Yuheng City, it has been raining for nearly half a month, and the air is full of dampness and mold.
The 955 building stands tall in the most prosperous business district in the city. On the surface, it is an information technology company, but in reality it is the headquarters of the 955 Special Department.
The 955 Special Department specializes in observing and exploring various special existences that cannot be explained by scientific basis, such as the "amusement park games" that are only popular among a small number of people, which is one of the key objects of observation.
Xiao Zhou was holding a stack of data and was about to submit it to the director. At the door of the office, she met Xiao Tang from the monitoring department.
She raised her hand to say hello, but Xiao Tang looked hurried and didn't notice, and walked straight into the director's office.
"Director, we detected that abnormal energy point again last night." Tang Qi's voice was anxious and excited. "Based on the previous two experiences, I paid special attention to the data in the past few days, and it really appeared again. Preliminary inference is that this energy point is very close to us, probably in a certain area of Kaiyang City or Yaoguang City."
Xiao Zhou heard this and looked down at the information in his hand. He thought it was a coincidence. He raised his hand and knocked on the door and walked in. "Director Lin, there is a special document that needs your review." Director Lin
's real name is Lin Yan. She is about 30 years old, capable and silent.
About two years ago, she was parachuted into the 955 Special Department and was mainly responsible for all matters related to the "Paradise Game" observation team.
There is a rumor that she was a special police officer before she was transferred to the special department.
Lin Yan was looking down at the document, ignoring Tang Qi and Xiao Zhou.
About five minutes later, after making sure there was no problem and signing her name at the end of the document, she looked up, "Xiao Tang, let me know when you've determined the exact location of the energy point. Xiao Zhou, what's the matter?"
Tang Qi was very excited just now, but the director's calm attitude calmed him down.
This abnormal energy point first appeared about three or four months ago, and including last night, it has appeared three times in total.
Each time, the energy suddenly surged in a short period of time, and then disappeared quickly, and the specific location has never been determined. It
was just detected again last night, and it seems that there is really nothing to be excited about.
Xiao Zhou stepped forward, handed the information to Lin Yan, and explained, "Recently, someone paid a batch of taxes through special channels. Because it was an unconventional way to pay taxes, the information was sent to us."
After reading the information, Lin Yan's eyes, which were always as calm as water, showed a hint of interest, "In the city of Shaking Light, it is suspected that the amusement park game manager paid 1.2 million taxes through unconventional means. It's quite interesting. Xiao Tang, go pack up the monitoring equipment and follow me on a business trip to Shaking Light City."
Tang Qi was originally preparing to return to the monitoring room, but now Finally, Lin Yan responded, "Director, do you suspect that this taxpayer is related to the abnormal energy point?"
Lin Yan did not nod, and looked at Xiao Zhou: "Have there been similar cases over the years?"
Xiao Zhou shook his head: "The monitoring team can monitor several transactions of fantasy rings every week, but no trader has ever paid taxes, let alone in such an obviously unconventional way."
Lin Yan smiled and stood up: "Let's go and meet this interesting taxpayer."
Xiao Zhou chased after him, "Director, I want to apply for a business trip."
Lin Yan looked back.
Xiao Zhou: "Such an arrogant taxpayer, I also want to meet him."
Lin Yan lowered her head slightly, suppressed her smile, "Let's go."
Shaking the city, the abandoned shopping street.
Lu Yao pushed open the blind box store.
Because it is a new store, it can only accommodate two blind box machines and a special machine for exchanging tokens.
The store is quite large, with the blind box machines and token exchange machines placed side by side against the wall, and a large area left empty, making the store look quite empty. Lu Yao
is not in a hurry. She has experience in opening a new store and always takes things one step at a time.
What is more important at the moment is to determine the content of the blind box. Lu Yao has no plans to stock the popular blind boxes for drawing dolls on the market.
Collectible blind boxes rely on the popularity of IP culture. If they are suddenly moved to a new place and expected to sell well, it is very likely that they will not be able to adapt to the local environment. She has to see the situation first.
According to the hint, the world this store faces may have unstable factors, not necessarily bad factors. It may be a fast-paced life with rapid changes, or it may be a highly developed technology with many opportunities and challenges.
The rule of opening a store in the Dream Dream System is that before opening the Star Gate, you must first decide the main content of the business based on clues.
After thinking about it, Lu Yao felt that since the new world may itself be a blind box, he might as well open a blind box store.
Leave yourself a retreat to the maximum extent, and enjoy the joy of matching goods.
After all, everything can be a blind box, and there is no need to stick to categories.
The store is too empty, so Lu Yao divided an area in the middle. He will buy a few sets of tables and chairs in Emerald Town and put them there. It will be a leisure area for opening blind boxes on the spot.
The nail salon actually made a lot of gold coins, but unfortunately, none of them could be brought to this world, so they could only be spent there.
When the shop was almost cleaned up, Lu Yao pushed open the door.
It was pitch black outside, without any light, as if the world had fallen into eternal night.
She raised her hands and rubbed her eyes,
then went back into the shop. It was still bright outside the window, so it seemed that there was nothing wrong with her eyes. Lu Yao took out her cell phone, turned on the flashlight, and walked out of the shop again.
It has entered summer in the city of Shaking Light, the sun is blazing, and the weather is hot. Lu
Yao was wearing a short-sleeved shirt with black wide-leg trousers today. When she walked outside, the cold wind blew in her face, causing goose bumps.
She hugged her arms and rubbed them, taking a deep breath and suppressing her uneasiness.
This world is a little cold and empty.
The sky was pitch black, without any light.
The night was dark all around as well, like ink.
The new store seemed to be located in a wide, dark area.
The ground was paved with spotted tiles in a grid pattern, and the surrounding buildings looked like shopping malls, except that they were run-down and desolate, as if no one had used them for a long time.
The lighting on the phone was not very good, and Lu Yao took a quick look, not daring to walk too far, and returned to the store. Lu
Yao typed into the system: [Light up the sign, and place a street lamp on each side of the door.]
System: [One hundred thousand popularity points can be exchanged for a sign LED module light, and five thousand popularity points for one street lamp, for a total of one hundred and one hundred thousand popularity points. Does the owner confirm the exchange?]
Lu Yao: "Yes."
When the nail salon completed the ultimate mission, it was rewarded with one million popularity points. With the original balance, there are more than 1.7 million points.
It cost a total of 200,000 to renovate the blind box store and customize the blind box machine. It cost 110,000 to install a light, and there are more than 1.3 million points left.
When the blind box store opens, the popularity points used can be earned back soon.
"Pop--" The sign outside the door lights up, and there is a flower-shaped street lamp on each side, five or six meters apart.
The lamps are pure white and very bright.
Looking from a distance, the blind box store far away is like a glowing fish in the deep sea, which is particularly eye-catching.
Lu Yao walked out, looked around, and nodded with satisfaction, "Well, not bad."
She looked around the store again. This place was actually a bit like her commercial street, shabby and deserted.
The overall architecture was similar to her world. There was an out-of-service elevator in the distance, and all the surrounding stores were smashed. There
was broken glass all over the ground, but there was an exceptionally clean feeling around, with almost no other garbage. It
was very empty, very empty.
Every place seemed to have been repeatedly looted.
This should be a world with modern civilization.
Or rather, there once was modern civilization.
Lu Yao returned to the store, packed up her things, and closed the door.
System: [Where are you going? 】
Lu Yao: "Stock up."
After leaving the blind box store, she went to a nail salon first, and then ordered four sets of tables and chairs from the carpenter at the end of the street.
The aesthetics of the Alexandrian mainland is different from here, but it is cheaper.
Lu Yao suddenly thought of stocking up the blind box store, which might be very expensive.
The assets in the other world cannot be converted into cash, so the goods from several worlds can only be circulated.
After leaving the carpenter's shop, she bought a lot of ingredients on the street and turned to the snack bar. Lu
Yao was busy with the ultimate task of the nail salon some time ago, and the night food at the snack bar has been postponed.
She went to the market yesterday to talk to the suppliers in detail and place additional orders. Now the night food is really ready to open.
Chi was moving ingredients into the store when he saw her and greeted her happily, "Owner."
Xiaoqie's deputy store manager experience card expired two days ago, and it was Chi's turn.
The delivery guy was a little surprised to see Lu Yao.
He had always doubted whether this store really had customers, but the order volume was stable, and different employees came out to collect the goods every once in a while.
But every time he looked into the store tentatively, he always felt uneasy and his back went cold.
However, this store has a lot of orders and settles accounts quickly, so if he makes one more trip every day, he can earn more money, and nothing has ever happened.
The delivery guy was just curious in his heart, but didn't ask much. Lu Yao
stopped at the door and waited for the delivery guy to unload the goods, while Chi stacked two boxes and moved them into the store.
As soon as the delivery man left, Chi Shan lifted three or five boxes of food weighing dozens of kilograms and walked into the store with extreme ease.
The employees of the snack bar were very excited when they knew that Yeshi was about to open.
Lu Yao also unloaded the ingredients bought from Alexandria to the kitchen on the first floor, and the employees were busy sorting them out.
She found Qi Chen who was wiping cups and preparing for business on the second floor, and handed him a list.
Qi Chen is now a clerk here, and his dream of opening a cafe has been fully realized.
He studies desserts and drinks every day and lives a very peaceful life.
He picked up the list and took a look, a little confused, "What is this?"
Lu Yao leaned against the bar and said with interest, "I opened a new store. These are the products I am going to try to sell. You can make some for me and bring them over later."
Qi Chen's eyes widened, thinking that he had completely underestimated Lu Yao.
It has only been a few months, and he opened another store. Are
all the graduates nowadays so awesome?
"The new store is a milk tea shop?"
Lu Yao shook his head.
"What is that?"
Lu Yao: "Blind box shop."
Qi Chen: "Blind box...blind box to draw food, is this shop really okay?"
Lu Yao propped his chin with his hand and smiled: "Everything can be a blind box, don't underestimate human curiosity and gambling mentality. In the future, it will definitely not just be food. This is a first-come-first-served product, so let's try it first." The
raw materials are all in the kitchen, and what Lu Yao wants is not difficult. Only ten copies of each are needed.
Call another clerk up, and these things will be made soon.
Lu Yao sat next to him and pinched the packaging box. The worlds between the star gates are interconnected in energy, and the packaging boxes pinched by illusion can be used in all alien worlds with star gates.
It disappears automatically after use, and no garbage is left.
Every time Lu Yao takes a lunch box from the snack bar to the nail salon, he uses this kind of lunch box.
However, illusion can only be used in the dreamland, not in other worlds.
Xiao Qie was called up to help, and when she saw Lu Yao pinching the packaging boxes, she sat down.
Qi Chen made the black tea, turned around and saw, "I asked you to come up to help me, not her."
Xiao Qie retorted: "You can make these things in minutes, why are you so proud? The owner is very busy every day, sit down and have a rest, I will pinch these boxes."
Qi Chen: "..."
Double-labeled Qie.
The first batch of products in the blind box store are hot drinks. Lu Yao prepared four different drinks, which were directly put into the box and sealed.
As long as they are not opened, they will not get cold or deteriorate.
Qi Chen finished the last one, looked up and asked: "Which one of these four are you going to use as a hide?"
Lu Yao was stunned for a moment, she really forgot about this matter.
Hidden items are an incomparable temptation for players who like to draw blind boxes.
Because they are rare, they are special.
However, these four items are all made in ten copies, with the same quantity, so it is not appropriate to make any of them hidden items.
Lu Yao thought for a moment and said, "Help me make another one. This one is a hidden one. I only need one."
Qi Chen thought that this might be too casual, but he couldn't persuade her and made one honestly.
Forty-one drinks were wrapped in the same packaging, and even Lu Yao couldn't tell what was inside.
She threw another list to Qi Chen. This time it was a full set of blind box hot drinks, with a total of ten types, eight regular types, one small hidden, and one large hidden.
"Twenty of each regular type, four small hidden, and two large hidden. I'll come to pick it up in the afternoon."
Lu Yao left this sentence, holding forty-one boxes of hot drinks and returned to the blind box store. She chose a blind box machine near the door to load the goods. The
blind box machine is a special machine that Lu Yao spent her popularity points on and the system made according to her requirements.
The capacity of one machine is 200 pieces. As long as the goods are packaged in illusion, no matter how big or heavy they are, they can be directly loaded.
There is a coin slot next to the blind box machine. Customers need to exchange tokens with circulating items in this world first, and then go to the blind box machine to insert coins to experience the box drawing.
In the Fairy Tale Square, a team of three people hid in the corner of the street, staring at the bright blind box shop in the distance.
Fourteen-year-old Wei Dong looked at the shop sign that looked like a glowing object and said in amazement, "It's so bright, did they burn a bunch of crystal cores?"
Tang Ling, who was one year older than Wei Dong, lay down behind him and asked curiously, "Luyao's blind box shop, what is a blind box? I've never heard of it."
The team leader Yu Li, who was in his thirties, stared at the lights on the shop sign and the street lights on both sides for a while, with a complex emotion flashing across his face, "This store It's not crystal cores, it seems to be electricity."
Wei Dong turned to look at him: "Electricity, doesn't it also use crystal cores?"
Yu Li shook his head: "This is not electricity generated by crystal cores. Twenty years ago, there were no crystal cores in the world, the day and night were distinct, and there were shops like that everywhere at night."
Wei Dong is a new generation born after the Day of Impermanence. He has never seen the scene that Yu Li described, and he can't imagine it. There is only confusion in his eyes.
Tang Ling suddenly whispered: "Someone is coming out."
The thin and tall girl walked out of the store and put a sign at the door.
The words on the sign are also customized incandescent light tubes, shining, and the content is clear: New product taste, hot drink blind box, 15 yuan a draw.
Hot drink?
Wei Dong couldn't help swallowing his saliva when he saw these two words, and turned to look at Yu Li, "Captain, that store has hot drinks."
Tang Ling licked his lips, "Hot drinks, is it hot water with sugar?"
If it's true, it's too luxurious.
Tang Ling recalled the warm sugar water he had drunk once, and the tip of his tongue seemed to still feel a little sweet, and he couldn't help but start to secrete saliva.
Yu Li's eyes were fixed on the blind box store, and he was very hesitant in his heart.
This store that suddenly appeared was too much like a trap, and there was a trance that made him dream back to twenty years ago.
But there was nothing on them that was easy to be calculated. If they
couldn't find anything to eat on this trip, they would all starve to death before the end of the eternal night.
Yu Li's face was serious, and he said decisively: "You wait here, I'll go and take a look. If there is no danger, I'll call you back."
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