"You actually hid it near the police station? That was a pretty good idea!"
When Mindy pointed at a vending machine and said the thing was in there, a scene from Captain America 2 surfaced in Li Congxin's mind. But after taking in his surroundings, he still couldn't help giving Mindy a thumbs-up and praising her.
When he reached the vending machine, Li Congxin peered through the glass, looking over the shelves inside one by one in hopes of finding something resembling a flash drive. However, he found nothing.
Wait, could someone have beaten us to the flash drive?
Thinking this, Li Congxin turned toward Mindy... Where was Mindy?
"Damn it, where did the flash drive go?"
Following the sound, he saw that Mindy had actually hidden behind the vending machine and was lying on the ground, searching for something.
After hesitating for a moment, Li Congxin still couldn't help asking, "Um, didn't you put it inside the vending machine?"
Mindy raised her head and said unhappily, "If anyone could just stuff things into vending machines, the homeless would have stolen everything inside long ago!"
Shaking his head, Li Congxin began warily surveying his surroundings. Someone unrelated wouldn't go to such lengths to take a flash drive whose purpose they didn't even know. That meant it had most likely been taken by The Hand or someone else.
If it was The Hand, they would never find it. But if it was someone else, that person might still be nearby!
Sure enough, just as Li Congxin turned around to look in every direction, he saw a bald Black man in a black trench coat walking toward them. Combined with his skin tone, that outfit would have been perfect camouflage at night. As long as he didn't open his mouth, he could