After school the next day, a group of high school students attending a study meeting arrived at Alvin's rental house by car again.
As soon as Ivan took out the key and opened the door, Aurora couldn't wait to throw her schoolbag inside, and then pulled Xue Li and other girls to lie on the iron door on the left to listen to the sound.
After listening for a long time, she found that there was no movement at all, and Aurora couldn't help but start muttering.
"The little girl in the house seems not to be here today? You think... nothing will happen, right?"
"It's hard to say. After all, judging from yesterday's situation, the child is likely to be in trouble."
Xue Li was also a little worried, and then subconsciously looked at Alvin.
"Um...should we call the police?"
"It's better to wait."
It is naturally impossible for Aiwen to agree to Xiaolu's proposal, otherwise a certain archbishop who was entrusting his connections to handle the procedures for his "Yun Adopted Daughter" would have gone crazy, so he decisively dissuaded her.
"After all, the person may have just gone out or been picked up by other relatives. We don't know anything about the situation. How can we tell the police after calling the police?"
"That's right..."
Xue Li thought about it and felt that it seemed reasonable, but the girls headed by Aurora still looked a little worried.
But again, these students have to rely on money from their families to live, and they really don't have the ability to do anything.
So after a group of people discussed it for a while, they finally had no choice but to put down their worries and start preparing dinner.
That's right, a group of people are planning to cook by themselves today.
The original reason for this proposal was to have an excuse to take the little girl to eat with her, or to give her a portion. It was said to be overdoing it and to take care of the child's possible self-esteem.
Although it seems that the real owner is not here at the moment, the dishes have been bought and it’s hard not to cook them, so...
Alvin took out his apron and tied it around his waist, and went directly to the chef line.
The reason why he cooks is not because this is his home, but because he is the only one in the group who can cook.
The five girls are all precious little princesses from wealthy families. They are very strict with each other in the real sense. The kitchen may have to be renovated next time, so the main cooks are Alvin and Carl.
After all, Ai Wen has been living alone outside for many years, and his cooking ability is still good. Even in a different world, many things have changed, but they remain the same. After two years of adaptation, at least cooking home-cooked dishes is completely useless.
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Although Karl's level is a little lower, that is, he is a random player, he can give Alvin a good start.
Bella and Xueli, two girls who had done some housework at least, worked together to pick and wash vegetables. They worked back and forth for an hour. At 7:23, the seven of them finally had dinner.
Well, everyone ate very deliciously because they were really hungry!
Although snacks can also be at the bottom, a pile of candies and coincidence cannot be eaten after all. After delaying it so late, Ming Qianhui, who has a history of hypoglycemia, is almost starving and sick.
After a while, Katie, Qianhui Ming, and Aurora, who had not contributed much before, took charge of washing the dishes, while the remaining people lay on the floor where the floor heating had been supplied and chatted.
Originally, the group of people were talking about the little girl, but while they were chatting, Karl suddenly mentioned a new topic.
"Speaking of which, why do I feel that the food in the supermarket has become more and more expensive recently, and water melon has also gone up a lot. Today's order cost almost two hundred? This is simply robbery!"
Alvin, the only one who could respond to this topic, thought about it and agreed.
"Indeed, a month ago cabbage cost only two yuan a pound. When I was choosing vegetables today, I took a look and saw that it had already increased to more than five yuan."
And not only vegetables, fruits, grains, rice, flour and oil, but also prices have increased slightly.
Although the increase is not large, this is also the first time in more than ten years that the United States has experienced price fluctuations in basic daily necessities.
As for some imported goods, let alone price increases, most of them are even gone from the shelves.
There was no way, the economies of all countries were severely affected by the mutant monster incident, and then there were problems with shipping, which have not been effectively solved so far.
The United Inuit is actually a little better.
After all, due to hundreds of millions of years of erosion by the Gur River, the entire Hanoi area is a super fertile plain. In addition, the production capacity of the Hedong and Hexi areas is not bad, and even 30% of the grain is produced every year.
If the production capacity is exported, no matter what, there will not be enough food.
However, some countries with insufficient domestic grain production capacity have really begun to suffer from food shortages, and food prices have begun to skyrocket.
Of course, this topic passed after a group of students talked about it. The most they complained about was not having enough pocket money, but Aiwen secretly paid attention to it.
The stable supply of daily necessities is one of the important basic conditions for maintaining the stability of the general social order.
On the other hand, once the food supply is insufficient, chaos will occur, and whoever holds the food at that time will have the right to speak.
After all, people can live without buying high-end designer bags, but if they don’t eat for five or six days, they will definitely die.
So he planned to let the Spiritual Church use its own channels to start stocking up on basic living supplies and shelf-stable emergency food.
On the one hand, it is to prevent a sudden global outbreak of fog, causing human society to instantly fall into chaos and unable to guarantee production, so that there will be no emergency reserves.
Anyway, it doesn’t cost much, and although the system cannot bring living animals with it, there are no restrictions on dead animals. All you need to do is find an open space with thin power of death in the Alda plane, build a factory, and make it waterproof. How much does it cost?
Oil, salt, flour, compressed biscuits and canned food can all be stored.
On the other hand, these basic materials can also support Skeleton Mage Jellief, allowing him to expand more smoothly in the war-torn areas in the western part of Nole Continent.
After all, the terrain there is dominated by a large amount of barren mountainous land, which does not produce much food. Coupled with the war, it is said that the western countries usually have nearly 20% or more food gaps that rely on external imports, and some of them are located in barren mountainous areas.
Whether it is called a small country or a powerful organization, it relies entirely on "resources for food rations" or "international humanitarian relief" to survive.
If there is a problem with shipping, they must be extremely uncomfortable now. With food, they will definitely be able to develop easily. They may even find a way to expand this line to a sufficient size in the future, and it may even be possible to use it to hold the lifeblood of Western countries.
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This is no exaggeration.
The food of Western countries is really inseparable from sea transportation, because land transportation needs to face the Alta Desert that isolates the western and central areas of Nole Continent, not to mention the actual transportation capacity of those transportation routes that can cross the desert, just in terms of cost
It has to be quite scary.
Although according to Jie Lifu's current observation, although prices in the western countries are also rising sharply, there are no signs of food shortages yet. However, the actual productivity is there, and if sea transportation cannot be opened, something will happen sooner or later.
Of course, this is just a guess made by Alvin and the Skeleton Mage based on limited information, and there is definitely the possibility of mistakes.
But even if the analysis is wrong, it doesn't matter. It's a big deal, just keep it.
No matter how poor a person is on a daily basis, it is because he is cautious and is afraid of being discovered by some thoughtful people.
Judging from the current wealth of the Scholomance Church and the amount of gold actually held by Ivan, he really doesn't care about spending one to two hundred million to try the water.
The worst case scenario is to convert the warehouse into a private supermarket. From now on, one can get all the food and daily necessities consumed in the Orda plane there. This saves money on having to pick up those discarded second-hand goods in the future...