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Chapter 753 V: I'll give you a car, and when I get back, I'll send you a banner of appreciation.
"Squeak, squeak"

Gu Mian was very efficient. After a day and a night of hard travel, she finally arrived at "NPC Street" on a bicycle that was almost falling apart.

As for how bicycles came to be...

In the eyes of the upper class, the lower class is no different from garbage, and the areas near the lower class's residential areas in the city are where the upper class dumps their garbage.

The lower-class residents in the neighborhood usually survive on the little food they find in the garbage dumps.

Anything of even a modicum of value would be recycled by the upper class and wouldn't be thrown into the garbage dumps near the lower class.

But everything has its surprises.

Yesterday, a group of lower-class people were rummaging through a mountain of garbage when they found a nearly wrecked bicycle, and they were overjoyed. The lower-class people didn't even know what it was; they had only ever seen people in the upper-class district riding such things from afar.

"We can finally try some of the high-class stuff!"—Gu Mian guessed that's what they were thinking at the time.

However, the lower-class residential area was not a harmonious and loving family. Soon, the two groups of lower-class people started fighting over the broken bicycle. Then, more and more people joined the bicycle battle, and the scene became very chaotic.

Gu Mian happened to be passing by, and took the opportunity to plop herself onto the cracked seat and pedal away with all her might.

By the time people realized the bicycle was missing, Gu Mian had long since vanished without a trace.

Cycling is always faster than walking, so Gu Mian pedaled day and night and finally arrived at NPC Street at dusk on the second day.

The poor bike finally fell apart after working at high intensity for a day and a night, and it can no longer be ridden.

Gu Mian stood on the street, looking at the shattered remains of the bicycle, and silently mourned for it for three seconds.

After a three-second perfunctory response, Gu Mian began to look up and examine this novel NPC street.

007 said that the game center in her area is like a commercial plaza.

Gu Mian had a preconceived notion that this NPC street was similar to a commercial street on Earth.

But the reality is not so.

The buildings here are oddly shaped and uneven in height. When these abstract buildings are placed together, they look like two rows of teeth that desperately need straightening.

The road surface underfoot also looked strange.

It seems that the road in front of each store has its own ideas, and the style of the ground changes every few meters. At a glance, the road has all kinds of colors, which reminds Gu Mian of the rainbow rubber band candies she saw in the supermarket when she was a child.

This rubber band candy—no, this colorful street isn't long, it only has about twenty or thirty shops.

Gu Mian was standing on a green lawn, covered with a layer of lichen and a few small yellow and white flowers, which matched the shop next to her with a sign that read "Green Plant Module Gardening Shop".

The building's architecture resembles a giant flowerpot, with a crooked pole stuck on top and a leaf-shaped signboard hanging at the very top, making it look just like a giant bonsai.

He searched for quite a while before finding the shop's door—the bottom of the flowerpot had an arched opening about twenty centimeters high, not much different from a dog hole.

This dog hole is the entrance to the garden center. Do we have to crawl through this hole to buy things?

Gu Mian bent down, trying to peek through the dog hole.

He bent down and realized that the shop was closed and locked, and he couldn't see inside.

Upon closer inspection, he noticed a thin layer of dust on the lock, leading him to reasonably guess that the shop had been closed for some time due to poor management.

After all, guests who like to crawl through dog holes are not common.

Two steps further on, the ground turned into uneven glass, and the land beneath the glass was carved into an irregular oval, in which several fish that looked rather unhappy swam.

There are fish shops next door, of course.

A huge fish head was facing Gu Mian, its mouth wide open.

If it weren't for the two doors on the fish's mouth, Gu Mian would almost have thought it was a real fish head.

The fish shop was also locked up; it probably went out of business along with the one next door.

Gu Mian looked around and saw that all the shops in sight were locked, no wonder there was no one on the street.

what happened?

Has the entire street gone out of business?

This is bad. Where can he find a kind NPC to borrow a means of transportation?

Gu Mian continued forward, unwilling to give up.

After passing several strange shops such as "Big Red and Purple Copy Ribbon-Cutting Chain Store", "Teleportation array" and "丿縋著倖偪灬垉丶飜�translation", Gu Mian finally saw a store with its door open.

Theoretically speaking, it wasn't a shop, but more like a roadside stall—a balding man sat on a shabby little stool, holding a flag in his hand, somewhat like the banner carried by fortune tellers in TV dramas.

The banner was written in very modern script.

3-2- Divination.

“Three… dash, two one for divination.” Gu Mian read the words on the banner.

"It's a divination about three long and two short days! Hmm... who are you?" The person on the stool subconsciously corrected Gu Mian's mistake, only realizing after correcting her that there was someone else next to him.

He scrutinized Gu Mian from head to toe, then hesitated before asking, "Someone from another world?"

The mustache given by the evil god was really useful; it could even fool NPCs. Gu Mian suspected that the mustache had helped him hide the game panel, otherwise how could the person in front of him not recognize him as a player?

Gu Mian began to fabricate an identity with practiced ease.

"Hello, I am an employee of Squid Express. My vehicle broke down. Can you lend me a car? I will send you ten banners of appreciation when I return from my delivery."

"Ah, Squid Express?" The person on the stool pointed into the distance. "There's a courier point there, but the packages there have been piling up for half a month. The owner ran away yesterday because she couldn't pay the rent." Ran away because she couldn't pay the rent... Could it be that everyone here ran away because they couldn't pay the rent? Only this street vendor in front of me doesn't have to pay rent, so she didn't run away.

Gu Mian followed his finger.

A shed had been erected in the direction the man was heading, with a small mountain of packages piled up beneath it. A wooden sign hung from the top of the shed, with the words "Bird Thief Delivery" scrawled crookedly on it.

It looks like there's an extra dot, but that's not important.

Gu Mian saw a delivery truck parked next to the shed, still in the ignition, with the key still in the ignition.

Next to the delivery truck was a package sorting robot—no, a robot dog.

This thing is about the size of a dog. Where the head is, there is a camera on top. It is using its two front robotic arms to move packages onto a delivery truck.

However, it seems to be malfunctioning; every time it picks up a package, it asks the person, "Are you happy?"

The package was bitter inside, but it had no mouth.

Unable to get an answer, the mechanical dog would throw the package it was holding onto the car after a while and pick up the next one to continue asking.

Seeing Gu Mian looking at the mechanical dog carrying packages, she said, "Oh, that's a happiness survey robot that the boss lady stole from somewhere else and converted into a delivery worker."

"That's so irresponsible!" Gu Mian said righteously, striding towards the delivery truck. "Let me finish delivering these packages!"

As he spoke, he picked up the robotic dog that was still asking "Are you happy?" from the ground and threw it into the doorless shed.

Then he plopped down in the front seat, twisted the accelerator, and drove off towards the Crazy Game City.

The fortune teller shouted from behind, "You're going the wrong way! Don't go east! Those packages are delivered to the south and west!"

Gu Mian nodded in agreement, then twisted the accelerator hard, steer the car eastward.

The man behind the truck got a mouthful of dust in his mouth and muttered as he watched the delivery truck's retreating figure, "Damn it, he seems to be a little hard of hearing."

As expected of Bird Thief Express's delivery truck, it runs incredibly fast. Gu Mian felt that at this speed, it would only take an hour to reach Crazy Game City.

At that moment, the robotic dog that had been in the carport jumped next to Gu Mian, raising its camera and repeatedly asking him, "Are you happy?"

Gu Mian ignored it and instead looked at a small map on the hood of the car.

The previous deliveryman was probably not familiar with the terrain, so he specially put a map on the front of the vehicle so that he could find the location at any time. There was also a compass next to the map.

Gu Mian looked at the map while driving.

"I'm currently on NPC Street. If I go east and pass through the Spider District (for the lower classes), I'll reach Crazy Game City. Oh, right, the shopkeeper mentioned that the Lower-Class Amusement Park and Fantasy Plastic Surgery are near the game city. Let me look for them..."

Gu Mian quickly found the locations of the two places on the map. Sure enough, they were not far from the game city. When he got to the game city, he could complete the delivery tasks for these two places.

"Let's look on the map again and see if there's any other place in the world that matches my ninety-nine delivery missions."

Gu Mian quickly browsed the map after thinking about it.

He quickly found a familiar place name—"Carnival Abandoned Factory"

This is also one of the ninety-nine delivery addresses.

When Gu Mian saw the location of the abandoned carnival factory, she paused for a moment and then slammed on the brakes.

"People's physical fitness is getting worse and worse these days. They're getting hard of hearing at a young age, but they drive pretty fast..." A man sitting on a small stool in NPC Street was lamenting when he heard a "boom" from afar.

It looks like someone is driving this way.

He looked up in confusion and saw the young man from before returning in his delivery truck.

Because the vehicle was traveling too fast, the packages inside the shed were scattered all the way.

But the young man didn't care. He accelerated with a roar, only to brake suddenly in front of the stall, leaving the man covered in dust again.

"Uncle, do you know the terrain around here?" Gu Mian waved the map in her hand at him.

"What... what uncle? Am I that old? You should call me..." The man thought for a long time but couldn't come up with a suitable address.

Gu Mian looked at the balding man in front of her and wondered if he wanted her to call him "brother".

"Hey," just then, the robotic dog next to Gu Mian suddenly turned its camera towards the man, "Are you happy?"

What's going on? This robot dog was quite polite before, so why is it suddenly calling me "Hey" all the time?

“Never mind,” the man seemed to give up on the matter of address. “I know the area very well. Don’t you know the way? I’ll tell you.”

“I have a question,” Gu Mian said, looking at the map in her hand, “is the Carnival Abandoned Factory, the Valley of Evil in the East, the Upper and Lower Dividing Line, the Prisoner’s Cave, and the Secret Forest located to the southwest of here?”

These five locations are the addresses for his ninety-nine delivery missions.

Gu Mian circled the five locations on the map and found that they were all located in the southwest and not far apart, almost adjacent to each other.

Moreover, the goods that need to be delivered are very simple, mostly common items such as "stones" and "twigs".

It would be an absolute injustice not to deliver it.

However, there is one tricky aspect.

The man scratched his balding head: "All five places you mentioned are within the lockdown zone."

Thank you Qu Wusheng× for the generous donation (づ￣3￣)づ╭～

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