There was no response from within.

After repeatedly confirming the delivery address and making sure he hadn't knocked on the wrong door, Gu Mian knocked on the mortuary cabinet in front of him again. "Mr. Cao, your delivery has arrived."

Xiao Hong, who was below steadying the ladder, looked up with a puzzled expression, not understanding why Gu Mian was talking to a massive metal drawer.

The person inside still didn't open the door.

Could he have frozen to death?

Left with no other choice, Gu Mian reached out to pull open the mortuary cabinet, considerately reminding the person inside, "Mr. Cao, I'm going to open the door to deliver your package."

With that, Gu Mian pulled the mortuary cabinet in front of him open a crack.

He bent down, intending to glimpse what the client inside looked like, but before he could get a good look, a pale arm stretched out and yanked the cotton quilt from Gu Mian's shoulder into the opening.

The gap was then slammed shut with a BANG by the person inside. Then, a voice came from within: "Why did it take so long? I almost froze to death in here... Never mind, your job as a deliveryman isn't easy. I'll reluctantly give you a good rating."

With that, the mortuary cabinet suddenly opened a crack again, and a rating sheet flew out, landing in Gu Mian's hand. He glanced down at the sheet and saw it was similar to one he had encountered in a previous instance. This Mr. Cao Zhenleng, quite understandingly, had given him a five-star rating.

Just as Gu Mian was about to pull open the mortuary cabinet to see the true face of Mr. Cao Zhenleng, a semi-transparent panel suddenly materialized before him.

This game panel appeared in a way similar to the triggering of a special instance. Gu Mian initially thought he had triggered a special instance, only to realize he was wrong—

[Congratulations, you have triggered the prerequisite quest exclusive to the 'Postman' career instance!]

Gu Mian got excited reading the first half of the sentence, thinking he had triggered another career instance. However, it turned out to be just the prerequisite quest for the career instance.

This career instance is quite complicated; it even includes quests!

Gu Mian thought as he looked down.

[Successfully deliver the ninety-nine parcels on the list and collect ninety-nine five-star rating sheets to obtain the exclusive item for entering the 'Postman' career instance.]

Following this was a long list of parcels.

The first line was Cao Zhenleng's quilt delivery. This line was marked "Completed," with ninety-eight more to go.

At a cursory glance, Gu Mian saw many bizarre items, including "Aged Graveyard Soil" and "Fifteen old hens from the neighbor's house."

Of course, I need to personally source these items. This isn't just delivery; it includes sourcing the products too!

Many of the addresses on the list were unheard of to Gu Mian, such as "BUG Road No.10087678," "Five Big Ghosts Mountain," and "Shangdiao Waibozi Street."

There can't possibly be such places in the real world. Gu Mian suspected that these strange delivery addresses were all within instances.

This Postman career instance is quite harsh. After delivering ninety-nine parcels in various worlds, I still can't immediately get the career. Instead, I have to enter an instance to complete the career quests. If I fail, all that previous work would be in vain.

However, not all the parcels listed were weird; there were also many normal ones.

After reading, Gu Mian closed the page. The list automatically saved to his quest panel and would be visible when he opened the game's quest panel again.

Speaking of which, the game's quest panel had always been empty. I initially thought it was just for show; I didn't expect it to be useful today!

After closing the game panel, Gu Mian looked at the mortuary cabinet where Cao Zhenleng was supposedly residing.

My main goal right now is to head to Paradise World; this delivery quest is just something to do along the way. I wonder if this Cao Zhenleng in the mortuary cabinet is an NPC or something else? Maybe I can get some clues about Paradise World from him.

With this thought, Gu Mian politely reached out and knocked on the mortuary cabinet. "Mr. Cao, can you come out for a bit? There's something I'd like to talk to you about."

Gu Mian waited for a few seconds, but there was no reaction from the cabinet.

"Mr. Cao, I'm opening the door now." Seeing no movement inside, the polite Gu Mian directly started pulling the mortuary cabinet out.

The cabinet was pulled open effortlessly, but it was completely empty – no trace of any ghostly figure, and the quilt that had been pulled in earlier was also missing.

Looking at the empty cabinet, I guess this Cao Zhenleng must be a piece of data placed here by the game. Once the delivery was received, it completed its task and disappeared.

They wouldn't really make a living NPC wait inside a mortuary cabinet all the time, right?

「Later that day」

Fatty waited anxiously at home, not seeing Gu Mian return until dusk.

"The Doctor is back!" Seeing Gu Mian return, Fatty immediately circled him twice before asking, "Doctor, did you find the mortuary cabinet?"

Gu Mian explained the situation to Fatty and Chu Changge. He also brought out the list for them to browse.

Fatty said in amazement, "It's actually a career instance! The guy on the phone unintentionally gave us a clue to such an important instance. But delivering ninety-nine parcels would be quite tough, right? And this quest only provides you, Doctor, with a list—you have to source the parcel items yourself."

Exactly. Just dealing with the aged graveyard soil alone would be a hassle. Gu Mian decided to put this delivery quest on hold for now and focus on matters regarding Paradise World. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

The person on the phone had mentioned that Paradise is preparing to set up a big stage for some kind of talent show. If I can get there in time, I might even be able to participate!

Fatty was fiddling with his camera nearby. It was a special item, [Weird Camera], capable of photographing invisible ghosts, but only once a day.

When Gu Mian had shown the parcel list earlier, Fatty had used the camera to take a picture of it for easier review.

Since there weren't many ghosts to photograph in the real world, Fatty had been using it to document daily life when he was outside.

"Doctor, I see a few relatively simple ones on the list," Fatty said, seriously analyzing the photographed list. "For example, this one is to deliver mosquito coils to the nearest ticket booth. That one's simple."

Some delivery locations on the list weren't fixed, such as "the second closest public toilet to oneself" or "to the left of the first tree you see after opening your eyes from walking straight with them closed for ten minutes. If there's no tree, close your eyes and walk straight for another ten minutes." These locations are truly bizarre!

"Anyway, Doctor, since you don't have any clues about Paradise right now, why not deliver these few simple ones first?" Fatty said earnestly. "Who knows, we might even pick up some clues from the ticket seller."

"And it just so happens we have mosquito coils at home!" Fatty was a man of action. He quickly ran to his bedside table and rummaged out two boxes of mosquito coils.

These had been bought a while ago when the weather was hot and mosquitoes were plentiful. Their apartment was on a lower floor, so many mosquitoes would fly in whenever they opened or closed the door.

Fatty had bought a large box of mosquito coils to use and had even distributed some to others in the building.

However, because Xiao Hong was always running around in the room and would accidentally step on and break the mosquito coils, Fatty had switched to using plug-in electric mosquito repellents. The few remaining boxes of mosquito coils had been left unused and could now be delivered as parcels.