Lin Bei, 26 years old, is a former programmer. After his company went bankrupt, he was saddled with debt and was forced to switch careers as a food delivery rider.
I go out at 7 am every day and come back at 11 pm. I run an average of 40 orders a day and earn 6,000 yuan a month. Among them, 3,500 yuan was used to repay the loan, 1,500 yuan was used to pay the rent, and the remaining 1,000 yuan was his entire monthly living expenses.
The platform algorithm was like an invisible hand, stuck in his throat. Money will be deducted for overtime, money will be deducted for negative reviews, points will be deducted for not accepting orders, and you will lose money if you accept distant orders. In the rider group, some people scolded me every day, but they still went online on time the next day - because they had no choice.
Until one day, he received an unusual order with no address, no phone number, and a delivery fee of up to 10,000 yuan.
There is only one line in the order note: "Send it to the third locust tree in the alley behind the City God's Temple and knock three times. No living people are allowed in, and no dead people are asked."
From that day on, there was a hidden interface in his food delivery app: "Alien Errands and Order Taking System". Customers are no longer just the white-collar workers ordering milk tea upstairs, but also century-old ghosts in urban villages, fox-fairy CEOs on the top floor of office buildings, and passengers on the last subway train who never make it to the station.
Every time an order from another world is completed, the system will give you not money, but abilities - ghost eyes, shukuchi, psychic, and life borrowing.
But Lin Bei soon discovered that the "business" in the dark side of the city was far more complicated than the food delivery platform. Someone is grabbing his order, someone is controlling the order allocation, and the being who gave the system to him has another purpose.
In the past, he was trapped in the algorithm and ran orders. Now he is trapped within a larger "algorithm". The difference is - this time the bet is not an overtime fine, but life.
