After the car entered the car wash, the roller shutter was pulled down, and Lance opened the car door and sat inside.
"I heard you failed to get promoted?"
Panda frowned slightly, then softened his tone proactively, "They parachuted in a high-level agent, so there's no position available here for me to move up."
After all, he had benefitted from Lance, so he had to provide an explanation.
"How's your relationship with your colleagues, and with this parachuted high-level agent?"
Panda wasn't quite sure of Lance's purpose for asking these questions, but he still answered truthfully, "It's just so-so at best, after all, they are high-level agents. If not on a mission, we likely wouldn't even meet."
"And...", he paused, glanced at Lance meaningfully, "I've been quite prominent lately!"
Lance nodded knowingly; being prominent surely meant that some high-level agents might not be happy about it.
A junior agent outshining them at work would make them seem quite incompetent.
