1501. The Situation
"Someone came looking for me? When did that happen?"
Li Bai was taken aback, though when he thought about it, it made sense.
After all, the front desk at the hotel hadn't told him anyone had come looking, out of respect for his privacy.
If they'd brought it up out of the blue, they might have been sued. Better not to invite trouble. The visitor would come back anyway, so they'd simply kept quiet.
"You've been here at least four hours since you got off the plane."
Ye Tong reminded Li Bai.
Under normal circumstances, he and the two Thai Demonesses should have reached the hotel three hours ago, instead of vanishing for nearly four hours along the way.
They hadn't called Li Bai's cell phone until now, when they'd finally run out of patience and asked Ye Tong to call him.
"We had some bad luck. We got into an unlicensed cab, then gangsters surrounded us, and the police showed up. There was a shootout, and I just got back from the Police Department."
Li Bai briefly described his eventful journey, which would have left an ordinary person shaken.
"..."
There was silence on the other end of the call.
How unlucky did you have to be to get targeted first by an unlicensed cab and then by gangsters?
"All right! I'll let them know you're here. Stay in your room and don't go out. They should be here soon."
Ye Tong quickly hung up and got in touch with the local contact in Vancouver.
Not long afterward, someone knocked on the door.
"Li Bai, we meet again."
The person at the door was someone Li Bai had met before: Zhao Ziwu, an intern from Institute 507.
Institute 507 had plenty of people with extraordinary abilities,