Chapter 2: Yellow Springs Delivery

Doctor... Rong Leying instinctively wanted to call a doctor to treat the little boy's wounds, but before the words could leave her mouth, she heard the little boy say

"Big sister, are you here to help me deliver something?"

Deliver what?

Rong Leying looked blank. Suddenly, a thought occurred to her, and she slowly lowered her head to look. She saw that blood had pooled all over the floor, and the crimson liquid had even spread to her feet.

What kind of child could survive such a life-threatening amount of blood loss?!

And how did this child suddenly appear just now?

An absurd conjecture popped into her mind. Rong Leying felt half her body go numb instantly. She struggled to lift her head, looking closely, and saw that the boy’s body was somewhat translucent; through him, she could see the blue floor tiles beneath.

Rong Leying felt her entire body go numb.

Good heavens, she had prayed to the gods to save her grandfather, not to have a ghost open the door to a new world for her.

Big brother, at least look at the request clearly!

If she hadn't been brave, she would have gone straight ahead of her grandfather to scout the path for him.

"Big sister, are you really here to help me deliver something?" The boy asked again when he saw she wasn't speaking, holding up the toy airplane in his hands. "Big sister, I want to give this airplane to my daddy."

As he spoke, his gaze turned toward the man sitting on the bench, his eyes filled with self-reproach and regret.

He regretted it; he shouldn't have disobeyed his father and snuck downstairs alone to retrieve the airplane.

「Please deliver the toy airplane in Xu Zihang's hand to Xu Yunfei at the entrance of the emergency department operating room at Dongning Hospital.

Upon successful delivery, you will receive five merit points and fifty thousand yuan. Does the rider choose to accept the delivery?」

Rong Leying looked at the airplane in his hands and suddenly remembered the notification that had just popped up on her phone. She quickly opened it to take a look; it was an unfamiliar app page.

In the top left corner of the page was a default avatar, next to which was her name—Rong Leying—followed by five characters: "Yellow Springs Delivery Courier."

Below that, it displayed: Merit Points: 0.

In the top right corner, there was an icon resembling a house.

Further down were several buttons: Pending Orders, In-Progress Orders, Completed Orders.

The page was simple. The "In-Progress Orders" section had a red dot. Rong Leying tapped it, and the message from before appeared, followed by a countdown timer.

00:59:01

The time to complete this order was one hour. Rong Leying understood instantly.

She looked at the little boy in disbelief. "Xu Zihang?"

As soon as the name was spoken, Rong Leying caught a glimpse of the man sitting there, who hadn't moved at all, suddenly stir. He lifted his head to look in her direction, his eyes terrifyingly bloodshot, his face covered in stubble, his cheeks sunken.

He looked even more like a ghost than the little boy did.

But he didn't seem to see the little boy. His gaze lingered on Rong Leying for only two seconds before he slowly lowered his head again, entering a state of meditation.

The little boy nodded. "Big sister, my name is Xu Zihang." He pointed at the man and said, "He is my daddy. Big sister, please give the airplane to my daddy for me."

This child was the one from the mission. All she had to do was take the airplane from his hand and give it to the man.

But the problem was, how could she take something from a ghost... Oh... she could!

She had actually taken something from a ghost's hand!!

Her scalp tingled, and the airplane in her hand felt like a burning coal, abnormally hot.

She had just tried it on a whim, never expecting to actually, vividly, take the airplane from the little boy's hand.

Wow. Her understanding of the world was rapidly collapsing and being rebuilt.

How wonderful!

Rong Leying really wanted to throw the thing away, but seeing the little boy's pitiful face, she suppressed the thought.

She didn't know how this little boy had died, nor did she know the story of the father and son.

But if she were to die, or if her grandfather were to die... thinking of the latter possibility, her heart ached.

Rong Leying turned to look at the operating room, took a deep breath, walked over to the man, and handed him the airplane.

"Xu Yunfei, your son, Xu Zihang, asked me to pass this to you."

She thought that if one day she and her loved ones were separated by life and death, she would also hope for someone like this to appear and pass on the words or items she wanted to convey.

Hearing the name Xu Zihang again, Xu Yunfei reacted. He slowly lifted his head, and the moment his eyes caught sight of the airplane, those bloodshot, numb eyes gradually regained a glimmer of light.

Xu Yunfei snatched the model airplane, turning it over and over, until he finally saw the familiar mark on the bottom.

It was a gift he had specially customized for his son, engraved with the child's name and birthday.

This was his son's airplane, the one he had searched for for so long but never found!

It was also the culprit that had caused his son's death.

Xu Yunfei looked up at Rong Leying and asked excitedly, "Where did you find this airplane?"

He hadn't spoken in a long time; his voice was hoarse and dry.

Rong Leying pointed at the little boy. "Your son gave it to me. He asked me to give this airplane to you."

Xu Yunfei looked in the direction of her finger. The little boy was looking at Xu Yunfei with anticipation.

But Xu Yunfei saw nothing.

Xu Yunfei turned back to stare at Rong Leying. He suspected that this girl was mentally unstable or was deliberately messing with him.

"You probably can't see him."

Rong Leying: "But this is what your son asked me to give you. He is right there."

After saying this, she walked back to her original position. Her task was only to deliver the item; whether he believed her or not was none of her business.

「Order completed. Merit points and rewards have been issued.」

It was that same cold, mechanical voice again.

Rong Leying picked up her phone to check. She had received a bank notification that fifty thousand yuan had been deposited.

It was actually real!

Rong Leying’s breath hitched, her heartbeat accelerating involuntarily. She hurriedly switched back to the app page. The red dot on "In-Progress Orders" had disappeared, and a new red dot had appeared on "Completed Orders."

The merit points had changed from 0 to 5.

Yellow Springs Delivery... Yellow Springs Delivery... Rong Leying muttered to herself.

Merit points... Could it be!

Rong Leying’s brow twitched. With a guess in mind, she quickly tapped the house-like icon in the top right corner.

Inside was a page similar to an online shopping mall, containing all sorts of items.

There were Beauty Pills, Disguise Pills, Black Jade Intermittent Ointment, Itch Powder, Soft Muscle Powder, Five Poisons Powder...

Flying Leg techniques, Superhuman Strength, Bone-Shrinking techniques...

Evil-Warding Talismans, Peach Blossom Talismans, Peace Talismans...

Marrow-Cleansing Pills, Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Pills, Youth-Preserving Pills...

There were also various outfits and decorative items.

...

Damn, this mall had everything from martial arts to metaphysics to cultivation, and each item had a corresponding price.

Except for things like Beauty Pills and Whitening Pills, which were relatively cheap, other skill-based or tool-based items were quite expensive, with no upper limit on the price.

Rong Leying’s gaze landed precisely on the "Soul-Returning Life-Extending Pill." She tapped for details. The image showed a pitch-black pill that looked like a knock-off product.

Price: 88 merit points or five million RMB.

Below it was the product description.

Soul-Returning Life-Extending Pill: Can restore the life of someone critically injured, and can even bring the dead back to life.

Rong Leying’s heart raced. If this thing really existed, it could save her grandfather!

She tried to purchase it, but it showed she didn't have enough merit points. However, it offered installment payments, and new users could get a discount of twenty merit points or one million yuan on their first purchase.

Even with a million off, it would still be four million. She didn't have that much money, so she would have to use merit points to offset it, which would be 68 merit points.

68 points could be split into 24 installments with a monthly interest rate of 5%. The interest alone would cost 79.2 merit points.

Damn it, that's pretty predatory.