God Of Crafting

Chapter 71: The way Rich people use money

"Is this seriously all that you want?" Claire asked while raising her eyes from the compiled list of all the things that I ended up picking while she was recovering from her orgasm along with the things that we picked before her thoughts all vanished in the tsunami of pleasure.

"I've mostly marked the things that could be of use or things that caught my fancy for some reason. And I'm not ordering anything in bigger numbers because I simply don't know what we are going to do yet."

Claire squinted her eyes as she looked at the list before relaxing her face and putting the device away only to get herself comfortable on the cushions while bringing a piece of cake to her mouth.

"Au wewwy sufe?" she muttered while munching on the fruit-tart, before licking her lips clean and swallowing the treat. "Are you really sure?" she asked again, this time using proper words, before moving her hand and tapping at the device with the joint of her forefinger. "You spent a mere three hundred thousand. I came here expecting to throw at least several million down, you know?"

I reached out for the cup... Only to change my mind mid-move and grab an entire bottle of soda instead, taking a second to twist its cork open before passing it over to Clarie.

Given how dry that tart looked to me, I couldn't help but worry Claire might end up choking on it.

"Thanks," the girl happily grabbed the bottle from my hand before taking a swing in a manner that only further reinforced the sense of gap moe I'd first noticed when she was orgasming all over my hands. "But really, I mean it. I understand if you come from a place where you didn't really have money, so it might be hard to stomach it, but..."

Claire bit down on her lips as she stopped herself from saying whatever it was that she had on her mind.

"White intelligence?" I asked, unfamiliar with the term.

"Open source intelligence, stuff that doesn't strictly relate to what you are researching..." Claire stopped for a second and took a moment to find the best possible answer to my question. "Do you know how there's this pizza-unrest index?" she suddenly asked, coming up with yet another term I didn't know about.

"It's from back in the old days when several pizza shops would be swamped with orders whenever a long set of meetings would be scheduled at a nearby government's office. Those intense, long, and successive meetings can then translate to that government agency intensifying its efforts in preparation for something big to go down," Claire explained before leaning back and smiling.

"In other words, you don't look for the bread, you look for the crumbs left in the wake of whoever carried it away," she explained, simplifying the entire thing to a much more palatable example.

"And in this case, by buying a bunch of stuff that we don't need or are simply going to turn empty credit into a value that actually appreciates, we can maybe not exactly stop others from figuring out what we are actually using..."

"But we can cloud the waters enough for our transactions with the merchant house not to be a manifest of what we are using to produce things that never existed in this world before," I finished up the explanation just to see if I've got it right.

"Pretty much, yeah," Claire nodded her head, her smile growing just a little bit more as we grew ever-so-slightly closer now that we were on the same page.

"Can I leave it to you to buff this list up, then?" I asked, only to lean over at the device and quickly scroll through the list again. "Oh, and while you are at it, can you add a bunch of basic stuff that's likely to come of use?

That, and," I smiled, as I finally formalized the path to making the one item that I had kept thinking about since a while ago, "and there are just a few more things that I think we might need from here."