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Chapter 721 The Adventures of Mr. Cao, the Bird Thief Logisticsman
My mom is so tall, she's amazing. With just two slaps, she sent the car flying and pulled out the delivery truck that had been crushed into a pancake. Before leaving, she gave Gu Mian a long and earnest scolding.

"All they do is pick up trash from outside and bring it home; it's a mess that can never be cleaned up properly, no matter how hard we try."

"If you keep bringing more recyclables into the house, I'll throw you and all of them out."

After saying these words, the mother left with a look of disgust.

Gu Mian thought this mother was too unintelligent. She hadn't picked up any trash at home. Recently, she had only picked up Mr. Green and three people who robbed Mr. Green. Could it be that these four people were trash?

It seems I still need to find out some information about the exam-related content and upgrade my mom's skills; maybe she'll become a bit smarter.

At this moment, the fat boy had already squatted down to look at the "cart cake" his mother had thrown on the ground.

This is an electric tricycle. The rear part of the vehicle has been crushed beyond recognition, and the cargo compartment at the back, which is used for carrying packages, has been completely and tightly packed together.

However, the paint on the outside of the carriage has not been completely rubbed off, and the contents can still be vaguely discerned.

“Bird Thief Logistics…your best choice…” The fat man struggled to decipher the blurred words smudged on the carriage. “What kind of company is Bird Thief Logistics? I’ve never heard of it before?”

Gu Mian's voice came from the side: "It's Squid Logistics, isn't it?"

"Oh right, it's Squid Logistics. I must have misread it." The fat man scratched his head, looking at the dilapidated carriage on the ground. "But I've never heard of Squid Logistics before. I used to work part-time as a courier and I've never heard of Squid Logistics. Doctor, have you heard of this company?"

Of course I've heard of it, I only heard of it recently.

“Squid Logistics…” Chu Changge said from the side, “We met in the last instance.”

The waybill they stole from Wang Napao belonged to Squid Logistics; they used it and then left on their own.

Squid Logistics is a company within the instance, and this delivery truck belonging to Squid Logistics was deployed here at the very beginning of the global instance.

The fat man opened his mouth in surprise: "Is it the online dating game instance? Ah, this Squid Logistics is actually the logistics company in the instance. No wonder I've never seen it before."

"Since Squid Logistics is a company within the instance, this vehicle is most likely the key to unlocking the special instance, but now it's been flattened... I wonder if it can still be used."

Moreover, this vehicle had been looted by Gu Mian before, and there was hardly any cargo left.

"Let's lift up this carriage and take a look." Gu Mian also squatted down and started working on the flat carriage. "Let's lift up the carriage skin and see if anything is left inside."

The fat man quickly put his gloves back on: "But doctor, even if there's something left inside, it should be flat by now, right? If I receive a flat package, I'll definitely be angry and return it."

“It’s okay,” Gu Mian said as she tried to separate the two pieces of the carriage wall that were stuck together. “We can say that it was flat when we received the goods and it’s not our problem. As long as we reason with them, the customer will not make things difficult for us.”

As he spoke, he suddenly exerted force and lifted up one of the iron plates, revealing the object sandwiched between the two iron plates.

The fat man silently looked at what was revealed under the metal plate: "Looks like I won't need to deliver ninety-nine packages after all..."

The flat carriage was almost empty, except for a delivery bag about the size of a pillow.

Gu Mian picked up the delivery bag and shook it; the contents were long gone.

Fortunately, the delivery bag was still intact, and the shipping address was still on it. Gu Mian checked the shipping address and was surprised to find that it was the one he had previously complained about in his mind—"The ninth refrigerated morgue on the left after entering the underground morgue of Lianhua Hospital."

Gu Mian opened the package; inside was a vacuum-compressed cotton quilt.

At the time, they only needed food, so they tossed the package aside.

Later, as temperatures dropped globally, other people must have come and taken the blanket to keep warm.

Cardboard boxes used for deliveries can also be burned for warmth, and people ransacked the delivery truck, leaving only this empty delivery bag. If Gu Mian hadn't accidentally crushed the delivery truck while driving the hearse, this delivery bag would probably have been taken away too.

"Doctor, I remember you work at this hospital. You must know the underground morgue like the back of your hand." The fat man leaned closer to look at the address on the delivery slip.

"I know where the morgue is, but is it really appropriate to go there with just an empty delivery bag?" Since this is the only address available, Gu Mian decided to deliver the body first.

I'll send one first and see how it goes. As for the remaining ninety-eight packages, we'll figure out what to do later. Since the quilt in the bag was gone, Gu Mian went back to the apartment and, under the fat man's aggrieved gaze, took his quilt.

Considering that the recipient didn't seem like a normal person, he didn't bring Fatty and Chu Changge along, but only brought Xiao Hong to help him carry the quilt.

Xiao Hong thought Gu Mian was going to take her out to play, so she happily followed behind him, carrying her quilt.

The fat man stood at the apartment window watching Gu Mian and Xiao Hong's departing figures: "Is it really appropriate to just leave the doctor alone like this? What if the recipient refuses to accept the delivery and the doctor gets angry and tries to saw it off? There's no one to stop the doctor when we're not around."

Chu Changge glanced at him but didn't say anything.

The fat man was already used to Chu Changge's silence. Without waiting for Chu Changge to reply, he silently prayed by the window: "I hope everything goes smoothly for the doctor this time when he delivers the package."

Gu Mian and Xiao Hong quickly arrived at the hospital entrance.

Xiao Hong originally thought Gu Mian was going to take her to some nice place, but when she saw this place, she immediately became unhappy, and the corners of her mouth drooped down, making her already unattractive face even more distorted.

"Let's go." Gu Mian instructed Xiao Hong behind her and started walking into the hospital.

He had worked here for quite some time when the global game started, so he naturally knew where the underground morgue was.

However, the underground morgue was definitely without power after the game started, and the corpses inside were probably all rotten.

Gu Mian quickly descended the stairs to the second basement level, where their morgue was located.

The morgue is located by a heavy iron door, which is usually locked. There are no room markings on the door, so it's not obvious from the outside that this is a morgue. There's also a small hut next to it where the staff on duty can sleep.

At this moment, the heavy iron door was half-open. Gu Mian guessed that someone had broken the lock after the global game started, intending to loot the place.

Gu Mian led Xiao Hong into the room, where they were greeted by rows of large freezers storing corpses.

The room was fairly tidy, with no signs of vandalism or looting.

Those who came in intending to loot the place were probably stunned when they saw the row of morgue cabinets and ran away in fright.

"The ninth refrigerated morgue on the left after entering the underground morgue of Lianhua Hospital is on the seventh floor."

Gu Mian memorized the address and looked to the left as she entered. There was a wall of refrigerators that almost reached the ceiling.

He counted from the bottom to the seventh floor, and then from the left to the right to the ninth floor, and found the delivery address on the express package.

At this moment, the morgue cabinet was tightly closed, and it was unknown whether a man or a woman, a human or a ghost, would be inside if it were opened.

"Xiao Hong, give me the quilt," Gu Mian said to Xiao Hong behind her.

Xiao Hong handed over the quilt with a dejected look on her face. She felt that this place was not fun at all.

While holding the quilt, Gu Mian straightened the crooked ladder in the corner—the seventh floor was quite high, and he had to use the ladder to get up.

He quickly climbed the ladder to the delivery address. The morgue in front of him looked no different from the surrounding ones, and it was impossible to tell what the recipient looked like from the outside.

However, the cabinet door did have the person's information posted on it—

【It's so cold】

【Sex: Male】

[Age: 21 years old]

The name is quite fitting.

Adhering to the professional ethics of a deliveryman, Gu Mian coughed twice in front of the morgue, then knocked on the morgue door: "Mr. Cao, your package has arrived."

Okay, okay, okay, okay, only two more days until Mid-Autumn Festival! I want to eat mooncakes with sweet filling!
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