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

Chapter 538 Aww
Ye Zheng got goosebumps all over his body and stared at the newly hatched contaminant, saying, "How come a big worm hatched out!"

Feng Ling wanted to retort: ​​Aren't you a big worm yourself?

But that was such a ridiculous joke, so Feng Ling chose to be polite: "Okay, let's call him Big Bug. Tigers were called Big Bugs in ancient times too."

Feng Ling picked up the round tiger head and said affectionately, "Go and thank this auntie; she gave you a name."

The tiger worm turned its head toward Ye Zheng, its body still covered in blood and mucus from the corpse.

Ye Zheng retreated repeatedly, shouting, "Don't come any closer!"

Feng Ling chuckled from the side, "Aren't you supposed to be pretty brave? You're actually afraid of bugs. If I hatched a cockroach, would you scream and explode?"

Ye Zheng said irritably, "I find it disgusting, not scary."

"Then take a look a few more times, you'll get used to it~" Feng Ling patted the tiger's head, turned around and waved to the cat spider, "Come here, feed it a few bites of meat, it can work after it's full."

The cat-spider shook its leg, flung the wild boar skewer off its leg, and tossed it in front of the tiger-headed worm.

The tiger worm let out a loud "Awoo!" and opened its huge mouth—

The front two-thirds of the mouth are like a tiger's, while the back third and the part connecting to the throat are like the large earthworm that Feng Ling killed. The mouth and trachea are like a washing machine full of serrated teeth. When an animal's carcass enters this big mouth, it's like entering a meat grinder.

It swallowed its food, and its plump, soft body slowly expanded and contracted. The food was pushed and digested inside its body. When the food was pushed to the end, several brick-shaped pieces of poop were expelled.

Feng Ling: "………………"

This digestion speed is far too fast.

Just as he was thinking this, the tiger worm began to devour the second wild boar.

"What a powerful digestive function!" Li Qing observed carefully and exclaimed. "It seems to mimic the feeding mode of earthworms. When earthworms dig burrows, they swallow soil, which is then expelled from their tails through their long bodies. In this process, earthworms can absorb nutrients from the soil."

Feng Ling frowned and said, "The giant earthworm looks just like an earthworm, so it's reasonable that their feeding patterns are similar."

Something occurred to her, and her brows furrowed even more. "So, we're going to be walking on its excrement when we walk through the burrows it dug? Won't we suffocate from the stench?"

Li Qing smiled slightly. "Feng Ling, the reason why poop smells bad is mainly because the protein in food produces ammonia. The feces excreted by the big insects by eating soil are actually very clean and don't smell bad. At most, there is a strange smell from some microbial metabolic products."

"Hearing you say that, I feel sorry for it. How much nutrition can soil contain? No wonder that giant earthworm kept digging its burrow. If it hadn't dug a little slower, it probably would have starved to death." Feng Ling sighed and looked up at the cat spider, saying, "Give it some more meat."

The cat spider pulled the prey off the other spider leg and generously threw it in front of the tiger worm.

The crows also eagerly tossed the leftover hares and doves to the tiger worms.

Tiger worms accept everything that comes their way, swallowing it along with the soil and grass roots from the ground.

The cat spider and the third brother stared curiously at the tiger worm as it ate and excreted, especially when the tiger worm stuck out its rear end and produced brick-shaped droppings; they were all completely mesmerized.

One crow even placed its claws on the dung and tried to scratch it; the dung was as dry as coal dust.

To express its surprise, the human-faced crow cried out, "Ah—!"

The other human-faced crows chimed in, "Ah—ah—ah—"

At this moment, the tiger worm seemed to find eating meat too greasy, so it started sniffing around on the ground, occasionally nibbling at a bit of soil before turning back to continue eating meat. "Good boy, you know how to balance meat and vegetables," Feng Ling praised, patting its big head. "Now that you're full, start digging a hole. We need to cross a military restricted area; I'll give you directions."

Although the meteor shower could grant her temporary invisibility, the fence around the restricted area was electrified with high voltage, so digging a hole was still necessary.

"How did you get through the restricted area?" Feng Ling asked Liu Xing.

Meteor was watching a few human-faced crows clown around when he heard this. He paused for a moment, then looked at Feng Ling. “…I took a detour to the quarantine zone. There are many refugees there, and the order is chaotic. As long as you pretend to be a refugee and ask to return home, the soldiers will let you through.”

"How about we go through the quarantine zone?" Ye Zheng suggested.

“Yes, but I can only bless two people at most,” Meteor said. “As long as you decide on the candidates, I can set off at any time.”

“No need to rush,” Feng Ling shook her head gently. “Rather than disappearing suddenly, I’d rather the stars think I’ve been kept outside the military restricted area all along. I don’t want to scare them away.”

Meteor lowered his head, a mocking smile playing on his lips. "Yes... that's certainly a possibility. Messengers are prone to suspicion. If he senses anything amiss, he might use the teleportation array to escape."

"Teleportation array?" Feng Ling was slightly taken aback, then her expression turned somewhat unpleasant. She sarcastically remarked, "Sounds really advanced. Your Star Society certainly has a lot of good stuff."

Meteor explained casually, "Actually, it's not a rare item. It's sold in the game store, but most players can't afford it because of its high price."

"How many points?" Feng Ling asked.

If it's not too expensive, she'll help Huangfu Miaomiao accumulate points to buy one for her to play with later.

Meteor replied, "The first teleportation array costs 100,000 points. You need to buy at least two teleportation arrays to use it. The second teleportation array costs 500,000, the third costs 1 million, and the fourth..."

"Forget it, I won't buy it." Feng Ling interrupted her.

While the two were talking, the tiger worms were pupating on the ground, finding a suitable digging spot.

It opened its mouth and gulped down a large mouthful of mud, instantly creating a hole in the ground.

After a few more bites, Feng Ling could no longer see its large tiger head, only its tiger-striped body wriggling outside the cave, along with countless clods of earth.

The human-faced crows were very interested in these square cakes, jumping and squawking on them.

"Let's go, let it dig here, we'll stroll over to the fence and make that guy called Messenger think I wouldn't dare to cross the military restricted area."

Feng Ling beckoned to everyone and started walking towards the border of Ilanka.

Everyone followed suit.

The meteor followed behind, always keeping a distance.

That's good too. If the distance is too close, Feng Ling will have to be wary of the other party launching a sneak attack.

Feng Ling seemed to sense something, turned her gaze back to the front, and casually said, "If it were a little skeleton, it would stick to my side every step of the way, not stay this far away."

Meteor frowned slightly, looking at Feng Ling's back in front of her, not understanding the purpose of her sudden words.

"Actually, given your current situation, why didn't you consider impersonating Little Skeleton?" Feng Ling said. "Lowering my guard, taking the opportunity to kill me, and then taking my hidden boss card—isn't that what you players dream of most?"

　If you encounter any issues with the plot transitions, it might be due to a problem with the chapter refresh. Please try refreshing the page a few times, or try clearing your cache.
　　(End of this chapter)