Chapter 204: A different kind of ghost
The two of them, Honorable Yan and Li Mengmeng, were wide-eyed, the heat in the air was getting higher and higher, and the heated battle might be on the verge of breaking out.
"This officer, please ask me which law I have broken, please point it out, otherwise I'm going to go back, seizing innocent young girls do you believe I'll sue you." Li Mengmeng threatened loudly, here is the police station to start a fight she is not sure, although the vampire in the movie are incomparably awesome, but in the end not basically all died in the hands of ordinary people well! In reality, if the vampires are so powerful, I'm afraid they would have dominated the world.
"Ms. Li Meng Meng seems to be a person who speaks the law, since the law, then I will say well, as a citizen is obliged to help the police to handle the case, in addition, if the police think that someone is suspected of committing a crime, but the police have the right to ask you to come back to chat Oh." Honestly laughed, have scruples is good, have scruples are not afraid of not digging you out.
Li Meng Meng eyes, secretly, I do not know where did not do a good job was he stared at, Zheng Zheng often their own is not his opponent also can not find a break, it seems to have to learn Sun Fei Fei kind of crazy cool and tugging to commit a crime.
"Bang!" Suddenly LiMengMeng slapped the table to let the honored word startled, hand are touching the gun, but then LiMengMeng words but on her scalp numb, "good your dog police, police, what police see you have suspicion can ask you to come back to chat, you think it is filming a movie, is not just to see me look prettier want to take advantage of my cheap? And find a house like this, I tell you, I'm going to sue you for indecent assault, I've recorded all the words just now, that last sentence is what you threatened me with."
Oh no, how can wishful thinking not know the other side to play cross, in normal times if you know the other side did do something bad a few fists down is also good, but Li Meng Meng now seems to be a weak woman indeed, he does not need to say underhanded, back to the words do not know how to return, he is aware of the woman play cross than men are much more scary.
"How, do not speak, weak heart, do not speak is the default, come to people ah, help ah, there are police to rape, rape young girls to ……"
"Shut up!" Honored to drink a storm, at this time he very much regretted not open the monitor, which if the unforgiving out to sue him a little, although he will not have punishment, but the reputation can be no longer.
"Comrade Li Meng Meng, I now formally notify you, I suspect that you and Nanfeng District's recent week of missing persons case relationship, now formally arrested you back for questioning, next everything is in accordance with the legal procedures of inquiry." Honestly said solemnly, in fact, pulling this is also bullshit, he is so anxious to investigate Li Mengmeng is only a rule of the 13th Bureau, that is, people with special abilities that can cause great harm to society must be monitored, in order to facilitate the first time to arrest after the crime in the future.
What does it mean to be able to do great harm to society, in addition to those terrorists are not those strange people? For example, those evil practitioners, if you want to practice any evil arts many need to be sacrificed, this is a must-kill, but also some, such as some of the family heritage to be able to thieves, we must find ways to transform, as for those who robbed the grave of a kind of have to be monitored, these are all thirteen Bureau's responsibility.
Missing persons? Li Meng Meng the first time to think of the vampire biting himself, the heart suddenly some panic, but saw respectfully take out the law enforcement recorder but quickly calm down, they have not sucked the blood of people, not to mention that they have not left the school they certainly do not check out, so even more do not be afraid to be truthful on it.
Next, in accordance with the normal degree of inquiry, Li Meng Meng also surprisingly cooperative, although sometimes out of tune, but said really are the truth, respectfully, is also proficient in psychology, can be judged from the basic expression of the true or false, and this Li Meng Meng should not be the level of the movie star, and even he was able to deceive.
After obtaining the basic information, respectfully, I let her out, with this information to go back and check it out, and at this time, Sun Fei Fei and other people's confessions are also done, can go back.
"Really crazy, today is really unlucky dead, a good weekend good mood are gone." Sun Fei Fei grunted and cursed in a small voice.
"Stop it, we haven't even left the gate yet! But my life for the first time into the police station so over, hey, by the way, Meng Meng just sent you out of that police officer is so handsome ah, tall, handsome, sunshine, your phone number got no ah." Xiao Ke with a face of philandering smile, but also from time to time to look back.
Li Mengmeng shook her head, get the phone number? She would be happy to die if she could come out in peace, who would dare to mess with him ah.
"Hey, Brother Yan, finally found you, quick, quick, back to the branch, fucking last night another one disappeared, I went to the scene and still didn't find anything." A man rushed out from the side and called out.
Honorable Yan frowned, another one, it can't be true that there is some kind of cult developing here, "Xiao Zhao, give me the glasses." Honorable Yan felt that that Li Meng Meng was still suspicious, her attitude change before and after was a bit too big, obviously hiding something, many strange people in folklore don't make a name for themselves, but they don't hide their skills too purposely, unless there's something special going on.
"Here!" Xiao Zhao handed a very large-sized glasses to respectfully, this glasses is high-tech, is the thirteenth bureau of scientific research one of the results, bring this ordinary demons and monsters can see, but also can prevent some simple illusions, is some of their essential equipment.
"Ah!" As soon as I put on the glasses respectfully shouted in surprise, the hand immediately touched the gun, killing opportunity, but dozens of meters away Li Mengmeng seems to also feel something, looked back and let him take his hand away.
"Tell the brothers below, don't bother, the suspect has been found, set it up, activate the level A processing level, twenty-four hour round-the-clock surveillance of the one called Li Meng Meng, in addition to telling the intelligence section to investigate Li Meng Meng's intelligence clearly, ancestors and eighteen generations all need to know?" Honorable words handed the statement in his hand to Xiao Zhao and hurriedly ran out again after commanding.
Class A processing level, Xiao Zhao froze, this is the level to deal with the severe ghosts, cults, and small-scale invasions of foreign dark forces, as long as the need even the garrison can be mobilized, could it be that this time the encountered will be some kind of powerful role?
However, as the deputy head of the group, Honorable has ordered, of course, he can only do as he is told, the notification goes down, and all the departments will be activated immediately.
Thirteen Bureau's people began to investigate, but respectfully, he did not stop, he wanted to track Li Meng Meng, just now put on those glasses, he saw Li Meng Meng all black, if not the top of the head and the heart there is still a little bit of red, it is a corpse, and the three people next to her can make a clear contrast.
Thirteen Bureau of special training there is a class is specializing in the introduction of demons and monsters, all the rare and strange affairs that have appeared in the world are basically documented, which for the vampire is all the records are all the yang energy, only a little bit of the heart, so the heart is the vampire is also the most lethal place.
Vampires and zombies, are afraid of sunlight belongs to see the light of the dead clan, which is also the most favorable weapon that humans can defeat them, if this Li Mengmeng is a vampire, and she can be active in the sun, then she is really important.
Only this kind of importance is for vampires, if they solve the problem of moving under the sun they really have the possibility to dominate the world, so it's absolutely disastrous news for human beings.
Honestly tracked very carefully, he knew that vampires not only had greater speed and strength than ordinary people, but also had a very sensitive sense of smell, so it would be bad if they were accidentally discovered.
"Ai, a big weekend, just have to go back to school really sad." Back to the dormitory Sun Fei Fei lying on the bed shouting, just now in the police station someone said, that group of thieves there are still people who have not been caught, for fear that they mistakenly think that they are the ones who caused the thieves to be caught and be retaliated against, so it's best to go back to school, so they had to buy a little bit of food and came back.
"Forget it, it's the same at school, Fifi, you read more, don't have to work all night overtime to read again at the end of the semester." Yang Jiahui said, she didn't have the desire to go shopping anyway, she came back just in time to read.
"Hey, it's a pity that handsome police officer, inspector, so handsome how I've never seen it before, completely exploded our school that a few school grass ah!" Xiao Ke is still indulging in the handsomeness of Zhuyin.
"Xiao Ke beauty, save it, you have said that such a handsome handsome man will not have a girlfriend? Or do you want to be a mistress." Sun Fei Fei couldn't help but crack down, Xiao Ke is good at everything just one who can't walk when she sees a handsome guy.
"Hey, if everyone thinks like you, then I'm the one who picked up a big bargain." Xiao Ke replied, if every pretty girl thinks he is a handsome guy who doesn't lack a girlfriend, in the end, there will be no girlfriend.
"How boring, go to sleep." Li Meng Meng muttered and covered the quilt, go out for a trip can cost her a lot of energy, catch a stray dog at night do not know enough, now the back of the mountain grove of stray pets a little bit smarter long ago ran out, a little bit of stupidity was caught by her, now it is more and more difficult to catch, it seems that the plan to buy animal blood or human blood to start.
And then there's that cop, why is he making things so difficult for himself? Li Mengmeng wouldn't think that she had run into a fictional overbearing president looking at her, especially the moment she walked out of the gate, the hair on her back made her feel scared, exactly the same as the feeling she had that night in the playground, so should she find a chance to finish him off?
The Teachers College was on the topmost floor of the Taihe Hotel, this place had become the temporary command headquarters of the 13th Bureau, a large amount of equipment had been moved in, and the surveillance cameras had been extended to Li Meng Meng's dormitory building.
"Yan brother, Li Mengmeng's information has been checked clearly, Li Mengmeng twenty-one years old, Teachers College Chinese Department junior students, academic performance is average, people look quite beautiful, a lot of suitors, but in addition to the university had a two-month love affair no longer hand over boyfriends, social circle is simple, will play Crossfire, LOL and other games, Li Mengmeng's parents are next door to the city of the people, the ordinary Li Mengmeng's parents are from the next city, ordinary factory workers, honest and decent, without any criminal record, in addition, it can be determined that her family has no record of leaving the country within three generations, but her computer and cell phone in a week to search for the most words is the word vampire three words, and is from the literature to documentary to the movie all have seen the kind of comparable to the experts." A colleague beside Honored said as he read a piece of information that shocked people, from the last sentence it could be seen that Li Mengmeng also turned into a vampire a week ago or so.
"After the vampire transformation there will be a period of fuzzy consciousness and crazy attacks on the living, have the people in her same dormitory checked, and also this time matches with the time of those missing, see if there are any traces that she has been to those sites."
"No, we have invaded their four people's computers, the last half a year's time is also one of them called Sun Fei Fei's computer has appeared vampire, but that is all the Twilight like vampire movies, in addition the school's monitoring also shows that Li Meng Meng these two weeks are normal classes only one day of absenteeism records, but her reason is to come to menstrual period, and the next day on the Classes as usual, of course this also has the biggest BIG one, that is, Li Meng Meng attended classes as usual during the day, even if the body esteem class was also attended." The man added.
Honorable Yan grimaced, being able to move in the sunlight was his biggest concern, if those higher vampires could have this ability, the world would be over, "Report to the headquarters, send out all the information and questions."
"Coming, Brother Yan, it's appeared, she really is a vampire." In less than an hour, a shouted in front of the monitor, the computer replayed the footage captured just now, a girl jumped straight down from the third floor, then rushed to the grove in the back of the mountain at a very fast speed.
"Prey, I know, she's going to draw blood, quick, attack team follow me." Honored Word copied a gun and rushed outside, they had been monitoring Li Meng Meng for more than ten hours, the vampire was definitely hungry after such a long period of time, and a newborn vampire's need for fresh blood was great.
The other three also immediately began to move, at the same time, the numerous police officers who had been ambushed also began to enter the Teachers College for martial law, the reason being that an armed fugitive had entered the Teachers College, and the students were asked not to run around, it would be best for all of them to return to their dormitories.
"Quick, keep up." Honorable mentioning the injury wildly, the car can not reach the back of the mountain they can only run forward, and at this time the school radio has already broadcasted the news of the police entering the school.
"Stop, hands up, don't move." After searching for more than ten minutes, already past the range of the Teachers College, Honored Word found Li Meng Meng.
"Roar!" Li Meng Meng turned around and roared, today she searched for so long but there was not a single living thing, and today she consumed too much energy, she was now very hungry, her teeth spit out, her fingernails grew long, and even her sanity was almost gone.
"Li Meng Meng, last warning, hands up and on the ground or we'll shoot." Honestly shouted, Li Meng Meng in this state is very dangerous, starving could easily attack them as food.
"Roar!" Li Meng Meng roared again, unable to hold back, his entire body transformed into a residual shadow and rushed towards Honorable Yan.
"Da da, da da ta …… "The four people of honorable words decisively shot, automatic rifle bullets turned into bullet moo covered the past, although Li Meng Meng speed is fast enough, but still slower than bullets, not to mention do not know some evasive techniques, before rushing to the front of the honorable words was shot.
"Ah ……" Li Meng Meng let out a miserable scream, since they knew Li Meng Meng's identity they couldn't have brought ordinary bullets, this time they used silver bullets, the bullets hit Li Meng Meng's body like pouring water on a red-hot iron plate.
"Pfft!" The bullet very much squeezed out from the muscle, Li Meng Meng sensed a sense of danger from Honored One and immediately turned around and fled, her super fast speed made Honored One and the others unable to hit her at all.
"Crap, escaped from the encirclement, quick, chase after her." Honored Word called out, then chased after her in a single bound.
The back mountain of the Teachers College is connected to the big mountain of Nanfeng District, the big mountain here is not big but there are dozens of kilometers in a circle, inside the mountain there are hot springs villas and farms, already all kinds of farms, there are quite a lot of people, if Li Mengmeng enters and goes on a killing spree she'll be screwed.
However, it is obvious that respectfully overestimated Li Mengmeng's speed and endurance, did not chase out three kilometers, he saw Li Mengmeng sitting on a big uncle, his mouth is still holding a dead pheasant.
"Why are you rushing to the end, why are you staring at me." Li Meng Meng's words were cold and icy, and the killing intent in them made Honorable Yan feel chills all over his body.
Looking back, respectfully, cackled, secretly, finished, they rushed too fast, behind them already can not see people, they only have a gun can not form firepower, simply can not blockade, and Li Meng Meng fight, a little bit of certainty of victory are not.
Chapter 205:Prince appeared
"According to our country's law, once a vampire is found it must be immediately given a kill or imprisonment." Holding his gun up, Honored One kind of answered Li Meng Meng's question, even if he was alone, Honored One had to fight on, this was his duty.
"The law, why haven't I heard of it, you lied to me." Li Meng Meng said furiously, when did China have this law how did she not know, don't bully her to lie to him because she reads less.
"Of course this is not explicitly stated, this is the law that the dark world jointly abides by, it is those vampires in the west who want to enter China must be watched over or else the thirteenth bureau has the right to kill them on the spot." Honestly explained, he is by no means cajoling Li Mengmeng, but there is indeed this provision, vampires are not compared to those ghost werewolves, because of the blood-sucking this characteristic is very dangerous, only the western kind of mastery of the social wealth and the formation of vampire organizations can be normal and low-profile existence, and also subjected to great limitations.
"Then you are must kill me, I didn't kill a single person why do you want to kill me." Li Meng Meng asked drily, he didn't understand how such legal requirements came to be but these things were just forcing her to die and to commit crimes.
From Li Mengmeng's appearance, she probably really did not kill anyone sucked human blood, because the nearest teacher training college, a person did not die and disappeared, but the provisions are the provisions, there are his reasonable place, think about Li Mengmeng is now like a time bomb, and so when she can not control themselves or can not find the blood of the animals and poultry will have to drink human blood, the existence of such a country can not be allowed even if the vampire in the West is also required to live in a centralized housing. In the West vampires were also required to live together in a centralized location with a large number of troops and Christian clergy watching around them.
"I can not kill you, but you have to tie your hands, I will report it up, naturally someone will come to deal with this matter." Honorable Word said.
"Haha, kill me, then you have to have the ability to do so." Li Meng Meng laughed out loud, she had just finished sucking blood, like a hungry person who is full, she felt a lot stronger, after she finished speaking Li Meng Meng's whole body pounced on her like Honorable Words.
"So fast!" Honestly said secretly, in his eyes there is only a piece of residual shadow, even the person can't be seen, "Da da da da ……" with his feeling Honestly pulled the trigger, the bullet has just been exhausted, he drew out a saber, and slashed at the side piece.
"Dang!" The saber that could open mountains and break rocks and Li Mengmeng's nails clashed together, erupting into a spark, Honorable's tiger's mouth was numb and he almost couldn't grab the saber, while Li Mengmeng drew back his arm.
"Tear!" The other hand cut through Honorable Yan's clothes and skin, a blood scar appeared on his chest from left to right, "Kill!" Honorable mention raised his sword in battle, there was no room for mercy at this point, it was either you die or I die.
"Puh, puh ……" on skills Li Meng Meng even less than one percent of theJingyan, see on speed and strength she is too much stronger than the honorary word, melee less than a minute, the honorary word is covered in blood, more than seven or eight mouths on the body, although the wounds are not deep, look at the blood stayed quite a lot, Li Meng Meng's wounds are more, will never be less than twenty cuts, but she is a vampire, a knife down less than three seconds to heal, so from the surface looks, Li Meng Meng out of the clothes are a little broken outside without the slightest discomfort.
"Ao!" Li Meng Meng let out a howl similar to that of a wild beast, the blood shed by Jingyan was definitely a great temptation for her, why do vampires love to drink human blood, not because the amount of human blood is high, but human blood has a spiritual aura, compared to the blood of animals, human blood is like a full banquet while the blood of those animals is a dark cuisine, which can be eaten but is not tasty at all.
"Hiss!" Li Meng Meng's teeth grew another inch and had completely exposed his mouth, his eyes became crimson, his sanity was slowly losing, Honoring the fact that he was alarmed, the vampire who had lost his sanity attacked was definitely more powerful.
"Ah ……" taking advantage of an opportunity, honored word smashed a small bottle to Li Meng Meng body, bottle broken, the water inside when stained Li Meng Meng is like turning into sulfuric acid, in the continuous corrosion of her skin, this is the holy water, after the Christian clergy prayed over.
"Bang!" Li Mengmeng who lost his mind swept into the honorable words, honorable words the whole person flew out horizontally, crashed into a tree and fell down again.
"Da da da da ……" violent gunfire began to ring out, not only stopped Li Meng Meng from chasing after Honorable Yan, but also let Li Meng Meng was injured, the impact of the bullets alone was enough for her to suffer, all of a sudden Li Meng Meng rolled on the ground in pain.
"Ah!" Seeing Li MengMeng trying to escape, Honor's whole body lunged towards Li MengMeng and held her legs, making Li MengMeng not able to get up fast at all, dragging Honor on the ground for more than ten meters was caught by the team members who chased her up with a big white net.
"Don't, don't kill her, take her back." Looking at Li Meng Meng's desperate expression in the silver net, Honorable Yan's heart softened and told them to be merciful.
"But Brother Yan, according to the rules, but you have to destroy them on the spot." One of them said.
"I know, she hasn't sucked human blood, she can't be considered a bad person, bring her back first, we still have to find the vampire who transformed her, anyway, I'll be responsible if something goes wrong." Honorable said as he found a reason.
"Yes!" They weren't willing to offend Honorable, after all, they were the direct leaders, so they dragged Silvernet back to the South City branch, as for the Teachers College there were naturally people to sweep up and explain.
Thirteenth Bureau South City Branch, Li Meng Meng was locked in a room, the surrounding walls were not only brushed with silver powder, there were also ultraviolet beams, all of which were set up to target vampires, and Li Meng Meng was also injected with a potion, making her tired all over, and she didn't even have the strength to move her fingers anymore.
"Hello, Ms. Li Meng Meng, I didn't expect us to meet so soon." Honored to come into the middle of the room with all the injuries, he had reported Li Mengmeng's matter up before, now the top is going crazy, they have already sent their experts overnight, asking to escort Li Mengmeng back to the capital, it is said that there are top level scientists who are very interested in Li Mengmeng, that's why Li Mengmeng is able to enjoy such a high level of guarding treatment.
"Hmph!" Li Meng Meng grunted without speaking, to say that she does not hate at this time is false, originally is well, she turned into a vampire is not her voluntary, after becoming even more prefer to catch those dirty to death stray cats and dogs also never thought of killing and sucking blood, but now it is to hurt her like this, but also in the future days can be imagined.
"Miss Li, for the matter of arresting you I personally apologize, but the process that should go we still have to go, actively cooperate with the better for you, and we are just want to know who gave you your first embrace, you can feel each other each other, that person, oh that vampire is still true Nancheng." Honored words expected Li Meng Meng's reaction, did not pay attention, but instead said alone.
"Hmph!" Li Meng Meng was humming a sentence, still did not answer, did not even raise his eyelids.
"Let's continue, we have already established that you have no relationship with the missing persons case, but it is certain that it was done by the vampire who gave you your first embrace, and you haven't killed anyone, we are very interested in your ability to be able to appear under the sunlight, can you tell us about it, according to our information no vampire has ever been able to appear under the sunlight brightly for thousands of years, it's just a Vampire Prince who is exposed to sunlight for more than an hour will also die from serious injuries, and your longest record should be more than six hours." Honored Word continued to ask.
This question caused Li Meng Meng to raise her head and look at Honorable Yan, but she no longer opened her mouth, Li Meng Meng was also surprised that she was able to appear in the sunlight and wanted to know the answer, but she did not want to say it to Honorable Yan, and she hated this police officer who had arrested her.
Zhanyan scratched his hair, shook his head and walked out of the room, there was nothing he could do about Li Meng Meng's silence, he only hoped that the expert masters from the headquarters would be able to answer the question.
"Don't tell my parents okay, I don't want to make them sad." Right at the moment when Honorable Yan stepped out of the room, Li Mengmeng opened her mouth, Honorable Yan's body was shaken, he knew that Li Mengmeng was an only child, her parents were old enough to have a daughter, and had always doted on her, but she was destined to become one of the missing persons after tomorrow, this was definitely a very big blow to her parents.
"Don't worry, we will have arrangements for your family." Honored Word didn't want to tell her that the so-called arrangement was the news of her disappearance, an outcome that wouldn't make anyone happy.
"Thanks!" Li Meng Meng replied, after saying that she lowered her head again, she wanted to cry, seeing as vampires don't have tears, she couldn't cry, just the thought of her own parents in tears of sadness she felt her heart ache, drilling pain.
The thirteen bureaus were busy all night long, although they had caught a vampire, the case of the missing population had not been solved, and they already knew that there was a large vampire presence and the general population was still under threat, so a large number of police officers were still prowling through the Teachers' Training College in the hope that they would be able to find some favorable clues there.
It was still light out, and the people from the capital's headquarters had yet to arrive, so how could the people from the 13th Bureau not have imagined that what they were waiting for was another danger, one that would be enough to wipe them out.
"Report team leader, report team leader, the branch is under attack, a very powerful attack, requesting support, requesting …… doodle ……," Honor, who was still in the vicinity of the Teachers College to conduct a check, suddenly received a call , but the other party lost his voice before he could finish speaking, which gave respectfully a sense of alarming danger, he thought of the vampire who gave Li Meng Meng her first embrace had appeared.
"Go, hurry back to the branch." Rushing back to the car, Honorable shouted, he brought out quite a few people, the power in the branch was a bit weak, if that vampire was a high-level vampire, then the branch would be in danger.
"Zzzz!" Honestly's car parked in front of the branch's building, just as he got out of the car he asked about an extremely intense smell of blood, two people fell down in the flower garden at the entrance, Honestly rolled over and looked at them, their whole body was pitch black and dry, surprisingly, they were sucked out of their blood.
"Level one alert, tactical formation, advance." Honorable shouted, raising his gun and the people around him to form a triangular forward formation.
"Ta, ta, ta." The sound of leather shoes came from the building, and Honor signaled for the formation to stop.
"Huh, someone else is back." What came into view was a white man in a tuxedo with a European nobleman's hat, who was holding Li Meng Meng in his hands.
"On guard!" Honestly, I felt that the hairs on my back were already upside down, such a dangerous feeling.
"In that case, let you do it, just in time to avenge you, this wound hurts, doesn't it." That white man put Li Meng Meng down and said very gently.
Li MengMeng shook her head, she didn't have any good feelings for this person who said he was her father as soon as he came up, because he had killed countless people in front of her, men, women, old people, those with guns, those with empty hands, as long as they were alive, Li MengMeng hated to kill, and the way the blood was spraying and flying made her want to vomit.
"Tsk tsk, it seems like you haven't enjoyed the delicious taste of human blood yet, but don't worry, follow me, and you'll never have to enjoy lowly animal blood again." The man's voice was still gentle.
"Boom!" At the moment his voice just fell, he moved, but no one at the scene except Li Mengmeng saw it clearly, Honorable only saw a black light flying at him, before his finger on the trigger was pulled, he flew out backwards, instinctively he closed his eyes.
When his eyes opened again, his neck had already been pinched, and opposite him was Li Mengmeng with her eyes wide open.
"Come on boy, open your mouth and bite his throat, you'll be able to enjoy the most delicious thing on earth, you'll have your strength back, and your body won't hurt anymore." That man whispered in Li Meng Meng's ear with a voice full of temptation.
"It's over!" Honored said in his mind, being pinched by the neck he didn't even have the strength to resist, this time it was considered to be planted at his doorstep.