[Name: Collector's Numbered Blind Box] [Type: Consumable] [Quality: Special] [Description: Receive one blind box upon purchase. Opening it grants one collectible. There are 999 blind boxes in total, containing some rare items (such as Hero-level weapons) as the grand prizes for this batch. Current blind boxes remaining: 127/999. You may purchase a blind box with a specified number. Remaining numbers: ... Grand prizes remaining: 1] Price: 4,000 Player Points (20% OFF). Time remaining: 15 hours, 17 minutes, 42 seconds.
Before buying, Yang Yi carefully read the blind box instructions in the vending machine and discovered that quite a few people had bought them. Those six hundred-plus purchases amounted to over 3.4 million points, even at twenty percent off. They certainly hadn't all been bought by one person.
Moreover, with numbered blind boxes like these, if buyers failed to draw the grand prize, they were effectively clearing the way for the players who came after them.
It was especially easy to get carried away when few blind boxes remained but the grand prize was still there. This was a very common commercial trap.
Of course, Yang Yi wouldn't get carried away. He had already opened so many blind boxes that he was nearly sick of them. He casually bought just ten randomly numbered blind boxes, then looked at the number of grand prizes remaining and smiled without a word, because it was still one.
He distributed the blind boxes among his teammates, one each, and chose to open the remainder himself. Sure enough, they contained two long-dead Long-Legged Sardines. It was just the sort of thing the Counterfeit Collector would do.
The others got the same thing, and only Cui Xiya let out a triumphant cheer.
"I won!"
She flew up excitedly, holding a small scepter almost identical