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Tan Yashuang arched her delicate brows, the gloom in her phoenix eyes deepening.
She swiftly weighed her options. None of them could really be called favorable to the Sisters' Association.
Take the Brotherhood, for instance. None of the three options was good:
First, joining the new order while retaining some autonomy: that so-called "right of inspection" was a sword dangling over their heads, the equivalent of installing an emperor above them!
Most importantly, the Canopy District and the neighboring Huading and Huaguang Districts had already been completely taken over by the allied forces of the families within the Soul Fighting City system.
Those three districts held over seventy percent of the underground network's most important passageways. From now on, the bulk of personnel movements and trade would inevitably take place within or between the families of the Soul Fighting City system.
Once those major transactions were handled internally by the allied forces or explicitly exempted from passage fees, the Brotherhood would lose most of the largest source of income it had relied on to survive-passage tolls and protection money!
The tolls from the remaining scattered small caravans and minor factions would be a cup of water against a blazing cartload of firewood, nowhere near enough to feed so many brothers.
Second, being absorbed. There was little to say about that: they would become nothing more than hired muscle. The only advantage was that they would no longer have to struggle to support their own men. For a proud old military rogue like Tang Hengyu, this was the hardest outcome to accept.
Third, the so-called deep cooperation. Chen Zhang had explicitly stated that control would remain firmly in the hands of the allied forces led by the Chen