Alien Species Invasion? I Kill Them Back.

Chapter 129: Chapter 127: Stay Safe

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A few raindrops landed on Feng Ling’s face.

She tilted her head back and looked up at the misty sky.

It was raining.

Perhaps the illusion in the final moment of the kill had reminded her of childhood, making her feel sentimental. For a fleeting moment, she even felt as if the Maze itself was crying...

Raindrops fell upon the lake, sending ripples spreading slowly across its surface.

In the distance, a giant white python cut through the waves and, in one gulp, swallowed the fruit that had already floated far away.

Its massive body, like a silvery-white waterfall surging against the current, breached the surface for a moment before quickly sinking back into the lake and disappearing.

The rain grew heavier.

Scattered drops turned into fine, thin lines of water, hanging like a gauze curtain over the lake, veiling the thick stench of blood and creating an ethereal scene.

Feng Ling stood in the rain and mist, quietly watching the Leopard Woman’s corpse...

...until it crystalized into a Card.

The Maze Master’s Card.

It was powerful and one-of-a-kind, but if its attributes were incompatible, the Pollution Value it generated would be extremely high.

Feng Ling was unusually calm.

She felt that this Card was destined to be hers.

She reached out and gently grasped the Card. It dissolved into silver particles and entered her body—

[You have obtained the Card "The Queen Mother of the West."]

[The Queen Mother of the West: The supreme mother goddess of Chinese legend. She possesses three life forms. Form One: Can use spiritual power to create fear. Form Two: Can use spiritual power to create fear, and can nurture and command venomous creatures. Form Three: Can use spiritual power to create fear, can nurture and command venomous creatures, and can transform into a giant, half-human, half-beast body to comprehensively enhance her strength.]

[Note 1: The third form consumes a massive amount of energy.]

[Note 2: Lingering spiritual power upon near-death will cause nearby life forms to hallucinate.]

The Card’s information, extremely detailed, appeared in her mind.

Feng Ling waited for a moment, but the text in her mind didn’t change.

’Perhaps,’ she thought, ’it’s because a High-level Card takes longer to digest than a low-level or Mid-level Card.’

Feng Ling didn’t wait any longer. She turned and walked toward the shore.

Because of the rain, her body remained transparent, flickering in and out of sight. She dragged her snake-like tentacles behind her, looking from a distance like a ghostly specter emerging from the water.

Meanwhile, Huangfu Miaomiao and Baozi were crouching in the grass by the shallows. After an anxious wait, they finally saw a figure emerge from the rain and mist.

Huangfu Miaomiao recognized Feng Ling at a glance. She shot to her feet excitedly and sprinted over!

"Did you kill the Maze Master? You killed it! Right?!" Unable to contain her excitement, she circled Feng Ling, babbling nonstop. "You killed the Maze Master! Did you, did you, did you—"

Feng Ling couldn’t help but laugh. She looked at her and asked, "Didn’t you get a notification that the mission was complete?"

Huangfu Miaomiao froze for a second, then looked at her mission log. "...No. It’s probably because I wasn’t the one who killed the Maze Master, so it doesn’t count as me completing the mission. It’s grayed out in my mission log now, and I can’t interact with it."

She thought for a moment and said, "The Daoist is the Maze Administrator, so he should have gotten a notification... Oh, right!"

She pulled a blanket from her gridded backpack and stood on her tiptoes to drape it over Feng Ling’s shoulders.

—Every time she used the Jellyfish Card’s transparency Skill, she was left naked afterward.

But Feng Ling was well-accustomed to this. She calmly wrapped the blanket around herself and continued walking, her bearing completely unconcerned.

Baozi walked beside her, also extremely emotional, but he was an adult and, after all, more composed than Huangfu Miaomiao.

He asked Feng Ling, "Since the Maze Master is dead, will the Maze disappear? The threat of pollution will be gone too, right?"

"That should be how it works," Feng Ling nodded lightly. "Let’s go back to the safe house and see what the Daoist has to say."

As she spoke, she thought of her phone and subconsciously glanced at the nearby grass.

’It would be great to send Pei Xianjue a message right now,’ she thought, ’but during her fight with the Leopard Woman, she had lost her bag, and her phone along with it.’

If it were just a normal phone, it wouldn’t matter if it was lost, but that phone held two Cards from Liang Zhou.

"Are you looking for your phone?" Baozi asked, pulling out a mud-caked phone and handing it to Feng Ling. "We found it over in the grass."

Feng Ling took it.

The case was clearly scuffed and dented, but the phone still worked perfectly, and the battery was full.

"The quality is amazing..." she remarked, then used the phone to message Pei Xianjue.

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Inside the Three Pure Ones Palace, Pei Xianjue was pacing restlessly, glancing out the door every few seconds.

"Still no news. Do you think something happened to them? It’s been so long. Should we go down the mountain to check? ...But what if we run into The Queen Mother of the West on her way up? I already used a lot of energy burning those roots. I don’t know if I have enough left to fight the Maze Boss..."

Torn with indecision, she paced back and forth.

"I can’t just sit here and wait to die. If something really happened to them, I have to go down! ...Forget it. I’ll take the gamble. If I run into The Queen Mother of the West, I’ll just unleash my biggest flame. That should make it hesitate, right?"

Gritting her teeth, Pei Xianjue steeled her resolve and charged out the main gate!

She had only taken about ten steps and hadn’t even passed the memorial archway when a drop of rain landed on her face.

Pei Xianjue froze, looking up at the sky in disbelief as the raindrops became more and more dense.

In that instant, her ability was completely and utterly countered!

She was on the verge of a breakdown!

Just as Pei Xianjue was at a complete loss, she suddenly heard Li Qing say from behind her, "The Maze Master has been killed."

"What?!"

Pei Xianjue whipped her head around.

Li Qing strode out of the palace hall, his expression exceptionally grave. "I am this Maze’s Administrator. The authority to shut down the Maze was just sent to me. I can close the Maze at any time."

"You mean... Feng Ling... she succeeded?" Pei Xianjue couldn’t help but cover her mouth, the accumulated fear and anxiety of the past few days vanishing in an instant. Her voice trembled uncontrollably. "She really killed the Maze Boss... She actually did it..."

Emotion surged through her chest, and her eyes grew hot.

Pei Xianjue hadn’t expected herself to be so easily moved to tears.

She sniffled, her nose stinging, and turned on her camera, determined not to miss this thrilling moment—

"I... We did it! We succeeded! It’s June 5th, our fifth day in the Maze. Our food and water were almost gone, and our ammunition was running low. I really thought there was no hope, but... SOB... we did it! I just received news that the Maze Boss has been killed! I’m going down the mountain now to find Feng Ling and Bao Changzhi. I can’t wait to see them! We’ve defeated the Maze! We’ve protected our home!..."

She spoke passionately to the camera, striding down the mountain.

But Li Qing remained standing in place, motionless.

Pei Xianjue turned off the camera and stopped, turning her head to urge him on. "Hurry up! What’s wrong?"

Li Qing stared blankly at the two announcements that had popped up on his virtual screen—

[Announcement: The hidden Boss, the Nest, has evolved into a Sub-adult. Danger Level unknown. Players, please find the Nest and eliminate it as soon as possible!]

[Announcement: The hidden Boss, the Nest, has evolved into its mature form. Danger Level: Extremely high! All players, stay as far away as possible! Be careful!]

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