Enrico ignored them and walked over to the cut-off piece of ice, looking at the bloodstains on it.
The stains had coagulated, but you could still tell from the edges that the blood had not come from someone who had fallen from the mountain and smashed into the lake. It looked more like it had been dripped onto the ice.
It was a deliberate attempt to create the illusion of a person drowning.
He crouched in front of the ice for a long time, making sure of his thoughts.
“Paige, you’re really something,”
Enrico ground his teeth, not sure whether he was relieved or even more angry. He stood up in front of the ice and clapped his hands, “Don’t bother fishing, the person is not under the lake.”
“Huh?” The group of bodyguards were a little confused.
The subordinates of the Folsom family who had been restrained also looked confused.
“She’s still alive,” Enrico said.
“What?” Everyone was shocked, looking at each other.
Mr. Gustin can’t be stupid, the Folsom family guy said that when he came here, there wasn’t a single footprint in the snow around him. In this kind of weather, if he didn’t fall into the frozen lake, how come there aren’t any footprints?
But they didn’t dare to question Enrico.
Enrico took out his own mobile phone and casually threw it to one of the bodyguards, “Take the phone and go out, find a place with a signal and wait, she should call.”
“Yes.” One of the bodyguards took the phone and ran out.
Enrico walked a few laps around the ice lake, then looked up at the mountain. The mountain was so high that he couldn’t see it clearly, and the falling snow fascinated his eyes.
“Give me the binoculars.”
Enrico took the binoculars from his subordinate and looked up at the mountain wall, searching from low to high.
Finally, at a very high place, he saw a rope of a very dark color fluttering in the wind. Without a closer look, one would mistake it for a dead vine on the mountain.
She dared to jump off a cliff by this rope? Hanging so high, and then climbing down with her bare hands?
What nerve!
Enrico was so angry that he smashed the binoculars in his hands. With a pale face, he said, “Bring me the map of the mountain.”
“Yes.” The bodyguard left after receiving the order.
Suddenly, there was a noisy sound in the distance.
Another bodyguard hurried over, and said to Enrico, “Mr. Gustin, the Folsom family is here. They said they want to mobilize all their resources to help with the salvage.”
The bodyguard was very puzzled.
Why did the attitude of the Folsom family change so much after Mr. Gustin made a trip?
“Huh,” Enrico sneered, “guard this place well. If anyone dares to come near, shoot them back with a bullet.”
“Yes,” the bodyguard bowed his head.
From a distance, they could see the Folsom family members being stopped outside the mountain pass. Jasper was leading the way, and Blanca tried to rush in but was stopped.
“Mr. Gustin, here is the map,”
the bodyguard ran over and unfolded a large map in front of Enrico.
“Are you playing with me?”
Enrico kicked it away, “I asked for a map, and what do you give me, an aerial view?”
The mountains in this area are continuous and the terrain is complex. Even if you are in the area, it is difficult to find some roads, let alone an aerial overview, and you can’t see any routes at all.
“That’s… the only map we have,”
the bodyguard said with some depression.
At this moment, Blanca broke through the blockade and ran over alone, heading straight for the ice lake.
Enrico’s face turned cold. He casually pulled a gun from the bodyguard’s waist and walked towards Blanca, pointing at the bloody cut on her forehead. His voice was cold and ruthless, “Get out.”
“…”
Blanca looked at him, no longer with the previous indifferent attitude, but also silent, not saying a word, walking straight towards the ice lake under his gun, holding the longevity lock tightly in one hand.
“Blanca! Don’t do anything stupid!” Beatrice was still being held back, and when she saw this situation, she screamed in fear.
Blanca stepped onto the surface of the ice lake with one foot, and the water rippled under her shoes.
Enrico held the gun and looked expressionlessly.
The subordinates of the Folsom family, who were restrained, were all stunned by this scene. One of them quickly shouted, “Miss Blanca, Paige is still alive, and you won’t be able to fish her out if you go down now!”
“…”
Blanca suddenly withdrew her foot and looked at Enrico, her dead eyes suddenly replaced by shock.
Marian wasn’t dead?
“Hey,” Enrico was a little disappointed that he hadn’t seen the scene he wanted to see, but he still pointed the gun at her, ‘get out.”
“Marian… where’s Paige?”
Blanca stared at him as if she couldn’t see the muzzle of the gun, and only eagerly asked, ‘She ran away, didn’t she? She’s so smart, she must have left a way out, right?”
“What’s it to you?” Enrico snorted.
Blanca’s face tensed, and she gripped the long-life charm in her fingers. ‘She’s my daughter…”
“Are you worthy of her?’ Enrico interrupted her disdainfully, shook the gun in his hand, and said, “Don’t make me shoot you, get out.”
“…”
How could Blanca possibly leave, she still didn’t know what had happened to Paige.
She looked at the bodyguard next to her holding a map and anxiously asked, “Why do you still need a map? Has Paige not contacted you yet?”
That’s right.
If she had contacted him, Enrico would not be here.
Enrico was about to push her again, but Blanca said, “It’s useless for you to have this kind of map. The terrain here is extremely complicated and ever-changing. No one has been able to draw a detailed map so far. This place is a barren mountain. It is said that there are many dead ends inside.”
Barren mountain.
Enrico’s eyes darkened. Paige wouldn’t have gotten trapped in the mountains, would she?
He looked up at the weather. The snow was falling more heavily than it had in the morning, falling densely into the deep mountains. If they were trapped in there, they wouldn’t last long.
“Call the helicopter over here and search!” Enrico put down his gun and gave the order.
Upon hearing this, the bodyguard froze, “In this weather, a helicopter into the mountains? There are too many obstacles to visibility, I’m afraid it will be difficult to find.”
“Then send more people!” Blanca said without hesitation, “I will send all the manpower of the Folsom family into the mountains, and we will always find someone.”
“…”
Enrico looked at her coldly.
“Mr. Gustin, at the moment, only we, the Folsom family, have so many people. Even if you call your people over, it will take time, and Paige can’t wait,” Blanca said anxiously.
“You do your thing, I’m not involved,” Enrico said coldly. He didn’t refuse, but he also didn’t accept the favor.
Upon hearing this, Blanca let out a sigh of relief and hurried over to the Folsom family. She ran so fast that she almost tripped again.
As Paige had said, the Folsom family was quite united. After learning that Paige was a member of the Folsom family, the Folsom family began to send people into the mountains to search.
Enrico continued to swim around the frozen lake with his men.
“Where did she go up the mountain?”
Enrico asked a subordinate of the Folsom family, who pointed in a direction, “Over there, very far away.”
The group drove deeper into the mountains and stopped at the starting point of the climb.
Enrico got out of the car and looked around. There was snow everywhere, the mountain walls, and there was no longer a road.