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Chapter 723 Wishing everyone a Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

Ticket seller number 10076 always felt that she was unlucky.

When the global game first started, he had grand ambitions when he first landed on Earth; he wanted to become the best-performing ticket seller in the region.

But this dream was ruthlessly shattered.

It's because his ticket booth is the closest to where Gu Mian lives.

Gu Mian used his ticket booth to enter and destroy countless copies, causing his performance to plummet to the bottom again and again. Whenever he faced other colleagues, he felt ashamed and couldn't lift his head.

Besides feeling ashamed, he was always terrified. Every time a player stepped into the ticket hall, his heart would skip a beat, fearing that the person was Gu Mian.

Fortunately, Gu Mian had just destroyed a dungeon a few days ago, and based on his past patterns, he should take a break for ten days to half a month before entering a dungeon again. Therefore, ticket seller No. 10076 was in a very relaxed mood during this period and did not have to worry every day.

Today, he is happily waiting at the ticket booth for players who want to enter the dungeon.

Suddenly, footsteps came from outside the door, as if a player was about to come in.

Ticket seller number 10076 immediately raised the corners of her mouth, wanting to give the person a warm smile.

Ordinary players always look gloomy and worried when they enter a dungeon, fearing they might not make it back. Today, he was in a good mood and decided to encourage these worried players with a smile.

But when he looked eagerly at the ticket booth entrance, the smile on his face froze.

Gu Mian has arrived.

He's wreaking havoc on the game again.

He was also accompanied by his little tagalong—a fat man whose belly bounced when he ran.

Ticket seller number 10076 almost lost his composure. His enthusiastic smile had long since frozen, and the corners of his mouth were barely keeping up a forced smile.

Seeing Gu Mian come in and head straight for him, his face twitched involuntarily, already prepared to get the copy ticket for Gu Mian.

At this moment, Gu Mian had already reached the ticket window. Ticket seller 10076 painfully opened the drawer to prepare to issue a ticket, but the newcomer slammed a box of mosquito coils on the table and stared at the name tag on his uniform, saying, "Ticket seller 10076, your package has arrived."

Hearing Gu Mian use an honorific title to address himself, 10076 felt a chill run down his spine and his hair stand on end.

Then, belatedly, he realized, "Express delivery? What express delivery?"

He hasn't ordered anything from the supermarket recently. Even if he had, it couldn't be Gu Mian who would deliver it. Which supermarket would dare to hire him as a deliveryman?
Gu Mian guessed that the ticket seller in front of her didn't know she was on a delivery mission. Many of the ninety-nine packages had non-fixed delivery points, but the delivery address for this mosquito coil was "the nearest ticket office."

If you are in another location, then the receiving point will not be here but another ticket office.

Therefore, it's understandable that the ticket seller in front of you didn't know about the express delivery.

However, this makes it difficult to receive the goods. Can a recipient who doesn't know they have a package give a five-star review? The mail carrier's job task requires collecting ninety-nine positive reviews to complete.

"Doctor, the delivery slip doesn't have a recipient's name on it," the fat man seemed to have seen through Gu Mian's thoughts and whispered a reminder, "It only says to deliver it to the nearest ticket office. Once we deliver it, the delivery is considered complete."

But what about the positive review slips?
Would a ticket seller who doesn't know they have a package have a positive review slip on them?
Gu Mian looked at the ticket seller behind the counter. The ticket seller was still confused, but when Gu Mian swept her eyes over, she immediately became alert, thinking that the other party was up to something bad: "Y-you...what do you want to do!"

Suddenly, a hand appeared out of thin air and snatched the mosquito coil that Gu Mian had placed on the table, muttering, "It's already autumn, the mosquitoes are almost gone and you only just delivered it. Oh well, I'll save it and use it next year. I'll give you a good review." It's unclear how this independent hand made the sound.

The fat man stared in disbelief as the hand that appeared out of nowhere took the mosquito coil, then tossed a five-star review slip to Gu Mian, and then the hand disappeared.

"Huh?" the fat man exclaimed in surprise. "So this is the hand that received the goods?"

Speaking of which, when Gu Mian went to the morgue to deliver the package, she didn't see Mr. "Cao Zhen Leng" in the morgue cabinet. She only saw a hand taking away the quilt.

I reckon it's the same one as the one we just saw.

He guessed that the hand belonged to a task program, which would appear to collect the goods and throw out a five-star review form when the conditions were met.

The ticket seller behind the counter was stunned when she saw the hand that suddenly appeared, and then realized that Gu Mian might be doing some kind of task when she came to deliver mosquito coils.

It's most likely some kind of delivery task.

He guessed that delivering packages, receiving positive reviews, and ultimately getting a reward would be like this.

"I'll ask around among my acquaintances what kind of mission this is, and whether it involves any NPCs, so those unlucky souls can prepare in advance," the ticket seller thought to herself as she secretly glanced at Gu Mian in front of the counter.

"Doctor, is the task of delivering mosquito coils on your list completed?" the fat man asked with concern.

"The task is complete; there are still 97 tasks remaining."

The ticket seller, who was eavesdropping, gasped. What kind of task required delivering so many packages?
He wanted to eavesdrop a little more, but he also hoped that Gu Mian would leave quickly, fearing that Gu Mian might suddenly turn back and say she wanted to enter the dungeon.

Fortunately, his worries did not come true. After receiving the positive review, Gu Mian did not linger there and quickly left with the fat man.

The ticket seller breathed a sigh of relief once the two had walked away. Then he immediately picked up the phone on the counter and dialed a number.

Two beeps came from the microphone, and then the call was connected.

"...The new train hasn't been installed yet, so we can't communicate with each other in our different worlds. I heard that Paradise is setting up a huge platform specifically for judging a high-ranking person, and they're short-staffed..."

The other end of the phone was noisy, as if a lot of people were chatting. As soon as the 10076 ticket seller dialed the number, he heard someone on the other end talking about the amusement park trial. He didn't pay attention to it and said into the receiver, "Hello, is this Che Lingling? This is 10076."

Che Lingling was his best friend, and she worked as a hearse saleswoman at a nearby supermarket.

Thanks to Gu Mian, the hearse driving test center instance is completely destroyed. He's the only one in the world with a driver's license to drive a hearse. Since no one else has a license, they won't buy any hearses, so the hearse business has consistently been at the bottom of the supermarket's sales rankings.

10076 and Che Lingling hit it off immediately and often confided in each other about their hardships and misery.

“It’s me,” Che Lingling said, her voice a little weak. “Is there something you need?”

"Gu Mian just came to my ticket booth. He didn't go into the dungeon; instead, he did a delivery quest and brought me a mosquito coil." 10076 said, glancing at the spot where the mosquito coil had been. "And he said his quest requires him to deliver at least ninety packages. Have you ever heard of that quest?"

Oops, it's too late for wishes. Never mind, it's not dawn yet, so today doesn't count as the Mid-Autumn Festival. Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to everyone!

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