Система Доставки / Unique Delivery System: Глава 17

Chapter 17

Camrad_RIP 16.03.22 в 20:15

Just think about it, I gave people what they've been craving - a real cat lady. The ears, the tail, the muzzle, and the disdain in the look, all-natural to the point of impossibility! A full-fledged "morning of the furry adventurer" photoshoot with nude elements!

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 10:19

What do they say? /Unreal proportions! Cheap makeup! No sexy message!

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 10:39

And what are they referring to? What is the benchmark for them? A cosplayer who has only a hoop with ears and an ass. I don't disagree, the butt is an argument, but when it's countered by a natural, self-grown tail... What do you know about catgirls!

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 10:55

Especially the real ones.

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 11:03

+Walk to the left of the palm tree, touching it with your fingers.

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 11:05

I wonder why all these nuances of the quest? What is primary - where to pass or touch? Or maybe it's all necessary to create a certain mood, which then will play? And should the courier know what's important and what's not?

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 11:06

The road this time was not easy. Three times they tried to attack, but the magic combination "invisibility + teleport" saved me. And in general, the second hour only to go there, and for this time already a couple of C-quest could deliver.

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 11:07

And yet there were subscriptions to Mira, two hundred a day.

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 11:12

Why would I want to do that? Certainly not to sell pornography. Now I'm reading the comments, and even though I'm mad at the idiots, I know that it was me who shot it! You have to try everything in life! Quantum physics and weightlifting I can not pull, so I'll try to be a star producer. No, show business doesn't appeal to me, there's too much bodywork, but the part of it that is on the Internet, to laugh at the comments and to make money, will do.

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 11:18

+Walk to the left of the palm tree, touching it with your fingers.

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 11:19

Did I go for a second round? Did I point my finger wrong the first time? Well, you better specify, I have a lot of fingers.

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 12:03

I found the quest in the notebook. Yes, I didn't risk going to bed first again, and while Junior went to bed, I flipped through the notes, trying to figure out the scheme of the cipher. I could not, so I decided that it was made by some kind of system device. And since I'd have to translate it sooner or later anyway, I wondered what to expect. I picked out the most worn pages, which even began to turn a little in the corners, translated them, and began to read.

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 12:05

Half of it is already familiar about the board, ad conversion, and setting dependency, but there is some interesting stuff, too. For example - types of orders, distribution by system level, and so on. One thing for another then helped to compare pending auction items and ads on the board, found a match. Some orders hang for months and years, leaving the general list in the archive. Which, again, is a paid treatment. Weird orders, it is unclear by whom and for what purpose made. Most require special equipment or matching setting, so there is little willingness to contact. But my predecessor noticed a curious trick: some orders the System does not remove. It starts to add a reward for completion, which accumulates until one of the couriers decides that this is something to go for. I do not know the point of Delivery is in such a scheme is. But it turns out that there is an implicit way to get relatively easy quests that pay much more than usual. And even get an extra reward!

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 12:10

In this quest, the reward was a "beautiful flower," which my app didn't recognize. And anyway, I only now realized that all I had in my database were the ingredients for several potions, so the scanner was just a waste of time. I need to get some kind of herbalist journal or a similar book.

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 12:24

+Stop at the big rock, wait for the hawk's cry

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 12:24

I wish I knew how a hawk screams.

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 12:25

I slowed down and took out a bottle and sipped my water. It was a surreal picture of me standing by a rock somewhere in the middle of the desert, wearing a cloak and carrying a bag, and no movement for miles around. Where did the birds come from? Rocks, sand, snags, me.

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 12:46

A shadow flashed to the side, then went up, shouting. A new line appeared in the appendix:

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 13:15

+Walk toward the sun, keeping to the right

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 13:15

Okay, I'll go. I wonder if I throw my phone away now, what would happen? Is there even one other person in this world? Speaking of people, Junior is something. He brought a mattress, an old cotton mattress, a pillow, and some food for dinner yesterday, for both of us. He said he had asked for free food in the restaurant, which I never would have thought of, and I never would have asked for it. Is that how his skill works? And if I take it, I'll think like that too? Then let him rock, I want to be even smarter!

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 16:49

So, there's no wind, but the dried grass is moving in waves. Should I walk on it? Go around it? The app didn't give me a clue, so I picked up a rock and threw it at the tall, chest-high grass. Nothing. I stood at the edge of the thicket, but no scent of life, no crunch of gnawed bones. Let us consider it conditionally safe. Although in such grass I could not put the exit point of the teleport far away, it covers everything, so I walk and look around.

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 16:51

So, about Junior. I used bots, of course. Three eternal pleasures: watching the water flowing, the fire burning, and the bot farming resources. Junior was just reminiscent of such a bot, a good one, with a replenishable database. Once said once, and he continues to do so himself. Yesterday he was quite dumb, looking and staring, but now looks into the phone, as if alive. Took away, curious - shopping podcasts, marketplaces, avito, he studies, watching YouTube channels of various couriers. But I told him to "sleep" and he immediately laid down, snoring.

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 16:58

Boring, that's it. Yes, the quest is very scenic, interesting, educational. For example, now I know how a hawk screams! But for two hours now, not a single living soul. Except for those two naughty creatures that seemed to be zombies, and that terrestrial crocodile with the mimicry. If it hadn't been the scanner, I wouldn't have even noticed it. But it rendered everything, lit it up, and I jumped away without any losses.

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 17:03

Half of one of the pages of the notebook was devoted to the dangers of quests. And it explicitly said that nothing extreme could be encountered on the road. Sure, sometimes it happens but in general, the System leads the trail in safe places, so look around, think a little, and rely on the description of the quest. Difficulties come in handing the order, and when returning, when you relax, so it was recommended to take an uncomplicated order in the direction in which you return. Seems like simple advice, but useful, I would not buy such a guide; but I would definitely give a like.

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 17:14

By the way, a week of independent life has flashed by, with all these wonders. Life is inexorable: I already sell weeds and white powder, the onlifans account is gaining momentum, what else is left without parental supervision? No, well, I'll try not to descend into politics, so... unrestrained student drinking? But I have a complicated relationship with alcohol. Somehow I don't happen to drink it. It's not that I'm a teetotaler, it's just... no, what's the point of it? Bread is nourishing, meat is tasty, a tomato is healthy, a cookie is awesome. And vodka? Drinking a smelly, tasteless liquid that makes you a fool at once and sick the next day - what's the point? To adjust to a temporary general degradation? What's the point? Let them get smarter to my level if they want to communicate.

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 17:18

It's hard these days with vices. Everywhere you look, it is allowed and even encouraged.

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 17:59

Do whatever you want... and I do. I walked through another world, looking up into the yellow sky. I had to put my hands in the pockets of my cape, the grass was cutting hands. But I am still bored. I am walking and talking to myself as if I were in a video game. Right?

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 18:01

+Walk between the hills, the goal of the quest is the lone tree in the circle of stones.

Camrad_RIP 17.03.22 в 18:31

Just now I was walking on the plain, nothing hilly for kilometers, and look at this. All right, I'll go through. Speaking of other worlds, the terminology itself encourages choice. If I'm offered a quest, I'll choose the appropriate setting. Again, about randomness - already the second round of stones and again in a hot, unfriendly place. Randomness isn't random? Does Chaos have its own rules?

Camrad_RIP 18.03.22 в 07:56

I didn't notice the figure among the rocks right away. A girl in a loincloth and with long, below-the-waist hair was smiling like... I don't even know who could smile like that. Maybe she was confused with someone else. I was expecting dwarves or elves or something else unusual, but after two hours on the road to meet a smiling topless girl, it's a little unexpected.

Camrad_RIP 18.03.22 в 07:56

And the first word the customer said was unexpected:

Camrad_RIP 18.03.22 в 08:03

"Cloudy!"

Camrad_RIP 18.03.22 в 08:03

I even looked around, but the girl was looking right at me and smiling at me.

Camrad_RIP 18.03.22 в 08:04

"Hello, I am from the Delivery System..."

Camrad_RIP 18.03.22 в 08:04

"I know."

Camrad_RIP 18.03.22 в 08:04

And pause again.

Camrad_RIP 18.03.22 в 08:33

She wasn't smiling quite normally. And she wasn't looking at me quite normally, either - like in a museum, in front of a painting you really want to look at. I was literally taken in with her eyes as if a courier was such a rarity that one must be sure to memorize every fold and every thread.

Camrad_RIP 18.03.22 в 08:33

"Let me give you your order, okay?"

Camrad_RIP 18.03.22 в 14:08

She nodded, completely oblivious to my fuss.

Camrad_RIP 18.03.22 в 14:09

"Here, your order is a double burger, coke, nuggets."

Camrad_RIP 18.03.22 в 14:09

I closed the bag, both afraid to turn my back on the girl and afraid to stare at her. The more unexpected was the whisper of joy:

Camrad_RIP 18.03.22 в 18:49

"Sweet..."

Camrad_RIP 18.03.22 в 18:49

I turned around, and she was holding a cup of Coke like it was filled with... I don't even know what. The girl sniffed it, pressed it to her cheek, tasted the moisture dripping down the surface with the tip of her tongue.

Camrad_RIP 18.03.22 в 18:50

"Pity it doesn't pinch. But it's delicious, thank you!"

Camrad_RIP 18.03.22 в 18:50

I logged into the app, checking the completion of the quest. The girl obviously didn't confirm anything, but the order was immediately paid for.

Camrad_RIP 18.03.22 в 18:51

"Oh, I forgot! There it is!"

Camrad_RIP 18.03.22 в 18:51

Very carefully placing the cup in a kind of stone chest of several flat boulders she rushed to the tree. As it turned out, the loincloth only covered the front slightly, and it seemed impolite to stare. So I pretended to be very interested in the situation. A circle of rocks, twenty meters across, a tree in the middle. A few withered snags, stacks of grass piled in the corner. It looks like they used it for mats. I don't know how you can sit on them, even the grass looks sharp.

Camrad_RIP 18.03.22 в 18:56

"Take it!"

Camrad_RIP 18.03.22 в 18:56

Smiling, she held out a flower to me in her palms. Only now did I realize that everything around me was a gray-sand color. The field of dry grass was somewhere far away; now the only movement in the dry, hot air was the ruffling of the ribbons on the tree. And also us.

Camrad_RIP 18.03.22 в 19:26