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【question】 Every hour passed, I left the hostel and went to the payphone in the middle of Rosenthal Square to call Miri.The flight to Reykjavik didn't leave until eight in the morning, but I got her email as soon as I bought my ticket.Call me as soon as you get this letter, anytime.So I called every hour throughout the night, because if I didn't call on the hour, I would call more times. The result is the same.I went to the payphone across the street, picked up the pink handset, put in a one-euro coin, and put the wad of coins on the phone.The call would be delayed for a moment, followed by a faint ring, and it would go on and on.I watched the crowds come and go on Wienbergstrasse, bottles in hand, talking in German or English or Spanish.Mi Rui didn't answer the phone at all.

By three o'clock in the morning, everyone on Rosenthalplatz recognized me: the girl who smiled sleepily at me at the counter as I walked out of the hostel; The Vietnamese chef who worked at the all-night Asian fast food restaurant, though he had given up trying to wave me in to eat, still grinned whenever he saw me.They all knew I was going to a public phone booth. At four o'clock, the sky has gradually brightened, and I will leave for the airport in two hours.This time Mi Rui accepted it. I'm sorry, she said out of breath: my phone died when I went out.I just got home and plugged it in.

You must call immediately. I know, but I've been waiting until I'm going crazy.Claire came to me and we went for a walk by the river Have you returned to Paris? right.Are you still in Berlin? I'm leaving. The group of Canadians in my hostel passed by on the sidewalk.They tapped the glass exterior of the phone booth and waved to me.I wave too.Mi Rui's voice became softer. where are you going? I hold the microphone with both hands. that's not important.It's over in two weeks and I can go to Paris if you want So you are still looking.She sighed.Tristan, I'm sorry for that reaction at the station.I thought if you were gone and I went back to Paris I would be able to forget all this, but it didn't work out.I have to tell you something.I should have said it when you were in France, but I'm afraid.

Mi Rui is hesitating.I put in another coin. About the British lovers, I believe you.She said: "But all that about lawyers and money.it's out of the question.You must see this clearly.The first night you told me about it in the bar, I told myself I shouldn't have gone to Picardy with you.But when we got to the subway, I still invited you.I probably thought it was okay if you were a little crazy because I was happy with you.But now that I know you, I care about you, and I can see how this has affected you it is true.I met with a lawyer. But do you really understand them?If so much money is at stake, why don't they go find the evidence themselves, or hire someone to do it?

Trustees say they can't hire anyone And they only give you two months?too crazy.And the letters, too simple, as if someone had put them there for us to find.Tristan, I don't trust those lawyers.I don't believe their stories.And I don't like it when you're so far away when none of this makes sense.i wish you hadn't left france I can come back. That's not the point.The point is I'm worried, and I want you to forget about this quest.One hundred million Swiss francs?What bullshit.You must know it too, if you admit it to yourself. I know it's true.ashley and inmogene are real

They may have been real once, said Mi Rui, but they are no longer there.You and me, we're the only ones that matter in this whole thing.You fear you'll lose that money if you stop looking, but if you keep looking The phone beeps once.I put in a few more coins. what is that?Mi Rui asked. I call a public phone.Calling a French mobile phone costs a lot of coins.We don't have much time. tell me where you are going. Iceland. Mi Rui didn't say anything.I hold the mic close to my ear and hold the last coin in my other hand.On the back of the coin, there is a picture of a tree and the words Liberty, Equality and Fraternity are engraved.

This is unreasonable.Mi Rui finally spoke.You know it's unreasonable. I can't explain it now, you have to trust me.if you see what i see The phone beeps again.I put in coins. This is too bad.Mi Rui said: Come back.I don't care how you get here. I lean against the phone booth.I do not know what to say. You'll come, Tristan, won't you? The phone beeps again. Tell me if you will come.Mi Rui said: I need to know whether I should wait or not. The phone rang and then disconnected.I cursed and yanked the microphone down.I went out into the street, wandered into an empty park, walked around a pond, trying to figure out what I could do.There seemed to be no other options.

I went back to the hostel and wrote an e-mail to Miri, promising her that I would be back in Paris as soon as possible.I couldn't write what I wanted to express, so I kept rewriting, thinking that if I didn't leave quickly, I would miss the plane.Finally I hit teleport, slung my backpack over my shoulder, and sprinted across the street into the subway station. I bought a chunky copy of The Icelandic Sagas at a bookstore at Tegel Airport and sat near the departure gate with my backpack tucked between my knees.The brooch is in my pocket.I opened the book and tried to concentrate.