Chapter 129: Chapter 129
Chapter 129 - Didn't Run Much
In a commercial plaza, the morning rush hour crowd was an endless stream, a sea of heads moving through the streets.
Xia Nuanyang stood in the center of the plaza, looking left and right, trying to find someone in the crowded throng.
Soon, Yingnü's dazed figure appeared in the crowd. Amidst the people rushing to their destinations, she stood motionless in the middle of the path with a delivery box on her back, looking particularly conspicuous.
Xia Nuanyang spotted Yingnü and quickly waved as she walked toward her.
“Little Ying, over here~”
Yesterday, she had helped Yingnü download the delivery app, register an account, and pass the online training assessment. After taking care of all the preliminary preparations, she had taken her on a few delivery runs.
Feeling that she had imparted enough experience, she had arranged to meet Yingnü here this morning to officially let her start accepting orders on her own.
“Little Ying, are you ready?!”
Yingnü nodded solemnly, as if she were accepting a mission or a trial.
“You're not familiar with the traffic conditions here, so you have to be careful! Don't run red lights!”
“When you're accepting orders, don't take more than two at a time. If you're late, they'll deduct from your pay!” Nᴇw novel chapters are publɪshed on novel·fire·net
Xia Nuanyang's expression was serious as she instructed Yingnü point by point, like a mother worried about her child going out alone.
The thought of Yingnü going out to deliver takeout by herself today, without her being there, made her feel worried.
Although she had basically taught her everything she could, Little Ying always looked so dazed and seemed to have no sense of direction; she was always late for their meeting spots.
She was genuinely worried about whether she could find her way, or if she would be bullied by someone…
“If you run into any problems, remember to contact me on your phone, okay!”
Xia Nuanyang, still worried, added one more reminder.
After finishing all her instructions, she peeked behind Yingnü and only then belatedly realized that she hadn't come on an electric scooter, but was instead carrying the delivery box she had gotten for her on her back.
“Little Ying, where's your electric scooter?”
“I don't have an electric scooter,” Yingnü said faintly.
Hearing this, Xia Nuanyang was shocked.
“No electric scooter?! Why didn't you say so earlier.”
“How can you deliver takeout without an electric scooter?!”
“Forget it. I'll take you to rent one now.”
As she spoke, Xia Nuanyang was about to pull Yingnü to go rent a scooter.
“No need. I don't need that thing. It's too slow.”
Yingnü shook her head, declining Xia Nuanyang's kind offer.
Xia Nuanyang listened with a puzzled expression. This was the first time she had ever heard someone say that delivering takeout on an electric scooter was 'too slow'...
I really can't figure it out. Is there really a faster way to deliver takeout than by electric scooter?
While Xia Nuanyang was still puzzled, Yingnü, holding her phone, turned and disappeared into the crowd.
She was gone in the blink of an eye, before Xia Nuanyang even had a chance to say anything more.
Without an electric scooter, how on earth is Little Ying going to deliver takeout?
After parting with Xia Nuanyang, Yingnü found a shady spot by a planter and sat down. She placed the insulated box beside her, then opened her phone and clicked 'Go Online,' her eyes focused intently on the screen.
The moment an order appeared, she would quickly swipe with her small hand, snatching the order with lightning speed.
After grabbing the order, she remained motionless, but a black shadow instantly shot out from the shadow at her feet, darting rapidly between the ground and the tall buildings!
Pedestrians were completely unaware as the shadow flashed past them!
Several kilometers away, a restaurant owner had just placed a finished takeout order to the side. In the time it took him to turn around, a black shadow darted into the shop.
Yingnü's shadow can swap places with her at any time, and it also shares her field of vision.
Although she wasn't very familiar with the Magic Capital and even had a poor sense of direction, as long as she was looking at the navigation on her phone, her shadow could follow the route in her vision and find the restaurant and customer's addresses in a straight line!
Among the pile of takeout orders on the counter, she found her own, controlled the shadow to 'devour' the food, and then it once again transformed into a black streak, shuttling between streets and floors, arriving directly at the customer's door to spit the takeout out from the shadow.
A shadowy hand emerged from the puddle of shadow on the ground and knocked on the door, then quickly vanished.
After the shadow disappeared, the door opened. The customer looked confused, only seeing a takeout bag on the floor.
“Whose takeout is this? Is it... mine?!”
Seeing the information on the order, the customer was stunned.
From the moment he placed the order to receiving the food, the entire process had taken about as long as a trip to the bathroom!
Isn't that a little too fast!
On the other side, Yingnü's delicate brows furrowed, her expressionless little face showing a rare trace of dissatisfaction.
One or two orders at a time is too few...
Yingnü hesitated for a moment, then changed her maximum order capacity to 10. She then entered a frenzied order-grabbing mode, her small hand constantly swiping the screen, endlessly refreshing and snatching orders.
With every order she grabbed, a shadow would split off from her feet to deliver it for her.
Across the Magic Capital, ten shadows were simultaneously darting between the buildings.
Soon, two strange rumors began to spread throughout the Magic Capital.
The first was that many delivery riders couldn't grab any orders at all. The second was that the moment a restaurant prepared an order, it would be in the customer's hands in the next second!
No one ever saw this god-speed delivery rider. They could only see on the daily order leaderboard that she was far in the lead, holding first place with an astonishing number of orders!
As evening approached, a mysterious newcomer held first place on the daily leaderboard with a record of 888 orders!
The person in second place had less than a hundred!
Seeing the number of orders at the top of the list, every delivery rider said with absolute certainty:
“A bug! It must be a bug!”
“How can anyone possibly deliver 888 orders in one day? You couldn't do it even if you were flying a plane!”
While the delivery riders were all discussing animatedly, Yingnü, on the other side, was silently frowning.
She felt that the number of orders she had taken today was still too few. Why was the maximum order capacity only 10, and not a hundred, or a thousand…
Towards the end of the day, there were almost no orders left for her to grab, and the restaurants were slow to prepare the food, so she could only sit there in a daze.
“Little Ying, I finally found you! How did it go today? How many orders did you run?”
Xia Nuanyang asked, riding her electric scooter up to where Yingnü was sitting by the planter.
Yingnü shook her head with a hint of disappointment.
“It's okay, don't be discouraged. It's like that for everyone the first time. It'll get better once you get the hang of it.”
“Tomorrow, I'll take you to rent an electric scooter. With a scooter, your deliveries will be much faster!”
Seeing Yingnü's dejected expression, Xia Nuanyang encouraged her.
For a newbie's first day, delivering even 20 orders with an electric scooter is considered pretty good.
Little Ying doesn't even have a scooter and is relying only on her own two feet while carrying an insulated box. Delivering even 10 orders in a day would be nearly impossible.
On her way here, she had already guessed that she probably wouldn't have been able to deliver many orders, and it was just as she expected…
Faced with Xia Nuanyang's encouragement, Yingnü nodded gratefully, and the two of them left together on the electric scooter.
“Little Ying, did you hear? A new 'order king' appeared today who ran 888 orders.”
“I think it must have been a system bug. Otherwise, it's impossible!”
Yingnü shook her head, looking completely clueless.
Xia Nuanyang glanced back at Yingnü. A thought seemed to strike her, and her expression froze for a moment. Then she gave a self-deprecating laugh and went back to driving seriously.
For a second there, I actually suspected that the new order king was Little Ying. That's just ridiculous.
Little Ying doesn't even have a scooter and she's not familiar with this place. How could it possibly be her…