After the six men sat down, they drank and chatted. Just as they were about to blurt out what "that thing" was, one of the older men suddenly gestured for silence. His aged, murky eyes swept around the room, and he spotted quite a few people straining to listen.
The six men stopped discussing the origins of that thing and simply drank by themselves.
Lin Bai sent out a thread of his consciousness to observe them. Sure enough, among the drinkers on the second floor, he was far from the only one searching for information. Quite a few martial artists at the other tables were secretly gathering useful tidbits as well.
Seeing that the six men had stopped talking, Lin Bai was not annoyed. He quietly sat at his table, drinking wine while gazing at the moonlight outside and the myriad lights of South Yi City.
After a bout of heavy drinking, several of the men had grown somewhat drunk.
It had to be said—the wine in this tavern really packed a punch.
About half an hour later, the six men had drunk their fill and once again began discussing the sealing of Qi Province.
"I really never would have thought that thing was actually in Dusk City. We even stayed in Dusk City for a while, yet we never found it?"
"The Zhao family remnants really have some ability. They managed to bring that thing out of Dusk City."
"They were the ones who hid it in the first place. How could they fail to find it?"
"..."
Hearing the men start talking again, Lin Bai immediately perked up.
Yet after going back and forth, the six men still did not say what that thing actually was.
Lin Bai did not know what that thing was, but when many