Chapter 545 - Sudden Developments (3)

Lin Fan knitted his brows the moment he heard this.

He already had some guesses as to why they would mention the Xu Family, but he never thought that they would be this direct.

Still, it wasn't a bad thing to be direct sometimes because he was looking for a way to help the Xu Family. If the Hunters Organization was willing to make a move, it would definitely be enough to stop the City Lord's harassment of the Xu Family's businesses.

That also depended on what kind of favour they were looking to ask him for, after all, he couldn't just do whatever they wanted for this help.

After thinking for a bit to weigh the pros and cons, Lin Fan finally asked, "What kind of favour are you asking for?"

Old woman Mao revealed a faint smile as she said, "It's not that big of a deal, we're just looking to ask you to escort our granddaughters to a banquet."

Lin Fan had thought of all the different things that they could have asked for, but this was the one scenario that he never would have thought of. After all, it was just too strange of a request that Lin Fan would have guessed that this would be their favour.

Lin Fan sat there in a daze for a bit before asking, "Banquet? Are we talking about the same kind of banquet here?"

Old woman Mao gave a nod and said, "An acquaintance of ours is holding a banquet for the younger generation and they invited our granddaughters. Of course, we don't feel assured in letting them go alone, so we wanted to get an escort for them."

Old man Qiao added, "You're someone that we trust, so we want you to escort them to this banquet. You just have to bring them there and make sure that no one gets close, then bring them back. It's very simple."

Lin Fan narrowed his eyes to look at them as if he was trying to find what was wrong with this situation, but there didn't seem to be anything wrong.

Even so, he couldn't help shaking the strange feeling that he had that something was off. After all, this seemed just too good to be true.

There had to be something that was special about this banquet or they were trying to use him as a scapegoat to help their granddaughters get rid of one of their suitors that they couldn't get rid of with a normal method.

Still feeling that this would be more of a pain than he expected, Lin Fan still agreed to it in the end.

Lin Fan nodded as he said, "Alright, I can help them with that. When is it?"

Old woman Mao gave a clap before saying, "Good, little friend Lin's response really is quite refreshing. There's no hesitation in this reply at all!"

Old man Qiao ignored her and said, "It'll be in three days. We'll send a carriage to pick you up after your store closes and you can head off with the two of them to the banquet. I'm sure you'll have a good time."

Lin Fan just nodded without saying anything since he felt like there was nothing else he could say.

There was a small dirty feeling inside of him that almost seemed like he had sold something that he shouldn't have, but there was nothing he could do about it.

The three of them chatted for a bit longer before the two elders stood up and left the store.

Lin Fan sat there for a bit before he also closed the store and headed off to the Xu Family.

Since he lacked information, the only thing he could do was get information. He didn't know a thing about this banquet, so he would have the Xu Family find out what they could in the next three days. At the very least, it was better than sitting around here doing nothing.

After all, knowledge was power and having this information would help him decide what to do at the banquet.

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On the other side, in the Qiao Family's beast carriage, the two elders had been sitting there in silence.

They continued to sit in silence until they arrived at the Hunters Organization branch in Harmony City.

The two of them headed into the building and without even bothering to check in at the counter, they walked right through the lobby to the elevator. No one in this lobby tried to stop them because they recognized the badges that they had on their chests.

This was a Two Star and a Three Star Hunter, there was no doubt that they were people with important statuses in the Hunters Organization. No one was willing to offend them just for something small like this.

The elevator came up to the very top floor and the two of them walked down the hall to the door at the end. Pushing the door open, there was a conference room that was revealed where there were already people sitting there waiting for them.

The two elders took their places at the head of the table and then after settling, old woman Mao asked, "What is the situation?"

The one to report was the red haired woman who had gone with them to the Hunters Exam last time.

She sat up in the chair that she had been leaning in and put a document on the table which she slid over before saying, "We've caught Shi Yan's tail, he'll definitely be going to the banquet in three days. As long as we know where he is, we'll be able to capture him."

Old woman Mao looked at the document that had been slid over to her before shaking her head, "No, we're not making a move on Shi Yan yet. We still need to find out who he's working for."

The red haired woman knitted her brows when she heard this before saying in a frustrated voice, "President, we've already been chasing Shi Yan for this long, we can't just keep letting him run free like this. You should know how many people we've lost over this, how can I make it up to them if we don't get him!"

Old woman Mao raised her hand and moved it in an up and down motion to signal for the red haired woman to calm down before saying, "I know how you are feeling, but it isn't the right time just yet."

Then she turned to the rest of the table and said, "We've gotten Xiao Lin to go to the banquet in three days. When Shi Yan sees him there, there will be no doubt that he will send his people after him. As long as we can capture them, we'll be able to find who the person behind all of this is."

As she said this, old man Qiao knitted his brows.

He had known that this was their plan all along since he had gone with old woman Qiao to see Lin Fan, but he still had his doubts about this plan. No matter how he looked at it, this plan was just too dangerous because it was directly exposing Lin Fan to danger.

He was fine with using Lin Fan as bait for Shi Yan because it was just letting Shi Yan come to Lin Fan and they had completely surrounded Lin Fan's shop with guards. As long as Shi Yan came, he would be immediately taken down by the guards that had been waiting for him.

However, this was sending Lin Fan into Shi Yan's clutches instead of waiting for Shi Yan to come to them.

Even if they would be assigning guards, this was much more risky than waiting for Shi Yan to fall into his trap.

Old woman Mao could see the look on old man Qiao's face and after giving a sigh, she said, "Old Qiao, you should know that this is the safest way. You should have seen Xiao Lin's abilities, he was even able to take out two Child Soul Realm Experts that easily. I'm sure that he won't be in any danger."

Seeing that old man Qiao still had the same look on his face, old woman Mao said, "We'll be sure to compensate him properly after this matter is over, you don't need to worry about this. You know how important this is to our Hunters Organization and you know that I would do this differently if there was a better way, but this is the only way that we have."

Old man Qiao gave a sigh before saying, "There's no compensation that can be given for a dead life, who would you give that compensation to? Not to mention that there's that expert behind him. If anything were to happen to Xiao Lin, you can be sure that we won't hear the end of it that easily."

Old woman Mao knitted her brows when hearing this and she began thinking of what she saw in Lin Fan's store today.

Then she also gave a sigh before saying, "This is what we have to do, there's no other way around this. I'll make sure that everything goes perfectly and that Lin Fan is safe, you don't need to worry about anything."

Old man Qiao looked at her and said, "I hope that you're right about this. I have a bad feeling about this."

Old woman Mao looked at him before turning back to talk to everyone else without responding to him.

Everyone had pretended not to notice the conversation between the two of them because they knew that it wasn't their place to cut in.

Soon, their plan had been set and everyone had been dismissed.

Old man Qiao took one last look at the plan they had drawn up and said, "I hope that this bad feeling is just me being paranoid."