New Century Kitchen Warrior

Chapter 146: Thunder Wild Strong Scorched Earth
"I'm full. My magic power is overflowing."

When Galatini came back from the bathroom for the third time, she rubbed her belly and collapsed on the chair, feeling very satisfied.

The magic power overflowed, and the slime liquid with extremely high magic content was discharged again and again.

Grady looked at the icon on her phone and could no longer be opened, then she breathed a sigh of relief and lay on her back, raising her arms to cover her eyes.

I regret it now, very much.

She finally discovered the source of the weirdness she had been feeling these past two days. After struggling out of her past of being bullied, Grady was particularly eager to establish an image of a cold queen for herself. Yes, just to establish an image. She knew very well what kind of person she was essentially, but she could have remained very calm. Why did she always uncontrollably lower her status around Lei Ye?

Grady was very sure that she could first rule out the possibility of having a secret crush on Lei Ye; her feelings were not that cheap.

But she couldn't explain this inexplicable atmosphere that could completely relax the taut strings.

Was it because Gratini was eating non-stop? Gratini couldn't tell until she set her sights on Nedorii and Lestar who had been called over to help.

She suddenly realized.

While spying on Lei Ye's entrepreneurial journey, she discovered that there was a "field" around Lei Ye, a field where people without power, money or even self-care ability could enjoy themselves in peace, eat delicious food, and even express their dissatisfaction to Lei Ye, even though this person was the center of this field and those people depended on him for their livelihood.

Grady remembered that she had visited an old vampire family before. The atmosphere inside was as eerie and terrifying as an ancient tomb. The old grandfather who would cough up phlegm every three minutes would stomp his feet slightly, and the maids around him would tremble with fear, fearing that they would be dragged away to have their blood drawn.

The atmosphere in the castle of the younger vampire was better, but it was also very tense, even though the vampire was a handsome man who was very kind to the maids.

It wasn't until a maid broke a plate and was nearly dragged away and beaten to death that Grady's frown relaxed and seemed to be justified.

This was not surprising to Grady, as she had also worked as a dishwasher and even experienced the same beatings.

The boss who bought her from her parents was quite kind to her at first. At least after comparison, Grady found that she could eat at the table compared to other slaves, while the other slaves could only look at her with envy and jealousy. At that time, Grady thought that she might be lucky. The person who bought her not only did not care about her identity as a demon, but was also willing to raise her as a daughter. So she worked harder than anyone else every day, until one day she broke an expensive plate, and the scar left by the whipping had not disappeared even after a hundred years.

In any era, only those with power can be respected. She is a dishwasher. She feels warm when her boss treats her kindly, but if she does something wrong she will be beaten and scolded like a dog. But if she were the boss, she would be able to choose whether to give others warmth or to beat and scold them. She wants to be the person who has the choice.

But it was a surprise to Rayno Grete, especially when he was facing that Nadori. He was obviously the superior one, but he was more attentive than the inferior one.

Looking at Nadori's attitude, it is obvious that this is the attitude of someone who has never been bullied even once, like a spoiled child.

Click it.

I'm not used to eating dumplings, but I like eating mulberry sauce.

Naturally, Grady could not understand the special relationship between Rayno and Nadori. She just combined her own theory of superiors and subordinates and imagined the saint-like image of Rayno in silence.

At this moment, she was interrupted by the sound of thudding outside the door. Yuna, with a frosty face, strode into Yuzu Castle. Despite her face, the slightly raised corners of her mouth could not hide her joy.

It turns out that no matter how aloof a person is, he will be happy if he makes money.

"Boss Lei, the first batch has been sent out. As you expected, most of the spare stock has been sold out. In addition, many high-level demons did not carefully calculate the exact amount and gave a lot of extra tips."

Yuna briefly reported her work, took out dozens of large gold coins from her storage bag and handed them to Lei Ye.

"Ah?" Grady opened her eyes wide, shocked by the amount.

Returning to the main topic, Grady suddenly remembered that the reason she cooperated with him in that embarrassing performance was to make money.

There was no other way. Ever since he tasted the food made by Lei Ye for the first time, Grady understood how big the business opportunity was. If he managed it well, it would not be a problem for him to make 3,700 big gold coins with 20 small gold coins.

But Grady didn't expect to make so much money. In one night, he could earn dozens of gold coins, which was enough for an ordinary person to live a life without worries.

As soon as she stood up and moved over, Lei Ye had already deftly put the big gold coin into his storage bag.

"Hey, hey, we just agreed on 50%." Grady frowned when she only saw a golden shadow.

"What we agreed upon just now was the money for the dumplings. The first batch of dumplings has just been shipped out, so how can there be a share for you?" Lei Ye covered his storage bag and shook his head.

Grady was stunned, and nodded a little frustrated. She was so confused for a moment that she couldn't even understand such a thing. Just after the discussion, Lei Ye added some dumplings to Yuna's backpack when she came to restock, and it was obvious that the money had nothing to do with the dumplings.

But I'm still envious, because those are big gold coins. Big gold coins!
No.

"Um, Mr. Lei Lei?" Grady raised her eyes shyly.

"Why are you doing this? Just say what you want to say."

Lei Ye sat down aside with a calm expression, as if he had already guessed what she was going to do.

"That's right. I think we still have a lot of room for cooperation. I can also do other things besides dumplings."

"Hey, what are you talking about?" Lei Ye immediately shook his head and interrupted Greti. "I heard that Teacher Dadi is very expensive. My small business has just started, how can I afford to hire you? Judging from your performance just now, it seems that you are not very willing to cooperate, so I am already considering changing the anchor."

Lei Ye looked at Gelatini while teasing, "Little Teacher Ge, you can eat whatever I want from now on. You come and work for me for the rest of your life. Are you willing?"

"What?! Just eat whatever you want--!" Galatini's slow and leisurely tone was drawn out, and her eyes were full of stars.

She jumped off her chair and trotted to stand in front of Lei Ye, "Lei Guard No. 2, Gratinni, is happy to work for the great God of Food for the rest of my life!"

"What do you mean by lifelong work? Don't say such things," Greti said anxiously. He rushed forward to protect Gratini and glared at Lei Ye fiercely. "And you, don't lie to fools. You want to trick Gratini into working as a cheap worker for you just by giving her food? It's not that easy!"

Before Lei Ye could explain, Grady suddenly bared her teeth, and someone was hitting her butt with a small fist.

"Damn it, Grady, don't ruin my good thing!"

Gratini rarely showed a trace of anger, baring her teeth more than Grady, "Don't think Gratini is a fool! I'm smart! You are obviously worried that Gratini doesn't want his shiny little gold nuggets and it affects your ability to make money. Humph, I don't care about those things. Working for him gives me such delicious food to eat, and he won't force me to keep transferring magic power to others. I have encountered such a good thing in the world, but you want to hinder me! Don't hurt me!"

I have never seen Gratini speak so fast, and she hit Gratti with her little fists as she spoke.

Grady was well aware of Gratini's strength, so she could feel from the force of her fist that Gratini was just expressing her dissatisfaction and her strong desire. She squatted down, wanting to tell this innocent little sister that it was not that simple, and that she was not saying this because she was being hindered from making money.

She wanted to tell Galatini something about money.
But on second thought, the other party is a slime, not a human or a demon. She doesn't understand complicated things, so she doesn't have many worries, but there is also little joy in life. For this little slime, Gratini, there is only eating, and Lei Ye happens to be the man who cooks delicious food. This man also claims that he is willing to provide her with food and drink for the rest of her life. No wonder she worships Lei Ye like a god.

It is not appropriate to impose your own values ​​on her. For Galatini, as long as she has food to eat and a place to sleep, what does money mean?
This is true, but... but...
While she was dazed, Galatini slipped out of her arms, rushed towards Lei Ye, hugged her thighs and raised her head.

"Say, keep your word, give Galatini delicious food, and Galatini will work for you for the rest of her life!"

Lei Ye actually just mentioned this casually, as he was mainly talking to Greti, who had more commercial value. But looking at Gretini, whose eyes were shining and looked like a blue-haired puppy, Lei Ye's heart moved and he touched her head.

"Okay." He said softly.

Then he smiled bitterly, "But I can only make sure you have enough food. If you eat like this every day, even I can't afford to feed you."

"Hehehe, okay." Gratini buried her head in Lei Ye's thighs embarrassedly.

Lei Ye did not treat this as a strict contract and sign it on the magic parchment, but just wrote it in his notebook. He did not write anything about asking Galatini to work for him for the rest of her life, but just wrote that he would treat Galatini to a delicious meal.

He looked up after writing and saw Grady approaching with a dark face.

"I give up. You can lower the price as you like. But of course don't say anything like you'll provide me with food for the rest of my life. I won't buy it. Just name a price I can accept and then we can cooperate." Lei Ye smiled maliciously.

That smiling face seemed to say 'You've finally been fooled', which made Grady feel ominous.

The next day, night.

Grady's Grand Mall.

The most luxurious location and the largest shopping mall are Grady's property. No wonder Grady said that she only opened one store in the Demon King's City. According to Buyadi's tax rate on high-level demons, the monthly rent of this shopping mall is sky-high.

The utilization rate is very poor. The space inside is large but empty. They are obviously selling magic props, which does not require such a grand show. It may even only need a space as big as Zhengxin Chicken Chops, and arrange someone to carry a storage bag and sell it there. Lei Ye can understand that the high-end brand that Greti wants to create requires a high-end place, but Lei Ye is also very sure that this oversized shopping mall is the product of Greti's "face-saving".

But Lei Ye will make use of this place.

From now on, this is Gray's Mall, Gray's Gray, and Lei's Leiye.

The mall was closed and a major renovation was taking place inside, while at the entrance of the mall, a team of workers were carrying something to the top.

Lei Ye gave a few instructions and after confirming that the workers could complete the work accurately, he trotted back, handed the girl a drink and touched her shoulders and kneaded them gently to comfort her.

It was Grety with trembling lips. She was squatting on the curb with her knees hugged, two lines of tears flowing slowly, like a beaten dog. People passing by couldn't even recognize her.

Last night, she and Lei Ye signed the magic parchment.

She was second and Lei Ye was eighth. Such a distribution of interests seemed a bit unreasonable to Grady at first. However, considering that it was Lei Ye who did almost all the work and provided all the technical support, Grady reluctantly agreed. In the contract, there was not much that Grady needed to do. The only thing that hurt her was that she had to give half of the right to use her shopping mall to Lei Ye.

However, there are not many things she needs to do, but for the few things she needs to do, no matter how reluctant she is, she has to do it anyway.

So Grady immediately regretted it.

"Hey, today is the first day we officially become friendly competitors. Don't be so depressed. The two of us will soon become famous in the Demon King's City." Lei Ye gently hit Grady's shoulder.

Grady hugged herself helplessly and cried even more sadly.

Yes, to become famous. After Lei Ye explained the concept of "advertising" to her, Grady suddenly became enlightened, but at the same time she felt like she was falling into the abyss.

She spent many years cultivating her own image. In this world where one needs to write letters to express love, it took Grady a lot of effort to make the name of the Dark Emperor resound throughout the scorched earth.

But Lei Ye is different. This beast is preparing to use his evil little scheme to strengthen the scorched earth, a desert in every sense of the word. From now on, it may not be difficult to become famous. Hero or clown, it will be easy to be portrayed.

An old man who was taking a walk stopped, looked at the two of them, and frowned.

The smug man lowered his head and pressed the crying woman's shoulder. It looked like an innocent girl whose feelings were toyed with by a scumbag. Just when he was wondering whether he should go to the nearby minotaur to talk about it, something suddenly lit up in the air!
It was a large-scale illusion crystal formed by a combination of elements. A huge picture appeared in the air, and the colorful light like a magic firework exploding attracted the attention of everyone on the street.

This is why Lei Ye chose to open the store at night, this is the effect he wanted.

The light curtain unfolded, and Lei Ye's figure appeared in it.

"Oh, so cool! Master Greed has launched a new product? It looks really high-end this time. He must have developed something really cool again," another passerby sighed as he looked up. "It's a pity that I can't afford Master Greed's magic tools, so I can only watch the fun. By the way, who is that person?"

"That's Mr. Lei." The old man immediately responded, appearing knowledgeable.

Just as the shock at first sight slowly faded away, and everyone had a premonition that the man in the picture might introduce some magic item.

The man suddenly tui, and kicked over several packaging boxes with extremely fierce momentum.

The old man who was taking a walk exclaimed. He recognized the box. It was the same gift box that was delivered to him yesterday.

The things inside were the same, it was the small cube with magical functions, but the man in the picture took out a hammer and smashed them one by one, as if the thing was the murderer of his father.

"It's smashed! It's all smashed!"

“Ah, my goodness! What are you doing—!” A petite girl ran over with a long tone.

There was a lot of discussion on the street, and everyone recognized that it was the Gluttony Sin Galatini.

"I won't serve you anymore!" The man threw his hand away. "In the human territory, I sell my rice for one gold coin, but in the scorched earth, I only sell it for three silver coins. How can I make any money? Smash it! It's better to smash it!"

Looking at the lively old man taking a walk, Lierda was stunned.

Weren’t there two big silver coins yesterday? Why are there three today?
"What the hell are you doing!!!"

Just at this moment, another girl came over!

There were strong traces of acting and her face was red, but the field of vision in the picture was raised from low to high, which maximized the girl's aura, so no one noticed such small details.

The discussion on the street became louder, and they recognized that it was Greedy, the sin of greed.

But they didn't notice the faint crying coming from a curb.

Greti really couldn't let go, she shot this scene many times, and in the end Lei Ye was crawling and jumping around her like a lunatic, saying that he was moving the camera.

Well, it seems really good now, and the me in the picture does have some aura which is not too embarrassing, but why is this aura so cheap?
"Listen carefully, each of these 1promax units is supervised by me personally, and they are all genuine original products. If they are fake, I will compensate you tenfold. If you dare to touch them, try it!"

"You said you want to sell three? Okay, we'll sell them! But you see, we worked so hard to sell them last night, but no one wanted to buy them? Even if you spent so much money to provide benefits for your family, but no one knows about these benefits, what can you do?!"

"Then, let's increase the budget! For the sake of reputation, let's go all out!"

The scene switched to Grady's red face.

"Come on, Gray's Mall, the Rice 1 Meat Max is limited to units, waiting for you to grab it!"

The discussions turned into noise.

The crowd grew larger and larger, with people from all over the street joining in the fun, forming a torrent that flowed toward Gray's Mall which had not yet reopened.

This cheap advertisement shocked the brains of these natives from another world. Lei Ye didn't listen to what they were arguing about, because he knew that his goal had been achieved.

But the girl next to me cried louder and louder.

"Nuo, wipe your tears." Lei Ye handed over something.

“No! This is so disgusting. This is clearly exchanging my image for money. I am the Dark Emperor who is famous in the Scorched Earth. I feel that the deep darkness is moving away from me. The price I paid for abandoning it is being dragged into this horrible abyss by you, the devil. Oh my God, how many years will it take me to reshape my image?”

"I'll ask you again if you want it." Lei Ye said again.

At this time, Grady tilted her head and saw that what Lei Ye was holding was a big gold coin.

She took it, rubbed the corner of her eyes with it and then threw it into her pocket.

".need."

(End of this chapter)