At 5:30 in the afternoon, the ferry carrying over a hundred people returned to the docks of Sky City.
The setting sun cast its golden foil-like sunlight evenly across the calm sea.
This world was vast and boundless, yet the only place one could spend the night with safety, without any guards, eating and drinking and attending to nature's call, was this one city.
Lu Yuan was in a rather gloomy mood due to his experiences of the day.
He went to the Big Food Bucket Restaurant, had a plate of beef stir-fried noodles, a bowl of tomato and egg soup, and three eggs, which cheered him up and left him patting his belly contently.
"Houses large enough to hold a thousand rooms, yet we need only a six-foot bed to sleep in; wealth that could fill tens of thousands of chests, yet we eat no more than three meals a day—that is life..."