【Order is about to timeout. Only 3 kilometers away from the pickup point, snap it up quickly!】
As the long-absent cold voice prompt sounded, Ma Xiaoli snapped back to reality. Ahead of her, the high beams of a large truck flashed aggressively. Startled, her muscle memory adjusted the electric scooter’s direction, narrowly avoiding the speeding truck. The next second, the SUV behind her began honking its horn frantically.
With her heart pounding violently, Ma Xiaoli pulled her electric scooter to the side of the road before staring in shock and confusion at this familiar service road—lined with factories on both sides, large red cargo containers parked crosswise along the two-lane road, leaving a central passage barely wide enough for a single vehicle.
Ma Xiaoli instantly recognized this as one of the routes she frequently ran deliveries on before the apocalypse!
Pulling out her phone to take a look, it was September 3rd. She had actually returned to three days before the apocalypse?!
Yet she clearly remembered being plotted against by her bizarre relatives and best friend, pushed into a swarm of zombies, and the excruciating pain as the zombies pounced on her and tore into her flesh…
Panicking, Ma Xiaoli covered her neck and traced her hands down to her arms.
No injuries?!
Was she… reborn?!
How could a good thing like rebirth happen to a complete African Grand Chieftain of bad luck like her?!
Just as Ma Xiaoli was overwhelmed with joy, a distorted, electronically interfered voice sounded coldly in her mind: 【…Unknown error, correcting… Correction complete.】
The next second, the voice sounded slightly less harsh and even carried a soft, babyish tone: 【System successfully bound. Congratulations to the host for awakening the “Errand System.” Relying neither on dad nor mom, conquer the world entirely on your own two legs! While others lie flat, I take orders; while others get emo, I make money—as long as you run fast enough, poverty and worries can’t catch up!】
Listening to this, Ma Xiaoli felt as if her breath were choked with cotton. 【No, wait. When other people get reborn, they get cheat codes or hoard supplies. All you do is draw pie in the sky and shout slogans at me. Where is your conscience?!】
System: 【Legs belong to yourself, money is in your hands, everything else is a floating cloud!】
This system actually got addicted to reciting jingling rhymes!
Ma Xiaoli’s phone suddenly received a new voice message: 【Errand Mission 1: Deliver the pharmacy package 3 kilometers away to the front desk of the designated location, 666 Chain Hotel, within 3 hours. Unlocks the novice gift pack “As-You-Wish Lucky Carp Talisman” and rewards 100 EXP.】
Ma Xiaoli was shocked: 【How did my phone…】
System: 【To facilitate dispatching missions, the host’s phone has been modified by the system. In the future, all errand missions and daily missions will be dispatched on your errand device. Reminder: Errand Mission 1 has entered the countdown phase. Overtime will result in forfeiting the novice gift pack.】
Ma Xiaoli was instantly pumped like chicken blood—a heavens-cursed person had to fight for the word “luck”!
Incidentally, she glanced at the urgent 3-kilometer order dispatched earlier by her delivery app. The customer who placed the order was also at the 666 Chain Hotel, and the pickup point was at a grain and oil shop in the same direction as the pharmacy. She could completely visit the grain and oil shop first before heading to the pharmacy.
Ma Xiaoli decisively accepted the order.
Arriving at the grain and oil shop, the bearded owner shook his head at her electric scooter: “Little girl, your electric scooter is too small. It won’t fit, right? Besides these four buckets of oil, there’s also 20 catties of rice!”
A delivery person hated hearing people disparage their electric scooter as “small” the most!
Ma Xiaoli secured the cooking oil buckets directly onto the iron hooks on both sides of the cargo box, put all the rice into the cargo box, and then proudly patted her electric scooter in front of the bearded owner—the whole process took 1 minute, executed so neatly that the bearded owner clicked his tongue in amazement. He suddenly struck up a conversation with her in high spirits: “Not bad, little girl! You should be at the age of studying, right? Why are you out doing delivery runs? Don’t your parents feel bad for you?”
In truth, Ma Xiaoli was a sophomore in college. Her parents divorced when she was seven, each forming a new family and tacitly ignoring her. To afford her studies, she had started working study-program jobs early on, and she had been doing delivery runs for 2 years already: “Don’t ask. If you ask, it’s just that your big sister is awesome.”
The bearded owner was amused by her and unexpectedly tossed her a carton of fresh milk: “The weather is hot, treat from me.”
Ma Xiaoli froze for a moment.
Having lived through three years in the apocalypse, she had almost forgotten the scattered bits of warmth that strangers brought her before the world ended.
Thinking she was wary of him, the owner smiled and said: “You little girl have a good sense of guard against people. Rest assured, it’s not spiked. It’s just near its expiration date, drink it or not!”
Ma Xiaoli grinned, picked up the milk, inserted the straw, gulped it down like a whirlwind, and tossed it into the trash can nearby.
Wiping her mouth, she said: “Boss, I heard the weather hasn’t been great lately. There will be continuous heavy rain in three days. Stock up on more food and try to stay home.”
The bearded owner burst out laughing: “Seeing as you’re a local, we’re in the Demon Capital! Weather forecasts only dare to say they are valid for 24 hours. 3 days later! Who knows!”
Meeting as strangers, Ma Xiaoli just felt giving a reminder was a good deed, “I, Ma Xiaoli, the 40th generation successor of the Dragon-Vanquishing Clan, never lie to people!”
The bearded owner was amused by her: “Haha, a girl so young has actually watched and known about the Dragon-Vanquishing Clan? Alright, alright, just because you are the 40th generation successor of the Dragon-Vanquishing Clan, I’ll listen to you!”
This TV series was extremely classic, known by everyone in the Greater Bay Area!
It was just unknown whether the bearded owner was paying attention to Ma Xiaoling’s 32-inch long legs or the Dragon-Vanquishing Clan.
Grinning, Ma Xiaoli drove away on her scooter.
Unexpectedly, the system suddenly spoke: 【Condolences! 3 humans were targeted by the Grim Reaper. Due to the host’s reminder, the outcome of death was avoided. The Grim Reaper is very angry and absorbed 3 points of the host’s luck value!】
Ma Xiaoli shuddered, and her electric scooter almost crashed into the water barrier by the roadside!
*Damn it*, stealing luck value from an African Grand Chieftain—isn’t that snatching food from a beggar’s bowl!
System: 【Due to the host’s act of kindness, the merciful God rewards the host with 3 points of luck value and awards 1 opportunity to draw a blind box!】
Ma Xiaoli’s mouth twitched: 【*Fuck*, speak normally, don’t gasp for air between sentences!】
The system ignored her complaint: 【The host saved a life proactively for the first time, earning the “Ugly Face, Kind Heart” badge. Wearing the badge gives a 1-point favorable impression bonus effect. It is recommended that the host wears it.】
Ma Xiaoli instantly blew up like a blowfish.
Where was she ugly!
She was merely reluctant to spend money at a hair salon, so she trimmed her bangs herself. As a result, her good friend and roommate Luo Xiaoxiao “accidentally” bumped into her, not only shearing off her bangs in one snip but also shaving off her eyebrow, making her look a bit eyesore!
Speaking of which, precisely because her bangs were ruined and her eyebrow was shaved off, the senior schoolmate who originally shared mutual feelings and romantic tension with her became Luo Xiaoxiao’s boyfriend in less than half a month…
To think she had stupidly congratulated them in her past life. Looking back now, Luo Xiaoxiao was clearly calculating against her!
Though she only had herself to blame—having no vigilance against people at all, misplacing her trust in a white-eyed wolf best friend and spilling her heart out, giving all the hard-won zombie crystal cores to her to upgrade her superpower, only to be pushed straight into the zombie’s mouth when danger struck…
Angry as she was, Ma Xiaoli still put on the badge.
When she arrived at the pharmacy, the physician was actually waiting outside in person.