"Mrs.Hopkins, how long will it take my father and Uncle Shepherd to come back?" Geoffrey asked.
It was snowing so hard tonight that the child could not sleep peacefully.
Geoffrey leaned against Christina tightly and looked worried with his bright eyes.
"They'll be back soon." Christina comforted.
Christina didn't know exactly when they would be back and had to wait for them.
Seeing that Geoffrey's little face was a little red, she immediately touched his forehead to check if he
had a fever.
Christina found that he seemed to have a fever with a hot forehead.
As Christina glanced at Crystal, Crystal nervously touched his forehead and found he really had a
fever.
Then Crystal gently asked, "Geoffrey, do you feel uncomfortable?"
Geoffrey listlessly shook his head in a low voice.
"I'll be fine.Don't tell my dad."
Crystal worriedly wrapped him in more quilts.
Christina thought for a moment and got up.
"The hotel usually has some medication on hand, including cold medicine.I'll go find it."
When Christina walked through the crowd in the lobby and was about to ask the hotel staff for the
medicine, she was stopped by two well-dressed young women.
The two beautiful foreign women with blonde hair and blue eyes suddenly knelt in front of Christina.
"Miss, we beg you to save my father." Christina was shocked.
"We can't just stand by and watch our dad die.He's in pain and needs to be sent to the hospital
immediately." They said.
They referred to the old man who had suffered a sudden stroke.He lay flat on a long table and kept
warm with a blanket in terrible condition.
"We are from a famous local family.You take my father's belt buckle and contact the people in the
town.They will immediately send someone up the mountain to save us.We will definitely reward you
with a large sum of money."
Crystal saw that Christina was stopped over there and decided to see what happened after asking
Barbara to look at Geoffrey.
"Do you want Christina to ski down the mountain now?" Crystal asked.
Crystal was shocked and angry when she figured out their intention.
"Although the storm has stopped, everyone knows that the ski resort in the east is so steep that it is
dangerous to ski during the day after the snowstorm.Now it's late at night, she will die!"
A few more men came over aggressively.
"This young lady is very professional in skiing.She must be able to go down the mountain.
Christina expressionlessly said, "I'm sorry."
In this situation, everyone had to keep themselves alive, not save others.
Christina promised to stay to look after Crystal and friends and would not leave this place because she
would die if she skied down the steep slope in the east of the mountain although it would only take 20
minutes.
When the two beautiful women who had been kneeling on the ground heard her refusal, they
immediately stood up to glare at her angrily and scolded when pointing at Christina's face.
"You selfish person."
"You watched an old man die in such a cruel way.In spite of your ability to help us, you have refused us
ruthlessly."
The woman shouted in a shrill and harsh voice.
Christina kept silent and felt that these people were ridiculous.
Christina thought that they only cared about the safety of their own relatives, not the lives of others.
As Christina dragged Crystal away, one of the men behind suddenly shouted angrily, "My father could
not die in this way.You have to go down the mountain!"
"What, what do you want to do?!" Crystal asked.
Crystal looked frightened and saw the man holding a pistol at Christina.
As they were getting noisier and noisier, the onlookers retreated in fear.
From time to time, someone shouted, "Put down the gun."
Christina seriously pushed Crystal behind and subconsciously touched the steel knife at her waist with
her right hand.
"Your father has a stroke and is ill.I'm sorry, but I could not help you." Christina said.
Christina tried to calm down and confronted the man in front.
The man, in his 40's, was nervously holding a gun and put the gun on safety to wave it in the crowd.
"You ruthless woman, you refuse to help us and watch my father die in this way.You will have a bad
day.We will die together if you refuse to help me!"
As the man brandished this gun and pointed it randomly at people, people screamed and dodged in
fear.
The man was crazy to threaten Christina with a gun at this moment.
Someone in the crowd shouted in fear, "I've seen you ski, You're a professional skier and can go down
the mountain to save the old man."
"The old man is very pitiful.He made a great contribution to the local community when he was
young.You should take the risk for him to go down the mountain.This is your honor” Someone shouted,
"You are the only one who has the ability to not save him from death!"
They were all blaming Christina in unison.
"You cowards!" Barbara said.
Barbara walked over with Geoffrey in her arms and felt furious.
"You're bullying her.We are foreign visitors, but we are just as human as you.You think you're noble and
don't care about other people's lives.You are obviously very skilled in skiing.Why don't you dare to go
down the mountain? You are the cowards." Barbara scolded.
"Shut up!"
These women were enraged.
"I order you to go down the mountain right now to find someone, or I'll kill him now!"
The man ferociously suddenly aimed the gun at Geoffrey.
Crystal rushed over in a panic, "Calm down!"
Christina was afraid that Crystal would really provoke the man and immediately grabbed her when
glaring angrily at the so-called nobles in front.
Barbara hugged Geoffrey tightly and was frozen when facing the black metal muzzle in front.
There was silence in the lobby.
After all, Geoffrey, a child held back his tears and looked at Christina in fear.
"Don't cry" Christina whispered to him.
Geoffrey sobbed and trembled because he had a fever and was now frightened when he held back his
tears and looked very distressing.I promise to ski down the mountain.Put down your gun."
Christina had to say.
Christina had to answer angrily.
But these noble women said.
"We're going to the ski resort now.As long as you follow our orders and go down the mountain to find
someone to save my father, I won't hurt the people here..."
The man held the gun and asked Geoffrey to be the hostage.
When Barbara carried Geoffrey to the ski resort step by step, Christina and Crystal followed them
vigilantly.
Behind them were several noblewomen with guns, as well as a few unfamiliar tourists.
When they walked half an hour to the ski resort, one of them was holding two high-lit torches.
Though the snow had stopped, it was freezing outside.
Christina changed the ski equipment because she needed someone to bring the flashlight and another
person to go down the mountain.
At this moment, the tall and thin photographer stepped forward.
"I'll go."
Christina looked at the photographer and felt that this man was unusual.
But the man with the gun chose a bearded man who was also very good at skiing and asked the
photographer to stay here because he knew some emergency medical skills and could help the old
father who was dying.
The bearded man was pushed out.
"Why should I go? No!" The bearded man said.
The bearded man cursed angrily when he was forced to ski by two strong men But no matter how hard
he struggled, the bearded man had to do what they said when he faced the dangerous muzzle.
Christina looked down the steep mountain and felt frightened when seeing that it was dark and gloomy.
Geoffrey in Barbara's arms shouted at Christina and cried, "Mrs.Hopkins"
"Christina, you, you will be fine, right?’ Crystal asked.
Crystal was flustered and bordered on crying.
Crystal looked very pale and pretended to be strong.
"It's okay"
"Hurry up.Go down the mountain now.It's only about 20 minutes down the steep mountain here.To find
the mayor of the town immediately."
The man with the gun urged impatiently.
Christina ran to Crystal to give her the steel knife.
When Christina lowered her head to fetch the steel knife at her waist, Crystal was standing opposite
and suddenly looked frightened.
"Christina, what that is?"
Crystal tremblingly looked at the mountain.
At that moment, the ground shook.
The crowd screamed and ran around in panic.
As the snow rushed down fiercely and rapidly, everyone was trapped in snow and could not escape.
As the two lighted torches fell to the ground, people hastily ran around in a panic.
Someone fell and others screamed.
Barbara hugged Geoffrey and fell into the snow.
In this situation, she was so scared that she crawled on the snow and kept trembling.
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