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

Chapter 398 Mother Earth

Finally appeared——

The first thought in Feng Ling’s mind was: It finally appeared.

The extremely eye-catching red bright spot in the third person's perspective, the swamp monster that had been silent all this time, finally appeared when she was about to leave.

It has no human form, nor does it look like a wild beast. The flowing black swamp rises and falls slowly, forming a breathing wall.

Feng Ling narrowed his eyes and thought: How should I fight this?
Everyone else in the Chicken Foot House also looked outside in shock.

Leland's face turned pale. He could not help but make the worst plan in his mind and said to his teammates: "I... I will try to delay time. No matter what, you must escape..."

His confidence had been severely damaged. Facing a monster of such a huge size, even his second form would be easily swallowed by the swamp.

Feng Ling was also thinking about how to deal with the situation at this moment.

The first thing that comes to mind is to attack with grenades. The military's artillery shells can bomb the entrances and exits of the swamp, which means that gunpowder weapons are effective, but the problem is that there is a time lag before they are effective.

If she remembered correctly, after the military bombarded the swamp, they waited about 20 to 30 minutes before the swamp gradually hardened.

But this time is probably enough for the swamp monster to digest all the people in the house...

At this time, Huangfu Miaomiao, who was standing in the center of the Chicken Foot House, said loudly with confidence: "Don't worry! This is a safe house, absolutely safe! No matter how powerful the maze creature is, it cannot violate the maze mechanism!"

Feng Ling glanced at Huangfu Miaomiao.

——It’s rare to see the little skeleton showing such a proud expression. It seems that she really likes this chicken feet house.

Feng Ling's eyes moved to the window. Although the Chicken Foot House was absolutely safe and the Swamp Monster did not show any aggressiveness, being surrounded like this was troublesome...

Can't leave.

It's really strange. The swamp monster has been so quiet, why did it show up at this time?
Feng Ling recalled the difference between when he came and when he left.

He just took away the labyrinth statue.

"He can't be so stingy..." she murmured softly.

Below the window, Olga suddenly knelt down for some reason, and a group of infected people also knelt down with her.

They knelt down like devout believers under the high walls of the surging swamp, in a large and neat group. This scene immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the Chicken Foot House.

Plop, plop——

The four infected people in the Chicken Foot House also knelt down.

"What are you doing?" Leland asked in surprise.

Tiger lowered his head and replied: "Mother Goddess Maat is angry."

Olga below shouted in a hoarse voice: "Dear Maat, Mother of the Earth, please let them go. Your children have only embarked on a short journey. One day they will return to your arms and be buried in the wet soil, just like returning to the original cradle... Dear Maat, Mother of the Earth, please let them go——"

Olga knelt on the ground and kowtowed again and again, repeating: "Please let them go!"

All the infected people chanted together: "Please let them go!"

"Please let them go!"

"Please let them go!"

Like a solemn oath, like the cry of birds, their voices were high and powerful, echoing in the forest, yet filled with unspeakable sadness.

Although Feng Ling could not understand the Lorias language, he could see that these infected people were worshipping the swamp monsters as gods. But gods only existed in legends, so how could a fake created by the maze gain believers?
Could it be that the infected have lived in the maze for too long and have lost themselves and their judgment?

A monster is a monster, and it is impossible for it to be divine...

Feng Ling was thinking this when he suddenly discovered that the surging swamp was becoming calm.

She couldn't believe it, so she leaned out of the window to take a closer look. The swamp wall blocking the front of the chicken-foot house had actually dropped!

The altitude was getting lower and lower, and the swamp was like a receding tide, revealing the submerged trees. Black mud and water hung on the branches and dripped down. Then the grass leaves covered with mud were also exposed, and the simple wooden bridge over the swamp was also exposed!

Swamp Thing left?
No, there isn't.

In Feng Ling's third-person perspective, the huge red dot still looms over this place. It's just...

Calm down, no more obstruction.

Huangfu Miaomiao immediately controlled the chicken foot house, crossed the swamp, and flew away forward.

Under the giant tree at the back, the figures of the infected people who were kneeling on the ground gradually became smaller until they disappeared from sight.

Feng Ling stared at the red dot.

It didn't move and didn't chase after me.

Feng Ling couldn't help but feel a sense of absurdity that common sense had been broken.

She said to herself: "How is this possible..."

How could the monster understand human prayers? And how could it really obey human wishes and let everyone go?

She could understand that when a person was in an extremely fragile state of mind, they might worship monsters as gods, but could monsters actually respond to such emotions?!

"Ah! I understand!" Lin Pengpeng said suddenly.

Feng Ling frowned and looked over, "What do you understand?"

"I know what that monster is now!" Lin Pengpeng said excitedly, "Mat Zemlya, the moist mother earth! In the Slavic mythology system, she is a very important mother goddess. Her functions are water and earth, giving birth to all things and being the center of life."

Feng Ling curled his lips and said, "There is a huge dead tree growing in the center of life. It is obvious that the mother goddess in the maze is a fake."

"Although it's a fake, it seems to really be performing its function. It's amazing..." Lin Pengpeng pondered, "In ancient times, the Slavs believed that life was born from the earth. No matter how sinful a person was, as long as they were buried in the earth after death, Mother Maat would accept their bones, like a baby returning to its mother's womb. This is a sacred reincarnation."

Li Yu interjected, "If it's such an important god, why haven't we seen it in the local area? There don't seem to be any statues or portraits, and we haven't heard the locals mention it."

Lin Pengpeng glanced at him and said, "I've already said that this is ancient times. Mythology is more or less influenced by history. Anyway, due to some historical reasons, the image of Maat changed and merged with another god. Now the people of Lorias call her... the Virgin Mary."

"The competition between gods is really cruel~" Li Yu joked, "Now everyone only knows Maria, and I guess few people know Matt. Even the names are different. This is not called fusion, it's clearly a replacement."

Lin Pengpeng felt a little disappointed when she heard this. "After hearing what you said, I feel that Mother Earth is so lonely. Fortunately, there are still a group of people here who believe in Matt..."

Feng Ling listened to their conversation, seeming to be thinking about something.

She suddenly understood a point that she had been confused about before.

"It turns out they knew it a long time ago..." Feng Ling looked through the window at the giant tree in the distance.

Those infected people have long known that there is a monster under the giant tree.

Their polluted bodies have nowhere to go, so they are willing to be fertilizer, waiting for death to come and return to the embrace of Mother Earth.