Alien Species Invasion? I Kill Them Back.

Chapter 22: Chapter 20: Boss Level

Feng Ling immediately sat up straight and asked her, "Where?"

"I-I don’t know..." Huangfu Miaomiao stammered. "It’s a mission prompt. It doesn’t give the player a specific location, just a range for the player to explore on their own."

Feng Ling asked, "Did the mission prompt say anything else? Read it to me."

Huangfu Miaomiao looked at the virtual screen in front of her and read it to Feng Ling, word for word:

"In the depths of a pitch-black cave, a monster starves. You will need excellent judgment and astonishing courage to meet it. Silence is the prelude to death; light is the overture to victory. Overcome your fear, and you shall receive a bounteous reward—Do you accept the A-level subjugation mission?"

When Huangfu Miaomiao finished reading, her expression turned ugly. "An A-level subjugation mission... If it’s A-level, that means the target is a Boss Level Pollution Body."

Feng Ling listened intently and asked, "How strong is a Boss Level?"

Huangfu Miaomiao looked troubled. "I don’t know..."

She’d never encountered an A-level Pollution Body, so how could she know how strong it was? Just a B-level elite mob was enough to scare her witless.

Huangfu Miaomiao explained, "In the game, all killable targets are divided into five levels: mobs, elites, Bosses, Lord Bosses, and Abyss Bosses."

Feng Ling asked, "The Boss is in the middle of the ranking. Does that mean its strength is relatively average?"

Huangfu Miaomiao immediately shook her head like a rattle drum. "You can’t calculate it like that! Of the five levels, Abyss Bosses are the strongest, directly generated by the system. Their numbers are fixed—there are only 12 in the whole world. It’s almost impossible to encounter one, and even if you did, you couldn’t beat it. They’re usually not on the players’ radar. So the Boss Level is actually very strong! Even the absolute weakest Boss possesses a High-level Card and has completed at least three digestions!"

Feng Ling silently mulled it over. ’My Card is very special, so it’s probably a High-level Card. I’ve also completed three digestions. By that logic, does my strength as a hidden Boss match a regular Boss?’

’No, that’s not rigorous enough.’

’Huangfu Miaomiao used the word "at least."’

’Three times is the minimum. Maybe this Pollution Body has already completed five, eight, or even a dozen digestions.’

’It must have digested many times. Otherwise, its Pollution Value wouldn’t have exceeded the limit, causing it to degenerate into a Pollution Body.’

"Super Strong Chao found Alien Species in the tunnel, and you received a mission notification about a Pollution Body. This can’t be a coincidence." Feng Ling pondered for a moment before asking Huangfu Miaomiao, "Can only you see this mission, or can all Alien Species see it?"

"This is a regional mission. Any player within the designated area will receive the notification," Huangfu Miaomiao said.

The corners of Feng Ling’s lips curved up slightly. "In other words, we won’t just be facing a Pollution Body, but we might also get attacked by other Alien Species."

Huangfu Miaomiao fell silent.

She knew there were many madmen among the players, people who pursued the thrill of slaughter and the rush of violence. They showed no mercy even to their own kind, let alone the natives of Earth.

Feng Ling took out her phone and started typing, feeling it was necessary to share this information with the group chat.

[Feng Ling: Little Skeleton just received a mission prompt. There’s an A-level Pollution Body nearby. I have a reasonable suspicion that the Pollution Body is related to the large number of injured Alien Species Super Strong Chao described finding in the tunnel.]

[Zhou Diao: Holy shit!]

[Su Yuqing: Can you confirm the Pollution Body’s location?]

[Feng Ling: No, the mission info only gave a search area.]

[Su Yuqing: @Feng Ling, share the search area in the chat. I’ll have the technical staff analyze the terrain.]

Feng Ling opened the map app on her phone and handed it to Huangfu Miaomiao. "Mark the area. I’ll send it to them."

Huangfu Miaomiao took the phone, feeling a little conflicted.

’My name is quite nice, so why does Feng Ling call me Little Skeleton instead?’

’And everyone in the group chat immediately knew "Little Skeleton" referred to me, without even a second’s hesitation...’

"I’ve marked it," Huangfu Miaomiao said, handing the phone back to Feng Ling.

Feng Ling glanced at it. The area was quite large, covering not only the shopping mall but also the surrounding residential areas and parks.

She took a screenshot and sent it to the group.

[Su Yuqing: Received.]

[Su Yuqing: I’ll coordinate the evacuation of residents. You all continue with the plan.]

[Zhou Diao: I want a rocket launcher!!!]

[Su Yuqing: Heavy weaponry is Plan B. If your operation doesn’t go smoothly, I will request a special operations permit for a firebombing strike on the area in case of an emergency.]

[Feng Ling: If you collapse the tunnel, won’t we be buried alive?]

Nobody replied.

The chat went dead again.

However, Feng Ling noticed an interesting detail. When she mentioned "Pollution Body" in the chat, neither Su Yuqing nor Zhou Diao asked what a Pollution Body was.

’It seems the Inspection Bureau has more intel on Alien Species than I thought.’

Su Yuqing sent her a private message.

[Su Yuqing: After this operation is over, I hope you’ll consider becoming one of us.]

[Feng Ling: (^_^) Heh, we’ll see.]

......

...

6:00 AM.

Super Strong Chao sent a location to the group chat, telling everyone to gather at the shopping mall.

The group arrived at the mall, and Super Strong Chao sent a second message, narrowing the location down to Zone C of the mall’s second-level basement parking garage.

When they reached Zone C, they lost contact with Super Strong Chao.

He wasn’t replying to messages, and his calls weren’t going through.

If Feng Ling hadn’t learned from Huangfu Miaomiao that there was a Pollution Body nearby, she would have almost thought Super Strong Chao was playing a prank.

THUD... THUD... THUD—

A strange sound echoed through the empty underground parking garage.

Zhou Diao’s hearing was sharp, and he immediately identified the sound as coming from a nearby rolling shutter door.

They went to investigate. The door was unlocked, and the ground in front of it was covered in messy footprints, as if some kind of chaos had occurred.

Zhou Diao didn’t open the door, cautiously reporting the situation to Su Yuqing first.

Huangfu Miaomiao was on edge, sticking close to Feng Ling and whispering, "What’s behind the door?"

Feng Ling glanced over. "It’s a privately owned garage. People use it to park their cars and store things like car washing tools."

Just as she finished speaking, the rolling shutter door went THUD! again.

Huangfu Miaomiao flinched, her face pale as she tightly gripped the corner of Feng Ling’s shirt.

Feng Ling turned her head and asked Zhou Diao, "When are you opening the door?"

Compared to before, Zhou Diao was like a different person now that he was in search mode. All his impetuousness and arrogance were suppressed.

With a composed expression, he gestured to his team members.

Everyone retreated to either side and raised their firearms.

Zhou Diao went forward alone. He grabbed the handle of the rolling shutter with one hand and gave a preparatory signal to the team behind him with the other: one, two, three—

He yanked the door up with all his might!

Every gun barrel aimed at the space behind the door, ready to suppress any sudden danger.

The rolling shutter door rattled open, revealing a huge pit inside!

Zhou Diao was stunned for a moment. He had imagined all sorts of scenarios behind the door, but he never expected there to be a pit!

The pit’s walls were nearly vertical, and it was about three or four meters deep. At the bottom stood two men, struggling to hold up two shovels that had been tied together to extend their length.

The sound from before had been them banging on the rolling shutter door with the shovels.

The men in the pit were disheveled and grimy. Upon seeing Zhou Diao, one man’s eyes lit up alarmingly as he said in a hoarse voice, "You’re here? Hurry up and come down."

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