As soon as Enrico didn’t refute him, Jaden knew that he was correct and couldn’t contain his excitement. He continued, “Blanca’s whereabouts are very secretive and impossible to track. The only thing I found out was a piece of gossip: Blanca has made some small orders in the past, and these orders were all completed in Eastdown or Whitby.”
Upon hearing this, Enrico’s eyes deepened, “I understand.”
With that, he hung up the phone.
“…”
Jaden was a little confused. Why did he hang up? Was the information he found really helpful?
Enrico sat in the car, his angular face expressionless. His thin lips were pursed, and he pressed his fingertips against the antler tattoo on his wrist.
An arms dealer like Blanca would not be interested in small orders like this.
Unless she needed to travel between these two continents frequently, and she happened to do a little business like this along the way.
Eastdown and Whitby are two neighboring continents, very close to each other.
And Eastdown happens to be one of the two coldest continents in D-Country.
All the clues converge here.
So, the place she often has to go to… is Eastdown.
Because, she has to go back to the Folsom family.
“Go to Eastdown,” Enrico said, lifting his eyes sharply.
“Yes,” the driver answered, stepping on the accelerator and speeding forward.
…
Paige fell off the cliff, the wind and snow whirling around her, dragging her towards the bottomless pit.
She kept falling.
Her hands and feet were numb with cold.
For a moment, she felt like she was already a dead person.
But she couldn’t die yet.
Enrico…
Paige silently mouthed the name, and with all her strength, she raised her hand towards the mountain wall. A thin rope flew out of her sleeve and flew towards the mountain wall, and one end attached to the cold and damp mountain wall.
She reached out and grabbed the rope, which swung her against the wall.
“Bang.”
A solid thud.
Paige’s face paled with pain as she took deep breaths and hung from the wall to adjust herself.
She glanced down; there were still a few stories to go, and the rope was no longer enough.
Paige could only grit her teeth and search for protruding sharp objects and dead trees on the slippery mountain wall, grabbing and stepping a little to climb down, her hands covered in blood and dirt.
The impact was so severe that even now, as she climbed down, her bones ached.
It was a long time before she jumped onto the snow. She was already sweating, and in such bad weather, the hot sweat quickly turned into cold sweat. The wet clothes clung to her skin, which was very uncomfortable.
She leaned against the mountain wall, looked down, and saw that the suicide note was still around her waist. She let out a sigh of relief.
The suicide note was still there.
She took off her overcoat and wrapped it around her bruised hands. Then she searched the thick snow for a stone tip and walked towards the nearby frozen lake, barely leaving any footprints.
When she reached the frozen lake, Paige took a deep breath, lowered her head, and picked up a large stone and smashed it onto the lake surface.
A large hole was cracked in the ice on the lake surface.
The stone sank down.
Paige let go of the overcoat in her hand, raised her hand and clenched it hard, and drops of blood fell on the ice surface.
It was too difficult to leave with a death notice in the Folsom family’s territory. She would be chased, surrounded and shot at every step of the way, and every moment would be a waste of time.
Only by making the Folsom family think she was dead could she leave Eastdown smoothly.
Because no one would chase after a dead person.
Paige watched her own blood spill onto the ice, and the calm in her eyes still had a hint of red.
When she was on the mountain, she clearly remembered the hesitation in Blanca’s eyes.
Despite all she had said, Blanca was still oblivious and still wanted to kill her. Probably, she really didn’t care.
That was fine.
Before, she didn’t know who her biological mother was, but now that she knew, it was fine.
After waiting long enough for the blood to drip, Paige wrapped her injured hand in her coat again and continued to leave on tiptoe along some places with sharp stones, leaving no footprints.
She relied on this laborious method to move forward along the mountain wall.
The sky brightened up.
However, the snow in the mountains showed no sign of stopping.
Paige walked in a dazed state. Occasionally, she could hear human voices in the distance. They belonged to the Folsom family, who had come looking for her. Fortunately, they did not know that she had already fallen off the cliff, so they were not looking below, but heading up the mountain.
She walked carefully along the way. When she encountered a place without sharp rocks, she could only cling to the mountain wall and feel her way up to hang herself over.
Not to mention her hands, her arms were also cut and scarred.
Before, when she drove, she didn’t feel how deep and large the mountain was, but now, walking on foot, she realized just how large it was.
After walking for about an hour, she still hadn’t reached the place where she had left her motorcycle.
She knew that there was no signal in the deep mountains. After she fell off the cliff, Blanca couldn’t contact the Folsom family, so the Folsom family would only send someone to search for her up the mountain. During that time, she could take the motorcycle and leave through the small path in the deep mountains, circle around and leave the mountain and then Eastdown.
So far, the plan has gone well, except that she is exhausted.
She also has to be careful not to be discovered.
Paige rests against the mountain wall for a while. As soon as she stops, the cold wind stings her face, and her wet clothes stick to her body, tormenting her will.
She takes a deep breath and continues to walk along the mountain wall.
Her feet have gone numb.
As she walks, Paige looks up, and in the distance, she finally sees the place where she left her motorcycle.
In such a short time, the snow had completely covered the motorcycle, and she could no longer see anything.
Paige was about to move on when she heard a group of the Folsom family heading up the mountain in a hurry at this location.
With her back pressed tightly against the damp mountain wall, not daring to breathe, she watched the trampled snow fall in front of her eyes, and the group of people hurried past her head, not noticing her.
Paige cautiously leaned over to take a look, and in her line of sight, she no longer saw the Folsom family.
Looking at the footprints all over the ground, she stepped into the snow with confidence, wrapped her hands around her overcoat to remove the thick layer of snow, and little by little, the snow was removed to reveal the outline of the motorcycle’s front end inside.
Paige reached out and grasped the handlebar there, clenched her teeth and was about to drag the motorcycle out of the snow when gravel and skis suddenly fell from above.
“…”
Her heart tightened, and without thinking, she charged towards the path ahead. She rushed too fast and tripped.
The sound of her ankle twisting clearly reached Paige’s ears, but she didn’t even have time to stop and check it, and she fell forward directly, sprawling in the wet snow.
“Bang…”
A loud noise came from behind her.
Paige looked back and saw that the motorcycle had been buried under a large amount of snow and fallen rocks, which had instantly piled up several meters high, blocking the road in the middle.
If she hadn’t run fast enough, she would have been buried with the motorcycle.
“…”
Paige stood up from the snow with pain, and looked at the sudden barrier in front of her and the snow and rocks that kept falling, feeling speechless as never before. The white breath she exhaled dissipated in the cold wind.