Alien Species Invasion? I Kill Them Back.

Chapter 116: Chapter 114: A Killer’s Instinct

The dense swarm of spiders on the mountain path was reduced to scattered stragglers.

The Cat Spiders and Cat Owls pounced, tearing at the remaining skeleton spiders.

The spiders’ ranks were broken. They began to scuttle about in a panic like headless chickens, losing the overwhelming momentum they’d had as a surging tide.

However, the spiders were only the first hurdle. Baozi, following behind Feng Ling, kept glancing back up the mountain path. He knew the Minotaur would be coming soon.

Dozens of meters ahead, Feng Ling suddenly stopped.

Baozi nearly crashed into her. "What’s wrong?!" he asked hurriedly.

"There are no more webs on the path ahead." Feng Ling frowned, looking forward. "Goddess Peak is just up there, which is where the Maze entrance is. If we go beyond this area, we might not be able to keep the Minotaur on alert."

Just like in an online game, you can’t hold a monster’s aggro if you get too far away.

"So, so we wait here?" Baozi asked hesitantly.

When Baozi was with Pei Xianjue, he would occasionally offer suggestions. But after the past few days, he saw that Feng Ling was a staunch individualist who rarely needed advice. He had already resigned himself to a purely supportive role.

As expected, Feng Ling said without hesitation, "Find a place to hide. You can come out after I’ve killed the Minotaur."

"Alright..." Baozi looked around, then bent over and slipped into the dense woods by the roadside.

Once, he too had been a mighty, imposing man. But ever since getting the Lucky Heaven Card, the roles had reversed, and he often found himself in the position of being protected.

Seeing that he was well hidden, Feng Ling picked up her axe and ran up the mountain.

A monster’s figure gradually became clear in the mist, every footstep sending a tremor through the ground.

Feng Ling’s eyes narrowed. She dropped into a crouch, as if she had anticipated it. The instant the steel fork came flying, she dove into a roll!

She landed in the bushes. Immediately, the two longest Teeth and Claws shot from her back, clamping onto a high branch and launching her high into the air—

In mid-air, she spotted the Minotaur’s position. In the mist, its bloodshot eyes were the perfect target!

Feng Ling landed on a fork in the branches. The rustling leaves quickly gave her away to the Minotaur.

It roared as it charged, eyes glaring, nostrils flaring with foul-smelling air, just like an enraged bull in an arena.

Feng Ling crouched low, remaining motionless in the tree as she silently calculated the distance.

Ten meters, five meters... three meters!

She suddenly leaped. Two of her Teeth and Claws hooked onto its horns, while the other two sank into its eyes!

The fist-sized eyeballs burst in a spray of fluid!

The Minotaur let out an earth-shattering roar! It immediately reached up in agony, but Feng Ling had already used its horns as leverage, releasing her Teeth and Claws as she backflipped to the ground.

The moment her toes touched the ground, her Bone Blade was already out. A single sweep severed the giant beast’s Achilles tendons.

Just like last time, the Minotaur collapsed to its knees, its empty eye sockets gushing crimson blood like a pair of faucets.

It thrashed about madly, slamming the ground! Crashing into rocks! Snapping trees!

ROARING!

BLEEDING!

It searched for its enemy, lost in a haze of rage and pain!

But Feng Ling had already silently retreated. She pulled a grenade from her bag, pulled the pin, and tossed it over with a blank expression.

The grenade landed beneath the Minotaur. BOOM! The massive explosion threw the monster’s upper body backward, flipping it from a kneeling position to being sprawled flat on its back.

Feng Ling happened to be standing not far from the Minotaur’s head.

She felt a flicker of pride. ’My throwing skills are getting better and better.’

Watching from a distance, Baozi felt a chill run down his spine.

To him, Feng Ling seemed to possess a natural instinct for slaughter. From her leap to her landing, it had only been a few seconds, yet she had already gained the upper hand. She was demonstrating a completely dominating, one-sided slaughter, even against a beast more than three meters tall. It was terrifying.

First, she grabbed the horns to control her own balance. Then, she destroyed the Minotaur’s eyes—a critical blow. Next, she landed and, without a single pause, severed the monster’s ankles. After that, she predicted it would go berserk, so she chose to back away with great restraint and wait for the right moment to toss the grenade—

This chain of actions was as precise as a merciless machine executing one command after another. It was as if she didn’t need to think, as if she felt no fear. She was simply... killing!

Every action, every intention, was purely for the sake of killing her target!

If Baozi hadn’t been with her these past few days, he would have sworn she had rehearsed for this fight countless times. How else could she be this flawless?!

At that moment, Feng Ling walked up to the Minotaur’s right shoulder.

The grenade wasn’t enough to kill the monster; it had only inflicted superficial wounds and left it momentarily stunned.

This behemoth’s shoulder, neck, and back muscles were incredibly thick, its bones abnormally hard. The last time, she had hacked at it over a dozen times with her axe and still failed to cut its head off. This time, without Pei Xianjue to help, decapitating it would be even more impossible.

She took a breath and raised her axe—

and brought it down violently on the Minotaur’s mouth!

The sight made Baozi’s own gums ache.

She put all her strength into it, hacking down with her axe again and again! Flesh and blood splattered everywhere!

Every blow landed on the monster’s mouth. Soon, half the Minotaur’s face was a mangled ruin of torn flesh, its jawbone shattered, its tongue shredded, and its white, broken teeth swam in a pool of blood and gore.

Then she took out another grenade, pulled the pin, stuffed it into the monster’s mouth, and quickly ran away.

BOOM!!!

The Minotaur’s head was blown clean through!

In the distance, Baozi silently covered his own mouth, cold sweat beading on his forehead.

Feng Ling finally let out a sigh of relief. She figured that since the Minotaur didn’t even have a head anymore, it probably couldn’t revive.

She didn’t have time to relax. She immediately activated her marking ability to observe the Maze Boss’s status.

Her marking ability had one inconvenience: she couldn’t see the marked target directly. Instead, she first saw the mark’s location—the starting point of a ribbon of mist—and then had to follow that mist all the way to the target.

So there would be a slight delay.

By the time Feng Ling tracked down the Maze Boss, it had already left the Ancient Tower and was coming down the mountain path.

It was currently in the form of a white-haired old crone, her body surrounded by countless black insects and spiders. She looked just like an evil sorceress from a ghost story, sweeping in on a cloud of black smoke.

The Minotaur’s death filled it with a sense of crisis. If it couldn’t eliminate Feng Ling, it would never know a day of peace in this Maze again.

Feng Ling saw the Boss’s location, opened her eyes, and let out a small breath.

’Everything is going smoothly,’ she thought. ’Now, it’s Pei Xianjue’s turn.’

She took out her phone and sent a message to Pei Xianjue:

The Minotaur is dead. The Boss is coming down the mountain. It’s time to move.

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In the safe house, Pei Xianjue had been clutching her phone, waiting anxiously.

The moment Feng Ling’s message arrived, her heart hammered in her chest. She took a deep breath, stood up, and strode outside.

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