Chapter 78 Nightmare Community
As a qualified physical waste, Xu Zhiyan is not very good at anything related to manual work.
The same goes for cooking.
This is different from the way he thinks about simple operations and tries to fool the system.
Bai Jin is very patient when it comes to cooking.
He taught Xu Zhiyan step by step how to make three delicious dishes made with roasted sweet potatoes.
Cheese baked sweet potato, sweet potato egg tart, sweet potato mille-feuille.
Xu Zhiyan, who was already tired of acting, lowered his head, letting his hair cover half of his eyes, hiding his gaze and quietly slacking off.
He glanced at the food being prepared with a milky aroma and felt quite hungry.
It would be even better if no one was touching him.
The sacrifice this time was really too great. Xu Zhiyan felt that after returning to the safe house, he should ask the boss of Party A for more money.
But after thinking about it, he has already been given the highest authority in the safe house, and if he pays more money, the only option he has is to "get it back".
With a sigh, Xu Zhiyan's dream of getting more money was shattered, and he could only blame himself for his bad luck.
Due to the addition of dessert, the dinner preparation time was indefinitely delayed and took more than two hours.
Bai Jin was very satisfied.
He touched the young man's back almost all over.
He was very satisfied with both the elasticity of the skin and the development of the bones.
This is indeed a perfect body.
Just a little thin.
And his lambs did not resist after being treated in this way.
For two whole hours, the young man just lowered his head and bit his lips tightly, only when his waist was touched would he occasionally let out a muffled groan.
This attitude of forbearance makes people more and more fascinating.
Bai Jin licked his lips.
His prey was indeed a little too immature.
You know, he originally just wanted to check whether the other person's bones were the same as he thought.
But even with a layer of cloth between them, the warm touch is still so appealing.
Considering the other party's thin skin, Bai Jin wanted to check more, but finally stopped.
"bite--"
The oven sounds.
Seeing the last of the food finished roasting, Xu Zhiyan jumped aside like a rabbit.
Bai Jin looked at the young man's lips that had been bitten red, and did nothing else. Instead, he took out the prepared food from the oven.
"You go to the dining table and wait for me, I'll be there soon." He said with a smile.
Xu Zhiyan nodded, and looking at Bai Jin who showed no reaction at all when he pinched the high-temperature baking tray with his bare hands, he was sure that the other party was in a good mood and was no longer human.
Resisting the urge to take the props and take a look at Bai Jin, he told himself that it was not the right time yet.
It's only the second night.
Even if we want to have a falling out, we have to wait until tomorrow night.
[Task: Make delicious sweet potato dishes]
[Progress: 100%]
[Reward: Fatherly Love +10]
[Reward: Correct time (1h)]
Another hour's income.
Adding the time gained from delivering the takeaway food before, and the few additional orders that Bai Jin had just added using his mobile phone, Xu Zhiyan's current correct time was enough to sustain him until 2:30 in the morning.
By then he should have started working on his midnight assignment.
Xu Xiaohua sat obediently at the table and ate fruit.
She seemed to have a stomach that could never be filled.
[Name: Xu Xiaohua]
【Age: 4 (not in school)】
[Favorability: 34]
While he was free, Xu Zhiyan glanced at the favorability, pinched the little hair on his cheap girl's head, and asked, "After eating so much fruit now, will you be able to eat later?"
He was indeed curious.
There were already two piles of mango peels on the table.
Before, Xu Zhiyan always thought that Xu Xiaohua's appetite was the same as the weight marked on the feeding table.
But after getting along with them, he found out that the weight on the feeding table was actually the minimum standard.
Now that his favorability has improved a lot, he should be able to ask something, right? He doesn't think the system really intends to let this little thing eat him up... Never mind, the dog system can do anything.
Who knew that this sentence almost made Xu Xiaohua cry.
"Dad, do you think I eat too much...then I, then I will eat less in the future, okay?"
Xu Xiaohua suddenly felt that the mango in her hand no longer tasted fragrant.
Xu Zhiyan looked at the little girl in astonishment as she obediently put down the mango in her hand, sat at the dining table and suddenly began to cry silently, feeling a little at a loss as to what to do.
He just saw that the favorability on the panel had increased, so he wanted to see if he could ask about any side quests.
"No, no, why would Dad think you eat a lot?"
He quickly took a tissue to wipe Xu Xiaohua's face, and Xu Zhiyan kept comforting her.
"Children are growing up, so it's good for them to eat... Well, anyway, seeing Xiaohua eating with relish, Daddy is very happy."
"Dad is just worried that Xiaohua might not want him when she grows up."
Hearing this, Xu Xiaohua wiped away her tears and shook her head like a rattle.
"No, no! Wuuwuwu, Xiaohua loves daddy the most, she will never leave daddy!"
"Then Dad will be relieved..."
Although coaxing children is not his forte, Xu Zhiyan has solid eloquence and he managed to make the four-year-old girl laugh again with just a few words.
He breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly grabbed some snacks from the table and stuffed them into Xu Xiaohua's mouth.
I finally skipped over the topic of eating too much.
But from the very beginning, Xu Zhiyan felt a vague gaze falling on him. Now, after coaxing the child and looking up, he saw Bai Jin leaning against the refrigerator with a bone china plate, staring at him intently.
Xu Zhiyan lowered his head as quickly as possible, showing an uncomfortable and shy look after experiencing "too close contact".
And rolled my eyes in my heart.
Damn it, after coaxing the younger one, he cheats the older one.
Just let him die of exhaustion!
The barrage of comments gave cyber applause to Xu Zhiyan's acting skills.
[[Applause][Applause][Applause]]
[This acting is amazing! ]
[Rich artist and delicate beauty.avi]
【Oh my god, what happened just now? 】
[To be honest, if I didn’t know who Xiao Baiwan was, I would have fallen into the trap too! ]
【Looking at Xiao Baiwan’s expression, I thought he would be blurred out in the next second, but after looking at the content, it turns out he just touched his back?】
[Is this artist a medical student? I thought he was treating Xiao Baiwan’s spinal disease…]
[Pfft, god damn, heal your spine! ]
[I also want to touch Yanyan’s wife hehehe… The way my wife bites her lips is so sour, so sour, so sour! ]
【? ? Wasn’t the weird guy above blocked before? Has he been unblocked? 】
Maybe because he had just touched her for a long time, Bai Jin was very satisfied.
After Xu Zhiyan quickly finished his meal and tried to escape to deliver the takeaway, he did not try to stop him.
Perhaps he thought he would succeed tonight, so when he sent the young man out, he didn't even mention the topic of "daughter", but just told him to be careful.
Xu Zhiyan pretended to be at a loss until he hurried downstairs.
Just walked out of the unit door.
The young man, with a light blush on his face, fell expressionlessly.
Sitting on the electric scooter, the seat was a bit cold, and Xu Zhiyan sighed.
This can't go on like this.
Although dealing with perverts or delivering takeout are not very difficult, the combination of the two is quite energy-consuming.
He originally planned to cooperate with Xie Lingyi first, and then trick the other party into delivering food for him.
As a result, the human meat bun interrupted his plan.
It seems that tomorrow is the last night of the haunted house mission. We must find a safe house and retrieve Bai Jin.
Because of the bug in Bai Jin's order, Xu Zhiyan didn't receive the remaining scattered orders until almost eleven o'clock.
They were all normal late night snack orders.
By the time the delivery was done, it was already half past eleven.
The total number of his takeout orders finally exceeded fifty.
[Congratulations to the player for completing fifty orders! ]
【Would you like to check the food delivery rules? （9）】
As the number of takeouts completed increased, the rules given began to gradually become fewer.
When I completed five orders before, there were three, but now there is only one.
Based on the previous operations of the main system, Xu Zhiyan can determine that he may have to complete several times the orders before unlocking a rule.
The fingertip touched 'yes' on the translucent panel.
A weird new rule popped up.
[9. Reward for destroying the wrong beast: Correct time (10 hours)]
"The Beast of Error?"
Xu Zhiyan frowned.
What the hell is this?
A reward prompt with no beginning or end?
As for the customers Xu Zhiyan has met while delivering meals, except for Mr. Chu who has obvious changes in appearance, even Bai Jin and the owner of the healthy breakfast shop still maintain their human form.
Although he knew in his heart that Bai Jin was 99% not a living person, the takeaway order was still marked as completed when it was delivered.
Is there something wrong with the rules?
Or... are these rules simply used to confuse players' vision and hearing?
There is too little information available now, so Xu Zhiyan cannot draw any more conclusions. He can only take things one step at a time.
The phone vibrated.
The night order that Xu Zhiyan had been waiting for finally arrived.
【The order assistant is serving you! 】
【Order number: %&%6476￥+…￥7s6】
【Merchant Address:******】
【Food: Fried Rice】
[Customer information: Unit 2, Building 66, Meimeng Community, 0403, Mr. Chu, Tel: 17...]
【Delivery time: before 01:00:00】
【Please do not exceed the time limit! 】
[Estimated profit of this order: Correct time (3h)]
【Do you accept the order? 】
【whether】
"Tsk, acquaintance..."
Xu Zhiyan frowned and touched his pocket, which still contained the cigarettes he forgot to return.
He had just had an argument with Mr. Chu during the day, and now he had to deliver his order at night? Wasn't the system targeting him?
The merchant address and order number are all gibberish, only the food information.
He looked at yes and no and hesitated for a moment.
The game system also popped up immediately.
【Congratulations to the player for triggering the night order! 】
【Note: There is no beautiful dream in the beautiful dream community at night. 】
【Tip 1: Night orders are special orders, and one person can only accept one order at a time. 】
[Tip 2: Special order rewards will increase/double as the player completes the task, so I hope players will take it seriously.]
Looking at the prompt, Xu Zhiyan's expression became more solemn.
While Tip 2 was tempting, it was Tip 1 that bothered him.
A single person can only accept one order at a time, which means that he must make a choice now, whether to accept the order or reject it, otherwise there will be no new orders.
This is not a good tip.
Mr. Chu's order is not a good choice either.
But today, even after trying my best and finding a bug to use Bai Jin to place an order, the correct time could only last until four in the morning.
As he was unsure whether there would be new orders after rejecting this one, Xu Zhiyan had no choice.
Bet on other orders?
Forget it, it’s too risky. At least I’ve seen Mr. Chu twice today.
【yes】
After making his selection, Xu Zhiyan reviewed the order again.
There is no pick-up location.
Only the food names.
Fried rice is a very common food. Not to mention other things, there are four or five shops selling fried rice in the commercial street of Dan Meimeng Community.
And each one sells something different.
Egg fried rice, seafood fried rice, soy sauce fried rice, curry fried rice...
Thinking of this, Xu Zhiyan couldn't help but recall what Boss Zhang, who was roasting sweet potatoes, said.
'Each fixed merchant sells different things, and there are almost no duplicates, so everyone gets along very well.'
Vaguely remembering that all shops in the commercial street would be closed after twelve o'clock, he put aside his doubts for the time being and rode on his electric scooter.
It was already eleven forty when we arrived at the commercial street.
It's still lively here.
Although there are not many customers anymore, there are many more mobile stalls outside the commercial street.
Compared with fixed stores, the signs on mobile stalls are much simpler.
Low-wattage light bulbs dangling, large frying pans stained with brown oil, gas tanks piled on tricycles...
It looks like it's more than one level lower than the store.
However, the variety here is very rich, and unlike stores, there are many similar stalls.
Fried noodles, steamed buns, porridge, siomai, fire cakes...
With just a few small carts, they sell almost all the popular snacks.
Xu Zhiyan lowered his eyes. When he arrived at eleven o'clock, these mobile stalls had not appeared yet.
But now he was anxious about the orders on hand, and had no time to look for new clues at the mobile stalls, so he went straight to several shops selling fried rice.
I went to four stores in a row, and the owner of each store said that he had not received any orders.
Xu Zhiyan felt something was wrong.
He tried to ask the owner of the curry fried rice shop if he could make a simple fried rice.
When the boss in a turban heard this, he immediately grabbed the menu beside him, as if he had heard some terrifying hint, and pointed at the dishes on it and explained them one by one.
“Fried rice? No no no, we only have curry fried rice here. If you need curry fried rice, then I can make it for you now.”
"Then can I have curry fried rice without the curry?" Xu Zhiyan tried to find a loophole.
However, the boss shook his head frantically.
"Of course not! Curry fried rice must contain curry, carrots, chicken, potatoes..."
Seeing that the boss refused to make him fried rice no matter what, he stopped hesitating and went to the mobile stall.
【Everything is available: fried rice, fried noodles, fried instant noodles】
Below the dirty big sign, there is a small, crooked handwritten sign with the prices of various commodities written on it.
【Fried rice 5 yuan】
【Fried noodles 5 pieces】
【Fried instant noodles 4……】
[+3 pieces of sausage + 1 piece of shredded potato + 5 pieces of chicken fillet + 1 piece of shredded kelp + 1 piece of egg...]
You can tell the boss is a businessman, he'll add anything you want.
"One fried rice."
Xu Zhiyan casually took out five dollars and stuffed it into the hand of the fried rice stall owner.
The boss was a middle-aged man in his forties. He looked about the same age as the sweet potato stall owner, but he was very skinny, even thinner than the owner of the healthy breakfast shop.
He took the money and chuckled, revealing his gums which were missing a front tooth.
"Brother, don't you want to add something else? We can add anything here."
The toothless boss kept moving his hands while talking.
He shook the small gas tank skillfully and took out a lighter.
This action startled Xu Zhiyan and he almost ran away, but the next second, a strange white flame came out of the stove.
After lighting the fire, the boss scooped a piece of lard from a small enamel can next to him and threw it into the pot, stir-frying it for a few times, then grabbed a handful of chopped green onions from a torn plastic bag.
“Sizzle——”
The boiling lard makes the ingredients burst with fragrance.
The toothless boss fried it for a few times, took out a small bag from the car, and poured half a bag of rice into the pot.
During the stir-frying process, he couldn't help but ask.
"Brother, can you add something else? Can you eat this without anything else?"
Xu Zhiyan sniffed the fragrance and explained, "It's not that I don't want to add it. I'm helping others buy it. If it were me, I would definitely add it!"
When it comes to dungeon NPCs, he always prefers to make friends with the good ones rather than the bad ones.
The toothless boss nodded after hearing this, and continued to concentrate on making fried rice with a little disappointment.
Xu Zhiyan really wanted to ask something more, but unfortunately the boss was too quick. Before he could finish his words, the fried rice had already been packed.
"Come again next time!"
Anyway, the boss made money and was very happy.
Xu Zhiyan took the fried rice, glanced at the time, and without saying anything more to the boss, he simply thanked him and rode his electric scooter straight to Building 66.
The cold night wind made his hands a little cold.
The cell phone prompted that it was already twelve o'clock. He seemed to have thought of something, stopped the car and turned around.
The commercial street suddenly became desolate.
Xu Zhiyan felt a chill on his back.
It took only a few minutes from the time he got on the bike to the time it left the commercial street and turned deep into the residential area.
All the stalls that had lights on just now disappeared...
Need to find some time to look at it.
See if the shops in the commercial street close in a second or all the employees disappear.
I arrived at Building 66 with ease.
Before entering the elevator, Xu Zhiyan inexplicably thought of the order he placed last night.
He climbed down the stairs after the elevator broke down.
By then the 'Maintenance' sign on the front of the elevator was gone, and it began to go up and down non-stop with no one in it.
Although this situation did not occur in Building 176, it was a haunted building after all, and he was not sure whether there would be anything strange in the elevators on other floors.
After thinking for a moment, Xu Zhiyan took out the props he got from Xie Lingyi and put them on his eyes.
【Name: Sunglasses】
[Rank: B]
[Type: Auxiliary]
[Introduction: This item often drops in copies with strong light. In addition to protecting your eyes, it also has unexpected effects. ]
[Notes: Wear sunglasses to see some strange things, there is a limit on the number of uses (1/15)]
Even though wearing sunglasses at night makes one look like a fool, they are useful props after all, and Xu Zhiyan is not too picky in special circumstances.
He pressed the button.
Soon, the elevator came down.
Xu Zhiyan pushed his sunglasses down to make sure his eyes could see half of the scene outside the sunglasses, and secretly compared it with the scene inside.
From a broad perspective, there is nothing there, just empty elevators.
The only difference is that there are a few thin things extending from the corner of the elevator in the sunglasses.
Some of them look like the blood vessels in 1402, but they are very thin and not that thick at all.
Seeing that it was something familiar, Xu Zhiyan was no longer so nervous and walked in with the fried rice.
However, when he approached the slime-like blood vessels, these black blood vessels did not avoid him like the blood vessels in 1402. Instead, they seemed to wrap around his clothes.
His expression didn't change and he took a step to the side.
Well, although they look similar, these don't look as friendly as the blood vessels in 1402.
We have arrived at the fourth floor.
Xu Zhiyan was holding the fried rice and couldn't help but sigh when he looked at the house number 0403.
He reached out and knocked on the door, a standard smile on his face.
"Mr. Chu, your takeaway has arrived!"
He was responded by a loud bang on the door.
“Boom—”
Then, the door opened a crack, but was not really pushed open. There seemed to be a TV on inside, with some background music playing.
Xu Zhiyan glanced at his phone and saw that the order had not been completed yet.
Could the breakfast shop owner be in there? He still hadn't figured out the matter of the human meat buns.
Although Mr. Chu was irritable, he did not eat the food sent by his mother, so he should know something...
Thinking of the takeaway rules, Xu Zhiyan hid the powerful electric shock weapon he had used before in his sleeve, and without hesitation, he reached out and opened the door of Room 0403.
It was dark inside.
The TV was indeed on, and there was a game screen on it.
Mr. Chu was lying on the living room floor, looking dead, but judging by the marks left by the lamp on the door, he should be alive.
Xu Zhiyan stood at the door holding the bag and did not take another step forward.
His perspective became...very novel?
This time, the Mr. Chu he could see with his naked eyes had turned into a monster with bulging eyes, a head as big as a bucket, and his tongue was sticking out, and he was unconscious.
But Mr. Chu in the sunglasses still looked like a human being.
It seemed like I heard voices coming from the door, and Mr. Chu inside the door kept saying something.
Xu Zhiyan took off his sunglasses and all he heard were strange mumblings.
But after putting on sunglasses, the sound in your ears changes.
He understood what Mr. Chu said.
"I'm a loser. I can't even play the game, and I can't pass the postgraduate entrance exam."
"Who can save me... I don't want to take the exam again. I'm not cut out for it. Please save me..."
"I'm so hungry, I really want to eat..."
Xu Zhiyan thought for a moment, holding the fried rice in his hand, and squatted beside the dying Mr. Chu.
"Mr. Chu, your takeaway has arrived!"
The monster lying on the ground twitched and reached out to take the fried rice.
Xu Zhiyan looked at the order, confirming that he had completed it, but he did not receive the expected time.
[Estimated profit of this order: Correct time (3.5h)]
The timing of expected returns here has changed.
"…Because the ones visible to the naked eye are not humans?"
Xu Zhiyan ignored Mr. Chu who was eating fried rice frantically, and stroked his chin to think.
There are so many strange things happening in this community that he cannot figure out the pattern of Mr. Chu's mutation for the time being.
but……
He was sure that Mr. Chu during the day was a human, and he did not get any information about monsters even after such close contact.
Recalling the inferiority complex language he had just heard, Xu Zhiyan curled up the corners of his mouth, smiled and squatted aside.
"Mr. Chu, are you troubled by the fact that you are a waste?"
"I thought you were studying hard, but I didn't expect you to be someone who can't even beat the game!"
After hearing these two sentences, Mr. Chu, who had just been concentrating on eating, suddenly froze. His head, which was almost unrecognizable as a human, was gradually getting bigger, and his limbs were becoming increasingly shriveled.
The barrage was stunned.
【! What is Xiao Baiwan doing? 】
[Fuck! Is this a provocation? This is a provocation! ]
[This monster looks like it's about to get up and beat him up! ]
[…Awesome! Is it because you didn’t see any monster hints that you can do whatever you want? ]
[Rubbing salt into the wound! ]
[Mr. Chu is so miserable. Tsk tsk tsk.]
However, Xu Zhiyan's next sentence made the barrage and Mr. Chu stunned.
He looked at the monster that was on the verge of collapse, pursed his lips, and continued:
"I have a job here that will prove you're not actually trash."
Xu Zhiyan pointed at his delivery man’s jacket.
"Your biggest problem is that you haven't contributed to society and haven't been successful in a certain field."
"So do you want to try delivering food?"
He cleared his throat, his expression very proud.
"In fact, delivering food is also a form of spiritual practice, and it is very suitable for you to rebuild your self-confidence."
“Not only do you get a monetary reward for every takeaway order, but you also get to make your customers happy. What a great job!”
Mr. Chu's head is a little smaller.
He was moved.
Xu Zhiyan raised the corners of his mouth even higher, and continued to talk to Mr. Chu about the benefits of delivering takeout.
Ten minutes later, Mr. Chu completely recovered into human form.
"Can I, can I deliver food too?" he asked nervously. He never knew that delivering food was such a great thing.
"Of course! Although you snatched away my cultivation mission, you have put in the effort after all." Xu Zhiyan couldn't help laughing in his heart, but his face showed a little reluctance.
"How about this, if you deliver one order, I'll give you 50% of the reward."
That’s great, it will free him up to do other things during the day!
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