Back at their table, Mu Bao Bao and Senior Sister Bing might have been still eating, but they had also been waiting for Lin Fan to finish what he was doing.
They knew from the way that he reacted that he must have found something.
After he finished sorting out the information that he received, Lin Fan gave a nod to the two of them before they all leaned in close.
Normally Lin Fan wouldn't have stayed in a place like this to discuss this, but it would have been suspicious to leave all of sudden. After all, during the time that he had been silent, Senior Sister Bing and Mu Bao Bao had ordered even more food…
It was hard to tell just where they were keeping all of this food that they ate.
It was the same for Mu Bao Bao since she had also eaten three portions.
One might think that Mu Bao Bao was only eating so that her Senior Sister Bing wouldn't feel awkward, but that wasn't the case. She was enjoying the food that came to her with a smile on her face.
At the same time…it didn't seem like she was having any problem eating the food.
She just stuffed down the food with ease, just like Senior Sister Bing.
It seemed that both girls had a large stomach capacity…
But Mu Bao Bao had never shown this before.
Could it be that she was hiding it because she thought that he would look at her strangely if she ate a lot?
Or was it just because she was a high level cultivator that she was able to store all of this food in her like it was nothing?
It really was a mystery…but now wasn't the time to think about that.
After leaning in, Lin Fan told them about everything that he had heard from the mercenary group.
Once he was done, he waited for a response from Mu Bao Bao and Senior Sister Bing.
Both of them looked at each other and even though their cloaks blocked their faces, they could sense what each other were feeling. So after a bit, they turned back to Lin Fan and Mu Bao Bao said, "We'll follow your decision."
Lin Fan was surprised to hear this, but he gave a nod in response before falling into deep thought.
There were two sides to this argument, one was to follow them, but that would lead them to a dangerous place. The other side was just to let them go and then find out what happened afterwards, but that was very unreliable since it wasn't even certain that they would come back.
No matter how Lin Fan looked at this…this seemed like it was a trap.
If it was this easy to find someone who had a bounty where even a single clue would be worth a thousand spirit stones, then wouldn't everyone have found her already?
Even if the mercenary group's leader made it seem like a great opportunity, Lin Fan knew better.
He knew that this was most likely a trap that the enemy was setting to lure people in.
But at the same time, that meant that the enemy would be nearby since they had set this trap.
If they followed the mercenaries there and then struck while they triggered the trap, they would be able to get the jump on the enemy. If they could get the jump on the enemy, they might be able to catch them off guard and capture them for the information that they wanted.
The problem in the end was that there were just too many unknown factors that made this very dangerous.
It could be not that dangerous, but they didn't know since they lacked information.
But in the end, Lin Fan chose to follow the mercenary group to Flower Oasis.
The benefits outweigh the risks, so it was worth it in the end.
He just hoped that he wouldn't regret this.
After hearing what he said, the two girls nodded in agreement before they went back to eating.
Seeing this, Lin Fan couldn't help revealing a bitter smile before he also ordered a plate of food.
They had to watch over the mercenary group in the first place, so it wasn't as if he was going to leave this place. Since he was here and he was getting hungry, he might as well have a bite to eat.
But he definitely wasn't going to eat as much as the two girls.
In the end, Lin Fan just ordered a single portion and enjoyed it before calling it quits.
As for the two girls…they didn't stop until they had stacked a pile of plates on the table that was far taller than them. It was so high that it almost reached the ceiling…
But even then, they still didn't stop eating as they ordered more dishes.
Lin Fan could only reveal a bitter smile as he thought about how much all of this would cost him.
When the mercenaries finally left at night, Lin Fan followed them with Greeny's puppets until he found the inn that they were staying at.
Since they had arrived in this city, they hadn't found an inn yet. So Lin Fan decided to rent a room in the inn that their targets were staying in.
It was a good thing that this mercenary group did decently for themselves, so they stayed in a pretty good inn. If they did worse and stayed in a worse off inn…it definitely would have been uncomfortable.
Not that it mattered in the first place since they didn't go to sleep.
Lin Fan had to stay up to work with Greeny to keep monitoring the mercenary group just in case they left in the middle of the night. If they did and they didn't follow them, it would be close to impossible to find them again once they left the city.
Even if they knew that they would be going to the Flower Oasis, it would still be like trying to find a needle in a haystack.
So Lin Fan didn't take this risk and let the two girls sleep while he kept watch.
Of course, it wasn't as if a single night of not sleeping would have that much of an effect on him as a cultivator. Especially since he was now a Late Foundation Realm Cultivator.
As for how he became one…it was because of those two dual cultivation sessions.
It wasn't as if only Senior Sister Bing and Ye Qing Huan had benefited from those sessions, Lin Fan had also benefited from dual cultivating with these two rare physiques.
It had pushed him right up two minor cultivation realms, making him a Late Foundation Realm Cultivator.
Of course, being pushed up suddenly like this was hard for him, so he had been adjusting himself on the road. While they had been traveling, he had been slowly getting used to this new body and cultivation of his.
He had finally been able to act like he normally did today as he got used to this new level of power.
Even though he stayed up all night, Lin Fan didn't see anything in the end.
But in the first place, he didn't expect to see anything.
After all, they were sleeping in preparation to head out to the Flower Oasis tomorrow. It wasn't as if this mercenary group would have any late night plans after that.
So early in the morning, they woke up and left the inn.
Following them were Greeny's puppets and not Lin Fan's group.
He wanted to give them a head start so they wouldn't be too close to them and draw suspicion. At the same time, he could hear that they were just getting supplies in preparation for the journey, so it wasn't as if he needed to follow them that closely.
Lin Fan had packed a bunch of supplies into his Pet Storage Space and even if they did run out, Senior Sister Bing could always just pull out some supplies from her Minor World for them.
That Minor World was its own ecosystem, so it had plenty of resources to draw from.
At the same time, he saw that they were going to the Mercenary Guild, which was one of the places that he didn't want to go to right now.
They were going there to pick up a mission as a cover for them going to the Flower Oasis.
It was only when they finally reached the city gates that Lin Fan's group left the inn.
Then by the time that they reached the gate, the mercenary group was already several kilometers out. This might seem like a large distance for normal people, but for cultivators of their level…this distance wasn't that hard to traverse.
At the same time, keeping this distance would avoid them drawing suspicion.
That was why Lin Fan had waited all this time.
When they exited the gate, they also slowly made their way to follow the mercenary group, always making sure to maintain this several kilometer distance.
The mercenaries just didn't have any idea of the group that was following them.
Through the puppets, Lin Fan could hear them happily talking about what they would do with the money once they got it.
It was just too bad that they had no idea what was waiting for them at the Flower Oasis.
At the same time, Lin Fan also didn't know what was awaiting for him at the Flower Oasis.
They just traveled blissfully unaware like this.
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