Chapter 170 - 123: The Rat God Cult’s Conspiracy

Chapter 170: Chapter 123: The Rat God Cult’s Conspiracy

Jiang Wanqiao looked up at the sound of his voice.

Seeing Gu Qing arrive with his junior, she habitually adjusted the black-framed glasses on her nose and said with a sweet smile,

"I haven’t been waiting long at all. This is my job, after all."

After speaking, she looked curiously at Xia Shuran, who stood beside Gu Qing. After giving her a careful once-over, her smile grew even sweeter.

"Hi, Shuran. I’m Jiang Wanqiao. I’m about three or four years older than you, so you can just call me Sister Wanqiao."

She had already seen Xia Shuran’s file, so she knew the name of this pretty girl who had just turned eighteen.

Xia Shuran smiled in return. "Hello, Sister Wanqiao."

Not one to waste time, Jiang Wanqiao quickly came out from behind the reception desk. She looked at Xia Shuran and said,

"Let’s go, Shuran. I’ll take you to fill out some personal information, and then we’ll head to the Extraordinary Testing Room to measure your Extraordinary Origin."

"Thank you for your help, Sister Wanqiao."

"Not at all."

Jiang Wanqiao smiled and quickly led Xia Shuran toward a nearby hallway.

「On the way to the Extraordinary Testing Room.」

Jiang Wanqiao kept trying to make conversation with Xia Shuran.

She used the excuse of turning her head to talk to carefully study the eighteen-year-old’s beautiful face.

The more she looked, the more her heart sank.

She’d always had feelings for Gu Qing and wanted to start a relationship with him.

But now that such a beautiful Extraordinary Awakened had appeared by his side—a junior, no less—she felt her chances were slim to none.

’Wait, maybe I still have a chance!’

’This pretty girl is an Extraordinary Awakened, while Gu Qing is just an Extraordinary Contactor.’

’The former’s potential is far greater than the latter’s.’

’If things progress naturally, the gap between them on the Extraordinary path will only grow wider.’

’And relationships between men and women usually follow a ’stronger man, weaker woman’ dynamic.’

’From that perspective, their chances of ending up together don’t seem very high.’

’In other words, I still have a shot!’

As Jiang Wanqiao mulled this over, her worries instantly vanished. A friendly smile spread across her simple, scholarly face.

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「Back at the reception desk.」

Gu Qing, bored with nothing to do, had found a sofa and was playing on his phone.

He’d been at it for nearly ten minutes when Jiang Wanqiao returned.

The pretty, bespectacled "top student" walked up to Gu Qing with a beaming smile. "Let’s go, Gu Qing. I’ll take you to check in and get your new employee supplies."

Gu Qing stood up and smiled. "Thanks for your help."

The check-in process was incredibly simple.

He just had to sign in at a terminal, get his fingerprint and face scanned, and that was it.

After that, it was time to collect his supplies.

There wasn’t much.

Just an ID card, a motorcycle for daily transportation, and a few other odds and ends.

That’s right—no standard-issue black trench coat and no four-wheeled sedan.

The standard-issue black trench coat was an item exclusive to the junior members of the Night Court’s Field Operations Department.

These "junior members" were the Extraordinary Contactors stationed out in the field.

Gu Qing wouldn’t be stationed in the field. Steward Tian had already assigned him to an Awakened Squad, so he wouldn’t be getting a black trench coat.

As for the sedans, those were also reserved for the junior members of the Field Operations Department.

Gu Qing wouldn’t be getting one of those, either.

After receiving his supplies, Gu Qing put everything—except for the motorcycle parked in the underground garage—into his Storage Pouch.

He spent the rest of the time making small talk with Jiang Wanqiao at the reception desk, waiting for Xia Shuran to finish getting her Extraordinary Origin level measured.

He remembered clearly that the two other Extraordinary Awakened from his recruitment test had both registered an Extraordinary Origin level of 5%.

He was very curious to see what his junior’s level would be.

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