Ma Xiaoli listened carefully. The whimpering sound—was Old Ma crying?
She stopped in her tracks and pressed her ear closer to the door. She only heard Old Ma choked up as he said, “Cousin-Aunt’s family went too far. I had no idea my little baby had been living such a hard life these past few years… boohoo…”
Ye Huiling’s soothing voice sounded, “Alright, alright. Since Xiaobao… no, Xiaoli is back now, just treat her well…”
Old Ma mumbled something indistinct in reply, and then Ye Huiling’s voice sounded again, “That’s right, Cousin-Aunt’s family really went too far. Before, they even claimed Xiaoli didn’t want to see you. Turns out they were intentionally sowing discord between you and your daughter. Otherwise, with them bullying Xiaoli like this, how could we just sit by and do nothing!”
At those words, Old Ma actually began to cry even louder.
Ma Xiaoli, Ma Xiaoli rubbed her temples.
She must have gotten out of bed on the wrong side today. Back when her parents divorced, both of them had argued until they were blue in the face, claiming they didn’t want her!
Shaking her head, she quickly walked out the front door, and her eyes instantly widened like copper bells!
Where her small electric scooter used to be parked, there was now a 1.5-meter-long three-wheeled cargo truck!
The vehicle shared the exact same color as her electric scooter—both were blue and white. Even the little mushroom sticker she had casually slapped above the headlight of her scooter now appeared on the truck’s front headlight!
After freezing for two seconds, Ma Xiaoli hurried over. The moment her finger touched the sticker, her phone chimed with a “ding-dong.”
System: 【Host has completed a permanent binding with the electric scooter. You may repaint the electric scooter according to your preference.】
Ma Xiaoli’s mouth twitched: 【You call this tricycle an electric scooter…】
System: 【A name is merely a symbol. If Host obtains a Vehicle Name Change Card, Host can rename the electric scooter. Speaking of which, Host still has 52 Fate Cards available to draw. Would you like to draw?】
Ma Xiaoli refused flatly.
By this time, she could clearly feel a magical line of connection forming between herself and the electric scooter.
Prompted by the system, Ma Xiaoli opened the errand app. A small red dot had appeared on the “Mine” interface.
Sure enough, the icon of the electric scooter appeared inside the interface.
Ma Xiaoli clicked on the electric scooter’s data interface to take a look—
Item: Electric Scooter
Rating: R-
Form: Three-Wheeled Cargo Truck
Top Speed: 120 km/h
Endurance Range: 5 minutes of exposure to intense sunlight grants 200 km range (Theoretically infinite range)
Durability: 1000/1000
Special Skill: Zombie Deterrence *3
Passive Skill: Express Delivery Folded Space (Upper limit 500 KG)
Additional Attribute: All skills can grow
Ma Xiaoli choked on her breath.
Exaggerated speed and range figures aside, the two skills and additional attribute below were simply enough to blind an unlucky person’s eyes!
Zombie Deterrence was an active skill that could only be used three times a day. When the electric scooter’s horn was sounded, it would emit soundwaves. Zombies within a 10-meter diameter centered around the scooter would be hard-controlled in place for 10 seconds, stacked with a 50% slow-down negative effect.
What made Ma Xiaoli’s heart race the most, however, was the Express Delivery Folded Space with its 500 KG upper limit! If used entirely to store boxed instant noodles (12 packs per box), it could fit at least 416 boxes!
Most importantly of all, this space did not take up any room in the electric scooter’s cargo box; instead, it was hidden in the cargo compartment beneath the driver’s seat!
Furthermore, this space was bound to Ma Xiaoli, allowing her to pull out items inside with just a single thought!
The only restriction was that the space could only be used to store supplies during errands, but that wouldn’t stop her from exploiting the bug!
Ma Xiaoli had always been an impatient person.
The moment the possibility of exploiting the bug crossed her mind, she turned around and ran back into the house to find Old Ma.
Old Ma was still in the bedroom hugging his young wife’s leg and whining softly when he suddenly heard Ma Xiaoli pounding fiercely on the door, her voice trembling as if she were about to cry: “Come out! Old Ma! Hurry up!”
It was the first time Old Ma had ever heard his child sound so anxious she was almost crying. Without even taking the time to wipe the tears and snot off his face, he wiped them off carelessly with his sleeve and rushed out. Yet before he could even open his mouth to ask what was wrong, Ma Xiaoli unloaded a barrage of words: “Old Ma, hurry up, place an order for me!”
As an entrepreneur and proper big boss, Old Ma usually had plenty of secretaries and assistants scrambling to run errands for him whenever he needed something. There was no need for him to do it personally, so he had no idea what app to use to place an order. Flustered, he stood there helplessly: “Th-this… How about I go get my assistant to place an order? Sweetheart, what do you want to order…”
Since Ma Xiaoli was still preoccupied with doing her experiment, she uncharacteristically said with good temper: “It’s past midnight! Please spare your assistant! Give me your phone, I’ll set it up for you.”
Sure enough, Old Ma handed his phone over and then kept hovering right behind her, quietly “learning.”
Ma Xiaoli first downloaded the ordering app and then selected a bunch of supplies. Before Old Ma could understand what she was doing, the phone was thrown back into his hands by Ma Xiaoli: “Old Ma, facial recognition!”
Old Ma glanced at the items in the shopping cart—besides water and common medications, there were health supplements frequently used by pregnant women, nutritional products for elderly eggs, as well as vegetables, fruits, and so on.
Old Ma was instantly moved beyond words. His daughter really was his little warm cotton jacket!
She acted distant toward him on the surface, but in reality, she thought of him in every way. Look! She even knew that his old waist had been bothering him with the cold weather lately and that he needed to apply medicated plasters, buying a whole bunch of them!
Overwhelmed with emotion, Old Ma directly linked his payment card, generously shoved the phone back into Ma Xiaoli’s hand, and even blurted out his payment password: “Daughter, buy whatever you like!”
As for the fact that his daughter was actually spending his money to buy things for him?
Did that matter?
It was the thought that was most precious!
Ma Xiaoli had no idea about her old father’s self-dramatized emotion; she had assumed Old Ma would nag a bit at the very least, or ask why she was buying so many things…
However, since Old Ma didn’t ask, Ma Xiaoli naturally wouldn’t look for trouble by volunteering information.
Now that she had the payment password, she was even less polite.
After selecting the delivery time, she picked a nearby location to accept the order.
The moment she tapped to confirm the order, Ma Xiaoli held her phone and stared at the errand app interface, her heart nearly leaping out of her throat—whether this succeeded or failed depended entirely on this move!!
【There is a new order near you. Please confirm whether to accept the order.】
Sure enough, at the exact moment her original errand software broadcasted the order-snatching alert, the errand app built into the errand machine instantly popped up a window, successfully intercepting Old Ma’s order!
She knew it!
This errand machine was taking advantage of a bug in the errand software to intercept the orders on it. Otherwise, how could the young girl working under Old Ma (Little Lin) have given her a review through the original app?!
At the thought of this, Ma Xiaoli hurriedly initiated the next step of her operation, only for the system to suddenly scream: 【Wait… Host, w-what are you doing? Are you exploiting a bug?! This is a violation!!】