“Five-star reviews boost your cultivation progress, but a bad review deducts years from your life? What kind of setup is this?”
Chen Xiaofan, a delivery guy, had been having a rough time lately. Ever since he picked up a jade pendant that warmed in his hand, his deliveries had stopped being takeout. Now he was bringing life-saving pills, talismans to slay immortals, and the sparks that would set the darkness ablaze.
It was only when office workers started growing spider-like compound eyes and teenagers pulling all-nighters at internet cafes began breathing black mist that he realized the Heart-Eating Demon Seeds had already seeped into every overworked body, carried by the blessings of the 996 work grind and motivational speeches about workplace competition. Even more terrifying, the blue delivery app on his phone had somehow turned into a blood-red talisman edict. Completing “special orders” could earn him ancient treasures, but running late meant being struck by heavenly lightning!
“Pickup: No. 144 Chenghuang Street, a sealed Heavenly Master from Mount Longhu”
“Delivery address: 88th floor, downtown financial tower”
“Note: Do not tear the talisman before it is consecrated, or you’ll be responsible for whatever happens when the vengeful ghost gets out.”
Chen Xiaofan rode his shared bike through the neon-lit streets, with a thousand-year-old fiend suppressed in his delivery box. He knew this delivery was about more than late-night food. It was carrying the fate of a modern city teetering between the flood of capital and a cultivation conspiracy.
