My Name Is SF Express
The sky was gradually darkening. The croaking of frogs and chirping of insects filled the air, but there was not a trace of human activity among the dense weeds at the bottom of the deep valley.
Except for the dying young man lying within them.
His entire body was drenched in blood. Sword wounds and knife cuts covered him from head to toe, leaving scarcely a single patch of unbroken skin.
He could not die.
The young man’s eyes remained wide open as he desperately clung to his final shred of consciousness.
His family had been massacred. Hundreds of wronged souls were still waiting for him to avenge them. How could he admit defeat so easily? How could he die in a place like this?
But even if he refused to give up, what could he possibly do?
He had been poisoned with a deadly toxin, every meridian in his body had been severed, and he had been thrown into the bottom of this deserted valley. There had never been any hope of survival.
The sky grew darker and darker. Before long, the valley was swallowed by gloom, and his heart, filled with unwillingness and resentment, gradually began to grow cold.
The heavens were blind.
It seemed he truly would not escape this calamity today.
“Ahem… Hey, you…”
A clear, crisp voice suddenly entered his ears, like a cool stream flowing into his nearly lifeless heart.
Someone was here!
His eyes flew open. Peering through the blood clouding his vision, he struggled to look ahead.
All he could make out was the hazy figure of a young woman.
She wore strange clothes unlike anything he had ever seen. Standing beside him, she looked perfectly calm, as though she could not see the blood covering his body at all.
How could there be such a fearless young woman in this world?
Was this a dream?
“Are you Long Aotian?”
It had to be a dream.
Otherwise, how could she know his name?
He smiled bitterly at himself. Even at this point, he was still foolishly hoping that someone might come and save him.
“Hey, are you Long Aotian or not?”
The young woman in his dream frowned, looking slightly impatient.
Forget it. It was only a dream.
What harm was there in telling her?
He was no longer the young lord of Dragon City. If he could not avenge his family, the name Long Aotian no longer held any meaning.
Drawing a deep breath, he nodded.
“Looks like I didn’t teleport to the wrong person this time.”
The young woman nodded in satisfaction. She then turned around, pulled a booklet from behind her back, and held it out to him.
“Come, come! Long Aotian, your golden finger has arrived. Please confirm receipt. Don’t forget to leave a five-star review, dear customer!”
He stared at her blankly.
What was a golden finger?
Were the words spoken by people in dreams always this difficult to understand?
Seeming to notice his confusion, the young woman sighed and explained, “A golden finger isn’t something you can eat.”
Uh…
He had not asked whether it was edible.
“But a golden finger is much more useful than food.”
The young woman patted her chest.
“As long as you practise the techniques in this *Primordial Chaos Manual*, you’ll be able to defeat monsters and level up, become a supreme martial artist, take command as the leader of every major sect, marry the most beautiful woman in the world, and reach the pinnacle of life!”
A secret manual!
The booklet in her hand was actually such a powerful martial-arts manual?
“I don’t have much time left, so I’ll leave the manual here!”
The young woman placed the booklet beside him. She even deliberately opened it to a particular page before getting to her feet and walking away.
Long Aotian focused his eyes on the open page and was instantly shocked.
The page described an internal cultivation method for gathering qi and returning it to its source. If he circulated his energy according to the method written there, all the injuries on his body could be healed.
“Oh, right!”
The young woman, who had already walked more than ten paces away, suddenly turned around. Pointing towards the pool beside him, she said, “The strange-looking fish in that pool can neutralise the poison in your body. And that strange grass beside you can repair your meridians.
“You would’ve discovered them yourself eventually, but I thought I’d tell you in advance. Pull up a few more and eat them whenever you have the chance.
“That’s all. Goodbye!”
Neutralise the poison!
Repair his severed meridians!
A storm surged through Long Aotian’s heart.
In that case… he truly could survive.
No. With this peerless secret manual, he might even be able to avenge the bloody massacre of his family.
“Miss…”
He used every last bit of his strength to call out to his benefactor, who was about to leave.
By now, how could he still believe this was merely a dream?
He had clearly encountered a great benefactor.
“Huh?”
The young woman turned around.
“Is there something else?”
“May I ask… my benefactor’s name?”
“Me?”
She froze. Her brows knitted together as she thought for a moment.
“I’m not important. Just think of me as… SF Express! I’m leaving now. Bye!”
With that, she walked away and soon disappeared from sight.
Long Aotian stared in the direction his benefactor had gone until he could no longer see her. Only then did he withdraw his gaze.
The heavens had not treated him cruelly after all.
Even after being betrayed and reduced to such a miserable state, he had still managed to encounter a benefactor.
Drawing a deep breath, he began practising the internal cultivation method recorded in the secret manual, his heart overflowing with gratitude.
He would recover.
He would not only neutralise the poison and heal his wounds, but also master peerless martial arts.
Once he had avenged the massacre of his family, he would return to repay his benefactor’s immense kindness.
He would remember her name forever—
SF Express!
“Achoo!”
A hundred metres away, Shi Xia, dressed in casual clothes, suddenly felt a chill down her back and sneezed.
Huh?
Why did she suddenly feel as though something was wrong?
Forget it.
The mission was complete. It was time to go home.
She pulled her phone from her trouser pocket and opened the app marked with the character “穿”—“Transmigrate.”
Sure enough, the mission-submission button had lit up.
A small line of text appeared beneath it:
**Mission progress: 10/10**
Shi Xia finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Damn it. She could finally go home.
Ever since she had become entangled with this thing that called itself a system, she had been forcibly dragged into all sorts of worlds to deliver golden fingers to their protagonists.
It had even forcibly installed this rogue transmigration app on her phone.
She had once been a model young woman who firmly believed in science, yet it had forcibly turned her into someone who believed in feudal superstition.
After delivering packages for an entire month, she had finally filled the progress bar.
Once she returned home, she absolutely had to eat a jianbing guozi to calm her nerves.
Mm.
With ten eggs!
“Hey, System! I’ve delivered every package you gave me. You can uninstall yourself now, right?”
**[Ding!]**
An electronic chime sounded beside her ear. Immediately afterwards, the sound of crackling firecrackers exploded inside her mind.
**[Congratulations, Player, on achieving perfect progress and comprehending the true essence of serving the people. The System’s ultimate objective—cultivating a young woman who observes the Five Stresses and Four Beauties—has been achieved.]**
Pah!
Serving the people, her foot.
She had clearly been serving the protagonists. At most, she was nothing more than a delivery courier.
She had travelled through so many different worlds, and every single mission had involved delivering a golden finger to a protagonist.
And she had not even been paid!
What Five Stresses and Four Beauties? What a load of rubbish!
Shi Xia silently complained in her heart.
**[Please submit the final mission.]**
Shi Xia quickly tapped the submission button on her phone.
**[Mission submitted. Initiating final teleportation. Five, four, three…]**
My jianbing guozi…
Here I come!
There was a flash before her eyes.
In the next instant, she was no longer standing at the bottom of that gloomy valley.
She had arrived at…
An even gloomier valley.
Where was the home she had been promised?!
She certainly did not remember there being a canyon beside her house, much less such an enormous forest!
“System, get out here! You said that once I finished delivering the packages, you’d happily uninstall yourself and let me clock out. Where the hell is this place?”
Don’t tell her there was still some “urgent, exceptionally difficult express delivery” left unresolved!
**[Ding! Final teleportation complete. System uninstalling: 100%… 90%… 70%… 40%…]**
“Damn it! Send me home before you uninstall yourself! What the hell is this place? Why did you bring me here?”
Shi Xia began to panic.
**[40%… 30%… 20%…]**
“Wait! Don’t uninstall yet! Where am I?”
**[10%… 5%… Uninstallation complete!]**
“…”
A burst of static crackled beside her ear.
Then everything fell completely silent.
Holy crap!
It had actually uninstalled itself.
Had it really abandoned her in a place like this?
Shi Xia hurriedly pulled out her phone and looked at it. Sure enough, the rogue “Transmigrate” app that had forcibly installed itself was gone.
Her heart instantly went cold.
Did it really have to mess with her like this?
She needed to think carefully about how all of this had begun.
A month ago, she had simply gone to the supermarket to buy a packet of dried fish for the stupid cat her older brother kept.
When she walked out of the supermarket, something calling itself a system had inexplicably appeared inside her mind.
Not only had it forcibly installed a navigation-like app on her phone, it had also stuffed a massive pile of items into her possession.
There had been secret manuals, magical treasures, pocket dimensions, and even strength-enhancing pills.
Then it had teleported her into all kinds of bizarre worlds and ordered her to deliver golden fingers to the protagonists.
It had even told her that unless she completed every delivery, it would never uninstall itself and would continue following her forever.
To return home, Shi Xia had spent several days sorting all those so-called golden fingers into different categories.
After that, she had temporarily taken up the profession of delivery courier, travelling from world to world and delivering golden fingers to the recipients designated on her phone.
After working for an entire month, she had finally delivered everything.
The only thing left in her pocket now was the packet of dried fish.
Was this not supposed to be the moment when she retired after achieving success, concealing both her accomplishments and her name?
Why had she come to this godforsaken place instead of returning to the supermarket?
Could it be…
Because she had bought the wrong brand of dried fish?
No, no, no.
The heavens could not possibly treat her this way.
There must simply have been a tiny error in the system’s teleportation coordinates.
She had definitely returned to Earth.
She was simply…
A tiny bit farther away from her home than expected.
Shi Xia turned to look at the endless forest before her, then at her phone, which had absolutely no signal.
Fine.
It was more than a tiny bit.
But this place had to be Earth!
Mm…
Definitely!
Look at these familiar trees, this green grass, and these towering cliffs. They were all commonly found on Earth.
Although there were also a few uncommon, enormous, outrageously seductive man-eating flowers nearby, Earth’s environment had deteriorated so badly that a few mutations were perfectly understandable…
Ha…
Haha…
Hahahaha…
Besides, there were even several men dressed in ancient clothing running nearby…
Holy crap!
Ancient clothing!
Where had this group of background actors come from?
The men looked utterly terrified, as though they had seen something horrifying. Without sparing Shi Xia a glance, they stumbled and scrambled deeper into the forest.
Before long, they had disappeared from view.
Every one of them looked frantic, shouting as they ran.
“A—a monster!”
“The monster is coming! Run!”
“Help!”
A monster?
Shi Xia stared blankly as more and more people dressed in ancient clothing ran past her.
How could monsters possibly exist in this world?
She was someone who believed in science—
“ROAR!”
An earth-shaking roar suddenly erupted, making her eardrums ache.
Immediately afterwards, there was a thunderous crash.
A gigantic yellow figure descended from the sky and landed a dozen or so paces in front of her.
Shi Xia sucked in a sharp breath.
What an enormous cat!
**Author’s Note:** It took ages to get this novel signed and published, but it’s finally out! Please show it plenty of support, everyone.
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