Daily Life (2)
These days my routine has changed. All because of our Skylight app. I spend the entire day staring at the bulletin board. My targets are the cool VIPs like that veteran I dealt with last time. People with body temperatures close to ours make me too nervous to even try. Of course, that guy with hypothermia doesn’t even register as human anymore. What the hell did he do?
Beep~
What’s this? A message?
Holy crap, it’s the veteran from last time.
My mentor’s still alive. Though even if I asked him, he probably wouldn’t teach me anything. Actually, I can’t even reach him.
10,000,000 won has been deposited from Flashmob.
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I decided to follow my senior’s advice. Since I’m a man of the people, I skipped the 36.5s and anything below, only reaching out to the ones above. But after contacting them, I realized I should’ve filtered my senior’s words more carefully.
Pass.
Pass.
No manners, casual speech was the default, cursing was optional, and their hands shook so badly the typos made conversation impossible. I wasted three whole days like that. I missed my senior so much.
Following my morning routine, I opened the app again. What the hell? Suddenly there were way more people from tropical regions.
…What was this? It was cheap. My gut, honed from three years in this business, said it was fine. I’d never been caught or even come under investigation. I decided to wait. There had to be a reason.
I spent another day waiting for faceless seniors. My eyes were bloodshot from staring at my phone, my fingers too sore to refresh anymore. I sat in the living room and turned on the TV out of habit. The news wasn’t my usual BGM or source of knowledge, but it came on anyway. A story about someone in Yangsan getting caught growing weed in a studio apartment. Tsk tsk. How’s this country supposed to function if even ordinary citizens like me have to survive on deliveries? Those bourgeois types running factories are the ones ruining everything!
That’s it! Supply had dried up! I learned something new today. The cause behind yesterday’s tropical rainforest surge!
I quickly reopened the app and searched for those tropical natives. Whether they were quality customers or already sold out, none appeared. I kept refreshing and waiting. Another day wasted. Watching the board return to 36.5 as those sudden natives vanished, I regretted not seizing the chance—like a latecomer to a stock tip room—when suddenly a big one popped up.
Wow, high temperature and big quantity. That one’s mine.
Ah, shit! There’s a feature like that too?
Beep~
After a week with no income, I looked haggard. Maybe it was better to stick with mid-tier and VIPs like before. But even they weren’t responding. Out of habit I opened Skylight. A message had arrived.
Oh, it’s my senior.
Damn. I still have so much to learn. The more I understand this world, the more it feels like an ingrown toenail digging deeper.
20,000,000 won has been deposited from Flashmob.
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That’s right. I’d been trying to live too easily in this world. I was still preschool level, trying to hang with high school seniors. In other words, I needed to find playmates my own age at the kids’ café.
After that, I started contacting the 36.5s. Their reactions were surprisingly good. It felt like I’d become the star of the chick pen.
Sorry. I’m not a guide.
Sorry. I haven’t tried it either.
Sorry. I’m just a delivery runner.
While running sales on both the 36.6s and 36.5s, a thought occurred to me. If I’d sold cars like this, wouldn’t I have become the top salesman?
What was this déjà vu?
500,000 won has been deposited from blueandgreen.
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Wow! A cool transaction!
One hour later.
Wow. They’re pretty thorough. Does Skylight know everything?