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

Chapter 554 Jie Jie Jie
With the Gargoyle card in hand and a ghost form, escaping would be a piece of cake for Meteor.

Ye Zheng stared blankly into the air.

Her anger had lost its target, her emotions had no place to settle, and she seemed like a joke.

A few seconds later, she heard Li Qing's painful groan and came to her senses. She went over to help Li Qing up and asked, "Are you alright?"

“It’s alright…” Li Qing said with difficulty, “but I’m afraid this body is unusable.”

Ye Zheng asked, "What do I need to do? Find you another body?"

“It’s difficult. It needs to have died recently, with some residual activity in its body cells… We’ll figure out a way to deal with that later,” Li Qing raised his increasingly unresponsive hand and exchanged for a recovery potion. “Let’s give it the medicine first and make sure it can live until the day we enter the maze.”

The "it" that Li Qing mentioned is the last maze manager left behind by the meteor.

It was tossed around in the bag, and when I took it out, its fur was all messy and it looked terrible. I couldn't tell what kind of animal it was.

Ye Zheng injected the recovery drug into the small animal.

Li Qing instructed from the side: "This is a tree shrew. Once it recovers a little, we still need to put it in the bag. We can't let it run away... These caretakers are controlled by the system program. If they are not locked up, they will be driven by the program to go to the maze area under their jurisdiction. They are protected by the program in the maze area and can avoid most of their natural enemies. Once they leave the maze area, they will... become vulnerable, almost like ordinary wild animals."

Ye Zheng silently finished injecting the medicine, then held the little tree shrew in his paws to observe whether it was getting better.

Li Qing's condition worsened, and his voice grew weaker: "Don't worry too much. After the maze administrator dies, the maze will continue to operate due to inertia. If we're lucky, it might not start spreading contamination for several months... The most important thing now is that we must... contact Feng Ling as soon as possible and let Feng Ling know the true nature of Meteor..."

“Her true identity…” Ye Zheng’s eyes were blank. “Her true identity is that of a mutant, and it has never changed from beginning to end. I mistook her for Miaomiao…”

Subconsciously, Ye Zheng did have such thoughts.

Because Meteor is the person who understands the Star Society best, if he can be won over, it will be a great help to Feng Ling.

This thought was buried so deep that Ye Zheng herself didn't even realize it. It was only after the meteor suddenly struck her like a blow that she noticed a sense of defeat and disappointment deep in her heart, as if her expectations had collapsed.

“She’s using Miaomiao’s body and possesses demon cards. Demons are inherently seductive, so it’s not difficult for her to lower our guard…” Li Qing breathed heavily, closing his eyes. “My body is about to give out. Until we find a suitable body, our communication will be somewhat hindered… There’s one more thing I must let you know…”

Ye Zheng asked, "What is it?"

Li Qing called out weakly, "Come out... Number 77..."

Ye Zheng looked around suspiciously.

After waiting for a while, just as Li Qing was about to breathe his last, a green parrot finally flew out from the deep thicket of trees by the roadside.

After circling a few times, the parrot hesitantly landed on Li Qing, its neck hunched, not daring to look at Ye Zheng.

Ye Zheng recognized the parrot. "When we infiltrated the mansion, it suddenly screamed for help, causing the aliens to discover our presence." "Don't blame it..." Li Qing said weakly, "It was just... too scared..."

The parrot cried out excitedly, "The meteor tried to kill us all! When you grabbed me, the meteor stuck out cursed fangs behind you! My God, those are rare items! A single swipe could have killed me!"

Ye Zheng was stunned upon hearing this, "So back then, she deliberately let us be discovered... I didn't notice at all..."

"She wanted to kill all the administrators, and the messenger wanted to save the dwarf sheep's life. The two of them had a complete falling out! They broke off all ties!" the parrot shrieked. "The messenger rallied the other players, and Meteor's plan was too crazy. Nobody supported her! To protect the dwarf sheep, everyone locked Meteor in Hell! Ah, that Underworld Labyrinth!"

The parrot let out a gloating laugh: "Hehehe... She deserved it! It's such a shame she didn't die in hell."

Ye Zheng couldn't help but ask, "Why was she so determined to kill all the administrators? Was it because she hated the people of the upper city and wanted revenge?"

The parrot stopped laughing and sighed, "It all started with a game glitch. The game has a quarterly settlement cycle. As long as a player is ranked first on the leaderboard and meets the conditions to kill the Abyss Boss, they can get a ticket to the Central City..."

“Central City? Shouldn’t it be Upper City?” Ye Zheng interrupted the parrot.

"That's what they call 'trash'!" the parrot exclaimed. "There's never been an upper or lower city; we've always lived in the central city! Only those with absolutely pure genes are qualified to live in the central city. For trash whose entire bodies are filled with sinful genes, this reward is certainly very tempting! Ah, but the game is malfunctioning and hasn't settled the accounts yet. We administrators are also trapped in the game and can't log off, waaaaaah... waaaaah..."

Its crying was exaggerated; it screamed at the top of its lungs for a long time but couldn't squeeze out a single tear.

Ye Zheng quietly watched the parrot.

Reason told her to focus on extracting new information, but emotionally, she gradually lost interest in the grudges and entanglements between players and administrators, and even felt tired and annoyed.

Why should humanity have to pay the price for these invaders' conflicts? ...They all deserve to die—the aliens, the contaminated beings, the administrators, they all deserve to die.

She deserves to die too.

A monster should look like a monster.

She's become a monster and is no longer fit to fight. But Li Qing is naive, and Miao Miao is weak. Besides her, who else can replace her to support and help Feng Ling?
Perhaps, the day Feng Ling becomes an Abyss Body, she will no longer need any assistance...

Perhaps because Ye Zheng's gaze was too cold, the parrot's momentum weakened, and it stopped its exaggerated performance.

It awkwardly adjusted its wings and said, "Anyway, that's how it is... As long as most of the maze administrators are offline, the game will automatically restart, and before restarting, the system will perform a settlement. Meteor has been trying to kill us in order to force the system to settle the score..."

Ye Zheng pondered slowly, "To make the administrator offline, you don't necessarily have to kill the administrator. As long as you break through the maze, the administrator can still go offline normally."

“You’re right!” the parrot exclaimed excitedly again. “But Meteor couldn’t wait! She’s currently ranked first in points, and if the game continues indefinitely, someone might surpass her in the future! So she tricked the dwarf sheep into getting the coordinates of most of the administrators, and then sent people to kill them! The messenger is different. The messenger believes the game glitch is only temporary and the problem will be resolved sooner or later. Thank goodness, the messenger only arrested us, but he also has his own motives, hmph, I know all about these things…”

(End of this chapter)