Chapter 17
The last single draw was Qiao Ning choosing a blind box from among many, while this ten-draw was a random draw from a roulette wheel. Logically, the probability of getting a high-quality reward is higher in a ten-draw...
Since the key point of the Wish Blind Box is the word "wish," there's no reason why you shouldn't get what you want after ten consecutive draws!
Qiao Ning opened the system notification interface to view the specific information about the items she had drawn:
Congratulations to player Qiao Ning for obtaining "Black Flame Bone Blade"*1
[Congratulations to player Qiao Ning for obtaining the "Spring Rain Nourishes All Things" skill book *1]
[Congratulations to player Qiao Ning for obtaining the "Effortless Mastery" talent*1]
Congratulations to player Qiao Ning for obtaining a "Car Upgrade Parts Blueprint Set"*20
Congratulations to player Qiao Ning for obtaining "Folding Gem"*1
Congratulations to player Qiao Ning for obtaining the "Moisturizing Set"*1000!
Congratulations to player Qiao Ning for winning a "Medicine Gift Pack" of 200 jin!
Congratulations to player Qiao Ning for obtaining 3000 "Humidifying Water Balls"!
Congratulations to player Qiao Ning for obtaining 100 "Glue"!
[Congratulations to player Qiao Ning for obtaining "Luxury Bathroom"*1]
Congratulations to player Qiao Ning for obtaining "Defense Ring"*1
When Qiao Ning saw this string of supplies, her eyes widened immediately, and only two words remained in her mind: "I'm rich!"
Let's talk about two pieces of equipment first, one for attack and one for defense.
The Black Flame Bone Blade has no attribute descriptions, only a sentence and a level display: Red Level (Upgradeable).
It is said to be a long sword made from a section of the Black Flame Lord's spine, possessing immense power and limitless potential.
It didn't specify how to upgrade it, how much attack power it has, or what its effects are.
The description of the defensive ring is very brief, also lacking any attribute information, consisting of only two sentences: No attributes, cannot be upgraded. When worn, it actively creates an invincible defensive shield, forming an invincible defensive space within one meter of the wearer. Immune to all forms of attack.
The shield lasts for 10 minutes and has a cooldown time of 72 hours.
The Black Flame Bone Blade doesn't show any special features yet, but this defensive ring is truly amazing! An invincible defensive shield! And it provides invincible defense for a full 10 minutes!
Although it can only be used once every three days, it is definitely the best equipment to save your life if used in a critical moment!
Without saying a word, Qiao Ning put on the defensive ring first, and temporarily put the Black Flame Bone Blade into her storage box.
Next, let's look at the other resources. The car upgrade blueprint set contains blueprints for all three parts. Upgrading a car a second time requires 5 sets, and upgrading a car a third time requires 50 sets.
The blueprint set she drew this time was enough for her to upgrade once, and she still had 15 sets left.
With less than 10 hours left until the end of this natural disaster cycle, the moisturizing set and humidifying water balloons will be useless in the next natural disaster, so Qiao Ning only kept enough for tonight's consumption and put the rest on the shelves to exchange for materials.
The 200-pound medicine gift package contained many kinds of medicines. Qiao Ning picked and chose some that she hadn't opened before, and kept a small amount of the remaining medicines, such as the special medicine for heatstroke, which is specifically for drought disasters. She put the rest on the shelves.
Two-thirds of the medicines for internal and external injuries were on the shelves, along with a variety of other medicines such as antipyretics, anti-inflammatory drugs, and antibacterial and detoxifying agents. The first two types were not popular at the moment, so she didn't stock many of them and kept most of them on the shelves.
Logically speaking, she's not sick every day, so there's really no need to stockpile these medicines; she'd be better off exchanging them for things she needs. But in this natural disaster, these medicines aren't very useful, except for the antibacterial and antidote agents, which are selling quite well.
Since the drop rate of antibacterial and detoxifying agents is low, Qiao Ning certainly wouldn't put them all on the market. She would keep some for her own use, some to exchange for materials with Li Yangxing, and only the rest would be put on the market for trading across the entire region.
100 glues... Qiao Ning was helpless looking at the quantity. She didn't expect that even opening the Wish Blind Box wouldn't break the curse of her low material drop rate.
She sighed and tossed the glue into the storage box.
The skill book "Spring Rain Nourishes All Things" and the talent "Effortless Lifting" that followed really surprised Qiao Ning.
Spring rain nourishes all things:
Level: Purple (can be upgraded by fusing with the same skill book)
1. Removes up to 3 negative status effects from yourself and grants immunity to negative effects for 3 minutes. Cooldown time is 1 hour per use.
2. Removes one negative status effect from designated players (up to 3 players) within a 3-meter radius and grants immunity to negative effects for 1 minute. Cooldown is 30 minutes per use.
Effortless Mastery (White Talent): Can be fused with talents of the same level or type.
Effect: Grants the player immense strength, enabling them to easily lift heavy objects.
This talent seems quite ordinary, after all, it's just the lowest level white talent.
The key point is that you can actually get a talent from the Wish Box! That's terrifying!
Qiao Ning initially saw some people mentioning talent in the chat channel. Most people were cautious and didn't reveal much information. However, there were also some players with relatively low-level talent who simply admitted defeat.
From their casual conversation, Qiao Ning roughly learned that each person only had one talent drawn. Even if there were exceptions, they were extremely rare.
Qiao Ning's chosen talent was Wish Box Collector. Lucky Star was triggered and bound to her for unknown reasons. Card Maker Expert was triggered passively by Lucky Star, which allowed her to draw an extra card.
Now, the Wish Blind Box directly gave her the talent.
What does this mean? It means that while others only have one talent, and gaining more is extremely difficult, Qiao Ning, if she's lucky enough, could have countless talents!
No wonder this wish box collector has a gold-level talent; it's truly extraordinary!
It seems that there is no strongest golden talent, only stronger!
Looking at the additional skills and talents on the attribute panel, Qiao Ning felt increasingly confident.
Two things remain—a folding gemstone and a luxurious bathroom.
Luxury bathrooms can be installed directly in cars via a system, but there are requirements for the car's class; at least a Class 3 car can be installed.
After upgrading her car, Qiao Ning had a chance to modify it and install a luxury bathroom.
Folding gems are great; they're like a space folder that can fold up a section of your car to save space.
For example, in the kitchen, after using the folding gemstone design, the entire kitchen space folds behind the kitchen door. Opening the door allows direct access to the kitchen, and closing it reveals a door on the wall, taking up minimal space—only wall area.
If she draws a few more folding gems in the future, she can fold up spaces like the bathroom, shower, and kitchen. From the outside, her car will just look like a car, but the interior space could be a house!
The idea was appealing, but Qiao Ning only hoped for it from afar. After all, whether she could draw a second Folding Gem was still unknown.
Today's 100 blind box coins were definitely worth it. Apart from the 100 glues, everything else that Qiao Ning got was a pleasant surprise.
After taking stock of the supplies, Qiao Ning put enough humidifier water balloons in the car, told the smart home assistant to wake her up at seven o'clock in the morning, and then lay down and fell into a deep sleep.
At three in the morning, Qiao Ning, who was asleep, suddenly felt the car shake.
She sat up groggily, opened her eyes, and turned her head to be met with the ugly and hideous head of a monster!
Qiao Ning was startled awake instantly, scrambling out of bed and taking out her Black Flame Bone Knife, pointing it at the drooling monster outside the car window.
The monster's bulging eyes moved with her movements, then it took a few steps back and suddenly rammed into her!
Thud—
The monster's charge caused the vehicle to shake violently. Qiao Ning steadied herself, her initial fear fading as her mind gradually calmed down.
She immediately checked the car's status through the system, and sure enough, the protective film's durability was only 20 points. Once the film was destroyed, only the metal body would remain, and a large amount of metal materials would probably be needed to maintain the car's durability and prevent monsters from breaking into it!
The protective film was no longer durable enough to withstand the monster's renewed attack, so Qiao Ning simply replaced the film with a new one through the system.
Knowing that the monster couldn't get in, Qiao Ning was no longer afraid.
She opened the system chat channel, and the number of online players was decreasing rapidly. Many people in the channel were crying for help.
[I was woken up by a monster in the middle of the night! What should I do? My car's durability is dropping like crazy! The system is telling me I need to fuse metal materials to increase its durability as soon as possible, but I've already used all my metal materials to buy moisturizing items and humidifiers! Help! I feel it's about to come in!]
What are you waiting for? Switch to metal materials now! You'll die immediately if you don't!
[I'm offering a hefty sum to upgrade my metal parts! I have everything: drinking water bottles, gasoline, humidifier bulbs—whatever you want! I'm begging you! Urgent!]
[This is ridiculous! Didn't we agree that only the inside of a car is safe at night?! Where's the safety in this?!]
[Stop yelling, the game just wants us to die. Anyway, I'm out of metal materials, and the protective film on my car is almost ruined. I'll just lie down and wait to die, hahaha.]
[Don't give up, everyone! I don't believe this monster will keep crashing indefinitely! The monster on my side hasn't moved for a long time, it's just been staring at me through the window. If we can just hold out until 8 AM, the natural disaster cycle will be over!]
Among the numerous negative and positive messages, Qiao Ning saw a message posted by someone:
[Original text: Monsters can sense our emotions. The more panicked, fearful, desperate, and resentful we are, the greater our emotional fluctuations, and the higher our attack frequency. Conversely, the calmer and more composed we are, the lower our attack frequency, and we may even gradually become unaware of our presence. Note: Do not fall asleep. When you sleep, you dream, and you cannot control the emotional fluctuations in your dreams. You also cannot fuse metal into the vehicle in time.]
After seeing the message, Qiao Ning tried to calm herself down, but it was easier said than done. Anyone who saw that monster's head outside, with its bulging eyes, would find it hard not to have any emotional fluctuations.
Qiao Ning simply closed her eyes and recited the classical Chinese text "Pipa Xing" that she had learned years ago, reciting it over and over again until she was completely free of fear and only felt drowsy.
Before falling asleep, Qiao Ning forced herself to put 10,000 metal materials on the market.
Metal materials are the most abundant materials in Qiao Ning's inventory, and they have a very high failure rate.
She's short on glue. Upgrading a car to level three requires 5000 units of glue, and who knows how much more she'll need to upgrade to level four.
Maintaining the car's durability only requires fusing a certain amount of four metals; no glue is needed. This is the perfect time to buy more glue. The materials she exchanged can save many more lives.
After Qiao Ning finished listing the car, she instructed the smart assistant to automatically consume the car film and materials to repair the car. Then she yawned, lay back on the bed, and fell asleep. To be honest, the car shook every now and then, and after getting used to it, it actually helped her sleep a little.
As for the occasional crashing sounds from the monster, Qiao Ning simply treated them as violent ASMR.
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