When they heard this, Yue Lan and Mu Bao Bao couldn’t help leaning in to see what the order was.
The moment that they saw it, they both immediately knitted their brows.
Mu Bao Bao stood up and walked over to the fourth prince before grabbing him by the collar.
The fourth prince immediately raised his hands to show that he was innocent, but that didn’t have any effect on Mu Bao Bao as she raised her fist and said, “What kind of nonsense is this?”
The fourth prince just raised his hands to show his innocence before saying, “I don’t know what’s written on there either. I was just told by royal father to deliver it to you without peeking at it.”
Mu Bao Bao glared at him, but she could tell that he was telling the truth.
Still, that didn’t mean that she would let him off that easily.
She raised her fist to bring it up to his face before asking, “What is that man thinking? Why would he give an order like this?”
The fourth prince just revealed a bitter smile as he said, “Big sister, I really don’t know anything. I don’t even know what the order royal father gave you is, so how could I know what he is thinking?”
Mu Bao Bao was silent for a bit before finally landing a punch on the fourth prince’s face and throwing him down on the ground.
The fourth prince just laid there with the same bitter smile on his face, but he didn’t complain at all.
He knew that this big sister of his was willful and impossible to appease, so the best thing he could do now was stay silent and stay out of the way. Though he really was curious about the letter that his royal father had written.
Mu Bao Bao came back over to Lin Fan’s side and narrowed her eyes to look at the piece of paper that he was holding. 𝗈𝓥𝑙𝐞xt.𝑪𝔬𝔪
This piece of paper…was a royal decree.
It was an informal decree, but there was the royal seal on it which meant that it was a real royal decree.
As for what the content of the decree was…
It was a decree telling Lin Fan, the City Lord of Dungeon City, to bring his forces to meet up with General Lu and his army. Once they met up, Lin Fan would take command of the army with General Lu being his vice commander.
They would march to the Gale Sect and subjugate it on the crimes of treason.
But why would the emperor want Lin Fan to lead an army to subjugate the Gale Sect.
There was nothing to gain from this and it would create a large commotion that would certainly draw attention to him.
It didn’t seem like it followed the plan that Emperor Mu had told them about before.
After all, once this happened, it would be like announcing to the entire empire Mu Bao Bao’s identity.
But there didn’t seem to be anything that could support Mu Bao Bao in taking the throne yet.
No matter how they looked at it, it seemed like a very hasty move.
However, Lin Fan had other thoughts.
While Yue Lan and Mu Bao Bao were still lost in thought, Lin Fan suddenly asked the fourth prince, “Did you bring anything else with you?”
The fourth prince revealed a confused look before slowly shaking his head.
Lin Fan narrowed his eyes to look at him before saying, “Shouldn’t there be a report or something that you brought with you?”
When Lin Fan said this, the fourth prince looked like he suddenly remembered something as he said, “Ah!” Then he slammed his fist into the other hand and said, “Right, there was that!”
He reached into his chest and suddenly pulled out a folder that he placed in front of them before saying, “This is the report that royal father wanted me to bring you. He said that it’s a report on the tax revenue of Dungeon City for this year.”
Lin Fan knitted his brows when he heard this since Emperor Mu had already promised to relieve their city of taxes for a while.
So why would he send a tax revenue report?
Lin Fan took the folder and the moment that he opened it, he immediately knitted his brows.
When Yue Lan and Mu Bao Bao saw his reaction, they immediately knew that there was something wrong with this. So they moved over to take a look at this ‘tax revenue’ report as well.
When they saw the information that was on the report, they also knitted their brows.
Because as they had suspected, this wasn’t a tax revenue report at all, but rather a report on their target, the Gale Sect.
The tax revenue report thing was just a cover in case anything happened.
When Mu Bao Bao saw this, she turned back to the fourth prince and raised her fist again before saying, “Why didn’t you take this out earlier?!”
The fourth prince quickly showed a display of submission as he said, “I didn’t know what it was! Is it really that important?”
Mu Bao Bao was about to beat the fourth prince up again, but Lin Fan said, “Forget it, there’s no point. Come and take a look at this.”
Mu Bao Bao glared at the fourth prince one last time before moving over to look at the report with Lin Fan and Yue Lan.
When she saw the page that they were on, she immediately knitted her brows.
There was some information here that she found very interesting, but it wasn’t for a good reason. It was a very bad reason that she found this information interesting.
“They are the ones…” Mu Bao Bao muttered under her voice.
The reason she said this was that in this report, it stated that the Gale Sect was one of the sects that supported the twelfth prince. And the twelfth prince was one of the princes that had sent forces to attack the Love Sect back then.
There was no doubt that the Gale Sect was one of the sects that had cooperated in this attack.
Even further in the report, it clearly stated that the Gale Sect was one of those groups, as well as giving evidence of this.
With such clear evidence, it was impossible to deny the truth.
Mu Bao Bao’s eyes were slowly filled with the desire for revenge the more she read this report, but of course, there was nowhere to vent this anger right now. So she chose to vent it onto the fourth prince who just took it with a bitter smile on his face.
After they had finished reading the report and Mu Bao Bao was finished beating up the fourth prince, she asked, “What do we do?”
Yue Lan shook her head to show that she didn’t know either.
There were just too many unknown aspects about all of this that even if she wanted to suggest something, she wouldn’t be confident enough in her suggestion to properly suggest it.
So all she could do was turn to Lin Fan, hoping that he would have some idea.
Lin Fan had been lost in deep thought the entire time, which was why he had ignored the fourth prince’s attempts at asking him for help.
Seeing that he wasn’t saying anything, neither of the girls said anything to disturb him since they knew that what he was considering was their current situation.
Finally, Lin Fan slowly said, “Let’s do it.”
When he said this, both of the girls revealed shocked looks before Mu Bao Bao said, “No, I can’t let you do this…It’s too dangerous.”
Lin Fan shook his head and said, “Since Emperor Mu has given this decree, he must be confident in the success rate.”
Mu Bao Bao argued back, “The report said that the Gale Sect has at least four Nascent Soul Realm Elders and the sect master is even in the Soul Formation Realm. This is not something that we can currently face.”
Lin Fan just calmly said, “Since the emperor is sending us there, he must have prepared forces for us to take them down. After all, the decree does say that we were to subjugate them, so there’s no way that he would send us there without any backup.”
Mu Bao Bao knew that he was right, but she still couldn’t shake the worried feeling that she had.
No matter how she looked at it, this didn’t seem like a smart move…but she was hesitating because she wanted to take revenge for the Love Sect…
Lin Fan could see the look in her eyes, so he said, “There’s no reason for Emperor Mu to do this unless he already has a plan in place. So you don’t need to worry about it and just go along with it. We’ve already said that we would go along with his plan, right?”
Mu Bao Bao was still hesitating, but in the end, it was Yue Lan that convinced her by taking her hand and saying, “Just trust him, he knows what he’s doing.”
Mu Bao Bao looked at Yue Lan with a complicated look, but she gave a nod in the end.
In fact, she knew that Yue Lan should be the first one to oppose this since she knew the situation of Dungeon City the best. She should be fully aware of how bad this would be for Dungeon City, but she was willing to go through with this because…of her trust in Lin Fan.
Since Yue Lan could do this, why couldn’t Mu Bao Bao?
Lin Fan had already shown that he was more than worthy of their trust.