Survival in an apartment, starting with a stroke of luck on a plane

The system notification sound echoed in Lin Yu's ears.

"Delivering takeout?" Lin Yu stroked his chin, looking at the word "life and death" in the game's name, feeling that this was definitely not some easy casual game.

It's probably not a regular takeout delivery, or there's something else going on.

This time, the game didn't disable chat channels, and Lin Yu opened one to take a look; it was already in an uproar.

"Delivering takeout? What the hell?"

"Life and Death Delivery? That name sounds ominous!"

"Is the delivery location some kind of monster's lair?"

"Is it possible that this is actually a casual game? Something to relax with?"

"Don't dream about it, upstairs! Would the system be that kind?"

Lin Yu didn't look at it for long, closed the channel, and opened the task panel.

[Life or death takeout]

Main Quest: Survive for Seven Days

Side Quest:

① Single King (Become the Single King at least once; the more times you become the Single King, the higher the settlement reward)

② No negative reviews (No negative reviews were received by the settlement date.)

The task requirements seem fairly clear.

"I wonder how difficult the delivery will be, and what kind of 'people' the customers are..." Lin Yu thought to himself, keeping a watchful eye on things.

Before entering the game scene, he used his talent as usual.

"A gift from another world!"

[The Gift of Another World has been triggered, and the item [Pokémon Game World Master Ball] has been obtained.]

As soon as the cold system notification sound ended, a perfectly round sphere suddenly appeared in Lin Yu's hand.

It is about the size of a baseball, with a bright purple upper half and two red spheres on top. The lower half is white, separated by a black stripe in the middle. In the center is a simple white button with a white "M" logo above it.

【Pokémon Game World: Master Ball (Revised)】

Category: Props

Grade: Black #

Durability:∞

Effect: Throwing this at the target (limited to creatures not of the same type as the item holder) will always capture and subdue it.

Description: pokemon gettodaze!

Lin Yu was slightly taken aback when he saw the item. He definitely knew about the Master Ball; Pokémon was one of his childhood memories, but he really didn't expect to get this thing.

However, soon, a satisfied smile appeared on Lin Yu's lips.

This modified Master Ball effect is simple, straightforward, and incredibly awesome.

"Guaranteed to be captured"... This means that if he is lucky enough, or if he seizes the right moment, he may even be able to capture a Gold-level or even higher-level being.

This is undoubtedly an extremely powerful trump card, an opportunity to turn the tide and instantly boost strength.

Of course, Lin Yu quickly calmed down as well.

This thing is amazing, but its limitations are also obvious. The description says "throwing," which means that he has to be able to hit the target.

Those truly powerful beings possess terrifying speed, reaction time, and defensive capabilities. How could they possibly be easily hit by a ball? They would probably be detected and dodged or blocked by the opponent before they even get close.

Moreover, the restriction of "non-item holders of similar creatures" also eliminates the possibility of capturing other players—although Lin Yu hadn't thought of doing that either.

"It's a good thing, but it has to be used wisely, and... I might never find an opportunity to use it." Lin Yu played with the cool and smooth Master Ball in his hand, and then carefully put it into the deepest part of his backpack space, together with other important items.

This is a trump card that requires both exceptional intelligence and incredible luck to play well.

After putting away the Master Ball, Lin Yu's attention returned to the current game environment.

He took a cell phone out of his pocket; it was an item that had automatically appeared in his pocket after he entered the game.

Pineapple Phone

Category: Quest Item (Cannot be taken out of the game world)

The phone has a very ordinary appearance, with a black casing and a moderate size.

Lin Yu pressed the power button, the screen lit up, and there was no password lock.

The interface is very simple, displaying only the time, weather forecast, and a particularly eye-catching app icon – "Starving Food Delivery Assistant".

Lin Yu opened the software. The interface was very similar to a real-world food delivery platform, with options such as a map, order list, and personal center.

In his personal center, he found the "Deliveryman's Manual" that the system had mentioned earlier.

Open the manual; most of the content consists of delivery rules and order-taking instructions.

On-time delivery: All orders have an estimated delivery time, and delays may cause customer dissatisfaction.

Keep food intact: Ensure takeout packaging is undamaged; spilled or contaminated food may result in negative reviews.

Service attitude: Although customers can be very different, please try your best to be polite. Verbal conflicts are a common cause of negative reviews.

Delivery quota: A minimum number of deliveries must be completed each day, otherwise it will be considered as a failure.

……

Lin Yu quickly finished browsing through the rules. These rules seemed ordinary, but combined with the name "Life and Death Delivery" and this strange world, each one seemed to harbor hidden dangers.

"Beep beep..."

I had just finished reading the manual when my phone beeped. A red dot appeared in the software's message box.

Lin Yu opened the message, which was from someone with the ID "Site Captain".

[Station Leader]: Hello newcomer, welcome to the Starving Tomorrow Delivery family.

I hope you will be dedicated to your duties, abide by the rules, and strive to provide the best service to our customers.

Your working hours are from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, and you may work overtime voluntarily.

Arrive at the station's playground on time for a brief onboarding briefing.

Upon seeing the last paragraph about "voluntary overtime," Lin Yu curled his lip and muttered under his breath, "Voluntary overtime? You guys do this in your crappy game too, huh...?"

He glanced at his phone; it was already 8:30 in the morning.

Without further delay, he slung his backpack over his shoulder, checked that his equipment was properly worn, and especially adjusted the [Bio-Armor - Bloodvine] that occasionally twitched slightly to its most comfortable state before pushing open the door and going out.

After seven days of taming with lightning, the blood vine seems quite obedient now, no longer causing trouble, and mostly following his orders.

Of course, Lin Yu still held the same thought: this thing would not be so easily tamed, otherwise Ghost Eye would not have been willing to sell it.

Of course, Lin Yu will not take any other measures before any unexpected events occur. At present, Lin Yu's attitude towards it is still relatively positive.

Leaving the apartment, what came into view was a normal dormitory corridor, dimly lit, with a faint smell of disinfectant in the air.

By this time, many players had already come out. They glanced at each other and mostly just nodded slightly as a greeting. However, apart from a few players who seemed to know each other beforehand and exchanged a few words in hushed tones, everyone else remained wary and distant, showing no intention of engaging in any further communication.

Lin Yu did the same; he silently followed the flow of people to the stairwell and arrived on the first floor.

Outside the dormitory building is a small concrete playground.

Next to the playground, there was a place that looked like a charging station, with rows of electric bikes neatly parked inside, each with a conspicuous sign that read "Starving to death, takeout available".

Lin Yu stepped forward to check.

These electric bikes have a fairly ordinary design, but the materials seem to be somewhat special. The locks can only be opened by scanning a QR code with the "Eating Dead Delivery Assistant" app on a mobile phone, and they are currently all locked.

He tried to bend the handlebars and seat with force and found them to be unusually sturdy, clearly not of ordinary civilian grade.

He didn't dare to make any further outrageous attempts, after all, he wasn't sure if there were any surveillance cameras here, or if doing so would violate the rules.

He then began to survey the entire site.

The station was surrounded by a tall barbed wire fence. Apart from the dormitory building they came from, there was a single-story building opposite that looked like a warehouse or office, but the door was closed and the windows were blocked, so the interior could not be seen.

Lin Yu tried to approach, but when he was about five meters away from the gate, an invisible resistance appeared, and at the same time his phone vibrated, and a message popped up on the screen: "Entry into the office area is prohibited outside of working hours."

"Work area? It seems this is where the team leader came out, or rather, there should be other station staff here, such as station managers." Lin Yu noted this information down.

He then walked to the station's exit gate. It was a heavy metal electric door, which was also tightly closed at the moment, with a card reader area next to it.

Lin Yu tried to approach, but the screen displayed: "[Working hours have not yet started, the gate is locked]".

Soon, it was almost nine o'clock.

Most of the players gathered on the playground, exactly one hundred people, and no one was late.

An inexplicable tension permeated the air.

At exactly nine o'clock, accompanied by a series of heavy footsteps, the door of the building that Lin Yu had previously been unable to enter creaked open.

A huge figure emerged.

It was a giant man nearly three meters tall, with bulging muscles that stretched his yellow vest, which had the "Starving to Death Takeout" logo on it, to the point that it looked like it was about to burst.

His skin was an unhealthy bluish-gray, and several hideous scars ran across his face. His large, round eyes scanned the players on the playground with undisguised scrutiny and a sense of oppression.

Despite their extensive experience, the players still felt considerable pressure in the face of this size "human" NPC, and a slight commotion arose in the crowd, but it quickly subsided.

The burly man walked to the front of the players' line and, in a booming voice, began to yell, "What kind of sloppy work is this! Stand in line, all of you!"

His voice seemed to have a certain intimidating effect, and the players subconsciously moved quickly, forming a relatively neat square formation.

Seeing this, the burly man seemed somewhat satisfied and continued to roar, "I'm your station captain! You can call me Captain Bull! Welcome to Starving Delivery! Here, the rules are simple: deliver on time, don't spill soup, don't be late, and don't fucking upset the customers! Anyone who dares to give me a bad review, or fails to meet their daily delivery quota..."

He paused, a ferocious smile spreading across his face, his white teeth gleaming coldly, but he didn't mention the consequences, only coldly watching the player in front of him.

His smile was eerie, and most players felt a slight unease; it seemed the punishments in this game weren't so simple after all.

"Understood!" the players responded in varying degrees of confusion.

"Haven't you eaten yet? You think you can deliver food with such a low voice? Speak up!"

"Understood!!" The voice was much louder.

"Great!" Captain Bull nodded. "Your electric vehicles are unlocked. You can use them by scanning the code with your software."

The daily delivery quota will be sent to your phones. If you don't meet it... Hmph! You'd better watch out! Now, dismissed! All of you get back to your deliveries!

After saying that, he ignored the player and turned around, taking heavy steps back into the building.

The players looked at each other, quickly processing the information they had just received.

At this moment, a player in the middle of the front row seemed to have mustered up his courage and shouted at Captain Bull's back, "Captain! What exactly is that punishment?"

Captain Bull stopped in his tracks, turned halfway around, his chuckled, and said with a twitch of his facial muscles, "Punishment? It's simple, you just deliver a 'takeout' order."

He emphasized the word "takeout": "I guarantee you'll be impressed! As for the specifics... you'll find out when the time comes! I hope you'll have the chance to experience it! Hahahaha!"

With a disturbing laugh, Captain Bull disappeared completely into the building's doorway.

The players didn't look too happy.

Although the specifics are unclear, it's obvious to anyone with a brain that the "takeout" that the captain specifically requested to deliver was definitely not an easy task.

Without delay, everyone rushed to the charging station. Sure enough, the "Get Car" option appeared on their phones via the "Starving Tomorrow Delivery Assistant" app, along with a randomly assigned license plate number and QR code.

Lin Yu found the corresponding electric vehicle and scanned the code to unlock it.

The electric vehicle emitted a slight hum, and the instrument panel lit up, indicating that the battery was fully charged.

He straddled it and found the seat and cushioning to be surprisingly comfortable.

He immediately checked his phone for today's tasks.

Today's delivery quota: 3 orders

"Three singles?" Lin Yu was taken aback.

The number was much smaller than he had expected.

Even if he works part-time as a food delivery driver in the real world, he can complete more than a dozen orders a day if he is a little diligent.

These three orders sound like a beginner's bonus.

But he quickly dismissed the idea.

How could a game possibly offer any perks? Something fishy must be going on.

The difficulty of these three orders is probably far beyond what we imagined.

He casually opened the game's built-in chat channel, and sure enough, it was already in an uproar.

"Brothers, how many orders have you placed today?"

"3 orders!"

"Me too, 3 orders!"

"All three orders! There's definitely something wrong with that!"

"Only 3 orders a day? How can that be enough? It's not even enough for me to run for an hour in the real world."

"Hey upstairs, use your ass! Do you think food delivery is that easy in this godforsaken place?"

"Damn, I'm starting to panic."

It seems that all players start with a limit of 3 orders, which further confirms Lin Yu's idea that the delivery process will be anything but easy.

Lin Yu stopped paying attention to the channel and started the electric car.

The motor is extremely quiet, yet its power is exceptionally strong.

With a gentle turn of the accelerator, the car quickly glided forward. Lin Yu was only driving in low gear, and with a slight increase in the throttle, the electric car's speed immediately reached nearly 60 km/h and was still accelerating.

This doesn't seem to be an ordinary electric car.

Other players also started their vehicles and arrived at the tightly closed iron gate.

Seemingly detecting that the vehicle had been unlocked, the large iron gate slowly opened automatically.

The sight outside the door made all the players gasp in shock.

This is no normal city! It's clearly a wasteland that has been ravaged by a catastrophe! Broken overpasses, collapsed buildings, streets full of rubble... a faint smell of gunpowder and decay lingers in the air.

Even more chilling are the "residents" roaming the ruins—zombies shaking their rotting bodies, howling werewolves and orcs, ghosts floating in mid-air, and indescribable creatures wriggling tentacles... all sorts of monsters that only appear in horror movies and fantasy games are now wandering the streets!

The players were completely baffled. So, they were supposed to deliver food in a place like this?

No wonder the daily target is only three orders. In a place like this, even if you only deliver one order a day, it would be difficult for an ordinary person to achieve that.

At the same time, almost the instant the gate was fully opened, some monsters nearby were attracted by the engine sound and the players' scent, roaring and howling like sharks that had smelled blood, and charged madly towards the players.

"Run!"

"Return to the original site!"

Someone shouted, and the players panicked, turned the car around, and jerked the throttle back.

The monsters chased the monsters to the vicinity of the station's gate, but were blocked by an invisible barrier, and could only roar and howl in frustration on the outside.

It seems the site is probably a safe zone or something similar.

The players, still shaken, looked at each other, their faces pale.

"How...how do I deliver this?"

"No wonder this electric scooter is so fast. It seems it's not to help us deliver food faster, but to prevent us from being caught by the monster."

"No, there are so many monsters outside now, even if the electric car goes fast, it can't get out."

The player community quickly descended into chaos.

Several players who seemed quite skilled tried to form a team: "Everyone, calm down! Going it alone is too dangerous! We must team up! We need to look out for each other!"

A female player who appeared to be quite skilled and well-equipped chimed in: "That's right! Going solo is too risky. Teaming up can share the pressure, increasing survival rate and the probability of completing the mission!"

This suggestion received a lot of positive feedback from players.

But soon, real problems emerged.

"Teaming up is possible, but our order destinations are probably different, right? Everyone has their own destination, so we'll eventually have to separate," a calm player asked.

Everyone quickly checked their phones.

Orders are randomly assigned by the system, with destinations scattered across different areas of the city ruins, making the probability of routes overlapping extremely low.

Therefore, it is impossible for players to form large groups.

Unless we can get some people to give up their own orders and help others complete theirs first.

But that's impossible. Who would be willing to sacrifice their own quota to help someone else? What if they can't complete their own quota in the end? After all, the game's penalties don't sound easy.

The players fell silent.

After a while, one player spoke up: "How about forming a small team? Two or three people with similar routes would be fine? Or a few people could help one person complete the task, and then take turns completing it."

As for now, we can all stick together and deal with the monsters outside the site first, then split up later.

This idea is not bad, and it has received support from most people.

Ultimately, most players realized that large-scale group formation was impractical.

Only a very small number of lucky players with highly overlapping order routes are able to form a small team of two or three people.

Most players, including Lin Yu, found after checking their orders that their three orders were in different directions, almost spanning half of the city map, making it impossible to travel the same route as others.

For now, we can only listen to that player's advice: let's deal with the monsters outside the site together first, and then see which route to assign and form a team.

Lin Yu had already anticipated this outcome.

In the first three games, he realized that it was impossible to rely too much on others in such games, and that players were not necessarily reliable.

He took a deep breath, no longer hesitated, and too lazy to join the players' team. He drove his electric car and was the first to head towards the slowly opening station gate.

His actions attracted a lot of attention.

While everyone was still discussing their next plan, he had already taken the lead and rushed out of the safe zone.

Lin Yu wasn't the only player to do the same thing, and it didn't cause much of an impact. The players just muttered a few words and then ignored it.

As Lin Yu rushed out of the station gate, it was as if he had passed through an invisible membrane, and the noise, chaos, and strange roars from the outside world instantly flooded into his ears.

The scene before me was suffocating: shattered high-rises, broken overpasses, ruins billowing black smoke, and mountains of abandoned vehicles piled up on the streets.

In this dilapidated urban jungle, all sorts of bizarre and wonderful creatures roam.

This place is a city of monsters!

Almost the instant Lin Yu appeared, several groups of monsters nearby simultaneously discovered this "outcast".

Their eyes instantly lit up with a greedy, hungry, or purely destructive light, and they roared and howled excitedly as they charged toward him from all directions.

Lin Yu felt a chill run down his spine, but he wasn't too flustered.

He twisted the ignition switch sharply, and the electric scooter shot off like an arrow.

This seemingly ordinary electric vehicle has performance far exceeding expectations, with extremely sensitive throttle response and ferocious power output.

Lin Yu only slightly increased the accelerator, and the car's speed instantly exceeded 60 kilometers per hour, and it was still increasing.

Lin Yu immediately shifted the electric scooter to medium gear, and the speed increased again.

It wasn't that Lin Yu didn't want to speed up, but mainly because his cycling skills were average, and he really couldn't control the speed. In fact, in the past, Lin Yu wouldn't have dared to drive at this speed at all.

Now that his attributes are high, his strength is great, and he has a lot of equipment, he dares to do this.

A strong wind rushed towards him, making his long cloak flutter wildly.

The slower zombies and bulky orcs behind were quickly left behind, with only a few agile monsters, such as some kind of hound-like creature covered in bone spurs, and a few floating ghosts, still relentlessly pursuing them.

What's even more troublesome is what's ahead. Hearing the commotion, new monsters are constantly being disturbed from the ruins and dilapidated buildings on both sides of the street. They roar and rush towards the center of the street, trying to intercept the speeding "delivery car"!

Lin Yu frowned, his mind highly focused, maneuvering the electric vehicle nimbly through the streets littered with gravel and debris, narrowly avoiding several attacks.

But the number of monsters is increasing, and the road ahead is almost completely blocked!