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Smith thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "Let’s find it ourselves. I don’t believe in the police system here."

The other two lawyers seconded.

"We are unfamiliar here, and come here to represent our clients to sue the German police system and government departments. I don't think we should call the police for the time being, so as to avoid a misunderstanding, and we don't want to make things go wrong." He shook his finger, "Well, let's go to the hotel and ask for the ten-day surveillance video to see if we can find anything."

They revealed their lawyers and asked for surveillance video from the Hilton Hotel.

Although the management of the Hilton Hotel was reluctant, for the face of the largest law firm in the United States, they still copied the surveillance videos of the hotel's entrance and back doors in the past ten days as a favor.

These surveillance videos do not involve the privacy of customers, and it does not matter if you show them to them.

Of course, the four people were not satisfied with only the surveillance video outside the gate.

What if Gu Nianzhi was killed by someone inside the hotel?

This is not uncommon. For example, a very famous case happened in New York, USA a few years ago, in which a young woman suddenly disappeared and was finally found naked in a cistern on the roof of the hotel where she lived. The cistern was two meters high and was covered with a very heavy cement cover. It took a few strong men to lift the cement cover, but it was judged as "suicide" by the New York police...

These four people are relatively well-known lawyers in the United States. Because they have seen too many chaos within the police, they did not blindly believe in the ability of the police.

And Gu Nianzhi's sudden disappearance at this moment was too subtle, and they couldn't believe the German police.

Smith sternly said to the security director of the Hilton Hotel with a cold face: "If our colleague has an accident inside your hotel, can you bear this responsibility?! — I can guarantee that if she really suffers from misfortune here, you Hilton The hotel won’t be open all over the world!"

The security director of the Hilton Hotel flashed red and white, staring at these magnificent lawyers, and finally reluctantly asked his superiors.

In order to keep things quiet, the Hilton executives approved a copy of the surveillance videos of the corridors on each floor of the hotel for the four American lawyers to view.

With the surveillance video inside and outside the hotel, Smith was confident that there would be no omissions, so the four people each allocated a part of the video tape and started working overnight.

Everyone watched intently all night, their eyes were red, but only the figure of Gu Nianzhi who had left the hotel early in the morning ten days ago.

But they could see clearly that she left the hotel in their business car!

Since leaving that time, I have never seen her come back.

The time she left and the last time her key card was used also matched.

Smith's spirits cheered up a bit, and he immediately called the driver of their business chartered car, pretending to be in a hurry, and asked him to come to the hotel immediately, saying that he had to ask him for help with important things, and the price was extra.

The taxi driver was very happy and rushed to their Hilton Hotel within five minutes.

Smith asked him to come to the small meeting room of the hotel room, quietly opened the mobile phone video recording, and asked him seemingly unintentionally: "...Did you send Lawyer Gu out ten days ago? Where did you go?"

The driver hurriedly said, "Oh, yes, I remember, lawyer Gu said that he was going to see a friend in Königssee, and asked me to take her there, which is about two hours away from Munich by car."

After the driver finished, he didn't wait for Smith to continue to ask him, and then said: "How did Lawyer Gu come back? Did she call another car? She said she only stayed for one day, and called me when she returned at night. I waited there. She didn't call for two days. Did she have too much fun and forgot to go home?"

Just after speaking, the driver realized that he had said the wrong thing, and immediately changed his mouth: "Oh, no, it was ten days, I forgot, it was ten days..." As he said, he squinted his eyes and avoided Smith's sight.

He was very regretful,

Fortunately, he still remembers the remedy, hope these people don't care about his slip of the tongue.

"Is it ten days or one day?! Can you remember this kind of thing wrong too?!" Smith hugged his arms and frowned at the driver.

"It's been so long, how can I remember it so clearly?" The driver was very cunning and asked cautiously, "Is Lawyer Gu back? Can you ask her in person?"

"If she comes back, we will ask you again?" Smith glared at him, "Think about it, did Lawyer Gu tell you for one day or ten days?!"

The driver heard that Gu Nianzhi did not come back, so he felt a little frustrated. He was a little frightened, weighed it up, and gritted his teeth to tell the truth: "...it seems to be a day, yes, it should be a day. Really, you can ask if you don’t believe me. she was."

The four lawyers all heard: "..."

No way?

First of all, Gu Nianzhi's text message to them said that she would go out for ten days, but she personally told the driver that there was only one day, and also said that she would go back at night and call him to pick her up!

Is it ten days or one day? This is the first contradiction.

After losing the news, Gu Nianzhi couldn't get through.

From the constant transfer of the message mailbox, to the end "the phone is not in the service area".

Unusual, too unusual.

In the evening, the four of them met in Smith's room, and their faces were very serious.

Although they were reluctant to admit it, they still had to admit that Gu Nianzhi should be missing.

It must not be lost by oneself, but by someone else's way!

Whose way can it be?

Gu Nianzhi is a citizen of the Chinese Empire and came to Germany to go to court.

If it offends people, there is only the lawless earth emperor of Seth's family!

The four people glanced at each other, and they all knew what everyone meant from each other's eyes.

Although the lawyer is only representing the client in litigation and has no direct interest in the other party, because the profession of being a lawyer is directly linked to the law, it is too much hatred, so the defendant harms the plaintiff's lawyer or the plaintiff harms the defendant's lawyer. Something often happens.

"Is it the Seth family? His stepfather, York, is not a good crop." A lawyer said coldly. "We have investigated his background and it is definitely not clean."

"Don't forget, Seth also ran away. Although the hospital report was nine days ago, it was when they found him escaping. If the time of his official escape is pushed forward a little bit, maybe he disappeared with Lawyer Gu. It matches." Smith was the first to think of this possibility, shuddering in his heart.

Not because of anything else, but because that day when he and Gu Nianzhi went to the hospital to see Seth, who was seriously injured, the eyes of Seth staring at Gu Nianzhi were a bit abnormal...

"Ah? It really has something to do with that perverted bitch Seth?! What can I do?!"

What kind of scumbag Seth is, no one knows better than the lawyers who know the details of Li Haiqing's case...

"Call Lawyer Ho first. Tell him clearly before calling the police." Smith rubbed his forehead. "It can't be delayed anymore. There is no news from Lawyer Gu until now. I am very worried..."

What to worry about, everyone looked at each other tacitly, but no one dared to say the possibility, as if they said it, their worry would come true.

As long as you don't say it, Gu Nianzhi will be safe.

Everyone prayed in their hearts, hoping that such desperate and terrifying things would not happen to Gu Nianzhi...

Although they don't have many personal relationships with Gu Nianzhi, they have been in harmony with each other in official business for more than a month. They also appreciate this hardworking and smart female lawyer of China Empire. She really can't stand her accident.

"Even lawyers dare to move! I think the German judicial system is really not a normal black!"

After the four people discussed, Smith called He Zhichu on the spot.

But he dialed Hechu's number for a full hour, and what he got was always his message mailbox!

The other three people were very surprised and took out their mobile phones and dialed He Zhichu's number.

His personal cell phone, work cell phone, work phone, and even the phone number in the professor building of the China Empire B University were dialed, and none of the calls were actually connected. They were all message mailboxes!

Smith stared at his cell phone and mumbled: "... Didn't you say that you are going home? Where did you go back? Antarctica? Or North Pole? No calls are answered..."

"Forget it, Smith." Several colleagues comforted him, "Isn't it the same when we are on vacation? We won't answer work calls or emails."

This is called a vacation, otherwise why take a vacation?Wouldn't it be better to work overtime directly?

A lawyer also added: "Furthermore, Attorney Ho said that he will be back two weeks at the latest. It is only four days away, or two weeks, and we will see when the time comes."

It makes sense for Smith to think about it, but Gu Nianzhi can't wait any longer.

"Let's do it." Smith hesitated for a while. "We still have to call the police. Also, Lawyer Gu is a citizen of the Chinese Empire, and she has to notify their embassy if there is an accident."

If Gu Nianzhi is an American citizen, they would have sought the US embassy a long time ago, but unfortunately she is not, only the Chinese Embassy in Munich.

Several people discussed the order, and finally decided that they were divided into two groups and dispatched at the same time.

One call to the police, the other call to the Chinese Empire Embassy in Munich.

Smith had more dealings with the police, so he and another lawyer went to the police station to call the police.

Two other lawyers knew a little Chinese, so they went to the Chinese Embassy in Munich.

...

"What are you talking about? Your lawyer is missing?!" The Munich police officer in charge of the missing persons case looked at Smith and his colleagues with a look of "you seem to be teasing me".

Smith just soaked in the Munich Regional Police Station a few days ago because of Seth's escape from the hospital, urging them to quickly send people to catch the fugitive, and everyone here is familiar with him.

Some police officers understood and sympathized with him, but some police officers hated him, believing that he interfered with their work here, and their accusations smeared the reputation of the German police and were very unfriendly to him.

Now seeing him come to report the crime, a few policemen are gloating and making things difficult for them.

Smith was so angry that one Buddha was born and two Buddhas ascended to heaven, but there was nothing to do.

"Missing? Do you think that disappearance is so easy to file a case? If she is a minor and loses contact for 24 hours, she can indeed report her disappearance, but unfortunately, she is 18 years old and is an adult, so..." Munich The district police officers refused to accept Smith's report in official language.

Smith sneered, put his hands on the police desk, looked directly at his muddy gray eyes, and said word by word: "Oh? Now you think you will be an adult at the age of eighteen? Then your fellow chief's son, why 21 Are you still talking about being a minor when you are old?! Your German law does not mean that you are a minor at the age of 22?! Tell me, did I have a fake lawsuit! Or did you have a fake law in Germany!"

Talking about slapstick and breaking the legal provisions, where is this policeman's opponent to the elite American lawyers?

The policeman was blushing from being beaten by Smith. He couldn't get off the station for a while. He beat the table fiercely and said, "I said she is an adult! As for the lawsuit you are fighting, ask the judge! What is my business?!"

"That's right... The disappearance may be just a misunderstanding. Your colleagues are already practicing lawyers. Are you so eager to report the case?" The police colleagues also helped. "Also, missing cases can only Her immediate family members are here to report, who of you is her immediate family member?"

Seeing these arrogant lawyers deflated in the courtroom, the police were still secretly refreshed.

Too many times, suspects that the police have worked so hard to arrest have been excused by clever lawyers and cannot be convicted.

But they didn't want to think about it. The lawyers also helped the police and prosecutors a lot, helping them convict the suspects.

It can only be said that some people only remember the bad things others have done to themselves, and the good things they have done to them are completely forgotten.

Smith was blocked by the police. He was not a vegetarian either. He pushed the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose with his hands. He rightly said: "It is because you said that my colleague is already an adult. She does not need immediate family members to report the case. I think you are also talking about it. Any legal provisions are bullshit for you. Whenever you need to use it as a prevarication, just catch one of them, regardless of whether your own words are contradictory. !"

"Huh? Make sense with us? Don't you know that we are the police? It is a violent law enforcement agency, not a reasonable agency?!" The police in the office rolled their eyes, "If you want to be reasonable, go to court. ——The door is over there, so I can leave without sending!"

"How can you do this?! We are law-abiding and follow the legal procedures to report the case. How about your attitude?!" Smith slapped the table severely, "Have you thought about the consequences?"

"What's the consequence? We also abide by the law and act according to legal procedures. The law never says that colleagues can report cases as immediate family members!"

Smith and his colleagues had no choice but to leave angrily and find a way.

...

The other two lawyers who went to the China Empire Embassy in Munich to report the letter received much better treatment than Smith and his colleagues.

The two said in the reception room that they were the defense team of the plaintiff's lawyers in the Li Haiqing case, and the embassy staff immediately invited them in very cordially.

When they came to the small reception room of the embassy, ​​the deputy consul of the embassy met them cordially.

"Are you a member of the American Lawyers Corps? Thank you for your wonderful defense. We will remember you in the case of the murder of international students in our country." The deputy consul is a middle-aged man in his fifties who is well maintained. It's only in his early forties.

The two were busy and humble, and then said: "We are here this time for Lawyer Gu from our lawyer team. She is also a citizen of your Huaxia Empire."

"Oh! It's Lawyer Gu! Yes, yes, yes! She is amazing! I listened to her court argument, that English is really slippery, with no accent at all! Standard Oxford accent!" The consul laughed Hehe said, and praised Gu Nianzhi as much as possible.

Seeing the lawyer's strength, the two lawyers immediately struck the iron while it was hot: "Yes, yeah! She is very powerful. Although she is young, she is incredibly smart and works hard. This time, she is the main trial lawyer. , Very old-fashioned."

"Hahaha! Our country’s female lawyers are indeed very powerful!" The deputy consul was so happy that he heard from ear to ear, but he didn’t forget what the two American lawyers had just said, and asked: "You just said it was for her. What's going on here?"

"That's it." Two American lawyers became serious. One lawyer first said: "Ten days ago, Attorney Gu told us that she was going out to meet a friend and said that she would be back in ten days. As a result, we couldn't get through her for these ten days. Every time I made a call to her mobile phone, it was transferred to the message mailbox. When I called her mobile phone yesterday, the phenomenon that the mobile phone was not in the service area appeared. We are worried..."

Another lawyer went on to say: “We found that there was a problem, so we found some people to investigate the whereabouts of Lawyer Gu, and found our chartered driver. He said that ten days ago, Lawyer Gu personally told him to spend a day at King Lake. In the evening he will call him to pick him up. But the driver has waited until now, and has not waited for her to call!"

The deputy consul understood what they meant, smiled, frowned and thought for a while, "You mean...Lawyer Gu...?"

"...Is missing." The two American lawyers said together, "Our other two colleagues have already gone to the Munich Regional Police Station to report to the police. The two of us have specifically come to inform you that you are the embassy of Mr. Gu's country after all. Citizens of the country overseas have an obligation to protect."

"This is natural. Not to mention that she was a lawyer who came to Germany to file a lawsuit for her compatriots on behalf of Minister Bai. Even if it is an ordinary student or laborer, our embassy is obliged to do so!" The deputy consul patted the table. Fill in the lawyer's information, and I will contact the country immediately to see what their rules are."

This is the tenth more than five thousand words, and there are more later.