Desperate Delivery Station, Level Cleared

Shi Mo ignored the horrific scene around him. He followed the address to the second delivery point: Silent Gallery.

This is a place that looks quite stylish, with dim lighting inside. The walls are covered with distorted, abstract paintings that can make you dizzy if you look at them for too long. A faint scent of turpentine and some kind of spice wafts in the air.

The recipient was an eerie man dressed in a retro suit and wearing a monocle, with elegant manners. He possessed C-level energy fluctuations. He was standing in front of a painting depicting countless eyes, seemingly admiring it.

"Your package." Shi Mo handed over the second package.

The C-rank eerie figure turned around, a gentle yet false smile on his face. He took the package but didn't sign for it immediately. Instead, he looked at Shi Mo with his deep eyes, a faint mental fluctuation attempting to invade Shi Mo's mind.

[Mental interference detected. Type: Hypnotic suggestion. Effect: Guiding relaxation and trust.] The system immediately notifies you.

Shi Mo's mental attribute was as high as 77, so this level of hypnosis was like a gentle breeze to him. He didn't even use any skills to resist, but just calmly looked at the other party.

The smile on the C-level eerie face froze slightly.

He felt his hypnotic suggestion sink without a trace, the other party's mental barrier was incredibly strong. He carefully sensed Shi Mo, although the attributes did not seem to be extremely high (strength 18, agility 12, constitution 9), but the restrained, unfathomable mental power (77) and some more essential aura that made his soul tremble made him instantly put away all his little thoughts.

"Uh, it's intact. Thank you." He quickly checked the package, then nodded politely and confirmed it on the virtual delivery confirmation board.

The second package was successfully delivered. No complaints.

Shi Mo turned and left.

This strange skill was also hypnosis, similar to his existing B-level 'weak hypnosis,' perhaps even weaker. Nothing special about it; there was no need to waste energy plundering it. He headed straight for the last delivery point.

The third delivery point: Taotie House.

This is a detached cabin, its exterior resembling a giant, open mouth, with the door serving as its throat.

A nauseating stench, a mixture of blood and rotting flesh, permeated the area around the cabin. Powerful energy fluctuations emanated from within, reaching Grade A!

Shi Mo stood before the door, a flicker of interest finally appearing in his heterochromatic eyes. He could sense that the strange entity inside possessed a rather impressive skill.

He raised his hand and knocked on the door, which seemed to writhe like the soft flesh of a throat.

The door slowly opened, revealing a bizarre creature so obese it almost blocked the doorframe, with bluish-gray skin and a mouthful of layers upon layers of sharp teeth. Its small eyes gleamed with greed and hunger. Its A-rank aura pressed down on it without any attempt to conceal its power.

"Express...deliver..." it rasped, its saliva dripping onto the ground with a sizzling, corrosive sound.

Shi Mo handed over the last package.

The gluttonous beast took the package with a strange expression, roughly tore open the packaging, and inside was a piece of fresh meat that was still slightly pulsating and radiating a rich, energetic glow. It sniffed it greedily, then swallowed it whole, letting out a satisfied burp and exhaling a foul stench.

Its small eyes then fixed on Shi Mo, its tongue licking its lips: "The taste... is good. You... look... even more delicious..."

Clearly, it's not content with just receiving packages; it also wants to treat the delivery person as a dessert.

Shi Mo looked at it and calmly asked, "Your skill is 'Devour'?"

The gluttonous beast paused for a moment, seemingly surprised that its "food" would ask such a question. It grinned maliciously, "That's right... the more I eat... the stronger I become... boy, become my nourishment!"

Its massive body unleashed a speed disproportionate to its size, rushing towards Shi Mo with a foul stench. Its enormous mouth opened wide enough to swallow a cow, and a powerful suction force emanated from its mouth, attempting to pull Shi Mo inside.

Shi Mo stood still, without moving.

He assessed the gap in strength between the two sides.

With his currently sealed mortal attributes (strength 18, agility 12, constitution 9), even with a spirit as high as 77, his chances of winning against a strange being with an A-level 'devour' skill are extremely low, and he might even get injured.

However, he was very interested in this skill. Randomly gaining attribute points for each target killed? This was practically the perfect support skill tailor-made for his rapid strength recovery.

Since conventional methods can't kill it...

In Shi Mo's eyes, his left red pupil suddenly deepened to the depths of a blood-red sea, while his right golden pupil shone with a blazing light like a scorching star. An indescribable, terrifying aura, surpassing all things, erupted from him!

The surrounding air froze instantly, and the gray sky seemed to be torn apart by an invisible force, revealing the deep, dark void behind it, a symbol of absolute rules and the end. Time and space became viscous and chaotic at this moment.

Divine Contract - 'Yama'

The Taotie's bizarre pounce froze mid-movement, its small eyes, once filled with greed and hunger, instantly filled with boundless fear and despair.

It sensed it! It felt an oppression that it couldn't comprehend, couldn't resist, that originated from the very essence of life! It was domination! It was the embodiment of destruction!

"No... impossible... you are..." It let out an unintelligible roar, trying to retreat and escape, but its body and soul were pinned to the spot by that supreme authority, unable to move even a fraction of an inch.

Shi Mo didn't even make any additional movements. He simply looked at it, like a god looking down at an ant.

Then, under the power of "Yama," the gluttonous beast's enormous body, brimming with A-level energy, crumbled and annihilated from the edges like a pencil drawing erased by an eraser, turning into the most basic particles and dissipating into the air. There were no screams, no struggles, because it, along with the concept of existence, was erased.

The whole process takes less than a second.

[Successfully defeated the A-rank monster 'Glutton'.]

[Detectable skill for plundering: Rank A 'Devour']

[Effect: After personally killing any unit with attributes (including but not limited to living beings and energy aggregates), you can randomly gain 0.1-1 points of its attribute (the amount gained is related to the unit's level and potential)]

[Host, would you like to plunder?]

"Plunder." Shi Mo confirmed in his mind. That familiar warm current reappeared, merging into his very essence. On his skill list, a new A-rank skill, "Devour," appeared.

At the same time, the countdown on my wrist stopped, and the cold notification sounded again:

The third package was successfully delivered. No complaints.

[Candidate Shi Mo has completed all delivery tasks.]

[Task complete.]

Listen quietly to this gift from the abyss...

An ethereal, eerie chant, seemingly from the ends of the earth, echoed in my ears.

The contract is complete; what you desire awaits you outside the door.

An ancient wooden door, wrapped in black thorns, appeared out of thin air in front of Shi Mo.

The 'Yama' state he was in had long since dissipated, and his aura had returned to normal. Barefoot and wearing a bathrobe, he pushed open the door and stepped into the pure white space behind it.

He didn't care why an A-level anomaly appeared in this F-level instance, or why there were other surviving or dead candidates.

In the pure white space, he casually made a trivial wish (to upgrade the E-rank 'Damp Erosion' to the D-rank), and then left.

The light flashed again, and he returned to the comfortable bedroom in the Seventh Sequence Base, still lying on the soft bed, as if the forced F-level delivery trip was just an insignificant interlude.

The only new A-rank skill, 'Devour,' in the skill bar proved to be the only gain that piqued his interest during that "boring" experience.

【Host...you...you used the Divine Contract again...】The system muttered with lingering fear.

Shi Mo turned over, pulled the soft blanket over himself, and his closed heterochromatic eyes showed no emotion.

"It's quiet now," he said softly, as if he could finally continue his interrupted sleep.