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2024-10-29 19:42:56I spent almost an hour of sitting and staring at the table where I put the mysterious device. I assumed it was some kind of unknown to me, spying equipment.
I couldn’t help but to wonder if it was connected to Wang Hiro. Did I already have it when I went to a meeting with Liu Wei? Or maybe it was my rescuer at the warehouse who planted it?
Inside my mind I tried to find some argument letting me believe that this black object wasn’
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