the properties and appearances of the dozen or so types of herbs, Lan Qingyou finally breathed a sigh of relief and began researching them.
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