Three Men and One Woman

Wu Jie grabbed Cheng Shaofeng.

"Don't worry about them! If we go in, we won't be able to get out either! Let's leave here first, I know a safe place."

"But if I don't care about them, won't you guys get me killed?"

Cheng Shaofeng said.

Wu Jie: "Us? What are you talking about, Shaofeng? I'm here to save you! Scavengers, unite and live, divide and die! Even though you've left, I can't let you die in there. Actually, I've felt something was wrong with Salt Well Town for a long time."

Cheng Shaofeng's lips curved slightly. "Oh? How so? Salt Well Town... has problems?"

"Yeah! I've been hearing sounds at night that could very well be ghostly wails. The town mayor hasn't shown himself in so long, don't you think that's suspicious? Think about it carefully... Has the mayor appeared before us in the past year? No! I suspect the mayor is already... dead, and the person in his room is actually his ghost."

Cheng Shaofeng chuckled, "A ghost like you?"

Wu Jie froze for a moment, then gave an awkward laugh. "How could I possibly be a ghost? Look at the ground, I have a shadow!"

"But unfortunately, you don't have a health bar."

Wu Jie: "Health bar?"

Cheng Shaofeng looked up and around. "It's truly hard to distinguish scenes. What the eyes see isn't always real, but what the base scans... is undeniable."

A blue light flashed in Cheng Shaofeng's eyes.

The surrounding scene was overlaid with a layer of azure light, enhancing display technology.

The base's various data points were displayed on surrounding objects, outlining the general shape of the environment.

The scene before him was very strange!

Cheng Shaofeng saw one scene, but the base's display was superimposed on another plane.

He took two steps to his right, which was an empty space.

He stuck out his foot and kicked at the air.

Thwack!

He kicked flesh.

"Someone... is lying here, right?"

Wu Jie's expression changed instantly. "How did you find them?"

Cheng Shaofeng looked in the direction Wu Jie wanted to take him. The system had outlined a wall model, clearly the outer wall of Salt Well Town.

"So, your goal is still to take me back to town, isn't it?"

Black energy emanated from Wu Jie, and his face became ferocious. "How could you see that! You're clearly just an ordinary person! Tell me! Or I'll suck you dry."

Cheng Shaofeng ignored "Wu Jie's" threat.

The azure scanning light flickered in his eyes as he extended a fist, which passed straight through "Wu Jie's" body.

"You forgot, I can see clearly... There's actually no one in front of me because there are no obstructions. So your threat... has no effect on me."

If there was an obstruction, the base's display would be superimposed on the obstructing object's body; otherwise, it would be superimposed on the background sky.

Wu Jie raged in mid-air, growing eight arms and three faces, with long hair flowing down his shoulders, like a monstrous form.

Cheng Shaofeng was unfazed.

"You can't scare me. As long as I stick to materialism, no amount of horror scenes you throw at me will work."

He glanced at his smartwatch. Xiao Xiao's light dot had already entered the town, and the light dot belonging to Forgiveness Hat was running towards him.

"Forgiveness Hat also noticed something was wrong, good, let's regroup first."

Cheng Shaofeng had long anticipated the appearance of ghosts in this world. Many ghost stories circulated in Salt Well Town, and it was unlikely they were all fabricated. After all, this was the Wasteland era, and human survival was difficult. Which of the mutated creatures and Raiders outside wasn't more terrifying than a ghost?

In this environment, the fact that ghost stories were still circulating suggested that a few real stories might be mixed in.

It was like a magician performing on stage; who knew if they weren't also a few actual mages?

The reason Cheng Shaofeng wasn't afraid was that he had the Nano Base.

The Nano Base's shield had already activated, protecting him from ethereal erosion with minimal energy consumption.

"The ghosts in this world have such low attack power, probably not even a thousandth of Radiation. Or perhaps, as long as I don't enter a ghost's instant-kill zone or trigger some kind of instant-kill condition, they can't do anything to me? And these few ghosts all want to lure us into the town... So as long as we stay away from the town, we should be able to escape."

Wu Jie had already lunged at Cheng Shaofeng's face, trying his best to scare him with a terrifying appearance.

But it could only cause a tiny bit of damage to the shield, not even consuming 0.01% of its energy.

"Soldier, I'm here!"

Forgiveness Hat's eyes lit up upon hearing the voice.

"As expected! Everything I see is fake... I can only find the Lord by following the Smartwatch's location!"

In his vision, Cheng Shaofeng was not on his path at all but in the completely opposite direction. However, he chose to follow the path indicated by the smartwatch.

As expected, he would find the Lord soon.

Behind him, "Wang Qian" and "Wang Wan" had already become two pools of monsters, baring their teeth and closely pursuing him.

As the two were about to meet, the three ghosts stopped, exchanged glances, and then vanished into the air.

Before Forgiveness Hat could even rejoice, his vision suddenly went black, and he passed out.

"Beep beep beep!"

Opening his eyes, Forgiveness Hat found himself stopped at a traffic light on his scooter in Magic City. A phone was mounted on the handlebars, displaying his route and destination. A small truck behind him was honking furiously.

It was 11:40 AM, and he was on a delivery job.

His mind was a bit fuzzy, but Forgiveness Hat quickly started the scooter and headed towards the customer's home.

"Seriously, how did I fall asleep while waiting for a red light? I played games too late last night. It's all that Sentinel's fault from the forum. He can't farm gear himself and keeps asking me for it, even making me level up his alt account! Damned freeloader! If he didn't have such a nice voice, I'd never help him."

Soon, the scooter stopped in front of an ordinary apartment complex.

He pressed the elevator button: 32nd floor.

Top floor.

Forgiveness Hat rang the doorbell of the building's sole resident, but no one answered for a long time.

He shouted through the door, "Hello sir, I'm your delivery, you ordered something, right?"

Clang

A triangular utility closet next to the door opened.

A young man in his early twenties, looking like he just graduated college, emerged.

"Master, I'm here! I ordered it."

"Today's my girlfriend's birthday. Could you deliver a birthday gift to her company this afternoon? Around... before closing, deliver it by 7:30 PM. The address is the coffee shop at the bottom of Duoyu Building. She works there as a barista."

"Sir, you're such a thoughtful boyfriend. I promise I'll deliver it on time. Her colleagues will envy her boyfriend for being so romantic."

"Heh heh~"

Forgiveness Hat took a large bouquet of flowers from the man, with a small gift box on top, looking like expensive cosmetics.

Just as Forgiveness Hat was about to leave.

The man emerged from the triangular door again and shouted, "Wait a moment! The time seems to have changed!"

He was holding a phone, chatting with his girlfriend, and called out, "Hold on, hold on... Please wait a moment, she seems to have other plans today."

"No problem, just confirm the details. A surprise needs to be perfectly timed to be effective."

"Thank you, thank you! I'll be right..."

The young man was texting the girl on his phone, but his expression grew increasingly grim as he typed.

Forgiveness Hat could see the contents from the side.

Man: "After work tonight, should I pick you up for hot pot?"

Woman: "Ah! I already made plans with friends tonight. I'm going out at 6, so maybe another day?"

Man: "Friend gathering? Boys or girls?"

Woman: "There are boys and girls."

Man: "Oh, how many boys and how many girls?"

Woman: "Three boys and one girl."

Man: "Is the girl your colleague? Do I know her? Can you give me her phone number? If I can't reach you, I'll call your friend."

Woman: "The girl is me."

Man: "?"

Man: "???"

Man: "You're going out with three guys tonight??? It's your birthday today!"

Woman: "Are you angry?"

Man: "Yes."

Man: "What are you thinking? Do you think it's appropriate for you to go out with three guys tonight???"

Woman: "I think I can separate my relationship with you from my friendships. I won't cross the line. They're all very good friends~"

Man: "So you still want to go?"

Woman: "They're just friends, it's fine to go out for a bit, right?"

Man: "Then let's just be friends."

Woman: "Okay, let's be friends. I wish you happiness."

"Damn it!"

The young man punched the triangular door.

Kuang Dang!

His fist was already bruised and swollen.

Forgiveness Hat: "."

Why would a simple delivery turn into this?

"How could she do this to me? Why is she going out with three guys? Why would she do this to me on my birthday? Why did it turn out like this? She swore when she was in college that she'd never marry anyone but me."

The man slid down the iron gate until he was sitting on the ground, tears welling up in his eyes.

The Forgiveness Hat awkwardly asked, "Sir, perhaps you don't want to give the gift anymore?"

After a moment of dazed thought, the man suddenly took out the paper box from the flowers, bent down, and went inside. He wrote a line of text, then put it back in the box.

"Deliver it! Deliver it at 5 PM. Make sure to do it when she has the most colleagues around, and make her open the box to see it! You must! You absolutely must do this! I'll pay you extra!"

Without another word, he shoved 200 yuan into the Forgiveness Hat's hand.

"Alright, alright."

As the employer's request, the Forgiveness Hat had no choice but to accept, especially with the extra money. He had to do a beautiful job.

He pressed the elevator button, and a scene suddenly flashed through his mind: this young man falling to his death from the 32nd floor.

He jolted in surprise!

He seemed to remember something.

"How did I transmigrate here from the game???"

This was a job he'd taken a year ago. Just as he was going downstairs, he saw the young man from the 32nd floor jump.

He'd watched him splatter on the ground.

At that time, the Forgiveness Hat had opened the gift box. Written inside in red pen was a message:

"Pan Xiaoting, you drove me to my death!"

The Forgiveness Hat turned to look at the young man sitting by the triangular door. The despair in his eyes was almost overflowing.

"There will be one more update in the 'daytime'."