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Chapter 271 Secret Rendezvous
"Ah, it's almost lunchtime again."

Where should we eat today?

At 11:30, the office would become lively, especially with Wang Baihu and Xiao Jiu, who chattered away as if they were cut from the same mold.

"Jiang Siqi, which restaurant do you want to eat at?" Wang Baihu turned his head and asked.

Jiang Siqi was somewhat dazed.

"Sister Siqi?" Xiaojiu patted her arm.

"Oh..." she then realized, "I want to go out for a walk by myself today. You guys eat."

"Huh? It's so cold outside, what's there to see?"

"Mind your own business!" Wang Baihu pulled Xiaojiu aside and whispered something to her. The latter immediately looked enlightened and smiled sweetly at her, "Then we won't bother you anymore."

Jiang Siqi vaguely heard the word "boyfriend".

But she was too lazy to correct it, and instead stared absently at a blank sheet of paper on her desk. She went to the restroom briefly, and when she returned, she found another sheet of paper on her desk with a note that read, "Come to Yuexin Hotel 3101 at noon; the room has been booked."

The signature is from the World Centre for Competence.

Her client, her father.

However, just a few seconds after she finished reading, the words disappeared without a trace, as if it were all her imagination.

Jiang Siqi realized that this was probably one of their capabilities as well.

What shocked her was not how the other person had quietly delivered the blank paper to her desk, but the place they had invited her to.

It's a hotel!
The room has already been booked!

Could it be that the client wants to use her body as payment for the ability? After all, she thinks she's quite pretty and has a good figure, so it's not surprising that someone has their eye on her.

When she was doing live streaming, Jiang Siqi experienced several instances of harassment from big spenders who wanted to tip her, but she completely ignored them, feeling that such tips were not worth her effort.

Money can be earned back, but skills...

Looking at it this way, the price doesn't seem so unacceptable.

In short, the client is someone you absolutely cannot afford to offend.

Jiang Siqi took a deep breath, ready to go all out.

As soon as lunchtime arrived, she walked out of the office building alone, took a taxi to the Yuexin Hotel, which was two blocks away.

Unbeknownst to her, another black Mercedes was following the taxi from a distance.

"You guessed right, they did contact Jiang Siqi again." The driver was Wang Qianduan. Ever since the intelligence team discovered that someone had planted spies within the organization, they had intensified their surveillance of Jiang Siqi. Whenever she wasn't at the company, someone was responsible for tailing her, and even her rented apartment had been secretly fitted with listening devices by the intelligence team.

Unexpectedly, a week later, the fishing hook actually reacted.

“Keep a close eye on this; it’s a great opportunity to catch a big fish,” Xiao Canon said on the phone. “Unless there’s an exceptionally good chance, I’ll allow you to refrain from taking any action to avoid alerting the enemy.”

"What if we find one of those three wanderers?"

He was referring to the Masked Woman, the Flesh Butcher, and the White-Clad Immortal.

"Notify me, and I will personally lead the team to make the arrest." Xiao Kanong's tone changed from his usual cheerful one, and his words were now filled with a chilling intent.

"understand!"

Wang Qianduan was also filled with excitement.

Ever since the Botanical Garden erosion incident, the Vision Agency has been maliciously targeted by unknown individuals with erratic abilities. These individuals have acted extremely erratically, not only forcing the agency to the surface of the water but also repeatedly disrupting their plans in Jiangcheng. Now that the rat has finally shown its tail, it's time for the agency to take its turn.

He wanted to see what channels these wanderers had obtained the intelligence from the Dimensional Authority.

Jiang Siqi got out of the car in front of the hotel and entered the lobby with a nervous heart. After showing her ID card to the receptionist, the receptionist skillfully handed her the room key, "Welcome to check in. The elevator is on the right side of the lobby."

Sure enough, the rooms were already booked.

Jiang Siqi took the elevator to the third floor. The hotel corridor seemed so long... With her heart pounding, she found room 3101, took a deep breath, and pushed open the door.

To her surprise, the place was completely empty.

Huh?
"Didn't we agree to meet here?" Jiang Siqi walked to the bedside, puzzled, and saw a note and a small bottle on the low table.

She picked up the note.

"Take a nap here. Remember to put your phone on silent, lock the door, and don't let anyone disturb you. If you can't sleep, there are sleeping pills in the bottle."

What does it mean?
Jiang Siqi was completely baffled... Did the other party call her over just to let her take a nap? If the client had some ulterior motive, there was no need to remind her to lock the door.

She thought about it and decided to follow the instructions, but she couldn't let the other party control her; she had to have a backup plan.

Jiang Siqi took out the action camera she usually used for selfies, placed it on the TV cabinet, and then covered it with a scarf and coat, leaving only the small lens exposed, which was aimed directly at the bed.

Simply taking pictures isn't enough.

She opened the live streaming app and set the footage to time-lapse. If nothing happened, she could cancel the playback after waking up. But if something unexpected did happen, the viewers in the live stream would see what was going on in the room.

After finishing all this, Jiang Siqi lay down on the bed.

"Are you kidding me? How could I possibly sleep like this!"

She got up and opened the bottle.

There was only one pill inside, as if they were afraid she would take too much.

Forget it, just die.

Jiang Siqi swallowed the pill and lay back down on the bed. This time, sleepiness came quickly, overwhelming her. In less than half a minute, she felt her eyelids drooping and her mind gradually going blank.

I realized I had been scammed.

Where in the world can you find such a powerful sleeping pill? Even when she used to take sleeping pills, it would take her more than half an hour to finally fall asleep when she had insomnia.

...Mom and Dad, I'm so sorry, my innocence is about to be tarnished...

The next second, Jiang Siqi found herself sitting on a bench. In front of her was a neatly trimmed green space, surrounded by flower beds, where roses were blooming.

She recognized the place—it should be a pedestrian park in the center of Jiangcheng City, a popular spot for online influencers to take photos. But it was only past February, so the roses shouldn't be in bloom yet.

Moreover, the sunlight overhead was warm, making you feel cozy and inviting, and you couldn't help but want to take a nap.

No way, she was napping! Wasn't she just sleeping?

Jiang Siqi stood up abruptly.

How did I suddenly end up in the park instead of the hotel?

"Don't panic, I won't eat people, please sit down first," someone suddenly said.

Jiang Siqi then realized that someone was behind her!

She turned around abruptly and realized that she was actually sitting on a pair of benches back to back, with the person who had spoken sitting on the other side. He was wearing a hat, his back to her, and sunglasses, obscuring his face, but judging from his voice, he was quite young.

"How...did I get here?" she asked incredulously.

"You didn't come here. In fact, you're still sound asleep in bed in room 3101." The other person smiled. "Don't worry about oversleeping. I've already booked a wake-up service for you. The front desk will call you at 1:30. You don't need to worry about being late for work this afternoon."

Am I still...sleeping soundly?
Jiang Siqi was horrified as she thought about it. "Was all of this just a dream?!"

“That’s right.” He nodded in reply. “You are currently in a dream. And this dream is the meeting place I have specially prepared for you.”

Meeting in a dream, this is just too... too too cool!
Jiang Siqi exclaimed inwardly.

As expected of the world's center of capability, they are incredibly powerful!

Moreover, she thought that the representatives of such large clients were all middle-aged or elderly people, the kind of businessmen whose bodies were declining but who still held a lot of power. Unexpectedly, the person who came was actually in the same age group as her, at most a few years older than her. Thinking about it this way, it seems that she didn't lose out at all...

"Um..." she obediently sat back down, "You're the one who gave me these abilities?"

"That's right, I am the head of the World Ability Center. How are your abilities?"

"They're great! I find them increasingly convenient and effective the more I use them!" Jiang Siqi replied immediately. "With these abilities, I'm now highly regarded by the captain!"

(End of this chapter)