Chapter 40 Economic Crisis
When Sui Yu appeared at the entrance of the canteen, Zhan Ji actually reported the situation to Philomina through message magic, and Philomina rushed over as soon as possible.
However, the fact that such as canteen food can be hidden in a short period of time? So when Philomina arrived, Sui Yu had basically mastered a rough idea.
So when Philomina arrived, she was immediately questioned by Sui Yu: "Philomina, tell me why you let everyone eat these things?"
Even Mina's nickname was not called, and everyone knew that Sui Yu was angry, so the war girls present immediately became silent and no one dared to speak.
Although Sui Yu usually acts very easy-going, he even often sings a counter-topic with Philomina, asking everyone to treat Avalon as his family and treat everyone as relatives, and not to care about each other's ranks and classes. Just work hard to truly build Avalon's family into an ideal village.
But when Sui Yu was angry, all Zhan Ji still felt nervous and suddenly felt panic in his heart. At the same time, an inexplicable sadness surged into his heart. Not only did everyone dare not speak casually at this time, but some Zhan Ji, who had a relatively weak personality, couldn't help but shed tears under the influence of the inexplicable sadness in his heart.
"Yu, don't be angry, please listen to me to explain it to you. And if you continue to get angry, everyone will not have to eat."
After hearing Philomina's words, Sui Yu realized that the atmosphere around him was very serious, and there were even a few Zhan Ji secretly wiping her tears, which made Sui Yu think that he had done something unforgivable.
Nodded slightly, Sui Yu sighed and found a seat to sit down. As Sui Yu took his seat, the solemn atmosphere finally became relaxed. Although no one dared to say anything, the inexplicable sense of depression in his heart finally dissipated a lot.
"Let's keep eating. If time is delayed, the sisters who change shifts will be troubled." Philomina's words made all Zhan Ji continue to eat after a little silence. Some Zhan Ji even deliberately accelerated the speed of eating in order to escape from this somewhat depressing environment as soon as possible... Then someone choked.
Sui Yu patted the back of an elf girl with a cute appearance and a small figure to help her calm down with her. The little elf loli seemed to be sitting next to her because Sui Yu was sitting next to her and the atmosphere of depression felt too strong. As a result, she was unfortunately stuck and choked when she swallowed a piece of meat that had not been chewed.
So Sui Yu had to stop Philomina from pursuing the responsibility for the canteen food and instead helped the unlucky loli elf girl roll her eyes when she was choked.
Finally, after Philomina brought a bowl of clear soup for the little loli and successfully washed the meat with the help of Sui Yu, the elf loli breathed a sigh of relief: "Finally saved"
"Don't eat so frizzy in the future." After using a handkerchief to wipe the corner of the elf Loli's mouth, and after receiving the elf Loli's evaluation, "Supreme Lord is so gentle", Sui Yu turned his head and looked at Philomina who was standing next to him and didn't dare to sit down. He whispered to be afraid to scare the elf Loli next to him and asked, "You can tell me now, why are everyone's food so bad?"
"Isn't it bad?" Sui Yu turned around and found that Angelina was coming with her, and she was walking towards Sui Yu with a meal plate in her hand.
Then this girl in a black dress gave people an extremely enchanting beauty came to Sui Yu, bent down and placed the tray in her hand on the dining table in front of Sui Yu.
"So big, white and deep." Sui Yu's eyes were instantly attracted by a deep groove, and then he noticed that the tray was all the dinner for Zhan Ji tonight.
"Sir Yu, these foods are actually very delicious. We often come here for free. If you don't believe me, do you try it?"
After listening to Angelina's words, Sui Yu picked up the tableware and ate a piece of meat that Angelina had just cut. He drank another sip of the soup and found that although the taste was a bit light, it was indeed very delicious.
The meat is oily but not greasy. Although the soup is clear, it is also very refreshing. The bread is soft and full of wheat aroma. The only vegetable has a slightly poor taste, but it also has a unique flavor when eaten with it.
So Sui Yu ate all the things on the plate in a few seconds.
"How is it? It's delicious?"
Nodded, Sui Yu smiled and said to Angelina: "No, the taste is really good, I can't tell it. The taste of these foods is really delicious."
"That's it, Angelina said to Sui Yu with a proud look on her face: "So, Sister Philomina did not treat everyone badly, so Lord Yu, let's not stay here to disturb everyone's meals, hurry up and leave."
"Okay, let's go back now. But we don't need to prepare dinner today. After eating so much, I'm full." Sui Yu smiled and stood up and left. After seeing Sui Yu leave, all the Zhan Ji breathed a sigh of relief and continued to eat.
Walking back to the palace, Sui Yu casually said to Philomina, who was half a step behind, "It seems that the report you reported last time about the war girls seemed to take loyalty to me as the truth and even seemed to have become instinctive. Unexpectedly, I just accidentally got angry and scared everyone to that."
After rubbing his nose, Sui Yu continued in confusion: "However, it is understandable that everyone is so scared by me because of loyalty driven by instinct that he dare not speak, but why are there still people scared to cry? Am I that scared?"
Philomina seemed to be thinking something and didn't answer Sui Yu's words. Angelina explained Sui Yu's doubts: "It's very simple. In fact, in everyone's heart, it has become the truth of all our war goddesses. So when Lord Yu is angry, everyone will think that he has done something bad and disappointed Lord Sui. So those weak-minded sisters will naturally cry because of shame and blame themselves. To be honest, when you see Lord Yu, you almost cry, even if I almost cried, don't believe me, look at my eyes and still have tears in my eyes."
As she spoke, Angelina turned to Sui Yu and grew her eyes close to her. Sui Yu seemed to want her to see clearly. However, facing this beautiful face that was almost exactly the same as Philomina, she kept approaching, and Sui Yu's eyes unconsciously looked at the red lips that were approaching and slightly raised...
Then Angelina was pulled away by a stick
"Hey Angelina Even if I am disappointed and in a state of self-blame because I am disappointed and blamed, you are honest and dare to steal fish in front of me. Do you really think I don't exist, right?"
Flipped back Angelina, Angelina, had just knocked away and took advantage of the opportunity to flash away from the distance, and sent Sui Yu the magic wand that was left to Philomina back to the space ring. Then Philomina turned around and stared at Sui Yu with a guilty look down and said softly: "I'm sorry, I disappointed you."
At this time, the two of them happened to pass by the throne, so Sui Yu took Philomina in.
Sitting on the throne, Sui Yu sighed and said to Philomina, "Okay, there is no one here, can you tell me the reason? I think that Angelina can get away with it by making tricks? Although I feel that the food is pretty good, the premise is that I have eaten delicacies every day for more than two months, so I occasionally eat some light food and feel that it tastes good. If I were asked to eat those things every day, maybe I would get tired of it in less than a week."
Philomina sighed helplessly and nodded slightly to admit Sui Yu's guess, and then Sui Yu continued to ask: "So tell me the reason. Although the food I had stored before should have been eaten, can't we obtain supplies through the artifact material exchange? Although that is indeed a bit expensive, I remember that Avalon's stock gold coins should be enough for us to buy high-priced food for a long time?"
The Artifact Materials Exchange is a special artifact given by the official of the Chaos World after he established Avalon. Its main function is to use this artifact to quickly trade materials. Of course, because it is very convenient, the price of the purchase of materials slightly increased by about ten percentage points, while the purchased materials decreased by ten percentage points. To put it bluntly, the official game intends to use this artifact to make Sui Yu spend more money.
Sui Yu, who was originally frugal, often went to nearby towns to buy a large amount of supplies at one time and hoarded them in Avalon's warehouse for the war musicians to use them on their own. The official game was secretly interfering. The consumption of high-end ingredients was naturally very fast. However, after traveling through time, since the local ingredients were not fully grasped, and because the nearby small mountain villages were somewhat self-sufficient, Avalon, who could not buy ingredients, naturally started to eat the whole country.
Therefore, in order to prevent the Zhan Ji, who had just become a human, from being unable to adapt to the local environment, and to prevent the large-scale material circulation from attracting the attention of local strong people, Sui Yu had long since relaxed the right to use the artifact materials exchange and asked Philomina to ensure everyone's food level.
But unexpectedly, Sui Yu found that the food of the war girls was so bad today
Not only are all the staple ingredients made of local ingredients, but they also don’t look high-end ingredients, and even the seasonings are very saving. From the soup that is similar to water, it is not difficult for Sui Yu to guess that the three meals a day of Zhan Ji are definitely not a little worse than the past diet.
Especially when he thought about how he ate delicacies every day and the war girls were almost eating braised vegetables, Sui Yu felt guilty.
At this time, Philomina, who had been silent for a while, finally answered Sui Yu's question under Sui Yu's stare: "The gold coins in stock were actually consumed 90% when they used the Creation Cauldron to refine world-class artifacts, so in fact, there are not many gold coins left in stock now..."
"Have you consumed 90%?" Sui Yu then remembered the experiment he conducted before traveling through time. Since the server was about to be closed, Sui Yu's order was to throw all useless artifacts into the Creation Cauldron. Using the Creation Cauldron required a large amount of gold coins. In addition, the artifact that had invested too much in the refining process must have been consumed. I believe that the consumption of gold coins will naturally increase with the water. No wonder Sui Yu collected very few gold coins.
"Not right" Sui Yu suddenly thought that even if only 10% of the gold coins were left, even if they could not provide for everyone with top ingredients, at least the food would not drop so much at once.
So Sui Yu reached out to Philomina and said, "Give me the account book and let me see it."
Since the war girls all became real humans after traveling through time, and Sui Yu understood their abilities and trusted their abilities, many rights Sui Yu had been delegated to Liuyi.
Among them, Philomina, as the butler of Avalon, naturally controlled Avalon's financial power, so Sui Yu directly asked Philomina for the account book to see if the reason for the serious decline in food standards among the war girls was as he guessed.
Philomina immediately seemed hesitant, and even struggled for a long time without taking out the account book.
"Sure enough, there is something wrong," Sui Yu said in his heart, and the expression on his face immediately became very strict and he said to Philomina coldly: "Take it out for me now"
"Okay..." Philomina finally took out a new notebook helplessly, which recorded all the financial income and expenditure of Avalon after traveling through time.
Quickly turn it over from the beginning. Although Sui Yu doesn't understand finance very much, since Philomina doesn't understand Avalon's war girls very much. No one knows finance because they can't use it in "Chaos World", Sui Yu can still learn from the very detailed and even a bit dull account that Avalon's finances have indeed had big problems.
As Avalon from a game world, many functions of the entire castle can be achieved by consuming gold coins. For example, the magic array in the perpetual light that illuminates the entire castle under the dark sky and maintaining the large teleportation array requires a variety of gold coins.
However, although these consumption is not small, according to Sui Yu's calculations, even if only 10% of the gold coins are left, it should be enough to support it for a long time, and there is no need to be tight enough to reduce all the food of Zhan Ji.
However, when Sui Yu discovered that since more than two months, there have been large expenses every day, and these expenses are still expanding, the guess in his heart finally became a reality.
"As it turns out, I said that even if you don't understand finances, you can't cause an economic crisis. Even after everyone's food began to drop sharply, I didn't dare to tell me, it turned out that it was because I was the main reason for the economic crisis." Sui Yu said this and said, "The tone was already trembling. He really didn't expect that the reason for the economic crisis was that he had to consume thousands of gold coins every day to cook for him. Top ingredients have a success rate. If you want to make perfect food, waste is inevitable. Moreover, this data is still increasing day by day.
Sui Yu suddenly figured out something. It seemed that the Zhan Ji and the Jade Masters didn't just want to disappoint him, the Supreme. Now the loyalty of the Zhan Ji and the Jade Masters to him has even risen to the point where he tried to satisfy all his wishes regardless of his efforts.
Without Philomina's explanation, Sui Yu could see from the account book in front of him that Philomina's determination to satisfy all his wishes.
That is the determination to satisfy his daily desire for even giving everything, even if he wants to give his heart.
It is not difficult to guess from the fact that Sui Yu didn't hear any wind at all. All the war girls in Avalon thought so. In order to prevent Sui Yu from discovering Philomina's little thoughts, they all kept it secret for Philomina very tacitly in keeping it secret for Philomina in order to prevent Sui Yu from discovering it.
I guess if the war girls who accidentally used a scroll back to the city today and did not go through the city gate, which caused insufficient manpower, wouldn't have learned that Sui Yu had returned to Avalon at the first time, perhaps Sui Yu would have been kept in the dark by the war girls.
Perhaps, only when the war girls are at the end of their lives will honestly confess this fact to Sui Yu.
"Silly girl" Sui Yu lovingly pulled Philomina into his arms and sat on the throne with him and said softly to Philomina who had already cried: "No wonder the food has been getting better and better recently. It turns out that so many gold coins have been spent here. To be honest, I was really moved. I didn't expect that you would bear so much in order to let me have delicious food."
He gently pinched Philomina's cheek, and Sui Yu said to Philomina in a tone of gritting teeth: "But have you never thought about the consequences of hiding these from me? What if the gold coins are completely exhausted and the war girls can't even eat, tell me again because I spend all my money every day, how can you let me bear it?"
"No," gently wiped the tears on his face, Philomina replied with a solemn look: "I have arranged for Zhan Ji to reclaim the fields outside the dark sky, and the research on crop cultivation on Ruis is about to come to an end. As long as the seeds purchased from the Materials Exchange can be successfully planted, Avalon's food can be self-sufficient. In addition, I also plan to send someone to the Kingdom of Taraya to form a caravan, and then use the purchased materials to exchange gold coins directly from the Materials Exchange, which may be a virtuous cycle before Avalon has no money."
After shook the account book in his hand, Sui Yu asked Philomina with a smile: "So according to the current deficit, how many days can the gold coins we have in stock support?"
Philomina: "…"
"You don't plan to let Angelina take people to rob the house if it really doesn't work, right? It seems that I have seen Angelina organize combat training with Hakeya recently, and often study the latest maps provided by Shiyin."
Philomina: "…"
"So," Sui Yu sighed and said to Philomina: "Now I order you in the name of the Supreme. From now on, my food must be on the same standard as everyone until we officially pass this economic crisis. Tell Angelina and the others to give me some duty. I have been put on the title of a demon king. Are you planning to make this title deserved? Although I don't care much, I really attract the nosy god or the brave man passing by. We will be miserable by then."
"Abide by the order" Philomina knew that Sui Yu had made up her mind and could only obey her orders.
Seeing Philomina's face of self-blame expression, she guessed that she was sad for not being able to satisfy Sui Yu's wishes, so Sui Yu smiled evilly and said to the beauty in her arms: "Then in order to punish you for violating my orders, I decided to punish you here..."
The last few words were said by Sui Yu, who put it on Philomina's ears. It is not difficult to guess from Philomina's increasingly red face that Sui Yu's request must be the evil of being very gray and often gray.
Chapter completed!