Alien Species Invasion? I Kill Them Back.

Chapter 113: Chapter 111: Security Patch

Feng Ling opened her eyes, her expression dazed.

Everyone studied her face with concern and asked, "How is it? Where is the Maze Master now?"

Feng Ling’s expression was troubled as she recalled the scene she had just witnessed.

"It went back into the tower, ate the purple fruit, and has now turned back into a clay sculpture..." She paused, then continued, "The Minotaur has been revived, too."

"The Minotaur was revived?!" Pei Xianjue lost her composure, her voice rising. "We nearly minced it to pieces, and it actually came back to life?!"

This news was a huge blow to Pei Xianjue.

Killing a massive monster like the Minotaur would have counted as a great accomplishment, giving her the chance to attend an awards ceremony and a great story for future interviews with reporters. But now, it was all for nothing.

"It was ’nearly minced.’ If we had actually minced it, this probably wouldn’t have happened," Feng Ling sighed.

She wasn’t in a good mood either.

Back then, in order to kill the "bull," she had gone all out trying to land the final blows. Her axe blade even got nicked, but she still couldn’t sever the minotaur’s head.

’Looking back now, if that white-haired old woman had come out of the tower a little later, giving me enough time, I definitely could have separated the Minotaur’s head from its body.

’Speaking of which, after my Pollution Value dropped, it seems like the hardness and sharpness of my Bone Blade have weakened just a tiny bit...

’It isn’t obvious, just very subtle. And subtle enough to bother me.’

"We still have to find a chance to burn that tree," Pei Xianjue said, pacing back and forth anxiously in the main hall. "Only by destroying the tree and waiting for the fruit’s effects to wear off will the monsters in the Maze stop reviving. Then we can kill them however we want! ...Dammit, I had clearly lit the branches, but then those skeleton spiders charged, and the fire didn’t catch. I should have added more fuel to the fire then! Dammit, dammit..."

Feng Ling glanced at her. "Those spiders are kept by the Maze Boss. Their nests are on that tree. If you set fire to the tree, you’ll definitely startle them, and startling them will startle the Maze Boss... The way I see it, the Maze Master might have deliberately let the spiders spin webs and build nests on that tree."

"Doesn’t that mean we’re in a deadlock..." Pei Xianjue pressed her hands to her forehead, rubbing forcefully, as if wishing her fingers could press directly into her brain to sort out her chaotic thoughts. "Burning the tree startles the spiders, the spiders startle the Boss, the Boss releases Spiritual Suppression, and we don’t stand a chance. But if we don’t burn the tree... the Boss can recover from any amount of damage, and we still don’t stand a chance."

The more Pei Xianjue spoke, the more discouraged she became. She looked up at Feng Ling. "Otherwise, what if we..."

She bit her lower lip, as if finding the words difficult to say. "I don’t want to sound like I’m giving up, but the current situation is too disadvantageous for us. I’m wondering if we can, you know, leave the Maze first, and then call for reinforcements with heavy firepower from the outside..."

Feng Ling watched Pei Xianjue with a calm expression. "If you want to leave the Maze, you’d better take a look outside first."

Pei Xianjue frowned slightly, her gaze turning toward the door with suspicion.

She didn’t see anything unusual, but she trusted that Feng Ling wouldn’t speak without reason, so she got up and walked out of the hall, into the open space outside.

The flagstones were littered with the corpses of skeleton spiders. The ones sliced to pieces were killed by Feng Ling, and the scorched ones were killed by her.

Further ahead was the memorial archway of the Three Pure Ones Palace. Standing there, she could smell the lingering scent of gunpowder from the explosion in the passageway.

Pei Xianjue also saw a great many spider threads.

They weren’t star-shaped spiderwebs, but rather cotton-like strands of silk. They crisscrossed the path in wisps, distributed irregularly along the passageway and stretching continuously into the distance.

The Maze Boss had left, but it had left its silk behind...

Pei Xianjue wasn’t naive enough to think these threads were just for decoration.

Her expression darkened. Frowning, she returned to the front hall. After hesitating several times, she finally spoke. "The Maze Boss left a lot of silk threads outside in the passageway. I suspect they’re used to monitor us. Maybe if we accidentally touch even a little, it will alert the monsters in the Maze or the Maze Boss itself. However, this is also our opportunity..."

Feng Ling listened and nodded slightly. "Yes, I was thinking the same thing. It would be best if we can lure the Maze Boss out. We can use that opportunity to burn the tree."

Baozi couldn’t help but ask, "Will that plan work? What if there are spider threads under the tree, too? Won’t the Boss notice when we’re burning the tree anyway? If so, the person responsible for burning the tree will be in immense danger."

"Baozi, I want to try," Pei Xianjue said with a frown. "No matter what, that tree must be burned."

"Let’s first verify if the spider threads work the way we’ve guessed." Feng Ling stood up and said to Pei Xianjue, "Come outside with me."

The two of them walked out of the great hall, one after the other, and arrived before the memorial archway.

Baozi, Huangfu Miaomiao, and Li Qing followed them silently.

"Now, you burn the spider threads on the passageway. I’ll use my marking ability to observe the Boss’s reaction. If the Boss can really sense our movements through the silk, I’ll call you back immediately," Feng Ling said.

Pei Xianjue nodded, drew her curved blades, and slowed her breathing. "I’m ready."

"Burn them," Feng Ling said, closing her eyes.

Pei Xianjue leaned forward slightly, crossed her two curved blades into a cross in front of her, and swiped them apart forcefully!

A piercing sound of scraping metal rang out. At the same time, a cross-shaped flame flew forward like a butterfly’s wings, igniting all the grass and dead leaves in its path, including the webs covering the passageway.

After burning for a few seconds, there was nothing flammable left on the passageway, and the fire naturally died out.

She turned her head to look at Feng Ling.

Feng Ling’s eyes were closed and her brow was furrowed, but she gave no instruction.

Pei Xianjue gritted her teeth, walked down the steps, left the protection of the safe house, and once again released flames to burn the threads further away.

Feng Ling still didn’t react.

Pei Xianjue continued forward.

Baozi grew nervous. Seeing Pei Xianjue was about to reach the end of the passageway, he ignored the danger and ran over to stay by her side.

Pei Xianjue had now reached the intersection of the passageway and the mountain path.

She had just sent out a ball of fire when she heard Feng Ling call out from a distance, "Come back."

Upon hearing the call, Pei Xianjue and Baozi immediately returned to the safe house.

"How was it? What did you see?" Pei Xianjue asked.

Before Feng Ling could even speak, the roar of a beast echoed from a distant mountain peak.

The sound was very familiar. Pei Xianjue recognized it immediately and said in surprise, "The Minotaur?"

"When you started burning near the mountain path, the Maze Boss didn’t react, but a lot of spiders climbed down from the tree, and then the Minotaur woke up," Feng Ling explained. "I’m inclined to believe the silk threads are a security patch installed by the Maze Boss. The mountain path needs Oxhead and Horseface to patrol in day and night shifts. Now that the Horse-faced Monster is dead, there are no monsters patrolling the path during the day. So, the Boss had the spiders weave webs on the path. Once the alarm is triggered, the Minotaur wakes up."

As if to prove her words, the Minotaur’s roars grew closer.

The distinct RUSTLING of crawling insects could be heard. Everyone looked toward the end of the passageway and saw at least a hundred skeleton spiders crawling over to repair the burned silk threads.

They scurried about for a few minutes, and the new silk threads they spun were layered on top of each other, even thicker than before.

Not long after, the Minotaur arrived nearby with heavy footsteps, growling and on alert as it began to patrol the area.

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