The time is on January 27, 355 in the Chaos Calendar, the first day after Sky City's largest annual shopping festival "126 (January 26)". Here, the number "126" is linked together to read the same pronunciation as "buy things", and savvy merchants have turned this festival into a shopping carnival in Sky City!
Every year after the "126", all express delivery points in Sky City will be bursting, and the warehouses will not be able to fit them. Usually, the express delivery trucks are full of express boxes. The small box of the ring, the oxygen cage big enough to hold the beasts... It can be said that there is no package that can surprise the courier.
Even in this era, courier is still an industry that has not been cancelled. It can be said that this is a very magical era. It is clear that technology has been highly developed. Almost all the things people imagined in the past have been invented, such as virtual games, such as Star-making, such as space gates... With highly developed technology, mechanical products are naturally highly developed. People can use various exquisite mechanical substitutes to replace unusable body parts and parts when necessary. These mechanical substitutes are vivid and fully functional. It can almost be confused with the real. It stands to reason that this is already a society with highly developed machinery, but—
The use of robots in this era is very rare.
People can replace their physical bodies with mechanical bodies, but they do not support the replacement of human power by machines, and even highly restrict the development of intelligent mechanical bodies.
There is of course a reason for this: after all, in a certain period of history in the tower, mechanical life once prospered, too prosperous, and posed a great threat to the humans in the tower. Since then, artificial intelligence has strictly restricted.
Therefore, in this era, many types of work have not been eliminated, on the contrary, many have become more prosperous.
One hundred and seventy-eight-year-old John is a courier.
As a "middle-aged man" who has reached the retirement age (← he firmly doesn't think he is an elderly person), he can actually get the urban pension to get by, he doesn't need to work, and he receives money every month on time All kinds of benefits, and various entertainment activities arranged by Star City for free at any time, his retirement life should have been more nourishing than when he went to work.
But he is not happy to retire.
He has a strong and muscular body that has been exercised by carrying packages all the year round. He has been photographed secretly by reporters since he was young~ Even if he is old now and his eyesight is not good, his muscles are still well maintained, and he can report something from time to time. Yes, he likes the physical work he is doing now, and as long as his body allows it, he intends to keep doing it.
Today is no exception.
The "126" period is the busiest time every year. As an experienced courier, Old John has long been prepared. The warehouse for express delivery at home is full, and some functions that cannot be accommodated are piled up outside.
He planned to send the courier outside first.
When he locked the door and came back, he didn't notice that there were more couriers outside. He put the large and small packages into the compartment one by one according to their shapes, and saw that he was carrying them quickly. It didn't take long for the packages that were piled up in a mess outside. It was all packed into the carriage by him! Neat!
This is the knowledge of the courier~
After securing the compartment door, old John hummed a song and started the car.
He had already checked the couriers outside, and they were all sent to the same star city. The next thing he needed to do was to send them to the port.
Driving music and humming songs all the way, Old John, who didn't know it, drove to the port with the key evidence that several waves of people were eagerly looking for.
Old John carried the evidence to the back of a space jumper.
The front is very lively at this time. Passengers are landing one after another with their luggage. In the inconspicuous place on the back, the space jumper has also opened a small door. Old John is familiar with the road and drives around the road. , just stopped in front of this small door.
"Old John!" A loud voice came from the door.
The voice sounds very close, but no one can be seen inside the door! The door was empty, and the sound seemed to appear out of thin air!
When most people saw this scene, they were a little timid and 80% startled, but Old John didn't panic, jumped out of the car, and opened the compartment door, he greeted the people inside the door with the same loudness. .
"Hey, Old Blue!"
As he said, he moved the outermost express box to the door. As his position moved, the loud owner also appeared in the door:
There are two transparent wings on the back with golden veins like leaves on them. He is small, wearing delicate clothes, and looks like an elf in a fairy tale...
This is a Crewe!
However, unlike the young Crewes that Ronggui has seen, this Crewe looks a bit old. Although his body is well maintained, he even has muscles if he looks closely, but his face is also wrinkled.
"How much is this time? We've tried our best to make room, but the space is still limited, so I don't know if it can fit..." He is too petite, and the Crewe, known as "Old Blue", has tried his best to help the old man. John pulled the package, but I also know that his strength... Basically, there is no difference.
These packages were eventually moved in by old John.
When Old John moved in, there were more Crewes, both men and women, all dressed in exquisite clothes. Except for the old Bru before, the rest of the Crewes were quite young, but it seemed that they were right Old John was no stranger to him. Seeing Old John coming in, these young Crewes greeted him with a smile.
"Hello Nini! Tommy, you seem to have grown taller! Jenna..." Old John is no stranger to these Crewes, it's hard to believe that there are so many Crewes that he can even name them!
While chatting with the young man, Old John was carrying the courier. Like in the carriage, he also placed the packages neatly here.
However, as Old Blue said, the space here is really limited. As the parcels are put in one by one, the original space is blocked layer by layer. The Crewe is small and can pass freely, but Old John He stepped back step by step, and when the last express box was placed, he could only stand at the door and talk to the Crewes.
"Pay by volume, this time the volume of express delivery is... I should pay you 1508 Quabick." Old John skillfully calculated.
"Don't make a zero, just 1500!" Old Blue waved his hand and wiped a zero for Old John.
"Okay!" Old John didn't grumble, he took out his residence permit and "connected" with Old Blue's, and he immediately transferred the money to Old John's card.
"This jumper is about to open, we'll close the door now!" Putting away the card, Old Blue waved to Old John, the door slowly closed, and the faces of the Crewes disappeared in front of Old John.
He quickly managed the door of the compartment, and Old John quickly drove the car away from the space jumper. It didn't take long for the space jumper to take off. Looking back, there were about one-third of the express box left. Old John was not in a hurry. , continuing to hum the song, he drove to the back door of another space jumper... by the pier.
What just happened is actually another small business of these Crewes on the space jumper in addition to selling food: they will use their living space to help the courier deliver things!
But how big can their place be? The things that can be transported are also very limited. Besides, for them, the space jumper is their home. They can be careful about the things they transport. They even bought a high-level detector, and only dare to put in the things that have been tested without problems! Besides, they also secretly pay taxes~
Doing illegal things in such a regular manner, this... this...
The manager of the space jumper simply kept turning a blind eye.
In short, the price of goods transported by the Crewes on the space jumper is only one-fifth of the official channel. First, it is cheaper, and secondly, it is for the Crewes to have a source of income. Many couriers will or Secretly or openly take care of the business of the Kru people, the Kru people can't eat it, and then ship it through official channels.
Old John then took the rest of the cargo to other space jumpers to find other Crewes.
Such a coincidence! The "swag" that was abandoned by the robbers before his car was actually put into the space jumper by him!
So, just before the emergency notification was issued, Ronggui's body and other evidences were taken away by the Crewe express in the space jumper.
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In the dim mechanical tunnel, the color of metal is everywhere, and there are winding lines everywhere. Obviously, it looks like the inside of a large machine.
It stands to reason that it should be cold and dusty here. After all, people only need the machine to run smoothly. If the dust does not affect its operation, no one will deliberately clean its interior.
However, it is clean here.
Every centimeter has been carefully wiped, and there are bright reflections everywhere.
It doesn't matter if the metal walls can't be converted into warmer wood, they just put hand-woven carpets with good heat dissipation in places that don't affect it.
There was no problem with the route being diverted, so they used colored silk thread to wrap the route round and round, creating a variety of warm colors.
With a variety of exquisite hand-made small furniture, it looks a bit like an "American industrial style" family home.
There is nothing wrong with a residence here.
On the floor covered with colorful cushions, on the hand-polished cot, on the chairs, and even on the winding lines of colored silk threads on the walls, at intervals, one or two elfs stopped in these places.
Oh no, it's the Crewe.
This is where they usually live, which is their home on the space jumper according to legend.
A corner where normal people can't get into is a good place for them to settle down.
Although the lights here are always at this brightness, it's not too early now. I have already done a round of business in the cabin. Most of the guests in the cabin are already asleep, and they see that there is no business to do. , the Crewe people called Jin to withdraw their troops and came back to rest.
Most of the Kru people who just came back have already started to take off their uniforms. Although the clothes they usually wear for selling things are beautiful, the materials are rare. Each of them only has one set. Except for "work", most of the time they wear more styled clothes. Ordinary, but equally sophisticated and beautiful homewear.
Only one Crewe who had just returned did not go back to rest.
Putting down the big teapot in her hand, she picked up a small lantern and flew straight ahead.
That's right, "she".
The sleepless Crewe is a girl.
Brown, curly beautiful long hair, a small heart-shaped face, wearing a large tutu skirt, and a small apron with a beautiful lace fringe over the skirt, maintaining the state of wearing work clothes, she leaned back. fly away.
That's where the Kru people put their packages.
As the "big sister" of the young Crus, she is used to doing more than her younger siblings.
For example, take the initiative to call for business, for example, go patrolling the cargo hold when everyone else is asleep.
During the daytime, she and a group of other young Crewes were in charge of selling things in the cabin, and they didn't come to participate in the loading. As a result, she felt a little uneasy, so she simply came over and counted them before going to bed.
Then, with this inventory, she really found something that the other Crus didn't:
In today's courier, there are a total of 14 parcels without an address!
She counted it very carefully. She tried to look at all the sides of the package, but there was no information. On the contrary, there were some numbers on it that she couldn't figure out the meaning of.
The careful female Crewe frowned.
Did old John get it wrong? These couriers originally came with other addressed packages? Accidentally separated
still…
Sitting on top of the largest of these packages, she sat for a while, and when she suddenly looked down, the female Krue was so frightened that she fell off the package!
just! Right where she sits! Under her ass!
Suddenly, half a human face appeared! ! !