"Sorry, I'm really sorry."
"How many times has it been?"
Naji, with his head lowered, kept wiping the sweat off his forehead. It was normal to sweat when one was out in the summer, but it was not normal to break out in a cold sweat. Across from him, Lin smiled helplessly and bitterly.
Since this spring, the arrival of the goods purchased from the Chamber of Commerce had been delayed again and again, completely unlike the most prosperous city in the southwest peninsula. Every time, Naji always used the mobilization of goods as an excuse, apologizing and promising that it wouldn't happen again. But the reality was that none of the goods arrived in time.
For maintaining a school organization of nearly two hundred people, the purchase of fresh food every day was essential. There were also all kinds of incense, ointment, and so on used in the magic meditation room. Even the most basic meditation room consumed a considerable amount every day. Of course, there were also all kinds of materials needed for teaching magic.
A year ago, it would have been easy to mobilize these things. Basically, as long as you had money and made a request, you could see the goods the next day. But that wasn't the case now. If they bought some strange things, it was understandable that it would take some time to find and transfer the goods. But what Lin ordered were all basic, conventional goods for a city of Mages.
In order to deal with such a situation, Lin changed his approach and always hurriedly negotiated with the people of the Chamber of Commerce before there was a certain amount of goods. Simply put, it was to increase the stock to deal with it.
However, this approach didn't change for long. The delay of the goods from the Chamber of Commerce seemed to have seen through the stock of the academy's warehouse. They always arrived on time, and there were even a few times when there was an open window.
Looking at the dining hall, where the children could only dip bread in the "vegetable soup" with only a few leaves, the few in charge of the kitchen all showed guilty expressions, but it wasn't their fault. Even the cleverest housewife couldn't cook without rice. Someone had only heard of this proverb before, but never thought that he would one day face such a situation.
If it was the era of when one person was full and the whole family was full, and there really wasn't anything to eat at home, and they were too lazy to go out and buy food, it wasn't unheard of to starve for a meal or two. Anyway, the fat on his stomach was still very thick at the time, so he could just treat it as a diet.
But now that there were nearly two hundred mouths to feed, Marco Lin couldn't bring himself to say that it wouldn't kill them to starve for a meal. Besides, even if the children did not dare to criticize him, the sorcerers who were with him would not be so polite. Even if they weren't pointing at someone's nose and scolding, they were still making sour remarks.
On the other hand, a certain Archmage was very self-aware. Seeing that the situation was not right, he brought his students to Wulian City to indulge in wine and women, and did not stay in the academy to starve.
Lin Xiang clearly knew that someone was secretly making things difficult for him. When he looked for other partners, he suddenly realized that he seemed to have shot himself in the foot. That big rock was the freak that was the shopping mall system.
In the Lost Land, where the transportation system was primitive and production technology was backward, the convenience of buying and selling made the merchants realize one thing. Compared to the problem of the source of customers, it was more important to control the supply of goods. Leaving aside some special and rare items, there was no need to worry about not being able to sell all kinds of goods that were essential to the people's livelihood in the Merchant City, a place that connected all the people in the Southwest Peninsula.
In the past, it was a gamble for merchants to decide where they would or would not transport their goods. It just so happened that the goods were in short supply in the area, so of course they could make a huge profit. However, if no one was interested in the goods, then they might even lose their entire fortune.
But now that the goods were about to be moved, someone must have placed an order. There was less risk of relying on all kinds of gossip and gambling their fortune. Instead, where would the goods to be sold come from? In the early days, there was often a dilemma where there was a demand for orders, but there was nothing to sell. Therefore, the stewards of the Chamber of Commerce ran around, and in addition to connecting with the customers, they mainly bought goods from all over the place.
As long as it was not an evil item, there was nothing that couldn't be sold in the Merchant City. This also formed a considerable magnetic effect, and almost all the goods produced in the Xijia District were caught in one net.
What kind of business was the most profitable? People who had read economics or not would definitely agree that monopolization was better than oligopoly, and oligopoly was better than market competition. No matter what business it was, as long as there was no competition, and firmly grasping the pricing power, it was a profitable business.
The convenience of the Merchant City system surpassed the era, and it was easy to defeat other competitors. If it wasn't for the problem of transportation capacity, or if there was a talent who knew how to dispatch and logistics, the Chamber of Commerce in the Xijia District wanted to unify the Southwest Peninsula, or even the entire Lost Land world, it wouldn't be a problem.
But for consumers, this wasn't good news at all. Like now, when faced with the predicament of a big store bullying customers, Lin Xiang couldn't find other sources of goods! Even those small merchants that were not included in the Merchant City system were not enough to cope with the demand of the academy.
Besides, on the first day of meeting, they could be warmly received by the other party, but on the second day, they would be as afraid as snakes and scorpions. Or after entering the door, they would be asked to leave as if they were the plague. Lin Xiang had to contact many small merchants to support the consumption of the academy. This idea had been declared a failure before it even started.
Through the Master Wizard Grimwin, who was often sent out of Wulian City this year, he learned that inside the Chamber of Commerce, the president's people were mainly responsible for this matter. Even if the others didn't add fuel to the fire, they chose to stand by and watch. And he was alone, he was just a thug, and he really couldn't help much in this regard.
The day was not satisfactory, but at night, in his home in the community, after Lin Xiang fixed the astrology, he entered his dream and buried himself in the magic array on the second floor.
"Yo, you appeared again." The fat otaku avatar looked at the original who had just entered and said, "You have been appearing a lot these days. Life is not going well, are you so depressed that you want to die?"
"Don't worry, I will choke you to death first, then kill myself."
The above was just a greeting. The two met by themselves and started to work without saying a word, which was not the habit of the fat otaku. However, the two were already very restrained. The greeting was limited to one sentence, and they didn't endlessly ridicule each other.
The second floor of the Dream Magic Tower was not completely capped. During this period of time, in addition to those nightmare creatures that accidentally broke in, Lin Xiang also contributed a lot of bricks. So even if the second floor of the Magic Tower was not completely capped, it was enough to set up a preliminary magic array.
On the first floor of the Dream Magic Tower, the magic array program for setting up the star map was engraved, and it also included a part for simulation. Now, although the program to simulate the starry sky and search for Earth was no longer running, it was indispensable to maintain the starry sky in the dream, and to switch between the maze and Earth at any time.
On this basis, what kind of magic array to set up on the second floor really made Lin Xiang's head hurt for a while. In the end, as if he was possessed, he set a theme for the layout on the second floor: distance.
Starting from the distance measurement and calculation that could be seen, the distance between two known points on the surface was then calculated by taking the curvature of the surface into account. Then, the distance between the maze and two satellites was calculated down to the precise meter. Finally, the distance between celestial bodies was calculated.
The methods included visual angle measurement, visual distance measurement, and various astronomical measurement methods. In terms of astronomical measurement, because space telescopes could not be launched, all the observations could only be made in the atmosphere. Therefore, he had to find a way to observe the influence of the atmosphere on the refraction and diffraction of light in the maze, so that accurate parameters could be calculated.
At the same time, Lin Xiang also considered a project that he didn't dare to touch before, which was to change the observation method from visible light to radio telescope. In this way, the shortcomings caused by surface observation could be eliminated to the maximum extent. However, there were too many non-undergraduate technical things that had to be established first. Just thinking about it made him feel that it was a great undertaking that would take a lifetime to complete.
The ultimate goal of all this was to calculate the exact distance between the maze and Earth. Although even if he got this number, instead of the very general millions of light-years and so on, Lin Xiang couldn't walk back to Earth step by step. Speaking of which, this was just a way to comfort himself during this period of confusion.
However, although most of his attention was focused on calculating the distance on the second floor of the Dream Magic Tower, he was also analyzing the magic of another system, which was the teleportation magic.
Considering that he couldn't build a spaceship or any substitute, teleportation was the only option at this stage. However, if he used teleportation, he couldn't avoid facing the various arguments that he refuted before.
Therefore, the first step of Lin's research was to dismantle these spells. Then, he had to decipher the mystery of each sentence and line of the magic words.
Unfortunately, in order to fully understand these questions, there was a lot of additional knowledge that he had to understand. Therefore, Lin Xiang spent a lot of time working hard on the relevant data.
In short, the feeling in the dream was as if he had returned to the time when he was studying for his doctorate.
Since he had to worry about the affairs of the academy during the day, and when he returned home at night, he had to worry about all kinds of things in the dream. It was inevitable that he neglected other people.
The two apprentices had been sticking to their elder sister for a long time. They knew exactly what their teacher was like. Therefore, Hallumi and Kaya were already mentally prepared for Lin Xiang's enthusiasm to throw himself into his own affairs and ignore the affairs of the outside world.
But for a certain Lich, it was not the case. As if in protest, Fen's performance at the nobles' gatherings every week was getting better and better. Especially after the elf, Liana Titov, left, Fen was like a fish in water, attracting the attention of all the nobles in Wulian City.
If it was in the past, perhaps this group of noble people would have already surrounded a rare beauty in three circles and madly fawned over her. However, the king, who had not returned to his country for a long time, forcibly blocked everyone out and made it difficult for them to get close.
If the beauty showed a trace of displeasure or hinted at others to help, the nobles would not care whether the opponent was a king or not. They would have stepped forward to be the hero to save the beauty. Unfortunately, Fen seemed to be chatting happily with Steiner III, and their actions seemed to be getting more and more intimate.
In the end, that person did not return that night.
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