"Didn't you call them ugly?" Liam grinned. "Alright. Alright. I am just messing with you. You will get one in the next batch. For now, you can share with Shen Yue."
"Ok." The little girl nodded. "You are the only one for me, buddy." She patted her panther with a sad face.
"Heh. I really don't have one." Liam chuckled. He ignored the girl who was putting on an act and walked over to Shen Yue.
The woman was startled to see him come over alone and quickly arranged her hair, tucking the unruly strands behind her ear.
"Ummm… Liam. Thanks."
"It's nothing. Did you finish the contract?"
"Yes, I did." She smiled and patted the bat. "I think he likes me very much."
"Of course. He does." Liam looked at the adorable woman feeding meatballs to the bat and patted the beast as well.
"Are you really okay?" Shen Yue suddenly asked.
"Yes, why do you ask?"
"No. I just thought that… you look a bit tired."
"Hmm?" Liam's expression turned serious for a second, and he answered her. "Yes. There was something, and now I am fine."
"Oh." Shen Yue nodded. She did not pry into it anymore.
"Here. I got something for you." Liam transferred all the meat bundles he had purchased from the city. "This will help you level your cooking more."
"Ah. Thanks."
Seeing this Mei Mei walked over to the duo as well. "You got sis Yue two gifts and nothing for me? This is seriously unfair!"
Shen Yue quickly put everything away, blushing furiously. Of course, since these three were here, a fourth party also wandered in.
Kyuuuuu!
Luna arrived at the right time and blinked cutely at Shen Yue. Though she was acting cute, this was by no means a request. This was a collection visit, and everyone knew it.
Shen Yue couldn't help but giggle and gave the fox some meatballs to eat. She also gave Liam some more food, basically everything that she had prepared whenever she had free time.
"This is a lot. Thanks." Liam curiously checked out the properties of everything.
[Melted Bone Soup]: +3 to all attributes for the next one hour
This was the most efficient item, and it was quite good. It actually gave a boost of 18 stat points in total, even though its effect lasted only for about an hour.
From the last time, Shen Yue had really improved a lot. Liam chatted with the two girls for a couple of minutes and then quickly excused himself.
Now that everything had been distributed, he had other things to take care of.
"Brother, where are you going?" Mei Mei asked.
"Back to the Xion realm."
"Oh! What about those ravens?" All the members of their group knew about this, so Mei Mei was naturally worried. She did not want Liam to die inside the game.
"Don't worry. I found something for them. Maybe." Liam smiled and flicked her head. He then said goodbye to the duo and left silently.
"Ah! I didn't even tell him what's special about this place!" Looking around the tar mangrove, Mei Mei only remembered now.
After seeing the bat mounts, she had completely forgotten their conversation.
"It's fine. Let's work hard and give brother a surprise when he returns back! Every time he gives us something. This time we will give him a surprise!"
The little girl did a fist pump in the air, and Shen Yue as well nodded.