On the first day of waiting for the notice at home, Lei Ting was waiting for the notice.
On the second day, Lei Ting was waiting for the notice while playing games.
On the third day, Lei Ting was waiting for the notice while binge-watching TV series.
On the fourth day...
"How long the hell do I have to wait?!" Lei Ting roared in a low voice in his room.
He had no choice but to keep his voice down. It was already close to midnight, the time for sleeping. If he shouted too loudly, he would be complained about for disturbing the neighbors.
The reason for his outburst was, of course, that it was almost the fifth day and the fourth night, yet there was no news at all from those people in the "Shanghai Branch of the Special Incident Response Department". Even when he took the initiative to ask about the progress via WeChat or email, there was no response at all, as if they had forgotten about him.
"Damn it, I'm not waiting anymore! I'll go to that lousy restaurant of theirs tomorrow. Even if they're closed, I... I don't know what to do... Damn it!" After muttering to himself like this, Lei Ting lay helplessly on the bed.
Just then, his phone suddenly beeped. Lei Ting picked it up and saw that there was an email in his phone mailbox.
But he didn't feel any excitement. After all, in the past few days, he had experienced countless times of clicking into the mailbox full of anticipation, only to find with disappointment that they were spam or advertising emails.
Although he didn't hold out much hope, with the thought of "what if", he still clicked in.
As expected, it was still a spam email.
Lei Ting let out a long sigh for he didn't know how many times. Just as he was about to turn off the screen, another email popped up.
He took a glance and immediately sat up straight, getting excited.
Because he saw that at the sender's name, the two characters "Liu Wang" were clearly written!
"Finally, it's here!" After his excitement, Lei Ting cursed and clicked into this email. The content of the email was also very brief, just six words.
Come to the restaurant for a detailed talk tomorrow.
"Damn it!"
...
The next day, in the morning.
For today's detailed talk, Lei Ting got up early specially. While there were not too many tourists on Laocheng Street, he strode to the front of "Little Xu's Home-style Dishes".
Then he sadly found that the door wasn't open...
There was no other way. He had to walk out of Laocheng Street, ordered a cup of coffee in a nearby café and sat down, then waited quietly.
About three hours later, at ten o'clock in the morning, Lei Ting got up, paid the bill and left, and went back into Laocheng Street.
Half an hour later, Lei Ting came out again and returned to the café. Of course, he ordered another cup of coffee.
But this time he only sat for twenty minutes before getting up again, paying the bill and leaving.
Because he figured out that, given the temper of those two people, they would definitely open the door very late. It would be stupid to wait here for a whole day. So, he decided to go home and come back in the evening.
It turned out that his idea was right.
When Lei Ting, at 6:30 in the evening, which was the same time as when he first came here, stood in front of the "Little Xu's Home-style Dishes" restaurant for the third time, Liu Wang was listlessly pulling up the rolling shutter door. After the latter sensed that someone was peeking at him from behind, he suddenly turned his head. After finding it was Lei Ting, he shook his head a little disappointedly, and then asked in a mocking tone, "Could it be that you've been waiting for a whole day?"
"Almost." Lei Ting replied briefly.
"Did you figure it out halfway? So you've only been waiting for half a day. What a pity." Liu Wang let out a sigh, unlocked the door and pushed it open, walking into the restaurant.
"What about the other fat guy? I remember his name is Xu Zhi." Lei Ting asked about the other person who was present that day.
"He'll be here later. Don't worry. He won't pretend to be dead this time." Liu Wang said as he turned on the lights in the restaurant.
"The rent for this place is so expensive. Why did you choose to open a home-style restaurant here? It's not necessary to cover your tracks here, right?" Lei Ting asked another question.
Liu Wang didn't find this strange and explained, "Because we didn't rent this storefront. It's originally ours. It has been ours since fifty years ago."
"Is this the stronghold of your branch? Was this street not demolished back then because you were here?" Based on Liu Wang's answer, Lei Ting put forward his own speculation.
"It seems that you're really not stupid." Liu Wang said rather regretfully. Then, before Lei Ting could get angry, he affirmed his speculation:
"You guessed right. This was indeed the stronghold of our Shanghai branch, but it was the old stronghold. The current stronghold has been moved to another place. Although it's best to hide in the bustling city, it's too lively here. It's difficult to get in and out, which isn't good either. As for why we didn't close it down, there's actually no special reason. It's just that Second Brother Xu likes cooking, so he specially asked to open this restaurant. When he has nothing to do, he comes here to open for business and receive some customers."
"Are you so idle at work? You even have the leisure to open a restaurant?" Lei Ting was a bit Panic.
Liu Wang rolled his eyes at him speechlessly and said, "Do you think supernatural events happen very often? It's already considered frequent if there's one supernatural event every month. And when there's no event to deal with on ordinary days, even on working days, it's no different from rest days. So we have to find something to do to kill time."
While talking, the two of them had already stepped onto the narrow stairs leading to the second floor.
Seeing this, Lei Ting couldn't help but remind, "Hey, Liu Wang, the door of this restaurant is still open. If we go up like this and a customer comes, what should we do?"
"Oh, that." Liu Wang took a look at the main door, "No one will come. Don't worry."
"Why?" Lei Ting asked.
"Because that door was opened for you, not for them." Liu Wang explained.
"Huh?" Lei Ting didn't understand, but Liu Wang didn't mean to explain further. He walked straight into the reception room where they were a few days ago and sat down.
"By the way, can I sign the contract with you guys today?" Lei Ting really wanted to join as soon as possible, especially after hearing Liu Wang say that supernatural events happened at most once a month and on ordinary days when there was nothing to do, it was like a rest day.
"Don't be in a hurry. You still haven't passed the written test." Liu Wang crossed his legs and said.
"Written test? Do superpower users have to take an exam?!" Lei Ting said in surprise and fear.
As a college student who had just graduated, what he was most afraid of was taking an exam. Especially since his grades had always been hovering around the passing line, every exam for him was like defusing a bomb.
"Don't worry. It's not an exam. It's just asking you to subdue a superpower user who committed a crime with his superpower through your personal ability." Liu Wang smiled faintly and said casually.
"It's not an exam? That's good. So it's just that... Wait... What? Ask me to subdue a superpower user through my personal ability? It's impossible, impossible. I've just awakened my ability not long ago. I can't do it!" Lei Ting first let out a sigh of relief, and then heard even more terrifying words and shook his head frantically.
Since the last experience of being taken hostage by terrorists and almost getting killed when trying to save himself, Lei Ting had completely gotten rid of his arrogant bad habit and started to be as cowardly as he could be when necessary.
"Don't worry. We won't give you a task that you can't complete. Instead, that guy is very easy to deal with. Even I'm quite sure that I can subdue him quickly. If it weren't for using it as the content of the written test, we would have arrested him long ago." Liu Wang said in a very relaxed tone.
Hearing this, Lei Ting also began to think. After all, Xu Zhi had said a few days ago that Liu Wang's superpower didn't have a direct attack ability. If even he was quite sure that he could subdue the other party quickly, then there was no reason why he couldn't do it either.
"Do you have the detailed information of that person?" Lei Ting finally decided to take a look at the specific situation of the other party before making a decision.
"No problem." Liu Wang reached out and took out a laptop, a wireless mouse, a mouse pad, and even a bottle of Coke from behind him one after another, leaving Lei Ting stunned.