Chapter 647 Notify the Embassy

Smith thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "Let's look for it ourselves. I don't really trust the police system here."

Two other lawyers seconded.

"We are not familiar with the place here, and we come here to sue the German police system and government departments on behalf of our client. I think it is better not to call the police for the time being, so as not to cause a misunderstanding, and don't make things go up in the city." Smith said. She shook her finger, "Well, let's go to the hotel and ask for the ten-day surveillance video, and see if we can find anything."

They showed their identities as lawyers and asked the Hilton Hotel for surveillance video.

Although the management of the Hilton Hotel was reluctant, but in order to save the face of the largest law firm in the United States, they still copied a copy of the surveillance video of the hotel's front door and back door in the past ten days as a favor.

These surveillance videos do not involve the privacy of customers, and it is okay to show them.

But only for the surveillance video outside the gate, the four of them are of course not satisfied.

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 a few years ago, in which a young woman disappeared suddenly and was finally found naked in a cistern on the roof of the hotel where she was staying. Here, the cistern was two meters high and covered with a very heavy cement cover. It took several strong men to lift the cement cover, but it was judged as a "suicide" by the New York police...

These four 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 police's ability.

Moreover, 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 in your hotel, can you bear the responsibility? - I can guarantee that if she really encounters misfortune here, you Hilton The hotel will not be able to open all over the world!"

The security director of the Hilton Hotel blushed, then turned pale, glaring at these imposing lawyers, and finally asked his superiors reluctantly.

In order to calm down the matter, the Hilton executives specially agreed to copy the surveillance video of the corridors on each floor inside the hotel and show it to the four American lawyers.

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

Everyone stared at it all night, their eyes turned red, but they only saw Gu Nianzhi leaving the hotel early in the morning ten days ago.

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

After leaving that time, I never saw her come back.

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

Smith cheered up a little, and 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 needed to help with important matters, and the price would be calculated separately.

The driver of the special car was very happy and arrived at the Hilton Hotel where they were staying within five minutes.

Smith and the others invited him to the small conference room in the hotel room, quietly turned on the video recording on their mobile phone, and asked him unintentionally, "... May I ask if you sent Lawyer Gu out ten days ago? Where did you go?"

The driver hurriedly said: "Oh, yes, I remember, Attorney Gu said he was going to see a friend at King's Lake, and asked me to take her there. It's about a two-hour drive from Munich."

After the driver finished speaking, before Smith continued to ask him, he said, "How did Lawyer Gu come back? Did she call another car? She said she would only stay for one day and call 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?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the driver realized that he had said the wrong thing, and immediately changed his words: "Oh, no, it was ten days, I forgot, it was ten days..." As he spoke, he narrowed his eyes slyly, avoiding Smith their sights.

He was extremely remorseful. After so many days, these lawyers only asked him about the situation at that time. When he got excited, he forgot what the man asked him to say, and told the truth!

Fortunately, he still remembers the remedy, and I 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?!" Smith folded his arms and looked at the driver with a frown.

"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 yourself?"

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

When the driver heard that Gu Nianzhi hadn't come back, his heart skipped a beat. He was a little scared, weighed it up again, and told the truth through gritted teeth: "...it seems to be a day, yes, it should be a day. Really, if you don't believe me, you can ask she."

After listening to the four lawyers, they all said: "..."

No way?

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

Whether it is ten days or one day, this is the first contradiction.

Then after losing the news, Gu Nianzhi's phone couldn't get through either.

From the constant forwarding of the voice mail, to the last "the phone is not in the service area".

Unusual, so unusual.

At night, the four of them met in Smith's room, all grim faces.

Although they were very reluctant to admit it, they still had to admit that Gu Nianzhi must have disappeared.

It must not be that I got lost, but someone else!

Who can follow the way?

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

If it's about offending people, then only Seth's family is the lawless local emperor!

The four of them glanced at each other, and they all saw what everyone meant from each other's eyes.

Although the lawyer is only representing the client in the lawsuit and has no direct interest in the other party, but because the profession of being a lawyer is directly linked to the law, it is really too capable of causing hatred, so the plaintiff's lawyer is killed, or the plaintiff's defendant's lawyer is often happens.

"Could it be Seth's family? His stepfather York is not a good guy." A lawyer said coldly, "We have investigated his background, and it is absolutely not clean."

"Don't forget, Seth also ran away. Although the hospital report was nine days ago, it was when they found out that he had escaped. If the time when he officially escaped was pushed forward a little bit, it might be the same time when Lawyer Gu disappeared. It matches." Smith was the first to think of this possibility, and shuddered in his heart.

It's not because of anything else, but because when he and Gu Nianzhi went to the hospital to see Seth who was seriously injured that day, Seth stared at Gu Nianzhi with really abnormal eyes...

"Ah? Is it really related to that perverted bitch Seth?! Then what should I do?!"

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

"Call Lawyer He first. Tell him clearly before calling the police." Smith rubbed his forehead, "It can't be delayed any longer. I haven't heard from Lawyer Gu so far. I'm worried..."

What to worry about, everyone looked at each other, they all knew it, but no one dared to say that possibility, it seemed that once they said it, their worries would come true.

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

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

Although they didn't have many personal relationships with Gu Nianzhi, they got along very well in business affairs for more than a month, and they also admired this hardworking and smart female lawyer of the Chinese Empire. They really couldn't stand her having accidents.

"Even the lawyers dare to touch them! I think the judicial system in Germany is really not ordinary black!"

After the discussion between the four of them, Smith called He Zhichu on the spot.

But he dialed He Zhichu's number for a full hour, and what he always got was his voicemail message!

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

He dialed his personal mobile phone, work mobile phone, work phone, and even the phone number of the Professor Building of Huaxia Empire B University, but none of the calls were actually connected, they were all voice mails!

Smith stared at his mobile phone and muttered, "...Didn't you say you went home? Where did you go? The South Pole? Or the North Pole? No calls..."

"Forget it, Smith." Several colleagues comforted him, "Isn't it the same when we are on vacation? We don't answer or reply to 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 added: "Besides, Lawyer He said that he will be back in two weeks at the latest, and it will be two weeks in four days. We will see when the time comes."

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

"Well." Smith hesitated for a while, "We still have to call the police. Also, Lawyer Gu is a citizen of the Chinese Empire. If something happened to her, they have to notify their embassy."

If Gu Nianzhi was an American citizen, they would have gone to the U.S. embassy a long time ago, but unfortunately she was not, so they had to go to the Chinese Empire's embassy in Munich.

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

One dial was to call the police, and the other was to report to the Chinese Empire's embassy in Munich.

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

There were also two lawyers who knew a little Chinese, so they went to the Chinese Empire's embassy in Munich.

...

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

A few days ago, Smith spent every day at the Munich Regional Police Station because of Seth's escape from the hospital, urging them to quickly send people to catch the fugitive. Everyone here is familiar with him.

Some policemen understand and sympathize with him, but some policemen hate him, thinking that he is here to interfere with their work, and their accusation tarnishes the reputation of the German police and is very unfriendly to him.

Seeing him come to report the crime now, a few policemen took pleasure in their misfortune and kept making things difficult for them.

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

"Missing? Do you think missing is so easy to file a case? If she is a minor and loses contact for 24 hours, she can indeed report missing, but unfortunately, she is already eighteen years old and is an adult, so..." Munich The regional police refused to accept Smith's report in a bureaucratic tone.

Smith sneered, put his hands on the policeman's desk, looked straight into his cloudy gray eyes, and said word by word: "Oh? Now you think that you are an adult at the age of eighteen? Then you fellow chief, what are you doing 21 You say you’re a minor when you’re 22 years old?! Your German law doesn’t say you’re only 22 years old?! Tell me, I filed a fake lawsuit! Or did you introduce a fake law in Germany!”

Talking about talking about breaking the law, how can the police be the opponent of the elite lawyers in the United States?

The policeman was so reddened by Smith that he couldn't get off the stage for a while, so he slammed the table viciously 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. Why are you rushing to report the case?" The police colleagues also chimed in, "Also, the case of disappearance can only Immediate family members come to report, who is her immediate family member?"

Seeing these haughty lawyers deflated in court, the policemen were still secretly happy.

Too many times, the suspects that the police have worked so hard to catch have been exonerated by smooth-talking lawyers and cannot be convicted.

But they don't even think about it. Lawyers have also helped the police and the prosecution a lot, helping them convict suspects.

It can only be said that some people only remember what others have done to them badly, but they have completely forgotten all the good things they have done to them.

Smith was stopped by the police, he was not a vegetarian, he pushed the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose with his hands, and he said solemnly: "Because you said that my colleague is an adult, so the relevant Her report does not require immediate family members. I think you are also talking nonsense, and any legal provisions are bullshit to you. Whenever you need to use it as a prevarication, just grab one at random, regardless of whether your own words are contradictory. !"

"Huh? Reason with us? Don't you know that we are the police? It's a violent law enforcement agency, isn't it a reasonable agency?!" The policemen in the office rolled their eyes together, "If you want to be reasonable, go to court. ——The door is over there, so you can leave without seeing it off!"

"How can you do this?! We abide by the law and follow the legal procedures to report the case, but you have such an attitude?!" Smith slapped the table hard, "Have you thought about the consequences?"

"What are the consequences? We also abide by the law and act according to legal procedures. The law has never said that colleagues can report crimes as immediate family members!"

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

...

The other two lawyers who reported to the Chinese Empire's embassy in Munich were treated much better than Smith and his colleagues.

The two said in the reception room that it was the plaintiff's lawyer defense team in Li Haiqing's case, and the staff of the embassy immediately cordially invited them in.

When they came to the small reception room of the embassy, ​​the vice-consul of the embassy cordially received them.

"Are you members of the American legal team? Thank you for your wonderful defense and justice for the murder of foreign students in our country. We will remember you." The vice-consul is a middle-aged man in his fifties, well maintained, looking He looked only in his early forties.

The two hurriedly humbled themselves, and then said: "We are here this time for Lawyer Gu of our legal team, and she is also a citizen of your Chinese Empire."

"Oh! It's Lawyer Gu! That's right! She's amazing! I heard her court defense, and she speaks English really fluently, with no accent at all! Standard Oxford accent!" The deputy consul laughed. Hehe said, and praised Gu Nianzhi to the fullest.

When the two lawyers saw that the deputy lawyer was doing his best, they immediately hit the iron while the iron was hot: "Yes, yes! She is very powerful. Although she is young, she is extremely smart and works hard. She is the main trial lawyer in this trial and debate. , very old-fashioned."

"Hahaha! The female lawyers in our country are indeed very powerful!" The vice-consul was so happy that he heard it from ear to ear, but he didn't forget what the two American lawyers said just now, so he asked: "You just said it was for her Come, what's going on?"

"It's like this." Two American lawyers became serious, and one lawyer spoke first: "Ten days ago, Lawyer Gu told us that she was going out to meet a friend and said she would come back in ten days. As a result, we couldn't get through to her during these ten days. Every time I called her mobile phone, it was forwarded to the voice mail box. When I called her mobile phone yesterday, it was found that the mobile phone was not in the service area. We are worried..."

Another lawyer went on to say: "We thought there was a problem, so we asked some people to investigate the whereabouts of lawyer Gu, and finally found our chartered car driver. He said that ten days ago, lawyer Gu personally told him to go to King's Lake for a day. I will call him to pick him up at night. But the driver has not waited until now for her to call!"

The vice-consul understood what they meant, suppressed his smile, frowned and thought for a while, "What do you mean... Lawyer Gu...?"

"...is missing." The two American lawyers said together, "Our other two colleagues have gone to the Munich Regional Police Station to call the police. Citizens of the country abroad have an obligation to protect."

"That's natural. Don't say that she is a lawyer entrusted by Minister Bai to come to Germany to fight a lawsuit for her compatriots. Even if she is an ordinary student or laborer, our embassy is duty-bound!" The vice-consul patted the table, "You take Gu Fill in the lawyer's information, and I will immediately contact the country to see what their rules are."

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This is the 10th more five thousand words, and there are more to follow.