Lucy was puzzled for a moment.
What did I, Lucy, have to do with Lucy, the first human in the world to evolve from an ape?
Lucy thought Richard was joking. "Are you trying to cheer me up?" She patted the laughing Richard and immediately felt that his joke was utterly baffling.
"Yeah..." Richard hesitated, then said, "No."
Seeing Lucy pat him and turn to leave, Richard hurriedly grabbed her. With a tense expression, he pleaded, "All right, all right, I'll tell you the truth. I can't deliver the case myself. I had a disagreement with that guy before—we've got some bad blood. It's nothing major, but if you go, it'll all be over. Settled.
"Go straight to the front desk, ask Mr. Zhang to come downstairs, and once he takes the case, give him a charming smile and leave."
Richard kept trying to persuade her. Pointing through the floor-to-ceiling glass at the hotel lobby, he said, "Look, you can see the front desk from here. Please."
It did not even look like a hundred-meter walk, which only made Lucy more suspicious.
Such a short distance, and he needed her to carry a case inside for him?
"What's in it?" Lucy asked suspiciously.
"I don't know. Just some documents." Richard seemed a little flustered.
"Really? Let me see." Lucy watched his reaction and pressed him again.
"It's locked. Only Mr. Zhang has the code." Richard lifted the combination case in his right hand. "I'm just a runner."
"Do you get paid for delivering it?" Lucy asked again.
"Probably." Richard was getting a little helpless. He had not expected Lucy to be so difficult.
"How much?" Lucy looked at Richard with some interest.
"We're talking about money already, or..." Richard was extremely helpless. Lucy was not as easy to fool as