"Cough, cough, cough..."
Jinian sat down at the desk and coughed twice awkwardly.
Lin Qiye sat across from her, his expression slightly strange. "So you left me in the archives, saying you had important business to handle, just to go to a host club?"
"Didn't I make plans with them before leaving Utopia? I said I'd come drink with them after I got back. I'm keeping my promise and coming to meet them. Of course that's important business!" Jinian said righteously.
Lin Qiye stared at her for a moment, then let out a long sigh:
"Forget it. It's not like this is the first time I've caught you... I already got used to it back when we were in Japan's Human Circle.
More importantly, how are things with Zhou Ping?"
Jinian coughed softly a few times, her expression gradually turning serious. "I came to see you precisely because of this... Do you remember the information channel I told you about before?"
"I remember."
"It's about to begin."
"'It'?"
"A gathering." Jinian spoke calmly. "A special gathering that only God's Agents can attend."
Lin Qiye's brows rose slightly.
"God's Agents may indeed be rare within Great Xia, but there are quite a few in the mist.
There are so many divine kingdoms in the world. Some gods always have special needs and cannot conveniently appear in person, so they find humans from Human Circles or elsewhere, grant them power, and have them help accomplish certain goals.
According to the Shang Xie Association's records, there have been fifty or sixty God's Agents with traceable records appearing in the mist.
These God's Agents come from different divine kingdoms and possess different intelligence, information, or specialty items from their divine kingdoms. Every year, some of them arrange to hold a secret gathering somewhere, trading