Although this item is called the Happy Blind Box Machine, it is not a physical machine that can be taken out. It is a virtual machine suspended beside Ding Yun's soul and can be used directly without taking it out.
Since there was nothing else to do for the time being, Ding Yun immediately started to explore it.
Not long after, Ding Yun smoothly figured out the specific usage method of the Happy Blind Box Machine.
It is truly a blind box machine in the truest sense of the word.
The machine only sells blind boxes.
What you can get from a blind box depends on luck.
But fortunately, this Happy Blind Box Machine is not so outrageous as to only sell one type of blind box, where anything valuable or worthless could be pulled out.
The blind boxes it sells are categorized.
The broad categories are Daily Use and Entertainment.
Daily Use is further divided into four categories: Clothing, Food, Housing, and Transportation. These four categories have more detailed divisions.
For example, Clothing not only refers to clothes, but anything related to dressing up falls under this broad category, such as clothing, shoes, accessories, daily chemicals, skincare products, and cosmetics.
Food, besides daily food, also includes various edible items like medicines.
Housing and Transportation are similar. The Housing category mainly includes furniture and home appliances, with little relation to houses themselves, while Transportation naturally refers to various modes of transport.
The Entertainment category is even simpler.
It only has two major categories: Ordinary Entertainment and Spiritual Entertainment. Ordinary Entertainment only includes children's toys and adult toys, while Spiritual Entertainment has slightly more categories: Text and Images, Pictures, and Spiritual, with no further specifics.
The project classification of the Happy Blind Box Machine is currently only divided to this extent. If you want clothes, you can only buy clothing blind boxes, and what you get is completely random.
It's uncertain whether you'll get menswear, womenswear, or traditional costume.
In addition, these blind boxes also have grades: Novice, Intermediate, Advanced, and Ultimate. The items obtained from different blind boxes will naturally vary, with guaranteed minimums and maximums.
For example, blind boxes for transportation.
Novice blind boxes can only yield human-powered or animal-powered transportation, such as sedan chairs, bicycles, tricycles, handcarts, or horse-drawn carriages.
Intermediate blind boxes offer electric bikes, electric tricycles, ordinary cars, and ordinary trucks.
With Advanced blind boxes, you can get sports cars, or even airplanes and high-speed trains.
Ultimate blind boxes go without saying; the lowest tier would be at least a rocket or a space shuttle.
These are all pieces of information Ding Yun deduced by examining the descriptions of various blind boxes and her own analysis.
However, since Ding Yun has neither bought nor opened any blind boxes, she doesn't know the specific probabilities, so it's hard to say if this Happy Blind Box Machine is a scam for now.
Moreover, the price of these blind boxes is not cheap.
The cheapest Novice food blind box costs five yuan each. Before the original body lost her job, her monthly salary was only forty to fifty yuan. If the worst food blind box contains more than ten to twenty jin of rice, it would be acceptable, at least not too much of a loss. But if it's just a bowl of rice or a steamed bun, wouldn't that be a complete loss?
Understanding this, and because she was penniless at the moment, she naturally couldn't afford to buy blind boxes to open.
She could only immediately open her eyes and re-enter the nearby police station, find the staff member who handled the original body's report earlier, and supplement the suspicious individuals she encountered from the original body's memory, from the time she left the steel plant until she reached the bank.
Hoping it could be of some help.
Hoping they could find the thief.
After all, what the original body lost was the buyout money for six years of work, totaling sixteen thousand yuan. In the past six years, she had saved only about a thousand yuan by being frugal. Coupled with her husband's death compensation, it only amounted to the same amount as what was stolen from her this time.
One can imagine how much money this was.
How important this money was to the original body.
To put it bluntly, when the original body received this money, she even thought that if she couldn't find a job in the future, she would have to rely on this money to live out the rest of her life.
As for why the original body couldn't remember who she met on the way and who was suspicious, it's naturally because memory is memory.
Whether or not one remembers is another matter.
The human brain has short-term memory of its surroundings, including people it has come into contact with recently, but without hyperthymesia, this memory capacity is relatively short, and one might not even remember without paying attention.
But here, not remembering means the thinking ability didn't retain it; it doesn't mean the brain itself didn't record it.
The original body couldn't remember because her thinking ability couldn't keep up, and she didn't have the ability to access her brain's memory regions. But Ding Yun had this ability, and since the incident had just happened, the brain hadn't completely forgotten and erased this short-term memory, so Ding Yun could access it.
If it had been three to five days, she wouldn't have been able to access it either.
But that was all.
Ding Yun could only find the information and people the original body saw from the memory. As for what the original body didn't see, she was truly powerless. After all, the human brain doesn't yet have a 360-degree surveillance capability.
If there's no memory, she can't create something out of nothing.
And whether the people the original body encountered from her memory included the thief is also uncertain.
After all, the thief might not have shown their face.
Perhaps they succeeded without the original body seeing their face.
However, this was all the information that could be obtained at the moment. Ding Yun could do nothing more.
So, after supplementing the relevant information, she could only return home helplessly.
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On the way home, and for a while after arriving home, Ding Yun did not deliberately control her emotions. She even deliberately displayed emotions of sadness and anger.
At the same time, as soon as she met acquaintances and they asked, she immediately told the truth, saying that her money had been stolen and she didn't know what to do in the future.
She even said that life was unlivable.
The main purpose of her doing this was not to gain sympathy, but to let others know that her family was truly out of money, so that no one would covet anything else.
However, the reactions of her acquaintances were quite strange. They neither comforted nor mocked her, but simply rolled their eyes and left, leaving Ding Yun somewhat bewildered.
She didn't know what their reactions meant.
She only dispelled this doubt much later, after returning home, when she overheard some gossip from the neighbors.
In the gossip of those aunts and elder sisters, it was mentioned that four or five people from their factory who had received their work-year subsidies had reported that their money had been stolen. Two of them had even loudly announced this when someone had just asked to borrow money from them.
Whether it was true or not was hard to say, but everyone felt that they were saying their money was stolen because they didn't want to lend money to others.
Therefore, what Ding Yun had just said to her acquaintances on the road was naturally interpreted as an excuse to not lend money. That acquaintance probably thought, "You say this before I even mention borrowing money, don't you clearly think I'm desperate and will borrow money from you sooner or later?"
It was good that they just rolled their eyes.
If someone had a worse temper, they might have even started an argument.
Ding Yun had to admit that she was speechless when she heard this gossip. She couldn't even figure out how many of those who claimed their money was stolen were genuinely robbed and how many were faking it. It was truly a display of cleverness.