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

Chapter 601 The Situation of Meteor

Amir didn't want to reply to the message.

During his time away from the group, many people tried to contact him: first it was Meteor, then the doctor and the messenger, and now it's the witch.

Amir opened his long-unread friend list and found that several people's names had turned gray—they were dead.

He raised an eyebrow in surprise and muttered to himself, "You guys had a lot of fun while I was away, so many of you died."

Since that's the case, let's reply to the message and ask what happened.

Amir tapped his long, slender fingers in the air, asking the witch, "If you want me to go back, why doesn't Meteor come and ask me himself?"

[Witch: Meteor's account is currently banned and hasn't been unbanned yet. Where are you? I'll send you your coordinates, come find us quickly.]

A coordinate point was sent over instantly.

Amir clicked to view and discovered that the place was a vast distance away, separated by several countries, and was unreachable.

However, there is a way to get there, because in addition to being skilled in music, bards are also experts in travel.

Amir leisurely typed out a reply: "I just found a fun place and I'm about to have a blast. As for your place? Maybe I'll spare some attention once I'm tired of this place. But don't get your hopes up too high; novelty is always more appealing than a boring invitation."

"What the hell?!"

In the basement, the witch flew into a rage, grabbed a mineral water bottle from the table, and smashed it to the ground.

She exclaimed angrily, "Why did I have to contact this guy of all people?! I always thought he was seriously ill, like a lunatic, and impossible to communicate normally with!"

The drunkard couldn't help but laugh. "That guy is indeed a bit crazy, but he's very cooperative in battle and agile. He's a good teammate. Just bear with him. You've tolerated the kids from the upper city for so long, why are you getting so worked up over a bard?"

The witch said irritably, "He said he'd only come to us when he's tired of playing around outside, and that our invitation made him bored!"

"This is really difficult." The drunkard turned to Meteor and asked, "Meteor, what do we do now?"

Meteor lay on the bed without saying a word.

She had been recuperating in the basement ever since she escaped here via the teleportation array.

Although Huangfu Miaomiao's card Bloodworm can regenerate severed limbs, the cost is the consumption of her own flesh and blood. Since children's bodies contain far less flesh and blood than adults, Meteor has been recovering and is somewhat weak these past two days.

The drunkard clicked his tongue and said, "In my opinion, we should just log off. We can all go home and find our own mothers. You've changed your game identity now, so you don't have to worry about the physical side effects after logging off."

The witch immediately objected: "Why didn't you log off before? Why did you have to offend the Upper City people before logging off? Where were you all before?! In this situation, we either help the dwarf sheep log off, making the Upper City people owe us a favor, or we kill the dwarf sheep to eliminate any future trouble! We have no third option!"

The witch grew increasingly agitated, cursing, "What the hell! The child was being so well-behaved with the messenger, and then you all came and ruined everything! Now the dwarf sheep has been taken away by the hidden boss; there's no way to save him, and there's no way to kill him either! This situation, this situation! What do you suggest we do?!" The drunkard chuckled, "Do whatever you want, but you're in a bit of a bind. Aren't you on the messenger's side? What are you doing with us now? Are you hoping to find a chance to save your bishop?"

The witch spat viciously, then turned to Meteor and asked anxiously, "Meteor, this situation is your doing. Tell me, what should we do next? Don't give me any of that ideals or ambitions. I only have one request—that is, don't let the people of Upper City cause me any trouble in the future!"

Meteor on the bed slowly opened his eyes and said, "Dwarf Sheep... must die. If we let him go offline, he will definitely tell us everything. The people of the Upper City have countless ways to deal with Scrap. We can't take this risk."

The witch gritted her teeth and nodded. "Fine, I'll go for it."

Meteor continued, “My original plan was to have the hidden boss deal with the messenger, and I would take the opportunity to eliminate all the administrators. As for the dwarf sheep, I was wary of his reincarnation ability, so I had to save him for the last moment. But I didn’t expect that the game’s anchor point would not be the administrators, but the maze.”

The witch scoffed, "So many administrators were killed for nothing."

“It’s not a waste of time,” Meteor said calmly. “It’s unrealistic for us to conquer the entire world map’s labyrinth with our own strength. But as long as the administrator dies, the labyrinth will gradually spread and become contaminated. Eventually, it will be discovered by humans. In order to protect their home, humans will spontaneously attack the labyrinth and the labyrinth boss. In this way, the game’s anchor point will be eliminated.”

The drunkard nodded upon hearing this, "That's true. With the help of humans, the maze can be eliminated quickly."

"So, according to you, we don't need to do anything, and we just need to wait for humans to clear all the mazes, and then the game will automatically calculate the score?" the witch asked.

The drunkard frowned in thought, "It seems... to be like that?"

She felt she wasn't good at using her brain, so she asked Meteor for confirmation: "Is that so?"

Meteor lay on the bed and said calmly, "We are now facing two problems that must be solved. The first problem is the reincarnation ability of the Demon King's cards, and the second problem is... how to eliminate the Abyss Mother Nest. If these two problems are not solved, all efforts will be in vain."

The drunkard recalled his battle with Feng Ling, still shaken. "Unless Black Spot is resurrected, who can defeat that Abyss?"

Although Wind Feather hasn't advanced yet, in the eyes of the drunkard, it's no different from an Abyss Boss.

Meteor said, "I've already figured out a solution to the reincarnation problem."

"As expected of you," the drunkard said with a delighted expression, and quickly asked, "How do we solve this?"

The witch frowned and looked over—the reason she had sided with the messenger earlier was largely due to the threat posed by the dwarf sheep's reincarnation ability. If the meteor could truly solve this problem, the witch would have no reason to continue standing against the meteor.

“In the game, no card is invincible. There’s always a way to counter it. For example, if there’s a card that can make you invisible, there’ll be a card that can break invisibility,” Meteor said slowly. “The Demon King’s ability is to set up seven reincarnation containers. After death, he will be randomly reincarnated into one of the containers. The people who were set as containers are Black Spot, the Poet, the Messenger, the Doctor, the Witch, the Blacksmith, and me. There are still three of us alive. That means if we kill the Dwarf Sheep now, he will be resurrected in the bodies of the Poet, the Witch, and me. Reincarnation will only happen in the living containers. So as long as we use this, we can avoid being reincarnated by the Demon King.”

"...What do you mean?" The drunkard frowned. "I don't understand."

"She means we need to enter a state of suspended animation before killing the Demon King. Without a living vessel, the Demon King's resurrection ability won't work," the witch said irritably. "But where are we going to find a card that can make someone suspended animation? Should we offer a bounty on the forums?"

“No need, I know a place where we can fake our death,” Meteor said.

(End of this chapter)