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PENG AND SAM REACHED A busy road after a brief jog from their immobilized van at the university campus. Flagging a taxi, Sam transferred to the driver with an awkward neck touch as he climbed in, then waited until Peng stopped another cab and was safely off.
The taxi driver was a 30-something-year-old man who smoked a lot and had a grumpy disposition. Sam accessed the driver’s mind to find a nearby convenience store where he bought a disposable pre-paid phone which he put on the passenger seat for later.
Using the driver's phone again, Sam looked up the Zhangjiakou facility. Mapping the route, he pulled out into the street to get underway and quickly put some distance between him and Li. There shouldn’t be any way Li could track him in this new host, but he had somehow tracked him to
