We couldn't find a ride, so we had no choice but to follow the map Nantian had drawn earlier and walk to the nearest courier station.
I didn't sense any ghostly aura there. There were only two people inside the courier station, smoking and asking what we wanted.
As we were talking, a young man came back carrying two bottles of mineral water. He walked in cursing, saying everyone at the supermarket had gone crazy.
I shook my head at the skinny guy and Nantian, and we left the courier station.
Following the map, we ran to two more courier stations and asked if there were other places where we could send a package with Yixun Express.
Yixun Express existed in the real world too. Sometimes when I shopped online, my packages were delivered by them, but I'd never noticed anything unusual.
Halfway there, we spotted a subway entrance and some shared bikes parked nearby. The skinny guy suggested we ride them.
But the signal was down, so there was no way to unlock them.
"Smash the locks," the skinny guy said decisively.
I thought about it. It really was our only option, and there would be almost no consequences.
Either this otherworld was trapped in a time loop on October 2, or it would keep falling apart. Either way, no police were going to come after us.
None of the three of us had ever done anything like this, so we weren't sure how to go about it.
Based on what we'd seen in movies and on TV, we divided up the tasks. Nantian would keep watch while the skinny guy and I figured out how to steal three bikes and break their locks in a blind spot behind the subway platform.
We didn't have any tools on hand,