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

Chapter 574 The Mother Nest's Response

With a crack, a fissure appeared in the pale, skeletal hand bone.

The drunkard was shocked. The skeleton monster was her summoned pet. Due to its master's physical condition, the witch had just increased its defense. Logically, the skeleton monster's defense should be higher than usual, but now it had been cracked by the hidden boss.

"Are you sure it's the Abyss we killed before?!" The drunkard, controlling a skeleton monster, blocked their path, exclaiming in shock, "It's completely different!"

Seeing that the steel blade was blocked, Feng Ling immediately changed into its second form and flung out more tentacles!

The steel tentacles, like countless sharp swords, streaked through the air in arcs of silver light, each beam aimed at a shooting star!

The drunkard was shocked again. She had logged off early and hadn't seen the hidden boss in person. She had only heard from the messenger that the boss was a bit tricky and that she needed to log back in to help. But what she was seeing was just too outrageous!

"None of you told me the Mother Nest had turned into this! It went from a stationary monster to a tentacle monster!!!"

The drunkard hastily parried the steel blade, feeling extremely unaccustomed to this unexpected and psychologically challenging fight.

Faced with Feng Ling's attack, Meteor was forced to abandon the boy in her arms, her lower body transforming into a ghostly shadow as she swiftly dodged, shouting, "Witch! Give me the potion!"

The 30% reduction in her speed is severely impacting her mobility.

"Damn it! What did I owe you in my past life?!" The witch cursed and threw down two handfuls of potions, then ignored the two men and turned to flee towards the teleportation array.

Feng Ling saw Liu Xing's obsession with the boy, and the steel blade she thrust out immediately transformed into claws, grabbing the boy in one swift motion!
"Meteor! Why are you running?! If you want to kill the administrator, come and get him..."

She was arrogantly spouting trash talk when the scene before her suddenly changed—the desert disappeared, the torrential rain stopped, and she felt as if she were on a high mountain, with a sea of ​​fire in her eyes and the shrill screams of various creatures in her ears. The sounds were so heart-wrenching that her heart felt like it was about to break.

“What’s going on…” Feng Ling shook her head, the scene from before had mysteriously disappeared again.

Her moment of stunned silence lasted only two seconds, but two seconds was enough to give the enemy an opportunity.

The drunkard stood on the skeleton's shoulder, drew his bow, and fired an arrow! It struck the serpent's still-healing left cheek!
The arrow slammed into the flesh, corroding it. The wound on Feng Ling's left cheek immediately expanded and festered, and even his brain was ringing with pain!

"Critical hit!" The drunkard pressed his advantage and quickly fired a second arrow—this time aiming at the serpent's right eye!
A flock of birds suddenly appeared out of nowhere and swooped down on the drunkard's face!
"What is this thing?!" The drunkard loosened his grip on the bowstring, and the second arrow went astray, embedding itself in the sand.

"Watch out!!!" Meteor shouted from below the skeleton monster.

The serpent pounced! Its massive body crushed the skeleton monster!
The drunkard hurriedly jumped up, did two backflips in the air and landed. He then looked up at the serpent in front of him, still in shock, and saw countless steel blades rushing straight at him!

"Shield!" the drunkard hissed.

The skeletal monster, which had been crushed by the serpent, instantly fell apart and quickly reassembled itself into a high wall in front of the drunkard!
Bang bang bang!

Steel blades slashed at the "wall," and every bone was on the verge of being crushed and disintegrated!
"Hurry!" Meteor grabbed the drunkard and rushed towards the teleportation array.

The drunkard frowned and said, "I have to shoot through its right eye, otherwise it will follow us into the teleportation array!"

"It won't." Meteor looked back with a complicated expression.

Seeing this, the drunkard turned around and saw that the hidden boss had stopped attacking, with its only remaining eye closed, as if it were suffering some kind of pain.

Not only that, the Boss mark above their heads also started flashing, sometimes normally, sometimes as gibberish, and sometimes even displaying "The Foundation of All Things - Mother Nest"!
Although the symbol only stayed for half a second before turning into gibberish, the drunkard was still startled and turned to ask Meteor, "What's going on?! Is it about to advance to the Abyss Body?!"

"It's not an advancement, it's more like the card reacted to its contact with the dungeon manager." Meteor gritted his teeth and dragged the drunkard along as they continued running. "Let's get out of here first. The dwarf sheep is in its hands, we'll just have to find a way to take it back later."

The drunkard knew that his advantage was only a temporary fluke, so he decisively followed the meteor into the teleportation array.

When Feng Ling opened her eyes again, there was no trace of the alien creature. She remembered the direction the meteor had fled in and was about to give chase when, after taking just one step, the scene before her eyes transformed into a sea of ​​fire once more!

The burning sensation made her feel as if she were actually there. She wanted to escape, but found that she had no feet or hands. She and the nest were one, standing in the fire enduring the pain of being burned!
"Aaaaaah!!!" Feng Ling couldn't help but roar, trying to roll around to extinguish the fire on her body, but when she actually did so, she found herself still in the pouring rain in the desert, with no fire on her body at all, and no way for a flame to exist in such an environment.

Two conjectures surfaced in Feng Ling's mind:
Or perhaps the alien that controlled the skeleton used some kind of illusion on me;
Either their own pollution levels are too high, which is why they are mentally unstable.

28% is indeed slightly above the normal value.

Moreover, using the second form seems to exacerbate the symptoms of loss of control.

Although Feng Ling was unwilling, she still turned back into a human, wanting to be normal again.

The serpent's body rapidly contracted, and all its tentacles retracted into its body.

The little boy, whom I had just caught, fell to the ground with a thud, too frightened to utter a sound.

Feng Ling tried taking a few steps.

everything is normal.

Could it really be because of the pollution level? ...Being tricked by a meteor isn't the real disaster; the real disaster is when the pollution level gets out of control!
Feng Ling was so angry that she wanted to slap herself.

At this moment, the little boy who had fallen to the ground got up, wiped the rain off his face in a disheveled manner, and tried to run away, but his legs were too weak to stand up.

Feng Ling's gaze fell on the boy, and in a flash, she understood everything.

“It’s you,” Feng Ling approached step by step, slowly extending her hand to the boy. “You are… my maze manager.”

Her fingers tightened suddenly, gripping the boy's neck.

The view instantly shifted to the scene of the Mother Nest maze!

Feng Ling's breath hitched, and she quickly let go!

But the little boy seemed completely unaware of this, his face showing only fear and confusion.

Feng Ling stared at the boy without saying a word, her expression shifting between anger and uncertainty. After a moment, she turned her head and looked in the direction where Liu Xing had fled, saying in a sinister tone, "Liu Xing, I'll deal with you sooner or later."

The sound of propellers came from the rain, accompanied by Ye Zheng's shout: "Wind Feather!—"

Feng Ling touched the missing half of her face and waved for the human-faced crow to lead the way for Ye Zheng.

After waiting for a while, the helicopter landed not far away, and Ye Zheng, Huang Yi, and some inspectors rushed over.

Ye Zheng was both anxious and furious when he saw that half of Feng Ling's face was gone, with her skull exposed to the rain. "How could this happen?!"

Feng Ling replied, "I originally wanted to kill them all, but they all escaped, so I'm in a bad mood."

The mere mention of this incident nearly made Feng Ling's insides explode with anger, and she also felt an indescribable sense of grievance.

Ye Zheng scolded him in exasperation, "Who asked if you were in a good mood?! I'm asking why your face looks like that!"

　No, no, I absolutely have to adjust my sleep schedule! I absolutely cannot update at midnight tomorrow!

　　(End of this chapter)