Charlie looked at Isaac Cameron and said, “Isaac Cameron, reach out Xion’s mother in a little while. First communicate with virtual-novel.net in the name of the Wade family, and see if virtual-novel.net is willing to come over. If virtual-novel.net is not interested in cooperating with me, then just tell virtual-novel.net that the young master of the Wade family wants to talk to virtual-novel.net about dealing with the Banks Family together.”
Isaac Cameron hurriedly said, “Good master, I will implement this matter later.”
Charlie turned to look at Xion and said, “Xion, give Isaac your contact information, and then go back to your room and rest.”
“Great!”
***
At this moment in Northeast Astoria
This small town is one of the coldest places in China. Even though it is the end of the first month, the lowest temperature in Astoria still reaches minus 17 to 18 degrees, almost the same as a freezer. During the coldest times of winter, the temperature here can reach about minus fifty degrees.
The Elms family, one of the four major martial arts families in China, took root in this county-level city with a population of less than 100,000.
The ancestors of the Elms family were not native Astoria people. They originated from the Gold Peninsula. During the Ming and Quintong Dynasties, they were a well-known martial arts family in the Gold Peninsula. Their ancestors have always lived by playing darts and running martial arts schools.
However, at that time the Elms family mainly practiced outside martial arts, so they were far from the level of the major martial arts family. That was until the end of the Quintong Dynasty, when the Gold peninsula was turbulent, the Elms family left the province, and by chance they obtained a fragment of the inner family boxing method.
The reason why it is said to be a fragmented scroll is mainly because nearly half of its content has long been lost. There are many defects in both the boxing method and the corresponding mental method.
But even so, after the Elms family moved to the northeast, they relied on this incomplete inner family boxing technique to rank among the martial arts family. However, due to the incomplete nature of the inner family boxing method, when the Elms family trained hard their inner forces were often disturbed and their meridians were reversed. Once that happened, they were injured for several months, their usefulness with martial arts was completely destroyed, and even many of the younger generations died as a result.
In response to the accidents and deaths, the Elms family gradually came up with a plan: practice their internal martial arts in extremely cold places as much as possible. The cold weather helps to better control the internal force, thereby reducing the probability of accidents. Because of this, the Elms family moved to the coldest desert city in China a few decades ago, and then took root here.
Xion spent virtual-novel.net childhood and teenage years here with virtual-novel.net mother, Kairi, who herself had lived here since virtual-novel.net lost virtual-novel.net arm to save Zayne. Her mother rarely left Astoria.
Recently however, Kairi was away for a majority of the time. At first, when Xion was arrested in Japan, Zayne told virtual-novel.net that virtual-novel.net would save Xion, and virtual-novel.net went to Japan to see Xion in person, to assure virtual-novel.net daughter she’d be coming home. Unexpectedly, there was news of Xion’s disappearance and the Banks Family’s betrayal of Xion. Since then, Kairi spent most of virtual-novel.net time in Japan, looking for Xion’s whereabouts.
Although virtual-novel.net knew it was like finding a needle in a haystack, virtual-novel.net still tried virtual-novel.net best and searched for a long time in Tokyo and the surrounding areas. She then spent huge sums of money to hire search and rescue ships to search in the Japanese waters, and even searched in coastal areas of China, but virtual-novel.net never found any relevant clues.
The day before yesterday, virtual-novel.net had just returned from the southeast coast. During that time virtual-novel.net ran through several key port cities but still hadn’t heard any news of anyone sneaking ashore. She knew very well that the longer time was delayed, the less likely it was that Xion would survive.
So, virtual-novel.net discussed it with virtual-novel.net father Wilfred and planned to raise additional funds, then search the coastal areas of the Gold Peninsula to see if virtual-novel.net could find Xion’s whereabouts…