Fu Ruhai found an excuse to go out with Liu Sandao due to a new development.
As always, the two walked together.
They left the Qingkong School and headed straight for an intersection on Huaihua Street in Sandong City.
The time was 12:08 PM.
Since it was the weekend, Huaihua Street was still quite lively.
There were pedestrians weaving through the crowds and cars moving in small groups along Huaihua Street.
In reality, everything was normal, yet Fu De Manual seemed to be acting up.
Liu Sandao felt a slight vibration on him.
Having not eaten lunch, Fu Ruhai bought four or five flatbreads from a roadside stall.
"Here, have one."
Fu Ruhai said, handing one to Liu Sandao.
Liu Sandao wasn't hungry. For him, eating or not eating made no difference.
He only had to act like a human to cooperate with Fu Ruhai's earthly sojourn.
Eating, drinking, urinating, and defecating, nothing was missed.
Eating the flatbreads, the two of them looked like migrant workers waiting for work under a flyover.
The only difference was that others did it for a living, while they did it to complete a mission.
By 12:13 PM, Liu Sandao's Fu De Manual was vibrating intensely, forcing him to take it out and check.
"Zuo Tianbei," the three characters flashed with golden light.
At this moment, a woman arrived at the traffic light intersection of Huaihua Street and Suizi Street.
She was dressed very ordinarily and was riding a bicycle, appearing to be about to cross the intersection.
Her direction was from west to east.
However, as she entered the intersection, the traffic light for the east-west direction had already turned yellow.
It was just a bicycle, so stopping would have been easy.
But she held the handlebars with one hand and her phone with the other.
She just rode straight through.
Fu Ruhai's Fu De Manual also seemed to activate. As he took it out, he made some gestures on it.
Liu Sandao looked at his own Fu De Manual and, holding his pen, also made a swipe.
A fruit, the size of a fist, appeared in his hand.
As expected, this was for Zuo Tianbei.
"Beep! Beep! Beep!"
A series of urgent horn sounds broke the prevailing calm.
Pedestrians by the roadside turned their attention to the middle of the road.
The intersection was not large. Huaihua Street in the east-west direction was a single lane, while Suizi Street in the north-south direction was a double lane.
It would have been easy to pass through, but Zuo Tianbei seemed to be very busy, looking at her phone in the middle of the road.
It was understandable for people to be leisurely on a weekend, as they were all out shopping.
However, her position was truly awkward.
A black sedan traveling from north to south saw her and didn't move.
But Zuo Tianbei suddenly answered her phone and was leisurely swaying in the middle of the road.
At this moment, a red sedan was traveling in the left lane of the black sedan.
It had been moving steadily. Seeing the green light at the intersection, it didn't stop and intended to speed through.
Who would have thought that as soon as it crossed the intersection, it would encounter such a cyclist?
Braking now was urgent, and honking the horn!
"Beep beep beep!"
This startled Zuo Tianbei, making her bicycle wobble even more.
She instinctively swerved her bike towards the side of the road, trying to avoid the red sedan.
But the traffic light for the north-south direction was green.
A black sedan was approaching from the south to the north.
The black sedan, driving normally, saw this person appear and heard a series of "beep beep beep" sounds.
Suddenly, it panicked and instinctively tried to swerve. It wanted to turn behind her.
The driver thought that since she was going from west to east, if he turned left, as long as she kept riding forward, there would be no problem.
There were no other vehicles to his right at this time.
However, as the black sedan turned left, Zuo Tianbei continued to ride leisurely.
Most infuriatingly, she still held onto her phone and kept talking on the call.
It was truly infuriating!
Seeing that it couldn't get around her, the black sedan had to brake, but it was too late.
The gap between Zuo Tianbei and the red sedan was not enough for it to pass through.
The red sedan, already confused by Zuo Tianbei, momentarily forgot to brake.
Just as it was about to swerve right, seeing the black sedan seemingly heading towards it, it panicked.
Just as it was about to collide with Zuo Tianbei, Liu Sandao threw the fu guo to her.
"CRASH!"
The black sedan and the red sedan collided.
The situation was chaotic, and the speed was not too high. The two cars just sideswiped each other. Fortunately, no one was seriously injured.
Liu Sandao knew that at the moment of impact, Fu Ruhai had promptly given them the fu guo.
He could only give one person a fu guo at a time now, not yet having mastered the ability to give everyone a fu guo simultaneously.
Fu Ruhai had said that this required practice.
With more spellcasting, he would naturally learn.
Moreover, he said that everyone had a different way of bestowing fu guo, and he hoped that Liu Sandao could quickly grasp the method.
After the accident, the fu guo had been bestowed.
Zuo Tianbei, riding her bicycle, sped away from the intersection nonchalantly, without looking back.
No one knew what was going through her mind.
As information from the mortal world reverberated in Liu Sandao's mind, he couldn't help but ponder a question.
"What should people like her be called?
You say she's wrong? She is wrong, but she doesn't have the ability to threaten others. Being in the middle of the road is actually the most dangerous and the easiest place to get hurt;
Is she not wrong? Not entirely. If she hadn't run the red light and been on her phone, perhaps things wouldn't have been so bad.
This should be what people call a jinx, someone who exclusively creates trouble for others."
The remaining matters would be handled by the relevant authorities; there was no need for deities to intervene.
Fu Ruhai seemed to have something to do and hurriedly pulled Liu Sandao back.
"I have to return to the Heavenly Court this afternoon. I'll have to trouble you these past few days!"
"So soon? Alright, go ahead and don't worry!"
Liu Sandao hadn't expected to face this whole situation alone so soon.
When he was following Fu Ruhai, he felt that the work wasn't bad.
Although it was a bit busy, he could still manage.
But when Fu Ruhai said he was leaving, he still felt a bit worried. What if there were too many fu guo to bestow after he left?
However, he had to face things eventually.
After all, he was a celestial being.
In Fu Ruhai's words, he was a dignitary of sorts, so how could he be stumped by such a small matter as fu guo?
Fu Ruhai left resolutely, and Liu Sandao did not try to keep him. Instead, he immersed himself in studying the Fu De Manual.
He needed to quickly master the use of fu guo and ponder the intricacies of it.
Liu Sandao did not leave his room for the entire afternoon.
However, when Mei Ziqi returned, he brought back a thermos cup.
It was made of stainless steel and looked very high-class.
"Here, Bai Suxiang asked me to give this to you!"
"For me? Why?"
Liu Sandao asked.
He didn't understand social etiquette. But the books said that one should not accept rewards without merit, and that should be correct.
"Why? You ask me? You should ask her!"
Mei Ziqi said in a strange tone, and placed the thermos cup in front of Liu Sandao.