As intelligent as she was, she didn't overreach. This was indeed a particularly endearing character trait.
Meanwhile, Cui Que maintained real-time surveillance of the six windows, which continued until fifteen minutes later.
The people she had contacted finally arrived—
A Floating Car stopped at the spot Cui Que had indicated. It was the parking lot designated for the hotel's Floating Cars.
Before they appeared on the screen, Cui Que decisively cut off the hotel's external cameras and seamlessly looped a section of surveillance footage she had previously recorded, allowing the time to continue ticking normally even as the footage repeated indefinitely.
This footage, originally devoid of any activity and lasting only three seconds, completely obscured any intelligence regarding the arrival of reinforcements.