“Condition?” Lin Fan asked.
He was surprised to hear that she would actually have a condition, but he nodded and said, “What condition do you have?”
Yun Lan looked at him with a serious look before saying, “I want you to go on a date with me.”
“Huh?” That was Lin Fan’s only response to this.
He never would have imagined that Yun Lan’s request would be this no matter how he thought about it.
It was just too out there.
Yun Lan gave a nod in response to this before saying, “I’ve always dreamed about going on a date when I was working as a mercenary…but I never found anyone to go on a date with. Then I had to take over for the old lady at the orphanage and I spent all my time working at the orphanage. Don’t get me wrong, I love working here, but…I’ve always wanted to go on a date…”
She kept going, talking and talking by herself about how she always wanted to go on a date and what her perfect date was like.
It was just like yesterday when she had lost control of herself and rambled off her life story.
It seemed like she had a bad habit of rambling on when she wanted to talk.
Lin Fan just silently listened until she finally trailed off and he said, “Will it help you forget your regrets of this city?”
Yun Lan’s body couldn’t help shaking when she heard this, but after a long silence, she gave a nod.
Lin Fan gave a sigh before saying with a smile, “Where do you want to go?”
Yun Lan slowly looked up at him before revealing a smile. After that, she started going into a ramble again about the places that she wanted to visit.
This time, instead of just listening, Lin Fan actually offered responses.
He wasn’t familiar with the city, but he did know which places were dangerous based on the packet Yue Lan had given him. So he rejected some of the ideas that Yun Lan had.
At the same time, there were also some places that he wanted to avoid since he was still watching over the thugs.
While he didn’t think that they would be able to trace the crime to him, he didn’t want to take any risks and interact with them. So he only wanted to go to places that didn’t have these thugs around.
In the end, they decided on walking around the shopping street and having lunch together.
Before they left though, Lin Fan couldn’t help asking, “What about the kids? Are you just going to leave them here alone?”
Yun Lan shook her head before saying, “I have a friend who can help me take care of them.”
She went to a house that was a few doors down and knocked on the door. It didn’t take long before someone came out.
It was a girl, but she wasn’t as beautiful as Yun Lan. In fact, she had quite the average face…no, it was even considered below average, but the moment that she saw her, she immediately took her in an embrace.
Yun Lan patted her on the back before asking, “Can you help me take care of the kids for a bit?”
The friend looked over at Lin Fan who was standing a bit behind before revealing a smile and saying, “I never thought that someone as strict as you would be doing something like this.”
Yun Lan’s face couldn’t help turning red when she heard this.
But the friend just patted her on the shoulder and said, “Don’t worry, leave it to me. I’ll go play with the kids, so you just go and live your dreams.”
Lin Fan could see in her eyes that she had a truly happy look.
It was clear that they were close and she cared a lot for Yun Lan, but at the same time…he knew that in this city, they had to care for themselves. That was most likely the reason why she had never tried to help with big brother Hai before.
As the friend walked past, she looked at Lin Fan and said, “Don’t you dare hurt her.”
There was a bit of a hostile tone to her voice, but Lin Fan didn’t mind it. After all, he could also hear the caring in her voice.
This was a friend that clearly cared about Yun Lan very much.
Yun Lan’s ears were sharp, so she could hear this as well and she couldn’t help revealing a shy look before explaining, “We used to be mercenaries together and she took care of me.”
Lin Fan just gave a simple nod in response before leading the way.
Even though it was Yun Lan who had decided where they were going, it was still Lin Fan that left the way as the man.
When they arrived, they found that there weren’t that many people here.
Listening to the whispers around him, Lin Fan found that it was because of him that this place was so empty.
All of the people that would normally be walking around or working in the stores…were now out to get that bounty for those two tokens.
Ten spirit stones really were a large amount in this Night Fang City.
Yun Lan didn’t mind this and happily made her way around with Lin Fan.
The other problem was that this street really wasn’t suited for dates.
This was a market street in Night Fang City, so the things that they sold here…were a bit iffy. They were tools that would be used for illegal activities or items that were illegal in the first place.
If it was anywhere else, the merchants here would have been arrested immediately.
It was only in Night Fang City that a place like this would be able to exist.
But Yun Lan didn’t mind this either.
It could be seen how adapted she was to this city. One could even say, as expected of a local.
After walking around for a bit and not buying anything since neither of them had a need for the items here, they found a place for lunch.
Even if Night Fang City was a place filled with illegal activities, the basic needs of people still needed to be met. So the restaurant that they chose to eat at was just a normal restaurant.
In fact, it was one of the better restaurants in the city, so the inside was quite clean. There weren’t people fighting like Lin Fan had seen in the other restaurants and everyone minded their own business.
It was just like a normal high grade restaurant in any of the normal cities that Lin Fan had been in.
But when he saw the token on the wall, he understood why.
That was the token of the Demon Axe Gang, which was one of the strongest gangs in the city. This meant that this restaurant was the Demon Axe Gang’s territory.
If there was anyone that was crazy enough to cause trouble here, then they would be marked and their lives would be finished. So no one was crazy enough to cause trouble here and this restaurant was able to function normally.
Of course, this meant that one had to have a certain status to be able to eat here, but that wasn’t a problem for Lin Fan. All he had to do was toss a spirit stone to the waiter and they were immediately shown to a table.
However, as they walked in, Lin Fan couldn’t help being surprised.
That was because sitting in the restaurant was someone that he recognized.
This was a face that he had seen plenty of yesterday and didn’t want to see anymore.
It was the boss of the compound.
He was sitting at one of the tables with people that he didn’t recognize.
However, Lin Fan didn’t leave this place.
After all, it was too suspicious to leave this place now that he had entered. The best course of action was to sit down and have his meal before leaving in an inconspicuous manner.
So he sat down at the table with Yun Lan and they ordered a few dishes.
They didn’t talk much, but Yun Lan didn’t mind since they didn’t talk much to begin with.
Well, she talked a lot, but she knew that Lin Fan was a person that didn’t talk much, so she didn’t force him. Just a bit of casual conversation from time to time was more than enough for her.
Not to mention, these were delicious dishes that she never had a chance to eat before.
So she was happily stuffing her face.
As for Lin Fan, he had released Greeny’s puppets as soon as he saw the boss.
The boss was one of the people that he hadn’t been able to track since he didn’t know where he had gone and none of the lackeys that he tracked went to report to the boss. That was why he didn’t know that this boss had been in the restaurant the whole time.
He also placed a few puppets near their group to hear their conversation.
But much like his table, their table was also silent.
From time to time, there were a few words that were spoken, but they didn’t make any sense to him.
There were words like “regroup”, “destroy”, “create”, but none of them linked with each other to give him a clue of what they were talking about.
So since there was nothing else for him to find out from this place, he decided to leave since they had finished their meal.
But of course, he also made sure to leave a few puppets to watch the boss.
As they left, they went past the boss’ table and the boss couldn’t help knitting his brows which Lin Fan didn’t notice.
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