popshots Chapter 615 - 589: You Have a New Order, Please Check and Accept! (Double-Length)
Chapter 615 - 589: You Have a New Order, Please Check and Accept! (Double-Length)
[Clown: Need delivery service?]
He still remembers the first time he logged in and saw this dialog box, Lou Duan thought it was just a courier website.
It wasn’t until he sent a package that he realized it was indeed a courier site, except what they were shipping was life, to the realm of death.
Lou Duan had a knowing smile on his face, he is now the most loyal member of [Libra Net].
Even though the last delivery process was less than pleasant, caught on camera secretly, Lou Duan had no intention of blaming the site.
After all, the previous delivery process was even live-streamed.
Just tell me, did the delivery arrive on time or not.
Lou Duan typed a reply on the keyboard:
[I want to send a package!]
[Clown: Sure, please weigh it!]
[This time I want the package to be delivered at a specific time and place, and I want it to be alive, fresh!]
Lou Duan held his breath, waiting for a reply from the administrator. It was his first time using the site to send a special delivery; he wasn’t sure if it would be accepted.
[Clown: Yes, but it will cost more!]
Lou Duan now found the money-grubbing attitude of the administrator quite endearing.
Without hesitation, he clicked agree, and a scale appeared on the left side of the screen.
Lou Duan took a deep breath and began entering the package information.
Most of the data was pieced together from the internet, with the core being a piece of video footage.
As soon as all the information was inputted, the website displayed a prompt:
[Weighing and quality assessment in progress.....]
A few minutes later.
In the temporary base of Team 103 inside an abandoned warehouse, Red Dragonfly was leaning against a mottled pillar with her eyes closed, resting.
Suddenly, the watch on her wrist vibrated.
The bluish holographic screen unfolded, and encrypted data poured down like a torrential rain. The stream of numbers eventually distorted and condensed into a black-and-white clown smiley face.
——You have a new order, please check it!
"Captain,"
said Red Dragonfly softly,
"[Clown] has sent a new task!"
The bald Captain sat cross-legged on the concrete floor, concentrating on picking his toenails. He only uttered a slight "mm" in response.
Red Dragonfly said no more, her fingers swiftly gliding over the watch. Suddenly, her eyes went wide with an eerie look.
She licked her lips and said word by word:
"The cargo is... Zuo Bai!"
The team members, busy with their own tasks, seemed to freeze, all turning to look at Red Dragonfly in unison.
Red Dragonfly turned her watch towards them, indicating she wasn’t joking.
Wild Beast was full of surprise. He touched the cold, fresh-face cooler box at his feet, which contained none other than Zuo Bai’s head.
From a corner, Master of Ceremonies slowly straightened up and smiled:
"Interesting. So it looks like this time the target isn’t Zuo Bai’s mechanical clone, but his real body, huh?"
Red Dragonfly nodded: "I checked the order’s price, so it should be."
Master of Ceremonies pondered and said:
"It seems Zuo Bai’s real body is hidden in Zone 9, he never left. Otherwise, [Clown] wouldn’t assign the task to us."
The assignment mechanism of [Clown], they knew well, required strength evaluation followed by assignment based on the "proximity principle."
[Clown] could confirm the general coordinate area of the "parcel," and had never erred.
Members of Team 103 exchanged glances, and Wild Beast suddenly slapped his thigh, exclaiming excitedly:
"This is destiny guiding us, to prepare another gift for Zheng Hang."
As members of [Destiny], they had a firm belief in the invisible guidance of fate, or perhaps, fate indeed was silently guiding their path.
But Red Dragonfly frowned, her fingers gliding over the holographic screen’s scarlet remark: "Special delivery requirement: live transport, fresh all the way."
This meant the target must arrive alive at the specific location, removing the target’s head wasn’t an option.
"Alive? Fresh?" The smile on Wild Beast’s face froze.
But Master of Ceremonies gently chimed in:
"I think Wild Beast is right. We can totally deliver the goods first and retrieve the gift after the client signs for it."
Red Dragonfly was taken aback: "Is that allowed?"
"Why not?"
Master of Ceremonies retorted. He had studied the [Courier Guidelines] carefully and explained:
"We deliver the goods, intact and on time. Client signs off, [Clown] confirms, task complete, transaction done, order finished."
"Then whatever happens afterward has nothing to do with the task; it’s just a new ’story’ developing with our ’package.’"
Everyone’s jaws dropped.
Master of Ceremonies finally dispelled everyone’s worries with one sentence:
"As for the client possibly being dissatisfied and complaining to [Clown] afterward, although I think [Clown] wouldn’t entertain the complaint, just to be safe, when we retrieve the gift...."
Master of Ceremonies paused and eerily added:
"We may as well retrieve the client too!"
The eyes of the members of Team 103 all lit up.
Master of Ceremonies was indeed the brains of the team, offering a perfectly flawless solution.
"Great! Let’s do it this way!"
The bald Captain made the final decision.
He glanced at everyone and threw out the next crucial question:
"So, how do we find Zuo Bai next?"
They knew Zuo Bai was still hiding in Zone 9, but they didn’t know his exact location.
Red Dragonfly immediately looked down at the watch’s screen, her fingers swiping to bring up the task hint at the bottom of the order, containing only three words—Corpse Recovery Man!
........
Thinking of "Corpse Recovery Man," the first thing that popped into his head was that square, light-up taxi shell.