When walking through the Berlin Wall Square, there were veterans pushing walking chairs to observe a moment of silence.
Che Linwan stopped and let the old man walk over first.
She went to the airport, but suddenly found that she had no idea where Xia Mingzhi and Ma Jiaxunyi were going.
No one is better at missing people than their family needs to escape.
Standing in the middle of the busy waiting hall, surrounded by noisy whispers, alternate languages from different countries on the radio, and flight information flashing and scrolling on the big screen, she became confused.
who you are.
Where are you.
Where to go.
The patrol boy in black uniform touched the walkie-talkie on his chest and walked up to her. His blue eyes flashed at him, and his pupils were as beautiful as glass crystals.
But at this moment, she had no intention of appreciating the magnificence of the foreign man, and shook her head numbly.
After asking Che Linwan countless times in German, English, and even Japanese what help he needed, he began to give up and ask other colleagues for help.
"No need. Thank you." She thanked her in somewhat forced German and walked out of the airport.
The guy even caught up to her and handed her a banknote, just in case she was a tourist and forgot to exchange cash.
Che Linwan shook his head and refused.
She doesn't need money, she needs a witness.
In a corner of the square, a young child squatted and whistled at her.
A kind-hearted woman passing by took her to another path.
Che Linwan stood still in front of the fake Berlin Wall. Now that her visa couldn't leave the country, she had no choice.
She thought of calling Aunt Bai for help countless times. But if you think about it carefully, how can Bai Xiaofei help her
She could only wait and wait until the police could find the real murderer.
She will become an insignificant name in the process of solving the case.
Then she can go to the police station to apply for a certificate, a police certificate? Immigration will re-stick a valid visa in her passport and she can go home.
But now, all we can do is wait.
When the sky slowly darkened, it was not completely dark, and there was still a red glow.
The beggar who was about to call it a day passed by her and symbolically shook the empty can in his hand at her. Che Linwan shook his head.
The beggar walked away. But the beggar's eyes were a little wary.
Che Linwan walked to the burger shop on the roadside and planned to buy a sandwich. She had to rush back to the area where her hotel was before the bus left work, otherwise she would have to catch a ride on the roadside.
Several ride-hailing experiences told her that it was very unsafe. Especially her German is a mess.
When he walked into the burger restaurant, he accidentally glanced at the glass wall from the corner of his eye, and Che Linwan's heart lifted at the glance. She saw three figures reflected in the reflection from the glass wall. Her faces could not be seen clearly, but the three red heads were particularly eye-catching.
She thought she wouldn't be so unlucky, right? When she opened the door of the burger shop, the eyes of the people around her glanced at her. There were not many tourists in this area, and it was not a Chinese area, so there were relatively few people with yellow skin.
After ordering a cup of black tea and a sandwich, the bell at the door rang several times. There are new guests walking in.
Curses rang out in German.
Someone came to her table, walked over, and sat down at the table behind her.
She secretly looked at the young man who ordered the food suspiciously. He looked very much like one of the three little reds.
But it turned out that she was overthinking. There were many young people with red hair, and most of them looked similar to her.
When Harvey called to ask her how she was doing, she almost cried on the phone.
"Have they looked for you again?"
"No."
"So it has nothing to do with you now, right?"
"No. My visa has been revoked. I must report to the local immigration office every two weeks to extend my visa. And I cannot leave the country with a visa."
"… so serious?"
"The key is that Xia Mingzhi and Ma Jiaxunyi left the country."
"What."
"Yes. They're gone. No one can prove where I was that night..."
"You are indeed with Xia Mingzhi, right?"
"You doubt me too?"
"No. Then at least there is surveillance to capture it."
"I don't know. I mentioned it to the police, but I don't know if they will retrieve it."
"You don't have any trouble in your life now, do you?"
despair. Is it troublesome
"For the time being, there shouldn't be any trouble. But if they don't allow me to leave the country, and I have to wait until the murderer is caught, I will get into trouble sooner or later."
Che Linwan told the truth.
Harvey sighed on the other end, "I'm sorry. I said I didn't want to get involved before, but I really didn't consider your situation. If there is anything needed, such as a defense lawyer, although I won't defend you, I can. Recommend you other lawyers.”
"Thanks."
Che Linwan moved out of the high-end hotel booked by Ma Jiaxunyi and moved into a cheaper hotel.
Due to visa issues, there is no way to rent a cheap single apartment, so I can only stay in an international hotel registered online.
Every day I was on pins and needles watching the progress of the investigation.
However, the officials have been playing Tai Chi, and no one can give her a definite news.
She returned to her room carrying two large bags of dry bread, and suddenly the noise of men and women came from the corridor. Instinctively, I opened the door to check and saw a tall white man tearing a woman's hair and trying to drag her from the corridor to a door on the opposite side.
The woman was shouting something loudly.
The doors in the corridor were closed one by one, and no one came out to check except Che Linwan.
She returned to the room and immediately called the front desk to tell them what happened on her floor, but the other party's attitude was extremely arrogant.
She understood that the hotel she was staying in was not safe. This isn't the first time this has happened.
I can only close the door tightly for the next time.
Then she heard a knock on the door and, making sure the safety chain was secure, she opened the door.
It was that woman just now.
The woman begged something in a low voice. But Che Linwan couldn't understand.
The woman realized that Che Linwan did not understand German, so she made desperate movements to enter the house.
Che Linwan hesitated.
The man's curses started again.
The woman had to start begging in imperfect English, hoping that her only hope in front of her was that this Asian woman could understand the English she spoke.
Che Linwan had already made up his mind that he would never open the door.
But the woman's eyes moved her.
It was despair, fear, and helplessness.
Che Linwan thought of his situation, alone with no one to help him. If their own personal safety is also threatened, who else can protect themselves
If you have reached the point where you have to ask strangers for help, how frightened you will feel...
Che Linwan closed the door.
When she heard the woman outside the door burst into heart-rending wails, the last glimmer of hope was taken away from her.
Just when the woman gave up her resistance, she turned around and faced the direction in which the man was chasing her. She squatted silently on the carpet in the corridor, showing a helpless attitude.
She heard the sound of the chains being taken off, and then the Asian woman's door opened again.
"come in."
The woman jumped in on all fours. Che Linwan closed the door.
Almost seconds later there was a thumping sound.
The woman shook her head and reminded Che Linwan not to open the door.
The woman tremblingly told Che Linwan that the man outside was her stepbrother. After her stepfather and mother died one after another, her stepbrother was very angry because he left all the money to her, but she hoped to live in peace with her stepbrother, so Give a portion to this man.
Then he invited the devil.
"Can't you call the police?"
The woman cried and said that the court had issued countless injunctions restricting access. But there is no way.
The man had no job and was unwilling to work, so he stalked her. No matter where she goes, he's always around, and it doesn't help that she's moved.
Her boyfriend broke up with her because of this, and she felt like she was being haunted by a mental patient.
That night, Che Linwan slept in the same bed with this strange foreign woman.
Both of them sleep very uneasily, and small movements in the corridor often wake them up.
When there was a slight light outside the window, Che Linwan heard the woman next to him sigh in bed.
Its daybreak.
The woman got up and took a shower. After taking a shower, she asked Che Linwan if she wanted to take a shower too.
When Che Lin was taking a shower at night, she heard muttering outside the bathroom. She slammed the shower and listened nervously against the bathroom door for a while. Later, she thought it was a woman talking on the phone and didn't take it to heart.
But when he came out, he found that the woman was no longer in the room.
She quickly rushed to the cabinet where her suitcase was placed. The place where I kept my wallet was indeed damaged.
A note was left on the table: Thank you, sorry! I borrowed some money from you and I have to get out of here.
The woman didn't take much, in fact she only took part of the change. So Che Linwan was relieved.
It wasn't until she went out again to inquire about the status of her visa that she realized something was wrong.
The woman's stepbrother was hanging out in the hallway.
She glanced at the man and prayed secretly, don't come here!
But the man came over and talked to her, "Elsa is with you?"
"she left."
The man smiled and shook his head in disbelief.
"She really left. She left early in the morning." Che Linwan thought that he could convince the other party because he was so sure, but that was obviously not the case.
"If you don't believe it, you can go to my room and take a look. She is really not there." It's over... Suddenly I realized that I had said the wrong thing. The man nodded.
Che Linwan had no choice but to open the door to her room and then stood in the corridor waiting. It was impossible for her to be alone in the room with this man.
The man visited around, but indeed his sister Elsa was not there.
"gone?"
"Told you, let's go."
"Why did you help her yesterday?"
"Because I feel sorry for her."
"I'll give you the money."
"What? No, of course not."
"You Asians are just like Jews. You are very weird. You can't help people for no reason. How much money did she give you? Let me tell you, it's all my money."
It's over, it's over, this is blackmailing her.
Che Linwan estimated his losses.
The worst possible outcome is to check out!
Go directly by yourself.
No more luggage.
Go to the front desk now, hand over the keys and leave.
But the man came out and walked into a guest room at the end of the corridor in front of her.
Leaning against the door frame, he smiled maliciously at her, and then closed the door in her face...
This is a clear threat!
Che Linwan immediately started packing his luggage.
Gotta get out of here.
But just as I finished cleaning up, I heard a knock on the door again.
"No! Please don't come to me..." She trembled and called the front desk to ask for a bottle of water. I hope this will get rid of that annoying man.
But the knocking on the door continued.
She groped to the door and asked in a pleading tone, "What on earth do you want to do? Elsa has left. Go find her." Although it was unfair to say this, but Elsa had been gone for so long, he You may not be able to catch up, right
"Che Linwan, what are you talking about?"
She yanked open the door in surprise.
Xia Mingzhi looked at her with a wrinkled face and burning eyes.
"Ah... you didn't leave?"
Xia Mingzhi looked at her doubtfully.
Then he pointed to the door next to hers.
"What's the meaning?"
"I followed you when you left the airport."
"You didn't leave?"
"Where am I going?"
"No... Ms. Ma Jia is gone?"
"That's right. She went back for vacation. Did you go to the airport to find me?"
"Yeah, well. Well, we were together that night, right."
Xia Mingzhi continued to look at her, seeming to be thinking about something.
"Who was that man just now?"
"I don't know him."
"Then why did I hear you guys arguing in the corridor when I came here?"
"When did you live next door to me?"
"I didn't stay, I just booked a room. Why can't I stay in a good star-rated hotel instead of moving to a small hotel like this?"
"Why did you tell the police that you had been shopping with your mother that day?"
"ah?"
"We were obviously together that night..." Although it was extremely unpleasant, he was a witness!
Xia Mingzhi suddenly remembered something, "Oh. You said Anya's lawyer was killed that night. We were together."
"But you said you were with your mother!"
"Aren't you afraid that if you refuse to admit it, the police will suspect me?"
"Why don't I admit it?"
"Because..." Xia Mingzhi looked around the corridor, wanting to ask if he could go in to talk, but Che Linwan had no intention of getting out of the way, "You won't retaliate against me, right?"
"You think everyone is like you!!"
"Okay, okay. Then I'll talk to the police."
"Let's go together."
"You do not trust me?"
"Why should I believe you?"
"… what ever."
"Why did you stay?"
"If I say it's for you, you won't believe it, right? ... Right. I haven't finished my course yet."
(End of chapter)