After having their formation shattered, the gang members all suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.
Having their formation shattered like this naturally caused them to be hit with the rebound. However, it wasn't that strong, so they were still able to fight if they wanted to.
It was just too bad that Lin Fan didn't give them that chance.
Before they could even react, there were daggers that were made of shadows that flew out of the ground and stabbed right into their bodies.
With just one simple move, they had been turned into pincushions that were trapped against the wall.
Not even the boss of the Demon Wolf Gang was an exception.
Lin Fan came forward and said, "Submit or die."
With no other choice, naturally they chose to submit.
With all of this taken care of, Lin Fan let them all go before having them follow him back to Xia Lou's gang headquarters. Before leaving though, he did slap the Axe Gang boss to wake him up and had him come with them.
Xia Liu was surprised to see all of them coming with Lin Fan at once. He had thought that Lin Fan would only take care of the Axe Gang today. He didn't expect him to take care of four different gangs at once.
After all, these gangs were located in different parts of the city. It would take a long time just to go from each gang to the next, not to mention the time that it took to subjugate them.
At most Xia Liu had only thought that Lin Fan could only subjugate two at most.
He never expected Lin Fan to use this kind of lure the tiger off the mountain strategy to draw in these other three gangs.
But since it was done, naturally Xia Liu was happy about it.
However, now that they had already used this trick, it was impossible for them to keep using loans to trick others. Without the load though, they wouldn't have justification to attack the other gangs.
So they would have to think of a new method to attack the different gangs.
Still with four different gangs falling under them, their influence had greatly increased. It would be easy for them to find justification to attack the other gangs.
Lin Fan decided to leave this matter to Xia Liu since he was done for the day. There wasn't anything that still needed his power to solve, so he decided to head home.
He had gotten a house from Xia Lou's gang as well and it was right beside the one that they had given Duanmu Hua Yu.
So whenever he had free time, he would always go over and talk to him while also playing with Min'er.
That little girl really was cute. He wished that his child would be as cute as her in the future.
When he arrived home, he had a box of biscuits in his hands.
Even though these were simple biscuits made of flour and sugar, they cost an arm and a leg. If it was someone else, they definitely wouldn't have been able to afford it.
It was just a good thing that he still has access to all his spirit stones that he could turn into iron coins.
Though he can't be considered lacking money after his recent "expansions".
When he arrived though, he immediately dropped the biscuits to the ground. He could tell that something was off.
It wasn't with his house since his house's door was still closed, it was with Duanmu Hua Yi's house.
Without hesitation, Lin Fan ran right through the door that was left open, but he wasn't able to find anything in the house. All he saw were the signs of a struggle based on the different destroyed objects scattered all over the house.
It seemed like whoever came didn't show any mercy at all…
He couldn't help feeling worried about Duanmu Hua Yu and Min'er…
So Lin Fan quickly searched the house for any signs that would lead him to them, but he wasn't able to find anything. That was until he looked at the back of the open door and found that there was a note stuck to the back.
Taking the note down and looking he found that it read, "Min'er, if you come home, come and find grandfather at the quarry."
Lin Fan knitted his brows since he could tell that this was indeed Duanmu Hua Yu's handwriting. He was very familiar with it since Duanmu Hua Yu wrote to talk to him most of the time.
However, he could tell that there were a few things off about this note.
First, it was the way that he addressed himself. Instead of calling himself grandpa like he normally did, he used the more formal grandfather.
Second, there was a strange symbol that was also written on the paper.
From a first glance, one might think that this strange symbol was just a scribble that was accidentally made when Duanmu Hua Yu was writing the letter, but he knew that wasn't the case because he was able to recognize this symbol.
After getting closer to Duanmu Hua Yu over the past few days, he shared a few secrets with him.
Of course, that included the meaning of this symbol.
The meaning of this symbol was a special communication method between him and Min'er just in case anything happened.
This symbol's meaning was for Min'er to hide in a special safe spot that they had discussed and not to come out. He would come and look for her when everything was alright.
He had also noticed while searching that the special little pack that he had prepared for Min'er just in case of any accidents was also gone. That must have meant that Min'er had come back before he did and had seen this note, so she took the special pack and had gone into hiding.
As for where she was hiding, that was the one thing that Duanmu Hua Yu didn't tell him.
He had been close, but he still hadn't trusted Lin Fan enough to give up this last secret just yet.
But as for why he told Lin Fan everything else…that was because he wanted to make sure that Lin Fan would be able to take care of Min'er if something happened to him. Like what was happening now.
The only problem was that Lin Fan still didn't know where Min'er was, so he couldn't go and collect her even if he wanted to.
So between Min'er and Duanmu Hua Yu, after considering it, Lin Fan decided to deal with the Duanmu Hua Yu problem first.
The letter clearly stated that Duanmu Hua Yu wanted to meet Min'er in the quarry. If the kidnappers wanted to capture Min'er, naturally they would keep Duanmu Hua Yu alive to ensure that Min'er would willingly go with them.
So in the short term, Duanmu Hua Yu could be considered safe.
However, that was only in the short term.
The longer it went without Min'er showing up at the quarry, the more suspicious the kidnappers would become. It would take them so long before they realized that they had been played and Min'er wouldn't be coming.
Once they realized that Min'er wasn't coming, the first thing that they would do was kill Duanmu Hua Yu. Not just because he was no longer of any use to them, but also because they would be angry that he had tricked them.
So the most important thing for Lin Fan to do right now was to save Duanmu Hua Yu before anything happened to him.
He could already tell from the state of the broken items around the house that it had already been quite a while since he had been kidnapped. If he waited any longer, who knew if the kidnappers would run out of patience or not.
But before he left, he couldn't help muttering to himself, "Why would they want to kidnap old man Duanmu? Not to mention, what did they want with Min'er?"
No matter how he thought about it, it seemed like there were things that he didn't know about under the surface and this situation was much deeper than it seemed.
Still, for now, the most important thing was to rescue Duanmu Hua Yu before it was too late.
So Lin Fan headed right to the quarry.
The quarry that was mentioned in the letter was the coal quarry that was just on the edge of town. It was the only place in this slum city that would provide decent work, but it wasn't a popular job since it was a job that took a toll on the worker's life.
This was a slum city and it was lacking in resources, so most of the coal mining methods were a bit crude. The fumes that came from mining coal all day would accumulate inside of your lungs and would eventually kill you.
So this place was mostly abandoned because only people who were desperate would choose to work in a place like this.
But because it was a coal mine, it was also quite large.
The letter didn't specify where to meet Duanmu Hua Yu, but that was also intentional.
There was only one main entrance to this entire quarry and as Lin Fan expected, it was watched by someone. It wasn't hard at all for him to find this person watching over the entrance with Brainy's puppets at all.
They were trying to catch Min'er off guard and catch her before she could do anything.
It was just too bad that Lin Fan was the one who came.
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