391 Public Property (2/2)

”How would I know?” Anthony lowered his head happily to play on his phone. Then, he grabbed his bag and waved his paw in goodbye. ”I'm leaving, have fun among yourselves, call me if you need me.”

Then, he walked out the door and left. It felt like he did not want to stay there even a second longer. Albert did not react fast enough to call him to say, so he could only watch quietly as Anthony left the café and crawled into the taxi that was right at the roadside.

”When did he call the taxi? Looks like he's very well prepared.” Ray was shocked. He had not had a chance to interact so closely with Anthony before. Obviously, his reaction was going to be slower than Albert's.

Albert scratched his head helplessly. ”He probably called the taxi company when we were talking, or he already made an appointment earlier. In any case, from the looks of it, we're not going to get any clues from him. These people are trying to get around us to find the military arms before we do.”

”Then, are we going to give up like that?” Ray widened his eyes out of unwillingness.

”What else can we do?” Albert shrugged and sighed. ”Han Chu was once a member of this country's highest security department. Be it out of his sense of responsibility, loyalty, or whatever else, I believe he has already contacted the Chinese department. This is not our main field, and to cause an international conflict just for this is not worth it.”

Thankfully, Ray had less to lose than Albert. If the FBI were somehow still connected to firearms, then the Egmont Group was one hundred percent an intelligence organization. Even though Ray was a field agent, that did not represent the stance of the entire organization. They fought on paper, not with guns.

Therefore, the regret of being unable to recover the military arms was naturally lower than what Albert would experience.

”By the way, now that I think about it, I am reminded of something.” Ray suddenly changed the topic and said to himself, ”Jennifer and Madam Grace possess great firepower. Other than the ones they managed to sneak into the country, the majority of their firepower depended on the 3D plastic guns, right?”

”You're not wrong about that.” Albert nodded. ”We've already considered that. Even though we have no idea how much they have printed in the past, we are already in possession of the printer and the blueprint…”

He was only halfway through the conversation when Albert's phone-started to ring. He picked it up to answer it. After a brief conversation, Albert who looked so confident earlier was jolted up from his seat. ”Say that again‽”

Ray looked at Albert in shock. Half a minute later, the man put the phone down and was silent for a moment. ”The printer has been transferred.”

”Huh?” Ray was stunned and various conspiracies filled up his mind. ”Is it Jennifer or Grace…”

”It was neither of them!” Albert grabbed his hair out of annoyance. ”It's the actor by the name of Luo from the crew. Since the crew has finished printing all the necessary props, he asked for permission to take the printer home because he wished to use it to print some titbits to play with…”

”Wait, isn't that public property?” Ray could not wrap his head around such a development. ”That's against the rules!”

”That's public property alright, but we're in China…”