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

Chapter 674 for you
The sheer size of the creature froze Lin Pengpeng in place. The destructive power, comparable to a massive earthquake, replayed in her mind. Her eyes were fixed, her lips trembling. "We're no match for it… it could crush us with just a finger…"

Ling Feiran gently placed one hand on Lin Pengpeng's shoulder.

A gentle breeze blew by, and Lin Pengpeng seemed to hear music flowing in her ears, soothing her tense nerves.

"Are you feeling better?" Ling Feiran asked softly.

Lin Pengpeng let out a breath, feeling as if she had come back to life, and exclaimed in surprise, "I feel much better, thank you, Feifei."

“It must be that the mountain demon left a fearful pressure in your heart, and you were frightened.” Ling Feiran looked at the distant stone mountain and said slowly, “But I think it’s safe now. The larger the body, the more energy it consumes when it moves. Since it just attacked the altar, it is probably in hibernation now that it is not moving.”

Lin Pengpeng gave a soft "hmm," gazing at the distant rocky mountain with lingering fear. "Will General Pei be there?"

Several more lice, carrying soil and leaves, crawled past their feet.

Ling Feiran felt that Pei Xianjue's whereabouts were now obvious.

"I hope she's still alive," Ling Feiran sighed.

The two followed the crow forward. The mountain lice were not aggressive, and the mountain demon remained silent. Apart from the rustling sound of the mountain lice crawling, everything was quiet and peaceful, unlike the perilous maze they were expected to be in.

As you get closer to the mountain demon, the sense of oppression from the size difference becomes even stronger.

Lin Pengpeng looked up, feeling as insignificant as an ant. All she could see were stones, and she couldn't tell which part of the mountain demon the stones in front of her actually represented.

A mountain louse, clinging to withered branches and weeds, crawled onto the mountain demon's body.

The tiny raven seized the opportunity to fly over and land on the mountain louse's back. The mountain louse shook its shell uncomfortably, but the raven held on firmly. The mountain louse then ignored it and continued to huff and puff as it climbed upwards.

Lin Pengpeng asked in a worried whisper, "Do we really have to go up there? If we touch its body, will it trigger a boss battle?"

After asking the question, I realized that everything I asked was nonsense.

We've already come this far, if we don't go up, what's the point of coming? Just to travel and take photos?

Lin Pengpeng tapped her head in frustration.

Ling Feiran looked up at the enormous thing in front of her, and after a while, she turned to Lin Pengpeng and said, "Try calling General Pei with the walkie-talkie."

"Okay." Lin Pengpeng opened the walkie-talkie in her collar, switched to the team leader's channel, and frowned.

“No, we can’t connect to General Pei’s channel.” Lin Pengpeng shook her head. “We could still hear some static when we were at the clock tower, but now we can’t even hear the static.”

“Strange…” Ling Feiran thought to herself, the static she could hear in the clock tower was probably because Pei Xianjue hadn’t left the misty maze yet. After being moved to another maze space by the mountain lice, the walkie-talkie signal was lost. But now that they had followed the human-faced crow here and were in the same space as Pei Xianjue, why was there no signal on the walkie-talkie?

Either the electronic equipment is malfunctioning, or Pei Xianjue's current location is so special that it can block all signals.

Ling Feiran glanced at the human-faced crow, then looked at the rock in front of her, thoughtfully placed her hand on it, and said, "Pengpeng, I'll go inside and take a look."

"What? Inside?" Lin Pengpeng turned her head and saw Ling Feiran suddenly turn into a ghost and disappear into the rock, her cloak falling to the ground.

Lin Pengpeng stood there dumbfounded, feeling somewhat at a loss.

Two seconds later, Ling Feiran suddenly poked half of her body out of the rock and said to Lin Pengpeng, "It's hollow inside. I'm going in to find someone. You wait for me outside."

Before Lin Pengpeng could respond, Ling Feiran re-entered the mountain demon's body. Lin Pengpeng: "…………"

She silently processed the message, a chill running down her spine.

The walkie-talkie had no signal, and the rock was hollow. Ling Feiran was going in to find someone, which meant... General Pei was inside the mountain demon's belly?
Is there any way out for them?
Lin Pengpeng's face turned pale, and her heart was in her throat.

At this moment, the ground began to tremble slightly, the rocks in front of them slowly rose up, and a large amount of clods of earth, gravel, and rotten leaves carried by mountain lice rolled off the mountain demon's huge body.

"No, no... Feifei, come out quickly! The mountain demon is awake! It's awake!" Lin Pengpeng shouted in panic.

He dared not speak too loudly, lest he attract the attention of the mountain demon, nor could he speak too softly, lest Ling Feiran not hear him.

Is there any connection between the mountain demon waking up and Ling Feiran entering its body?

Did they trigger a boss battle?

Lin Pengpeng was in a state of utter confusion. Seeing that the mountain demon was about to stand up completely, she gritted her teeth and made a desperate leap! She clung tightly to the rock in front of her and used both her hands and feet to climb up!
On the other side, Ling Feiran also felt the mountain demon's body swaying, but because it was in ghost form, the sensation was not obvious.

The mountain demon's body was brighter than Ling Feiran had imagined, as if she had entered a mysterious cave with moss growing on the cave walls that emitted a faint glow.

There are also mountain lice here. They chew the collected rotten mud and leaves in their mouths, and then spit them out little by little onto the rock wall to nourish these wonderful mosses.

Ling Feiran carefully searched along the passages in the cave and found that the behavior of the mountain lice was very similar to that of ants. The cave was their nest, and the interconnected passages led to various rooms, each with a different purpose, such as a rest room, a nursery, and a warehouse filled with decaying plants.

Ling Feiran passed through the "warehouse" and discovered a larger room, which was piled with an astonishing number of branches and leaves, as well as corpses in varying degrees of decay!

The carcasses were of various kinds, mostly insects, but also included contaminated and mutated small animals, and dead lice were among them.

Ling Feiran found some human remains in the corpse. Judging from the clothes, they were neither inspectors nor soldiers of the Mogu Kingdom. They might be aliens.

Ling Feiran passed through the room and continued searching for Pei Xianjue's whereabouts, only to find that there were no more rooms ahead, just a passageway.

She saw Pashan covered in mud in the passageway, and was slightly startled. She reached out to check his breath.

Pasan was extremely weak and barely had a breath left.

Without hesitation, Ling Feiran used the ability of the Divine Healer. Light emanated from her palm, and Pashan's health points rapidly recovered.

Seeing that Pashan's complexion had returned to its rosy hue, she breathed a sigh of relief. Then, out of the corner of her eye, she saw Pei Xianjue and Huangfu Miaomiao!

Ling Feiran naturally didn't recognize Huangfu Miaomiao, but since she was with Pei Xianjue, they must be teammates.

She rushed forward to check on them and found that both of them were breathing, so she immediately used a healing spell.

The white light illuminated almost the entire passage, and the black energy on Huangfu Miaomiao and Pei Xianjue was completely cleared away, causing them to slowly wake up.

Seeing Huangfu Miaomiao lift her eyelids, Ling Feiran quickly withdrew her hand and returned to her ghost form.

Huangfu Miaomiao was actually conscious the whole time; she was just too weak to move earlier.

She knew all too well what was going on with Ling Feiran's current predicament. Without thinking, she pulled out a raincoat just like Feng Ling's from her checkered backpack and handed it over, saying, "Here, take this!"

(End of this chapter)