jdhmnovel Chapter 373 Another Perilous Exam
Chapter 373 Another Perilous Exam
The outline of the crack projected by the bronze cauldron continued to expand, and the sudden burst of heat from Ye Shuli's collarbone made her stagger half a step.
Jiang Ye supported her lower back with his blood-stained palm. The heart-protecting mirror, which had transformed into a Meituan power bank, suddenly popped open its cap and sprayed out the minty scent of Yunnan Baiyao aerosol.
"This thing even has a smart sensing function?" Jiang Ye poked at the "emergency mode" light screen that appeared on the power bank, only to be pushed away by Ye Shuli's elbow three inches from his ribs. "Don't touch it with your hands that are stained with monster blood. These patterns seem to be able to absorb the energy of the spirit orb..."
Before he finished speaking, the star map that flew out from the Void Leader's sleeve suddenly unfolded into a teleportation array.
Twelve bronze pillars rise from the ground, with reliefs of various takeout shops appearing on their surfaces.
Jiang Ye raised an eyebrow, staring at the milk tea shop sign on a pillar: "Looks like the Three Realms Delivery Service is real—watch out!"
The moment the teleportation array was activated, three dark figures darted out from behind the bronze pillar engraved with a hot pot restaurant pattern.
Ye Shuli pressed the fragment of the spirit pearl onto the lines on her collarbone, and the trajectory of the Big Dipper suddenly materialized into seven spinning dinner knives.
The "30-minute arrival guaranteed" rune flashing on the hilt formed a barrier, throwing the attacker, along with his weapon, into the teleportation vortex.
When the dizziness subsided, the two were standing in front of a distorted and deformed void rift.
A seven-tiered circular altar floated above the abyss, each tier piled high with bronze food boxes inscribed with the words "Caution: Hot!"
The Void Leader stood at the edge of the highest altar, the faint glimmer of the Milky Way flowing from the cracks in his mask eroding the barrier.
"The final test is to retrieve the Void Stone." The leader pointed to the rhomboid crystal suspended in the center of the crack.
The surface of the object was adorned with the Meituan Waimai kangaroo logo, but the original cheerful orange had turned into an eerie dark blue.
Eighteen explorers wearing black cloaks suddenly emerged from the bronze food box, with the female cultivator at the head pointing her sword directly at Ye Shuli's throat.
Jiang Ye suddenly pulled out a vibrating power bank: "You have a new Ele.me order—" Taking advantage of the moment when everyone was stunned, Ye Shuli pulled off the Klein bottle pendant on her collarbone that had absorbed the energy of the spirit pearl.
The moment the pendant plunged into the abyss, seven insulated takeout boxes appeared out of thin air. The countdown runes for "On-Time Treasure" on the boxes formed chains, temporarily trapping the explorers on the second-level altar.
As the Void Rift Guardian opened its six eyes from the boiling chaos, Ye Shuli had already leaped onto the fifth floor, stepping on the constantly popping "Order Successful" light screen.
The lines on her collarbone were absorbing the energy overflowing from the crack, gradually revealing the floor numbers of the apartment elevator from her previous life.
Just as the fingertips were about to touch the Void Stone, the guardian's breath blast sent the bronze food box on the three-tiered altar flying.
"Abnormal order detected!" The power bank's protective mirror suddenly popped up a red alert.
Jiang Ye swung out a short sword wrapped with an Ele.me order receipt, and a protective shield bearing the FamilyMart logo flew out from the spatial rift torn by the sword energy.
As Ye Shuli fell, she grabbed a Meituan yellow helmet that was floating by. The rider number on the side of the helmet was resonating with the lines on her collarbone.
The guardian's six eyes simultaneously locked onto the target, and countless tombstones bearing negative reviews floated up from the abyss.
Ye Shuli wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and slapped the last three fragments of the spirit orb into the deforming Klein bottle pendant.
When the pendant unfolded into a shield flashing blue light that read "Rider has arrived," she heard the call of her past life's address emanating from the depths of the void rift.
Ye Shuli's fingertips were only half an inch away from the Void Stone when six dark blue beams of light suddenly appeared in the abyss.
Each eye of the Void Rift Guardian emitted a star-annihilating pressure, and the Meituan kangaroo logo flashed wildly on the crystal surface, projecting countless blood-red runes that read "Order Timed Out".
"Watch out!" The FamilyMart protective shield that Jiang Ye threw out exploded into a rain of plastic in mid-air.
Eighteen negatively reviewed tombstones formed a circular array, and the curse of "delivery delay" on the inscriptions turned into physical chains that wrapped around Ye Shuli's ankles.
The female cultivator stood on the third-level altar and sneered, "How long can modern people's petty cleverness last?"
Ye Shuli fastened the Meituan helmet to her chest with her hand, and the rider number suddenly projected a 3D map of her apartment from her previous life.
0.3 seconds after the Guardian's third eye switched visual modes, the spiritual energy absorbed by the collarbone pattern surged wildly along the elevator floor numbers.
"Now!" Jiang Ye suddenly shouted the voice command into the power bank: "Activate nighttime delivery mode!"
An orange navigation light suddenly illuminated the abyss.
Ye Shuli leaped into the air using the suddenly popped-up "order-accepting light screen," and the shield unfolded from the Klein bottle pendant precisely blocked the three tombstone attacks.
The kangaroo logo on the surface of the Void Stone suddenly changed into a familiar house number—Building 7, Room 2901.
"Ding!" The moment the fingertip touched the crystal, countless transparent elevator doors rose from the abyss.
While in a state of weightlessness, Ye Shuli passed through seventeen flashing floor numbers. The energy from the cracks absorbed by her collarbone lines condensed into spiritual wings shaped like takeout boxes behind her.
The beams of light shot from the Guardian's six eyes were refracted by the helmet, burning a fluorescent trail on the altar that read "Rider has taken the meal."
The female cultivator's sword suddenly changed direction: "Don't let her activate..." Before she could finish speaking, Jiang Ye's Ele.me order smothered her mouth.
The young man leaped to the fifth floor using the bronze food box as a step, and the red alarm light screen that popped up from the power bank just blocked the sneak attack from the three explorers.
"Watch out for the lower left!" Ye Shuli suddenly shouted.
Jiang Ye instinctively rolled to the side, and the spot where he had been standing was melted by the Guardian's eye beam, leaving a steaming indentation like a milk tea cup.
The two stood back to back on the rotating "On-Time Treasure" rune, watching the eighteen explorers form a blood-red rune array.
The Void Leader's star-patterned robe fluttered without wind: "Ten seconds left." Ye Shuli suddenly realized that the energy absorbed by the collarbone pattern was counting down.
When the phantom of her past life's neighborhood garden appeared in the abyss, the Guardian's third eye finally revealed the fault line in the energy conversion.
"The flaw is in the milk tea order!" Jiang Ye suddenly pointed to the flashing QR code on the crystal surface.
Ye Shuli instantly understood and poured her last bit of spiritual power into the Klein bottle pendant.
As the pendant emitted a phantom image of a blue rider's outfit that pierced through the Guardian's third eye, the Void Stone finally emitted a crisp notification sound indicating that the elevator had arrived.
The moment the crystal fell into her palm, the entire void rift began playing the elevator surveillance footage from her past life.
Looking at herself in the picture, working overtime and returning home late, Ye Shuli suddenly understood why the lines on her collarbone resonated with delivery deadlines—those late nights when clients were rushing her to finish her work, those lonely times when she relied on takeout to survive, all of these now transformed into precise fighting instincts.
"Test passed." The Void Leader raised his hand to freeze space and time, but suddenly frowned and looked southeast.
The crimson rune array that appeared beneath the feet of the eighteen explorers actually pierced through the barrier, and the black spirit orbs in their hands, which were flashing with the counterfeit Meituan logo, were resonating dangerously with the void stone in Ye Shuli's hand.