The Perilous Contract

“This is what I told you about—another way to earn money, by profiting from the dead!”

Liu Hanzhi leaned closer, observing the nearly ten thousand yuan flowing through Bai Wanwan’s backend. For them, the production cost of these paper effigies was remarkably low.

It merely required paper for the effigies, along with cornstalks or sorghum stalks. Sometimes, these materials could even be acquired for free.

Once transformed into paper effigies, the profits could multiply several thousandfold in the blink of an eye.

Crafting a single paper effigy of marketable quality took Bai Wanwan roughly an hour. More intricate items, like paper villas, could demand even longer.

Assuming an average profit of one thousand per effigy, Bai Wanwan, working eight hours daily, would only need over a hundred years to clear her three hundred million yuan debt. Truly, this was…

Liu Hanzhi calculated for a long time, resorting to her toes when her fingers ran out. Yet, the more she calculated, the more something felt amiss.

‘Three hundred million yuan… that debt certainly wouldn’t be easy to repay.’

“But now my problem is this: how do we actually get our hands on this money?”

Bai Wanwan pointed to the absurd shipping addresses. How could ordinary couriers possibly deliver to such remote mountain forests and desolate, uninhabited regions?

“Well…”

Liu Hanzhi furrowed her brows. Shipping, indeed, seemed to be a genuine issue.

“We could also burn these items and entrust them to the Underworld Envoys for delivery. We’d just need to pay those delivery-envoys some joss paper.”

Liu Hanzhi pondered, concluding that delivering goods to the deceased likely had only one possible method.

However, a new problem immediately arose: where could they find so many Underworld Envoys to assist Bai Wanwan and her with deliveries?

Forget finding Underworld Envoys on a large scale; they couldn’t even locate channels to hire them.

Underworld Envoys weren’t mere imps, easily caught by the roadside.

Underworld Envoys held official positions in the Underworld, and there were many different types. Only the lowest-ranking ghost soldiers would have a need for extra income.

“I apologize, I was too hasty and didn’t consider this thoroughly enough.”

Liu Hanzhi realized that profiting from the dead wasn’t so simple. Although they had a source of goods and a temporary sales channel, there was no one to deliver.

Surely, Bai Wanwan and Liu Hanzhi couldn’t personally run errands to deliver so many orders?

Venturing into remote mountain forests or uninhabited zones would surely be a grueling ordeal, if not fatal. It simply wasn’t worth it for a few thousand yuan.

“Isn’t there an address here that’s really close to us? Happy Community! Look, it’s the same community we live in! Building 4, even the same building as us! Negative… Room 401? What does ‘negative’ mean?”

“That can’t be right! Where would our community have a ‘negative 401’?”

Liu Hanzhi voiced the same question as Bai Wanwan. Faced with this clueless little ghost girl, Bai Wanwan sighed helplessly.

“Wanwan, what should we do now?”

“What else can we do? Tell them to return the goods.”

Until the shipping problem was resolved, Bai Wanwan’s venture into profiting from the dead would likely have to be temporarily shelved.

“No, that won’t work! This isn’t online shopping where you just pay a small deposit for not shipping.

Besides, we’ve never paid any kind of deposit… In fact, strictly speaking, this is a contract. You have goods to sell, and they’ve paid the price to buy them, so the contract is sealed.”

“If you fail to fulfill it, if you breach the contract, you’ll incur punishment. At best, you’ll be dragged to the Underworld for reckoning; at worst, you’ll be struck by divine lightning and instantly annihilated!”

Hearing Liu Hanzhi’s words, Bai Wanwan finally grasped the gravity of the situation.

“Then why didn’t you say so earlier? What’s the latest shipping deadline?”

“Th-three days.”

Liu Hanzhi mumbled softly, her voice filled with apprehension.

“Don’t panic. I think I know how to contact the ghost envoys. There are also living Underworld Envoys and local Underworld Envoys present in the human world!”