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•-Shen - Xiaoting-• chapter 2 part 1

I was walking down to my office building when I got a call 'xiaoting, come to the south top wing NOW.' great. I started running as fast as I could while looking calm, or at least trying to not raise any unwanted suspicion.
When I entered the building I slammed the door open and ran off to the top floor while hearing lots of people yelling and complaining..
"What happened!?" Closing the door behind me.

'We've gotten intel that a song that could hypnotize people was leaked ' and I walk towards the white boards, red string all around trying to pinpoint the exact location it stemmed from. "This is all useless!" I slam my hands on the desk sighing and ripping off the string 'WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?' "obviously it's from the capital, for it to have the highest effect it needs to be in the middle of the country." throwing a dart at a red dot in the map. Swing entertainment building.
I slid the chair and sat down "swing entertainment is trying something again and that something Is not good." "They're hypnotizing members." I sigh 'why would they do that!? It has no meaning!?' I sit and think for a second, why? Why would they do that? Couldn't they just do regular auditions until it hit me. Gasping, I figured it out, I got their plan in my hands. smirking, I speak up "swing entertainment has always been about trying something new, being the best, so what if they hypnotized them to make them perfect?"
I wait a second to see people's reactions "to make them the 'perfect' idols, if they are hypnotized, they can only do what hypnosis tells you to do, so what if they tell you to not make mistakes? To be perfect? You will. And, the company gets more money, it's a perfect plan."

They looked at me with puzzled faces but quickly understood 'miss, there's a problem ' quickly turning around I looked at the man with a slightly concerned face 'the hypnosis in Korea, we need to send an agent far away for the mission to be completed..' "well then, send your best, this is important." "We need all hands on deck. Do you hear me!?" 'yes ma'am ' 'the closest plane to Korea is tomorrow at 8 am.' dammit, I thought I would have a nice rest tomorrow but, I guess not "fine, send me and others to Korea and, keep a few to train the newbies, I'll let you know when we land" standing up from my chair and leaving the room.

"Clocking out already 'Ting?" After hearing the question I just simply nod and leave . When I came home it was Already 11pm, how long did I spend at work? Was it overtime? I don't even remember... I need to get to sleep, now I have a long trip ahead of me.
I just went to sleep, was it easy? No, not at all, I could possibly die from this which didn't help. One thing I couldn't help was thinking about that .. hypnosis... How was that even, possible? How can hypnosis exist? And how can one person control it? Such a powerful thing?... These thoughts just kept clouding my mind. I tried stopping it but, I just couldn't help it. C'mon 'Ting , you are one of the strongest, most respected Chinese spies! No... One of the strongest and respected spies.. in general! C'mon, you CAN do this.

YOU WILL NOT FAIL 'TING!
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I woke up finally, after what felt like an eternity of trying to sleep. it was already 5 am, I woke up before my alarm and turned it off, got in my uniform, took my bags and left for the airport at 6 am, half an hour passed and I wasn't even there.. could I really make it? I did, I guess I was stressed for nothing. It was a private plane so I found where it was and got on with my expeditions teammates, we had people from different districts. A girl named Sakamoto Mashiro from the Japanese district and a few others who weren't as talkative as her.

In my district we had many people I was familiar with, some of my close "friends" in the company and some newbie the higher-ups thought had potential. We told the manager to keep the newbie back because the mission was way too dangerous but they wanted her here. like they wanted to kill her.