“This bag of medicine contains prescription drugs. If the buyer hadn’t secured special system approval, we would never have dared to sell it like this.”
Ma Xiaoli often came to this pharmacy to pick up deliveries, but this was the first time the physician had taken the initiative to speak to her. Moreover, the physician currently felt that it was non-compliant for the buyer to purchase these drugs.
The physician handed over the heavy bag of medicine, but Ma Xiaoli didn’t dare say much, thinking in her heart that the system must be pulling strings behind the scenes.
Unsure whether it was due to wearing the badge, the physician suddenly reminded her as she was about to leave: “These medicines are for emergency use to treat severe infections and sudden angina. The guest might need them urgently, so you’d better hand them over to the guest in person.”
Ma Xiaoli thought about it. Since it was life-saving medicine, she carefully placed the medicine into her backpack—human life was at stake. If this medicine were lost or damaged, she couldn’t afford to pay for it.
The 3 kilometers went by in the blink of an eye.
She originally intended to deliver the medicine inside first, but the customer from the urgent order kept rushing her, saying they were already waiting in the hotel lobby.
However, hotels usually didn’t allow delivery riders and errand runners to enter the lobby, so Ma Xiaoli had no choice but to wait outside and tell the other party to come out immediately.
Soon, someone came out of the hotel. Ma Xiaoli raised her eyes.
Before she could feel shocked upon seeing the approaching person, the girl with permed wool-curl medium-length hair had already violently covered her face. She suddenly pushed the tall guy in a floral shirt beside her toward Ma Xiaoli, turned around, and fled.
No matter how fast the other party hid, Ma Xiaoli still recognized her!
Her good friend, Luo Xiaoxiao!
But… Luo Xiaoxiao’s reaction wasn’t right!
Thinking of how Luo Xiaoxiao had also ordered so much grain and oil, Ma Xiaoli frowned. Could it be that Luo Xiaoxiao had also… been reborn?!
Looking closely, the tall guy abandoned by Luo Xiaoxiao was actually an old acquaintance—Luo Xiaoxiao’s younger brother, Luo Junjie.
The person who pushed Ma Xiaoli into the swarm of zombies back then also had a hand in this!
However, Luo Junjie didn’t know Ma Xiaoxiao yet at this time, because in her past life, they only met him in the second year of the apocalypse when they went to Z City to scavenge for supplies.
Ma Xiaoli clenched her fists tightly, her fingernails piercing deeply into her palms. The sharp, piercing pain helped her resist the urge to smash her helmet onto his head.
Luo Junjie still didn’t know that his head had narrowly avoided being split open.
At this moment, because Luo Xiaoxiao had suddenly run off, he called her right on the spot, complaining as soon as he opened his mouth: “Sis, why did you run away? There are so many things! How am I supposed to carry them all by myself?!”
Unsure what Luo Xiaoxiao said on the other end of the phone, Luo Junjie hung up cursing and muttered to Ma Xiaoli while jerking his chin: “Rider, help carry them inside!”
Regardless of whether Ma Xiaoli agreed or not, he actually shoved his hands into his pockets, kicked his slippers, turned around, and walked away first.
“Hey! Little brother, our service fee doesn’t cover moving items!”
If she encountered a polite customer, Ma Xiaoli wouldn’t mind helping. But Luo Junjie’s attitude was atrocious, resembling a nouveau riche. The fact that Ma Xiaoli managed to refrain from taking revenge on the spot meant her emotions were already quite stable.
“You’re an errand runner, delivering to the address is originally your job! Stop whining and hurry up, or else I’ll complain about you!”
“Then go ahead and complain!”
Without a second word, Ma Xiaoli unloaded the goods from her scooter, tapped completed on the errand software, and dialed Luo Xiaoxiao’s mobile number.
Just as Luo Junjie charged back cursing, intending to pick a fight with Ma Xiaoli, Ma Xiaoli “accidentally” pressed speakerphone. Luo Xiaoxiao’s flustered voice instantly leaked out: 【Xiaoli, why are you calling me at this time? Didn’t you go to work? Is something wrong?】
The moment Luo Junjie recognized Luo Xiaoxiao’s voice, his eyes widened dramatically.
Before he could figure out how his sister knew this delivery runner, he heard the runner facing away from him, saying through gritted teeth: 【Don’t get me started. Today was unlucky enough. I met a total idiot who insisted that I deliver the goods up to his door. At a glance, he’s a country bumpkin who has never stayed in a hotel before, actually not knowing that hotels don’t allow delivery riders and takeout runners to go inside to deliver goods!】
Through the electric scooter’s rear-view mirror, Ma Xiaoli saw Luo Junjie’s shocked face. At the same time, Luo Xiaoxiao’s clumsy excuse came from the phone: 【Ah, Xiao-Xiaoli, I suddenly have something to handle here. I’ll find you later! Kisses!】
After the call was hung up, Luo Junjie’s phone instantly rang as expected. Seeing the caller ID, he hurriedly took two steps back and muttered softly: 【Sis, why did you call… No, I didn’t… Fine, fine, fine, I’ll carry them myself, alright!】
The corners of Ma Xiaoli’s lips curled up slightly. As expected, she saw Luo Junjie walk back with an unlucky face, picking up the oil buckets with a dark expression and walking away without a word.
Ma Xiaoli intentionally waved behind him and smiled, “Remember to give a five-star review, dear customer!”
Luo Junjie instantly whipped his head around to glare at her, his eyes looking as if he wanted to eat her alive.
Ma Xiaoli, however, smiled even more brilliantly.
She locked her scooter, effortlessly bypassed Luo Junjie, and walked up to the hotel front desk.
Seeing the orange errand uniform on Ma Xiaoli, the front desk guy asked indifferently which room the guest was in, wanting to dismiss Ma Xiaoli and send her away.
Recalling the physician’s instructions, Ma Xiaoli uneasily reminded the front desk guy: “This medicine is all life-saving medicine. You’d better contact the guest first.”
“Heh.”
The front desk guy laughed weirdly and sarcastically, “Then little girl, let me ask you, what is the name of the guest in Room 3116?”
The system only provided the delivery address and did not provide the recipient’s information or contact method. Ma Xiaoli couldn’t answer.
Unexpectedly, the front desk guy even got smug, snorting through his nose. He fanned his hand as if dismissing a beggar: “Then off you go. Wait until your customer contacts you, then you can notify them to come down and pick up the medicine.”
Saying that, he actually pulled open the drawer, casually tossed the medicine in, and threw it inside, even raising his eyebrows at Ma Xiaoli triumphantly afterward.
Ma Xiaoli didn’t indulge him either.
She extended her finger and tapped her fingertips on the reception counter.
The front desk guy rolled his eyes and looked up, just about to ask her what else she wanted, when he saw that her phone screen was on the audio recording interface.
The front desk guy instantly realized that she had been secretly recording the entire time. His entire face shifted back and forth between white and green.
He seemed to want to smile, but the anger of being set up couldn’t be hidden in the depths of his eyes. His expression instantly turned sinister: “Wait a moment, I will contact the guest in 3116 right now.”
Using fingers trembling with rage, the guy ventingly pressed the numbers on the landline, but the room phone for 3116 went unanswered.
“Little girl, there is no one in 3116. You go back first…”
Looking up, he discovered that Ma Xiaoli’s phone interface had turned into video recording mode. The corner of the guy’s mouth twitched. Although he was smiling on his face, his voice already carried the anger of breaking down: “Little girl, we are all working-class wage slaves. Wage slaves shouldn’t make things hard for wage slaves!”
“Not long ago, someone passed away without receiving help just because the hotel was indifferent and didn’t send life-saving medicine up.”
Ma Xiaoli did not yield a single step, pointing the camera lens straight at the guy’s face: “The physician specifically reminded me that this bag of medicine is an emergency drug to treat severe infections and sudden angina—it is life-saving medicine! I suggest you go up immediately to check on the guest’s situation.”