There was another possibility—if there was no threat to her, given her personality, she would have definitely dealt with it on the spot before calling him.
Therefore, Meng Xinian immediately concluded.
Chiang Xiao had encountered someone.
She was threatened.
Given her skills, there were only two possibilities for someone to threaten her, one being that there were more people than she could handle, at least eight, and they would also need to be skilled.
The other possibility was that the other party had weapons.
He leaned toward this latter possibility.
Because if it was a matter of numbers, she could have held on for a while, just shouting for him to come over would have been enough to explain the situation, unless the other party's weapons posed a suppression threat to her, making it inconvenient for her to tell him directly.
He immediately leaped up and dashed towards the direction of the voice.