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

Chapter 673 The Guide Crow

When Lin Pengpeng heard Ling Feiran say she was going to find Pei Xianjue, she blurted out, "I'm going too!"

"Let's all go together!" Wang Xunmei suggested.

"Together?" Ling Feiran shook her head. "My cards can't protect too many people. Pengpeng going with me is enough. You all have walkie-talkies. As long as we stay in touch, you can come and help at any time if there's a problem. It would also be best to send some people back to the quarantine area to bring the message back and prevent the quarantine area from making the wrong judgment."

The Shepherd said, "I'll take a few people back to the quarantine area. The rest of the team will stay put. If we find General Pei's whereabouts, we'll all rush over to help."

With no objections, they discussed the matter for a while and then proceeded with their respective actions.

Lin Pengpeng was extremely anxious and couldn't wait a moment longer. She took Ling Feiran away from the clock tower and headed towards the altar.

No pigeons are needed to guide you; simply follow the direction each statue faces to reach the altar.

The altar at this moment looked as if it had experienced a major earthquake, with crisscrossing cracks all over the ground, four or five of the twelve stone pillars collapsed, and the remains on the stone pillars were buried by broken bricks and stones.

Lin Pengpeng arrived at the place where she had been separated from Pei Xianjue. Looking down at the pitch blackness below the crack, she couldn't help but feel a pang of panic.

“Right here, I almost managed to pull them up, but suddenly countless lice crawled out! And then,” Lin Pengpeng recalled, her eyes reddening, “and then I let go, I couldn’t catch them…”

Ling Feiran picked up a stone and gently tossed it into the crack, hearing a muffled thud from the ground.

"The crack isn't deep enough to kill someone, but it's too dark to see what's below," Ling Feiran said.

Lin Pengpeng brought a flashlight, but the crack was winding, and the flashlight beam couldn't reach the bottom.

Just as she was getting anxious, she heard Ling Feiran say, "I'll go down and take a look."

As soon as she finished speaking, Ling Feiran's cloak suddenly fell to the ground, and her body turned into a cloud of mist and floated down.

Lin Pengpeng was extremely surprised. It was the first time she had seen Ling Feiran use card abilities. This misty form was somewhat similar to the Soul Eater, both of them having a ghostly appearance.

Ling Feiran quickly floated back. In her ghostly form, she was as light and hazy as smoke, with no clear features.

She slipped back into her cloak.

The cloak, which had collapsed to the ground, slowly straightened up, and the ghost inside regained its human form.

“There’s nothing down there. General Pei isn’t here,” Ling Feiran said.

Lin Pengpeng asked worriedly, "What if we're buried underneath?"

“I’ve searched under the soil too, it’s not there.” Ling Feiran looked at the messy crawling marks on the ground and guessed, “It might have been taken away by the kind of creature you mentioned.”

Lin Pengpeng was slightly taken aback. "You mean mountain lice?"

Ling Feiran nodded, "Yes, it's a pity the tracks on the ground are too messy and it's not easy to tell the direction. Otherwise, we could follow these crawling footprints to find it."

As she spoke, she turned to Lin Pengpeng and asked, "What are the habits of those mountain lice?"

Lin Pengpeng looked troubled. "I don't know... After we entered the maze, our investigation focused on the Soul Eater and the maze boss here. The Mountain Lice and the Mountain Demon came from another maze. I don't know if it's because the spaces of the two mazes overlapped, but when we were attacking the maze boss, the Mountain Demon suddenly appeared, destroyed the altar, and then things turned out like this..."

Ling Feiran sighed silently.

It's late at night, the fog is thick, and there are almost no clues. How can we find them?
Finding Pei Xianjue would be like finding a needle in a haystack, and finding Pashan is also highly unlikely.

"I want to become beautiful!"

Suddenly, a human voice rang out from the fog, startling Ling Feiran and Lin Pengpeng, who looked around in surprise.

After a while, another voice came from the direction of the altar:
"I want money!"

Lin Pengpeng finally pinpointed the source of the sound, pointing to a stone pillar with a glowing top, "Over there!"

Ling Feiran, having lived in the Mother Nest Ecological Park for a while, immediately recognized it. "It's the human-faced crow raised by Feng Ling. How come it's here?" "I don't know. Is it trying to tell us something?" Lin Pengpeng stared in surprise at the dark shadow at the top of the stone pillar.

A particularly large human-faced raven flapped its wings and flew down, landing a short distance away. It stamped its foot and cried out to them again, "I want money! I want money!"

Lin Pengpeng's eyes widened even more. "Did you hear that? It seems to be saying, 'Go forward, go forward.'"

Ling Feiran: "…………"

Can this be understood?
Regardless, let's go take a look first.

The two walked towards the crow, which flew a few meters away again and nodded at them.

Lin Pengpeng was overjoyed, "It really is leading the way! Let's follow!"

Lin Pengpeng quickened her pace.

Ling Feiran followed behind.

The human-faced crow flew and stopped in the fog, and after a while, several wisps of black mist became attached to its body.

The black aura increased over time, like an invisible burden slowing down the human-faced crow's speed, making it difficult for it to even flap its wings.

Just as Ling Feiran was about to step forward to treat it, the human-faced crow suddenly shook its feathers, splitting its body in two. One half died weakly, while the other half remained full of vitality.

"I want money! I want money!" The human-faced crow, now smaller than before, cried out again and flew into the depths of the mist.

The two followed the human-faced crow for more than twenty minutes, when suddenly they passed through an invisible wall of air, and the fog in front of them immediately thinned by more than half! Even though it was night, their vision became much clearer.

Lin Pengpeng gasped as she looked at the scene before her, muttering, "A maze upon a maze... it really does overlap..."

Low shrubs, rolling hills, and lice carrying decaying leaves and dead wood, crawling busily up and down the hillside.

This is clearly the territory of another labyrinth.

Ling Feiran observed the surrounding environment, "The Mogu's mazes are more densely distributed than in other countries, no wonder it is regarded as a paradise by the alien species."

Not far away, a dead louse lay on the ground, its hind legs twitching slightly in the air.

Ling Feiran realized that the cause of death of this mountain louse was related to the fog, because it was covered in black mist.

The human-faced crow landed on it, wanting to absorb the energy from the flesh and blood of the mountain louse.

Before it could finish eating, several louse crawled over, raised their forelegs, and diligently dismembered their dead kin, breaking them into several pieces, mixing them with mud and decaying grass, and carried them away.

Ling Feiran's expression changed slightly, and she immediately followed the mountain lice that were carrying the corpses.

She had just climbed a small hill when she heard Lin Pengpeng calling her from behind, her voice trembling:

"Wait, wait a minute, Feifei..."

Ling Feiran hesitated and turned around.

Lin Pengpeng raised one hand, pointing into the distance, her face deathly pale, "It's that giant... the giant spirit, the mountain demon, the boss of this maze..."

Ling Feiran looked in the direction Lin Pengpeng was pointing, but she didn't see any monsters, only a rocky mountain.

If that stone mountain is the mountain demon Lin Pengpeng mentioned, then the size of this maze boss is excessively large—no matter how powerful the card is, it cannot make up for the irreconcilable gap caused by such a size.

Ling Feiran felt that there must be some special techniques to deal with this kind of monster.

The female lead probably won't appear until the chapter after next!