Silence fell over the bend in the alley.
With a gun trained on her, Mo Li turned pale. Regret and frustration flooded through her, and she silently cursed herself for being so stupid.
The moment she rounded the bend, she should have noticed that one of the three men was missing.
But she had been so eager to arrest them, and the two men with backpacks had distracted her so thoroughly, that she had completely overlooked the man in the baseball cap.
Seeing Mo Li held at gunpoint, the two men wailing on the ground slowly got up as though nothing had happened, cold smirks on their faces.
"Boss, you really thought ahead, having us play along with this chick from the start. Otherwise, we couldn't have forced her to reveal who she was."
Mo Li's expression changed at those words.
So they had seen through her disguise long ago. They had even laid a trap in advance, just waiting for her to walk into it.
I let my guard down!
"A woman following us all the way here on her own? You've got some serious guts. The police are hunting us right now, and we happen to need a hostage. Having a cop in our hands will save us a lot of trouble." The man in the baseball cap held his gun, a triumphant smile spreading across his face.
"Get some rope and tie this woman up. Don't let her escape. With her around, we can sleep easy tonight."
The other two nodded and exchanged wicked grins, then took off their backpacks and rummaged inside for rope.
Mo Li bitterly regretted her mistake. These three murderers had already been difficult enough to deal with, armed with a gun and hardened by criminal experience. Now that they had her as