Even though the Quake Bird had lost consciousness, its wings still maintained a defensive posture. This indicated that Wen Wen's attack had not exceeded the wings' tolerance limit, but rather the Quake Bird's own strength was too weak. With a gentle nudge of his spear against the wing, the bundled steel wings detached themselves, revealing rotting flesh at their base.
The steel wings were attached to the host's back skin. Wen Wen's repeated powerful impacts had pulverized the Quake Bird's back skin, making it unable to support the attachment of the steel wings.
Wen Wen casually pulled the Quake Bird into the containment facility. Without these wings, it only possessed disaster-level strength.
Afterwards, Wen Wen summoned a water mass to clean the flesh from the steel wings and placed his own steel wings beside them.
After a brief period of stillness, the two sets of wings began to make small movements.
One moment they would brush against each other's wing roots with their tips, the next they would affectionately rub. This made Wen Wen feel like setting them both on fire.
It was one thing for humans to flaunt their affection in front of him, but now these two pairs of wings were doing the same?
After a short period of mutual probing, the roots of the two pairs of wings fused together, with the larger wings above and the smaller wings below. Simultaneously, metal from the larger wings began to flow into the smaller ones, causing them to transform to resemble the larger wings.
"My guess was indeed correct; these two pairs of wings can truly merge."
Judging by the speed of their fusion, in about a day, they would transform into a new, four-winged set of steel wings!
Storing the wings in the containment facility, Wen Wen prepared to head towards the location of the Faceless Demon. He wanted to see what this so-called sword qi crystal truly looked like.
However, before Wen Wen could take a step, a massive head was thrown before him.
It was a ferocious tiger head, precisely that of the striped ferocious tiger that had previously threatened Wen Wen, suspected to possess true disaster-level strength!
Wen Wen's pupils dilated slightly, and he abruptly turned his head towards the direction the tiger head had come from. He saw a woman in a moon-white long dress standing gracefully under the moonlight.
"So beautiful..."
Wen Wen's gaze was slightly lost as he looked at the figure.
The next moment, he vigorously shook his head. The way he looked at the woman now was filled with vigilance... and killing intent!
Because Wen Wen understood that his momentary daze wasn't due to the woman's beauty being truly breathtaking.
She was indeed beautiful, indescribably so, as if she were from another world.
However, purely in terms of beauty, Hu Youling was already at her peak. This woman was only on the same level, perhaps with a slight advantage due to her unique aura.
Even if Wen Wen watched Hu Youling constantly "offering福利" (福利 is often used to imply fan service or revealing content), he could remain unfazed. How could he lose control just by seeing this woman for the first time?
What made him dazed was an ineffable feeling.
If it were anyone else, they might have mistaken this for love at first sight, but Wen Wen was not a normal person.
He had a premonition that regardless of whether this woman was friend or foe, she would bring him significant trouble. Therefore, it would be better to resolve her before the trouble arose.
However, as soon as Wen Wen's killing intent arose, it quietly dissipated.
That tiger was suspected of having true disaster-level strength. If a conflict were to arise, it was uncertain who would kill whom...
Upon closer inspection of the hairpin on her head and her somewhat familiar eyes, Wen Wen's eyes widened.
He knew who this woman was. She was the Catastrophe-level existence that Yiyeta had tried to summon in the Qiling Mountain Range!
'I already interrupted the ritual, so she shouldn't have been able to come!'
'But if she's not Catastrophe-level, how did she kill this monster suspected of true disaster-level strength?'
'Why is she here, and what should I do next?'
Wen Wen's mind was in a mess, with a jumble of thoughts that could weave a stage play. However, he had only been thinking for about two seconds.
After his thoughts concluded, Wen Wen looked at the woman and said, "Who exactly are you? What are you doing here?"
Moon God landed on the ground and walked towards Wen Wen step by step, asking with a puzzled expression, "I'm the one who wants to ask you... Who exactly are you?"
"I want to know everything about you. Your clothes, your aura, your abilities, even your face – I am incredibly familiar with it all, yet I don't remember you."
She reached out to touch Wen Wen's cheek, but Wen Wen immediately took two steps back, evading her.
As Moon God walked towards Wen Wen, he felt his heart rate quicken and a strange nervousness. Goosebumps rose on his skin.
To dispel this peculiar feeling, Wen Wen blurted out, "Don't come any closer. If you're lacking a man, I can introduce you to one."
After speaking, Wen Wen slapped himself. Why was he so glib? What if he angered her?
Moon God did not get angry at Wen Wen's insult. She only looked a little dejected. She knew that Wen Wen's reaction was normal; it was she who was abnormal.
Ever since that summoning ritual, when she had glimpsed Wen Wen through the portal, she had already become abnormal.
With a sigh, Moon God composed herself. After all, they were just strangers.
"This beast is called the Companion Tiger. The creatures it kills are turned into its subordinate spirits. It has already set its sights on you. Even if I scare it away, it will still come for you, so I killed it."
"It sounds like you're doing this for my own good, but what is your objective?" Wen Wen said to Moon God without any gratitude.
Moon God shook her head, not explaining her purpose, and continued, "Your job seems to be to protect the civilians of this world. Therefore, regarding the Companion Tiger, there are other things you need to be aware of."
"Companion Tigers usually appear as a pair, one male and one female. After one dies, the location of the other will trigger a 'tiger plague.' If the tiger plague escalates, it will become very difficult to manage."
"This is the leftover problem after I helped you, and you will have to face it yourself. It's up to you if you want to ignore it..."
Wen Wen remained silent. Despite his impatient expression, his heart felt a pang of emotion.
She seemed to be genuinely considering things for Wen Wen. He hadn't experienced such a feeling in a long time.
"The last thing I need to do... is this."
Moon God removed the hairpin from her head, her black hair cascading down. Under the moonlight, her hair seemed to glow. In that moment, Wen Wen couldn't help but be lost in thought again.
She lightly rubbed her fingers on the hairpin. The moon-shaped ornaments of gold and silver separated into a golden crescent and a silver crescent.
After a moment's hesitation, she picked up the silver crescent and flicked it gently towards Wen Wen. The silver crescent transformed into a ray of light and entered Wen Wen's body.
"This crescent moon contains a part of my power. Perhaps, one day, it can save your life."
After saying this, her figure, bathed in moonlight, transformed into golden and silver dual-colored flowers and quietly vanished before Wen Wen.
Wen Wen opened his right hand. In his palm appeared a silver crescent moon mark.
When facing Moon God, Wen Wen had kept his Disaster Gauntlets manifested to prevent any sudden conflicts. However, the Disaster Gauntlets did not reject the crescent moon.
"Who exactly is she..."
"Hiss, I forgot to ask her name..."