Ding Yun had originally intended to sleep, but when her mental energy detected her birth parents stealthily transforming into hamsters and whispering in hiding, she didn't rush to bed.
Instead, she eavesdropped.
And naturally, she heard everything.
However, while shocked, she couldn't really condemn them. After all, although Cang Hai and Cang Jin had intentionally caused the death of their biological child, they hadn't directly harmed the original host. This was despite objective factors such as the original host being difficult to kill easily and an adult bear-race beastman being more beneficial and helpful to them.
But the fact remained that they hadn't harmed her.
Therefore, she found it very difficult to comment on the matter.
Ding Yun could only resolve in her heart to bring back more food tomorrow, or to find a way to sell a batch of high-energy food to earn some money to put them at ease.
So they wouldn't have to worry about food and drink every day.
Afterward, Ding Yun stopped eavesdropping and went to sleep normally. She slept until the next morning when the sun was shining on her backside, then got up, washed, and bid farewell to a few familiar younger siblings and her foster parents. The Great Wind Novel Network.
She then used the excuse of having something to do and left home.
She took a vehicle to the nearest large trading market, found a high-energy plant purchasing station, and began to take out high-energy items from her portable gourmet planet, specifically edible high-energy items. For example, a piece of magma rock chocolate that could sustain one for three months without hunger, ice river emerald heart lotus seeds with the effect of healing most physical injuries, and glacial mud that beautified the skin and could make one ten years younger when applied externally…
Even though the proportion of high-energy items was relatively small, Ding Yun possessed an entire gourmet planet. No matter how small the proportion, the quantity of high-energy items contained within a whole planet was immense. Taking out just a little was easy.
Each high-energy item with special effects could fetch a high price after appraisal.
The only regret was that most could only sell for a high price, not an extremely high price, because there was no shortage of items with equivalent effects on the market. For instance, magma rock chocolate could sustain one for three months without hunger, but high-energy nutrient paste could also sustain one for a month.
Ice river emerald heart lotus seeds could heal injuries, but medical pods could also heal injuries, as could healing potions.
In fact, they were even faster.
The only downside was that the taste wasn't as good as the lotus seeds.
As for the glacial mud that made one look younger, there was no shortage of youth-preserving potions in the world. As long as one was willing to spend money, some people looked like young girls even when they died at over two hundred years old.
Therefore, Ding Yun's items only sold for 80% of the price of items with similar effects. She sold a total of one hundred jin, which earned her one million universal coins.
As for inferior nutrient paste, it was three tubes for one dollar.
This amount of money should be enough to put Cang Hai and Cang Jin at ease for a considerable period, certainly three to five years.
After confirming the money had been deposited, Ding Yun, under the pretense that this was a year's salary advanced by her investor, transferred the entire one million universal coins to her foster mother.
Then, she found a secluded and deserted corner, harvested a large amount of ordinary food from her portable gourmet planet, enough for two hundred people to eat for three to five meals, and then returned home with the food, distributing it.
During the distribution, Ding Yun casually responded to her foster parents' confusion, vaguely explaining the one million away.
Thus, everyone was happy.
Cang Hai and Cang Jin were completely at ease, Ding Yun had no immediate worries, and the children were delighted by the various gourmet foods.
…
In the afternoon, Ding Yun did not stay in her crowded home. She specifically went out, rented a room, and stayed alone, focusing on designing various peripheral product blueprints.
Many items were even categorized by level.
Low-end, mid-end, and high-end.
For example, panda dolls.
For the low-end, as long as the exterior was soft, shaped like a panda, and looked cute overall, with a style leaning towards simple line drawings in children's animation, it would suffice.
The mid-end aimed for realism, with most aspects resembling real pandas. The only improvement needed was the tactile sensation when touching them. They should be made slightly softer. Pandas were bears, not cats, so their fur wouldn't feel the same as a cat's. It would be closer to a bear's, and being softer would make it more comfortable to touch.
The high-end was even more impressive, adopting a custom approach. Mechanical bones formed the base, bionic muscle fibers and silicone made up the body, and bionic skin and fur were used for the exterior. Coupled with a low-end pet-type artificial intelligence chip, from any angle, it would be indistinguishable from a real panda. As long as it wasn't dissected, it could be treated as a real panda.
Even more advanced would be genetic customization and embryonic cultivation to directly create a panda. However, Ding Yun had no intention of going that far, so she didn't even mention the top-tier options, only designing the low, mid, and high tiers.
Because most of these panda peripherals were either very simple, or there was past experience to draw upon for the more complex ones, Ding Yun's drawing speed was quite fast. After staying out for two days, by the morning of the third day, she had designed over three hundred different types of panda peripherals.
There were cute versions, chibi versions, and realistic versions.
She even noted down the materials down to the finest detail.
Afterward, she naturally contacted Diana and Diane. Their investment had arrived after discussions and company registration, but the money was in the company account, intended for product manufacturing and publicity.
It was not convenient to use it for personal purposes, which was why Ding Yun needed to sell high-energy food to earn money and put her foster parents at ease.
Therefore, everything was ready except for Ding Yun's blueprints and authorization. As soon as Ding Yun sent the blueprints, and after they were appreciated, they immediately arranged for production.
Publicity also began simultaneously, which involved creating concept art from the blueprints and promoting them online.
The result was undeniably spectacular. As soon as the concept art related to the panda peripherals was released and promoted through various media channels, it quickly caused a stir.
The popularity was highest on Emperor Star and the Psionic Planet.
The Beastman Planet was second, and the Immigration Planet was third.
The reasons were simple: the Beastman Planet itself had many beastmen whose bloodlines were naturally fluffy, making them far more resistant to fluffiness than ordinary people.
Moreover, some beastmen had different aesthetic preferences.
Some of the bear race even found the bears to look strange.
It was normal and reasonable for the popularity to be lower.
As for the Immigration Planet, it was even more so. They were currently engaged in planet development and had no time to manage online matters. Everyone was more concerned with finding valuable mineral veins and striking it rich, who cared about a few cute peripherals.
Cuteness couldn't be eaten, nor could it save lives.
Only after attaining sufficiency and affluence could one pursue personal preferences.
When one was starving, no matter how cute, it would be eaten.
【Oh my god, I always thought my dark circles from staying up late were really ugly, but why are this bear's dark circles so cute? And why do fat people look unappealing, while fat bears look super cute? There's truly no justice in this world!】
【So cute, I want to touch it, I want to buy it!】
【Is it just me, or do the panda's black eye circles look hilarious? It feels a bit like the eyeshadow we put on, with an eye-enlarging effect. I just tried painting the black circles white, and its eyes looked so small!
Hahahaha, this is too funny!】
【Um, why is this strangely shaped bear called a panda? According to normal naming conventions, shouldn't it be called a bear-cat or a black and white bear? Spotted bear would also be reasonable. Is this a gimmick?】
【Why do you care so much? They can call it whatever they want, it's not bothering you. Many planets in the universe are named after their discoverers, does that name have any relation to the planet's characteristics?】
【Yeah, does your name fit you well!】
【Mine fits, I'm called Big Fat, and I'm very fat!】
【This design is really unique. I never imagined a doll could be designed in this shape and color, yet it looks incredibly harmonious. It's simply the work of a master of psychological design, they really know how to understand people's hearts!】
【Heh, has anyone read the product description below the concept art? They said this was designed with the beast form of a mutated bear-race beastman as the prototype.
That panda beastman's original form looked like this.
This is the miraculous work of nature.
It's the design of heaven and earth!】
【What's so great about it? It's just a low-bloodline beastman. I absolutely will not allow such mixed-blood things to appear in my home, not even as a doll.】
【Some people's brains are broken. They think so much about a doll peripheral. Don't be disgusting!】
【I just want to ask when the finished product will be available? My wallet is ready. Depending on the price, I'll buy the peripheral of whatever tier I can afford. I hope the final price won't be too high!】
【Everyone, be vigilant against cultural invasion!】
【This is a beastman conspiracy…】
【Do you remember how many gene-humans and psionic humans in the past were enticed by cat-race beastmen and became cat slaves? This is definitely a cunning scheme by the beastmen!
Even the name has ambition. It's not called bear-cat, but panda, clearly aiming to follow the path of the cat-race beastmen.
They want to turn you into cat slaves, ahhhhh!】
【I'm dying of laughter. So what if a lot of gene-humans and psionic humans fell in love with cat-race beastmen about a hundred years ago and wouldn't listen to any persuasion, all becoming love-struck and dying for love, intermarrying and diluting some bloodlines? Does it need to be exaggerated like this?】
【My god, do some people have persecution complex? It's clearly written that only one panda beastman has been discovered so far, possibly an extremely rare mutant. Even if you want to become a cat slave, you need an opportunity.
How can one person achieve that? Can they become a "beast beauty" that causes trouble?
Then stage a Trojan War, is that it!】
【Let me quietly say, I actually quite like fluffy beastmen. They satisfy both the desire to own a pet and the idea of finding a wife or husband. Perfect!
Isn't it more cost-effective than finding a husband and then having to raise a cat?】
【My god, hurry and look at the announcement from the Emperor Star Ancient Organism Research Institute! This panda beastman is not a mutant at all, and its name isn't even made up. It's an ancient name, the re-emergence of an extinct species. This… this is too outrageous!】
【I saw it too. The ancient organism research institute said they found records of pandas in ancient artifacts. The description of the panda's appearance in those records is almost identical to the prototype of the panda beastman circulating online now.
Perhaps it was just not as clean.】
【The Upper Ancient History Research Institute also published an article, stating that according to ancient texts, before the Great Cataclysm, this creature called a panda was the national treasure of Xia Nation. What does this mean? Does it imply it should be protected? The most precious treasure of the entire Xia Nation?】
【As far as I know, in the past, some rare and endangered animals did receive national protection. Therefore, the panda species must have been very rare and protected even before the Great Cataclysm.】
【No wonder there are no real pandas now, and even panda beastmen are only one. Scarcity breeds value.
When things are scarce, they indeed need protection!】
【I remember my great-grandfather once wrote in a diary that he deeply regretted not being able to find a photo of a panda. He didn't understand how cute this species could be to become a national treasure simply because of its cuteness and rarity. Even when the numbers increased later, its status remained unchanged.
It was always the most precious gift in diplomatic exchanges.
Loved by people all over the world!】
【Is this true? If so, I can like them without any burden. After all, past humans had bloodlines that existed more than any of ours now. If they could like them, why can't we? Buy, buy, buy, pre-order quickly, open sales soon!】
…
Unlike the Beastman Planet, which had a sparse history and was incapable of tracing ancient history, since the ancient historical ruins were on Emperor Star, the Beastman Planet was a newly developed life planet with no historical relics.
Although Emperor Star had lost much of its ancient history, it still retained far more than any other planet. Coupled with the ongoing archaeological excavations in recent years,
Much of the ancient history has been restored.
However, few people paid attention to it.
Therefore, with the surge in popularity of panda peripherals,
The ancient civilization and ancient history research institutions, which had previously been ignored, quickly began to popularize the related information they could find. Soon, pandas, which were basically unknown on the Beastman Planet,
Became completely famous on Emperor Star.
Even the deeds of her being the mount of the War God and Weapon God Chi You in ancient times were unearthed.
This was true online sleuthing!
Her ancestors from 108 generations ago were dug up.
How high was the popularity?
It was so high that some people called online for its status as a national treasure to be restored, or for Ding Yun to be granted a low-level noble title so she could tour and lecture on Emperor Star.
Upon seeing this, Diana and Diane did not deliberately interfere or inform Ding Yun to come over. They simply worked overtime to produce panda peripherals, selling both ready-made goods and pre-order products.
They were truly making a fortune.
Their income reached millions in minutes.
During the peak days of popularity, two to three hundred million a day was not an exaggeration. Even when the popularity slightly decreased later, it was still one to two hundred million a day. They were making a killing.