Although Ethan Carter had supernatural abilities, he hadn’t reached the point of being lawless. Compared to tasks involving his life and safety, he still preferred stealing underwear or something like that.

“Can I change the task?” Ethan Carter pleaded. Just now, he was only thinking about it in his mind—he never really intended to lay a hand on that fire poker. This task was simply deadly!

“Abandon the task?” a childlike, crisp voice asked.

Immediately after, before Ethan Carter could reply, the child spoke again.

“You have no choice!”

“If I have no choice, then why did you even bother asking me that question?” Ethan Carter looked aggrieved, full of complaints, though he didn’t dare say them out loud.

“What will happen if I don’t do the task?” Ethan Carter touched his face, pondering in his heart, “Could I really be erased?”

By “not doing the task,” he meant stalling—just dragging it out as long as possible...

“If you don’t complete the task within a month, you’ll be erased immediately!” Ethan Carter’s thoughts were completely transparent to the system. The child spoke slowly, voice full of disdain, “If you can’t even complete such a small task, how can you be worthy of the God of Thieves system?”

This system was the one that hit me on the head!

Ethan Carter’s face darkened as he listened, crying out injustice in his heart. This was no joke—it was a matter of life and death. He had to be cautious, extra cautious.

“Go, and you die! Don’t go, and you die too!” Ethan Carter picked at his fingers, pondering, “If I go, I might die immediately. If I don’t, I still have a month to live.”

“You’re mistaken. If you go, you might not die! If you don’t go, you’ll definitely die!”

As if guessing Ethan Carter’s thoughts, the child said calmly.

By now, Ethan Carter was used to this. The system could read minds—whatever he thought, he couldn’t hide it from the system.

“How about this! I’ll wait a month, and go after that!” Ethan Carter stood up and declared righteously.

“Uh... you really are afraid of dying!” A burst of childish giggles echoed in his mind.

……

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A month later, Ethan Carter stood outside the Longhua Group’s building.

Longhua Group, the leading cultural company in H City.

After a month of diligent investigation, Ethan Carter finally found out that the fire poker from the caveman era was unearthed by Longhua Group’s archaeological team, and now, it was inside the Longhua Group.

“Sigh! I’m even more wronged than Dou E.” Ethan Carter looked full of grievance.

At this moment, Ethan Carter was wearing a special yellow uniform—ugly as could be. Right in the middle of the uniform were two big green characters—“Fast Food.”

Ethan Carter’s current identity was a food delivery guy. He just needed to use this cover to sneak into Longhua Group, then conveniently snatch the scepter.

It sounded simple, but in practice, it was very difficult. He had spent a whole month carefully planning this operation, enough to handle all sorts of emergencies.

“Hey, what are you here for?”

As soon as Ethan Carter walked up to the building entrance, just as he expected, a security guard came up to question him.

“I’m delivering food.”

Ethan Carter smiled, showing the delivery address to the guard. He wasn’t pretending—he had knocked out a real delivery guy on the way and taken his place, so all these orders were real. Even if the guard called to check, there’d be no problem.

The guard just glanced at Ethan Carter and let him through. After all, with his intelligence, he’d never imagine that this delivery guy would try to steal a national first-class cultural relic.

“I’ve passed the first barrier.” Entering the lobby, Ethan Carter breathed a sigh of relief, thinking to himself, “Next, it’s time for step two: knock out an internal staff member of Longhua Group.”

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Chapter 9: Shifting Trouble Eastward, Killing with a Borrowed Knife

A national first-class cultural relic would naturally be under layers of protection and strict guard. Other than Longhua Group’s internal staff, anyone else trying to get close would find it harder than reaching the sky.

After thinking it over, Ethan Carter decided to deliver the few orders he had first, then move on to step two of his plan.

“Ms. Harris, our food is here!”

Inside the office, a tall, beautiful female white-collar worker’s eyes lit up when she saw Ethan Carter, exclaiming with delight.

Hearing her, the other beautiful women in the office also turned their eyes to Ethan Carter, all with joy in their gaze.

“Is this... a uniform fetish?” Ethan Carter’s eyes sparkled as he looked over the beauties in the office, feeling quite pleased. “Didn’t expect food delivery to be so popular? Maybe I should do this as a side job!”

“Sigh!” Ethan Carter sighed deeply in his heart. He was getting less and less composed—mainly because being single was to blame. Being single was painful, and being single for a long time was even more painful. A few days ago, he even thought a sow looked delicate and pretty.

The woman called Ms. Harris was also a fair-skinned, beautiful professional. She remained calm when she saw Ethan Carter, and said coolly, “Leave the food here. Little Lewis, pay him!”