Gu Nianzhi's anxious and panicked heart gradually calmed down. She smiled as she watched the deer lick all the chocolate in her palm clean, then patted its head. "Go back, your mother must be worried."
The deer turned back with every step, and this time, it ran into the forest and couldn't be seen anymore.
Gu Nianzhi turned to the river to wash her hands and looked at her phone. It seemed to have dried out.
Gu Nianzhi pressed the power button with all her might, her heart pounding.
After a while, the familiar black and white iPhone appeared on the phone screen. It was finally turned on.
Gu Nianzhi sighed deeply and entered the password to open the phone. No one had called or texted her.
She looked at the signal bar on the phone and saw it was "No-service."
She couldn't go online, but she could still try calling.
Gu Nianzhi called Smith again, but this time, her call went to voicemail again.
How could this be?
Gu Nianzhi frowned at her phone and thought that even if she didn't call or text Smith for help, they would've noticed she was missing.
It had been three days since she left the hotel.
Moreover, she had called and left messages for all four of them!
What were the chances that all four of them would ignore her voicemail?!
From a statistical point of view, this was absolutely impossible!
What Gu Nianzhi didn't know was that the morning after she left the hotel, Smith and the other three had received a text from Gu Nianzhi's number. It said she was going to visit a friend and would be out for a few days. She would be back in 10 days and told them not to worry.
Gu Nianzhi was an adult and had her own private life, so Smith and the others didn't think much of it.
Also, they were very busy now. The German branch of the American law firm was in the midst of preparations, and the hospital had sent news that Seth had escaped. Smith was furious and was negotiating with the Munich hospital and police.
"What the hell are you doing?! Didn't you say Seth wasn't seriously injured?! How could he escape?! Two police officers couldn't even look after a seriously injured patient. You're all useless! "Smith roared in the police station, so angry that the veins on his neck bulged.
Smith rushed to the police station to urge them to arrest Seth and bring him to justice.
News of Seth's escape quickly spread throughout the world, and even the people of the Huaxia Empire knew about it.
Because the case had caused quite a stir in the Huaxia Empire, news of Seth's escape once again caused a stir.
Social media exploded again.
When Ma Qiqi saw the message, she was so angry that she flipped the table in her dorm!
She quickly texted Gu Nianzhi.
[Love Meng Qiqi]: Nianzhi, Nianzhi! How could you let that scum escape?!
[Love Meng Qiqi]: Nianzhi, Nianzhi! You must give it your all! This scum! The civilians would not be appeased if they were not killed!
It had been two days since the message was sent, but Gu Nianzhi hadn't replied.
Ma Qiqi thought that Gu Nianzhi must be feeling terrible and didn't want to talk, so she didn't rush her or text her.
She believed that Gu Nianzhi would contact her after dealing with this matter.
Gu Nianzhi walked along the river for a day, but still couldn't find a way out.
There seemed to be no end in the distance. The Alps stretched and curved, and she couldn't see where the way out was.
When it was getting dark, Gu Nianzhi found a small cave. The entrance was very small, and the ground was round. It could only accommodate two people sitting inside, and it seemed to be a bit deep inside. It was very dark, and she couldn't see the bottom at a glance.
There shouldn't be any other animals here because the entire cave was very clean. There were no signs of wild animals, but there was a faint fishy smell. However, it should be fine after a little smoke.
At least there was a place to cover her head, so she planned to spend the night there.
With the help of the high-quality Zippo lighter, she could not only start a fire, but she could also eat as much cooked food as possible every day.
She had been eating berries so often these past few days that her teeth were about to collapse from the sourness.
Before going to bed, she found some leaves and dried branches and lit them at the entrance of the cave to get rid of the smell and to ward off wild animals.
The deeper she went into the mountains, the more obvious the traces of wild animals became.
Gu Nianzhi felt something following her in the afternoon. Later, when she was drinking water at the spring, she realized it was a wolf.
Gu Nianzhi was a bit scared, but she also knew it was useless to be afraid. There was no one here to help her solve these difficulties. She could only rely on herself.
That was why people said that human potential was limitless. When forced to that point, it was impossible not to grow.
Gu Nianzhi lamented that her previous pretentiousness was only because there were people who doted on her. Now that she was alone in the wilderness, she could survive even if she ate and slept in the open. She wasn't so delicate anymore.
She walked out of the small cave with her newly made walking stick and went out to find firewood.
Although her leg no longer hurt, she still made herself a walking stick, using it as a walking stick to explore the way.
The mountains were high and the forest was dense. Weeds grew wildly, and some places were as tall as half a person. She could scare away many wild animals by hitting them with a stick.
She didn't have the energy to fight those fierce beasts for now.
However, she couldn't bear to kill those innocent and stupid fawns to satisfy her hunger.
In the end, she still had to go to the river every day to fish …
She was about to throw up from eating grilled fish without seasoning.
Gu Nianzhi sighed and resigned to her fate as she walked out.
There were berries in the forest, so she definitely had to pick them. Although she was already tired of eating them, she still had to eat them to supplement vitamin C, which could strengthen the immune system and prevent colds.
The weather was getting colder every night now, so she didn't want to get sick again.
She walked into the forest with the walking stick and carefully searched around. There weren't many berries here. It wasn't that they didn't grow much, but they seemed to have all been picked away or destroyed.
There were many crushed berries on the ground, and the shrubs that grew the berries had been pushed around. She didn't know who was so violent.
Picking berries was fine, but they had to destroy the roots that people relied on for their livelihood.
Gu Nianzhi happily speculated as she walked into the depths of the forest.
There was a tall and straight beech in front of her, and there were large clusters of berry bushes under it. The berries on them were like small lanterns, full and bright.
Gu Nianzhi, who had been eating berries for several days, was attracted. She couldn't help swallowing and quickly rushed over.
When she was about to reach the bottom of the tree, the tree suddenly shook violently, and she could hear howling coming from above.
Gu Nianzhi looked up curiously and froze.
Between the tall branches of the beech tree, there was a small, black animal stuck in the middle of it.
It howled and looked down at Gu Nianzhi under the tree. At the same time, it raised its two little black paws and kept hitting the tree trunk.
The beech shook and many leaves fell.
Gu Nianzhi was speechless.
It was actually a black bear cub stuck in the tree!
It must have been born recently because it looked about the same size as a koala, but it was much darker. It was a real black bear.
Gu Nianzhi closed her eyes. She didn't want to be nosy, but the black bear cub kept howling above her head like a kitten that had just been weaned. Gu Nianzhi couldn't bear it anymore.
Eventually, she couldn't bear it anymore and ate a few bites of the berries she had just picked. She hugged the beech trunk and climbed up.
The black bear cub watched as Gu Nianzhi quickly climbed up the tree to a branch not far from it. It immediately extended its two little black paws to her and acted like it wanted her to hug it.
Gu Nianzhi was speechless.
Did the black bear cub turn into a spirit?
Didn't you know that animals can't turn into spirits after the founding of the People's Republic?
Gu Nianzhi pointed at the bear cub on the tree and spoke in Chinese. The black bear cub's dark eyes were like marbles. It stared at her without blinking and had no idea what she was saying.
Gu Nianzhi muttered to herself for a while and found it funny.
The black bear cub wasn't a Hua Xia bear, so it could still turn into a spirit, right?
Amused by her own thoughts, she slowly moved from the branch to look at the bear cub.
It turned out that one of its chubby little legs was entangled by the vines on the tree.
The vines were not only thick, but also extremely tough.
The bear cub was probably a newborn and only knew how to use brute force. However, the harder it tried, the tighter the vines wrapped around it.
Gu Nianzhi patted the bear cub's head and whispered, "Don't move. I'll untie the vines for you and you'll be free."
The black bear cub's tiny marble-like eyes stared at her. She didn't know if it understood her, but it didn't move and waited for her to untie the vines.
Gu Nianzhi obviously didn't have the strength to untie it herself. She took out her Swiss Army knife and unsheathed a small, sharp knife to cut the thinnest part of the vines.
After cutting for about a minute, the vine was finally cut off.
The bear cub's short legs quickly shrank back. I'm saved!
It howled again, this time in a cheerful and shrill voice. Gu Nianzhi also laughed.
As soon as the vines were untied, the bear cub "fell" from the tree. Although it was chubby and small, it walked on the tree trunk like it was on flat ground. It quickly scurried to the ground.
Gu Nianzhi also came down from the tree. She carefully climbed down the tree trunk and moved much slower than the bear cub.
By the time she stood on the ground, the bear cub was long gone.
Gu Nianzhi smiled and shook her head. She continued with her "grand plan" of picking berries.
After picking a few, Gu Nianzhi suddenly felt something was wrong.
The forest was silent, and the hairs on the back of her neck stood on end.
She quickly turned around and almost fainted!
She saw an adult black bear staring at her covetously as it strode over from the opposite side of the forest.
Gu Nianzhi's entire body trembled. Without another word, she threw away the berries in her hand and hugged the beech tree trunk from before. She quickly climbed up the tree again!
She didn't know why she chose this tree to climb again. It was probably because she had just climbed it, and it was unfamiliar the first time, but familiar the second time …
This time, she did her best and climbed much faster than before.
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