After leaving the animal messenger to pick up the props, Lin Ling left his online character in the large library of the Tower of the Qi Merger, chose to leave the state temporarily to keep the character online, and then raised the game helmet and slowly retreated.

Choosing to leave will force the online character to lock in that area, and the suspended character will still take damage from enemy units and heal from allied units, but will not be able to take any action.

There aren't many safe places in Eternity.

If you suck a little bit of the discarded potion that flows into the sewer, small animals such as rats, cockroaches, and small snakes will become berserk and attack characters who are in a temporary state.

The large library in the Tower of the Qi Merger is one of the few places that can be called safe, and there are no critters in it. There was an arcane barrier erected outside the Great Library, and without Lin Ling's permission, no living or dead thing could enter or leave the Great Library through this barrier, unless they bit through the Arcane Barrier, which had a durability value of hundreds of thousands......

"The timing was just right." Little Gordon pushed open the door of the lounge and saw Lin Ling moving his hands and feet, so he threw his dual-SIM mobile phone to him, "A friend of yours has been calling you. ”

"Oops."

Lin Ling remembered that he should call Li Linda back, but it was a pity that the appearance of Wu Jun's cousin's family completely disrupted the rhythm of his life. He took his phone and pressed the call button as he looked at little Gordon.

"I'll be waiting for you in the kitchen."

Little Gordon walked out of the lounge playfully and closed the door for him.

"Linda? I'm sorry......" As soon as Lin Ling opened his mouth, he frankly admitted his mistake, so that Li Linda had no place to send it if he was angry. He knew very well that with Li Linda's personality, after hearing that he took the initiative to apologize, even if he was unwilling to give in, he would change the topic to what she really wanted to say.

"Tomorrow at noon, club manager Guo Yiming will go to the host venue to taste the dishes of you and Dachun Winery to decide which one should be responsible for the meal service." Li Linda said her main intention in calling Lin Ling, "Have you got the list of the seven-member jury?" ”

"Not yet, how?" Lin Ling hadn't had time to ask who the seven-person jury was. So far, he only knows that Zhang Qiuya and Guo Yiming will participate in the jury.

"The one who proposed to let Dachun Winery compete with Gordon's Kitchen for the meal service is Zhang Qiuya and Director Zhang of the Municipal Bureau of Culture, they are brother and sister." Li Linda has first-hand information at hand, "There are two judges who support Gordon's Kitchen, one is our manager, and the other is Deputy Mayor Zhu Baiju, but they will not be the first to express their position. ”

"I understand."

Lin Ling nodded, Guo Yiming and Zhu Baiju nominally supported Gordon's Kitchen, but in fact, they supported Zhang Qiuya of Dachun Winery, when Lin Ling's side was ahead, they didn't mind being a favor, if they were behind, then don't blame them for being ruthless.

"There are also three judges who we are informing them separately, and we are almost all doing the preparation for the first offline challenge, and I have been busy all day trying to contact those people." Li Linda's voice revealed a hint of tiredness, but in Lin Ling's voice, it was inevitably a little coquettish.

"I cooked soup in Gordon's kitchen." Lin Ling said with a smile, "It's a refreshing cold vegetable soup, do you want to try it?" ”

"Dishes for tomorrow's tasting?" Linda's tone softened.

"No, it's made just for you." In the absence of outsiders, Lin Ling didn't mind saying something that would give him goosebumps, "It contains my full love." ”

"Flim Flam." Li Linda was silent for a moment, and then said with some emotion, "I'm really worried about ......."

"There's nothing to worry about." Lin Lingcai didn't care what Li Linda wanted to tell herself what she was worried about, he interrupted her when she spoke, and didn't give her any chance to continue, "Remember, I will always be by your side." ”

"Wait, where are we?" Li Linda's voice was a little flustered, "The organizing committee invited Aarhus of the Myth Club, Zi Yunlian, a well-known ShowGirl in Tianwen City, and Xia Gongpu, the general manager of Xia Yu Industry, the beach manager. ”

"It's her."

Lin Ling, who heard the list of the complete seven-person jury, frowned, and Zi Yunlian would definitely give him a point, needless to say. Xia Gongpu, the general manager of Xia Yu Industry, is a legendary businessman in Tianwen City, and he is also a child of the Xia family, and he will have to ask Eve if he knows that Manager Xia later.

As for that Aarhus......

"Is Aarhus Swedes?" Lin Ling asked Li Linda, "The hotel where he stayed is the Hilton Dome, right?" ”

"How do you know where he lives?"

Li Linda didn't expect Lin Ling to know Aarhus.

Aarhus and Bentson are the top members of the original Templar Club, after the dissolution of the Templar Club, they joined the Mythical Club as free players, due to the blockade of trade barriers in the European and American markets of "Eternity", the Mythical Guild, which is known as the world's first guild, did not enter the "Eternity" server for the first time, but their prestige did not decline because of this, many people think that if there is competition from old European electronic clubs such as Mythology, Lin Ling and they may not be able to win the first kill record of the expert mage treasure room.

Incidentally, Benterson is the most expensive active esports player.

"Fighting, he's a member of the Dark Council." Lin Ling didn't know much about European guilds, in the "Eternity" in his memory, except for the mythical guild that occupied a place with a huge flow of funds, the rest of the old European powerhouses could only be regarded as second-rate guilds, even if they often attacked many fortresses belonging to first-tier guilds in groups.

"The Dark Council?"

Lin Ling rarely talked to Li Linda about his affairs with the Dark Council, so Li Linda didn't know that the relationship between the two of them had become so bad that it was life and death.

"Don't worry, he can't hurt me. Someone is calling me, I'm waiting for you in Gordon's kitchen. Lin Ling hung up the phone after speaking, he didn't want to involve Li Linda in his confrontation with the Dark Council, it was bad enough to have a wolf god, so he interrupted the communication on the grounds that he couldn't make little Gordon wait too long.

It's a good thing that the list of the seven-member committee is in hand.

Lin Ling sent an offline text message to Zi Yunlian, asking her to inquire about Xia Gongpu's personal taste preferences, and clearly stated that he would compete with the candidate launched by Dachun Winery tomorrow as the player's chef.

Purple Ripple quickly replied with an "OK" expression.

Then, using the computer in the lounge, he went online to retrieve the public resume of Vice Mayor Zhu Baiju and Director of the Cultural Bureau Zhang Qiude.

Zhu Baiju is a typical example of teaching and excellence, the deputy mayor of Tianwen City, who has been a university lecturer in the United Kingdom for three years and an exchange scholar for two years, has been working in the education system since returning to China, and was not elected deputy mayor until the recent general election, in charge of education. I heard that he was very proud of his overseas experience, and judging from the photos, he was a typical intellectual, and he wanted to impress such a person with food...... Such a plot would only exist in shonen manga.

But Lin Ling was ready to do so.

Compared with Deputy Mayor Zhu, Director Zhang is a typical representative of the local civil servant, his resume is as plain as water, there is nothing surprising, and many cadres who are in high positions at a young age, Director Zhang has been commended and made meritorious contributions, and his wife's uncle used to be the director of the Secretariat of the General Office of the Municipal Government, and then there is a foreign distant relative who can't be beaten, Zhang Qiuya, who can attract investment in the cultural field.

Lin Ling noticed that Director Zhang Qiude had worked in the Cultural Relics Section under the Cultural Affairs Bureau for ten years, and that there were many time-honored restaurants in Tianwen City that were now cultural relics protection buildings, and the most famous of them was not the "200-year heritage" used as a signboard by Dachun Winery, but a little-known Western food club, Qiao Ba.

The name Joe Brazil Restaurant rarely appears in any public media. It's one of the city's deliberately hidden upscale clubs, like Roosevelt on the Bund.

Lin Ling only learned the name after a chef who used to work in Gordon's Kitchen was poached and went to Qiao Brazil's Restaurant, the chef he couldn't even remember the name had a friendship with Lin Ling, but this friendship disappeared after the disparity between the status of the two parties became too great due to the change of work.

However, Director Zhang, who worked in the Cultural Relics Section, will not fail to remember Qiao Brazil's Vegetable Society.

He walked out of the common room, found little Gordon who was busy, and first asked, "Do you know the list of the Committee of Seven?" ”

Little Gordon nodded while beating the puree: "That's right, I've seen the fax." ”

"Add a main course to the menu, shepherd's pie, which must be made with leftover beef and sheep roast." Lin Ling took out a piece of paper, then took out the marker pen pinned to the breast pocket of Little Gordon and wrote on the paper, "The other is the appetizer of Joe Brazil's Vegetable Club, potato salad, I remember that there is homemade salad dressing in the store, right?" ”

"These two dishes are not very creative." Little Gordon frowned, the shepherd's pie is a British dish, simply put, it is a chowder with mashed potatoes, which is not new at all, and although the potato salad of Joe Brazilian Restaurant is the signature dish of Joe Brazilian Restaurant, that salad must be made with the salad sauce of Joe Brazilian Restaurant.

"So we've got to improve it, with veal stuffing, with celery, mushrooms, carrots and caramel, both savory and sweet, and most importantly Worcestershire chili oil, which of course you call hot soy sauce in our case, Merlin." Lin Ling knew very well what he was going to do.

But on the other hand, he is prepared to use cheap ingredients.

Standard shepherd's pie, like back pot meat, is not delicious when made with fresh ingredients.

"I'm worried about your potato salad, and we're going to make a potato salad instead of mashed potatoes." Little Gordon had mixed feelings about Lin Ling's new proposal, he agreed with Lin Ling's shepherd's improved method, but had reservations about the potato salad, "To put it bluntly, we can't make that kind of taste, and the salad dressing method of Qiao Brazilian Vegetable Club has never been passed on." ”

"I needed a dish that had the flavor of Joe Brazil." Lin Ling said bluntly, "I have read Director Zhang's resume, he used to work in the Cultural Relics Section, and that was the fastest stage of his promotion, and he will definitely miss it." ”

"Drinks, drinks for the staff of Joe's Brazilian Restaurant." A slight mocking smile appeared on Gordon's face, "They often boil the coffee powder that has been brewed once, filter it, add the chocolate sauce that is about to expire and a little whipped cream as a drink for the staff to enjoy, the taste is not bad, and when a guest visits, they will not drink it." It wasn't until five years ago that the supply of this drink was cancelled due to cost constraints, and the director believed that we had drunk a lot of such drinks, and we only needed to make that kind of pot water with an old-fashioned tea bucket. ”

Lin Ling looked at the chatty little Gordon with an inquiring gaze, he had never heard of the staff drinks of Qiao Brazil's Restaurant.

"I studied at Joe Brazil's Restaurant." Little Gordon said lightly, not seeming to care about Joe's apprenticeship at the Brazilian Restaurant.