“Yes, we will obey the Clan Head’s transfer order.”

Facing the man who was perhaps the most powerful in the territory at present, the three did not dare to hesitate or slacken. They stood at once to accept, backed away, opened the door, and left quickly.

Only after all sound behind the alloy door had vanished did the man behind the desk let out a soft sigh and, somewhat wearily, pull the gray mask from his face.

Beneath the cover was a face that had been mostly burned away, ugly with dozens of scars!

But if Su Mo had been standing here, he would surely have recognized, from the details of the remaining face, that this man was the very one he had sent Oreo to search for all this time.

The current acting lord of Tian Yuan Territory, the mayor of Hope City, and the head of the Chen Clan.

Chen Shen!

“There’s no time left. There’s no more time for me to keep waiting!”

Standing up and looking at the map behind him covered with red dots, Chen Shen kept murmuring, and his eyes grew lost.

He believed in coincidences, but he did not believe in perfect coincidences.

For three years, every time he wanted to carry out his plan, some similar coincidence would rekindle his hope and make him set aside the impulse to take the risk.

But now, tomorrow after tomorrow, three years after three years.

This time, when countless coincidences mixed together once more and were laid out before him,

should he keep waiting?

The next day.

Tian Yuan Territory, Murloc City.

Zhang Min, who had finally been granted an audience with the Murloc Clan’s second prince, Yu Chenghui, rose early.

But what puzzled her two maids was that Zhang Min, who would normally make herself up heavily, this time only washed and changed into a set of new clothes.

She didn’t even put on the eyebrow pencil and lipstick she wore whenever she went out.

And what puzzled them even more was that she had entered the castle for less than ten minutes before Zhang Min came back out the same way.

“Let’s go, we’re going home!”

She forced out a smile. Although her forehead was still wrapped in white cloth, Zhang Min’s spirits were far better than in the past few days.

For fear that she might suffer another blow, the two maids, hearing the word home, could not sit still.

Before long, the three had completed all the procedures and officially boarded the train back to Hope City.

Clank, clank.

The train started.

Facing this foul city filled with the stench of fish, the two maids wanted to stand up and cheer loudly right there.

But on Zhang Min’s face one could see a clear trace of relief, and a few touches of resolve pressed deep inside.

By evening, the train had pulled into the station.

Smelling the fresh air they had missed for so long, the three transferred to a private energy vehicle and headed for Mulberry Field Town, in high spirits at coming home.

On the way, as they neared Mulberry Field Town, Zhang Min even took out a handkerchief and wrapped her face.

“I am the face of the Lane. I can’t let people see me in such a state.”

She awkwardly explained this to the two maids beside her, then stubbornly walked toward the Lane.

But this time, fate seemed to be playing a joke on her.

As she approached the main street where the Lane stood, the scene before her eyes made her pace back and forth three times without being able to believe it.

The line that stretched out for over a hundred meters did not end, as it used to, at the neon-lit Qiankun Grain Store.

It ended at her own... Zizai Liang Lane!

And judging by the workers’ excitement, their enthusiasm was even higher than when they had signed up for Qiankun Grain Store before.

“Have they... gone mad?”

Her emotions surged, and her head, which had been knocked before, began to ache again.

But Zhang Min had no time for that pain. Dazed, she grabbed a worker who was standing in line.

“Are you... did you line up in the wrong place?”

“What? Why are you pulling me? Where did I line up wrong?” Being jostled this way and that, afraid he would not get to sign up, the worker was already somewhat annoyed, and being grabbed made his temper flare.

“Are you sure you are lining up for Zizai Liang Lane, and not Qiankun Grain Store?”

“Qiankun Grain Store? Are you crazy? Or are you new here?” He turned his head instinctively, and once he noticed that the person holding him looked somewhat familiar, the worker couldn’t place her for the moment, so he softened his tone and simply pulled a slip of paper out of his bag.

“Here, look. Who still goes to Qiankun Grain Store now? Isn’t Zizai Liang Lane better?”

“The tools here are half again as good as over there, and the earnings are a point higher. Anyone who goes to Qiankun Grain Store is an idiot, okay?”

“Besides, Zizai Liang Lane has Master Su in charge, which is way better than the place across the street!”

“Tools? Earnings? Master Su?” Her heart skipped. Hearing these three terms, Zhang Min hurriedly took the black-and-white flyer and looked it over.

At first glance she saw the eye-catching energy stone sickle in the top corner of the flyer, along with extremely detailed comparison data.

At second glance, below it, was Zhang Bowen, brandishing a sickle and baring his teeth.

Before she had even made out the other side, hit by this visual impact, Zhang Min’s mind went into turmoil as if struck by lightning, and she sat down hard on the ground.

“They... they actually developed it?”

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