Leipzig · Thirteenth Department, Anomaly Affairs Department.
"Yes, I understand. That was my fault... Mm, yes, I'll keep a tighter rein on her."
With dark circles under his eyes, Wendell looked every inch the corporate drudge as he reported something over the Lineage channel.
Watching Wendell speak so meekly ahead of him, Xia Xiu could not help asking:
"Did something happen at St. Thomas Church?"
Wendell finally finished dealing with his colleagues' complaints, which left him looking even more dispirited than before. He wearily rubbed the space between his eyebrows.
"Something went wrong with a subordinate's work."
Wendell picked up the coffee beside the desk, which had already gone cold, and took a sip. The cold, bitter coffee went down into his stomach, clearing his exhausted, drowsy head considerably.
"And members of the anomalous community gathered outside St. Thomas Church to cause trouble. I'll have to stay up late writing a report and a statement of responsibility."
Faced with Wendell, who looked every bit the corporate drudge, Xia Xiu could only offer him a sympathetic look by way of comfort.
"Don't look at me like that, kid. I gave you all the information you wanted."
Wendell rolled his eyes at the blond young man giving him that strange look.
"Are you planning to lure Eliyan out by creating a doll that fits the victims' profile?"
"Let me tell you, that won't work."
Xia Xiu carefully leafed through the files in his hands as he replied casually:
"Looks like the [Thirteenth Department] has tried that too."
"Of course we have. We deployed the [Thirteenth Department]'s most lifelike humanoid construct, then shaped her personality and programmed her cognition based on the victims' profiles. We gave her an impeccable identity."
Wendell continued glumly:
"None of it worked. That fellow Eliyan is very sensitive.