The Charismatic Charlie Wade

A few minutes later...
The middle door of the five rooms was pushed open from the inside.
Immediately afterward, an elderly man, with the support of two people, came out.
The two strong men outside the door were stunned to see their old Master come out in person. After all, they had never seen a
guest worthy of being greeted by the old man himself.
The moment he saw Maria, he was trembling with excitement.
He did his best to walk faster, so much so that the two people around him were a bit frazzled.
Maria just stood there, looking at him with a smile on her face until the old man came in front of her.
The old man stood in front of her, a little panting and a little excited and said, “Miss, it’s really you! How did you come here?”
Maria smiled faintly, “Come to temporarily join you for a while, is it convenient?”
“Convenient, totally convenient!” The old man hurriedly nodded uncontrollably, then asked, “Miss, are you by yourself? Where is
Old David Blake? Didn’t he follow?”
“No.” Maria faintly shook her head and answered, “He will arrive in China in a few days.”
The old man seemed to understand to the other party’s saying and then he heard the young lady said,, “It’s better to go in and
talk, there are some things that I want to ask you for help with.”
The old man hurriedly made an invitation gesture and respectfully said, “Please, Miss!”
Maria nodded and stepped towards the imposing gate.
Only after entering the gate could she see that this courtyard was incredibly large. The courtyard, which was neatly paved with
green stones, was at least a few thousand square feet.
The old man took Maria all the way to his study, then ordered everyone to leave the study for 50 meters.
So all the family members and servants withdrew to the backyard.

In the study, the old man respectfully invited Maria to sit down on the seat before he opened his mouth and asked, “Miss, where
are you... Where are you coming from? Why didn’t you notify me in advance so I could arrange for someone to pick you up!”
Maria said lightly, “I’ve had quite a tumultuous journey, starting from Northern Europe, then first taking a boat to Murmansk in
Russia...”
“Then turning overland from Murmansk, taking cars and trains, tossing and turning to Moscow, then taking a plane from Moscow
to Vietnam and finally taking a land route from Vietnam into China and taking a plane from the southwest to you.”
“Such a lot of trouble?” The old man was surprised and asked, “Miss, you suddenly used such a tortuous route to come to China,
did you encounter any trouble?”
“Yes...” Maria didn’t hide it and said frankly, “Something went terribly wrong in Northern Europe and I almost lost my life.”
“Ah!” The old man asked in shock, “Why would that happen?”
Maria laughed bitterly, “One of Blake’s men somehow got in touch with the Warriors Den and exposed my whereabouts.
The Warriors Den sent people to Northern Europe overnight to hunt us down and kill everyone except me and Blake.”
The old man said with a face full of horror “The Warriors Den actually found you...”
“Yes.” Maria sighed and said, “I’ve been very low profile, but I didn’t expect that something would go wrong internally...”
“Old Blake’s men originally didn’t know my identity, but the Warriors Den had been using special channels to hunt me down.
In order to find me, they also gave a huge reward, I guess it was Old Blake’s men, because of some coincidence, who happened
to get this information and then sold me out.”
Saying that Maria shrugged and said, “But this is all my speculation, after all, those men of old Blake are dead and I don’t know
exactly which one of them betrayed me.”