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Ma Yuanzhang took the whaleboat to the Indra. He didn't look like someone who was old and crippled, to Yao's imagination. Although his stature couldn't be considered tall and sturdy, it was obvious that he was very sturdy. His appearance was much younger than his actual age, and his entire body appeared to be agile and capable. His footsteps were also as steady as a normal person's, making it impossible to tell that he was an old man with a crippled leg.

Ashley greeted her father expressionlessly. Although she could suppress the bad feelings in her heart, she couldn't pretend to be close to him.

After a long time of disagreements, Ma Fei Zhan was already used to his daughter's cold attitude. He pulled Ashley along as he looked up and down, and saw that other than the fact that she had become much skinnier and skinnier due to the long journey outside, she didn't look too bad. At the very least, she wasn't as near to death as the little girl had mentioned in her message.

He pointed to the gauze over Ashley's head and asked, "What happened to your head? Is the injury serious? "

Ashley told him the story of his encounter with the White Devil in a simple manner. Ma Yuanzhang listened to it with interest, then pointed at the whaler he was riding and said, "So that's what happened. Daddy will take revenge for you. That whale is on the boat."

Ashley asked him in surprise, "You guys. Capture it? By the way, why are you on a whaler? "

Ma Zhang Zhan answered his daughter's question and looked at everyone around her, "It wasn't really a catch. It was almost at its end, of course the captain didn't want to waste such a precious beast, so we fished it out. "By the way, you know the captain. Captain Fukuda, the Japanese, his full name is Yishiro Fukuda. You've met him twice in Beijing."

Ashley was completely shocked speechless this time.

Fukuda suspected that his father had been killed by Ma Yuanzhang, and when he learned in Beijing that the manager of the foundation there was the daughter of Ma Yuanzhang, he set up a plot to assassinate her, only to be interrupted by an unidentified Indian in the foundation.

After that, Ashley used his mental illness certificate to get him out and made a deal with him to use him to stop his father's evil plans. But who would have thought that Fukuda would appear here on the same boat as her father? Was he also bribed?

Ma didn't continue the topic. He said to Ashley, "Is there anywhere we can talk about this in private? Or do you want to go with me to the whaler? "

Ashley was tough. "Right here, we can go down to the cabin."

When the two of them reached the stairs, Ma Zhang Zhan suddenly looked back at the crowd on the deck and asked Ashley, "Among your friends, do you think you need anyone to follow you down? I think there are some things that should be told to them."

Ashley opened her mouth to say no, but then changed her mind. She reached out to Yao Yun and asked him to accompany her on this conversation with the horse.

When they arrived at the cabin room, Ma Zhang Zhan was the first to speak. He smiled and said, "Master Yao, I've heard a lot about you taking care of my daughter. I'm also from Beijing, so you don't have to be so polite."

However, he thought to himself, after all, this old man is still his boss, not to mention he's Ashley's father. No matter how much conflict there is between the two of them, it's not something an outsider like me can interfere with. He then quickly said, "Aiyo, I'll just call you uncle. I don't dare to take your words for granted, you can call me San'er if you call me San'er. You've been talking for so long, and we've only just met, am I a bit of an eyesore? Why don't I go up first and have a chat?"

Ma Yuanzhang waved his hand and said, "Little Yao, I won't be polite with you anymore. Don't leave, just listen to me together. Originally, I didn't intend to come over, but since the little girl told me about the situation over here, I had no choice but to come over. "It was not easy for me to bring my wife when she died, and I have been used to it ever since she was young. Even I, her father, looked down on her, and if it wasn't for that girl secretly contacting me, I'm afraid that we would never have met again."

Ashley remained expressionless. "It's not as serious as you think. It's just that I was bitten by a poisonous bug. I'm fine now."

Ma Yuanzhang sat on the bed. He lowered his head to look at his fingernails and slowly said, "Do you really think that way? "How could it just be a coincidence that you were bitten by a rare poisonous spider in Central Asia on a broken island in the Indian Ocean?"

After he finished speaking, he raised his head, looked at Yao Ling, and asked, "Little Yao, you're an expert. What do you think?"

Yao Yun felt a little awkward. She smiled and replied, "About this." "According to common sense, it's impossible for this to happen, unless someone intentionally brought the Man-Faced Spider here to commit murder, but I'm not sure if the target is Ashley. After all, from what we know, there have been a few other people who were bitten before, and it's possible that all of us went to get those fruits that day, Ashley might not be the target."

"You're right, she is not the target. The target is any of you, and all of you in this team are their targets. Do you understand?" Their goal is to stall for time, and find Ranga before you do. "

Ashley finally revealed a surprised expression. She wasn't surprised that her father knew about the matter in Ranga, but was instead surprised that he had directly revealed it to her. He was going to completely smash open the window, so it seemed that the matter was even more serious than she had thought.

Yao Ling was still playing dumb when he said, "They? Who is it? "You said that someone wanted to kill us?"

Ma Yuanzhang smirked and said in an impatient tone, "Li Yesheng, you don't know him? Wasn't he also looking for the city of Ranga? "Alright, let's not beat around the bush. I want to tell you guys, no matter what prejudice you have towards me, you have to believe me now, I'm not here to help you guys. On the contrary, I need you guys to help me stop this madman, Li Ye Sheng."

Without waiting for Ashley to say anything, Ma Zhang Zhan took out a diary and handed it to his daughter: "All these years you have been secretly investigating some secrets of the foundation, you have always suspected that I was the one who did all these bad things, I have never explained it nor stopped you, you are my daughter, I understand your character, if you knew the truth of these things, I'm afraid you would do something irrational. Now, I don't have to hide it. Look at this. Everything you care about is in this diary. "

Ashley opened the book and carefully flipped through page after page. Yao Ling curiously glanced at the book and saw that it was densely packed with words. There were even some photos pasted on the pages, but the details couldn't be seen clearly.

It took more than half an hour for Ashley to quickly skim through the general contents of the diary. You mean. Like me? Investigating these things too? Don't tell me the foundation still has more. Are the others the masterminds? "

Ma Canghai took out his cell phone and showed them some photos.

"F * ck!" Li Yesheng! " Yao Yun recognized him with a single glance.

Ashley asked his father in confusion, "You two know each other? "Why are you with him?"

Ma Yuanzhang took back his phone and told them, "Li Yesheng and I are colleagues, we are all founders of the foundation, but I am in charge of the daily affairs of the foundation, and he is only in charge of fund-raising for the foundation."

"What?" You're actually colleagues? This was just too funny. That Li Yisheng, him. Do you know what he did? "He's actually the head of the Animal Protection Foundation. Fuck, he's a pervert who ran an animal brothel!" Yao Ling was extremely agitated. Although Li Yisheng wanted to put him to death, Yao Ning felt that he was only involved in it by accident. He didn't have that kind of deep-seated hatred towards Li Yisheng like Zhang Tianyu did. However, ever since she heard that the Young Master Huai who killed Old Hu was the younger brother of Li Yisheng, Yao Lao had always wanted to personally end this scourge and could be considered as indirectly avenging Old Hu and the others. However, he would never have thought that Li Yisheng was actually one of the bosses of the foundation that he was hired to work for, although from Ma Yeyu's tone, he was not on the same side as Li Yisheng.

After the two calmed down a little, Ma Yuanying started to tell them about his unknown past.

In the 1980s, when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, Ma had been doing business in Pakistan. He was commissioned by a local organization to secretly transport supplies to the Afghan Resistance Army.

He recruited a local transport team and met an injured Chinese woman while crossing a transport line in a canyon. Strangely, out of compassion and compatriots, Ma Yuanying saved her, planning to properly arrange her after completing the transport mission.

Unexpectedly, they were attacked in Afghanistan, and the transport was almost completely wiped out. This time, it was the saved woman who saved him. She was carrying a horse with one foot blown off while she hid in a safe area.

Although he had lost one of his legs, his life was still safe. Later he learned that the woman was called Li Jia Lan, an American of Chinese descent and an archaeologist. Fearing that some of the most important artifacts might be damaged by the fighting, her team had ventured into Afghanistan to rescue them, but on their return they had been attacked by unarmed men, and her companions had unfortunately been killed to cover the escape of her only woman. She was the only one who had managed to escape.

Since then, Li Jia Lan had taken care of the severely injured Ma Yan, and when he recovered, she accompanied him back to China. Finally, the two of them married in China and gave birth to a daughter, named Ma Si Jia, who was now Ashley.

In the late eighties, they settled in the United States with Li Jia Lan, who died shortly after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. Before she died, she told her husband, Ma Yuan, about her family's history.

Li Jia Lan's ancestors were nobles of the GuiShuang Empire. During the Kadexia period, they had paid homage to Ma Ming, a high monk, and led a diplomatic mission to China to promote Buddhism, communication medicine and architecture. Later, because of the war and other factors, these people could not return to their countries, so they stayed in the Middle Earth for a long time.

The last of these descendants of the GuiShuang Empire, who had undergone several dynastic changes in China, fled to America in the late Qing Dynasty, with the help of an American priest who sympathized with the Taiping Army, in order to escape the pursuit of the imperial court, because the last of them had been implicated by the Taiping Army.

Li Jia Lan's grandfather was one of the group at the time, and he later went to the United States, where he settled down to provide antique identification and sale services to American museums and collectors.

Privately, the Li family's three generations of ancestors have been using the resources provided by these institutions and individuals to search for a secret about the decline of the ancient GuiShuang Empire.

According to the clues they gathered, although the Imperial Empire was constantly invaded by foreign enemies, leading to its disintegration and demise, its decline originated in the heyday of the Kardashian Empire. During his reign, the imperial empire had almost monopolized the trade in spices and silk. With its rapid economic and cultural development, a number of new towns and religious centres had developed in Central and South Asia.

The monarch worshipped Buddhism but loved science, and in his court gathered a large number of Tian Zhu high monks, medical scientists, and mathematicians and architects from Greece. He ordered a large number of magnificent Buddhist buildings to be built, and when he visited India, Buddhist monks from the East Jin saw these majestic pagodas and monasteries.

However, it was for these reasons that the empire was in danger.