48 Hours a Day

Chapter 928: Meetup

Zhang Heng walked to the gate of the dome-shaped building and looked at the security door. Just when he was thinking about contacting Xu Qian, his bracelet automatically connected to the door’s system seconds later.

“Welcome, visitor Zhang Heng. Ms. Xu Qian, Room 3094, Unit 12, has granted you temporary access to the Yacheng Apartment’s security door for two weeks. If you have any questions, please contact the apartment management.”

After the friendly female voice talked to him, both sides of the apartment’s doors were opened. Zhang Heng’s bracelet flashed twice, and an email icon popped up. If he was right, then the apartment management system must’ve just sent him a mail.

This was not Zhang Heng’s first time entering a dungeon with a futuristic background. In the Whistleblower quest, he entered a future ruled by CTOS. However, the future in the Whistleblower dungeon was only twelve years apart from the real world. The Bodyguard’s dungeon, in comparison, was clearly more technologically advanced.

As he walked into the apartment, the surveillance camera on the ceiling was the first thing he looked at. After that, he started to look around.

Just like the outer environment, the apartment’s interior had a very decent design too. Red Persian carpets covered the circular corridor, and the center of the building was a vast space with huge glass walls around it. The floor above him was a large flowerbed. And the floor above the large flowerbed was the resident’s private balcony. The place was well-lit, and its residents could enjoy a good amount of privacy.

Just as he raised his head, squinting to identify the plants growing on the second-floor balcony opposite him, the elevator door beside him suddenly opened, and a woman with heavy makeup and fishnets emerged from the elevator. She looked at Zhang Heng, stopped moving, and raised her eyebrows. “What is your communication ID?”

“Are you Xu Qian?”

“No. But as long as you give me a thousand credits, I can be anyone for you.” The woman licked her lips.

“Oh, I am not a resident here. And I’m here to work just like you,” Zhang Heng replied politely.

“That’s a shame. I was about to give you a 20% discount,” the woman said. She then took out something that looked like an electronic cigarette from her pocket, took a puff, and started walking towards the door.

And Zhang Heng walked into the elevator that the woman walked out from earlier.

The elevator wasn’t that spacious and could only fit three to four people at the most.

“Please state the room you want to go to.”

When Zhang Heng walked into the elevator, he heard the familiar female voice again.

“Unit 12, 3094.”

“Since you are taking the elevator for the first time, do you want to set this room as your default room number?”

“Okay.”

Five seconds later, the elevator door was closed, and the elevator car, which looked like a glass marble, accelerated upward. Right after the elevator that Zhang Heng was in started moving, another elevator moved to his earlier position, ready for the next rider.

This design saved the passengers a lot of time, and there was no need to wait for another passenger to get out on a certain floor. In total, sixty-four similar elevator doors were on the entire first floor. Such massive numbers of elevators could easily meet the demands of the morning and evening peak hours. Zhang Heng had no clue as to how many of them this apartment actually had.

About 20 seconds later, the elevator stopped on the 30th floor. However, its doors didn’t open, but it began moving laterally instead, sending Zhang Heng directly to room 3094.

“Access permission obtained,” the cordial female voice could be heard again, “Welcome home.”

As soon as he got out of the elevator, Zhang Heng was already standing in front of room 3094. It was a small apartment unit with two small bedrooms and one living room, designed for singles or small families. As of now, Zhang Heng should be standing in the living room.

The place wasn’t looking too good, though. It looked like someone had ransacked the unit, and things were strewn all over the place. The drawers and shoe cabinets were ajar, with clothes and socks messily tossed around the coffee table and sofa. Zhang Heng also noticed lipstick and skincare products on the floor. The whole place looked more like a crime scene.

Since Xu Qian had just hired a bodyguard from the G7Z security company, Zhang Heng didn’t dare take the incident lightly. Immediately, he took out his Pestilence Bone Bow and placed the Paris Arrow on the bowstring.

A few seconds later, Zhang Heng heard a rustling sound coming out of the bedroom. He quietly walked over to the bedroom. Just as he was two steps away, the system seemed to detect his arrival, and the door automatically opened for him.

A girl in extremely skimpy clothing was squatting on the ground, looking through the cabinet. She had heard the door opening, and she was taken aback when she saw Zhang Heng.

However, it wasn’t him entering the room that shocked her but the weapon that Zhang Heng held in his hand.

“Bows and arrows? Why are you so primitive? Aren’t there equipped with technological stuff? Micro bombs? GPS? Or super metal?”

“Neither. They are just ordinary bow and arrow.” Zhang Heng said. After seeing the girl frowning, he added, “the arrows are applied with a biochemical agent.”

“Oh, now that’s is quite rare.”

“Sorry.” Zhang Heng returned to the place where the girl could not see him. “I didn’t mean it. I thought someone broke into your house and robbed you. By the way, I’m…”

“I know who you are. You are the Bodyguard sent by the G7Z security company to protect me. I received the message saying that you have arrived and you’ve walked past the door. You should sit outside for a while,” Zhang Heng heard her voice coming from the bedroom, and she did not sound embarrassed about the whole thing.

“Hmm.”

Zhang Heng looked around the sofa. However, the sofa was piled with things, and he did not have any place to sit.

About fifteen minutes later, the girl had changed and walked out of the bedroom.

“…”

After seeing how she dressed herself up, Zhang Heng was rendered speechless. The clothes that she wore right now were no different from what she had on her. If he had to compare the two sets of clothes, Zhang Heng had to admit that the clothes that she wore right now were more extreme.

Still as skimpy as she was, her hair was now dyed gold, and she wore a black collar around her neck. A cat’s tail also sprouted from behind her. The tail had to be a high-tech device of some sort, being able to swing and tilt according to her movements. It looked real.

Zhang Heng also couldn’t help but notice her well-crafted facial features. Undeniably, she was a gorgeous lady.

The girl did not seem to realize anything wrong with her current outfit. She then reached out her hand to Zhang Heng and said, “Xu Qian, online streamer.”

“Zhang Heng, your security detail for the next two weeks.” Zhang Heng shook hands with Xu Qian.

“Can you tell me why you wanted to hire a bodyguard?”

“Of course, but you have to wait a while,” Xu Qian said. “I just took an urgent order. I searched all over my place, and I couldn’t find my cat ears. They should be here… Ah, forget it. It’s too late. Zhang Heng, right? I need to work first. Let’s talk in 45 minutes?”

“Okay.”

Xu Qian hurriedly walked to another room where she worked. Zhang Heng saw the camera, some audio equipment, musical instruments, live streaming equipment, and a virtual background wall.

Just when Xu Qian entered her workroom, she seemed to think of something and clapped her hands. A housework robot that looked like BB-8 from “Star Wars” rolled out of the bedroom and began to clean up Xu Qian’s messy living room and bedroom.

“Clean the sofa first, then make a pot of tea.”

After Xu Qian finished speaking, she locked the door to her studio. And Zhang Heng saw that the word “LOCKED” was displayed on the digital door lock.