I failed again

When Qi Anyan returned to the room, he remembered that he had left his backpack in the car and forgot to bring it in, so he went downstairs to get the backpack.

Mother Qi watched Qi Anyan running up and down, and couldn't help but remind him, "Xiao Yan, if you forget to take something, you can just ask the servants to bring it to you, so you don't have to make an extra trip yourself."

Qi Anyan paused on his way up the stairs. He didn't trust others to take the things in his backpack, so he went downstairs to get them himself.

However, Qi Anyan still nodded and replied: "Yes, I understand, Mom."

After saying that, he went back to the room.

After taking out the laptop from the backpack and putting it on the table, Qi Anyan casually put the backpack next to the chair.

Pull out a chair and sit down while turning on the computer.

Qi Anyan's slender fingers tapped on the keyboard a few times, and a window popped up, which was the surveillance camera in the villa.

Qi Anyan took a look and saw that Jiang Ruoyuan had not returned to the villa yet. It was possible that he simply did not go back and stayed with Bai Ci.

Qi Anyan minimized the window and went onto the dark web. Among a bunch of mixed messages, he was caught off guard by the information offering a bounty for An Jingcheng.

Qi Anyan paused as he was sliding the mouse. He thought for a moment, released the mouse, picked up the phone beside him, clicked into the chat box with An Jingcheng, and typed, "What have you done recently?"

An Jingcheng replied immediately, "What's wrong?"

Qi Anyan was a little surprised. Just now, when he saw An Jingcheng looking very scared in the hotel, he thought that An Jingcheng must be pretending to be fragile in front of Gu Ruiwen again and had no time to reply to him. Unexpectedly, he replied in seconds.

Although he was surprised, Qi Anyan still typed back, "Someone has offered a reward for you."

An Jingcheng replied, "Who is it? I'm busy right now. I'll deal with him when I'm free."

"I don't know, anonymous."

The other side replied with an emoticon that said “You are so useless”.

Qi Anyan ignored his unreasonable behavior and asked directly, "Have you noticed that Jiang Yuan has been a little strange recently?"

An Jingcheng looked at the message, stunned for a moment, and asked while typing, "Strange? What does it mean?" At the same time, he recalled his contact with Jiang Yuan in the past few days.

Well, recently they just chatted for a few minutes when he went to hand in the task that morning, and gossiped about Qi Anyan and Xie Zhixuan on WeChat. These two contacts were not enough for him to discover anything.

But Qi Anyan's affirmation did make sense. An Jingcheng recalled the only two contacts he had in the past few days, and suddenly remembered that he saw Jiang Yuan and Bai Ci walking together at the auction tonight.

Have they ever been this close before?

Jiang Yuan said that Bai Ci was like an old fox who had cultivated himself into a spirit. When talking to him, he always felt like he was being plotted against.

Because of this, Jiang Yuan kept his distance from Bai Ci and would avoid any contact with him if possible.

But tonight, Jiang Yuan actually went to the auction with Bai Ci, and his behavior was very intimate.

Is this what An Yan meant by “weird”?

When Qi Anyan looked at the message sent by An Jingcheng, he knew that he had not noticed anything unusual about Jiang Yuan.

That's true. After all, An Jingcheng hasn't had any contact with Jiang Yuan recently, and that person disguised himself very much like Jiang Yuan. If he hadn't been exposed because of the mission tonight, I don't think I would have been able to discover him so quickly, let alone An Jingcheng.

Thinking about it, Qi Anyan saw An Jingcheng sending another message, "Has he been getting a little close to Bai Ci recently? Didn't he stay away from Bai Ci before?"

"What happened? Why did he come to the auction with Bai Ci tonight?"

"Besides, what's going on with you guys tonight? You just bombed him once, and you didn't ambush Xie Zhixuan?"

"Not completing the mission anymore?"

Qi Anyan looked at the messages and replied one by one, "I don't know. Jiang Yuan's recent behavior gives me the feeling that he has been replaced."

"I have something to do at home, so I won't do it for now."

An Jingcheng frowned, "If you have something to do at home, you can ask Jiang Yuan to go. Didn't you divide the work well before? Why is it that tonight..."

Qi Anyan simply edited the whole thing into text and sent it to An Jingcheng, which made An Jingcheng frown even more.

"There's a feeling that his brain is broken."

"You think that's why he was replaced?"

"I don't think so. It could be because Bai Ci threatened him or he made some kind of deal with Bai Ci."

An Jingcheng also told Qi Anyan what he saw when he went to hand over the task a few days ago, "Please confirm it again. Don't jump to conclusions, lest you make a mistake and ruin your friendship of more than ten years."

Qi Anyan looked at the message sent by An Jingcheng and replied with a "Yeah" after a long while.

Then he saw An Jingcheng send a message: "He's back, he escaped first."

It goes without saying who this "he" refers to.

Qi Anyan's originally heavy mood disappeared inexplicably after seeing this news. He felt as if he was disappointed in his son and that he should not keep him when he grew up.

Qi Anyan put down his phone, closed the dark web page, and instead logged onto the organization’s website.

The tight security at the Shimao Hotel tonight made him suspect that this mission was directed and acted by Xie Zhixuan himself, with the purpose of luring them out so that he could deal with them.

If this is true, then after the explosion tonight, Xie Zhixuan saw that he and Jiang Ruoyuan had no follow-up actions, and he was injured. Given his cautious character, he would most likely cancel the mission.

As expected, as soon as he logged in, Qi Anyan received a system message that the task he had accepted had been revoked by his employer.

Qi Anyan looked at the message and smiled. It didn’t matter. He could continue to assassinate him even if he withdrew the plan.

Thinking of this, Qi Anyan closed the website. Before shutting down the computer, he somehow took a look at the surveillance camera of the villa.

Jiang Ruoyuan had already returned and was slumped on the sofa in the living room, looking depressed.

Looking at him like this, Qi Anyan couldn't help but doubt whether he had really made a wrong judgment as An Jingcheng said?

Could it be that Jiang Yuan really made some kind of deal with Bai Ci, which led to such a series of abnormal behaviors?

Otherwise, there is no other reason to explain why Jiang Yuan looks so depressed now.

Qi Anyan thought from a different perspective, perhaps he was worried about how to avoid being discovered that he was a fake?

Qi Anyan watched Jiang Ruoyuan lying on the sofa for a while, then got up and went upstairs to his room.

There were no surveillance cameras installed in the rooms on the second floor. Seeing Jiang Ruoyuan go upstairs, Qi Anyan turned off the surveillance and computer and prepared to go wash up.

There was a sudden knock on the door, and Qi Anyan suddenly remembered that his mother had just asked Wang Ma to bring him some food, and he agreed.

Thinking about this, Qi Anyan walked over and opened the door. Looking at Aunt Wang and the food cart she was pushing, he was silent for a moment.

He thought it was just a midnight snack, but he didn't expect it to be so sumptuous.

He stepped aside and let Wang Ma push the dining cart in. Before leaving, Wang Ma said, "Young Master, when you are done eating, just push the dining cart to the door. A servant will come up and push it away."

Qi Anyan nodded and said, "Well, okay."

After Aunt Wang left, Qi Anyan looked at the dining cart in front of him and felt troubled. He wasn't that hungry, and there was so much food that he couldn't finish it.

With a sigh, Qi Anyan sat down and ate a little. After he was full, he pushed the food cart to the door and went to take a shower.

After taking a shower, Qi Anyan found Qi Yuchen sitting on the sofa in his room. He was stunned for a moment. Why did he come here?

Seeing Qi Anyan's doubts, Qi Yuchen smiled and said, "Mom and Dad are worried about you, so they asked me to come and see you."

Qi Anyan walked to the sofa and sat down, saying, "It's fine. I wasn't scared. Tell your parents not to worry."

After the two brothers talked for a while, Qi Yuchen left and returned to his room.

Xie family

Xie Zhixuan watched the surveillance footage of the corridor where the explosion occurred in Shimao Hotel that his assistant sent to him.

When he saw Qi Anyan pulling Qi Yuchen to lie down, his eyes fixed for a moment, and then he replayed the video and opened the multiple of 0.5 at the same time.

Soon, Xie Zhixuan discovered the problem. It was clearly seen in the surveillance video that Qi Anyan's hand was already on Qi Yuchen's shoulder before the explosion started.

Almost at the same time as the explosion occurred, Qi Anyan and Qi Yuchen lay down together.

Xie Zhixuan watched this surveillance video repeatedly with a calm expression, and recalled what Qi Anyan had asked him about his itinerary.

After a long time, Xie Zhixuan picked up his mobile phone and sent a message to his assistant, asking him to call the bodyguard who was following Qi Anyan to protect Qi Anyan today to come to the study.

After putting down his phone, Xie Zhixuan continued to watch the surveillance video.

Soon, the bodyguard who followed Qi Anyan tonight came to the study.

Xie Zhixuan asked them if there was anything unusual about Qi Anyan tonight, and the bodyguard told the truth.

When Xie Zhixuan heard the bodyguard say that Qi Anyan went out to get something and went to the bathroom for ten minutes, his heart moved.

The layout of the hotel came to my mind. There was a lawn behind the toilet on the first floor, and a lot of things could be done in ten minutes.

After listening to the bodyguards, Xie Zhixuan let them go.

Qi Anyan, I hope this has nothing to do with you. Staring at Qi Anyan's face in the surveillance video, Xie Zhixuan thought.

After taking a look at the time, it was almost ten o'clock, so Xie Zhixuan gave up the idea of ​​asking someone to go to the Qi family to "invite" Qi Anyan over.

After sending a message to his assistant, asking him to bring Qi Anyan to Xie's house to see him tomorrow, Xie Zhixuan got up and left the study and returned to the bedroom.

The next day, Qi Anyan got up very early, and after breakfast, he prepared to go to the villa to find Jiang Ruoyuan and test him again.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he left the Qi family, a familiar Maybach stopped in front of him. A man got out of the car and said respectfully, "Young Master Qi, our master invites you over."

Qi Anyan remembered the contract he signed with Xie Zhixuan and got into the car without any reaction.

I'll go see what Xie Zhixuan wants to talk to me about first before dealing with Jiang Ruoyuan's matter.

On the way to Xie's house, Qi Anyan was wondering why Xie Zhixuan suddenly sent someone to pick him up.