Chapter 113: The Search is On
The morning sun cast a warm glow over the city’s cobblestone streets as Feng Jiao Xue and Mo Tianze stepped out of the inn. The air was filled with the aroma of freshly baked bread and the distant chatter of vendors setting up their stalls.
"Where do we start?" Mo Tianze asked, adjusting the strap of his satchel. "Should we head to where he went first? The alley?"
"No" Feng Jiao Xue shaled her head. "That would be like entering a beasts mouth thinking it’s a cave."
Feng Jiao Xue decided to start gathering information in the most populated place first. Not to search for Wei Jian immediately but to gather informations from the locals themselves on what they could probably be dealing with.
Whenever Feng Jiao Xue had a mission before, Lou Xi always gathers every information he can get, no matter how useless it may be from the beginning to cover their bases before they make a move and Feng Jiao Xue always falls back to operations she is already familiar with.
And which place would people gather most than the plaza.
With the sizzle of grilled meat, the clinking of metal from blacksmith stalls, and the overlapping cries of merchants negotiating prices, the market district was alive with its typical symphony. However, the sound seemed far away to Feng Jiao Xue, muffled behind the keen edge of her attention.
Mo Tianze moved ahead of her, weaving between stalls with his hood drawn low. Despite his usual enthusiasm, his movements were sharp and Feng Jiao Xue can see how his ears are perked and his guards are up despite appearing friendly and approachable.
Seeing Mo Tianze like this is a hard reminder for Feng Jiao Xue that despite how innicent and pure he appears often... Mo Tianze had seen the world as much as she had. How his actions are borne through surviving through day to day basis. And only until now that she realized... she barely knows him at all, who he was before her.
Mo Tianze approached vendors and passersby with a gentle smile, asking the same thing over and over again.
"Excuse me, have you seen a man around this height? Big sword on his back, talks too loud, kind of hard to miss?"