Feng Qing nodded, then casually asked, "Has anything strange happened in town recently?"
The vendor's eyes flickered, and then he whispered, "Strange things? Well, a few nights ago, I saw some people dressed in black hurrying back from outside the town. They seemed very tense."
Feng Qing's heart stirred. He realized this clue might be related to the lead discovered by Luo Chen and Qing Shuang.
He decided to tell them this information.
Luo Chen, Qing Shuang, and Feng Qing met up in a teahouse in town to exchange the information they had discovered.
The three of them concluded that these people dressed in black were likely connected to the Thousand-Face Master and seemed to be engaging in some secret activity outside the town.
"It seems we need to investigate outside the town," Luo Chen said in a deep voice.
Qing Shuang nodded in agreement, "Yes, but we must act cautiously to avoid alerting them."
