I steal from the heavens

Chapter 1 Mission Continues
Country Z, City C.

At the end of September, the hot summer has just passed, and the temperature in the city has become gloomy and cold due to the continuous torrential rain.

Because it was raining, it was another working day like Wednesday.Therefore, on remote streets like Zhanghua Street, there are very few pedestrians and vehicles, only a few scattered people.

At the entrance of a small restaurant on the side of the road, a young man was staring anxiously at every passerby, pacing back and forth non-stop.

The boy's hair was a little long, reaching shoulder length.And it hasn't been washed for a long time, some places are knotted, and it looks a little dirty.

The red trendy sweater and black jeans should have made him look a little more energetic.But with his chapped lips, sunken eye sockets and conspicuous dark circles, his haggard face made him look more like an Internet addict who hadn't slept for days and nights.

Impatiently, he took out his mobile phone, found the number "Gu Cousin Li" in the address book, and called it.

The call was connected quickly, and the boy quickly asked, "Hello? Cousin? Are you here?"

On the side of the road not far away, a young man in a suit who looked to be in his early 20s was parking his bicycle obliquely, talking on the phone.

"Lele Divine Chef? No. 76 Yong'an Road, I've seen it!"

The young man glanced over and saw the boy standing at the door of the restaurant, waved to him, hung up the phone, and rode his bicycle past.

This is a small restaurant called "Lele God's Kitchen", which is open on the side of the main road. The area inside the restaurant is not large, less than [-] square meters, it is a small restaurant.

Parked his bicycle at the door of the store, and as soon as the young man stepped into the door of the restaurant, the boss and his wife inside greeted him warmly.

"Welcome, come and sit inside. Your brother has been waiting for you for a long time."

Wu Yundong was the only customer in the restaurant. It seemed that the continuous rainy days had made the business of their small restaurant a lot worse.

"What do you want to eat? Your brother is waiting for you to order." The proprietress held a notebook, handed the young man a menu, and said with a smile.

It was raining outside, and the young man was completely wet because he had to ride a bicycle without an umbrella.He sat down indifferently, looked at the boy with his head bowed across the table, and asked, "Xiao Yun, have you eaten yet?"

The young man shook his head, "Cousin Li, you can order any dishes."

The young man, that is, Li Gu, returned the menu to the proprietress who was waiting at the side, and said, "Just order a beef offal hot pot, a green pepper shredded pork, a seasonal vegetable, and seaweed egg drop soup."

"Okay, wait a minute, it will be soon." The proprietress wrote down the dishes and left with a smile on her face.

Li Gu looked at his cousin with his head down, and couldn't help asking: "Where have you been for the past six months? Do you know, because you ran away from home, and the family is in chaos."

The young man faltered, "I, I didn't mean to... I really can't come back. Cousin! I need you to do me a favor."

Li Gu was taken aback when his cousin, whom he had not seen for half a year, raised his head.

Now, how did my cousin, who was cheerful and sunny before, become so haggard?The unshaven man has also experienced a lot of vicissitudes. This appearance looks a few years older than him.

My cousin is 17 years old this year. He is a senior high school candidate, but he disappeared suddenly on the eve of the college entrance examination half a year ago.

Li Gu's cousin, who is obviously three years younger than Li Gu, now looks like a homeless man in his 20s.What has he experienced in the past six months?

"What's wrong with you? Did you smoke contraband?" Li Gu asked nervously.

This afternoon, he was going to work in the company as usual, when he suddenly received a strange call.On the other end of the phone was actually his little cousin Wu Yundong who had been missing for half a year. He was so scared that he almost called the police directly.

You know, because of the disappearance of the little cousin, my uncle and aunt almost divorced because of the quarrel, and the missing person notice is still posted near his house.

So as soon as he received a call from his cousin Wu Yundong, he rode his bicycle and came here in the rain.

Wu Yundong smiled wryly, "Cousin, things are not as simple as you think. Just say, can you help me with this?"

"What happened, you tell me. We are all a family, why are you being polite to my cousin?" Li Gu's suit was already soaked through, and now he felt a little cold, so he poured a cup of hot water for himself and Wu Yundong, Then he said, "Although your cousin doesn't have great skills. But we are brothers. If you have any difficulties, you can tell them. Cousin will definitely help."

Wu Yundong hesitated to speak, but still didn't say it.

Li Gu blew on the hot water in his hand and took a small sip.Looking up and seeing him like this, he couldn't help cursing, "Look at your virtue now! What kind of hair does it look like, and I don't know how to cut it, like a caveman." He paused, "I still have some Tens of thousands of yuan, after dinner, I will go get it for you."

Wu Yundong shook his head again and again, "Cousin, I didn't come to ask you to borrow money today."

Seeing him grumbling, Li Gu had a headache, "If you have anything to say, just tell me. Cousin will help you." He rubbed his sore head, "When I came, I already gave you the answer. I've called home. Don't even think about running away, go back with me. "

"Go home?" A gleam of light flashed in Wu Yundong's eyes, "Cousin, I really want to go home. You, as long as you do me this favor, I can go home."

Li Gu had a bad premonition, and he said in a low voice, "What kind of trouble did you cause? Xiaoyun, you can't be a murderer, right? Then don't think about me going to cover you up, you're breaking the law." I don't do things."

"No, no, no. It's not illegal." Wu Yundong smirked and took out a scroll of animal skin from his pocket, and spread it flat on the table.

The upward side of this animal skin scroll is bright yellow, clean and smooth, like a piece of yellow paper with irregular edges.

Li Gu looked at this animal skin, it was very new, and it didn't look like an antique.Can't help wondering, "What is this?"

Wu Yundong took out another brush that he had prepared in advance.He smiled nervously, "Cousin, this is a special product I bought when I was traveling. There is also a beautiful legend in it. It is said that brothers who write their names on it together will never turn against each other for a lifetime. It is very beautiful. meaning?"

Li Gu felt it was weird and wanted to reject him.But looking at my cousin who is not in a good state of mind, I still plan to let him go.Now my uncle and aunt are on their way here, so I can't let my little cousin run away.

He took the writing brush, but he didn't do it for a long time.Without him, I am just afraid that my handwriting will be ugly.Although I took a few calligraphy lessons when I was young, but today, those things have long been returned to the teacher.I haven't touched a brush for many years, and I don't know what I will write.

"Cousin, write quickly, cousin. After finishing writing, I can go home." Wu Yundong urged, his face became a little hideous.

Li Gu was secretly startled.The cousin's mental state really has a problem. "Don't worry, cousin. Let me brew for a while, and I will start writing."

He dipped the pen tip into the bottle of ink that Wu Yundong had opened, and wrote his name stroke by stroke on the animal skin.

"It's great." Wu Yundong almost jumped up in joy. He took back the writing brush and hurriedly wrote his name on the animal skin.

He said to himself, "Soon. Right now, I can go home."

Li Gu looked at his cousin who behaved strangely with some distress, and didn't know what he had gone through and how he became so neurotic.

"Then cousin, did you write down your name voluntarily?" Wu Yundong asked suddenly.

Didn't you ask me to write this?Considering Wu Yundong's mental state, Li Gu could only answer: "It's voluntary. Put this thing away."

After receiving his reply, Wu Yundong was even happier, "Then Li Gu, are you willing to exchange places with Wu Yundong?"

Swap places?

It's no big deal.

Li Gu said disapprovingly, "Yes. I can exchange it now. I don't care. It doesn't matter where I sit."

Wu Yundong was ecstatic, he stared at the animal skin scroll, the ink on it actually moved!All the gestures were messed up, and finally spelled out six new words: "The exchange of fate is completed".

Li Gu also noticed this and couldn't help applauding. "Awesome. Where did you learn the magic? It actually made the ink swim like it was alive, and finally spelled out new characters. It's amazing. I guess the mystery should be on this animal skin."

"Cousin, I'm sorry." Wu Yundong suddenly apologized.

Li Gu didn't understand, so he said, "What's wrong? Why did you suddenly apologize?" Could it be that his cousin suddenly regained his senses?

"I'm really sorry." Wu Yundong stood up suddenly, bowed deeply, and apologized again, "In order to live and live better, I can only choose to sacrifice you."

"What..." Li Gu was stunned by Wu Yundong's sudden bow.He was about to get up and ask for clarification, but his whole body felt numb and he couldn't move!
Immediately afterwards, his eyes went black and he completely lost consciousness.

As if hearing the sound of a guest falling, the proprietress of Lele Divine Kitchen ran out in a panic.

But he found that Wu Yundong was the only one left at the dinner table.

"Young man, where is your brother?" The proprietress looked around, but the toilet door was also open, and there was no one there.

Wu Yundong smiled slightly, "He has something to do, so let's go first."

"Let's go?" The proprietress was taken aback, looking at the bicycles still parked outside, "Don't you want all the bicycles? It's really urgent."

When did she go out, she really didn't see it.

Wu Yundong picked up the cup of hot water on the table and left it there for so long, it is now lukewarm.He drank it all in one gulp, "Miss Boss, when will the food be ready, I'm almost starving to death."

"Immediately, immediately. I'll help you to remind me." The proprietress ran back to the back kitchen in a hurry.

………………

"Where am I?"

Li Gu opened his eyes.

But I couldn't see my fingers, the surroundings were pitch black, and I couldn't see anything.

He couldn't use his strength, and couldn't touch anything.There was no point of support even under his feet, as if he was floating in a weightless environment.

"Welcome back. Contractor No. 6549831, Wu Yundong. Do you choose to continue the mission?"

When Li Gu was full of question marks, a line of glowing words appeared in front of his eyes out of thin air.

"What the hell, I'm not Wu Yundong." Li Gu wanted to speak, but found that he couldn't make any sound at all.

"Ding. It has been detected that the contractor has changed, do you want to change it to Li Gu immediately?"

Li Gu was a little horrified, "What the hell, am I dreaming?"

"Warning! Warning! The contractor is in a place where time and space are turbulent. Leave as soon as possible. At the current flow rate of time, the contractor will age to death in 30 minutes. After the contractor dies, the mission will be failed by default."

what task?Will you die if you stay here?

Li Gu didn't care whether he was in a dream now or not, it was more important to save his life.However, he couldn't speak, he could only shout in his heart, "Then get out of this place."

"Do you choose to continue the mission?" The golden words reappeared.

Looking at the text in front of him, Li Gu hesitated. He had an ominous premonition that this "task" must not be a good thing.

"Can I get out of here first?"

"Do you choose to continue the mission?" The golden word jumped, but did not change.

As if there was no other choice, Li Gu said to himself, "I choose to continue the mission."

"call!"

A dazzling white light suddenly filled the dark space, blinding Li Gu's eyes.There was also a sharp and piercing sound of wind in my ears, passing by in a flash...

When Li Gu could see clearly again, he was already standing in a desert full of yellow sand.

"what!"

He finally left that oppressive dark space, and now he feels much more relaxed.He took a deep breath and shouted like venting.

"I'm finally free!" He greedily sucked in the surrounding air, looking around happily.

This is a desert that is almost endless. There is almost no vegetation on the ground, only some tumbleweeds are slowly rolling in the direction of the breeze.

At this time, the scorching sun is the hottest time in the desert.

He climbed up a slightly higher sand dune and looked in all directions, "Where is this?"

The glowing text appeared again, and this time it was accompanied by a female voice: "The mission has continued, please complete the mission as soon as possible."

"Are you a woman?" Li Gu looked at the text in front of him, but he couldn't touch its substance when he stretched out his hand.It seems that it is something like a projection.

"Contract assistants have no gender. The voice of a woman is set by the previous contractor. The voice prototype is Zhao Linger from "Sword and Sword". Contractor Wu Yundong, do you want to change the voice prototype?"

"No, I'm not Wu Yundong." Li Gu couldn't help complaining.

"It has been revised. Contractor Wu Yundong changed his name to Contractor Li Gu." The text then emerged.

Li Gu waved his hand and said indifferently, "I'm not interested in your voice prototype, and I don't want to modify anything. I just want you to send me home now."

"Contractor Li Gu, you don't have enough heavenly points to leave this world."

Li Gu was taken aback, "What the hell, what are the points of the heavens?"

"The deduction of 10 Tiantian points failed, and the balance is insufficient. I can't ask the assistant."

He almost vomited blood angrily, "Answer a question, do you still charge money?"

"Answering questions that are not related to the task will generate a search fee of 10 Heavens Points."

The temperature was getting higher and higher, he took off his coat and tie, sweating profusely.No, if this continues, he will suffer from heat stroke.

Here, people who don’t have access to villages and stores, if they suffer from heat stroke in such a place, wouldn’t they be waiting for death?

"Mission. What is the mission?"

The assistant's words appeared, "Contractor Li Gu's mission list has been opened. Contractor No. 6549831, Li Gu. In total, he has received missions three times and failed twice. The third mission is in progress."

"Mission details. Immortal Buddha plane theft mission. Mission goal (main): Steal the 'planet-level blue product' time-space auxiliary magic weapon, the moonlight treasure box. The moonlight treasure box can use the power of moonlight to allow the user to travel through time and space , you can get it in the future and past. Estimated value: 100 million heaven points."

"Wait." Li Gu felt as if he had heard it wrong, "What are you talking about? Moonlight Treasure Box? This is Westward Journey?"

"Yes. Li Gu, the contractor, is in the plane of "A Chinese Journey to the West"."

"You, can you take me through the mythical world?" Li Gu shouted excitedly.

"can."

(End of this chapter)