The world of impermanence, under the bridge across the river.
A thick layer of ice formed on the surface of the river. Wei Xuan and Nie Yu squatted on the ice, using their crystal core knives to cut through the ice, waiting for the mutant fish to come up for air.
Someone nearby also wanted to dig an ice cave, but didn't have the right tools. When he saw the knife in Wei Xuan's hand, his eyes lit up and he asked, "Can I borrow your knife?"
Wei Xuan stood up and said, "Okay, one blue crystal core."
Such exchanges are common in these uncertain times.
A blue crystal core is not expensive, and it is much more convenient than digging a hole in the ice by yourself. The man took out the crystal core and handed it over.
Nie Yu collected the crystal core, and Wei Xuan held up the knife, "Where do you want to make the hole?"
The man pointed out a good spot, Wei Xuan walked over, made a few cuts with a knife, made a small hole, and then returned to her own ice cave.
During cold waves, heavy snow falls every night.
The ice cave that was opened the day before was frozen solid again on the next morning.
If anyone wants to open an ice cave, they can find Wei Xuan and Nie Yu and pay a blue crystal core.
During this period, the two girls earned a lot of crystal cores by digging ice caves and hunting mutant fish.
If you spend some money on exchanging food blind boxes and ordinary crystal core blind boxes on weekdays, you can still save a lot.
If they wait another day, they will be able to collect enough crystal cores for a whole box of winter limited series. The two of them are very motivated.
Xi Tingran also took Xi Ruiyang to dig a hole in the ice, with a small bucket filled with crystal cores placed next to it.
When the mutated aquatic creature emerged, Xi Ruiyang used his supernatural power to shock it out of the water, and then used tools to take out the crystal core.
This cold wave is actually much colder than previous ones, but the blind box shop has released food blind boxes and crystal core series blind boxes.
The residents of the base now have hope and take the initiative to go out hunting mutant creatures in exchange for survival supplies.
Xi Tingran's burden was lightened a lot, and he even had time to accompany Xi Ruiyang to practice his supernatural powers.
Compared with mutated animals and plants, human superpowers evolve very slowly, and to a greater extent they strengthen the body's basic abilities and improve immunity.
A blue big-mouthed fish emerged from the water. Xi Ruiyang quickly shook it out of the water, raised his small axe and accurately chopped off the fish's head, then took out a blue crystal core.
He has been particularly excited recently, hunting mutant beasts with his own hands, obtaining crystal cores, and then shopping at blind box shops, feeling extremely satisfied.
A rare mechanical sound broke the tranquility of the river. The person "waiting for fish in the cave" heard a "woohoo" sound coming from a distance, scaring away the fish that had just emerged. He stood up in frustration and looked into the distance.
A person who has awakened the supernatural power of "clairvoyance" was shocked when he saw a snowmobile speeding from a distance: "Fuck! It seems like someone is coming here on a motorcycle!"
Lu Yao took Chi Jin and circled the river. Then they stopped, took off their helmets, and prepared to go down and take a look.
Chi Jin got out of the car first and stamped his feet to shake off the snow foam on his body.
Xi Tingran recognized Lu Yao and stood up and walked over. "Owner, why are you here?"
"There's a lucky guy who got a big hidden car from the winter series, but he doesn't know how to ride it, so I'll take him out for a ride." Lu Yao was in a very good mood and said, pointing at the young man in sunglasses next to him.
Xi Tingran nodded to Chi Jin as a greeting, and looked at the snowmobile parked on the ice: "Did you get this from a blind box?"
"Yeah." Lu Yao nodded.
Xi Tingran was unable to walk. It was outrageous that this thing could actually come out of a blind box.
He rode a motorcycle when he was a child. There were still many motor vehicles in the world a few years ago. He learned to ride a motorcycle and drive a car.
But in the past few years, we have been unable to find gasoline, so the cars at the base cannot be driven.
"Can I try this car?" Xi Tingran asked.
Lu Yao: “You ask him.”
Chi Jin hesitated for a second and nodded slightly.
"Thank you!" Xi Tingran thanked sincerely, walked quickly to the snowmobile, and touched the handlebars excitedly.
Lu Yao explained to him some precautions.
Xi Tingran already had some experience riding a motorcycle, so learning to ride a snowmobile was almost not difficult for him.
He drove around on the ice for a few laps, and after he got used to it, he took Xi Ruiyang for two more laps, and then reluctantly returned the car.
"Uncle, let's go to the blind box store to buy boxes. Let's also get a snowmobile." Looking at the owner and Chi Jin riding away on their bikes, Xi Ruiyang pulled Xi Tingran's arm and said.
This was the first time he had ridden in a car since he was a child.
Although he only turned two small circles, the wind was like a knife and it hurt his face, but Xi Ruiyang still held on to Xi Tingran's clothes tightly, and his mouth corners were almost cracked behind his ears with joy.
So exciting.
Xi Tingran stared at the receding car with a gloomy expression.
Under the pressure of survival, they have deliberately ignored the origins of various goods in blind box stores and did not go into it deeply.
But his curiosity was still aroused at this moment, and he really wanted to ask the owner where the brand new snowmobile came from.
Xi Tingran knew that Lu Yao's background was unusual, and had been trying to subtly test her intentions.
But she really didn't seem to have any particular purpose, she just wanted to run the shop here well.
There was something wrong with the new researchers in the base. Xi Tingran couldn't help but think that if the store owner was willing to cooperate, it would make people feel more at ease than any other researcher.
The problem is that I can't find the right chips to exchange with the store owner on an equal basis.
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Luo Huian walked breathlessly in the snow.
The people at the Hope Base thought he was a stranger and, because he was fat, they subconsciously tried to get away from him.
He is not very old, probably in his teens, and walks slowly like a chubby bun.
There was a food shortage during the Uncertain Day, and people were starving everywhere. A little fat man like Luo Hui'an was very rare, which easily led to some bad associations.
Passersby looked at him with disgust and wariness.
Luo Huian has only one goal in mind - blind box store.
He followed others for a long distance, but was later left behind. Following their footprints, he finally found the legendary blind box shop.
Cold, hungry and tired, Luo Huian leaned against the door of the blind box shop and took a long time to relax.
He propped himself up and slowly walked into the store. He felt himself getting warmer. He looked around and saw the crystal core blind box machine. He squeezed over and looked at it for a while.
When others saw that he did not redeem the blind box and kept watching others draw the box, they became wary, turned their backs and did not want him to watch anymore, so they drew the blind box and left quickly.
Luo Hui'an had seen enough of the blind box machines, so he quietly moved to the lobby and stood by the table watching others open the boxes.
Others thought he was coveting the things in the blind box and drove him away impatiently.
If Luo Huian hadn't been blacklisted for fighting in the store, he would have been kicked out long ago.
He stood in the corner, took out a few crystal cores from his pocket, counted them, and ran to exchange them for blind box coins.
After observing the blind box coin for a long time, I finally walked towards the blind box machine, intending to exchange a blind box.
As he passed by the food blind box machine, his stomach made a rumbling sound.
Someone was making instant noodles in the lobby, and a strange aroma filled the entire space.
Luo Huian swallowed his saliva. The blind box coins in his hand were only enough to exchange for one crystal core blind box.
If you redeem the food first, you will not have any extra blind box coins to redeem the crystal core blind box.
At first, he actually came to the blind box store for the medicine blind boxes, but he didn't expect that there were so many products powered by crystal core energy in the store, and he was very interested in each one.
After hesitating for a few seconds looking at the instant noodle blind box, Luo Huian still walked towards the crystal core blind box machine and exchanged a crystal core blind box.
He was excited and prepared to open it.
At this time, the sound of an unfamiliar machine starting came from outside. Luo Huian ran out and struggled to squeeze to the front of the crowd.
A snowmobile stopped outside the store, and two people jumped off the vehicle one after another, and people around were talking about it.
Luo Hui'an blinked and walked forward, "Is this also a machine driven by crystal core energy?"
Lu Yao put down his helmet and was tidying up his flattened hair. When he looked up, he saw a little fat boy squatting in front of a snowmobile with a curious look in his eyes.
It's no wonder that she noticed the other person's figure at first sight. Such a plump child is rare in the world, and even fewer adults.
She nodded and squatted down to look at the other person, "Are you feeling unwell?"
The fat boy's cheeks were abnormally flushed. He had been outside in such a cold weather that sweat broke out on his forehead and his lips were dry and pale, without any blood color.
Luo Hui'an looked at her in surprise. Apart from his parents, she was the first person who did not show disgust on his face.
Although he himself doesn't care much about other people's opinions, he still feels happy when he occasionally meets someone different.
He pursed his lips, took two steps towards her with difficulty, and whispered, "It's okay, just a minor problem. Where did you get this car? I didn't expect the outside world to develop so fast that there are even cars powered by crystal core energy."
Lu Yao felt that the kid spoke very maturely. Seeing that he was holding a crystal core energy blind box in his arms, he said directly: "This car was also drawn from a blind box."
She stood up and looked at Chi Jin: "What are you going to do? Learn here, or should I help you deliver this car to the base first."
Chi Jin said without hesitation: "Leave the car here and come to learn every day."
"Okay, I've said everything I need to say. You should familiarize yourself with it first." Lu Yao said, and turned back to the store.
Chi Jin: “…”
Luo Hui'an listened for a while, then caught up with Lu Yao and asked, "Are you the owner of this store?"
"Yeah." Lu Yao kept walking. It was a bit cold outside.
Luo Hui'an: "Do you know magic?"
Lu Yao stopped and asked: "Why do you ask that?"
Luo Hui'an blinked, a little excited: "The existence of this store is like magic."
Lu Yao nodded, "Yes, I know magic."
Luo Huian was slightly stunned.
When I came to my senses, Lu Yao had already entered the office.
He stood at the door at a loss for a while, then turned around and found a place to sit down, intending to open the blind box first.
Luo Huian was lucky and found a filtered and heated water cup.
After reading the instructions for using the cup, he immediately ran outside the store to fill a cup with snow.
The snow water melts and seeps down along the filtrate.
More than ten minutes later, Luo Huian held the cup and drank the boiled water in small sips, feeling a little surprised.
This water really doesn't have any weird smell.
He raised the cup again and looked carefully at the clear filtrate in it.
Without research equipment, it is impossible to tell what it is with the naked eye.
The crystal core energy liquid used for heating at the bottom also surprised him. It was in its purest state after being refined, but he couldn't figure out how to do this.
Luo Hui'an turned his head to look at the office door, wanting to ask her.
The door was suddenly opened from the inside and the owner came out.
Luo Hui'an nervously lowered his head and pretended to drink hot water, not daring to speak.
She is so powerful that she has developed crystal core energy to the extreme.
If he took the liberty of running over to ask questions, she would definitely think he was boring.
Luo Hui'an's parents were both researchers. They had been researching two areas during their lifetime: one was to develop drugs that could treat his illness, and the other was the development of crystal core energy.
He has been influenced by it since he was a child and knows very well how great the things in the blind box store are.
I automatically put a thick filter on the store owner in my mind, so I didn't dare to approach him easily.
By the time he mustered up the courage to look up and start a conversation, the owner had already left.
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Lu Yao went to the snack bar and got back the payment for the black ring he had traded at the zoo last time.
She has been busy with the blind box store recently and has not asked about it.
The captain of the guards had already delivered the money to the snack bar. After Lu Yao counted it and the system automatically reported the tax, there was still four million left.
She clicked on the store owner's status bar.
Owner: Lu Yao
Age: 22
Stores: 3
Clerk: 18
Popularity: 1103500
Assets: 905W
Wish progress: 6%
Warehouse grid: 40
(Commercial Street Map)
The money from the two recent sales of the black rings was not deposited in the bank.
She upgraded a safe in the snack bar, where nearly eight million in cash was stored for easy access.
After dealing with the payment issue, she posted another black ring on the forum.
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Yaoguang City, Xicheng Hotel.
Lin Yan and others packed their luggage and prepared to return to Yuheng City.
They waited in Yaoguang City for nearly half a month but failed to catch the tail of the abnormal energy point.
Their original idea was that abnormal energy points might appear during the black ring transaction.
On the day of the ring transaction, Lin Yan still did not give up entering the paradise world.
To be on the safe side, Qi Jue also asked Zhuang Liang to accompany him.
But the door that opened to Qi Jue and Zhuang Liang did not welcome Lin Yan.
She, Tang Qi and Xiao Zhou couldn't even see the black door that appeared in the room. They could only watch the two grown men disappear out of thin air.
The detection instruments placed in the room failed to detect any abnormal energy points.
After Qi Jue and Zhuang Liang went in, they soon came back with a black ring.
When the two men came out of the door, their faces were pale, their backs were soaked with sweat, and they looked like they had survived a disaster.
The one who came to trade with them this time was not Lu Yao, but an NPC they had never seen before.
The NPC was not very big, but he exuded a terrifying evil aura.
The NPC pushed the ring over, Qi Jue picked it up, and Zhuang Liang immediately pushed the box of money over.
The entire transaction process was silent.
Zhuang Liang returned to his residence and inevitably fell ill again.
In the following days, Lin Yan's team had been waiting for news from various banks, but no suspicious people had appeared with large amounts of cash for nearly half a month.
The news of tax payment came very quickly, but they still couldn't find the person's specific information.
They stayed in Yaoguang City for too long and gained nothing from this business trip, so it was time to return to headquarters.
The plane tickets had been booked. Lin Yan and Xiao Zhou were pushing their suitcases and preparing to meet Tang Qi at the elevator when their cell phones suddenly rang.
She stopped and picked up the phone: "Hello."
A deep male voice came from the other end of the phone, "It's me, Ji Feiming."
Lin Yan's expression became serious. "Boss, we are preparing to return to the headquarters. Is there a new case that needs to be taken over?"
A few minutes later, Lin Yan hung up the phone and canceled her return flight.
Xiao Zhou was confused, "Director, what did the boss say?"
Lin Yan thought for a few seconds and said, "Call Tang Qi over first."
Ji Feiming called and said only one important thing—the 955 special department had been issued a document to be revoked, and it would be officially implemented in three days.
This news was too sudden for Tang Qi and Xiao Zhou.
I was on a business trip and came back a few days late, and the company was gone.
Lin Yan had known some inside information for a long time.
About half a year ago, strange phenomena in this world that cannot be explained by science have gradually become difficult to observe.
In recent months, many phenomena have even disappeared.
Today, the only project still worth observing is "Paradise".
It is believed above that even the existence of “paradise” will slowly disappear over time.
Judging from recent observation reports, the number of black rings has dropped significantly, and the "paradise" is indeed showing a trend of disappearing.
There are no more strange phenomena in this world, and the 955 Special Department has lost its value of existence.
Tang Qi was at a loss. His greatest pleasure was to observe the extraordinary phenomena in the everyday world and explore the meaning of their existence.
"Director Lin, what should we do next?"
Should I prepare and submit my resume again
Lin Yan hesitated for a moment, "The boss said he would come here in person to take over the Paradise project. Now that the higher-ups are no longer involved in these matters, he will continue to investigate in a private capacity. If you two are willing to follow him, wait for him to come over and tell him yourself."
"Boss... is that him? Someone from the Ji family?" Tang Qi had worked at Jiuwuwu for several years, and he had only heard of the reputation of the Ji family, but had never seen this legendary boss.
It is rumored that there will occasionally be people in the Ji family who have the ability to see ghosts and spirits, and they can distinguish evil spirits from dead souls with their naked eyes without the aid of any instruments.
Ji Feiming, the former boss of the 955 Special Department, was born with the ability to see ghosts and ghosts.