It’s a strange invasion, is it okay for me to fight back?

Chapter 376 Pea
The Chicken Foot House, as the name suggests, is a small house with chicken feet.

Feng Ling had seen the Chicken Foot House in the maze of Daling Forest. At that time, the Chicken Foot House stood on the hillside, providing a warm shelter for adventurers as a safe zone. As for the Chicken Foot House in front of him...

Feng Ling raised his eyebrows, looked down at Huangfu Miaomiao, and asked, "Is this a safe zone?"

"Yes..." Huangfu Miaomiao's tone was full of hesitation.

"If it's yes, it is. If it's no, it's no. Why are you answering in such a vague way?" Feng Ling was very dissatisfied.

Huangfu Miaomiao said awkwardly: "It is a safe zone, but the status shows that it is waiting to be unlocked and cannot be used now."

Feng Ling thought about it and said easily: "It is probably similar to the maze in Guangshan City. You need to kneel down and worship before you can open the safe zone."

"Ah?" Wang Xunmei was surprised. "You have to kneel down?!"

Zhang Lu then asked: "Where are you going to kneel? Are you going to kneel now?"

"Oh, I didn't ask you to kneel. I was just giving an example." Feng Ling said with emotion, "There are all kinds of gods in the maze of Guangshan City. Kneeling down and worshiping the gods can not only open the safe zone, but also add buffs to yourself. Unlike this maze, it will only waste time."

Huangfu Miaomiao frowned as she operated on the virtual screen. "You need to accept the mission built into the maze to open the safe zone. I'll accept the mission first, but I don't know if I can complete it..."

In the empty swamp, the chicken-foot house suddenly moved, then turned its head to look over here.

To be precise, the chicken-foot house has no head. It is just a small wooden house, but it comes alive in the process of turning, creating an anthropomorphic effect.

The door of the house was like a mouth, the window was like eyes, and the two chicken feet under the floor were strong and sturdy, running towards Huangfu Miaomiao with a clattering sound, like a big ostrich.

The chicken feet house quickly ran to the edge of the grass slope, and the two chicken feet stopped at the edge of the swamp without going ashore.

Lin Pengpeng looked up and down at this magical house, then lowered her head to carefully observe the chicken's feet, "It can actually walk on the swamp without sinking."

The chicken's feet bent slightly, and the height of the cabin decreased.

The rough door opened with a snap, and a rope ladder stuck out from inside like a tongue.

"Can we go up?" Feng Ling asked Huangfu Miaomiao.

Huangfu Miaomiao nodded, "Yes! It's ok, you guys go up first, I'll be the last one to go up."

——The mission was accepted by Huangfu Miaomiao. If Huangfu Miaomiao entered the chicken foot house first, the maze system might determine that all people were present, and then close the door and no longer allow other people to enter.

Everyone entered the chicken foot house one after another through the rope ladder.

When Huangfu Miaomiao also entered the chicken foot house, the door slammed shut again like before.

Then the house shook slightly, and the scenery outside the window began to lower - Chicken Feet stood up again and turned to walk deeper into the swamp.

As the house shook, many small beans rolled out from the four corners of the house.

Zhang Lu accidentally stepped on it and fell on the spot!
"Ouch!" He stretched out his hand and grabbed the ground, exclaiming, "Why are there so many beans?!"

Huangfu Miaomiao immediately explained: "The task requires separating the green peas from the white peas."

"What?" Zhang Lu looked at Huangfu Miaomiao in disbelief.

Huangfu Miaomiao pointed to the two sacks hanging on the wall and said, "Put the divided peas into the bags, and this chicken feet house will belong to us!"

"But how do we divide it?" Zhang Lu looked at the beans rolling all over the floor, "We can't just... divide it by force?"

Huangfu Miaomiao bent down and quickly grabbed a handful of beans, sorted them carefully, and then put the green peas into the bag tied with a green rope, and the white peas into the bag tied with a white rope. "Hurry up and divide them together!" Huangfu Miaomiao continued to bend down to pick up beans, "There are many of us, so it won't take much time. The sooner we divide them, the sooner we can complete the task!"

Wang Xunmei and Lin Pengpeng looked at each other. Although they were helpless, they had no choice but to join.

Feng Ling was extremely reluctant. She would rather kneel down and kowtow than lie on the ground and pick up beans! This test was such a waste of time!

"Little Skeleton, did you see clearly? Is the mission really about sharing beans?" Feng Ling frowned and complained, "What's the point of this mission?"

Huangfu Miaomiao was stunned for a moment, then called up the virtual screen again and rechecked the task requirements.

"Uh...it's really about dividing beans. I don't know why there is such a task. Maybe...it's for the sense of ritual?" Huangfu Miaomiao said helplessly.

"Idiot." Feng Ling couldn't help but curse.

After cursing, she suppressed her temper, bent down, and joined the team picking beans.

But this is easier said than done?
The beans were round and rolled all over the floor. The chicken feet were moving around in the house, making it sway. Soon, everyone in the house felt dizzy.

Wang Xunmei was the first to lose patience. She sat down on the floor and waved her hands, saying, "No, I need to slow down... I feel carsick and want to vomit."

Lin Pengpeng looked around and found that after everyone's efforts, the beans that had been distributed might be less than one-tenth.

"There are too many beans. It would be great if there was some way to make them separate automatically." Lin Pengpeng observed the floor and walls of the house. "Is there any hidden mechanism here?"

Zhang Lu was also tired, so he sat on the ground and said, "Yeah, how long will it take to divide it by force? Let's think about whether there is a shortcut!"

Huangfu Miaomiao glanced at them and continued to pick up and divide the beans, thinking: Doesn't it take time to figure out a solution? If there was that much time, the beans would have been divided long ago.

Zhang Lu added: "Is it possible that there is a subtle difference in the weight of green peas and white peas, and if you put all the beans in water, one color will sink and the other color will float?"

Wang Xunmei poured cold water on him: "Then we need at least a pot and enough water. There is nothing in this room."

Lin Pengpeng looked at the wall behind her, "It's not like there's nothing here... Look at the wall, there's a portrait of Baba Yaga hanging on it."

Zhang Lu also looked up and said, "What Yaga? Are you talking about the old witch who was staring at us viciously?"

"How can she be vicious?" Wang Xunmei said curiously, "Why do I feel that the witch in the portrait is smiling very kindly?"

Lin Pengpeng glanced at the two of them, then returned her gaze to the portrait. In this constantly shaking enclosed space, Lin Pengpeng tried to approach the portrait.

She took a few steps to the left, then a few steps to the right.

Lin Pengpeng had the answer in her mind, and turned to Zhang Lu and Wang Xunmei and said, "It's a problem with the portrait. The expressions you see are different when you are in different positions and angles."

When she said this, everyone came over curiously to look at the portrait.

Zhang Lu even reached out and touched the portrait, trying to take it off the wall, but it was in vain.

The portrait remained motionless, as solid as if it were one with the house.

Zhang Lu laughed awkwardly and looked back at his companions. "I thought the portrait was a mechanism that could help us divide the beans, but it seems that it still can't work..."

Lin Pengpeng was obviously depressed. She whispered, "If this is a test from Baba Yaga, I think there should be no shortcuts. Separating beans of different colors, or wiping the dust off every sesame seed, or looking for a needle in a dark chimney... They are all the same, complicated, trivial, repetitive, endless and meaningless."

Oops, I'm going to add value, hahaha~