It was midnight.
Figures emerged from the side rooms without making a sound. Zhang Peng and the others were dressed in black night-operation gear.
The outfits were made from matte fabric and designed specifically for nighttime movement and concealment.
Zhang Peng and the others had also received training in this area. Thus, after leaving the side rooms, the seven or eight men silently scattered.
Zhang Peng brought one team member with him. Instead of rushing to investigate, he went to the roof of a building within the temple.
He crouched in the shadows, observing the Empress Temple from above.
The moonlight was bright tonight. Without any tools, Zhang Peng could clearly see the layout of the buildings within the temple.
He intended to determine Empress Hong Shang's residence from the building layout. Since they had come to investigate this so-called empress, investigating her residence was naturally the most direct and efficient approach.
Soon, Zhang Peng discovered that the Empress Temple basically followed a symmetrical design, with the main gate and main temple hall forming the central axis and the other buildings extending out on both sides.
However.
The layout of the temple's living quarters was different.
The side rooms where the several of them had stayed earlier were crowded together with a few other courtyards on the left.
On the right, there were only two courtyards occupying the same amount of space, one large and one small.
Obviously.
If Empress Hong Shang lived within the temple, then she had to be in the larger courtyard on the right.
Zhang Peng exchanged a glance with his team member. The two of them then moved across the roofs of the various buildings and arrived at their target in the blink of an eye.
They stopped on the roof. Zhang Peng took out