Chapter 179 Leaving the Blind Box Mall

The little black dragon was actually craving for the canned food that Qiao Song had promised him.

He was previously acting with Qiao Song and was stabbed through the heart by a sword. The latter said he would give him some snacks.

At the NPC junction, everyone's body size was not much different. Tong Yao was still talking to the little zombie she hadn't seen for a long time. When she saw the little black dragon, she was stunned: "Are we familiar with each other?"

Tong Nan remembered: "Isn't this the little black dragon in the second-level copy of the Screaming Game Hall?"

He and Tong Yao always liked to drive around in the paper cars made by their eldest and second uncles, so they got to know a lot of small NPCs in other copies.

As soon as the word "dragon" was mentioned, Xiao Ni next to him looked up instantly. He looked at the little black dragon squatting next to him and wagging its tail like a little Tibetan mastiff, and then as if he remembered something, he opened the communicator and turned to the last few messages sent by Sister Qiao Song.

Tong Nan was puzzled: "Why are you always in dragon form? I remember you left Zootopia last year and joined Scream Arcade?"

Xiaolong touched his nose and said, "I haven't practiced enough. Besides, isn't the dragon form cool? It will be so handsome when it grows bigger!"

Tong Nan hesitated to speak.

However, there are very few positions on the Infinite Flow Highway that require dragon-shaped NPCs.

On the contrary, Tong Yao was dumbfounded when she saw Xiao Ni starting to take things out: "Xiao Ni, what are you doing? Do you know him? Are you taking out the soul-guiding incense?"

No matter how much you like dragons, you shouldn't love them so much.

"Sister Qiao Song asked me to take it. She said that if a little black dragon comes looking for us, I should give him the canned food and incense as a small reward for helping in the dungeon."

When the little black dragon looked at the cans of food given by Xiao Ni, his eyes suddenly turned into stars and his saliva was about to flow down.

Qiao Song has rich experience in raising ghosts. In addition to ghosts, there are all kinds of strange little "pets" at home. Naturally, there are many good things, not to mention high-end items such as incense.

It was also the childcare fee that Fan Xi gave to Qiao Song, and Qiao Song gave a lot of it to Xiao Ni.

Tong Yao suddenly felt a little sour: "Why is that guy so nice to everyone?"

The little black dragon got what he had been longing for. Because he was hungry, he opened a can on the spot and started eating it with a crunch.

Next to Tong Yao stood a haggard-looking little zombie, who seemed to be trying hard to recall something during their conversation, and finally pounded his palm.

"So you're living with that guy now? Then won't you and Tong Nan suffer every day?"

The little zombie also participated in the road race of Hearse Entertainment and ended up like the boy and girl. He still remembers the player named Qiao Song clearly.

Tong Yao held it in for a long time, but finally reluctantly said, "She's not as scary as you think. Well, it's time. We've been entrusted to her by our uncles. We can't run away even if we want to. I'll come to your dungeon to play with you when I have time."

The little zombie said ok.

"I will open the door for you personally when the time comes, otherwise none of you will be able to come in."

Blind Box Paradise has special properties. It connects multiple stores at one time, that is, multiple copies. These NPCs who come here in the name of earning pocket money just happen to get together with their friends in the copy.

After seeing off the group, Tong Yao looked at Xiao Ni and Tong Nan and said, "What are you two doing? Watching Hei Long eating live? Didn't he send a message to let us go back?"

After exchanging the last round of blind boxes, Qiao Song was about to leave the mall. The next destination was quite dangerous, so he asked the little ones who were out playing to go back to the parking lot in advance.

Xiao Ni pointed at the little dragon next to him, who was wagging his tail like a puppy and looking at them with moist eyes.

"This guy said he wanted to go back with us, what should we do?"

Tong Yao sighed, "If he says to follow, then follow. Our next stop is Zootopia. This dragon escaped from there."

As soon as the little black dragon heard the keyword "Zootopia", his tail was immediately paused.

"Huh? What are you doing there?"

Longlong just wanted to follow Qiao Song and eat and drink for a while. He felt that not only would he be able to eat well but would also be fun to follow him!

But Zootopia, he was a little afraid of that place.

Xiao Ni looked at the little dragon and suddenly seemed to think of a familiar little mouse: "Are you from Zootopia too?"

The little black dragon nodded, now looking quite hesitant. It was obvious that he didn't like Zootopia very much, just like George did back then.

Xiao Ni thought for a moment and said, "Can you merge into the player's shrine like Tong Yao and the others? In this way, entering and exiting the dungeon should not be suppressed by the system itself."

Tong Yao immediately turned around and looked at the little boy with an expression that said, "Aren't you trying to fool a fool?"

Who knows that the Black Dragon, who is obviously not in a good mental state, rests his chin on his head and thinks for a moment: "It seems to be possible."

Tong Nan was also shocked: "But joining the player's shrine also requires signing a contract, which is just equivalent to transferring from the system to the player. Aren't you afraid..."

Unexpectedly, Tong Yao covered his mouth with her hand.

Currently, there are not many permanent residents in Qiao Song’s shrine, and there are class differences among the mascots.

This guy Xiao Ni was an easy-to-bully little boy at first, but now he has become more and more evil and has very sophisticated tricks.

This little brother of mine, even though Tong Yao likes to bully him, he is still a family member after all.

This little black dragon cries all the time and looks easy to bully. With a new bullying bag, the shrine will be much more lively. It’s not a bad idea for him to come in.

Of course, the final decision still depends on whether Qiao Song is willing to accept this little black dragon.

Tong Yao and the others didn't know yet that three spiders had already swaggered into the shrine. Two of them had been struck by lightning, and they were already at the bottom level as soon as they entered.

After thinking for a moment, Xiaolong nodded in agreement. As an evil dragon, he was very optimistic about the princess before! Like-minded people and free meals, isn't that great?

After shrinking his size a little, the little black dragon looked like a happy puppy. He followed Tong Yao and the others from the NPC passage and moved down to the mall, preparing to go directly to the parking lot to wait for Qiao Song and the others to come back.

But there was something strange along the way.

"Why are so many dungeon shops closed?"

Tong Yao and Tong Nan, the two little paper figures, have been to many dungeons and know many NPCs. Now they find that many shops are closed. This is not a common occurrence in a blind box mall.

After all, there are a lot of idle people in the blind box mall. If you open a store here, you can attract new players to a great extent. If you close it, you can only wait for the bus route to bring players here.

Some copies are too remote or too high-level, and you can only wait for high-level players to drive to the corresponding area themselves.

The passage they walked through was mostly populated by NPCs who were off work, but it could also be inferred that the players were definitely forced to leave the dungeon.

The little black dragon hummed and muttered, "It seems that there is a fire somewhere in the mall. If it burns all the way from the Screaming Game Hall, we need to prepare in advance."

"The Bobcat must have suffered a lot of losses since he was so angry before."

Tong Yao knew who he was talking about. The manager of the Screaming Game Hall was a guy named Bobcat, who was a member of the Twelve Committee just like her uncle.

What kind of fire can follow the door in the copy, from the connection point of the blind box mall, and burn directly to other games?

She seemed to have thought of an answer - the fire in the river of life and death.

“No way…”

If it was really as she guessed, it would not be advisable to stay here for long.

"Let's get to the parking lot."

If it was the kind of fire she imagined, then it was no wonder that the mountain cat was so angry. It would be difficult for her uncles and second uncles to deal with it if they encountered it.

Why is Qiao Song like a plague god? No matter which dungeon he goes to, there will be problems.

Tong Yao was not the only one who had this feeling; the stall owners at the ghost market also had a deep understanding of it.

A tall male ghost was standing in front of Qiao Song, looking a little trembling.

"Big sister, it's not that I don't want to work... The ghost market is really quiet today, how about you come back next time..."

Players who needed to exchange blind boxes entered the ghost market one by one, but Qiao Song and others who had been here once not long ago heard that the requirements for passing the level had changed. They only required her to push open the door of a shop to leave.

The first thing Qiao Song did when he came in was not to buy anything or push open the door, but to find the nails he left behind when he came last time.

After she was robbed and killed by a group of ghosts, she used screws to drive a nail into each of them to position them.

This male ghost named Dali, the one who led the group before, said he would go find a nearby store that was about to go bankrupt for Qiao Song and gather intelligence.

As a result, Qiao Song left in a hurry last time, so the ghost didn't come to find her. This time when he came in, Qiao Song quickly found Dali.

"Next time? By the time I come again, you will have already left the Ghost Market."

Seeing the other party's expression of being as if his little tricks had been exposed, Qiao Song immediately put an electric saw on the ghost's shoulder.

"Tell me, why is the ghost market so deserted all of a sudden?"

They came this time to quickly complete the purpose of exchanging blind boxes, but compared to the crowded and gloomy appearance of the ghost market before, it is now windy and cold, and even the shadows of ghosts setting up stalls can hardly be seen.

Dali swallowed hard, "This seems to be because of the weather changes in the ghost market, plus its special location. I heard that there was a sudden rainstorm not long ago, which injured many ghosts. The fog has become much lighter now."

"Plus, there were a lot of caravans in Zootopia before, and they took away most of the scattered materials and props in the ghost market. So there are no more merchants and tourists, and it's quite deserted."

"Then why are you guys still wandering around here?"

As soon as Qiao Song finished asking the question, he saw an embarrassed look on Dali's face.

"We were originally going over from the player exit, wanting to ask the administrator if there were any other dungeons hiring in the Blind Box Mall, but we ended up chatting for a while and wasted time. Now, everyone has left?"

Qiao Song narrowed his eyes, knowing that this guy was not telling the truth.

Although there are not many merchants, that is, ghosts, in the ghost market at this time, there are still players coming in.

The Ghost Market is a very special place. Players who want to enter need to walk through a very long passage and then get a special lantern with a heart in it from the administrator before coming in.

The more panicked the player is, the more obvious the heartbeat and red light in the lantern will be. These things must be prepared in advance, that is, the NPC watching the gate knows how many players will come in later.

This guy Dali must have bribed the administrator. He knew that a large number of players were coming in, so he wanted to stay and see if he could eat someone alive.

After all, at this point, most of the ghosts have left, leaving only these few street urchins.

The street urchins had no idea that they would not only not be able to eat living people, but would also encounter a living devil.

Qiao Song quickly caught the little ghost using the soul-destroying nail that he had threatened to use.

Qiao Song brought out the key point in Dali's words: "Why would the rain in the ghost market hurt the ghosts?"

Dali hesitated for a while and said, "It should be the source of the rainwater. The water is quite special. Before it rains, we all hear the sound of the river. When the stall owners hear the sound, they start packing up and running away, selling their wares to the ghosts in Zootopia."

"Not long after the vendors ran away, it started to rain. The ghosts that were caught in the rain were like ice creams that were splashed with hot oil. They melted away. We hid in front of some abandoned shops and barely escaped."

This description of rain feels like the river of life and death.

Qiao Song had always found it strange why there was fog in some areas of the ghost market. Now it seems that maybe the river was nearby?

Now, is it the river that is moving? The fog is also thinning.

By the way, didn’t the three spiders take out a concrete river from her mind? Now it seems that the one in her mind should be just a small tributary, which would not completely burn down the Scream Arcade.

Could the one near the ghost market be the big one?

It's a pity that it seems that the Ghost Market is now empty and the fog has become much thinner. It is very likely that the River Styx is no longer nearby.

Qiao Song let go of Dali and the other ghosts: "Where are you guys going to leave from now on?"

Seeing that Qiao Song was about to let them go, Dali was suddenly overjoyed.

"We have cars. We can drive our own rickety cars here. We won't bother you to take us there."

After saying that, he ran away in a panic without looking back.

Qiao Song did not chase after them. She closed her eyes and felt for a while. The nails that had been driven into the bodies of those ghosts before would allow Qiao Song to track them as long as they were within the ghost market.

After waiting for a while and realizing that a few nails were beyond her perception range, Qiao Song whispered, "The ghost market seems to have become smaller."

She has the habit of exploring the entire area every time she arrives at a map.

Before, he had used the soul nails he had driven in to let these little ghosts explore around and roughly figure out the size of the ghost market. But now that the ghosts have left one after another and the river has been removed, the physical scope of the entire ghost market seems to be a little smaller than before.

Is it because the number of ghosts setting up stalls has decreased, or is it because the river is no longer there?

The river of life and death, the Styx, what on earth is this thing...

Qiao Song collected his thoughts and quickly walked towards the shops that were still standing in the ghost market.

For players entering the game this round, the difficulty of the game is much lower than before. After all, the number of ghosts has been greatly reduced, the degree of fear has been greatly reduced, and there is no need to be afraid of carrying a lantern, let alone facing siege after being exposed.

Most of the people were arranged by Xin Yue and entered Ms. Xiaolu's handmade ceramics shop and Ms. Yangyang's tea shop.

Qiao Song and his friends were at Ms. Goat's tea shop, where they could drink tea and leave gifts, and then put their things on the tea cabinet.

When players finish drinking tea and leave, they can get souvenirs in the dungeon channel.

That is the blind box props that players need after the two shop owners, Ms. Goat and her neighbor Deer, exchanged them.

The Ghost Market does not only serve ghosts. This trading method was discovered by previous players. It is an excellent way to exchange card bugs for blind boxes.

The prerequisite is that two or more NPCs need to cooperate to a great extent.

Perhaps because he was about to go to Zootopia, Qiao Song was very interested in the goat lady in the store.

There were several players sitting around the table in the tea room. At most, they looked at each other and talked in low voices, but no one dared to make any big moves.

The only NPC in the store is a goat lady with a pair of blood-red eyes.

Goats have square pupils, and in some legends they are even considered to be representatives of the devil.

The gentle Ms. Goat brewed the tea bit by bit, with both etiquette and skills being quite good. Even though the players were in a hurry to leave the ghost market and the shopping mall, no one dared to urge them.

Everyone was given a cup of tea, including Qiao Song, but she found that the goat lady was always looking at her.

Qiao Song took a sip of the fragrant tea and just as he put down the cup, Ms. Goat suddenly spoke:

"The beautiful hair salon next door is closed now. Don't make a wasted trip later."

Qiao Song was stunned. She did plan to go back to the barber shop she had been to before, but how did this lady know?

A delicate snack was placed on a bone plate and pushed over.

"This is what Li Yuan asked me to give you. He said that you will have good luck next time and it will be hard for you to run into him, so he gave it to you in advance to avoid a confrontation in Zootopia."

If Xin Yue was also in the tea room at this time, after listening to what Ms. Goat said, she might immediately realize that something was wrong.

But Qiao Songyi was confused: "Li Yuan? Little Crow asked you to give this to me?"

Why doesn't the little crow stay in the Hell Community? Why put this thing far away here with Ms. Goat?

Doesn't he have his own contact information?

Ms. Goat blinked and said nothing.

Qiao Song took out his communicator and sent a question mark to Li Yuan, but the noisy little crow on the other side did not reply to him.

A strange suspicion grew in my mind.

Li Yuan never met her.

When in the Hell Community, he was always sitting on the artificial moon, and only by turning into a crow could he talk to her.

Tsk.

A certain plague doctor who did not want to reveal his name wore a hood, did not speak, and could only communicate with people using suspended bubbles.

Qiao Song felt that this guy was treating him like a fool.

Last time at the ghost market, I didn't take off his hood, but he turned around and performed a door-opening and teleportation trick.

Qiao Song became more and more upset, and sent a message to Xin Yue at the Xiaolu Ceramics Handicraft Shop across the street: "Where is your captain?"

"It seems he has to go to a meeting for something urgent. What's wrong?"

Qiao Song replied that it was okay and accepted the things given by Ms. Goat.

It was a candy wrapped in black.

The goat's blood-red eye sockets stared at her quietly with black square pupils. Qiao Song drank the tea in the cup without changing his expression. He did not ask any other questions, but just smiled and said:

"Thank you for the treat. The tea is delicious."

Goat lady's jaw lightly tapped:

"Sugar helps you fall asleep, so eat it when you want to sleep."

After saying this, she stood up, as if she was going to see the guest off.

The other players who were pretending to be enjoying their tea seriously immediately stood up and prepared to leave.

For the players this round, going through the ghost market was as easy as going home to drink tea. The only one who was under a lot of pressure was Miss Goat, who had a gentle voice but was very scary to get along with.

Even if she had no intention of attacking any player, that strange deterrent force would always emanate from her square pupils.

Like a docile sheep, it can bite your throat at any time just like chewing grass.

Walking out of the store, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and players gathered in groups, holding dim lanterns and preparing to return to the entrance.

There was not a single soul on the road.

Even the NPC who collected the lanterns and sent them away said that after sending this group of players away, the shopping mall passage on the ghost market would also be closed, as if they had received some notice from the blind box mall.

Before leaving, Qiao Song held the candy in his hand. He really couldn't imagine that there would be any situation in which he would need to eat candy before sleeping.

She has always slept well, sleeping whenever she wants and not even having any dreams.

But one thing is that she is 60% sure whether Li Yuan is really a plague doctor.

Next time we meet, I must find a chance to lift up that guy's mask and take a look. He must be suffocating to death by communicating with bubbles all the time.

After leaving the ghost market, Qiao Song and others quickly prepared to open the blind boxes.

Some of the bound blind boxes they exchanged have been opened, and some have not been opened. If you want to have a chance to get an S-level professional suit, you have to start washing your hands now.

Qiao Song doesn't believe in metaphysics. She believes that man can conquer nature, so she decisively starts synthesizing lucky gold coins.

How can manually increasing the luck value not be considered a scientific way of drawing cards?

The scenery was circulating in the room, and soon, the raw materials for the prop card appeared under his eyes.

At the same time, every room in Xinyue Hotel was filled with all kinds of amazing special effects.

Xin Yue had already prepared the previous fairy tale book blind box, and she would be able to complete a set soon.

"Well, okay. I was planning to clear the blind box mall in the next few days. At worst, I can come back next time. It looks like the captain and the others are going to Zootopia, so I'll go too. Wen Haoqian is a jerk. He always has high expectations but poor skills. If he kills himself, I won't be able to explain to my parents."

She muttered a few words and finally opened all the remaining blind boxes in one go.

[Ding——Congratulations on winning...]

The same prompt sound appears in every room of the small hotel, and even in the rest areas for players in each copy of Blind Box Paradise.

After Scream Arcade inexplicably announced an impending closure, many stores were gradually closing, centered on the 44th underground floor.

Some players with a keen sense of smell noticed something was wrong and have started collecting blind boxes, preparing to complete the game quickly. Some even went directly to ordinary stores, ready to consume ordinary goods and put together a set of blind boxes to complete the game.

Amid the busy notification sounds of the Ding Ding Ding system, players appeared and left in front of a huge screen in a shopping mall.

This is the most special location in the blind box mall. People will only appear here when they pass the level, take a quick look at the list of honors above, and then be teleported to the parking lot.

After Qiao Song synthesized and used the golden lucky coins, she successfully got what she wanted, but the name of her new profession was a bit strange.

When he was teleported to the big screen of the mall, Qiao Song saw his name at a glance, appearing in the top 10.

But at the same time, she also noticed several other familiar faces, among whom was You Yitong: S-level blind box set [Magician]

Qiao Song was not surprised, because that guy’s main job was indeed not a magician.

The names further up are a bit unexpected.

Bai You: S-level suit [Witch]

Gao Chengcheng: S-level suit [Pet Doctor]

…

Going further, a lot of the data became blurred, but Qiao Song had already seen his own name.

Qiao Song: S-level suit [White box]