Chapter 145 Blind Box Paradise

Qiao Song finally sat down at the poker table, and Lou Keqing, who came with him, was not spared.

"The leader of the alliance just happened to be out getting food, so why don't we take this opportunity to get to know each other."

The girl with the notes all over her face blinked.

According to Wen Haoqian, the players in their team don't play the game often, because the props they have accumulated are relatively concentrated, so they will only exchange props at fixed times.

When I have nothing to do, I play cards in the hotel every day.

It’s not Texas Hold’em or even Landlord.

In a game like Turtle Pull, you should try your best to play the cards in pairs, but basically whoever has the joker card in his hand has the highest probability of losing in the end.

Unless the joker is taken away immediately, it will be difficult to turn the situation around later.

Qiao Song looked at the cards in his hand in silence. The big ghost and the small ghost were distributed on both sides, very conspicuous.

She drew a card from the girl next to her expressionlessly, and successfully made a straight in her hand - there was no pair that could be played.

Qiao Song was silent for a while, and it was the person on the right's turn to draw her card.

"The first card on my left and the fifth card on my right are jokers."

She said it suddenly, startling the fat boy on her right who was about to reach out to take the cards from her hand.

The little fat man hissed, "Now that you've opened your mouth, you're putting psychological pressure on me."

But it is impossible to play a psychological game. All you have to do is play with luck.

The fat boy who had been observing her with glasses before, smiled and closed his eyes, picked up a card from Qiao Song's hand at random, opened his eyes and quickly put together a pair and played them out.

The fat man quickly cleared the cards in his hand and became the first winner. Then, a man wearing black-framed glasses and with a slightly higher hairline appeared on Qiao Song’s right.

The other party nodded at her politely, and then closed his eyes every time he drew a card, completely ignoring Qiao Song's reaction and not listening to her words.

This seems very unreasonable in the game of drawing turtles.

Qiao Song raised his eyebrows and gave up the idea of ​​increasing his chances of winning by actively speaking to interfere with other players' choices.

After all, it seems that these people are determined to play this game by pure luck.

She guessed something and stopped observing the micro-expressions of the person on her left. She quickly ended this round of the game. Even if there were only three cards left in her hand, the person on her right could skip over her two jokers with his eyes closed and draw the only two of hearts.

As expected, Qiao Song became the unlucky guy with only the Joker and the Jack in his hand, and both joker cards were in the same family.

Lou Keqing was the third to last to escape, and couldn't help but murmur: "Qiao Qiao, is there something wrong with your luck? This is beyond the explanation of an ordinary person."

Qiao Song threw the last two cards into the pile indifferently. The girl who had asked her with a smile if she wanted to play cards tore off all the notes on her face, but had no intention of giving Qiao Song a punishment note.

"Amazing! I haven't seen such a pure African in a long time."

I don’t know whether he is praising or scolding.

Qiao Song: "After testing my luck, can we talk about cooperation?"

After a few seconds, Lou Keqing also reacted: "So it's not just a card game. Wait, can you also test people's luck?"

Xiaopang clapped his hands and stood up first: "After all, our organization is called the European Emperor Alliance, so the people in the team are naturally screened."

The communicator in his pocket buzzed, and it seemed that the so-called first person in charge was coming.

Xin Yue, the girl with the note on her face, whose luck was only slightly better than Qiao Song, quickly put the big group of cards together and said, "No more playing, no more playing. The boss is coming back to deliver food, and we should probably go back to work."

"You guys ate all the food in the tea room for entertaining guests, but we haven't had any guests in the past few days. I'm sure you'll be scolded when the captain comes back."

"Pah, pah, pah, Wen Haoqian, you are such a stingy guy, you think you are the captain. You are just resentful because you were kicked out of the card game by us."

"I have a grudge!? Hey, I just brought a bunch of cucumber-flavored potato chips and bread, and I won't share any of them with you."

Xin Yue's expression turned green, and she taunted, "Do humans really like to eat something like this?"

At the side, Lou Keqing realized that this round of the ghost card game was not ordinary, so she turned her head and said quietly: "I just love to eat..."

Xin Yue's stinky face suddenly changed 180 degrees: "Of course a beautiful sister is different, she has good taste, such a fresh taste, it's very suitable for you at first glance!"

After that, he gave a thumbs up and took the latter's arm affectionately: "We have just tested it. There is no problem with your luck. You are a good fit for the team. But as to which one, we have to wait for the captain to come back and decide."

Not long after she finished speaking, Xiaopang came back.

He wiped the sweat off his head, his expression not as relaxed as before: "The captain was slightly injured and can't come to receive guests for the time being, but regarding the game in the ghost market, the captain said that he can cooperate with new players."

Upon hearing that the captain was injured, the doctor wearing black-framed glasses immediately stood up.

"Then I'll go take a look."

He pinched his brows, and soon a white coat appeared on his body, and the smell of disinfectant began to emanate from his body.

Qiao Song quickly determined that this person should be the doctor on duty outside, the one who could provide an inpatient room for players to rest.

Compared to her teammates who looked serious, Xin Yue was not too worried about their captain. "By the way, the studio is full now, and that's where the boys rest. If you want to rest, wait a moment. My princess room will be ready soon, and I can give you a super low price."

Lou Keqing was curious: "What is a super low price? When you do business with other players, what is the standard for charging for the room?"

"The studio is a little rough, and you can't eat. It costs 200 soul coins a night, and you can only sleep on the sofa. My princess room is only for girls. It's nice and soft inside, and it has a toilet and a bathtub. It costs 500 soul coins a night, but if there are two of you, I can give you a special price."

Xin Yue raised a finger.

"10 Soul Coins will do."

This is just a ten dollar charge.

If you really just want to show your appreciation, one dollar is fine, but ten dollars is too subtle.

Qiao Song understood: "If a player or other forces open a store here, they must charge a fee for every transaction. The minimum is ten soul coins?"

"Bingo~ That's right. The game system will charge a 10% handling fee for each transaction, but the system will charge a minimum of one soul coin as a handling fee. Otherwise, the room fee will be calculated as a dime or a penny. I don't mind."

Because Qiao Song and Lou Keqing can bring them greater benefits.

Qiao Song: "The ghost market game you mentioned earlier is the place where you can exchange props?"

Every blind box that a player draws in the Blind Box Paradise is forcibly bound to the player. Once the props can be circulated, the difficulty of completing a complete set of blind boxes will be greatly reduced.

"Yes, this dungeon game has a very special setting. It uses the killing rules of ghosts to allow players to successfully exchange props once, and there is only one chance. So we will prepare in advance and find the right buyers and sellers to minimize the number of times we need to enter the game."

Xin Yue was willing to say these things proactively, which basically meant that she accepted the prop exchange request put forward by Qiao Song and the others.

"But at the moment, most of the buyers are people within our alliance."

Qiao Song: "Have you successfully put together a professional suit? It doesn't matter if it's inconvenient to answer this question."

Xin Yue was quite frank: "I did produce a few low-level professional suits, such as B-level and A-level ones, but not a single high-level one."

This was enough to surprise Lou Keqing.

Although she had only been in this dungeon for less than half a month, she had long understood that even putting together a B-level professional suit was not an easy task, otherwise her first reaction after drawing the items would not have been to go out and sell them.

The number of mobile players in the blind box mall every month is very large. In this case, it can be vaguely guessed from the gossip that only about a dozen players every month are lucky enough to have a new second career.

And such a small group, which seems to have less than 10 people, can actually produce several sets of professional suits.

"B-level and A-level are also called low-level suits... then what are high-level suits?

"The high-level item set you want, is it S-level?"

Lou Keqing was just joking, but Xin Yue nodded and answered seriously: "Of course, otherwise who would want to have nothing to do after eating a full meal? I have been hanging around in this shabby place for half a year."

Wen Haoqian, who was gulping down a soda next to him, sneered, "Oh, stop pretending. Half a year has passed, and you haven't even collected a B-level suit, let alone an A-level one."

Xin Yue was so angry that her curly hair was about to stand up.

However, Wen Haoqian's words quickly put out her anger the next second: "I owe you a favor last time, and I'll help you repay it this time. The new girl I brought here has a fairy tale book. You can try to make an offer and see if she is willing to exchange it, or buy it in other ways."

Lou Keqing frowned, then she understood something. Her mind quickly realized that the two B-level props that Qiao Song drew were gloves, and the A-level prop could only be the fairy tale book in her hand.

Xin Yue's eyes lit up: "You have props from the fairy tale book series?"

Lou Keqing suddenly felt that Wen Haoqian didn't just want to help them. Wasn't he quite thoughtful?

But if she could really exchange the props, the risk would be worth it since she was planning to sell it anyway.

"I have a copy of Jack and the Beanstalk."

After she finished speaking, Wen Haoqian crossed his legs and placed them on the table where he had played cards before. Wearing sunglasses and a suit, he looked nonchalant like a second-generation rich man who had stolen his brother's clothes.

"I also have a copy of 'Three Monks Carrying Water to Drink' here."

Xin Yue clapped her hands and said, "Great! This way, I only have one book left in the fairy tale series. I can finally finish this crappy game sooner."

Wen Haoqian raised his toes, feeling that she didn't understand what he meant: "I didn't say I would give you this book for free."

"You little heartless bastard, haven't I wiped your ass enough? And you're asking for a price."

Xin Yue stretched out her hand and hit him, but Wen Haoqian quickly shrank his neck and begged for mercy: "Okay, okay, my sister, my sister, I'll give it to you, I'll give it to you."

Qiao Song observed the facial features of the two people. Although one was a sweet-looking beauty with curly hair and the other was an apprentice in a suit wearing sunglasses, they could vaguely see some similarities.

"Are you siblings?"

Xin Yue winked at her and said, "That's right. I have such a talentless and pretentious brother at home. The family business has not been ruined yet, all thanks to me."

"It just so happens that we need to go into my cabin to discuss the details of the game. If you don't mind, I'll take you there now?"

In the blind box mall, private fighting among players is prohibited in any area outside the game, so there is no need to worry about players playing dirty tricks.

Qiao Song and Lou Keqing did not hesitate much. They came here just in time to take a look at where the players were staying.

Xin Yue took them to the corridor opposite the lounge.

There is a whole row of identical white doors here. Unlike ordinary hotels, there are no house numbers on them, but each door has a different name written on it.

These were the names they had seen on the duty roster before.

Xin Yue walked to the door with her name on it, pressed the handle, and pushed the door open.

"Welcome to my princess room~"

Before she went from being a wealthy woman to an even wealthier landlady, she carefully decorated each of her houses herself.

[A wealthy landlady, with superimposed attributes, and the owner of a startup decoration company]

[Every house under your management is the tenant’s dream home]

Xin Yue can summon the ten dream homes that she had designed and fully renovated in the past. With her permission, they can also be rented out to allow other life forms to live in them.

It is with this ability that Xin Yue painlessly transformed herself into a hotel owner. Others used their own skills to create rooms, and also relied on her ability as a bridge to build the hotel's business model.

"But I need to have some skills to buffer after renting out each house. Previously, I had sea view houses, log houses, and even lofts, as well as postmodern designs. But those houses were bare, with only a coffee table, a mattress, and some black decorations. I don't think you would like to live there. After all, the sweet and fragrant princess room is the best!"

She rushed into the room first, threw herself directly onto a sofa that looked like a giant cake, and rolled twice.

The house is even a duplex, with two floors, a huge ceiling and a crystal chandelier hanging across the two floors.

There is a small living room downstairs, which has all kinds of furniture. You can even see a washbasin with thick transparent walls in the distance, and a bathroom that looks quite large.

Lou Keqing, who always had a resolute expression, was also deeply moved when she saw this. It was not because of the design style of the room, but because it was rare for players to find such a comprehensive and comfortable resting environment.

"That portable two-bedroom I bought at the convenience store isn't as comfortable as this."

She pressed the sofa and found it was softer than she had imagined and had good support.

"Right, right? When I was a landlady, I especially liked to decorate the houses that my clients wanted. At first, I just rented them out, but later many of them were bought by them. As a result, I had more and more houses."

Her younger brother Wen Haoqian was almost crying silently while listening to what happened in the back.

Instead, he was dragged away by his father and worked as an apprentice for several years, but because his skills were so poor, he became poorer and poorer.

Xin Yue likes to introduce her house to others.

"But unfortunately, my ability only allows me to select one theme style at a time and generate several identical rooms, so your two rooms may be exactly the same."

Qiao Song didn't mind this. Tang Xiaoxiao and Aunt Huo should be quite satisfied with this house. And her RV couldn't be brought into the dungeon.

There is a big table in the living area where Xiaoxiao can do homework. The duplex room allows the cats to play on the two floors. The little ones must love looking down from a high place.

Qiao Song immediately booked three rooms, and Lou Keqing also nodded and booked one.

The beautiful rich woman who received the new order immediately walked out of the room and knocked on several nearby doors that did not have names on them. Soon she got a princess room of the same model.

"I'll give you the key when you check in later. Your name will be displayed directly on it. The soundproofing is excellent, so you can rest assured."

At this time, Qiao Song saw a familiar name on the white gate not far away.

Noticing her gaze, Xin Yue introduced it openly: "That is Wu Hanyu's inpatient suite. You have to make an appointment in advance. The rooms provided by his ability have a healing effect. We usually reserve a few for the team members to use. The captain should be doing the treatment in there now. According to the monster's recovery speed, he should be able to come out soon."

While they were talking, the door opened.

Doctor Wu, who looked a little tired and whose hairline had risen a few points, came out first, followed by the chattering little fat man.

"How can you be so capable? You've made yourself like this. It's hard to communicate with you to begin with, and now I can only type."

Xin Yue poked her head out and asked in confusion, "What's the matter? The captain's leg is broken or his arm is broken. Isn't it common for him to get injured?"

Lou Keqing was listening nearby and always felt that there was something odd about their small group. Did they care about their captain, or did they wish him death?

The little fat man was also a little speechless: "Almost. Anyway, it has been cured, but the vocal cords are damaged and I can't speak recently."

Qiao Song followed the direction of the person's gaze and finally saw the person walking out of the door.

He was tall, wearing a light grey windbreaker and a pair of leather gloves, and was gently pressing the skin near his throat with his fingers.

"Why are you wearing a hood in base camp?"

Qiao Song heard Lou Keqing mutter something.

The so-called captain of the European Emperor Alliance stood with his back straight, dressed neatly, but wore a strange headgear on his head.

The outermost layer is a layer of white bones, and strange sharp teeth can be seen in the middle, which looks like a sheep's skull or a bird's. A set of pointed conical leather is sewn downwards.

There are also round, thick lenses in the eye sockets.

Qiao Song narrowed his eyes. This familiar shape...

This is the appearance of the classic character commonly seen in games, the Plague Doctor.

At the same time, she also noticed another subtle thing: it seemed that most people in this organization wore glasses.

The fat man who opened the door before, Dr. Wu in a white coat.

Even if Wen Haoqian didn't wear glasses, he would still wear a pair of sunglasses, and her sister, Wen Xinyue, also had a transparent piece of glass wrapped in a circle of broken diamonds hanging around her neck. It looked like a single eyeglass, but most of the time it was just hung on the body as an accessory.

【Hello】

The captain dressed as a plague doctor nodded slightly to her, and a small bubble suddenly floated next to him.

[I've heard about the item exchange. The game will start in one day. Do you want to go in together? ]

This was the first time Lou Keqing had seen this kind of communication method, so she said directly, "Will you also enter the game? We will rely on this little bubble to communicate, isn't that a bit too unsafe?"

The dumb captain nodded: [It’s okay. The dungeon environment is not suitable for too much communication. They will tell you the specific details. I am only responsible for leading you in.]

The little fat man clapped his hands as if he remembered something: "Oh, by the way, you should know the level of that copy, right?"

Lou Keqing suddenly had a bad feeling: "A special copy that can exchange items...A level?"

Wen Haoqian, who was standing next to him, suddenly felt a little dry in the mouth. He seemed to have forgotten to mention this, so he could only raise his hand silently: "I forgot to mention it, it's S-level."

Lou Keqing: ???

"You guys are actually planning on playing the S-level game?" Originally, the highest level was assumed to be A-level, and she could give it a try, but this group of people turned out to be so bold.

She felt a little stupid for a moment.

Before Lou Keqing could back down, Qiao Song spoke first: "Do you have a complete strategy for this game, and can you tell us legally and reasonably?"

Otherwise, there is no way to explain why they dared to bring so many people and brazenly enter the S-level mini-games repeatedly just to achieve the purpose of exchanging props.

When Qiao Song was pulled into the vegetable-growing game before, she discovered that the system would detect the player's familiarity with the game. For example, she had played George's rotating hot pot game in the Hell Community, and the system knew her experience in completing the game, so it threw her into a vegetable-growing game that she had never played.

This shows that at least most of the rules of these games in the blind box mall and those in the copies are similar.

In order to prevent players from repeating the questions, they are staggered.

But if the system can detect the player's clearance experience, it should also be able to detect the player's buying and selling of information.

After Qiao Song finished this series of analysis, Lou Keqing nodded: "If the risk is too great, forget it. I would rather sell the blind box."

It is good to collect blind boxes and gain new professional skills, but it is not worth taking too much risk on your life for it.

Xin Yue explained: "The system does not prohibit players from buying and selling intelligence, but the rules of the game will change, basically once a week. In this case, it is not worthwhile to buy and sell the rules. Therefore, there are not many game rules circulating outside, and each floor of the blind box mall has countless shops, and there are hundreds of small games downstairs."

The little fat boy put his arm around the captain's shoulder, patted him gently, and took over the conversation:

"However, our team has a strong, fearless, and nice captain. This guy enters the game every week to test the corresponding rules."

Lou Keqing still found it a little unbelievable: "You guys keep entering the S-level mini-games, not to win the blind box, but just to test the rules?"

At this time, Xin Yue next to him sighed and said, "We would like to, but you also know that the rewards of the mini-game are determined by the evaluation of the copy NPC. If you want to achieve the purpose of exchanging blind boxes in it, the rewards cannot be high."

You can only do one thing at a time, so don’t even think about getting those special blind boxes that can reveal S-level items.

"Captain, since they have already decided that there will be demand for blind box exchanges in the future, should I just say it directly?"

After seeing the captain in the plague doctor costume nod, Xin Yue spoke up: "That game is on the -77th floor. It's a Chinese horror game. There's an event called Ghost Festival in it."

"After you complete the game of Ghost Knocking on the Door, you can exchange props with each other."