[A cotton candy cloud, a specialty candy cloud from the food world, can soothe all unhappiness and bring every diner a beautiful and warm dream.]
At the same time as this explanation appeared in Ding Yun's mind.
A large, milky white cloud, taking up more than half the room, appeared before her. Along with the cloud came a wonderful sweet scent.
The most outrageous thing was this large cloud.
It truly floated in the air like a wispy cloud.
Seeing this, Ding Yun was stunned for a moment, then, filled with curiosity, reached out to touch the cloud before her. She then pulled off a small piece and put it in her mouth, closing her eyes to savor it.
How to describe it?
The cotton candy cloud felt soft to the touch, not sticky at all. When she pulled off a small piece, neither the small piece nor the original cloud showed any significant breakage, both maintaining their cloud-like form.
The cotton candy was soft in her mouth, and very sweet in taste.
Furthermore, Ding Yun clearly felt a thread of nourishing and soothing energy within the cloud integrate into her body.
If one had mental tension or poor sleep, eating it would indeed feel very comfortable.
And having good dreams at night, or the like.
So the explanation that appeared in her mind when she opened the blind box had no issues. This cotton candy cloud indeed had the effect of soothing unhappiness and inducing pleasant dreams.
But no matter how effective this thing was, it was hard to sell!
Because even though this thing had excellent nourishing and soothing effects, Ding Yun couldn't sell it as medicine. And if she could only sell it as ordinary cotton candy, selling this entire large mass of cotton candy would likely not bring in much money.
A definite loss.
This wasn't the most important thing. The most important thing was that Ding Yun discovered that the small cotton candy clouds she tore off from this large cloud also inherited the floating characteristic of the large cloud, not falling to the ground when released.
It floated in mid-air, defying gravity. Newton himself, if resurrected, would doubt his theories.
How could this thing be sold?
If sold in the morning, she'd be invited for tea in the afternoon.
A mid-level food blind box for forty yuan had produced this. What would a four-hundred-and-forty yuan one produce? It would surely go through the roof!
Following this, Ding Yun immediately decided that until she had enough capability and a large enough storage warehouse, she would not open any higher-level blind boxes. The beginner blind boxes were sufficient for her current needs.
As for the cotton candy cloud she had opened.
For now, she could only eat it herself.
But this cloud was truly enormous. Ding Yun ate for quite a while and didn't see much of it disappear. Relying on herself alone, she'd probably get full before she could finish it in a short period. So Ding Yun could only decide to try and reprocess it.
For example, making it into snowflake crisps.
While nuts like pecans were a bit difficult to buy now, peanuts were still easy to get. And snowflake crisps didn't necessarily require expensive nuts.
Peanuts and sunflower seeds could also be used.
After making her decision, Ding Yun immediately closed the door and went to buy peanuts and sunflower seeds to make snowflake crisps. After some busy work, she successfully made them using the cotton candy cloud.
This, of course, had its drawbacks.
The drawback was that the snowflake crisps couldn't float, and they also lost the cotton candy cloud's effect of inducing good dreams.
One could say that the most valuable characteristics of the cotton candy cloud had disappeared due to Ding Yun's reprocessing.
It seemed like a significant loss no matter how one looked at it.
The gains did not outweigh the losses.
Despite this, Ding Yun still insisted on making all the cotton candy cloud into snowflake crisps. She had no choice; her daughter would be back from school soon. How could she explain such a large cloud floating in the room to her daughter? Moreover, her daughter, Yuan Meng, couldn't keep secrets. Anything she knew would essentially be known by her entire class.
Therefore, no matter the loss, Ding Yun had to do it.
Through her constant busyness, Ding Yun finally managed to put the last lump of cotton candy cloud into the pot just before her daughter returned. She smiled and called her daughter into the room to eat snowflake crisps, mentioning that dinner would be ready soon.
Afterward, she finished the last batch of snowflake crisps and began preparing dinner.
After Yuan Meng finished dinner and returned to her room to do homework, Ding Yun sat by the doorway, reflecting on whether her actions were appropriate and whether she should continue buying food blind boxes.
The randomness of this food blind box was too great. So far, she hadn't opened anything twice. While her business was doing well now, a snack stall that changed its offerings every few days would likely be difficult to sustain.
Even if it could be sustained, it could only be a small business, difficult to expand, or perhaps impossible to expand at all.
After all, the quantity of food from the blind boxes was limited.
Once sold, she had no idea when she could get the same ingredients again. How could she increase production?
Most importantly, if she opened familiar ingredients, it was fine. But once she opened unfamiliar ingredients, she had to spend a lot of effort thinking and researching how to disguise unfamiliar ingredients as familiar ones, or make it impossible for people to tell what they were made of. If she couldn't figure out a way, it meant that ingredient could not be sold at all.
She could only keep it for herself to eat, or discard it.
In short, no matter how she looked at it, only selling ingredients from beginner food blind boxes was a self-inflicted problem and truly unnecessary.
"But the problem now is, I definitely have to keep testing this happy blind box machine. Testing requires money. If I can't monetize the items from the blind box machine, wouldn't I just be testing at a constant loss?
The original host didn't leave me any skills, and my own skills are all sealed. I can't even remember a decent braising recipe. No, it seems I still have to find a way to make money from this golden finger. If food blind boxes don't work, I'll just look at other blind boxes!"
After a period of exploration, Ding Yun had basically dismissed the plan of getting rich through food blind boxes. However, testing the blind boxes inevitably required financial support. She couldn't keep relying on the original host's meager savings.
Therefore, making money had to continue.
And in the absence of any better solutions, Ding Yun was naturally willing to continue relying on her golden finger. It wasn't just about convenience, but more importantly, the core of testing a golden finger was not only to find its loopholes and imperfections but also to use the golden finger to its fullest potential, and even to use it to reach the pinnacle of life.
If a golden finger tester reached the pinnacle of life on their own, without the golden finger, what was the point of testing it!
So Ding Yun quickly and systematically bought one of each type of low-level blind box available in the happy blind box machine and opened them one by one.
Of course, the beginner food blind boxes were an exception.
She had already bought enough of those. Since she wasn't planning to set up a stall tomorrow, there was no need to buy more.
With flashes of white mist, Ding Yun soon found herself surrounded by a pile of items, much like receiving a large delivery after a major shopping spree.