Before the launch of the Crystal Core Blind Box, Lu Yao spent some time on other things.
On the second floor of the nail salon is her second outsourced small workshop prepared for the blind box store.
The original plan was for this place to be a small handicraft workshop.
But she got inspiration from the automatic packaging box machine made by Meng Qin, and used magic to refine a machine that could automatically stamp the contract emblem.
Place a seal engraved with a protective contract magic circle on the machine, fill the machine with magic stones, and have the magician inject magic power into the machine to drive it once, and then the protective contract seal can be stamped on any object.
In the history of magic in the Alexandria continent, souls are generally the bond, and both parties to the contract must be present at the same time for the contract to be concluded.
Lu Yao consulted all the alien employees in the nail salon and built a new protective contract magic circle that did not require the soul to be bound or the presence of both parties at the same time.
The disadvantage is that the effectiveness will be greatly weakened, but as an additional service of a blind box store, the utility is sufficient.
To put it in simple and popular terms, Lu Yao wants to stamp a special seal on the blind boxes he sells.
This emblem has magical protection. Once the protective magic circle is activated, a contract is immediately established between the blind box and the buyer.
If anyone tries to grab the blind box that activates the protection contract, they will be punished immediately.
This is a paid service, but it is not mandatory.
All blind boxes sold from now on will be stamped with a protection stamp, but whether or not to activate the protection contract depends entirely on the customer's own wishes.
Lu Yao went to the snack bar to pick up the packaged blind box, took it to the second floor of the nail salon to get it stamped, and finally took it to the blind box store to stock it.
The blind boxes that are available today all come with a protective stamp.
The blind box machine has also been upgraded with an automatic contract function, and a fingerprint button has been added below the coin slot.
After the three regular blind box machines were loaded with goods, Lu Yao opened the fourth blind box machine which had been vacant all this time, put forty crystal core blind boxes on it, and printed a scrolling note on the blind box machine that read "One Hundred Use Ideas for Crystal Core Energy".
After the goods are loaded, the blind box store will open automatically.
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As soon as the blind box store opened, residents who had been waiting outside immediately lined up to enter the store.
Liu Hai lives in the Hope Base and comes to the blind box store every day to wait.
But there are too many people who want to redeem blind boxes, and you may not be able to redeem them every time.
He was lucky today. When the blind box shop opened, he was standing at the door. His pocket was filled with blind box coins that he had not redeemed yesterday. He was the first to rush to the blind box machine and put in the coins to draw a box.
During the purchase process, the blind box machine asked you to add ten yuan to activate some protection contract.
He was anxious, afraid that he would not be able to grab the blind boxes of the other two machines, so he did not look carefully and hurriedly paid the money and pressed his fingerprint.
After buying the blind boxes and counting, I found that the three blind boxes cost a total of thirty yuan in blind box coins.
Liu Hai was regretting it so much, he could have bought two more blind boxes with the coins he saved.
What kind of protection contract? In this ever-changing world, it's completely useless.
Sure enough, the blind box stores also started to secretly try to increase the price, but you can’t help but buy.
Just like some local bosses in the base, he uses all kinds of excuses to collect protection fees.
Liu Hai's excitement over grabbing three blind boxes disappeared in an instant. He felt depressed and ran quickly towards the base.
First send the food home, then go out in the afternoon to kill more mutant animals and plants, save up crystal cores, and continue exchanging blind boxes.
It doesn't matter if it's a bit expensive, but these foods are important supplies for their family to survive the cold wave.
Liu Hai saw the gate of the base. He could return to the base by just passing through the small woods in front that was less than ten meters wide.
As soon as he walked into the woods, three people came out from behind the trees, staring at the blind box he was holding in his arms, their eyes shining.
The leading man was fat and had big ears. His upper body was naked, and there was a scar on his chest that was 20 centimeters long. He held a large hatchet with a notch in his hand and said fiercely, "Leave your things behind, and get out of here."
Two tall and thin guys blocked her bangs on both sides, with a half-smile on their faces.
One person looked at what he was holding and couldn't help drooling: "This is a blind box of instant noodles, the kind I ate a few days ago. The pickled pepper beef noodles are so delicious. I'm dying of greed."
The person next to him continued, "Not only that, he also brought some fruit and hot drinks, that's all. We're going to have a luxurious meal today, hehe."
Liu Hai took a step back, his face solemn and his mood heavy.
This is why he doesn't dare let his family members come out to redeem the blind boxes.
He has no special powers, but can hunt some low- to mid-level mutated animals and plants by teaming up with acquaintances.
At this moment, facing three people alone, resistance is definitely not the best option, but he doesn't want to give up the blind box he exchanged with great difficulty. He endured the fear and persuaded: "The blind box store has goods every day. Now is the transition period, and crystal cores are easy to obtain. I waited for a few days to exchange for a few blind boxes. The food supply of my family depends on these boxes. Please..."
"Stop talking nonsense to me. If you don't give me the things, I will just chop you to death." The big man waved the hatchet in his hand and threatened loudly.
Two tall and thin men held Liu Hai from the left and right, pulling open his tightly clasped arms, and three blind boxes fell to the ground.
The big man swinging the hatchet squatted down to pick up the blind box, with a smug smile on his fat face: "During the transition period, crystal cores are easy to obtain. But the queues in that blind box store are annoying, and they don't allow queue-jumping or fighting. If we don't go to that crappy store, can't we still get the blind box? And we don't have to spend a single crystal core, hehe."
His smile was sarcastic and his fingertips touched the blind box.
"Swish--" Some purple lightning patterns flowed on the surface of the blind box and were directly transmitted to the man.
His body stiffened, his hands loosened, the hatchet fell to the ground, and he fell down.
After taking a breath, he screamed and rolled on the ground: "It hurts so much! It hurts so much! It hurts so much—"
The two younger brothers didn't know what was going on. They were so scared that they let go of Liu Hai, turned around and ran two steps away, then turned back to grab the blind box on the ground.
Just like the big man swinging the axe, as soon as the two men touched the blind box, "boom--" a cluster of flames popped up, burned on their hands, and instantly spread to the entire arm.
The two men hugged their arms and screamed in pain, rolling on the ground sideways, trying to get dirt to put out the flames, but the fire seemed unextinguishable.
Liu Hai suddenly came back to his senses, crawled over and carefully reached out to the blind box, but nothing happened.
Without thinking too much, he picked up the three blind boxes and ran quickly towards the gate of the base.
After returning home safely, he wanted his family to hide the blind box. However, when he saw a row of small red words on the box, he suddenly realized something.
Before opening the box, no one can touch the blind box except the person who signed the contract.
He was able to escape from the three men in the grove and even keep the blind box, all because of the protection contract.
The extra protection fee you pay when buying the blind box is totally worth it.
Liu Hai's depression was relieved. He only had to pay ten more yuan to keep the blind box. It was totally worth it.
In the future, he will have to buy a contract to redeem blind boxes.
I wonder who the owner of that shop is, to be able to do such a thing.
The doubt only flashed through his mind for a moment. He tidied up his bangs and went out to find someone to form a team to collect crystal cores in the wild.
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In the blind box store, people queuing up discovered the new protection contract function of the blind box machine.
Some people paid extra money to activate the contract out of curiosity, while others thought that the blind box store was adding money in disguise, so they just laughed and left after exchanging the blind boxes.
Those who did not buy the contract may or may not be robbed.
But those who bought the contract that day and encountered the villain on the road kept all the blind boxes.
Within half a day, the news that the blind box store’s new contract function could protect supplies from being stolen spread.
Some people who did not buy the contract at that time and were robbed on the way back to the base regretted it very much.
The goods in the three conventional machines were all redeemed, and the crystal core blind box machine next to it had not redeemed a single blind box.
Lu Yao sat in the backstage and observed through the monitoring function of the Magic Blacklist system.
Many customers came into the store and found that the other blind box machines were empty. They stood in front of the Jinghe blind box machine and looked at it for a while, then left disappointed.
"These people have no interest in the crystal core blind box at all." Lu Yao sighed.
The system had been secretly holding its breath because of the blacklist system, and now it couldn't wait to jump out and criticize the store owner: [The name is too straightforward, and the price is much more expensive than ordinary blind boxes. Only a fool would buy it. ]
Lu Yao: "I put a lot of thought into developing this blind box. Selling it at a low price? I'll be heartbroken."
The system deliberately said: [Shopkeeper, touch it.]
Lu Yao: "Don't worry, it's only been half a day. We just need someone to be the first to try it out. It's the same for a nail salon when it first opens. I have patience."
Li Shuang and Xia Min said that the crystal core contains energy.
Only those with special powers can fully stimulate the energy in the crystal core, but only by absorbing it into the body to enhance their special powers.
The crystal cores in the hands of ordinary people, except for some used as currency, the rest are mostly used as fuel and low-quality lighting tools.
Lu Yao used a special magic circle to extract 100% of the energy in the crystal core.
When designing the blind box, we focused on maximizing the utilization rate of crystal core energy while also ensuring practicality.
As long as people here can discover this point, this blind box will definitely be a best-seller.
The system was right. The name "Crystal Core Blind Box" was too straightforward and no one was willing to pay for it.
If you package a "super new energy blind box from the universe", someone might buy it out in minutes.
Sometimes people tend to ignore the scenery around them and prefer to gaze at the distant void.
The system wanted to take the opportunity to educate the owner, but a group of people walked in from the door.
The tall and thin young man walking in front was wearing a white coat and a pair of thick sunglasses. He walked slowly with his hands in his pockets.
Several people beside him matched his pace and moved step by step. Among them was a young man whom Lu Yao was familiar with.
Jiang Han walked beside Chi Jin and glanced at the blind box machine not far away. As expected, it was all empty. He couldn't help but complain: "Brother Chi, you are too slow. All the blind boxes are sold out."
Chi Jin walked to the blind box coin exchange machine, threw a red crystal core into it, and five red blind box coins worth one hundred yuan fell out.
Jiang Han's eyes widened: "Five hundred... Brother Chi, when did you secretly kill such a powerful monster?"
Chi Jin said nothing, took the blind box coin and walked to the crystal core blind box machine, looked sideways at Jiang Han: "There is still stock in this machine."
Jiang Han and his friends came over with interest, and when they saw the words "Crystal Core Blind Box" on the blind box machine, their interest level dropped to -80.
A row of red words were scrolling on the top of the machine - one hundred possible uses of crystal core energy. Adding the abnormal price of "sixty yuan per draw", Jiang Han's team retreated silently.
Blind box shops have also started to unscrupulously cheat crystal cores
Crystal core energy is everywhere in the world, who is interested
The uses are nothing more than those few, burning for warmth, heating food, night lighting, and enhancing supernatural powers.
Chi Jin didn't care about all that. He wanted to draw as long as there was stock. He held the blind box coin in his hand and was about to put it into the machine.
A girl of about seventeen or eighteen suddenly ran in from outside the door. Her hair was disheveled, and her body was covered with dirt and withered leaves. The corners of her eyes were red and her voice was hoarse. "Blind box, I want a blind box. Do you have any more blind boxes?"
Chi Jin took a step back and made room: "There are blind boxes here."
The girl hurriedly ran to the blind box machine, took out a few crystal cores from her pocket and tried to stuff them into the coin slot, but she couldn't and was about to cry.
Jiang Han reminded quietly: "The crystal cores must be exchanged for blind box coins over there first."
The girl blushed and exchanged the blind box coins, which were exactly fifteen yuan, and stuffed them all into the machine. After waiting for a long time, the blind box did not come out.
She was so anxious that she was about to cry: "Why don't you come out?"
Chi Jin next to him didn't move at all, showing no intention of resolving the situation.
Jiang Han was very anxious watching from the side. It was obvious that this girl was visiting a blind box shop for the first time. She was in a hurry as if something had happened. He took out the blind box coins from his pocket, added 60 yuan, and a blind box fell down with a clang.
The girl looked at him, said "thank you", squatted down to get the blind box, opened it impatiently, took out a small orange-yellow object, and broke down emotionally: "Why isn't it food? I want food!"