Everyone knew about Daniel's death on the third day after his death. Because Daniel usually locked himself in the house and didn't come out day after day, everyone didn't take it to heart until his current wife Crowe
Reese Gardner noticed something was wrong when she smelled the smell of blood.
Daniel's death is undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for the Gardner family. The current situation of the Gardner family is already very serious. Some time ago, news of the death of the eldest brother Rex also came back. Of course, the person they heard was Rex.
Rex was killed while Bill Coster was doing business. Bill Coster was already in many crises. Although Rex's death was sudden, it was not unexpected.
"It's really troublesome, Daniel, you just left me in a mess like this." Clausius watched Daniel's body being taken away, and murmured to herself. According to the rules, she, a woman who married into the country with no name and no status, was
There is no way to inherit the family property, but since Daniel did not leave any will, the heir to the property will be chosen by himself. After all, the Gardner family has been in the business for many years, and the family wealth is still relatively rich.
Now that Rex is dead, the oldest man in the family is Sean, but Sean's private life is chaotic and he has a broken arm. He is uneducated and has no business acumen. Ewinnie is the eldest sister, although she is relatively smart.
But it was just some cleverness. Keith was too young, and Arya, to be honest, although this child was her own, Claris didn't understand her at all.
I have to admit that the best successor should be Ahs Gardner. Ahs is not only accomplished in business, literature, war, etc., but also has the Book of Ashes. Now he is the best in the family.
People, and Daniel only expelled Ahes from the Gardner family verbally, but if he really followed the rules, the legacy himself would also call Ahes back this time.
Ahes didn't know these things, he didn't even know that Daniel was dead.
Now Ahes is immersed in the comfort of solving the problem and is sleeping in bed.
Claire was sitting at the desk next to Ahs's bed reading a book, when suddenly there was a knock on the door downstairs.
Ahers had told Claire that no matter who came, he would say that he was not at home.
Although she didn't want to be Ahs' errand maid, Claire closed her book and walked downstairs.
Opening the door, there was an elegant-looking man standing outside.
"Hello, beautiful lady, my name is Joshua Joseph, and I'm here to see Mr. Ahs Gardner." He smiled and said.
"Sorry, he's not at home." Claire said, preparing to close the door, but Joshua grabbed the door frame.
"Not at home? But I heard his breathing. He should be upstairs now. Well, his breathing is very rhythmic. Is he sleeping?" Joshua said still smiling.
"That's enough. If you're done, leave now." Claire frowned. Every move of this man made her feel uncomfortable. With more strength, Claire was about to close the door.
"Wait a minute." At this time, Ahes opened the door and said, "Let him come in."
In fact, Ahes had already woken up when Claire got up and opened the door. She just wanted to hear who it was, so it was a bit surprising that Joshua guy came to find her.
Claire glanced at Ahs, then at Joshua, pushed the door open and walked out first.
"It's really a rare visitor. What's the matter with Mr. Joshua coming to see me?" Ahs asked as he walked down the stairs.
"Is that your lover? She is really a first-class girl."
"No, it's not."
"Well, indeed, it looks like you are older than her. Is that your sister?"
"What are you doing here, chatting?" Ahs asked impatiently.
"Well, I thought about it, but unfortunately, it's not the case." As he spoke, Joshua took out a piece of paper from his pocket, "After you used it last time, I also used it."
"What's wrong, do you want to tell me that I wore out that thing?" Ahes couldn't help but smile, but Joshua's next words made Ahes stop laughing.
"I asked him a question. The question is, what questions did you ask him?"
"..." After hearing this, Ahes fell silent and swallowed.
"Well, there are so many people. Snooping on your questions is the biggest price I have to pay. It costs me five years of life. Others only have a few days of life at most." Joshua touched his chin and said, "
At that time, I was thinking, what on earth did you ask that was so valuable?"
"The result really opened my eyes. Mr. Ahes, you are not from this world."
"......Why are you doing this, wasting your life to pry into other people's secrets, and what good will it do to you." Ahs gritted his teeth and asked.
"I am a person with some little quirks. It's better to say that everyone has that kind of shameful quirk, right? I really like to pry into other people's secrets, especially the feeling of holding other people's secrets in my hands. It's like
It's like I've got a hold of his lifeblood, and I can tear it off at any time if I want."
This metaphor gave Ahers a thrill.
"You pervert, forget it, you came to me just to take my life away." With that said, Ahes took off his gloves, "I will kill you right now."
"Hahaha, you can't do it, Mr. Ahes, instead of wasting your energy, let's sit down and have a good chat." Joshua smiled and said.
Ahes did not speak, and jumped directly into the ground. After gaining the power of Leviathan, even on land, Ahes can move freely as if he were underwater.
Immediately afterwards, Ahes jumped out of the ground like a predatory shark, and his hand of ashes grabbed Joshua.
Just when he was about to touch Joshua, Joshua's body suddenly turned into a black shadow. Ahes penetrated Joshua's body directly, and the black shadow also condensed into a ball, heading towards
As Ahes moved over at high speed, Ahes quickly blocked, but his arm was directly numbed by a powerful force.
Taking advantage of Joshua not continuing to attack, Ahes escaped underground while summoning the Fog Man.
Joshua also continued to turn into a shadow, surrounding Fog Man and constantly attacking.
"What's going on? An enhanced version of Sombra. It's immune to other people's attacks and can attack itself at the same time?" Ahes watched as Fog Man's hand passed through Joshua, and at the same time, Joshua also hit Fog Man.
Half of his body was smashed into pieces, and he couldn't help but be shocked.
After the Fog Man was defeated, Ahes also rose from the ground.
"Okay, I admit defeat." Ahs said, raising his hands.
"Aha, I just said it was a waste of effort." Joshua also changed back to his human form and said with a smile.
Looking at Joshua's smiling face, an unknown fire arose in Ahes' heart.
But now he hasn't fully understood Leviathan's power, and the Book of Ashes doesn't work on him, so he can only compromise first.
"So if you come to me to do something dirty, I won't agree to it," Ahs said.
"Haha, of course not." Joshua laughed.
He didn't even deny it. It seemed that what Douglas said was true.
"Then you came to me because..."
"Please tell me about your world." Joshua said.
"Things about our world?"
"Hmm, I'm very interested in your world." Joshua said.
"Okay, what do you want to know? Is it about the technology in our world?" Ahes said. Ahes thought that Joshua wanted to know about his own world so much because he wanted to create it in this world like himself.
Those things make a lot of money.
"No, I understand all those things to some extent. I asked the devil some things about technology, such as mobile phones and so on." Joshua shook his head and said, "It's indeed interesting, but I'm not very interested."
"Why?"
"Those things are indeed advanced, but with the current technology in Helworth and the entire world, it is difficult to develop them. And I don't think you clearly remember how every accessory of a mobile phone or computer is made. The same goes for cigarettes."
Something from the world, right? You were able to create cigarettes only because cigarettes did not require too complicated a processing process, and with the assistance of the contract and the support of the Borat family, you were able to successfully create and mass-produce cigarettes."
Joshua said.
"That's true, but if you're not interested in those, what do you want to know?" Ahs asked with some confusion.
Joshua did not answer Ahes, but took out a notebook from under the table.
"Based on the description of the devil, I roughly wrote down some important countries in your world." Joshua opened the book and said, and Ahs took the book. Indeed, except for some remote small countries, basically all other countries are on it.
Already.
"I want to know which country you are from?" Joshua asked.
"...Chinese people." This term has really been around for a long time.
"Oh, the devil told me that this country called the People's Republic of China is one of the countries with the longest history. Unfortunately, he doesn't understand history, and he didn't say much to me because of time constraints."
Shua looked a little happy and said, "I want you to describe to me the history and social system of your country from ancient times to the present."
"Yes, yes, but I still want to know, what do you want to do with these, write a book?" Ahes glanced at the clock and said, it was getting late, if you really want to describe it yourself, you can probably tell it until the next day.
Morning.
"Aha, you won't understand even if I tell you. After all, you are not from this world." Joshua said with a smile, "Then let's start now?"
"Let me warn you first, this is a long story."
"It doesn't matter. If it's too short, I'll find it boring."
Ahs sighed.
In this way, Ahes describes starting from the Xia Dynasty, continuing to the Qin Dynasty that unified the six kingdoms, and then from the Western Han Dynasty to the Eastern Han Dynasty, and then the Wei, Shu and Wu divided the world, the short-lived Western Jin Dynasty and the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the Sui Dynasty
And the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, etc., until the decline of the Qing Dynasty, the humiliating modern history, the Opium War, the Reform Movement of 1898, the Revolution of 1911, the May Fourth Movement, the New Culture Movement, the Anti-Japanese War, and Liberation,
Finally New China was established.
When he was about to finish speaking, Ahes raised his head and glanced at the clock. As he expected, it was already seven o'clock the next morning. He had been talking for more than eight hours.
"I didn't expect my history to be pretty good." Ahes rubbed his sore eyes and drank some water to moisten his dry throat.
Looking at Joshua again, he didn't feel sleepy at all, but looked thoughtful.
"There's nothing to say about what happens after that. If you're okay, you can leave." Ahes stood up and said, knowing that Claire was waiting for Joshua to leave.
"Yeah." Joshua was surprisingly calm, just nodded, and then walked out of the room.