Xia Min picked up the card, she was too surprised and in a daze: "Hidden redemption voucher?"
The people around her were as confused as she was. Zheng Yang and Li Shuangshou were so lucky that they almost divided up the most practical items in the whole set.
From the pictures, Xia Min could guess what was to be taken out, but she didn't expect that the hidden items could be pulled out so easily.
She poured out the box again. "It's empty. How do I use this voucher?"
Li Jia couldn't help but say, "The blind box draw was a big gimmick, but in the end, the grand prize was an empty box. This is a scam, a bad check. Twenty years ago, such a store would have been fined and closed down once it was exposed. But in this world, no one cares."
Her voice was not small, and many people around who were opening boxes or queuing up to draw blind boxes looked over when they heard the sound, and some began to talk in a low voice.
"What's going on?"
"It seems like someone at that table was carrying boxes, and an empty box came out."
"I got the hidden one, but there's nothing in the box."
"Empty box? I was planning to save up crystal cores to get the box, how can I feel at ease with this?"
"There is no clerk in the store, and I don't know who to report to if there is a problem."
"Indeed, it is safer to buy a single box."
Xia Min was a little happy at first, thinking that the hidden redemption coupons were some new way of playing.
After Li Jiayi's analysis and the comments from people around him, he really thought he had been handed a blank check. He felt a little depressed, but he didn't want to give up yet.
Li Jia saw that she still didn't believe it, and continued: "You are young, and you don't know that before the Day of Impermanence, there were many stores like this. They could clearly mark the prices, but they had to sell blind boxes and make it mysterious. When you go to redeem the prize, they will give you a bunch of useless junk. Who doesn't run a store to make money? How can they let you take advantage of them?"
Zheng Yang interrupted quickly: "Keep your voice down, you'll be blacklisted if you do."
Li Jia was feeling very proud and wanted to continue talking, so he did not take Zheng Yang's warning seriously.
Lu Yao carried his breakfast and pushed the door open to enter the store. He just heard the words "Why do you have to sell blind boxes when you can clearly mark the price?" He looked up at Li Jia and typed in the system: "What happened in the store?"
System: [The girl at table number two drew a small hidden item from the winter series. The lady next to her said that the blind box store issued bad checks, which used to be a black shop that would be investigated and closed down.]
Lu Yao glanced around the store. There were quite a few customers, much more than the day before, but her expression was obviously different from before.
People in this world have been struggling with the uncertainty of life for too long, and their trust in others is very weak.
With the task at hand, the blind box store cannot afford to lose the trust of its customers at this time.
She walked up to Li Jia and said calmly, "Ma'am, I'm the owner, Lu Yao. If there are any problems, they can be solved, but our store operates with integrity and has never deceived any customers. Please don't spread false speculations at will."
Li Jia's face looked a little ugly. Is this the owner
Such a young woman exudes laziness and doesn't look like a scientific researcher at all.
Was it really she who developed those uses of crystal core energy
Li Jia's suspicion grew, and he felt a little annoyed. He crossed his arms and looked up, "Am I wrong? If you want to sell something, just sell it properly. Why do you have to make a blind box, hide something, and put an empty box inside? Isn't that cheating?"
Lu Yao: "It is my freedom to open any store. If you don't like this method, you don't have to buy anything. The hidden volume of the winter series is too large to be conveniently placed in a box, so I used the voucher method."
She looked up and asked, "Who got the hidden one?"
Xia Min immediately picked up the "Little Hidden" card and handed it over: "Sister, it's me."
Because of their friendship with the chocolate shop owner, Xia Min still couldn't feel any ill will towards the shop owner.
Lu Yao took the card and nodded, saying, "It is indeed Xiao Yin from the Crystal Core Blind Box Winter Series. You are lucky. Wait a moment, I will give you the real thing right away. As a proof of exchange, I will take back this card."
When the people around heard that the money could really be exchanged for real goods, they couldn't help but become curious.
What on earth is this thing that can’t be put into the box and needs to be exchanged with a card.
As he often needed to go in and out of the backstage, Lu Yao had already set up a door in the store to avoid frightening the customers.
There was a sign on the door saying "Work area, no trespassing", and in reality, she was the only one who could enter.
Lu Yao came out from the backstage and handed Xia Min a black package.
Xia Min took it excitedly, unwrapped the outer wrapping paper, and took out a pure black hard backpack, "Hidden is... a bag?"
Li Jia sneered and immediately wanted to speak out.
Lu Yao was actually paying attention to her, and said first: "You can say that, but not completely."
She took the black backpack from Xia Min, unzipped the bottom, and zipped it all the way around. The hard backpack suddenly exploded from the inside like soft cotton.
Lu Yao turned it over and spread it on the table. "This is a multifunctional backpack. When unfolded like this, it can be used as a sleeping bag for rest. The inside is like a crystal core liquid heating blanket, filled with crystal core liquid energy, and it generates heat automatically."
Xia Min put her hand into the sleeping bag. It was soft and fluffy.
Her hand soon became warm inside and she began to like it.
When people around me heard that it was a sleeping bag that could generate heat automatically, they thought it was worth hiding.
Lu Yao rolled up the sleeping bag and put it back into the zipper, turning it into a backpack again.
There happened to be other blind box products that Zheng Yang and Li Shuang had unpacked on the table. She picked up the hydraulic pot and stuffed it into her backpack, and continued to explain: "This hidden box is specially designed for the winter limited series. All eight regular products can be stored in the backpack in order. After storing them in order, there is still some free space for some food, water, or crystal cores. When you go to bed at night, you can transfer the things in the backpack to the attached bag inside the sleeping bag without worrying about losing them."
Lu Yao returned the backpack to Xia Min: "It also has a fingerprint lock function. As long as you enter your fingerprint, no one else can open the backpack except you."
The backpack's material is also extremely special, waterproof and fireproof, and cannot be damaged by ordinary tools.
Xia Min was completely overwhelmed by surprise. The functions of this backpack were so powerful.
“Thank you, sis. I love this bag!”
The people who were watching the excitement all had changed expressions after seeing the hidden scene.
This small hidden treasure is so amazing, what else can the big hidden treasure reveal
They couldn't imagine it, but they couldn't help but be curious and began to fantasize.
If you draw the big hidden...
The doubts that people had about the blind box store a moment ago had long since disappeared, and people turned around and continued to line up, waiting to draw a box.
Xia Min took the things of the two teammates out of the bag and said happily: "I want to save crystal cores and buy another set of winter limited edition. I will take this bag with me when I go on missions in the future, and I won't be afraid of going anywhere."
Li Shuang looked at her backpack with envy, "I want this bag too, it's so convenient."
The trust crisis was resolved, and Lu Yao looked at Li Jia again without saying anything.
The other party smacked his lips with a cold expression, took the two unopened blind boxes, stood up and walked out.
Li Jia didn’t know that this was her first and last time entering a blind box store.
Yi Chuan, who had been sitting at the table observing, finally stood up and called Lu Yao: "Hello, shop owner. My name is Yi Chuan, and I'm a researcher. I have some questions about the crystal core energy blind boxes sold in the store."
Lu Yao glanced at him and asked, "Who is that person who just left?"
Yi Chuan lowered his head, eyes half closed, "She is a member of my team, she has a stubborn personality and is used to being casual, I hope the owner can tolerate her."
Before Lu Yao could reply, Xi Tingran immediately stood up and said, "I'm sorry, shop owner. They just came here and don't know the rules of the shop. I'm sorry, I'll take him back now."
Zheng Yang, Li Shuang and Xia Min all had a look of "dread" on their faces.
People on the blacklist can no longer enter the blind box store.
If you want to use products from the blind box store again, you can only buy them from others at a high price.
The prices there are much more unscrupulous than those in blind box stores, and the quality of the goods is far inferior to that of new boxes.
Sometimes, you may not get what you want even if you wait for a long time, and there is a high chance that you will be cheated.
Xi Tingran's team was convinced that Li Jia had been blacklisted by the blind box store, and they didn't want to be implicated.
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Changming Base.
Jiang Han opened the box while Jiang Shanrun and Chi Jin sat aside and watched.
There was a protective seal on the box, and no one else could touch it except him.
He first opened the blind box of staple food that his grandfather was most interested in, which contained millet, corn, flour, potatoes, sweet potatoes, rice, pumpkin, and a bundle of vermicelli.
They are all regular models, no hidden features.
Each box is a standard 500 grams.
Jiang Shanrun touched the potatoes with joy, and then rubbed the corn cobs. "That's great, these haven't mutated. Corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes can be germinated and planted."
Jiang Han: "Grandpa, what happened to those fruit seeds last time?"
Jiang Shanrun shook his head: "I tried to plant a little. The soil was not good, and when the cold wave came, they all froze to death."
Jiang Han began to unpack the winter limited edition crystal core blind box and comforted him, "When the cold wave passes, I will accompany you to find soil in a farther place."
The second box is also regular, with no hidden items.
But the filtered heating kettle, hydraulic pot and insulated lunch box are what Jiang Han wants.
He immediately took the kettle outside, filled it with snow, filtered it and boiled it. The hot water that poured out was clean and transparent, without any strange smell.
It was the first time in his life that he drank normal-tasting water at the base. He almost cried and immediately poured a glass for Jiang Shanrun and Chi Jin.
The three people held the cups and took small sips, and the plain water brought out the temperament of the 1982 Lafite.
Jiang Han then opened the blind box of medicines again, and still found nothing hidden.
But the regular models of medicine blind boxes are very practical and he is very satisfied with them.
Jiang Han went out very early in the morning, and Chi Jin slept in the garden and did not go to the blind box shop.
After watching Jiang Han unpack the box, he prepared to go back and catch up on his sleep.
Jiang Han called him: "Brother Chi, aren't you going to the blind box store today?"
Chi Jin: “Yeah.”
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Within half a day, the news that someone in the Hope Base had opened the Crystal Core Blind Box and found the hidden item from the Winter Series spread to nearby bases, and more people began to pick up the boxes, hoping to find the hidden item.
Lu Yao was a little surprised when he saw the sales volume rising rapidly in the background.
Only four days had passed since the task was completed, and the blind box store's turnover exceeded 140,000.
It seems that the people here have great potential to be good at making leeks.
On the sixth day of the mission, the big hidden treasure of the Crystal Core Blind Box Winter Series was drawn.
Chi Jin came to Lu Yao to claim the prize.