Chapter 1680

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“You’ll be my direct successor!”

As for his actual student standing right there? Yeah, he was entirely irrelevant now.

Compared to Claire, the kid was basically useless.

The apprentice remained dead silent. He secretly thought he could have cracked the code if they had just given him a chance.

But seeing Claire’s blistering decryption speed, he knew he would have never matched her pace.

His mentor’s brutal assessment was entirely accurate.

At the FIB headquarters, everyone played their part.

He was actually thrilled at the prospect of someone else shouldering the massive stress.

As for the department head title? Anyone crazy enough to want it could take it.

Had they seen his mentor’s perfectly bald head?

He was entirely too young to sacrifice his hairline to national security.

More importantly, he was single, didn’t even have a girlfriend, and his hair was already thinning dangerously.

“I’m sorry, Mr. Vance, but I have absolutely no plans to switch my major.”

Claire ruthlessly crushed his dreams again.

Raymond was practically hyperventilating. “What is so great about medicine? The cyber division desperately needs you!”

Ulysses mentally scoffed. The medical field desperately needed her too.

If Raymond knew that top surgical programs in Sundara were actively trying to poach her, he wouldn’t be so convinced coding was her true calling.

Then again, a true genius excelled at absolutely everything.

Unlike him, who had struggled just to master basic hand-to-hand combat in the military.

“Everyone has their passions.” Claire wasn’t going to justify her life choices to the old man.

She had only come as a consultant to do them a favor.

Lingering in a top-secret black site was just asking for trouble. What if she accidentally saw something highly classified?

So, after resting for about ten minutes, Claire gave Dane a subtle nod to get them out of there.

Dane immediately picked up on her cue, politely announcing that they had prior engagements.

Raymond was devastatingly reluctant to see her go. As she walked out, he practically forced jar

Spremium mushroom beef

into her hands.

“My family sent this from my hometown. It’s phenomenal. If

like it come back, and

Clavet

treat you to

the executive dining room

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He had remembered her complimenting the pastries and was desperately trying to

bribe her with high-quality regional delicacies.

“Your family sent this? Can the chefs here actually replicate it?”

Raymond hailed from the frozen northeast, and his sister-in-law had made the sauce specifically for him.

He might not have a wife, but he was incredibly close to his family.

He had a fantastic relationship with his brother’s family and had already drafted a

will leaving them a substantial inheritance.

He had never mentioned the money, yet his brother and sister-in-law had always treated him with pure, unwavering affection.

“The kitchen can’t make it, but I can just have my family ship more!”

A plump chef in pristine whites suddenly emerged from a hallway, wielding a massive meat cleaver. “Who says I can’t make it?”

“It’s just mushroom beef sauce!”

“Come back next time, miss, and I’ll whip up a batch that will make Raymond’s sister-in-law’s recipe taste like garbage!”

This chef was no joke; he was a former head chef for elite state banquets.

The FIB headquarters had aggressively recruited him for their exclusive mess hall.

His culinary skills were completely unparalleled.

“Absolutely, next time,” Claire promised smoothly, though whether there would actually be a next time was highly debatable.

Claire left the base, taking Raymond’s precious mushroom beef sauce with her.

He cheerfully escorted her all the

way to the exit, behaving like a completely different person from the grumpy old man who had greeted her

But the second she disappeared, his beloved apprentice gently reminded him, “Sir,

that was your very last jar.”

“What?!”

Raymond let out an agonizing wail of despair, a sound so loud Claire could hear it clearly even after slipping into Dane’s car.

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