Yue Lan was still busy with her normal schedule, so she wasn’t able to go with him right away. Not to mention that if they were to go now, they would attract a lot of attention.
This was something that they needed to keep secret until the time was right, so it was best if they didn’t attract any attention that they didn’t need to attract.
In the end, they made the decision to head out of the town to check out the iron vein after dinner when it got darker. The excuse that they would give others would be an after dinner walk and date.
Yue Lan really didn’t have much time, so after setting this, she quickly headed off to take care of her normal duties.
Now that the people that she had brought had been trained, the village chief duties that Lin Fan had had all been taken over by them. Other than occasionally having to sign a few documents, he was able to have more free time, even though most of that went to other things in the town or taking care of things with the dungeon.
Still for now, he had the time that he had pulled away for the mission, so he was still free for the rest of the day.
Since that was the case, he decided to head off to the Mercenary Guild to see if there was anything he could do.
However, when he arrived, he was immediately pulled into a private room by Tian Tian.
Lin Fan was completely caught off guard by this, but he still followed her into the room.
After the door was closed, his hands came to his chest and was about to unbutton his shirt when she suddenly asked in a confused voice, “What are you doing?”
Lin Fan looked back at her with a confused look and asked, “Didn’t you pull me in here for that?”
Tian Tian had to think about what Lin Fan meant for a second before her face suddenly turned red. She became angry out of embarrassment and glared at him as she said, “Is that really all you think about?”
Lin Fan gave an awkward cough and an awkward smile before asking, “Oh, then what did you pull me aside for?”
Tian Tian waved her hand in front of her face and took a few seconds to calm down before going back to the same serious look as before. She didn’t speak right away and gestured for him to sit down.
After the two of them sat down, she said, “I have some news from Sunset City, it’s about the mission that you were so interested in.”
Lin Fan immediately knitted his brows when he heard this.
The mission in question was the one about Xiao Yue, the one that had gone from looking for her to killing her. This was something that would certainly affect him in the future since it was impossible for them to completely hide themselves from the Sheng Family if they were this determined to take care of them.
So the only thing that Lin Fan could do was try to get as much information about them before they came.
Only with information was he able to come up with a proper plan to take care of them when they arrived.
Lin Fan gave a nod and asked, “What is it?”
Tian Tian gave a sigh before picking up a document and placing it in front of Lin Fan. Then she said, “Look for yourself.”
Lin Fan picked up the document and as he read it, he couldn’t help knitting his brows even more.
This document was an internal document of the Mercenary Guild and Sunset City. This document told him that the mission about Xiao Yue had been accepted recently and that there was a group of people who were currently heading to this town with the one who accepted the mission.
The one that accepted the mission was only a D Rank Mercenary, but the men that he brought with him were definitely not weak.
Tian Xue had personally checked their cultivation for him after being asked by Tian Tian and she estimated them to be around the Sixth Qi Gathering Realm, with the leader being in the Seventh Qi Gathering Realm. Whoever was able to gather this kind of force definitely wasn’t a normal person, there had to be some powerful faction that was backing them.
The document didn’t state who it was, but Lin Fan knew exactly who it was.
,m If it wasn’t for the Sheng Family, was there anyone else who could send such a force?
This was something that he had to deal with or else it would be dangerous by the time that they came.
Lin Fan didn’t know why they would suddenly decide to come to this town, but he knew that once they were here, it was certain that they would recognize Xiao Yue when they saw her. This town wasn’t as big as the city, so it wasn’t as easy to hide as in the city.
He also didn’t want her to hide away in the Pet Storage Space for the rest of her life because that wasn’t a sustainable method…
So the only thing that he could do was take care of this group before they arrived at the dungeon town.
As for why they were coming to the dungeon town, it was all a coincidence.
The people from the Sheng Family had offered a bounty for any information on the woman for the mission, so there was someone who took advantage of this.
They had heard about the popularity of the dungeon town and used that to trick the people from the Sheng Family. Since the dungeon town was very out of the way, it would take a long time for the people from the Sheng Family to check it out and come back.
This person had planned on taking the money and escaping during this time.
It was just too bad that their trick had accidentally hit the nail on the head and had sent the Sheng Family in the right direction…
Lin Fan was silent for a long time. Seeing him so deeply lost in thought, Tian Tian couldn’t help saying, “Tell me what’s wrong.”
Even now, Lin Fan hadn’t told Tian Tian the reason why he cared about this mission so much, so she still didn’t really understand what was happening.
Lin Fan looked up at her and after a slight pause, he explained everything that was going on.
As she listened, Tian Tian nodded along at first, but she knitted her brows when she heard more and more of the story. Then when the Sheng Family was mentioned, she couldn’t help deeply knitting her brows.
That was because she knew the power of the Sheng Family much better than Lin Fan did.
When Lin Fan finished explaining, he fell silent as he waited for Tian Tian’s response, but one never came. Tian Tian was just as lost in thought as he had been a few minutes ago.
After a full minute of silence, Tian Tian finally said with a sigh, “It seems like you’ve gotten yourself in quite the pickle haven’t you?”
Lin Fan just nodded with a bitter smile on his face.
Tian Tian then asked, “So what do you plan on doing?”
Lin Fan hesitated at first before saying, “I have to take care of this group before they arrive at the town.”
That was his plan, to take care of them before they arrived. If he took care of them after they arrived at the town, then it would draw attention to the town and more people from the Sheng Family would come to investigate.
So the only way to divert that attention was to kill this group from the Sheng Family on their way to the town and then create clues leading in another direction.
The next group from the Sheng Family would follow these clues and then finally when they reached a dead end, they would give up since there would be no further clues. After all, they wouldn’t think that Lin Fan would be dumb enough to return to the dungeon town after what happened.
Tian Tian didn’t say anything at first, but then she said, “This could work, but this is the Sheng Family, so who knows what kind of tricks they have?”
Lin Fan couldn’t help knitting his brows again as he asked, “What is special about the Sheng Family?”
Tian Tian shook her head with a bitter smile and said, “The Sheng Family isn’t easy to touch, they are much more special than all the other families that have connections to sects.”
Lin Fan knitted his brows even more as he asked, “What does that mean?”
Tian Tian narrowed her eyes to look at Lin Fan as she said, “The Sheng Family is related to the Firmament Sect. They are the greatest sect in our empire, the one that can even match the empire’s forces. They are a sect that’s considered second only to the Five Great Sects. They are by no means easy to handle.”
Lin Fan revealed a confused look at this since he still didn’t know much about the hierarchies of the sects. He had heard a bit about it from Mu Bao Bao, but they didn’t really get much talking done last night…
Tian Tian saw the confused look and said, “You don’t need to worry about stuff like that, you just need to know that the Sheng Family is not easy to provoke.”
Lin Fan nodded before saying, “Then I’ll take my leave and you don’t need to worry about this.”
Tian Tian stood up and grabbed him as he was about to leave. Then when Lin Fan turned around to look at her with a confused look, she said with a smile, “Who said that I’m not going to help?”