Seeing he had misunderstood, Jane Sterling quickly waved her hands.
"No, no, you've misunderstood."
She quickly held the key out to him.
"Someone asked me to give this to you. It's from your grandfather."
As she spoke, she raised the key in her hand, then glanced at the old man in the Tang suit standing to the side.
The old man in the Tang suit gave her a proud look, puffed out his chest, and nodded.
When Drew Thorne saw the key in Jane's hand, his pupils suddenly constricted, and he quickly snatched it from her.
"How do you have this key?"
Jane opened her mouth, about to make up some random lie.
But then she noticed the man's hostile gaze and remembered the two bodyguards outside with arms as thick as her calves.
If she dared to spin some wild tale, she wouldn't even know what hit her. She'd probably never leave this hospital room alive.
Thinking this, she decided discretion was the better part of valor.
Her defiance deflated, and she told the truth.
"Your grandfather asked me to give it to you."
"My grandfather?"
The man was suddenly taken aback, clearly in disbelief.
"What are you talking about? My grandfather has been lying in this hospital bed for days. How could he possibly have asked you to give this to me?"
Jane knew the man before her didn't believe her.
But what could she do?
It was the truth!
So Jane started gesturing wildly, her expression agitated.
"It really was your grandfather who told me to give it to you! He's standing right over there!"
As she spoke, Jane pointed to a corner not far from her.
Hearing this, the man was stunned again, and his gaze toward Jane turned even more hostile.
Looking at his expression, Jane knew he thought she was a lunatic.
She felt a little helpless. "If I were a lunatic, how would I have known the key's location? And how could I have brought it directly to you?!"
Saying this, Jane turned her head to look at the old man.
"Grandpa, what do I do if he doesn't believe me?"
The old man in the Tang suit glared fiercely at the man before him.
The younger man couldn't see the old man's figure and was at a loss.
The old man thought for a moment, took a few steps closer to Jane, and began to whisper in her ear.
After she finished listening, Jane turned, puffed out her chest, held her head high, and looked at the man who could pass for a male model.
"Your grandfather told me that when you were little, you loved playing with all kinds of LEGOs, but he thought it was a frivolous waste of time. So he burned all of them. Among them was your favorite, a 'Han Solo and Indiana Jones Set' LEGO, which was very expensive, but your grandfather threw it into a fire pit. You even ran away from home because of it."
The name of the LEGO set was extremely difficult to pronounce, but the old man told it to her syllable by syllable, and she repeated it, syllable by syllable, to the man in front of her.
Sure enough, upon hearing her words, the man's pupils constricted sharply.
He stared at the key in his hand and staggered back a few steps.
Yes, that was it.
The woman before him wasn't lying. Only he and his grandfather knew about this.
He had been raised by his grandfather, who was very strict with him and had high hopes for him.
That LEGO set had been sent by his parents—who were off gallivanting abroad—as a form of compensation. Only 100 sets existed worldwide.
And it wasn't cheap, either. It was worth nearly 500,000 dollars.
But it had all gone up in flames, leaving a young Drew Thorne heartbroken for a long time.
The key he was now holding was for the place he had stayed in temporarily after running away from home.
After he returned home, he bought that house and used it to store his various LEGOs.
He thought he had hidden it so well. He never imagined his grandfather knew...
But if he knew, why hadn't he ever flown into a rage like that time?
"Is what you're saying true? Can you really see my grandfather?"
Jane breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing the man's emotional expression, she nodded helplessly.
"Yes."
She glanced at her phone. It was almost midnight.
She couldn't be bothered to say anything more to the man.
"Alright, I'm done talking to you. I've delivered the item, so my task is finished."
Sure enough, in the next instant, the system in her mind suddenly chimed.
[Congratulations, Host. Mission complete. Reward has been distributed. Please check your phone.]
With that, the voice disappeared.
Jane opened her phone and found a new app had inexplicably appeared.
She tapped on the app named 'Yin Yang Deliveryman'.
She was surprised to see her photo on the homepage, and in the balance section, she was shocked to find she had a balance of 1,000,000!
However, the unit of measurement that followed was very strange—M Coin.
'What kind of currency is this?'
Jane didn't have time to think about it. She needed to find a place to examine this more closely.
She quickly turned, hastily said goodbye to the man, and didn't forget to bid farewell to the old man's spirit behind her.
The man was still trying to process his shattered worldview when the woman vanished as if she were a puff of smoke.
After leaving the hospital, Jane checked her bank account on her phone, and her eyes widened in shock.
Sure enough, she found her balance: three thousand dollars!
Thank goodness. She found a hotel and checked right in.
She'd thought she'd be sleeping on the streets tonight. 'Heaven hasn't forsaken me!'
Lying on the large hotel bed, Jane reopened the 'Yin Yang Deliveryman' app.
When she tapped on the store, she was stunned to find it full of items.
It was comparable to any ordinary mobile shopping app.
However, the contents for sale were different.
A few of the medicines caught Jane's attention.
Nine Revolutions Soul Rejuvenation Pill, Essense-building Pill, Revitalizing Pill, Blood Coagulation Pill, Detoxification Pill, Soul Nourishing Pill, and even some Chinese medicinal herbs...
Another section listed all sorts of strange weapons, like the Exorcism Sword, Five Emperors Coins, the Three Pure Ones Bronze Bell, and a Thunderstruck Wood Token.
Next to that were various talismans used in fortune-telling, as well as some ghost-repelling treasures.
Things like a soul-binding bag, an Amulet, a Hundred Evils Immune Talisman, and so on—it had everything.
And listed below them were their corresponding prices.
But when Jane took a look, she saw that none of the items were cheap.
For example, a common Detoxification Pill cost a whopping 500,000 M Coin!
But she had only earned a total of 1,000,000 M Coin so far.
'It seems the exchange rate in this app has no connection to the real world.'
'I'll have to work harder!'
Just as she was about to close the app and get a good night's sleep, she saw something else—the Blood Coagulation Pill.
The description below it stung Jane's eyes.
—Cures leukemia by generating new blood.
Jane's hand trembled. Hadn't her so-called parents summoned her to the hospital today precisely to save their biological daughter, who had leukemia?
With this pill, their daughter would be able to live.
But...
Jane's hand tightened. 'Why should I spend 1,000,000 M Coin to save a complete stranger?'
Besides, Jane had already decided to cut ties with those heartless parents.
From now on, their business had nothing to do with her.
At that thought, Jane quickly turned off her phone and flopped angrily into bed.