“Okay, got it. Let’s head back now then.”
Hearing Shen An’an’s words, Yan Qi nodded to her and then said this.
“Let’s leave this place then.”
With that, Shen An’an said this to Yan Qi, then quickly drove her car, taking Yan Qi back towards the Windbreak City Anomaly Affairs Bureau’s headquarters.
Safely returning to the office of Windbreak City Anomaly Affairs Bureau’s Team Five, Yan Qi looked inside and saw not a single soul. Knowing most people here were currently out desperately carrying out missions, she didn’t show any surprise on her face.
After withdrawing her gaze, she quickly sat down on the sofa to continue resting.
“Xiao Qi, why do I feel like you’ve been looking really tired these past few days? Don’t tell me you’ve been staying up late playing games?”
Seeing Yan Qi return to the office after finishing a mission outside, still looking as exhausted as before, Shen An’an, not understanding why she seemed this way, asked her this.
Faced with Shen An’an’s inquiry, Yan Qi knew she had been looking tired lately. She didn’t plan to reveal the truth, but also didn’t want Shen An’an to misunderstand her as some gaming-addicted girl. So, she quickly found an excuse to answer.
“I haven’t been staying up late gaming recently. I’ve just been sleeping a bit poorly, just some insomnia.”
“Really? But Xiao Qi, you don’t look like someone who’s just not sleeping well.”
Hearing Yan Qi’s answer and looking at her, Shen An’an couldn’t help but sound somewhat skeptical.
Seeing Shen An’an didn’t quite believe her but also not wanting to say more on this topic, Yan Qi then said to her, “Sister Shen, don’t worry about me. I’m really fine. You should hurry and take some time to rest yourself.”
“Hmm, alright then. Since you’re so insistent, I won’t press the matter. But Xiao Qi, if you have any difficulties, you must tell me immediately, okay? Promise?”
“I know.”
“Since you know, then rest well here. I’ll go write the mission report now.”
With that said, Shen An’an left the sofa area where Yan Qi was and returned to her own desk. She turned on the computer and began earnestly writing today’s mission report.
Listening to the tap-tap-tap of keyboard sounds coming from Shen An’an’s direction, Yan Qi, lying on the sofa resting, soon closed her eyes and focused all her attention on her six clones.
“We’ve been fishing here in Windbreak City for days now. Why haven’t we found that suited man who grants ordinary people supernatural power, turning them into supernatural beings?”
One of Yan Qi’s clones, the beautiful Goddess of Death Si Yexing, who was following Bai Yuling around trying to “fish” for the suited man, couldn’t help but voice her confusion.
“What’s wrong, Miss Yexing? What are you thinking about?”
Noticing the expression on Si Yexing’s face, Bai Yuling, who was hiding with her in a nearby building closely monitoring the “bait” below, asked with concern.
“Nothing.”
Hearing Bai Yuling’s concerned question, Si Yexing quickly shook her head, indicating she wasn’t thinking about anything.
Then, she asked Bai Yuling in front of her, “Any movement from the bait over there?”
Hearing this, Bai Yuling knew Si Yexing was lying but didn’t probe further. She replied, “No, the situation with the bait is still the same as before, no changes.”
“Strange. We’ve laid out so many baits, why hasn’t the fish been attracted? Could it be that suited man has stopped his activities?”
Getting Bai Yuling’s answer, Si Yexing, who really couldn’t understand why dozens of baits still hadn’t managed to lure out the suited man, couldn’t help but mutter.
Hearing this, Bai Yuling recalled the various reports of sudden cases involving supernatural power that the Windbreak City Anomaly Affairs Bureau had received these past few days. She could confirm the suited man hadn’t stopped his activities. She quickly replied to Si Yexing, “That suited man probably hasn’t stopped. Because up until yesterday, cases involving supernatural power within Windbreak City haven’t significantly decreased. The number of people caught in these cases—ordinary people who received power from the suited man and became supernatural beings—is still quite high.”
“Is that so? Then that means our current bait for fishing isn’t working?”
Getting Bai Yuling’s answer and confirming the suited man hadn’t stopped, Si Yexing thought for a moment and felt the problem must lie with the dozens of “baits” they had deployed.
Hearing Si Yexing’s speculation, Bai Yuling, who didn’t think the bait she and her colleagues selected had issues, said to her, “I don’t think the bait we selected should have major problems. Disliking legal ways to earn money, having a certain tendency towards crime, and harboring some degree of societal resentment—these are all criteria we deduced for how the suited man selects people.”
“If that’s the case as you say, Director Bai, then that suited man definitely hasn’t stopped his activities. So, the reason we haven’t managed to stake him out these past few days is simply because we haven’t crossed paths?”
Hearing Bai Yuling’s answer, Si Yexing thought for a moment and then added this.
To this, Bai Yuling nodded and replied, “Most likely, it’s exactly as you say.”
Hearing this, Si Yexing sighed. Thinking about why she was here now accompanying Bai Yuling on this mission, she complained while putting on an act. “Sigh, when will this Goddess of Death finally find that damned suited man and finish the task Daoyan assigned us?”
“Who knows? Perhaps he’ll appear right before us in the next second.”
Bai Yuling said to Si Yexing in a comforting tone.
Just as Si Yexing was getting frustrated from accompanying Bai Yuling without managing to stake out the mysterious suited man…
On another side of Windbreak City, another one of Yan Qi’s clones, the little Succubus Queen Zhao Mei’er, was also troubled about why the suited man hadn’t appeared before her. However, compared to the overly heated glances constantly directed her way from those around her, that bit of frustration hardly mattered.
“Can you all stop secretly staring at me? Please focus on the bait over there who’s currently getting into a fight with someone?”
Zhao Mei’er said to the Anomaly Affairs Bureau members beside her in a complaining tone.