"Xiao Xiao and Qiao Ying were attacked too? This is too much of a coincidence!"
Ye Feng was a little speechless. He looked around, frowning slightly, as he didn't see any trace of Qiao Ying.
"Whoosh~ Clang!~"
"Boom!~ Hiss!~"
At this moment, Xiao Xiao was already fighting the giant flame wolf.
"That wolf... can actually swallow flames to strengthen itself..."
After observing for a while, Ye Feng was somewhat surprised.
Immediately, he leaped a few times and arrived at the balcony of a building next to Xiao Xiao. "Xiao Xiao, what's going on with that wolf that's burning with flames all over its body?"
"Big Brother, that wolf was once a person. It tried to sneak attack me just now, and I hit it, but the arcane energy flames don't seem to have much effect on it!~"
Xiao Xiao was quite happy to see Ye Feng arrive.
"Is that so..."
Ye Feng glanced at the flame wolf, which was staring at them menacingly, and then turned to look at Xiao Xiao. "Where's Qiao Ying? I don't see her!"
"Sister Qiao Ying seemed to have something urgent and left suddenly!"
Xiao Xiao spread her hands helplessly.
"Whoosh~ Boom!"
At this moment, while Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao were talking, the flame wolf suddenly attacked from Ye Feng's back.
Ye Feng dodged to the side and punched the flame wolf's head.
"Bang~ Crack~"
"Bang~ Bang!~ Boom!~"
After a dull thud and a crisp sound of bones breaking, the flame wolf was smashed directly into a nearby concrete wall, collapsing in a pile of rubble, motionless.
"Xiao Xiao, you just said Qiao Ying left suddenly because she had something urgent?"
Ye Feng ignored the dead flame wolf and looked at Xiao Xiao with a hint of confusion.
"Yeah!"
Xiao Xiao nodded, then pointed in a direction. "She went that way. I'm not too sure about the specifics!"
"Let's go and take a look!"
Ye Feng frowned slightly and strode in the direction Xiao Xiao pointed.
"It's really inconvenient without communication tools like mobile phones! It seems I need to equip everyone with walkie-talkies."
Looking at the almost shoulder-to-shoulder crowd around him, Ye Feng was a little dejected. It was impossible to find someone like this.
"Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao!"
Just as Ye Feng was worrying, Qiao Ying's voice came from above.
They both looked up simultaneously and saw Qiao Ying on the rooftop of a building.
"Let's go!"
Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao exchanged a glance and quickly headed towards Qiao Ying's location.
"Qiao Ying, why did you leave so suddenly just now?"
As soon as they reached the rooftop, Ye Feng asked with a serious expression.
"I seemed to have spotted a 'Demon Awakener' just now, but I couldn't catch up. The other party disappeared suddenly. Plus, there were explosions here, and I was worried about Xiao Xiao..."
As she spoke, Qiao Ying looked a little embarrassed, knowing that Ye Feng had asked Xiao Xiao to follow her for protection.
"Demon Awakener? What is that?"
After hearing Qiao Ying's explanation, Ye Feng was a little puzzled.
"Ye Feng, have you heard of God Summoners? God Summoners are said to be people who can awaken the gods!"
"And Demon Awakeners are the opposite, said to be people who awaken the Seven Great Demon Kings!"
"Just now, in the crowd, although it was only a glance, I still saw a profile that I've seen many times in portraits... I just couldn't catch up..."
Qiao Ying quickly explained to Ye Feng, her voice filled with regret and a hint of wariness.
"Demon Awakener... portraits, what did that guy look like?"
After hearing Qiao Ying's explanation, Ye Feng became a little curious.
"It's this one... Someone drew it during the Battle of Angel City!"
As she spoke, Qiao Ying's hand flashed with light, and a framed black and white painting appeared before Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao.
"Whoa... This... This is Meiyou!"
Ye Feng looked closely and exclaimed.
"Sister Qiao Ying, the person in this portrait looks very similar to this person..."
As she spoke, a picture album appeared in Xiao Xiao's hand. She quickly flipped through it and soon pointed out Meiyou's portrait to Qiao Ying. "Big Brother and I seem to have encountered this person more than once... The first time we saw him was when we met Sister Bing..."
"This..."
Qiao Ying looked at the picture album in Xiao Xiao's hand, then at the portrait in her own hand, and was also surprised.
"Qiao Ying... you just mentioned this Demon Awakener, what's his name?"
At this moment, Ye Feng spoke.
"I'm not too sure about that either. I only know he's a Demon Awakener. During the Battle of Angel City... this guy was beside Asmodeus, one of the Seven Demon Gods of Lust!"
"King told us that this person is extremely dangerous... and then..."
As she reached the end, Qiao Ying became silent.
"Qiao Ying, you mentioned God Summoners just now..."
Ye Feng paused slightly. "I previously received information, and from more than one source, the person in Xiao Xiao's album, Meiyou, might be a God Summoner!"
"This..."
Hearing this, Qiao Ying blinked, her pretty face full of surprise.
"If this guy isn't Meiyou, but a Demon Awakener, then is he here to awaken one or more of the Seven Demon Gods?"
At this moment, Ye Feng spoke again.
"That's what I'm worried about too... Demon Awakeners wouldn't appear here for no reason. Even if he's not here to awaken the Seven Demon Gods, it's related to demons..."
"Of course, it's possible I'm just being too nervous... but the dark aura emanating from him..."
...
Night.
Xiao Xiao had already fallen asleep. Qiao Ying, lying beside Xiao Xiao, was thinking about the Demon Awakener from earlier.
Meanwhile, Ye Feng was calling out to Pipi in his mind, as Pipi hadn't appeared for quite some time. He had called out several times before, but Pipi hadn't responded.
"Big idiot, what are you doing, calling me constantly?"
After Ye Feng had been calling for a while, the female voice that claimed to be Pipi finally sounded.
"Uh... you're still here... Why haven't you appeared for so long? I called you a few times before, and you didn't reply!~"
Hearing Pipi's voice, Ye Feng was quite happy.
"Big idiot, you're not seriously injured or in any great danger... Are you really calling me just to ask such strange questions?"
Pipi's voice carried a hint of speechlessness.
"Big idiot, do you know how much energy I consume every time I talk to you like this!"
"I've finally accumulated some energy. If I chat with you all the time, I won't be able to help you when you encounter a great crisis in the future!"
"Like when you awakened your arcane energy, without me, you would have been struck to death by lightning..."
"I'm going to rest and accumulate energy. Don't call me unless it's an emergency!"
After Pipi finished speaking, she went into hibernation without waiting for Ye Feng's response.
Strangely enough, Ye Feng seemed to sense that Pipi had gone into hibernation...
"It seems my awakening of arcane energy back then wasn't an illusion... I was struck by lightning at that time... Wait, that thing... wasn't it similar to the Heavenly Punishment of tribulation fire I encountered not long ago..."
Recalling it, Ye Feng couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine.
"And back in the City of Despair, Pipi also warned me of danger and told me to run quickly..."