"Ye Feng, I can't leave..."
Under Ye Feng's gaze, Bing spoke with considerable hesitation.
"Why?"
Ye Feng looked at Bing, perplexed. "Aren't you being held under house arrest by the City Lord of Arcanum City... Now is a good opportunity to escape... You don't actually want to marry that Ares or whatever, do you?"
"I... things are a bit complicated... Sister Yan is very good to me, I can't just leave... and I can't escape anyway..."
Bing sighed helplessly.
"Sister Yan? What's going on?"
Ye Feng frowned slightly. "Isn't that City Lord Yue Yan of Arcanum City your master... Why do you call her Sister Yan... And she's holding you under house arrest, forcing you to marry that Ares, and you're not even angry?"
"She is indeed my master, but calling her Sister Yan isn't wrong... As for house arrest, it's not really, I'm staying here willingly..."
"Regarding the matter of Ares, Sister Yan said she has her own arrangements..."
Bing replied quickly.
"What the hell is this?"
Ye Feng glanced at the altar platform not far away, adorned with strange red runes. "Bing, Yue Yan might be from the Dark Holy Cult. Do you see that altar platform? That's what the Dark Holy Cult calls the 'Enshrinement Platform,' it's used for the Divine Stone irradiation experiments!"
"Yue Yan probably wants to use you for some Divine Stone irradiation experiment, hurry and come with me!"
"Otherwise, it'll be trouble when she comes back!"
Saying that, Ye Feng grabbed Bing's hand, his tone a little anxious.
After all, he had subdued quite a few people in the City Lord's mansion. If someone came to deliver a late-night snack or happened to visit, it would be easy to be exposed... and he had already been in this place for quite some time...
"Bing, is this little fellow the person you met in the City of Despair before?"
At this moment, a female voice Ye Feng was quite familiar with echoed.
As the voice fell, a stunning woman wearing a sky-blue long dress, a pink peach blossom on her forehead, and waist-length hair appeared not far behind Ye Feng and Bing. It was Yue Yan.
Upon seeing her, Ye Feng immediately turned around, staring at Yue Yan with extreme vigilance, as her strength was formidable...
"Sister Yan!"
At this moment, Bing spoke. Then, she walked up to Ye Feng and waved her hand at him. "Ye Feng, you don't need to be so tense, Sister Yan isn't an enemy!"
Ye Feng did not relax his guard...
"Ye Feng, the matter of the Enshrinement Platform of the Dark Holy Cult you mentioned, I knew about it when it was being built!"
"Sister Yan uses it for research, she doesn't intend to put me on it for some Divine Stone irradiation!"
"The people from the Dark Holy Cult have come more than once before, but Sister Yan killed them all!"
Seeing this, Bing let out a sigh of relief and quickly explained.
"That's right!"
Yue Yan seemed to be trying not to provoke Ye Feng, she stood still and nodded. "Last night, I killed two more people from the Dark Holy Cult... There are always foolish survivors who overuse their survivor bracelets, and their冥灯 (ming deng - dark lamp) is detected by the Dark Holy Cult, leading them to be tracked..."
"Last night?"
Ye Feng frowned slightly, his expression a little surprised. "It seems that the mysterious black figure that Xiaoxiao, Qiao Ying, and I saw on the eastern side of the outskirts of Arcanum City last night was Yue Yan..."
"Mhm!"
Yue Yan nodded slightly, looking at Ye Feng with a smile that was not quite a smile. "So, should I call you Lin Dan Da or Ye Feng... or perhaps... Zhang San!"
When she said the last name, Yue Yan's expression became extremely solemn, and Ye Feng's face also changed slightly.
"Oh, my name is Ye Feng! Lin Dan Da is my alias... For some reason, I can't use this name in Arcanum City, otherwise it might cause trouble..."
"But what's the deal with Zhang San?"
Ye Feng's expression quickly recovered, and he looked at Yue Yan with a puzzled gaze.
"Zhang... Zhang San?"
Bing also looked at Yue Yan with considerable confusion.
Yue Yan remained silent, staring intently at Ye Feng.
The next second, her eyes sharpened, and they both quickly formed a hand seal, slapping it onto the ground. All the runes carved on the stone walls of the entire space erupted with ice-blue light, becoming active, as if they had come to life...
"This... Heaven... Heavenly Cage?!"
Sensing the aura emanating from the runes on the stone walls, Ye Feng's heart was greatly alarmed.
Because he had felt this kind of sensation before, in Mech City, after receiving the powerful force that flowed into his body from the Tang Saber, he had subconsciously used it when facing Wang Batian's self-destruction...
Even for the current Ye Feng, facing the Heavenly Cage, he might...
"Oh? Quite knowledgeable!"
Yue Yan's expression showed some surprise. Under Ye Feng's slightly nervous and watchful gaze, she spoke again. "Welcome to the 'Embers' world... Everyone transmigrates, locations are random, some are in the ocean, some in the desert... some in the belly of a whale..."
Before she finished speaking, a flash of light appeared in her hand, and a silver bracelet instantly materialized, it was the survivor bracelet.
Yue Yan gently brushed the bracelet, and a screen instantly appeared in the air, which was the survivor channel.
"Yan... Sister Yan, what is this?"
Seeing this, Bing's face changed drastically. "Sister Yan, didn't you say that information about yourself being a survivor must absolutely not..."
As she spoke, Bing seemed to realize something, and she turned to Ye Feng. "Ye Feng, you... you are also a survivor? That Zhang San Sister Yan just mentioned... is that your nickname on the survivor channel?"
"Uh..."
This sudden turn of events from Yue Yan caught Ye Feng off guard, leaving him somewhat stunned.
"Wait... also?"
Ye Feng frowned and looked at Bing. "Could it be that... Bing, you are also a survivor?"
"Mhm!"
Bing nodded. She glanced at Yue Yan, and with a flash of light in her hand, a survivor bracelet appeared on her left wrist.
Like Yue Yan before, Bing gently brushed the bracelet, and a screen was immediately projected in front of Bing...
"Holy cow... you are all survivors..."
After confirmation, Ye Feng was astonished. He hesitated slightly, and with a flash of light in his hand, the survivor bracelet appeared rapidly, projecting a screen in front of himself as well.
"Ye Feng, that Zhang San Sister Yan just mentioned... it really is you!~"
Bing, having recovered from her shock, sent a period to the person nicknamed Zhang San through the [Private Chat Channel]. Ye Feng's screen popped up with a message notification. Upon opening it, it was the period she sent.
"Bing... your nickname up there is also Bing..."
Looking at the screen in front of him, Ye Feng couldn't help but mutter, "I never noticed this nickname before..."
"I usually only look at what others send. For survivor information, I usually don't send messages... and trading is also rare, because Sister Yan said that survivor bracelets cannot be used for too long, otherwise they will be tracked by people from the Dark Holy Cult... and it will bring danger..."
Bing replied quickly.
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