Skipping over the topic of war, Perfikot also accepted the fact that James was his assistant.
"Go change into some decent clothes and tidy yourself up, I don't want a lousy playboy leaving a bad impression while by my side." Although he accepted James as his assistant, Perfikot was still disdainful of him.
Considering that this guy was wearing a cheap rental suit and might not be in good financial condition, Perfikot sighed, then pulled out his wallet, took out a twenty-pound bill, hesitated for a moment, then took out a fifty-pound bill and handed both bills to James.
He said to him, "Go buy some decent clothes on Flagship Street and prepare the necessary items for going to the New Continent. Our task is to find a suitable location to establish a shelter. I assume you have experience in wilderness exploration?"
"Thank you for your generosity! I once followed an expedition deep into the northern wilderness of the New Continent and have enough survival experience in the wild." As James quickly put the cash in his pocket, he also worked hard to showcase his professionalism and capability to Perfikot.
Although James was an intelligence agency operative, he knew full well that an apocalypse was imminent, and if he didn't secure a path for himself, he might end up dying miserably.
For intelligence personnel like them, the skills essential for survival are the perception of danger and arranging an exit plan, which are even more crucial than the professional skills of information gathering and analysis.
Thus, James was keenly aware of where the future crisis would come from and how to seek that glimmer of survival.
Giving one's life for the country is one thing; dying in an apocalyptic disaster is quite another.
James didn't want his life to end without value.
Therefore, he chose to join the Crisis Response Committee and sided with Duke Gloucester, hoping to secure a path in the future apocalypse through this.
However, the procrastination of the Noble Council and Duke Gloucester's move to send him to Perfikot made James realize who he should follow to have a better chance of survival.
"Since you have relevant experience, help me organize an expedition team." Perfikot, seeing James had relevant experience, didn't let him idle and directly assigned the task: "For all funding withdrawals, you can find Aunt Annie or go to Brandelis Manor to find my butler Foster.
I don't care how much you spend, as long as the money is spent appropriately or if you think you can forge an account that can deceive me.
I just remind you, the world is about to face an extinction disaster, money is just an external object."
"I understand your meaning, rest assured, Miss Brandelis." James didn't say much, he simply bowed to Perfikot and made his promise.
For James's promise, Perfikot was noncommittal; he only nodded without saying anything further and focused on eating breakfast.
Beside him, Eldest Princess Annie, noticing James's shabby appearance, frowned slightly but still invited him to sit down and have breakfast. Having only stuffed two pieces of bread to fill his stomach earlier in the morning, James naturally didn't hesitate to express his
This was the breakfast made by the cooks at Windsor Castle who got up at four in the morning and worked busy for five hours. To not eat it properly would be such a waste.
Breakfast at Windsor Castle was more than just bread and milk to fill the stomach.
It included not only common foods such as bacon and eggs but also smoked fish, toast, orange marmalade, and bread rolls baked the night before, including vegetables and fruits such as onions, radishes, spinach, broccoli, cabbage, apples, and cherries, along with meats of roast lamb, pork or turkey meat, boiled beef, stewed rabbit meat, and meat pies, altogether filling the entire dining table with a sumptuous feast.
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Moreover, this is one of the reasons why she bathes in the morning, since it's indeed difficult to eat breakfast early.
Even if the servants light the fire and ignite the stove at four in the morning, with most preparations done the night before, finishing all the breakfast cooking in a short time is impossible.
Usually, for a sumptuous breakfast, you have to accept later meal times.
Fortunately for the nobles, they do not need to leave early like the ordinary people or worker families who have to eat their breakfast as simply as possible to sleep longer and not waste time on food preparation.
Nobles have time to wait for a rich and satisfying breakfast.
And for the nobles, they can choose even richer cuisines based on different holidays, including novel dishes from colonies.
These are incomprehensible and hard to imagine for the ordinary people and workers of Langton who work from dawn till dusk. For them, white bread and cakes without cream are already very luxurious treats.
Eldest Princess Annie doesn't have special dietary requirements, as her years of military service have cultivated a habit of shortening mealtime as much as possible.
However, here at Windsor Castle, the royal banquet castle, everything represents the face of the Royal Family.
The castle's kitchen has four professional chefs and more than twenty cooks; their sole task is to provide this castle's owner with sumptuous meals every day.
This is a rather labor-intensive job, requiring waking up early every day to start working, until all the meals were served on the owner's table before they could eat their breakfast.
From waking up to actually eating breakfast, there is approximately a gap of five to six hours.
Nobles can sleep late, still hungry after waking up; they have snacks or other simple meals to fill their stomach, whereas these servants... they can only work on an empty stomach.
Perfikot is powerless to change anything; this is the social reality of this era. To change it requires having the power to change the world.
If there were no apocalyptic catastrophe, Perfikot might consider doing something, but now... all her energy must be focused on coping with the end-time disaster and saving the world.
Even in the future, she would stand opposed to these people.
Before the disaster strikes, repairing a doomsday shelter, oppression, exploitation, these are unavoidable.