When Xu Ru and her group arrived at the blind box store, the coldness on their bodies faded away, and their frozen hands and feet warmed up.
Before entering the store, they thought they were mentally prepared. On the way through the snow and wind, they kept imagining what the store would look like to encourage themselves.
When they actually entered the store, they still felt that their imagination was too poor.
The store was bright and clean, and the shelves were full of goods, giving people the illusion of dreaming back to 20 years ago.
Seeing them standing at the door, looking a little flustered and confused, Luo Hoi-an took the initiative to walk over: "Hello, is this your first time in a blind box store?"
Xu Ru nodded, her voice hoarse: "Well, we came from the neighboring area and heard that we can redeem food here."
Luo Hoi-an guided them to line up to redeem blind box coins, while explaining: "The five blind box machines here can all be redeemed for food, including sweet hot drinks, fragrant instant noodles, crispy and sweet fruits, and there are also staple food blind boxes, as well as new blind boxes of ingredients that have just been launched today. In addition, the crystal core blind box is also very practical, and customers can choose according to their needs."
The blind box of ingredients has just been launched today, and the whole series has 36 styles.
Sixty blind box coins are drawn, and the whole box has not been sold yet, so the box cannot be carried.
Xu Ru and her husband exchanged their blind box coins and saw a long line in front of the blind box machine for ingredients. They decided to line up first to draw the blind box for staple foods.
The blind box machine for staple foods is on the left side of the blind box machine for ingredients. When someone draws one, they immediately go to the side to open the box.
"This seems to be... a piece of pork? I got meat!!!" A person shouted while holding up the blind box of ingredients that had just been opened.
After animals and plants gradually mutated, there was very little edible fresh meat.
Only in some special periods can the meat of mutated animals be eaten. It
's just edible, but the taste is not good.
There are too many types in the new series, and the style pictures are made into a long instruction manual and stuffed in the box.
After opening the box, this person didn't have time to look at the style before he found that he had drawn a large piece of fresh pork.
On the table next to him, someone opened a bag of salt.
The onlookers looked at it with envy, "Is it really salt? The salt is so fine and white, the blind box store is amazing!"
"I won a bag of white sugar. Do you want to exchange half of the salt?" someone asked.
"I'll exchange with you. Half a bag of salt and half a bag of sugar, and then draw a staple food blind box. It can last for four or five days when eaten with condiments." said the tall and thin man.
"I won a box of fresh eggs!"
"I have a bunch of fresh lettuce, I want to exchange two eggs with you."
"Come on, fresh vegetables can be exchanged!"
"Hey, I think I won bibimbap? There is really everything in the blind box of ingredients. I wonder when the owner will sell the whole box. I want to buy a box!"
"There are a total of 36 styles. This box is more expensive than buying the winter limited series!"
"But it can be eaten for a long time. It won't go bad if it is not opened for several months. There are meat, vegetables and seasonings. I change my taste every day. I feel happy just thinking about it!"
Xu Ru was jealous. After winning the staple food blind box, she immediately moved to the back of the ingredient blind box to queue up.
The blind box store has a lot of choices, and the blind box machine also automatically limits purchases. Basically, you can redeem it by queuing.
She and her husband each drew five blind boxes of food, and saw the blind box of medicines, and also drew two.
There were still a few blind box coins left, so we pooled together to draw a crystal core blind box.
Zhu Hong's family, who lived two households away, originally thought it was too dangerous to travel far during the cold wave. In addition, the search team couldn't find supplies, and it was even more impossible for them to find food.
Xu Ru insisted that there was safety in numbers, and after much persuasion, the couple finally made up their minds to go out together.
At this time, Zhu Hong and his wife each held five food blind boxes, two medicine blind boxes, and two crystal core blind boxes, and their eyes were almost smiling.
Zhu Hong still found it incredible: "Not only food, but also medicine, just like a dream. Fortunately, I decided to go out with you this morning, otherwise I would regret it."
Ruan Xiangying, who was traveling with me, said: "Everything is good, but it's too far to come here. It would be great if this store was opened in our area."
When drawing boxes, a clerk introduced the role of the protection contract. They were worried that they would be robbed on the way back, so they paid extra to activate the contract for the food blind box and medicine blind box.
The group carefully packed the blind boxes and hurried to the Guangming Base.
Halfway through the journey, it started snowing again. Xu Ru and her group carried rattan bags containing blind boxes, lined up, supported each other, and walked slowly and steadily.
"There are people ahead," Xu Ru's husband was walking in the front. When he saw a group of people ahead, he was nervous and asked everyone to stop. After observing for a while, he relaxed again. "It seems to be a search team!"
Xu Ru: "The search team came back so soon?"
Ruan Xiangying: "They walked very slowly and didn't seem to bring any supplies. Didn't they find anything?"
"They stopped. What should we do? Should we go over?" Xu Ru's husband asked.
Search teams from the same base usually have no problem meeting each other.
But today they brought a lot of blind boxes of food, so they were still on guard.
Xu Ru's mind was clearer than her husband. She had been out with the search team last time and pushed him forward. "Let's go and take a look. If you don't find any supplies, just tell them about the blind box store."
People from the neighboring bases were exchanging things at the blind box store, so people from their base could go too.
Besides, the important blind boxes on her body have activated the protection contracts, so there is no need to worry too much about being snatched away by people with bad intentions.
Search team member Tong Yu swept away the snow and spread a mat made of dry straw on the ground. Xu Sirui and another team member helped Lu Hui sit down.
Fang Yifei stood aside, looking at the blood on Lu Hui's arm soaking through her thin cotton coat, her face anxious: "We are at least five kilometers away from the base, and the snow is too thick. We must first find a way to stop the captain's bleeding. If it bleeds all the way, it will be too late when we return to the base."
Lu Hui leaned on Xu Sirui, her face as pale as the snow on the ground, and she said breathlessly: "The wound is too deep, and I have a skin disease, so the bleeding can't be stopped. Going back to the base is just waiting to die, so don't worry about me."
There were a total of eight people in the search team, and they were silent.
Lu Hui sat on the ground, bleeding, wetting her clothes bit by bit.
Blood dripped down, staining the snow on the ground red, which was particularly glaring.
"Excuse me, what happened?" Xu Ru pushed her husband away and walked towards the search team with one foot deep and one foot shallow. "It's me, Xu Ru."
Tong Yu remembered her. She left the base with them yesterday and wanted to go to the neighboring base to find someone she knew. "Why are you here? Did you find someone you know?"
Xu Ru nodded slightly, and wanted to talk about what happened yesterday when she arrived at the Hope Base. Suddenly, she noticed that Lu Hui was not in good condition, and her face changed. "Captain Lu was injured?"
Tong Yu pursed her lips and explained in a low voice: "When searching for supplies, we encountered mutant animals that were not in hibernation. The captain was scratched and injured, and the bleeding could not be stopped."
Lu Hui is not very old, in her twenties, and has no special powers, but she has always insisted on leading the team to search for supplies.
Yesterday, Xu Ru wanted to go out with the search team, but the other team members didn't want to take her.
An ordinary woman without special powers, with thick snow and strong wind outside, it would slow down the team and take her safety into consideration, which was very troublesome.
In the end, Lu Hui saw that she was about to collapse in anxiety, so he agreed to take her and sent her all the way to the gate of the Hope Base.
Xu Ru looked at the pale Lu Hui, and remembered that she was still smiling and comforting herself yesterday not to worry. She took off the rattan bag from her back, dug out the medicine blind box, and muttered: "There are hemostatic drugs and bandages in the medicine blind box. Please, let me get it!"
She opened the first medicine blind box and took out a box of antipyretic medicine.
Xu Ru closed her eyes, secretly made a wish, tore open the second blind box, her eyes lit up, and walked quickly towards Lu Hui: "I got the hemostatic drug!"
The members of the search team didn't know what happened, but they were all excited when they heard that there was hemostatic drug.
Tong Yu gently used a knife to cut open the thin cotton coat on Lu Hui's arm, carefully tore it open, revealing a terrible wound about one palm long and two fingers wide.
Xu Ru followed the instructions and carefully sprinkled the hemostatic powder on the wound.
The powder is light yellow, smells bitter, and looks ordinary.
After applying it to the wound, the wound that was bleeding continuously seemed to be sealed, and the bleeding stopped after a few seconds.
At this time, Zhu Hong handed over two opened blind boxes, "Sister Ruan and I also opened the blind boxes of medicines, and took out a roll of bandages and disinfectant alcohol. Hurry up and disinfect and bandage her."
A few minutes later, Lu Hui's bleeding stopped, the wound was bandaged, and her breathing became stable.
The search team and Xu Ru and his group all breathed a sigh of relief.
On the way back to the base, Xu Sirui's eyes slid across the rattan bags of several people and asked, "Did you find supplies in the neighboring area?"
Xu Ru and his group still lined up in a row, supporting each other as they walked.
Zhu Hong continued, "It's not supplies. There is a blind box store in the neighboring area. You can use crystal cores to buy food, medicine and some cold-proof props."
The search team was a little bit unbelievable. They walked so far and didn't find any supplies, but there was a store in the neighboring area where they could exchange food and medicine at any time.
But the medicine Xu Ru took out was genuine and there was no doubt about it.
The search team sent Lu Hui back to the base, reorganized the team, and set out for the blind box store in the neighboring area.
Outside the blind box store, the snow on the square was cleared, and Jiang Han led a group of new generations of the base to line up to experience riding snowmobiles.
Lu Yao and Chi Jin stood in a corner of the square and watched them practice.
"Why can't you learn it?" Lu Yao looked at Chi Jin helplessly.
The young man came to practice on time every day, but he still couldn't learn it after several days. On the contrary, the children who came to watch the fun had all learned it.
Chi Jin glanced at her, still looking lazy: "I learn things slowly, I can't compare with the young people."
"You look only in your twenties, how can you be considered old? I feel that you don't want to learn it at all, what's the reason?" Lu Yao asked.
Chi Jin put his hands in his pockets, leaned back against the street lamp pole, and said in a low and clear voice: "Your feeling is wrong. I have been trying hard to learn, but I just can't learn it."
He was like a pale and weak flower, lazily stretching his branches and leaves, pretending to be non-aggressive.
Lu Yao looked into the distance, narrowed his eyes slightly, and spoke calmly, "Jiang Han and the others have learned it. Let them teach you in the future. The car can also be driven back to the base. It's not a good idea to keep it here. I'll go to work first. It's cold outside. I'll go back early."
Chi Jin looked at her back, his thin lips curved upwards, still so sensitive.
If you get a little closer, you will be pushed away.
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