The Hero Reborn as a Demon King Loli

In short, barring any unforeseen circumstances, Chloe and Stella shouldn't need to disguise themselves as "high-ranking officials" in the next few days.

However, sometimes, accidents happen so suddenly... But fortunately, it was the accident Chloe had anticipated.

Unfortunately, Chloe's time to slack off came to an early end...

Chapter 393 The Smile of the Capitalist

"The Abyss Order guys on my side are acting a bit strangely... Keep an eye on them... It would be best if Stella contacted Big Brother again..."

This is a warning message that Ilya sent to Li Baixue... Since Ilya did not know that Chloe had finished her work ahead of schedule and was now slacking off, Ilya contacted Li Baixue immediately when she discovered the unexpected situation.

As for why Ilya left a message telling Stella to contact Chloe, it was because she thought this matter was a bit complicated and needed to be reported to Chloe.

The reason she didn't contact Chloe directly was because she didn't know if Chloe was available to communicate right now... Stella's soul communication with Chloe was arguably the most secretive method, and Chloe had previously instructed Ilya that if any unexpected incident occurred that she didn't know how to handle, she should ask Stella to contact her...

In short, Chloe's heart skipped a beat when she heard that Ilya wanted to contact her... Ilya asked Stella to contact her... Could something really have gone wrong?

Tsk... those guys from the Abyss Order really dare to cause me trouble? Can't they just let me relax for a day?

Chloe thought to herself with a hint of resentment, but she quickly adjusted her mindset... After all, Ilya, who had learned from her, was reliable when it came to serious matters. She figured that if something unexpected happened that required her to contact her, it certainly wouldn't be a small matter... So now was not the time to slack off!

So Chloe immediately used Li Baixue's phone to contact Ilya.

"What's going on over there?"

After the communication was established with Ilya, Chloe spoke directly to the other end. Ilya, upon hearing Chloe's voice coming from Li Baixue's end of the communication, was slightly surprised and then subconsciously replied:

"Big brother? Are you done on your end?"

However, after saying that, she immediately realized that this was not the time for pleasantries. Since Chloe could communicate with her using Li Baixue's phone, it proved that Chloe had already arrived in the north... Regardless of how things were going with Chloe, she should report the situation to her as soon as possible...

So Ilya quickly explained to Chloe the "unexpected situation" that had occurred among the members of the Abyss Order.

"You mean, some members of the Abyss Order are not cooperating with the operation and have even started causing trouble? Can't you just deal with these guys directly? Why did you need to contact me?"

After hearing Ilya's report, Chloe immediately spoke to her in a questioning tone.

As Chloe said, if it were just this little thing, it couldn't possibly be called an "accident" or anything like that.

After all, those disobedient members of the Abyss Order have no remaining value, so why not just get rid of them?

That's what Chloe thought, but Ilya quickly added some details for Chloe...

If these guys from the Abyss Order were merely causing trouble, then Ilya wouldn't have said that the Abyss Order members were "acting strangely" when she first contacted Li Baixue; she would have said they were up to something...

The reason she said their actions were a bit strange was because these Abyss Order members who started causing trouble were originally doing their jobs properly... but suddenly they seemed to be "possessed"... or more accurately, they seemed to have heard some kind of order and suddenly started causing trouble.

If it were just a matter of dealing with these troublemakers, it would be a simple matter for Ilya and the others... But because these guys suddenly acted "abnormally," Ilya decided to contact Chloe to see if she knew what was going on...

After listening to Ilya's "supplementary explanation," Chloe frowned... Indeed, according to Ilya's words, this matter was indeed somewhat strange... It was indeed a bit inappropriate to rashly deal with these members of the Abyss Order who were causing trouble... At least we should know the reason for their sudden "riot," right?

With that in mind, Chloe told Ilya to calm down and keep the Abyss Order members who had suddenly become "abnormal" while she went to check on the situation herself.

……

After Chloe disguised herself as a member of the Abyss Order and infiltrated among the uncooperative members to find out the situation, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Although this was an unexpected event, it was fortunately within Chloe's acceptable range... or to be more precise, this unexpected event was indeed something Chloe had anticipated might happen.

Since Chloe had anticipated this unexpected event, she must have already prepared a countermeasure.

So dealing with this matter was quite simple for Chloe.

But then again, what exactly is going on here?

It turns out that several high-ranking members of the Abyss Cult, who seemed to be from the same faction as Tichina... or rather, Heathera... in short, high-ranking members of the Abyss Cult who knew that the "operation" in the north was nearing its end suddenly "parachuted" into the north.

Although they knew that bad rumors had surfaced about their faction's leader, and that he had even disappeared, and that the "operations" in the north had been entirely handed over to a strange high-ranking official... it didn't stop them from trying to claim credit...

However, it's one thing for them to "parachute in" to steal credit, but after arriving in the north, they started giving nonsensical orders... which caused the Abyss Order members who were originally carrying out their work normally to behave as if they were causing trouble.

This is why Ilya and the others found it strange.

Faced with this situation, Chloe stepped in and resolved it immediately...

After all, the hierarchy within the Abyss Order is quite strict... Chloe is, after all, a higher-ranking member of the Abyss Order than their leader. These so-called "senior officers" are far inferior to Heather in both strength and rank, so it was easy for Chloe to step in and recruit them all as "laborers."

Compared to others, she wasn't so "selfish." Since these guys, who were considered high-ranking officials, wanted to leech credit, she could just use her body to do it... meaning to put in physical labor.

In short, Chloe handled this minor incident "smoothly," and even managed to extract some information from these high-ranking officers that she couldn't get out of Heather... such as the various strongholds of their faction and allies, and the opposing factions...

Although this round of Chloe's "slacking off" was forced to end prematurely, she still gained something.

Although this information was common knowledge among the Abyss Order's leaders... and this gain was still very useful to Chloe, the "mole."

……

After dealing with this minor incident in the north, the potato harvest and data collection proceeded smoothly without any major disruptions.

Several days have passed in the blink of an eye, and today, Chloe's planting task in the north can be said to have come to a successful conclusion...

Of course, this doesn't mean Chloe's work is over... because her work still has a "second phase".

Simply growing and successfully harvesting potatoes wasn't enough; Chloe also had to get the people in the north to accept this food that looked like a "mud lump"...

As for how to promote it? Chloe had already thought it through... that is, to process potatoes and distribute them to the public.

Of course, processing potatoes is a time-consuming and laborious task, but... isn't there plenty of "laborers" who don't need to be given the work?

Chloe looked at the members of the Abyss Order and gave them a smile like that of "Alesia"... well, specifically referring to the race.

Chapter 394 Inquiry into Remaining Value

Because potatoes are currently only being experimentally cultivated on a large scale in the north, and the plan is to collect and analyze the data on successful cultivation and ensure there are no problems before the next batch is planned to be widely planted in the north, the yield of this batch of potatoes is not particularly large.

To be precise, the amount of potatoes harvested this time is not large for the people in the north.

According to statistics, if all the harvested potatoes were distributed equally among the people in the north, they would only amount to one month's worth of food.

Of course, enough to feed the people of the northern part of the Demon Realm for a month, the amount planted is actually not small... it's just that it hasn't reached the point where potatoes can be used as a staple food.

Fortunately, the time from planting to harvesting potatoes is only a little over two months. In addition, although there is a shortage of food in the north, it is not to the point of famine. Furthermore, there is "resource support" from the Demon King's castle. Therefore, the north has time to conduct planting experiments.

As for why experimental planting was conducted first, as mentioned before, the people in the north are not very optimistic about potatoes as a crop... After all, growing usable crops in the Demon Realm is a pipe dream for normal demons.

So, to put it simply, there aren't actually that many people involved in the planting in the north... otherwise, Chloe and the others wouldn't be able to manage it all.

And to be honest, if it weren't for the "try anything as a last resort" attitude, plus the fact that this was a "project" personally ordered by the Demon King, who even sent the Four Heavenly Kings to guide and supervise the experimental planting, and that those who participated in the planting would receive subsidies... there might not have been many people participating in this so-called planting experiment in the first place.

It could even be said that if it weren't for the inexplicable enthusiasm and wholehearted dedication of some of the growers in this planting experiment, the first batch of experimental plantings would not have gone so smoothly.

At least the problems that Lulum and Chloe initially anticipated, such as "disobedience," "passive resistance," and "low work efficiency," only appeared for a short period of time in the early stages.

Of course, the most important thing was that Chloe successfully "recruited" the troublemakers from the Abyss Order... If it weren't for their active work and leading role, things certainly wouldn't have gone so smoothly.

Even members of the Abyss Cult might succeed in causing trouble.

It can only be said that it was thanks to Chloe obtaining the status of a high-ranking officer in the Abyss Order that...

Let's leave aside the Abyss Order and return to the initial topic. The reason for conducting the planting experiment was not only due to a shortage of manpower, but also because potatoes were a new crop that Lulum had improved multiple times. They had never been planted on a large scale before, so it was impossible to know whether the data would change after large-scale planting.

Furthermore, it is unknown whether the large-scale planting of these improved potatoes will lead to the same "old problems" as before the improvement... the most important of which is the toxicity of the potatoes.

After all, Lulum plans to promote potatoes throughout the entire Demon Realm within half a year, making them the staple food for the Demon Realm's people. Before fully promoting them throughout the Demon Realm, she needs to carefully collect various data and identify any problems in advance.

In short, it was after careful consideration from multiple perspectives that large-scale experimental planting was first carried out in the north.

Fortunately, according to the statistical data, there were no problems with the experimental planting of this batch of potatoes. After Chloe conducted a statistical analysis of the potatoes in the north, Lulu immediately worked overtime to analyze the collected samples. In the end, she also concluded that there was no problem with the potatoes.

Therefore, the second batch, or rather, the large-scale planting in the north, and the promotion of potato cultivation throughout the entire Demon Realm, can now begin.

However, Chloe doesn't need to be responsible for any of these things... after all, these are not tasks that Chloe can handle alone.

Chloe's next task is to go back to school... and, incidentally, promote the consumption of potatoes.

Actually, Chloe didn't have anything to do... well, I mean anything other than inquiring about the movements of the Abyss Order, so Lulum wanted her to continue going to school.

However, not wanting to "waste time" at school, Chloe found herself a job: promoting the consumption of potatoes.

So Chloe used the excuse of "processing potatoes to make this new ingredient more acceptable to people in the north" to successfully fool Lulum... In short, this was just an excuse Chloe made up to avoid going to school.

Otherwise, given the food shortage in the north, what is unacceptable as long as it is edible?

Besides, potatoes are something that will taste good no matter how you cook them, and they don't require any complicated processing to be used as a staple food... That's why I say this is just Chloe's excuse.

Of course, Lulu could tell that Chloe was just making excuses... after all, Chloe's "disgust" when she mentioned sending Chloe back to school was completely undisguised.

Furthermore, Lulum's initial intention in sending Chloe to the academy wasn't to teach her any academic knowledge, but simply to give her some social interaction. So, seeing Chloe's "every effort" to avoid going to school, and considering how many friends she already had, Lulum didn't really feel the need to force Chloe to attend.

Anyway, Alesia and Stella continued their studies at the academy, and Chloe insisted on going to school with them "in her spare time"... not for studying, but to build good interpersonal relationships.

Incidentally, although Lulum knew that Chloe's plan was just a last-minute excuse, she was quite optimistic about Chloe's idea of ​​exploiting the "residual value" of those guys in the Abyss Order... oh no, I should say it was to promote the consumption of potatoes by processing them.

In short, a few days after harvesting the first batch of potatoes, Chloe also began her work of "pressing... cough cough, promoting potatoes".

……

Chloe's job was ostensibly to process potatoes to make this new food more acceptable to people in the north... but in reality, the only thing she was supposed to do was verbally instruct the workers involved in potato processing.

Aside from that, she only periodically "dream" things to those in the Abyss Order who she had fooled.

For example, they might convince them that through their work they can administer their secret "slow-acting poison" to the entire demon realm, including its higher-ups, in preparation for creating chaos "without anyone noticing" in the future... and so on.

The point is to fool people... As for anyone doubting her? That just means that person has no remaining value... And for those with no remaining value...

Whenever Chloe thought of this, or if she actually discovered someone who had become suspicious, she would wear a merciless expression...

Chapter 395 Because of overly harsh words...

Of course, continuing to exploit these Abyss Cult followers is merely to "make the most of them"... After all, such useful, hardworking, and even "overtime-paying" tools are not so easy to find.

As long as she, a "senior cadre" of the Abyss Cult, is doing ideological work for them, and as long as no higher-ranking cadre is "parachuted" in, there won't be any problems at all.

However, while these Abyss Cult followers are useful, it's not that the work can't proceed without exploiting them. The biggest problem is efficiency... Well, Chloe admits that the efficiency issue is easy to solve. After all, the Demon Realm has such a large population that even if ordinary demons are less efficient than those from the Abyss Cult, increasing the number of employees can completely improve efficiency.

So it's not a problem of efficiency... it's a problem of money.

Hiring more people would cost more money, wouldn't it? Don't you know Chloe is short of money?

Chloe never even considered the idea of ​​getting free labor and swallowing up the funding allocated for hiring people in the Demon King's castle.

Even though she herself didn't believe it.

But Chloe had no qualms about taking the "overtime pay" from those Abyss Cult guys... Anyway, the fate of these degenerate guys was already sealed, and all that money would end up being hers anyway.

Well, thinking about this, Chloe didn't feel guilty at all and pocketed the money... No, this is her money, how can it be called pocketing?

Cough cough cough...

Getting back to the main point, now that Chloe has taken on the task of promoting potato consumption and has already come up with a plan for processing potatoes, she must act immediately.

After all, time waits for no one... But when it comes to promoting potato consumption, others might think of the high-end restaurant that Chloe took over and ran in the Demon King's castle.

That was certainly part of the campaign to promote potato consumption. After all, the restaurant was a high-end restaurant in the Demon King's castle. Although the target audience was the nobles of the Demon Realm, the promotional efficiency was extremely high precisely because they were all nobles.

Furthermore, with the Demon King ordering these nobles to plant potatoes in their territories, potatoes are believed to become the crop that solves the food problem in the Demon Realm, just as anticipated.

However, relying solely on propaganda among nobles and orders from the Demon King ultimately has its limitations.

As I said before, time waits for no one. After all, this may be the staple food for all races in the Demon Realm... It may be easy to spread potatoes throughout the Demon Realm through the mouths of nobles, but it will take time for the general public to accept them.

Moreover, it will take a considerable amount of time; the time left for Lulum… or rather, for the demons, is running out.

If potatoes cannot "spread and flourish" in the Demon Realm within six months and become a staple food accepted by the people... then Chloe and the others' efforts, as well as Lulum's wish, will have been completely wasted.

Therefore, time is the most important factor... And since there are limitations on the noble side, or rather, the time it takes for high-end restaurants to produce results is too unpredictable, Chloe's work must start with the common people.

After all, the primary goal was to get people to accept potatoes as a food, and it was the common people who were suffering from food shortages and hunger...

Even if most commoners didn't accept potatoes, they would still try eating them when food was scarce.

There's an old saying: "Madam, you don't want the child to go hungry, do you?"... Well, it doesn't seem to be an old saying, but it's not a big deal. After all, a demon can't just starve to death because it can't accept new food, right?

Besides, potatoes aren't exactly hard to swallow... It could be promotional work or something, which isn't really difficult, well, it's just that Chloe accepted this job ultimately for her own enjoyment...

But now that she's taken on the task, Chloe will definitely do her best...

As for Chloe's potato promotion strategy... it's actually a very simple strategy. She has already submitted the plan to Lulum. As long as Lulum reaches an agreement with the nobles, Chloe can officially begin her operation.

……

A dozen days after Chloe accepted the job, Lulum also reached an agreement with the nobles on the issue of interests based on the plan submitted by Chloe.