The quality of the treasure chests I open will always increase by 3.

express delivery?

Lin Yuan was taken aback.

Because the SuperStar game merged with reality, many industries went out of business, and express delivery was one of them.

Once you become friends, no matter how far apart you are, you can send items to each other immediately after starting a remote transaction. Alternatively, you can complete the transaction instantly through a trading platform, regardless of distance.

Safe, reliable, and fast.

How does it compare to traditional express delivery?

The domestic delivery industry hasn't completely disappeared because of government bailouts, which deliberately delegate some business to the express delivery industry. However, the volume is pitifully small, barely enough to keep the industry operating at a minimum scale.

So, who sent you a package?

For people like Su Yunmeng, they either trade directly through the game or give it to him in person; naturally, they wouldn't use a courier service.

Was it sent from Suzhou?

But he has no relatives or friends in Suzhou—could it be that his original parents' relatives know he's powerful now and want to acknowledge him? Is that so melodramatic?

Wait, there's another possibility!

Lin Yuan couldn't help but feel a chill.

He opened the door remotely and let Xiao Hei out.

"Go out and unpack the packages," Lin Yuan said.

The pet understood his thoughts, so Little Black immediately ran out happily.

Lin Yuan watched it through the surveillance cameras.

Sure enough, there was a delivery box at the door, about the size of a shoebox.

Xiao Hei had arrived. Using its front paws and mouth together, it quickly tore open the package. But the moment it opened, bang! The package exploded. However, the explosion wasn't very powerful. A cloud of white smoke immediately wrapped around Xiao Hei, as if it were alive, and actually burrowed into its body.

"Woof woof woof woof!" Little Black barked in terror, jumping around wildly, but just a few seconds later, it turned into a pool of blood and disappeared completely.

But Lin Yuan's wrist trembled slightly, and the mark on the back of his hand glowed faintly.

—When a pet dies, it will simply return to the pet space and will be resurrected after 24 hours.

Lin Yuan's face darkened.

He immediately contacted Qiao Feifei.

"Coming right now!"

After a while, not only Qiao Feifei, but a large number of people from the school arrived.

They first checked the surveillance footage, and after seeing the scene of Xiao Hei being corrupted, they all showed anger.

"This is Bone-Corroding Smoke. Upon contact with any living being, it will instantly corrode them into blood. Without cultivating a domain, there's absolutely no way to resist it!"

"How ruthless!"

"Is this courier company trying to get itself completely removed from the domestic market? They even dare to send something like this?"

"Report this to higher authorities and order a thorough investigation!"

This is a huge deal.

Someone actually dared to poison a student at Wuhan University, especially a super genius like Lin Yuan. The university took it very seriously, as did the Shanghai Municipal Administration Bureau. In less than an hour, they had already reached a conclusion.

The deliveryman was indeed from the courier company, without a doubt. It was precisely this fact that made the check at the school gate careless—the person was the same person, the ID was the same person, and even the information on the package was correct.

However, the package was not delivered by the courier company; the courier had printed out the company's tracking number without authorization and even stamped it!

The deliveryman was quickly apprehended, and he readily confessed that he had done so under the guidance of a true god.

—This is a cult member!

As for other things, the courier didn't know much: he received instructions to pick up the "package" at a certain place, and then, taking advantage of his job at the courier company, he forged the order information and delivered it to Lin Yuan.

This person was just a low-level member of the cult, used and discarded, with no impact whatsoever.

Now it's clear that the whole thing was orchestrated by a cult, with the goal of killing Lin Yuan.

This is not surprising. Cults cause destruction everywhere and also kill outstanding human geniuses. They have listed Lin Yuan as a target. In fact, Qiao Feifei had already warned them, but she did not expect that the first wave of assassination would come so soon.

Lin Yuan immediately received inquiries and words of comfort from Su Yunmeng and others, and he replied to each one, saying that he was fine.

Then, he sat there, his heart burning with murderous intent.

He will kill anyone who tries to kill him; that's his principle.

The problem is, there are just too many cults.

There are hundreds of them in China alone!

So, which cult managed to harm him?

I don't know, but it doesn't matter.

Why not just wipe out all the cults?

This means his upgrade speed needs to be even faster!

"When will you guys reach level 31?" he asked Su Yunmeng and the others.

"tomorrow."

"I'm already level 31."

"So are we."

Han Ming and the twins have already reached level 31, while Su Yunmeng and Cheng Sizhe still need another day—they are already in a hurry, borrowing BOSSes from other powerful families and desperately killing monsters in the Tower of Babel, but they are still a bit slow.

"Okay, then let's go to 'Night Ghost Inn' the day after tomorrow."

Lin Yuan decided to take a nap and set off tomorrow.

Perfect timing, Little Black also needs 24 hours to revive.

Overnight, Lin Yuan quietly left the school, entered the game, traveled for half a day, came to Jiangcheng through the gate, then left the city to the neighboring city, re-entered the gate, and continued his journey until nightfall, when he found a place to sleep.

The next morning, Lin Yuan summoned Xiao Hei.

As soon as Xiao Hei appeared, it barked strangely.

Its consciousness was still stuck in the moment it was corroded by the bone-corroding smoke. After jumping and hopping around for a while, it finally calmed down a little and barked at Lin Yuan again, meaning, "What the hell did you make me dismantle? I almost died!"

In fact, you really did die once.

Lin Yuan patted its head and laughed, "What nonsense are you talking about? What do you mean, 'unpacking a package'? You must be having a nightmare! Otherwise, you shouldn't be dead by now, how could you still be jumping around like this?"

Yes, yes!

Xiao Hei, with its innocent and adorable expression, nodded involuntarily.

"Let's go, it's time to get going." Lin Yuan mounted Xiao Hei and urged the guy to run.

Several hours later, he arrived at the entrance to the Night Ghost Inn instance.

Just like the level 30 dungeon, this place is overcrowded.

Lin Yuan is very low-key.

The cult has not only set its sights on him, but has already taken action. So if he continues to act recklessly, he'll be courting death!

Wearing the nano-mask given to him by Qiao Feifei, he completely transformed into another person. Su Yunmeng and the other four had already joined the group and arrived at the dungeon entrance early, waiting for his arrival to begin.

Lin Yuan squeezed into the crowd and then entered the instance with Su Yunmeng and the others, without alerting anyone.

"start!"

Lin Yuan took out the Wuji Staff, and with a whoosh, he leaped forward.

Bang!

With a swing of the stick, a monster was struck, and then the Blood Shadow Impact effect was triggered, instantly dealing 15 damage to the monster and all the surrounding monsters.

15 million!

What does this mean?

Lin Yuan's strength was only 5420. Even with the 50% damage bonus from the Moon Goddess Necklace, his attack was only 8131. This didn't even take into account the reduction from defense value—although it was still pitifully small, the difference was enormous compared to the special effect of Blood Shadow Impact.

This can be triggered with every hit!

The sky was filled with crimson light, and then all the monsters died instantly.

"Holy crap!" Cheng Sizhe exclaimed, his eyes wide with surprise.

"Brother Lin has become even stronger, and much stronger than before!"

Su Yunmeng and the other three girls nodded in unison. Indeed, after reaching level 30, they not only failed to close the gap with Lin Yuan, but were instead left even further behind.

Lin Yuan smiled slightly, and activated the active skill of the Star Leg Armor. His three main attributes were immediately combined and calculated, reaching a high of 7704 points. Whoosh, his speed suddenly soared, and as he slashed at monsters along the way, triggering more special effects, his speed soared again.

Even though Su Yunmeng and her group chased after him with all their might, they were still left far behind by Lin Yuan, unable to even catch a whiff of his exhaust fumes!

While they were still halfway there, a game prompt popped up in front of them.

Congratulations on completing Night Ghost Inn.

[Completion time: 3 minutes and 12 seconds, achieved Gold Level 1 rating.]