Gu Nianzhi endured the pain and removed the bag made of a nun's habit from her back. She took out the brand new underwear that Josephine had given her, found a tank top, and tied it tightly to the arm that had been grazed twice by the bullet. Then she quickly changed into the nun's habit and even wrapped a black scarf around her head.
Even if the enemy had binoculars, they wouldn't be able to see her easily.
In the dark, black clothes wouldn't reflect light, so it was easy to blend in with the night.
After changing, Gu Nianzhi sat down to rest for a while before she finally recovered.
Gu Nianzhi panted slightly and closed her eyes to lean against the cave. She clenched her fists and began to think in her mind. Who had such a deep grudge against her that they had to kill her, and also had the power to mobilize the police and mercenaries to kill her?
Thinking about it this way, the scope should have narrowed down, but she still had no clue.
She had been with Huo Shaoheng and the others for as long as she could remember. Huo Shaoheng had protected her completely, so it was impossible for her to have a grudge against anyone.
Now she was only Gu Xiangwen's youngest daughter. Was it because of that?
Gu Nianzhi immediately thought of her sister, Gu Yanran.
Did she want to kill her?
She quickly shook her head and ruled out Gu Yanran.
It wasn't that she didn't think Gu Yanran wouldn't kill her, but she simply didn't think she had the power to do so.
If Gu Yanran had been able to instruct the Munich police to hire such powerful mercenaries to hunt her down, then she wouldn't have had to suck up to Huo Shaoheng to avoid being hunted down by the mercenaries in the first place.
These mercenaries were really good at pretending. In order to make it look like they accidentally shot her during hunting season, they really used hunting rifles and not sniper rifles.
Gu Nianzhi knew that if they really used sniper rifles or even anti-materiel rifles, she would have been dead already.
What was so strange about an anti-materiel rifle shooting through a tree?
The best anti-materiel rifle could shoot through a brick wall from a mile away and blow up the head of a criminal hiding in a house!
Gu Nianzhi could only be glad that the enemy didn't dare to kill her without restraint and needed to cover up.
Whether they were disguised as police or hunters, they didn't want to reveal their true identities.
Why was that?
It meant that the mastermind must be very afraid of the person behind her, right?
So they desperately used all sorts of identities to disguise themselves.
Who were they afraid of?
Was it Huo Shao or Professor He?
Gu Nianzhi looked down and took out her phone from her trouser pocket. She discovered that there was only 15% battery left, but there was still half a bar of signal left.
Should she try calling Huo Shao and Professor He?
She couldn't call Huo Shaoheng directly, but she could still call Yin Shixiong.
Looking for Brother Xiong was equivalent to looking for Huo Shao. Only they could save her.
Gu Nianzhi's reliance on Huo Shaoheng had become a kind of faith. She believed that he was omnipotent and that he would definitely come to save her!
Before that, she had to save herself. She had to ensure that she was still alive before he arrived.
She dialed Yin Shixiong's number with the help of the starlight, but she couldn't get through.
That half a bar of signal wasn't enough to support the call to the Huaxia Empire.
Gu Nianzhi could only give up and thought of Professor He instead.
She knew that he was still very powerful in America.
But this was Germany, would it be the same?
She also knew that Professor He had gone back because of his father's sudden illness.
Would Professor He be put in a difficult position if she rashly called him?
After some thought, she still tried calling He Zhichu's number.
Just like Yin Shixiong's number, she couldn't get through.
Gu Nianzhi breathed a sigh of relief and stopped trying. She couldn't get through anyway.
Leaning against the wall of the cave, she was half-awake and couldn't sleep well.
The gunshot wound on her arm was probably still infected, because she had a high fever in the middle of the night.
The night in the cave was already very cold, and with her high fever, it was even colder.
Hugging her legs, she sat in the cave and buried her head between her knees. The wound on her arm was already numb, so she couldn't feel the pain anymore. Her head was dizzy, and it wasn't a normal kind of pain.
The pain seemed to have transferred to her head.
She could only grit her teeth and didn't even dare to make a sound.
The night finally passed, and when the light of the day shone into the dark cave, Gu Nianzhi woke up sweating profusely.
Her entire body was drenched in sweat, as if she had been drenched in the rain.
Her legs were weak and weak, and her entire body was sore. Only her arm didn't seem to hurt anymore.
Gu Nianzhi composed herself and slowly untied the vest covering the wound. She touched it with her hand.
The blood had already turned dark brown and stuck to her arm, so she couldn't see what the wound looked like.
However, it really didn't hurt anymore. Even when she pressed it with her hand, it didn't feel as painful as yesterday.
Closing her eyes, she slept for a while in the cave before supporting herself against the mountain wall and standing up slowly.
Her legs didn't seem to be her own. She wanted them to move forward, but they wouldn't listen. It was too strenuous.
She could only move one step and stop to catch her breath for a while before moving forward again.
Walking and stopping like that, she walked for almost four to five hours before exiting the other side of the cave.
As soon as she exited the cave, she saw a dark blue lake.
The lake was surrounded by slightly withered grass, indicating that autumn was approaching.
Further away were the Alps, which were gentler than the mountains on the other side of the cave. They weren't as steep and dangerous.
The nearby lake water was so blue that it looked transparent, like the most clear sapphire had fallen to the ground and turned into lake water.
But when she got closer, she discovered that the lake water should be a light green, the same color as the clearest seawater. The reason it looked blue from afar was because the entire blue sky was reflected in the lake water.
Gu Nianzhi looked up at the sky. This was the top sapphire, just like the sky of a certain Tibetan she had seen on the Internet. It was the closest place to the sky and also the highest place on the entire Blue Planet.
That was the good thing about the Alps. There were lakes and rivers everywhere. No wonder the major rivers that ran through Europe all originated from the Alps.
Gu Nianzhi was a little more cautious this time.
She looked out of the cave for a while to make sure there was no one around before slowly walking out of the cave and towards the lake.
There were some dandelions growing by the lake. Their green leaves supported small white fluffy balls that swayed in the breeze.
Gu Nianzhi walked to a bluestone by the lake and squatted down. She put the vest she had tied around her wound in the lake water to clean it.
The vest was stained with her blood and dyed the lake water near the shore a light pink.
She dipped it in the lake water and gently washed her arm that was stained dark brown with blood. She did it bit by bit, afraid to touch the unscathed wound.
Dandelions could stop bleeding. She planned to dig up a few dandelions and crush them to apply to the wound if the blood didn't stop flowing.
These were the contents of Huo Shaoheng's field survival course for the Special Operations Forces.
She had followed Huo Shaoheng all those years. She didn't go to school for the first few years, but the things she learned were definitely no less than in school.
Her arm was washed clean bit by bit, and the dark brown blood stains were gone. Her arm was clean and white, without a single pore to be seen.
As for the wound from the bullet, where was it?
Gu Nianzhi felt from head to toe but couldn't see where the wound was.
If she hadn't just washed off the dark brown blood stains, she would have thought she hadn't been grazed by the bullet at all.
Gu Nianzhi touched her arm, a little confused.
What was wrong with her?
Was it her problem, or was there something wrong with the world?
She had a fracture the day before and was as good as new the next day.
She had been grazed by a bullet the day before and lost so much blood, but today she was as good as nothing.
And it was all a high fever. After one night, she was back to normal.
Could it be that her high fever was a miracle cure?
In the future, she wouldn't need to take medicine when she got sick or injured. She would recover from a fever …
Gu Nianzhi thought about it, but felt it was too ridiculous.
She pouted and hugged her knees as she sat by the lake, not knowing where to go.
Ever since she came out of the small cave, she understood that she had probably passed through a small mountain range in the Alps. Now she was on the other side of the mountain.
She sat by the lake for a long time until her stomach growled. She finally sighed and resigned to her fate to find something to eat.
There were fish in the lake, but it seemed to be deeper here than the small river on the other side of the mountain. The fish wouldn't swim to the shallow shore, and she didn't dare jump into the lake. It would be difficult to catch them.
She couldn't eat fish, so she had to think of another way.
She definitely had to find berries, and then she had to find bird eggs.
After what happened the day before, Gu Nianzhi now avoided everyone who hunted in the Alps.
She knew she was overreacting, but she only had one person and one life now. No matter how careful she was, she couldn't be too careful.
She walked around the nearby mountains for a long time and found a nest of bird eggs. She took four or five out, then gathered a bunch of berries and returned to the lake.
She started a fire, buried the eggs, and roasted them. Then she ate the berries to supplement her vitamins.
Relying on these things, she walked and stopped, and after two days of walking along the lake, which was extraordinarily large, she at last saw a house.
Or rather, she saw a wooden house standing on the grassy hillside.
From her angle from the river, she could see the wooden walls painted red, the black log roof, and the white fence around the house.
What excited her the most was that there was a satellite TV receiver on the roof of the wooden house!
She saw the umbrella-shaped satellite antenna emitting a silvery white glow in the evening sun. She quickly took out her phone to look at it.
There was only 5% power left, but her phone actually showed two bars!
She wanted to cry!
Gu Nianzhi's hands trembled as she quickly opened the contact list on her phone. She immediately found Yin Shixiong's number and called him, but it was voicemail again.
She almost thought that Yin Shixiong's phone had also been hijacked by a Trojan.
But on second thought, with Brother Ze around, how could Brother Xiong's phone be hijacked?!
That was impossible.
Then what was the reason?
She quickly thought of the time difference.
It was around six in the evening in Germany's daylight time. It should be midnight in the Imperial Capital, so perhaps Brother Xiong was already asleep.
But this time, Gu Nianzhi didn't dare leave a message. She quietly hung up.
She remembered that she had called Yin Shixiong and Zhao Liangze the first day she was in danger and left a message. However, neither of them had returned her calls until now.
This was also a rather strange thing.
Gu Nianzhi felt uneasy, but she quickly shook her head and didn't think about it anymore.
Looking up at the wooden house on the hillside, she decided to stay there for the night and charge her phone.
Of course, if this family didn't have iPhones, then there was nothing she could do. She was just unlucky and couldn't blame anyone else.
Gu Nianzhi washed her hands and face by the lake again and combed her hair with her hand before walking along the mountain path to the hillside.
Behind the fairytale-like red and black wooden house was a towering forest. The mountain peak behind the forest was covered in pure white snow.
Red, black, green, and white intertwined and almost reflected the glow of a rainbow under the golden sunset.
Gu Nianzhi squinted to admire the beautiful scenery and slowly walked to the white fence of the wooden house.
The front yard of the house was paved with a green lawn that was neatly trimmed. White curtains fluttered on the windows, and roses were planted under the windows with beautiful, bowl-sized flowers.
The roses looked like they had just been watered. There were crystal clear water droplets on the petals that slid down from time to time and fell into the grass, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
There was no one in the front yard, but Gu Nianzhi could hear the sound of someone chopping wood coming from the backyard.
She thought about it and didn't call out a greeting. Instead, she walked around the fence and walked in the direction of the sound.
The wooden house faced north, and the setting sun shone into the backyard. The setting sun melted gold, and the evening clouds merged.
A well-built, bare-chested man had his back to Gu Nianzhi as he chopped wood with a large ax.
Near the gate, there was a very handsome motorcycle. On the ground beside it, there were ten or so thick tree trunks, and on the other side, there was a tall pile of firewood, which should have been cut down. They were only about a foot long and an inch square, and they were stacked neatly.
It was obvious that they were prepared for the winter fireplace.
Gu Nianzhi clicked her tongue and thought that it was rare for people to use such a primitive fireplace in this day and age.
The fireplaces she had seen before all used electricity or gas to simulate natural firewood, but they didn't actually burn wood.
This family seemed to be a real German family that burned firewood, right?
Gu Nianzhi stood to the side and watched for a while.
The man was well-built, and his muscles were unparalleled. His back was to the sun, and beads of sweat rolled down his light bronze skin.
The tendons on his arms were bulging, and his shoulders were broad. However, they suddenly contracted at the waist, revealing a perfect inverted deltoid. It had the physical beauty of an ancient Greek sculpture.
The man only wore a pair of jeans, and one of his long legs in knee-length rain boots was raised and pressed against the workbench. One hand was pressed against the tree trunk, and the other was sawing. His arms moved vigorously, full of strength and rhythm. It was a standard nine-headed body.
This figure reminded Gu Nianzhi of Huo Shaoheng. She was a little dazed as she stared at the man's back.
When the man finished sawing a tree trunk, he turned around leisurely and glanced at Gu Nianzhi. He calmly bent down to pick up his jacket from the workbench and put it on.
He had a cigarette in his mouth. He had a high nose, deep eyes, blond hair, and blue eyes. His black eyebrows were very neatly shaped, as though they had been measured with a ruler. It made his eyes look extraordinarily beautiful.
The way the man held the cigarette in his mouth also resembled Huo Shaoheng. They both had a careless indifference and calmness, as though they were thousands of mountains and rivers away, but also had a calmness of being close at hand.
His facial features were the classic Germanic beauty. There was a small groove on his chin, and when he was expressionless, he had a religious air of abstinence. It was a strong contrast to his aggressive figure.
Gu Nianzhi stared at the man smoking and momentarily forgot to speak.
Perhaps she was staring at his cigarette too intently. The man thought for a moment, took the cigarette out of his mouth, threw it on the grass, and stepped on it.
Gu Nianzhi's gaze followed the arc of the cigarette to the knee-length rain boots on the man's feet. She watched as the boots brought its owner closer to her step by step, and finally stopped three steps away from her.
It was a very polite and safe distance, and Gu Nianzhi's nervousness eased.
The man said in German, "What's the matter?"
It was supposed to be a powerful tone, but because his voice was so gentle, it was like the ripples of a breeze on the surface of a lake. It sounded like it was trying to drill into her heart.
It was another strong contrast. The man with the overflowing male hormones was actually speaking so gently. It was so incongruous!
Gu Nianzhi's ears twitched involuntarily, and she completely forgot the German she had just learned.
She had learned German at the last minute, so she could only understand some daily conversations, as well as some legal and news terms. It made it difficult for her to speak normally.
Sighing, she blushed and directly asked in English, "Do you speak English?"
The man seemed to be taken aback, and the outline of his face was illuminated even more deeply by the setting sun. He was cold and silent, and his blue eyes that were like a lake reflected the sky and clouds, strongly attracting Gu Nianzhi's gaze.
He pursed his thin lips and stared at Gu Nianzhi. After a while, he nodded slightly and switched to English, "Yes, a little."
His English accent was that of a normal German, with some German pronunciation habits.
Gu Nianzhi composed herself and smiled at him. She said in fluent English, "That's great. It's like this, I came to the Alps with my friends and have been walking for a few days. I wanted to see the scenery here, but I got lost. This place is too remote, and my phone often has no signal. I wanted to ask if you have a charger here. An iPhone charger? "
Because she saw that the owner of the place was an adult man, Gu Nianzhi instantly changed her mind and didn't want to stay the night. She only wanted to borrow his charger to charge her phone and hinted that she had friends with her. She didn't directly say that she was alone like she did at the convent.
Gu Nianzhi had always been a very cautious person, and she was even more alert now. She was extremely wary of everyone.
The man looked at her from head to toe, from her tattered sportswear to the sports shoes he couldn't tell the color of, and the small black bag on her back.
She clearly looked like she was lost, but she actually said she had friends.
He raised his eyebrows and looked at Gu Nianzhi silently for a while.
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