Chapter 141 Vegetable Planting Game (Part 1)

Unexpectedly, but not surprisingly, the food blind box is not that deceptive.

The general selling price is around 1 to 1000 soul coins, and there are expensive ones and cheap ones.

Different stores have different menus. When you buy a blind box in the store, you will get a random food on the menu.

"If I buy three meals a day at the same store, I should be able to eat enough to get through the week."

Qiao Song put down the menu and took out a large portion of steaming egg fried rice from the blind box.

She took a spoon and took a sip. It was good and quite fragrant.

At the open-air food court tables, other people were also eating a variety of snacks.

There is no waste in the food blind box. At most, the hidden dishes are richer. For example, Tang Xiaoxiao drew a military hot pot.

Aunt Huo ordered the pickled fish set meal. It was obvious that the little girl didn’t like this kind of food very much. She wanted to share some of her fish, but she found that the system actually restricted the behavior of sharing food.

Tang Xiaoxiao was a little depressed: "I clearly drew the blind box in the hot pot area, why did I draw the army hot pot, does this have anything to do with hot pot?"

There was no spicy hotpot, but she could accept clear soup pot or tomato pot. However, the army hotpot was full of instant noodles and a little squid luncheon meat, which was quite different from what she wanted to eat.

Tang Xiaoxiao even began to miss the self-heating hot pot she had in the RV.

Qiao Song swallowed a spoonful of egg fried rice and thought for a moment: "Maybe it's because these ingredients are cooked while being eaten?"

"Would you like to draw another one?"

"Forget it. I can't give away the extra ones. It's such a waste."

This method of opening blind boxes and eating is good news for people with decision-making difficulties.

If you don’t know what to eat at mealtime, just go to any store, close your eyes and buy a big box, and that’s whatever comes out.

There are at least dozens or even hundreds of stores on this street. If one opens every day, at least many of them will go bankrupt.

The map shows that floors 88-89 are all food areas.

When they just got out of the elevator, they were really shocked by the bustle of the two floors.

It's not like I haven't participated in dungeons with a lot of people before, but in the Hearse Entertainment dungeon which was obviously full of competition and gambling, most people weren't completely relaxed. But it's different here.

Qiao Song clearly saw expressions of calmness, leisure and enjoyment on many people's faces.

It seems like this is just an ordinary food street, and everyone comes here to eat and shop on weekends.

However, the people who greeted them in the mall were not ordinary shopkeepers, but NPCs located in different copies.

The female ghost, covered in blood, had her long black hair tied up high, was wearing a white chef's uniform and a transparent protective mask on her face to prevent saliva from splashing. She cut the sushi rice balls skillfully and put them into the blind box.

At the other end of the assembly line, there is a spherical monster that uses the lava stones on its body to grill fresh eel rice on the spot.

What a good job for a dungeon creature, and a completely transparent back kitchen...

On the floors they had visited before, each store was separated by thick white walls, isolating the real scenes of the stores.

In the food street, the white walls are replaced by transparent thick glass, allowing players to directly see the food inside, and the entire process from production to being put into blind boxes.

This advertisement is better than the real world, the only drawback is that most of the people making the food are ghost-like NPCs. Looking at the muscular man with a chainsaw who can chase you across eight blocks, kneading the steamed bun desperately, this scene is both funny and creepy.

Qiao Song and his friends visited the store briefly, then simply drew a blind box nearby, found a seat on the chairs lined up on Central Street, opened the box and ate.

Except for not knowing what I was going to eat until I opened the box, everything else was pretty good.

The price difference is not that big. The Chinese restaurant that Qiao Song ate at charges 100 soul coins for a meal, and they have sets ranging from egg fried rice to Buddha Jumps Over the Wall. But for the same amount of money, she got the lowest-end version, which only had egg fried rice, and didn't even come with an extra serving of soup.

Tang Xiaoxiao's hotpot set cost 150 soul coins, but she didn't get to eat the nine-square grid that she had been craving for. Instead, the carbohydrates and cheese in the army hotpot made her burp.

Aunt Huo’s sauerkraut fish was an incredibly large dish. Although she couldn’t share it with others, the kittens enjoyed it very much.

She carefully separated the fish meat, rinsed it piece by piece with the mineral water that came with the meal, and let the cats eat some.

The NPCs’ cooking skills are pretty good and the kitten enjoyed the meal very much.

While eating, all kinds of strange creatures that cannot be seen in the real world, wrapped in ribbons of different colors, were very down-to-earth and diligently handing out flyers, and were not idle at all.

The vast shops and busy vendors, as well as players and even cats leisurely enjoying delicious food at the tables and chairs on the central street, create a scene that is almost never seen in other copies.

These two floors were busier than any shopping mall or food court they had ever visited in the world.

It is also a harmony that cannot be seen in any other copy.

Comfortable, too comfortable.

Xiao Ni and his friends ate food that was bought in advance on the 44th floor. It was full of yin energy, so it didn't seem out of place to dine on the same floor with the players.

Anyway, it’s not just the players who eat here.

After eating, Qiao Song put the tableware back into the blind box next to him. Those boxes will soon be recycled by the merchants who sold them.

It seems that a perfect dining system has been formed.

The catering NPC who works inside would actually eat the employee meal outside, carrying the same food as Xiao Ni and his friends.

"Tsk, why chocolate eyeballs again? I'm tired of eating sweets for lunch."

The female ghost who had made the teppanyaki fried rice before closed the box in her hand with some disgust.

A headless ghost next to him was holding his head and stuffing some sticky red rice porridge into his mouth.

"I've told you not to go to convenience stores to draw blind boxes. The drop rates there are really bad."

"But they recently got a new batch of canned brain flower. I've been trying to draw it for several days, thinking I'd definitely win it."

Who knew that what you eat every day is guaranteed chocolate eyeballs.

The female ghost grinned for a while, but in the end she didn't waste any food and ate it all up.

Qiao Song noticed that not only the food blind boxes were recycled along with the tableware, but also the excess waste when buying raw materials on the 44th floor was also recycled by the owner, who also transferred some soul coins to her.

There is probability in drawing cards. Before getting what you want, you will always get a lot of duplicate and redundant waste from the blind box. There is a very strange thing about the blind box mall. The way of dealing with waste is a bit awkward, and you are not allowed to throw it away directly.

Qiao Song originally thought that in his first few draws after arriving at the food court, he would be unlucky enough to draw an empty bowl or a spoon or other tableware, and might not be able to eat.

Later she realized that tableware and the like were just items, and if she wanted them she had to go to other corresponding stores to buy them.

There are only food blind boxes, and no matter how you draw, it’s all food.

Looking at the elevator ticket in his hand, Qiao Song thought for a while: "Where do all those extra goods go?"

Tang Xiaoxiao put the finished drink into the blind box and waited for the NPC to collect it. He frowned and thought. Qiao Song did not remind him until Aunt Huo pointed under the table and asked Tang Xiaoxiao to look.

"Xiao Xiao, do you feel like we are missing something?"

Tang Xiaoxiao glanced around the table and saw that everyone put their cutlery back consciously, waiting to be recycled. Suddenly, she noticed the empty beverage bottles and the napkins that came with the set meal.

These were all on the plate, untouched.

“Is it a trash can?”

By the way, they seemed to have never seen anything like a trash can since they entered the mall.

"When buying tickets in the elevator, the blind box has a built-in one-click function to delete the waste paper tickets. When we eat, we can also let the NPC recycle tableware and kitchen waste, but the raw material shops are different."

It was only when Old Lady Yi did it on purpose that Qiao Song and the others recycled those obviously useless things like stone licorice.

If the NPCs don't want them and they can't find a trash can, can they just throw these things on the side of the road?

Seeing that everyone had finished eating, Qiao Song pointed in a direction and said, "Let's go to that alley over there and take a look."

Although this level of the food court is filled with vendors shouting and people eating, it is obvious that most of the people eating in these restaurants are in a very relaxed state of mind.

But the closer you are to the edge, the cheaper the price is, and there are many stalls selling blind box food at single-digit soul coins.

Of course, the more remote the environment is, the more likely it is that the food street will become disharmonious.

A black-haired female NPC with a skinny face and a very sinister voice was grabbing a man at the dining table.

"I'm sorry, customer. Our blind box recycling refers to the recycling of tableware and corresponding kitchen waste produced by our store. Items from other stores cannot be placed in our blind boxes."

The dining player had sweat on his forehead and still had the ticket in his hand. If the NPC hadn't grabbed his collar, he would have been planning to take the elevator.

Finally, he was caught by a female ghost.

"Do you have evidence to prove that I threw this away? Since it's all kitchen waste, can't we recycle it together?"

A player nearby frowned and shook his head slightly.

That NPC's expression really wasn't very good.

"Confirm again, do you have to put the garbage in our blind box for recycling?"

The man was delighted when he heard this: "Really? If that's possible, then of course you can help me deal with it."

He had drawn too many blind boxes these past two days, and had so much garbage on him that he had no place to put it, but he didn't want to waste space or props. Every time he was about to throw away the garbage, he would be stopped by some NPCs.

The man had never felt so much pressure carrying a pile of garbage.

The NPCs on the floors he visited were not easy to deal with, so in the end he had no choice but to come to the food court with all his junk.

After dinner, they would recycle the empty blind boxes here, and he took the opportunity to throw a lot of junk into the huge hot pot blind box.

Who knew that as soon as I turned around to call the elevator, before I could even go up, I was caught by the NPC.

The female ghost blinked and loosened her grip on his collar.

Before the man could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard the system prompt sound in his ear.

[It is detected that you have violated the consumption rules of Blind Box Paradise. You are now forced to enter the food game "Hell Hot Pot Restaurant". Players are requested to prepare in time. Countdown 3, 2, 1——]

There was a flash of white light, and the male player disappeared.

Only the still-flickering elevator ticket was left there. After a few seconds, the ticket turned into ashes and disappeared into the air.

A very small number of players around had surprised looks on their faces, but most of them continued to eat without changing their expressions. They might be old hands who have been in this dungeon for a long time.

"Hellfire Restaurant?"

Qiao Song suddenly woke up and remembered the little mouse George in the Hell Community.

Considering that the Paper-Zha Town also has a branch in the shopping mall that sells materials, does that mean that Hell has opened a lot of stores here as well?

Tang Xiaoxiao covered her communicator and frowned: "Jin Jiaqi contacted me again."

Qiao Song raised his eyebrows: "Not just contact, look at the other side."

The girl, who was covered with all kinds of decorations and had various crystal hairpins on her fluffy curly hair, waved her hands happily from a distance.

"Xiaoxiao, here!"

Compared to her previous timid appearance in the Paper-Zha Town copy, Jin Jiaqi now looks a lot braver.

Her calm and composed look made Qiao Song look at her a few more times.

Tang Xiaoxiao got into the state in a second and blinked slowly: "Sister Jiaqi, why are you here?"

Jin Jiaqi saw the people behind her, her expression was a little stiff, but she still tried to force a smile: "Didn't I hear that you came to the blind box mall, so I came to pick you up? Didn't I say that I also opened a store here."

"The mall dungeon is famous for being easy to clear. You can collect a set of blind boxes by just going to any store and spending a few days. But I guess you are here to look for props."

She patted her pockets in a pretentious manner.

"There are quite a few invisible rules in the mall. Can I take you to familiarize yourself with them?"

She emphasized the word "familiar".

Jin Jiaqi hasn't been having a very good time recently. After clearing the Paper-Zha Town, she wanted to go back to the mall to replenish some props and sell the new skill buffers she had in the store.

Who knew that something went wrong in the store. Miao Tingting went crazy for some reason and ordered the members of the Newcomers' Alliance to "patronize" her store several times.

Jin Jiaqi had no words to complain about, as she knew that the advantage of her skills was the ability to quickly create a large number of skill derivatives, which was equivalent to having a large number of free game props.

But her personal combat effectiveness is too low.

She needs to find a companion who complements her, such as a new player like Tang Xiaoxiao.

He has high personal combat capability. Since he has just joined the game, his props and soul coin balance are not that much. He is also relatively simple and easy to control.

The only pity is that the game partner was already available early on.

It doesn’t matter, there is nothing she can’t get, and the same goes for her friends.

This is a blind box mall, a place that seems gentle but has a lot of invisible rules. This is her home court.

"My shop is just a few floors up. Do you want to go up and sit down?"

As she spoke, she tried to hold Tang Xiaoxiao's hand. At this moment, the female NPC who had just sent a male player into the game came out with a new blind box meal.

"Who is Ms. Qiao Song? Boss George asked us to send you a set of boxes."

Qiao Song put away the communicator. She had just sent a message to someone.

"This way."

As she took the blind box, she looked at Tang Xiaoxiao with a smile and said, "If a friend is looking for you, why don't you come over and sit down with us? It's okay if we meet up later."

Tang Xiaoxiao understood what Qiao Song meant. They were curious about how players opened stores in the mall, so they could go to Jin Jiaqi to get some information.

"But let's have some dessert first. Didn't you just say it was too salty, Xiaoxiao?"

Before leaving, Qiao Song gave the blind box handed over by the waiter to Tang Xiaoxiao and asked her to open it.

Tang Xiaoxiao clearly remembered that Qiao Song had not made any payment just now. Combined with what the waiter just said about George, Tang Xiaoxiao had some guesses in her mind and opened the blind box.

Congratulations on winning the [Yangmei Ice Jelly] from Hell Hot Pot Restaurant!

[Eating a steaming hot pot with a portion of chilled bayberry and smooth ice jelly, what a happy thing it would be! ]

[After eating this dessert, your mind will be clearer for a short period of time, and you can be immune to the effects of bewitching skills and items to a great extent. ]

The effect of the item card product can only be understood the moment you pick up the card.

Tang Xiaoxiao said thank you without changing her expression, and then quietly finished a whole cup of bayberry jelly under Jin Jiaqi's suspicious gaze.

Feeling that the props had taken effect, she said hello to Aunt Qiao Songhuo and others, then followed Jin Jiaqi to take the elevator.

The boys and girls who had been watching the show in the back looked at him in confusion: "How could you have borrowed the props in advance?"

Qiao Song saw the waiter taking back the blind box containing the tableware and smiled: "Is it not okay if I have many friends?"

Tong Yao was a little bit unconvinced: How could a guy like you who only clears every dungeon have a friend who gives you special treatment and props! ?

However, George the Mouse certainly cannot really open a back door for Qiao Song.

Qiao Song just mentioned something he might need, but who knew that the little mouse would deliver it directly to him.

I also told her that she could use it first and pay later.

"This is an advance payment of the game prize, which means I agree to participate in the game."

Qiao Songchong was still waiting for his waitress to nod when he heard the prompt tone in his ear.

[It is detected that the player has known the blind box in advance, and you are now forced to enter the food game]

[Zizizi - detected that the player has participated in the game system matched by this store, reallocating the game...]

[Ding——Food is the most important thing for people, and every grain of rice is hard-earned. Welcome to the farming game! 】

Qiao Song's figure also disappeared beside the dining table. Unlike the male player, her elevator ticket did not turn to ashes.

Xiao Ni looked back at Aunt Huo blankly.

Sister Qiao Song went to participate in the game immediately, so what about them?

Aunt Huo held the cat in her arms and said, "I remember there seems to be a bookstore downstairs. Do you want to go and buy some blind boxes of supplementary teaching materials?"

Xiao Ni: ...

He straightened his back and said quickly and seriously:

"Tong Yao and Tong Nan just asked me if I wanted to go to the children's amusement park. I think it's impolite to let them go by themselves, so I'll go with them. Aunt Huo, you can take a look at the copies with props, don't worry about me!"

After saying a lot of things quickly, he ran away following the two little paper figures.

Aunt Huo shook her head and smiled gently. After thinking about it, she took out her elevator ticket, pressed the taxi button, and stroked the kittens' chins while waiting for the taxi.

"I haven't been back for a long time. Let's go up and take a look."

With the intention of understanding the copy, Qiao Song casually entered a food game.

The Blind Box Mall copy looks harmless, but in a place like the Infinite Highway that eats people, it is impossible for such a relaxing and pleasant vacation copy to exist.

Given her understanding of her luck, she doesn't plan to spend money on blind boxes for the time being.

Let’s try out the game first.

However, she did not expect the system to be so sensitive that it did not allow her to enter the hot pot conveyor belt game she had played before, but directly teleported her to other places.

From this point of view, the Hell Community can really be directly connected to the Blind Box Mall.

But this kind of connection seems to be deliberately made to promote the circulation of soul coins and props.

Is the infinite flow system so user-friendly?

Soon, the transmission ended and Qiao Song appeared in a farmland.

She paused her speculation and analysis of the blind box mall and began to look around.

The soil on the bare ridges looked very soft, as if it had just been loosened.

With a plop, a man wearing sunglasses and a suit fell from the sky and landed on the edge of the field, not far from Qiao Song.

"What's the point of this? It's just a few extra napkins. The waiter is too overbearing."

The man held up his crooked sunglasses, looked around and cursed.

It looks like he was thrown in here as punishment for throwing something he shouldn't have.

A white light flashed, and another girl with freckles on her face and twin ponytails landed lightly on one foot nearby. It seemed that she had just been teleported here.

She glanced at the man in the suit with some disdain.

"You idiot who came in illegally, could you please stop yelling so much? You're throwing mud all over me."

The girl looked at the other person with disdain and even lifted up her fluffy skirt to avoid him.

The area where the man in the suit fell was close to the paddy field, and now his body was extremely dirty. He slapped his coat while cursing, and soon, in the blink of an eye, he changed into a clean set of clothes, still the same suit.

【Apprentice of handmade suits in Italy】

[I don't have enough skills, but I make up for it with my family background. As an apprentice with no talent, the waste suits you make are more than the samples in the suit shop. You may want to know why other apprentices are so stingy, but you can make so many ugly and ill-fitting suits without being fired. Of course, it's because this shop is opened by your father, who is also your master. You are really a rebellious son and a rebellious apprentice.]

[In order to prevent the family business from being ruined by himself, the clumsy young master is also working hard to make a suit today]

The man in the suit changed his clothes, but he was reluctant to take off his sunglasses. He tucked his chin in, raised his eyebrows and looked out from between the sunglasses, revealing an innocent and youthful look.

"Farming rules, what kind of nonsense is this?"

There was another flash of white light, and a few scattered players appeared, but they were quite far away from the field.

The freckled girl in a tutu looked around and guessed, "I hate playing games with idiots. Didn't you know anything before you came in? This is obviously a farming game. If you win, you will be rewarded with functional food-related props."

Qiao Song nodded in agreement with her idea.

"Judging from the range of the teleportation, it should be a team-based game."

Every three players are teleported to the same area, with a tool hut next to it and three different fields around it.

Seeing that there were already about twenty players in the venue, the system prompt sound finally rang.

【Welcome to the farming game. Please complete your planting tasks according to the team, resist risks, and become the final winner. You can get a golden blind box prop! 】

The few words on the golden blind box successfully turned the bad-looking face of the freckled girl next to him from sunny to cloudy in an instant.

"It's actually a golden blind box! At the very least, it can get a B-grade item, and at best, an A-grade item! You two, don't hold me back later."

She said most of this to the man in the suit.

Qiao Song had no objection to this girl, but it was the first time she heard of the term "golden blind box".

The man in the suit hummed and hawed, not wanting to pay attention to the girl, but he couldn't help looking around curiously, as if he had never seen what farmland looked like before.

Soon, Qiao Song noticed that on a small hill in the distance, there was a child lying on the back of a big blue ox, with his legs crossed, holding a grass stem in his mouth, and singing happily.

That's a nursery rhyme.

"La la la, the sun has risen, the seedlings in the fields are growing fast~"

"The baby is growing, so don't forget to eat~"

"Since I was little, I have had a dream to plant cilantro, chrysanthemum and Chinese cabbage all over the world!"

Then he put his hands on his hips and stood up from the back of the big blue ox.

"Now I'm releasing the first task. Players are requested to choose one of the three plants to start planting. The quality and taste of the vegetables must be guaranteed! After all, growing children are very picky eaters!"

All three vegetables were disappointing, Qiao Song didn’t like any of them: …

It's a small bean, but the taste is quite strong.

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Qiao Song: ...Do you need to taste the vegetables you grow yourself?