Alien Species Invasion? I Kill Them Back.

Chapter 117: Chapter 115: Half-Human, Half-Leopard

"Did you get the message?" Huangfu Miaomiao hurried to catch up to Pei Xianjue. "Is Feng Ling sending you to burn the tree?"

Pei Xianjue stopped in her tracks, looked back at Huangfu Miaomiao, and nodded. "Yeah."

Her expression was a little tense, and her nod seemed stiff.

Seeing this, Huangfu Miaomiao frowned and said, "You look really nervous. Are you sure you can handle this?"

Pei Xianjue thought she could handle it, but emotions were difficult to control with logic. The more she focused on it, the more nervous she became. She was already trying her best to calm down and stay composed, but her palms were still slightly sweaty.

"...I need to hurry. I’m going." She started walking toward the memorial archway.

Huangfu Miaomiao hesitated, standing in place and staring at Pei Xianjue’s retreating figure.

Just then, Li Qing, who was meditating in the main hall, spoke up. "If you want to go, then go. I know you really want to help them."

Huangfu Miaomiao froze for a moment, then turned to look at Li Qing. The more she looked at him, the more she disliked him.

’I was the one who met Feng Ling first! My Cards are clearly stronger! But after entering the Maze, Feng Ling obviously values Li Qing more.’

’When Feng Ling and I first met, she was always trying to kill me! But now that she knows this Li Qing, not only can she not kill him, she even has to protect him! It’s so unfair!’

’Why?!’

’Just because he’s an administrator, he thinks he’s better than everyone else?’

’Hmph. A tool of the game, a lapdog of the system!’

As these thoughts crossed Huangfu Miaomiao’s mind, her gaze toward Li Qing grew dark. "...Hmph. You just sit here and do nothing. I’ll definitely be much more useful than you."

After speaking, her body dissolved into a black Ghost Shadow and quickly chased after Pei Xianjue up ahead.

She had to let Feng Ling know that she was far more reliable than that so-called administrator.

...

Li Qing watched them disappear from view, his brow furrowing almost imperceptibly.

He was an administrator, sent into this world by the game far earlier than any other player. Half a year of lying low had allowed him to gather a great deal of information. He was long past being surprised by examples of players and humans cooperating when driven by mutual benefit.

But he could clearly sense that there was more than just cooperation between Huangfu Miaomiao and Feng Ling.

Huangfu Miaomiao’s fawning and attachment to Feng Ling were too obvious, and it concerned him. Why would a player develop feelings for a hidden Boss?

’It’s just too strange.’

’So...’ As Li Qing pondered this question, he considered the hidden Boss’s Card: Nest.

’It’s common knowledge that a Card’s properties can affect its wielder. So, it would be natural for the Nest to make Feng Ling exude a mother’s love... even though I haven’t seen any maternal love from her at all...’

’Then, working backward, could the Nest Card also affect the people around its wielder? For example, could it be making Huangfu Miaomiao feel a child-like affection for Feng Ling?’

’If this hypothesis is true, I’ve already been with Feng Ling for three days. If I continue to stay in close contact with this hidden Boss, will I end up like Huangfu Miaomiao in the future?’

Li Qing sat silently in the main hall, a sudden wave of anxiety washing over him.

......

...

Meanwhile, Feng Ling and Baozi were running up the mountain.

They needed to reach the Maze Boss as quickly as possible to prevent it from noticing the activity on Pei Xianjue’s end.

"You’re responsible for nullifying the Boss’s Spiritual Suppression. If you can’t, then find a way to stir up my emotions and make me angry." Feng Ling instructed Baozi as she ran. "When I’m fighting it, try to stay far away. This Monster is pretty strange. Getting too close can trap you in an illusion."

On the rugged mountain path, Baozi struggled to keep up with Feng Ling’s pace, panting as he asked, "What if you get trapped in the illusion?"

Feng Ling asked, "How many grenades do you have in your bag?"

"Four," Baozi replied.

"That’s enough." Feng Ling glanced back at him. "When the time comes, just throw a grenade to snap me out of it."

"What?" Baozi was dumbfounded, suspecting he had misheard. "Sh-shouldn’t I be bombing the Boss?!"

"If it can trap me in an illusion, that means I’ll be very close to the Boss. What’s the difference between bombing it and bombing me?" Feng Ling said rapidly. "Don’t worry, just throw it. You can’t kill me with a bomb."

Baozi: "..."

Feng Ling’s healing ability was already incredibly powerful, and on top of that, she had eaten the purple fruit. That’s why she was super confident in herself right now!

But Baozi couldn’t follow her logic. His brain felt tied in knots. ’Can you really do that?’ he thought.

Ahead of them, the fog turned red, rapidly thickening from a light haze.

The Maze Master was here!

"Get back!" Feng Ling snapped at Baozi before charging forward alone. As she always did, she cleared the way with a grenade. The moment she saw the figure of the white-haired old woman, she pulled the pin and threw it!

With a thunderous BOOM, she ducked slightly, running headlong into the blast wave as all the tentacles inside her body unfurled!

—The way she brandished her Teeth and Claws, in Baozi’s eyes, made her look even more monstrous than the Monster.

He remembered Feng Ling’s instructions and looked for a place to hide nearby. He needed to be able to see the battle clearly while also keeping a safe distance; otherwise, if he also fell into the illusion, he wouldn’t be able to help Feng Ling at the critical moment.

The grenade scattered the swarms of black insects, blew up the spiders covering the ground, and also made the white-haired old woman halt her steps.

It began to let out a piercing shriek, once again spitting out a cloud of flying insects as thick as black smoke!

Feng Ling wished she could shove a grenade in its mouth!

But she was wary of its illusion ability and stopped three or four meters away. The tentacles behind her danced in the air, and two Bone Blades swept forward from her left and right sides in a semicircle, slicing through the old woman’s withered, stick-thin neck as if dicing it.

However, the headless corpse before her didn’t spill a single drop of blood. Instead, hair like dried grass sprouted from the wound! Its flesh and blood began to swell from within!

Feng Ling’s heart skipped a beat. She immediately realized it was about to change forms again.

’The third form is definitely going to be hard to deal with!’

Her four Teeth and Claws broke through the black insects and lunged forward, biting down on the Monster’s four limbs. She raised a Bone Blade and swung it vertically downward, trying to cleave the swelling mass of flesh in two!

Just then, a pair of blood-red eyes rolled out from within the flesh and stared fixedly at Feng Ling!

Feng Ling’s body suddenly froze, and her breath hitched.

The familiar Spiritual Suppression crashed down on her like a mountain—

She had almost no power to resist. Her knees buckled, and she collapsed to the ground. The once-menacing Bone Blades went limp, drooping by her side.

She opened her mouth to shout Baozi’s name, but her throat was raw, and she couldn’t make a sound.

An overwhelming sense of fear now enveloped her entire body. She couldn’t do a thing!

The biggest challenge in facing the Maze Master was its Spiritual Suppression, which was precisely why she had brought Bao Changzhi along.

If Baozi couldn’t suppress the Boss’s intimidation in time, her and Pei Xianjue’s plan would be all for nothing!

Fortunately, the pressure and fear weighing on her began to lessen. Baozi must be interfering with the opponent’s spiritual power.

Feng Ling controlled her breathing, forcing herself to overcome her fear, and looked up—

Before her, the mass of flesh had grown enormous. She could vaguely make out that the upper body resembled a long-haired woman.

It was like a chrysalis breaking open, or like shedding a suit of human skin. It tore through the old woman’s flesh, growing new bones and blood. From the waist down, it had the body of a great cat, with four powerful beast-like paws that revealed sharp Beast Claws!

As the last layer of skin fell away like a withered leaf, six thick leopard tails unfurled behind it!

At the tip of each tail grew a cone-shaped bone spike!

For a moment, Feng Ling was truly stunned.

Because she also happened to have exactly six tentacles, but her opponent didn’t just have six tails with bone spikes; it also had four massive Beast Claws—

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