Chapter 2: The First Item: Deserted City Notes
Shen Li sat in the middle, looking up slightly.
The two teammates surrounded him from above, almost submerging him in their shadows.
It feels like bullying an honest person.
"What's your name?"
"Shen Li."
"Who are you?"
"I don't remember." Shen Li confessed honestly.
If someone said this, they would most likely use amnesia to conceal their identity. No one would believe it.
But coming out of this guy's mouth, it becomes very believable.
This person is so clean and clear that one can see through him at a glance.
Everyone has a disguised shell, but not him.
Red-haired man took a look at the sealing cloth strip wrapped around the monster box. The red ghost-like symbols on it were drawn with blood.
At first glance it looked like dog crawling, and he couldn't make out a single word.
After a closer look, I found a clue. The dog-crawling characters and the incomprehensible seal symbol on the monster box seemed to be of the same type.
"Can you understand the symbols above?" asked Red Hair.
Shen Li: “Yes.”
You say he is illiterate, but he actually recognizes symbols on the monster box that no one else recognizes.
Red Hair: "What do these things mean?"
Chen Li: "It probably means to use any kind of natural force to seal the resentful object inside."
Chen Li pointed to a special symbol on the box and said, "This spell borrows the light of day, so this place is left with only night."
Li looked out the window carefully, and it was true.
Thick fog covered the area, leaving only darkness.
I thought the fog would dissipate if I just waited until daybreak, but it seems that is impossible.
Red Hair seemed to have seen a savior, "Such a good thing, can you draw some for me to protect myself?"
Shen Li: "It's possible, but..."
The red-haired man was so excited that he couldn't hear the last two words. He tore his clothes in half with a "swish". His expression was even a little perverted, like an exhibitionist.
Li Dangxin turned around and turned his back to him in disgust.
"Can't you just let him finish his words?"
Red Hair gathered his clothes and handed him a cup of hot tea: "You tell me, tell me."
Chen Li raised his eyes, his bright eyes matched with his unhurried tone, and everything he said sounded sincere.
"But power is conserved. If I draw another spell for you, the power of the original seal will be evenly distributed to the other spells. I'm afraid that it will not be able to suppress the things in the box."
Red Hair was splashed with a basin of cold water, his clothes were torn and his heart was chilled.
"Then can't you borrow some other natural forces? For example, can you borrow this thick fog?"
Shen Li held the glass carefully, "No, I can't do it."
When he said this, a rare, inappropriate smile appeared in his eyes.
Red Hair felt that this expression appeared in the wrong situation, so he was on guard: "If you can't do it, then why are you laughing?"
Shen Li finished the water in the cup and looked down at the glass in his hand, "I am weak, so I am very happy."
"Because I am weak, I am happy?"
His answer once again refreshed everyone's cognition.
Since the collapse of the other world, this world has become very dangerous. If you want to survive the delivery mission, you have to become stronger.
Everyone wants to become stronger.
How could anyone do the opposite?
“Although I have forgotten many things, I still remember what I once hoped for the most: I want to be an ordinary person.”
Now that this wish has come true, he is very happy.
He held up the glass as if it were a treasure of vital importance.
"I've never been able to hold something this fragile before, because it would break if I squeezed it, but now I can hold it!"
So holding the glass is a big deal?
Is it more amazing than saving everyone just now?
The blind man frowned, the socially anxious person raised his eyes, and Red Hair and Sister Sa looked at each other in silence.
Sorry, they really don’t understand, let alone empathize.
This person is seriously ill!
At this time, Li Dangxin suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly walked to the electronic screen in the post station and called up the Yunxu list.
The Yunxu list is divided into upper, middle and lower positions. Every time a delivery is successful, the deliveryman’s points will increase.
It is an important basis for distinguishing the strong from the weak.
Li Dangxin always felt that Chen Li’s name should be on it.
So she skipped the lower and middle positions and scrolled up to the top, where she found the name of the top person:
"Yeminglang?"
Not him.
She was somewhat unwilling to give up, so she flipped through a few more pages and compared the names of the top ten in the bottom and the top ten in the middle.
Still not found.
"Wait, didn't you lose your memory? Is it possible that your name is Ye Minglang?" Li Dangxin asked him.
Shen Li said with great certainty: "I remember my name."
"But the points of the top ten in Yunxu haven't changed in half a year."
Li Dangxin felt as if he had grasped a very important clue.
Something must have happened to the top ten!
It may be that a big guy suffered a heavy blow during a delivery process and lost his memory and failed to deliver the parcel, so the points have not changed for half a year.
Li Dangxin: "I now suspect that you may be one of the big guys here!"
Redhead jumped out to support her: "You are right to suspect! I also think he looks like a suspicious amnesiac."
The blind man leaned against the door and sneered, "Since you were so powerful before, you can't be much worse now, why don't you go into the thick fog and explore the way for everyone?"
If a blind man could regain his sight, he would definitely have a pair of eyes that appear sharper than anyone else's.
He said this clearly intending to take advantage of Shen Li.
Li Dangxin wanted to speak up to stop him, but when she looked at her brother who was curled up in the corner and was extremely scared, she remained silent.
The red-haired man felt a little guilty, "Don't bully the honest people too much."
Then she grabbed his shoulders and pushed him out the door, "Go quickly and come back soon."
"good."
The honest man opened the door and walked calmly into the dark fog.
Li Dangxin couldn't bear it and reminded him: "The map is on your left arm. Come back quickly if you encounter danger. Do you hear me?"
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…
Chen Li wandered in the mist for a long time until his hair became wet.
It was clearly a delivery task, but it could not be delivered because the recipient was unknown.
He tried to find even one living person in this dark place.
But this place is a dead city. Not to mention living people, even living things cannot be seen.
All the flowers, plants and trees withered, and the bodies of the birds curled up in their nests.
The sky was dark and the city looked like a huge cemetery.
Chen Li wandered there like a wandering soul, becoming more and more confused.
At this moment, the other couriers in the station all looked unhappy.
Cold sweat broke out on the blind man's forehead, and Li Dangxin covered his left arm with a painful expression.
Veins appeared on the red-haired man's forehead. He slammed the table in indignation and stared at the white spot of light on his arm that belonged to Shen Li with gritted teeth.
Every time Chen Li moved, the light spot buried under the skin also moved on everyone's arm, causing pain like a knife cut.
At first, everything was normal, and everyone was monitoring Shen Li's movements on their arms.
But gradually, everyone found something wrong.
"This kid... is a person with poor sense of direction, right?"
It hurts! It hurts so much!
The map is engraved on everyone's skin and the road is clear.
If Chen Li had continued walking along the road, the pain would have been bearable.
But this kid doesn't follow the route at all!
He is breaking new ground and taking a very new route!
On a straight road in the shape of “1”, he can make a “F” shape.
The longer the time goes, the more outrageous this guy's activities become!
Sometimes it was a ball of yarn, making more than twenty circles on everyone's skin.
Sometimes it is in the shape of an electrocardiogram, wandering back and forth on the main road, then returning to the starting point and starting to take the mosquito coil route.
A straight road turned out to be a winding mountain road.
The left arm seems to be tortured.
Who can bear this?
Li Dangxin couldn't stand it anymore and rushed out, "I'll go and bring him back!"
Half an hour later, Sister Sa returned helplessly as she had no idea where to go.
As soon as Chen Li entered the room, he was scolded by the red-haired man: "No, you didn't even look at this map, did you? You were just wandering around the whole time?"
"I looked at the map." Shen Li explained in a low voice, "My sense of direction is not very good..."
"It's quite bad!" everyone retorted in unison.
Shen Li: “…”
Li Dangxin only dared to go out and look for Chen Li after he saw that he had been wandering outside for such a long time without encountering any danger.
While on the way to find someone, I had already explored most of the surrounding conditions.
"It was very foggy, there was no one around, and there were a lot of tall buildings. It would have been too late to search for clues door to door. On the way back just now, I had an idea."
Li Dangxin hesitated when he said this.
"Maybe... we should look for clues about the recipient in that notebook."
"Are you crazy? What if the evil spirit in the box crawls out again?" Red Hair recalled his previous experience and became extremely panicked.
"Don't we still have him?" The blind man poked Shen Li's shoulder accurately with his stick, causing the frail Shen Li to stagger.
"Hey, can you get rid of the ghost in the box?"
"Not very good."
Even though the blind man treated him like this, Shen Li was not angry. His temper was astonishingly good.
He realized there was a seal in his body, sealing away his previous power.
The seal was very strong, he couldn't break it, nor did he want to break it.
He firmly believes that he is an ordinary person now, so he is humble again and again when estimating probabilities.
"My chance of winning is only 30%."
The blind man originally thought that their chances of winning would be even lower, after all, it was a difficult problem that had failed more than 80,000 times.
Those deceased predecessors had once faced the same desperate situation as them. At that time, they had no chance of winning, and even escaping death was a luxury. They could only wait for death.
Shen Li's estimate was much higher than he had expected.
It's already very good.
"30%, it's worth risking your life for."
No one objected.
Because everyone knows that this is the only way.
Everyone surrounded the monster box and was ready for battle.
Their plan was for Chen Li and the blind man to hold back the vengeful spirit, while the rest of them would take the opportunity to look through the notebook in the box.
Red-haired held the cloth seal in his hand, ready to undo it at any time. He anxiously told Li to be careful:
"You have to read as many pages as you can quickly."
"I'll flip you from the front to the back, and you'll flip me from the back to the front. Blind man, use whatever skills you have to help hold back the monster."
The situation was extremely tense for a moment.
Everyone's reason is like a taut string.
The red-haired man was already sweating profusely, and he untied the sealing cloth as carefully as if he was defusing a bomb.
As soon as the seal was removed, the lid of the box suddenly popped open, and the side effects made everyone's head hurt.
The evil spirit in the box almost flew out.
A strong fishy smell swept over.
Chen Li was standing right in front of the box, and he caught the vengeful spirit as soon as it came out.
He just grabbed the ghost's neck and smashed it down with ease.
After the vengeful spirit let out a roar, its body turned into broken points of light, like fireflies flying all over the sky in a summer jungle.
A gust of wind suddenly rose from the ground, pulling the light spot around the heavy hat and swirling around it before gradually dissipating.
It all happened so quickly, from the time the box was opened to now, it took less than ten seconds.
The vengeful spirit...just like that...is gone?
They didn't even get to see what it looked like!
Everyone just felt their scalp tingling.
"hiss……"
Red Hair took a deep breath, rubbed the goose bumps on his arms, and asked them in disbelief:
"He just said that we only have a few percent chance of winning?"
"Thirty percent." replied the blind man.
Everyone: “…”
Your 30% and my 30% are different.
If I had known it was so simple, why would I have bothered to put up a seal? I could have just rushed in!
At the bottom of the monster box, a notebook with a black cover was lying there quietly.
No one felt threatened by it, except Shen Li.
For the first time, a look of nervousness appeared on his calm face.
Something is wrong.
He turned around and wanted to remind them, but it was too late.
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