“Judging from the car tracks, Paige… Miss Paige and our Miss Blanca went up the mountain from here.”
The Folsom family’s subordinate pointed at the road up the mountain, and after being glanced at by Enrico, he immediately changed his polite address.
Enrico pursed his lips and observed the surrounding terrain.
The bodyguard standing behind him said, “Mr. Gustin, the Folsom family has already sent someone to buy a drone to search for the way while using the drone to explore the way. I think this is a good idea. Should we do the same?”
Having more equipment is always a good thing in these deep mountains with complicated terrain.
“…”
Enrico did not reply, but just lifted his foot and took two steps forward, suddenly stopping and frowning as he looked at his feet, “Why are there so many rocks here?”
There are more than anywhere else.
He kicked a few times, and sure enough, he kicked more and more stones out of the snow.
Enrico turned his head and looked at the snow-covered mountain wall in front of him. He reached out and swept the snow, and more gravel fell.
“This is not a mountain wall, it’s snow and rocks falling from the mountain, right?”
Enrico’s bodyguard spoke up, and at first glance, it looked like they had reached the end. The terrain in the mountains really changed rapidly, so it was no wonder that no maps could be drawn.
Enrico took two steps back, his eyes dark.
Paige chose this place to go up the mountain…
“Dig,” Enrico ordered.
The bodyguards immediately went to work, but the falling snow and rocks were frozen together in the cold weather, making it very difficult to dig.
Enrico frowned, ‘Use the car to crash.”
“Yes,’ the bodyguards retreated, and one of them got in the car, stepped on the accelerator and crashed forward.
In extraordinary times, they resorted to the methods of a local tyrant, worthy of their Mr. Gustin.
There was only a loud bang, and the barrier in front of them crumbled. The heavy snow and rocks caused the entire hood to dent, and the tires spun in place.
“Stop.”
Enrico looked sharply, raised his leg, and took two steps forward. He saw the outline of the front of a heavy motorcycle emerging from the thick snow.
His face immediately fell, looking extremely ugly, and his long fingers, hanging at his sides, clenched tightly. His dark eyes fixedly stared at the motorcycle’s headlight, “Clear this road for me as quickly as possible!”
She really was trapped inside.
“Yes.” The bodyguards once again went up together to start clearing the snow.
Enrico grabbed one and said coldly, “Go get some rescue equipment, snow suits, first aid kits, the more the better, and hurry.”
“This place is sparsely populated and these things are not common, I’m afraid it won’t be fast,” the bodyguard frowned and said.
Even the Folsom family were not all wearing snow suits, so it was clear that the equipment was not enough.
“…”
Enrico heard and hated to give a kick, his face turning blacker and blacker. Suddenly, he thought of something and said, “Where is Paige’s RV? She might have some in her car.”
This woman even prepared an off-road RV, so she would not have failed to prepare these things.
When the path was cleared, the bodyguard happened to find snow gear and mountain boots in Paige’s RV.
“Mr. Gustin, I found it, but there are only two sets, one for men and one for women,”
the bodyguard panted as he ran up to Enrico, “but this equipment looks average, like it came with the car.”
It’s not exactly high quality.
“As long as there is some,” Enrico took off his overcoat and took the men’s snow suit and put it on.
Seeing this, the bodyguard looked at him in shock, “Mr. Gustin, what are you doing? Are you going to go into the mountains to find someone yourself? The terrain in the mountains is complicated and dangerous, and you don’t know it well. It’s better to let the Folsom family go…”
“Shut up,” Enrico said with a cold face as he closed the zipper.
Letting the Folsom family go into the mountains is just an extra layer of insurance.
He will bring his own people out!
He looked at the bodyguard beside him, who was dealing with the motorcycle. After repeatedly starting it, it still wouldn’t start and couldn’t be used normally.
Seeing this, Enrico didn’t bother to say another word, grabbed the backpack that his subordinate had organized and threw it over his shoulder, and resolutely stepped into the snow.
…
Paige woke up, lying in the silent snow.
She slowly opened her eyes and saw the snow falling all over the sky, in a fierce manner, as if it wanted to bury her.
Paige was numb from the cold, and could no longer feel any temperature. As her consciousness gradually returned, she thought she could walk there, but she didn’t realize that the road was actually uneven. She fell down a slope and hit a rock, passing out.
Paige let out a breath of white air, clenched her teeth and braced herself against the ground to sit up. Snow accumulated on her body and fell off.
The mountains were covered in snow everywhere, and the road conditions and direction were unknown.
The sky was not as bright as before.
Had she been running from morning to dusk in the mountains?
Paige couldn’t tell the time. She took out her phone, but she didn’t know if it had run out of battery or if the weather was too cold and it had turned itself off.
She could only put the phone back in her pocket and press her hands against the ground to support herself as she stood up little by little. Her feet were in the snow, and the pain was like a knife.
She was hungry and in pain.
Paige stood in the white snow, her eyes aching from looking at the color of the snow.
She looked around, feeling the same sense of despair she had when she first arrived on Wind Island.
The situation in the mountains was more complicated than she had imagined. It was like a big natural maze, and no matter which way she went, she could not find her way out.
She had no battery in her phone, no compass, no food, no water, and she was only wearing a coat. She could see that it was about to get dark, and she was bound to spend the night in the mountains.
Her physical strength was not as good as it had been in the morning. Not to mention getting out of the mountains, if she couldn’t even find a place to take shelter now, she might have to…
No way.
She absolutely must not die here.
She still had the book of absolute impossibilities with her, and she couldn’t get out, so there was no hope for Enrico either.
She wouldn’t allow it, he was so short-lived!
Paige bit her dry and chapped lips hard, until her head ached, and with the rare lucidity, she lifted her leg and continued walking.
She survived the slums.
She would survive this too!
Paige told herself desperately, summoning the little energy she had left to keep going.
Each step was like stepping on a knife, and the pain made her gasp.
Suddenly, there was a sound of a branch snapping overhead.
Paige had heard that sound many times during her long walk in the mountains, but none of them had been as loud as this one.
Her face changed, and she quickly pressed herself against the mountain wall and listened silently.
Sure enough, soon there were low footsteps coming from above her.
Someone is here!
Paige held her breath. Is it the Folsom family? Did the Folsom family find out that she faked her death and come looking for her?
She subconsciously wanted to run, but as she took a step, she looked at the blood dripping from her foot in the snow and hesitated.
She really didn’t have much energy left to continue.
If it was just her life, she wouldn’t care, but the death note was still on her, and she couldn’t be so stubborn.
She had been running for a whole day.
In the end, she had to compromise.
Why did she have to do this?