Система Доставки / Unique Delivery System: Глава 7

Chapter 7

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 17:11

So, the fourth day of life outside the comfort of my parents' home.

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 17:11

Alive, unharmed, eagle. Got a place to live and a steady income. I saw a living dead man, a werewolf, a witch. Teleported a dozen times to different distances. Picked on a girl with a tail. I have infiltrated a secret organization of delivery. I learned about the existence of an incomprehensible phenomenon codenamed "unreal".

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 17:15

I dread to think what will be there by the end of the month. How can I go back to my cozy attic after all this?

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 17:19

"Hello, folks!" I hand my phone to the storekeeper, and he almost immediately hands over a thick envelope with something that looks like a book. "Bye, folks!"

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 17:20

The workday has begun. Today's slot is for eight hours, with two quest deliveries. Two, so I can get an hour of personal time in the middle of the day with the second one. And if I do it right, in the evening, when I close my shift, I'll redeem the "ring of invisibility" and activate it at the same time. After that, I'll be without the bonus again, but that's bullshit. Teleport plus sneak equals safety! The best defense is to stay away from where something happens.

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 17:22

"Hello, delivery courier, please open..."

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 17:22

Each time I pretended to shoot the order intake and scanned the customers. People, just people. Maybe the scanner didn't have enough power? What's it based on? How does it recognize this stuff without even touching it?

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 17:24

Oh, you'd think I'd know how a phone does everything else. I pressed a button and it did it. Electric waves, pièce de résistance... or pi-en? I always get them mixed up. Magic, rituals, divine blessings. Sitting in a Chinese workshop somewhere, a thousand monks methodically praying over a circuit board - why not, in light of what I've recently learned?

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 17:25

However, there are more important questions. For example, the same "employees of the Department" - and on what basis do they actually work? How can we prove witchcraft in court? How to explain the detention of the same witch, or, for example, an "umrun" who was inexplicably "discharged". What, without a decision by an authorized authority, they saw him and immediately atomized him? Okay, let's say the client was undead, but why didn't they deliver the body to the right place? Whose authority are they under, the Holy Inquisition?

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 17:26

My dad blew my brains out with these things. His favorite pastime is to watch the show and then explain point by point why it's not a police procedural, but even a comedy with a fantasy element.

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 17:28

Come to think of it, what kind of activity does magic qualify under?

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 17:28

"Hello, order delivery..."

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 17:28

Innovative technologies? Who controls them? The Ministry of what exactly? Magic is not industry, not minerals... although purely formally, education can be engaged and a cultural moment is involved. So the inspector works for the RONO? Or in the Philharmonic... Thinking about it, I found a list of ministries and federal agencies, it turns out that the magic can go under the Department of Consumer Rights. Do they have an Enforcement Branch?

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 17:30

Fuck all of them! What makes me think it should even be an official service? They covered themselves with a warranty and no one would even think of them. Technique or mystique? What direction to go in?

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 17:31

Okay, let's pretend that this is all really magic and I'm in the game. What am I limited to? The list of available orders. Is there anything more profitable in terms of points? Who distributes this advantageous thing? Brute clearly shows that the normal courier will not chase bonuses and he has not yet had anyone object, not even the storekeeper. Let's assume that with each level there is not a doubling, at least a significant increase. I now have an "E" and I get seven hundred for a simple messenger quest.

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 17:32

So, maybe it's because he's a "messenger"?

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 17:32

"Hello, courier... Yes, I got it, I'll leave it."

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 17:33

I sat down on the bench outside, putting my bag next to it. There was something so incomprehensible in my head. Like a tail of something important, except... So, I thought - the bonuses are dangerous... because the unreal is addictive... because...

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 17:34

Right, I remembered. Those words of the inspector about the umrun starting to look for something and automatically switched on the Delivery. So there's some mechanism for transferring mystical clients to the System. So there's a steady stream of such clients, right? It's clear that there is, because we're sitting on quests.

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 17:35

But if they are there, they are coming from somewhere! And they pay with something! And it is something profitable for the System. That is, we need to understand where this unreal comes from... Okay, let's make a note here - there is a System. At least not chaos, but something ennobled. And at a level that is comparable to the state - because the application opens all over the country, I also checked it, the quests are available there. So far it is not clear why we need such a structure, but since it is there...

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 17:37

"I want order number seventeen-twenty-zero-three."

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 17:38

Damn, it's 15 kilos again. How do the poor guys carry that without a system bag? The customers have no conscience, if only they ordered cakes and carried the bottles themselves!

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 17:38

Okay, there is a structure. And if the Department uses comparable terms, can they be a Department of Delivery? No, it doesn't add up. Until I figure out what the System's profit from quests and unreal is, I won't understand where the exit to suppliers of the same "meat" is. And I won't be able to rise above the level of a courier.

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 17:40

By the way, where did I get the initial "B" that was enough to see the invitation? I should clarify the question. And again - I saw the plate myself, without the application, that is possible and so?

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 17:40

"Thank you, have a good day."

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 17:44

After noting the completion of the order and making sure that I had somehow imperceptibly completed two-thirds of the day's quota, I finally poked at the "quest" sign and proceeded to complete the task.

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 19:39

A person may not know that he has cat ears or even that he is not alive at all. And how and who determines if the meat with unreal? Where do miracle cows graze?

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 19:40

When I received the package from the storekeeper, I immediately checked to see if it was radiating, but the phone placed on the quest parcel did not enrich me. It makes sense, in games quest items are usually useless and are only used by NPCs. So, I must either become an NPC or go on quests that use normal resources. In addition, the bag, cape, and ring are clearly unreal things, but points from them did not drop. That is, the System integrates something and does not intend to share. For the bag I was given access to the system quests, two hundred points apiece - this is for the item, which in theory by its very existence should generate many times more, if not by an order of magnitude!

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 19:42

We note the second - magic can be separated and the source can be determined, so it's not just for fun. It's much more complicated than that. But how do I find out exactly where and why so?

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 19:43

The quest was simple, and it reminded me of something - I had to stop in one spot in the yard and wait for a strong, steady wind to blow in my back. As I waited, I turned and walked toward the entrance, writhing against the gusts. Some girl walked toward me and judging by her hair, the wind did not exist for her.

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 19:44

The client, an ordinary gloomy man in his forties, took the package silently. He looks like the most ordinary average man, and behind him is an ordinary apartment. I quickly picked up my phone, while he could not see it, caught it in the lens:

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 19:45

+Wanderer, 24 lv.

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 19:45

Wow, the first double-digit level, and you wouldn't know it from the looks of it. Although who would believe it if I revealed my secret side? Besides, half the customers are afraid of viruses and ask to leave the order under the door, so you never know what scary secrets are hiding behind all those doors.

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 19:46

Honest witches and werewolves might be a lot less intimidating when you meet them.

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 19:46

I got so bored with all these thoughts repeated more than once that I decided to use up my teleport charge: standing on the stairs, I aimed at the span and swung across several floors in one leap. If I have more charges, I need to check how this thing works under different conditions. Does it only transport a ready operator, or anyone who stands on the "receiving" spot?

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 19:49

It became so interesting that when I delivered the next order, which was across the street, I checked right there. Poke my finger under my feet, poke the floor a little further, throw a can of soda bought on the way into the receiving blue spot, realizing at the last moment that it was not human and now there would be a "bang-pshh" and a sweet puddle...

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 19:48

The cola flew out of the orange spot and flew up almost vertically. Barely had time to catch it. What does that mean? That the cake might be a lie, but I'm definitely lucky. A mighty thing, by the way.

Camrad_RIP 16.02.22 в 06:44

I stroked the ring, which was exactly the right size for some reason, and moved on with the proud gait of a novice wizard. I only noted the need to check to see if Normis could see the spot on the teleporter pad.

Camrad_RIP 16.02.22 в 06:45

I checked right away, poking myself under my feet. On the white tiles, the blue spot of the teleport stood out so clearly that it was impossible not to notice it. But customers don't know that word! What's the point of ordering a rush delivery if you're going to wash your head?! Only wasted a charge, she with a towel thrown over her, she found the package at all by touch.

Camrad_RIP 16.02.22 в 06:46

"Hello, delivery courier... Okay, I can wait five minutes."

Camrad_RIP 16.02.22 в 06:46

It turns out that not only customers are waiting for couriers, it happens the other way around.

Camrad_RIP 16.02.22 в 06:46

The orders were flying nonstop, I was delivering one when the next one was already coming down. The idea of taking a break was dismissed in a fit of greed, I really wanted to earn more. I did not even have lunch, just turned on the warranty to lose my appetite. Closing the slot immediately took the second, smaller. No matter what you say, it was a meditative way to think along the way. Yes, chewing gum, but somehow it's all convincing in reality. So would sit in a room and try to put it out of my head, but on the road is nowhere to go, you resign yourself and accept. My legs only hurt.

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 19:52

After delivering the last order, I finally opened the "special tasks" tab and randomly clicked the first one I saw. Then I remembered that I was kind of under warranty and I should have taken it off, but I couldn't take it off, could I? What if I get a fine?

Camrad_RIP 16.02.22 в 06:47

After reading the description, I sighed. I should have taken it in the daytime, now I'm going to have a hard time with it. First, delivery from one part of the city to another, and second, conditions: buy candles in a particular church, thirteen of them. Each one burns the wick over the lamp. Take them... It's an hour's drive. Shit. Follow the signs. Hand over the candles.

Camrad_RIP 16.02.22 в 06:48

No, the usual quest, if you think about it, but what's the point of all this?

Camrad_RIP 16.02.22 в 06:48

Why do we need quests at all? What exactly do customers get? I don't know why I'm bothering!

Camrad_RIP 16.02.22 в 06:49

Snorting at myself, I opened the bonus store. After completing this quest, I'll have enough points to buy - my precious! And then I'll be able to jump right in the street! Why? Well... Isn't that cool? And I can compare it with the price of teleport - will they give a new level or slightly increase?

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 19:57

Okay, stop talking yourself into it.

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 19:52

In fact, I don't even need to pick up the ring today. Who am I going to test it on? I've closed the slot, so I should go home and sleep. And tomorrow I'll suit up, sit in the hall, and try to get my colleagues to tell me what the hell is going on here.

Camrad_RIP 15.02.22 в 19:53