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Jianbing guozi (煎饼果子) – It’s street food consisting of a thin, wheat-based crepe (jianbing) filled with ingredients like eggs, crispy crackers (bao cui or youtiao), and various sauces and toppings.
Ding ling ling…
Wei Wei jolted awake from his sleep.He sat up abruptly, finding his body covered in white streaks. Startled, he instinctively drew his gun before realizing the room hadn’t changed – his body was simply draped haphazardly with torn toilet paper rolls. The sight looked…ominously comical.“What the hell?”After a beat, he turned to scan the room.The quilt lay crumpled on the floor. The Ghost Lady floated nearby, cheeks puffed as she blew air at it, trying to levitate it back onto the bed. Empty toilet paper tubes littered the ground around Wei Wei.“Did you do this?” He stared at the Ghost Lady.She immediately floated upright, feigning dignity, though her eyes betrayed lingering resentment.Wei Wei glanced between her and the quilt, piecing it together: The Ghost Lady had tried covering him but, being intangible, could only blow objects. After failing to lift the quilt, she’d resorted to draping him with toilet paper. Now she stubbornly kept trying to fix the quilt’s position.“You’ve been wrestling with this all night?” Wei Wei deadpanned. “Aren’t you lightheaded?”Ding ling ling…The phone rang again urgently.Wei Wei answered while brushing off the toilet paper and heading to the bathroom.The Ghost Lady hissed at the mess, lunging at him. Wei Wei casually nicked his finger on a scythe blade hanging by the door. She instantly dropped to her knees, lapping hungrily at the blood. A severed head decoration nearby cracked one eye open, snorted disdainfully, then resumed playing dead.“Living the high life…” it muttered.Wei Wei fed the Ghost Lady one-handed while zipping his pants, phone wedged against his shoulder: “Yeah?”A sniffling voice came through: “Wei Wei, c-can you help me?”“What’s wrong?”Ye Feifei’s voice trembled with suppressed tears, background noise mimicking heavy rain. Wei Wei glanced outside – clear skies."My...my water pipes burst..." Ye Feifei's voice trembled over the phone.Wei Wei blinked in surprise. Over the years, people had called on him to fight, to kill demons, even to fetch psychiatric medication—but a dawn plumbing emergency? This was a first.Ever the dutiful colleague, especially for Ye Feifei, he agreed: "Give me your address. I'll come right now."He hung up, grabbed his jacket, and left. The Ghost Lady, blood smearing her lips, glared at the lingering mess as he departed.His Jeep still sat wrecked where he'd crashed it. Hailing a three-wheeled taxi, he bought a Jianbing Guozi on the route to the upscale villa district Ye Feifei had disclosed – an open secret the team pretended not to know.Toot toot...The rickety three-wheeler arrived at a waterlogged villa. Ye Feifei sat shivering on the steps in soaked pajamas, her manicured yard now a swamp. Water gushed from the front door, diverted into flower beds via a hastily dug trench."The whole house is flooded!" Ye Feifei wailed. "I tried fixing it...but I only made it worse!""I called all night, but the city is in chaos right now. I couldn't find a plumber to fix the water pipes. Even the community security guards weren't at work.""I'm... too embarrassed to tell the captain and the others, so I had no choice but to come to you."".... ""Why are you embarrassed to tell the captain and the others?"Wei Wei was a little surprised and said with a smile: "Isn't it Uncle Gun who usually repairs the water pipes and changes the light bulbs in the base?""I……"Ye Feifei hesitated, not knowing what to say.Wei Wei took one look and immediately realized that Ye Feifei had always been maintaining a poor persona in front of the captain and the others. If she asked Uncle Qiang to help fix the water pipe, this persona would collapse in an instant. For her, she felt embarrassed as if her lie had been exposed.As for myself, after all, I came late, and Ye Feifei didn’t have many opportunities to pretend to be poor in front of me.Therefore, if you expose it in front of yourself, the psychological pressure will be somewhat less."You should've called earlier." Wei Wei did not take the opportunity to make fun of Ye Feifei, but just smiled and said: "If you come later, this small courtyard will probably be flooded, right?"Her cheeks flushed. "You looked tired yesterday...I didn't want to disturb you...""That's thoughtful of you."Wei Wei entered the room and saw a huge flood. Water was flowing down the stairs, almost forming a small river. Even in the corner of the living room, there was a large pool of water, dripping into the living room from time to time. The thick carpet on the first floor had absorbed enough water, and when you stepped on it, the water seeping out could almost directly submerge your feet.Water was flowing out of every corner and joint of the pipe. I really didn't know how old the pipe must be and how much destructive power it had to have to ruin a high-end villa that had obviously been renovated not long ago...Wei Wei observed for a while and then turned off the main switch.Logically, the water flow should have stopped completely, but there were still several places where water was flowing out. "Isn't this a bit unreasonable?"Wei Wei frowned, took out the black pistol from his waist, held it with both hands, and pointed it at the water pipe:"Behave yourself, or I'll beat you to death!"“…”“Buzz…”Invisibly, it seemed as if some force collapsed in an instant. A low and dense noise suddenly appeared and then quickly subsided.In the bathroom, the water leaked from various gaps in the pipes, and the flow slowed down and slowly disappeared.At this time, I checked the pipes in the bathroom again, but found that there were no leaks at all.In fact, all the pipes were fine. I turned on the main switch again and turned on the faucet to check, and found that everything was normal.Wei Wei put away his gun and checked again. Everything was normal.This is a situation that often occurs after being affected by demonic power.The power works based on the logic of reality, but also has the ability to distort the logic of reality. When the demonic power exists, various water leaks will occur in this bathroom. However, after the demonic power is expelled, the problem cannot be found. Everything seems natural, but contrary to normal cognition."If you've been leaking for a whole night, it seems like Feifei's power is a bit strong..."Sighing in his heart, Wei Wei turned around and went downstairs, found Ye Feifei, and said with a smile: "It's done."Ye Feifei looked up in surprise: "Ah, so fast?""I'm an expert at plumbing." "How do you do it?""Point a gun at it and shoot if it leaks again..."Ye Feifei gaped, unsure if he was joking.Ye Feifei was stunned for a moment, wondering if Wei Wei was joking with her.Wei Wei didn't say much, just smiled and said: "I'm more curious about how you got into this state?""That's exactly what I want to tell you, Brother Wei...Ye Feifei suddenly became excited: "I seem to have mastered something new, that is - ability" "Ability?"Wei Wei was stunned for a moment and asked, "The ability to break water pipes?"“No, no…”Ye Feifei hurriedly shook her head: "It's very complicated. I don't know how to describe it. Before the water pipe burst, I felt that I had this ability. It's like I learned something, but I don't know how to use it. When I turned on the faucet, it immediately became like this... I have encountered many such things before, but this time, it is obviously very different from before...""You've ascended," Wei Wei had guessed this before, and now he was even more certain of it.In the past, Ye Feifei was born to be targeted by the Calamity Demon, so she always had a similar aura of bad luck. But she was only initially infected and would be affected, but she could not actively use this ability. But now, she should have invisibly matched the promotion ceremony of the demon of disaster, which made her ability change from passive to active..."What should I do now?"Ye Feifei looked like she didn't know whether to be happy or sad.She knew before that everyone in the team seemed to be able to do things that ordinary people couldn't do, such as Uncle Qiang's amazing billiards skills and the captain's shamelessness. Later, she found out that Wei Wei was a newcomer like her, and it seemed that he could do it too.I would be lying if I didn't envy him, but now that I have truly mastered it, I feel a little uneasy. "From being targeted by the devil to truly mastering the ability, it is almost inevitable."Wei Wei smiled and comforted her: "Don't panic, since your ability has officially awakened, just test the type of ability."Ye Feifei's eyes lit up: "How to test it?""To me..."Wei Wei was about to answer, but suddenly shut his mouth.During the training camp, he and other trainees often tried out new abilities on each other.First, it was for him to be more familiar with it and better master it, and second, it was for his teammates to understand the impact of different abilities, so that when they encounter the same system or similar abilities in the future, they can quickly find some targeted countermeasures. Therefore, thinking of Ye Feifei's ability, he subconsciously wanted Ye Feifei to use it on himself.It can not only help her understand the application of her abilities, but also allow her to experience it personally, help her analyze, and give her certain suggestions, etc.But just as he was about to say it, he suddenly realized that doing so seemed a little dangerous..The Calamity Demon, ranked last among the twelve demons.The number is extremely small and it is also the rarest.The rarer the power, the more uncontrollable it is, and the more likely it is to cause incredible changes.Although I am much higher in rank than her, thinking of how terrifying Ye Feifei is usually......It’s better to keep it back!"Let's go to the street."He changed his words at the right time, looked at Ye Feifei seriously, and said: "Find someone to help you test your new ability.""Is this possible?"Ye Feifei was surprised and didn't know whether this was legal or not.“It’s inevitable.”Wei Wei smiled and said, "The demonic abilities you can master are your weapons against the enemy, and the ones you cannot master are bombs."The first thing any Transcendent person needs to do is to have a deep understanding of their own abilities before developing them.""I'm very talented in development, so you don't have to worry.""Let's go out on the street and see who we don't like. Then we can use him as an experiment."