Alarms immediately blared throughout the upper floors of the hotel!
But this was, after all, a hotel rather than a corporate headquarters. It would not have automated turrets or poison gas systems installed everywhere. Through the hallway cameras, Chen Xuan could see many people carrying automatic weapons rushing toward the conference room. Clearly, in this world's Jiangcheng, firearms were no longer exclusive to the military and police.
Yet then Chen Xuan witnessed something shocking.
These armed reinforcements quickly stormed into the conference room, but the cameras inside captured none of them! The doors on both sides remained tightly shut, as though the reinforcements had entered an entirely unrelated hall!
"Can you connect to these people's perspectives?"
There was only silence in his earpiece.
"Lin Qing?" Chen Xuan's heart sank. "Hello, can you hear me?"
"...I hear you. I'm looking for an access point." Lin Qing finally replied, as though waking from a dream.
"What's wrong?" He realized that something was off with his partner.
"These ability users... I fought them in the future..."
"No... I don't mean the individuals. I mean ability users affiliated with the Arbitration Court." Lin Qing muttered, "Did you see the emblems on their arms? That's the symbol of the Dimensional Limit Organization's Arbitration Court."
Chen Xuan had no trouble noticing that, although these people wore all manner of clothing, every one of them did indeed have a shield-shaped emblem on their right arm. The footage was too blurry for him to make out the design, aside from its red-and-black color scheme.
"These people are strong?"
"They're the organization's most elite execution force." There was even a faint trace of fear in Lin Qing's voice. "My unit once attacked an Arbitration Court ability user. The mission failed. Of twenty-two team members, only four survived. I was