I will never give in to Miss Death

"What am I going to do on my night shift?"

Elodie yawned again: "No need for roast goose, I'll just have some crab porridge. I need to take a shower and go to bed. Eating too much oil will make my stomach uncomfortable... Did you peel the crab shells?"

"I'll peel it for you, really."

Lan Jiajia carried Elodie's bag and walked to the second floor: "You don't want to add chili?"

"How did you know?"

"Please, adding chili peppers to seafood porridge is pure heresy, don't add it."

"Seafood with chili sauce and soy sauce is delicious..."

"Who just said that we should go to bed and not eat anything oily?"

“Soy sauce is not oil…”

While playing around, the two went upstairs, apparently to prepare a bath.

"Noel."

Turning his gaze back from the two girls, Yin Xiamo beside him took out his cell phone from his pocket: "I have drawn the pattern of that graphics card."

"Is the painting done?"

I took the phone: "Let me see what it looks like."

The night before yesterday, when I was typing as usual, Yin Xiamo went to the room opposite and started drawing the "Graphics Card Girl" pattern that she and Jiang Wei had signed in the contract on her new computer.

This matter has been put on the agenda, because Jiang Wei has already received the chip from Xiongxiong Company and has also found a related manufacturer to make the graphics card. Now all that remains is the printing of the graphics card's appearance and the printing of the box's pattern.

There are three graphics cards that the Xiongxiong Jialan company is currently promoting: Apocalypse 2600, Apocalypse 2800 and Apocalypse 3000, which are respectively targeted at the current mainstream graphics cards 4070ti, 4080 and 4090. Except for Apocalypse 3000, the prices of all other graphics cards are nearly half cheaper. Among them, the suggested retail price of Apocalypse 2600 is said to be less than 3000. It is obvious that they are going to engage in a price war.

Jiang Wei has already designed the "non-2D" versions of these three graphics cards, which are the same black or white themes as ordinary graphics cards. Now we need to complete the "2D" versions, which are the "Apocalypse Cat", "Apocalypse Combat Maid" and "Apocalypse Lily: Throne of Elves" mentioned by Jiang Wei at the beginning.

The first two graphics cards were based on me as the prototype, Noel in cat girl form and Noel in combat maid form. Xiaomo quickly drew the corresponding portraits under Jiang Wei's guidance. The last one is also the flagship graphics card of Xiongxiong Company, which uses the "double poster girl" portrait. Jiang Wei's suggestion was to use double elves, Xiaomo and me, the white elf and the black elf.

"very nice."

I took Xiaomo's phone and looked at the portrait on it, and nodded: "My wife is great."

There is no doubt that Xiaomo's painting skills are impeccable. Although she has not received professional training, she is a top master in both human body and color. In the portraits on the phone, Xiaomo and I have very obvious elements: a water elf and a thunder elf, one is gentle, the other is stern, one is pure and lovely, the other is heroic... All kinds of elements are perfectly integrated together, so exquisite that there is nothing wrong with it.

As an author, I more or less know the rules of the painters. For a two-person painting like Xiaomo's, if it is a private commission, it will cost at least three to five thousand yuan. If it is for commercial use, it will be even higher. If it is a famous painter, the commission for such a commercial work will be thirty to fifty thousand.

"Then I'll hand the file over to that Mali sofa."

My praise made Xiaomo blush slightly. She lowered her head and began to organize the relevant documents.

"Yeah, I look forward to the results coming out."

Today is June 6th, and there are still two days until the traditional June 16th online shopping festival. It can be said that Xiaomo's painting submission time this time is just within Jiang Wei's acceptable range.

Jiang Wei's factory has basically produced all the graphics cards. The 2600 and 2800 series have been basically completed, and the 3000 series only has the last step of printing and packaging. Now Xiaomo has submitted the pattern, and Jiang Wei can finish the packaging and printing this morning. It's just a two-dimensional skin, with spray paint and color change. There is one day tomorrow to organize and package it, and it can be put on the shelves on June 618.

The ordinary model of Apocalypse 3000, as Jiang Wei and Xiong Xiong negotiated, seems to be 9999 yuan. The Apocalypse Lily: Throne of Elves is more expensive, 10499 yuan. According to Xiong Xiong's market research, as 4090 occupies the market, there may be very few people who can spend 3000 yuan to accept Apocalypse . Therefore, Jiang Wei did not make many graphics cards of this model. He must wait for some enthusiasts or people who specialize in evaluation to buy them and test the performance of the graphics cards before the market will be hot.

Therefore, Jiang Wei does not need to produce a lot of graphics cards on June 618th, as long as he can ensure the supply.

Those people had discussed it all, and the Xiongxiong Jialan company entered the market in early June and started public relations, promoting on 616 and 617. Agents like Jiang Wei could make promotional videos in these two days, and then put them on the shelves in major shopping malls on 618. Everyone bought a graphics card. It might take two days to get it to nearby places, and three or four days to get it to a slightly farther place. After it arrived, they spent one day installing the graphics card, and another day looking for games and testing the performance of the graphics card. In the end, they found that there seemed to be few games that could be played after buying the graphics card. At this time, "Age of Aquarius" came out and was publicly tested on June 6.

It is worth mentioning that June 6 is Olympic Day or Sports Day. Choosing this time for the public beta test shows that the operators of "Age of Aquarius" and Tongmeng.com are really smart.

Of course, these have nothing to do with ordinary people like us.

Xiaomo and I just need to live an ordinary life as usual. Making this graphics card pattern is just to repay Jiang Wei for the favor he did before and to make some extra money.

“I never get tired of this salad no matter how many times I eat it.”

"Nuo'er's crab porridge is so delicious, but there are not enough crabs, wuwuwu...it would be better if you could put at least ten crabs in a pot of crab porridge..."

While eating, Yueyue kept sighing: "Only crab porridge like cat cans can exude the glory of five-star food..."

"What the hell are you doing putting ten crabs in a pot?"

I subconsciously complained: "That's not crab porridge at all, right? It's just crab stewed in a can!"

Canned crab, pressure cooker version.

Moreover, with my current financial resources, it is impossible for me to eat ten hairy crabs every day. It is too expensive.

"Ignore her. Yueyue is just like that. She likes to talk nonsense."

Dolly pulled the cat girl to her side and put a cucumber in her bowl: "Eat some fruit."

"Okay..."

Yueyue hesitated for a moment, picked up a big crab claw from her bowl and put it into Dolly's bowl. Then, as if she remembered something, she took the big claw back, opened her mouth, and used her canine teeth to bite the crab claw into pieces with a few "crunch" sounds, revealing the tender white meat inside, and put it back into Dolly's bowl.

"After eating."

"Aren't you going to eat?"

"I'm almost full."

"..."

The way the two looked at each other disgusted made me laugh out loud.

"Oh, by the way, it looks like the mayor is coming over today."

After breakfast, I remembered what Ouyang Xue reminded me of last night in the group chat and said to Duoli and Yueyue: "The mayor is the... well, the manager of this city. There will be many reporters coming to interview us. We will all wear the new clothes today. You just need to deliver food as usual. Just answer whatever others ask, and don't answer questions related to the other world."

"Ok."

Dolly thought for a moment and asked, "Is the mayor here for something?"

"It's nothing big, just showing support or something like that."

I stood up, helped clean the table, and took the garbage to the trash can on the side.

"I guess Su Yunjin will handle it. We don't have to worry."

"..."

……

No. 323 Gothic Lolita Maid Cafe

Ouyang Xue and the designer brought by Xiong Xiong designed several new uniforms in different styles.

They discussed the matter for nearly a whole day in the staff lounge. Although others came here just to have fun, we now have an open cooperative relationship with Xiongxiong's Jialan Company. In the end, Ouyang Xue still paid the designer a certain amount of design fees.

The new uniforms in the coffee shop are made according to our respective "attributes" in the store. The overall style is more like a "lolita dress", which feels very much like... a dress that can be worn on formal occasions, but with the touch of old-world Gothic Lolita in Europe. To put it in a more "two-dimensional" way, it's like the clothes worn by the heroine Victoria Gavi in ​​"The Case Files of Gothic and Lolita Detective".

This outfit is roughly divided into several parts: a small hat, a small skirt, Gothic stockings/socks, and small leather shoes.

Apart from anything else, I personally like it very much.

At least the shoes for this outfit are not high heels or heeled shoes, but round-toed flats, which is really very important.

Since I became a girl, I have bought shoes with obvious heels. For example, the pair of thick-heeled round-toed shoes that Xiaomo bought for my house to match her summer long skirt. The heels of that pair of shoes are 2 to 3 cm, which is not high, and makes my height exceed 140 cm. However, shoes with heels are really not suitable for wearing for a long time. You can wear them occasionally to show off.

The job of a coffee shop maid is to run up and down the coffee shop every day. I have seen many maids in anime wearing high-heeled shoes or even very high heels. After working like this for a whole day, their feet will definitely be very tired.

High heels are not a good invention. Wearing them for a long time can easily deform the feet. I have tried to wear shoes with two or three centimeters heels before and felt very uncomfortable when going out. I can’t imagine wearing shoes with five or six centimeters or seven or eight centimeters heels, so I really approve of the new uniforms designed by Ouyang Xue.

Moreover, its design is really thoughtful.

As the "signature" and "store manager" of the store, my uniform is sky blue, grass green and white, with more sky blue overall. It is matched with a beret with a ribbon, a fluffy skirt, a bow on the chest, and the hems of the skirt are almost all lace and ribbons. The overall design style is somewhat similar to the outfit of Rikka Takanashi in "Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions" when she is in the Evil King's True Eye mode, and then with a different theme color.

"Morning, Sister Ouyang!"

As usual, I arrived at the door of the coffee shop and said hello to Ouyang Xue who was pruning the branches of the green plants outside.

In the past two months, the green plants outside the coffee shop have basically been the responsibility of the store manager Ouyang Xue.

Outside the mushroom house where the coffee shop is located is a large open space. There are several tree stump tables and chairs under the eaves. They are usually used by guests who like to dine outdoors, or when the store is too crowded during peak dining hours, these tables and chairs outside can also serve as backup dining spots. In addition, there are many benches on both sides of the open space near the green plants, where some guests who come to play can sit on them to rest. There is also a large table and several small round stools under the largest banyan tree, and occasionally customers will return to play mobile games or watch short videos.

Leading out of this large open space is a spiral path that leads to the ring road below or the path near the Xingxing Garden community. Both sides of the path are lined with green plants and flowers. Usually, these flowers and plants are trimmed by sanitation workers, but we have to do it ourselves in the area near the coffee shop. Whether it is the green plants on both sides of the road or the coconut trees, roses, vines, etc. planted previously, they usually require special people to take care of them.

Just like a small garden, the open space in front of the coffee shop is surrounded by a large circle of various flowers that Ouyang Xue had bought and planted before, including roses, roses, and some lilies. Ouyang Xue also arranged several cobblestone paths among the flowers, leading directly to the garden under the coconut trees, so that guests who have eaten their fill can walk around and maybe pick some grapes when they are ripe.

These are all very tiring jobs, especially the big banyan tree at the door of the store, with lush branches and leaves. It is also the blooming season of the banyan tree recently. At the end of the day, the flowers of the banyan tree will fall all over the ground, open space, tables and chairs. If you don't clean it up properly, you will easily get complaints from customers.

In addition, the banyan tree itself is not so easy to take care of. This thing naturally attracts caterpillars. The banyan tree at the entrance of the coffee shop happens to have most of its crown on the largest table and chairs. In summer, it can indeed help block the sunlight for customers below, but summer is also the season with the most insects. If it is not handled properly, all kinds of insects will fall down when people pass by here, which will be very heartbreaking.

Therefore, in addition to pruning branches and watering and fertilizing the surrounding garden plants in the morning, Ouyang Xue also has a very important task of pest control. She has to spray medicine on time every day, on the flowers, on the banyan tree, or apply a circle of medicine under the banyan tree to ensure that no insects climb up.

"Morning, have you had breakfast?"

Seeing a group of girls coming over, Ouyang Xue, who was holding a small medicine bottle and repelling insects from the jasmine flowers in the garden, turned around and said, "You all look very energetic today!"

"Of course, today Yueyue and I will also push our speed to the limit and provide the best service to every customer!"

Duoli still looked full of energy. She pulled Yueyue into her arms and said, "Right, little cat?"

"I can definitely be faster than you!"

Yueyue was not to be outdone: "Run fast, send fast, come back fast!"

"puff……"

Ouyang Xue couldn't help but laugh out loud: "By the way, are you two riding electric bikes? Customers often tell me that you are really fast, much faster than the outsourced deliverymen before."

“We have a unique way of delivering food.”

Duoli followed the method Xiaomo and I had taught her before and dealt with it with vague sentences: "Sister Ouyang, are these... grapes?"

"Well, these are sunny grapes, and these are black currants."

Ouyang Xue pointed to a few grape vines that had already spread out not far away and said, "There are already a lot of grapes. I guess they will be ripe in August or October."

"Great!"

Dolly clapped her hands and said, "I want to try some of them when the time comes. Grapes grown in my workplace must be delicious!"

"The coconuts are about to fall."

Ouyang Xue gestured to the coconut trees that Xiong Xiong had given her: "I don't know why, but they seem to have accepted this land very quickly. I thought they would need at least a year to take root, but now it looks like they are about to start bearing fruit."

Well……

I subconsciously looked at Xiaomo beside me.

A few days ago, Xiaomo gave a special explanation about the fact that the plants around the coffee shop are growing well.

To put it simply, it is me as an elf who is playing a role.

In the other world, the elves and the forest have a mutually reinforcing relationship. Generally, there may not be elves in large forests, but the main elf communities must live in that kind of super forest. The main reason is that where there are elves, the elements of life are abundant, and both plants and animals will show amazing vitality. Plants grow wildly, the ecology is balanced, and the forest is naturally dense.

Then the lush forest atmosphere will in turn help the elves grow.

After the hero was betrayed and killed by his companions, Xiaomo took the hero's body to look for the elves, the Tree of Life and the Fountain of Life. This is because those are the places with the strongest vitality in the world. It is said that as long as there is still a breath of life, any living creature can be saved.

As the only elf on this side of the Earth, and the nominal "Queen of Elfs", if I stay in a coffee shop for a long time, the plants around me will naturally start to grow wildly.

It's not just the plants. People who are a little sensitive to their own bodies may also find that the more they come to the coffee shop, the more chronic diseases they have been suffering from are alleviated, their tired bodies are relaxed, and they feel as if they have been replenished with energy and are very comfortable.

This was also the reason why Ouyang Xue was able to recover so quickly from her gastric bleeding. If I hadn’t been in the coffee shop, her condition would not have been so serious from the beginning. She would have been hospitalized for more than ten days or half a month.

This skill of the elves is a passive skill and cannot be turned off. It was not obvious before I awakened the elf mode. After I became the elf queen, this ability was strengthened. The coconut trees that Xiongxiong sent over came to life directly. Some customers claim that there is a huge difference between ordering takeout and eating in the coffee shop for this reason. Eating in the store not only has a good atmosphere, fast food delivery, and good taste, but you can also see the cute maids and cute kittens in the store. Because of my presence, the people here are really "healed" and naturally feel refreshed and happy. I don't have this feeling when I order takeout after returning home.

This situation will probably get worse in a few months. Ouyang Xue has planted so many flowers and vines here. Maybe by this time next year, the green space outside the coffee shop will become the largest garden in Kamihama City.

"Mayor Ye and the reporters are coming over today, right?"

Not intending to continue the conversation, I turned to the entrance of the coffee shop and looked at the door that had been almost renovated: "Do we need to prepare anything?"

"No, we can just serve customers as usual. There's no need to treat the mayor specially. We can serve her whatever she wants. We don't do that kind of pretentious stuff."

Ouyang Xue smiled and said, "Speaking of Mayor Ye, you should be more familiar with him than I am, right?"

"Ok?"

Lan Jiajia sensed something was wrong: "Nuo'er, are you familiar with the mayor?"

"No...it doesn't count."

I thought for a moment and said, "A friend of mine... my friend's wife, she and Mayor Ye are from the same hometown, they are from the same village, that's probably it, Xiaomo and I went to someone else's house to play and happened to see Mayor Ye there, so we chatted for a while."

My friend’s wife is from the same hometown as Mayor Ye, so this relationship is nothing.

“That’s pretty impressive.”