Brando abandoned his original plan. He did not dare contact the local fixer who had already arranged a safer place for him, and instead left in a hurry.
They had a large truck. Brandy drove it along back roads through the countryside.
"Where are we going, brother?" Brandy asked.
Brando frowned. They did not actually need to go anywhere. They could hide and wait for Dis to descend.
But their safe house had been exposed. A hasty move to another location would surely be noticed.
Besides, plenty of people had already seen the truck. With two foreigners inside, it was bound to leave an impression.
"We can escape for now, but sooner or later they'll catch us," Brando said.
"Then let's find a forest deep in the mountains and hide there," Brandy said. "Even if we have to live like wild men, we can't let them catch us."
Brando jabbed him in the head. "Use your brain. Where are you going to find a remote forest around Hangzhou? Any place like that would be a tourist attraction."
"Even if we hide in some ordinary rural village, they can search village by village until they find us!"
"Without a safe house that can withstand a search, it's only a matter of time before they find us, wherever we hide."
Brandy pressed his lips together. "Then what do we do?"
Brando brought up an electronic map. Several red dots blinked on it.
They marked State Security personnel he had tagged. Apart from Huang Ji's group, he had secretly planted Spore in everyone who had shown up during the earlier capture of the Ascenders.
Brando sighed. "Find somewhere secluded to hide first. Let me think."
Brandy nodded and steered the truck toward the remote countryside. Fortunately, he had studied the maps over the