6: Labubu blind boxes are a huge hit, find hidden gems at bargain prices!

Chen Kai shook his head helplessly. Watching the man leave, he took the money he had just stuffed into his pocket back out.

He carefully counted out five thousand yuan and slapped it down in front of Zheng Liu Chang.

"Let me pay you back five thousand first; Brother doesn't have that much right now."

Zheng Liu Chang's hand, which was opening the takeout bag, paused, and a look of disdain appeared on his face.

"Wait until you've saved enough to pay me back. Otherwise, the Female Boss will think I'm taking kickbacks!"

"I'm a loner—if I'm full, the whole family is fed. I don't need the money, so you keep it for now."

"But your luck is seriously good. Still, that delivery guy had a point—don't get carried away. When it comes to Score a Bargain, even I can't guarantee a hundred percent success rate."

Zheng Liu Chang opened the takeout bag and placed the two dishes in front of Chen Kai. "Luckily, I usually eat a lot, so I ordered two portions of rice. Hurry up and grab a bite."

Chen Kai smiled, took the bowl and chopsticks, and didn't stand on ceremony with him.

Since he hadn't eaten in the morning, a free meal was the most delicious.

"Don't worry, I won't get carried away. I only bring things to you to look at after I'm absolutely sure about them. I've been teaching myself Appraisal at home recently; if I find any good items in the future, I'll bring them all to you."

"Sure, no problem."

Zheng Liu Chang shoveled down a couple of mouthfuls of rice, then suddenly remembered he hadn't reported in. He picked up his phone to report what had been collected today to the boss of Yunshang Pavilion before continuing to scarf down his food.

"Let me tell you, the boss of this Pawnshop is incredibly beautiful. She has this ethereal vibe that makes people afraid to get close."

"She usually keeps a cold face, too; I've never seen her smile at anyone. But her temperament is unbeatable. Even if you put all those female streamers online together, they wouldn't have as much class as my Female Boss."

Zheng Liu Chang clicked his tongue, gossiping with Chen Kai.

When men meet, they don't talk about much—basically ranging from black silk stockings and beautiful legs to international politics, and then to how to resist the Trisolaran invasion of Earth.

Chen Kai found it a bit strange. Usually, Zheng Liu Chang rarely mentioned women and didn't even look at black silk stockings, making Chen Kai wonder at one point if he was actually impotent.

Why was he acting so unusually, talking about the Female Boss today?

"What's this? Is my son about to fall in love?"

Chen Kai teased with a smile.

"Don't dare, don't dare. My Female Boss is so beautiful that I wouldn't dare have any inappropriate thoughts."

Zheng Liu Chang quickly shook his head, that icy, beautiful face instantly appearing in his mind.

She's beautiful, sure, but it feels like if you look at her for one second too long, your body temperature would drop a few degrees.

"That pretty? To the point where you wouldn't dare have any inappropriate thoughts?"

Chen Kai, on the contrary, had his interest piqued. How beautiful must she be to make Zheng Liu Chang look like this?

"You don't understand. Next time our Female Boss is here, I'll call you over to see. She just has that 'stay away from me' Iceberg face, but other than that, she's prettier than any TikTok influencer or even a celebrity!"

Zheng Liu Chang muttered, shaking his head helplessly. "But it's just for looking. We'll never be able to attain such an Iceberg Female President in our lifetime. Sigh!"

Chen Kai nodded, somewhat agreeing. Hearing this, he was genuinely curious about what this Iceberg Female President looked like.

"Ding-dong."

Just then, Chen Kai's phone suddenly made a Green Bubbles notification sound.

He shoveled a mouthful of rice and put down his chopsticks, somewhat puzzled. Who would be sending him a WeChat message at this time?

He opened WeChat and took a look; it was a message from Liu Yunshang.

[Sister Liu: Little Brother Chen, are you busy lately? Do you have time tomorrow to help me go to Pop Mart to buy a blind box doll?]

[labubu is so popular lately, and I quite like it, but I'm a bit too busy to spare the time to line up. I heard that queuing at offline Pop Mart stores takes an hour or two. Little Brother, can you help me purchase it?]

[Transferred 288 yuan.]

[This is the queuing and running errands fee. The blind boxes will be reimbursed separately. Go tomorrow and buy two blind box dolls; one for me, and one for you.]

Chen Kai quickly put down his chopsticks. He'd only had the system for two days; he wasn't arrogant enough to stop doing deliveries just yet.

With one piece of intel a day, he couldn't just stay at home waiting for the intel to refresh after he Score a Bargain.

He quickly picked up his phone and replied to the message.

"Sister Liu, this is too much! Normally, a hundred or so is enough for running errands and queuing."

[Sister Liu: Consider the rest a hard-work fee for Little Brother. Don't talk about money with me.]

Chen Kai couldn't win the argument, so he had to accept the transfer.

"Alright then, Sister, thank you, Sister Liu. I'll go line up later."

[Sister Liu: Tomorrow. I'm not at home today; I'm on a business trip out of town. You go ahead and be busy, Little Brother.]

"Mm, okay!"

After replying to the message, Chen Kai happily checked the nearly three hundred yuan in errand fees.

He couldn't help but sigh once again at how beautiful and kind-hearted Liu Yunshang was. He figured Zheng Liu Chang's Female Boss must be just as beautiful as Liu Yunshang.

"Something going on? Someone sending you a message at noon? That's incredible. Is the daughter-in-law pretty?"

Zheng Liu Chang teased with a smile.

"Forget it, with my finances, what kind of girlfriend can I find? Let's just pay off the debts first."

Chen Kai smiled and shook his head, put down his chopsticks, and closed the lid of the lunch box. "I'm off, son."

"Not going to eat a bit more?"

"No."

Walking out of the Pawnshop, Chen Kai touched the money in his pocket, feeling a bit unreal. In just two short days, he had earned over eight thousand yuan through the system.

The seven thousand five hundred earned today, minus the eggs and sixty yuan, meant he had earned a full seven thousand four hundred.

An annual income of a million is just around the corner.

Chen Kai smiled, put on his helmet, and rode his little electric donkey to start taking orders.

...

He kept delivering until ten at night before Chen Kai dragged his exhausted body back to the Rental House.

He'd run errands for eight hours and earned two hundred; he was quite satisfied.

After washing up, Chen Kai lay on the bed, scrolling through his phone to learn about various types of antique knowledge.

He had a hunch that Score a Bargain was hard to separate from antiques, so learning more was always the right thing to do.

Soon, it was twelve o'clock, and Chen Kai excitedly opened the virtual system page in front of him.

[Today's Intel Refresh: Recently, a global labubu craze has started, and the Pop Mart labubu doll series blind boxes are going viral. A hidden chase labubu doll has been opened at the Pop Mart store in Joy City Mall. Head there before 12:00 PM today to intercept the hidden chase labubu doll. Recommended selling price: 2999]

Chen Kai was shocked. labubu?

Isn't that the doll Liu Yunshang asked him to purchase? A blind box doll can actually be worth three thousand yuan?

Is this world crazy?

He quickly searched online, and the search volume for labubu on TikTok had already reached over a hundred million.

Someone even publicly posted a video offering a budget of two thousand for a hidden chase, only to be mocked.

[If you really have it at that price, I'll buy as many as you have.]

This is enough to show how popular labubu is right now.

Chen Kai only then learned that the labubu blind box series has six regular versions and one hidden chase version, and the regular versions are being scalped for over two hundred.

"Damn, this is outrageous. Isn't this just plastic gold?"

Chen Kai shook his head, thinking constantly about how to intercept it.

After thinking for a long time, he simply set an alarm to get up early tomorrow to intercept it. When in doubt, get some sleep first.