Chapter 2018: Escape

After Prince Baru issued his orders and the butler left.

Suddenly, the French troops around Paris began searching for people as if the pot had boiled over.

The streets, which had been lifeless, suddenly became bustling; especially in places like the slums, which French Soldier usually disdained and avoided, were now packed with French Soldier.

They surrounded the area so tightly that not even water could trickle through.

They were all searching for those Longyan; anyone whose appearance leaned even slightly toward being Longyan was seized by them.

After a night of screening, the French Soldier had captured these poor people, merchants, and people from all walks of life who looked like Longyan, but they simply could not find the Longyan scientists and engineers that the French had captured.

This made Prince Baru very annoyed; not finding those Longyan meant that he would be in big trouble.

For them, if these Longyan leaked even a tiny bit of information from here, not only Prince Baru, but even France would encounter massive trouble.

Longyan would absolutely not allow a country to dare to plunder their people in such a way.

Although France had long since made preparations, turning these Longyan into prisoners within France.

However, such evidence was, to Longyan, a naked humiliation.

Longyan would not let them off, and Liu Zheng would not let them off either.

The next morning, Prince Baru had not slept all night.

With such a thing happening, how could he possibly sleep soundly?

And on the morning of this day, Jiang Xuelan and Feng Zhenyun arrived here; today was the day they had agreed with Prince Baru to visit the winery.

They saw Prince Baru still wearing his nightgown, having long since lost yesterday's majesty, and now looking more like a dejected drunkard.

Countless fine wine bottles were placed beside him.

The two frowned, not knowing what had happened, and stepped forward to ask: "Respected Prince Baru, good morning, you look like you have encountered some things today."

Prince Baru raised his head and saw the two Longyan faces of Jiang Xuelan and Feng Zhenyun, and for a moment, he was actually a bit dazed.

"His Highness, Mr. Feng and Ms. Jiang have arrived."

If not for the reminder from his butler, he would have almost forgotten the two of them.

Prince Baru nodded and said somewhat bleakly: "Oh, I know, respected sir and lady, we cannot go to the winery today."

The two were stunned, and before they could speak, Prince Baru said again: "Even our deal, I am afraid, will have to be cancelled."

"Sorry..."

Prince Baru stood up; even though he had encountered such an emergency yesterday, he still maintained his demeanor.

After slightly inclining his body to express his apologies to the two of them, he turned and left.

The butler followed closely behind, stepping forward to support him as if afraid Prince Baru would fall.

After Prince Baru left, a trace of doubt flashed in the eyes of Feng Zhenyun and Jiang Xuelan.

They did not know what had happened last night, and even less did they know why Prince Baru would go back on his word and abandon this matter entirely.

Since the deal had been cancelled, the two had no reason to continue staying here, so they left.

"Could it be that last night..."

Jiang Xuelan's words were interrupted by Feng Zhenyun, who said in a low voice: "Let's leave here first and have our brothers investigate what exactly happened yesterday."

Jiang Xuelan nodded and followed Feng Zhenyun as they left immediately.

After leaving, Feng Zhenyun immediately dispersed his Longyan Special Forces; he and Jiang Xuelan needed to know what happened yesterday as soon as possible.

As a result, it did not take long for Feng Zhenyun and Jiang Xuelan to receive news that shocked them.

Just yesterday, in the suburbs of Paris, a strong explosion occurred in a Factory, and after the explosion, French Soldier went crazy, imposing martial law throughout the city to search for people who looked like Longyan.

Poor people and merchants were, without exception, seized by them as long as they looked like Longyan.

Last night, Feng Zhenyun and Jiang Xuelan were staying at Prince Baru's residence, which was why they avoided the investigation.

Otherwise, they would also have been subjected to the investigation by these French.

After hearing this, Feng Zhenyun let out a long breath and analyzed: "It must have been those missing scientists and engineers who did it."

Jiang Xuelan frowned and asked: "Those scientists and engineers have such great courage?"

Feng Zhenyun shook his head, recalling the files of those missing Longyan, one of whom he remembered very clearly.

Before becoming an engineer, the other party was a glorious Longyan soldier, but because he encountered some things, he suffered injuries.

He had no way to continue staying in the army.

So he applied for his discharge and subsequently became an engineer at a winery.

"Perhaps it was the Longyan soldier named Zhang Mang who played a role; it is clear he is someone who knows the principles of explosions."

"If it is him, those engineers and scientists are in danger; France definitely does not want people to know about their torture of the Longyan, and they will certainly try every Method to find them, and might even kill them."

Jiang Xuelan analyzed seriously.

"We must find those Longyan first!" Feng Zhenyun immediately made a decision.

He said: "I will disperse the brothers under my command and at the same time tell Lord Li Hongtian to come to France to negotiate with them, buying us time to find them!"

Jiang Xuelan nodded and said seriously: "You go handle this personally; I still have quite a few shops here, and they can all be utilized."

"Good."

Feng Zhenyun took out a token and handed it to Jiang Xuelan; he mounted his horse and said: "This is my token, which can mobilize the Longyan forces in Paris."

As soon as he finished speaking, Feng Zhenyun immediately rode his fast horse out of Paris; it would take at least three days to reach Saxony from here, but time was what they lacked most right now.

After obtaining the token, Jiang Xuelan thought about the next step of the plan; after all, this was France's home turf and the capital of France, so searching for those Longyan here was like looking for a needle in a haystack, and they could not publicize it openly!

Publicity!

Jiang Xuelan was stunned and almost admired her own intelligence; when Lord Liu Zheng was starting out, he was good at using publicity for his products, though he called it advertising.

Their Longyan goods had always been very popular in France; if they could borrow these people to spread the word about those Longyan in an unobtrusive way.

They might be able to find those Longyan first; it would be best to design a way of publicity that those Longyan could understand at a glance.

Let them take the initiative to come and find them.

Having thought of this, Jiang Xuelan immediately had an idea.

She turned and boarded the Horse Carriage, saying in a deep voice, "Take me to see the biggest Longyan grain merchant here."

Jiang Xuelan already had a clear and definite plan.

The Coachman was a Longyan Special Forces soldier responsible for protecting Jiang Xuelan; he immediately drove the Horse Carriage toward the largest granary located in the city of Paris.

That was where the person she was looking for was.