Lin Fan wasn’t in a hurry to chase after big brother Hai’s group because he had already done something that would allow him to track them.
Just like with the pickpocket that had targeted him when he first entered the city, Lin Fan had placed one of Greeny’s seeds inside of the bag that he threw to big brother Hai.
As long as big brother Hai didn’t leave the city, Lin Fan would be able to track him with that seed.
No, even if big brother Hai did leave the city, Lin Fan would still be able to track him.
That was because the seed that he had used was one of the special antenna seeds. There were currently a bunch of puppets that were flying around big brother Hai, watching his every move for Lin Fan.
So Lin Fan wasn’t in a hurry at all.
He wanted to wait until they reached their base and then he wanted to use Greeny’s puppets to scout it out before charging in.
This was something that even the princes were involved in, so Lin Fan knew that this matter wasn’t simple.
Even if big brother Hai and his subordinates were all in the Qi Gathering Realm, Lin Fan was certain that there would be someone more powerful behind them. Even if they didn’t know exactly who was backing them, he knew that he couldn’t underestimate their group.
So he was being very cautious with this.
After they sat back down inside of the orphanage, the beautiful girl couldn’t help feeling awkward.
After all, she had just been very rude to Lin Fan, even going as far as offending him by throwing him under the bus like that.
She had been hostile towards him after she found out he was a cultivator and then when he stepped out to help her, she had actually kept quite out of fear of being retaliated by big brother Hai.
She didn’t know what he was thinking right now, but she didn’t think that he would have a good impression of her.
What she didn’t know was that Lin Fan didn’t care at all.
He didn’t even notice any of this since he only cared about big brother Hai’s involvement with the Dragon Tongue Herb.
So he didn’t understand what was happening when the beautiful girl suddenly bowed her head and said, “I’m sorry, I was wrong to do what I did just now.”
Lin Fan was completely caught off guard since he didn’t know what was happening, but seeing her bow her head like this…he really felt awkward. Especially since he could see the kids glaring at him from upstairs.
The looks in their eyes were clearly saying that they were blaming him for making her cry.
After being dazed for a bit, Lin Fan raised his hands and helped her up as he said, “It’s nothing to worry about.”
The beautiful girl looked up and as expected, there were tears in her eyes. She looked up at him and said, “No, I tried to…”
Lin Fan would have been shocked by a girl crying before, but he had become mentally stronger after all this time. So he reached his hand out to wipe the tears from her eyes and cut her off by saying, “It’s fine.”
The beautiful girl couldn’t help trembling when she heard this and her heart started beating fast, as a blush came over her face.
She had felt this feeling before, but now it was much stronger.
Even though she didn’t know what he looked like, she couldn’t stop her heart.
Lin Fan was also aware of this since he received the notifications from the system.
But it wasn’t time for that now.
He was paying attention to the messages from Greeny telling him where big brother Hai was.
After calming down, the beautiful girl said, “My name is Yun Lan and I…”
Without even being prompted, this beautiful girl who had introduced herself as Yun Lan started telling Lin Fan her entire life story.
Lin Fan just revealed an awkward smile when she did this, but he just sat there and listened to her. He could see from her eyes that she just wanted someone to talk to and listen to her, so he figured that he would since he was still waiting to find their base.
Her story was quite the cliche one.
She had been born in this city and raised in this orphanage after being abandoned by her parents as a child. When she was old enough, she left the orphanage to work as a mercenary for some time.
However, she would always come back to watch over the old lady who ran the orphanage.
That was until the old lady that had run this orphanage and raised her had died.
The city had wanted to tear down this orphanage, but she had stopped them by becoming the new director.
Of course, it had cost her much of what she had owned and some of the land was taken away, but she was able to keep this orphanage open in the end.
The problem was that this orphanage just wasn’t able to support itself and it barely received any support from the city. It was only able to keep itself going because of donations from the residents.
However, donations only came in because of the old lady who ran it before.
All those that donated were people who had been helped by the old lady, but now that she was no longer running the orphanage…they didn’t have a reason to donate anymore.
So slowly but surely, the orphanage ran out of money and she had no choice but to borrow money from the people behind big brother Hai.
That was what led to the current situation.
Lin Fan had already read this plenty of times in his novels, so he wasn’t as moved by it.
But still, he was moved by it to a certain extent…
These kids would make good disciples for the Love Sect, so the only thing that he needed to do was convince this Yun Lan to let them go there.
However, that was all a problem for later.
Right now, what he needed to do was focus on the Dragon Tongue Herb issue.
So after she finished speaking, Lin Fan waved his hand and there was a pile of gold coins that appeared on the table. In a soft voice, he said, “This is a donation.”
Yun Lan couldn’t help being caught off guard by this. She looked at the gold on the table in a daze since she had never seen this much gold before.
Even the amount that she had borrowed from big brother Hai wasn’t this much.
While she was just sitting there in a daze, Lin Fan finally received a report from Greeny.
It seemed like they had found the location.
So he stood up and was about to leave, but before he could, Yun Lan had come back to her senses to grab his sleeve. She looked up at him with pitiful eyes and asked, “Where are you going?”
She didn’t know what came over her when she suddenly grabbed his hand, but since she was already this far, she would go all the way.
Lin Fan was surprised by her sudden action, but he still reached out a hand to pat her on the head before saying, “I’m just going to take care of some business, I’ll be back in a bit. In fact, I have something I need to discuss with you later.”
Yun Lan’s face turned red and she couldn’t help feeling a bit of hope in her chest when she heard this, so she just gave a nod in the end.
Lin Fan patted her on the head again before heading out of the orphanage.
Once he was gone, he immediately disappeared from where he had been standing.
Yun Lan who had been staring at him the entire time couldn’t help being surprised, but then she revealed a bitter smile.
No matter what, they were from different worlds…
Once Lin Fan was gone, the kids who had been waiting upstairs came down to surround Yun Lan. When they were around her, they couldn’t help looking at her with surprised and concerned looks.
One of the girls came forward and asked, “Big sister, why is your face red? Are you sick?”𝓞𝒱𝐿xt.𝐂𝑶𝗆
Yun Lan who had been lost in her thoughts was pulled out by this little girl’s voice. She realized what she had been doing and her face turned even more red.
When this happened, the little girl reached her hand to put on Yun Lan’s forehead.
Yun Lan just revealed a smile when she saw this and said, “I’m fine, I’m just thinking about some things.”
Seeing that Yun Lan’s face had returned to normal as she said this, the little girl couldn’t help asking, “What things? Does it have something to do with that big brother?”
Hearing this question, Yun Lan’s face turned red again, but she quickly calmed herself down and said with a cough, “This is an adult thing. You’ll learn about these things when you get older.”
The little girl started complaining, but Yun Lan quickly sent them off to do their chores.
Once they were all gone, she couldn’t help looking back at where Lin Fan had disappeared as another bit of hope filled her heart.
She couldn’t wait for him to come back.
As for Lin Fan, he was quickly moving through the streets of the city until he came to a certain part of it.
The slums.