Chapter 1: Izumo
There is a cloud palace on Kunlun Mountain, and I am in this cloud palace! A small named master.
My name is Li Guapi, I am twenty-three years old, and I am as single as a lone wolf (son)! In addition to being handsome, he is really handsome (thick-skinned), so handsome that he has no friends. Plus, I have the noble status of a prince! I'm having a showdown, don't pretend, I'm the future palace master of Cloud Palace! (The palace master stands silently behind him, revealing a nuclear good look)
"Ahem, melon skin, why are you talking nonsense again?"
"Palace Master, I..."
"Don't explain, I understand. It's good to be young, it's good to have a little idea, the Cloud Palace accommodates Baichuan and deals with the affairs of Wanlin, young like you...... There are very few people who have done nothing. ”
"Palace Master, I..."
"Don't explain, I understand. If you want to make a name for yourself, you are young, you will inevitably be overzealous, and what Cloud Palace wants is someone with ambitions like you. ”
"Palace Master, I..."
"Don't say it, if you want to say it, you have to do it! It just so happens that I have a task here, and handing it over to you is the best recognition for you! ”
"Palace Master, I..."
"Come on, Guapi, this palace believes in you!"
The palace master directly stuffed a sheepskin scroll into Li Guapi's arms and then disappeared into the air, it was useless to let Li Guapi scream, Lou Lan, the palace master of the Cloud Palace, was usually a person who was idle and had nothing to do.
Guapi held the sheepskin scroll in his arms, sniffed slightly, and slowly exerted force with both hands, touching again and again.
"Wow, this feels like the feeling of a lamb snuggling in his hand in the sheep herding village next door to the Tianshan Lingchi, full of soft love~~ with a unique aroma by the way...... I haven't smelled the fragrance in more than 20 years, what kind of fragrance is it? ”
"That's the unique Fat Orchid Fragrance of Long Yongdi! And that's not a parchment roll, it's really a fur roll of the Dragon King Beast! "A nominal waste master, who doesn't understand anything, how could the palace master give you such an important task!"
Spit the most domineering words, walk the most sassy posture, Du Fu, one of the best famous teachers in the Cloud Palace! I don't know when I came behind Li Guapi.
"This tone, I'm afraid that only the famous grandmother in the palace who is both talented and good-looking, and has a great heart...... Miss Du Fu. ”
Yes... Ha... Ha... Guapi turned his head and smiled bitterly, scolding in his heart: I really oversold the melon skin~~ Such an aunt and grandmother actually found me, what should I do? What to do? What to do!
"Hey...... Boy, when you see Miss Ben, you don't give me the scroll in your hand, you can't take on such an important task! ”
Du Fu clasped his hands to his chest, with a smug smile on his cold face, waiting for the melon skin to present the sheepskin scroll with both hands.
Wrong...... The palace master had just left her and arrived, and she was still busy getting the task. I'm going to give it to someone without even covering the heat? Although the old guy from the palace master gave me a task directly, he didn't explain what the content was...... What should I do with ......?
Hey......
Guapi smiled slightly, and directly put the sheepskin scroll into his bag. "Hmm~ Little baby, stay inside, I'll take you out when I've earned enough."
"Miss Du Fu, give! This is an autograph signed under the next hand, there are only ten copies in the entire Cloud Palace, this one is for you, all are polite, they are all from their own family! ”
"Who's going to ask for your broken signature! Open it up for me! "Give me the king beast fur roll of the dragon mediocre land!"
Looking at Du Fu's face flushed with anger, Guapi felt more confident in his heart. Sample, no matter what famous teacher you are, as long as you take something from my Li Guapi hand, if you don't be ruthless, I'm sorry for my title of Guppi!
"Miss Du Fu, this is the task that the palace master personally gave me, if you want me to give it to you...... It's not impossible, after all, I have a lot of important work on my hands. ”
Du Fu glared at him impatiently, "Tell me directly, how much?" ”
"Haha, it's still Mr. Du's happiness, as soon as this person becomes famous, he doesn't lack that bit of wealth, Miss Du Fu has accumulated a lot of popularity and financial resources in the Cloud Palace, and my melon skin has only been a year and a half since the Cloud Palace, and the popularity and financial resources are not as good as you...... I don't have any ideals, I only need 100,000 yuan! ”
Du Fu didn't say a word, grabbed the corner of the melon skin with both hands, and looked at each other. One side is angry eyes, and the other side is shining eyes.
"One hundred thousand dollars! You...... It's better to grab it! ”
"That's right, I'll rob you."
"You ......"
"Miss Du Fu will be short of this money?"
Du Fu held back her anger in her heart, she could get 100,000 yuan, but no matter how important this task was, it was only a ......
"One hundred thousand tasks are not lost, I am a blood loss, and the value that this important task can bring to me is ......"
"Hmph, keep it for yourself! 100,000 yuan is expensive, and I only pay 30,000 yuan. ”
"Thirty thousand? Thirty thousand dollars is not good, too little, what about sending Hanako? At least eighty thousand dollars. ”
Du Fu stood in place and shook his head, the price was still high. But looking at the smug look on the melon skin, he smiled.
"How could the palace master find you a scoundrel to take on this task, and you are still so cheeky to raise the price...... Take this task yourself. ”
"So what are you laughing at? Don't come with me, I'm powerful. ”
Li Guapi seems to be calm now, but in fact, he is panicked, and the corners of his mouth twitch slightly.
Any small detail of Guapi was seen by Du Fu, and Du Fu didn't accept his task, so Guapi's idea of using the task to get money was frustrated.
"You don't even understand what the mission is, you better take a good look."
Du Fu added: "I hope you can complete the task alive." ”
"Alive? What do you mean? Could it be that the palace wants me to die?! ”
"Hehe......"
"Don't go, the task is for you, only 30,000 yuan...... Hey, Miss Du, don't go! ”
Before Guapi finished speaking, Du Fu disappeared into the air in a dashing manner, and the person had already left. Now there was only one person left, and the sheepskin scroll in his hand was slowly spread out.
The scroll's quest information is very simple: go to the Dragon Yongdi to rescue the dragon lord's daughter and bring it back to the Cloud Palace safely!
“……”
"Where is Long Yongdi? Save? ”
I'm a nominal master, and I've been in the Cloud Palace for less than two years, and the first time I've taken on a task is to play with my life...... Sazi~~ The palace asked me to leave the cloud palace and said earlier, why bother looking for this kind of task for me to take? Sprinkle ~ my skull.
Li Guapi took the task scroll back and complained and complained, and returned to his room. The three-third-slap floor is his own room, with a broken sword hanging on the black wall, and in addition to the bed quilt, there is only a rotten wooden table on the floor.
"This broken bed is also a bad ass when you sit up, it's really unlucky that people are like being targeted, and the needle is in the heart."
The melon skin touched under the bed, and took out several wine gourds, but most of them were empty, and after looking for a long time, he finally poured himself a full glass of wine.
"If you hang up the task again, 10,000 yuan is fine, and 8,000 yuan is fine...... It's better to die than to live, although my life is rotten, but I haven't lived enough, even if life is like a knife, there is still a little hope......"
"I don't know who I am......"
The glass of wine entered the throat, the coarse wine was not smooth, the color and taste were insufficient, and after drinking the melon skin, he immediately took the scroll and ran to the mission release pavilion of the Cloud Palace.
The cloud palace and the eternal forest are lined up, specializing in dealing with the affairs entrusted by people, regardless of the size of the power in the world, and no matter what the acceptor is, as long as the money is paid, the cloud palace will be taken immediately! Therefore, a large number of masters will be trained within the Cloud Palace to solve tasks. Such a palace gate where someone pays for it has been prosperous for a long time from ancient times to the present!
Quest Lodge? The sub-pavilion inside the Cloud Palace, a special place for receiving tasks and sending tasks.
"It's here...... The place is as lively as ever. ”
Guapi walked slowly to the door of the task release pavilion, and there was a surge of people at the door, some receiving tasks, some sending tasks, and some selling tasks.
The melon peel is here to sell the task. It's a very simple thing, but it's hard for him. A nominal master, dressed in tatters, penniless, except for a beautiful face, nothing else.
No one will believe that someone who has never taken a task can buy a good task!
"Maybe they don't even know if I'm from the Cloud Palace......"
Guapi took the scroll and walked straight to the central hall of the Mission Release Pavilion, where the sweet maid was his sight area.
"Please transfer this task out and quote 10,000 yuan!"
"Yes."
The maid took the scroll and sent it to the backstage for the owner to appraise, because the value of the task must be passed by the master before it can be released, so during the appraisal period, Guapi had to stay in the attic until the task was passed.
Time passed little by little, and Guapi had to wait slowly, and he found a random place to sit down cleanly. Clothes as quilts, hands as pillows, sit on the ground and sleep, like a person who asks for food, without this meal, this person may also be gone...... Guapi ignored the contemptuous eyes around him, and it was a matter of course for him to live in the world alone, even if he didn't live a life like Du Fu, at least ...... I still have the hope of survival.
Chic as a melon peel, but the truth is not as good as he wants.
"What? What do you mean? Tasks cannot be forwarded! you eggs~~"
Li Guapi shouted in the attic, but no matter how he screamed, as long as his task was not sent out, no one would care about him, and there were not a few people like him.
"I'm sure I'll be able to send it out! Miss will go and show them again. ”
Guapi firmly believes that this task can be transferred to others no matter how heavy it is, but he is wrong, this task belongs to him.
"Please go back, the master has been identified, and this task can't be transferred."
"Don't! How to take this task? Isn't that a matter of life...... Sell it for 8,000 dollars! "Miss, please help me be accommodating."
"I'm sorry, the master said, this mission can't be transferred out, please go back." "If the gentleman pesters him any more, the sheriff inside the attic will do it."
Li Guapi let go of the hand that grasped the maid tightly, and trembled and withdrew it; Turning his head and looking around, there were two guards holding cold weapons standing inside and outside the door, and the angle of the cold weapon was facing him. Guapi sighed and left with his head down.
When I left the attic and wanted to return to my lodgings, my heart suddenly became sad.
"I'm just a famous master, I don't have peerless martial arts, and I don't have any disciple skills...... Suddenly give a major task, or the kind of fatality! If you want me to leave the Cloud Palace, just say ......"
"It's really damn bad...... What to do? ”
Li Guapi panicked at the moment, about Long Yongdi mentioned in the mission, he was going to save people, and he didn't know the situation at all, not to mention that he didn't have any ability! Hidden in the air? Flying away? Weapon master? Physical arts? Psychics?
! Except for the pain of slapping his face with both hands, he basically has no technical ability!
"I can only go on a mission......"
Li Guapi gritted his teeth, returned to the tattered dwelling, tore a rag from under the bed, picked up the broken sword hanging on the wall and ran to the cloud entrance of the Cloud Palace.
"This broken sword is wrapped in rags, I feel like I can still see it... Maybe you can sell it if you meet someone who doesn't have long eyes! ”
Li Guapi wrapped the sword in a rag cloth, and the broken sword behind his back was the only thing he had, and now he was using it for his own pastime, and no one wanted it himself, let alone his sword!
At the entrance of the Cloud Palace, Guapi was queuing up to go out, after all, there were too many people in the Cloud Palace! In addition to the people who come and go every day, there are also many people who are not from the Cloud Palace here, and entry and exit are also a problem!
"You're on a mission?"
The old consul who was in charge of closing the door glanced at the melon peel and couldn't believe it when he saw the task list he handed over!
"Yes."
"Okay, let's fill in a name......
Li Guapi picked up the pen and was about to write, but stopped again.
"Why didn't you write it?" The old man asked curiously
"Write, of course write! It's just that I'm used to being called melon skin, and I forgot my real name...... Besides, I don't seem to have a name? ”
The old man gave him a fierce look. "Do you see the long queue behind you, boy? Hurry up and write, who cares what your name is? ”
Guapi was stunned for a moment, and smiled bitterly to himself. "Haha, too, then fill in the plum melon skin......"
The old man took the name slip, crossed out the task slip from the melon peel, gave him some more things to use, and beckoned him to leave.
Guapi smiled and took it from the old man's hand, and the old man gave him a map to the land of Long Yong and a portrait of the daughter of the dragon lord, plus three thousand dollars!
Guapi stuffed the map and portrait into his pocket casually, and the three thousand coins were like treasures in his hand.
"It turns out that there is money for a mission...... Haha, earned! ”
Guapi happily took his things and left the Cloud Palace.
The old man's gaze at the door of the Cloud Palace looked at the melon skin slightly, an indescribable feeling! My wife sighed: "Alas~~ This kid really forgot everything...... If you shouldn't have received it in the Cloud Palace in the first place......"
The Cloud Palace is high on the top of Kunlun, and it is difficult for ordinary people to go up, so the Cloud Palace deliberately arranges some passages to facilitate entry and exit. Among the veins and people, the melon peel is the most conspicuous one! Conspicuous, not dazzling! Guapi is dressed in a plain cloth gown with holes and holes, rotten cloth shoes, and unkempt hair, if it weren't for the fact that he had a token of the master of the Cloud Palace on his waist, he would have been stopped by the guards guarding the passage!
"If you boast that the sky is high and you fly alone, how can you be lonely?"
Looking at the constant flow of people around him, Guapi secretly laughed at himself. The people around him are basically from the Wanlin world, famous, rich, and powerful...... But he is the most arrogant!
Whew~~ It took a long time to come down from the Cloud Palace! This Cloud Palace predecessor is also yes, why do you have nothing to climb so high? Just thinking that he can climb, he doesn't think about whether the disciples and grandchildren in the future can climb it...... And when you come down from above, it is daylight on the cloud palace, and it will be night as soon as you get below......
The night breeze is slightly cool, and at the bottom of Kunlun Mountain is an ancient town, named Rakshasa Town. It also belongs to the category of the Cloud Palace, which is equivalent to an earthly branch.
Guapi held the Cloud Palace token in his hand and found the best accommodation to live in, of course, the accommodation is also managed by the Cloud Palace, and it is free for the people of the Cloud Palace to live, but those who are not from the Cloud Palace have to be charged. In the spacious room, Guapi put the broken sword next to the bed, bought some wine and beans from outside and started drinking, and fell asleep after eating and drinking. In the dormitory, there is no need to worry about encountering any dangers, after all, ordinary people do not dare to provoke the power of the Cloud Palace.
A touch of red glow drifted from the east, with a warm sun, early twilight.
"Hmm...... Ha~~"
The melon skin lay on the bed softly, holding the pillow between his legs with both hands, curled up, without the slightest intention of getting up; But the sun shone on his face impartially, with warmth, melon peel eyes were half-open, staring out the window under his eyelids, and slowly got up.
"The sun comes out of the clouds, and it turns out that the feeling of looking up at the sky from below is much better than the feeling of the sky......"
"Wake up in the morning, embrace the sun, full of smiles, ha!"
Guapi's habitual self-talk, the slogan repeated every day, is like an undying afterthought in his heart.