Tian You, one of the many taskers who has traveled between worlds, has reached retirement age. He's just one step away from paying off that damn resurrection debt.
Then, just when everything should have gone smoothly, things went wrong. Trying to save money, he picked up:
A cryptic task System that doesn't know when or where it is.
A database handbook that dispenses one potato a day.
And a supernatural ability his boss insists he came with, though he hasn't used it in years, that can steal anything, good or bad.
Leaving the cryptic System aside, Tian You doesn't want to stand in a slaughterhouse where no one survives, clad in thin clothes and unable to fight, waiting for winter to come, all just to steal a button from a corpse.
Good heavens, System, are you in love with a corpse?
He tried asking the little handbook, "What's this world's theme?"
Probably a potato, dusted with a little dirt, good for storing as emergency food.
It was still warm when it rolled into Tian You's palm.
The handbook was useless, so he decided to test the waters by using his supernatural ability, "You Get What You See," to randomly steal things off passersby. But he always got surprises that were more alarming than pleasant.
Never mind the items. This was liable to get him hunted down.
Stealing the concept of "birds" nearly left Tian You utterly penniless and at the mercy of others.
Give it a try and you'll die.
Stealing the concept of "adulthood" meant people could stop being people and turn into ghosts who haunted Tian You.
What kind of word game is this?!
Stealing the concept of "pleasure"...
I won't do it again, I won't. I really won't steal anything again.
Stealing the concept of "frailty". Wait, who would want to steal that?!
Tian You felt that this ability clearly boosted other people's morale while undermining his own.
But inevitably, he was also getting curious in the worst way.
The "freedom" marked on someone seeking liberty.
What would happen to them if he stole it?
Theme: Work hard and get spectacularly unlucky
