Horror mailman

Harvest

Zhao Ke gently opened the package. As soon as it opened, the stamp with a face value of 7 cents instantly ignited and turned into black smoke, drilling into his mailbook. At the same time, a piece of information appeared in Zhao Ke's mind.

"Congratulations on completing the internship task and becoming a low-level mailman."

"The basic reward of 7 mail points for this internship task has been credited to your mailbook. Continue opening the package to check the gains from this terror space."

Upon hearing the prompt, Zhao Ke's eyes lit up, and he continued to unwrap the package. After unwrapping it, a black wooden box appeared in front of Zhao Ke.

The box was purplish-black, measuring three feet long and two feet high, with four small snakes carved at the corners, coiling around the box. The details of each snake were extremely vivid, almost as if four poisonous snakes were coiling around the box.

As for the box itself, Zhao Ke touched it lightly. It was made of delicate wood with a faint fragrance, indicating it was made of high-quality rosewood.

Just this box alone could fetch a good price in the antique market.

Opening the box, Zhao Ke peered inside, only to see darkness with a filmy layer obscuring the view.

As he reached inside, Zhao Ke grabbed a stamp. Upon closer inspection, it seemed like an ordinary stamp, with a face value of 3 cents in the upper left corner.

But what caught Zhao Ke's attention was the drawing on the stamp—a person, a person he was very familiar with, the old lady from Xiong Er's family.

Seeing this, Zhao Ke continued to reach inside, and soon, the second stamp appeared. Zhao Ke's heart skipped a beat as he thought to himself, "Just as I suspected."

The second stamp turned out to be Wang Xiaochang, the hunter they had killed. This stamp had a much higher value than the old lady's, totaling 5 mail points.

Continuing to search, Zhao Ke successively found stamps for Xiong Er and Zhou Shun.

Unexpectedly, Xiong Er's stamp wasn't mail points but a special stamp. It had a black and white border, with a bear hidden in the bushes. If one didn't look closely, they wouldn't even notice the bear on the stamp.

Special Stamp: Natural Aura

Collecting this stamp will increase running speed by 30% in forested areas.

Special Effect: Natural Aura

Consumes 1 mail point to conceal oneself in surrounding bushes for 5 minutes.

Cooldown: 30 minutes

(Note: Natural Aura can only be activated in forests and wilderness.)

Compared to Xiong Er's stamp, Zhou Shun's stamp was obviously less impressive, with a face value of only 1 cent.

Thinking about the mail points, Zhao Ke speculated for a moment. Xiong Er was the main focus and the most difficult to deal with, hence the greatest reward. His mother's reward was slightly lower.

But Wang Xiaochang's reward was even higher than Xiong Er's mother's, which was intriguing. After pondering for a while, Zhao Ke boldly made a guess: perhaps Wang Xiaochang might have had the possibility of cooperating with them.

Or, if they had encountered Wang Xiaochang earlier and cooperated with him, the difficulty of this mission might have decreased significantly.

Thinking about it now, Zhao Ke could only say they were unlucky.

As for Zhou Shun, he was already beyond Zhao Ke's consideration.

Perhaps Zhou Shun's extended mission would bring him more benefits, but taking Zhou Shun down the mountain left Zhao Ke feeling uneasy. It was better to kill him cleanly; after all, he wasn't a good person.

Now thinking about it, the only regret was that he didn't kill enough. He should have turned back and killed Xiong Da as well.

However, looking at the stamps he obtained, Zhao Ke felt quite pleased overall. Whether it was mail points or stamps, it felt like collecting red envelopes during the New Year and opening them one by one, giving him a sense of surprise he hadn't experienced in a long time.

After collecting these stamps into his mailbook, except for Xiong Er's Natural Aura stamp, the rest of the stamps with mail points turned into mail point records in the mailbook upon absorption.

Glancing at the upper left corner of the mailbook, there was a line indicating his total mail points were 16.

"Huh? What's this..."

Zhao Ke turned back to look at the box. The black mist inside the box had dissipated at some point, and inside, he found two small booklets.

One of the booklets, upon opening, had the words "Mailman's Code" written on it, introducing the necessary rules for mailmen. It also provided a brief introduction to the terror space, which was very short, just three lines.

Zhao Ke quickly scanned through it and gained some insight.

It was called a code, but it was more like a restraint. As a mailman, one couldn't easily reveal their abilities in front of ordinary people unless they were silenced.

If one's use of abilities caused significant disturbances, they would bear great consequences. As a punishment, these consequences would manifest in the next terror space.

Although it didn't specify the exact nature of the consequences, Zhao Ke could easily imagine that they wouldn't be pleasant.

Compared to the punishment for causing disturbances with abilities, Zhao Ke was more concerned about the terror space itself.

According to the booklet, the terror space belonged to another layer of the shadow world. If their current reality belonged to the three-dimensional space, then the terror space belonged to the fourth dimension, or even higher dimensional space.

Most of the creatures in the terror space were projections from a certain time period in reality, not real. However, most projections were indistinguishable from normal people, except for a few who were twisted into another form.

Just like the snake woman in Xiangshan Temple and Xiong Er's family. As for the reasons... they weren't written in the booklet.

This booklet gave Zhao Ke a rough understanding of the terror space. He then picked up the other booklet, which provided a detailed explanation of the functions of the mailbook.

This time, Zhao Ke paid close attention because the information he had previously obtained about the mailbook was incomplete and only served as a foundation. The information in this booklet was much more detailed.

After reading it carefully, Zhao Ke summoned his mailbook again and flipped to the last page. A list of information gradually appeared on the last page of the mailbook.

Seeing the information on the list, Zhao Ke couldn't help but become serious. Just as Scarface had said before, mail points could be exchanged for anything you wanted.

The items on the list were unexpected, and each strange stamp had remarks on the side.

For example, there was a stamp called "Ghost Infant," which, when exchanged, could allow one to cultivate by sucking others' blood with the help of the ghost infant.

There were also stamps containing books, including feng shui secrets and mantras for cultivation. Zhao Ke even saw a very peculiar stamp that, when exchanged, could summon immortals to possess one's body.

This "immortal" doesn't refer to celestial beings, but rather third-rate minor deities like fox spirits and horse spirits, but even so, it's enough to make people incredulous.

Of course, the prices... looking at them made Zhao Ke wince. He had previously felt like he was opening red envelopes, but now seeing the prices, Zhao Ke suddenly felt like he had to surrender all his red envelopes.

Too expensive.

Slightly better stamps had prices around 30 mail points, and even the less valuable ones didn't come below 10 mail points.

In comparison, there were some stamps with very cheap exchange rates, such as potions that ordinary people couldn't access in reality, most of which were sold in bundles for one mail point.

Some life-saving synthetic medicines, even the expensive ones, only cost three or four mail points, but Zhao Ke's eyes lit up when he saw their effects. After all, they were life-saving.

After looking for a while, Zhao Ke ultimately couldn't bear to buy them. After all, he had earned these mail points through hard work, and he needed to maximize his benefits.

He waved to collect his mailbook and stood up, his stomach growling. Although he had just eaten in reality, he hadn't eaten much in the terror space.

Especially at Xiangshan Temple, because he was on guard, he didn't touch the food on the table at all. Now thinking about it, Zhao Ke couldn't help but feel a sense of luck.

He remembered that after he regained consciousness, there wasn't any delicious food in front of him. Instead, there were stones and bugs. Who knew if eating them would upset his stomach?

"Exquisite."

Zhao Ke didn't forget about the bear paws from Xiong Er. In the terror space, Zhao Ke hadn't touched them because the ingredients there were incomplete, and he couldn't bring out the flavor of the bear paws to the fullest.

So he had endured until now. Unable to resist any longer, he took out the bear paws. Looking at the bear paws, which were almost as big as a basin, Zhao Ke's fingers couldn't help but trace every inch of fur on them, already thinking of more than a dozen cooking methods in his mind.

"Ding ding..."

At this moment, the bell on the door suddenly rang. The door was roughly pushed open, and a pair of muddy boots stepped in from outside, water dripping onto Zhao Ke's floor like a light rain. He lifted his head, and a pair of sharp eyes stared at Zhao Ke, slowly pulling out a handgun from his waist.

"Don't move, hand over all the recommendation tickets!"