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

Chapter 577 Death Mark
"Oh, I know, I know! You're asking if you'll lose your mind and turn into a monster." The parrot nodded repeatedly. "Humans turning into the abyss is something that's never happened before, and I'm curious to know the answer too... Any creature that holds cards for a long time will be affected. Berserkers become irritable, detectives become suspicious, thieves become furtive, so what will the Mother Nest turn you into...?"

The parrot spoke louder and louder, strutting around as if giving a speech.

"But no matter what, as long as the pollution level doesn't get out of control, you won't lose yourself. What does this little bit of impact matter? After all, the influence of the living environment cannot be erased. The city we live in, the customs we've been exposed to since childhood, the food culture, the textbook education, the entertainment trends, the content of our work, and the personalities of our family and friends all have an impact on us. Besides, the card gene is already closely connected to you..."

Feng Ling frowned and said, "Get to the point. What impact will becoming an Abyss Body have on me?"

The parrot stopped, thought for a moment, and then began shaking its head rapidly, as if to say, "I don't know."

Feng Ling rubbed her temples, very dissatisfied with the answer.

Ye Zheng, who was standing to the side, couldn't help but ask, "Why do you have this concern?"

Feng Ling rubbed her temples as she answered, “Because when I hallucinate and see the Mother Nest in the Abyss Labyrinth, I can not only feel its pain, but I also seem to resonate with its emotions, such as anger, hatred, and the grief of losing its children, just as if I were experiencing it myself.”

With only one step left to advance to the Abyss Body, the closer Feng Ling got to this goal, the more his concerns grew.

Qingyou laboriously dragged his tablet over and showed it to Fengling.

A sentence appeared on the screen: "Influence is mutual."

Ye Zheng nodded and said, "He's right. The Mother Nest will affect you, and you will also affect the Mother Nest. You and the Abyss Mother Nest are completely different beings. Even if you advance to the Abyss Body, I believe you will not become the original form of the Abyss Mother Nest."

Feng Ling felt a little better.

She was a little confused, unsure whether her initial motivation for wanting to advance was to become stronger, or whether she was subconsciously influenced by the Mother Nest.

Perhaps her advancement is exactly what the mother nest wants.

"Forget about that, let's deal with the immediate problem first." Feng Ling looked at the parrot again. "Right now, whenever I touch this little boy, I'm triggered by memories of the mother nest. Do you have any way to fix this?"

"Memory? Oh...oh...this time you said you're trapped in memory, not in hallucination..." The parrot tilted its head thoughtfully.

"Is there a difference?" Feng Ling frowned. "The scene of the mother nest being killed is an illusion for me, but a memory for it. I saw those guys setting fire to the maze! They created smoke, spread poison, and harmed the pollutants in the maze without killing them. They deliberately released a large number of pollutants into the nest to heal, thereby consuming my energy and weakening me. They despicably and insidiously destroyed one of my life pillars after another! In the end, they killed me!"

When Feng Ling said the last sentence, she was almost gritting her teeth.

But she was quickly stunned, because what she said was not what she saw in her hallucination, but a memory that had just surfaced from the depths of her mind.

why?
She didn't touch the maze master, so why was she still affected? Is it because being too close is also a problem?

The thought of this possibility filled Feng Ling with intense hatred for the boy, and she couldn't help but turn around and yell at him, "Get the hell away from me!"

The boy shuddered in fright and quickly hid behind a chair, trembling.

Ye Zheng was getting anxious, staring at the parrot in the video and urging, "Quickly! Is there any way to solve this?!" "This, this, this... there's no way to solve this," the parrot cried out in distress, "This is the death mark of the Mother Nest. The reason the Mother Nest can keep resurrecting from the Pillar of Life is because it can remember these things—how it died, what abilities it possesses, and how many children it has nurtured. Only by remembering can it start anew. This is a characteristic of the card itself, and it can't be solved... Ah, that's right!"

Suddenly, the parrot realized something and excitedly said, "If you advance to the Abyss Body and become the Abyss Mother Nest, your memories should be able to overwrite the memories of the original Abyss Mother Nest, just like a new piece of code overwrites the old code."

“We originally had a plan to advance to the Abyss Body, but the advancement needs to be completed within the Abyss Labyrinth,” Ye Zheng said, frowning. “Currently, the only high-level administrators still alive are this boy and the tree shrew in charge of the Underworld Labyrinth. To enter the labyrinth, administrators alone are not enough; we also need a different species to accept a labyrinth quest in order to open the labyrinth entrance…”

But where can they find a different species that will cooperate with them?
Feng Ling let out a frustrated sigh and said, "I thought Meteor would at least wait until he switched bodies back before turning against us."

Ye Zheng was silent for a moment, then said in a low voice, "I used to think so too."

If Meteor and the others continue to maintain a superficial peace, rescuing Miaomiao from the maze will no longer be difficult.

At this moment, a woman's voice came from the video: "Someone in the Bureau of Supervision has a card hypnotist. If you can capture a mutant alive and hand it over to the hypnotist, she should be able to help."

Feng Ling and Ye Zheng were both slightly stunned, because the voice sounded somewhat familiar.

The young woman stepped into the video frame, turned to face the camera, and said, "The prerequisite is that you can convince the higher-ups of the Inspectorate General Bureau that inspectors are not allowed to use card abilities without authorization when not on duty."

Feng Ling remembered her name and suddenly realized, "He Yue... no, you are He Xingluo. So you are at the research institute."

“It’s always been here.” He Xingluo said indifferently. “I’m currently in charge of looking after this parrot.”

The parrot, wings outstretched, chimed in: "Yes, yes, they deserve special protection!"

Feng Ling asked, "Where is the other tree shrew? I need to take it to the Underworld Maze, and I also need to bring the hypnotist you mentioned. Little Skeleton has been trapped in the Underworld Maze for almost a week, and I have to rescue her."

Before He Xingluo could reply, the parrot stretched its neck and said, "Oh! If the little skeleton you're talking about is a player who logged into the little girl's body, then you're too late. She's no longer in the Underworld Maze!"

"Gone?" Feng Ling's expression changed slightly. "Then where is she?"

"It should be in the treasure vault. I heard the messenger tell the witch that the meteor will definitely return to the underworld labyrinth to exchange bodies. We can't let the meteor have its way, nor can we let its body be damaged. The best way is to take the meteor's body to the treasure vault and put it in the crystal coffin," the parrot replied.

Feng Ling immediately pressed, "I've been to the treasure vault, and the little skeleton wasn't there. Could it be that the Star Society has two treasure vaults?"

The parrot tilted its head. "Well, I don't know what happened... Anyway, when the witch came back, she complained that the messenger had placed the teleportation array too far away. Later, the messenger spent points to buy a new teleportation array and placed it near the General's Mansion. Tsk tsk, he bought three teleportation arrays in total. That's quite an expense."

"Do different teleportation arrays lead to the same destination?" Feng Ling asked.

"They're interconnected, like an elevator; you can go to whichever floor you want," the parrot said, shaking its head. "If you want to escape, the only destination you can teleport to is the treasure vault. As for why there's no little skeleton in the treasure vault, I have no idea..."

(End of this chapter)