Chapter 150 Blind Box Paradise

Qiao Song thinks she is a polite person, except when facing copy creatures, especially some ghosts, she always can't help but want to cause trouble.

At least most of the time when she's with players, she's pretty easy to talk to.

But no matter how she looked at this captain, she felt something was wrong.

This was another store that Xin Yue and the others had given information about. When Qiao Song passed by here, he saw a familiar face at a glance.

In the ghost market, as long as they wear black robes, it is basically difficult to distinguish the difference between humans and ghosts from their appearance. However, there are always some maverick guys, and even the specially made black robes cannot hide their obvious inhuman characteristics.

For example, those "distinguished guests" in Zootopia, and the so-called captain in this European Emperor Alliance.

The plague doctor's look, with a wide black hat brim and a bird-beak gas mask.

If it is a medieval plague doctor setting in the real world, the bird's beak may be filled with some air filtering substances, such as cotton, mint, etc.

But Qiao Song always felt that there might be something solid inside.

Her gaze was so conspicuous that the captain on the opposite side had already noticed her.

After a brief silence, a circle of bubbles floated up from the captain's head.

【Hello, what can I do for you? 】

It was a very stiff way of greeting, which didn't match his appearance which symbolized plague and death.

Qiao Song blinked and pointed his finger at his neck.

"It seems like something has gotten into you."

She was not lying. After all, she had been staring at the other person and did notice a few black feather-like things that disappeared at her neck like smoke when the captain was talking to her.

The captain subconsciously covered his neck. His expression could not be seen through the hood, but Qiao Song could feel that the flesh under the leather gloves he was wearing suddenly began to swell, as if small insects were crawling out of the gloves.

[It’s okay, I can take that thing myself…]

The bubbles next to the head had not even been completely formed yet, but Qiao Song grabbed the other person's beak, held the headgear steady, and lifted it up directly.

The person who was caught froze all over, and for some reason he didn't move at all and let her do what she wanted. Qiao Song only saw a section of his white neck and smooth chin.

Seems quite young.

"Qiao Qiao, what are you doing? Qiao Qiao, don't take off his hood! If you look at his face, your eyes will go blind!"

A familiar scream was heard not far away. Xin Yue, a wealthy woman who owned many apartments, rushed up and hugged Qiao Song's hand. She was suddenly more than ten or twenty meters away from her captain.

Qiao Song: ...

"I was just..."

"Qiao Qiao, please don't speak yet. Wait for my brother to confirm the captain's status."

Qiao Song originally thought that he made the team members angry because he pulled off the other person's mask, but the facts were slightly different from what he thought.

Wen Haoqian stood in front of them, holding up his sunglasses with one hand: "Captain, can you take off your gloves so I can take a look?"

The plague doctor was silent for a while, held his headgear steady, and took off his left and right black leather gloves, revealing a pair of hands covered with tiny wounds.

His bones are distinct, his fingers are thick and powerful, and he looks more aggressive than he actually is.

Most importantly, these are still a pair of human hands.

Wen Haoqian visibly breathed a sigh of relief and called to his sister to come over.

Qiao Song hadn't figured out the situation yet, but she heard Xin Yue explain to her: "Our captain was seriously injured in Zootopia and is at risk of transforming into a beast at any time. He wears a hood to prevent others from being contaminated by his abilities."

"Your behavior of taking off his hood just now was really dangerous."

Xin Yue didn't wait for Qiao Song to explain and quickly added, "It's okay. What I know is none of your business. The captain's ability is very strange. It will tempt other players to be hostile to him. Suddenly, some players inexplicably attacked him, or took off his hood. This has happened before."

Qiao Song was really just curious: ...

She felt as if she was pulling something off the edge of someone's mask in her hand, and her heart moved.

Xin Yue, who had finally relaxed, called her younger brother and the captain into the store. Qiao Song quickly glanced at the palm of his hand.

A black thing, like some kind of feather, floated away like mist and gradually melted into the palm of her hand after coming into contact with the air.

Xin Yue knocked on the door of the store. The moment she entered, a closed glass door reappeared at the door, as if her opening the door just now was just an illusion.

Qiao Song knew that this was because of the rules of the Ghost Market, which required each player to knock on the door individually before entering.

She had not originally planned to enter the store, but since she had already completed her mission alone, it would be a good idea to go in and take a look at a store of this security nature.

After the last one knocked on the door, Qiao Song entered a bright and quiet ceramic workshop.

The sign reads "Deer Handmade Ceramics Shop", but there are no deer-related accessories in the store.

There seemed to be no one in the store, and Xin Yue skillfully took out the large package hidden under her black robe.

It seemed that the most urgent thing for her and Wen Haoqian was to sort the goods, lining up the bottles and jars and arranging them according to categories.

Qiao Song couldn't help but ask: "Are you here to purchase goods?"

Xin Yue: "Oh, there is no other way. The same things are much cheaper at the ghost market stalls. It is convenient and fast to enter the ghost market copy from the blind box mall. Of course, I will take the opportunity to stock up more goods."

No wonder they always enter this advanced dungeon and set up a base in it. It seems that exchanging items is just a side job.

After sorting out the goods, Xin Yue saw Qiao Song and then remembered something. She suddenly slapped her head and said, "Oh, I almost forgot about the other mission I came here for this time."

She seemed to operate the system interface and took out two dozen thick banknotes.

It is very convenient for players to obtain soul coins, and they can do it directly on the system interface.

Xin Yue prepared the money and very skillfully went to the front desk of the store and took out a large square box.

It was similar to what Qiao Song saw at the hair salon before.

It was just that it was the female ghost named Xiaomei who asked her to put her eyes in to get another chance to pass the level.

"OK, this way, when the ghost market dungeon ends, we will be able to get the gift box from the NPC who recycles the human skin lanterns. The Alliance can get the props provided by your teammates, and the other side can get the payment from us."

Qiao Song understood something: "You guys are using the rules of the NPC store to exchange items?"

Xin Yue gave a thumbs up and said, "Qiao Qiao is really smart. However, if you get a gift box, you can't draw a blind box. In a sense, a gift box is also a directional blind box, but the things you get are exchanged with another store. If you don't find an exchange partner in advance, you don't know what you can get."

The blind box for clearing the level is provided by the NPC of the door you knocked on, and is a reward for clearing the level.

Wen Haoqian next to him ignored his sister's actions. He sat on the sofa and continued to stare at the plague doctor through his sunglasses. He seemed not very reassured, otherwise, with his personality, he would have been lying on the sofa with his legs directly on the coffee table.

"Captain, are you not in a good condition now?"

A short section of bubbles appeared next to the Plague Doctor's head.

[It’s fine for now. I ran into members of the Zootopia caravan on the way, so I might have been slightly affected.]

Xin Yue clapped her hands and came over:

"That's good. The item exchange has been settled. We'll just have to wait until we clear the level to get a gift. By the way, we've almost collected all the materials, but there's still a little left. Captain, do you think we should go to the street stalls again?"

The plague doctor nodded, and found that Qiao Song was staring at him.

"Captain, has your voice always been bad?"

Qiao Song pointed at the bubbles around his head that had not yet dispersed: "I see you are quite skilled in using this."

Xin Yue laughed to death: "Don't embarrass him. Do you think our captain looks quite socially anxious? In fact, it's completely the opposite. This guy used to be a social bully. When the group was first formed, he had just come out of Zootopia and was polluted, turning into a player with an alien head. He was the kind of player who—oh, you've seen it, right?"

Qiao Song has seen more than one, even a player like Gao Chengcheng's Dog Brother who has completely turned into a dog.

"Then let me continue. We thought he was an NPC in disguise, and it took us a long time to get to know him. At that time, due to his job and the pollution that Zootopia had not yet cleared, he couldn't talk to us directly. Most of the time, we had to communicate through bubbles. The screen was full of words, and it made my brain explode."

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Wen Haoqian nodded: "Indeed, the captain is now much calmer than before, but Doctor Wu said that every time the captain receives treatment in the ward, he becomes nagging."

Chattering?

Qiao Song turned around to look at the plague doctor who was wearing a black trench coat and a hat, but found that he had covered the lenses on both sides of his eyes with his hands.

[Stop talking…]

It’s hard to imagine that he is such a chatterbox. Is it the mask that limits his performance?

Qiao Song looked at his neck for some unknown reason. He didn't see any feathers, but he saw some red skin.

And I'm quite embarrassed.

"Although the captain's injury has not yet fully healed and he has to rely on bubble communication most of the time, don't worry, his strength is absolutely reliable!"

While Xin Yue was chatting, the captain, who had just been holding his head and feeling reluctant to see anyone, suddenly looked outside the store.

In addition to the transparent glass door, there are two large floor-to-ceiling windows at the entrance of the ceramic shop.

At this time, the flow of people on the street increased significantly. A large number of red lanterns could be seen crowded together, and a few tall guys stood out among the group of ghosts and moved forward slowly.

They were holding forms in their hands, occasionally discussing with each other, and it seemed that they were inspecting the shops on the street.

"It's the purchasing team from Zootopia..."

Wen Haoqian's tone was a little complicated, and he looked at his sister cautiously: "How about buying these materials today? It will be enough for a while."

The Plague Doctor was silent for a moment, and new bubbles formed.

[The situation in Zootopia is indeed not optimistic. We will temporarily retreat today. It is not the time to confront them yet.]

Xin Yue: "But the copy hasn't finished yet, it's only halfway through."

[I'll go bribe the NPC guarding the gate later. It's best to leave the dungeon early. Have you completed all your tasks? ]

He should be referring to the one where players choose 1 out of 3.

Xin Yue and Wen Haoqian went to buy the materials, so the mission was definitely accomplished.

Qiao Song knew that this was mainly a question to herself, so she nodded: "Mine is done too."

After getting a positive answer, the captain stood up from the sofa and produced a wooden cane from somewhere.

The right hand wrapped in a black leather glove grasped the round stone pillar at the top of the cane, and the wooden cane was raised and gently knocked against the wall.

Knock, knock, with the cane as the landing point, a pattern of light appears.

The cabinet in the ceramic shop that was filled with various handmade pottery products suddenly moved to the side, revealing a faintly glowing door.

[Let's take a shortcut and inform the players in the other store to also go through the back door. ]

Qiao Song silently stared at the person who opened the door, and suddenly frowned.

Seeing her silence, Wen Haoqian immediately boasted: "Our captain's ability is amazing, isn't it? This can open a portal in the dungeon and lead directly to the escape exit of the level-type dungeon."

The so-called level-type copy is similar to a maze, with an entrance and an exit. If you have this ability in a maze, it can be called a cheating artifact.

Ghost markets with fixed entrances and exits are actually similar.

【Survival Path】

[A world filled with disease, pain, and despair needs a path from death to hope. Of course, this does not mean that death cannot catch up with you, but that you just run a little faster than it. ]

The black bubbles gradually became silent. Qiao Song didn't expect that someone would take the initiative to introduce his or her skills to others.

Is this treating her as one of your own?

Xin Yue and Wen Haoqian looked at each other for a while and understood what the captain meant.

It was Xin Yue who took the initiative to speak: "Qiao Qiao, although you did not participate in the prop exchange this time, I believe you can see our sincerity. Do you want to join our alliance? This is not a union. There is no restriction on union badges. We just get together to play games and exchange information."

Everyone in the European Emperor Alliance has very special abilities, especially this guy called Plague Doctor.

This was the first time Qiao Song had seen someone with the ability to teleport. Although it seemed that this ability had brought him great negative effects and he was at risk of getting sick at any time.

Qiao Song: "Let me think about it again. I am not the only one in my permanent team."

The plague doctor at the front of the team didn't say anything, just nodded slightly, and then several people entered the passage.

It took only three or four seconds, and a glowing door soon appeared in the dark passage. After stepping out, they returned to the entrance where they entered the Ghost Market dungeon.

There is a table at the entrance of the passage with two road signs on it, one on the left and one on the right showing two passages.

Humans walk on the right and non-humans walk on the left, which is exactly the mirror image of when they came in.

The captain nodded and went to the dark passage on the left alone.

Where Qiao Song and the others were, it was all red because everyone had lanterns in their hands.

Qiao Song suddenly realized a problem. He was walking in the ghost market without a lantern.

They waited for a few more minutes to make sure that Tang Xiaoxiao and Lou Keqing had also successfully made it over from Ms. Goat's shop.

Lou Keqing's eyes were still a little dizzy.

"What was that just now... It actually has this kind of teleportation skill. If you hadn't contacted me, I wouldn't have dared to go in."

Tang Xiaoxiao rarely saw Qiao Song in a daze, so she poked her sleeve with her finger.

"What happened to Sister Qiao Song?"

Qiao Song came back to his senses: "It's okay, I'm just considering whether to take you to another job, but it seems that poaching people here is also okay."

Xin Yue smiled and said, "It's not impossible."

Wen Haoqian's face changed drastically: "But your team only has three or four people, our alliance——"

"You do have more people and a more complex composition. If I'm not mistaken, there should be a special guild in your alliance? I'm talking about the kind of guild that at least most of the members have joined." Qiao Song pointed to his eyes, "I'll consider joining after you tell the truth completely. Now get out first."

Lou Keqing and Tang Xiaoxiao didn't understand the current situation and followed Qiao Song into the passage in silence. They exchanged the human skin lanterns in their hands for a gift box from the NPC at the exit.

Inside are the things they got from the prop trade.

“It actually works.”

A lot of plans for the future suddenly came to Lou Keqing’s mind.

Once the blind box props in the blind box mall can be exchanged, having a new career is no longer a dream!

Xin Yue also successfully obtained the two skill books she wanted. She only needed the last one to complete an A-level professional suit.

Everyone got on the elevator and returned to the 89th floor, the lounge of the European Emperor Alliance's small hotel.

A beautiful and sweet-voiced landlady was gently pulling Qiao Song's sleeve: "Qiao Qiao, what did you mean by what you said before?"

Because there was something important to discuss, Qiao Song called all the people on his side, including Tang Xiaoxiao and Aunt Huo, over. Except for the doctor and the captain, several members of the so-called European Emperor Alliance were all in the lounge.

Lou Keqing probably knew that they wanted to discuss whether they wanted to have long-term cooperation in the future, or even join an alliance, so after hesitating for a moment, she expressed her desire to stay.

She also has some intention in this regard.

Qiao Song didn't look at the props in Xin Yue's hand, but stared at the single glass lens on her neck: "I'm not blind. In a European Emperor Alliance, almost everyone wears glasses. And you entered such a difficult copy. At first you said you were here to exchange props, but in fact your main purpose was to buy materials."

"With so many ghost materials, don't tell me that you guys have the same habit of raising ghosts as the Newcomers' Alliance. If not, then there is only one possibility - they are used to make props."

The more Qiao Song spoke, the more awkwardly Xin Yue smiled: "You guessed too quickly."

"After all, you guys don't have anything to hide, so you also set up a part-time union specializing in props?"

Xin Yue looked at her brother's eye-catching big sunglasses and seemed to understand how the common characteristics of the members were discovered so quickly.

Sometimes I really want to beat this arrogant and conspicuous guy to death. Other members are low-key and wear glasses, but he insists on wearing sunglasses with his suit.

"There is indeed such a guild, but not all members have joined. Instead, the members of the guild are in the alliance. They are responsible for making props, and all the props of the alliance are supplied by them. This glasses-related item is a special prop set called the Eye of Truth."

"This guild that makes props is relatively low-key, so you may not have heard of it. The captain has gone to the medical room and will be back soon. Otherwise, he will give it to you personally—"

Seeing that she was hesitant to speak, Qiao Song actually took the initiative to utter a word before Xin Yue opened her mouth: "Eye of wisdom?"

Xin Yue's pupils trembled, and Wen Haoqian, who was still eating cucumber chips next to her, was also shocked: "Fuck, you can even guess this, is the Eye of Wisdom so famous now?"

"But there's only one member, how can he be so famous?"

Qiao Song: "There is only one member, your captain?"

Wen Haoqian suddenly felt that the air-conditioning temperature in the room was so low that he got goose bumps on his skin, because what Qiao Song said didn't sound like a question at all, but an affirmative sentence.

"This is terrible. When I and others recommended you to join our alliance, we said that you are very good at playing games, but this is too much. How did you guess this?"

Qiao Song pointed at the soft cushion on the sofa and said, "I need to talk to your captain about this. If an NPC reveals some of this information, he may even be struck by lightning. If I tell a player who doesn't have this thing, I don't know what the consequences will be."

The door of the lounge was pushed open, and the plague doctor who had received a brief treatment reappeared. Behind him was Dr. Wu, whose hairline had moved up a lot and had dark circles under his eyes.

Because he met residents of Zootopia in the ghost market, it seemed that the captain's concerns about some pollution in Zootopia had been aggravated, and he just received emergency treatment.

[If you want to talk about the shrine, it doesn't matter, these people know, they have been to the dungeons related to the shrine]

Seeing the bubbles floating up, Qiao Song nodded: "Then it's okay. In the game in the ghost market, I saw that you didn't start with the human skin lantern, so I guessed that you should also have a shrine. When making props, the shrine should be a very important part."

Xin Yue, Wen Haoqian and others were still shocked by the word "also" in Qiao Song's words.

What does this mean? Qiao Song also has a shrine? Isn't he a new player?

The Plague Doctor seemed a little surprised: [You probably haven't made props yourself yet. I mean, the kind that can be turned into prop cards.]

[So, why do you know that item cards require a shrine to be made? ]

Otherwise, we wouldn't have guessed that someone in their alliance would make prop cards just by looking at the large and small bags of materials purchased by Xin Yue and Wen Haoqian.

"Because I've already suffered from this."

Qiao Song's expression suddenly became a little subtle, and it was obvious that he had obtained this information through some not-so-pleasant experience.

"Before coming to the blind box mall, I sorted out my toolbox once."

Her toolbox has a strong storage capacity, but because it can hold so much, she sometimes can't tell how much "junk" she has stored.

It just so happened that the paper-folding town later had a shrine, and this thing could also be used as a space prop, so she sorted out the toolbox by the way.

Tang Xiaoxiao knew that Qiao Song liked to collect all kinds of weird gadgets, even blank prop cards.

But I didn’t expect Qiao Song to have so many raw materials for making props.

"My shrine may have just been created and is not very stable. So, when I was sorting out the items, two very special things got mixed together and were just sucked into the shrine."

One is a blank wishing star card, and the other is a special gold coin that he got when he was tricked by a magician in the Hell Community.

【Doom Coin】

When she heard this name, Tang Xiaoxiao suddenly understood what Qiao Song meant.

So, is there a reason why Sister Qiao Song is so unlucky in the blind box mall?