The little electric scooter had changed its appearance once again!
From its original status as a small, iron-sheet delivery tricycle, it had metamorphosed into a fully enclosed, widened, and lengthened tricycle!
At a glance, it was at least three meters long!
Old Ma clicked his tongue in wonder, walking up to the front of the vehicle to touch it: “Dabao, is this the vehicle that the company you work part-time for delivered to you last night? Open it up and let Dad try it out?”
In the eyes of a man, vehicles were like toys—once he got a feel for them, his hands would itch to take the wheel.
Ma Xiaoli hastily pressed unlock on her phone, and Old Ma immediately got to work exploring it: “Oh my, your platform is pretty good! Are these seats actually wrapped in genuine leather? A sunroof, a luggage rack, and the back is so spacious! One could even put a bed back there and take an afternoon nap!”
Saying so, he let out a heavy grunt as he hopped up, continuing to explore.
Ma Xiaoli also took the opportunity to quickly open the scooter’s interface to check its data—
**Item:** Little Electric Scooter
**Rank:** R
**Form:** Tricycle Truck (Fully Enclosed Luxury Version)
**Speed:** $180\text{ km/h}$
**Battery Life:** Exposure to intense sunlight for 5 minutes yields a $500\text{ km}$ range (theoretically unlimited range)
**Durability:** 2000/2000
**Special Skills:** Zombie Deterrence *5, Built-in Storage Space *8
**Passive Skills:** Delivery Folded Space (Upper limit $800\text{ kg}$), Hostility Warning (Within a 50-meter radius)
**Additional Attributes:** All skills are growable
Not only had the scooter’s rating increased, but its overall stats had also improved, and it had added “Built-in Storage Space *8”!
Ma Xiaoli quickly clicked on the description to take a look, and her eyes instantly filled with pleasant surprise!
The built-in spaces on the scooter this time were hidden under the flip-up panels in the rear row!
They were also folded spaces, but this time she wasn’t restricted to only storing erranding items, and each space actually measured 3 square meters!
In other words, she, Ma Xiaoli, could finally start hoarding and going on a shopping spree!
Thinking of this, Ma Xiaoli hastily pushed Old Ma into the passenger seat beside her, “Let’s go, there’s still a bunch of things to get busy with!”
Old Ma subconsciously wanted to say that going to the factory in his SUV would be more comfortable, never expecting that as soon as Ma Xiaoli stepped on the accelerator, the vehicle swooshed out!
Old Ma hurriedly buckled his seatbelt. Sitting inside the seemingly cramped delivery vehicle was unexpectedly comfortable.
The vehicle’s shock absorption was actually no worse than his multi-million-yuan luxury car. Even the air conditioning seemed to be the latest air-cooled system. A large screen even slowly lowered from the roof, stopping at the center console position; it didn’t block the view, and a bun-shaped AI voice navigator was on it.
Old Ma couldn’t help but feel a sense of solemn respect: “Does your platform’s boss really give such good employee benefits?”
Ma Xiaoli couldn’t explain, so she simply stayed silent.
Fortunately, the industrial area wasn’t far from Old Ma’s detached villa, a mere ten-minute drive away.
It was not yet 8:30 AM at this time. When the security guard saw Ma Xiaoli’s scooter, he walked out sternly to register it, only to see the big boss sitting in the passenger seat smiling merrily at him. He immediately shuddered, gave a salute, and let them pass.
After parking the vehicle, they walked briskly toward the factory area.
Standing at the entrance of the production workshop, Ma Xiaoli briefly felt an empathetic sensation akin to Grandma Liu wandering into the Prospect Garden.
The production workshop of Old Ma’s food factory actually had an area close to 7,600 square meters, along with a 3,000-cubic-meter cold storage room. The main Cantonese-style dim sum produced alone amounted to more than twenty varieties!
In addition, there were production lines for several series, such as Cantonese cured sausages, ready-to-eat dishes, Dragon Boat Festival rice dumplings, and Mid-Autumn Festival mooncakes. The finished products made were in the hundreds of varieties!
When she heard Old Ma proudly state that the daily processed volume of dim sum could reach up to 20 tons, and that their distribution channels had already expanded into the European market, Ma Xiaoli—Ma Xiaoli was utterly dumbfounded.
Inside the workshop were automated production devices she didn’t recognize at all, such as automated meat portioning, marinating, and tumbling equipment, automated rice production equipment, vacuum cooling machines, and the like…
Seeing Old Ma instruct the shift leader to bring over protective suits with an attitude of taking her inside for a tour, Ma Xiaoli directly declined politely.
It wasn’t that she didn’t want to tour, but that the factory building was so large that if she really took a full lap around it, she wouldn’t be able to get anything else done today!
However, since she had already come, Ma Xiaoli pulled Old Ma and pointed to the sky, saying: “The acid rain is coming soon. Even if we can’t tell the public, we still need to make some preparations. I see there’s a dormitory area next door; remember to remind the workers not to wander around when it rains. While there’s still time, hoard more raincoats or protective suits.”
Old Ma agreed with a chuckling nod and even called over the factory manager, ordering him to arrange for people as soon as possible to repair the leaking spots in the factory building.
When Ma Xiaoli left, she also heard Old Ma instructing people to buy several additional sets of backup power supplies.
Driving the brand-new little electric scooter, Ma Xiaoli directly activated Errands Task 2. Along the way, she also conveniently completed a few rounds of time-limited tasks from “Discovery”. The pickup points for two of these tasks happened to be at the grain and oil wholesale market, so Ma Xiaoli took the opportunity to wholesale instant noodles and water there.
Although the little electric scooter had been upgraded, the vehicle was still limited by its exterior appearance, so its “cargo capacity” was ultimate limited. Thus, Ma Xiaoli could only wear a mask and act like a guerrilla soldier, wholesaling dozens of boxes of noodles and water at each market before hurrying away.
En route, the drop-off location for a time-limited task happened to be at a flower and bird market, so she directly purchased a bunch of plant and flower seeds there.
The owner of one shop was a smiling, bald old man, and a lazy cow-patterned cat was lying on a shelf in the store.
As Ma Xiaoli stood in front of the shelf looking at seeds, its ears suddenly twitched. It actually leaped from the shelf right into Ma Xiaoli’s arms. Terrified, Ma Xiaoli quickly caught and held it. Seeing it continuously rubbing its fluffy head in front of her to signal for head pats, she hesitantly reached out and patted its head.
[Ding-dong! Congratulations host on activating the correct way to use “Absolute Pet of the Group (Ineffective on Humans)”, gaining the favor of the eccentric cow cat!]
Ma Xiaoli was taken aback and hurriedly checked the superpower stats for “Absolute Pet of the Group (Ineffective on Humans)”. Sure enough, it had changed to 1/20!
So this superpower was actually used like this?!
Once she understood, she hastily concentrated her mind and channeled her superpower into her palm.
The next second, the cow cat raised its head and let out a soft, baby-like meow at her. She actually heard in an instant—
[Human, your hands are quite calloused, but your pats are pretty comfortable. You’d better pat my ears a few more times, or else I’ll rub my head against you!]
Ma Xiaoli hastily complied.
She then heard a purring vibration deep from the cow cat’s throat.
[Human, a bit to the right, yes, a bit to the right…]
Ma Xiaoli did not hold back in the slightest as she showered all her superpower onto its body according to the cow cat’s instructions.
Until she felt a splitting headache again from exhausting her superpower, the cow cat was already fast asleep in her arms with its eyes squinted shut.
The bald old gentleman had noticed earlier that his cat master kept rubbing against Ma Xiaoli, but he happened to be attending to customers and didn’t have time to come over. Now that he had seen the customers off, he walked over: “Incredible, absolutely incredible! My little eccentric cat is actually so affectionate toward you? Usually, if I try to hold it, it scratches me.”