Hey, the Yangzhou caravan has fallen into the "sweet and syrupy life maze" today! Ali from the Western Regions caravan, wearing a wrinkled lion-patterned vest, shouts at the top of his lungs: "Miss Xiao! Our Arab 'camel dust storm' has rubbed the 'dark blue lion' into an 'ochre cat'!" Huwa crouches behind the dye vat and chuckles, letting his indigo candy drop with a "clack" into the lemon juice—having sewn a ring of "bursting color-locking candy" into the lion's mane, he steps out into the sunlight where it fizzes with a cumin-scented colored mist, startling a camel into sneezing out rainbow-candy stars, dyeing even the caravan girls' veils a gradient sweet-purple.
"Huwa! Go bring the 'Heartbreaker'!" the Protagonist shouts. Huwa immediately pours a bucket of anthocyanin syrup into the loom, weaving an Arab astrological headscarf that clicks and clacks, changing colors with his mood: flashing a red alarm when encountering sand bandits, turning into a green sweet mist upon seeing an oasis, and even shifting to a shy pink when Ali winks at the girls. The girls put their hands on their hips and laugh: "These stars are more bewitching than our eye palettes!" Huwa puts his hands on his hips and grins: "Life too monotonous? I call this 'seventy-two sweet color transformations'!" Abacus Bead projects an animation of a tap on the head: "Actually, it's pH-sensing sugar crystal technology!"
Head Merchant Kim from Silla holds the "Illiterate Analects Brocade" and sighs repeatedly: "M…
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