Chapter 16: Your gourmet tablecloth is in arrears
At seven o'clock in the evening, all the girls at Fujimi Academy had taken a shower and put on clean, disinfected and dried clothes.
Rei Miyamoto also used the electric tea kettle in the astronomy department's activity room to boil hot water and served each of them tea in paper cups.
After such a thrilling day, it is a blessing to be able to relax with a cup of hot tea.
Unfortunately, although fragrant hot tea can relax people's spirits, it cannot help people fill their stomachs.
——After a while, the stomachs of these high school girls began to growl, complaining to their owners that they were empty.
Indeed, it had been more than seven hours since lunch time, and the lunch lunch had already been digested.
However, the survivors could not find anything to eat in the small temporary shelter on the roof of the building. The few packets of biscuits and snacks that Rei Miyamoto had found from the astronomy department’s activity room had long been used. Jing Haoyong, who was seriously injured and in urgent need of supplementary food, chewed up all the food.
So, all the hungry high school students had no choice but to beg for Comrade Doraemon's head.
"...Oh, that's right, you haven't had dinner yet! I happen to be a little hungry too, let's have a dinner together!"
While Doraemon readily agreed to the survivors' reasonable requests, he pulled out a rectangular tablecloth from the dimensional pocket hanging on his abdomen.
——Dark gray edges, mixed and intertwined patterns of various colors... Generally speaking, it seems that it should not be a color combination for tablecloths.
However, the survivors who were waiting for the meal did not mind these details, and just watched helplessly as Doraemon spread it on the floor while humming a small tune. As if manipulating a precision instrument, he carefully made this strangely patterned tablecloth as neat and flat as possible.
"...Qiang Qiang! This is one of the magical props I am most proud of, a must-have [gourmet tablecloth] for camping~~~"
Doraemon said ostentatiously, "...please order, you can have whatever food you want!"
"...Oh, really? Such a magic weapon is really good." After a moment of hesitation, Miss Saya Takagi, who was arrogant by nature, was the first to come up and shouted to [Gourmet Tablecloth], "...Then I Order a curry omelette rice and a large glass of Coca-Cola, done!”
——In an instant, there seemed to be some imperceptible changes in the center of the [Gourmet Tablecloth], and various color blocks and combination patterns began to shine and swirl... Everyone onlookers could not help but hold their breath and stared at this tablecloth. , quietly looking forward to the appearance of delicious meals.
However, it is very regrettable that under the watchful eyes of everyone, what they finally waited for was not hot omelette rice and large bubble glasses of Coke, but a red warning dialog box that popped up out of thin air, and a mechanical And the monotonous electronic synthesized sound:
"...Dear user, due to long-term arrears, the cumulative amount of your gourmet tablecloth has exceeded the maximum overdraft limit, and the food delivery service has now been stopped. If you want to re-activate it, please pay our company through XX Bank as soon as possible, and be sure to pay it in one go Clear all arrears and late fees..."
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——As a result, Doraemon was labeled as a "pauper" and a "debt family" in the eyes of everyone at Fujimi Academy.
The smile on Doraemon's face, who was originally very proud, suddenly fell completely, and he had no choice but to lean in front of the warning and read it.
"...No way! How could this be? I remember it was still usable last month..." Doraemon scratched his head in embarrassment, took out a time-travel phone from his pocket and wanted to give it to [ Gourmet tablecloth] recharge, but suddenly remembered that he was penniless, and his credit card and account had long been frozen by the bank - the huge debt he owed, equivalent to 300 billion yen, had not been repaid until now!
After Nobi Nobita, Minamoto Shizuka, Fat Tiger and Xiaofu all said that they had no money with them, Doraemon had no choice but to beg the head of the female school doctor Shizuka Marikawa... Teacher Marikawa generously handed over his entire wallet. Throwing it over means that in this kind of zombie apocalypse, money and other things are probably useless, so they can just be handed over to Doraemon. However, after Doraemon opened the wallet and took a rough look, he took a breath of cold air.
"...This...Teacher Marichuan, which country's banknotes are the banknotes in your wallet?"
"...Eh? Of course it's our Japanese banknotes? What's wrong?" Shizuka Marikawa bit her finger and asked with a natural look on her face.
At the same time, Nobita Nobita, Fat Tiger, and Xiaofu, who took the wallet from Doraemon and passed it around, also had surprised eyes and talked a lot. After seeing clearly the patterns of the banknotes in the wallet, classmate Wang Qiu, His eyes went dark, and he felt like his liver was hurting.
——In the world of Doraemon, Wang Qiu saw that the Japanese yen used by Nobi Nobita and the others were the same as the Japanese yen he used in the real world. But in the world of "School Apocalypse", the pattern content of the Japanese yen banknotes uses another version:
The portrait on the 10,000 yen bill is that of the great thinker Fukuzawa Yukichi of the Meiji era, but the pattern, color, and posture of the portrait are all wrong. The portrait on the 5,000-yen banknote is not that of the educator Nitobe Inzo, but that of the famous historical novelist Ryotaro Shima (main works include "Clouds over Sakagami", "Tokugawa Ieyasu", "Heaven and Earth", etc.) . The portrait on the one thousand yen banknote is not the modern Japanese writer Natsume Soseki, but the ancient female writer Seishonagon (a Japanese female writer in the Heian period, whose book "Pillow" was selected into Japanese textbooks. Its historical status is second only to Murasaki Shikibu who wrote "The Tale of Genji")...
Even the shapes and patterns of a few coins are completely different from Nobi Nobita's yen coins!
Hey, this is not just a problem of not having enough food, but Doraemon's plan to make money to pay off debts in this world is on the verge of bankruptcy!
Of course, the first thing that needs to be solved now is how to get these survivors of Fujimi Academy to eat dinner.
Unfortunately, in the heat of the moment, this problem doesn't seem to be easily solved.
——After he was shocked to find that his [Gourmet Tablecloth] had been suspended due to arrears, the first countermeasure that Doraemon thought of was to "recruit on the spot" (recruiting on the spot) like the Imperial Japanese Army did in the past. Collect food from the school to fill everyone's stomach.
However, Igohaga told Doraemon with a wry smile that this idea might not be feasible.
"... Our school does not have a canteen. Students and teachers bring their own lunch boxes to school for lunch. In addition, there is no fixed canteen in the school, but a mobile vending truck will come over at noon every day to sell to teachers and students who do not bring lunch boxes. Bread and drink..."
——It was already the first class in the afternoon when the zombies broke out. The students had already eaten the lunch boxes they had brought, and the mobile vending truck selling bread and drinks had also left. Except for some snacks that may be hidden in the activity rooms of a few clubs, there is no place to store food in the school.
Fujimi Academy is located on a hill on the outskirts of the city, surrounded by a very empty space. Recently, I had to run about half a kilometer away from the school to find a convenience store—and that’s where students usually hang out after class. But it is already dark now, and it is difficult to detect danger in time. There are even more zombies wandering on the roads and convenience stores along the way... If you desperately go to the store in the dark to find something to eat, it may be too dangerous. , it can even be said to be life-threatening!
In short, at least on this crisis-ridden night, the strategy of "delivering food on the spot" will not work.