Chapter 36: One hundred consecutive blind box draws

The chainsaws and lawnmowers of interstellar civilizations are far more useful than those of modern ones.

It operates completely silently and smoothly. A chainsaw can cut down a tree as thick as one person can hug in just a few minutes, and a lawnmower can effortlessly push a path wide enough for two people to walk side by side.

The cleared weeds don't fly around; instead, they're neatly stacked on both sides like cut rice grains. You can just pick them up and throw them away—it couldn't be more convenient!

The villagers were initially startled by the moving machine, but then they were amazed by its convenience, exclaiming, "This is so easy to use!"

"This is a divine artifact!"

Live stream audience: No, no, we're already using intelligent robots. These tools are only used on the fringes of planets. They'd be considered slow-moving goods in the Star Alliance.

Li Tie exclaimed excitedly, "With these amazing tools, efficiency will definitely be greatly improved!"

Lu Xuan nodded, then handed the three chainsaws to Lei Yan, Li Jing, and Zhang Chengming, while the lawnmower was given to Lu Qing and Miao Jinfeng.

Li Jing lovingly stroked the chainsaw, then, seeing Lu Xuan's empty hands, asked, "Where's yours?"

Lu Xuan waved his hand and said, "I don't need it."

Lei Yan assumed he had only exchanged three, so he quickly handed back the one he was holding, saying, "I don't need it, the machete is fine too."

Lu Xuan smiled and said, "I really don't need it."

Does he look like the kind of person who would sacrifice himself for others?

He grabbed a machete, found a nearby tree, and chopped hard at the trunk near the roots. The machete sliced ​​through the trunk from left to right as easily as cutting tofu, and the tall tree was instantly cut down in one stroke!

Cutting down a tree in half an hour? That's impossible.

Lu Xuan can cut down a tree in just three seconds. He picks up his machete, makes a horizontal cut, and stops. That's it.

Everyone: "!!!"

Lu Xuan said to everyone, "See, I told you we wouldn't need it."

Everyone: "..."

Three seconds is a few minutes, so the chainsaw is definitely a bit redundant for him.

Coming to his senses, Zhang Chengming excitedly patted Lu Xuan on the shoulder and said, "Good heavens! You're incredibly strong now, you can chop down a tree this thick in one stroke!"

Li Jing nodded in agreement, "That's amazing!"

After Lu Xuan's demonstration, the two stopped trying to persuade him. Li Tie clapped his hands and urged everyone to get to work quickly.

With the new machete and chainsaw, and Lu Xuan as a walking cheat code, the tree-cutting process was much faster than expected. In less than an hour, all the trees under the giant tree were felled.

Of the trees felled, only the three with chainsaws felled about twenty trees. The others felled an average of two trees each. The rest of the trees were mostly felled by Lu Xuan.

And most of their time was spent waiting for others to move the felled trees away.

If he just ignored everything and focused solely on chopping down trees, he could probably finish everything by himself in less than fifteen minutes.

Once the tree is felled, the next step is to uproot the remaining stumps and re-fill the pit.

Without the main trunk that accounts for most of the weight, this step is much easier than cutting down a tree.

With Lu Xuan's help, they reduced their workload by 80%.

How many days will it take to finish?

No, they can finish the rest of the work in one day!

Seeing that Lu Xuan still wanted to help dig the roots, Li Tie quickly said, "You've done a lot. Let others do the rest. Go and take a rest."

No one else had any objections.

They were relieved that Lu Xuan did all the work, but from another perspective, didn't it also make them seem useless?

I haven't done much work, how can I possibly eat more for lunch?

Lu Xuan readily agreed, saying, "Then I'll rest for a while."

He certainly wouldn't rush to do chores if he could rest, but the viewers in the live stream kept urging him to open the blind boxes, so it wouldn't hurt to try his luck before lunch.

Lu Xuan put away his machete and walked towards the rest area that everyone had set up under the giant tree. There, not only were young children running and playing, but also several elderly women were boiling water so that the workers could replenish their water whenever they were thirsty.

Lu Xuan thought for a moment, then took a packet of white sugar and handed it to Granny Lin, saying, "Dissolve this sugar in water to give everyone some sugar."

Grandma Lin felt a pang of heartache looking at the snow-white sugar, but she still smiled and nodded, pouring all the sugar into the buckets of water that were cooling down in front of Lu Xuan.

Lu Xuan glanced at it and walked to a thick tree root that was exposed on the surface of a giant tree not far away, and opened the system shop.

[Am I finally going to open a blind box?!]

[I'm getting impatient! Hurry up, streamer! If you keep keeping us in suspense, I'm unfollowing!]

Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and draw!

Lu Xuan calmly said, "What's the rush? Aren't we about to start?"

This time, he didn't keep everyone in suspense and simply used the free ten-pull he received as an achievement reward.

Buying blind boxes is different from buying other items. With other items, the item will appear directly in Lu Xuan's hands after you click to buy. With blind boxes, a list of the items you have drawn will appear. You will need to confirm the draw before the item will be delivered.

The list of free 10-pull draws quickly appeared in front of Lu Xuan.

[Ten-pack of regular blind boxes: 35 points, 103 points, 65 points, 82 points, 122 points, 10 tubes of original flavor nutritional supplements, 1000g of orange-flavored hard candy, adult-sized starry sky cotton set, 500ml of insect repellent, and 100 rolls of toilet paper.]

The store offers a function to calculate the total value of blind boxes. Lu Xuan clicked on it and saw that the total value of this ten-box draw was just over a thousand points.

...Was this good luck or bad luck?

The viewers in the live stream quickly gave him an answer.

[Haha, the streamer's luck doesn't seem so good. I've seen other streamers get top-tier items in their free ten-pulls before.]

[Regular blind boxes are capped at 10,000 points, the drop rate is too low. However, Star Alliance has set a pretty high drop rate for blind boxes; you can usually get at least 2,000 points worth of items. The streamer is definitely unlucky.]

Lu Xuan's eyebrows twitched.

He's not? How could that be?

Before the apocalypse, how many gacha games had he played? He certainly wasn't a super lucky player, but he was definitely not unlucky either.

Even if he's really unlucky, haven't you heard of spending money to change your fate?

You get what you pay for; only the best products are the ones that are truly expensive!

After storing the items he had drawn into his spatial storage, Lu Xuan returned to the blind box page and used his points for a ten-pull.

[Ten-pull of regular blind boxes: 220 points, 105 points, 318 points, 140 points, a box of 50 ampoules of nutritional supplements, a life jacket, a first-aid kit, a single sleeping bag, 500g of energy fluid, and a multi-functional entrenching tool.]

The total value of the points and goods is 2433, more than double that of the previous time.

Lu Xuan curled the corners of his lips into a smile.

[Pfft, I don't know what the streamer is so happy about. It's just barely above average, not that he's incredibly lucky.]

Lu Xuan: He will demonstrate the art of making smiles disappear on the spot.

Lu Xuan snorted coldly, "What can ten consecutive draws prove? Keep drawing."

He was too lazy to do ten consecutive pulls, so he simply did a hundred pulls in one go.

[Ten-pull of regular blind boxes: 66 points, 123 points, 312 points, 20 vials of nutrient solution...]

[Ten consecutive regular blind box pulls: 142 points, 50 points, 510 points, 78 points...]

[Regular Blind Box 10-Pull: Points...]

After doing ten consecutive 10-pulls, the variety of items you get is dazzling.

Among them, more than forty points were drawn.

Lu Xuan skipped over the points and counted the physical items he had drawn.

12 different sizes of nutrient supplements, 5 different sizes of fruit and milk candies, 3 500g mineral salts, 2 500ml insect repellents, 3 household medicines, 3 primary energy stones, 3 large bottles of sunscreen spray, 5 10-pack lip balms, 3 different sizes of toilet paper, 2 basic bio-suits, 1 single tent, 2 family tents, 2 double blankets, 5 high-powered flashlights, 5 melee weapons, 2 5-cubic-meter space rings, 2 glow sticks (50 each), 1 remote-controlled toy car, and 100-meter string of lights.

The most valuable items are primary energy stones, bio-clothes, and spatial rings; the others are worth at most two or three hundred points, or 100 points, barely enough to break even.

There are also a few loss-making businesses that can't even recover their initial investment.

However, the final total value exceeded 15,000, so overall we still made a profit.

[One hundred consecutive draws at once, that was really satisfying!]

[A true lucky player needs to win three to five times, or even ten times, more; this streamer isn't lucky enough.]

The streamer's luck wasn't exceptionally good, but it wasn't terrible either; it was already quite good.

[I'm truly unlucky, let's try to ride on the streamer's good fortune!]

Don't be fooled by the fact that some other streamers have won the top-tier items; that's a very small minority. The majority of streamers still lose money based on big data, even with a guaranteed minimum.

You read that right. The blind box game also has a pity system, where you have to do 100 pulls to get one of the two bio-clothes. Lu Xuan's pity system this time is that he will get one of the two bio-clothes.

Therefore, most viewers were quite satisfied with Lu Xuan's card-drawing results.

Many people also asked Lu Xuan if he wanted to continue drawing.

Lu Xuan raised an eyebrow and said, "Of course I'll draw, but this time I won't draw the regular blind boxes, I'll draw the silver ones."

What's the point of always opening cheap blind boxes? The more expensive the blind box, the more valuable the items you get.

However, the Silver Blind Box is a bit pricey, with each draw costing the same as a basic bio-suit. Even though Lu Xuanhua spends his points generously, he didn't go all out with a hundred draws this time, but instead did a ten-draw as a token gesture.

[Silver Blind Box 10-Pull: 550 points, 1080 points, 3205 points, 1306 points, Smart Kettle, 10 Cubic Meter Space Ring, Pressure Cooker, Basic Bio-Suits, Anesthetic Gun, 50 Cubic Meter Space Ring.]

Lu Xuan whistled.

Sure enough, the price increased tenfold, and the items drawn were all of a higher quality.

I got two spatial rings and some great items like bio-clothes and tranquilizer guns in just ten pulls.

Kettles and pressure cookers are also very practical household appliances. One can save you from having to light a fire to get hot water in hot weather, and the other can greatly save time when making soup or stewing.

The total value of the items this time was over 13,000, which wasn't as much as a hundred pulls of a regular blind box, but apart from the space ring and the bio-clothes, the rest were all unlocked items. Their usefulness was more important than their value, so Lu Xuan was quite satisfied.

The viewers were a bit disappointed, because while these things were very useful to the streamer, they were just everyday items that the Star Trek users would use, and nothing special about them.

Lu Xuan ignored their thoughts and casually did another ten consecutive draws.

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Author's Note: The tree-chopping scene in the story is for plot purposes only. Please do not imitate this in real life! Please do not imitate this! Please do not imitate this!