Chapter 449 - The Desolate Mercenary Union

Lin Mu was standing in front of a rather broad building that had two smaller buildings attached to it at the sides.

The name board hanging on top of it read:

Mercenary Union (Shuang Qian Kingdom Branch)

Lin Wu looked around but found the building to be rather empty. There were barely any people here and even the mercenaries seemed to be missing.

"This is strange…" Lin Mu muttered to himself before stepping inside.

Currently, there was only one clerk sitting on the desk at the corner. The main desks were empty and even dust had settled on them now. Lin Mu walked to the clerk sitting on the desk and coughed lightly.

The clerk himself was busy reading something intently.

"Ahem," Lin Mu coughed to get his attention.

"Oh? Someone's actually here." The clerk said feeling a bit shocked.

"Why is this place so empty?" Lin Mu questioned.

Upon hearing this question, a frustrated expression appeared on the clerk's face.

"Are you here to make fun of us?" The clerk replied.

"What? No! Why would you think that?" Lin Mu asked.

"So you are telling me you've been living under a rock and don't know of the entire fiasco that happened six months ago?" The clerk said getting a bit angry.

"Nope, I've been in seclusion you see… for the past two years." Lin Mu said before letting out a bit of his spirit Qi.

As soon as the clerk sensed his spirit Qi, he sobered up and a scared expression appeared on his face.

"Fo-forgive me senior! I didn't know of your status." The clerk said hurriedly.

"It's alright," Lin Mu said and waved his hand, "now tell me what actually happened?" he asked again.

~Sigh~

"After the incident in at the Wu Lim City and the blood tide great upheaval happed. Investigations were done, and the culprit was found to be a person called Lin Mu.

Originally, the Mayor of the Wu Lim City, Wu Xun and the mercenary union were at odds due to the false accusation that he had put on us. But then the involvement of Lin Mu flipped the entire thing on us.

The sects and other powers found out that when they had sent out people to investigate the kidnappings, this person called Lin Mu had actually accompanied them. This basically caused them to reject all of the findings and they claimed that the evidence was all fabricated.

The current head of the mercenary union had used the royal decree to ask the king to question Mayor Wu Xun. But after he found out about this all, he canceled the decree and levied sanctions on the mercenary union.

Ever since then the reputation of the mercenary union plummeted and people started accusing us of being traitors, although they had no proof of it.

Little by little most of the mercenaries left the union and a majority have even left Shuang Qian kingdom itself." The clerk said.

Lin Mu's eyes went wide as he had not expected there to be such a story behind this and even in this somehow his involvement was there. But soon anger appeared in his heart too as he could imagine why Gu Yao or Wu Xun must have done this.

'He was getting rid of thorns in his path. By discrediting and framing an inflectional power such as the mercenary union, he removed one of the parties that were opposing him.' Lin Mu inferred.

But he didn't show any expression on his face as it would only cause the clerk to feel weird.

"Why are you still here then?" Lin Mu asked curiously.

~Sigh~

"I'm still here for the few mercenaries that are still left in the kingdom. If they come to me, I'll assign them some other jobs in places where they won't be as infamous.

Or if they want to resign… I take their resignations as well." The clerk answered.

Lin Mu nodded his head in understanding.

"So what did you want, senior? We don't really have much to offer here, there are barely four people left including me." The clerk asked.

"I believe the mercenary union has an information catering department right?" Lin Mu questioned.

"Hmm… yes we do. It's one of the few departments that are still active here, though there is only one person running it." The Clerk answered.

"That may work I guess… I wanted information." Lin Mu said.

"Information? We can give you some but it is likely to be outdated as we don't have much intel coming now due to a lack of people. Still… what kind of information do you want?" The clerk asked.

Lin Mu was about to speak but then changed his question at the last moment.

"I want… everything." Lin Mu stated.

"Everything? What do you mean by everything?" The clerk questioned feeling confused.

"All of your records. Everything that you have left, it doesn't matter how old the information is, or what it is for. Give me everything you have." Lin Mu explained.

The clerk's expression was that of a shock after hearing Lin Mu's words.

"Se-senior… I can get that but the cost for it will be huge. I… don't think I even know what to charge you, I don't think anyone has ever asked for this." The clerk said.

"Hmm… the price shouldn't be a problem. Try to come up with a price." Lin Mu said.

"Umm, I can't do it on my own. I'll need to ask the person who is working in the information department." The clerk replied.

"Go ahead and call him then, I'll wait." Lin Mu said.

"Y-yes…" The clerk replied before rushing into the other parts of the buildings.

While he was gone, Lin Mu spread around his spirit sense to the fullest and checked the entirety of the building.

"Hmm… so there's a library in the western building. I can check it out later but what does it contain? Oh it's a pretty wide variety." Lin Mu muttered to himself and turned to look towards the direction of the library.