After they had finished shopping, there wasn't much for them to do, so they just walked around the town as if they were on a date.
Their only lead right now was the cloaked figure that was behind the Drowned Rat Gang and the Steel Head Gang, so they had to keep watching the two gangs since Lin Fan wasn't able to track that cloaked figure.
So right now, he was watching over the Drowned Rat Gang and the Steel Head Gang with Greeny's puppets.
But they were completely knocked out since they had spent the entire night drinking.
Even if Lin Fan was watching them, it wasn't as if he would learn anything from them while they were all unconscious. That was because while they had been drinking last night, Lin Fan had already checked their bases for any clues.
Other than evidence of some wrongdoings, there wasn't anything related to what he wanted to know.
So all he could do was watch them and wait until they woke up.
The cloaked figure said that they would be back in a week, so that was what the two of them were waiting for right now.
They even thought of plans of capturing that cloaked figure, but they decided against it since it was too risky right now. They didn't know anything about the cloaked figure and Lin Fan wasn't able to see how they had disappeared.
Even if they wanted to capture the cloaked figure, they wouldn't be able to do so unless they could find a way to keep them from disappearing.
At the same time, there was the risk of revealing themselves.
Mu Bao Bao had a higher level of cultivation than Lin Fan and there was a chance that she would be able to see through the technique that the cloaked figure used. However, that came with the risk of revealing themselves to the enemy.
Right now, they had the advantage that the enemy didn't know about them.
As soon as the enemy knew, unless they were certain that they could keep the information locked down, it would be very likely that the enemy leaders would learn about Mu Bao Bao's existence.
Right now, Mu Bao Bao had become very important because of what had happened with the fourth prince.
Lin Fan couldn't deny that the Love Sect's destruction could be related to Mu Bao Bao…
There were just too many unknown factors to this that he didn't feel safe doing it, so he decided to take the safest option. While that safest option would mean that they would gather as little information as possible, it was better than risking it all.
So they continued watching over the two gangs while enjoying themselves.
When the two gangs finally woke up, even though they complained about their hangovers, they did start doing what they should do.
The various gangsters spread out to start looking for information on the Love Sect, but they spread out too far that Lin Fan wouldn't be able to keep track of all of them with Greeny's puppets. So Lin Fan chose to give up on tracking all of them and just watched over the bases of these two gangs.
But there was one exception to this.
Whenever the gang leaders left the base, he would always send a group of puppets with them to watch over them.
Most of the time, the gang leaders just went out to take care of the business for the gang.
Business such as threatening innocent merchants for protection money or collecting debts from poor people who had been forced into taking loans with incredibly high interest rates.
These kinds of businesses earned the ire of Lin Fan, but he didn't do anything to stop them.
It wasn't his place to stop them after all.
Over the next week, there wasn't anything special that happened since it was impossible for them to find traces of the Love Sect in the first place.
These two gangs were just normal mortal gangs, so it wasn't as if they had powerful cultivator connections. The remnants of the Love Sect would all be powerful cultivators, so it would be hard for these mortals to find them.
There was one time though where they thought that they had found a trace of the Love Sect.
There was a rumour that there was someone from the Love Sect hiding out in a cabin in the forest near Flowing Mud Town. The one who brought this rumour to the attention of the gangs was someone who claimed to be the one taking care of this member of the Love Sect.
Of course, what they demanded was a cash reward.
The two gangs were desperate, so they paid that cash reward in the end.
However, when they arrived at the cabin in the woods, they found that it was just a rogue cultivator who was using the name of the Love Sect.
This rogue cultivator was only in the First Qi Gathering Realm, so it was easy for the gang members to defeat them.
As for why they were using the name of the Love Sect, it was because they had heard about the destruction of the Love Sect from another rogue cultivator. They thought that since the Love Sect was destroyed, they would be able to do whatever they want in the name of the Love Sect.
That rogue cultivator was later left up chopped in pieces in the woods by the two gangs.
As for Lin Fan and Mu Bao Bao, they took this time to have a picnic in the forest.
Since there was nothing that they could do, they decided to just enjoy themselves and treat this week as a mini vacation until they had to deal with the cloaked figure again.
Lin Fan had packed a perfect picnic for the two of them and he had also found a perfect lake clearing with Greeny's puppets.
Since they had some free time, Lin Fan also brought out all of his pets that he hadn't let out of the Pet Storage Space in a long time.
As soon as they were released, they were immediately captured by Mu Bao Bao who had a soft spot for these cute things.
That is, only a few of them were caught by her.
Hayase, Igneel, Hi, Fuyuki, and Yuuki were all ignored by Mu Bao Bao.
She had accurately picked out all of the female pets and were petting their soft fur with a happy look on her face.
The pets struggled at first, but they quickly realized how futile it was since they couldn't overpower Mu Bao Bao, so they just accepted being petted by her. At the same time, Lin Fan had also given a secret order to them for them to let her pet them.
On the side, Hayase and Fuyuki revealed envious looks as they watched Mu Bao Bao pet them.
Hayase was envious over Shiro because she had never let him touch her like that, even after all that he had done to confess his love for her.
Fuyuki was envious because of how well Nobume was getting along with Mu Bao Bao.
Both Nobume and Yuuki had grown over the months and now they were at the point where they could be considered teenagers since wolf type spirit beasts had a short youth cycle. Since they had become teenagers, they hadn't allowed their father to get close to them at all.
It could be said that they were currently in their rebellious phase, so Fuyuki had been completely ignored by them…
Seeing Nobume and Fubuki getting along so well with Mu Bao Bao was sure to incite his envy.
At the same time, he was also watching Yuuki getting along with Igneel on the side with a trace of envy.
He thought that at the very least, he would be able to get along with his son…but that wasn't the case. It seemed like his son Yuuki was more interested in his new friend Igneel than he was his father.
Igneel was around the same age as Yuuki, so it wasn't strange that the two of them got along so well.
Lin Fan also had a bitter smile at being abandoned by Mu Bao Bao, so he came over to pet Fuyuki on the head.
Fuyuki looked at Lin Fan with a slightly aggrieved look since it could be said that it was Lin Fan's fault that he was going through this right now. But then that look faded since he knew that Lin Fan was in the same situation as him.
Mu Bao Bao had completely ignored the picnic that he had prepared for the two of them to play with the pets.
So it could be said that he was being ignored just like how Fuyuki was being ignored.
Since Lin Fan offered his hand to Fuyuki, Fuyuki decided to take it and rubbed his head against Lin Fan's hand.
While these two lonely dogs comforted each other, there was another single dog that was wallowing in self pity to the side.
Hayase wasn't able to connect with the two of them since it was different in his situation.
He was being ignored by Shiro, but that wasn't that much different from usual. After all, he had still been rejected by Shiro all this time and he had never been able to make any progress with her.
He had tried giving her all kinds of gifts and making grand gestures of love, but it was all ignored by Shiro.
So he was even more lonely than the two who were being ignored by their loved ones.
Just like this, they spent a nice afternoon by the side of the lake.
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