At midnight, after I’d been swindled out of my savings and left destitute, a pitch-black job offer with no stamp slipped silently through the crack beneath my door.
[Youdu Express is hiring delivery specialists. Night shift. Excellent benefits. Cowards need not apply.]
I thought it was just an ordinary night delivery job, until I discovered that one of my colleagues was a motor-mouthed daredevil who grew cat ears when speeding, while the other was a silent painted-skin creature capable of “erasing” existence.
And my customers were something else entirely:
A river god living in a rooftop water tank and fretting over his hair loss;
An ouroboros lurking on an abandoned subway line, maintaining the city’s ley lines;
And an old-fashioned typewriter in a museum, transformed into a spirit after a century of loneliness…
My job is to deliver the bizarre packages these “nonhumans” request: a bottle of forbidden tears, a strand of sealed moonlight, or even a forgotten memory.
But beneath the peaceful routine of deliveries, dark currents are rising. The Spirit Suppression Bureau, whose uniformed agents wield rune weapons, considers me an “anomaly” that must be eliminated. The Soul-Eater Marquis, lurking in the city’s shadows and plotting to tear up the world’s pact, sees me as prey.
When the ancient compass my parents left behind begins to turn, I finally realize that the power flowing through my veins is that of a “Pact Guardian,” the force that maintains the balance between two worlds. Every delivery is a chance to mend a crack in the world.
I’m Lin Mo, a deliveryman.
The package has been picked up, and the recipient…isn’t even human!
And my next delivery will determine the fate of the entire world.
