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

Chapter 578 Gossip
Ye Zheng asked the parrot, "Besides the treasure vault, does the Star Society have any other strongholds?"

“No, no,” the parrot shook its head again. “We used to live in the park, but life became very inconvenient after the water and electricity were cut off. Plus, the dwarf sheep were causing a lot of trouble, so the messenger led everyone to move into the General’s Mansion… It’s definitely more comfortable to live in human territory. There’s air conditioning and cold drinks. It’s so nice. If it weren’t for the hidden boss suddenly appearing, we could have lived in the mansion forever.”

The parrot paused for half a second, then hurriedly explained to Feng Ling, "Ah, I didn't mean to blame you. I'm doing just fine now—please give me another half cup of sunflower seeds in their shells mixed with roasted sesame seeds, thank you."

The second half of the sentence was addressed to He Xingluo.

He Xinglu frowned, turned away from the video screen, and after a while brought over half a cup of parrot treats and put them into the slot on the stand.

Ye Zheng thought for a moment and discussed with Feng Ling: "Since the Star Society has no other strongholds and Little Skull is not with the Star Society members, I think she must have escaped. It's impossible that she was killed. If the Star Society wanted to kill Little Skull, they would have done it long ago. There's no need to take her all the way to the treasure vault."

Feng Ling frowned deeply, unable to relax. "...I really don't understand those guys. They could have set up a teleportation array near the mansion, so why did they go to such a far place? They said they wanted to put Meteor's body in the crystal coffin, but the coffin Huang Yi found was empty. Since Little Skeleton didn't go to the treasure vault, where is she now? Even if she escaped, shouldn't she have sent us a message?"

“That’s normal,” the parrot said, cracking sunflower seeds. “The treasure vault is the Star Society’s trump card, so the messenger has to be on guard. Once the location of the treasure vault is exposed, not only will the rare items be at risk of being stolen, but it will also put Momo in danger. General Singer has made a cooperation with the messenger on the surface, but he has always wanted to gain benefits from the Star Society. The messenger has to use him, but also guard against him. The location of the teleportation array cannot be too close to the general’s mansion… But later there was no other way. The hidden boss came. If the messenger had not bought the third teleportation array, no one would have been able to escape.”

Ye Zheng listened to it in silence, a look of bewilderment on his face. He said in a low voice, "Such a hastily assembled team has managed to disrupt the peace of the entire world."

She will become a monster because of the persecution by the Star Society.

Feng Ling was eager to advance because of the threat posed by the Star Society.

Many inspectors have sacrificed their lives, and many cities and even countries have been destroyed because of the Star Society.

“Fortunately, it’s over,” Feng Ling said. “The alien species in Paradise have basically scattered. The core members are either dead or have escaped. And the bishop is in our hands. This broken organization is finished.”

“But Meteor is still alive.” Ye Zheng had suffered at Meteor’s hands before, and she was deeply afraid of her. “If Meteor could create one Star Society, she could create a second one. She will definitely make a comeback.”

“No, she won’t,” the parrot interjected, spitting out a sunflower seed shell.

Ye Zheng was slightly taken aback. He looked at the parrot on the screen, frowned, and asked, "Why can't it?"

“She definitely won’t start another Star Society,” the parrot said sarcastically. “If it were you, and you painstakingly assembled a team only to be betrayed by everyone, tsk, with such a deep psychological trauma, would you still assemble a team again? I think Meteor would rather go it alone than trust anyone again.”

Feng Ling couldn't help but ask, "Why was she betrayed by everyone?"

"Because she wanted to kill the dwarf sheep, isn't that obvious?" the parrot replied matter-of-factly.

"That's it? Is it really worth being betrayed by everyone over such a small matter?" Feng Ling couldn't understand. "Don't the players all hate the Upper City people? Meteor wanted to kill an Upper City person, but instead of cheering her on, the members of the Star Society betrayed her and stood with the Upper City people. What kind of logic is that?"

The parrot cackled and seemed excited, even stopping eating its sunflower seeds. It leaned close to the camera and said, "Of course I know the reason. I know a lot of things, especially about the inner workings of the Star Society. I know it all too well!"

Fengling scrutinized it. "Really? I don't believe it. You've been hanging in a cage the whole time, how could you know so much?" "My cage is right next to the dwarf sheep's room! It's right against the wall!" The parrot stretched its neck, its tone stern. "As long as I press my cute little ears against the wall, I can hear every single word they say in the room. And the players who are in charge of guarding us often chatted idly by the cage about the past of the Star Society, and I always listened very attentively!"

"Is that so..." Feng Ling teased with a half-smile, "Then your daily life must be quite fulfilling."

The parrot held its head high and nodded generously.

Feng Ling believed what it had said before. Sure enough, it had been a parrot for too long, and its demeanor and movements were becoming more and more like a parrot's. It also acted like a parrot and loved to show off.

"Then tell me, what secrets did you hear?" Feng Ling asked it.

The parrot immediately said, "You'd never guess! The shooting star and the dead black spot were actually a couple! How about that? Did that give you a big surprise?"

"..." Feng Ling was silent for a moment, then her lips twitched slightly. "I thought you would tell me some more valuable information."

"And there's more," the parrot hurriedly said, "The drunkard and the blacksmith are best friends, the doctor and the meteor grew up together, the witch has a crush on the messenger, the messenger and the doctor had an affair but broke up later, the witch hates the doctor, but she doesn't know that the messenger is intersex, and Momo is the messenger's biological son!"

Feng Ling had a headache from listening to the earlier parts, feeling like she had stumbled into some unreliable entertainment gossip section. But when she heard the parrot say that Mo Mo was the messenger's son, she suddenly realized—no wonder the messenger acted so irrationally when the stitched beast had an accident.

At the same time, she also understood why the Stitches risked their lives to rescue the messenger when he was in trouble.

They are truly a pair of sworn enemies, father and son, or mother and son.

"The topics that the guards talk about every day are really boring," Ye Zheng snorted and said to Feng Ling, "I don't think we can believe everything. These kinds of gossips are either made up or they are true but exaggerated."

The parrot was greatly shocked and stared wide-eyed, saying, "You don't believe me?!"

Feng Ling chuckled dryly, "It's not that I don't believe you, it's just... hehe, what you're saying is indeed quite exaggerated, from unrequited love to breakups, even a hermaphrodite has a son..."

"The 'trash' don't have the right to reproduce, but in our central city, it's very common for intersex people to have children!" the parrot declared confidently. "Except for males and asexuals, all other three sexes can have children!"

Feng Ling asked in surprise, "You have five genders where you live?"

“Yes!” The parrot nodded. “Female humans, male humans, asexual humans, intersex humans, and transgender humans—five genders. Oh, right, transgender humans aren’t the same as transgender humans in your world. They refer to people whose sex can change. For example, the eels in your world are all female in their juvenile stage. When they reach a length of 20 centimeters or more, their ovaries gradually transform into testes, and they become male.”

Feng Ling felt that she had learned something new.

Then she suddenly felt something was off and asked suspiciously, "Why can you talk about that world so naturally? The system didn't censor your voice."

(End of this chapter)