Taking advantage of the uproar Hu Xinzhu had caused, Lin Qi recruited these numerous vicious servants of powerful clans on the spot to work for him. It was a desperate measure born of necessity. This place was simply too close to the Blood Qin Empire, and Heavenly Temple patrols were roaming the surrounding area. It would certainly have been convenient for Lin Qi and the others to use divine arts or spiritual power to search the area, but that would all but guarantee their discovery by the Heavenly Temple.
Mu Wei did not want the events here to be leaked, so they could only rely on manpower to conduct the most primitive kind of search.
"All right. If these people don't want their masters branded with the crime of colluding with an enemy state, they'll definitely risk their lives to find news related to High Commander Mudela for us." Lin Qi smiled at Mu Wei. "We can only wait here a few more days."
Mu Wei nodded, then looked curiously at the token in Lin Qi's hand. Lin Qi casually tossed her the token that represented the Blood Qin Empire imperial family's power over life and death, saying indifferently, "I found it on a few Blood Qin imperial family members who were killed on the battlefield in the Eastern Great Plains. It looks pretty useful. It works well for frightening people from the Blood Qin Empire."
"Oh!" Uninterested, Mu Wei tossed the token back to Lin Qi. To her, such things of the secular world held no attraction whatsoever.
In this filthy, shabby, chaotic little town, Lin Qi and the others waited quietly for another seven days. At last, the fat pale man came running back, panting hard. With extreme obsequiousness and flattery, he laboriously dropped to his knees and