Chapter 67: Homeland’s Naan (1)
Xue Qi saw the subtitles appearing above Baili's head and sent a message to Sun Fugui, asking him to arrange for Feituan to test Baili first.
In the study on the second floor, Feituan crawled into Cao Feng's pocket and refused to come out. "I don't want to go! I don't want to go! It's too scary! Baili is too scary!"
Sun Fugui stared at Cao Feng's bulging pocket, pointed at it and warned, "If you don't come out, I will burn your soul to pieces with the Samadhi True Fire. Do you believe it?"
The fat ball then poked out its round head, revealing a pair of watery, round eyes as it looked at Sun Fugui:
"Bai Li is so powerful, will I be beaten to death by her?"
Sun Fugui said, "77 just sent a message saying that he had cast a spell to dissipate all of Baili's cultivation. She's now an ordinary person, so they asked you to test her. If Wei Jiu were to go, he might not be able to control the power of the evil spirit, and the evildoer might die immediately."
Fatty grumbled, "Evildoers get their comeuppance. What's so bad about dying?"
Sun Fugui: "It's okay for you ghosts, but if she died in Kang's house without any clear explanation, what would the police think? What would people outside say? You, as a ghost, don't understand the truth that people's words are to be feared."
Fatty hesitated for a moment before crawling out of his pocket. "After this is done, I want to eat Sister 77's rice! A whole bowl!"
Sun Fugui: "Okay, no problem, I agree unilaterally!"
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Baili was eating when Feituan suddenly floated down the stairs and kicked Baili on the back of the head, causing Baili's entire face to sink into the soup bowl and his fair face to be burned red.
She turned around, but didn't see anyone.
Zhu Minli asked her: "Master, what's wrong with you?"
Bai Li rubbed the back of his head, which suddenly swelled and hurt, and shook his head, saying, "It's okay, it was an accident."
She didn't even eat, picked up the peach wood sword beside her, stood up and looked around.
However, she had just tried to take two steps when something suddenly appeared under her feet, tripped her, and fell face first to the ground.
Bai Li fell to the ground, broke his nose, and gasped in pain.
Zhu Minli asked knowingly, "Master, are you okay? Should I step aside? This ghost seems very powerful."
In order to save face, Bai Li climbed up despite the pain: "No need, I just had a meal and my defenses are not good, so I can just stay. This little brat can't do anything to me."
She picked up the peach wood sword and made a beautiful sword flower in the air.
Take out a talisman and throw it out.
The talismans that were supposed to float in the air and burnt all fell to the ground like ordinary paper.
Bai Li's face flushed. He took out cinnabar and smeared it on the peach wood sword, chanting the incantation: "Talisman, talisman, talisman, wear the sky-clear on your head. Dragon's roar turns into a sword, suppressing the sky-clear, suppressing the earth-spirit, suppressing the people to immortality, suppressing the ghosts and monsters to exterminate... The divine weapon is as urgent as the law!"
After reciting the spell, she threw the peach wood sword out.
In the past, after she finished reciting the sword spell, the peach wood sword would turn into a real black iron umbrella sword.
When the sword shell opens, it becomes a defensive umbrella that can block all attacks.
The sharp sword inside can be drawn out to kill all demons and monsters.
This was a magical weapon passed down through the Bai family for centuries, unusable by ordinary people. In the hands of ordinary people without a foundation in metaphysics, it was just an ordinary peach wood sword. Only in the hands of those with a foundation in metaphysics and who had recited the sword spell would it transform into a weapon.
Bai Li originally thought that after she chanted the spell, the peach wood sword would turn into a weapon.
And this process must have shocked Zhu Minli when she returned to her room.
But she didn't expect that the peach wood sword would remain the same as it was when it was thrown out. What surprised Bai Li even more was that she seemed to have lost all her abilities and couldn't even catch a peach wood sword!
Xue Qi witnessed all this.
Just as Bai Li was about to pick up the peach wood sword, she was tripped again and entangled by some force, floating in the air, unable to move.
Xue Qi walked out of the kitchen and picked up the peach wood sword on the ground. Just as she was about to see what secrets the sword held, Fei Tuan said, "Ahhh, Sister 77, quickly wipe off the cinnabar from the peach wood sword. It's so hot!"
Although this peach wood sword did not turn into an umbrella sword with great attack power, its own ghost-exorcising power was enough to scare ordinary ghosts like Feituan.
Xue Qi wiped the cinnabar clean, raised his eyes and asked the white carp that was suspended in the air, with a frown on his face: "Tell me, how many clients have you received, how many people have you cheated, how much money have you made, and who are your accomplices?"
Bai Li formed a sword gesture with her fingers and tried to struggle desperately, but the evil ghost Wei Jiu fell from the sky and sat on her, completely depriving her of the ability to resist.
She looked at Xue Qi with fear on her face: "What do you want to do? Who are you? Why can you make me lose all my spiritual power!"
Xue Qi straightened his chest and said righteously, "I am the latest generation of the direct descendant of Longhu Mountain, living in seclusion in the city. You have committed many evil deeds and deserve the punishment of heaven!"
These childish lines gave Zhu Minli, who was standing beside him, goosebumps.
Bai Li believed it, "How, how is that possible! I know the direct descendant of Longhu Mountain, but he's just an 18th-tier internet celebrity with no real talent at all!"
Xue Qi: "Oh, that kind of trash was just the bait our sect threw out, it was fake. Okay, tell me about yourself, how many people have you harmed? If you don't tell me, I think Wei Jiu on your back will let you know what it feels like to be unable to live or die."
Bai Li was frightened by the threats, but she was able to bend and stretch herself. She said, "I'm telling you, put me down and I'll tell you slowly."
Xue Qi: "Impossible."
Bai Li took a deep breath and said, "My guest list is all in the notes on my phone. I've recorded all the names of those who brought back ghosts from me and those whose fortunes improved."
Xue Qi asked, "Is there anyone like Bai Rou who exhausted their luck prematurely and could never recover?"
Bai Li: "There are a few. They are no longer eligible to make an appointment with me because they have lost everything. But this has nothing to do with me. I am just helping them. It is their own choice to use up all their luck in advance."
"You're bullshitting!" Zhu Minli couldn't stand it any longer and cursed, "You're a master at shifting the blame! If you had explained things clearly to the client, who would dare to ask you for help?"
Xue Qi wrote down the phone numbers of everyone in her memo and asked everyone to help send a group message to these people, informing them that they had been cheated and asking them to report the crime to the police as soon as possible.
The customers who received the text message didn't believe it at first.
Their luck has indeed improved since they got the white carp's earthenware jar.
After Li Xi brought the clay pot home, he received one notice after another. He did not care about the news.
But that afternoon, his agent found him and threw a stack of documents at him, angrily saying, "Li Xi, I never thought you would do such disgusting things to get this role! Now the film company wants to terminate the contract, you can do whatever you want!"
Li Xi was confused. He looked at the information one by one and fell silent.
It turned out that the reason he was able to get this resource was because Bai Li gave half of the money he gave to the producer of the crew.
Bai Li made friends with many people by cheating people in the circle. Now the police have issued a notice and arrested Bai Li for "fraud".
Not only that, those who were "bribed" by Bai Li were also dug out.
This incident was exposed, involving many celebrities who had recently "changed their luck". Their names were posted online and they became victims.
Under the topic of the police cracking a fraud case in the entertainment industry, a marketing account summarized:
"A while ago, the highly touted Baili Master was arrested by the police. This girl was defrauding a group of big-name actors in the entertainment industry. Recently, the scam hit the Kang couple. After realizing they were being scammed, they reported it to the police. This girl is really smart. She has built her own connections in the entertainment industry. Clients give her money, and she uses it to help them build relationships and secure more opportunities. She was clearly doing her job as an agent, but she turned it into a scam. She's really hurting people!"
Netizens commented:
"Fuck, this girl is too good, right? With such skills and connections, wouldn't it be better for her to just become a manager? You are such a beautiful woman, why do you become a thief!"
"All I can say is 6666. I saw the announcement and the amount of fraud is over 80 million. Are all the people in the entertainment industry stupid and rich? This money is too easy to make, right?"
"80 million fraud, is this a life sentence? Or should I change my career and become a fortune teller?"
"It's great to believe in science. I won't be scammed out of my money, hahahaha."
"This is hilarious! There are so many stupid and wealthy people in the entertainment industry! Even the fruit TV station got scammed!"
…
Bai Li was arrested for fraud. Although the amount was returned in full, he was still sentenced to three years in prison.
When she was taken into the small dark room, she couldn't figure out why she was inferior to Xue Qi.
While she was incarcerated, Xue Qi visited her and said, "You have this ability, but instead of using it to fight against the strong and help the weak, you use it to amass wealth and harm others. You have already paid the price and punishment in life. But there is also punishment in death that awaits you."
As a human being, Bai Li made a mistake and was punished by law. He was sentenced to three years in prison.
But she also harmed many ghosts at the same time. Once she died, there would be more severe punishment waiting for her.
According to her experience, she might not be able to be reborn after death.
Once she died, her soul would be torn apart by the evil spirits she had harmed. In short, whether she was alive or dead, she would be in excruciating pain.
Xue Qi asked her, "If you want to feel more comfortable after death, tell me if there is any way for Wei Jiu to have a chance to reincarnate. Otherwise, Wei Jiu will definitely be the first one to come to you after you die."
Bai Li shuddered with fear and immediately said, "I'll tell you how to liberate her soul. Tell her to reincarnate quickly! Send her to a temple, find a monk, and spend some money to liberate her soul. Although those monks can't see ghosts, temples are places with a lot of positive energy. Combined with the monks' chanting, they can liberate the evil spirit and give it a chance to be reborn."
Xue Qi remembered something and asked, "Then let me ask you another question. If a person dies abroad and his body is gone, is there any way to bring his soul back?"
At this point, Bai Li naturally answered all of Xue Qi's questions.
But she was puzzled: "Aren't you a descendant of Longhu Mountain? Why are you asking me about this?"
Xue Qi: "Oh, we studied different subjects. I studied exorcism, not summoning spirits."
Bai Li said, "There is a way. I've watched your show. You're asking about Grandma Liu's grandson, right?"
Xue Qi: "Yeah."
After bringing Grandma Liu back, Xue Qi got rid of Sun Fugui and Chu Cheng and sent someone to inquire about the news abroad. However, that place was in the Middle East, where the war was ongoing, and there was no news about Grandma Liu's grandson.
Moreover, based on Cao Feng's description of the scene, the probability of finding the body is almost zero. I'm afraid it had already been blown to pieces.
Originally, Xue Qi was about to give up the idea of helping Grandma Liu bring her grandson back to China, but she didn't expect that she would encounter a "metaphysical" bug this time, which made her realize the existence of ghosts.
Since ghosts exist, special forces soldiers like Liu Wu who died in a foreign land and failed to return to their hometowns must not be able to be reborn. He must still be wandering on the battlefield.
So Xue Qi wanted to find the ghosts of Liu Wu and those special forces soldiers, bring them back, and let them pass away.
In this way, Grandma Liu's wish was fulfilled, and the soldiers' souls could return home.
Bai Li said, "People who die abroad cannot return to their homeland. Every country has its own reincarnation system. Chinese ghosts like Liu Wu are unlikely to be accepted by ghosts and gods abroad. Not only that, they may even be discriminated against and excluded... In short, Chinese ghosts abroad will have a miserable life."
Xue Qi asked: "Then how can we bring him back?"
Bai Li: "I've done something similar. I take a piece of clothing the deceased wore, go to the place where he died, find his ghost, and then have him possess the clothing to bring him back. I then find a place with good feng shui and build a cenotaph for him. Once the evil spirit has dissipated, he can pass away."
Xue Qi took a note in her notebook and asked her, "Is there anything I need to pay attention to?"
Bai Li: "You are so powerful, you should be able to handle any ghost situation. But it's harder to say about human situations. I can only wish you the best. Remember to help me reincarnate Wei Jiu. I don't want to be entangled by her after I die."
Xue Qi: "OK."
After coming out of the prison visit, Xue Qi relayed Bai Li's words to Cao Feng who was accompanying him.
Sitting in the car, Cao Feng didn't drive in a hurry, but just asked her: "What are you going to do?"
Xue Qi: "I want to help Grandma Liu fulfill this wish, and I also want to bring those special forces soldiers who died abroad home."
While she was "disinfecting" Bai Li, she accidentally learned about the existence of ghosts. Coupled with the ghosts of Pang Tuan, she thought she could take advantage of this opportunity to bring those special forces back to China.
Fatty emerged from Cao Feng's pocket and whispered, "Sister 77, my friends and I have sensed the disappearance of Baili's energy. Soon, we will also disappear, that is, pass away. So you must go there as soon as possible. We will accompany you to fetch those brothers and sisters, and then we can leave."
Wei Jiu also emerged from the mineral water bottle. To repay Xue Qi, she said, "I'll go with you. I can go back to the afterlife anytime, there's no rush. I'm a fierce ghost, so if you encounter one, I can help."
With the help of these cute and kind-hearted little devils, Xue Qi felt much more at ease.
She asked Cao Feng, "If I go abroad to take your comrade home, do you have any way to help me find some more capable people to accompany me? After all, the Middle Eastern countries are not very safe. Especially that place, it makes me feel even more insecure."
Cao Feng nodded: "Okay. Tang Xiong, I, and a few brothers can go with you. The anti-peace elements have already left that place, so man-made safety issues shouldn't be a big deal."
Xue Qi thought for a moment and nodded, "Okay, that's settled. Once we bring them back, Sun Xingxing can continue filming 'Homeland Soul Returns'."
Cao Feng looked at her: "77, have you thought it through? I can guarantee human safety. But if their souls are really still there, then the ghosts of anti-peace elements must be there too. Cross-border ghost hunting, I'm worried about you -"
Xue Qi also took this into consideration.
The reason she was able to deal with the ghosts created by Baili was simply because they were products of the virus.
But those ghosts abroad are not the product of Baili’s virus, so it is unknown whether her happy food is useful to them.
In order to prove whether her happy food is useful to other ghosts, she and Cao Feng took Wei Jiupangtuan and went to the cemetery at night to catch several evil ghosts.
As they drank mouthful after mouthful of broth, the evil ghosts not only lost their fighting power, but also became submissive to Xue Qi.
After confirming the "ghost-exorcising" effect of the happy food, Xue Qi probably guessed the real purpose of his own cooking.
Because of the two cheat systems, bugs that shouldn't exist in this world keep appearing in this world.
At first, this world was just a background of the Golden Finger System, and there were no metaphysical ghosts at all.
However, because Baili's metaphysical abilities were infinitely magnified, ghosts appeared in this world.
In other words, the ghosts in this world are a bug in themselves.
As long as it is a bug, Xue Qi can use "Happy Food" to solve it.
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After confirming the role of Happy Food, Xue Qi returned to Yanjing City to rest for half a month.
Fans discovered that Xue Qi not only did not receive any guests in the past half month, but also prepared a large amount of dry food every day.
I made popcorn in the first few days, and today I started making naan.
During the live broadcast, Xue Qi used bricks and soil to make a naan pit. The process of her making the naan pit made netizens praise her for her ingenuity.
Xue Qi pressed the fermented dough into pancakes by hand, creating beautiful, symmetrical patterns. Once the charcoal fire in the pit was lit, she placed the pancakes on the walls of the oven.
Under high temperature, the dough begins to expand and gradually turns brown, and the aroma of naan overflows.
The live camera captured the process of baking naan, and the high-definition images were tempting and mouth-watering.
Xue Qi used an iron hook to take out the baked naan one by one and stacked them aside. In just one afternoon, he made hundreds of baked naan.
Photographer Xiaowen secretly took one to taste, and it made a crisp "crunch" sound when he took a bite.
Netizens in the live broadcast room:
"Ahhhh! Xiaowen, you're not a human! Can you please eat properly? Why are you making such tempting noises?!"
"Oh shit, I can smell the aroma, this pancake looks so crispy!"
"Crispy 1, love it."
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Xiaowen's weight has soared from 120 kilograms to 160 kilograms. Now he looks like a fat man when he appears on camera.
When Grandma Liu is live streaming, everyone likes to watch her eating Grandma Liu’s big wontons, they are so delicious!
Netizens joked that Xue Qi not only created a food influencer like Grandma Liu, but also a food-broadcasting influencer!
Xiao Wen ate the naan and said in a cheesy tone, "This naan tastes a bit like a baguette. The fermented aroma fills your mouth, but it tastes even better than a baguette. It's crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. It's so delicious! You must try it if you get a chance!"
Barrage:
"Xiao Wen, please behave yourself! The key is that we can taste it!"
"Damn. I envy those fans who get lucky enough to go to Happy Food Store and eat 77 delicious food!"
"I'm done. I'm drooling with envy and heading to the Happy Food Store to continue drawing tickets! God bless me and let me draw the Happy Food number 77! Wuu ...
"I'm jealous. I've filmed many hit TV series. Am I qualified to be a photographer at Happy Food?"
"Am I the only one wondering why 77 is making so many naan breads? Is he doing disaster relief or something?"
"Breaking news! 77 is really going to disaster relief! According to relevant sources, 77 is going to Lanka in the Middle East, a very poor and chaotic country. The city she's heading to seems to be Hasakah in Lanka, and she's planning to make 5,000 naan bread to bring with her. For further information, Hasakah was once a base for famous anti-peace activists. Although the anti-peace organization evacuated from here, the government has all but abandoned the place. It's extremely poor."
"I, 77, actually have to go to a place like this to provide disaster relief? And even deliver delicious food to them? Wow, I'm so jealous. I want to be a refugee for the first day. qaq"
…
When some netizens learned that Xue Qi was going to the Middle East for disaster relief, they felt it necessary to let foreign netizens know about the existence of such a kind-hearted Chinese food influencer like Xue Qi, and they moved her videos to YouTube.
In just two days, Xue Qi's album video playback broke the record, and the number of fans exceeded 800,000, making her the first Chinese Internet celebrity in the history of China to break one million views and one million fans on YouTube in the fastest time.
At the beginning of the month, Xue Qi, Cao Feng and Tang Xiong bid farewell to their friends in China and boarded a plane to Lanka.
Thirteen hours later, their plane arrived in Hasaka. In order to please the local government, they donated 5,000 naan breads, 5 million in cash and 2 million in supplies.
The Hasakah government set up relief stalls in the city center to distribute naan and supplies.
Hasaka is a very poor little town. The tallest building here is ten stories high, and there are many houses built of loess in the city.
Because of the long-term water shortage in Hasaka, there is a dry Gobi desert outside the city.
This place looks very much like a small town in the border area of China, but the people here are not as prosperous as those in the border areas of China, and there are even groups of refugees.
Also because there are so many refugees, the public security here is very poor.
Xue Qi helped distribute supplies. After a busy day, her back ached. She asked Cao Feng, "Is this okay?"
Cao Feng nodded. "Yeah. It's not a big problem. Hasaka was practically abandoned by the Rank government because it was so poor. The current Hasaka government is like a local tyrant, with its own local army. We brought supplies here at a time like this, and we're distributing them here in their name, which is like helping them comfort the refugees. So in this situation, no matter what requests we make, they will definitely try their best to meet them."
As soon as he finished speaking, Tang Xiong came over with a Hasaka soldier.
The Hasaka soldier spoke to Cao Feng and Xue Qi in the local language, and Tang Xiong translated for them: "He said that the mayor of Hasaka has agreed to send an elite army to take you to the Hula Devil Territory. However, the expenses of this journey will need to be borne by you."
Cao Feng immediately said, "Okay, no problem. We will cover all the expenses ourselves."
Early the next morning.
An elite team of twenty men from Hasaka escorted them to Hula with weapons.
Captain Hasaka, the team leader, said, "This Hula Devil Domain has always been designated a restricted area. It was once the base of an anti-peace organization, and many people died there. And there are also anti-peace organizations roaming around the area every now and then, making it very unsafe. But don't worry, we're here, so you won't be in any danger."
Xue Qi couldn't understand what he was mumbling and could only listen to Cao Feng's translation.
The truck was jolting along.
Wherever the convoy passed, yellow sand filled the air. Xue Qi's stomach was churning and he vomited several times on the way.
At ten o'clock in the evening, their team finally arrived in Hulun.
This place used to be the base of an anti-peace organization. As no one had lived here for many years, the buildings made of loess had long since collapsed, and there were broken eaves and broken walls everywhere.
They camped here.
Xue Qi lay in the tent with a hopeless mood, and decided to rest and regroup first, and deal with other things tomorrow.
But in the early morning, Fatty suddenly emerged from her pocket and called out to her, "Sister 77, Sister 77, wake up!"
Xue Qi sat up, rubbed his eyes, and asked, "What's wrong?"
Fatty: "Fight! Let's fight!"
Xue Qi immediately became alert, thinking that there was an anti-peace organization fighting with the Hasaka soldiers!
She dressed and went outside, but no one in the camp was awake.
Instead, there was a noisy sound coming from a collapsed building not far away.
It was the sound of someone fighting.
Someone was mumbling something at once, she couldn't understand what was going on, but she could tell it was a mockery.
One of them said in broken Chinese, "You Chinese ghosts are all sick East Asian ghosts! If you join us, Hasaka, you can be reborn. Think carefully! As long as you, the unjustly dead ghosts of China, cannot be reborn, you will be reincarnated every day to relive the pain of death."
Following closely were the voices of several Chinese people.
A young man said: "Born as a Chinese, die as a Chinese ghost!"
A woman also said, "How can you, a bunch of outsiders, understand the Chinese spirit? Even if there is no chance of rebirth, we will not surrender!"
The others, men and women, said in unison: "Even if there is no chance of rebirth, we will not surrender!"
They began to laugh wildly and then sang:
"Special forces, special forces,
Kill the enemy without mercy.
In the past, there were heroes with great generosity,
Remember that China values friendship and loyalty.
If any evildoer offends our country, we will chase him down for thousands of miles without mercy!
Guarding the Chinese legacy for thousands of years,
Revitalize the earth's great spirit.
Sacrifice your life for your country and face death with dignity!"
The woman's voice was as loud as a bell and as bright as a rainbow: "I've died before, so what's the harm in dying a few more times? Brothers, are you afraid?"
Others said in unison:
"Don't be afraid! No matter how many times we die, we are still Chinese ghosts! Special forces, special forces, kill the enemy without mercy! The heroes of the past were generous and courageous, remember that China values friendship! We are willing to live and die together with our comrades, and share honor and disgrace!"
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