Just as those two guys in the cold wind and rain were starting to doubt whether their intelligence was wrong, they finally saw a rain-coated figure on roller skates rapidly approaching.
“Sanzi, that’s her!”
“Alright, brother, stand back and watch me!”
This Sanzi curled the five fingers of his right hand into a fist and threw it forward with force.
A cyan wind blade took shape on his hand, heading straight for Bai Bai along with the momentum.
Bai Bai, who was burying her head in rushing forward, suddenly felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand on end, and a massive sense of crisis rushed straight toward her face.
Instinctively, she braked on the side to dodge.
She successfully evaded the most critical direct hit, but her right sleeve was slashed open with a huge tear.
Fortunately, it was a brand-new raincoat bought just yesterday, made of completely unworn, brand-new fabric that withstood this fatal blow. Only the raincoat was torn; her skin was unharmed.
Bai Bai looked up and saw two figures acting overly smug at the edge of the ruins.
Kicking hard with her feet, she used a zigzag movement to charge forward.
“Sanzi, she’s charging over! You didn’t hurt her!”
“Don’t worry, brother, one more time and she’s dead for sure!”
This Sanzi repeated his old trick, unleashing another identical wind blade.
With her spiritual power leading the way, Bai Bai clearly saw the flight trajectory of this wind blade, easily dodging it and continuing her charge.
“Sanzi! Hurry, hurry, hurry! Fire another one!”
Sanzi panicked as well, hurriedly gathering his momentum.
“Brother, this one’s an expert!”
Just as the third wind blade finished gathering momentum, Bai Bai stopped as well, pretending to stand her ground in a standoff.
The moment this wind blade was fired, it was perfectly copied by her.
Immediately following that, she effortlessly dodged it once more.
The next second, kicking hard off the ground, she set off again.
That Sanzi didn’t get a fourth chance to use a wind blade. In the blink of an eye, Bai Bai had already rushed right in front of them, her spiritual power transforming into a giant palm that delivered a resounding slap to each of their faces from a distance.
She slapped them so hard they saw stars, their heads buzzing, and they collapsed to the ground, losing all ability to move.
Spiritual power attacks—this was something Bai Bai had only ever seen in various web novels, where they always said that when spiritual powers collided, at best you got a concussion, and at worst you became an idiot.
She hadn’t expected it to actually work.
Theory had stepped into reality.
She had gained a ranged attack method after all.
As for Bai Bai herself, she didn’t feel any discomfort whatsoever.
Her spiritual power was stronger, wasn’t it?
Slowing down her pace, Bai Bai slowly approached the two groaning and wailing men.
They still had a bit of consciousness left, knowing enough to beg for mercy.
Too late.
Bai Bai glanced in front of and behind her; very well, nobody on the road.
That rain-control shooting technique she had just practiced—weren’t these ready-made practice targets?
After trying a few times, she successfully inflicted two or three bullet-hole-like wounds on the foreheads of these two men.
These two fellows silently and soundlessly went off to be reincarnated right then and there.
Not long after the delivery person breathed his last breath, his spatial storage burst open, spilling a pile of items across the ground, including those two meal orders.
An idea struck Bai Bai: since her spiritual power could slap people, could it also retrieve objects from a distance?
She projected her spiritual power outward once more, sweeping across the ground. Wherever it passed, the supplies instantly vanished and reappeared inside her spatial storage.
“Hahahaha!”
Laughing out loud, Bai Bai swiftly cleared the field. This was much faster than picking things up by hand.
This was the efficiency looting should have.
Sweeping back and forth twice to make sure nothing was left behind, and seeing that there was still empty space in her spatial storage, she took the two corpses in as well.
The trace amounts of blood left on the bricks behind their heads were also completely washed away and vanished within three to five seconds by the cascading rain.
As long as there were no corpses, it was merely a missing person case. Everything was fine; there was no need to get tangled up in a personal murder investigation.
After tidying up the scene, Bai Bai walked on tiptoe, wearing her roller skates, and skillfully slipped into the ruins. She changed out of her damaged raincoat top and then proceeded to Anya Residential Complex to deliver the food.
The customer received the still-piping-hot meal and happily tipped Bai Bai five yuan.
As soon as she returned to Xiao Ma’s Stir-Fry, she saw the boss wearing an anxious expression. The moment she saw Bai Bai return, it was as if she had spotted a savior.
“Xiao Bai, do me a favor and run one more hard trip. Deliver two urgent orders, and make sure nothing goes wrong on the way.”
“Alright, boss, are the meals ready?”
“The kitchen is cooking them right now, give me two minutes.”
Bai Bai nodded and sat down on the stool.
In less than two minutes, the kitchen finished the meals.
“Hurry up and go. I’ll double your delivery fee for these two orders. If the customers give you ugly looks or harsh words when you get there, don’t talk back, don’t argue with them.”
“Got it, boss.”
Bai Bai set off immediately.
The moment she stepped out the door, she knew what this was about.
The two meal bags she had just picked up were identical to the two large bags of loot in her spatial storage.
They were precisely the two un-delivered orders left behind by the dead delivery person. The customers had complained, and Xiao Ma was naturally rushing to get replacement meals sent out.
These two orders also belonged to the same residential complex, located very close to Xiao Ma’s Stir-Fry. Walking there on foot in this rain would take only about a quarter of an hour.
Yet that idiot had neglected easy money to spend his time trying to ambush her, and ended up throwing away his life.
Serves him right.
Stepping on her roller skates, Bai Bai completed the delivery of both orders in a mere ten minutes.
The customers’ first words upon opening the door were complaints, but Bai Bai promptly handed over the piping-hot meals, choking those complaints right back down their throats.
Complaining was normal; anyone in their place would complain, as long as they didn’t start cursing out loud.
Returning to Xiao Ma’s Stir-Fry, the boss, Xiao Ma, patted Bai Bai’s shoulder with considerable gratitude.
“Great job. The customers gave feedback saying you delivered very fast and the meals were still piping hot.”
“The route is close, what’s so special about that.”
“Come, come, come, let’s eat together. I’ll settle your bill after we finish eating.”
“Eat?”
“Mhm, thank goodness for you today, otherwise my little shop’s reputation would have collapsed.”
Without leaving room for argument, Xiao Ma grabbed Bai Bai’s wrist and walked toward the meal table by the kitchen door.
By this time, the noon peak hour had long since passed. Since it was raining, there weren’t many dine-in customers, making it just the right time to eat staff meals.
The cook brought out several dishes and a large basin of rice. Bai Bai took off her thick raincoat top and sat down beside Xiao Ma.
Counting the service staff, everyone gathered around a table and began digging in heartily amidst the clatter of dishes.
After the meal, Xiao Ma calculated the earnings for Bai Bai. The going rate for freelance workers was a 3% commission based on the value of the goods. The meals ordered by customers varied in price; the cheapest meal was a little over 110 yuan, which translated to a delivery fee of just over 3 yuan, while the most expensive delivery fee was 7.8 yuan. For the last two orders, the delivery fees were doubled, exceeding 10 yuan per order.
Bai Bai’s midday run today earned her a little over a hundred yuan, which showed just how diligently she had been running back and forth and how many customers ordered food on a rainy day.
And she had even spent 65 yuan earlier on the roller skates and universal charger.
Pretty good.
“Coming back tomorrow?”
“Coming. As long as it doesn’t rain knives, I’ll definitely come.”
Bai Bai put on her rain boots, pulled up her rain hood, waved goodbye to the boss, and stepped into the rain.
The moment she left, Xiao Ma gnashed her teeth as she picked up the walkie-talkie to repeatedly call the delivery person who was not responding.
“Asshole! Where the hell did you die?”
Receiving no response, Xiao Ma irritably put down the walkie-talkie. The cooks and service staff, who were sitting around resting and waiting for the evening business peak, all wore deeply gossipy expressions on their faces.
“Did that guy really run off?”