A magical journey of a sharp-tongued woman and a goofy man

Chapter 374 Fighting Against a Flock of Heroes

The moment the Void Stone trembled in Ye Shuli's palm, eighteen blood-red chains had already wrapped around her ankles.

Jiang Ye's bamboo flute emitted a streak of blue light, and dark red syrup seeped from the severed chain—these explorers had incorporated the stolen spiritual energy from takeout into the killing formation.

"They tampered with the delivery range!" Ye Shuli leaned back to avoid the incoming spiritual energy blade, her syrup-covered heels slamming into the ground runes.

The memory of being cheated out of delivery fees by the platform in her past life burned on the lines of her collarbone. She suddenly turned around and pressed the Void Stone against a blood-red node, where a fragmented incantation of "30 minus 15" was flashing.

The flute music played by Jiang Ye was suddenly mixed with the Meituan notification sound.

He rode a shared bicycle around the field in a phantom motion, and the blue light emanating from the jade pendant at his waist transformed into the pattern of an Ele.me rider's uniform.

"Ordering should be done on a first-come, first-served basis, everyone!" He tossed out three takeout receipts formed from spiritual energy, precisely covering the eyes of the three explorers.

When the female cultivator's red ribbon silently wrapped around Jiang Ye's neck, he was squatting on the ground assembling some kind of mechanical device.

"You forced me to do this." Jiang Ye suddenly lifted the hem of his blue robe, and the twelve jade buckles hanging on his belt lit up at the same time, projecting a phantom image of the Haidilao waiting list screen.

The red ribbon suddenly tied itself into a knot the moment it touched his skin, turning into a crooked bow.

"When did you find out?" The female cultivator asked, her voice filled with shock and anger as she tugged at the deformed magical artifact.

"It started the seventh time you pretended to twist your ankle and fell into my arms." Jiang Ye tossed the modified spirit energy jet to Ye Shuli. "Catch it! Group purchase price: 9.9 yuan!"

When Ye Shuli caught the device in mid-air, the lines on her collarbone resonated with the Void Stone at a high frequency.

She suddenly remembered those nights she spent revising design drafts all night, and the 60-second voice messages that the client would send to the WeChat group.

As the tenth crimson chain wrapped around her wrist, she shouted the words she had repeated a thousand times since her transmigration into the jetpack: "Fifth version of the requirements document, final confirmation!"

A surge of azure spiritual energy erupted, and the shockwave, accompanied by the sound of PowerPoint slides turning, knocked the seven explorers to the ground.

The blood-red runes that exploded on their bodies revealed the watermark of rejected proposals. One explorer clutched his chest and screamed, "Why are there seven layers of nested requirements!"

The Void Leader's star-patterned robes suddenly rippled.

In the frozen spacetime rift he raised his hand, Ye Shuli saw the afterimage of her closing her laptop in her past life transforming into a sword's edge.

When Jiang Ye inserted the bamboo flute into the milk tea order in the center of the blood-red rune array, the entire barrier suddenly rang with a WeChat transfer notification sound.

"Your funds have been received—" The mechanical female voice rang out, and the black spirit orbs in the hands of all the explorers began to count down.

Seizing this 0.5-second window, Ye Shuli slammed the Void Stone into the core of the collarbone pattern.

The delivery times that were compressed by the system in the previous life are now transformed into spiritual energy pulses accurate to the millisecond.

When the last explorer was knocked unconscious by Jiang Ye with a Meituan helmet, the Void Stone suddenly projected a 3D map onto Ye Shuli's chest.

Those shimmering dots weren't coordinates of a secret realm, but rather the locations of the milk tea shops she frequented in her past life.

She wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and was about to speak when a piercing alarm suddenly sounded throughout the space—not a warning of an approaching enemy, but a countdown to the compensation for late food delivery.

The moment the alarm blared within the barrier, Jiang Ye slammed the Meituan helmet onto Ye Shuli's head.

A countdown timer hovered above their heads, with the scarlet words "Payment Countdown 45 Minutes" spinning wildly at a rate of three digits per second.

"This is a spacetime restriction reconstructed using the free meal algorithm!" Ye Shuli's fingertips traced the burning lines on her collarbone as the 472 orders that had been penalized by the food delivery platform in her previous life scrolled rapidly across her retina.

She suddenly ripped open her collar and slammed the Void Stone onto the skin that displayed the merchant's location map. "Jiang Ye! Add a five-star review at three o'clock!"

The bamboo flute grazed the spiritual energy blades slashing at it from the explorer, and as Jiang Ye spun in mid-air, he casually slashed open a semi-transparent interface.

He bit his fingertip and the drop of blood that shot out landed precisely on the rating board. Five golden rays suddenly pierced through the blood-red barrier—it was the 800-word review he had written for the barbecue restaurant downstairs last month.

The Void Cultivator's red silk ribbon suddenly burst into flames, and the words "Excellent Rating" in gold lettering climbed up her hair along the flames.

"How dare you tamper with the credit system!" she screamed, slapping at the blue flames shooting up from above her head. The flames had transformed into the mascot of a certain review app.

Ye Shuli took the opportunity to press the sprayer against the ground.

Suddenly, the coordinates of the milk tea shop on her collarbone coincided with the countdown. She shouted at the Void Stone, "Activate express delivery mode!" A stream of azure spiritual energy, accompanied by the horn of an electric scooter, shot into the sky, directly hurling the three explorers into a suddenly cracked ground fissure—the edge of which clearly flashed a fraudulent pop-up window that read "Free for new users."

The Void Leader's star-patterned robe suddenly rippled with water-like waves.

He raised his hand, and from the frozen spacetime rift, the unsaved PPT from Ye Shuli's previous life's computer desktop appeared.

"Your version iterations are too slow." He flicked his finger, shattering a floating milk tea order, and pearls suddenly rained down within the barrier. "Let me see..."

Jiang Ye interrupted him before he could finish speaking.

He pulled out a spirit sword with a "buy one get one half price" tag from somewhere, and dashed towards the leader while riding a shared bicycle: "Boss, your takeout is here!" From the crack in the star map pierced by the sword tip, all the unread work group messages from Ye Shuli's previous life's phone suddenly poured out.

“DingTalk attendance record!” Ye Shuli suddenly had an idea and pulled out the overtime record sealed in the lines of her collarbone. Three hundred and sixty-five golden fingerprints instantly covered the dome of the barrier.

Just as the Void Leader was about to form a hand seal, his figure suddenly froze, and the starlight flowing in his sleeves began to automatically generate a monthly attendance report.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Ye Shuli spun around and inserted the jet into the crack in the ground.

The seven design proposals rejected by the client in her previous life flowed from her fingertips, transforming into a flurry of red rejection stamps.

Each red stamp that hit the ground exploded into a ring of air, shattering the otherworldly spiritual energy that the explorers had smuggled into their bodies.

"It's time to settle the accounts." She wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and inserted her five fingers into the light screen projected by the Void Stone.

The flashing locations of those milk tea shops suddenly linked together to form a chain shape, which was actually the style of the installment payment bracelet from her previous life.

When the last pearl struck the leader's forehead, the familiar notification sound of the payment being credited echoed throughout the barrier.

The Void Leader took three steps back, and the milk tea stains on his Star Chart robe suddenly turned into an electronic stamp.

"You've passed the initial test." He tossed the bronze key, which shattered into twelve pieces in mid-air. "But if you want true void power..."

"Are we about to complete the group order?" Jiang Ye suddenly pulled out a Meituan order receiver that was flashing red. "I know how to do this!" The twelve spiritual energy tickets he threw out accurately attracted the key fragments, and all the unrated orders from their previous lives appeared on the tickets.

Ye Shuli pressed down on the about-to-go-rage jet, and the negative review templates sealed in her collarbone automatically generated a magic circle.

The moment the key fragments came together, she suddenly shouted the line she knew best from her past life at the Void Stone: "Hey, give me a good review and I'll give you a cashback!"

Suddenly, the bronze key burst forth with dazzling seven-colored light, which transformed into the scene of their first encounter.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Jiang Ye inserted the bamboo flute into the crack in the ground. Instead of music, a dense barrage of comments poured out of the flute hole: "Generous boss," "Will come again next time," "Great portion, five-star review."

The female cultivator in the void let out a unwilling roar, and her red ribbon turned to ashes the moment it touched the barrage of comments.

Other explorers fled in panic amidst the constant "five yuan received" notifications, with one unlucky fellow even getting his head stuck in a "friends help" interface that suddenly popped up.

The moment the key was fully formed, Ye Shuli suddenly felt the lines on her collarbone resonate with a distant time and space.

The bubble tea that always spilled in my past life has now solidified into an amber-colored protective shield on the surface of the Void Stone.

She caught the falling key and discovered that the teeth marks were exactly the same as those on the company's access card.

"Let's go!" Jiang Ye suddenly grabbed her and jumped onto the shared bicycle, leaving only a blur of motion.

The blood-red runes that exploded behind the two turned into red dots indicating missed calls. When one of the explorers tried to give chase, he was suddenly bombarded with a "Rider has picked up the meal" notification.

The Void Leader's voice pierced through time and space: "Remember, when you truly touch..." The second half of the sentence suddenly turned into a piercing electrical noise. Ye Shuli looked down and found half a piece of milk tea sealing film stuck between the key teeth, and the expiration date printed on it was strangely reversing.

As Jiang Ye passed through the last spatial rift, he suddenly noticed that the order number on the bamboo flute was missing a digit.

The milk tea shop's location map on Ye Shuli's collarbone began to ooze pearly black liquid, while the Void Key suddenly began to vibrate—not because it sensed a target, but more like a forced update prompt from some kind of background program.

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