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

Chapter 565 is actually pretty good.

The situation on Meteor's side is not optimistic either, with one dead and one injured.

The injured merchant was saved by Meteor's recovery injection, but another merchant was too poisoned and died.

After suffering casualties, the team stopped advancing. Feng Ling remembered that Liu Xing had said that they should escort the team to the next plot trigger point without any mishaps. Now that the mission had failed, she didn't know what to do next.

She turned back, intending to ask the shooting star.

The team leader and several merchants were also heading towards the meteor.

Feng Ling saw the familiar wooden box.

—It seems that the plot of repaying a debt of gratitude has been triggered.

The reason why the reward wasn't given to Feng Ling this time is because Feng Ling had already received the reward once and couldn't receive it again.

……

Meteor half-squatted on the ground, her right hand holding the medicine that hadn't been injected yet, her left hand pressed against the dead merchant's chest to confirm that his heartbeat was gone, and her face turned extremely pale.

Several merchants carrying wooden boxes walked over from a distance.

They approached the meteor and uttered the pre-programmed lines: "Thank you, brave warrior who stepped forward..."

Meteor ignored them, her gaze fixed on the merchant's corpse on the ground, until the wooden box was handed to her. Only then did she look up at the people who had come to express their gratitude.

The failure of the mission made her extremely irritable. Although she didn't show it on her face, the next moment, she raised her hand and knocked over the wooden box in front of her!
The merchants were stunned by this unexpected turn of events.

Before they could react, a demonic claw shot out from behind the meteor, severing their heads without warning!
Feng Ling, who was following behind, was also stunned and blurted out, "What are you doing?"

Meteor remained silent, his gaze sweeping over the other merchants before charging forward with the Demon Claw!
The whole team is in chaos!
Although the caravan members were also armed, they were powerless to fight back against Meteor's demonic claws!
Within seconds, the caravan in front of Feng Ling was filled with screams of agony, and blood and flesh were flying everywhere!
Even if these people are NPCs created by the maze, they are still living, breathing human beings. Even if they are fake, the scene of slaughter will still arouse Feng Ling's disgust.

"What's gotten into you all of a sudden?!" Feng Ling snapped unhappily.

Meteor wore cursed fangs on both hands, each swing splattering blood, and his words were cold and ruthless: "Kill them all, leave no one alive."

She glanced back at Feng Ling, "Otherwise, waiting for the caravan to return to the oasis before setting off again would be too slow!"

"Would killing all these people make the mission restart faster?" Feng Ling asked her.

Meteor replied as he killed, "Oasis will automatically regenerate the NPCs required for the quest once we kill them all."

A merchant shouted for help and brushed past Feng Ling as he fled for his life; Feng Ling did not make a move.

The meteor chased after it, raised its claws and viciously scratched the merchant's back, tearing off a bloody piece of skin!

The merchant collapsed in agony, and the demon's claws seized the opportunity to pierce his heart, ending his life instantly.

"Are you a saint?!" Meteor turned around and rudely rebuked Feng Ling, "Why didn't you make a move?!"

Feng Ling wasn't angry at being scolded. She calmly asked, "If we don't kill them, how long will it take to restart the mission?"

“It will take at least an hour to get back to the oasis, two hours to heal and rest, and three hours to set off again. Who knows what unexpected situations we might encounter!” Meteor stared at the merchants fleeing into the distance. “But if we kill them all, the maze’s built-in quest system will automatically restart and call up backup NPCs—killing them all is the simplest solution.”

After she finished speaking, she gripped the cursed fang in her hand and charged towards the fleeing merchants without looking back. Feng Ling grabbed the reins of two camels, randomly picked one to ride, and then looked at the distant shooting star, saying slowly, "Since you're so capable, then kill them all."

Killing a person is easier than killing a scorpion.

Humans are not faster than monsters, they don't have venom, and they can't burrow into the sand to hide. When faced with pursuit, they have no choice but to flee in panic.

Feng Ling watched coldly as Liu Xing slaughtered all the remaining merchants.

When Meteor returned, she was filled with resentment and mocked Feng Ling: "You seem to be having a good time. What? Have you transferred your sympathy for humans onto the labyrinth creatures? They're not real humans."

“But they’re not monsters,” Feng Ling tossed the camel’s reins to her. “As long as their genes are human, killing them would raise ethical issues.”

Meteor sneered, flipped himself onto the camel, and said sarcastically, "What ethical issues? Aren't there enough examples of humans killing each other? I don't believe you've never killed anyone."

“I don’t kill unless it’s in self-defense,” Feng Ling replied.

Meteor glanced at her suspiciously. "You really haven't killed anyone?"

Feng Ling was baffled. "What's there to ask? I abide by the law, of course I don't kill people."

Meteor smiled faintly, "Because you are a hidden boss, and you advanced to the complete form in just two months. Only someone with a strong bloodlust could do that. The player forum says you are a hardened criminal who has killed countless people. Although I know that is a rumor, I was still quite surprised to hear you say that you have never killed anyone."

Feng Ling widened her eyes slightly. "What's wrong with you players? It's one thing to want to kill me, but you're also ruining my reputation."

Meteor didn't want to argue with her, so he rode his camel toward the oasis.

Feng Ling pulled on the reins, and the camel slowly followed.

Two camels walked one after the other along the winding sand ridge. The desert was desolate, and the sun stretched their shadows, which gradually shortened.

It's almost noon.

Meteor turned to look at Wind Feather and said, "We don't have many chances to make mistakes. The caravan will stay at the post station to rest after 4 PM and will not set off again until sunrise the next day. If you want to find the messenger more efficiently, you should kill the caravan members as soon as the next mission fails."

Meteor didn't want to waste time running around killing people by herself.

Feng Ling was annoyed by this and frowned as she replied, "When I was little, the orphanage director's biggest worry was that we kids would grow up to be criminals. Most of us were descendants of criminals, with criminal blood flowing in our veins. Almost no one wanted to adopt us. As the saying goes, dragons beget dragons, phoenixes beget phoenixes, and rats' children know how to dig holes. But I'm determined to prove I'm not a rat. I've lived an honest life for over twenty years, and now you want to save time by making me kill someone? That would be too much of a loss for me."

Meteor paused slightly and asked her, "Are your parents criminals?"

“Yes, a murderer.” Feng Ling’s face was filled with helplessness and irritation. Her childhood memories made her very unhappy. “Just because my parents were murderers, my life teacher watched me every day when I was a child. When other children fought, it was considered naughtiness, but when I fought, they suspected that I had violent tendencies. Do I look like that kind of person? Just because I was born to a murderer, they assumed that I would become a murderer. Judging people by their genes is so unreasonable.”

After hearing this, Meteor's expression became even more stunned. "Yes, this makes no sense."

Feng Ling said, "Anyway, I will try to kill more scorpions next time. As long as the escort mission is completed smoothly, there will be no need to kill them."

Meteor paused for a moment, then said, "If the mission fails again, I will kill them all; you won't need to lift a finger."

Feng Ling was taken aback. "...You're actually a pretty nice person."

Meteor gave her a complicated look, said nothing, and turned back to continue on its way.

(End of this chapter)