"Ice... Ice?"
Ye Feng stared blankly at the beautiful figure standing by a large rock not far away, looking up at the brilliant fireworks in the sky with a faint smile on her face.
"What the heck is this?"
Ye Feng was both surprised and puzzled.
Because according to Jiang Sishan, Ice had been held under house arrest by the lord of the City of Arcane Arts a long time ago, and he hadn't seen Ice for a long time... nor could he get any news about her. But now, Ice had appeared right in front of him...
"Ice... Long time no see~!"
Ye Feng quickly walked to the side of the large rock and greeted Ice, "Why have you gotten so thin~"
Ice did not answer him, but quietly watched the brilliant fireworks exploding in the sky, lost in thought...
"You... you like fireworks too~ Want to set one off?"
Seeing this, Ye Feng said awkwardly.
The other party still didn't respond, which made Ye Feng a little depressed...
"Ice... What's wrong? I heard you were confined by the lord of the City of Arcane Arts. Are you released now? Or did you escape on your own?"
After a pause, Ye Feng frowned and spoke again.
Ice still didn't respond, and instead admired the various fireworks in the night sky.
"Say something!"
Again and again, Ye Feng couldn't help but feel a little angry. He inexplicably reached out and pinched Bing's fair and tender cheek.
"Ah!~"
Ice suddenly came back to her senses, let out a startled cry, and retreated several meters back. Her gaze finally shifted from the fireworks in the sky to Ye Feng.
"Huh? Is that Sister Ice?"
At this moment, Xiao Xiao, who was having a great time, heard the scream and looked over, exclaiming in surprise, and then quickly ran over.
"Sister Ice, why are you here? I heard Si Shan say you were confined by your master. Are you released now?"
Xiao Xiao ran to Ye Feng's side, looked at Ice not far ahead, and said crisply.
"I... I'm not Bing... You've mistaken me for someone else..."
Saying that, the peerless beauty rubbed her reddened cheek with her slender jade hand. The next second, she turned and ran towards the dark area with dense grass and trees behind her.
"Hey, Ice, wait a moment..."
"Sister Ice..."
Seeing this, Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao immediately chased after her. But when they passed a corner, Bing's figure instantly vanished.
"This..."
Ye Feng was very surprised.
Because in that instant, Bing suddenly disappeared. This was not a disappearance by using spatial powers to merge into the void... but a sudden disappearance... as if she had never appeared before...
"Big Brother, why did Sister Ice run away?"
Xiao Xiao looked around and then at Ye Feng with a puzzled look.
"Uh... I don't know either~"
Ye Feng scratched his head. "And she said just now that she wasn't Bing..."
"Ye Feng, was that person someone you know?"
At this moment, Qiao Ying walked over.
"Yes!"
Xiao Xiao nodded and continued, "Her name is Bing. We met her in the City of Desperation. At that time..."
After listening to Xiao Xiao's explanation, Qiao Ying looked at Ye Feng, "Ye Feng, you... did you sense her arrival just now?"
"No!"
Ye Feng shook his head. "I just saw her by chance... If I hadn't seen her with my eyes, I wouldn't have known she was standing less than 10 meters away from me!"
Saying that, Ye Feng glanced at the large rock beside him, which was where he had just discovered Bing appearing.
"Me neither... I only noticed her when I heard her scream, just like Xiao Xiao... This is unusual..."
Qiao Ying's expression was quite serious.
"Big Brother, Sister Ice's strength should be very strong... but that person just now was only Silver tier initial stage..."
Xiao Xiao frowned, adding.
"Indeed... and that person looked a bit younger than Bing and was much thinner..."
Ye Feng also frowned. "Could that person really not be Bing... Are there really two people in this world who look so alike?"
"Roar~ Roar!"
"Cough cough cough~ Gurgle gurgle!~"
At this moment, a burst of zombie roars sounded around the three of them.
Ye Feng looked in the light of the exploding fireworks and found that a large number of zombies had already broken through the defense of the City of Arcane Arts' protective formation, roaring and rushing towards the three of them with bared teeth and claws.
"Big Brother, it seems the zombies have rioted..."
"It might be because we set off too many fireworks just now..."
Xiao Xiao and Qiao Ying said one after another.
"I'll take care of them..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Feng, holding a large saber in one hand and a huge tungsten rod in the other, rushed towards the zombie horde at full speed...
...
In the City of Arcane Arts, a considerable distance from Ye Feng and the other two,
"Who's setting off fireworks there? So beautiful!"
"Yeah, I can't remember how long it's been since I saw such beautiful fireworks... It's like New Year's... Must have cost a lot of money!"
"In the past, during New Year's, setting off fireworks with family, that kind of atmosphere... that kind of happiness... It's a pity, *sob sob sob*~"
"Hey, why are you crying, a grown man..."
"Cry your sister, it's just sand in my eyes..."
"Hey, hey, hey, fireworks are beautiful, but setting off so many fireworks late at night and making such a big commotion will cause a zombie riot..."
"That area is on the outskirts of the City of Arcane Arts, and there's still the protective formation, so it shouldn't be a big problem..."
"A big problem, if the zombies riot and charge wildly, the protective formation will be damaged. Even if the formation can repair itself, the zombies need to be cleared first... Otherwise, the gap will only get bigger and bigger..."
"Look, the city guard is mobilizing!"
...
On Ye Feng's side,
Because the fireworks created quite a stir, Ye Feng and the other two didn't want to stay in one place for long, so Xiao Xiao and Qiao Ying also helped to kill the zombies.
The three of them acted very quickly. In a short while, all the zombies that had broken through the formation were cleared away...
"This protective formation of the City of Arcane Arts is truly magical... it can repair itself when damaged..."
Ye Feng looked at the large gap around him where arcane runes were constantly condensing automatically, very surprised. This was the first time he had seen something like this... and there was no relevant record in the Fire Seed Record...
"Big Brother, someone is coming from afar!"
"Let's go, let's leave this place!"
...
More than ten minutes later,
"This..."
A group of city guards looked at the ground full of zombies and the discarded fireworks paper boxes, stunned.
"Did someone kill the zombies that broke through the great formation before we arrived?"
"Such a strong smell of fireworks..."
"Captain, look, there are still some unfinished fireworks here!"
"Give me one!"
...
At the highest point of the tallest building in the City of Arcane Arts,
A woman in a sky-blue long dress was leaning lightly against the railing, resting her fair cheek on her hand, looking at the spot where Ye Feng had just set off fireworks with her beautiful eyes.
In fact, the woman had watched the entire fireworks display...
"It seems someone interesting has arrived in the City of Arcane Arts~"
...