God's Gift

Yu Youyou walked back to the west wing carrying a lantern, hung the lantern under the eaves, sat on the floor in the corridor, picked up the "Hundred Ghosts Illustrated Book" she had bought today, and looked through it for a long time.

The book records many strange-looking ghosts, and one of the pages is the debt ghost.

[Debt ghosts are ghosts that are formed from people who owed favors and money to others in their previous lives but did not repay them before death.]

[The debtor ghost always remembers the little favors people have done for him, so he tries every possible way to repay them. There are many ways to do this, such as telling the benefactor the exam questions or the location of money in a dream, or turning into a cow, horse, donkey, chicken, sheep, etc., so that the benefactor can sell them for money.]

Yu Youyou pressed her fingers on the paper, paused for a few seconds and then turned the page.

The night wind blew through the sycamore tree, the branches rustled in the wind, the air gradually became colder, and Yu Youyou still kept her head down reading the book.

There was a knock on the door outside the yard, which sounded again and again in response to the rustling sound of the wind.

Yu Youyou raised her eyes and looked towards the gate of the courtyard. After a few seconds, she stood up, took off the lantern, walked towards the gate and opened the door.

The dim light from the lantern fell, and Yu Youyou could clearly see what was standing outside the door.

It was a huge creature with a dark body, sunken eyes and a pair of sharp hands like bird claws. It didn't look like a human at all.

Seeing Yu Youyou open the door, he bowed his head and saluted Youyou, then opened his tiger-like mouth and asked politely, "Miss, I have been traveling all night and my stomach is burning with hunger. Could you give me some food?"

This is an extremely strange picture. An ugly ghost performs human etiquette and begs for food from the owner of someone else's house late at night.

If an ordinary person saw this, he would probably be scared to death. But Yu Youyou just raised the lantern a little, looked at the monster outside the door carefully for a while, and asked crisply: "What do you want to eat?"

Seeing Yu Youyou agreed, the ghost bowed again, pointed at Yu Youyou's shoes and said, "All you need is the young lady's shoes."

Yu Youyou looked down at her shoes, then looked at the ghost, bent down and took off her shoes, leaving only her footwear on her feet, and then handed the shoes over.

The goblin immediately took the shoes, opened his mouth happily, and took a bite of the shoes.

But the shoes made of cloth actually started to bleed, and then began to scream continuously, but the ghost was still eating with relish.

Yu Youyou stared at the bleeding shoes and suddenly asked, "How did you get out of the ghost realm?"

When the Goblin heard this, he stopped eating voraciously, acted politely again, and said to Youyou:

"I don't know exactly, I just know that I was walking in the ghost realm and it turned into a dark place. If I walked further, I would reach the human world."

Yu Youyou nodded thoughtfully, waved to the ghost and said, "Leave when you're full. This is not the place for you."

"Thank you, Miss, for your charity." The ghost nodded, turned and walked towards the wall, disappearing into the wall.

Yu Youyou then turned around and walked to the seat where she had just sat. When she went to open the door, the "Hundred Ghosts Illustrated Book" happened to turn to the page about the shoe-eating ghost.

[The shoe-eating ghost is said to be a monster from ancient times. It likes to eat human shoes to satisfy its hunger and has a kind nature.]

[It is said that in order to please the emperor, officials in Chang'an wanted to set up 100,000 lanterns to create a peaceful scene. However, after the war, the people were living in poverty. The tax collector wrote to dissuade them but to no avail. He was demoted to maintain public order. On the day of the Lantern Festival, the lanterns caught fire and caused a fire. When the tax collector was evacuating the people, he was accidentally pushed down and trampled to death by the people.]

[Because he died an unnatural death, the judge ordered him to take revenge before he could be reincarnated. The petty official did not want to take his life, so he said that he died under his shoes and should take revenge on the shoes. He then turned into a shoe-eating ghost and ate the shoes to take revenge.]

Yu Youyou put the lantern aside and looked at the atlas for a long time, but did not turn it over. Instead, she placed her fingers on the table and tapped them lightly a few times.

The ghostland that never sleeps.

Now everyone has lost their memories, and the intelligent computer has not given any tasks to the students.

But it doesn’t matter much, the fundamental purpose of all Dark Star missions is to obtain fire.

But the person who could get the fire for the Dark Star was Lu Keming, but now it has caused Lu Keming to lose his memory.

While Youyou was thinking, the system spoke again.

[God, is there anything I can help you with?]

When Yu Youyou heard the voice, she tilted her head in confusion and asked curiously, "Didn't you say you wouldn't help me before?"

How come he has changed so much in just a few months?

After hearing Yu Youyou's question, the system fell silent, and after a while it replied:

[The system was too young at that time.]

Little did it know that it had awakened a god.

Hearing the word young, Yu Youyou became interested and asked curiously, "Are you young too? How old are you?"

[After the Dark Star tore the world apart, the system was born in chaos and wandered in different small worlds. Up to now, it has been five thousand years old.]

"Then you are about the same age as me." Yu Youyou responded, nodded, and smiled happily: "Then you are indeed very young."

After that, she asked again in confusion: "But why didn't you come out before, but you always appear now?"

[At first, he was busy with things in other worlds, and then when he wanted to show up, he found out... that the host was a god.]

"Oh, it's not a big deal." Yu Youyou waved her hand casually and asked, "You have been relying on various small worlds for the past five thousand years, relying on parasitic hosts to absorb energy?"

The system thought for a long time, then changed Yu Youyou's words calmly and said again:

[The system does indeed rely on various small worlds, looking for unwilling souls, giving them a chance to be reborn, and helping the system complete its mission.]

"Then you are really a magical life form." Yu Youyou sighed, and then asked with a smile: "How were you born?"

[The system has never figured out this question, but it remembers that it had the honor of seeing a god when it was born, and it gave the system divine power, allowing the system to survive to this day.]

"Have you seen the gods?" Yu Youyou's raised mouth corners gradually dropped when she heard this, as if she remembered something. Her eyes fell on the table, and she raised her hand to stroke her chin. After a long time, she responded, "Is that so."

[Therefore, the system has kept that god in mind. Although it relies on outstanding figures from various small worlds to obtain energy, it always has a sense of justice and helps righteous people.]

Yu Youyou nodded in understanding, and then continued naturally: "So you wanted me to kill Lu Keming."

After hearing Yu Youyou's words, the air fell silent again. The system was silent for a long time, and replied awkwardly:

[The system didn’t know Lu Keming was related to the gods at that time.]

Originally the system thought Yu Youyou was angry, but she thought about it, shook her head, and replied happily: "It's okay, I didn't know at first."

"But I know now."