Chapter 40: The Economic Crisis

As soon as Sui Yu appeared at the door of the cafeteria, in fact, a war queen reported the situation to Philomena through message magic, and Philomena also hurried over as soon as possible.

But where can such an obvious fact as canteen food be hidden in a short period of time? So when Philomena rushed over, Sui Yu had basically mastered a rough idea.

So when Philomena arrived, she was immediately questioned by Sui Yu: "Philomena, tell me, why do you let everyone eat these things?!" ”

Even Mina's nickname was gone, and everyone knew that Sui Yu was angry, so the battle queens present were immediately silent, and no one dared to speak.

Although Sui Yu usually behaves very easy-going, and even often contradicts Philomena, asking everyone to treat Avalon as home, everyone as relatives, and don't care about each other's hierarchy, as long as they work hard to do their job and truly build Avalon's family into an ideal township.

But when Sui Yu was angry, all the Zhan Ji still felt tight, and suddenly felt full of panic in their hearts, and at the same time an inexplicable sense of sadness came to their hearts, not only did everyone dare not speak casually at this time, but even some of the more weak Zhan Ji involuntarily shed tears under the influence of the inexplicable sadness in their hearts.

"Yu, don't be angry first, listen to me explain to you. And if you keep getting angry, you won't have to eat. ”

After listening to Philomena's words, Sui Yu found that the atmosphere around him was very solemn, and there were even a few war concubines secretly wiping their tears, which made Sui Yu think that he had done something heinous just now.

Nodding slightly, Sui Yu sighed and found a seat and sat down. As Sui Yu took his seat, the solemn atmosphere finally became relaxed, although no one dared to say anything, but the inexplicable feeling of depression in his heart finally dissipated a lot.

"Let's continue to eat, if we delay the time, the sisters who change shifts will be distressed!" Philomena's words caused all the war queens to continue eating after a little silence, and even some of the war queens deliberately accelerated the speed of eating in order to escape from this somewhat oppressive environment as soon as possible...... Then someone choked.

Sui Yu patted a cute-looking, small and delicate elf girl on the back with a distressed face to help her breathe, this elf little Lori seemed to be sitting next to him, because the oppressive atmosphere felt was too strong, and as a result, she was unfortunately choked when swallowing a piece of meat that had not yet been chewed.

So Sui Yu had no choice but to temporarily stop holding Philomena accountable for the food in the cafeteria, and instead help this unlucky Lori, the elf girl, who had already choked and rolled her eyes at this time.

Finally, after Philomena brought a bowl of clear soup for the little Lori and successfully washed the meat down with the help of Sui Yu, this elf Lori sighed: "Finally saved!" ”

"Don't be so frizzy when you eat in the future!" wiped the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief for this elf Lori, and got a sentence from Elf Lori, "The Supreme Lord is so gentle!" After the evaluation, Sui Yu turned his head to look at Philomena, who was standing next to him and didn't dare to sit down, and asked softly (worried about scaring the elf Lori next to him again) and asked, "Now can you tell me, why everyone's food is so bad, right?" ”

"Not bad, right?!" Sui Yu turned his head and found that Angelina had also rushed over, and at this time, she was walking towards Sui Yu with a dinner plate in her hand.

Then, this girl in a black dress gave people an incomparably bewitching beauty, and came to the opposite side of Sui Yu, bent down and put the tray in her hand on the dining table in front of Sui Yu.

"It's huge! So white! It's so deep! Sui Yu's eyes were instantly attracted by a deep ditch, and then he noticed that what was on the tray was all the war concubines' dinner tonight.

"Lord Yu, in fact, these foods are very delicious, and we usually come here to eat, don't believe you to taste them?"

After listening to Angelina's words, Sui Yu picked up the tableware and ate a piece of meat that Angelina had just helped cut, and took another sip of soup, and found that although the taste was a little light, it was indeed very delicious.

The meat is oily but not greasy, the soup is clear but also very refreshing, the bread is fluffy and full of wheat aroma, and the only green vegetable has a slightly poor taste, but it also has a unique flavor when eaten together.

So Sui Yu divided five by two and ate the things on the plate cleanly.

"How? Delicious, right?! ”

Nodding, Sui Yu smiled and said to Angelina: "Yes, the taste is really good!" I can't tell you how delicious these foods are! ”

"That's it!" Angelina said to Sui Yu with a proud face: "So, Sister Philomena didn't treat everyone badly!" Then Master Yu, let's not stay here and disturb everyone's dinner, let's go quickly! ”

"Alright, let's go back. But I don't need to prepare dinner today, I've eaten so much, I'm already full! After Sui Yu finished speaking, he smiled and got up to leave, and after seeing Sui Yu leave, all the Zhan Ji breathed a sigh of relief and continued to eat.

Walking on the way back to the palace, Sui Yu casually followed Philomena, who was half a step behind, and said: "It seems that the report you reported last time about the war concubines seemed to be loyal to me as the truth and even seemed to be instinctive, but I didn't expect that I just accidentally lost my temper and scared everyone like that." ”

Rubbing his nose, Sui Yu continued with some confusion: "However, it's understandable that everyone is scared by me because of their loyalty driven by instinct, but why are there still people who are scared to cry?" Am I that terrible? ”

Philomena didn't answer Sui Yu's words as if she was thinking about something, but Angelina explained Sui Yu's doubts with words: "It's very simple! In fact, in everyone's hearts, no matter what, not letting the Supreme Lord down has become the truth of all of our war princesses! So when U-sama gets angry, everyone will think in their hearts that they have failed to do well and let the Supreme Lord down, so those sisters with weak personalities will naturally cry because of shame and self-blame! To be honest, when I saw that U-sama was angry, even if I almost cried, I don't believe you still have tears in my eyes! ”

As she spoke, Angelina turned to Sui Yu and approached Sui Yu with her eyes wide, as if she wanted her to see clearly. However, in the face of this delicate face that was almost exactly the same as Philomena's approaching, Sui Yu's eyes unconsciously looked at the red lips that were approaching and slightly curled......

And then Angelina was whipped away with a stick!

"Hey! Angelina! Even if I'm in a state of self-blame for disappointing Yu, you can be honest with me! Dare to steal in front of me, really I don't exist, don't I?! ”

Flipping her hand and retracting the magic wand that had just hit Angelina (Angelina immediately flashed away after her success and took advantage of the situation, leaving Sui Yu to Philomena) and sent it back to the space ring, and then Philomena turned her head to stare at Sui Yu with a guilty look and bowed her head and whispered: "I'm sorry, I disappointed you!" ”

At this time, the two happened to pass by the throne, so Sui Yu simply walked in with Philomena.

Sitting on the throne, Sui Yu sighed and said to Philomena: "Okay, there is no one here, can you tell me the reason?" Angelina, does that guy think you can get away with a gag? Although I feel that the food is not bad, but the premise is that I have eaten delicacies from the mountains and seas every day for more than two months, so I will feel good when I occasionally eat some lighter food. If I were to eat those things every day, maybe in less than a week, I would get tired of eating! ”

Philomena sighed helplessly and nodded lightly to admit Sui Yu's guess, and then Sui Yu continued to ask: "Then tell me the reason!" Although it is true that the food I had stored before should have been eaten, can't we get the supplies through the artifact material exchange? It's a bit expensive, but I think Avalon's stock of gold should be enough for us to buy high-priced food for a long time, huh? ”

The artifact material exchange is a special artifact given by the game official of "Chaos World" after he established Avalon, and its main role is to use this artifact to quickly trade materials. Of course, because it is very convenient, the price of purchased materials has increased slightly by about ten percentage points, while the purchased materials have decreased by ten percentage points (to put it bluntly, the game official intends to use this artifact to make Sui Yu spend more money).

Sui Yu, who was originally frugal, went to nearby towns most of the time to buy a large number of materials at one time and hoarded them in Avalon's warehouse for the war queens to use by themselves (there is a game official secretly making a stalk, and the consumption rate of high-grade ingredients is naturally very fast), but after crossing over, because the characteristics of local ingredients have not been fully mastered, and because the self-sufficiency of nearby mountain villages is a little reluctant, Avalon, who cannot buy ingredients, naturally began to sit on the mountain.

Therefore, in order to prevent the war concubine who had just become a human from eating bad stomach because of water and soil, and also to prevent the large-scale circulation of materials from attracting the attention of local powerhouses, Sui Yu had already let go of the right to use the artifact material exchange, and asked Philomena to ensure everyone's food level.

But he didn't expect that today Sui Yu would find that the food of the war concubines was so bad!

Not only are the main ingredients all made of local materials, but they don't look like high-end ingredients, and even the condiments are very economical, from the soup that is as clear as water, it is not difficult for Sui Yu to guess that the three meals a day of the current war concubines are definitely not a little worse than the diet level in the past!

Especially after thinking that he was eating delicacies from the mountains and seas every day, and the war concubines were all about to eat chaff vegetables, Sui Yu felt full of guilt in his heart.

And at this time, Philomena, who had been silent for a while, finally answered Sui Yu's question under Sui Yu's forced gaze: "The gold coins in the inventory were actually consumed ninety percent when we used the Creation Ding to refine world-class artifacts, so in fact, we don't have much gold coins left now......"

"Ninety percent consumed?!" Sui Yu then remembered the experiment he conducted before the crossing, because the server was about to be closed, so Sui Yu's order was to throw all useless artifacts into the Creation Ding, and the use of the Creation Ding required the consumption of a large amount of gold coins, plus the refining investment was too much artifact, presumably the gold consumption naturally rose with the tide, and it is no wonder that Sui Yu collected not much gold coins left.

"That's not right!" Sui Yu suddenly thought that even if there was only one percent of the gold coins left, even if he couldn't support everyone to eat the top ingredients, at least the food would not drop so much at once!

So Sui Yu stretched out his hand to Philomena and said, "Bring me the account book and let me see it!" ”

Since the war queens have become real humans after the crossing, plus Sui Yu understands their abilities and trusts their abilities, so a lot of rights have been delegated to Six Wings.

Among them, Philomena, as the big butler of Avalon, naturally controlled Avalon's financial power, so Sui Yu directly asked Philomena for the account book to see if the reason for the serious decline in the food standards of the war concubines was not as he guessed.

Philomena immediately hesitated, and even struggled for a long time without taking out the ledger.

"Sure enough, there is a problem!" Sui Yu said secretly in his heart, the expression on his face immediately became very stern and said to Philomena in a cold voice: "Take it out for me!" Right now! ”

"Okay......" Philomena finally reluctantly turned over her hand and took out a relatively new notepad, which recorded all the financial receipts and expenditures of Avalon after the crossing.

Quickly flipped through it from the beginning, although Sui Yu didn't know much about finance, but because Philomena didn't know much about this aspect (no one in Avalon's war queens knew finance, because they were not needed in "Chaos World"), so Sui Yu was still able to understand from the very detailed and even somewhat dull accounts that Avalon's finances really had a big problem!

As an Avalon from a game world, many of the functions of the entire castle can be achieved by consuming gold, such as the perpetual light that illuminates the entire castle under the dark canopy, the freshness magic circle in the castle's warehouse, and the amount of gold required to maintain the large teleportation circle.

However, although these consumption is not small, according to Sui Yu's calculations, even if there is only one percent of the gold coin stock 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 the war concubine.

It's just that when Sui Yu found out that there had been several large expenses every day since more than two months, and these expenses were still expanding, the guess in his heart finally came true.

"Sure enough, I said that with your ability, even if you don't understand finance, you can't cause an economic crisis, and you don't even dare to tell me after the big guy's food starts to drop sharply, it turns out that I am the main cause of the economic crisis!" Sui Yu's tone was already with a trilling tone when he said this, he really didn't expect that the reason for the economic crisis was because it would consume thousands of gold coins of ingredients to cook for him every day (top-level ingredients cooking also has a success rate, and if you want to make perfect food, waste is inevitable), and this data is still increasing day by day!

Sui Yu suddenly figured out one thing, it seemed that the battle queens didn't just want to disappoint him as a supreme in their hearts, but now the battle queens' loyalty to him had even risen to the point of desperate efforts to fulfill all his wishes!

Without Philomena's explanation, Sui Yu could see Philomena's determination to fulfill all his wishes just from the ledger in front of him!

That is the determination of Sui Yu to satisfy his daily appetite even if he gives everything!

And from the fact that he Sui Yu didn't hear any news for such a long time, it is not difficult to guess that all the war concubines of Avalon also think so, and even in order to prevent Philomena's careful thoughts from being discovered by Sui Yu, they all very tacitly kept it a secret for Philomena!

It is estimated that if it weren't for the fact that the war queens who accidentally used a return scroll and did not go through the city gate today and caused the lack of manpower did not know that Sui Yu had returned to Avalon for the first time, maybe Sui Yu would have been kept in the dark by the war queens!

Perhaps, only when the mountains and rivers are exhausted, will the battle concubines honestly confess this fact to Sui Yu!

"Silly girl!" Sui Yu lovingly pulled Philomena close to his arms and sat on the throne with him, and whispered to Philomena, who was already crying: "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 touched, I didn't expect you to silently carry so much in order to make me eat delicious meals. ”

Gently pinching Philomena's cheek, Sui Yu said to Philomena in a gritted tone: "But haven't you thought about the consequences of hiding this from me?" In case when the gold is completely depleted and the battle queens can't even eat, you tell me that I have caused the collapse of Avalon because of my daily drinking, how can you make me feel unbearable?! ”

"No, it won't!" Gently wiping the tears from her face, Philomena replied with a solemn face, "I have arranged for the war queen to cultivate the fields outside the dark canopy, and the research on growing crops on Ress is almost coming to an end. As long as the seeds purchased from the Material Exchange can be successfully planted, Avalon will be able to feed itself! In addition, I also plan to send people to the Kingdom of Talaya to form a caravan, and when the time comes, I will use the purchased materials to exchange gold coins directly from the material exchange, maybe I can form a virtuous circle before Avalon runs out of money! ”

Shaking off the ledger in his hand, Sui Yu asked Philomena with a smile: "So according to the current deficit, how many days can the gold coins in our inventory be supported?" ”

Philomena: "......"

"You don't plan to let Angelina take someone to rob the house if you can't do it, right? It seems that I've seen Angelina training with Hakoya recently, and I've been studying the latest maps provided by Shiyin. ”

Philomena: "......"

"So!" Sui Yu sighed and said to Philomena: "Now I order you in the name of the Supreme, from now on, my food must be of the same standard as everyone!" Until we officially get through this economic crisis! Also, tell Angelina that they all give me their part, I have been planted as a demon king, do you plan to make this name deserved? I don't really care about it, but if we really provoke that nosy god or that brave man passing by, we'll be miserable! ”

"Yes!" Philomena knew that Sui Yu had made up her mind, so she could only obediently obey her orders.

Seeing Philomena's expression of self-reproach, she guessed that she was sad that she couldn't fulfill his Sui Yu's wishes, so Sui Yu smiled evilly and said to the beautiful woman in his 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 close to Philomena's ear, and it is not difficult to guess from Philomena's increasingly red face that Sui Yu's request must be gray and gray!