"Ye Feng, do you know how this Arcane Energy Gun Manufacturing Manual came to be?"
Wu Ye Lan took a breath and regained her composure.
"How did it come to be? Inherited? Found in ruins?"
Ye Feng frowned slightly and ventured a guess.
"Neither!"
Wu Ye Lan shook her head gently. "It was given to me for free over twenty years ago…... And the person who gave me the Arcane Energy Gun Manufacturing Manual, we were not related by blood or acquaintance……... It was actually the first time we ever met………."
"To this day, I still don't understand why they would give me such a valuable gift!"
Speaking of this, Wu Ye Lan's face was full of confusion and surprise.
"Given for free? Who would be so kind as to give away something so precious?"
At this moment, Wu Ye Ling walked over, looking curiously at her grandfather.
"That person, you know them! Many people know them!"
Wu Ye Lan looked at her granddaughter and slowly said, "I only found out who she was later……… She is the City Lord of the Arcane City, one of the seven major powers, Yan!"
"What?"
"What?"
Wu Ye Ling and Ye Feng's exclamations were almost simultaneous.
"Uh…... Yes…... yes……… Although it's a bit unbelievable………."
Wu Ye Lan was somewhat surprised by Ye Feng's exclamation. "When I received the Arcane Energy Gun Manufacturing Manual, I was also very shocked, and I didn't understand why she would give me such a precious item. Yan only left one sentence and then departed………."
"That sentence was 'It's always good to have a little more hope'………."
Wu Ye Lan sighed. "More than twenty years have passed, and I still don't understand the meaning of her words. And for these past twenty years, Yan has never made any requests of me……… Even when the Fire Ranger defected from the Arcane City and came to the Adventurers' Guild……… she didn't send anyone to ask for his capture or anything like that………."
"This…... What the heck is this?"
Wu Ye Ling's brow furrowed, her expression filled with confusion.
"Yan…... She was already around twenty years ago……… and was the City Lord of the Arcane City back then too………."
"This strength is a bit outrageous…... The time span doesn't quite add up………."
Wu Ye Lan's words made Ye Feng think of the person in the survivalist channel who claimed to be in the Arcane City, had given him lightning-attribute arcane raw stones, bought sanitary napkins from him, and was very likely Teacher Bing…... Yan.
"Ye Feng, what are you mumbling about?"
Hearing Ye Feng's words, Wu Ye Ling looked at him with some bewilderment.
"Uh…..."
Ye Feng scratched his head. "Senior Wu Ye, are there other people named Yan in the Arcane City?"
"Others……… there probably are………."
Wu Ye Lan frowned slightly. "But when you mention Yan of the Arcane City, it generally refers to the Chief Grand Runemaster of the Arcane City, and also the City Lord of the Arcane City, Yue Yan!"
"Damn it…... Yue Yan?"
Ye Feng pondered for a moment and said, "Senior Wu Ye, Ling, it's getting late, I'm going to bed!"
With that, before the two could respond, Ye Feng quickly ran off, leaving Wu Ye Lan and Wu Ye Ling looking at each other.
Xiao Xiao and Qiao Ying were also quite puzzled…...
………
Ye Feng didn't actually go to sleep. He went to his room, set up a tent inside, lay down in it, and quickly zipped up the tent flap.
"Yan…... Yue Yan, the Chief Grand Runemaster of the Arcane City mentioned by Han Qiuli…... the City Lord of the Arcane City mentioned by Wu Ye Lan…... Could this person really be the one from the survivalist channel?"
Ye Feng muttered to himself, then opened the dual screens of his survivalist bracelet and entered the private chat channel, sending a message to the person with the ID Yan: "Yue Yan?"
"Is she offline?"
Ye Feng frowned in disappointment.
He waited for a while, but there was no response. Just as Ye Feng was about to close the light screen, Yan sent a message, "Why did you suddenly send this?"
"This…... Is that your name? Are you the City Lord and Chief Grand Runemaster of the Arcane City, Yue Yan?"
Ye Feng thought for a moment and quickly replied.
"Zhang San, don't you know that inquiring about someone's real information on the survivalist channel is a big taboo?"
"This can break the rare but exceptionally fragile trust between us!"
Yue Yan's reply was equally fast, neither confirming nor denying.
"But if you want to know, you can come to the Arcane City…... Let me capture you and study you, and then I'll tell you…..."
After a pause, Yue Yan sent another message.
"I……..."
Ye Feng was speechless. He sent another message, "City Lord of the Arcane City…... Your strength is terrifying…... Did you…... come to this world of lingering fire over twenty years ago?"
"Lingering Fire World? It seems you really don't know anything…..."
"This involves the truth of the entire world's survivalists……… Honestly, although I have a good impression of you, I won't discuss it with you in this manner…..."
"If you really want to know, then come to the Arcane City…... Well, let me capture you and study you…... After so many years, this is the first time I've seen someone who can cause the survivalist channel to mutate…..."
"Bye~"
After sending a string of messages, Yan stopped responding, apparently going offline.
"Hmm………."
After sending several more messages and waiting for quite a while, Ye Feng, somewhat dejected, closed the private chat channel and Yan's chat window.
Then, feeling a bit bored, Ye Feng started browsing the messages in the survivalist channel. He found that there wasn't much change compared to before, just miscellaneous chatter……… and he still wasn't ranked on the Earth Ranking.
"Hoo!~"
Ye Feng exhaled and opened the [Personal Information] panel.
[Name: Ye Feng]
[Strength: Diamond Grade Three]
[Intelligence: ?]
[Precision: 10 (Ordinary person is 2)]
[Available Points: 1321]
[Precision Points: 0]
"There aren't many available points left…..."
Ye Feng had killed a considerable number of zombies and monsters before, earning a lot of available points. However, from Diamond Grade One to Diamond Grade Three, coupled with the automatic expansion of his spatial warehouse, the consumption was substantial………
"Huh? What's going on?"
Suddenly, Ye Feng's eyes widened in surprise, and he frowned, as he noticed that in the past second, his available points had increased from 1321 to 1322.
"Available points increased on their own?"
Ye Feng was quite astonished. He stared intently at the available points column on the [Personal Information] panel.
After a while, he saw the number on the available points column increase from 1322 to 1323………
"No way, they really can increase on their own?"
Having confirmed it, Ye Feng was very surprised. He mentally called out to the system's little assistant, Pi Pi, "Pi Pi, what's going on with my available points? Why did they increase on their own?"
………