Reinitz heard her scream and quickly turned around to grab her hand to stop her from slipping forward. "Be careful, the mountain roads here are not easy to walk on. [0↑ 9 △ Small ↓ Say △ Net] "
If she had really slipped, she would have rolled down the hill.
Reinitz was very worried about her, so he simply held her hand and led her away, not letting go of her anymore.
Gu Nianzhi was also shocked. She wasn't good at walking on mountain roads, so it was better to follow Reinitz.
The two of them walked in silence for a while. Reinitz also looked back at Mother Hanna's house and suddenly said to Gu Nianzhi, "… I was adopted by Mother Hanna."
Gu Nianzhi was speechless.
Reinitz was lost in his memories.
"I was an orphan and grew up in an orphanage. I was only adopted by Mother Hanna when I was 12. "Reinitz paused and felt a lump in his throat." I'm very grateful to her. Without her, I wouldn't be who I am now. "
Gu Nianzhi didn't know what to say. After a while, she comforted him sympathetically. "Mother Hanna is so kind. Good people will be rewarded. You'll be fine."
"Really?" Reinitz didn't seem to believe it. "Is that what you Asians believe in? Good people will be rewarded? "
"Yes." Gu Nianzhi blinked. "What's there to doubt about?"
Reinitz smiled and didn't argue with her. He continued, "I was very naughty in the orphanage when I was young. No one wanted to adopt a naughty little boy. When I turned ten, I understood that if I was naughty, no one would be willing to adopt me, so I began to be obedient and well-behaved. But at that time, I was already eleven years old, and very few people were willing to adopt children older than ten. "
Gu Nianzhi glanced at the gentle and refined Reinitz. If it weren't for the ruthlessness and decisiveness Reinitz displayed when he fired the gun just now, Gu Nianzhi would've always thought that Reinitz was a gentle gentleman.
Of course, he was also a gentleman now, but he wasn't gentle. He had his own edge, and Gu Nianzhi admired that about him.
He acted when he needed to and didn't hesitate.
But whether he was gentle or ruthless, it didn't match the word "naughty."
Gu Nianzhi couldn't help but think about what kind of child Reinitz was when he was young …
"… I was very depressed. I thought that I would never become good again. I wanted to continue being naughty and bad. When I was 12, Mother Hanna came to the orphanage and adopted me, "Reinitz said lightly, his expression extremely calm.
Gu Nianzhi could only hold his hand to comfort him.
Reinitz returned the handshake and smiled at her. "So what you said about good people being rewarded, I hope it can come true."
Then Mother Hanna would be all right.
"I will." Gu Nianzhi nodded with absolute confidence.
Reinitz pursed his thin lips and changed the subject. "Do you know who the people who were after your life today were?"
Gu Nianzhi felt that she had to be honest with Reinitz. Of course, she had to be honest where she could be honest, and if she couldn't, she was sorry, but she still couldn't tell the truth.
She thought about it and chose what she could tell Reinitz. "I'm a lawyer, and I offended a very powerful person. Nine days ago, he set up a trap to kill me, but I managed to escape. "
"And then?" Reinitz didn't ask who she offended and only asked how she escaped.
"… I rolled down the cliff and landed on the other side of the mountain." Gu Nianzhi pointed to the mountains across from them. "Later, they chased me again. I panicked and ran through a small cave over there. [0↑ 9 △ Small ↓ Say △ Net] "
"Yeah, I know that small cave. I used to play there with my friends when I was young." Reinitz nodded and believed Gu Nianzhi's words.
"Really? You have friends? " Gu Nianzhi asked curiously. "Didn't you say that Mother Hanna's family was the only one in a five-mile radius?"
"That's right. There used to be other people living here, but they all moved away. In the end, Mother Hanna was the only one left." Reinitz was very emotional. "After I went to university, I went to work in Berlin and came back once a year."
"Oh? That's such a coincidence. "Gu Nianzhi sighed from the bottom of her heart." You see, good people are rewarded. I helped others, so when someone tries to harm me, I can meet a good person to help me. "
She purposely looked at Reinitz to indicate that he was a "good person."
Reinitz looked at her with a smile and deliberately said, "But lawyers are usually bad people. It's all in the movies and on TV."
Gu Nianzhi was speechless.
His words made so much sense that she was actually speechless.
"I'm just kidding." Reinitz was in a better mood and changed the topic again. "Logically speaking, you jumped off the cliff. The Alps are so big and uninhabited, so it shouldn't have been easy for them to find you."
"I also find it strange …" Gu Nianzhi tilted her head and thought about it. "In the beginning, there were four fake police officers chasing me. I could explain that it was because I called the police and that the police officers were in cahoots with the bad guys. Then in the nunnery, I could also say that it was the Reverend Mother who called the police. But then I met the hunters and the people who chased your house. I can't explain that. "
Actually, she had a vague guess in her mind, but it didn't make sense. So she kept wondering if she had overlooked some details.
"I still think there must be a reason." Reinitz also analyzed for her. "If you weren't alone and were with friends, I could say that someone might have betrayed you. But you were always running for your life. Who would betray you? Who would betray you? "
Gu Nianzhi nodded and thought deeply. "Yes, yes, I was always alone. How did those people find me? They found me so accurately and in such a timely manner. It was almost as if I had betrayed myself … "
After saying that, she suddenly froze.
How could she have forgotten?!
Her phone!
All she could think about was that Smith and the others' phones might have been installed with a Trojan horse, so they could intercept her calls and texts. But what about her own phone?
She was very sure that her phone wasn't installed with a Trojan horse, but as long as it was a phone, it would emit a signal when it was turned on. Regardless of whether there was a base station nearby, it would automatically search for a network it could connect to.
Gu Nianzhi quickly remembered that when she saw the nunnery, she immediately turned on her phone to search for a signal!
Similarly, when she saw Mother Hanna's cabin, her first reaction was to turn on her phone to search for a signal!
She still remembered the ecstasy she felt when she saw two bars of signal on her phone …
And after every ecstasy, there would be a chase after her like a shadow.
It was as if these people knew where she was.
Reinitz's words just now reminded her that in a wild area like the Alps, how could these people accurately find a person's location in the vast mountains?
This kind of technical method was no less than looking for a needle in a haystack!
But what if this "needle" had a positioning system?!
For example, Europe's Copernicus Satellite Positioning System!
Then this satellite positioning system could completely locate the "needle" with a margin of error of less than 10 meters.
A range of 10 meters was nothing to the ocean or the mountains.
It was like exposing herself to the enemy.
Gu Nianzhi raised her phone and looked at it expressionlessly.
She really didn't think that the other party would have the ability to mobilize Europe's Copernicus Satellite Positioning System!
Most people knew that cell phone signals could be tracked by satellites, but Gu Nianzhi knew from the Nandou Satellite Positioning System incident that it took a lot of energy and cost to use satellites to track a specific cell phone signal!
In order to track a specific cell phone signal, the satellite orbit change alone would cost hundreds of millions of dollars, not to mention the large team cooperation needed to achieve the effect of "shadow following."
It definitely wasn't something that could be tracked easily, and not any small fry's phone was worth tracking …
So in the beginning, she didn't even think about it!
Now that she understood this logic, she wanted to give herself a thumbs up.
She was so valuable that it was worth spending hundreds of millions of dollars to take her life. How awesome!
So she had to protect herself well. She couldn't lose such a valuable life for nothing!
And the identity of the person behind the scenes was even higher than she had previously estimated.
Gu Nianzhi sneered in her heart. It looked like the other party was pressuring her step by step, but the truth was that they were at their wit's end and were giving themselves away more and more.
Because there were really only a handful of people who could mobilize Copernicus Satellite Positioning System.
Reinitz turned around, and his heart also jumped. "… Is there a problem with your phone?"
"They have someone who knows my phone number, so when I turned it on, they used the satellite positioning system to find my location. They really think too highly of me. " Gu Nianzhi's voice was flat as she pressed the open button on the phone. After scanning her fingerprint, she opened the phone and entered Setting. She pressed Reset Everything (Reinstall, destroy all records).
Everything inside was reformatted and erased, so the phone returned to its original state.
The iPhone's sapphire screen flashed a few times, then dimmed and went out.
Gu Nianzhi looked at the phone that had accompanied her for two years and fondled it reluctantly for a while. Then she asked Reinitz, "Is there a lake or a river nearby?"
"Yeah, the most important thing here is a lake or a river." Reinitz knew what she wanted to do, so he led her onto a path that led down the mountain.
The two of them didn't go far before Gu Nianzhi saw another lake. It was even larger and deeper than the one she saw near Mother Hanna's house.
The sky and clouds were reflected in the lake, and it was so blue that it was hard to tell where the sky was and where the lake was.
Gu Nianzhi looked down at her phone and gritted her teeth. She suddenly raised her arm and drew a beautiful arc in the air before throwing her rose gold phone.
Splash!
The water splashed on the surface of the lake and drowned the rose gold mobile phone.
After throwing the phone into the lake, Gu Nianzhi felt empty in her heart. It was like she had lost her support and had nothing to rely on.
"Let's go." Reinitz gently hugged her shoulders. "It's okay. When we get out of here, I'll give you a phone."
Gu Nianzhi snapped back to reality and smiled at Reinitz. She shook her head and said, "It's okay. I don't want to use a phone for now. If I need one, I can buy it myself. "
Reinitz didn't force her. He took her hand and walked up the mountain path. "That's fine. You can follow me until your parents and relatives come to pick you up."
Gu Nianzhi was sad. "I don't have parents." After saying that, she felt something was wrong. "I don't have a mother. I only have a father. He just found me."
Reinitz seemed a bit surprised. He stopped and looked at her gently. "… You were also an orphan when you were young?"
A child whose parents weren't by their side could be called an orphan, right?
Gu Nianzhi actually still didn't know what her background was.
Although her father had been found, her memory hadn't recovered. Her experiences from childhood to adolescence were blank.
A person without a childhood wasn't a complete person.
However, she didn't say much to Reinitz. She only nodded. "I guess so. I didn't know I had this father until a few months ago."
"Then wait for your father to pick you up."
"… He won't come to pick me up. He's been in a vegetative state for many years. "
Reinitz didn't expect that when this seemingly delicate and weak little girl said those words, she didn't feel so much pain that she wanted to die, nor did she resent the world. She just said it calmly, as if she was talking about someone else's business.
His feelings became more and more complicated.
Holding her hand tightly, Reinitz didn't say anything else. He simply said, "It's okay. You have me in the future."
Gu Nianzhi smiled. "Reinitz, thank you for comforting me. But I'm already an adult and don't need a guardian anymore. "
Reinitz fell silent and continued walking. After a while, he said, "I know. I meant that you can follow me until you get home safely."
"Ok, then I'll have to trouble you." Gu Nianzhi didn't refuse.
At this time, she really needed someone like him to help her get home.
It wasn't impossible for her to rely on herself. If she insisted on leaving, Reinitz would let her go, but Gu Nianzhi thought that would be too impolite.
She didn't want to leave a bad impression with someone who was unconditionally good to her.
"When we get to the small town up ahead, I'll find a place to go online and call my family. It should be much safer without my own phone. "Gu Nianzhi sighed and looked at the road ahead. It wasn't as bumpy and winding.
The two of them walked for a day. Gu Nianzhi, who had been walking alone in the Alps for eight or nine days without any problems, fell ill again just as she was about to see the light.
She was dizzy from the fever and relied on Reinitz to carry her step by step out of the mountains.
…
Today was the tenth day since Gu Nianzhi had left the hotel.
Smith and his three colleagues had been restless since three or four days ago.
They had received a text from Gu Nianzhi saying that she was visiting a friend and would be back in ten days.
At the time, they hadn't thought too much about it because they were already busy with work. Also, they had received news the day after Gu Nianzhi left that Seth had escaped from the hospital. They had kept an eye on the police, hospital, and court to urge them to arrest Seth and bring him to justice.
They had been busy for six or seven days.
They were too busy, so Smith said he wanted to call Gu Nianzhi and ask if she could come back earlier. There were too many things to do, and the four of them couldn't handle it anymore.
In the end, the four of them had called countless times since that day, but they couldn't get through.
Every time, they were sent to voicemail.
When they couldn't get through the first time, they didn't care and thought it was just a lack of battery.
But in the next three days, they couldn't get through. Something was wrong.
Although the four of them were anxious, they remembered that Gu Nianzhi had said ten days. Perhaps she didn't want to work and simply turned off her phone when she was on vacation.
Smith and the others were the same sometimes. If they really wanted to go on vacation, the only way was to turn off their phones or not bring them with them at all to get rid of the endless work.
They thought Gu Nianzhi was in the same situation.
But today, Gu Nianzhi should be back no matter what.
Even if she didn't come back, she should have called or sent them a text to let them know.
In the end, they waited from sunrise to sunset and didn't receive any news from Gu Nianzhi.
When they called again, the phone was already out of service …
Smith paced around his room with his arms crossed. The other three lawyers sat on the sofa in his room, all looking worried.
They didn't speak, but they could see the worry and anxiety on each other's faces.
"… Smith, stop pacing around. You're making me dizzy." One of the lawyers pressed his hand down. "Sit down. Everyone, let's discuss what's going on."
"I think something happened to lawyer Gu." Smith put down his arms, his expression grim.
The lawyer's intuition told him that Gu Nianzhi was probably dead since there had been no news of her for ten days.
And if something really happened, they would have missed the most precious 36 hours.
The precious 36 hours would have passed before they realized Gu Nianzhi was missing.
If they couldn't find the missing person in the first 36 hours, the chances of finding her again were too small.
Smith and his three colleagues were all gloomy and angry.
They actually only discovered Gu Nianzhi after she disappeared for ten days!
Were they pigs?!
They were too slow!
They had thought that she had gone on a trip with friends, but now they knew that there might have been an accident!
The four of them all thought of the past Gu Nianzhi. Actually, they weren't particularly familiar with her.
She was always reading and studying in her room. She had always been so quiet and only came out to talk to them and have meetings when needed. The rest of the time, she was studying, writing trial summary reports, or learning German with a translator. She was busy and happy.
In addition, when they joked with Gu Nianzhi in the past, Lawyer He's cold face would appear in front of them, and then they would find themselves in all kinds of "disadvantageous" situations. Therefore, they all tacitly stayed away from Gu Nianzhi and the trouble of being "attacked" by Lawyer He …
So when they realized that they hadn't heard from her for a long time and couldn't get through to her on the phone, they realized that she was probably missing.
The four of them discussed anxiously in the hotel room for a while.
"Smith, should we call the police?" one of the lawyers asked uncertainly.
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