When Lin Fan left the meeting, everyone that had been in the meeting had a smile on their face.
After negotiating with the president and Zhu Ba Jie, while they didn't reach a decision since they both needed to report to the upper realm faction first, they both did basically guarantee that this would be accepted by them.
After leaving the meeting, Lin Fan headed right back to the store where someone had been waiting for him.
It was the Yu Shu who was completely covered in his cloak waiting outside the store for him.
When Yu Shu saw Lin Fan approach, he just gave a nod before following Lin Fan in.
Since Lin Fan had bribed/threatened everyone to keep Yu Shu's secret, no one knew about what happened to Yu Shu.
But of course, Yu Shu himself didn't want to keep living this lie, so when he went back to his family, he had revealed everything for his parents. Naturally his parents didn't take this well and had kicked him out of the family, but Yu Shu didn't mind since he had a place to go.
Yu Shu had already accepted Lin Fan's offer to work in his shop, so he had come to Lin Fan's shop.
He wasn't worried that his family would reveal anything since it would bring more shame to them than it would to him, so he felt assured in staying with Lin Fan for now. As for what would happen one day when his identity was revealed which he was certain would happen, that would be for the future.
As for Lin Fan, he actually didn't get why people discriminated against demi humans that much, but that was only because he came from earth.
After being saturated by earth's views of demi humans, naturally he felt differently towards them than the people of the Blue Star Planet.
If possible, it was even his dream to have a catgirl maid one day, but of course that was a dream that he hid from Angela…
Still for now, he wasn't strong enough to do anything about that. Once he had more connections with the Union Government and once he was personally stronger, perhaps he would be able to change things, but for now, it would have to stay the way it was.
Lin Fan came into the store with Yu Shu and he found another rare guest waiting for him inside.
Lin Fan immediately knit his brows when he saw this rare guest, but after leaving Yu Shu with Zhu Tie and Yu Ning for his work training, he went out with the guest.
This guest led him through several twists and turns in Water Pearl City before finally coming to a small shop that sold food. More specifically, it was a shop that specializes in selling jams.
The store had been quite packed when he walked in, but he was led by his guest to the back where there was a meeting room setup. All the seats in this meeting room were filled, with just a single seat in the center left empty for Lin Fan.
When the people in the room saw Lin Fan come in, they all stood up to give him a bow before sitting back down once Lin Fan sat down.
Lin Fan looked over the people in the room before calmly asking, "What is this about?"
Jiang Zhi Shu was the first to speak as he slid a newspaper over to Lin Fan and said, "Please have a look at the front page."
Lin Fan picked it up and looked down at the front page to see large headlines that said "Young Master Jiang finally set to marry, a truly joyous day for Rock Mountain City!".
Lin Fan knitted his brows in thought when he read this, but then it was like he suddenly remembered something as he said, "Isn't he the big brother that you asked to look after the girl you loved?"
Jiang Zhi Shu nodded before saying, "Please keep reading the rest."
Lin Fan continued reading through the article.
Most of the article was about offering congratulations to the Jiang Family and their young master on his engagement, which was normal since this was a Rock Mountain City publication. For that newspaper to survive in the city basically ruled by the Jiang Family, they would naturally have to flatter them.
The only strange thing about the article was the name of the girl who was young master Jiang's fiancee. The name of the girl was Yuan Xiang Qin, the same commoner girl who Jiang Zhi Shu had fallen in love with and had run away with.
She was also the same girl who his big brother was supposed to look after after she was thrown in prison by the Jiang Family!
Lin Fan turned to look at Jiang Zhi Shu who clearly couldn't hide his emotions. His eyes were filled with various complicated emotions, but the strongest ones were anger and confusion.
Jiang Zhi Shu saw Lin Fan looking at him, but not saying anything. After a while, Jiang Zhi Shu bowed his head on the table and said, "Boss, please help me take down the Jiang Family and take her back."
Lin Fan calmly looked at him, but he still didn't say anything as he weighed the pros and cons in his mind.
During that meeting with Zhu Ba Jie and the president, Lin Fan had learned a few things about the organizations that ran the Blue Star Planet. To be more precise, Lin Fan learned more about the Union Government.
The Union Government did run the Blue Star Planet, but that didn't mean that it was fully cohesive. Rather the Union Government was made of three factions which had three different upper realm powers behind them, which was why they could push out the other factions that upper realm powers had set up to take control of the Blue Star Planet.
At the same time, Lin Fan had also been thinking about which S Rank City he should set up his final branch shop in.
He had already set up two branches in two S Rank Cities already, so there were only three cities left for him to choose from. One of those cities belonged to the Lin Family who he still didn't know how to deal with yet, so that city was completely off the table, which left only two cities for him to choose from.
There was Rock Mountain City which was ruled by the Jiang Family alone. Unlike Green Wood City and Water Pearl City which had the Alchemy Tower and the Monster Trainer Union, Rock Mountain City only had the Jiang Family alone which allowed them to rule it like kings.
There was also Illusive Fairy City which was ruled by the mysterious Wu Family that Lin Fan had no information on at all. When he tried to find information on them, he couldn't find anything at all through public routes at all. Even though it was a S Rank City, no one had any information on it at all.
The only way he had been able to get some information on it was by asking the Mu Family and the Zhu Family who told him that they were a family that had a very strange cultivation method. If they had to describe it, it would be similar to magic rather than cultivation.
Those two cities were his only choices right now.
But with how things were developing, it seemed like Rock Mountain City would become a gamble, but it would mean that he also had a way to control things in Rock Mountain City with Jiang Zhi Shu.
Compared to Illusive Fairy City which he had no information at all on, it seemed like Rock Mountain City was a much better choice, but that didn't mean it wasn't dangerous.
Going to Rock Mountain City meant that he would definitely have to face a Legendary Realm Family, or at least face most of a Legendary Realm Family since Jiang Zhi Shu could at least bring some of them to his side.
If this was before, Lin Fan wouldn't have felt confident in doing this, but now that he had gained a few more trump cards, he didn't feel as helpless as before. However, that still didn't mean that he could act rashly.
Lin Fan finished gathering his thoughts before saying, "It's not like I can't help you, but there must be a proper way for us to do this."
Jiang Zhi Shu had a look of hope in his eyes when he heard this. What he was worried about the most was that Lin Fan wouldn't help him, but now that didn't seem like the case. He didn't care what he had to do to save her, he would even sell his soul to the devil. It was too bad that Lin Fan was worse than the devil.
Jiang Zhi Shu immediately said, "Boss, it doesn't matter what you want me to do, I'll do it all as long as we can save her."
Lin Fan revealed a smile at this and gave a nod, "It's good that you're this willing, but we can't go yet."
Jiang Zhi Shu's expression fell once again when he heard this, "Boss, why can't we go yet?"
Lin Fan tapped his finger on the newspaper and said, "It says here that they will be getting married in three months, which gives us time to prepare. If we rush in there without any preparations, how do you think we'll be able to save her?"
Jiang Zhi Shu didn't know how to respond to this since he knew that Lin Fan was right, but he didn't know what to do about this.
Lin Fan nodded when he saw the expression on Jiang Zhi Shu's face and said, "Alright, before we go to Rock Mountain City, we still need to prepare some things in the next month. After that, we'll go there and plan our next move."
Jiang Zhi Shu nodded when he heard this and he listened to Lin Fan with rapt attention.