After leaving Jingzhou Provincial Governor's Office, Chen Changan and the other two headed straight for Yun'an County.
"They took the mission?"
"They did, my lord."
"Good. This man... has a brain. Now we'll see how it turns out."
"Yes!"
On the road, Mu Yunyao voiced the doubts weighing on her mind.
"Changan, don't you think there's something wrong with this mission?"
"If it really was a mission collected from the common folk, it probably wouldn't have appeared at the Provincial Governor's Office at all."
"An ordinary mission from the common folk would be one thing, but someone would have suppressed a mission like this from the very beginning."
"And yet a mission that shouldn't have appeared in the second-grade section showed up there anyway. I'd wager someone deliberately put it there, waiting for us to choose it."
"I even suspect the person who took us to the Secret Collection Pavilion deliberately led us right to this mission."
"What do you think?" Mu Yunyao asked, frowning.
"There aren't that many coincidences in this world. Of course they did it on purpose. I saw through it from the start—that's why I chose to accept the mission."
"Besides, this mission definitely wasn't collected from the common folk."
"Remember something that man said earlier?"
"What?"
"That the Duke Who Guards the Nation had friends everywhere and a vast network of connections—even in the Provincial Governor's Office, he had plenty of people on good terms with him."
"I remember. So what?"
"If you were the emperor of the Tianjian Imperial Dynasty, would you allow a high-ranking minister to make friends everywhere and form a faction?"
"What is he planning to do?"
"Rebel?"
"This mission was most likely issued at the emperor of the Tianjian Imperial Dynasty's behest."
"It's a warning. A warning to the Duke