A moment later.
He came back out, looking somewhat puzzled, and left without stopping.
Chen Lun stood in the shadows of the alley, recalling the information he had just obtained from the hypnotized salesman.
So the ones deliberately pulling strings behind the scenes were Huoyiner's two older brothers. An internal power struggle in a business family...?
He shook his head, finding it dull.
Make the performance known to everyone, even deliberately drag in the Harrington family and Moses Shipping... hype the performance up to bring it down, then bribe the other performance troupes to tamper with the stage and props, turning everything Huoyiner painstakingly prepared into a joke so he never recovers?
Chen Lun grinned.
"Terribly sorry, but I can't let you ruin my plans."
Chapter 284: The theater opens
Chen Lun paid little attention to Hoyle's family struggles.
Even if they involved one of Peacock City's most prominent families, even if Hoyle's brothers possessed great power and influence, to Chen Lun, it was nothing more than a dull farce among ordinary people.
If they left him alone, he would not bother with them at all.
But if they interfered with his plans, he would not mind crushing them in passing.
Compared to that, he was more concerned about the whereabouts of the three opportunities hidden in Peacock City.
After returning to the Winery.
Chen Lun summoned Golov and the other two and gave them another assignment.
"Go investigate in secret. Among the noble families headed by Viscount Harrington, find out which ones seem unusual and are involved in the mystical world. Make me a list... also, I need you to find two people. One is a student named Francis, and the other is a farmer named Dolim."
Chen Lun sat on the sofa in the study, the Silver Cane