Chapter 543 - Sudden Developments (1)

The first thing that came was a notice from the Xu Family.

They reported to Lin Fan that there was another force that was harassing their businesses which had caused quite a large loss for them.

When they did their investigations into this force, they found that it could be traced back to the City Lord.

It seemed like the City Lord had already discovered the connection between him and Xu Family, so he was already making his move. However, Lin Fan was surprised that the City Lord only made a small move like this.

The City Lord didn't even send out any of the experts under him, instead they just used their influence to make things harder for the businesses of the Xu Family. From using his position as the City Lord to pass policies that suppressed their business to inciting the competition to work together against them, he had used all these methods to attack the Xu Family.

But in the end, this almost seemed petty for someone as important as him.

This was also something that confused Lin Fan.

For someone like the City Lord to act this way, it either meant that there was someone else pressuring him or this was all part of his plan.

But Lin Fan had no idea what it really was because of his lack of information.

Still, that was only the least of his worries because there were other things that also came along at the same time.

The store had been calm for the first few days it opened, but with the reputation that it had established, it had caught the attention of certain people.

Each of the twelve great factions had their own people in Harmony City, so of course they quickly received information on Lin Fan's store. However, no one had wanted to act rashly, so they had been investigating Lin Fan's store over the past few days.

The store that he was currently using had once belonged to the Ghost Chef, Qiao Yi Yin, so there were guesses that this store was somehow related to the Hunters Organization. However, after they had investigated this store, they had found that it wasn't related to the Hunters Organization.

Well, to say it wasn't related at all would be wrong since Lin Fan was a hunter, but there were plenty of hunters that didn't belong to the inner circle of the Hunters Organization. The Hunter License was just a very convenient thing to have, so there were plenty of people who had gotten the Hunter License without any intention to join the Hunters Organization.

Once they knew that Lin Fan was one of those people, they naturally all sent people to pull Lin Fan into their own organizations.

By some strange coincidence, they all came on the exact same day.

When they arrived and saw each other, they looked at each other with wary looks. But this wasn't strange at all since they were here competing against each other.

It was clear why they had come, so they all had to make sure that they would be able to gain something that the others couldn't today.

When Lin Fan opened the door that morning, the first thing these young masters from branches of the twelve great factions came in and began looking around the store. They didn't even bother with Lin Fan, instead it was almost as if there was someone particular that they were looking for.

That was because they had come to the wrong conclusion after seeing the information on this store that their subordinates had brought them.

They had seen how young and unknown Lin Fan was and had immediately written him off as the expert. They all believed that there was another expert that was behind this store and Lin Fan was nothing more than a front man for that expert.

As long as they were able to find that expert and negotiate with them, it would be easy for them to take over this store.

After all, they represented the twelve great factions. There were no greater organizations in this entire Galactic Humanity Alliance when compared to them. As for outside of the Galactic Humanity Alliance, that was hard to say.

However, this expert had chosen to stay in their realm, so they would at least give them face as the most powerful organizations in this realm.

Lin Fan noticed these strange customers, but he ignored them. That was he tried to ignore them until they chose to seek their own deaths.

As they were going around, they noticed out of the corner of their eyes that Qiao Yi Fei and Mao Tao were at the counter chatting with Lin Fan.

As residents of Harmony City, naturally they knew the fame of these two beauties. There were even some among them that had tried to be their suitors before, but they had been shot down before they could even step through the door. After all, the suitors that these two beauties had were on a completely different level.

They were the young masters from the main branches of the twelve great factions.

These two beauties were from the families that made up the leadership of the Hunters Organization, so it could be said that their backing wasn't lacking. They were indeed on the same level as the young masters from the main branches of the twelve great factions.

However, even if they couldn't be suitors, they still admired these two beauties.

They had guessed that the Hunters Organization had sent these two to seduce Lin Fan and to build relations with his master behind him, which they could respect as a smart plan, but to use these two beauties…

It was casting pearls before swine!

How could someone as lowly as Lin Fan be worthy of these two?

He was nothing more than someone who was lucky enough to be chosen by the expert as a pawn, he had no merit of his own that was worthy of this treatment!

So there were a few young masters that were quite jealous of Lin Fan.

Eventually, one of the young masters came over and cut into the conversation between Lin Fan and the two beauties.

That young master came right up to the counter and stood in between Lin Fan and the two beauties, not even sparing a glance to Lin Fan as he said, "Miss Qiao, miss Mao, it is truly lovely to see you again. May I have the pleasure of inviting you to some tea."

The way he acted was like he didn't even notice that Lin Fan had existed. To him, Lin Fan was nothing more than air.

However, Lin Fan found it funny when he saw this because he had seen plenty of these people back on earth. He knew that there wasn't a good fate for him because he knew how terrifying these girls were.

Lin Fan was right, there was no need for him to do anything as Mao Tao took the lead to punish this young master.

Mao Tao narrowed her eyes and sized this young master up before suddenly giving a cold snort.

When the young master heard this, there was a bit of anger that appeared in his heart since this snort had hurt his pride. Even if he wasn't one of the young masters from the main branch, he was still someone from one of the twelve great factions.

But he knew what the status of the girl in front of him was, so he held himself back.

Instead, the young master did something that was the opposite of how he felt.

He said in a concerned voice that made him sound like a gentleman, "Miss Mao, is there something wrong with your throat? Do you need me to help you look it over?"

As he said this, he also started to move closer. It was clear by the way his hands were moving, he had impure thoughts. However, the other young masters that were around had a trace of admiration in their eyes.

They had all hit on girls before and seeing the techniques of this young master, they couldn't help praising him. He could be considered one of the best among them with how smooth he made it all seem.

Mao Tao gave an even heavier snort before suddenly flicking her hand, bringing out a whip that suddenly wrapped around the head of the young master.

The young master was surprised, but then he said in a gentle voice, "Miss Mao, is this what you're into? I'm not saying that I'm against it, but to do this in public, it seems a bit wrong, don't you think? How about we…"

Before he could even finish, Mao Tao had already flicked her wrist and cracked the whip, sending the young master flying into the air.

Mao Tao was in the Child Soul Realm while this young master was only in the Embryo Soul Realm, there was no doubt who would be the winner if the two of them fought.

But the funny thing was that the young master had a shocked look in his eyes, as if he couldn't believe what had just happened. He had been completely confident that he had made all the right moves, so why did she suddenly attack him?

Mao Tao flicked her wrist again and sent the young master flying right into the ground, but before he could hit the ground, there was an invisible force that suddenly cushioned his fall.

No one had been able to react at first, but then Mao Tao turned to look at Lin Fan who had his hand raised.

Lin Fan looked right back at her and said, "Stop."