Lu Yao got up and washed up, thinking about going to the blind box store to check the situation and collect the crystal core.
The 400 items that the blind box store replenished last night were indeed sold out, leaving only two empty blind box machines.
There were two new machines in the warehouse as mission rewards, and Lu Yao was going to set up the machines first.
Li Shuang and Xia Min came in from outside and saw Lu Yao standing next to the blind box machine and gesturing, which was a bit strange.
They just saw off the captain and teammates at the door. It was so bright outside, and there was no reason not to see someone coming in. How did this person get in?
Lu Yao heard the sound and looked over. She thought they were new customers and explained, "Sorry, the store is sold out. We have to wait until the afternoon to restock."
Li Shuangxian responded, "Are you the owner of this store? Can we restock in the afternoon?" Lu
Yao was still shocked at this time. Nearly 400 blind boxes were sold out overnight.
According to the intensive system prompts in the morning, it seems that a big boss who is addicted to drawing boxes directly emptied the machine.
She was naturally happy that the goods were selling well, but this level of consumption was still painful.
The blind box machine has also expanded. When she puts up four machines, she will have to prepare a thousand items at a time.
"Well, I will probably restock the hot drink blind boxes and instant noodle blind boxes in the afternoon." Lu Yao thought about something in his mind and did not forget to answer.
Li Shuang looked at Xia Min and said happily: "Great! The captain is right, they will really restock!"
Xia Min nodded: "We will wait here and empty the machine when the restocking arrives." Lu
Yao: "..."
So you are the "culprit". After drawing two machines, the machine is still not fresh enough. Are you so excited?
Or is it that the blind box store is waiting for restocking?
Lu Yao can understand this idea. Drawing blind boxes is the same as drawing cards. Even if you know that there are only those characters in the card pool, even if you have a complete illustration, you still look forward to every black screen.
There are customers in the store, so Lu Yao cannot put the machine or take the crystal core for the time being.
She took out two pieces of dark chocolate from her pocket, walked up to the two children, and prepared to get some information first: "My name is Lu Yao, and I'm the owner of this blind box store. I'll treat you to chocolate."
Li Shuang and Xia Min stared at the chocolate in Lu Yao's hand, but did not reach out to take it.
"Don't you want to eat it? Although it's a bit bitter, it tastes very smooth." Lu Yao tore open the package, stuffed a whole piece into his mouth, took out another piece from his pocket, put it into two pieces and passed it over.
Li Shuang did not reach out, but Xia Min could not help but took a piece.
She took it in her hand and looked at it curiously, and asked, "What is chocolate?"
Lu Yao did not show any surprise, and patiently explained, "There are many kinds of chocolate. The dark chocolate I like is usually processed from cocoa butter and made into a snack. Cocoa butter comes from cocoa beans, which are the fruit of a plant. They are shaped like a shuttle and are about this size."
She gestured to mark a range with her hand and continued, "By the way, there is a hot cocoa in the hot drink blind box. The taste of chocolate is very similar to hot cocoa. Their main ingredients are cocoa butter."
The hot drink that Li Shuang took out was hot cocoa. When she heard Lu Yao's description, she seemed to be able to recall the sweet taste of hot cocoa immediately. Her expression finally relaxed, and she reached out to take the chocolate from Lu Yao's palm.
However, the two of them just held it in their hands and did not eat it. Lu
Yao clapped his hands and said lightly: "It's always dark outside, and I don't know when it will get light."
Xia Min continued: "This time the Eternal Night is much longer than before. The captain said two days ago that it might end soon."
"That's good." Lu Yao nodded, looking happy, "I originally planned to put a batch of blind boxes of lighting products on the market, but the Eternal Night is about to end, so maybe I don't need it anymore?"
Li Shuang immediately said: "Shopkeeper, can you put up any goods?"
Lu Yao: "It's not that easy. Is there anything you want?"
After all, they are children. Just a little bait will bite the hook directly.
The two of them talked a lot of random thoughts, and they couldn't help revealing some useful information during the conversation.
For example, after the Eternal Night ends, there will be a transition period of about ten days.
During this time, mutant animals and plants awaken and become rampant.
People at the base will organize teams to go out hunting and obtain crystal cores.
Some crystal cores are used to exchange for food, and the rest are stored to prepare for the next stage of the cold wave.
Crystal cores have many uses, and can be used as fuel, lighting, power generation, and to enhance superpowers.
Among them, using them as fuel is the least efficient way to use them, and it is also the most common use.
Ordinary people do not have superpowers to stimulate the energy in the crystal cores, so they can only use them for burning or lighting.
Unpredictable days may experience eternal nights, daybreaks, cold waves, droughts, floods, acid rain, sandstorms, earthquakes, insect disasters, plagues...all kinds of unimaginable disasters cycle back and forth, with almost no fixed rules and no end.
But people living in the world of impermanence have observed the frequency and sequence of various disasters for many years, and inferred that after the end of this eternal night, the next one is likely to be a cold wave.
Li Shuang and Xia Min usually follow adults on missions, thinking about obtaining supplies and gathering intelligence. They rarely have the opportunity to confide in others, and they are particularly talkative.
Lu Yao listened quietly, occasionally raised one or two small questions, and when he understood more or less, he stood up and patted the two children: "I'm going to prepare the goods, and the store will be closed for a while. It's not safe outside, you go home first."
Li Shuang and Xia Min stood outside the blind box store, and they realized that they seemed to have been tricked.
But the owner's methods were too gentle, and even if they vaguely noticed it, they couldn't feel disgusted.
And she said she was going to restock, which was good news for them.
The two had no intention of leaving, so they simply sat side by side at the door, waiting for Xi Tingran to bring people back.
The shop signs and street lights outside the door were shining, as bright as daylight, and they were not very scared.
In the store, Lu Yao asked the system to close the store door, took out two new blind box machines from the warehouse, placed them next to the instant noodle blind box machine, and took out the crystal cores compressed into blind box coins from the hot drink blind box machine and the instant noodle blind box machine.
There were two large boxes full of crystal cores in three colors: blue, green and red.
These are the profits of the blind box store, and also the raw materials for her to develop new blind boxes.
The blind box store cannot always avoid customers when stocking goods and withdrawing crystal core coins. Lu Yao wants to add a room behind the blind box machine so that she can stock goods and withdraw coins at any time.
The inspiration for this design came from a news story she read one year. A maintenance worker was trapped in an ATM. Unfortunately, he did not bring any communication tools, so he had to hand notes to customers who came to withdraw money for help...
Later, there was a rumor that the automatic machines that people encounter in their lives actually have real people hidden in them (1).
Lu Yao did not want to investigate the truth of the news, but she did know that she could create a space to hide people in her blind box machine.
She drew a conceptual diagram and handed it to the system, which immediately upgraded it.
This upgrade was hidden on the back of the blind box machine, and the maintenance time was twelve hours.
The system indicated that it could avoid customers to upgrade, and the store would open normally, but the owner would need to pay an additional 20,000 popularity points.
Lu Yao paid the popularity points to upgrade the store and left with the crystal core.
She first went back to the nail salon, brought the crystal core back to the laboratory, and spent another 100,000 popularity points to upgrade the second floor of the nail salon.
System: [Why do you want to upgrade suddenly? ]
There were so many opportunities in the past, but the owner didn't think about it.
Lu Yao: "It will be useful in the future."
Regardless of the system, Lu Yao took a bag of gold coins and prepared to go out.
Harold and Si Jin were still resting. Tina woke up earlier. Seeing that Lu Yao was going out, she accompanied her to Onoton City.
The morning market in the big city is much busier than the Emerald Town, with fresh ingredients and more varieties.
Lu Yao bought a variety of monster meat, vegetables and fruits and brought them back to the snack bar.
He called the delivery man to deliver fifty boxes of instant noodles to the snack bar, and then asked Qi Chen to make two hundred and fifty blind boxes of hot drinks, thirty of each regular flavor, six of small hidden flavors, and four of large hidden flavors.
After preparing for the blind box restocking, Lu Yao spent another 100,000 popularity points to upgrade the fourth floor of the snack bar, and at the same time posted a job notice to recruit two new employees.
In order not to affect the normal operation of the snack bar and nail salon, Lu Yao was anxious to get a new venue, and paid an extra 40,000 popularity points to let the system start maintenance immediately.
System: […Isn’t it a bit too much? I can’t bear to install the blacklist system even though I asked you to.]
The blacklist system’s trial period is over, and it will definitely not be soft-hearted, hum. Lu
Yao waved his hands: "Don't worry, I have arranged everything. It's time to make blind box packaging, 750 illusion packaging, I don't know when it will be completed. I hope to find new employees as soon as possible."
The system was a little confused. The owner was busy with many things early in the morning, and they were all big moves. I don't know what she suddenly wanted to do.
However, since Lu Yao opened the store, every time it encountered a situation that it felt was particularly serious, nothing serious happened in the end.
The system still trusts the owner very much, and is happily waiting to receive 500,000 popularity points in two days.
Yaoguang City, Xicheng Five-Star Hotel, 18th Floor.
Qi Jue knocked on the door of room 1866.
Xiao Zhou opened the door, "Officer Qi?"
Qi Jue nodded: "Yes."
Xiao Zhou stepped back and smiled, "Come in."
Qi Jue was urgently called back yesterday while on a mission, and subsequently received a special assistance notice.
As a player who has entered the amusement park game and successfully survived, he will assist the 955 department in investigating the abnormal energy point incidents that have occurred many times in the city of Lucky Light.
Qi Jue has never reported that he entered the amusement park game, because no one would believe it except the game players.
Before yesterday, he didn't know the existence of the 955 department. When he saw the special assistance notice, he thought he had worked too much overtime and had problems with his mental state. It was not
until this moment, when he was really sitting in the hotel room, facing Xiao Zhou and Tang Qi who claimed to be employees of the 955 special department, that he felt some reality.
As a monitor, Tang Qi has long been interested in the players of the amusement park game and is full of curiosity about Qi Jue: "What is the game like? Is it really as scary as the forum says? I heard that you successfully passed the most difficult test in the Black Ring World. How do you feel?"
Qi Jue was a little at a loss. Tang Qi, who claimed to be a monitor, had too many questions.
At this time, Lin Yan walked out of the room next door. When she saw Qi Jue, a faint smile appeared on her face: "Junior brother, long time no see."
Qi Jue stood up suddenly, "Senior sister, why are you here?"
Lin Yan is a senior sister who graduated from the same police academy as Qi Jue, and the two later worked together.
However, about two years ago, Lin Yan quietly resigned from her job as a special police officer.
Qi Jue didn't know the reason and didn't contact her again. He thought she had an accident.
Lin Yan briefly talked about the recent situation. In Qi Jue's surprised look, she continued: "I have information about your situation, so there is no need to say more. Your main task this time is to assist us and contact the player called the game administrator. About late last night, she posted a post to sell the black ring. I hope you can contact her as a buyer of the black ring."
Qi Jue was slightly stunned: "Senior sister, is there any problem with her?"
Lin Yan noticed something and her pupils shrank slightly: "Junior brother, do you think she has no problem? Or do you actually have specific information about her?"
Xiao Zhou and Tang Qi looked at Qi Jue curiously.
It's not that they didn't check the information of the game administrator, after all, there are tax records.
The weird thing is that no matter how they check, they always get disconnected at the critical point.
At this point in the investigation, they only know the gender of the administrator, and they can't even find out his full name.
Qi Jue grabbed his knees with his hands and half-closed his eyes, "No, just follow your plan."
The last time Zhuang Liang was traded out, he told Qi Jue about the situation in the game at that time. All the boss-level NPCs in the Black Ring World listened to Lu Yao's orders.
She might not be a game administrator at all, but some kind of existence above the game.
Qi Jue knows Lin Yan, even if he warns her, Lin Yan will not listen.
And his identity has no choice but to cooperate.
In the world of impermanence, the team that attacked Tingran returned to the base with blind box supplies.
The logistics department immediately notified the residents to line up in the square to collect the supplies.
The residents of the base were surprised and happy.
"Didn't they say that the captain didn't bring back any supplies this time? Why are they notifying us to collect them now?"
"Every two households can collect one portion of food. It seems that not many supplies were found this time."
"We should be thankful if we have something to eat. Why do we need a bicycle? During the most unbearable cold wave of that year, four families shared a dry and hard mixed-grain cake, but no one complained like this!" "
Oh, that's not what I meant. I just said it casually!"
While people were still arguing, the people who received the supplies in front suddenly jumped and shouted, "Instant noodles! Not expired instant noodles!!! And my favorite pork chop noodles, great!"
Then someone else shouted, "There is actually sugar water, it's Tremella soup! It smells so sweet and fragrant!!!"
The people in the queue behind were puzzled: Are they hallucinating because of hunger?
In the twentieth year of the Day of Impermanence, we can't even find damp instant noodles, so where can we find non-expired instant noodles?
Sugar water is even more impossible. Sugar, salt and crystal cores are all hard currency.
Now the entire Hope Base can't even get two spoons of sugar, how can it possibly give out any sugar water?
And Tremella soup, even dreams are not so beautiful.
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