The morning light of the Serenitea Pot carried the serene peace of the aftermath. Outside, the Starsilver Ore brought back from the expedition had already turned into the steadily flowing Adeptal Energy of the Bedrock Key, gently smoothing away the cracks on the barrier wall, which now rippled with a soft, pale golden glow.
Limeng squatted in front of a secondhand stall at the edge of the market, his fingertips brushing over a pile of metal parts stained with grease. His long-dormant tech-geek soul warmed slightly in his chest.
"Boss, how much for this?" Limeng weighed a gear assembly. The cold, solid feel subtly overlapped with the precision he remembered when debugging high-end server motherboards, and his long-dormant engineer's soul quietly awakened within him.
Chapter 44