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

Chapter 611 The other party is typing
Humans and monsters gaze at each other from afar.

The military used a drone's loudspeaker to broadcast a message to the monster: "We are about to conduct a hostage exchange—please release at least half of the hostages as agreed. The hostages must have normal vital signs. Do not make any rash moves during the exchange. Any hostile actions will terminate this exchange. Attention! We will spare no effort to rescue the hostages! Again, do not make any rash moves!"

In the distance, more than twenty hostages slowly approached.

At first, their steps were timid and hesitant, for fear of angering the monster behind them. But as the distance between them and the monster increased, the hostages' steps became faster and more hurried.

Seeing this, Ye Zheng untied the ropes binding the dwarf sheep, and the dwarf sheep immediately ran wildly towards the monster!

Feng Ling leaned closer to Huang Yi and whispered, "Is that guy bad at math? He agreed to send half the hostages, 120 hostages, but he only sent back 20-odd people."

She paused, then continued to mutter under her breath, "It's also possible that it doesn't understand the meaning of 'half,' which is why many of the hostages that were returned were not fully recovered."

Huang Yi was silent for a moment, then glanced at her and said, "Feng Ling, don't joke around."

Feng Ling looked completely bewildered, thinking to herself: I wasn't joking.

The first batch of released hostages were a mixture of red and white spots. Some were missing arms, some were missing ears, and others had pieces of flesh missing from their shoulders or waists. They were all bloody and mangled, and those parts were where they had been stuck to the monster.

Feng Ling will not stop Rissa's army from rescuing the contaminated (red dot) workers. She does not believe she has the right to decide the life or death of others, but she has her own way of dealing with it.

She would tear old clothes into strips, and once she could distinguish the workers with white spots, she would tie a strip of cloth around their bodies as a mark.

How the country of Lisa deals with the contaminated workers is none of her business.

The dwarf sheep ran very fast, eagerly rushing forward.

Feng Ling took out her phone and checked it; the Taoist priest's message had just arrived.

[Qingyou01: The opponent's deck is Fallen God + Minotaur + Devouring Beast + Giant Sandworm.]

[Qingyou01: This deck is very strong. The Fallen God has the ability to corrupt and assimilate, the Devouring Beast can nourish itself by devouring flesh and blood, the Minotaur is a symbol of brutality and strength, and the Giant Sandworm is similar to the Giant Earthworm, possessing the attribute of gigantic size. The skills generated by combining these cards will definitely have the above characteristics. In particular, it is worth noting that the Fallen God card has the Chaos attribute, which will create a chaotic field around its body. This chaos can resist a certain degree of mental attack and will also confuse the enemy.]

The other party is typing...

The dwarf sheep brushed past the hostages, getting closer and closer to the monster.

Feng Ling squinted at the monster in the distance and said to Huang Yi beside her, "Tell your team not to get too close to the monster before the anesthetic takes effect, its mental pressure will cause chaos."

"Understood." Huang Yi raised his hand to press the earpiece and whispered instructions to the team members.

Aunt Wang, who was behind me, asked, "Is it almost my turn?"

Feng Ling nodded. "Walk slowly, and don't go any further than twenty meters."

The workers staggered back, and the Lisa soldiers behind Feng Ling and Huang Yi rushed forward, carrying the hostages onto medical stretchers. Media drones in the sky also began to fly low, actively filming close-up shots.

The returning workers were either in a state of extreme fear or were crying uncontrollably after narrowly escaping death; everyone was slurring their words and their thoughts were in disarray.

Feng Ling quickly surveyed the area and identified five workers who were not contaminated. She then tied strips of cloth around their bodies.

She returned to Huang Yi's side and whispered, "Almost all the workers with slightly larger wounds have been contaminated. Unlike the genetic contamination caused by the maze, they have been contaminated by the fallen god and may be aggressive. Tell the soldiers to be careful."

"Hmm." Huang Yi's expression remained unchanged. He glanced behind him before turning his gaze back to the enormous monster in front of him. "The hostages who were not marked by you will be sent to special wards in the isolation area for separate treatment."

"Which quarantine zone?" Feng Ling asked. "Risa's quarantine zone, built to a one-to-one scale with our Guangnan quarantine zone," Huang Yi replied.

Aunt Wang tentatively took a few steps forward.

The monster on the other side received the signal to exchange hostages and released dozens of bloody humans from its body—in Feng Ling's third-person perspective, the monster still had at least seventy red dots hanging on its body.

“This guy is not honest.” She whispered to Huang Yi beside her, “There are still more than seventy workers inside its body, hidden under its feathers. I guess it wants to keep them as nutrients. After all, maintaining the second form requires a lot of energy. Will we need to avoid those hostages when the fight starts? They are all infected. I’m not sure if they are worth rescuing.”

After a brief moment of thought, Huang Yi replied, "If the anesthetic works, we can try to rescue them; if it doesn't..."

“Yes, I understand.” Feng Ling nodded.

The monster opposite became restless, its two bent arms supporting it in front of its body shifting slightly, its six eyes fixed on the painted-skin ghost walking towards it, and its breathing becoming heavy and labored, like a cow panting.

The Painted Skin Demon hesitated, then stopped and glanced back at Feng Ling.

The road had been marked by Huang Yi's men beforehand. The Painted Skin Ghost had already walked fifteen meters. If it went a few more meters, the monster would recognize its identity.

“Meteor…Meteor…” the monster muttered the name of the meteor, filled with intense hatred.

"It seems it's about to lose its temper," Ye Zheng whispered to Feng Ling. "It wants to kill Meteor."

"Why is that?" Feng Ling felt ignored. "I was involved in killing the messenger too."

The painted-skin ghost walked slower and slower.

Huang Yi gave the order through the headset: "Fire in five seconds, five, four, three..."

"Shooting star! Shooting star!—" Seeing that the painted-skin ghost refused to go over, the monster roared and slammed its palm against the ground, "You lowly piece of trash!!!"

The drone's loudspeaker issued an urgent warning: "Do not make any rash moves! Any hostile actions will result in the termination of this exchange! Do not make any rash moves!"

Huang Yi: "...Two, one, fire!"

The tranquilizer gun was almost silent, but a dozen faint whooshing sounds rang out as it hit the monster from different angles!

The monster, however, felt no pain and lunged at the painted-skin demon: "Meteor! I'll kill you!!!"

Aunt Wang turned and ran!
Feng Ling and Ye Zheng charged forward!

The twenty-odd hostages on the road suddenly burst open! Like bursting tofu! Black and red pus splattered all over the road!

Feng Ling paused, immediately releasing her scales, while Ye Zheng used the moth wings on his back to block.

A corrosive pain shot through the air, and large patches of silver scales, stained with pus, peeled off.

Feng Ling turned to look at Ye Zheng and found that her wings were also corroded and tattered.

"Be careful," Feng Ling hurriedly warned, then transformed into her second form and charged straight at the raging monster.

　Good heavens! I've stopped updating again! I've stopped updating again!!! My head is throbbing with pain from this writer's block! Long novels are so hard to write! When will I ever get to the finale?!
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