When Li Shuang and Xia Min entered the store, they found two more machines, three of which were fully stocked, and one was empty.
Xia Min stood in front of the new blind box machine, with a curious look in her eyes, "Fruit blind box, is this a new product?"
Xi Tingran walked quickly to the fruit blind box machine, and the price was still fifteen yuan per draw.
He casually took out a handful of blind box coins from his pocket and stuffed them into the fruit blind box machine.
A small red light lit up next to the machine, and with a clang, a blind box fell out.
Xi Tingran squatted down and took it out. He felt it was very heavy as soon as he picked it up, similar to the hidden items in the blind box of instant noodles.
His mind suddenly moved, and he guessed that he might have drawn the hidden one first.
Before opening, please look at the style picture as usual.
The style of the fruit blind box is very simple, still the eight regular styles, namely apple, pear, banana, grape, pineapple, mango, watermelon and orange, and finally there are two hidden ones, one large and one small.
Next to me was a team member who came to the blind box store for the first time. When he saw the design pictures, he couldn't hide his surprise: "Grapes, pineapples, mangoes, watermelons... so many designs, are they really all normal fruits?"
"Open it and you'll know."
Xi Tingran was about to tear open the box when he suddenly saw a line of small words on the top of the box: This product uses special fresh-keeping packaging. The product has been cleaned before being packed and does not need to be cleaned again. The shelf life of the unopened product is 60 days.
The last batch of hot drink blind boxes brought back felt hot until they were distributed, just like when they were just taken out of the blind box machine.
In order to record the types and quantities of items in the blind boxes, the outermost packaging of the blind boxes was torn open during distribution.
When you open the lid of a hot drink, the heat dissipates quickly.
He thought it was an illusion at the time, but now it seems that blind boxes may all use special packaging.
Xi Tingran tore open the package, and a sweet and refreshing tropical fruit aroma hit her in the face.
"What a nice smell, what is this?" Li Jing in Jiang Han's team smelled the fragrance and couldn't help but take two steps forward.
Most tropical fruits have a strong fragrance. People around could smell it and looked at Xi Tingran.
He carefully reached into the box and pulled out half of the cut fruit. "It's a pineapple."
The team members came over, their eyes shining with disbelief.
“It’s actually fresh pineapple. It smells so good!”
"This is a normal pineapple size, no mutation."
"So, this machine is full of fresh fruit?"
Xi Tingran weighed it. Half a pineapple without leaves and skin was about the same weight as the hidden instant noodles before, but this was a regular one.
Jiang Han had been observing Xi Tingran's actions and was stunned when he saw him take out a strange box of fruit from the machine.
Xi Tingran still had some unused blind box coins on him, so he distributed them to the team members and directed them to draw blind boxes. He then turned around and walked to the token exchange machine, ready to exchange for more blind box coins, as if he was going to buy something.
Lu Yao moved in front of the slightly passive Jiang Han and asked, "Why don't you try?"
Jiang Han came back to his senses, "Try it, of course I have to try it."
After taking two steps forward, he stepped back to Lu Yao's side and asked in a low voice: "Are those machines filled with food? Can we take them as we please?"
Lu Yao only answered the second question and told Jiang Han to use the crystal cores to exchange for blind box coins and then draw the blind box.
Jiang Han immediately called the team members to exchange the crystal cores for tokens and prepare to draw the box.
However, Xi Tingran's team had more people and they stood in the front and refused to move aside, so Jiang Han's team could only line up at the back.
Under normal circumstances, the two teams would definitely take action in this situation.
But Jiang Han saw that Xi Tingran's team was hesitant, so he glanced at Lu Yao sideways, then turned back to signal the team members to be honest and not take action.
Lu Yao turned his back and typed into the system: "I need props that limit the amount of items that can be purchased by a single person."
System: [Why limit it? If there are customers who are buying up the goods, wouldn’t it be better to sell out all of them?]
Lu Yao: "… The first couple bought out two blind box machines last night, and they came again today to buy out the machines. In the short term, the sales of the blind box store will increase. But in the long run, this practice of monopolizing all the goods is not good for the further development of the store."
The system can’t figure it out: [… What’s wrong with selling all the goods? ]
Lu Yao: "...Your little brain can't figure it out, figure it out later. Let's talk about props first, the blind box machine is almost empty."
The system is angry and helpless because the store owner always stamps it as unwise: [… 100,000 popularity points can be exchanged for limited purchase items, valid for 180 days. Does the store owner choose to exchange? ]
Lu Yao: "… Is there a three-day trial version?"
System: [… Shopkeeper, you have changed. ]
In the past, I exchanged special dragon nail files and special glue for hundreds of thousands of dollars and didn’t feel bad at all.
Even popularity points were used to exchange for sounds for slimes, but now they are very stingy when exchanging for practical props.
Lu Yao: "One word, is there?"
System: […10,000 popularity points, can be experienced for three days.]
Lu Yao: "I choose to redeem the three-day trial version of limited purchase items."
After getting the limited-purchase props, a translucent panel appeared in front of Lu Yao. The data of four blind box machines appeared on the panel. The blind box machine can be directly set to limit the purchase quantity of a single person.
She thought about it and decided to set up each blind box machine so that each person could draw two boxes per day.
Xi Tingran's team was frantically taking the blind boxes from the three machines. Red words flashed on the transparent glass of the blind box machine: You have reached the upper limit today, please take a break~
The team members who are drawing the blind box:
"Captain, the machine seems to be broken." said a team member.
Xi Tingran walked over and tried it, inserted a coin and drew out two blind boxes of hot drinks. He wanted to continue drawing, and the same red text began to flash on the blind box machine.
He tried them one by one, drawing two from the instant noodle blind box and one from the fruit blind box. A total of six were drawn from the three machines, and he could no longer insert coins.
Xi Tingran turned around and looked at Lu Yao who had been standing behind him, with a puzzled look in his eyes: "Shopkeeper, what's going on?"
Lu Yao simply explained: "Blind boxes are fun, but please be careful not to buy too much. Guests can come back tomorrow to try their luck."
Xi Tingran's face looked a little ugly. It was actually limited.
The four members of Jiang Han's team finally found a gap and squeezed to the token exchange machine, exchanging a handful of blind box coins.
Xi Tingran’s team could no longer draw blind boxes and could only give up their spot.
Jiang Han was full of curiosity about the machine, but he came in a hurry and didn't bring enough people with him.
I was kept outside by Xi Tingran's team and had no chance to get closer to take a look.
Among the three blind box machines, he is most interested in the fruit blind box machine.
When Xi Tingran took out the pineapple, Jiang Han, who was standing outside, stared with his eyes wide open.
He took out three ten-yuan blind box coins, inserted the coins directly, and drew out two fruit blind boxes.
The fruit blind box machine shows that the upper limit has been drawn.
He didn't care. He sat on the ground and tore open the box. He first took out a piece of paper, then looked into the box, his eyes gradually widened.
Chen Feng squatted beside him and asked anxiously, "What did you draw?"
Jiang Han turned the box towards Chen Feng: "There are so many kinds, I don't recognize any of them."
All members of his team are of the new generation born after the coming of the Day of Impermanence, and have basically never seen normal fruits.
Chen Feng took out a banana from the box and looked at it for a long time: "This should be... a banana, right?"
They have seen mutated giant banana fruits that are very similar to this long and thin strip, but are ten times larger.
Brother and sister Li Cheng and Li Jing also squatted down and looked through the fruits in the box. There were five or six kinds in total, one or two of each. Among them, there was a smaller fruit, with five of them.
Lu Yao came over, took a look, and said with a smile: "You are lucky, you drew a hidden one, and it's a big hidden one."
Jiang Han: "Hide?"
Lu Yao pointed to the card in his hand and the style picture on the packaging box, and explained: "The hidden ones are the rarest styles in each series, and they are generally more special. The big hidden one in the fruit blind box is the fruit platter, and each box has five or six different fruits."
Jiang Han turned over the card and saw the word "hidden" written on the back, with a red "big" note at the end.
He then identified the fruits in the box according to the regular pattern picture: an apple, an orange, a mango, a banana, five grapes, and finally there were two red fruits left. They smelled particularly fragrant, but they were not on the pattern picture.
Lu Yao: “This is strawberry.”
Jiang Han leaned in and sniffed it, squinting his eyes and feeling a little intoxicated. "It smells so good. Each fruit has a different smell."
Most of the plants that their generation saw when they grew up had mutated.
Some plants are carrion and have a very bad smell, which is completely different from the fruits in the blind box.
Xi Tingran's team saw Jiang Han draw out the big hidden box, which contained five or six kinds of fresh fruits, and they were envious.
They have also smoked quite a few, but they haven't opened them yet, so I wonder if there will be any hidden items.
Seeing that he could no longer draw blind boxes, Xi Tingran stopped staying and told his teammates to go back to base first.
The members of Jiang Han's team also started drawing blind boxes. Each of them drew six. They did not force it when they reached the limit and hurried away with the blind boxes.
Xi Tingran and Jiang Han both understood that the existence of this store would soon spread to various bases.
They all wanted to get as many supplies as possible for their base before that.
Lu Yao waited for them to leave, looked at the blind box machine with half of the goods missing, clicked on the purchase limit system, and reset the drawing quantity of each machine to one per person per day.
The purchase restriction system given to her by the system has a rather simple function. Lu Yao wants a system with more complex functions and greater convenience.
She did not reveal this little idea to the dream-fulfilling system. She first went to a snack bar to order a new batch of blind boxes, and then returned to the nail salon.
She bought four top-spec computers online.
The orders within the city were delivered to the nail salon that same evening.
Lu Yao asked Qing to help him trade the black ring, and he could just leave the money at the snack bar.
She moved her computer into the nail salon, asked Tina to get ten bottles of recovery potion, drew a do not disturb magic circle on the door, and hid in the laboratory alone.
The system watched Lu Yao fiddling with the blacklist system, checking the purchase restriction system, writing and drawing on paper, putting magic stones into the computer host, and burning magic circles on the display screen and chassis. He had a vague feeling of foreboding.
System: [Shopkeeper, what are you doing? ]
Lu Yao was so immersed in the joy of the activity that he didn't hear the system's sound at all.
The small system has been consuming too much popularity recently, so she has to make a blacklist system that includes purchase limit function and also has the function of protecting the store.
Combining magic with modern technology, her idea soon took shape.
Lu Yao was busy in the laboratory day and night, implanting a new magic blacklist system into the computer.
To facilitate recording, she used two computers.
One is dedicated to collecting blacklist data and has a protection program implanted in it.
The other one is used to record the blind box machine data and product data in the store, and comes with a purchase limit function.
She used the Philosopher's Stone to burn two data hard drives with extremely large capacity.
According to conservative estimates, there will be no problems if it runs in the world of impermanence for a hundred years.
The system felt betrayed: [… Shop owner, my heart aches.]
Lu Yao: "Touch it, take your time. Is the trial version of the blacklist system about to expire? I'll go to the blind box store and install the new system first."
system:[…]
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The world of impermanence, the base of eternal light.
The news that "there is a shop in Fairy Tale Square that can exchange crystal cores for small amounts of food" spread among the residents. Some people were skeptical, while others secretly took crystal cores and rushed to Fairy Tale Square.
Jiang Han held eight fruit blind boxes and pushed open the gate of the base's most heavily guarded research area, shouting, "Grandpa, Brother Chi, I brought back good things."
Jiang Shanrun's hair and beard are all gray, but he is still in good health. Wearing reading glasses, he is carefully tending to a few pots of plants with weak roots.
He didn't move when he heard his grandson's voice. He waited until Jiang Han came in before he spoke: "What good stuff did you bring?"
Jiang Han put a few blind boxes in front of him, and took the opened one aside so that he could not see it. "Grandpa, this contains what you want. Wait for Brother Chi to come, and we will open it together. Where is he?"
Jiang Shanrun raised his hand to adjust his glasses, and looked at the box in his grandson's hand with some curiosity, "He must be hiding in the garden and being lazy again. What good stuff is this? Let me take a look first."
As the two were talking, Chi Jin came in from outside.
The young man was wearing a white coat, looking thin and straight, and a pair of sunglasses. He put one hand in his pocket and played with a pair of small silver scissors with the other hand. He walked over slowly and said, "Old man, you are obviously pruning the branches, how can you be lazy?"
The voice was clear, low and somewhat nonchalant.
Jiang Han saw him and waved quickly: "Brother Chi Jin, come here quickly, let's take apart something fun."
Jiang Shanrun held up the so-called fruit blind box and carefully read the words on the package, with deep wrinkles on his face. "Where did you get this? Don't be fooled. It's not the transition period yet, where can I get fruit? Fruit that has not mutated is even harder to find, and even if you find it, you may not be able to keep it alive. And even if you keep it alive, there is no guarantee that it will not suddenly mutate."
Most of the plants grown in this small garden will suddenly mutate when they grow up and will not produce edible fruits.
Jiang Shanrun actually knows that it has something to do with the seeds and the soil.
The seeds they could find looked normal, but many of them actually carried mutant genes. Coupled with soil pollution, even if they kept trying to improve the soil quality, they could not prevent the mutant genes of plants from being stimulated.
Jiang Han urged, "Grandpa, take one apart first, then we can talk."
Jiang Shanrun looked at his grandson's calm appearance and had some thoughts in his mind, but he didn't quite dare to believe it.
But if we really find a fruit that does not carry any mutant genes at all, the stagnant research may find a new direction.
He was half-believing and half-doubting as he prepared to open the strange box. His hands were shaking a little due to excitement. He stopped to take a deep breath, then eagerly and clumsily tore open the lid. A familiar yet unfamiliar fruity aroma rushed out.