God's Gift

First time being a human?

Fang Ziang rolled his eyes in fear and was about to faint.

The voice from the other end continued, "Hey, how on earth are we going to get here..."

Fang Ziang opened his eyes and found something wrong.

Why does this voice sound so familiar?

Yu Youyou!

Scare him by pretending to be a ghost.

Fang Ziang walked to the stairs angrily and saw Yu Youyou standing on the stairs with her back to him, still muttering to herself.

He watched Yu Youyou testing the stairs back and forth, lifting her skirt and carefully extending her left foot.

After a few seconds, Yu Youyou felt something was wrong and quickly stretched out her right foot again, but she didn't have time to retract her left foot, so she fell firmly on the stairs with both knees, making a 'clang' sound.

Only then did Fang Ziang understand where those sounds came from.

His expression was twisted and he looked at Yu Youyou in confusion.

"what are you doing?"

Yu Youyou turned around and looked at Fang Ziang, her eyes lit up as if she had found a savior, but when she thought that she was a human now and couldn't be too abrupt, she suppressed her happy expression.

"It's okay, it's okay. Do you want to go back to sleep? You go first..."

Fang Ziang walked up the stairs with a puzzled look on his face and walked to Yu Youyou's side: "What are you doing here for no apparent reason? Why do you seem unable to walk?"

Yu Youyou stared at Fang Ziang's movements as he went up the stairs and quickly memorized it in her mind. She stood up and took the first step like Fang Ziang.

Then Fang Ziang saw the person who seemed unable to walk just now, walked up the stairs like a normal person, as if what he saw just now was an illusion.

What medical miracle?

But he quickly reacted, "Are you playing a prank again, Yu Youyou?"

"I think you just want to take revenge on me and scare me, don't you? Let me tell you don't think about it! You can't scare me with just this little trick?"

Yu Youyou looked at Fang Ziang in confusion, "What are you talking about?"

She passed Fang Ziang and ran up without looking back.

Fang Ziang's eyes widened.

This girl doesn't listen to him at all now, and keeps disobeying him. She is really getting too independent!

-

The next morning, Ye Li got up early, went downstairs to the lobby, and saw Shen Minghua and the Baige members discussing something.

"Good morning, Ye Li." Shen Minghua greeted Ye Li when he saw her coming downstairs and walked towards her. "This morning, I sent someone to inquire about the situation of the church from the villagers."

"The villagers seemed to be very secretive about the church. After a long period of negotiation, they finally told our men about the church and the origins of this village." Shen Minghua frowned as he thought of the news he had received.

"This village is very strange." Shen Minghua took Ye Li to the table and showed her a map.

"This is a map of the village. Our members found it in the village." Shen Minghua pointed to the mountains around the map.

“The village is surrounded by mountains, like an enclosed depression, but there is no map drawn outside the mountains.”

"They told us that this is a place where you can only enter but not leave. The villagers here were originally exiles, but after arriving here, they found that they could no longer leave."

Shen Minghua's expression was solemn. He hesitated for a long time before speaking: "It's like an isolated space. Anyone who comes in is trapped in this space."

"But our mission doesn't require us to find a way out, so it doesn't have much impact."

Ye Li nodded, "It seems that this village does have many strange places. There are many strange things happening in it."

Thinking of something, Ye Li asked again: "If that's the case, the church is not an exile, so how could they enter this place?"

Shen Minghua shook his head. "It's still unclear what happened to the church, but they did not enter this place at the same time as the villagers. The villagers said that the church appeared suddenly, and a fire started in the forest after they arrived."

"Hellfire?" Ye Li looked up at Shen Minghua.

Shen Minghua nodded, "The flames kept burning, never going out, and monsters began to crawl out of the flames.

"The villagers said that the monsters had no skin, but had spiked tentacles, and a pair of black eyes from hell."

"Is what Yu Youyou said right?" Listening to Shen Minghua's description, it was obviously consistent with Yu Youyou's description last night.

"Yeah." Shen Minghua originally thought that Yu Youyou was joking, but he didn't expect that what she said was actually true. Moreover, Fang Ziang didn't even see the full picture of the monster, so how did Yu Youyou see it?

"In other words, those monsters will harm the villagers. If we want to protect the villagers, we need to kill those monsters." Ye Li pondered for a while and came to a conclusion.

"But why haven't we seen those monsters in the village?" Ye Li thought about the peaceful night he had spent here and couldn't understand why the monsters didn't enter the village and harm the villagers.

"They can't enter the village." Shen Minghua drew a circle on the map along the wall built outside the village. "They are blocked outside this wall and can't enter."

"Why is this happening?" Ye Li frowned, unable to understand why the monster described by Yu Youyou couldn't even climb over a wall.

Just at this moment, another cold voice came in.

“Because the church protected this place.”

Everyone in the living room looked towards the door and saw Lu Keming, Anthony and several of his men standing at the door.

Seeing Ye Li's serious expression, Lu Keming smiled and said, "Captain Ye, why do you seem to not welcome us?"

"Master Lu didn't investigate his own mission himself, but told us the news instead. What's the reason?"

When Shen Minghua saw Lu Keming's arrival, the usually gentle man became sharp.

"Of course it's sharing information." Lu Keming seemed unaware of the serious atmosphere in the living room as he stroked the blue gem on his ring.

"Why should we share information with you?" Fang Ziang saw Lu Keming as soon as he went downstairs. He remembered that yesterday's humiliation was also related to Lu Keming. Taking advantage of the fact that there were many people around, he quickly got back the situation.

Anthony was originally standing behind Lu Keming. When he heard Fang Ziang's voice, he took a step forward and stared at Fang Ziang with a warning look.

Fang Ziang was so frightened that he paused.

Lu Keming never looked at Fang Ziang from beginning to end. He glanced at the light reflected from the silver ring and slowly raised his hand to stop Anthony.

"Captain Ye and President Shen should know what to do wisely." He looked at Ye Li and smiled faintly.

"How can we be sure that you don't have other intentions?"

Shen Minghua stared at Lu Keming with distrust, and their eyes met in the air. Just as sparks were about to ignite, Lu Keming looked away nonchalantly.

He has always been like this, looking down on everyone.

"Of course I have other plans." Lu Keming looked at Shen Minghua with a smile.

"Since the intelligent computer has divided us into two camps, we must be in opposition. In this situation, I have no other intentions..."

There was a hint of sarcasm in Lu Keming's voice, as if he was mocking Shen Minghua, "Will you believe it?"

Shen Minghua's breathing stagnated, but he was a leader after all, so he quickly calmed down and asked, "What do you want?"

“Let me think about it…” Lu Keming took a few steps forward, walked to the map on the table, and pointed at the village.

"Your ultimate mission is to protect the villagers, right?"

Ye Li's face became a little defensive, "How did you know?"

"Captain Ye, don't be so alert." Lu Keming smiled kindly, "It's not hard to guess."

Shen Minghua's eyes were filled with thought. "Lan Long received the mission to help the church? The church and the villagers are indeed in opposition."

Lu Keming raised his eyes to glance at Shen Minghua, let out a dull snort from his nose, and glanced at the White Dove members around him.

"Bai Ge is very lucky to have President Shen."

"In this case, what is the need for us to cooperate?" Ye Li looked at Lu Keming with a frown.

"Don't be anxious." Lu Keming lowered his head and looked at the map. A gleam of light flashed in his eyes, and then he looked at Ye Li as if nothing had happened.

"Although our final missions are different, I'm afraid we have a common mission before that."

Lu Keming paused for a second, then said, "That is to extinguish the fire of hell."

Shen Minghua and Ye Li stared at Lu Keming.

Lu Keming looked at their expressions and rubbed the dragon ring on his index finger with his thumb.

"It seems I guessed right again."

"Young Master Lu is still as smart as ever. He has thought through these things so clearly so quickly." Shen Minghua looked at Lu Keming with some fear.

"But how can we trust you?"

"Because..." Before Lu Keming could finish his words, he heard a clang sound at the stairs. He turned around and looked at the stairs.

As soon as I turned around, I saw a figure stumbling on the stairs, and then he fell to his knees on the stairs.

Yu Youyou, who failed to go down the stairs, noticed that everyone in the living room was looking at her. She turned away and smiled embarrassedly, then shifted her gaze to stare at the stairs as if facing a great enemy, stood up and stretched out her foot again.

So the few of them saw the scene that Fang Ziang saw last night.

Yu Youyou was in a panic and bumped into the stairs with a bang. Because her center of gravity was unstable, her body staggered and she fell down.

She quickly closed her eyes, and then her chin hit the stairs.

Lu Keming looked at Yu Youyou's little face which was wrinkled and squeezed together because of the pain. He didn't dare to open his eyes at all and rolled down stiffly like a head-over-heels onion.

What’s even more amazing is that Yu Youyou kept her mouth tightly closed throughout the entire process and didn’t make a single sound, like a mute person.

The corner of Lu Keming's eye twitched slightly.

Everyone in the living room stared at Yu Youyou in amazement. Ye Li and Shen Minghua reacted the fastest and quickly surrounded her.

"Yu Youyou, are you okay?" Ye Li helped Yu Youyou up, steady her and looked her around. After making sure that there was no serious problem, he looked at Yu Youyou in surprise.

"What's wrong with you? You fall even when going downstairs?"

Ye Li frowned, unable to understand Yu Youyou's behavior.

Yu Youyou stood up from the ground and smiled at Ye Li and Shen Minghua, instantly forgetting the pain of falling from the upstairs.

"It's okay, it's okay." She waved her hands and patted her legs. "I'm not used to using these legs."

Fang Ziang stood aside, his expression difficult to look at.

Yu Youyou patted Ye Li as if nothing had happened, squeezed through the crowd, rubbed her head against Lu Keming's sleeve, and rushed in front of him, leaning on the table and looking at the map on it with a curious look on her face.

"Go on, please."

Yu Youyou looked at Lu Keming with her bright eyes.

Lu Keming stared at her messy hair and paused for a few seconds before continuing with the previous topic.

"In this place, the primary danger for both the villagers and the church is the hellfire, so..." Lu Keming's gaze swept from Yu Youyou to Ye Li and Shen Minghua.

"We can start by working together to put out the fires of hell."

"Hellfire?" Yu Youyou suddenly said, interrupting the conversation. "You said that's the fire of hell?"

Her eyes were focused on Lu Keming. Lu Keming glanced at her indifferently, with a hint of darkness in his eyes.

"Youyou, we will explain these things to you in detail later. Don't interrupt us now." Shen Minghua did not answer Yu Youyou's question. He looked at Lu Keming and questioned:

"How can you be sure that the Hellfire is also dangerous to the Church? The news we received said that the arrival of the Church ignited the Hellfire."

"Really?" Lu Keming asked back without any emotion, "But the church said that the villagers angered the gods, which caused the fire of hell to ignite."

"Nonsense." Fang Ziang whispered in the back, "Could it be that gods really exist?"

"Shut up." Anthony warned Fang Ziang with his eyes.

Fang Ziang shrank his head.

"I don't know whether there are gods or not, but are the villagers' words worth trusting?" Lu Keming lowered his eyes and looked at his arm.

"Why should the Church light the fires of hell, and if they are the fires they light, then why should they protect the village with their 'blessings'."

Lu Keming raised his hand, and a white spot of light appeared in his palm.

Yu Youyou looked at what was in Lu Keming's hand and tilted her head.

"This is the 'blessing'. It's the reason why those monsters dare not approach the village." Lu Keming put the light spot into Ye Li's hand.

“Captain Ye, you can go to the forest to meet those monsters. As long as you hold this thing, they won’t dare to approach you.”