"Your package has been delivered. Please rate our service."
This delivery note was rather smart, growing legs when it needed to walk and arms when it needed to handle items.
After the delivery was finished, it grew two arms. One held the feedback form, the other a pen, and looked everywhere for the recipient, hoping for a five-star rating.
But it couldn't find the recipient even after much searching.
"Mr. Zhao Tiankuo? Mr. Zhao Tiankuo?"
It was unclear where these two arms' vocal organs were located, but they started shouting at the top of their lungs for Zhao Tiankuo.
A hand shakily erged from under the toy car. Obviously, Mr. Zhao Tiankuo was there.
The hand was struggling to reach for the feedback form, most likely intending to vent its frustration by giving it a one-star rating.
Just as the hand was about to grab the feedback form, Gu Mian snatched the paper and pen, gave a five-star rating, and stuffed the form back into the waiting hands.
The two arms seed to feel that sothing was missing, and their movents beca hesitant. Nonetheless, they were just two brainless hands, so after so hesitation, they cheerfully left with their five-star feedback form, presumably returning to the Squid Logistics Company.
Wang Napao, who had been discarded by Gu Mian, rolled a couple of tis on the ground. He cautiously got up only when he was a safe distance from the kiddy ride and stealthily watched Gu Mian.
After the feedback form was sent off, Gu Mian jumped off the kiddy ride, grabbed the hand reaching out from under it, and yanked out the trapped Zhao Tiankuo.
The mont Zhao Tiankuo saw daylight again, he looked up to find Gu Mian's large face right in front of him. He rolled his eyes and nearly fainted.
"I heard you know so people in Paradise World?" Gu Mian didn't give him a chance to faint, pulling Zhao Tiankuo directly in front of him.
"Yes, yes, yes," Zhao Tiankuo said nervously, repeating "yes" several tis. "I t a few people there when I was working in transportation, delivering goods to that world..."
"How did you get into Paradise World?"
"By that train," Zhao Tiankuo carefully glanced at Gu Mian. "You know, the train that can travel between different worlds. I heard you used it not long ago, and it was imdiately sent for repairs. Since then, I haven't been able to continue my transportation and unloading work. So, I ca here and found a job playing a romantic partner..."
He hadn't expected his first player pairing to be with Gu Mian.
Such was his bad luck. He could only lant his misfortune.
Zhao Tiankuo had also entered Paradise World via the Ti Escape Train. With the train currently under maintenance, entering Paradise World was only possible with a Dungeon Entry Ticket.
"Do you have a Dungeon Entry Ticket for Paradise World?" Gu Mian asked, though he wasn't very hopeful.
Zhao Tiankuo had previously been just a lowly unloading worker. Gu Mian didn't expect him to have sothing so high-end.
As expected, he shrank his neck and shook his head. Fearing his answer would displease Gu Mian, he quickly added, "But I do have contact information for several NPCs in Paradise World!"
Gu Mian took out the worker's handbook he had confiscated from the programr earlier and held a ballpoint pen with the words "Squid Logistics" printed on it, ready to take notes.
"Paradise World has two stops where you can get off: Crazy Ga City and White Bone Church. When we transport goods, we always unload at the dock near the Crazy Ga City stop. When the ga was just launched, the instance at Crazy Ga City was shut down for a while. The city's employees, having no work then, ca to our dock to do odd jobs. That's how I got to know them."
Speaking of Crazy Ga City...
Keke, who was standing behind, suddenly spoke up, "I rember there was a Lantern Festival event shortly after the ga launched. It was terminated prematurely due to a malfunction. Consequently, several instances developed bugs and couldn't run properly. I recall Crazy Ga City's instance was on that suspension list."
"Yes, yes, yes. That's right, the Crazy Ga City instance was suspended during the Lantern Festival event," Zhao Tiankuo nodded vigorously.
"Cut the crap," Gu Mian said, holding the pen and paper. "Give the contact information, quickly."
Zhao Tiankuo shrank his neck, ready to sell out the friends he had made in Paradise World.
anwhile, the sneaky Wang Napao took out a cellphone and started muttering into it.
"Hey, hey, this is Wang Napao from Sunshine Insurance Company. Right now, I've been captured by Gu Mian; he's torturing ! Another ghost has also been captured and is revealing important secrets about Paradise World to him. I'm requesting to imdiately shut down the instance Gu Mian is in and kick him out..."
The sharp-eyed Keke imdiately spotted Wang Napao secretly making a call. She quickly tapped Gu Mian, gesturing for him to look in Wang Napao's direction.
Gu Mian turned around to see Wang Napao on his phone, snitching. He instantly burst out laughing.
It seed Wang Napao still had things in his inventory he hadn't taken out.
As Wang Napao was quietly making his phone call, he suddenly felt a chill on his back. He stiffly turned his neck to look back, only to see Gu Mian smiling and standing behind him.
Scared, he cried out "AHHH!", dropped his cell phone, and tried to run, but was grabbed from behind and pinned to the ground.
"You seem to be holding out on . Co on, let see what other goodies you're hiding," Gu Mian said as he lifted him up.
Wang Napao scread at the top of his lungs, "Help! Help! Murder!"
He squeezed out a couple of tears, regretting his carelessness in secretly trying to report Gu Mian, only to be discovered.
This was it; he was going to die on the spot.
Just when he thought he was dood, a line of large text suddenly appeared before him—
"We received reports from concerned parties that 'My Virtual Girlfriend/Boyfriend' exhibits terrifyingly violent behavior, which has severely threatened the safety of instance personnel. The ga administrators have decided to suspend the instance's operation. All players will be ejected from the instance in ten seconds."
"10, 9..."
Moonfall Crow Cries was frantically running away when a notification of the instance suspension popped up right in front of her face.
Seeing the description of the "extrely terrifying violent behavior" in the notification, she imdiately thought of the multi-legged, multi-headed monster she had just seen. That monster was horrifying, crushing a ghost beneath it in an instant.
She had just been wondering why such a monster would appear in the instance. This monster had nothing to do with a virtual lover.
She realized the truth only after reading the suspension notification.
It must be a bug! That monster doesn't belong here, so the ga administrators hastily suspended the instance to fix the loophole.
Looking at the countdown on the suspension notification, she heaved a sigh of relief and sat down on the ground.
"Great!" she thought. "I didn't expect to leave the instance so soon and even get compensation! This compensation will be enough for us to stay out of instances for a good while."
"I wonder when the Doctor and the others will co out." In the apartnt building's courtyard, Fatty was hanging wrung-out clothes on the laundry line.
Xiao Hong was watching him eagerly. Fatty glanced at Xiao Hong warily and added a couple more clips to the black shirt on the laundry line.
Nearby in the courtyard, the Fortune-teller was lifting dumbbells. Hearing Fatty talking to himself, she offered, "Would you like to do a divination for you?"
Just then, Fatty suddenly exclaid, "The suspension notice is out! The Doctor should have left the instance... Huh? Why are so many instances suspended this ti?"
He looked at the suspension list sent by the ga: "Seven Wonders Paradise, Tragedy on the Bus, My Virtual Girlfriend/Boyfriend, The Guest Under the Bed…"
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