Dudgeon felt that he was in a dark place and was floating without knowing where he was.
“Dudgeon, can you hear me?”
"Dong Qianqiu?"
“Yes, it's me. I'm transmitting to you. I will be your main contact for this operation.”
Dong Qianqiu's voice sounded directly from his mind.
"Where am I now?"
“You are now undergoing a teleportation restructuring in the void. In this operation, you will arrive as the traveler Pang Meng. In order not to affect the historical process, you should try not to reveal your real name. In addition, multiple versions of the entire legend have been placed in your Crossing Over Packages, remember to carefully review them after waking up.”
Dudgeon finally understood. What's this called?
This is called a full-body 360-degree immersive scripted murder.
Before Dudgeon roast, a little light suddenly appeared in the dark environment. The light was getting bigger and bigger, and Dudgeon found that he was rushing towards the light at a high speed.
A dazzling light suddenly hit Dudgeon, and after the blindness, he found himself lying on the ground, which was particularly hot.
Location: Dongsheng Shizhou.
Era: The Age of Emperor Yao.
Character: Pang Meng arrives.
"Wake up, brother."
A hand was shaking Dudgeon constantly.
Dudgeon struggled to his feet, feeling a little dizzy due to the loss of weight. In front of him stood a man and a little boy.
"Great, you're awake!"
Dudgeon looked at the man, who was clearly the Houyi from the screen moments ago, facing towards the soil.
"Houyi?"
"Hou... Yi?" The man seemed surprised but also suspicious, "My name is Da Yi, not Houyi. Are you here to look for someone?"
Dudgeon felt that this man called Da Yi spoke with a lisp, like he had something in his mouth.
Dudgeon didn't know what was happening. He stood up and looked around, realizing he had just been lying at the village entrance, like he had walked a long way from somewhere before collapsing here.
He looked up and saw ten suns in the sky.
It was hot, but not too hot.
If one sun can make the temperature reach 20 degrees Celsius, then ten suns would be 200 degrees Celsius, but Dudgeon felt that it was about the same as summer, with a temperature around 40 to 50 degrees Celsius, which wouldn't immediately kill you but was still very uncomfortable.
"Is this guy crazy?" The little boy looked at Dudgeon for a while and said, "Maybe he's heatstroke. Brother, come to my house, I still have some water, you can have some."
Dudgeon touched the coarse cloth waist bag he had on him, which had the words 'Crossing Over Package' written on it with an uneven handwriting.
To be honest, judging from the quality of this bag, the contents inside can't be that good.
"Are these guys trying to trick me..." Dudgeon muttered to himself.
"Brother?" Yi called again, but Dudgeon still didn't answer.
"Brother Yi, this guy is really stupid," the little boy said, digging his nose.
“You are silly.” Dudgeon glared at the child and wondered if there were any children in the story of Houyi shooting the suns.
"Be careful, don't talk nonsense." Yi patted the little boy's shoulder and turned to Dudgeon, "What's your name, brother?"
“My name is Du... Pang Meng.”
"Du Pang Meng?"
“No, no, I'm called Pang Meng.”
Yi looked at Dudgeon with a look like he was looking at a fool.
“Really, I'm Pang Meng. I haven't forgotten my name. Don't look at me like that.”
Dudgeon felt mixed emotions, looking at the ten suns in the sky and touching the torn and Crossing Over Packages on his waist. He wondered if it was too late to regret.
……
Legendary Management Agency, a group of people were standing in front of the screen.
"Director, are you sure he's really okay?" Dong Qianqiu looked at Dudgeon's performance and was very worried.
"Anyway, our world still has only one sun, right?" Why do you say, "This kid is very clever, let's see what happens."
After saying that, He Suǒyǐ looked at the direction of the door and whispered, "Don't stand outside the door when you arrive. Come in and sit down."
Hearing this, the door slowly opened and three people walked in slowly.
Looking closely, the two leaders were the chief judge Cui Jue and the seventh master of the White Devils Xie Bian. The third person had an extremely cold face, wearing a slim black suit, holding a soul-stealing chain, and wearing a tall black official hat with four big characters on it, "The World Is At Peace". As soon as this person came out, the temperature in the entire room suddenly dropped.
After seeing the three people, Xie Jin and Fan Xiaoguo immediately knelt down and bowed, but the rest of the staff of the entire Legendary Management Agency ignored them as if they were not there, each busily engaged in their own work.
"Is Eighth Ancestor also here?"
Eighth Ancestor Black Devils nodded without speaking.
"He Suǒyǐ, if Dayi hadn't shot down the nine suns, our three of us would have a lot of work to do." Xie Bi’an shook his head helplessly, then looked at the display screen nearby and said, "What's the situation now?"
He Suǒyǐ took a look at Dong Qianqiu, who nodded and began to introduce the information to the others as he flipped through the materials.
“As the Grand Judge expected, this Dudgeon can indeed become an 'operator' and return to the legend. The problem now is that the first task assigned to him is already a super-class A task, which is tantamount to suicide for a mortal. And judging from his performance just now, he is reckless and clumsy, and may have difficulty completing the task.”
Cui Jue smiled and said, "Is that right? He will die in the legend of Houyi shooting the suns?"
"Yes, there is a high probability of failure."
"He won't fail," Cui Jue interrupted Dong Qianqiu. "Although I don't know how he shot down the sun as a mortal, he didn't die here, because I also saw him in the 19th year of the Zhenguan era.“
He said with a smile, "There is a reason for every fruit, Grand Judge. If this boy dies here, you will forget the memory of the 19th year of the Zhenguan era."
”Is that the case?“ Cui Jue suddenly felt a little lost. "The memory of that year is not important. If he can come back alive, promise me that I will definitely get to see him.”
After saying that, Cui Jue threw his sleeves and walked straight out of the door.
"Director, the Grand Judge..." Dong Qianqiu looked thoughtfully at Cui Jue's back.
“Yes, he is a Hell Immortal, but he still has attachments.” He Suǒyǐ turn back and look at the Elder Brothers? He asked, ”What, do you two boys have anything to confess?“
"No," the black Devils said, "I just want to see if you old man need my help."
"Yoyo!" The White Immortal pointed a finger at the Black Immortal and said to HeSuoyi, " This guy is just stubborn. As soon as he heard there was an operator, he didn't even change his clothes and insisted on coming to see it.“
Black Immortal sneered, "Are you not the same?"
”Come on, guests are welcome. You two can sit anywhere you like. I won't be polite with you old people.“
……
Dudgeon sat in this dilapidated hut, looking at the wooden bowl in his hand. It was more like water that had not been completely emptied after washing the bowl.
"Brother, drink some. We don't have much water." Yi looked at Dudgeon, afraid he would think it was too little.
Dudgeon couldn't refuse, and picked up the wooden bowl to drink the little water inside.
This water is really delicious.
This was Dudgeon's first thought.
In fact, not only the water, Dudgeon felt that the air in this world was particularly sweet.
What's going on?
"Brother Pang Meng, are you feeling better now?"
”I'm much better, brother Yi.“
“That's great.” Yi still spoke incomprehensibly, but it was obvious that he was not a bad person. “Brother Pang Meng, are you not from this village? Are you looking for someone?”
Dudgeon thought for a moment and nodded.
“Yes, I'm looking for someone.”
"Oh, then wait a minute. I don't know many people, and I need to ask my wife." After saying this, Yi turned around and called out to the house, "Heng'E, come out to meet someone."
Dudgeon looked curiously around the room. If she had read the script in advance, she would have known that Yi had a wife.
In a blink of an eye, a fragrance wafted in, and with the sound of footsteps, a beautiful woman came in from the back room, pushing aside the curtains.
"I am Heng'e, It’s nice to meet you."
The woman bowed with a ghostly appearance, and Dudgeon was stunned by this brief moment. In an age without skin care products and cosmetics, could there be such a beautiful woman in the world?
On this white and flawless face, there are two thin eyebrows, under which are sleepy almond eyes, and the black and shiny black hair falls neatly. She is a woman who makes me feel heartbroken and attracted.
“What do you want me to do, my husband?”
Yi smiled and said, "This brother Pang Meng must have come from a very far place to find someone. I don't know many people, so I asked you to come out and help.”
“I see. If you want to find someone, please speak up. I know everyone in this village.”
Dudgeon finally regained his composure, took his eyes off Heng E's face, and after calming down, said slowly, "I... came to find someone who can shoot down the suns."
As soon as the words came out, Yi and his wife's expressions obviously changed.
Yi stood up, quickly walked to the door and closed it, then came back and said respectfully to Dudgeon, "Brother Pang Meng, you're so surprising. Are you a fairy?"
Dudgeon shook his head and said, "No, I'm just a mortal."
After saying that, Dudgeon was a little puzzled. Why were the two people's first reactions to hearing about shooting down the suns that Pang Meng should be a celestial being? The first reaction of a normal person should not be "This person is mentally retarded"?
“Alas, brother, you are joking. You and I are ordinary people, how can we discuss such a thing as shooting down the suns?”
Dudgeon looked at the couple and thought for a moment before saying, "I'm not a fairy, but I do have some skills. And the person I'm looking for is called Yi, who can shooting down nine suns."
"Me?"
Yi widened his eyes in horror and then looked at Heng'e.
"Brother Pang Meng, don't joke with me. Tell me, there are ten suns in the sky, how can I shoot them down? What should I use to shoot them down?"
Dudgeon couldn't bring himself to say "with a bow and arrow," because yes, there were ten suns.
In legend, Houyi shot down nine suns with his bow and arrow, which sounded so natural. But when ten suns were so nakedly displayed in front of him, those words just couldn't be said.
"Ah..." Dudgeon sighed. He didn't know what to do.
"Brother Pang Meng, you may have traveled a long way and be very tired. If you don't mind, you can rest on the bed tonight."
This was the worst start possible. Dudgeon understood that Da Yi still thought he was a fool.
But what could he do?
Dudgeon couldn't leave Da Yi. He didn't have much time left.
"If I can stay for the night...that would be great." Dudgeon said awkwardly.
"Hmm, don't hesitate." Da Yi patted Dudgeon on the shoulder and led him to the side room.
"You can rest here tonight." Da Yi said while tidying up the room, but the room was already very clean every day, indicating that the wife was very capable.
"By the way," Dudgeon looked at Heng'e and asked, "Is there anyone in this village called Houyi besides Da Yi?"
Dudgeon felt like he might have jumped to conclusions too quickly. Just because he saw this man on the screen didn't mean he was the male lead. Maybe the real man lead was someone else entirely.
"I am a humble girl. I don't know any man named Houyi in the nearby villages." Heng'e bent down and spoke slowly to Dudgeon.
"Is that so...I see..."
Dudgeon was alone in the side room, not knowing whether it was day or night.
Looking down, Dudgeon felt the small broken bag on his waist.
"Oh, Crossing Over Packages." With a sneer, Dudgeon opened the so-called package.
Two cans, each with a piece of paper handwritten with the words "Monkey King Sun Wukong" and "Han Dynasty statesman and strategist Zhuge Kongming".
"They used such a common glass jar..."
The most ridiculous thing is that after turning it over, you can still see the instructions on the bottom of the jar:
Please consume before the expiration date.
Dudgeon threw the jar aside and saw another stack of paper.
There were many versions of Hou Yi Shooting the Sun written on this stack of paper, and Dudgeon was preparing to study it when he found something else in the broken bag.
“What is it?”
A stack of very worn yellow paper with red cinnabar patterns on it.
"This is a talisman."
Dong Qianqiu's voice suddenly sounded in his ear, and Dudgeon was startled.
"I said, Qianqiu, can you stop being so scary?"
“My job is to keep an eye on you and answer your questions.”
"But I haven't started asking yet! OK." Dudgeon shook her head and asked, "Is this amulet the kind of amulet often mentioned in the novels about cultivating immortality?"
"About that," Dong Qianqiu said, "but you don't have any magic power, and these amulets are the most basic ones, only serving as auxiliary tools.”
Dudgeon looked over each talisman and noticed that the back was printed with the function and instructions of the talisman.
Two transfer charms, one eavesdropping charm, one loud charm, and one rejuvenation charm.
The most powerful of the five charms is actually the teleportation charm, while the rest are simply unbearable to look at, and there is even a loud charm that increases the volume of speech.
“This is totally different from what the immortal novels say!”
Where are the ice cones, fireballs, and thunderous clouds?
Dudgeon could not find any breakthrough now, and the difficulty of this task was too great for him.
He grabbed his hair and looked at these useless props, getting more and more angry as he thought about it.
"f**k you!"
Dudgeon slammed five amulets against the wall, but only four fell down, with one firmly stuck to the wall.
"Eavesdropping amulet?" Dudgeon saw the amulet glow slightly, and then a low voice came out.
"You said that the brother Pang Meng didn't know anything, right?"
"No, my husband, you have hidden it well for so many years. He wants to shoot the suns, let him find a way. We can't do it."
"Well, I hope nothing goes wrong.