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

Chapter 536 Cooperation
The three of them stood back to back in the woods for a few minutes.

Apart from the chirping of birds and insects, there was no other sound around.

Feng Ling was the first to lose patience, and walked towards the direction where the polluted creature lived. "Forget it, maybe they just wanted to pass on a note."

Ye Zheng scoffed and followed her. "A note sent at this critical juncture, can it really be that simple?"

Feng Ling thought for a moment, then took the note back from Li Qing. "Let me take another look."

She looked at it for two seconds, crumpled the note into a ball, and tossed it away.

"Wind Feather?!" Li Qing exclaimed in astonishment, "Why did you throw it away?"

“I think Zhengzheng is right,” Feng Ling said decisively. “It’s definitely a trap.”

Ye Zheng, standing nearby: "…………"

—Even though I said that, you don't have to throw it away, do you?
Feng Ling walked lightly forward, ignoring the subtle expressions on Ye Zheng and Li Qing's faces.

“I’ll put on a show for you,” Feng Ling turned around with a smile, raising one hand high. “The show is called—A Hundred Birds Singing!”

She waved her hand, and the three little ones all yelled and rushed into the nearby woods!

All the animals in the forest, big and small, were startled. Birds took flight, and monkeys darted about in the trees! Wild boars and black deer all ran in panic!
"Don't misuse idioms. This is clearly called 'chicken flying and dog jumping'," Ye Zheng said with a look of disgust.

Once the human-faced crows lock onto their target, they gather together and swarm around it, using their energy-absorbing abilities to quickly weaken the target!

Small animals almost all perished in the crows' mouths, but larger wild boars and deer could escape with a little struggle, which was related to the crow's body structure.

Because the third brother possesses the characteristics of aggregation and separation, his body structure in his aggregated form is relatively loose, lacking complete and solid tendons and bones.

For example, if you use ten pounds of pork to pin down a mouse, the pork has a skeleton and fascia, making it difficult for the mouse to escape. However, if you mince the pork into meat paste, the weight is the same but the structure is different, and the mouse might be able to escape.

But it doesn’t matter.

The cat spider will make a move.

Cat spiders move through the forest like they're on stilts, raising their slender legs to poke and kill the wild boars that are running around, stringing them onto their legs—a lingering effect of eradicating locusts. They habitually string up whatever they kill, and then fidget with it a few times to see if their prey will make a sound.

The three little ones gathered around the cat spider and meowed in a very obsequious way.

Suddenly, a tiger's roar echoed from the woods.

The cat spider, unusually, took a few steps back, its entire body of black fur standing on end!

A tiger with exceptionally vibrant colors came into view.

Like most of the animals here, this tiger was affected by the maze's pollution, causing its genes to mutate. Not only is it more than twice the size of an ordinary tiger, but it also has a single horn on its forehead, six thick tiger claws, and two snake-like tails.

This is a tiger contaminated body.

The tiger's roar just now carried a hint of intimidation, which is why the cat-spider's fur stood on end.

The cat spider's ears were pressed tightly against its head, and it emitted a low, threatening hiss, revealing two extremely sharp fangs.

It was rare to see the cat spider spit out its teeth, probably because it sensed that this tiger would be difficult to deal with.

As for the human-faced crows, they all landed on nearby tree branches. Taking advantage of their ability to fly, they howled at the tiger, as if in provocation. "Don't move! Don't move! Leave this one to me!" Feng Ling rushed forward, a flash of snow-white blade appearing swiftly behind her!
Even with the obvious size difference, and even without using a mental force field to force the tiger to kneel down, the enhanced steel-bladed tentacles still slashed open the tiger's neck in a flash!
As the tiger lay dying, the snake's tail behind it immediately lunged at Feng Ling!
Several more steel blades were swung out! The snake's tail was sliced ​​into several pieces in mid-air!
The tiger swayed on the spot, then collapsed with a thud, having lost all resistance.

The crows squawked excitedly; if they had hands, they would probably be clapping right now.

Ye Zheng couldn't help but exclaim, "After absorbing the Abyss Card, you've become stronger. The speed and strength of your tentacles have both improved to a whole new level."

“I haven’t even advanced to the Abyss Body yet,” Feng Ling muttered as she walked to the dying tiger. “It’s hard to imagine how the Mother Nest died back then.”

"Wasn't he killed by you?" Ye Zheng retorted.

Feng Ling flexed her wrists, preparing to begin incubation. "Please, when I encountered it, it wasn't an Abyss Form; it was half-dead, like a pile of rotten flesh..."

As soon as she finished speaking, she noticed that the plants in the woods to her side swayed unnaturally, and at the same time, a red dot appeared in the third-person perspective!
The red dot flickered unnaturally, sometimes bright and sometimes dim.

Feng Ling's eyes sharpened, and she suddenly swung a steel blade at the red dot!

She finally saw the "invisible man," who had been following her the whole time but had managed to keep her from noticing him thanks to his card abilities!

The dense foliage partially concealed a familiar face—

Li Qing exclaimed in astonishment, "Miao Miao?!"

Feng Ling's gaze grew even colder, the steel blade hovering a centimeter in front of that face as she mocked, "You were unmoved when I threw the note, but you reacted quite strongly when I casually mentioned the Mother Nest."

Li Qing snapped out of her daze, cautiously retreating behind Feng Ling, and whispered a reminder: "Be careful, although she is using Miao Miao's body, the deck has changed a lot."

Ye Zheng demanded, "What's your purpose? What are you trying to do by following us like this?!"

Meteor's gaze swept across the faces of the three people one by one.

She hadn't expected to be exposed. Feng Ling's words had reminded her of the black spots, and her momentary lapse in concentration had caused her to slip up.

All the tragedies began with the accident that happened to the black spot.

Meteor moved her lips and said softly, "I... want to cooperate with you."

Feng Ling tilted her head and looked her up and down, a half-smile on her face. "What makes you think you can ask me for a partnership?"

“I know you want the labyrinth caretaker, and I want to kill the messenger, a lackey who serves the bishop. In a sense, our goals are aligned,” Meteor said. “I’ve been to that mansion and I know the layout. I know where the caretaker is imprisoned, but if the messenger doesn’t die, you can’t get into that room.”

Feng Ling said, "Why go through all this trouble? I can just kill the bishop."

“The bishop’s card is the Demon King, who has the talent of reincarnation. Killing him is useless. The true controller of the Star Society is the Messenger.” Meteor stared directly at Wind Feather. “As long as the Messenger is killed, the Star Society will collapse without a fight.”

Feng Ling pondered for a moment, then slowly withdrew the steel blade that had been hovering in front of Meteor, and said calmly, "I will not let the bishop or the messenger go. The information you provided is of limited value to me."

“I can get you into the General’s mansion without anyone noticing,” Meteor spoke again. “What are the terms of this cooperation?”

Feng Ling frowned and looked at Li Qing.

"Wait, wait a minute!" Li Qing hurriedly searched his deck. "...She has a gargoyle inside her, which grants her the ability to hide. There's also a Witch card, and the Witch's ability is... is..."

"Blessing." Meteor finished the information for him. "I can temporarily bestow my own characteristics upon you."

(End of this chapter)