Everyone else awakens with world-shattering powers. My first thought was, “Can this ability help me deliver a few more orders?”
Zhou Shou is a 28-year-old overworked wage slave whose greatest achievement is being named “Delivery King” for 30 days straight. Then he takes an order to a funeral home, where the customer pays 50 yuan with a talking black tablet. From that moment on, his delivery career takes a sharp turn.
He begins juggling two kinds of orders: human-world deliveries by day, underworld parcels by night.
His abilities are extraordinary, but he puts them to very practical use:
- [Hunter’s Instinct] helps him plan the best delivery routes, with a 100% on-time rate.
- [Verbal Provocation] gets drivers stuck in traffic arguing with each other, while he slips past on his electric bike.
- [Combat Taunting] makes difficult customers feel so ashamed they offer him a bigger tip.
His teammates are even stranger: Xiao Ya, a girl with a severe case of chuunibyou, explains every supernatural phenomenon with anime references; muscle-brained Qiang Ge shouts out the names of his moves whenever he fights; Lao Zhao, owner of a health-conscious hot pot restaurant, brews potions with hot pot base; and the socially anxious programmer A-Zhai uses Python to write code that draws magic circles automatically.
When the official supernatural affairs bureau comes knocking, they don’t bring an arrest warrant. They bring a “Civilized City Initiative Pledge,” demanding that he promise not to “use his abilities to snatch WeChat red packets.”
Zhou Shou: “Does this order pay extra? If it does, I’ll deliver anything!”
