Lu Yao got up and washed, thinking about going to the blind box store first to check out the situation and recycle the crystal cores.
The 400 items that the blind box store replenished last night were indeed sold out, leaving only two empty blind box machines.
There are two new machines in the warehouse as mission rewards, and Lu Yao plans to put the machines in place first.
Li Shuang and Xia Min came in from outside and saw Lu Yao standing next to the blind box machine, gesturing, which was a bit strange.
They were just seeing off the captain and teammates at the door. It was so bright outside, there was no reason why they couldn't see someone coming in. How did this person get in
Lu Yao heard the voices and turned his head to look over, thinking they were new customers. He explained, "Sorry, the store is sold out. We will have to wait until at least the afternoon to restock."
Li Shuang was the first to react: "Are you the owner of this store? Can you restock the goods in the afternoon?"
Lu Yao was still shocked at this time. Nearly 400 blind boxes were sold out overnight.
Judging from the intensive system prompts this morning, it seems like some big shot who is addicted to lottery boxes has directly emptied the machine.
She was naturally happy that the goods were selling well, but the level of consumption was still painful.
The capacity of the blind box machine has been expanded. Once she puts up four machines, she will have to prepare a thousand items at a time.
"Well, I will probably buy the hot drink blind box and instant noodle blind box in the afternoon." Lu Yao was thinking about something in his mind and did not forget to answer.
Li Shuang looked at Xia Min and said happily, "That's great! The captain is right, they will really restock!"
Xia Min nodded: "We will stay here and empty the machine when the stock is replenished."
Lu Yao: “…”
So you are the "culprit". You're still not satisfied after smoking two machines. Are you so high
Or is it from the blind box shop that is restocking
Lu Yao could understand this idea. Drawing blind boxes is like drawing cards. Even if you know that there are only those characters in the card pool, even if you already have the complete illustrated collection, you still look forward to every black screen.
There are customers in the store, so Lu Yao cannot put down the machine or take out the crystal core for the time being.
She took out two pieces of dark chocolate from her pocket, walked up to the two children, and prepared to get some information first: "My name is Lu Yao, and I'm the owner of this blind box store. I'll treat you to some chocolate."
Li Shuang and Xia Min stared at the chocolate in Lu Yao's hand but did not reach out to take it.
"Don't you want to eat it? Although it's a bit bitter, it tastes very smooth." Lu Yao tore open the package, stuffed the whole piece into his mouth, then took out another piece from his pocket, made two pieces together and handed it over.
Li Shuang didn't reach out, but Xia Min couldn't help but took a piece.
She took it in her hand and looked at it curiously, then asked, "What is chocolate?"
Lu Yao did not show any strangeness and patiently explained: "There are many kinds of chocolate. The dark chocolate I like is usually processed from cocoa butter and made into a snack. Cocoa butter comes from cocoa beans, which are the fruit of a plant. They are shaped like a shuttle and are about this size."
She gestured to indicate an area with her hand and continued, "By the way, there is a hot cocoa in the hot drink blind box. The taste of chocolate is very similar to hot cocoa. Their main ingredients are cocoa butter."
The hot drink that Li Shuang pulled out was hot cocoa. After hearing Lu Yao's description, he seemed to immediately recall the sweet taste of hot cocoa. His expression finally relaxed, and he reached out to take the chocolate from Lu Yao's hand.
However, the two of them just held it in their hands and did not eat it.
Lu Yao clapped his hands and said calmly: "It's always dark outside, and I don't know when it will get light."
Xia Min continued, "This time the Eternal Night is much longer than before. The captain said a few days ago that it might end soon."
"That's good." Lu Yao nodded, looking delighted. "I was originally planning to release a batch of blind boxes of lighting products, but the eternal night is about to end, so maybe we don't need it anymore, right?"
Li Shuang immediately said, "Shopkeeper, can you sell any goods?"
Lu Yao: "It's not that easy. Is there anything you want?"
After all, he is a child. He took the bait immediately after a little bait was put on him.
The two of them chattered about a lot of their fantasies, and inevitably revealed some useful information during the conversation.
For example, after the eternal night ends, there will be a transition period of about ten days.
During this time, mutant animals and plants awakened and became rampant.
People at the base will organize teams to go out hunting and obtain crystal cores.
Some of the crystal cores are used to exchange for food, and the rest are stored in preparation for the next stage of cold wave.
Crystal cores have many uses, they can be used as fuel, for lighting, for power generation, and to enhance supernatural powers.
Among them, fuel use is the least efficient way and also the most common use.
Ordinary people do not have the special abilities to stimulate the energy in the crystal core and can only use it for burning or lighting.
The Uncertain Days may see eternal night, polar day, cold waves, droughts, floods, acid rain, sandstorms, earthquakes, insect plagues, plagues... All kinds of unimaginable disasters cycle back and forth with almost no fixed rules and no end.
But people living in the world of impermanence have observed the frequency and order of various disasters for many years, and inferred that after this eternal night ends, the next one will most likely be a cold wave.
Li Shuang and Xia Min usually follow their parents on missions, and all they think about is obtaining supplies and gathering intelligence. They rarely have the opportunity to confide in others, so they appear to be particularly talkative.
Lu Yao listened quietly, occasionally asking one or two small questions, and when he understood more or less, he stood up and patted the two children: "I'm going to prepare the goods, the store will be closed for a while. It's not safe outside, you go home first."
Li Shuang and Xia Min stood outside the blind box shop, and realized belatedly that they seemed to have been tricked.
But the shop owner's methods were so gentle that even if they vaguely noticed it, they were unable to feel disgusted.
And she said she was going to restock, which was good news for them.
The two had no intention of leaving, so they simply sat side by side at the door and waited for Xi Tingran to bring people back.
The shop signs and street lights outside the door were as bright as day, so they were not very scared.
In the store, Lu Yao asked the system to close the store door, took out two new blind box machines from the warehouse, placed them next to the instant noodle blind box machine, and took out the crystal cores compressed into blind box coins from the hot drink blind box machine and the instant noodle blind box machine.
Two large boxes filled with crystal cores in three colors: blue, green and red.
These are the profits from the blind box store and also the raw materials for her to develop new blind boxes.
The blind box store cannot always avoid customers when stocking goods and collecting crystal core coins. Lu Yao wants to add a room behind the blind box machine so that she can stock goods and collect coins at any time.
The inspiration for this design came from a news story she saw one year, where a maintenance worker was trapped in an ATM and unfortunately did not bring any communication tools, so he had to hand a note to the customer who came to withdraw money for help...
Later, a rumor spread that the automatic machines people encounter in their daily lives actually contain real people (1).
Lu Yao has no intention of verifying the truth of the news, but her blind box machine can indeed create a space for Tibetans.
She drew the concept map, handed it over to the system, and upgraded it immediately.
This upgrade is hidden on the back of the blind box machine and the maintenance time is twelve hours.
The system indicates that it is possible to avoid customers while upgrading, and the store can open for business as usual, but the owner will need to pay an additional 20,000 popularity points.
Lu Yao paid to upgrade the store’s popularity and left with the crystal core.
She first returned to the nail salon, brought the crystal core back to the laboratory, and spent another 100,000 popularity points to upgrade the second floor of the nail salon.
System: [Why do we need to upgrade suddenly? ]
There were so many opportunities in the past, but the store never took the initiative.
Lu Yao: “It will be useful in the future.”
Regardless of the system, Lu Yao prepared to go out with a bag of gold coins.
Harold and Si Jin were still resting. Tina woke up early and saw Lu Yao was going out, so she accompanied her to Onoton City.
The morning market in a big city is much busier than Emerald Town, with fresh ingredients and a wider variety.
Lu Yao purchased a variety of monster meat, vegetables and fruits and brought them back to the snack bar.
I called the deliveryman to deliver fifty boxes of instant noodles to the snack bar, and then asked Qi Chen to make two hundred and fifty blind boxes of hot drinks, thirty of each regular flavor, six of small hidden flavors, and four of large hidden flavors.
After preparing to restock the blind boxes, Lu Yao spent another 100,000 popularity points to upgrade the fourth floor of the snack bar. At the same time, he posted a recruitment notice to recruit two new employees.
In order not to affect the normal business of the snack bar and nail salon, Lu Yao was anxious to get a new venue and paid an additional 40,000 popularity points to allow the system to start maintenance immediately.
System: […Is it too much? I was told to install the blacklist system but I didn’t want to.]
The blacklist system trial period is over, and it will definitely not be soft-hearted, humph.
Lu Yao waved his hand: "Don't worry, I have arranged everything. It's time to make blind box packaging. Seven hundred and fifty illusion packaging, I don't know when it will be finished. I hope to find new employees as soon as possible."
The system was a little confused. The owner had been busy with many things early in the morning, and they were all big moves. It didn't know what she suddenly wanted to do.
However, since Lu Yao opened the store, every time it encountered a situation that it thought was particularly serious, nothing serious happened in the end.
The system still trusts the store owner and is happily waiting to receive 500,000 popularity points in two days.
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Yaoguang City, Xicheng Five-Star Hotel, 18th floor.
Qi Jue knocked on the door of Room 1866.
Xiao Zhou opened the door, "Officer Qi?"
Qi Jue nodded: "Yeah."
Xiao Zhou took a step back and said with a smile, "Please come in."
Qi Jue was urgently transferred back yesterday while on a mission and subsequently received a special assistance notice.
As a player who has entered the Paradise game and successfully survived, he will assist the 955 Department in investigating the repeated occurrences of abnormal energy points in Yaoguang City.
Qi Jue never reported the fact that he had entered the game park, because no one would believe it except the game players.
Before yesterday, he didn't know about the existence of the 955th Department. When he saw the special assistance notice, he thought he was working too much overtime and his mental state was not good.
It was not until this moment, when he was actually sitting in the hotel room, facing Xiao Zhou and Tang Qi who claimed to be employees of the 955 special department, that he felt some sense of reality.
As a monitor, Tang Qi had long been interested in Paradise game players and was curious about Qi Jue: "What is the game like? Is it really as scary as it's said on the forum? I heard that you successfully passed the most difficult test in the Black Ring World. How do you feel?"
Qi Jue was a little at a loss as Xiao Tang, who claimed to be an inspector, had too many questions.
At this time, Lin Yan walked out of the next room and saw Qi Jue. A faint smile appeared on her solemn face: "Junior brother, long time no see."
Qi Jue stood up suddenly, "Senior Sister, why are you here?"
Lin Yan is a senior sister who graduated from the same police academy as Qi Jue, and the two later worked together.
However, about two years ago, Lin Yan quietly resigned from her job as a special police officer.
Qi Jue didn't know the reason and never contacted her again, thinking that something had happened to her.
Lin Yan briefly talked about her recent situation. Seeing Qi Jue's surprised expression, she continued, "I have information about your situation, so there's no need to explain. Your main task this time is to help us contact the player known as the game administrator. Late last night, she posted a post about selling a black ring. I hope you can contact her as a buyer of the black ring."
Qi Jue was slightly stunned: "Senior Sister, is there something wrong with her?"
Lin Yan noticed something and her pupils shrank slightly: "Junior brother, do you think there is nothing wrong with her? Or do you actually have specific information about her?"
Xiao Zhou and Tang Qi looked at Qi Jue curiously.
It’s not that they didn’t check the game administrator’s information, after all, there are tax records.
The strange thing is that no matter how hard you check, it always breaks suddenly at the critical point.
At this point in the investigation, they only knew the administrator's gender and did not even find his full name.
Qi Jue grabbed his knees with his hands, his eyes half closed, "No, just follow your plan."
The last time Zhuang Liang was traded, he told Qi Jue what happened in the game. All the boss-level NPCs in the Black Ring world were under Lu Yao’s command.
She may not be a game manager at all, but some kind of being above the game.
Qi Jue understood Lin Yan, and even if he warned her, Lin Yan would not listen.
As for his status, he had no choice but to cooperate.
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In the impermanent world, Xi Tingran's team returned to the base with blind box supplies.
The logistics department immediately notified the residents to line up at the square to receive supplies.
The residents of the base were surprised and delighted.
"Didn't they say that Captain Xi didn't bring back any supplies this time? Why are you notifying us to pick them up now?"
"Every two households receive a portion of food. It seems that not much supplies were found this time."
"We should be thankful to have something to eat. Why would we need a bicycle? During the worst cold snap of that year, four families shared a dry and hard multi-grain cake, but no one complained like this!"
"Oh, that's not what I meant. I just said it casually."
While they were still arguing, the person who received the supplies in front of them suddenly jumped and shouted, "Instant noodles! Not expired instant noodles!!! Or my favorite pork chop noodles, great!"
Then someone else shouted, "There's actually sugar water. It's Tremella soup! It smells so sweet and fragrant!!!"
The people queuing behind were wondering: Is this hallucination caused by hunger
It’s the twentieth year of the Day of Impermanence. Even damp instant noodles are nowhere to be found. How can there be instant noodles that have not expired
Sugar water is even more impossible, as sugar, salt and crystal cores are all hard currency.
Now the entire Hope Base can't even get two spoonfuls of sugar, so how can it possibly give out sugar water
There is also Tremella soup, which is so beautiful even in dreams.